Sholan Alliance - AU Bk. 02 Ch. 07

Satasha lightly smacked the back of his head. "I will tell Jenna and Sandi that and you will be stuck with the food dispenser..." She had to nibble on a nail for a few moments. "Then again that is better than that dried stuff you call food aboard your ship. That wouldn't be much of a punishment. I guess you will simply have to sleep on the couch till our next link day."

That got her stared at by Holla and Signey and then they looked at Billy. They finally noticed the Leska pin and their eyes got even wider. "Oh my gosh, how did that happen? You aren't even Sholan..." As soon as Signey said that she dropped her ears in apology. "Please excuse that question and comment."

Her mother had almost asked the same thing and as bad as it sounded she was glad Signey had. "Next time think before you engage your mouth hun. I know that might have startled you and I have to admit I was a bit surprised myself. You still need to contemplate what you want to say and see if it is the right thing."

Vangie leaned over and stroked her hair and ears. "Yes they are Leska's and no Yilly isn't Sholan. If he was I would have to wonder who shaved him and dropped him on his face." He grinned when Satasha hissed at him.

Billy snickered at both Vangie and Tasha and he took sympathy on the young Sholan. "Relax Signey and I don't blame you for being shocked. You should have seen my reaction to our link. I didn't quite freak but having all of Tasha's memories being rammed down my throat was most definitely not pleasant." He grinned at Tasha as she grunted in agreement. "I am sorry but there are some things about females we males simply do not want to know."

Satasha poked him in the side. "Brute! How did I end up with some old fogy like you?" She shook her head. "Honestly we aren't sure what caused the link but they are working hard to find out why. It is something that we need to find out." She leaned over and gave him a gentle nuzzle. "We both had wanted to bond which we did before this ever happened. We love and care for each other and the only thing we regret is I can't have his children."

That discussion went on for several minutes before they changed the subject. About then Vangie gave Sally a sly look. "Wanna know what the kitty has? What is it worth to you to find out?" There was a definite burr in his voice and Holla rolled her eyes.

"I know that tone Sally and you might want to consider making a break for it... He used that tone just before I became pregnant with Signey. He can sweet talk you into almost anything when he does that." She grinned at Vangie when she said that.

Signey covered her face. "Mom there are some things I just don't need to know about. Please don't torment me that way." Just for good measure she shuddered.

Dani snickered at her as she wrapped an arm around her. "Tell me about it. Watching daddy making out with Tasha the first few times was horrifying. It didn't matter that Tasha was Sholan only that my daddy was acting like an overgrown teenager." She had to shudder as well before sticking a tongue at her father when he snickered and started nibbling on Satasha's ear.

Sally leaned forward and rested an elbow on the table. "Would you like some coffee Vangie? I can make you a nice strong cup for you..." She even went so far as to give him an innocent look when she said that.

Vangie laughed at her and held the bag up so she could only see part of it. "I should at least get a kiss from you before I let you look." His ears were pricked forward as he was teasing her.

She growled at him before standing up and stalking around the table. "You are so going to get it tonight you bad kitty. No kitty nip tea for you." She settled down in his lap and wrapped her arms around him and gave him a good kiss finished with a nibble to his lower lip. Just for good measure she started twirling a finger in the fur of his chest. "Now do I get to see the yummy surprise you have for me?" As she was talking she was looking up at him through her eyelashes while looking demure.

His daughter was watching the antics in horror and one ear was twitching as if her mind was melting down. Her mother covered her eyes. "There hun now you don't have to see your father in his dotage." Her voice was laden with concern and caring though it was patently false.

Dani rested her forehead on her hand and sighed. "Now you see what I have had to deal with only it is my father that does that sort of thing." She saw a smile starting to cross his face and she growled at him. "Don't you even think about it father or I might scream in frustration."

Since Sally and Kingie were still having a bit of fun with the kisses and nibbling she turned to Signey. "Assuming our plans work out this weekend do you happen to know some normal boys our age? At least that way I will know what to expect."

Signey snickered at Dani. "Sounds like a deal. I know several cute guys of which I have my eye on one or two." That was deliberately said for her father's sake.

Vangie stopped and growled. "Names and addresses before anything happens and I am going to borrow one of Yilly's shotguns. I will be sitting at the table cleaning it." He scowled at Signey for the teasing.

Since he was distracted Sally snatched the small silk bag and opened it. When she poured the necklace out Sally turned pink and looked shocked. "Oh Vangie this is lovely. Thank you so much. I love it." She threw her arms around his neck and hugged him. The chain was slinky; almost serpentine that had polished sections as well as brushed sections. As it moved the polished sections reflected the light almost if there were tiny diamonds. The dangle was a lovely semi-opaque whitish stone in an elegant golden cage.

Vangie returned the hug and kiss. "I am very pleased you like it Sally. You are one of the most enjoyable companions I have ever had. Even if I am just an ignorant lout compared to you, Dani, and your father."

Signey tilted her head at that statement. "What do you mean dad? Why an ignorant lout that is?" She could tell he was being serious when he said it.

Satasha snorted. "Because us merely mortal humans are ignorant louts compared to them. Yilly is both a theoretical and practical physist majoring in hyper engines. He has a minor in computer hardware and programming. He is currently redesigning the standard hyper engine they use on Earth. Sally is working on a dual degree in xenopalentology and xenobiology. Dani is working on becoming a doctor at one of the most prestigious training centers in her country. They are all classified as genius level brainiacs."

Billy gave his down home smile that had a sort of 'aw shucks' look to it. "I's not overly edjumacated, just raised with a bit o' common sense." Tasha snorted and poked him again.

"Oh and incase I forgot ignore that pretty and innocent look that Z'Marl does so well. She is only a little bit less intelligent than Yilly. Can you say geek speak foreplay?" She shuddered though she did grin at Z'Marl who simply looked innocent.

Z'Marl took that as an invite to give Billy her gift. "I hope you don't mind Satasha and Billy but I got a gift for you as well." She didn't bother with any of the playing of the other two. Now she was looking and acting her age-a shy young woman. As she was talking she handed a pouch to Billy and a last second purchase she had made to Satasha. "I hope you like them."

Billy had to raise his eyebrows at the weight of the pouch. "Z'Marl could you open this please, I am a wing short of being able to." He handed it back to her and held one hand out.

She had to smile at his joke but took the pouch back and opened it and placed the bracelet in his hand. It wasn't in anyway a bonding bracelet such as he and Satasha had but it was heavily engraved bronze with silver chasing. Once he had looked at it she put it on his other wrist.

"Oh love it is beautiful and thank you so much." He pulled her towards him and gave her a good kiss and hug.

Satasha joined in the hug as well. "That is a beautiful bracelet Z'Marl and it was very nice of you to get it for Yilly." She opened her pouch and it was a smaller version of Billy's and obviously designed for a female. It hadn't required any modification since Tasha was Sholan. "Oh this is lovely and you should get one as well. We will go to the jewelers tomorrow or the next day to get one made."

The rest of the evening was spent chatting about this and that. Signey had to ogle the jewelry at one point and sighed since she didn't have anything like that. Eventually they went to bed and after breakfast the next morning they headed back.

~~~

The morning of his next surgery and after their link day he was lying in bed looking at the ceiling. Satasha was curled up on one side and Z'Marl on the other. She had snuck in at some point during the night and curled up with them and fell asleep. He had to smile some since if she had been much earlier she would have been drawn in by the sexual draw of the link. Billy had a feeling that wasn't something she would normally do and would have been appalled.

He took a moment or two to contemplate the last two weeks. They had been back to Vangie's house once as well as to Kingie's parent's house. That was a very enjoyable visit since Crystal was obviously flourishing under their care and love. She had been more outgoing, giggly, and comfortable with casual touch. That wasn't saying it was all bunnies and pink unicorns for her. If you moved to fast near her she tended to flinch. With touch she had to see you first. If you came up behind her and touched her she would jump and twitch. Overall she was doing better and she and Amahs were obviously getting along well.

He had to start smiling as he continued to remember the visit. Kingie's little brother was a darling handful and had seen all the new people as being there just for him. He lap swapped, cuddled, played, and had a great time. Billy had caught Tasha with a wistful look on her face as she watched the little boy playing. It was obvious that she did want children eventually. That was frustrating since he wouldn't mind at all. As far as the genetic drift they were still evaluating it and how wide spread the effect was going to be.

What rather pissed him off was the same or similar was happening to the rest who had gotten sick as well. Due to that they were also in the process of dissecting the new strain of the virus. They were mostly done with that but were researching the structural make up of the DNA of the virus. There were some hints of the human DNA being part of the makeup. That they couldn't explain at all. Even Vartra's Priesthood was looking into their records as well.

He forced that out of his mind or it would make him most definitely grumpy. Instead he changed memories to dealing with those three idiots. Now that had been fun and enjoyable. His mind traveled back to the morning after they had run into him.

~~~

That morning when he woke his shoulder was still bothering him more than it had been. Billy hadn't been too concerned since he figured it was mostly due to inflammation of the tissues. He wasn't going to chance it though and the first stop was at the hospital to get seen. It had taken the doctor some time to get to him since he had been working on another patient. When he did he settled down and asked Billy what was going on.

Billy had explained what had happened the afternoon before and before he knew it he was in a scanner again. The doctor reviewed the results for several minutes before having a nurse remove the dressings. "It doesn't look like much other than inflammation due to the impact but we are going to change your dressing and verify that."

By the time Billy had a new dressing and had been released it was almost lunch time and he was angry, sore, and tired. Since he knew better than dealing with this now he went back to the suite to relax. As he was thinking he came up with the perfect punishment. He was going to humiliate them to death for what they had done. He sent a brief message to the three male's main councilor requesting a good time to talk to the three. Billy had made sure to tell him he wanted to talk to them in class.

The councilor wasn't sure of that but Billy pulled rank on him. Between that and a casual mention of going to the guild master if he needed to gained him a time to talk to the class the next morning. When Satasha had come back from dealing with some paperwork at the local space navy branch he was smirking. He knew that she had felt what he was doing and her thoughts were even worse than his.

He pulled her down in his lap and nibbled on and ear and along her jaw to help her relax. "Don't worry Tasha since they will be hating life for a week or two. The embarrassment of the punishment will be burned into their mind for a long time." She hissed in anger but let him seduce her into relaxing with him on the couch.

He had contacted both Kingie and Vangie for assistance in the punishment. When he informed him of what he was planning on doing both males started laughing. Crystal joined in the conversation and was giggling as well. She did tell him he was a stinker and mean but in a good way.

The next morning he had showered and had Tasha help him get looking his best. With a grunt he added a handful of medallions and a torque indicating he was an Ambassador. Just for good measure he also strapped a massive bowie knife on his right side. Once he had his barbaric splendor on he let Vangie and Kingie know that he was heading to the class room. He met them outside the door and as soon as the instructor called the class to order the three of them stepped into the doorway.

The instructor was waiting for them though he didn't approve of the idea. "Students we have several visitors. Please come in gentlemen." He stepped off to the side as the three of them walked in. Both warriors were in their full uniforms and looking rather dangerous. Billy almost had to smile when a number of the females almost started drooling. He let his eyes wander around the class till he identified the three young men. All of them were looking shocked and horrified.

"Good morning students. My name is Billy Madlax. I am the captain of the SS Sandi, Captain in the Terran Space Corps, Commander in the Sholan military, and ambassador from earth. These are my warriors Senior Vangie and Junior Kingie. I am here to have a brief talk about proper etiquette. Several days ago my friends and I were standing at a public transport stop. While there three students came running through the crowd. They were not looking where they were going. One student ran into my injured shoulder." He pulled his tabard back and showed them the dressings.

When he did he jarred my injury bad enough it put me on the ground and I almost vomited from the agony. Added to that my Leska had the dubious enjoyment of feeling my agony which almost put her down as well. If the pain had been even slightly less I would have used my powers to defend myself. Chances are good that would have left said individual with gray matter bubbling out of his ears." His eyes were cold as they swept the class. As he focused on each boy he hardened his face.

"Technically I could have them arrested on a number of charges including assault on a telepath, assaulting a Leska pair, assaulting senior officer in two different military's and finally assaulting an Ambassador from a new species. I discussed this with some legal experts and some of the worst punishments included personality modification and a rather impressive number of years behind bars." He took a sip of the coffee he was carrying.

"After a great deal of consideration and discussion with my Leska and bondmate we chose not to. She personally wanted to take the one who hit me to a challenge circle and give me his tail as a trophy. Instead what we came up with is the three instigators will stand at the temple entrance and hand out a brief document on why running isn't always a good thing. If asked why they are there they are to tell the story of what happened. Once this is done each of the three are going to go to the shopping area where this happened and apologize to all the vendors and shop owners they caused problems with. They will have a list of owners and they will have to get a signature from each and everyone. My warriors and a few others will be watching at various times. If you are caught slacking or not taking this seriously you will be turned over to the protectorate for prosecution."

He nodded to Vangie who stepped forward and gave the three an emotionless stare. "I personally talked to a number of the shop owners about this issue and I have a number of complaints. They are willing to forgo criminal charges if the apologies are made and this doesn't happen again." He called out the names of the students who came forward. Their ears were back and tails dragging. There was some snickering in the class though they were trying to keep it quiet.

"I have the documents you will use as well as very detailed instructions. Follow them to the letter or I might just allow Kingie to challenge you so he can impress his family. I will check your work at the end of each day. Sign and go back to your seat." He stepped back.

Billy looked at the instructor. "Thank you for your time and I will leave you to your lessons." He nodded slightly and stalked out of the room." Once outside a very evil smirk crossed his face.

Kingie looked at his expression and shuddered. "Remind me not to get on your bad side. You have a very cruel and sadistic streak." He scratched at one ear. "I loved it though."

~~~

Right about the time he was done snickering at the memory he heard a knock and then the door opened. The nurse had to blink since last night there had been only one Sholan and now there were two. "Interesting, well it is time for them to wake up and for you to go to surgery. Everything is ready and before I take you I will administer the pre-med."

Billy sat up and yawned and lightly stretched his good arm before gently nudged both women. Z'Marl woke first and gave him a good hug and kiss before heading to the bathroom. Satasha had been harder to wake recently as well as an occasional bit of nausea and it had him somewhat concerned. He had finally nagged her enough to make an appointment. She had and it was for this morning while he was in surgery. "Come on sleepy head or I might have to lick an ear."

"No wanna wake up." She sighed and stretched till her stomach indicated she needed to stop. "Okay I am up though not happy about it." She stood and headed towards the bathroom as well. "I am going to take a shower and I will be out shortly." Tasha stopped and walked back to him and gave him a good hug and kiss. "Just in case you are gone when I get done." *Love you my silly human.*

Billy sat up and returned the hug and after the kiss licked her nose. *Love you too my sexy female alien.* He let her go and watched her go into the bathroom. "Well let's get this show on the road." He stood as she lowered the floater so he could settle in it. Once he did she made sure he was secure and then injected the pre-med. "Relax and when you wake you will be back here."

She turned and pulled the floater out the door.

~~~

As she figured Billy was gone from the room. She had needed the shower after last evening. A sensuous smile crossed her face. Every time they made love on their link days it was like the first time all over again. She also loved the feeling of it being US instead of Tasha and Billy. She had definitely fallen into a deep love with him.

As she was thinking she pulled on a tabard and then brushed her hair and made sure she was looking good. Billy might not mind looking like a, what did he call it, oh yes, a hick but she saved that for her loafing around days. Once she was sure she had everything she stepped out of the room and went down to the waiting area. Everyone was there and she walked over and leaned over and gave Crystal a hug. "Oh my someone is looking pleased with herself. I think I won't ask and just wonder."