Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:11:15 -0400
From: Ron <wolfwalker2@alltel.net>
Subject: TEEP chapter 16

"Altare One, confirm ETA three minutes. Thank you Altare One for accepting
our.Altare One status change.WE ARE DECLARING CODE PATIENTS.I REPEAT WE ARE
DECLARING CODE PATIENTS."

Aaron's heart skipped a beat before his voice carried over the ship, "Altare
One confirms you are coming in CODE PATIENT  times two," he got out before
bolting for the elevator, "Altare One Confirms hot landing and unload."

Betty looked confused for a moment at the radio traffic; she had no clue
what was just said. She turned just as the bio-tube shot upwards, and
grabbed Carl before he had a chance to get very far, "What does Code
Patients mean?"

Carl looked at her and tried to be nice as he saw that she was confused, "It
means both those young boy's hearts just stopped, and now we have just
minutes to get them started again, or brain damage will set in and we'll
lose them, now I really have to go, Aaron's going to need a hand."

Betty looked at her camera man and cleared her throat after a moment of
staring, "I think that for right now, we are going to end this broadcast, as
much as I want to know what is happening and you probably do as well, I am
not about to interfere with, or distract the doctors as they try to get
those little boys hearts working again. Please join me in praying for the
well being of those two little ones, if we are not able to continue
broadcasting, the least we will do is to interrupt our programming to let
you know what happens with those two little boys.this is Betty Wilder for
CNBC."

Betty looked at Chris after Phil nodded his head that they were off the air,
"If we leave all of our equipment down here, can we go up to the patient
floors to talk with some of the parents and look in on some of the kids,
just to check up on them, I give you my word we will not use their names or
anything in our broadcast other than to state the patients they saw on
camera are fine and expected to be released fully recovered and a date."

Chris looked up like he was thinking about it, but pathed Aaron for
permission which he gave "Follow me, please, I'll take you up to the next
floor where the patients are, though knowing Aaron, the two kids being
choppered in will be treated on the floor right below the helipad, two
floors further up and he will bring them down after he has them stabilized."

Aaron took the elevator up to the helipad, and walking out to the landing
area, he saw that the two stretchers had already been released from their
brackets and three people and Theo were standing there grinning at him when
they saw his expression and the lead British surgeon spoke out, "What? You
think we are going to let you have all the fun, besides, you look knackered.
You supervise, and your residents will assist."

Throwing his arm over a grinning Theo's shoulder, he looked Aaron straight
in the eye, "Besides, Theo here was nice enough to show us which end of the
scalpel to pick up." he was able to hold it for exactly a count of ten
before losing it and doubling over in laughter.

Aaron stood there shaking his head before hearing the sounds of the chopper
approaching "Altare One, we have you in sight be advised we have status
change we are Code Patient times one.confirm hot landing."

Touching the side of his head to activate the communicator Aaron noticed
they were all business now that the chopper was in sight, the joking was
over, "Mercy One LZ clear acknowledge patient change."seeing the chopper
hovering above the deck as it turned three hundred sixty degree's before
dropping rapidly. Evidently the pilot was lining up the side door to the
elevator.

Knowing that too many people around a helicopter that still had the rotors
going full out was not a good idea; he stood off to the side and watched the
seamless action of the British surgeons. Hearing the engines high pitched
whine as the pilot applied the brakes, he smiled as he overheard the pilot
tell his dispatching hospital he was out of service for the next hour or so,
seems that he had more curious visitors, last time he gained two people when
that happened.

Standing just inside the elevator as the two kids were wheeled inside, Aaron
waited until everyone cleared the doors before closing them and pushing the
button that would drop them one deck, in the blink of an eye the doors
started to open and the first thing he saw was Carl and Gordon standing next
to two of the bio-tubes, IV cuffs in their hands. Four surgeons and two
residents for two patients, Aaron was beginning to feel like he was not
needed, so he moved to the side and watched, ready to jump in if needed.

"Damn, would you look at all this, I saw it on the television but still to
see it in person," the voice of the flight nurse spoke out next to him.

Grinning Aaron turned slightly so he could see him while keeping an eye on
the monitors "Well these are some of my third most favorite toys."

Laughing, James looked over to his partner hovering near the end of one of
the bio-tubes "James.James Murphy, third year resident, I was drafted by Don
over there.Don Cook when he heard there would be an extended extraction
involving a couple of kids. I absolutely hate to fly and was thinking I
would not be much help after needing to get my heart started when we took
off."

"You know those are the luckiest couple of fourth years in the history of
medicine, they get to start out using all this, and it will be second nature
to them long before anyone else even becomes comfortable working around it,"
James sounded wistful, not jealous. "We were watching CNN, when the call
came in and when the boys started crashing and we realized we were only a
couple of miles away, well."

"Theo, this lad's liver and spleen are Bollocksed up, fractures all over the
place what's your normal procedure for this, back home we would probably
leave them, but have to go back in after a couple of days after they
failed."  William looked up from his patient towards Theo on the other side
of the room.

Aaron moved closer, if he was going to supervise, he might as well jump in,
"Carl, what does the boy's scan report on perfusion of the Liver and
Pancreas?" he asked, moving aside the flight surgeon, so he could look
inside the bio-tube to see the organs in question.

"Pancreas is at ten percent.no it just dropped to nine percent and the liver
is at fifteen percent," Carl answered, reassured that Aaron was here, after
all, he only read about using the equipment in the data base the other
night.

"Pancreas is toast." before remembering that the British would not
understand the slang "The pancreas is a total loss, we'll have to re-grow it
from scratch." Aaron reached around Carl's body and told him, "Watch
closely, if one would tap the liver to make it the prominent screen, and
then outline the damaged section and place an X in the middle, and then
inquire to the system by tapping this icon."

William glanced up at the monitor to see the results; he would get someone
to show him what was tapped to get those screens to come up. But seeing that
if he removed the two lower lobes perfusion increased to ninety percent, he
went back to work, he had a Liver to reduce.

"So by doing a reduction, the Liver perfusion goes to an acceptable level
and we can regenerate the removed sections anyway.so if I have a question of
how much of a damaged organ to save, I can use this diagnostic to help make
the determination," Carl smiled after getting clapped on the shoulder, he
remembered the dressing down he got for making a statement to Aaron on
letting the machine do the thinking for him.it had not been pretty.

Letting Carl go back to fusing the broken bones, Aaron walked over to the
other patient and looked inside the bio-tube to see that Theo was closing up
and Gordon was also working on fusing bones. "Well, I can see I'm not
needed; when you're done here there is room in pod M-fourteen for them."



Aaron slipped out and went to the steps leading to the lower decks, walking
into the pod, he made his way to the central desk and sitting down behind
the terminal, he called up each bio-tube one at a time and read through the
reports, making notes in the treatment section before moving on to the next,
he chuckled at the thought of what was going to happen.

Returning with her tray of sandwiches, and tree ripened fruit that she would
not be able to get in the states, Mandy set the tray down, and hearing the
chuckling, "What's so funny," she could use a good laugh.

"I was just remembering how horrified both Carl and Gordon were during their
first morning rounds, how they felt totally drained.that was when they only
had one shared patient, now they each have four or five. Tomorrow morning is
going to be fun," he told her, laughing, mischief in his eyes.

Laughing, Mandy sat down, "And being the cruel evil boss, you are going to
forget to tell them about rounds until they start, aren't you?" she snorted,
before sipping her Coke.

Moving on to the next patient after sealing his findings, he would see if
Carl picked up on the scans in morning rounds, so no sense in letting the
cat out of the bag early, "I noticed you showed up right before the caravan
of patients.not that I'm not very grateful for the help, but I was not
expecting you until tomorrow night."

Mandy swallowed and nodded her head, "True and I almost didn't make it in
time before the circus arrived, but we live close by, and I saw on the news
that instead of the Prince, we were expecting, that in its place was an
ultra modern hospital ship, I knew something major had changed. If you just
wanted to show off your equipment, you would have used the bio-tubes in the
Prince's med bay. So I threw on some clothes and rushed right over, oh I
should have said something earlier, but my husband and I accept the
positions," and giggling, she looked over "and guess what?  I can start
immediately."

Aaron continued to review the charts when a thought hit him, Mandy was
eating sandwiches, where the hell did they come from, most of the food is
still in the warehouse. "Chris," Aaron pathed "Just where did the food come
from?  Last time I looked, this tub only had emergency rations on board and
whatever you guys took for supper with you last night."

"Calling this overgrown cruise ship a tub might fit, give me the smooth
streamlined lines of the Alteran Prince, any day, what Joe sees in these
things I'll never know. As far as the food, John made a call this morning
before we docked, his catering staff showed up a half hour ago with food.
Until the kids started to arrive, he was walking around the lower decks
mumbling about food and inadequate supplies," Chris sent laughter along with
"it was all I could do to remind him the Asclepius would be setting sail
tomorrow night and it didn't need to be fully stocked, which sent him off
into another tizzy about the main kitchen not being stocked yet, he didn't
calm down until he went into the warehouse and saw all the food stocks
sitting there waiting to be shipped back..I swear the drama queen in him
came out enough to set off every gaydar in the state."

"O.K, well asking if he was gay or not did not really come up, anything else
I need to know about?" Aaron finished going over the charts in this section,
"Enjoy lunch, Mandy, I'm off to the next pod."

"Several things, the media is down to Just Betty Wilders van, she is still
wandering around, wants to have a quick word with you before they pack it
in, so if you can see your way to do that quickly, security would appreciate
it. And speaking of security, a lot of those scheduled for interviews
tomorrow morning have shown up, they have volunteered to help out until we
get around to telling them which division they will be working for, along
with them are some of the people Theo invited over tomorrow, seems just like
Mandy, they saw the Asclepius dock, on the news, and have come to help out
which is a good thing because I just got a request from someone calling
themselves Med Tac General, requesting an open bed count, it came over an
open frequency used by the ambulance services, it was still active as we are
waiting on three more kids from the referrals." Chris sounded confused
before listening to one of the nurses say something about, this most likely
was a test "Susan, one of the nurses that showed up said something about
they do weekly tests of the disaster network, just in case, so what do you
want me to tell them?"

On his third patient chart in the new pod, Aaron thought a moment, "Tell
them we have two hundred Trauma beds and one hundred and fifty general
beds.but also warn them we set sail tomorrow at 21:00 hours. As soon as I
finish these charts, I'll hunt down Miss Wilder." Aaron pathed back moving
onto the Prince's chart as his grandmother walked in.

Reading through the reports Aaron smiled; the prince was a very good looking
young man and would make a full recovery, finishing his notes, and since
this was his patient totally, he started to program in the treatments in the
order he wanted them completed.

The queen, gazing down at her grandson noticed the monitor screens scrolling
information at a fast pace, so she walked over to the desk where she saw the
man responsible for saving the life of her grandson and the others. Not sure
on how to thank him once again, or even if he would accept the thanks, she
thought back a few moments to when she sat in the dining lounge below decks,
off in a corner listening to one of his Captains joking around about him
with John, and not in a derogatory way either, more like affection. "I have
noticed some interesting things today, did you know that your head chef is
also cross trained as a medic.of course you do; are all your people cross
trained in the medical field also, I noticed your Captain Banks was busy
helping run these wonderful pieces of technology."

Looking up as the voice of the queen interrupted his thought processes Aaron
smiled in greeting, "Most of my people have the drive to be the best
possible person they can be, Chris loves being in command of the Alteran
Prince, and on the open sea," pushing back from the desk after locking in
the treatments, "he also has a doctorate in engineering and spends his free
time designing more outlandish submersible's. he's an officer and very much
aware that he leads, so has worked hard to have more than a passing
familiarity with every department on his ship, which includes knowing how to
activate the med bay and use the bio-tubes just in case."

Laughing, Aaron stood up and walked around the desk, "I stole him from the
U.S. Navy.well they  didn't want him, or his lover, any longer because of
them being honest and true to themselves. "Shrugging, "He also lost several
of his crew from not being familiar with the medical department aboard his
last ship; in the U.S. it is highly discouraged for officers to cross train
out of the chain of command."

"The news about my grandson being here will more than likely hit the evening
news broadcasts, along with the information of where we are. MI-5 sent me
reports through Thomas, my grandson was not a target; he and his friends
were visiting a club that was being targeted because the lads that hung out
there tended to be bent or friends of lads that were." Placing her hand on
the bio-tube, the queen gazed at her grandson's face "I don't suppose with
all this wonderful technology you can prove if being bent.if being gay is
truly genetic and if my grandson was injured because he is."

"I of course could scan the DNA of any patient and find out that
information, there are a series of eight genetic clusters that if you have
at least six of them, you would be inclined to act on being gay, all eight
and the person is definitely gay.but I won't do it just so you can know,
even if I ran the scan, I would not tell you. I might tell your grandson if
he asked and had a valid reason for asking," Aaron told her, as he moved
over to the side of the bio-tube and glanced down the teen's outwardly
healed body, making sure his eyes did not linger on the teen's crotch.

The queen stared at him for a moment before sighing, "I suppose you're
right, it is going to be a nightmare though. The press is like a pack of
dogs sniffing for any rumor so they can print it in all the most horrific
ways possible to stretch it as far from the original truth as possible for
headlines."

"I am prepared to deliver into your hands, several items that will
ultimately be helpful in fulfilling your desire to rescue gay youth that are
in danger or homeless." She turned to face him, "Title to a section of docks
that were, until recently, home to a navel division, they should prove
useful for docking the Asclepius or her class on our soil. I am also
declaring those docks and naval base, as Alteran soil, in the hope you will
convert the Navel hospital into something that resembles this hospital. In
return for creating and running a hospital on the Embassy, I am willing to
issue a letter of Marque giving any Alteran Diplomat the right to rescue gay
youth anywhere in the commonwealth and ensuring that the horrible monsters
that would purposely hurt our children because they are different are tried
under your laws once they step foot on Alteran soil."

Aaron was shocked; what she had suggested was something that totally
circumnavigated her government. It was a slap in the face to the majority of
the ruling body, making a bold statement that the crown did not trust its
own governing party to do right by its citizens. "You realize that this will
topple the current government, and the statements you are making by doing
this, don't you?"

Drawing herself up to her full height, she nodded regally, "I know exactly
the statement I wish to make," pointing her finger towards the wall and the
next room, "if it were not for the fact that my grandson was recognized,
those boys would all be dead, as no rescue efforts by the authorities were
forthcoming in any way what so ever, the shameless piss ant bullocks eating
bloody fools were waiting for the moment to be too late before starting,
MI-5 made it very clear in their reports, that no rescue efforts would have
been made until it was too late, as there are too many poofters in the world
as it is, according to the chief constable."

This was the type of opportunity that shouldn't be passed up, Aaron walked
away for a moment, thinking about what she offered. An official base of
operations with a government mandate to do what he would have gotten around
to doing anyway, "No promises, but the Asclepius will dock at that Navel
base on August twenty sixth, sometime in the morning and we will tour the
facilities and make the determination then, as much as I want to say yes,
and just agree to this, I need to make sure this will be doable."

Smiling widely, the queen held out her hand, "I do hope things work out as I
hope. I will have the blueprints and plans of the naval base and facilities
brought over, we can go over them when we make landfall at your wonderful
hospital, and I can take the time to relax at the island hospital. as much
as my advisors are against it, I will be coming along to keep my grandson
company and be there for him when he is released."

Aaron nodded his head as he really did not have anything against it, after
all, all the other parents were expected to go along, "Can I expect your
grandson's parents to show up before we set sail or will I have to send a
plane after them?" Seeing her curious look, "my kingdom is surrounded by an
energy field that freezes anything electrical that comes within our
boundaries, unless they have a device on board to negate the field, it would
be very messy if they tried to fly into our airspace and refused the
warnings to turn back."

Nodding her head, eyes wide in surprise, advanced technology in the medical
field was not the only thing they had in their arsenal, frowning, the queen
turned away as she replied to his question, "it is a good thing my grandson
over there, is from my third son." she whispered," the fallout over
disinheriting a son closer in line of succession would be terrible." Shaking
her head, she turned back, all business once more, "I'll have a word with
his cousins to see if they wish to come along, they always did get along
fantastically, if so, I will have them here well before we set sail."

Moving towards the door, Aaron prepared to say his goodbye for now, "Well,
let Chris know for sure if I'm not around, I'll probably drop in after
supper to check on them as I have quite a lot of things to take care of."

Leaving the pod, Aaron ran into the reporter as she was coming out of pod
M-14 "Ah Miss Wilder, Chris told me you wanted to have a word, and I have a
few moments, not much as I am on a tight schedule right now with the
unexpected arrivals. So how can I help you?"

Smiling, she walked over, "They told me both boys are going to eventually
make a full recovery and are listed in stable condition. I was even allowed
to record the statement by the physicians in the room." holding up her hand
as she saw his frown, "we did not broadcast that live, but recorded it, Phil
is out at the van right now working on dubbing the copy that will be sent to
the network making sure there is no way the boys faces or lower bodies could
be seen.my word is important to me."

"I just wanted to let you know that our broadcast this morning went out live
over all the cable news network's and the switchboards are buzzing with
calls. Brad interviewed the Stevens family alongside the initial surgeons
that treated the boys and he included photos and documentation that proved
without a shadow of doubt this is not an elaborate hoax in the eyes of the
public." Betty smiled as she dropped the next bit of information, "our call
center is logging thousands of calls an hour from people asking how to get
more information and even your embassy's telephone number so they can
contact you directly."

Leaning forward to whisper conspiratorially Betty smirked, "A certain CEO,
from one of the biggest health insurance companies faxed over a polite
request to pass along to you, asking for your fee schedule so if you wish,
we can place it on our web site for people to download."

"I'll email it to you if you give me your address," Aaron agreed, thankful
she did not want anything else as she handed him her card. "Give me an hour
to get lunch and I'll have it sent to you."

He secretly smiled when she thanked him and headed towards the stairs
leading to the gangway, she was off his ship and she did not pry into
anything non medical, some of the technology on board, he was not ready for
the world to find out about yet. All in all though, this went very well, and
he felt he had discredited a lot of angry reporters, which was always a good
thing.

"Aaron, do you have a moment?" Aaron ducked around the corner after
receiving that pathed message from Pete. Smiling and sending back love along
with his message, "For you or one of my guys, anytime.what do you need?"

Getting back pride and love  in return, along with excitement from Pete, "We
want to know if you are going to be much longer; Kevin has a few things he
needs to talk to you about and Rolland made a small breakthrough.well he
reached out anyway. A short while ago while he and Derrick were on the beach
relaxing, while David helped Tommy move a few things at the sea farm,
anyway, I'm getting off track. Rolland reached out and grabbed Derrick's
cock and started to stroke him and as Derrick encouraged him to continue, he
actually smiled and leaned in and kissed him."

"That's great, where is he now?" Aaron pathed back, "I have to talk to John
about the food service for all these people, but I should be there in ten
minutes."

Pete giggled before pathing, "After licking up Derricks load while Derrick
ran his hands through Rolland's hair, and telling him how much he enjoyed
it, he curled up in Derrick's lap and went to sleep. That's why we called we
thought you might want to check on him."

"I do, I'll port directly to the sea farm we can all have lunch there,"
Aaron smiled at the good news as he entered the kitchen, looking for John.
Spotting him in the far corner talking to someone that looked a lot like a
younger version of John, Aaron made his way over grinning, full of mischief,
"Hey Jon, I hear you were muttering vulgar threats under your breath about
me in front of the queen."

John blushed then paled, "but.but.no.one was." Seeing Aaron grinning and his
brother laughing, he cried out indignantly, "Hey they were not vulgar."

Aaron held his side as he laughed, "Good, I would hate to have to hold you
down and wash your mouth out with soap."

Scott smirked at his brother, "Or spank your bare ass until it is as red as
your hair."

Aaron really grinned as he picked up the surface thoughts from both guys,
they were gay and lovers so that answered that question. "I take it we have
your brother to thank for not having to order takeout.so thank you and if
you ever want a job, talk to me, after all, it would be nice to keep the two
of you together." He ignored their shocked looks and John's worried
expression, "John, we'll load up the cargo to take back with us so the
hospital kitchen is fully stocked and ready to go, so if you can make sure
your brother can provide enough food for tomorrow and breakfast on Saturday
for the parents of our patients, I would appreciate it. I'll take care of
making meals Saturday and Sunday so you can take over come Monday morning as
originally planned."

Still seeing the shocked looks, "Tell you what, why don't you both take off
and spend some time together until supper time, you can ride back with the
food and take off after deliveries each day." Aaron was getting a lot of
fear from John and a little from his brother, "Oh for heaves sake, you
two.haven't either of you heard about Gaydar, evidently yours is broken
after being around me or my lovers."

Sensing they still were not convinced, or at least John was still worried,
Aaron stepped close and pulled Scott into a passionate kiss, before doing
the same to John, "The both of you are lucky, so relax, will you.and Scott,
I was serious, if you want a job so you can stay with your brother, I'm
offering."

Shaking his head John whispered, after getting over how hot he was watching
his boss kiss his brother like that, "But what about everyone else, incest
is not exactly as accepted as being gay?"

"Meet me in my office after supper, and we'll talk. Instead of living on
Altair Minor, since you both are gay, you could live on the main Island of
Altare itself, you will only get jealous looks there, I guarantee it." Aaron
smirked before making his way to the door, intent on reaching the bridge
before someone else needed something.

Entering the bridge, Aaron made his way to the command chair and activated
the gestalt pulling power from it to port out, porting himself to the sea
farm near the large tanks. Looking around, Aaron spotted Tommy and David
working over by the control complex "What are you guys up to?" he asked,
after making his way over to their side.

Tommy, hearing Aaron's voice, glanced over his shoulder, "Good, you're here
and can unlock the reactor so we can get power going to the farm." He was
very excited, and after handing over to Brian the plans he drew up for the
truck farms and groves, he could start the Aquaponics project full time.

"I should have known you would get bitten by the Aquaculture bug, you're a
natural for it," Aaron laughed as he pulled Tommy off the chair and into a
hug, leaning over his shoulder so he could reach his mouth for a kiss.
Releasing him with a grin, Aaron swatted his bare butt before groping him
and stroking him a time or two, "go let everyone know I'm back and bring
lunch while I get the reactor up and running."

Whispering in his ear before letting go, Aaron promised him, "Tonight, my
bed, you, Kevin and my cock and your ass."

Flipping around in Aaron's arms, Tommy kissed him back before jumping down
and running off. Reaching out, Aaron pulled David into a hug, kissing him in
greeting, "I hear that Derrick made a breakthrough of sorts with Rolland
earlier."

Nodding his head, "Rolland, out of the blue, turned and looked at Derrick, I
had told him to watch Rolland and encourage him in anything he might try to
do that would not hurt him, and he reached over and touched Derrick's cock
which was half hard. Derrick said he smiled at him and told him that it felt
good, which caused him to smile and start to stroke him, he kept encouraging
him to stroke him as he scooted closer and then he said when he started to
cum Rolland leaned in and kissed him on the lips."

Stepping behind Aaron who had taken the seat in front of the terminal and
logged in, David placed his arms over Aaron's shoulders so he could play
with Aaron's nipples, "Derrick offered to take care of Rolland and even went
so far as to start to stroke him which caused him to reach over and lick up
all of Derricks cum he could find and share it with him in a kiss,
afterwards, he just moved slightly so Derrick had to let his cock go and
curled up in his lap nose plastered to the base of Derrick's cock and went
to sleep."

Rearranging himself, Aaron finished starting the warm up cycle of the fusion
reactor that would power this facility, "Damn, now you've got me all hot and
bothered and I still have."

David leaned over Aaron's head and captured his mouth with his own, thus
stopping the protest with his tongue. Reaching down, he unbuttoned Aaron's
pants and started to pull his shirt up after releasing some of the
confinement in Aaron's pants.

Tommy, along with the rest of the guys, returned to the control center with
lunch, mostly sandwiches and stuff, to find David trying his best to strip
Aaron while Aaron tried to get the reactor up and running. Dropping the
cooler he was carrying, he grinned and ran over to see if the reactor was up
yet, and seeing the screen blinking 'warming cycle complete' and asking for
DNA verification to start the reactor, he slapped David's hands away from
Aaron's now shirtless chest, "Hands off.at least until he gets the reactor
up and running, after that he can fuck you silly."

David glared at Tommy playfully, "Hey it's not like Aaron gets as much as he
needs, always putting us first."

"I know, and it will only take a second to avoid having the reactor blow us
all up then we can take turns feeding our loads to Aaron, I got so hot the
other day when your brother fed our loads to him.but time's running out,"
Tommy pointed to the flashing warning box on the screen."

David glanced over, not really believing Tommy, thinking it was more of get
things done then play they had all been doing this morning, and saw the red
flashing warning box, releasing Aaron's hands, he twisted the chair back
around before placing Aaron's hands on the terminal touchpad.

Chuckling, Aaron shook his head and entered the codes and commands for the
reactor to be brought online, "It would not have blown up, but it would have
taken a couple of days to cool down before we could try again." routing
power to the breakers and pumping station, Aaron turned away and grabbed
Tommy, "There, finished, now that you got your wish, and this section of the
island has power, we are going to talk about this idea of yours, to feed
me," Aaron pulled him close and feeling someone tugging his pants, lifted
his butt off the chair enough to help out whoever was trying to get his
pants off.

"I'm starting with you," Aaron told him, as he picked Tommy up under the
arms and placed his feet on either side of the chair so he could lean
forward and swallow the stiff cock now pointed at his face. Tommy moaned out
in surprise, when his mostly hard cock disappeared in Aaron's warm mouth.
Moaning in pleasure, he quickly became very hard and started to gently
thrust in and out of the tightly suctioning mouth.

Looking around the circle of guys slowly stroking their own stiff cocks,
Tommy moaned and several minutes later, stiffened and arched his back as he
started to cum into Aarons mouth, groaning loudly as Aaron's tongue swirled
the head of his dick, trapped there by his foreskin as he fired his load.

Aaron finally released Tommy's cock after it had stopped firing its load and
smiled at the glazed look in Tommy's eyes as David, who had moved behind
Tommy helped him down. He was quickly replaced by Fred whom Mark lifted in
place and stood behind to keep him balanced, arms around his chest so he
could caress his body above where Aaron was sucking.

This was the first time Aaron had touched Fred, and slowly sucking the stiff
cock jutting between Fred's legs into his mouth he reached between Fred's
legs to fondle the stiff cock attached to Mark's body. It did not take long
before Fred was thrusting in and out of Aaron's mouth lost in the
pleasurable feelings he was receiving from the mouth around his hard cock
and the hands roaming his body, all to soon he was stiffening and unloading
into Aaron's eager  mouth. Helping the very relaxed Fred down off the chair
Mark being real close stepped forward and thrust his cock towards Aaron's
face telling him "I'm so close."

Leaning forward Aaron closed his lips around Mark's cock and moved his
tongue around the rapidly swelling head as Mark climaxed, firing his load
into Aaron's mouth whole body trembling as his orgasm hit and he shot off
his load.

David who had started the whole thing reached over and captured the few
drops of precum from Aaron's hard cock and ran the finger across his tongue,
he had decided he would go last so he motioned Derrick to move forward and
take Mark's place once he moved to the side.

Aaron smiled up at Derrick before licking the drop of pre-cum off the tip of
his cock, licking his lips, Aaron slowly moved forward over the hard cock
enjoying every taste of it as it slid into his mouth. Derrick who had been
stroking himself moaned with pleasure and desperately needing to cum
whispered, "Please.I need.please."

Taking his mouth off of Derrick long enough to order him to cum, Aaron
rapidly sucked Derrick off until he felt the head of Derricks cock swell,
moving back so his tongue was tasting the freely flowing pre-cum Aaron used
his hand to bring Derrick's foreskin up over the top of his cock head thus
trapping his tongue between the foreskin and the now spewing head as Derrick
moaned and climaxed filling Aaron's mouth with his seed.

David's hand was under Derrick's balls so he could feel when he stopped
Cumming and was ready to explode. As soon as he felt the spasms stop and
Derrick relax his body slightly, he nudged him out of the way so he could
replace Derrick's cock with his, shooting his load the moment Aaron's lips
met his hard cock.

Leaning back in the chair Aaron pulled Tommy back over "Who's going to take
care of this while I go for seconds," stroking his hard cock a couple of
time for emphasis.

Mark grinned and stepped forward and bent over to take Aaron in his mouth,
feeling Fred slip behind him and slip a slick finger into his ass to start
to loosen him up, he had whispered instructions to Fred while Derrick and
David were having a turn he planned to take Aaron's load all right, but not
with his mouth. Getting a feel for the size of Aaron's cock, for when he sat
on it, with his mouth, Mark, slowly, oh so slowly, worked his mouth around
the hard cock wanting to make him last. Feeling Fred's third finger enter
him, Mark clenched his ass briefly, the signal to move with him and Lube
Aaron up, before he sat down.

Grinning, Mark stood up and slowly moved so he could kiss the back of
Tommy's neck before feeling Fred tug him gently, telling him to sit down.
Feeling Fred guide Aaron's hard cock to his stretched hole, he sat down on
it slowly, tongue leaving a trail down Tommy' back until he sat down
completely, all of Aaron inside him, tongue licking Tommy's tight hole, he
started to ride up and down on Aaron's cock.

Aaron, feeling something slick that belonged to fingers wrap around his
hardness, moaned around Tommy's cock, he knew he was right a moment later
when he felt something warm and tight slowly slide down his hard shaft.
Thrusting up and down in time to Marks sitting down and rising up, Aaron
increased is suction on Tommy and was rewarded when he felt him start to
swell up once more before firing a smaller load than before. Once Tommy was
truly spent and listing slightly in bliss, hands reached over and helped him
down off the chair and Aaron could see clearly it was Mark riding his cock,
smiling the whole time.

Leaning forward, Aaron pulled Mark close and as their lips met, Aaron stood
up still impaled on Mark and turned around so he could lower Mark's back
onto the chair, supporting his hips in the air as he picked up where he left
off with his thrusting in and out, this time with a lot more control over
speed and the depth he was achieving. Five minutes later, Aaron felt the
build up and if he had the time, he would have slowed time to prolong the
act of making love, but instead, sped up and quickly reached his climax,
only slowing down somewhat after planting his seed deep inside Mark, so he
could reach over and stroke him to completion. Gently lowering Mark's spent
cock, Aaron stopped thrusting, staying inside Mark, holding his hips in the
air while Mark rode his high.

A hand reaching out from around him, caused him to look over his shoulder to
Rolland, staring at the puddles of cum his fingers were running through
before he brought his fingers to his lips with a smile as he sucked them
clean, glad he was close enough to touch him, Aaron sent his mind searching
for the spark he had anchored earlier, hoping to find some part of the
person he used to be, inside the spark. He was saddened when he could not
find any personality inside Rolland at all; everything he was doing was pure
instinct.

Feeling himself start to wilt, as the sadness of the situation hit him,
Aaron stayed still until Mark's body expelled him, that way his seed had the
greatest chance of staying inside. Spotting Kevin, Pete and Tim standing and
grinning at the edge of the building, he sadly pathed all three of them,
"Rolland is not in there, guys, it's all instinct, a clean slate.he won't be
coming back."

Now that he had slipped out of Mark, Aaron picked him back up and helped him
to stand, pulling the grinning teen close, he kissed him before moving over
to the table where the rest of the guys had spread out the food. A few steps
away from the chair, Aaron noticed Rolland was not with them, still standing
where they left him, stepping back he touched his arm and pathed a visual
image along with speaking the words, "Come sit down, Rolland." Feeling the
blank mind grab on to the words and associate it with the image, Aaron felt
a slight spark of hope, so he explained his findings and told everyone the
best way to retrain Rolland's brain.

"So Tommy, why the hurry to start up Sea Farm, after all, it will be several
weeks before I can get fish stock," Aaron asked, after making another
sandwich.

Running over to the office door, Tommy went inside and came back with a
book, "I found your stash of Aquaculture books, and was reading this one on
land based salt water systems, it states you need to have the system up and
running at least a full week before even thinking about introducing fish,
plus, with the system up and running, it is going to take me a good couple
of weeks to make it through this book and practice on the systems before we
order the fish stock."

Using a pickle spear as a pointer, Aaron looked at the gleeful face, Tommy
had changed somewhat and it was not related to sex, it was as if he truly
found himself. "If you truly want to do this as a future career, the tutor
is not going to be able to help you much beyond helping you master biology,
genetics and oceanography, you are going to end up spending an hour a day
with me, learning the practical part of the course work, as I have played
around with small scale systems in all three areas, I expect we will kill a
great many fish together, before you master this."

"I really want to do this, I've already started to go through the books and
lists on the freshwater farm the past couple of days and I will hand over my
notes for the truck and fruit farm to Brian when he shows up this weekend,
it is more in line with what he has grown up doing and loves to do. I know
he will be thrilled to be able to add all the tropical's that he was never
able to grow before, we talked briefly about it last night, and when I call
him tonight, I'll talk to him again about taking over that part of the
farms. I think he said he would be arriving in San Francisco sometime
tomorrow afternoon, his father is looking forward to the new start." Tommy
grinned as he explained what he had been planning; planning sounded so much
better than scheming.

Aaron looked at Tommy before grinning and tapping the side of his head,
which had become the universal sign for telepath here, I know what you're
thinking. Then he laughed at Tommy's blush, "I agree planning sounds so much
better than scheming." Looking back and spotting his pants off to one side,
Aaron ported them to his hand to the awe of everyone at the table, "you'll
be able to port objects after mastering porting yourself; I'll practice with
you until you get the hang of it once you get the feeling of pulling power
from the gestalt."

Pulling his P.A.D.D. out of his pants pocket, Aaron placed it on the table
and started to input commands, activating the pumping stations in reverse,
causing a huge burst of bubbles out in the ocean half a mile off shore to
the amazement of the others, once they saw it. "I'm just blowing out the
intake's that bring ocean water to the farm, if I didn't do that, anything
that had decided to make their home in the pipes would have been sucked up
into the intake blades and possibly fouled them, causing a huge mess, and a
lot of work," looking towards Tommy, "something that would not have been in
any of the books or database material you have read."

Nodding his head that he understood, Tommy sat back down across from Aaron
and watched him start the systems up from his P.A.D.D. alone, "Can anyone's
P.A.D.D. act as a terminal or is it just yours?" he was already thinking of
the possibilities.

Everyone, fully focused now on Aaron, waited for him to answer the question,
"If that function is activated, any terminal you log into, your P.A.D.D.
will be slaved into it. I programmed this to be a time saver for when I
worked the farms, I could just enter what I wanted to happen right at tank
side and the system would accept and execute the commands without me ever
needing to leave the tank, very handy if all I wanted to do was add data to
the records." Looking up after starting the pumps filling the sump tank, the
tank farthest and highest from the ocean, all water would flow into this
tank first, before hitting the filters and flowing into the others, he saw
Mark's eager expression which seemed to scream out, 'Teach me', and then
Tommy's turned into a frown.

"I'll have to start wearing pants then, there goes my all over tan," Tommy
sighed, before it set in that the tank being filled was the furthest one
away, "I thought you would have filled the ones closer to the beach first,
not the one way to the back."

Turning and tilting his P.A.D.D. so the diagram could be easily seen, Aaron
pointed out "That tank is the sump, all water to the other tanks flows from
that one so any joy riders can be filtered out, and notice that it is at the
highest point, as the whole system is designed to be flow through." Seeing
the confusion on Tommy's face, Aaron smiled, "another thing we will go over
in the first lesson Monday morning, the author of the material you've read,
assumes one knows what a flow through system means and all the other piping
and pumps for each tank or section is supposed to be there as an emergency
backup system."

"Now to answer your complaint about having to wear clothes, I'll order in
some more of the Velcro thigh pouches I place on my leg when I am out and
about doing chores when the sun's up, I have a smaller one for my arm for my
scanner. You know, after getting your wardrobe this weekend, you might want
to keep a change of clothes, at least shorts in one of the lockers in the
office of each of the barns." Aaron stood up and started to get dressed.

The food pretty much demolished, David and Kevin started to clean up the
table while Mark followed by Tim took Rolland to the bathroom, hopefully so
he could relieve himself. Fully dressed and feeling a lot more refreshed and
less stressed out, Aaron plopped Tommy in front of the terminal and Plasma
and told him to log into the system. After directing him to several sections
of beginners salt water fish keeping, he walked over to Pete and Kevin, "I
was slightly surprised to not see the three of you join in the festivities
after I arrived."

Pete smiled, "The other guys asked if they could do this one time as a
group, before the two groups merged, my job was to keep Kenny and Damien
busy down in the city and they're having a blast, acting as tour guide for
the new guys. Plus, we talked about it; we did have you all to ourselves at
first, so it was only fair that they got the same."

"We got a lot of porting practice in this morning; we took turns helping
pack and move all of Kenny and David's things from their old apartment to
the Clan Hall and our apartment. David and Derrick moved into the apartment
next to the recreation center, the one with six bedrooms, and Tommy and Mark
moved into the six bedroom one to the right of our place, calling it farmers
hall, they were talking about putting a crest above the door of a tree and a
cow's head and Damien and Kenny chose the one to the left. Kenny thinks it's
cool that he gets to have his own place within our place, he also hinted
that maybe the other young guys that have to wait to be altered can move in
there with them." Kevin smirked at the direction he felt Aaron's thought go.

Aaron glared a moment before tickling the smirking bearer of bad news, "He
does know I'm not running a hotel, right?" letting the giggling teen go,
Aaron slowly stopped laughing, "How did lessons go for the new guys?"

Kevin became all business like, "The Miami group is really starting to bond
nicely, I think by Sunday, they will be ready to start teleportation
practice; they spent the morning studying for two hours, then practicing for
an hour with their gifts. The two rescues, on the other hand, spent an hour
so far practicing pathing with Tim, but have really dug into the tutor and
not learning to shield their thoughts yet, they are searching for a way to
fit in. I think you might have to have a talk with them, there is a very
core fear of them being rejected again." Feeling Aaron's surprise that he
picked up on something so deep, he added shyly, "Pete picked up on it, he's
a lot stronger than Tim or I, he's also got a design he wants your approval
on to build a prototype, that boy is space happy."

Hearing the dig directed towards him, "Hey, at least I'm not mad," Pete
giggled.

"Email me the design and why you want to build this craft and what you
envision its purpose being, I'll look at it in my spare time in the next
couple of days and let you know what I think," Aaron smiled when Pete
grinned.

"Speaking of Emails," Kevin started, "you received several strange ones this
morning asking for asylum, I turned the one over to Tim to check up on, the
person that wrote it seems scared and says he's fourteen and he and his
brothers are in danger as the porn guy is being investigated and he is
afraid the porn guy will make them disappear."

"Why Tim?" Aaron was curious of his reasoning before looking around and
calling out, "TIM." to get his attention.

Kevin smiled feeling only curiosity not anger for overstepping themselves,
and then he felt a warm mental caress of reassurance from Aaron, that he
would not think that. "Well it was after our talk the other night, it became
obvious that Tim's career would be rescue and security, while I would make
sure they had homes to go to and computers too and Pete would make sure they
were protected by technology, Mark and Tommy, and Brian if he fits in, would
make sure they had food to eat and would not go hungry."

"I will show them discipline and order, I am really starting to learn what
it means to be a master, the right kind, the one who places their submissive
first," David smiled as he hugged Derrick's waist.

"I shall show them that obeying others is not a sign of weakness, but
strength in the trust of the ones worthy of your trust the most, and that it
does not come with pain," Derrick smiled, as he saw Aaron thinking on their
words.

Seeing Aaron glance around the group and stop on him, Fred smiled shyly,
"You heal their bodies, and I shall heal their minds and give them a new
history to be proud of."

"Clan Stranton LEADS!" Kevin said proudly, while Pete ended the motto with
"and the others follow our lead because we care."

Aaron was heartened that they took to heart what he had mentioned, sending a
burst of love strong enough that everyone could feel it, he kissed Kevin
before pulling the next one closest over to be hugged and kissed also.

"Make sure to tell Kenny and Damien they have one of the most important jobs
of all," Aaron told them so that the other two would not feel left out,
"they need to teach them it is okay to be a kid, and how to be a kid again."

Surrounded by naked teens, all touching each other as they hugged, there was
nothing sexual about it at all, but to a religious zealot, being naked was
sin enough it seemed, let alone if they saw this scene, they would call for
nuclear bombs to be dropped on them.

"Alrighty, let's get David and Derrick to the med bay so we can get started
on their procedures.Pete, you and Tim need to get dressed; we'll port out as
soon as these two go down for their naps, "Aaron smiled at David and Derrick
to let them know he was teasing. "Fred, I'll ask that you take care of
Rolland for now. Tommy."

"Hey, what I'd do." Tommy laughed, as he looked innocent.

"Nothing yet.help Mark out with the critters that have four legs if you
would, maybe make sure the orchard is fully picked through and the gardens
also, I expect to send most of it to Altair Minor tomorrow, since we're open
for business early, it seems, come Saturday morning there will be a lot of
hungry people to feed over at the hospital, and if Brian's father works out,
he will have to play catch up with planting so all of our extras will be
going there for a while. If you need extra hands, grab the six new guys to
help out, they probably could use the sun." Aaron set their afternoon tasks,
before motioning for David and Derrick to come over, "ok you two, let's get
moving."

Pete and Tim moved up behind Mark and Fred," Let's get you back to the other
farm," Pete whispered loud enough for them to hear, before they ported them
out. Kevin, smiling, moved over to Rolland and looked at Tommy, "I'll be
back in a minute to get you and the coolers, I'm going to take Rolland
first, so he is not left alone."

Aaron smiled and could not resist a parting shot before porting out with
David and Derrick, "That means no touching the controls, you don't have
time, just grab your books." Tommy turned to glare at the laughing Aaron,
but the only thing still around was the sound of his laughter, after porting
out.

Walking into the med bay with an arm around each of the teens, Aaron
searched for signs of nervousness as they entered the trauma pod on their
way through to the alteration pod. Not finding any, Aaron released their
waists once they arrived at the bio-tubes, and told them to hop in. hooking
everything up on Derrick, Aaron kissed him gently while reaching for the
switch to turn on the soma unit, pressing the switch he smiled as the
passionate kiss faded as Derrick went to sleep and his tongue just kind of
hung there for a moment before slipping back into his own mouth. Moving over
to where David was watching, Aaron repeated the process and after David was
asleep, finished prepping them and starting the cycle. Chuckling, Aaron
gazed down at their erections and wondered if going into the process all hot
and bothered would affect them when they came out, though a person usually
came out of the process pretty horny to begin with.

Making a few last minute observations on Jesse, as he skimmed the reports,
Aaron walked out into the hallway to meet with Pete and Tim; they were
waiting patiently in the hall near the entry. Holding his hands out for them
to take, he pulled them close once they grabbed on "You guys are incredible
and you make me proud to be your lover." He told them and pathed the same to
Kevin before porting them to the bridge of the Asclepius.

Pete, ever the sponge when it came to technology, looked around the bridge
taking in all the differences in this class versus the Prince, he was the
first to look outside and see all the activity around the ship, "Um, what's
going on?" he made his way to the window and looked out, "there's ambulances
on the dock and two choppers on the landing pad and another heading our
way."

"What the hell." Aaron made his way to the window and looked out, wondering
where the nice orderly world he left had gone. "I think it is time to find
out." he stared at the controlled confusion on the docks, barely aware of
the sounds of changing, from behind him. Shaking out of his shock, he turned
just as Tim and Pete finished putting their shirt tails in their long pants,
having changed out of the polo and shorts they had been wearing, the Clan
crest was very visible on their left breast and Tim was holding out a
matching dress shirt for him.

Taking the shirt, he looked at his smartly dressed lovers questioning,
"Someone found an embroidery machine.I knew the city was fully stocked, but
where did you find one at?" Aaron asked as he changed shirts.

Giggling, Tim smirked, "I bet you didn't check out the Clan Hall all that
well then, it was boxed up in the supply room by the recreation center, we
unpacked the rooms there and found a small section devoted to clothes, and
Kevin noticed this huge assed packing crate and the machine was inside."

Aaron tried to remember what was in the recreations center, he remembered
walking through, but that was it, sheepishly he told them, "I never looked,
I saw the different rooms and such and pretty much blew through the whole
complex in minutes, I spent most of the past six months working in the
compound, planting and nurturing it so it was what I wanted it to look
like."

Turning serious, Aaron fastened his pants, "there is way too much activity
down there to be overseen by the handful of people I left here two hours
ago, so mingle, and feel free to dip into their minds as deeply as needed,
make notes on your P.A.D.D.'s and at supper, we'll go over your findings
together, if you find a threat, feel free to put them to sleep and call
Chris or one of the guards. Once I find out what's going on, I'm going to
start the interviews and vet the security force so you'll find me in the
warehouse office." getting nods in return and seeing their game faces were
on, he started for the door.

Separating in the hallway, Aaron ported to a closed room off of the triage
bay that could only be opened from the inside and walked out to be greeted
by a fully functioning emergency room. In fact, the doors to the area set up
with bio-beds were fully open and patients were being treated by people in
medical jump suits he had never seen before. Walking over to the desk where
Chris was standing watching the monitor, Aaron startled him and those around
him when he asked, "What the hell is going on here?  I was only gone for two
hours and when I left I distinctively remember the triage bay being empty?"

Chris jumped and turned, "Good, you're here, most of the staff in jumpsuits
are those that Theo invited for dinner tomorrow. When we started to get a
steady stream of injured, they changed and jumped in, Carl and Gordon gave
them  a crash course on the bio beds while Theo is doing the same for the
physicians with the bio-tubes, lucky for us the system is automated and so
far, we have kept well ahead of demand. There are several representatives
from the insurance companies here, doing the intake paperwork while we treat
the children. They have assured us there will be no problem with payment and
are handling all that for us. So far, sixty percent of the patients showing
up are being treated in the bio-bed section, though if you could see your
way clear to cover for me, I really need to pee."

Aaron needed a few minutes to digest what had been said and nodded his head
without thinking, so Chris took that as a yes and high tailed it out of the
room and headed for the bathroom. Aaron Looked up at the monitor and
muttered, "That's the last time I talk to a damn reporter. This just negates
all the stress relief I indulged in before lunch." Laughter met his
statement, and he realized he had said that last part a little on the loud
side, turning to face the one laughing, he tilted his head in a questioning
look.

"Part of this influx is my fault, and part is the fact that traditionally
any hospital ship that makes port is automatically classified as a level one
trauma center. I got the bright idea of classifying the Asclepius as a
hospital ship for youth, hoping that for the most part, every Tom, Dick and
Harry would not be beating down your gates, trying to get in.it kind of
backfired, as there are no level one trauma centers on the west coast
dedicated to those under eighteen." The man walked forward and offered his
hand, "Governor Bill Tides, your Majesty."

"Governor," Aaron shook his hand before movement on one of the monitors
caught his attention; it was the last chopper taking off the pad.

Seeing the king frown, Bill mistook its source, "I can assure you that all
your services will be paid, even if I have to get the assembly to release
the money."

Aaron waved it away, "Money was never the issue, the only reason the
Asclepius made port instead of the Alteran Prince was a favor from one
monarch to another, with injured children involved, we're here so while we
are here, it makes perfect sense to take advantage of such a resource,"
turning back to face the Governor, "no, I was just thinking and concerned
that everyone fully understands that the Asclepius sets sail tomorrow at
21:00 hours. My concern is for those that try to get here and miss the boat,
so to speak, leaving the child in jeopardy."

Knowing the amount of medical flights arriving, Bill knew that was a valid
concern, "What is the cutoff time? I can understand your fear and I will do
everything in my power to let everyone know."

"Seven p.m. your time, 19:00 hours; that gives us a grace period of two
hours before he sets sail." Aaron sighed; this was doing a lot of good, and
would make it very hard for the feds to attack him now, but if only this had
happened next week, when they were closer to being ready.

Watching the helicopter approaching in the plasma, the pilots voice came
over the speakers "Asclepius control, Mercy General flight nine one seven,
inbound with one ETA five minutes, patient fifteen year old male with burns
to seventy percent of body surface."

"Altare One to Mercy General nine one seven, you are clear for pad red green
right," Aaron told him, as he switched on the flashers to the landing pad,
"Confirm trauma one burn inbound five minutes."

"Altare One.I thought this was the Asclepius?" Bill questioned, as Chris
returned.

"It is, and just like Air Force One, any vessel that his Majesty is
currently aboard is reflagged Altare One," Chris told him, with a smile,
placing himself back into the command net. "Theo, you have a fifteen year
old burn victim ETA four minutes. Burns to seventy percent of his body
landing pad red green right."

Bill was handed a clipboard with the victim's information on it, the boy in
question was doused with gasoline by his father, for being gay, the news
media were going to be all over this one.

Aaron, seeing that everything was under control, decided to leave the ship
and its new crew to Pete and Tim, "Chris, if you need me, I am going to be
in the warehouse office catching up on a few things." Walking down the
gangway, Aaron noticed the tent set up to one side with several people
taking information.  A little further on was another tent set up with tables
and chairs with a small buffet of simple foods and drinks. Entering the
warehouse, Aaron glanced around and noticed the food stores had been removed
and there was a truck unloading at the dock, it looked like more food, must
be John's work, he thought.

"Excuse me, this is a restricted area, we don't want anyone to get hurt by
the moving equipment, patients and family should stay near the areas set up
for them so we can locate you quickly," a very young sounding voice from
behind caused Aaron to turn around to see a jacketed young man that had way
to many guns to hide them all if the bulges in the jacket were any
indication.

Paling, the security guard was quick to apologize, "Sorry Sir, I did not
recognize you from the back."

Aaron stared at him for a moment before slowly nodding his head, accepting
the apology, if he looked carefully, he could see that he was older than he
looked, if he had to guess at a quick glance, he would say fifteen maybe
sixteen, he might do for backup for Tim tonight. "You must be one of the
ones who heard what was happening and jumped in to help out early," Aaron
smiled and pointed up to the crest on his left breast, "There are two more
young MEN walking around with the Clan crest on their shirt, make sure that
everyone knows to watch out for them, then come into my office and we will
get your placement interview out of the way." Aaron waited for him to nod
his head before he walked to the office, opening the door he walked into
security monitors set up and manned all around the room, making his way
through them, he placed his hand on the door panel and it flashed as if
scanning him and opened the door, in reality, he used a bit of kinetics to
push the button to open the door.

Sitting down behind his desk, he traced his fingers over the touchpad
terminal, logged in, brought the system up and the plasma screens blared to
life, showing every inch of the docks and warehouse and even the inside of
the Asclepius. Aaron had time to look through the thumbnails of the
candidates so he could find the unnamed security guard and pull up his file;
here it is Friedrich Adler nationality German. Well, he speaks flawless
English with no accent; he was just starting to read Joe's interview notes
when he heard a knock on his door "Come in."

The young man in question walked in and closed the door behind him
nervously, "Sir, Friedrich Adler reporting as requested."

Pointing to the chair on the other side of his desk, "Sit and relax, you've
made it this far in the interview process to know you're going to be hired,
we just need to find out where you will fit in best." Aaron smiled, hoping
to get him to relax a little.

Nodding very stiffly as he was very aware of this man not only being his
employer, but a sovereign as well, Friedrich sat down, keeping his hands in
sight at all times, looking around causally but quickly, he was shocked at
all the information being displayed around him, it was incredible.  Turning
back, he felt like a trapped animal as he found piercing hazel eyes locked
on him.

Aaron was fascinated as he read the background report; he was highly trained
and quite thorough with his duties, he had been terminated with cause it
seems, for exceeding his orders of no casualties on a rescue mission,
mounted four months ago. The report left a lot of information out, but the
incident took place near an Israeli orphanage. Displaying the report on the
plasma behind him, Aaron looked up to see Friedrich carefully scanning the
room and waited for him to notice that he was waiting. And as Friedrich's
eyes moved his way, they locked onto his. "You know this report left out
several very important facts, that, on the surface, a prospective employer
would zero in on and hesitate to hire you, especially for being discharged
with cause, yet not listing the cause."

Friedrich flashed back on the night in question, he was still very angry
over the whole thing; he was fired because some shit decided to rape his
target and he slit their throat, considering what to say, "I'm not sure what
you want to hear, Sir."

Aaron glared at him, "The day you tell me what you think I want to hear
instead of the truth is the day I kick your ass so hard you taste
shit.before slitting your throat." Aaron used that on purpose, to let him
know he knew what had happened.

Looking away first Friedrich sighed, he knew, he thought, "my orders were to
get in and out without any contact or any injury. I was to rescue the
fourteen year old daughter of a diplomat, we found them hiding in an
orphanage, our target was being raped by those monsters and I had to let it
happen as the team leader wanted to wait until dark so it was safer, not as
easy to be spotted." Closing his eyes, he sighed, "those monsters started in
on the orphans, though, once the kid, didn't matter if they were male or
female, passed out, the snapped their neck. The team leader still wanted to
wait, so I took it upon myself to sneak in and slit every one of those
bastard's throats. I got to our target just as one of the bastard's lifted
his knife to her throat. She survived, they didn't, I got fired over it."

Aaron nodded, following along Friedrich's surface thoughts, he found what he
was looking for he would do it again if needed, and job be dammed and he
held no remorse over it, just justifiable anger to the stuffed shirts that
fired him. "It is very hard to claim natural causes with a slit throat; next
time, dispose of the bodies where they will not be found."

Shocked and thrown off track at that statement, Friedrich almost missed the
question he had been asked and tried to regroup in answering it.

"What position do you feel qualified for, what are you looking to do, I see
you applied for palace security? Aaron fired off the questions as he
followed the thought process Friedrich was going through to answer the
questions and deal with the bombshell of being told to hide the bodies
better next time.

"Um.to be honest, I was hoping to start with embassy security and work my
way up, after proving I am loyal and could do the job.I expected I would
have to prove myself to you.honestly, this interview is nothing like I
expected.I never expected to be interviewed by the very man I wished to work
for." Friedrich rambled, off balance.

"Let me describe a scenario to you, then tell me what you would have done in
this situation, hindsight is a wonderful thing, and anonymity is no defense
from crazy people." Aaron sighed before remembering his promise to glance at
Pete's design, pulling up his email program he looked for the email and
opened it, "your charge goes shopping and you're not too concerned, as no
one knows you're at that mall or even what you look like, so, thinking
you're safe, your charge splits off from the main group to stop in a store,
and taking his time to purchase a gift, your charge is accosted verbally by
the clerk. Still wanting the software your charge shrugs it off and goes to
the counter to purchase what they found and when your charge tries to pay
for it, the clerk becomes abusive and when your charge tries to prove the
debit card is not stolen and shows the diplomatic passport, he is physically
assaulted.well let's leave the rest of the tale out and tell me what you
would have done if you were actually guarding said person, instead of him
being off on his own."

"Anonymity is not all it is cracked up to be, even with diplomatic immunity,
one person is not enough to properly cover someone in a mall. Security
professionals are, by training, a very paranoid bunch, but given the
scenario as only partially recounted, I would have to say after the first
verbal assault, no matter how mild, we would have relocated to another store
even if it meant going out of our way to another mall. And before the clerk
could have started." Friedrich remembered something, he remembered a news
blurb recounting an incident a week ago that the media dug up. Looking up
into Aaron's curious eyes, steel in his voice, "The clerk would have been
dead before her muscles could have finished moving towards my charge."

Nodding his head slowly, Aaron asked the next question as he gazed back down
at the 3-d image of the proposed ship and wondered what Pete was thinking,
combining a sub fighter with a space ship. "If I told you someone had to die
would you pull the trigger if I ordered you to?"

Surprised once more, Friedrich was further thrown off balance; he thought he
was applying for security not assassination, "I guess it would depend, I'm
not sure I could be an assassin.but a discrete hit to protect my charge, I
don't think I would have a problem with that."

Saving the file to look at later, Aaron looked up to check the man's file
and noted that he had not been given an disclosure at all on what the job
entailed or the common abilities Alteran's possessed that would be known to
their security forces, making up his mind, Aaron smiled, "Tim, one of the
members of my Clan will be going out tonight to get a feel for the city and
affect a rescue of a group of brothers being hunted. Consider this a test of
sorts, if you pass, you are given a chance to join Clan security, the
Alteran mandate is to rescue gay, in danger, and homeless youth, keep that
in mind as you are out and around the city.because I can assure you, Tim
will, so if he sees someone that needs to be rescued beyond the brothers, he
will act. Security and numbers is totally up to you, I am not about to
hamper you in some macho effort to test how deadly you are, but how well you
can lead and follow orders and protect your charge."

Tim and Pete didn't knock when they came in, and only one person started to
stop them, but Pete pointing at the crest on his shirt shut the man up.
Walking into the room, Pete noticed the person sitting in the seat across
from Aaron, so did not start out the way he wanted to, instead he pathed,
"we have a problem with one of the nurses."

Tim, sitting down on the corner of Aaron's desk looked at the teen sitting
there curiously before glancing up to the monitor and seeing his file on the
screen. Pete, passing over the chip from his P.A.D.D., sat on the other
corner of the desk and examined the guy sitting in the chair,

Placing the chip in the slot, Aaron glanced up and introduced everyone,
"Tim, Pete meet Friedrich, he will be heading up Tim's security detail
tonight, and depending on how well he does, he will head up the detail
tomorrow when the rest of the Clan comes over to do some shopping and
picking up supplies. He will also have the task of keeping Tommy from buying
out every gardening center from here to LA," Aaron laughed along with the
other two who giggled at the image Aaron pathed them.

Pete jumped down from the desk and started to walk around Friedrich, causing
him to become slightly nervous at how intense the look he was getting was.

Sensing the nervous tension building, Aaron looked up, "What are you
thinking, Pete?"

"I'm thinking that with a little work, he could pass for fifteen and play
the role of Tim's boyfriend, that way he would be by Tim's side, the whole
time." Pete was honest about his assessment, as he reached over to look at
Friedrich's chest by pulling the jacket aside.

Trying to ignore the hand moving his jacket, Friedrich looked at Tim, "so,
where are we going and would it be helpful if most of the guys in the detail
looked young?"

"We're going to the burger king, over by the mall on Bayshore Boulevard,
Adam and his brothers will meet us there around eight.and Pete's right we
could easily make him look around fifteen, though we need to do something
about hiding his guns a lot better than he is now." Tim jumped off the desk,
"And for tonight, I think bigger and scary would be better, at least for
backup." Looking at Aaron, he smiled, "Though tomorrow, when the others go
shopping, it might be better to have them look pretty young so they fit in."

"I have yet to meet any of the others, Friedrich, how many could you find
that could pass for under eighteen?" Aaron, curious, wanted to know.

"I saw four or five walking around, if needed, I could get a dozen more,"
Friedrich shrugged, thinking about who he could get on short notice if the
ok was given.

"How many are gay?" Aaron leaned forward, pathing Pete, "where did you stash
the nurse?"

Shaking his head, Friedrich replied, "Fully out of the closet, none of them,
in the closet all of them most are in other companies where it wouldn't do
for it to get out, or still in the service."

Seeing John and his brother approaching, along with Thomas, Aaron stood up,
"Give them a ring and sound them out tomorrow, and then have them contact
Joe or Kevin for an interview." Looking at Friedrich who had jumped up,
knowing the interview was over, "One more thing, Friedrich, take a good hard
look at Tim.I expect him back tonight in the very same condition.let's just
say you will not like what happens to you, if he's injured."

Gulping, Friedrich nodded his head vigorously as he was escorted out by Tim,
passing the three approaching the office, he noticed two of them were
caterers and smiled as his gaze lingered on their crotch's as they
approached.

"John, Scott, right on time.Thomas a pleasure, but I am not sure why you are
here?" Aaron pointed out chairs.

Pete laughed, "I invited him, I think he's cute and I wanna keep him."
seeing Aaron's expression, Pete giggled, "Let's try this one.he followed me
home from school can I keep him, I promise to take care of him and take him
for walks and feed him and stuff.really I do."

Shaking his head, wondering if Pete had gone crazy, Aaron finally smiled at
the shocked look on Thomas's face while Scott and John were holding their
sides form laughing so hard, adding fuel to the fire, he smirked, "Only if
we get him fixed, you know what they say about getting your pets spayed or
neutered."

Pete lost it and started to laugh so hard he fell onto the desk, where Aaron
promptly tickled him before grinning, "Sorry about that, Thomas, but if you
could see your face when he started to wind you up."

"Now that the tension is out of the way," Aaron started, as he looked at
Scott and John, "I promised a talk but before we do, I a set up a little
presentation of sorts in the next room, so I'm going to take you in there
and get you started; afterwards I think your questions might be a little
clearer or the answers will make more sense. Showing them into the meeting
room off of his office, Aaron closed the door after starting the
presentation and sat back down and looked at Pete, "Well this is your show
so tell me what is going on?"

Editors section:



RadioRanchers Musings: As seems too often be the case, we are learning new
and interesting things with each new chapter. It looks like Tommy is getting
his feet wet, so to speak. He looks like he will be quite happy working with
the fish.  I already like Friedrich. I think he will fit right in and be a
very good member of the team.  What did they do with that nurse?   I can
hardly wait for the next chapter, and as it happens, snicker, snicker, I
don't have to, because I already have it right here. Excuse me please, while
I open it and start work on it.

Darryl AKA The Radio Rancher

A/N: I believe he fed some fish on the way to the island. Another chapter
done and not a cliffhanger, imagine that J. As previously stated I have a
mailing list for those who wish to get the chapters early, they're in word
doc format or PDF and include the embedded pictures of the tech toys I
describe in my story. Drop me an email if you wish to be placed on the list.