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  He couldn’t last, not with this much desire flooding his mind, and he grabbed onto Oki’s hips to pull him down as he climaxed deep inside his clenching hole, filling him with seed. Suki and Oki had enough left in them to paint his chest with blue froth as they climaxed again, and then both of them collapsed down on top of him, all of them holding onto each other in a sweaty tangle. Lots of room for three bodies, three lovers, he thought vaguely, through a haze of satisfaction and happiness. Three was the perfect number.

  ‘Oh yes, the bonding is beginning, so good…’ Oki finally gasped. ‘Now …’

  Whatever was next, although Caleb wasn’t even sure there could be any more or better pleasure, their loving was suddenly interrupted by an alarm going off, and then the Second’s urgent voice.

  “Captain, we need you on the bridge.”

  Oki was already rolling out of bed, swearing and pulling his tunic back on.

  ‘Stay here.’

  And then he was gone, and Caleb and Suki were left holding onto each other, desire fading in their concern for the Crusader and their Captain. There were the sounds of running feet in the hallway, and then nothing, Neither of them wanted to tie up communication channels asking what was happening, and their Captain was silent in their minds.

  Nothing else happened, and finally Caleb’s need to know what was going on over-rode Oki’s command. Oki would be busy, but Caleb needed to talk to the computer.

  ‘You stay here, I need to get to a computer terminal.’

  Suki wasn’t as sure as he was that it was a good idea, but Caleb was dressed and out the door while the little one was still arguing.

  He was halfway to the bridge when he met Kasu, who looked distressed but was obviously relieved to see him. Kasu grabbed him by the arm and pulled him along the corridor.

  ‘Come, you must come with me, we need you.’

  ‘What, Oki … ?’ Had something happened to Oki, was that why they had felt nothing from him? But no, he would know if Oki was hurt, he knew he would feel it, as would Suki.

  Kasu pulled him along without answering, and then stopped to open a door that Caleb hadn’t noticed before. Worrying about the ship and Oki, fretting about computers and patterns, his reflexes were slower than they should have been. Kasu pushed him through the opening into what looked like a maintenance closet of some kind, and then pulled out a weapon.

  ‘Stupid human.’ And then Caleb felt a burning pain in his chest, and his world went black.

  Chapter 7.

  He regained consciousness slowly, painfully, unable to move but aware of the urgent voices in his head.

  ‘Beloved? Where are you? What has happened?’

  ‘Beloved?’

  He tried to think, but everything hurt too much, and he was weak. He managed to bring a hand to his chest and it came away wet and sticky. Not good. It was totally dark, and he was lying on a grate floor in a closet somewhere.

  ‘Beloved?!’

  There was confusion and growing panic in the thoughts that reached him. And they didn’t know they had a traitor in their midst. In all of the fog, he reached out to the one surety.

  “Computer?”

  There was an intercom, an access panel, by every door, and he could only hope …

  “I am here. The one who damaged you is part of the patterns. I have secured him. What do you require?”

  “Oki. I need Oki.”

  ‘Oki!’

  And then he passed out again.

  When he woke up again he was in a wide bed in the medical unit, and Oki and Suki were lying on either side of him. Oki was stroking his hair and Suki was caressing the side of his face, and when they realized he was conscious Oki was the first to offer a breast. He latched on and sucked sustenance and healing from Oki, and then from Suki, and both of them hushed attempts on his part to talk or ask questions.

  ‘It is under control.’

  If he hadn’t been so tired he would have argued, but he fell asleep again. Next time when he woke up only Suki was there, but also the doctor he recognized from before, and a few others of the medical staff.

  They poked and prodded at him, and nodded and murmured to each other, and finally pronounced themselves satisfied with his recovery.

  ‘Your heart?’ one of them asked. ‘Are all human hearts on that side of the body?’

  Apparently his new people had their hearts on the right, and that was where Kasu had shot him. That had saved his life, that and the computer. He had been badly injured, they told him, had lost much blood and been unconscious for several days after Oki had reached him, almost tearing the door out of the frame even before the computer could open it.

  Suki hugged him, carefully. ‘We heard you, but could not find you. The computer told Oki where you were and what had happened. And it locked Kasu between two fire doors, without orders or permission. You have taught our computer bad habits. Thank the gods.’

  Caleb tried to think. ‘Patterns. It said Kasu was part of the patterns?’

  ‘Yes, but I am not to talk to you until you are recovered. Just know that everything is alright now, and it is thanks to you. And the computer.’

  ‘Are you allowed to kiss me?’

  ‘Oh yes.’

  Kissing and nursing speeded up the healing, and when Oki rejoined them the healing was doubled.

  Caleb was finally allowed to return to Oki’s quarters, their quarters, and insisted on being told the rest of the story.

  ‘I am stupid human, got shoved into closet and shot. Then what happened?’

  ‘No, you are clever human, beloved.’ Oki smiled down at him, and kissed him again. ‘You were right with your patterns. Of all the missing children, none were from Kasu’s house. One small piece of pattern. Some of Kasu’s family had made connections with an off-planet ship, and become addicted to some drug they sold. Another piece of pattern. The family became desperate for more drugs, sold our children in exchange. Very bad large piece of pattern.’

  Oki and Suki both wrapped their arms around Caleb, and they were all silent for a while. To sell children in exchange for drugs – what could be worse?

  Caleb shuddered. ‘What will be done to them?’

  ‘It has already been done. The universe has done it. None in that house have made a bond or become bearing since they started using that drug. The house is now quarantined, the family group is shunned and will die out in time. The evil has stopped.’

  ‘Kasu?’

  ‘He wanted to bond with Oki, and thought he could with you out of the way. The drug made him not right in the head, perhaps.’ Suki offered. ‘He has been sent back to be with his family group.’

  Oki’s arms tightened around them. ‘ I should have paid more attention to my clever human and his patterns.’

  Caleb nuzzled into them, and then a thought occurred to him. ‘You sent him back? You can teleport?’

  ‘Yes, of course.’

  ‘Then why not do that, why did you come down to that planet to get Suki when you could have just brought him up to the ship?’

  ‘It is almost impossible to get a fix on to an individual when we do not have clear identification, nothing but a knowing that there is someone.’ He shuddered. ‘Although, with Suki, it was too close. We hope maybe your pattern will help us identify those who are in such danger.’

  Then Oki looked mildly, but only mildly, embarrassed. ‘Also, we have, on rare occasions, found lost children who have made bonds, formed triads, where they are, and did not wish to leave. There was an incident when a bearing one was transported against their will. Now the protocol is to go to them, see for ourselves, let them make choice.’

  Caleb smiled. ‘Ah. You mean maybe some of them have bonded with stupid humans?’

  ‘Oh no, only clever humans.’

  ‘Enough, my stubborn beloveds. To bond?’

  Chapter 8.

  ‘What about humans who wish to make bonds and stay where they are?’ Caleb asked. He still wasn’t sure, not sure that these two loved h
im, maybe not sure that this stupid human deserved to be loved by them.

  Suki kissed him softly. ‘Yes. I knew the second I saw you in that alley that you were part of us forever. If you had left I would have crawled after you.’

  Caleb wrapped his arms around his not-so-little one. ‘I couldn’t have left you, I felt it too. I even let this big monster sneak up behind me because all I could think about was you. And maybe he didn’t scare me that much because he was part of us too?’

  Oki wrapped his big arms around both of them and sighed. ‘So much talking, so little bonding.’

  ‘But …’

  Oki’s mouth hard on his distracted him, and then Suki’s clever tongue wrapped around one nipple and he arched off the bed. His two lovers shifted so each of them had a nipple to suck on, and all he could do was push his chest up into those hungry mouths and urge them on with his hands.

  Suki slid down his body and he felt long fingers wrapping around his throbbing erection, then a tongue flicking at the leaking tip. He moaned and shuddered, and Suki pulled away.

  ‘Patience, beloved. Patience.’

  He didn’t want to be patient, he wanted it all now, but then Oki’s larger mouth sank over his aching cock and he cried out in joy, thrusting up into it. He felt the beginnings of soft barbs pulling at his hard flesh, and cried out, but it was with joy, not pain. More, deeper, yes. He pushed up harder, and felt Oki purring around his length. Sweet gods, nothing could be better.

  ‘Oh yes, it will get better.’

  Suki moved back up his body and his hungry mouth latched onto a nipple, sucking hard while agile fingers rolled the other puckered nipple, and Caleb thought he was coming apart.

  ‘Yes, my beloveds, oh yes, so good …’

  Suki purred as well, and Caleb’s whole body hummed with their hungry mouths and their purrs.

  ‘Yes yes yes, gods, better …’

  ‘Silly human, better has only just begun.’

  He felt Oki’s long tongue wrap around his cock, and he hardened even more and felt his body tighten up and his orgasm begin, but then Oki drew off and raised Caleb’s hips up, teasing back towards his tight hole with that incredibly agile tongue.

  He tensed, but the tongue soothed and lubricated as it probed, and it was unlike anything he had ever felt before. It breached his ring and twisted around inside his smooth channel, and when it hit his prostrate he screamed out in joy and bucked up against Oki’s body, not knowing what he wanted except that he wanted it all, and it was all right there with him.

  ‘The bond, beloved. Gods, it is the bond.’

  Suki pulled off of his nipple and Oki’s clever tongue withdrew, leaving Caleb feel like he was empty and wanting. He whimpered in need, hands reaching for his lovers. Clever Oki seemed to have a plan, though, rolling him over and pulling him up onto his hands and knees, positioning his big body behind Caleb.

  ‘Beloved. Now?’

  Caleb pushed his hips up in need and invitation, as Oki’s big hands wrapped around his waist, thumbs caressing. Oki stroked the leaking head of his big blue cock down Caleb’s crease, teasing at his needy hole with it.

  ‘Gods, yes, now …’

  Suki knelt in front of him and caressed the sides of his face, bending down to kiss his soft hair. He could feel every emotion in each of them, and knew it was the same for them. Bonding indeed, each of them feeling everything the others felt. The broad rounded head of Oki’s cock pushed at his tight hole, and he felt Oki hesitate, not wanting to hurt him, and Suki reminded, breathlessly, ‘no barbs, beloved’, and then Oki drove into him, a lifetime of waiting, three lifetimes of waiting, finally consummated.

  Caleb cried out at the burning pressure and almost pain, and Oki pulled back, but the pain eased and Caleb wouldn’t have let him pull out, no matter how much it hurt. Oki pushed back in, gently, and found his sweet spot with the thick head of his cock, and rocked back and forth. He hit that spot at every pass until Caleb was crying out in pleasure, pain gone and forgotten in the waves of need and desire.

  ‘Gods, yes, please, harder, more …’

  Oki leaned over him, panting, and began thrusting in, that huge cock driving further and further into Caleb’s soft channel, and just the hint of barbs offering sweet exquisite pain inside of him. Caleb thrashed and writhed under the big one, his mouth urgent against Suki’s tender belly, and Suki pushing back just as urgently against him.

  Oki sank his teeth into the soft skin at the junction of Caleb’s neck and shoulder, trying to hold him still, but nothing could have stopped Caleb from bucking up under his lover, trying to take more of him in. The bite should have hurt, but it just felt like coming home.

  He felt the waves of joy from Suki, and remembered that sweet cock that was in front of him, and Suki obliged by raising up enough that it was there in front of his mouth, and he could suck its length in. He would have grasped it, but he needed both hands on the bed to brace himself, to keep himself from being flattened on the bed and onto Suki by the power of Oki’s thrusts. With Oki pounding into him from behind, and Suki thrusting into his mouth with increasing urgency, he found everything he had been missing in his life.

  One of Oki’s big hands reached around under his belly and found his own pulsing erection, and stroked it hard as he pumped in harder and harder, and Caleb lost what was left of his mind. He sucked desperately on Suki’s throbbing cock as his sweet lover suddenly jerked against his face, and then Oki’s big body tensed and his motions became erratic, fingers digging into Caleb’s hips hard enough that he would leave bruises as he pounded into Caleb’s welcoming body. Oki screamed out in joy and victory as he released, hips jerking against Caleb’s buttocks, his seed filling Caleb’s pulsing channel.

  Caleb cried out again and then swallowed desperately as Suki exploded deep into his throat, that sweet blue cum filling him up from one end, his ass clenching around Oki to hold his seed in. Gods. Sweet gods. It couldn’t get any better than this.

  But it could. Still buried in him, Oki pulled Caleb back, and Suki slid down under him, and urgent hands were guiding him, and then his own pulsing length was buried in Suki’s sweet hole. Oki rocked forward again, and the last of the big one’s thrusts pushed him further and further into Suki. Oki driving into him, him driving into Oki, and then he found his own release, although truly he wasn’t sure who was who anymore. Suki gasped and cried out as Caleb climaxed deep inside of him, lost and finally home at the same time.

  “Beloved!’

  “Beloved!’

  ‘Beloved!’

  He lay like that, sandwiched between them, and brought his mouth up to Suki’s, sharing Suki’s own seed with him in a long deep kiss. He wasn’t sure he could even move anymore, and just knelt there, head down, spent, overwhelmed with emotion. He finally felt Oki let go of his neck and gently sooth the broken skin with his tongue.

  ‘Gods, I am sorry, little one.’

  ‘For what? Owning me? Gods, that felt good.’

  ‘Not owning. Bonding. But maybe got carried away.’

  Suki laughed quietly and licked the last drop of blood from Caleb’s neck, and then reached up to nip at Oki, drawing blood and then licking it up. Caleb took the second drop from Oki, but hesitated when he was offered Suki’s smooth throat. Oki laughed and did the honors, and each of them drew a drop from their little one.

  ‘We are all this for each other, always. We are bonded now.’

  Caleb moaned when he felt himself soften inside the little one, but finally pulled out. Oki rolled over on his side, still inside of Caleb, pulling him over with him. Suki crawled down into Caleb’s arms, and they lay like that until they could all breathe again, the feelings of oneness still washing over them.

  Caleb tried to think of something clever to say, but all he could think of was love.

  ‘Bonding, love, all the same.’ And his lovers purred back at him.

  ‘Yes. Us always, all this for each other.’ Suki confirmed. ‘And it just gets better. Once you are recove
red, we will do the full bonding …’

  Caleb moaned, but held onto his beloveds. More? Better? Maybe he would just stay here in this bed forever.

  Chapter 9.

  “Captain, we need you on the bridge. Also Map Officer Caleb.”

  Oki didn’t look surprised at the promotion, and neither did Suki. Caleb decided he could live with it – it was an improvement on ‘stupid human’, even if it meant that he had to get out of bed. All three of them managed to get dressed and to the bridge, and found a number of the crew already assembled around the main screen.

  Kaji, the new Second Officer, greeted them with relief.

  “The computer says it needs you here for this, for the pattern, Sir. And it has changed course and speed, Sir. We trust this is alright, Sir?” He was young.

  “Yes. It knows our mission as well as we do. You’ve done well, Kaji.”

  The Second breathed again.

  The star map started filling in, starting with their home planet and radiating out from there. Other planets, colonies and trade routes were marked on it. Then, one by one, small lights began to glow on it.

  “Your children, Captain.” The computer said. “There is a 99.8% probability of accurate location, with data being refined continuously. Blue indicates where children have been already been recovered or are settled, green where children are currently located but deemed safe at present. Yellow at risk, red at high risk.”

  A hundred or more glowing dots, spread across the universe, Caleb’s pattern come to life. Some of the crew made soft noises and moved to touch lights, feeling the bond even on a map.

  The ship’s Medical Officer cried out in pain and moved to the one flashing red light, and turned to look at Oki with anguish on his face.

  “Yes. Kaji – confirm course, full speed.”

  “Done, Sir.”

  Oki pulled Suki and Caleb into him, holding them tight, and they stood together and stared at the illuminated web in awe.