Respite - Part 15

Lieutenant Terence Mahoney turned off the lights in his quarters, all but the ones in the bathroom. He walked around making sure that all the requirements projected on his holoscreen was tended to. It intrigued him that someone went through the trouble to send him a message with to-do list before a Crew Contact session. In fact, the sender was even able to omit his name from the message and hide the send code, which meant he knew how to bypass security protocols.


Mahoney's interest was piqued.

“No talking, no kissing,” read Mahoney. “You have a lot to hide, whoever you are.”

Mahoney sat on his bed and looked over his quarters which was now shrouded in darkness. He knew that the lights from his bathroom would only show him a silhouette of his guest, and nothing more.

There was a knock on the door. Mahoney glanced at the clock. On the dot. “You are punctual too,” he said and smiled.

“Come on in,” he called out after briefly thinking if he should even have said that.

There was a slight pause before a sliver of light came in from the outside and a lone figure slipped in. Mahoney was right, the lights from his bathroom wasn't bright enough to show anything more than the outlines of the shadow person. The figure walked towards him, stood at the foot of his bed and removed his uniform. Then he just stood there. Waiting. Was he nervous? Was he waiting for his eyes to adjust to the darkness? Mahoney got out of bed and stood next to the figure. He held out his hand and touched his chest. It was firm, smooth, youthful. He was making his way to the nipple when the shadow man pushed his hand away.

Confused, Mahoney kept his hands at his side. He felt the other man come closer, he could feel his breath on him. He wasn't too tall, thought Mahoney, judging from the gusts of hot breath on his neck. They stood there for a long while, and it was becoming less fun for the lieutenant.

“Maybe this isn't such a great -”

Two hands on his shoulders made him sit on the bed. Mahoney didn't resist. The person came closer still. He could smell the fresh soap on the shadow man's skin, followed by the warm touch of the man's penis brushing against his face. Mahoney didn't need more directions, he smiled and sucked on the offering. The smooth organ hardened in his mouth, and when Mahoney's tongue tunneled under the foreskin he tasted precum. He continued to relish the cock, feeling every vein with his lips. He tried to stroke the balls under the heavy organ only to have his hand slapped away. All Mahoney could do, or allowed to do, it seemed, was to sit on his bed and bob his head back and forth sucking on the thick hard cock of the mystery man.

Then something happened.

Mahoney felt the cock soften in his mouth. He tried to revive it by licking the underside of the organ but that made it worse. It seemed that the shadow man had lost interest. Mahoney was still trying his best to excite the flaccid penis when the shadow man pulled away. He heard more rustling and before he realized what was happening there was a bright glare. The door of his quarters had opened and Mahoney could only make out the shape of a person leaving his room.

The lieutenant sat on his bed trying to understand what had transpired. He was still in a daze when he turned the lights back on. That was a strange encounter, he thought and laughed to himself. He was about to grab his towel on the chair next to his bed and go for a shower when he noticed something shiny on the floor. Mahoney picked up the scarab and flipped it to see the name and rank of its owner edged on the back of the communication device and dog tag.

Mahoney read it and smiled.

...


Private Colin yawned and stretched his arms. He rubbed his eyes and looked around. He saw his cousin sleeping next to him, his arms still around his torso. Then, everything that had transpired came back to him.

Colin turned and studied the old chamber they were in and when he looked beyond the ancient pillars to the wide open windows, he felt something. There was something different that morning. Colin felt more at home, more comfortable and safe than he had been for a long time. But there was something else. Something else that was new.

“Hey cuz.”

Colin found Christian staring at him with those strange yet familiar red eyes. “Morning,” he said beaming.

“You look like you're millions of miles away.”

“Actually, I feel like I've come home. Strange, but I know. Hey, do you smell that? I recognize this smell in the air...it's called -”

“Hae-dula,” Christian said and blinked, startled that he had just uttered a strange word. “Yeah, and Hae-dula means more than that, it's...” Christian snapped his fingers a few times trying to get the right words out.

“It's like being content, alive, happy.”

“Exactly.”

“Weird.”

“Very.”

Colin got up and brushed off the leaves that were on him. Some pieces of foliage was stuck to body by the dried cum from last night. He gave up after a while and walked around the huge chamber.

“This used to be the great hall, there were many celebrations held here. And over there at the-”

Christian waited for the rest of the sentence but Colin had stopped talking. Christian got to his feet and went to his cousin turning him around to face him.

“What? What is it?”

Christian could see the bewilderment and shock on Colin's face.

“What's wrong?” asked Christian again, his hands on Colin's shoulders feeling the younger man tremble.

“It's Ne-kimpa.”

Christian's eyes widened when he realized what his cousin was saying. His mouth grew slack and after a few moments his lips curled up and formed a smile.

“You're...”

Colin nodded, hot tears welled up in his ruby eyes and drained down the sides of his face.

“I'm pregnant.”


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