Where no Ark Hunter has gone Before!

After I hang up my hailer, I look Chris over, trying to judge him better. Then I turn and go through the computer systems.

"Robet right? Anyway, looking at the systems, everyone bugged out without any notice. I did a scan. The only vitals are mine, yours and that skitterling near your quarters. Looks like the kitchen may still be fully stocked as well as the pantries. Viewing logs show that the main armory has been emptied, but the smaller ones were left alone, so they may still have some gear.

I have altered all the system protocols using an old Dark Matter passcode. The only ones with access are currently us, as well as Taffer, Lady Christianna, Belle, Vo K'shaa, Cody and his girlfriend Iri, I think it was. Provided they comeback after they realize that I am still here and keeping the place running. I don't know about you but I have nowhere else, so here I will stay. I am working on the system's friends and foes commands and re-establishing all security protocols.

I am fine with my quarters for now so I will stay there, especially since the schematics show that I have an armory next to my room, on the side that isn't another bedroom of course, with a hidden and sealed door betweenthe armory and my room,  in my little closet apparently....and........... now it is unsealed so I have easy access, and reactivated the electric door locks for all the rooms as well. However I have looked over the schematics and discovered a small but well maintained arboretum, on this floor in a wing that seems to have been sealed off for security purposes. I have now unsealed it, and am adding it into the security systems grid. It will be as protected as the rest of this floor within the hour.

There seems to be an empty store room next to the arboretum about the size of your current quarters. I assume your little friend would prefer the arboretum over the halls, not to mention if he is enjoying it there then we will not have to worry about stepping in his 'Land mines'. I see two doors into the small room. One in the hall just around the corner from the Mess, and one in the adjoining arboretum. Both rooms can be accessed from the hall. If you and your little bug want to move into that storeroom and make it your quarters, I will designate it as so in the schematics. I am sure everyone will enjoy the arboretum but it looks like there is a small maintance hatch between the storeroom and arboretum. I am certain that hatch can be readjusted in the systems to respond to your skitterling's dna and open for him like an automatic pet door. Just give me a second..........and done. Feel free to move there, or leave if that is what you choose.

My guess is that we were abandoned during the bug out, because we have no real ties to any of them, so are of no matter either way. However, I am hoping they will come back and fill us in."

Once the security door was opened, Lady Christianna pushed past Belle, blurring up the stairwell, down the mazelike hallways, only stopping to open the door to the war room. Her wide pink eyes searched the room, her thin lips turned up into her enigmatic smile once she spotted the subject of her search.

"Atticus," Lady yelled as she ran still blurred into Atticus' arms; her momentum making him twirl her as she drew up her small legs off the ground, kissing him as hard as she could.

Lady broke the kiss reluctantly as Atticus put her down, towering over the thin five foot three Castian teenager, who looked up adoringly at him, saying with feeling, "Missed you!"

Lady's attention was diverted when Belle and Vo entered the room, but she grabbed Atticus' large hand with her tiny one, holding it tight as if afraid it, along with him, might disappear.

As Lady Christianna left the war room hand-in-hand with Atticus Batman, Belle Starr sent a message from her EGO to Lady's EGO on a channel only Lady could receive, saying, "We didn't get to talk about this with all the turmoil, and I would rather put this more delicately face-to-face, but if you decide Atticus is to be your first... lover, be sure and engage the birth control protocols I've just downloaded into your EGO!"

That made Lady miss a step as she was walking with Atticus to her room. She hadn't thought about that as a possibility at all, being just happy to see and be with him again. She hesitantly glanced up at him with big pink eyes as he opened her bedroom door, wondering if he was expecting them to now make love since they were in her bedroom. Lady wasn't sure she was ready, and that if they did do it, he wouldn't be disappointed with her inexperience.

"Want me to engage those protocols now?" Asked Minx, her EGO psyche, with more than a hint of mischief in her voice.

"Don't push me! I'm thinking! Oh, go ahead just in case!" Lady answered her EGO implant.

Lady felt she was going to melt like a real snowflake when Atticus took her hand and kissed it, addressing her by his new pet name for her. She had seen snow when the freak snowstorms hit the Bay Area during the Solstice, and thought it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, so was flattered to no end that he would compare her to such beauty. Lady considered herself to be an ugly duckling, so felt he must really blinded by love of her not to see it.

When he mentioned a present on the bed, she wasn't sure what to expect. When she saw the tin on the bed, she still wasn't sure what to expect. Did the tin contain some kind of sexy slinky night gown? Maybe a pair of frilly satin panties with the slit in the crotch, like she once saw in an erotic mail order catalogue one of her clan mates had left laying around at the Iron Demon Ranch. When her father saw her looking at the pictures in the magazine, he quickly grabbed it from her, admonishing her that it wasn't proper for a noble Castian woman to look at such vulgar things. Lady couldn't figure out why the slit was in the panties, as it would be easier to just pull them down if you had to go, with no chance of getting them wet then. When she later asked Belle what the big deal was about the panties and Belle explained it to her, her pink eyes had practically doubled in size and her pale lips formed a perfect "o". Belle had only smiled at Lady's reaction, and proceeded to tell her about the birds and the bees. It was hard for Lady to believe that discussion with Belle was only a few months ago, back when she was fifteen and not even a recruit in her father's clan yet.

Lady was both relieved and disappointed when the tin revealed the gift to be noiseless bubble gum, however she was delighted that Atticus would give her a gift that was so personal to her. She didn't tell him that she actually enjoyed the popping noise that annoyed others, for it was her way to get people to notice her existence, but the fact that he had noticed her affectation far outweighed that fact. Lady squealed with delight, exclaiming "Sweet!" when she saw the contents of the tin and hearing Atticus' explanation of it, jumping back into his arms, kissing him even harder and longer than in the war room.

When they finally broke the kiss, Lady looked at the tin laying on the bed, then back up at Atticus, a look of consternation crossing Lady's chalk white face. She swept her red tinged white hair to in back of her ear, dyed that way again because Atticus said he liked it, before saying with a small frown, "No gift for you."

Then she looked up at Atticus with big pink eyes, her conflicting emotions easily seen warring on her face, not sure that she should make love with him but wanting to anyway, and said hesitantly, "Unless... me?"

Then she looked up at Atticus with big pink eyes, her conflicting emotions easily seen warring on her face, not sure that she should make love with him but wanting to anyway, and said hesitantly, "Unless... me?"

I look down at her and smile. "Of course you got me a present. You came back and still care and want to be with this........well with me. As for you, as a present, that is not necessary, though I would never think of telling you no for that. Just want you to be sure you are ready."

I kiss her softly then step back and eye her over, smiling. I look at her and the door, then the cameras Quickly trying to remember if I had set them to privacy mode , which Kakusi and Dinara both assure me that I did. So I remove my mask and set it on her nightstand letting her get a good look at my face. I then remove my boots, setting my pistol under a pillow on the bed this time with safety on, and cautiously unzip and remove my jumpsuit, waiting for her to call me a disgusting freak, as my scarred chest and the huge blade scars in my side, come into her view with a few blue streaks and blurs on my body and my scars always a pale blue, showing that I am not completely Irathient anymore, but half Grid as well. Seeing her just watching me with a slight smile on her face, I finish removing it, leaving me standing there in just my underwear. I kiss her gently as I remove her clothes and leaving her in just her panties. My eyes start to glow bright blue as I enjoy the sight. "Very lovely, MY Snow Angel." A REAL smile on my normally cranky or emotionless face,I kiss her gently as I lay us on her bed. "There is no rush. If you prefer, we can just kiss until sleep wins." I grin wickedly as I quickly kiss her neck and chest a few times, then I passionately kiss her lips again as I reach over and turn off the light, not breaking the liplock.

Of all the races now on Earth, Castians are perhaps the most sensual, with their senses heightened when pursuing their carnal needs, and in this, Lady Christianna was a true Castian, although she didn't know it yet. When Atticus turned off the bedroom light, the room turned to pitch black, and she could see nothing, all of Lady's other senses becoming more intense. The musky smell of the man was strong in her button nose and the taste of Irath rum from his kisses was sweet on her tongue. The sound of his kisses and the panting of her breath was deafening, with only the speedy beat of her heart in her chest louder than both. The most intense of her senses though was that of touch. The heat of his breath and the wetness of his kisses on her lips, traveling down her tender neck to the sensitive areas of her breast, traveled through Lady's system of nerves so that she felt his kisses from the top of her head to the tips of her toes. Finally she saw light again, as white fireworks exploded behind her eyes, and all feeling seemed to centralize into her groin, which also then exploded with intensity so mind blowing that Lady had to scream or maybe go mad, although it was nowhere near as loud as she felt it must be. As the intense feelings subsided, only the wetness in her panties remained as Lady struggled to regain her breath.

Lady had always prided herself at feeling nothing, and now she had the most intense feelings of her young life. As she stared up into the darkness, she was confused as to what to do next as she lay in the bed panting, the warmth of Atticus' body next to her. When her breath returned to normal, she rolled over on her side, one dainty hand cradled her head and the other on Atticus' chest, tracing the scars there with one small finger. Whether because of personal whim or Castian instinct, her tiny hand moved from his chest, lingering at his abdomen, then slid under the waistband of his underwear to discover the hardness of his manhood within. Lady's pink eyes grew wide as her little hand was barely able to hold what she found within, but gently massaged it, faster and faster, until with an audible grunt and a slight flaring of blue light from his eyes, Atticus' underwear was as wet as Lady's panties.

Lady smiled with satisfaction, pulling her delicate hand back to his abdomen, feeling the slowing of his breath as he relaxed, perhaps more than he ever had before. She snuggled closer to him, putting her small head on his chest to better hear his heartbeat, feeling warm and safe as she listened, drifting into a deep sleep, her last coherent thought being that maybe she had given him a gift after all.