Arlene and JeffChapter 230
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The Prison Planet
...”Peeccckkkak! Peeccckkkak!” Gertrude’s morning screech woke Jasmine with a start. Her body jerked and she grabbed her forehead, moaning although she hadn’t yet opened her eyes. Then, snapping her head to the right, she stared at Gertrude. “Granted you’re probably a tough old bird,” she snarled, “but I’ll bet I can boil your ass until you’re tender, anyway.”
“Peeccckkkak!” Gertrude screeched again before going over to stare at Morales, who was sitting by the fire sipping coffee.
“It is not time for you to be fed,” but experience had taught Morales that arguing with Gertrude was less than useless. Muttering, he put his cup down on a rock and went to get the chickens’ morning grain.
Jasmine, now fully awake, realized she had to pee – right now. Scrambling out of her sleeping bag and not taking the time to put on a bra, she jerked her fatigue shirt and pants on with little thought to modesty, not realizing that Morales had quickly turned away. “Oh, crap,” she griped as she pulled her cold boots on without socks. Standing, she was halfway to the door when Morales bellowed, “Do not even think about going outside without your weapons. There is a profusion of animals on this planet that would love to have you for breakfast.”
Profusion, she thought. Not a bunch, or lots of, but a profusion. But she didn’t have time to think more about his vocabulary at the moment, because her bladder was screaming at her. After grabbing her crossbow and quiver of bolts, she opened the door as Lobo and Lila, obviously wanting to go out, too, hurried by. Barely taking the time to push the door closed, Jasmine hastened on out the passageway, and forgetting where Morales usually threw his bath water, put her weapons on the snow just to the right of the entranceway, before jerking her pants and panties down. With a sigh, she squatted and let the stream go.
A little later, after dabbing herself dry, she stood before leaning over to bring her panties and pants back up, but she moved her right foot and inadvertently put weight onto the sheet of ice where she and Morales had dumped the water last night. The ride down the hill on her ass with her feet in the air might have been fun under different circumstances; the different circumstances being with her pants properly fastened and her shirttail firmly inside them, but neither of those things was true this morning.
The wolves, now finished with their morning business, noticed Jasmine a second after her impromptu start down the hill. Loving to play in the snow, Lobo and Lila bounded after Jasmine and soon caught up to slide with her. While they were having a ball, she, on the other hand, couldn’t seem to get her feet under her, and, with her bare ass sliding on the snow and a good portion of that snow going up inside her loose shirttail, she continued to plummet down the hillside.
As she scrambled to dig her heels in so she could stop, she could see the frozen stream coming up at an appalling rate. But no matter how desperately she tried to break her plummeting descent, she couldn’t seem to slow herself, let alone stop on the impossibly steep incline. All the while, her pants, still trapped around her ankles, were gathering a ball of the powder snow that kept her from jamming her heels firmly enough into the hillside to have any chance of stopping. The wolves, on the other hand, could stop anytime they wished and did so as she flashed on down the steep hill. Desperate now, she knew she had to stop, but no matter what she did, she still rocketed down the near vertical incline. All the while, the ball of snow that was accumulating against her back was continuing to grow because of the loose shirttail, and all that cold against the delicate tissues of her back was practically taking her breath away.
With her hands frantically digging in, she almost managed to stop in time, but wound up sliding out onto Morales’ frozen swimming hole. “Oh, shit. Oh, shit,” she whispered over and over as she could hear the ominous sound of cracking ice. Carefully turning onto her belly with the snow-filled shirt humped up on her back, she spread herself out as much as possible while slowly edging toward solid ground.
When her hands finally managed to grasp a big rock at the edge, she, trembling with fear of the ice breaking under her, launched herself onto the hillside. But her pants, filled with a big ball of snow, were still caught around her ankles with her panties also in that ball somewhere. With numb fingers, she got her boots off and then her pants while sitting with her bare ass in the snow. Frantically, she shook most of the snow out of her pants while still sitting. Her teeth chattering, she managed to pull the fatigue pants back on with first one foot then the other propped against the rock to keep from sliding out on the ice again. Eventually, she worked the pants up enough to fasten her belt, before slipping her untied boots back on, but there was still the ball of snow under her shirt that made her look like a frozen hunchback, not to mention that the cold from that frozen ball seemed to be sucking the breath out of her body. She had no idea where her panties had wound up.
The snow-covered incline was too steep and slick to stand on at this point, but by keeping a foot braced against the big rock, she managed to shake most of the snow out of her shirt my yanking on the shirttails. By then, her teeth were chattering so violently that, she knew she really needed to get somewhere warm, but the hillside was looking more and more like an impossible obstacle. You stupid bitch, she groused. You knew that ice was there, but, oh no, you stepped on it, anyway. Good thing there wasn’t a saber-tooth nearby. He would have killed you with your stupid pants around your stupid ankles.
Struggling, off again on again on her hands and knees because of how steep and slick the hill was, she managed to get twenty feet or so up the hillside before her feet went out from under her and she plastered her face in the snow while sliding back to stop against the helpful rock at the stream’s edge. Her comments were becoming less and less ladylike as she spit a mouthful of snow out while wondering if she would ever manage to get back up the hill before Morales came out to look for her. Glancing around, she realized that she could make her way downstream a hundred yards or so to where the slope was a lot less steep, but... Most probably, he already suspects I’m an idiot for even coming to 2214. If I spend that much time looking for a way up, he’s bound to come out to check on me, and ... figure out what happened, plus, I’m not sure I can make it that far. I’m really, really cold. My hands and feet or numb already. I’ve never been this cold in my life. Crap, I didn’t even take time to put a coat on. Stupid. Stupid.
Her exertions had apparently melted some of the snow that had remained under her shirt, and now she could feel a cold trickle of icy slush ease down her side. When her numb feet slipped from under her again, causing Jasmine to bury her face in the snow for the second time, without thinking, she grabbed Lobo around the neck as he stood beside her whining. If her chokehold on his neck bothered him, he didn’t show it, but just powered his way up the seemingly near-vertical hillside, dragging her half-walking, half-stumbling on her knees beside him.
At the top of the steep slope, (she later marveled that Morales had been able to pull the resupply case up the incline, even with a block and tackle) she managed to stand on a reasonably level place a few steps to the side of where she had begun her impromptu descent. As she was trying to shake the last of the snow from under her shirt, she hissed in a breath while thinking, Oh, crap, maybe he doesn’t realize what happened. Then, it dawned on her. Oh, shit, I hope the cameras didn’t catch that. If they did, I’ll never live it down. I came out to pee, so maybe their programming kept them away. I had rather even Morales see me do something stupid like this than the cameras. Maybe I got back up before their programming realized I’ve been gone too long, or maybe that same programming won’t allow them to take any notice of me. After all, they’re here to observe him, not me. I darn sure don’t want to star in a video that all the troops will watch. And just maybe Morales won’t realize how long I’ve been gone. Oh, my. Some kind of professional I’ve presented, huh? How could he ever take me seriously if he saw me go down that hill on my bare ass? How could anybody, for that matter? I couldn’t have looked any dumber. Oh, well, if he saw me, he would be standing out here laughing his butt off, she thought as she, now shivering even more violently, stooped to shake some of the snow she had missed out of her right pant leg.
Crap. Who else slides down a hill with their pants and panties around their ankles? She thought about her panties again. Where are the darn things? Oh, shit. Is he going to find them? They have to be down there somewhere. What excuse am I going to use to retrieve them? And how the heck do I get down there in one piece, let alone back up? Oh, the heck with them. No way am I going back down there to look for them. She stared down the hillside again, but the panties didn’t seem to be visible in any of the scuffed snow. Maybe he won’t see them, but if he does, I’ll just ... I’ll just ... frigging die. Oh, crap. I can’t think of anything that I could say about them that wouldn’t leave me looking like an idiot. Oh, well. At least they’re white, so maybe the snow will hide them.
Suddenly, she turned to Lobo. “Don’t you dare tell him what happened,” she demanded, then added a forlorn, “Please.” Bending slightly, she hugged the giant animal. “Thank you. I would never have made it up the hill without you, and by the time I had found an easier way back up, I would have been in serious trouble. But please don’t tell Mr. Morales. He’ll kid me forever.” Turning to Lila, she hugged the female wolf and asked her not to tell as well. Realizing what she had done, I guess I’ve lost it. Now he has me believing he and the wolves can really talk to each other. Oh, well. Better safe than sorry.
Her hands and sockless-feet aching, she managed to pick up her crossbow and quiver from where she had lain them prior to her impromptu slide down the hillside, making certain she didn’t step on the ice again while she retrieved them.
As she straightened up, Morales said from the entranceway, “I was getting worried about you.” With a frown as he took in her disheveled appearance, he asked, “What happened? Did you...”
She stood as straight as she could, not realizing how much snow was caked in her tousled hair – the scrunchie was long gone – or on her clothes, “We will talk about it later – much later, or maybe not at all,” she muttered as she pushed past him to stomp her way inside.
With a glance down the hillside, Morales took in the slide marks in the fresh snow and had a good idea what had happened, although he didn’t realize that she had done it with her pants and panties around her ankles.
Glancing over at Lobo, “What happened, Boy?”
Lobo chuffed, and when Morales looked at Lila, she did too, but neither would look him in the eye. When he noticed the yellow spot in the snow where Jasmine had relieved herself, and the sheet of ice right next to it, he almost burst out laughing, but remembering Jasmine’s attitude, thought he had better pretend he didn’t know what happened. Still, he had no idea she had done it with her pants and panties around her ankles.
But the more he thought about it, the funnier it got, and, as he neared the entrance, he broke into sniggers despite himself. Looks like she went down the steepest part. Even when the wolves and I were sliding down the hill, I didn’t chance that section. It’s way too steep. Then, with a widening grin, Fuck, I’ll bet that was one hell of a rush.
It was a few minutes before he could control his sniggering enough to go inside. Shut the fuck up, Dumbass. Laugh at her and she’ll never bake you another cake. Women take shit like this personal. But logic or not, he was worried he would at least break into a grin when he faced her, but then it crossed his mind that she might just be hurt. Oh, shit. I need to see if she’s okay.
Inside, he realized Jasmine could be in real trouble. She was in the middle of changing clothes, her hair still a mess. Even with the aborted glance he gave her, he had also seen how red her skin was, and her hands seemed almost chalky white, tinting toward blue, and she was violently shivering. But he did get one glimpse of her body from the side as she jerked her fatigue shirt on. That half second of swaying breasts with long thick nipples protruding before she closed her top was destined to play in his mind many times throughout the coming days.
Get your mind out of the gutter, he chided himself. She needs to get warm. Grabbing the soft hide he slept under, he turned it skin-side outward and wrapped it around her. “Get over by the fire and I’ll put some more wood on.”
“I’ll be fine,” she argued, but he could barely understand her past the chattering teeth.
“Bullshit, Woman. This isn’t the time to argue,” he said as he picked her up, still protesting, and hurried to the fire, some part of his mind wondering at how light she felt in his arms.
After sitting her on the cook stool, he threw a half dozen pieces of split wood on the fire before pouring a cup of coffee. Dumping some sugar and a couple of spoons of creamer in, he stirred it a bit before handing the cup to her. “Here. Drink this while I warm up some of that stew we had left over.”
Done arguing for now as she continued to mentally lambaste her own stupidity, she concentrated on holding the cup in both hands so she could steady it enough to sip the near-boiling coffee without scalding her tongue or spilling it on herself.
Morales put the pot of leftover stew on to warm, then hurried to get another skin that he held near the roaring fire until it was almost hot, then added it to what was already wrapped around Jasmine.
She opened her mouth to thank him, but blurted, instead, “I slipped on the ice and slid down the damn hillside – with my pants and panties around my ankles.” Although she was trying to laugh, there were tears streaming down her cheeks. “I’ve never been so embarrassed in my whole frigging life,” she managed to get out.
“Shit,” he said while looking at her, but to her amazement, he wasn’t laughing. “Hell, Girl, at the place where you went down, it’s a wonder you managed to stop before the stream.”
“Well, I ... Actually, I didn’t,” she admitted.
“You went out onto the ice?” he hissed out. “That stream is a long way from being frozen solid. The water is moving pretty damn fast and it hasn’t been cold that long. Chances are you would never have made it back up the hill if you had fallen into that thing.”
Remembering what her survival instructor had said when he taught them about hypothermia, Jasmine was beginning to realize just how lucky she had been.
The tears didn’t seem to want to stop, though. He stepped closer, and suddenly, she was sitting on his lap with his arms wrapped around her. It seemed natural to put her head on his shoulder. She was still shivering, but now, part of that shivering was from emotion.
“Easy, easy,” he kept saying as her tears trickled onto his neck. “If you had gone in, Lobo would have gotten you out. You know how smart he is, and ... who else would bake him a cake or bring him ice cream like you do, hmmm?”
“I should have gotten up in the middle of the night and gone out,” she mumbled, “but I was warm and snuggled in my sleeping bag. I didn’t want to go out in the cold, so I just went back to sleep. When I woke up, I had to go really, really bad. I was about to pee on myself when I got outside, so I ... Oh, how stupid can I get? I know better. I’ve been in the field too many times to do something that dumb,” she finished with a half chuckle, half sob.
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Jeff had stopped by his office to pick up a few pieces of printer paper. Alone in the living room a couple of minutes later, he wadded up a sheet of the paper into a loose ball. If I screw up with this paper ball, air resistance, if nothing else, should keep its flight slow enough to prevent me from tearing up things. With Arlene's encouragement while on the Ship's range, he had gained a small measure of expertise as he mentally moved a steel ball around and caused it to spin, but he still...
The Mission ... Both were tempted to use their suits’ drive units, but they knew that would alert the Throme if anything would. Scrambling down, they were soon in the water. A hundred meters out, they saw a glint of movement coming toward them just under the surface. “Let’s go home,” Arlene said to her partner. As soon as the hatch closed and even before they were out of the airlock, the AI had them moving away from land. “Oh, I so want to get out of this suit,” Arlene grumped a few...
The Retreat Shortly after lunch, Arlene went out to the Ship expecting to sit in one of the command couches and be swept away by the simulator to another very realistic space battle, but she froze as soon as she passed through the hatch. Jeff had called Kayla and Art to his office, intending to ask them to begin training in the Ship's simulator. Before he could begin, the AI turned the TV on to show Arlene jogging back from the Ship. The AI didn't say anything, but apparently thought...
The Retreat After breakfast, Arlene, Ann and Selina gathered enough food to last them the rest of the day. “Should this not be the correct castle and we continue the search, we will need something to drink with our lunch,” Selina said as she opened a refrigerator. “There is water available at each station on the interceptor. As for soft drinks, please bring only what you are sure you will drink. Storage space is at a premium,” Arlene told the seven-year-old. “Bathroom?” Selina asked as...
Jeff had just dialed his next door neighbor who lived a mile down the road. "Steve Sperman here." "Hi Mr. Sperman. This is Jeff. How's it going?" "Hmmm. Didn't we have a discussion about that Mr. thing?" Jeff chuckled. "Yeah, I guess we did, Steve. How's Marcie doing?" There was a hesitation. "You know, that's a funny thing, like I mentioned before. Seems like after the night we spent at your place, ol' Uncle Arthur (arthritis) suddenly got much better. Odd that both of us...
The Prison Planet Ship had received permission from her Prime to go back to Earth long enough to pick up Arlene, Ann and the other aviators, then take the Wing to orbit for its launch. The trip to Earth and back would only take a few minutes. Giving the interceptors a ride to orbit and their launch would take only a few minutes more. The interceptors normally remained in their bays on Ship’s flight deck, so she would have to go back anyway. Also, she would have to return to Earth again when...
Deep Space "Question is, are they going to notice us?" Ann asked as she watched as one of the alien vessels came from behind a large chunk of moon and headed straight for them. Ann knew she could not warp out without her drive trying to take some of the debris field with them, which would probably result in the destruction of her warp drive, and/or her ship. In addition, she strongly suspected that the aliens would pick up her inertialess drive's signature, should she use that with them...
“Despite our AIs actually doing the flying, I want every pilot to have his or her hands on the controls at all times when we do this for real, and when we practice as well. Ann and I have put together a rough outline. Everything seems to work in the simulation, but we haven’t done it for real yet. There could very well be glaring errors that only show up when actually flying the patterns. Bottom line: be careful and think about what the next step is. Does the current process make sense with...
When they left the suite a few minutes later, they saw Melissa at the far end of the hall. She seemed to do a double-take, then turned and rushed around the corner, probably heading for the kitchen. A little later, when they walked through the door, she was already setting out two more plates. Jeff pulled Ann tighter against him, and they stopped just inside the kitchen. I know Ann is blushing. Damn, I thought I was too old to blush, but my face feels like it’s on fire. Everyone was seated...
EARLIER IN THE MORNING AT QUINTON TATE'S HOME After his morning shower, Quinton, dressed in his uniform and still buckling on his gun belt, walked into the kitchen. Before he could sit down, the phone rang. "Quinton," he said, putting the instrument to his ear as he finished securing the belt with the keepers. "Well, good morning. Are you planning to go somewhere on your little impromptu vacation?" his Captain asked, cheerily – a little too cheerily. "What vacation?" Quinton joked...
"We still have a problem," Diana said. "I doubt if Billy has ever used a litter box. So how are we going to train him to use it and not pee on the carpet? Since there aren't any pet stores in Winter Park, I guess we can order a kennel on the Internet and have it overnighted, but as late as it is, it will still be day after tomorrow before it gets here..." "Yeah, we were lucky the grocery store even had litter boxes. But we're ahead of you about the kennel," Jeff said. "Arlene had an...
The Retreat ... Charlotte and Ada sat for a moment as Diana's words sank in. Both mother and daughter were clearly skeptical as they furtively glanced at the other three women. Diana let out a chuckle. "You can say it; we won't get mad." Ada hesitated. "This is no joke? You're actually telling us that Susan is your mother and Arlene is your daughter?" "Got it in one," Diana said with a grin. "But..." Ada began. Then, after studying Susan's and Arlene's faces some more, she...
Jeff sat in his usual place at the head of the table. Frank Wainwright sat to Jeff's right as the family (minus four who were eating with Margaret and Tina in their suite) ate lunch. All the Alphas ate a lot, and Jeff usually ate more than most of them, but today, he was hungrier than usual. He had gone through his first plate and was already started on his second one. "Looks like you're a bit hungry today," Frank tactfully said. "I didn't see you after breakfast. What did you do to...
Joyce, Caitlin, Jennie, Melissa and Ann came in with the latter two pushing serving carts. Soon, the table was set and food arrayed in front of Arlene, Diana, Susan and Jeff. The wives' efficiency was not lost on Susan, but she refused to acknowledge it due to her sour mood. Each time she had talked to her daughter or granddaughter on the phone lately, her suspicions that something was going on had increased. Then the introductions in the living room were almost more than she could...
Everyone except Matt and Courtney was waiting in the living room. The new SAC and his wife had borrowed an Escalade and driven down to Winter Park. "HELICOPTER APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH. SECURITY HAS CLEARED IT TO LAND ON OUR PAD." Margaret had called earlier to say that everything had gone without a hitch and they were on the way home, but Angel had been beaten and was in need of medical attention. "Let's go," Jeff said as he started out the door of the living room with Little One...
Aboard Ship, Arlene, Ann and Selina are teaching the Morales family how to field strip, clean and reassemble a pulse rifle. ...”Very good, Mr. Morales. That’s a whole lot better than I did the first time,” Arlene blatantly lied. “Okay, Jasmine, do you know what’s next?” “Well, I did until you scrambled the parts,” Jasmine said with a chuckle, “but I think it’s that thing over there — a modulator, I believe you called it.” And the process went on. The next time they field stripped the...
The Prison Planet As the group neared the second area that was obstructed by boulders, Jeff said with a sigh, “Sorry, Ladies, but I still have a headache from moving the last bunch. No way am I going to play bulldozer just now.” “It’s getting colder in here,” Tosha said as she zipped her jacket, took her gloves out of a pocket and pulled them on. “Is it just me, or is the path sloping downward more?” Kei asked as she and the others followed suit – other than Jeff, who only zipped his light...
Kayla very briefly told everyone what had happened. Just as she was finishing up, Sheriff Tate, who had been eating with the team, walked into the hallway to chat with the others. "I helped the guys move the bodies out. We found a roll of black plastic in the basement and covered the pile of them." "That piece of plastic over there on the floor," Jill said, motioning down the hallway near the theater door, "is that where one of them..." "Yeah," Kayla said. "General Whitworth has a...
As everyone walked down the hall toward the theater, Selina hung back. When Diana turned and caught her eye, Selina, with purpose, walked on past, turned the corner and went on to her suite. If I do not ask, then the answer cannot be no, she thought. Waiting four minutes by her internal clock, she walked back out of her suite, down the hall and peeked around the corner in the direction of the theater. There was no one in the hallway. Shortly, she slowly opened the theater door the tiniest...
With the Alphas at Security headquarters studying the pulse rifle and the women apparently all in the basement, Jeff wandered through the Retreat at a loss as to what he should be doing. Deciding he would work in his lab to pass the time, he returned to the basement. Poking his head in one of the rooms, he got a smile from Kayla who was leading an exercise class – push-ups for the moment. His position allowed him a view of erect nipples on several of his wives, and a couple of the other...
Characters that appear in this chapter. Matt – Alpha. New Denver SAC for the FBI. Courtney – Matt's wife who thinks the Matthews may be aliens. Jeff – The Prime. Diana – Jeff's wife and Clan Queen. Arlene – Queen, wife. Diana and Jeff's daughter. Helen – Genius wife and teacher. Susan – Wife and Diana's mother, who is also a Queen. Kayla – Jeff's wife who first worked for the FBI, but then went to work for the General, and now she is Jeff's last line of defense. Art – Alpha....
Arlene grabbed Jeff's hand. "Come on, Daddy. Let's go back to our suite. Mom and Selina will be back ... uh sometime." Jeff frowned as he turned back to the others, "Yeah, that's what I'm worried about – the sometime. It's not like Diana to run off like that." Laura put her arm around his waist to get him started toward their suite. "Well, you were the one who kept pushing Diana to go through the academy. I have been through only the first six months there, but all that discipline...
Bobby put her hands on her face and took a breath trying to stifle a giggle. "We're acting like whores," she said, while desperately trying not to reach for Art's cock. Sandra hissed in a breath. "Art, I don't know what's happened to us. Honest, we don't act like this. We've each had one guy — once, and that was just to get rid of our cherries. But it's like we've been given an aphrodisiac. I want you so bad that it's hard to breathe," she finished, not knowing that Art was...
The Colonel’s Office Aboard Ship ...”And Worthington. Hear this! If something happens to my wife, I’ll kill you without a second thought. Now get out of my face before I change my mind and do what I know should be done.” Without saluting, Worthington spun on his heel and stomped out. Jeff sat thinking. Should I tell his Commander why I’m sending him back? After a moment, he shrugged. On second thought, I asked for his best aviators to give them a chance in my unit. No one, other than us,...