The Ishtar InvestigationChapter 3 At Home Reviewing the Case
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The trip to the teleport was swift and we found that we had priority in line. Moments later we were finding a comfortable place to sit as the courier ship's crew boosted for the jump point. "We've been told to hurry the trip, so we are boosting at max to the jump point. We'll be jumping in thirty minutes."
I nodded. Sarah was snuggled into my side, and I was going to nap when the lieutenant in charge of the courier spoke. "Sorry sir. I have a call from Admiral Himmel for you and the Lieutenant. Do you want to take it here."
"Its likely to involve some classified information. Is this room secure?" I asked.
Sarah giggled as the lieutenant returned an offended look, but he turned and left the room muttering about being around paranoid people."
Linda however merely sighed. "I guess we can speak now."
The AI chimed and the admiral's voice came through. "Don't worry too much about security on this call. First, I wanted Lieutenant Jackson to know that we have confirmed that her brother is alive. The report we received says that he lost an arm and a leg when his weapon overloaded, but that prompt action by the crew of the Nassau kept him alive until he was placed in a pod."
Linda started sobbing and Sarah wrapped her up in a hug. "That's wonderful," I said. "I hope you understand Linda not responding. I think the relief of knowing her brother is alive has overcome her."
The admiral barked a short laugh. "If she wasn't crying in relief I'd worry. I did have a question for you. Did you keep any of your skimmed records?"
Sarah nodded to me and spoke. "I have Norm's PDA, and last night the AI transferred what information and analysis we had completed. Why?"
Admiral Himmel sighed. "Tell me about Donna Daniels."
There was a pause. Sarah handed the PDA to me and shrugged. I understood that she was telling me that the information was mostly text and she was hoping I could interpret it faster. I gave the system a few commands and whistled. "I have it. Donna Daniels, she's twenty-seven. CAP of six point five, which isn't a surprise as just about every colonist taken to Ishtar had a six point five, I think there were only three at seven with James the highest at seven point two. Picked up at a coffee shop in Miami along with seven others, but three were sent to the Wisp. The other two are believed to have ended up in the rebels. Why?"
Admiral Himmel sighed. "What occupation did she have? I'm just wondering."
I looked more closely at the information. "She worked for a fashion magazine as an executive assistant."
The admiral laughed again. "Well, she is now the one writing up the medical reports on Ishtar. I just had to wonder, since the reports are some of the best I've seen. Clear, concise and yet detailed. I guess that comes from her magazine experience."
"So we have some more names?" I asked.
The admiral laughed. "Yes, but I also found that the people of Ishtar don't follow rules. When Captain O'Brien from the Nassau was released from medical and called me, it was a concubine who put the call through."
"What?" Linda said, finally reacting to something. "I've never heard of such a thing!"
The admiral laughed. "Well, naval ships do use concubines for scut work and as help on damage control teams during and after battles. I'm not sure which ship or admiral started that, but it's now standard on all naval ships. However, this is the first time I've heard of concubines working in communications. I must say the girl was very professional."
Sarah giggled. "Maybe she's a former receptionist. She'd know how to handle things."
There was general laughter, but the Admiral stopped it and spoke one last time. "Norm. I know you don't like to get nasty, but make sure you take a stinger with you. Monty did a little checking through his staff and we've now confirmed that the commander of Darling Downs was involved in a group of officers who were trying to force a reassessment of CAP scoring. The group has no power, but many are former military from Earth and as a group they have a nasty reputation. Your target is probably going to be quite hard to pin down and also is probably willing to kill to keep his secret."
The admiral signed off and we settled in for the start of the trip. Once the ship had jumped Linda and I asked around and discovered that the courier ship only had a single stateroom, which we were expected to share. I clumsily offered to sleep elsewhere, but Linda laughingly refused my offer.
"Oh, its not like I haven't seen men naked now that I'm in space. And I get a feeling you aren't the type to jump me just because you walked in on me changing," she said. "Or are you?"
Sarah started giggling and eventually fell over she was laughing so hard. I reached over to help her up, but she refused help until she got her laughter under control. "Oh, please can I tell Linda about your pickup? Please 'Normie'?"
I groaned, but after seeing the curious look in Linda's eyes nodded. "Go ahead and make me look like a complete idiot," I muttered.
Sarah reached up and pulled me down on top of her, giving me a long and loving kiss. "No, it doesn't make you look like an idiot. It merely will assure this lady that you will respect her no matter the situation."
I nodded. "Let's go to the stateroom. This courier only has a crew of four, but they don't need to hear this."
We walked the short distance to the small and sterile stateroom. I wanted to claim the chair, but Sarah directed Linda to the chair. Once Linda was seated, my concubine pushed me down on the bed and snuggled into my chest.
"This might take a while to tell," she said. "But I know it will leave me wet, so I want to give my savior all the love he deserves."
Linda looked surprised and held up a hand. "This makes no sense. I mean I have my own concubines, Jason and Jill, but they don't act anything like you do Sarah. Aren't you the least bit upset about being a concubine?"
Sarah giggled and opened her top. She had worn her hooker outfit of painted on shorts and tied under the breast shirt. Before I could say anything she was rubbing her naked breasts on my arms and chest.
"No," she said completely unnecessarily. "But that's part of the story I'm about to tell. I should start from the beginning." "It was almost midnight at the little truck-stop diner. It was called Mother's but no one who worked there knew whom it was named after or by. The place seemed to change owners every two or three years, but the food never changed much. I've heard some people call the place a "greasy spoon", but all I knew was that it mostly served truckers and tourists traveling the interstate.
"For me, the place was where I took refuge after spending the afternoon trying to drum up business as a hooker. The men knew me as a sleeper leaper. If a semi pulled into the parking lot and it was clear that the driver was going to go off clock, I'd offer to join him in his sleeper for money. I'd been doing it for twelve years, after I had been driven from my home. My father had remarried and my stepmother had decided that she didn't want to deal with a teenaged girl. I had found myself with no place to stay until I ran into a woman of about thirty who had been practicing sleeper leaping for more than a decade herself. She showed me the ropes and got me started."
Linda gasped, but I held up a hand to warn her to be quiet. I had heard the tale before and knew that as long as Sarah was not interrupted she could get through this portion without crying. Any interruption might unleash a fountain of tears, which would take hours to quell.
Fortunately Linda noticed my hand because she covered her own mouth and Sarah continued. "As I said it was nearly midnight, so I had finished checking the few trucks in the lot. I had found a couple of johns who were willing to pay, and afterwards had retreated to the diner to warm up and get a hot meal before I trekked the two miles to the drafty apartment I lived in. I was actually chatting with Heidi when the place lit up with the grey interdiction field."
"The marine in charge of the pickup announced what was going on and the fifteen or so people in the diner all laughed. The place served as the bar for the nearby town, but even with that everybody figured that there could be no volunteer in the crowd. However, to our surprise the marines found three volunteers, including Norm who had been sitting just behind me looking over some paperwork."
Sarah smiled and kissed me again. "You want a laugh. I'm sure everyone thinks of pickups as orgies, although I've heard of some prepackaged ones where the sponsors have organized everything and know ahead of time when and where the pickup is. However, this clearly wasn't one of those, so several of the derelicts at the bar started looking around for which women were going to strip their clothes off. I still can't explain it, but for once I did not want to undress. Several of the men there had seem me naked after handing me money, but I still wasn't ready."
"Well, the marines were talking to the three volunteers and discussing the lack of women in the diner when one of the men walked up to me and grabbed at my top. He clearly intended to strip it off. I understand that the marines are supposed to help, but it was Norm who rushed over and shoved the man away while screaming, 'Let it be her choice not yours.'"
Linda looked at me as I blushed. "It was a noble impulse, and I still don't understand it," I replied. It had become my standard refrain when Sarah told the tale and Linda could see that because she giggled.
Sarah gave her usual response. She stood up long enough to strip her shorts down and started grinding her pussy against my thigh. "And yet, I, a damsel who had never had a knight suddenly found myself with one," she hissed. "Norm, I've told you every time, you won my heart forever that night. Stop pretending that you aren't a special man."
I shrugged and grabbed Sarah. It took a moment until I got her motionless and she sighed for a moment. I could see the lust in her eyes, but after kissing my nose she spoke again. "Fine, be that way. I'm sure you'll be begging for me to strip that uniform off when I finish."
She turned to look at Linda. Linda giggled at this and I guessed that Sarah had winked at her. A moment later the story continued. "Well, as I said, Norm suddenly stopped the man and spoke as if I was special. I was still trembling from how quickly it all happened when Norm stepped back to look at me. Now, he's cleaned me up quite a bit, but back then I knew I wasn't very pretty."
"I had lived a hard life for years. Although I had made decent money that night, customers weren't common and many were rough; sometimes they left bruises that took forever to heal. Worse, I had not been all that attractive to start, and twelve years of inconsistent and mostly greasy meals had not helped. Norm has actually had a bit of fun with my looks. Back then I weighed probably forty pounds more than I do now, and my breasts already had considerable sag. The biggest issue was my belly. It seemed no amount of exercise would keep it down and I had a very unattractive muffin top sprouting over my shorts. My hair was longer, but hung greasy and listless most days. I tried to keep it clean, but I never seemed to have enough money to shampoo it regularly."
Sarah sighed. "That was me at that moment. There was a pickup and here I was a hooker who was barely getting by and was ugly to boot. I figured that Norm would look elsewhere, but he surprised me by pointing to the booth he had been sitting in. "Let's go over there and talk briefly," he told me."
Linda looked confused as Sarah took a moment to stand and push my uniform pants down. Sarah did not blush as she saw Linda's eyes drift to her pussy and noticed that Sarah was hairless. "Sorry, I'm getting turned on and I want to be sure Norm can take me."
Linda looked surprised. "By this? So far all you've told me sounds like you should be completely against any kind of sex."
Sarah giggled. "Let me tell the tale, it will make sense, I hope. Well anyways, here is this pickup. One man had tried to undress me, but Norm dropped him and asked me to join him at a table. I went over there with him. I actually was rather frightened. The diner that night had only sixteen people, including the staff. There were five women. One was some business lady who had stopped for a quick coffee. She was already down to her panties and giving Leroy a blow job."
"Leroy?" Linda asked.
Sarah nodded. "Yes, one of the other two volunteers. I never caught the name of the trucker who was picked up. I think it was Terrence. He was a strange one and took along one of the men at the bar along with Cindy, one of the two waitresses that night. Leroy however, everyone in town knew. He was this massive man with chocolate skin and muscles on muscles. He had starred in football for a few years and then came to town because his wife wanted to live near her ailing grandmother. Within six years he owned the town, he turned out to be a patient and intelligent man."
I laughed. "Just as nice once he was selected too. Unfortunately when I was transferred to the Borneo district a year ago, he remained back at Konat. He's applied for a transfer, but last I heard it had not been accepted."
Linda smiled. "What about his wife?"
Sarah giggled. "Oh, she was picked up as well. Like I said there were only five women in the place that night. Leroy took Steph, the trucker took Cindy, and no one wanted anything to do with Robin, so after Norm's selections, the marines needed to let Leroy and Norm both to have additional concubines. Since they had to pick up Leroy's children, they agreed to take his wife if she was willing. Latoya was more than willing."
Linda looked puzzled. "Latoya, that name sounds out of place for the redneck kind of place you are describing."
Sarah giggled again and wiggled against me. "It's not her birth name. She came by the diner some days, and she was a beautiful blond woman before the pickup. However, once she was picked up she begged for Leroy to make a few changes. Does the term Nubian Princess give you any ideas of how she looks now?"
Linda's jaw dropped and Sarah fell over laughing. I guided Sarah onto the mattress of the bed and finished removing my uniform pants before lifting her back up so she was sitting on my lap. She needed a few moments to stop laughing, but once she did she wiggled her body until my cock was sliding along her pussy entrance.
Sarah blushed a bit, but looked up. "Well, that was nice, but let me try to continue. Norm, you know I love this, but please don't distract me too much."
I could not help myself and tickled her right breast for a moment, watching her nipple turn hard as she squirmed on my cock. I kept that up for a moment and then stopped Sarah's squirming with a kiss.
"Norm..." she moaned when my lips left her. "That's unfair. Let me tell the story!"
She stared at me silently until I nodded. She stared a bit more and then kissed my nose. "Very well, let me go back to that moment in the diner. Like I said, it was strangely silent in the place after the marines announced the pickup. After Norm knocked over the man accosting me I allowed him to lead me to the booth he indicated and sat down. He sat across from me and Heidi stepped up to ask if he wanted coffee."
Linda looked puzzled. "Heidi? She was the fifth lady at the diner that night?"
Sarah nodded. "Yes, she was a waitress there, had been doing that for almost thirty years."
Linda seemed to be counting. "Thirty? Wasn't she too old to have children then?"
I sighed. "Linda, how about we finish the tale and then Sarah can tell you all about Heidi. That's another story she loves to tell, even if it's normally Heidi's."
Sarah blushed for a moment and muttered something about me interfering with a good storytelling, but shrugged a moment later. "Anyways. Heidi asked about coffee and Norm nodded. She dashed off and brought back three cups of coffee, giving one to Norm, another to me, and finally sliding in next to me saying she wanted to be involved."
I shrugged when Linda looked past Sarah to me, but Sarah continued.
"Well, I expected Norm to ask for me to disrobe and was actually working to untie the knot in my top when he surprised me by saying, "Tell me why I shouldn't accept you as my concubines."
I had to hide a laugh at Linda's surprised gasp. "He didn't!"
Sarah only nodded. "He did. I think both Heidi and I had our jaws hit the table when it happened. I was the first to react and answered, "I've been a whore for more than a decade."
"Norm waved almost as if he was bored by that. "Doesn't matter unless you are saying you'd refuse sex with me in the future," he told us."
"Heidi was next. 'I'm too old, shouldn't you take a twenty-something girl?'"
"Another wave and rejection of the comment was Norm's response. "See any in the diner tonight?"
"I was baffled, but continued. "I'm not pretty," I said sadly."
"Norm laughed at that. "The announcements about pickups included word that volunteers could make their concubines pretty after pickup. So again, not a problem."
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I ran from the command post. Behind me, I could hear that the conversations had definitely calmed down. Ahead, the hallways were silent. My progress to my home was uninterrupted as I rushed to Janice and Bethany. I arrived to find Janice laying Madoka on the couch. My sister concubine looked at me and laughed. "Great timing. I just changed Madoka and was going to bring her to you so you could feed her." "Where are Kitty, Brittany and Bethany?" I asked as I walked over to pick up my...
Once we passed through the airlock, Tyson put his arms around Cleo and pulled her to him. "Run along, girls," he said. "I think it's time I got this lovely lady pregnant again." Mickey and I giggled and then ran off down the hallway. Behind us, we could hear Cleo's cheerful squeal as she twisted around to kiss Tyson. "She sounds happy with the idea," Mickey said as we make our way through the passages. "I think she is truly happy about it," I replied quietly. "Tyson loves his...
The next morning I woke up still wrapped up in Bethany's arms. I could hear someone over by the food replicator and carefully sat up, trying to leave Bethany undisturbed. I found Kitty trying to balance four trays on her arms. I was lying on the outside of the couch, so I rolled away from Bethany and stood up. Kitty was trying to turn away from the replicator and two of the trays looked like they were about to fall to the floor when I dashed in and grabbed them. "Thanks," Kitty...
The loud blast of an alarm jerked me out of my sleep. I sat up in surprise and then looked around in confusion. Behind me, I could feel someone else move. I ended up rubbing my eyes a couple of times to clear them before I recognized where I was. The teleport room lights were now flashing a bright red as the siren continued to blare. "Quiet!" James' bellow cut through the alarm. It chirped one last time and then quieted down. "I need a report." "Sorry," a female voice said quietly....
"Go ahead," I said, putting my left hand up next to my ear. "Meiko," Maggie's voice said. "We have a teleport unit near Morrigan, but we are going to have a problem. The gunner is barely conscious and won't be able to get out of the pod without help." "Can someone from Morrigan do it?" I asked. "No," Maggie said. "I already asked. The grid is charged so anyone setting foot on it would be killed." I considered the situation. "We've done that kind of teleport before, but...
The next thing I knew I was lying down on something soft. At first my mind seemed filled with fog, but in the distance I could hear a baby babbling. This reminded me of my own daughter and I thrust my hands down, planning on sitting up. Hands reached out and grabbed my shoulders, holding me down. "Slow down, Little One," Bethany told me. "You took quite a hit." "But Madoka," I cried as I squirmed in Bethany's grip. "She is fine," Bethany told me. "You do have five sister...
Yvette was wearing a light and flowing dress that looked more appropriate for wearing on a summer day rather than in some climate controlled ship, but I was not going to say anything. I was more interested in the motley assortment of humanity accompanying her. Philippe was the first in the door after her. He was dressed, if you can call it that, in a loincloth and nothing more. He still seemed a bit unhappy, but it was clear that Yvette was continuing to support his inclusion in her...
To I think everyone's everlasting surprise the rest of the visit by the remnants of the Wolf attack was absurdly simple. I was alerted by the AI when the Jackson finally slipped into a repair bay about four hours after I crashed into bed, but Commodore Sprague had requested that the formal meeting be delayed until morning as his own crew was collapsing where they stood due to lack of sleep. So it was nearly ten o'clock local time when I finally walked into the briefing room to find Yvette,...
It took a moment for the laughter to die down and then I looked at Barbara. "Yes, you can stay, and we even have a pod you can move into, although you'll probably want to request some remodeling as both of our spares were occupied by sponsors who had no dependent children in the household. I can either show you directly to one of the pods, or we can find the rest of your household first." "Where are the pods?" Barbara asked. "The one that was Tasha's is the closest to the crossing,...
The admiral huffed. "Well, do that. And get me a full report when you can." The speakers burst into static and then cut out. "Sorry, Sir!" Gina said. "He cut the connection." I was turning to Louis to check and see what he might need when Yvette's voice came over the speaker. "Damn! How does it go? When it rains, it pours? James we have a problem at the doors." "What kind?" I asked as Tamara and Gina gasped. "They're kids!" Tamara said. "They have to all be sixteen to...
The girl knelt limply at my feet and offered no resistance when I lifted her into my arms to step back into the room. She had her eyes closed as I stepped in and set her on the bed. Sarah smiled as I set the girl on the mattress. "Hey Fate," my concubine said. Fate gave a cry that was a combination of joy and panic before opening her eyes and noticing Sarah sitting next to her. She burst from her position and hurled her body at Sarah, almost knocking her down with a hug, as her loud and...
James shook his head and looked up. "Terrence, start bringing all the injured from Freya over. Coordinate with their staff and bring the hurt ones over when gurneys are available. Let's get them medical attention quickly." "We're already on it," Donna said. "David, Elle and Robert are standing by with gurneys. Lindsay and Ed have headed to our multi-use room and are going to set up to treat the non-critical cases there. Craig and Tom are setting things up there." "Maggie has the...
"Bit of a walk isn't it?" Tanya said with a smile. "It's outside the citizen zone," I admitted. "But you had wounded so we teleported you in at our command post. I'm not sure we have a teleport near here yet. This is new." "Will all my crew be here?" Tanya asked. "Probably not," I said. "The walking wounded you had were directed to one of the rooms we have near our medical center. If there are free pods they'll rotate the people through." Tanya nodded. "On that note, how...
Bethany had my daughter on a changing table when I walked in. She smiled at me. "Don't worry, I don't mind changing babies. Especially when it's the child of my sister." She lifted Madoka up and carried her over to me. With a gentle touch she laid Madoka in my arms. I looked down at the child I had brought into the world. She was now just over two months old and still spent the majority of her time sleeping, but right then she was awake and reached out her tiny hands to grab at my...
"You need to get that fire out!" I heard Timothy shout. "It's too close to your missile magazine." "The magazine is empty!" a female voice called back. "We shot everything during our breakout from Ursus!" "I'm not worried about an explosion," Timothy called back. "The smoke from that fire will be poisonous if it reaches the loading tubes. Those tubes contain heavy metals that you really don't want to breathe." "Everyone here is in suits!" the voice cried back. "We...
I held Brittany in my arms as the door to the skating rink opened. Esther and the male concubine Petey stepped into the hallway. Kitty immediately noticed the young man. "Oh, a loincloth. I like the look." Petey blushed and stepped a little away from Kitty, who immediately turned to Esther. "The AI suggested that Brit and I be here now. What's happening?" Esther sighed. "Let's just say that Governor Johanes offered us an extremely clear example of the kind of leadership he offers....
In the command post, everyone continued their frantic work to help save the ships and their crews. I could hear Ulla and Tiffany talking with Captain Travis and Captain Gates. Ulla was a bit confused at one point, but Tiffany's quiet confidence kept her at her post. James had finally dragged Janice and me over to a padded chair. He flopped into the chair and I quickly pushed Janice into his lap. My sister concubine quietly held on to our master. I was looking around for another chair when...
Bethany walked forward once Brad had left the room. I was puzzled by her action until she reached down to pick up something. It took just a moment for me to recognize that it was the uniform Captain Gates had been wearing when she first arrived. "We definitely should return that to her soon," I said. Bethany nodded, but made no move to exit the transporter room. Instead, she walked over to stand next to me at the control panel. I turned to ask her a question as the speakers started to...
My opponent abandoned his attempt to take over the teleport pad after about twenty minutes. I stood at the controls, waiting for the next attack. I was checking to see if I could set up some filters to help limit the scope of the attacks when I heard someone clear their throat behind me. I froze, but a hand kept me from turning around. "Don't panic," I heard Brittany say. "I just didn't know how to get your attention. You were concentrating." The console signaled that another attempt...
The next morning found me sandwiched between Tina and Bethany. I sat up slowly to find Janice and Meiko in each other's arms on the other side of Bethany, sleeping. All my ladies were sleeping peacefully so I carefully climbed out of bed and took my time to look around the pod. Tina had commented that it was two-stories, but to the best of my knowledge none of us had really explored past the common room and the master bedroom. I took the time to check the upper floor and found that the pod...
The door had barely finished opening when a dark haired missile charged me and pulled me inside, checking every inch of me for bruises as she did so. Meiko was so attentive and vigorous in her probing that I could not get a word in edgewise and soon was laughing as her light touches started to tickle me. My other ladies came over and I offered them all a group hug as Meiko started to calm down. "I'm fine," I said. "Well, you scared us," Bethany said. "And why did it take so long to...
Dinner was completed quickly, although clean up suffered, as both Bethany and Janice demanded their fair share of kisses and caresses. I did sneak out long enough to have the replicator produce the schoolteacher outfit for Bethany and a cheerleader vest and skirt for Janice. Meiko seemed disappointed until I pulled out the schoolgirl blouse and skirt that she put on while blushing, immediately receiving cries of approval from the others. I had to laugh, but wanted to sneak in another hour of...
There were no others in the corridor and Terrence started out with Yvette and the others. I escorted Donna the other direction, listening for any trouble ahead. "Do we really have rabbits on board?" Donna asked me as we stepped out into the corridor. "Everything I've heard suggests that the confederacy doesn't worry at all about anything except their warriors." We were almost to pod green seven and I smiled. "AI, are Brenda and Brittany awake? Will it be acceptable to visit?" Donna...
Well, the trip had now become a bit of a nightmare of routine and training. Ruth and her minions continued to roam the halls, but as the other households remained locked up in their pods, frustrations seemed to boil over, and fighting broke out in the hallways more than once ringing out and being heard even through the pod doors. The AI reported that no permanent injuries were inflicted, but fear hung over the inhabitants of the blue and green rings like a cloud. For those of us under siege...