Dark as Daylight Ch. 09

Note: This is the property of Prolonged_Debut10. All information is available at Literotica .com. All persons in this NOVEL are fictitious. There will be very little sex and it will not be of a graphic or vile nature. I hope you take this journey me as you did in my previous works. There will a great deal of science, how interpersonal relationships work in an enclosed space, and we will find the people who are responsible for trying to blow up the largest rocket ever made in the United States, as well as those people who intend to destroy the Good Luck 2.

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Chapter 9

36. Last to Launch

"She's ready to fly, Monty."

"I'm just going to remind you one more time Jack; if that rocket blows up, Hannah's pussy and your tongue are the only way you are going to have sex ever again."

"Why am I always the one that gets screwed, when he fucks up?"

"Don't worry Hannah, if he fucks up this time, you won't be getting screwed ever again."

"Come here Jack, I have something I want to say to you."

"Are you going to hit me?"

"No, I'm going to kiss you good luck."

"In that case, I'll be there my love."

Jack approached her and true to her promise she kissed him feverishly. Then she did something he didn't expect. She grabbed his balls and squeezed them as if they were lemons.

He tried to fall to the ground, but she wouldn't allow him that comfort.

"That rocket is not going to fail is it Jack?"

In as much of a voice as he could muster he said, "I promise sweetheart that rocket is going to land in Times Square. It will sing our message all the way there. Please let me go, or we will never have sex again."

"I believe that's what Monty said. Now that makes 2 of us. If it fails, Monty's going to kill you. If you don't keep your promise to me, I'm going to kill you. Monty will kill you quickly. I'm a doctor; I will keep you alive. I will show you how much I love you as I kill you."

"I would hate to find out what you would do to me if you didn't love me."

Hannah kissed him, and told him to get ready to launch the last rocket.

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Jack wanted desperately to go outside to help launch the rocket, but due to his age that was out of the question. Gordon was chosen to lead the 4-member team in honor of his father. When he refused everyone gasped.

Monty asked, "Why the hell not?"

"I want my sister to do it. Delicious is dad's natural born daughter. It is her place to stand in for him."

Those in attendance at the meeting looked at him as if he had grown two heads. Never would they have thought he would turn this honor down.

Monty looked at him, and shook her head. "That brain transplant has done you some good. You are finally acting like a grown-up."

"Don't you ever accuse me of that again. Not even my mother accuses me of growing up"

Everyone at the meeting laughed at him.

Jack asked, "What makes you think your sister will go out there, without a gun pointed at her head?"

"I'll bet you she will jump at the chance to do it. She is the oldest of his children. Call her Monty, and have her come down here."

They continued the meeting, and a few moments later the Grayson Thyme family walked in led in by Teddy, and Newton. Delicious walked in carrying Tatum, and Gray was carrying Truman.

Gordon got up and relieved Delicious of Tatum, and told her to sit down in his place. Immediately she became suspicious.

"Delicious, we offered your brother the opportunity to help launch our last rocket towards Earth, in honor of your father. Believe it or not, he refused."

Delicious turned, and looked at her brother. "You refused?"

"Yes I did."

"Okay Monty, what's the catch? I can feel it coming at me from every corner of this room."

"Dummy, this room is oval."

"Stuff it, Gordon.

"Your brother refused, because he said it was your right, as your father's natural born daughter, and his first child to help launch the rocket. He wants you to do it in his honor."

"When the hell did you grow up?"

"You are the second person who accused me of growing up in the last half hour. Don't you ever accuse me of that again."

The room burst out into laughter, and the noise woke up the twins; who howled in annoyance.

Gray and Gordon rocked them back to sleep within seconds, and the room became quieter.

Monty asked, "Are you going to do it Delicious, or not?"

"Hell yes I'm going to do it. I owe my father everything. This is the least I can do for him. However, I'm taking that child with me."

"You can't take a baby outside with you; it will die."

"Not the infant, Peter Pan, the boy that refuses to grow up."

Everyone at the meeting had to cover their mouths so they wouldn't wake up the babies again. It didn't work, they had to uncover their mouths to breathe, and when that happened the laughing started and could not be controlled.

This time the babies were up for good. They were hungry. Delicious said, "Give me Truman, I'll feed him first."

She raised her blouse, unbuckled her front closing bra, and brought her son to her nipple. He began suckling immediately.

Elizabeth asked, "Can I try that with Tatum?"

"Liz, it doesn't work that way. You may be pregnant, but you're not lactating yet."

"I know; I just want to know what it feels like."

"Go ahead Gray; give her to Elizabeth."

Elizabeth unbuttoned her blouse and raised her bra over her right breast. Unlike any place on earth, not one man in the room said a word as her breasts were exposed. She took the 7-pound infant from Gray's arms, and asked Delicious if there was any special way to do it.

"No, just put her mouth on your nipple, and when she feels it, she will do the rest."

Tatum was still crying as Elizabeth raised her to her nipple, but as soon as she felt the warm, soft, flesh of a breast near her cheek, the wailing stopped, and her head began searching for her source of nutrition. When she made the connection to the nipple, her little hands wrapped around the breast, and she became contented.

A short time later Elizabeth moaned.

Delicious laughed. "You just came didn't you?"

Elizabeth blushed bright red. "How did you know?"

"It happens to me all the time. These two are almost as good as Gray."

"You are not supposed to be telling tales out of school dear."

"I can't even pay you a compliment in public?"

"Your 4-year old megaphone is standing by your side. Is there anything else you'd like to say?"

"No, I think I'll pass."

"Good girl."

"Why is she satisfied; she's not getting any milk?"

"She satisfied because she's leaning against your warm breast. She's getting her suckling motion, and she's very contented. In an hour or so she will be hungry, and let me know it. I will not let it go that far, because I will feed her as soon as he's done."

"Now that household matters have been taken care of, we are going to have 2 members of the Luck family outside, and 2 engineers. Is that okay with you Jack?"

"Yes, that will be fine. Gordon will have to wear the jet pack again. I wish we qualified more people with those, while we were on the ground. We just didn't have the facilities to do it."

"Jack, when we reach Atwater Luck, and everything has settled down to a daily routine, we can take the ship up into orbit and qualify more people with the jet packs just in case something happens on the planet we do not foresee.

If in the future, while we are traveling to another planet, as part of another adventure, we will have those people on board to repair anything that goes wrong on the outside of the ship."

"Excellent thinking little boy."

"I can see we are going to have to come to a midway point between little boy and grown up."

"How about adolescent?"

"No, I hated those pimples."

"I have it, and I think you'll like it. I want a vote on this instantly, and there is no going back. Are you ready?"

There was a resounding 'YES!'

"Instead of calling him Peter Pan, adolescent, grown-up, and all the other words we'd like to call him with 4 letters, I hereby propose that this person be called, for now and forevermore, 'GORDON. All in favor signify by saying AYE!"

Everyone said, "AYE!"

"Do I hear any NO's?"

"Hearing none and seeing no raised hands, this person's name forevermore is Gordon."

Jennifer said, "I find that very interesting, because that's what I named him at birth."

"You did a good job Jenn. We have no complaints with you naming him Gordon. It is the idiot that couldn't make up his mind whether he wants to be a grown-up or a child. Now he knows he's none of those, he's just Gordon."

"Okay, when I smack him from now on, I'll be smacking Gordon. I'll also be smacking my son Gordon at the same time. That'll be a 2 for 1."

Gordon asked, "Does anyone want to hear the story about the first time I purchased condoms?"

Jen was out of her seat in a flash, and Gordon was out the door.

Monty was laughing hysterically.

Delicious looked at her. "Do you know what happened?"

"I was with them that night. It was one of the funniest nights of my life."

"Spill the beans Monty, I've got to hear this."

"You are not going to hear it from me. Your mother will fillet the skin off my body, and I have a lot of skin. If you want to find out, you are going to have to ask either one of those two."

"Do you know what my chances are of getting that story out of my mother?"

"About the same as pushing toothpaste back in the tube."

"No probably a little worse than that. I won't get it out of Gordon either, because he knows more about me and Gray than I care to think about. He could blackmail me for my next 5 lifetimes, and still have lifetimes left over."

"Bridge, this is Captain Jamison. How long before we reach the turning point?"

"Captain Jamison this is the bridge. We will reach the turning point in 6 hours, 17 minutes, and 18 seconds. From there it is 8.9753 hours to Atwater Luck."

"Abrams I'm going to gut you with a scalpel."

"I'm sorry Captain Jamison, Captain Abrams is not on duty. This is Janet Dover."

"There is a conspiracy going on. Everyone is trying to get my goat, because Gordon kicked my ass, and I can't run after them. My time will come. When I get back to my former self, I'm going to pound every one of those people, who give me exact times and reference points, down 2 feet from their former height."

Jack asked, "Why would you do that? You asked a question and they gave you the appropriate answer. If you were leading a squad into battle, and you asked your spotter for the enemies' position, would you want him to advise you that the enemy is located 120 yards somewhere in front of you; or would you want to be advised that the enemy is at your 2 o'clock position, at 105 yards. There are 35 of them, and they are in dug in positions."

"You are a pain in the ass, Jack."

"I'm just telling you like it is."

"You are still a pain in the ass. Jack I want you and your men to do one final check on the rocket. I know I'm being a pain in the ass again, but please do it for me."

"Okay Captain, you got it."

"Teddy, you've been very quiet. Are you okay?"

"How Elizabeth have baby so soon? Mommy take long time."

"That's not Elizabeth's baby, that's your sister, Tatum. She's holding her just to keep her quiet, until mommy is finished feeding Truman."

"Oh, feel much better now. We find out Elizabeth having baby three week ago. Today, I see her holding baby. I really confused. Mommy having baby; little belly, bigger belly, biggest belly, then babies.

Elizabeth have no belly. Then holding baby, feeding baby. I very confused."

Elizabeth said, "If it was that easy Teddy, every girl would have a baby. Your mommy will tell you it's not easy having a baby. It's very hard on your mommy's body. This time, it was so hard, they had to open your mommy's belly to take the babies out. Your mommy is very fortunate to have your daddy, Newton, and you to help her."

"All I do is pray."

"All you can do is pray? Don't you think that helps mommy a lot? Don't you think that helps your family a lot? I think it does. Look how much better your mommy is, because of all your prayers. God heard them all, and she answered them, because she loves you, and your family."

Teddy smiled shyly, and leaned against her mother.

Delicious said, "No more nose in corner."

"Still think you cheat Monopoly. You always win."

"You always want Boardwalk, and Park Place. I want the yellow and the red. You land on me more often than I land on you."

"Oh, that the secret. I get out of jail, I land on orange. I pay you money. I go next time, I land on red, I pay you more money. What happen with green?"

"Green is too expensive to build houses on. I don't cheat; I can read the rules. When you can read, we will be equal, and then we will have fun."

"Why you not tell me this before?"

"I thought I would enjoy beating you now, because the rest of my life you are going to beat me."

"I know you cheat."

"I didn't cheat. I love the look on your face when you are thinking about what to do next. Your nose gets funny. You bite your bottom lip, and you squeeze your eyes tight. If we had a camera, I would take hundreds of pictures of you every time we play Monopoly."

"When I five, you in trouble."

"What do you mean 5? I'm in trouble already with you. You are speaking better, and you are reading books by yourself. I love my Teddy so very much."

"I love my mommy very much."

"Why don't you go to the playroom for a while, and play with the other children?"

"No, I go downstairs and play with turkey's. Lot of little birds running in the cages."

"Okay, but remember don't let them out, because the big turkeys will step on them."

"Okay mommy, goodbye daddy."

"Goodbye Princess, if you find feathers on the floor, I can make you a little necklace or bracelet. Don't take them off the turkeys, they have to be on the floor."

"We have lots of feathers. We take them off the floor and put them in big bags. I bring you some later."

After Teddy was gone Gray said, "Oh My God, what have I just done?"

"I think you are going to be making Indian headdresses for every child on the ship darling. You remember the old quote don't you, 'No good deed goes unpunished.' Your good deed just got you in big trouble."

"Where is that stapler Even wanted to buy to keep his mouth closed?"

"Honey look at it this way. You work 8 hours a day. You sleep 8 hours a day. You help me with the twins every day. So that leaves you about 4 hours every day to work on the headdresses. I would say you can make maybe 5 or 6 a day. It won't be that terrible."

"Have you ever seen me sew?"

"Make that 2 or 3 a day."

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"Sir, we have a cracked board."

"Where, we've been over this thing 3 times, and everything checked out perfectly."

"It checks out fine electronically, but take a look, you can see the crack going through the left quadrant of the board. It should show a fault on our test equipment, but it doesn't, and I don't know why."

"Put it back in, and run the test again."

"You see sir, absolutely perfect."

"Stevens bring your test kit here."

"Here you go Sir."

"Run the test again."

"Right down the line sir. It couldn't be better if it tried."

"Bring me a board we know is bad."

"He you go Colonel; we took this out of the second rocket. You can see by the tag attached to it what faults showed up."

"Test it."

"Shit Colonel this is not the right. There is no way in hell this circuit board should pass muster. Someone had to get to our test kits."

"I'll bet you a dime to a doughnut I know who it was."

"Who Colonel, who would want to keep us from sending a message home?"

"The same asshole that had us going in the wrong direction; Doctor Aubrey. I've seen him down here often enough looking around, haven't you?"

"Yeah, but we kept him away from all the important stuff, especially the engines. We didn't want anyone screwing them up."

"Thank goodness you did that. Otherwise, we could be drifting in space forever. Take your test kits apart, and let's go over them piece by piece until we find out what he did to them."

"Engineering to Captain Jamison."

"This is Captain Jamison; what's up Jack?"

"We had a saboteur here in engineering. You asked us to go over the rocket one last time, and because you did we found a cracked circuit board. The problem is it checked out perfectly when it shouldn't have. It should come back showing up with a fault, but it didn't. We checked it with another test kit and it still came back perfect. We tested a board we knew was bad, and that came back perfect. We are in the process of taking apart our test kits to find out what was done to them to make them show everything was fine.

However, I know who did this to them. It was Doctor Aubrey. He was the one that sent us in the wrong direction, with no apparent motive. Now, we see his motive. He did not want any messages getting back to Earth. Whoever paid him, or his family or whatever he's getting out of this, this rocket was never supposed to get our message back to Plant Earth."

"I request that you do not make the turn towards Atwater Luck, until we know we have this rocket ready to roll. It may add a few hours, or days for us to get to Atwater Luck, but it will also get this rocket that much closer to Earth. We need time Monty; we need time to fix our testing gear, and we need time to go over this rocket until it is absolutely pristine."

"You have it Jack, we don't turn until you tell us to."

"Thanks Captain."

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"Science division, this is Captain Jamison."

"Science division, Harvey Cushing Captain."

"Mister Cushing, we are not making the turn as planned. It appears that Doctor Aubrey did more damage than previously noted. We will continue on this heading, unless you tell me there is a better one for us to launch the rocket towards planet Earth. It doesn't matter where we make the turn towards Atwater Luck from this point on. It only matters where the best point is to launch the rocket towards Earth. You may assume at this point that you are looking at a 24 to 48-hour timeframe. Work it out on your computers, and let me know what you think."

"Aye, Aye captain, we will be back to you in 15 to 20 minutes."

"There is no rush Mister Cushing, accuracy to within a dime's width is what I need."

"Bridge, this is Captain Jamison."

"Captain Jamison this is the bridge."

"Janet, I want you to ask Callie the same question I just asked the science division. Using a 24 to 48-hour launch window, what is the best heading for us to take to make a close approach to Earth before turning towards Atwater Luck. The rocket has been sabotaged, and is now in the process of being repaired."

"Can we just throw that bastard out into space. He's wasting our air Monty."

"Believe me I'm thinking about it. As a matter of fact, I'm going to do more than think about it; I'm going to call for a quorum, immediately."

"Communications, this is Captain Jamison."

"Captain, this is communications."

"Communications put out a quorum call for all persons not involved with critical duties, immediately. The meeting starts in 45 minutes."

"What shall I say it involves Captain?"

"High Treason against Doctor Lincoln Aubrey."

"It will be on all speaker, and on display in 30 seconds. The bells will begin sounding at the same time."

"Captain Jamison, this is Harvey Cushing in the science section."

"Go ahead Mister Cushing."

"We would recommend a change in course to 1250, angle of declination to minus 35o."

"Thank you Mister Cushing, we're running it through Callie right now, and we'll see what she comes up with. I will let you know her answer."

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Janet was seated in the Captain's chair waiting for Callie's solution, when she was reprimanded.