Dark as Daylight Ch. 15

"It's not lying. You could go into a court of law, and swear before God, that you had breakfast. Your answer 'Yes' I did have breakfast; it is the absolute truth."

"I see, and you're right. Mommy asks me if I had breakfast. I did have breakfast. You are cheating by using funny words."

"Truer words were never spoken."

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They were eating breakfast, when Teddy's eyes opened wide, and the hairs on Gordon's neck stood up.

Oh no! "Good morning Monty, would you like to join us for breakfast?"

"I told security I wanted to see you upon your return to the ship."

"I received that message, but I had one obligation to take care of before I could see you. I promised Delicious I would take Teddy to breakfast as soon as we returned. I could not serve 2 masters at the same time, and in order not to get Teddy in trouble with her mother, I chose to have her eat breakfast first."

"Is that true, Teddy?"

"Yes Big Captain, we promised my mommy I would eat breakfast when I came back."

"You are so lucky Gordon."

"The truth has nothing to do with luck, Captain."

"You will be in my ready room as soon as you deliver Teddy to her mother."

"As you wish Captain."

"You have no idea how I want to take you up to the gym, and take you apart like the old days."

"I could tie both my arms behind my back."

Monty smacked him so hard, he laughed.

"Was that a yes?"

Monty growled and left them.

"I think Big Captain loves you."

"I love her so much I'm going to be Matron of Honor at her wedding. I'm going to wear a dress, and make up. We are going to take pictures so she can keep them forever."

"Gordon, you always confuse me. You can't be a cow, because your boy, but you make believe you're a cow. A matron of honor at a wedding is a girl. You are going to be matron of honor at Big Captain's wedding? How are you doing that?"

"Teddy, I'm doing that because Monty is my best friend. If she told me to stand on my head at her wedding, I would do that for her. If she asked me to sing at her wedding, I would. Have you ever heard me sing?"

"No, I haven't."

"Teddy, you don't ever want to hear me sing. I am probably the worst singer you've ever heard. I cannot carry a tune. I can't follow a rhythm. I am awful when it comes to singing. You can ask Zoey; I cannot even sing in the shower."

"What does a shower have to do with singing?"

"It is an old story, and it has nothing to do with singing. Let me take you back to your mother, so I can tell her both of us have just come back from breakfast."

"Are you going to argue with her?"

"I could get her to yell at me by telling her that Tatum and Truman are ugly."

"But they are not ugly, they are very pretty baby's. They don't listen to me, and Truman is going to be a very bad boy, when he starts to talk. His nose is going to be in the corner for a very long time. Tatum is going to be just like me. God loves both of them very much, but my daddy's hair is going to turn white getting Truman to do what he is capable of doing."

"Is Truman going to be like Newton?"

"Truman will find a new mineral on this planet. Truman, Newton, Jennifer, Adele, Mia, and our new friend's children will build a spaceship that will go so fast that time will mean nothing. You will be like your daddy was; you will keep everyone going in the same direction."

"How can we possibly build a spacecraft, without the necessary manufacturing facilities to do it?"

"That's what you are for Gordon. You will find a way."

"I love our little talks."

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He knocked on her door. Delicious answered it, after a considerable length of time. Her hair was messed up, her make-up was askew, and her eyes were on fire.

Gordon knew he had just interrupted sexual interplay.

"Hello sis, Teddy and I just had breakfast, but if you have any coffee ready, I'd love some. It's been a long morning, and Teddy and I went for a nice walk. It's absolutely beautiful outside, you really should go out instead of staying inside with the baby's. Is Gray working today? If he is, I'll help you change the kids and you can get outside quicker. We have incredible stories to tell you about our little adventure."

"Get the hell out of here Gordon."

"Mommy, you used bad word."

"Not as bad as I'm going to use if you're uncle doesn't get out of here now."

"Do you see what I mean, Teddy. I was being very nice to your mommy. I offered to help change the babies, and she gets angry at me for no reason at all. There is nothing I can do to keep her happy."

"Gordon, if you don't leave now, I will kill you where you stand."

"Zoey tried it, and she couldn't do it."

"Come on Gordon, you know what's going on, please leave us alone."

"Oh, you and Gray are making love. Why didn't you say so in the first place? I would've left immediately. I'm sorry sis, I will come back later for the coffee. Goodbye Teddy, if you need me, you know where I'll be. Monty needs to see me now, so I'll be with her for the next 30 minutes. Then I'll be down in engineering with Newton..."

"Leave Now!"

"Okay, you didn't have to yell. I got your message. If I'm not in engineering, I'll be in the..."

Delicious pulled Teddy into their apartment, and slammed the door in her brother's face.

Gordon yelled, "Are you angry with me?"

"Gordon, Leave!"

"Okay, but I'm coming back later for coffee."

Something hit the back of the door. He hoped it wasn't Teddy.

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"Teddy, please go to your room, and read. Mommy and daddy are trying to make another baby."

"This one will be a girl baby, mommy. Hair like me, smart like Truman, very very smart girl baby."

"Thank you Teddy, go read."

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Gray asked, "What's up baby?"

"I'm going to shoot my dam brother. He was purposely keeping us apart. Teddy said we are going to make a baby today. It will be another girl. She will be smarter than Truman. Since she told us how smart Truman is going to be, it appears we are going to be breeding geniuses."

"There is nothing we can do about it baby, it's in our genes."

"Don't you start with me. I have to put up with my brother, I could put you on ice for a generation."

"Honey, it doesn't matter to me if I have 7 children as I approach 40, or as I approach 60. I am still going to father 7 children with you, and there is only one way I'm going to do it."

"I hate you Gray."

"No you don't, you love me."

"So what?"

"I think I'll take a nap now."

"If you do, you will wake up dead."

"Does that mean you want us to continue making today's child now, or later today?"

"Gray, go to sleep, I will take care of everything else."

"If I go to sleep, I'm taking him with me."

"I'll tell you what; you may continue, and I will lie here like grass."

"I will make you a bet. You won't be able to lie there like grass."

"I don't have to take off my night gown?"

"No, you may leave your nightgown on."

"I accept your bet."

"Move to the center of the bed please."

"Okay?"

"Very nice, I've wanted to try this for years. He reached for his robe, and pulled off the tie. He grabbed her left ankle, wrapped the tie around it, and knotted it to the end of their bed."

"What the fuck do you think you're doing?"

"Making sure you stay in the center of the bed."

She had a confused look on her face, and he couldn't believe she bought it.

He did the same to the right leg, and she finally realized she could not protect her center.

"You pervert; I didn't tell you you could do this to me."

"You didn't tell me I couldn't do it either. You look absolutely 'Delicious' like that."

"You have a warped sense of humor, Grayson, untie me."

"I was going for your hands next."

"If you get that close; my hands will be around your throat."

"You are tethered to the bed. You can't use your speed or weight to put any force behind your punches, and you can't kick me. Not only will I tie your arms and hands to the headboard, I will gag you just to keep you quiet."

"You wouldn't dare."

He reached for the belt to his uniform, a handkerchief from his chest, and walked towards her.

"Don't do it; I'll keep my voice down. I will get you for this later, and it won't be much later either."

"I go to work in 4 hours. I may leave you here until I return."

"You can't, the babies come back from the nursery at 1600 hrs."

"I can change that very simply."

"Teddy will know something is up. She will want to talk to me."

"I will tell her you are sleeping, and she has to stay with her grandmother for the night."

"I'm going to lay here like dirt."

"You are going to move as soon as I touch you."

"You are such a bastard."

"You've met both my parents, although one of them was nothing to speak about."

"Let's get this over with, I'm getting bored. Besides that, you shrank to nothing."

"He will wake up in due course. You, however, must keep your promise. You must lay there like dirt. Dirt does not move."

"Pig."

"Did I just hear dirt talk? If I did, dirt is going to be muddy between her thighs very soon."

"You are so full of shit Gray. You can't get to my neck, and or my breasts. That's what get my fire going, and you know it. I may as well go to sleep."

"Good night dear, pleasant dreams."

Gray lay down at the end of the bed, and began working on her toes. He licked, sucked, and bit each one them. As he went along, 'Dirt' was trying to pull her left foot away from him.

"We must be having a 'mini' earthquake. The 'Dirt' I am inspecting is moving."

"It's just the wind pushing the dirt around."

"Dirt doesn't talk."

His lips moved to the top of her foot, as his thumbs began massaging the soles. At first he did it lightly, and then harder, until he heard the first moan exit her mouth.

His lips and teeth tormented her calf, while his hands moved to her ankle, and began reflexing it. He kissed, nipped, and bit his way up to her knee, and moved his hands up to massage her calf. They worked in tandem, as his mouth moved up her thigh, his hands followed.

When he ran out of thigh, his tongue slipped past the crease, between her leg and her body, and began playing along her pubic ridge.

"You prick."

"Did I just hear 'Dirt' talk?"

Delicious did not answer him, but she wanted to strangle him, because he didn't go the way she wanted him to.

Gray's hands continued moving up her thighs, and Delicious had hope again.

If he just kept his hands moving at the same pace, in the same direction, and at the same, he would be inside her in seconds.

Her vulva was bloated with blood, and if he touched her just right, she would explode. He was there, right next to her, and she moved her hips in an attempt to make contact.

"Did 'Dirt' just move?"

"Yes it did Gray, please touch me, I'm going crazy here. Please touch me."

"That's against the rules."

"I want my baby now. I want you inside me now. Please Gray stop this, and make love with me.

"Are you going to lie there like dirt?"

"I promise you will be very happy when we are done."

"Should I untie you? I've never tied you up before."

"Yes that was new. Where did you dream that one up?"

"String theory."

"You used a scientific theory to tie up your wife?"

"It's another thing you can kill your brother for. He was explaining it to me. He was showing me 'open strings', and closed strings. He believes there are at least 2000 other kinds of strings in the universe. He even believes there is one like the double helix in the human genome. It would explain multiple universes, and how to travel between them. You can go up any to level, and get off like an elevator..."

"Gray look where you are, and ask me if I'm interested in string theory?"

"Should I tie up your hands?"

"Maybe some other time, but right now, I would like to make our baby."

"Are you in that much of a hurry?"

"Grayson Thyme, think about this. No sex for the next 24 years. Then we will have 3 babies in a row. Then no sex for the rest of your life. How does that float your boat?"

"Should I untie you?"

"No, I'd like to know what this feels like at the end of our coupling."

"May I continue from where I left off, or do you want to go to the main event?"

"After talking about string theory, I have cooled down considerably. You may continue where you left off, but if I pull your hair again, you better be ready for the main event."

"Your wish is my command, dear."

Gray was kissing down the outside of her right thigh, when there was a knock on their bedroom door.

"Yes."

Teddy said, "I'm sorry to bother you, daddy. There is a problem on the bridge, and they would like you to be there in 30 minutes."

"Thank you Teddy, you can tell them I will be there."

"Thank you, daddy."

"Gray before we do anything else, untie me. All Teddy has to do is find me like this, and she will have you arrested. After I am untied, we will have 20 minutes to ourselves, 7 minutes for you to shower shave and get dressed, and 3 minutes for you to get to the bridge."

"Do you see dear, everything involves math."

Even though he ducked, she was able to hit him on the back of his head."

"You should have stayed on earth, and pitched for the Boston Red Sox. You don't miss what you aim for."

"Will you try to aim for this please? I'll give you a hand if necessary."

"No, I've had plenty of practice throughout the years. I believe I can do that by myself."

"Give me their names, I'll go back to Earth and kill each one of them."

"We weren't married, and then I waited a year for you. I should have had both heads examined before I did that. It was extremely cruel, and very unusual punishment."

"Are you complaining?"

"You bet your ass I am. Look what I missed out on for one year."

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Outside the ship was a curious mix of life and death. Carnivores had to eat, just as everyone else had to in order to survive. Only those carnivores who approached within 100 meters of the spacecraft were killed. The others were allowed to do as God intended them to do. They preyed on the weak, and the old, leaving the young and healthy to bring forth the next generation.

This brought about one more concern. No one on the spacecraft had meat in their diet for over 4 years. The turkeys were still running around inside the ship, but there was still too few of them to make any difference.

There were dead cattle lying on the ground going to waste. The carnivores had killed too many cows during their brief encounter with them, and after they had eaten their fill, they retreated to the mountains, and their normal hunting grounds.

They named the featherless birds 'Vultures', because they provided the same service as those birds did on earth. They picked the bones of the animals until they were clean.

As on Earth, myriads of tiny creatures came from underground, and began feasting on the left overs from the bones and carcasses of the dead animals. Apparently, nature was the same everywhere in the universe. Nothing went to waste.

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Monty sent out two 10 man units. 4 men were armed, and 6 men with ropes to pull the dead cattle towards the ship. Other units were sent into the forest to bring back as much dead wood as they could find. They were not going to have a barbeque tonight. Tonight they were going to learn how to turn bones into items that would make their lives easier, and more fruitful.

Bones from these dead animals were retrieved to make plates, spoons, forks, ladles, hammers, screws, screw drivers, bottles, knives, and other implements.

None of these were put on the ship before they left earth, because they contained metal, and metal degraded the antigravity engines. One day, if they were forced to leave this planet, and they were lucky enough to make metal implements, they would have to be left behind also.

Gordon went up to Monty and told her they needed stones, and a lot of them. She didn't even question him as to why they needed them, she already knew.

Everyone, 16 years old and above was assigned to this task.

In the auditorium, Gordon showed everyone the type of rocks they were looking for. He was very specific about them.

"We don't know how this planet was formed. However, if you find rocks that are black, take those because they are volcanic, and they will flake easily. We can make knives and other cutting tools with them.

We need large rocks, weighing between 10 and 15 lbs. We need flat rocks like a cutting board, we can use those to pound other rocks on and smooth them out. Later on in this process we will look for very larger rocks, and we will start making wheels. As soon as we are capable of making wheels, transportation will become much easier. We have all the beasts of burden we need right outside our door, but without wheels they are of no use to us. Wheels are months, maybe years away, but we have a plan. All we have to do is stick to the plan and we will get there. We are going to be here for a long time. We will start planting crops as soon as we can make our first plow. We do not need wheels for that; we have the cattle to pull those for us.

Let's start today with the simplest things we have to get, rocks, and wood. Everyone 16 to 22 years old works 2 hours per day outside collecting what we need, and then goes back to their studies. The rest of us working stiffs will work our normal shifts, plus another 3 hours on the outside.

The only people excused from outside duty are the doctors, nurses, and Adam Schiff and his staff. They are too important to lose."

Someone yelled, "Yea, Adam takes enough shit all day, he shouldn't have to take more shit from the rest of us, while we are working outside."

Adam replied, "Thanks guys, I'll remember each of you as you flush your john's."

"Captain, that's another thing we should concern ourselves with for the long term. What are we going to do with the excrement we use to dispose of it in space?

Are you going to let it pile up in storage, and take a trip into space to get rid of it? Are we going to use it as fertilizer for our crops? There is going to be too much of it for the arboretum? If you are going to take the ship on a cruise for half an hour into space as you did last evening, we could dispose of 3-month's worth of excrement during that time. It's all up to you."

"How much do you have on hand now, Adam?"

"I don't have any on my hands now. I washed them before I came to the meeting."

"Laura smack him for me, please."

"I can't, he's too nice to me."

"I hate that in a man."

Gordon said, "I'm right here Monty."

"Oh good."

She swung at him, but he jumped over her arm, did a handstand, and walked behind her. He locked his feet underneath her chin, and she screamed.

"Gordon don't you do it; you will break my back."

"Are you going to marry that asshole?"

"He's never asked me to marry him, and I'm getting tired of waiting."

"Maybe he's afraid, because you're getting grumpy again."

"He takes me as I am, or he should get off the ship permanently."

"I'll let you go if you guarantee me you will say yes when he asks you?"

"Are you still going to wear a dress at my wedding?"

"I'll even look like a southern belle, if you want."

"Fine, if that asshole ever climbs out of one of your sister's electrical supply closets, and decides to ask me to marry him, I'll say yes just before I knock his lights out for making me wait this long."

"Montgomery LaBrennia Jamison will you marry me?"

Gordon released his feet from around Monty's neck, and ran from the dais screaming, "I never told a soul. As God is my witness Monty, I never told anyone your middle name."