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(FFM, reluc, 1st, exh, oral, anal, rom, sci-fi) *** Chapter One Here it is, 2549.76, and they still haven't prevented the common cold. I'd been sneezing non-stop for hours. It wouldn't be so bad but at every sneeze MIHA, or Mia as I disaffectionately call it, would demand a 'check' of my carbon based life-form unit. Machine Intelligence Health Assessor. BULLSHIT! I think that the person who programmed this P.O.S (short in the jargon for, you guessed it, Piece of Shit.) had no liking for the human species at all. I'm James Taylor, or Taylor, James as Mia likes to call me. I'm a Senior Mechanical Repair Technician, or commonly known 'Mech Tech' in the thirty-ninth Space Fleet. My being all that I can be, meant years in space repairing ancient beat up tubs the old fashioned way, with muscle and sweat. Yeah, we have the VR bots and goggles, but I don't care for that new stuff. The Virtual Reality goggles tend to give me a real headache. The vision control specialist has never been able to get me a pair that will work right. I shun them due to the pain; I feel it just isn't worth it. I'll use them only if I have to. Life in space meant traveling on a tub for an entire mission, so getting in for a 'refit' on the goggles was not likely to happen for about two more years. We're on the exploration and survey ship SF5595. Since VR has become so commonplace nowadays, it seems that techs like me have all retired to greener pastures. I'm forty-five years old, single, and hate VR. I'm the only male Mech Tech on board. There are two officers who are male, and the rest of the ships crew is women. Our Captain is Linda James. First officer is Thelma Stewart. John, the one officer I like, is Chief Science Officer. Thom is the Chief Med. Officer. He's all right, but I think his VR sex partner is male, so I tend to stay away from Thom while off duty. There are three other Mech Techs, like me who keep this tub afloat. There are also four bridge crew who fly the tub. So, most of the crew are women, all believers in the VR Gods of love and work. You see, sex with a real human partner has gone the way of McDonalds Big Macs. The VR can give a person any type of sex they would want or need. Include the 'machine' portion and the choices with it, well; I've never been really surprised about the VR machines taking over as much as they have. Since they tap into the cerebral cortex directly through a scan plug, VR can sense and 'know' what you desire in an instant. Allegedly it makes for a 'perfect' lover. Me, I prefer to have sex the old-fashioned way, down and dirty. One on one. Problem is, nobody on this tub likes it that way. Matter of fact, I have only had two partners in sex that way. My first was in High School, and her parents found out and shipped her off to Class Seven. That's where sexually 'active' people were sent to be 'fixed'. No person in his or her right mind would actually have 'real' sex now. Babies came from tubes and 'samples' and sex was with the VR and its toys. It made it so much 'neater' and 'fulfilling' that way. Again, BULLSHIT! My second partner was a gal on an old tug. We'd 'been' with each other quite a few times. She really got off on doing it the old-fashioned way. I didn't mind that she 'used' me; since that's the only way I like to do it anyway. So, you can understand when I say that for me real sex was far removed from my daily life. I'm the 'monk' of SF5595. Oh sure, I do on occasion masturbate, but right at orgasm Mia starts questioning and wanting to 'assess my condition' usually declaring a medical emergency. Not the best of ways to end a satisfying time. I've figured out ways to circumvent Mia, but it's a pain in the ass to do. My maintenance team had been chosen for me before this trip ever started and since they were all women, I'm constantly reminded about my monk status. They tease me and sometimes, off duty of course, they flash the old perv. I don't mind too much since I can get relief on my own, but it is a rather mean thing to do to a shipmate. The one thing that keeps me in the service is the fact that I have been saving up for years and right now I am only a little bit away from full retirement. I have well over the amount of credits to give me a generous and lovely time on a remote planet on a remote island, and maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to find a woman who will like sex the way I do. Then it will be a happy life for me while I'm young enough to enjoy it. This trip will put me into 'retirement city' and I'm going to be a very wealthy and happy individual at that time. Since most of 'our' work is now done via the VR and Bots, I am truly the dinosaur of the space age, but my skills are needed time to time and I have the reputation of being able to 'fix' almost anything with nothing. Hence I'm filling a niche most of the time. We just dropped off cargo at the mining camp on Nevus Seven, and we're on route to the edge of the known galaxy to investigate some newly found planets and asteroids. After that, we're due to pick up some cargo at Tomar Two. Traveling much faster now since we have less mass on board, it won't take too long for us to reach our destination. John and I had to go out and do an extra-vehicular inspection, part of our routine maintenance schedule. I was suited up while John and Thom were having some words about the medical implant on John's arm. It had been bothering him quite a bit. I had just clamped and sealed my helmet in place when the whole ship shuddered. There was a brilliant flash of light and I suddenly found myself free floating in space. It took a moment to get my bearings and see what had happened. I could see that John and Thom were floating outwards away from the ship. I jetted over to them and saw that there was nothing to be done for them. My COM link wasn't working, so I didn't know what was going on onboard ship. I tethered John's and Thom's remains to my work line, and jetted back to the ship. It was tough going, but I was able to maneuver to the lower rear airlock and re- board. As soon as the airlock cleared I had women all over me; questions firing right and left. The Captain quieted them down and started her grilling. "What the hell happened?" "I think we were hulled by a meteor Ma'am. The Science and Med officers are dead Ma'am. They were pulled out with unsealed suits when the rock got us. They never had a chance. John was worried about his implant and Thom was checking it out when it happened." I watched her as I gave my report and saw that my statements shook her up pretty badly. She paused, gathering herself, and then the command 'self' of her took over. "I need a complete serviceability and safety check as soon as you can manage it Tech." "Yes Ma'am. I'll go right out and do the over scan of the hull since I'm suited up." "No. You'll stay inside and use the VR bots. I can't take the chance of losing my senior Mech Tech on a walk outside right now. Have your crew do the scan with the bots. You get unsuited and do the assessment. I need to know what we are up against ASAP." 'Yes Ma'am!" I really didn't get her at times. She could be 'overbearing', but she did have the command of the ship, and her first duty was to the ship and crew, so I grudgingly started to get unsuited and indicated two of my crewmembers to get the bots. The third assisted me in getting my suit off. "What happened out there? How did they die?" "We weren't 'out there' as you put it. We were in the airlock; there was a brilliant flash of light, and the next thing I knew I was swimming in space. John and Thom didn't have their head gear on since they were checking out John's arm." "The 'roid hit the airlock?" "As far as I know, yes. We'll need to be cautious when we get into that area to inspect it from inside as there could be leakage. The bots will let us see the damage on the outside, but we will probably need the VR systems check for the inside first." 'Jim, are you O.K.?" "Yeah Theresa, I'm O.K. Just a little shook up. I had just sealed when the rock hit. It doesn't get any closer than that. I'm going to miss John though. I really liked him. I know that losing Thom will hurt us too." "What about Thom? You know he kinda had a thing for you. You knew that didn't you?" "No, but I knew he liked the male VR partner. I just didn't like being around him. I'm not bi or Hom, so it would never have been a 'relationship' like he wanted anyway." "Why don't you like the VR? You could be having normal sex all the time if you would just relax and use it. I use it and look how well-adjusted I am." "We've had this talk before Theresa, you know about my headaches and the head plug. Besides, there's nothing like flesh to flesh, skin to skin, believe me." "UGH! That sounds so gross! I'll stick to the VR and the Bots. They can work on the cerebral plug too you know." "Yeah, like I want them poking around my central cortex like that." My inspection of the ship was not to bring any kind of good news. The 'roid' had slammed into us at an unbelievable angle. I could see that the odds of it hitting us like that were astronomical, probably around a trillion to one or so. This didn't bode well for us. Our VR main trunk had been severed with a huge chunk totally gone; the secondary backup was parted too. It appeared to be repairable though. Our life systems were spared, but the control functions to the engine room from the bridge were shot. On board was enough fiber optic cable and trunk line to fix the controls but not the VR mains. We'd have to rob some existing systems, but not too much. I wasn't too worried about the VR systems, since I rarely used them and they were secondary to the operations of life support and ship control, but the Captain and crew around me were more than a little bit upset. I didn't see why all the concern for the VR system as it was mostly for controlling Bots. "We can't use the bots to inspect the hull?" "No Ma'am, we can't. The VR system is out and the local system needs the mainline trunk to operate. The odds of an accident like this were so far out there the fleet engineers never thought that it could happen." "I'll need a volunteer for an extravehicular inspection." "Ma'am, with all due respect, I'm the only one qualified to go out and make that inspection." I had known that this would happen. That's why I had wanted to get back out there and see for myself the damage to our ship from the outside. I was the only one left with the experience and training to go out in a suit. "The rules are clear on this Mech Tech Taylor. It requires two people to do the inspection, an officer and a Mech Tech. Since you're the only one qualified, other than me, I'll go with you. We'll suit up in ten minutes and do the inspection together." Our First Officer, Thelma, was agitated and finally overcame her need of command respect to interject her thoughts. "Ma'am, you can't go out, you're the Captain and you can't put yourself in 'the line of fire' so to speak." Thelma was right, but the Captain was the only other qualified person on board. To take someone new to space walking, without the right training, would be suicidal. There are just too many things that could go wrong outside. Many times people got claustrophobic or worse, space sick, in the suits. The cleaning system could handle so much, but at a certain point, well, bile is not a pleasant smell in the suit. It also plugs up the works and causes the system to go into maintenance mode, which could shut down life support. A very unpleasant and untimely death soon follows. We did our inspection, the Captain and I, and she was impressed with the damage control we'd done, as well as my skill at traveling around a ship in flight 'at speed'. I had a lot of practice on the outside of ships in flight. That's why I'm so confident in going extravehicular during flight at speed. Getting back inside, the Captain was quiet as we changed out into ship dress. Standing next to her with her in her bodysuit I noticed for the first time that her trim body was nicely proportioned. I started to get an erection seeing her breasts outlined with hard nipples sticking out like they were. Airlocks are notorious for their coolness. Ship dress was normally baggy overall suits. They hid a person's body well enough to make it difficult to know if they were male or female. In most cases anyway. I think that the designers had done that on purpose to cut down problems on board in the pre-VR days, and it had just stuck with the fleet since then. "Well, how bad is it? I need to know as soon possible so I can contact Fleet and get some parts and help on the way, Taylor." "Well, I don't think you're going to contact Fleet anytime soon Captain. The VR main trunk also carried our commlink to off ship. We're in flight with no communications, and no controls other than safeties. It will be at least three days before I can get controls back on line, and that will be with everyone working 'round the clock." "DAYS? We don't have days; our window on drop from light speed is in about seven hours. If we're not dropping out at that point we'll be in unexplored space. Can you imagine, our safeties controlling us in unknown space at speed? I need you to get us under light speed in less than seven hours." "Captain that won't be possible. We need to have retro- boost on cancellation of flight speed and with the mainline trunk down, well…" "I don't care Mech Tech Taylor; get this tub under light speed ASAP, UNDERSTOOD? In the mean time I think we need to send a message drone back. Hopefully someone will hone in on the beacon and get our message." This is where my crew and I work hard and produce an outright miracle in a novel or on the video. However, miracles didn't follow our story and we were far into unknown space by the time we were able to get any control back. I still didn't have enough to drop from light speed, so for all practical purposes we were in an irretrievable position. We'd gone so far into the unmapped and unknown zone that we'd never be found. The Captain was not happy with the news when informed by Thelma, but there was no helping it. When the Captain saw me next it was twenty hours later, at dinner. I was eating my 'cream of steak and eggs', almost falling asleep sitting there trying to eat, when she walked up to my table. "What's your prognosis? How long until we have any controls at all, that will do us any good? We can't continue to trust the safeties for too long. They've been known to fail." "I don't know Captain. We've nothing to repair the main trunk with as far as VR goes, and the secondary is butchered up pretty bad. With any luck at all I'll be able to borrow some trunk from the damaged rear pods and use that to effect basic control utilizing the secondaries. It will be non-VR manual only though." "What do you mean 'borrow' from the pods? You can't borrow from other systems on this ship. Everything is set for utmost efficiency as designed. To borrow is to screw up the efficiency." "Yes, we can Captain. I can borrow from three of the rear pods because the rock destroyed their seal. All plant life in them is dead and there is no need to have good trunk going to waste at this point in time. We still have nine pods. We are only missing the three aft pods." Pods, as you might have guessed, is where our gardens were. They recycled the water and air for the ship, and produced our food base for survival. While losing three pods wasn't ideal, we could survive for a long time, a very long time especially since we were now two crewmembers short. There were ten of us left, and nine pods. Each pod was capable of sustaining life for four people for about ten years. After that, we needed to be close to a planet that could support us. Original design and crew complement had set a one pod per crew member guideline for safety. Later, just before crashing in my bunk for a shortened but much needed sleep cycle, I went to the observatory to watch the stars streak by. I was usually alone at that time of cycle but now I had company, lots of company. "Hi Tech Taylor, mind if we join you?" My whole maintenance crew plus the First Officer was there. This was unusual but considering the circumstances, understandable. We all had a need to 'see' where we were going. We were seeing this strange new part of the universe, where no one had been before. "Not at all. Quite a view isn't it Ma'am?" I was always respectful of officers, since they could make your life hell if you weren't. Thelma had never given me any reason to doubt that she would be any different from the Captain. Cold and aloof, she was quiet on station, and I never saw her at any other time. She wasn't a 'cold fish', but she wasn't exactly a warm and outgoing person either. "Yes, I guess you would say that. I find it disturbing and not just a little bit frightening. We are about to be officially 'lost' in a moment and that's something I don't like to contemplate at all." "Yes, I can see what you mean Ma'am. It can be a scary place. I've been here before though, so it doesn't bother me too much." "You've been here before? I thought this was unexplored space?" "Not here, but in this situation, I've been in this situation before. Sorry Ma'am. I didn't mean to let you think I'd been in this sector before. Nobody has been here before, ever." "In this kind of situation? You've been in a severely damaged ship out of control, just like this?" "Yes Ma'am. I was on the Minx Six explorer." I heard the gasps and felt the tension run through the room. You see, the Minx Six had been the second ship I served on and things on its maiden voyage had gone very bad. Two of four of our engines were taken out and in the ensuing mess we lost our whole command team. I ended up being the highest-ranking person on board with a crew of fifty. It was caused by another 'roid too. It had careened through our command deck straight into the engine room and engineering section. It had taken some time to get things into a livable shape. We'd almost bought it several times, but each time my maintenance crew and I had been able to come up with a save. The Captain had died in my arms. There was nothing I could do. Nothing at all. I had liked the Captain and his death was hard on me. He understood my motives in being in the Fleet. I was like a son to him. A son he never had. I grieved like a son for him too. The years since that dark time had been good ones, for the most part. There had been changes to ship design and command structures since then. Yet whenever the Minx Six Explorer was mentioned people would shudder. Some of the deaths had been very slow and painful. When we were rescued the rescuers were sure that all on board were lost. Finding us alive surprised them. After all, we'd been drifting in space for about six months by that time. I'd managed to keep everyone's spirits up all the while stealing, modifying, and flat out re-engineering ships systems to keep us alive. I'd been given commendations and offered officer's bars. I turned them all down. I just wanted to be a Mech Tech that was all. My decision had caused some hardship and hard feeling towards me in the years since, but I was not officer material, I knew it, even if those above me didn't. Nobody on this ship knew that I had been on the Minx, until now. This was going to make things uncomfortable for me. Some people had gotten ideas about my serving on that ship back then and I didn't want to live it all over again. I still had nightmares about those fateful days. I was soon left alone on the ob deck. I watched the stars and thought back over my life. This was it, I was certain of it. There wasn't going to be a 'save' on this one. We'd already gone past the fail safe return point, whether the Captain and First officer knew it or not. We didn't have enough fuel to get back now. The next days were full of hard work and quite a bit of cussing on my part. We eventually regained control of the ship. The Captain left us in light speed, seeing that there were no planets or systems nearby on the sensors. We couldn't spare the energy to slow down without having some sort of way to replenish fuel. Turning around was out of the question as well, since we'd traveled far enough that the closest inhabited planet was beyond our reach too. Her objective was to find the next planet and drop out and search for fuel and other items we'd need. We'd continue to explore as our orders stated. I guess she thought by keeping us busy we wouldn't fret about being lost on a one-way trip. The VR system was totaled. The women took that very hard. I didn't understand why at first until about two weeks after the incident with the rock. I was in an access tube checking over the engines. My youngest and actually best Mech Tech, Jennifer, was helping. It was hot and somewhat uncomfortable work. Being close to the engines at any time was not fun. Now however, with the added pressure to keep them in top shape, it was real bad. Jennifer was in her skintight body suit, her overalls being way too hot to work in where we were. I was in my body suit also. They were like, well, remember spandex? From way back in the nineteen hundreds? That's a body suit. The material is thinner and more resilient now, but the stretchiness and body conforming ability was similar. Jennifer was a well-endowed young lady. As she was working around me I couldn't help but notice her nipples sticking out and the shape of her beautiful shaved mound. (Yes, that tight and that stretchy) I caught her looking at my body a few times too. She was nervous as hell and not able to concentrate at all on the job, which was very unusual for her. I heard the clang of a wrench bounding off the Drive framework, and then Jennifer started cussing. I was able to grab the wayward wrench before it careened into an place we couldn't get to. It wasn't good to have loose things floating around in this area. "God damn it. Fucking wrench. I can't seem to hold onto anything anymore. My hands are just shit. Fuck I hate this." "Take it easy Jennifer. It's not that bad. We're just about done and I have the wrench, no harm done. Scope a chill." "Oh sure, you can sit there and work so calmly. Mr. Monk… fucking maintenance monk Taylor, the VR hater. You fuck." Her anger towards me caught me by surprise. "Whoa… what the hell's gotten into you? I've never heard you say that kind of shit about me before. What'd I do to you anyway?" Her face took on an apologetic countenance. I could see she hadn't meant what she'd blurted out so suddenly. "I'm sorry Jim. I know it's not you. It's just that I'm tense… you know?" "Yeah, being in a fucked up ship in strange space does that to you." I understood her feelings. Way back when the Minx Six incident had happened I'd seen things like this. People got weirder and weirder the longer we were seemingly out of control. It hadn't been pleasant most of the time, and once in a while some people had gone off in unexpected ways. So far, our crew had done far better. Jennifer continued, wanting to say something, but she seemed unable to broach the subject with me. "No… our situation with the ship isn't what's bothering me Jim. What does it to me is the God damn VR machine is fucked and I can't get…" She paused and then bit off what she was going to say. I didn't understand, so I pushed a bit. "Get what?" "You know. I can't… pleasure myself. It's really messing me up Jim. I need something… bad. I haven't gone without like this ever before. The longest was back when we refueled at Base Five and that was for only four days." "Try masturbating. It works for me." "What do you think I've been doing?" She snapped. "I even made up a phallus in the machine shop for helping along. That damned Mia gets all in a tizzy when I orgasm and pesters me with all the details of my heart rate, breathing and junk. She seems to think I'm having a medical emergency. It's driving me crazy. I need… I need… Hell, I'd settle for doing it the old fashioned way right now… anything to lose this feeling I have." She looked into my eyes and it unnerved me just a bit. "Yeah. Well, Mia is a pain in the ass. I figured out a few ways to circumvent her spying on me, but with the VR down I suppose those won't work anymore." "Wait a nano, if Mia knows that two humans are together having sex, she overlooks certain things… right?" I didn't like the direction the conversation was headed in now. "Well, that's what the programming was built like way back when it came out. Whether or not that part is still imbedded or not, I don't know." "Want to find out?" I missed her meaning concentrating on fixing the damaged systems as I'd been doing. I automatically thought of the 'system' and how to check it out. "Look, we're pretty much up to our ears with trying to keep this tub running as it is. I don't have the time to dig into the layers of programming in Mia to find out about that. That's a huge job for a crew of programmers, let alone this maintenance crew on this ship." "That's one way of checking. I was thinking of another… Jim. I mean, you're a guy, I'm a woman… you have what I need and I think I have what you need… let's work a deal." Her voice had gotten husky and soft. Alarm bells were ringing in my large head, but my small head was all for taking up Jennifer's proposal. Which do you suppose she saw first? Traitorous prick I had, showing her that I was interested. Her hand touching my shaft through the body suit was a stunning shock to me. It had been years since a woman had touched me in this way. "You're larger than the machine VR mate I have. Does it get as hard?" "Uh, yeah I suppose it does. But when it shoots it goes down for a bit, sometimes for a long time." "Downplay," That was in my thoughts, knowing what she wanted now, I knew that wasn't going to happen. I kept it to myself though. "How long does it take to get back to fully charged status once that happens, Jim?" Her hand was rubbing my shaft and I was getting close to showing her how long that would take. I could feel one building up inside and if she didn't quit doing that real quick I'd have to go change out of my body suit. I could tell Mia was about to start her warnings any nano now too. I was correct about that. "Warning, Taylor, James, heart rate accelerating. Blood pressure erratic, breathing labored. Medical emergency in five…four…three…" "Halt Mia. Sensor overload suspected. Check levels six A, C, and D, level five and level fourteen." "Checking." Jennifer stopped what she was doing and was staring at me with an incredulous look. "What?" I was uncomfortable with the look she was giving me. "You told Mia to check out of order." "Yeah. She'll check in the order I gave her and I've found that it takes her exactly seventy seconds to finish that particular systems check. Next I'll have her check level one, level twelve, and then level eight. That route takes sixty seconds. No alarms will go off and no reports, at least until she's done with the checks. Hopefully by the time she finishes those checks I'll have normal heart rate. That is, as long as you keep your hands off me." "Clever. I never thought about that. Two minutes ten seconds of time. Interesting." "Yeah, when one can't stand the VR or its machines, one figures out ways to circumvent the systems. I've had years of practice." "You'll be a God to the rest of the crew Jim. Especially if Mia overlooks couples having sex." "Uh, NO." "Uh… YES." "I'm not some male whore for the pleasures of the crew." "You're not a whore. Think of it as being a life saver or perhaps a good team player." "NO." "YES. YOU HAVE TO, FOR THE CREW." "ABSOLUTELY NOT. I WON'T DO IT." Our voices had risen to shouting. The last thing I needed was a 'job' taking care of the needs of the females on board ship. I'd never get a chance to get anything done. It also brought back memories of Minx- Six too. "What are you two arguing about down there?" The Captains voice rocketed down to our level in crisp and precise modulation. Typical. "Nothing of importance Ma'am. Cadet Jennifer was just trying to make a point to me that I disagree strongly with. Nothing about the maintenance or operation of the ship… exactly." "Ma'am," Jennifer yelled out, "I was telling Jim… I mean Mech Tech Taylor that he could help the crew out tremendously with our personal issues since the VR and Bots are offline." I whispered as loudly as I could without the Captain hearing me, trying to get her to shut up before I was in a world of hurt. "Jennifer, knock it off. Ixnay on the exsay." She looked at me and smiled the most devious and nastiest kind of smile I'd ever seen. "You wish. Listen up sailor boy, there's a whole crew of women up top ready to kill for relief. You're our only source for that relief and I'll damn well tell the Captain what I need to in order to get the relief for all of us. Suck it up bucko." Jennifer started to climb out of the well with me following. Within a few minutes we were out and the Captain was listening closely to Jennifer as we headed down the tube to the main bridge. I was only following along behind them as my quarters were real close to the main bridge anyway. I intended to lock myself in my cabin and not talk to anyone unless dire consequences presented themselves to me. Since I'd intentionally dropped back a little at a time, they didn't notice me slipping into my quarters until the door was closed and locked. I needed to have some alone time. My whole life was fucked, and I could see my planned retirement was so many gamma-rays in space too. How would I ever be able to use my retirement funds now? An hour or so later 'dire consequences' showed up knocking on my door in the form of Captain James. I'd heard them all talking, but I'd blocked out their words by using my headphones to listen to music. They were turned down, so I could hear any emergency alarms if necessary. "Mech Tech Taylor I need to see you in my quarters. NOW." Her voice carried through the door as if she were standing in my quarters with me. Considering that soundproofing on board was nearly state of the art from World War One… yes, from way back in the early nineteen hundreds, it didn't surprise me. Secrets on board ship were few and far between. Sound carried in this tub, like a microphone to an amplified speaker. I could hear I was in for it. There was no doubt about the tone of the Captain's voice meaning business. I walked the short distance to her quarters, seeing the rest of the females giving me looks the whole way. I saw anticipation and a certain something else in their eyes and it wasn't comforting to me. "Ma'am. Mech Tech Taylor reporting as ordered." I'd never been in here before and I was surprised that her quarters were not as large as mine but then I also had a work bench and tool locker in my quarters too, so I suppose since my quarters did double duty the designers figured I needed more space than the Captain would. "Come in and allow the door to close please… Jim." Alarm bells went off inside my head. The Captain had never called me by my first name like this. Never. I waited. I knew what this was about and her using my first name like she did shouted to me where this conversation was headed. I know you're probably thinking, a man's dream come true, right? Well, considering that most of the damned women on this tub had jerked me around so long, I had some deep issues in wanting to 'help' them out in their 'time of need'. They'd conveniently ignored me in favor of the VR Bots, and then teased me whenever they felt like, knowing that I refused to use the VR systems. I knew that when I masturbated, they could hear everything I did too, and I'm sure they'd laugh at me behind my back too. The VR system and how it worked, meant that while plugged in, their minds could conceive of most things that normally one would have to actually say or do, so eventually after getting used to using a VR and it's Bot, one would actually lay almost comatose while 'online' with the Bot. The person wasn't aware of it, because in their minds, they were active participants. "Cadet Johnson has a valid point Jim. She knows that while most of the time women don't need… 'Relief' since we have the VR systems, she also is very aware that we're in a situation that isn't normal by any means. We've been several weeks without the VR systems now and it's starting to show up in the crew." "Yes Ma'am." "Call me Linda, please Jim." "That wouldn't be right Ma'am. You're the senior officer, the Captain. I, by rule, must call you either Captain or Ma'am. The general lobby rules of conduct state…" Irritated, she cut me off. "The general lobby rules of conduct only apply in known space and normal operations, Jim. We're in unexplored, unknown space at the moment and for the foreseeable future. As the Captain I'm allowed latitude to suspend certain 'rules' in emergency situations, for the betterment of the crew. I feel that this situation calls for a less formal way of communication while we're being personal like right now." "Yes Ma'am. I mean… Yes Linda." "That's better. Now, about what Jennifer has mentioned to me. I agree with her that something needs to be done. The VR system is important to morale and since we've lost that system we need to come up with unconventional ways to keep morale up. Since you're the only male onboard at the moment it puts you in a certain… spot." "Linda, I just don't think that…" "You know the crew Jim. They're good people. All of them. They'll try their best to do their duty, but eventually their minds will start to dwell on things that are not good to dwell on. Having a mechanism for relief is important. Don't you think?" "Well, yes Ma'am… I mean, Linda. I suppose…" "Then, since you have the right equipment to help alleviate some of that particular type of stress, I, as a human being, not as your Captain mind you, would like to see you do the right thing. We need you Jim I'll be straight up with you on that. We need you and what you can do for us. We won't make it hard for you and we'll make sure that you get the proper respect and attention for your needs as well." "I want to do the right thing Linda, the problem is in the past…" "The past is gone Jim. We're in a new situation and in a new space. We're not where we were a month ago and we may never be back where 'normal' exists. Everything has changed, probably forever." "Yes. I see that, but still I have some hard feelings about…" "For the good of the crew and the ship, could you put those feelings aside for now? At least until we can figure out what the better course of action will be anyway? Jim, I need you to come through for me now. You're the best Mech Tech in the fleet, bar none. I knew all about the Minx Six Explorer and how you saved the day back then. You did what was needed and necessary to keep people alive and healthy the best you could. You performed miracles, and everyone that survived that time has attested to that fact. That's exactly why I asked for you to be assigned this ship and this mission. I need you to come through for me like you did on Minx Six. Please?" "You knew that I served on Minx Six? You never let on that you did. Why?" "You know as well as I do Jim that space exploration ships like this one need the very best. I searched for quite some time to put together this crew. You were my first and only choice for Senior Mech Tech, simply because of your performance on the Minx Six. Everyone wanted you on their crew. I had an edge. The Captain of the Minx Six was my uncle. So… will you do what we need you to do Jim? "Linda, it's not all that simple. I'm not a machine, nor am I a whore that can turn it on just like that. Certain things on my side of the equation will need to work out before I could possibly do any good for the crew… like that. I'm not sure they're up to doing that at all." I'd known that Linda was related to the Captain of the Minx Six. I'd seen a picture of her and her family in his quarters during the long six month wait for help to come. That was no surprise to me. That she'd known I'd served on the Minx Six was though. "Oh. You mean you expect special treatment then?" The look she gave me wasn't a good one. I saw that she misunderstood my intent. "No… not… exactly. I mean that I'm not a VR Machine. I can't just walk in, lie down and turn on. I will need… assistance. Those that will be with me that way will have to work on the 'meeting' just like I will. It requires reciprocation. That's what I mean. Any special treatment would be the female crew member wanting to please me like I will be pleasing them." "We're aware of that. We're not totally without some humanity Jim. We're also not totally ignorant about sex either." "Maybe VR sex, but real sex? The VR system, to my knowledge, reads the desires for each person through their minds and acts instantly. I can't do that. I don't think you fully understand how things will be… like that. It's different in real sex versus VR sex. Almost totally different. I can't read minds or sense desires directly like VR. There's bound to be some disappointed women onboard sooner or later. I won't be able to help it." "We'll work around that. I know that all the crew currently on board now uses male VR Machines. That's a help. At least I think it will help. I've ordered the crew to study up on old fashioned sexual contact and how things were done before VR. That will help too. We're not going to hang you out to dry Jim. We're going to be as human about this as we can be. You may not get love per-se, but you will get cooperation, full and complete." "You're having them study on sex? How in the world is that being done?" The only stuff on board that I knew about was some contraband things I'd brought onboard my first day with the ship. It was illegal to have. My suspicions were building. "We have, on file and accessible, old movies, magazines, and books. They're in the library. The files haven't been touched by any of the crew… except you… ever. They're watching the movies and reading up on real sex from that material." I saw instantly that the Captain knew. She had known all this time. I was fucked in more ways than one. "Oh shit. You knew about my stash?" "Since you're the only person onboard that never used VR Machines, I wondered why. I had to know for the ships best interests. I checked you out thoroughly Jim, and I left your files alone. They're in the library but totally accessible to all of the crew now. You won't mind will you? In the spirit of things, I hope that you'll allow us to utilize the… training gear you brought onboard." I was embarrassed. My stash was known about now. The fact the Captain hadn't called me on it a long time ago when I'd first brought it on board, told me that she was a far better person than I'd probably given her credit for. Smuggling that stuff onboard like I did could have cost me everything I'd worked for all these years. I'd taken the chance due to my reluctance to use the VR system. "Well, I guess since you never called me on my stash I really can't complain now can I? I'm not sure how the crew will handle my tastes, but I guess… I'll do what needs to be done. Just remember live real sex with live humans isn't like that damned VR Machine and you need to impress on the crew that fact. Seriously Linda, it's different. I'll do my best, but there are limits to what I'll be able and capable of doing for them." "Understood. Thank you Jim. Now, when would be a good time to start this for you?" "Uh… what do you mean when?" "I mean, we're working up a schedule between us for time with you… but we are lacking when you would feel up to starting things out with us. Any suggestions Jim?" "A week? Next Monday? Hell, I don't know. I'm not sure how long the crew needs to be ready for something like this. Whenever they're ready will be good with me Captain…I mean Linda." I was sure that the crew would require at least a week of 'training' before I'd be required to become the 'relief' person. "Very good. I'll tell the crew and we can start during the next sleep cycle?" I was confused, the next sleep cycle? That was only a short time away… hours. "That's in only a few hours." "Yes, it is, isn't it?" The smile on her face spoke volumes. She'd known before she talked to me that I'd have to do this, and she'd already made plans on it. She must have realized that she'd have to push me into service as soon as she could before I'd change my mind or something. I wasn't ready for this to happen so quickly. I guess my deepest hope was that some miracle would occur and I'd either fix the damned VR system or we'd be rescued before I'd actually have to be with any females on this crew. Not that I didn't want to do that, but after the times they'd teased me, I was reluctant to open myself up for anything more. "Okay then. I leave it to you Linda." "Uh Jim, I'd appreciate it if you'd use 'Captain' when the crew is around us. Linda is fine when we're alone like this. I can't lose all control of my crew and I feel too much familiarity will lead to loss of respect for my position. In private, like this, I won't mind. At least for the present time." "Yes Ma'am. Understood." I went back to my quarters and sat on my bunk thinking about how things were turning out. This was not expected, but I could see where having ways to burn off an edge would be a good thing. I was worried though. After all, nine women and one of me. That's a lot of burning off to do for one guy. We ate as usual in the mess hall. Now though, it was weird. I used to eat at whatever table before, and usually I'd be alone at a table, while the rest of the crew would group up at the other tables. It wasn't that I was a loner, but I would have a book or possibly a mechanical issue I'd need to pay some attention to and the others would leave me alone out of respect. Besides, I was usually all over the ship at different times, and everyone knew me enough to know that my meal times were the only time I had to myself. Tonight… well, I found that as soon as I sat down several women sat with me. Across from and right beside me. They weren't eating. They were staring at me and then looking at each other smiling. It was unnerving. "What?" My question was directed at Kelly. She was from the bridge crew and sitting closest to me at the time. "Sorry Jim. I mean, Mech Tech Taylor. We're just imagining…" "Imagining what?" "You know. Being with you is something that none of us ever thought we'd do. We've never been with a flesh and blood man before. We're not sure what to expect." "Sweat. Hot sweaty bodies touching each other, sliding skin to skin. Kissing, sucking, licking… all those types of things the VR Bot can't or won't do. Well, since I've never been with a VR Bot, I don't really know, but I've repaired them enough to know that the Bots' can't sweat, or taste." I was going for the shock treatment. They'd get their smiles wiped off their faces with my comments on sweat and licking. I knew that. I was counting on it. "Ewwww. You'll use your tongue to touch my body? That's gross." "Oh really? Well guess what crewman? You'll be using your tongue on my body too. I happen to enjoy the closeness real sex brings. I know I'll enjoy this, whether you do or not." "Well, I hope we do. Otherwise, we'll have to figure out how to disable Mia." "Can't be done. The only way Mia can be disabled is for life support systems to go offline. That, in case you forgot, means that none of us live. Mia is the only truly failsafe system onboard. If she's down, we're dead or in suits, which only have four hours of system support built into them. We're all going to have to learn to deal and cope." "Will you be nicer when we're with you than you're being right now? You seem to enjoy the fact the VR system is down. It's like you think the VR system being down is a good thing or like you're getting even with us somehow." "I do. I'd always hoped that this might happen one day. That you'd all have to get by with only yourselves to get relief and not have that damned machine. I've always thought that damned VR system with the sexual relations program was going too damned far. IT isn't human and IT will never be human." I was on my favorite subject and since I had a captive audience, so to speak, I got on my soapbox with a relish. "You may have all been brainwashed into believing that VR and VR Bots are the only way to have sex, but I know better. There's not many of my type around any more, but I'm pretty sure that we have much better sex than you guys do. At least our sex tends to be more fulfilling for us." "How can it be better? VR knows what our desires are before we even can verbally command them. It adjusts on the go, faster and far more accurately than a person can. Humans are famous for not understanding one another all the time, to this day even." "You think the VR system understands you, Kelly? It anticipates what your brain is telling it. It doesn't have thought or should I say, cognitive thought. It just 'reads' your brain pathways and makes a machinated best guess. The more it works with a human the more it learns that particular human's traits and acts accordingly." I was on a roll and couldn't stop myself. The looks they were giving me and each other were priceless as it was obvious that they'd never thought about a world without a VR Bot lover. "It can't think or make a radical change, and you've all been swayed into believing that intense self sex is 'good'. The VR Bots, for your information, are MACHINES. When you use a VR system or Bot for sex, you're using a TOY. A glorified TOY. You're all in for a shock to your systems. I only hope that you all don't drive me nuts in the time it takes for you to understand what real sex is all about." "We'll be finding out in a little bit. Actually, we wanted to give you the list." "The list?" "The list for who sees you when. The Captain and First Officer got us all together and we drew straws… sort of… and we're all ordered on the list. We each have a certain time to meet with you, and according to the Captain, we're to do our best to learn and evolve backwards to…" "EVOLVE BACKWARDS! EVOLVE BACKWARDS!! Fuck this. I'm not doing it. If you think that having real sex is 'evolving backwards', then you can all fight with Mia and try masturbating the old fashioned way. Fuck this. Fuck all of you too." They sat there with shocked looks on their faces. They evidently hadn't expected my outburst or anger. I jumped up, leaving my meal where it was and stomped to my quarters. 'Fuck them, fuck them fuckity fucking fucked up bitches.' I was furious. My mind was boiling with overheated and dangerous thoughts. I didn't need this and I had ways to ensure that I wouldn't have to do this crap. This was turning out to be like the Minx Six all over again, except this time I had officer's orders to contend with. I knew all I had to do was bring up section seven, article five, paragraph two, three and four. That would shut them all up. Due to the VR Bots, having real sex in space was strictly ordered and controlled and only married people were allowed, technically, to have real sex. Anybody else having real sex could and would be court-marshaled out of the service and sent to Class Seven to be 'fixed'. I'd gotten away with having real sex way back when because my 'significant other' and I had actually gotten married. When we were assigned different ships, we'd divorced. It was the only way we could do what we wanted to do, and there hadn't been any love involved. It worked for us. I was slightly worried about paragraph five though. That simple little paragraph could be interpreted to mean that the Captain or First Officer, in times of 'required need' could order the any part of the rule to be null and void. I hoped that it wouldn't come down to my having to use that route as I was certain the Captain, at least, would use paragraph five against me. It was about sleep cycle time and I was just getting my thoughts back in order when the knock at the door reminded me of the planned 'duty' I was to perform. "Enter." It was the Captain. She looked troubled. "Can we talk… person to person instead of Captain to Mech Tech?" "Yes Ma'am. If you so order it, it will be done." She gave me a long suffering look at my little smart return. "Jim, I know that the crew insulted you at mess. It was unintentional. They intended no harm or bad feeling. They're not used to the idea of live sex… or 'real sex' as the manual states. They've all been raised to believe that real sex is bad unless you're married… and since marriage is pretty rare now, well, you understand I hope." "No, I don't Linda. They seem to think that having real sex is 'evolving backwards' and if that's the way they feel, I won't be able to perform at all. It's important to me that they accept real sex as a good way to have sex. If they can't do that, then we have nothing to work with. In real sex, men need to have certain… feelings inside, just like the women do. They need to know that their partner wants and desires them. They need to see that in the words and actions of their partner. Anything else just won't work as good, if it works at all." "It was a poor choice of words Jim. Cadet S…I mean, Kelly didn't mean it to sound like real sex was a bad thing. Remember, all the schools and even parents teach, hell, they drive it into children, that real sex is not something good or something that normal people do. It's hard to break away from a lifetime of training like that." "Well, it's not evolving backwards but since that's the feeling onboard this ship, you can all fight Mia as you try to masturbate. I'm willing to do what's necessary Captain… Linda… but it absolutely has to be a mutual feeling and mutual respect. 'Evolving backwards' isn't either of those, and it will wipe out anything good you want accomplish here." "If she apologized to you could you bring it upon yourself to forgive and forget?" "If I think she's sincere, then perhaps. Real sex is a very fragile thing. It really does require both parties to want to be there, doing it. Of course, there is rape… but in that type of sex, half of the couple isn't there by choice. I'm not a rapist. I've managed on my own all this time, so I know I don't absolutely need to have live women, though real women make it far more enjoyable. You, all of you, seem to need me. Mia will drive you all crazy before you figure out how to work the system. You'd best all get over the attitude right now, that's all I'm saying." "This is going to be difficult isn't it?" "Yes, it will be Linda. If you or whoever is here with me can order their minds enough to encompass thinking that real sex is good, then the difficulty will go away and actually, enjoyment will follow. But it takes commitment on everyone's part. I've wondered too, have you given thought about the rule book and real sex? I'm not married to anyone… that could open huge cans of worms for all of us." "As Captain, I can forgo the rules or I can do something even more radical. I understand that a long time ago there was a religious belief that a male of the species could have more than one wife. I've made arrangements for us to all marry you, should the need arise and we are rescued. I think, under the circumstances, which will be enough to keep those 'cans of worms, as you put it, closed up. It should also help with Mia too, I hope." "You've given this some thought and checked things out then. I guess I have no choice but to follow along for now. I'll do my best Linda. The only fly in the ointment will be Mia. I'm not sure she'll allow 'real sex' at all." "So… can I send Kelly here then? That way we'll know sooner rather than later about Mia too." "Since she's the one who started it, she can try to fix it. Yes. No promises though." "I'll impress on her that she needs to open her mind. Hopefully she'll work through this and come out okay. We all want this Jim, and we will try our damnedest to work with you. Please remember that we each have lifetimes of drilling into our heads that real sex is bad though? Okay?" "Okay. Go ahead and send her in. We'll see what happens." "Thank you Mech Tech Taylor. I want you to know that I truly appreciate your efforts on behalf of the ship." "Yes Ma'am." I had a few minutes to think and straighten my mind out. I decided to be nice. I was going to try my damnedest to work things out as the Captain wanted. To not do so could spell my end. The last thing I needed was a Minx Six incident all over again. The timid knocking on my door almost went by without my hearing it. I commanded the door to open, revealing Crewman Kelly standing with an uncertain look. Her body suit was tight and revealing as they are prone to be. She had a nice body with bigger than usual breasts. "Come in." "I'm sorry about earlier Jim… I mean, Mech Tech Taylor… I should have realized that…" "First of all Kelly, I'm Jim for now. While we're in this room, I'm Jim and you're Kelly. Unless you have some other pet name you'd rather I call you. Secondly, forget about what was said earlier. Just try to accept that I'm not going to hurt you or make you feel bad or take you back to the Stone Age. We're here to have a better than good time hopefully, and release some tensions. If you follow along or try to allow yourself to enjoy what's about to happen, we'll all benefit." "I've never even thought of having real sex before. I have no idea how or what to do. Uh, Kelly will be fine… for now. VR has a pet name for me, but I'm not sure that I want you to use it… here… like… this… oh damn… I just did it again didn't I?" My facial features were strained as she started down that path again. This was going to be harder than any of them had thought, I could see that clearly. "Your face is showing your disgust with all of this, yes. Look, I know this isn't something you want to do, but you need to do. I don't want you to feel bad about this, and I do want you to enjoy it, if you can. In case you're worrying about it, no, you will not be cheating on your VR Bot. On top of that, I won't kiss and tell either. After all, a similar thing to this occurred on the Minx Six and I've never mentioned it either, until now." "So… what do I do first?" "How about we have a drink and get to know one another?" "Oh… you mean talk first? Will that help with all of this? It's kind of like what the VR does in the beginning… kind of. How's this?" Dead silence followed for a bit. I saw her face going through some motions, but there was nothing being said. Since she had her eyes closed it took me a moment to realize what was happening. "Uh, Kelly, you're going to have to verbalize your thoughts. I can't read your mind like the VR can." A blush grew up her neck and over her face. Her eyes popped open and looked everywhere but at me. "I knew that. I knew that, I did. I'm sorry. I'm just so used to the link I guess I forgot." "It's okay, calm down. You look ravishing in your body suit by the way." "What? In this old thing?" "Why yes. It fits you nicely. I like the way it shows your form to me. Very appealing. You have a very nice body. Sexy and desirable." Her blush grew some more. I could see this was going to be more difficult than I'd imagined. It was like trying to get to first base with a teenager… I wasn't sure I'd be able to go through the motions with every crewmember like this. We'd be months before we were having any real sex, if we lived that long. I decided to try a different tactic, hoping that it would shake her up and cause her to regroup. "Kelly! Are you horny? Does your pussy need something it's not getting?" My louder voice and fairly graphic questions caught her off guard. "What? My pussy?" "Are you or are you not horny? WHY ARE YOU HERE?" "Oh… I want to have sex… I need relief." "SO?" "So?" Damn, this wasn't what I'd envisioned at all. It was like trying to pull teeth the old fashioned way. I started to have doubts about this working. "So, tell me Kelly, how do the VR and you start out your sessions? Help me out here, will ya?" "Uh… I plug in and then choose the mood I'm in for the programmed responses." "Okay then, what's your mood?" "That's part of the problem Jim. I don't know. This is all so strange. I need it… I desire it… I'm so horny I could die, but I can't tell you what I want or feel like." "What's the VR Bot usually dressed like at first?" "That's easy… naked. It's usually naked. I like to see men naked I guess." "Hard or soft?" "What?" "Is the VR's 'cock' hard or soft?" "Oh. Hard most of the time. Once in a while, when I'm in a more tender mood, it will start out soft though." "So, are you in a soft mood or something else?" "Definitely something else. I've never gone as long as this without some kind of sex. This is a record for me. Probably for all of the women on board." "So, we're going to have to wing it I guess." I pulled my body suit down in one quick motion. Naked, I stood before her, watching her facial expressions. My body was lean and muscular. I worked out more than most, especially since working out helped to keep my desires for masturbation at bay. Right now I was searching for that spark in her eyes, and though it took a bit, I finally saw it creeping into view. I hadn't been sure my stripping like I did was the right thing to do. Seeing desire building within her, I knew we were on track, hopefully. Putting my hand on my now hard cock, I began to stroke it in long slow pulls. Each time my hand would reach the end of my cock, just covering its head, Kelly's lips would slightly open. Pre-cum was coating the head of my cock and my hand would drag some of it back down my shaft on each stroke. Mia engaged, getting ready for her verbal warnings since my heart rate had started to climb. Suddenly, I heard Mia change subtly. "Taylor, James… Anderson, Kelly… joining for real sex… wife number one?" I answered her. "Real sex, couple to be Taylor and Anderson." "Standing by. Protocol six two six." "Protocol six two six." It worked. Evidently Mia still had the real sex program imbedded inside the system. I relaxed now knowing that at least we'd not have to deal with MIA interrupting our liaisons. It appeared that if I called up protocol six two six in the future, Mia might just standby immediately too. I noticed the interruption was lost on Kelly. She never shied away from me during the exchange with Mia. Matter of fact, she seemed to have changed in a more positive way totally. I saw her licking her lips and staring at my cock. That's when I knew for sure we were moving in the right direction. Stepping in closer as she sat on my bunk, I put my body between her legs. I wasn't pressing in too close, but close enough that all she had to do was lean forward a little bit and she'd be touching my cock with her face. Her eyes traveled up the front of my body, taking in every part of me, until she was looking into my eyes. I moved in a bit more by shifting my hips, and her hand touched my leg. Suddenly she looked right at the head of my cock, staring at it in a new and different way. She opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue, reaching with both hands to my butt. Her face moved forward and hot breath wafted over my throbbing erection. Her lips and tongue touched my shaft and started to slide up and down, going from the head to the base and soon, to my ball sack. I was having a difficult time keeping my hands away and letting her set a pace she was comfortable with. I was also about to explode too. It had been so long since someone else had touched me that and having her hands on my naked butt and her lips on my shaft was about all I could take. "Careful, I'm about to shoot, Kelly, if that happens it will take a while before it gets hard again. Hard enough to do you any good anyway." Kelly looked up into my eyes with a question. "How long until it will be hard again?" "Depends on whether I have to fix it alone, or if you were to help." "By help you mean suck, right?" "Suck or touch, but yeah." "I suck my VR Bot. Lots." "It doesn't go soft though does it?" "It does, but only for a few seconds. When I think I need it hard again, it's hard right away." "Okay, I'll tell you right now I may take a bit longer to get hard again after shooting off. Each time we do this it will be longer between erections too… at least that's been my experience. Of course, with you helping that time will shorten up a bunch. Another thing is that since we're new to each other this way, I may perform better now than I will in a few days or weeks. Just so you know." "So if I suck you off, you'll get hard again afterwards and be able to perform still?" "Yeah. I'm not sure you'll want to suck my…" She surprised me with the intensity of the attack on my cock. Her lips opened up while I was answering her question and she just swallowed me whole. She was bobbing her head up and down my shaft, her lips tightly locked around it. Her hands pulled me into her as she went down, and then she'd push off slightly on her way back up. I was about to blow my wad right then. I managed to keep it from doing that right up until her hand cupped my balls. Just as she gently squeezed them, I lost it. I tried to warn her. "Kelly… I'm cumming. You may want to…" It was too late. Cum boiled up and out of my cock, filling her mouth. She looked stunned for a bit, and then that look changed ever so slightly. At first I thought she found it distasteful or repugnant. It took me a moment to realize she was smiling around my shaft, not grimacing. She greedily sucked my shaft, trying to get every little speck of my load. Her lips stayed locked around me, her hands on my butt again, holding me to her. I heard her groan of approval. "Ummmm. Ummmmmm. Gmmmmd." "Are you all right Kelly?" Taking her lips away from my cock almost reverently, she glanced up into my eyes. "I'm better than all right Jim. You taste so good. It's so warm and salty. It had a kind of sweet taste too though. I… I think I like it better than the VR. Its stuff tastes kind of cold and metallic. Yours doesn't. Look, you're still hard too. Can you use it on me now?" "Let's get you out of your body suit and find out, shall we?" She stood up and as she did, I reached out, pulling her suit down. As it cleared her breasts, they popped out, giving me a wonderful view I'll never forget as long as I live. Firm and proud, they stuck out without any support. I'd gone to my knees as her suit got down around her thighs, and I stayed there once she shook off the suit. Looking up into her eyes, I began to return her gift to me. I could smell her need, and it was an aphrodisiac from the Goddess's. I gently put my hands on her hips, moving her into a sitting position on my bunk. As she sat, leaning back on her hands, I moved between her legs staring at her pussy. She was wet and her bush was sparse. I saw that she was a true blonde…although DNA typing could now be arranged in certain ways to allow some choices in hair color or even, in some more daring cases, breast size. The breast size modification was rare though. Kelly leaned back more, now on her elbows, watching me as I moved my face to her crotch. When my breath embraced her mound, she closed her eyes, and tilted her head up and back. Her moan told me that I was doing the right thing. "Mmmmm. Hmmmmmm. Yesssss." My tongue slipped between my lips to caress her inner thighs. I moved my hands up her legs, spreading them wider and wider. She didn't resist me at all. Pretty soon I had her wide open. I loved seeing her pussy lips spreading as her legs went wide. I moved in closer and allowed my tongue to slip between the lips of her pussy as my nose brushed the top of her slit. Placing the fingers of one hand near her opening, I began to lick up and down her slit, tasting her sweet juices. "Ohhhh…Yesssss. Sooooo Goooood." I found her clit hiding under a fold of skin and as my tongue popped it up and out of its hiding place; her moans took on a higher intensity. "Yesssss. Oh God Jim… right there….Mmmmmmmm Yesssss." I felt her body starting to shake and quiver. Rubbing my fingers between her lips, they spread her open enough to slip inside. She was hot and wet in there, and I pushed two fingers all the way in. Turning my hand palm up, I started to search for her G spot. After all this time, the G spot was still the one stimulus that most women loved. My lips surrounded her little stiff clit and as I sucked it into my mouth, I finally found her spot and began to massage. Kelly cried out suddenly as her body went stiff. "OH GOD. OH GOD. OH MY FUCKING GOD!" A flood of fresh juices ran over my fingers and I barely got my lips over her opening to catch them before they shot out of her. Kelly's legs locked around my head as her hands grabbed me behind my ears and pulled hard into her body. My nose jammed into her clitoral area and she went ballistic. "YES. GOD YES. OH YES. CUMMING SO HARD… SO FUCKING DAMN GOOD." I was about to pass out for lack of oxygen, but what a way to go. I'd forgotten how good pussy tasted and felt. I loved every second of this 'little death'. Kelly shuddered through two orgasms while holding my head tightly between her thighs. I licked and sucked as much as I could, trying to give her a good experience. I must have done pretty well, since after she finished and began to relax, she smiled into my eyes. "Oh wow. I've never felt something that wild before. I didn't know what you would do next, and the anticipation was driving me up a wall. I had no idea. None whatsoever. Can we do that again? Please?" "Wouldn't you rather have me insert my cock into you? I mean, I thought that's what this was all about anyway?" "Mmmmm. Will there be more surprises like you just gave me?" "I'm not sure what you're looking for in the way of surprises, but I hope you'll find it as enjoyable as what we just did." "Could you give me a little more of what you just did. You know, kind of warm me up for the grand finale'? "I'd love to. Sure you don't mind that my face is in your pussy like that?" "Maybe I would have before, but now? I want you there. I love what you do to me. It was so much better than the VR Bot can do. I couldn't tell what you were about to do to me, so it kind of built a suspense that VR Bots can't." "Yeah, that's part of why I prefer real sex over VR Bots." Her hands were on my hard cock. I hadn't really noticed her move to touch me while we were talking, and as she started to stroke my shaft, she moved her head closer to that area. In the meantime, I moved to straddle her body in a sixty-nine position. With my cock hanging out over her face, I buried my face into her pussy, licking and sucking and enjoying my first pussy in years. She tasted so fresh and good I just couldn't keep away. As she started to warm up again, I felt her lips around my shaft. With my tongue shoved up her pussy I moaned out loud. The vibrations must have done something to her because she suddenly took my whole cock into her mouth and down her throat. I began to move my hips up and down, fucking her throat as my fingers located her anal opening. Shoving two into her tight little hole created a vacuum on my cock that I'd never felt before. Whatever I was doing seemed to cause her desires to take off because she was sucking my cock harder than ever now. I'd never had anal sex, or actually, I'd never stuck my cock into an ass. I'd wanted to do that, but my long time partner never felt a desire for that. Since real sex was hard to come by, I surely didn't want to piss off my partner like that, so I never really pursued it with her. Now, seeing how Kelly was reacting to my fingers, I wondered if perhaps that one type of sex might become available now too? As I started to really get into finger fucking Kelly's ass, she suddenly pulled away from my cock. "COCK. I NEED IT. NOW. PLEASE JIM." I reluctantly pulled away from her delicious pussy, my fingers slowly pulling out of the tight confines of her ass. Turning around on my bunk with Kelly under me, I saw desire in her eyes. A deep need overwhelmed me as I knew that this woman wanted me desperately. "PLEASE JIM… FUCK ME WITH YOUR HARD COCK. PLEASE." I moved in close allowing my cock to brush her pussy lips. She jerked and twisted, trying to align the head of my cock with her opening. As one of her hands went down between us, taking my shaft firmly in her grip, I pushed forward, letting my cock head penetrate her a little bit. "Yeah… OH YEAH. Fuck me Jim. Stick that long, hard, cock into me. Fuck me. PLEASE… FUCK ME." Her hand pulled away, moving so that I could stick my cock all the way into her. She took my ass cheeks in her hands now, pulling on me, trying to get me into her. "PLEASE? Oh God Jim… you have to give it to me." She was begging for it, so I gave it to her. I could no more resist her than she could me right now, and truth be told, I wanted her as much as she wanted me. At least, my cock wanted her pussy like her pussy seemed to need my cock. As my shaft drove into her very tight pussy, her moans and cries got louder and louder. I knew that the whole ship had to be able to hear us by now. I wondered briefly, what they were all thinking about real sex now? "Here you go Kelly. All the way home now." I rammed my cock completely into her pulsating pussy, feeling her wetness lubricating the way. Her hands were pulling my ass hard into her now, and I next felt her legs go up and around my body. Her bare heels hitting my back as she molded her body into mine was a feeling I never wanted to lose. It had been way too long. I made three strokes in and out of her before she went off. It was a ballistic orgasm on her part. She locked up tight with me and I could hardly move at all. Once she came down and relaxed a bit, I started to thrust in and out of her some more, only to have her go off again in about fifteen more strokes. It went like that for quite some time, Kelly having multiple orgasms as I strove to cum once. Her moans and cries stayed loud and often, and each time she had an orgasm I'd hear her scream a bit louder. I finally came and as I started, she pulled away, taking me into her mouth. I shot everything I had and she took it all. As she suckled my cock afterwards, she kept looking into my eyes with a certain kind of look I'd never seen a woman give me before. "What?" "I think I like real sex." "Yeah? I know I've always liked it. What do you like most about it?" "You." This wasn't something I'd expected. Was she seeing something between us I didn't yet? "Me? You mean the having sex with me… right?" "Yeah, that too." "Kelly, we're crewmates, and now, kind of lovers… but once this emergency is over you'll go back to your VR Bot and not have to put up with real sex again." "But I don't want to ever go back to the VR Bot now. This is so much better. I want to do this again and again. I never knew sex could feel soooo… goooood. This was the best sex I've ever had. To think that my parents and the schools all lied to me like this! Real sex is the best." "You know that once we get back to where we should be that you'll be taken to Class Seven for re-training, right?" "I'm never telling anyone that we did this. I'm sure the other gals onboard will feel the same way too. Besides that, we're legally married now too, thanks to the Captain. Once the rest of the crew gets a taste of this, they'll never want the VR Bots again either. This is too good. Way too good. There's anticipation in this real sex the Bots just can't give. I love this. I love you." "Uh, you mean you love sex with me." "Yeah, that too." This, I never anticipated. Love? She felt love for me? There was something wrong with this whole picture suddenly. I wasn't sure what was going on, but Kelly falling for me wasn't part of what I'd figured on. What if the other women had the same reaction that Kelly did? What would we do then? Kelly broke the silence we'd fallen into suddenly. "So, when can we do this again?" "What's your guy's schedule say?" "We each have one sleep cycle with you. Actually we have this sleep cycle and a few hours extra in the morning too. The Captain told us that we should have twelve hours at a time. Since she knows that we'll need sleep at some point, she made allowances for us to do that after the twelve hour shift." "Shift? That sound very… mechanical doesn't it?" "Well, we are on a schedule." "So, what happens tomorrow night?" "You get to choose. Either you can have the next person on schedule or you can have the night off and take the next night with them. That way you won't get too worn out, and you'll set the pace. Nobody loses a turn since the schedule stays the same person to person. We still need to do our normal jobs, although everyone has volunteered to help you out with yours since you'll have less rest." "Twelve hours huh?" "Yeah. Can you think of some thing to do with me for the next ten hours? Do you need some sleep? Do you want me to do something for you? Anything… God, this has been so good so far… I never knew. I never really knew it could be like this." All during this time she never let me go. She seemed to always have a hand on my body somewhere. Caressing, holding, rubbing, and just touching me. I liked it, knowing that she wanted to touch me now. It was amazing to see the changes in her attitude now that we'd had real sex. I'd never expected this kind of change in her. "Well, since we have lots of hours left to go, we can try anything you want to do. Do you have anything you'd like to try? Want to rest? Whatever." "You know when you were sucking me and you had your fingers back there in my ass?" "Yes." "Do you think your cock would fit back there too?" "What do you think Kelly? It's all up to you. I won't force you to do anything you don't want to do, and I don't want to hurt you in any way. If you want me to put my cock back there I'll be more than happy trying. I think we'll need some lubrication for that though." "I'll be right back." Kelly jumped up and ran out the door naked. Her boobs were bouncing and shaking all over the place since they were unrestricted like they were. I couldn't believe it. She was running naked through the ship. A few minutes later, giggling as she bounced back in, she showed me a small bottle of personal lubricant. "I have this cause sometimes the Bot can hurt if I'm not wet enough. The Bot has never gone back there though. I'm not sure it would if I'd let it anyway. I do want to try. I like the feelings your fingers gave me while you were doing that. It felt… good. Real sex is real good. Hah hah hah… real sex is real good. I made a saying. Cool." "What were you giggling about when you came back?" "Oh, the rest of the crew were stunned to see me running through the ship naked. I think they're jealous. Very J-E-A-L-O-U-S. It made me tingle all over to see them looking at me like they were. They know what we're doing and I'm the first to know what real sex is like! Knowing that you were waiting back here and that we're going to have even more real sex that's so real good, well, I love this feeling." I remember thinking that I hoped the other women felt as good about real sex as Kelly did. Kelly slipped onto my bunk and knelt in front of me. My cock was rock hard seeing her on all fours with her butt right there like it was. She has a nice tight ass, one that I'd had thoughts about time to time over the time we'd been thrown together on the ship. Now, with that nice butt naked in front of me with that little tight hole winking at me, and her all ready to try anal sex, it was a dream coming true for me. She took the bottle of lube and squeezed some onto one of her fingers and then she pushed that finger into her ass, shoving as much of the lube as she could into her opening. As I watched, she went through the process several more times, each time working her finger in her ass like she was masturbating. Eventually she turned and sucked on my cock for a bit. As she did she'd look up into my eyes with a longing and desire. After a bit, and almost bringing me off, she put some lube on my shaft and then turned away, presenting her ass to me once again. "I'm ready Jim. What do I need to do now?" "Maybe you should use your hands and spread your ass cheeks apart. Doing that may help to open you up back there and make it easier on you." "Okay. Like this?" She spread her ass cheeks way apart, and it gave me a view I'll never forget. I could see her wet pussy opening up like a flower, and her tender little brown bud opening and closing up. I put my hands on her bottle of lube and then after dobbing some lube on it, I shoved a finger into her ass. After a bit of finger fucking with that one digit, I added another finger, and then soon, a third. Her moans told me that she was okay with what we were doing so far, so I went for broke. Moving up close behind her I pulled my fingers out and pushed the head of my cock into her tight opening. I held it there, the head of my cock just inside her, and waited. I'd heard her breath catch as my cock started to enter her, and I wasn't so sure I hadn't hurt her. "Well? Go ahead, quit teasing me Jim. Shove your cock in baby. I want you to." I pushed in a bit more, feeling the resistance of her muscles trying to force me out. I held still after a quarter of my cock was inside. Feeling her anal passage gripping me like it was made it difficult for me to not shoot right away. I pictured mechanical devices and drawings in my head, trying to lessen the impact of feelings I had at that moment. It worked to keep me from orgasm. Kelly was moaning and now fingering herself as my cock pushed in a bit farther. Her moans grew in volume the farther I went in, so I stopped at three quarters depth. She was having none of that, and as soon as I stopped she shoved back into me, taking my entire shaft into her ass at once. "Yeah… Hurts soooo goood. I love it. Yessss. This is far better than I'd imagined it would be. Go ahead sweetie… fuck my ass. Stick it to me baby. Fuck my ass with your cock Jim. Make me cum hard." I started to stroke in and out of her tight ass, and each stroke seemed to draw more vocalizations out of her. Pretty soon she was going non-stop, yelling, crying and just moaning things. A running commentary of what my cock felt like, what she wanted me to do, what her ass felt like with my cock in it… pretty much everything. All of it loud enough that there was no doubt in my mind the rest of the women on the ship knew what we were doing for certain. "Yeah Jim… fuck my ass. Yessss. I love your cock in my ass. It feels so damn big. It's just huge. Filling me up. Yessss. Fuck my ass Jim. Fuck my ass harder, HARDER. RAM MY ASSHOLE JIM." We were shaking my bunk and it was squeaking on each thrust into her. I worked up a sweat, fucking her in her asshole and she was begging for more and more. "Oh God… I'M CUMMING. YESSSS. I'M CUMMING WITH YOUR HUGE COCK UP MY ASSHOLE JIM. FUCK MY ASSHOLE JIM. I LOVE IT BACK THERE. YESSSS. YESSSS." She came and came. I was afraid for a moment that she was having some kind of seizure or something, but I soon recognized a woman in the depths of a passionate orgasm the likes of which I'd never seen before. I thrust in deep and started to cum myself as I felt juices squirting onto my legs and down onto my bunk. She actually squirted in her largest orgasm to this point. As I calmed down, she fell forward onto her stomach, my cock pulling from her tightness. I fell next to her and soon we both slept, cuddled up together in our wet spot. I woke to something warm and wet surrounding my cock. I opened my eyes slightly, looking down and saw Kelly with a wash pad in hand, cleaning my shaft. The look in her eyes, not knowing I was awake and watching her, was priceless. She was like a child with a new toy. She would wipe here and there, and then hold my cock this way and that, just taking in every angle she could, as if to memorize how it looked. Her lips were wet with the action of her tongue coming out and licking them rather often. I saw desire and need in her facial features, her eyes showing it most of all. Intensely as she was staring at my cock it took her a few moments to realize I was awake and watching her. When she saw me, she blushed a deep and pleasing red. "I'm sorry. I've never really gotten a good look at it, and it just fascinates me. It's so soft, yet can get so hard. It changes length and size as it hardens. I remember how it felt last night, buried in my pussy and ass too. I love it. I really do. I want this more and more each time I think about it. Real sex is real good." "Not to be a smart ass, but I told you it could be in the right circumstances." "I'm a believer now, that's for sure. So… can we do it again?" My cock went rock hard hearing her ask that. "Of course. We have several hours left to go yet." "Good. I want to suck you off. I like the taste of you when you shoot off. After I suck you off I want to get on top of you and fuck you hard and fast. After that, I want you to fuck my ass again. Then, if you're still able to, I want you to fuck me slow and gentle, like making love. Does that sound good?" "I only hope we have enough time to do all of that." "I think we will. I want you to cum when we're making love slow and gentle, and when I'm sucking you off. Otherwise, I want you to just be hard and fucking me the rest of it. If you feel that you're going to shoot off, I want you to stop and only start after you calm down. That way I think you'll make it all the way to soft and gentle." "Sounds like a plan to me. What about that 'making love' part though? What are you thinking about when you say 'making love'?" "Uh… It's what your training manuals talk about. They called it making love. Another name for having sex, that's all. Right?" "Well, not really. A married couple will make love. I think what we're doing is more like fucking or just having sex. Making love requires emotions and stuff like that." "Yeah, I suppose, but I want to make love with you after we do the rest… okay?" She pushed me onto my back and started to lick and suck my cock. It didn't take her very long and I gave her the first dose of sperm for the morning. After I shot off into her mouth and she swallowed every drop, she sucked me back to hardness. Climbing onto me, she put my cock in her pussy and started bouncing up and down; fucking me hard and fast, just as she'd said she would. I loved watching her breasts bouncing with her body, swaying to and fro too. She came hard, and fast that way. After I got close again, she moved off and rolled over onto her back moving back up on top of my body. Her fingers had lube on them and she lubed me up gently yet in a hurry. She broke away from me for a bit and squirmed around, as I realized she was lubing up her rear passage too. Sliding up onto me she put my cock on her tight rosebud, and slowly took me in back there. I put my hands around her body and caressed her breasts as she rolled her hips up and down, fucking her ass with my cock. I moved a hand down to her pussy and began to finger fuck her as she took my cock all the way into her asshole. She started to shake and moan, and pretty soon I was rewarded with the unmistakable feeling of her cumming on my cock buried in her ass. I was close to shooting off, and wanting to do what she'd wanted to do, I knew I'd have to pull out soon. I was able to just barely manage to let her cum one more time before I needed to pull out. Kelly washed my cock lovingly and gently, taking it into her mouth once it was clean again. As she sucked me she moved her body around until I was able to finger her pussy and asshole. Not enough for me to get my face near her, but just enough to finger her. After a bit, she moved up alongside me and hugged me tightly. "Now we make love soft and gentle. I want to do this side by side, if we can." "Okay, throw your leg up and over mine… yeah, like that. Now I'll move a bit like this and… uhhh…yeah…wow, you're so tight Kelly. Really, you are." "You're not exactly little you know, lover." I was in her and she started to kiss me. We kissed and hugged as my cock slowly drove in and out in a steady, gentle motion. I could feel her nipples, hard and hot, poking my chest as she moaned into my mouth. She started to cum once again and as she did I felt her pussy milking my shaft. It was too much for me and I went off deep inside her. Afterwards she continued to hold me, kissing me all over my face and neck. "Thank you so much Jim. I'm so sorry I thought like I did and said what I said before. You didn't deserve that kind of attitude and you've opened my eyes to just how good real sex can be and really is. I'll want to do this again and again. With you." "You couldn't have known. I could have been a bit more… well, nicer about it all. I'm sorry too." "SO, you're going to keep the schedule for the rest of them now?" "Yeah. As long as they're like you, I will." "What if they're better than me Jim? Will you want me again if any of them… or God forbid, all of them are better than me?" She sounded like she was becoming possessive of me all the sudden and I wasn't so sure the others wouldn't do the same. I made a deal with myself to talk to the Captain about this 'love' and 'feelings' thing before things got out of hand. "Somehow I doubt that will be an issue Kelly. You're pretty responsive. Besides, you're my first onboard this tub. That makes you very special." It must have been the right thing to say since she sucked my tongue deeply into her mouth as she hugged me tighter yet. I could see that she was discovering feelings for me and I wasn't sure if I liked that or wanted that to happen either. I'd gotten used to being alone and this was all upsetting to me. That morning, at breakfast, the other women could hardly look me in the eye. Kelly sat close to me, and once in a while she'd kiss my cheek or caress me with her hands. It was unnerving, yet a pleasant feeling too. I felt better than I thought I would, and wasn't tired either. Mia did a 'system check' on me while I sat at the dining table, and afterwards she cleared me health wise. I noticed that Mia didn't do a 'system check' on Kelly. That made me curious. Mia announced my health to the rest of the crew in her imitable way. "Crewman Taylor, James. Body functions 100 percent. Heart rate slightly elevated. Blood pressure normal. Taylor, James fit for active duty." I heard murmurs from the others as Mia pretty much told them that I was ready to go for the next in line. Evidently Mia held some kind of precedence with all of the women on board now. Captain James walked up to the table where only Kelly and I were sitting. Everybody else seemed to want to sit elsewhere today. "So Mech Tech Taylor, are things okay for you this morning?" "Yes Ma'am." "Crewman Kelly, was the experience acceptable for you?" "Oh yes Ma'am. Above and beyond acceptable. Jim was… I mean Mech Tech Taylor was perfect. Better than perfect… he's…" "It was good for both of us is what she's trying to say Ma'am." I cut in because Kelly had gone all doe eyed and never even glanced at the Captain while she raved about our 'experience'. I could see the Captain had an unsettled look in her eyes and thought that perhaps Kelly's response seemed to be unprofessional to her somehow. "So, will you want the next scheduled crew tonight or do you need more rest? I think we all heard your efforts over the last twelve hours. You must be tired." "Actually Ma'am, I feel great. Just what Mia ordered perhaps?" Captain James looked over at the table where the rest of the crew was sitting. They'd gone quiet on her questions to me and Kelly. "Who's next in line?" "That's me Captain. I think I'm next on the list." Jennifer's voice sounded different to me for some reason. She almost sounded subdued, and for her, with her straightforward way of not beating around the bush, it was a far different Jennifer than I ever expected to hear. I saw the others give her different kinds of looks as she looked everywhere but at me. Shy wasn't in her I'd always thought. Looking at her now, I realized that I'd been wrong. She had tons of shyness inside her. It hit me all the sudden. The others heard Kelly and I all through the last sleep cycle. They'd heard Kelly enjoying our real sex. Now, they knew that real sex could be a good experience, in spite of all the rhetoric that had been crammed into their heads all these years. They were afraid! They'd seen a new and far different Kelly this morning. She'd gone from almost aloof towards men and especially me, to wanting to almost sit in my lap and fondle me now. This new Kelly must have shocked them to their core. She'd been the one with the biggest issue about VR Bots and real sex, yet here she was, all over me today. The Captain saw that about the same time I did. Her concerned look at the others spoke volumes. "Crew, we need to talk. Everybody over here… now." They came over, though I noticed that there was almost a rush to grab seats as far away from Kelly and I as they could. Eventually one of them had to sit on either side of us, and the looks they shot at the others weren't very nice. It was like Kelly and I had become repulsive to them. The Captain waited until we all settled in and then she started. "Last sleep cycle you all heard Jim and Kelly having real sex. I can see in the cold light of today that you've all had second thoughts about real sex, with the exception of Kelly, who seems to have adapted very well. I know that real sex isn't something you were taught to enjoy or even to want to try to enjoy. With the VR systems down, we're relegated to using alternative methods. If any of you feels that real sex is too much or a step too far, you may remove yourselves from the list now." There was a knowing silence in the mess hall. "So, none of you object to the schedule and using real sex?" Quiet acceptance came out. "No Ma'am." After each crew member had answered the Captains question, she continued. "As Captain of this ship I know that certain things happen. I know that pressure from the incident of a few weeks ago has created issues that we've never thought about before. In trying times like this it's sometimes hard to forget or put aside a lifetime of 'education' like VR machine versus real sex. I understand, as does Mech Tech Taylor, that not all of you may desire real sex. He has stated most emphatically to me that he isn't a rapist nor will he allow anyone to have real sex without their full and complete cooperation. I'm now going to ask you to each think about your needs and what your expectations are or will be. Sharing with someone else in the physical sense can be traumatic. If any of you, at the last moment feel that you can't continue with the planned real sex, please know that the rest of us will not look down on you." I felt an ease of tension. Looking around at each person sitting at the table I saw them glance at me with looks that spoke of fear of the unknown. Having heard Kelly and I over the last twelve hours as they did must have caused some of those fears to surface. "Now, for those of you who may have real sex, I want you to know that nobody outside of this ship will ever know about it. There will be no Class Seven for anyone that participates in real sex. As your Captain, I've made arrangements to cover that. As of eighteen hours ago, you've all married Mech Tech Taylor. It was a group ceremony and under the rule, acceptable. This allows real sex without interference from the rule. Just so you know I too married Mech Tech Taylor as did your First Officer. We're all in this together." The speech from the Captain seemed to lighten things up a bit; although finding out that one has married a group of wives was certainly a surprise to this groom! "Mech Tech Taylor, do you require rest?" "No Ma'am. Mia checked me out and I'm in great shape. I do have some things to do in the engine room so I'd like to report for duty." "You've been on duty for the last twenty four hours Taylor. According to the records at least so, it's up to you whether you report for duty or not." "I had my sleep cycle though." I was confused. "No, you didn't. I've put any sleep cycle you share with other crew as duty time. I told you I'd see that you were taken care of and I'm keeping my word." "That isn't necessary Captain. It's also not fair to the rest of the crew…" "Jim, please… you're going above and beyond in your duty to the ship and to the crew. Allow me this one thing please." Everyone was staring at the Captain now. She'd used my first name, whether she realized it or not. This was a whole new area in the realm of ship order. The Captain looked around, realizing what she'd said and made a decision. We all saw it when she did it too. "I've decided to change rule. From now on, as long as the proper respect keeps in place, we can go on a first name basis at all times. We've found ourselves in unexplored space, with little chance of return to our homes. As such I feel that the strict order of rule about names is too much to cope with, along with everything else that's happened. I'm still the Captain and Thelma is still the First Officer, but we're relaxing the rules for now. IF it appears that things are working out, we'll leave the rank rule in limbo. It's necessary since the First Officer and I will both be on the schedule and as such, the fraternization rule has to be suspended as well. Since they're both in the same section, it was easier for me to suspend the whole section rather than list each rule one at a time." The silence after this announcement was staggering. The Captain had suspended a whole Section? The bad part of this was my safety in rule was in that section too. She'd managed to unwittingly side swipe my only recourse in the event things didn't work out. After some thought, I realized she hadn't unwittingly done this… she must have figured out that I would use those same rules in case I needed to. Now, for all practical purposes, those rules were gone. I went to the maintenance section and began systems analysis on the engines. Jennifer came in a bit after I was into the scan. "I didn't realize the can of worms I was opening up when I told the Captain my idea Jim. I apologize." "Not your fault Jennifer. I believe the Captain was already ahead of all of us. She had to know that with the VR systems down there'd be issues and she had to have already had a plan in place for such an incident." "Suspending whole sections of rule though? Damn." "That particular section covered my only safety in case this real sex thing doesn't work out. Now I don't have that. She knew. I'm sure of it. She's been way ahead of me all the time anyway. She knew I served on the Minx Six, matter of fact, she requested me on the crew because of the Minx Six." "What? She knew you served on the Minx Six?" "Yeah. Her Uncle was the Captain of the Minx Six." "She knows more about you than you though, huh?" "Yeah. It's kind of disconcerting, you know?" "Well, she knew more about all of us than any of us realized. She really did her homework when she chose this crew." "So, are you going to be okay with tonight then?" Her blush told me more than I needed to know. "I hope so. Are you sure you're up to it? We all heard Kelly last night and this morning… you should be worn out." "Strangely enough, I felt great this morning, and even right now I have all sorts of energy." "Then, I guess we'll see how I do tonight. I won't lie and say I've been looking forward to it, but if Kelly's response last night is any indication, I may change my mind… a lot." "I'll say that I'm surprised that you're not all over this. Considering how you were acting the other day when you started all of it, I figured you'd be the one crew member hot to try this out." Her blushing was attractive. I'd never managed to get her to blush before, well, not like this at any rate. "I think my hormones were talking then. After giving it some thought and knowing about what could happen when or if we are rescued, Class Seven sounds foreboding." "Class Seven is out of the picture since the Captain saw fit to marry me off to all of you. That won't be an issue now. I will say this too, not trying to rain on any parades around here, but rescue isn't going to happen. We've gone far beyond the rescue zone. Light years beyond that point now." "I know. I keep hope though. At some point I realize we're going to have to accept that we're alone out here, but for now I'm keeping hope." "That's not a bad thing Jennifer. I'm keeping hope too." The rest of the shift went quickly. I was looking forward to being with Jennifer. She was the youngest crew on ship and she was a type of woman that I'd always dreamed of being with, but figured I'd never get a shot at. Amazing how circumstance can change in the blink of an eye. As we ate at dinner, I had a table full of women talking and joking with me. Even the Captain and First Officer were sitting in with us. Kelly was bombarded with tons of questions about what we'd done the sleep cycle before. I was hit with 'ooohs and aaaahhhhs' over some of the things we'd done. Kelly was sitting beside me on one side and Jennifer was on my other. When Kelly began to stroke my thigh through my body suit, Jennifer gasped… and then she started to do the same thing on my other thigh. The other crewmembers actually moved to see why I'd suddenly gotten a shocked look on my face. "Oh my God…they're touching him on his thighs. Their hands are almost in his crotch." Everyone stood or bent to see what Kelly and Jennifer were doing. Jennifer stopped moving her hand momentarily but resumed once she saw that nobody was going to yell out about rule being violated. I saw a sly smile on Kelly's face as she glanced around us. "Well girls, I can tell you that Jim is a far better lover than the Bots ever have been. You've not lived until he licks you down there. I mean it. You're all in for a treat." All the crew blushed, even the Captain and First Officer. Jennifer wasn't though. Instead she was staring at my crotch and licking her lips. It was then that I realized I'd gotten hard as steel. In my body suit, well, as much as it revealed on the women, it did that and a bit more on men. Let's just say that Jennifer had a real good idea of what was going to be inside her body later on this night. I still wasn't used to the touch of another person on my body. Knowing what had happened with Kelly and was going to happen with Jennifer shortly caused me to blush a bit. Probably not as much as I should or could have, but then, a quite a bit of blood was somewhere else at that particular time. "Uh… Jennifer, do you want to go to my quarters now?" She looked up at me, suddenly frozen to stillness. I saw her lips trying to form words, but nothing was coming out. I smiled gently and taking her hand, I held it in mine. "Jennifer? Are you okay?" "Oh… uh… yeah. I'm okay. Just… nervous." 'Hey Jennifer, if you don't want to go with him I'll sure take your place." Kelly's eyes were teasing but her hand was still on my thigh and it had moved up enough that I felt her fingertips on my balls. She wanted me some more, and I knew that she may have some issues by the time it was her turn again. "NO… I'll do my part. It's just… well, I've never done this… I mean… I want to but what will mom and dad say when they find out? My God… real sex? I mean… really." "Jennifer, honey, don't worry about mom and dad baby. Trust me. You'll love what Jim does with you and you'll never worry about things like that again. I know it." Kelly was smiling and she'd taken her hands away from me to cradle Jennifer's face. I saw true understanding and perhaps love in Kelly's eyes. She was almost like a disciple for me now it seemed. If we'd been a cult, I'd made it to some kind of guru status in Kelly's eyes at least. "Jim, will you take me now? Before I change my mind?" I stood, taking Jennifer's hand in mine. The walk to my quarters was short, and by the time we were inside with the door closed I could see that Jennifer was bothered by something. "Okay Jennifer… what's up?" "This is my entire fault. I've got you shoved into servicing us all and now I'm not even certain I want to do this. I can't believe that we're here to have real sex." "The Captain wasn't kidding Jennifer. You won't be forced to do anything if you don't want to. I want you to know that. If you just want to lay with me on the bunk and stay dressed, that will be fine with me." "But… what about later? What about when I get horny again? I mean… I'm horny right now beyond belief, but if I don't… if we don't now… Oh Jesus… how did I ever get this all started anyway? What was I thinking?" "Hey… I'll let you in on a secret… the Captain already had plans covering this. She would have started it even if you hadn't said anything. I think she wanted this to come from the crew first, and you just happened to be the unlucky one that couldn't take it at that particular moment." "Really?" "Yeah. Look Jennifer, I won't lie to you. I do want to be with you sexually. You're an attractive woman that I've had thoughts about for a long time now. I won't force you and I won't try to manipulate you. In this instance, I will wait for you to decide. It's up to you." "I need it." "Do you want it bad enough though?" "I want to try to do it. Jim, if I suddenly changed my mind… I mean… if we started and then I thought I couldn't go through with it… would you stop?" "It would be difficult for me, but yes… I will stop if you ever decide you don't want to do something." "What about afterwards? Does real sex cause people to attach or bond with each other?" "I suppose so. In some ways, yes. I won't lie to you. It is a very intimate and sharing thing to do. Giving yourself to another person is like opening yourself up to them fully and completely. In that regard, in that sharing, one can, and often does, give parts of themselves to each other that goes deeper than Bot sex." "Is that a bad thing Jim?" "No. Not really. Matter of fact, it can be a very good thing, as long as both parties are okay with it." "So, when we do this, when we have real sex, afterwards I'll have feelings… for you and you for me?" "I don't know Jennifer. I know that Kelly seemed to get some serious feelings for me after our first time. I have some for her now that I didn't before too. In the end, yes, we may have stronger feelings for each other. We won't know until we're there though." "This is going to be harder than I thought." "You don't have to do this Jennifer." "You don't understand, I have to do this. This was all my idea to begin with." "I told you that the Captain already had plans for this." "BUT I WAS THE ONE THAT STARTED IT ALL." I took her in my arms and hugged her. She had tears running down her face and I could see some sort of pain deep inside her that tore at my heartstrings. Jennifer was really bothered by this. With my nose in her hair, smelling her clean scent, I closed my eyes and just hugged her tightly. Her shuddering cries stop and soon she was silent and still. Her first move a few minutes later surprised me totally. I felt her hand drift onto my thigh and begin to slip up towards my cock. Just as I thought she'd quit, she kept it moving up. Up, up and up some more until her fingers were brushing my shaft. I was hard as a rock by this point and unsure what to expect. I figured that I'd have a severe case of blue balls if she changed her mind, but I'd said I'd quit whenever she wanted me to, so I would keep my word. I was pretty sure that if Jennifer stopped, I'd be able to get Kelly to take care of me. "Does it get bigger than this?" So softly she said it I almost didn't hear her. "Yes. A little bit. The suit tends to hold it down a tad. Once the suits off though, it will grow a little bit longer and perhaps a bit fatter. Kelly seemed to enjoy it." "Did she feel any pain?" "I don't think so. Not that I could tell. I was as careful as I could be with her, just like I'll be with you if you decide to do this." "Did she really lick and suck it?" "Yes." "Did you really stick this in her… you know… back there… in her… ass?" "Yes." "She liked that?" "Yes. She wanted it a second time and would have gone for more if we'd had time I think." "The Bots won't do anal. I'm not sure why, but they won't. I… I tried to get mine to do that for me once. It just ignored me. I even tried a direct command and it directly refused. Since the walls are so thin on this tub, I didn't press much after that." "You wanted anal sex?" "I thought I did. I think I still do. I know my finger inside me back there feels good sometimes." "Kelly seemed to enjoy it, that's for sure." "SO… you'll be gentle with me… right?" "Yes. If you want gentle, I'll be as gentle as I can be. If you want more forceful, I'll do that too. I'm trying to help you Jennifer, that's all. It's all up to you. If you want, I'll try to be and do whatever I can to make it good for you as I can." Her hand closed around my shaft through my body suit. Her face turned up to mine and she attacked me. Her lips jammed onto mine as her tongue shoved in between my lips. I was surprised by the suddenness of her change of heart. I was careful to follow her lead, letting her set the pace. She pulled my body suit down my shoulders and then standing in front of me, she pulled it completely off. Hers followed right away. I was taken with her beauty. While her breast weren't as large as Kelly's were, I saw that they stood up and out proudly, needing no support at all. Mia started her usual interruption. "Taylor, James… Johnson, Jennifer…Elevated heart rates… Taylor, James, wife two, protocol six two six?" "Yes Mia, wife two, protocol six two six" "Standing by." This was so much better than what I'd dealt with all the years before. Jennifer's nipples were hard as rocks and I saw her shaved pussy was bare as a baby's butt. She slipped onto my lap, a leg on either side of me, my cock lying between us, trapped by her pussy lips. I felt the wetness on my shaft and knew that she was very hot right then. Humping on my shaft, she snapped her hips back and forth, letting my shaft glide between her hot wet lips, but not enter her pussy. "Suck my tits. Please Jim. Lick and suck my nipples." I bent a little and taking both of her breasts in my hands; I held them to my mouth. One nipple at a time, I sucked and licked. One breast at a time brought gasps and moans from her. She was holding me by the shoulders as she slid around on my shaft. Just as I thought my cock might go off with all the rubbing action she was doing, she stopped. Looking into my eyes, one of her hands went between us, grasping my cock. Rising up enough to clear, she held my cock up and out, while slowly lowering her body back down. I felt her pussy lips spreading, resisting that large intruder at first. She moaned, and as she did my cock head broke through the resistance and the rest of my shaft followed. Jennifer moaned loudly as she let her self go slack. I could feel her bald pussy on the base of my cock. She was all the way down on me and holding still. I went back to pleasing her nipples while she got used to the intruder deep within her body. Glancing up into her eyes I noticed she was just staring at me. Her look was something I'd seen in only one other person in my life and that had just happened in the last sleep cycle. "What?" "You feel so large inside me. Hot… hard… and deep." "Are you okay with that?" "More than okay. I love it. Now what do I do?" "Well, you can start moving up and down or back and forth. That lets my 'hot, hard and deep' shaft move in and out of you. Your clit will rub on my pubic bone as you take me inside, and then it will float in the air as you pull away." 'Duh… that's basic physics. I mean, is this how you and Kelly were doing it all last sleep cycle?" "Oh. No. Actually, she never sat on me like this. I like what you're doing by the way. It's different and I like the close contact with you too." "How'd Kelly and you do it then?" "She laid back after we pleasured each other with our mouths and tongues. After I got her off with my mouth and fingers, I move up and we did it with her laying on her back. Later she was on all fours and we did it in her ass. After that we did it spooned up to each other too." "She was on all fours when you did her ass?" "The first time. The second time she got on her back while I was on my back and then she slid up on top of me and we did it that way." "She took you twice in each of her holes?" "Yeah. I guess so. I'd have to think back but I think twice in each… yeah." "When you cum, what did she do with your sperm?" "Which time?" "Well, did she ever take it into her mouth?" "Yep. Three times. Twice from oral sex and once she pulled away from me while I was in her pussy and she took my load orally then too." "What's it taste like?" "She said salty and a bit sweet. Not sure really." Jennifer started to rock her hips, her pussy sliding along my shaft, taking it all the way in and then almost all the way out. Just as I thought my cock would clear her pussy and be outside, she'd reverse directions and take me all the way back in. Slow movements on her part made for a very satisfying way to do this. It seemed that my cock was always moving in her one way or the other. My hands were still on her breasts and when I could, I'd take one or the other of her nipples into my mouth and suck on them. "I want to change positions. Can we do that?" "Yes. What do you want to move to?" "I want to be on top of you, sitting up." "Okay." I just grabbed her around her waist and moved us both up onto my bunk. Once we were pretty much centered on it, I laid back and let her sit there on top. She put her hands on my chest and started to wildly move her hips up and down. She was rocking her hips, not moving her upper body at all. I could feel her tight pussy grasping my shaft as it sucked me in on the down stroke and reluctantly let me go on the up stroke. I leaned forward and took one of her hanging breasts into my mouth. This caused Jennifer to moan loudly. "Yes. Oh Yessss. Suck my tit. Yes… feels sooo gooood. Yes. You're so hard. So deep. Filling me… full." "You're hot and wet baby. So tight too. My cock feels huge inside you. I'm going to cum soon. Damn Jenny, you feel so damn good." "YES… cum inside me. I want to feel your cum shooting into my pussy. Fuck me Jim… Fuck me hard. HARDER. Yes… All the way. YESSSS." "Come on Jenny. I want you to cum with me. Come on baby. Just a little more… a little bit…more… yessss… like that. Cum for me baby." Her body was shuddering as her orgasm overtook her. I felt her pussy lock up around my shaft and she plunged down hard onto my cock, holding her body still on it. I sucked on her nipple while my hands went around her butt cheeks. I'd started to fuck her from underneath now, and as I did her orgasm seemed to redouble itself. She collapsed onto my chest, holding me tightly. I kept up fucking into her tight pussy until she went limp in my arms. Just as I started to quit, my orgasm came on and I rammed up into her pussy fairly hard. As I did, Jennifer suddenly went off again and started another orgasm. This time she screamed, and for an instant I thought I'd hurt her somehow. I saw she was okay though when she started babbling. "So good. So damn good. Oh fuck… I love it. You're so deep inside me… so hard. So FUCKING HARD. Oh yes… cumming again… cumming… yesssssss." I let her grind to a halt before moving again. I wanted to be sure she was all right. As she laid on top of me, I put my arms around her, holding her gently. I stroked her hair, and then kissed the top of her head. Her arms were still around my body as she turned her head to face me. "Wow. That was good. Better than I thought it would be. Kelly was right. Real sex is real good." "For me, a large part of real sex being so good is that my partner seems to enjoy it so much too." "Oh yeah… that's right too. Damn, your cock feels so huge inside me. Filled me right up. I love how it feels inside me too. So hot and hard. Damn… I'm glad I did this now. What else can we do? I mean, can you fuck me again somehow? I mean… will it stay hard or do we have to wait a long time for it to recover?" "Well, I notice that it's still hard inside you. Probably because it's been a long time since it's had real pussy and all, so I'd bet we could do something else now too." "Can I…" She blushed. "Can you what?" "I'm wondering if you'd let me kiss you?" I took her head in my hands and kissed her. Our tongues met and soon we were hot and heavy into kissing each other. She broke away suddenly and began to move down my body. "I meant can I kiss you down there? Will that help to keep you up stiff and hard?" "Oh. Yeah. Every little bit helps." "Good. I plan on more than a little bit so let's see what happens next okay?" Soon Jennifer's hot lips were around my shaft and she was sucking to her hearts content. I tried to get her to turn around so I could return the favor, but she shook her head no. "I owe you this Jim. I'm the one that got you into this, so I owe you. By the way, thank you so much for sharing with us. We all appreciate it, though two of us really know what we appreciate you for now." "I'm sure the others will soon learn. I want to do that for you too though. I like doing that." "Really? You want to do that to me?" "Yes. It's a large part of real sex you know?" "Well, if you insist." Saying that, she turned her body around and soon I had her bald and very wet pussy over my face. I moved up and began to lick her pussy lips, enjoying how she moved as I slipped my tongue into her slit. Her lips had returned to my shaft and I soon felt her lips touching my cock at its' base. She was deep throating me, taking me all the way. I'd never had that done before… and I wondered where Jennifer had learned to do that? I wasn't sure if the Bots could be that life like or not. We got each other off orally and then rested. I held her in my arms, while we talked softly. Later, she wanted to try anal sex, and she did the same thing that Kelly had done the sleep cycle before. Jennifer jumped up and ran through the ship to her quarters to get the lube. I heard women cat calling and laughing as she made her way there and back again. Evidently this was going to be a right of passage for real sex for the crew. I was bemused knowing that each one in turn would be doing that and I briefly wondered what the First Officer or Captain would do when it was their turn? Jennifer came in, breathless. As she laughed, her breasts gently swayed to and fro. I was taken with her beauty. Kelly had a body to die for, yes, but in many ways Kelly's body was a bit too hard-toned. Jennifer still seemed to have what I could only call baby fat on hers. It filled out the sharp edges very nicely and made her all the more attractive. "So, how do we do this? What do I need to do?" "Well, Kelly was on all fours in front of me the first time. She put some lube inside her bottom and then lubed up my cock. I opened her up by fingering her back there for a bit, and then we moved to the next step." "The next step? Oh… you mean, after you opened her up with your fingers, you put your cock back there?" "Yeah." She crawled up onto the bunk and got on all fours. Instead of one finger, she lubed up two and stuck them in her rear passage. After a bit of adding lube and fingering she took my cock in hand and lubed it up, sucking on me a bit before doing so. "You know, I liked the taste of your sperm by the way. Kelly is right. It's salty sweet, and tastes much better than the Bots cream does. Later, I want to suck you off again. Will that be acceptable Jim?" "Oh yeah, as long as I can suck you too." "I'd like that. Your tongue and lips feel so hot and nasty when you're down there. I loved it. I think I'm ready for you to open me up dear." Once again I was hearing terms of endearment. I wasn't sure where this would lead, but I knew that the Captain and I would have to talk about this soon. The last thing we needed was infighting or lovers quarrels. I'd not thought about this before, and I should have. Minx Six had ended up with a sharp division in the crew over this, only back then there had been an even split of males to females for the most part. It had nearly come to mutiny before things settled out. Everyone on the Minx Six had gone to Class seven too. Well, with the sole exception of me. I'd managed to slip out of that due to the fact I was 'command' at the time of rescue. I pushed two lubed fingers into Jennifer's very tight ass. With the lube already inside her, it felt snug and smoothly slippery. It didn't take me as long to work up to three fingers with Jennifer either. After a short sundering of her opening, I moved my cock into position. "Are you ready Jennifer?" "I think so. Go easy please? I mean… do whatever you did with Kelly." "How about I put the head in and then you go ahead and push back to take what you're comfortable with? That way you're in control, and you'll know when you need to stop before I would anyway." "Okay. That sounds even better. I'm ready if you are." "Here goes." My cock was there and it was a matter of a slight push and the head was inside. Already the heat from her tight little orifice was causing me to build up to orgasm. I felt like a teenager in some respects due to the quickness of my being there. Jennifer put her head down for a second, and then she started to push back onto my cock. She stopped one time. At about half way in, she hesitated for a bit, letting my cock widen her up back there. I felt her muscles relax a bit and then slowly yet surely, she pushed her butt all the way back until my cock was completely buried in her ass. "Oh God. That feels so strange. So full back there. Don't move… wait a second… let me get used to you…oh…damn…oh my…feels better…feeling much better… Okay, try pulling out… slow… slow… oh yessss…back in… yeah…yesss… Oh god…this is good… sooo gooood. Yesss." I pushed back in as directed having only pulled out about three quarters of my cock. Slowly we built up speed and stroke length until a few minutes later when I was thrusting in and out of her ass almost as fast and in long strokes as we'd done in her pussy earlier. Jennifer went wild. I mean… crazy wild. I'd thought Kelly was a bit loud, but Jennifer was screaming loud. She didn't talk as fast or much, but when she did, everyone knew what we were doing. There was no way that anyone could miss what she said. "Jim…OH GOD… OH GOD… I LOVE IT… YOUR COCK… MY ASS… SOOOOO GOOOOD!!!" I plunged on, in and out, varying the speed and stroked time to time. Each time I changed up something she'd moan loudly. "OH YESSS… FEELS SO DAMN GOOD… HARDER… FASTER…UP MY ASSHOLE YOU FUCKER… YES… Oh GOD… YES!!! YES!!!" She came three times while I plowed her rear passage, and just as I was about to shoot she pulled away from me. Stunned I watched as she just turned around and took me into her mouth, down her throat. I couldn't hold it after that, and my cum shot out filling her mouth. She lost a tiny bit that ran down her chin and almost dripped off. Using a finger, she wiped it off her chin and then slipped that finger in alongside my cock, cleaning it off. "MMMM…MMMM." Her moans were vibrating my cock and kept me rock hard. As she pulled away she looked up into my eyes and smiled at me. "SO…how's that for cleaning your cock?" "No exactly how Kelly did it." "I thought not. I wanted to do something wildly outrageous. Did that pass?" "Oh yeah. Come here, kiss me." She stared at me closely. "You know what I just did." "Yeah? So?" "You just shot off in my mouth… I cleaned you with my lips and tongue… and you want to kiss me?" I just took her head in my hands and planted my lips on hers, shushing her up. After a second she allowed me to tongue her lips and then I slipped my tongue into her mouth tasting what she'd tasted. "Hmmm… not bad. It is a little salty and sweet. Wonder why?" "You are kinky Jim. I never knew." "Look who's talking about kinky. Miss, clean my cock with your lips and tongue. Kelly sure as hell didn't do that." "Yeah… well, I need to have something special I do for you. I think you'll find that each one of us will need to do that. It's something we discovered in the training materials." "About that…" "We all know that you could get into serious trouble over having brought that on board Jim. Your secret is safe with us. After all, we're now part of it all too. We've read it and actually tried to masturbate over it too. By the way, the protocol six two six will not work for masturbation. We've all tried it." "Maybe I'll need to be in the room too." "If you're there we won't need to masturbate, will we?" "Guess not." "The nine days between times is going to suck too. At least I know that you'll be available to me in nine days though. It'd kill me to have to go any longer than that. I'm glad I wasn't last on the list either. I lucked out when we drew wires." "Don't you mean straws?" "Oh, yeah. Well, we used wires for the draw, all different lengths of wires. We didn't have straws." "Okay then, wires it is." "Know what's funny?" "What?" "The First Officer will be next but the Captain is dead last." Suddenly she looked at the floor with a kind of shamed look. "I didn't mean anything by that…" "It's all right Jennifer. We've lost two officers and that's hard. It's nothing like what happened on the Minx Six, believe me. We're in better shape and we have a lot better crew now than I did back then." "It's just so… I never knew you were on the Minx Six. My father was there. He was a Lieutenant Commander." "Lieutenant Commander Carl Johnson was your father? Oh my God, I never put you two together." "They said you tried to save them… they said that you did all you could do but without the medical systems and doctor there wasn't much anyone could do. I know you tried… You had no way of knowing that he was my father. I don't blame you… I don't. I know you and I know your heart. I know you did what you could." I took her into my arms as she started to cry. I felt the darkness of that long ago time wash over me once again. I'd liked her father. He'd been slightly stiff, but Lieutenant Commanders were, fresh out of the academy like they usually were. We took a break and just cuddled up together. I spooned Jennifer and covered us both with my blanket. In the morning I woke up to see her standing just inside my door with a tray of food. "Where do you want it lover?" "Whoa, breakfast in bed?" "Yeah. It's the least I could do." "You're going to spoil me for everyone else you know." "Good, then my plan is working." "Plan?" "I plan on making you fall in love with me and we'll run off together. I want to have lots of your babies before we're through too." "WHAT? BABIES?" She looked so upset so fast I was taken by yet another surprise. I was still trying to figure out where the baby stuff had come from though and it took me a second to react to the rapid changes. Taking her in my arms I hugged her close. "You don't want babies out here. It's not a good place for them." "I was born in space. On a ship smaller than this one." "But, how will we care for any babies?" "Guess we should have thought about that before we started all of this scheduled sex stuff then huh?" "You mean you're not using control?" "Nope. None of us are. We never expected to have to do this so we didn't request any controls." "Wait a second. NONE of the women onboard have controls?" "Nope. No controls were loaded onboard or added to the ships stores. After all, we had the Bots, and none of us were married or intending on marrying." "Then… you could all get pregnant. I could end up fathering nine kids." "More like ninety kids. We all have great genes and we all came from larger families. Since you're only forty five years old, we figure that you have at least fifteen good years to father children. If we're lost out here that long we can expect to have around ten kids each." "Oh shit. Oh… shit. Oh… God damn… shit." "It's all right. We talked this one over a lot. We all agreed." "IT'S NOT ALL RIGHT. We only have nine pods left. Each pod is good for four people for ten years. We won't have enough food for all of us by that time. I can't believe that you all talked about this and didn't include me in on the conversation." "The Captain said that when we find a habitable planet we'll stock up food supplies and move on, or we'll settle in and stay there. We'll be okay. We have years to locate what we need in that way." "I should have been included in on this. I'm the sperm donor here. I do have some rights you know." "We didn't want you to worry about it now. There was time enough before we'd have to tell you." "What, after the fact? When you're all pregnant walking around the ship with bellies sticking out? Jesus. H. Christ." "Jim… can I speak to you in the mess hall please?" The Captain was outside my door. Once again the sound proofing or rather, lack of, had done me in. Jennifer followed me into the mess hall. There I found all the crew sitting looking at me. "You were all in on this?" "Jim, please sit. We'll get this all straightened out quicker if you're not standing there all tense." "I don't think my sitting will make a bit of damned difference Ma'am." "SIT." I sat. I sat and stewed as the Captain and then the rest of the crew started to tell me all about their conversation way back when… about how they all knew that having sex with me, real sex, would cause them to all get pregnant. How my part in this needed to be kept from me until one or all started to show. "Just when did you all talk about this. I never heard anything at all. I should have heard conversations rumbling through the decks long before now." "We used my office for most of them. Remember that I have the shield for command calls?" "That went down with the VR System." "No it didn't. When this ship was built the designers put in a separate trunk just for that shield. You didn't know about it since it's not on the prints or in the library." "Would have been good to know about before this, Captain." "Jim, please. Try to understand. We all have needs here. You, me, all the rest of the crew. We never expected something like the rock to occur. We took an educated guess and chance that we'd not need controls since we weren't having real sex onboard. Things beyond our control changed obviously. Now the women's needs being taken care of added additional issues. Again, we talked it over and decided between us that we'd do what we needed to do to carry on our genes. We all understand that rescue isn't going to happen for us. We're beyond any kind of rescue at this point. Our only hope is to survive until such a time as our people open up this part of space. We all know that could take hundreds of years. We all want our story told as accurately as can be. What better way than from our children's children?" "I should have been included in on these conversations." "We knew you'd object. We couldn't take the chance that we wouldn't have kids to follow us. We'd hoped to all have one time with you first, we planned to tell you after the first round." "That's pretty devious Captain." "I won't apologize for this Jim. We did what we felt and still do feel is right. We need to carry on our gene pool. We're all in this together." "I should have had a choice in this matter. After all, it does very much concern me." "Jim, don't you want your gene's to carry on after you're gone?" "Well yes. But…" "What better way but to be able to carry those genes on with nine different women? Think of the spread throughout the group… you'll be remembered by everyone as the father of this family. It will be a huge family eventually too." "So your intent is to propagate the species using my DNA?" "No, using your sperm, which includes your DNA, and our eggs which include our DNA." "We have no doctor." "We have the library and the ships computers, plus once we landfall somewhere, we'll have a chance to repair the VR system for the information the medical VR has. Mia couldn't do that." "I'm not sure I want any part of this." "You need to be a large part of it. You're our only hope Jim. You'll be writing history for a whole world eventually. We need you. You know it and we know it." "I'm not father material." "You're more father material than most men ever could be. We all know you. We've all worked and lived with you for years now. Trust us… you'll make a great father. You'll see." "That's why you married me to all of you. That's why I hear terms of endearment coming from Kelly and Jennifer isn't it? You all planned to have me fall in love with each of you… didn't you?" "Having you love each of us would help us in having the family group we are going to need to have. You have the capacity for it Jim. We all know it. You can love us all. We can all love you." "I'm not good husband material. I'll cheat on you all." Everyone started laughing at me. Everybody. I didn't realize the absurdity of my statement until the laughter started. I was embarrassed once I realized what I'd said. After all, who was there on board for me to cheat on anyway? If all of them were already my wives, I couldn't cheat on any of them with any of them… or something like that. "Jim, come on. Give it a chance." "Isn't the husband or father the head of the household Captain?" The sudden silence brought it home to at least one person. The Captain smiled at me and then surprised all of us with her next statement. "Yes, he should be Jim. Do I understand by your question that you're volunteering for the job?" Everyone was staring at me now. This was unprecedented. I'd never heard of the Officers of a ship turning their control over to an enlisted man like this. It had never been done in the history of the fleet. Kelly and Jennifer had smiles on their faces. They knew that I was already possibly the father of their babies. I was stuck. I saw no way out of this dilemma at all. "Can I have a few sleep cycles to think this over Ma'am?" "As long as you keep to the schedule, yes you may Jim." "You mean…" "Jim, of course you'll have to keep up with the schedule. You'll understand eventually that it's the right thing to do." It's official. The date just turned to 2559.76. Ten years it's been, ten long wonderful years. My family has grown to sixty five kids and I still have nine healthy, beautiful and loving wives. Smart too… the wives I mean. They knew long before I figured it out, that where we are is what we needed to do. We eventually found land fall on a very large habitable planet. The ship is still in orbit and I go up there time to time with the oldest kids or one or more of the wives. We're keeping it space worthy as much as we can. Just in case. Planet side we have a nice community that shares everything. At times it's a handful since there are slightly more girls than boys down there. But most of the time it's pleasant and good. We still keep to the schedule. Not all my wives like the same type of sex either. We educate the kids and explore our new home world often. Luckily the three shuttle craft we have still function properly. Jennifer is the one that keeps them in tip top shape. She has always been my best Mech Tech. Having so many kids is kind of neat too. They all call me dad… or father, or poppa, or… well, you get the point. Each one is special to me. Each one has their own way of coping with life, and happily, most of them take after their mothers. All except my second oldest. Jimmy tends to be too much like the old man. At times Jennifer reminds me that I was the one she'd always loved so much so it's only natural that her first born son would take after me as much as he has. He's only a few hours younger than his oldest sister, but in spite of things, the first nine kids are so close it's hard to have one birthday for each one, so we have a large 'planet party' for them. After a year the spread between the kids worked out so that there is a good spacing between them now. That first bunch though… whew boy. Oh, in case you're wondering, Tomar Three? That's this planet. We named it after the last place we were to visit before heading to the end of the mission. Looks like we're not there yet. We live on a nice island on a large sea. It's kind of my dream place to live. You should have been here last year when the first fleet exploration vessel after the SF 5595 showed up. They were stunned to find us there, and even more shocked to see that we've been practicing real sex. I sent in my request for my retirement credits too. We're comfortably comfortable now. I was happy that the women all were able to order supplies for the school and other things too. We sent messages to family back home, letting them know we're all alive and well. My wives all chose to stay with me. Guess they all fell for me after real sex. Imagine that. Real sex IS real good. Oops, I gotta run, I hear Linda calling me. It's our scheduled night… do you know that former Fleet Captain, is really into B&D? I'm the Master; she's the sub… another… 'Imagine that'. It's been a very interesting ten years all right. END * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * It's okay to *READ* stories about unprotected sex with others outside a monogamous relationship. But it isn't okay to *HAVE* unprotected sex with people other than a trusted partner. 4-million people around the world contract HIV every year. You only have one body per lifetime, so take good care of it! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Kristen's collection - Directory 55