Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:36:02 -0400
From: Ron <wolfwalker2@alltel.net>
Subject: TEEP chapter 25

Shit, John thought, as he looked through the different options on the
terminal before finding the one marked alert chief of staff, opening up the
window, he smiled as he saw Aaron's name next to it, tapping that option, he
found he could tailor the message sent out and quickly set it to alert him
that Altare Six was incoming with twelve rescued and one of them was a code
patient, once sent, he ran out of the office intent on making it to the air
field to meet the jet in case he was needed.

Aaron and the rest of the Clan were topside where he could keep an eye on
Richard, it had been a struggle for the young royal as they worked through
the years of neglect which had turned into pain recently when he had
discovered things about his parents he didn't really want to know. And to
add misery to everything else, the way his parents did not even acknowledge
his existence when he returned and their faces when he accused them of not
wanting him to have lived so it would be easier on them did a lot of damage.
He only hoped that the hours working through it with Richard worked, that
little bit of difference of not being able to fully merge with his mind,
nagged on him just that little bit as he could not guarantee another
meltdown.

Alteration was possible Aaron thought, as he watched Richard and Damien
laughing as they gathered eggs, Richard helping with afternoon chores, he
would sit down tomorrow with Victoria and Edward to discuss ways to help
Richard, might as well include Andrew he thought, as being closest to
Richard's age, he might have some insight as the only thing he could think
of at the moment was to stuff him in a bio-tube alter him so he was Alteran
and then merge his mind fully, assuring that his mind was fully healed.
Reminders safely in his mind for tomorrow's meeting, where they would plan
the next day's activities and announcements when the Asclepius arrived, he
wondered how Tommy was getting along after having his plans thrown for a
loop at the last minute.

Smiling as Brian came over and sat down next to him, Aaron turned to face
him, "Well now that you've had a couple of days to settle in, what do you
think?"

Brian smiled, "The farms here are fantastic and Tommy really did come up
with some pretty good plans, but I don't see how one or two people can
handle everything, even with volunteers, the work load is going to be an all
day thing, leaving very little time for anything else, and I'm already
behind in my studies in certain areas by the placement tests I took."

Chuckling, Aaron stood up and held his hand out for Brian to take, "I have
something to show you that will blow your mind, let's go to the garden; I
want to show you how to pick vegetables my way."

Porting both of them to the edge of the garden nearest the green beans,
Aaron looked around before closing his eyes and porting in several of the
deep trays for vegetables, "Now, let me show you how a kinetic harvests
crops," leaning over, he searched the first plant for a green bean mature
enough for harvesting, finding one, he picked it and stood back up. "Now the
normal way you're used to thinking about things is to go out and search the
plants and pick the ones ready for harvest, my way, on the other hand, is to
use my mind and gifts to harvest in a fraction of the time, granted, it will
take some practice before you gain this kind of control, but you'll have the
time, after being altered, to master your gifts so you too can do this."
Aaron waved his hand over the rows of beans, and holding the green bean he
picked, he closed his eyes and walked down the row, mind searching for
matches to the one in his hand, once finding a match using Kinetics he
removed them from the plant and micro ported them to the waiting trays.

Smiling, once he reached the other end, he turned around and grinned seeing
the look of shocked awe on Brian's face, changing the parameters of what he
was searching for, Aaron closed his eyes on the return trip, mind searching
for beans larger than the one in his hand, filling the second and third tray
before he stopped, back where he started. Dropping the bean in his hand in
with the others, he finally laughed, catching David's and Mark's disgusted
looks on their faces, holding up his hands "Wait a minute, you had to learn
to harvest the old fashioned way first David, before being shown the new
way, otherwise you would not have a feeling for the plants and how the beans
break from the stems and the rest that is involved, and Mark, first you have
to master porting, before even trying this as what I did was use kinetics to
harvest the beans, and micro ported them to the trays, you're not even a
full day out of resequencing."

Any further conversation was cut off as Aaron's P.A.D.D. started sounding an
alert and Tommy's voice sounded over it, causing Aaron to port out for the
trauma center without saying anything and David to path Kevin and the rest,
telling them what he heard.

"Shit, what do you call this when he stops breathing. Code Blue.now what did
Aaron call it goddamn it.it's not fair we rescued them."

"Altair Trauma, we are declaring code patient I repeat we are declaring code
patient."

Showing up in the trauma pod, Aaron went over to the console and logged in,
seeing bio-tubes already dispatched to the tarmac, he closed his eyes and
pathed Friedrich, "let me see through your eyes, look to a clear area so I
can port in."

Getting the visualization he needed, Aaron ported into the rapidly
descending air craft and rushed over to Friedrich's side, kneeling next to
the small child he was giving mouth to mouth to. "I'll take over, go up top
and check on Tommy, he sounds like he is freaking out up there, let him know
I'm here, please."

Relieved, now that Aaron was here, Friedrich stood quickly and ran to the
stairs, "Tommy.Aaron just ported in and told me to tell you," he got out
before reaching the top of the steps, trying to get the message out to him
as soon as possible.

Feeling an immense burden being lifted from his shoulders, Tommy jumped up
from the chair and rushed past Friedrich, taking the steps two at a time to
get to the cabin faster. Once on the cabin floor, he rounded the corner only
to see Aaron was nowhere around and the kids were crying softly, some being
held tight by the older ones muffling their sobs. Standing there looking
around, he turned his head towards Dustin when he spoke up, "That guy just
popped in out of thin air and knelt beside the little one and next thing you
know both of them were gone."

Relieved, Tommy tried to smile reassuringly, "That was Aaron, he teleported
out with the little one back to the hospital to get him there faster.do you
know his name?"

Dustin shook his head sadly, "He never did say, we found him in the woods
last week, I thought he was doing better, now that he was eating food
again," sounding like a scared ten year old, Dustin mumbled, "I tried
everything even gave him my food, he did eat some after I chewed it for
him.I tried.I tried."

Moving slowly to Dustin's side, Tommy reached over and pulled him in tight,
placing Dustin's head on his shoulder and rocked back and forth with him as
he rubbed his back. Not even a minute later, the door cycled open and
medical staff rushed inside, each of them going to a different person, all
too quickly, the other two sick youngsters who were not looking too good
were scooped up and rushed off the plane to the waiting bio-tubes.  Most of
the rescued boys off the plane now, Tommy still rocking Dustin, noticed
Aaron walking back on board smiling at him; he frowned when he saw the
sadness in his eyes.

Dustin, turning his head towards the movement of someone sitting down next
to him, saw the man who appeared out of thin air to take the young one, "Are
you an angel," he sounded like a six year old now, as he stared at Aaron
with big eyes, "is the little one in heaven now, with the angels?"

Smiling sadly, Aaron nodded his head, "Yes little one, he is with the angels
now." He said softly, as he placed the palmed sensor on the boy's temple as
he moved the dirty hair out of his eyes and activated it sending the teen to
sleep. Catching the slumped teen, Aaron motioned for Theo and his team to
take him, once the teen was out of Tommy's arms, Aaron pulled him into his
lap and held him close, offering whatever comfort he could as he sent love
and comfort to him.

After a few minutes, Aaron finally spoke, "There was nothing we could do,
with all our technology and skills, there are still some that we can never
help." pulling Tommy around so he could look him in the eyes, eyes that were
crying silent tears, "believe me in this, Tommy, even if we had got to him
before you left Hawaii, he would not have made it, it was too late before
you even laid eyes on him." Seeing that he believed him, he pulled Tommy
back into the embrace.

A few quiet minutes later, Tommy wiggled free and stood up facing Friedrich,
"I want his guardians found, parents or otherwise, according to Dustin, he
was found deep in the woods last week, so that means someone dumped him
there. I want them standing before me so they can explain why. The person
responsible better pray for mercy because they are not getting any from me."

Friedrich nodded vigorously as he took a step backwards, what was it about
the guys in this Clan that made them so formidable to scare the crap out of
even him, he thought, and this one isn't even altered yet. "Right away,
young Sir, I'll get a team on it as soon as I get back to the office," he
got out before rushing off the plane, eager to be away from those merciless
eyes.

"I know this is not the way to end what must have been an incredible day for
you, one that you had a lot of fun trying to outsmart me," Aaron grinned as
he came behind Tommy and wrapped his arms around him. "There is no shame in
tears, and there is no shame in feeling bad about not feeling worse about
the loss of one so young, one you did not know, but for a few blinks of
time."

Feeling Tommy melt into his embrace, Aaron skimmed his surface thoughts as
the rest of the clan started to cross the gantry after porting in, "I am
truly proud of you, Tommy, you did what was right, I am just sorry that the
little one was lost. But he is what we are fighting for, you can wallow in
pity or anger and let this eat you alive, or you can take it to heart that
you did the best you could and know that you will see justice done." Aaron
pointed to the Clan assembled in front of them, looking worried for him,
"know we love you with all our hearts and even if you never step foot out of
the kingdom ever again, you will always be an important part of the Clan and
important part of our hearts."

Tommy looked up at Aaron bending over into his chest to do so, "I know, I
was beating myself up for being sad he died and then for not being as sad as
I thought I should be, it will take a little bit, but I will be fine, I'll
take the quiet time unloading and unpacking all the orchids and putting them
in the greenhouse to think about things, I promise I won't brood or go
dark."

Mark, worried about his friend, walked over and hugged Tommy and whispered
in his ear, "So how did your plan to visit the other nurseries work out."

Choking out a laugh, Tommy moved out of Aaron's arms so he could point an
accusing finger at him, "It was going grand, I had it all planned out, but
this one." Tommy pointed, "This sneaky person had to go and give a letter to
the pilot with secret instructions in it, saying that he had already
deposited money at each of the farms he set up appointments for me to visit.
So of course, all my carefully laid out time tables went down the toilet,"
making a motion of pushing down a lever, "flushed with my ideas of taking a
quick walk around and buying plants and grabbing a catalog for further study
and ordering."

Giggling, Tommy grinned, "Even with the new restrictions and all the curves,
I still managed to sneak out an extra forty minutes, you can send the two
planes for the order on Monday; it should be ready by then."

Aaron, who had been walking with the others down the gantry so they could
get the cargo ported out, stopped and turned to face Tommy, "Two.two planes.
How much did you buy.I take it back; I don't want to know," he laughed
before grinning, "but you will have to be the one to explain to Chris that
he is going to Hawaii on Monday with the Prince, to pick up a cargo."

Seeing the glint in Tommy's eyes, Aaron looked at him, "And no internet all
weekend either," before breaking down laughing and pulling him into a hug
that ended up with Tommy's hair all messed up.

Finally getting around to the cargo hatch where John and the ground crew
were busy unloading boxes, Aaron was slightly stunned at the sheer number of
boxes being unloaded. Walking over to one stack, he pulled open the top and
peaked inside, there was one large blooming plant and several smaller pots
with younger, not fully mature specimens inside. "Well, it seems I was
successful, when you log into the terminal in the greenhouse, you'll see an
icon for an orchid program that will help you catalog and keep track of your
plants, I set you up in the greenhouse next to mine, it's the one I used to
grow starts for the flowers around the island, mine is all set up so I can
check on it once week everything is automated, not that there is a lot of
stuff in there right now, in fact, it is almost all empty as I moved
everything to the Clan Hall where I can enjoy it, get things settled into
the greenhouse and then if you want to move it the Clan hall, I'll build you
a greenhouse there instead of topside."

Aaron, the only one knowing where the greenhouses were, ported the boxes to
the quarantine greenhouse and started the elimination sequence, before he
started to move away so he could check on the rescued boys, when he smiled
at hearing John tell the flight crew that the plane was to be grounded until
they checked to make sure it had not been stressed with the red lining of
the system he had done to it by landing so fast.

Kissing Tommy, "Kevin, let me give you the visualization of the greenhouse;
I'm going to briefly check in with the hospital staff before coming back
home, so if you don't mind taking Tommy over so he can get started
unloading, Tommy, the boxes are in the quarantine house and just make sure
the red light is off and the green one is one before going inside, this will
make sure nothing hitched a ride along with the plants."

What was becoming his daily leave taking routine, the Clan lined up to
receive their kiss before he left them for awhile, finally smirking near the
end, he noticed Richard in line smiling shyly back at him, pulling him
close, he kissed him just the same as everyone else, though he did do it a
bit longer, to leave poor Richard with a tent he had to hide, "That will
keep you, for a while at least," he chuckled before moving towards the
hospital as the Clan broke into groups behind him and started porting back
home.

Walking into the trauma pod, he was a bit surprised to find all eleven boys
in the bio-tubes, even the ones who had walked off the plane were floating,
while the teams worked around the consoles, "Well, this is a slight
surprise."

Theo, hearing Aaron's voice, glanced over his shoulder grinning, "It is,
isn't it," frowning he nodded to his resident to finish running the detailed
scans so he could talk to Aaron, "we did place the older ones who did not
seem to be as sick on the bio-beds at first, but when the report gave us the
option of four days treatment on the bio-bed or one day treatment in a
bio-tube." stopping, near Aaron where the other physicians could hear,
"well, they are children, even a young one can be hard to handle on total
bed rest, so this seemed less stressful on them and us, to tell the truth."
He handed Aaron the compiled reports on his P.A.D.D.

Giving it a quick glance, Aaron noticed the findings before handing it back,
spotting Colin by the desk, he motioned for him to join them, "Colin,
patient number eleven is Dustin, or at least his first name is, once he is
released, it is crucial that you are here to be the first thing he sees when
he wakes.physically, he is around sixteen, by the time I got to him on the
plane he had mentally regressed from the thinking of a ten year old to a six
year old, and I really don't think he was operating at a ten year olds level
to keep all these kids safe and mostly fed. I think the stress of losing the
little one was too much for him, so if you need a telepath to help out let
me know and I will see that one comes over right away."

"Which leads me to a question that might seem improper at first, but does
have a purpose, how many of the residents are both gay and twenty six or
under?" Aaron watched their faces before he added a little information,
"don't count Carl or Gordon as the process has been run on both of them, but
just to let you know that there is a slim chance, that is, if the gene
structure has not finalized to alter someone just enough so they can access
telepathy and the other two major gifts all Alteran's have. The younger they
are the easier it is, and the greater success rate, I will not even consider
it if the simulations does not give me a ninety five percent success rate,
it's not worth the possible trouble otherwise, and our gifts are linked to
the gay genes so I am sorry to say being straight it would not be possible
to awaken the genes to bring out the gifts."

Theo being old and set in his ways was not as jealous as some would be,
"Two, maybe three of the medical residents are the right age, though knowing
about this, next year it will be easier to choose fourth years and residents
when the cycle starts, how about your guys Colin, none of them made it yet,
or did you not even bring any residents with you?"

Colin sighed it would be a true dream of mind healers everywhere, to be able
to link up with their patients to help them, "I never gave it a thought
about bringing residents or fourth years with me, I wanted to get a handle
on the facility and expected patient load before even considering bringing
in others."

"Makes sense in a way, if you'll excuse me, I am going to hunt down a couple
of people to discreetly feel them out," Theo started to walk away, but Aaron
stopped him.

"Theo, just so you know, we will be doing our physicians rounds after lunch
and I will be playing devil's advocate, I agree and in your place would have
made the same decisions of placing all the kids in the bio-tubes, but
tomorrow, it will seem otherwise." Aaron warned him and chuckled at his
frown and nod, placing his hand on Colin's arm he nodded to the door, "Have
a minute, let's have a word out of earshot."

Puzzled but truthfully not having much to do other than learn how to operate
the bio-tubes, unlike the residents, Colin followed Aaron to the end of the
docks where he leaned up against the pier. Confused once more, as Aaron
pointed his scanner at him, he waited.

"I think I might be overstepping a little here, but I promise it is not
without reason, I picked up on your disappointment inside at being too old
to be altered, and have a question or two as I run a DNA panel and
simulation on you.I don't want to get your hopes up though." Aaron said, as
he watched the scanner checking clusters, four of which had turned green.

Colin sighed, "Am I gay is probably one of them, and to tell you the truth,
I don't know, I have put everything into my carrier and never gave it a
thought, not really, I don't do casual and have never met anyone of either
sex that clicked."

Aaron nodded that he was listening as the sixth cluster turned green.

"I would like to think that I'm me, not gay or straight or even BI, I'm me
and that is enough for now, though now that I have made it, it can be pretty
lonely when I go home, I think that is why I jumped at the chance to join
the team here." Colin finished, as Aaron smiled at the scanner. "I also try
to think I am a pretty good reader of someone's body language and you are
pretty pleased, which means that I am genetically gay and that means
something to you."

Nodding his head and grinning, Aaron was about to put the scanner away
before he thought better of it and quickly entered some personal information
in it, "What are you supposed to be doing for the next two days, anything
that you will be missed for?"

Suspicious as Aaron had the same look his proctors did while a resident,
Colin slowly thought about it before sighing, "Now that the last of the
patients have gone, nothing until Dustin is released.why?"

"Because I am going to offer you something that the others would give
anything to have, the chance to become Alteran, your genetic profile was
eight for eight on the gene clusters and the simulation read out ninety nine
percent," Aaron grinned as he pocketed his scanner.

Friedrich walked up after spending some time in Kyle's office, starting the
search that Tommy ordered, he had completed his task and was hoping for a
ride back to Altare so he could give some more thought to finding Mr.
forever instead of Mr. Right now. Raising an eyebrow at the back of the man
talking to Aaron he smiled when he felt the level of excitement rolling
outwards from the man's mind, smirking, he thought he held it in well.

"I accept, of course," Colin said calmly, a lot calmer than his mind, which
had a small miniature version of himself jumping up in down in joy.

Laughing, Aaron noticed Friedrich calmly waiting, "Well let's do this; I'm
going to push back Dustin's release to Saturday, you will have been released
by then if we get started now and then you can start working on getting the
mind healers' guild up to strength."

Colin laughed, "Oh gamer much, I get to head my own guild hall now, well
then, I must not let the future guild members down." Chuckling, he turned
his body, still focused on Aaron, "just let me make a few people aware I'll
be gone for a couple of days and I'll be ready."

Laughing, he turned and sensing movement and seeing a hand, he acted
quickly, he had Friedrich face down on the ground with his arm behind his
back before he blinked and let go and backed away red faced, "Sorry about
that." Colin blushed, as Friedrich rolled over and stared up at the first
person to ever take him down, while Colin locked his eyes with the most
gorgeous guy he had ever seen.

The only thing holding him upright as he laughed, was the pier post, Aaron
shook his head and thought, that solves two problems. Sneaking around the
two staring oblivious men, he went back to the trauma pod and made a few
notations in Dustin's treatment plan, including a note not to release him
without his permission so that a trained telepath could be present. Finding
Theo bouncing around excitedly in the hall, Aaron wondered if Colin did have
the time to take off for sure before he tasted Theo's surface thoughts and
grinned. "Hey Theo, just so someone knows, Colin will be off the island for
two days, he's going to go on his honeymoon with my head of security."

Theo stopped in mid bounce and looked back at Aaron, "Colin.our Colin as far
as I knew he was not seeing anyone, including your head of security." He
looked at Aaron as if he was speaking of someone he did not know.

"Come here and look," Aaron laughed, as he motioned to the door.

Rushing over Theo gazed out at the two men, one on the ground and Colin
standing still looking down, none of them moving, "Oh my, how long have they
been doing that?"

Laughing, Aaron finally got some semblance of control, "I left them that way
five minutes ago."

"Two days you say, just enough time for me to make arrangements," Theo
giggled at the fun he was planning on having.

"Later Theo, I have two budding love birds to strip and lock in a closet,"
Aaron chuckled as he walked out so he could port the three of them to the
med bay. Reaching the unmoving men, he grabbed hold of them and ported them
to the trauma pod at the main med bay, interrupting Carl and Gordon who were
talking about the release of the next fifty recruits.

"Aaron, is there something wrong?" Carl asked, as they heard a noise and
looked up to see Aaron port in with one person standing the other on the
floor.

"Yeah, it's called lust at first sight, want to help me get Colin here
stripped and into the bio-tube then set it up to resequence him to be
Alteran, while I give my bodyguard a cold shower," Aaron laughed, as the two
broke their communion, "some guard he turns out to be the first pretty face
to give him a smack down and he is off to la la land."

Laughing at the glare he was getting from Friedrich, "Truth hurts, doesn't
it, I think this is the part where the two of you are supposed to kiss,
though, to tell you the truth, if you are not quick about it, we will have
your future lover stripped and in the bio-tube before you get your ass of
the floor."

Jumping up, Friedrich, nervous as a school girl on prom night, reached out
hesitantly to cup Colin's chin, not getting any more violence and still
standing, he smiled at him shyly before leaning in and kissing him gently,
tentative at first before Colin reached around and pulled him in tight.

After a minute or two, they broke for air and Aaron chuckled, "Gordon, do me
a favor take Friedrich to the Clan Hall so he can get a cold shower or marry
his fist a couple of times while I get young Dr. Fairhurst here in the
bio-tube, will you?" smiling at Gordon who was laughing from the safety of
the opposite side of the desk when he nodded his head in agreement, Aaron
led the glazed eyed shrink into the next pod.

Stopping next to the far pod from the door, Aaron let go of Colin's arm and
started the prep cycle so the bio-tube was brought out of hibernations, once
it was active he nudged Colin, "You need to get out of your clothes you
know, there is a shelf underneath where you can place them until your
release."

Blushing, Colin started to remove his shirt and hoped his erection would go
away before he was fully stripped, though with how confined and painful it
was, there was no hope in hell of that happening. Kicking off his shoes, and
surprisingly sockless, he unbuttoned his pants and let them slide down his
legs as he freed the hard cock and not having much experience with gently
releasing it from his shorts his whole body turned red when the sound of a
thwack was very loud as it hit his belly.

Aaron, taking a little pity on the young man when he realized this must be
killing him as he read his surface thoughts, a total virgin in all ways,
"Trust me Colin, this as you know, is normal and nothing to be embarrassed
about, one of the things you will find, living on the main island, is that
when on Altare, we are all pretty much nudists, so we acknowledge a nice
body and awesome package and move on. I will warn you that no matter how
embarrassed and horny you are now, it is nowhere near how horny you will be
when you are released. Climb up," Aaron told him, as he moved the cart over
with his equipment on it, "I'm going easy on you because I think it is more
difficult for you right now and joking around would not help you any."

Aaron smiled as Colin hopped up on the ledge to the bio-tube and swung his
legs into the tube before lying down, "You truly have nothing to be ashamed
of, size wise or otherwise, with your body.now you are going to have almost
an animalistic need to have sex when you get out of the bio-tube, so my
question is, do you want Friedrich to be here and help you out, or do you
want me to help out so I can control what happens and you can explore your
first time together without the need in the way?"

Colin, a deeper red now, squeaked out, "Both, keeping us from going too far
the first time if you don't mind," god he was so embarrassed, he finally
knew what some of his patients were feeling when he talked to them about sex
and their bodies, now.

"I can do that, I'll stay with the two of you and make sure it does not go
past oral then, until you settle down, before I forget." Aaron applied the
sterilizing gel to Colin's head, chest and elbow, "take a good look at that
hard bad boy between your legs, it's the last time it will look like that,
you'll end up with your foreskin back after the process is complete,"
reaching over and picking up the very hard and taut cock, ignoring the
indrawn breath he felt the curve and the scar tissue before placing it
gently back on Colin's belly. "Sorry about that, but you will lose most of
the curve which I think will make things a little easier on you, you have
quite a bit of scar tissue built up there causing the curve, so once that is
fixed, I think you will have a gentle very mild curve which should make
ejaculation more forceful and easier on your body."

Pleased, Colin forgot his embarrassment and stroked his hard cock for a
minute to see if he could feel the scar tissue Aaron was talking about,
"Really, I guess I never gave it much thought, I always knew of course I had
a severe curve, but never the cause."

Placing a finger on the underside the Colin's erection near the circumcision
scar, "Feel here, feel how the bend starts right at your circumcision scar,
now, feel the side of the scar by pressing in and moving the skin up and
down as you stroke, can you feel the ridge under the skin?"

"Yes." Colin stuttered, as he stroked gently before the overwhelming need to
get off got any closer.

"Go ahead and cum, Colin, it won't make a difference in the long run, other
than to relieve some of the pressure you're feeling right now," Aaron leaned
over and whispered, "besides no one else is here but the two of us."

Not caring any longer, Colin picked up the pace as he felt Aaron's touch
when he placed the sensors, but when he felt Aaron's hand brush his balls he
looked up to see a clear tube dripping with lube heading towards his rear,
when he felt the tube gently inserted into his rear he all but lost it, and
he did lose it as he felt the tube rub that certain spot inside him.

Panting and practically folding in the middle towards his crotch, Colin had
one of the best orgasms of his young life, lying back, he had to wonder why
he took so long discovering this fantastic feeling.  Smiling shyly, he
glanced over at Aaron, "Embarrassing or not that was the best orgasm ever."

"Like I said before, once the procedure removes the scar tissue, I expect
your volleys will hit you in your face," Aaron pointed down at the puddle
that had oozed out of Colin's erection, returning the grin that Colin was
sending his way, Aaron reached for the soma unit to activate it, "Friedrich
and I will see you in two days, have pleasant dreams," he told him, before
flipping the unit on. Quickly Intubating him, he waited for the tube to seal
before pulling up Colin's genetic profile, double checking and changing a
few minor things to make it easier for Colin to fully function sexually,
including bringing his sex hormones back to within the normal range Aaron
locked the changes in and started the cycle.

"You will make Friedrich very happy, Colin," Aaron gave him one last glance
before walking out of the pod.

Later on that night, after having an enjoyable relaxing dinner with all of
his lovers, each of them found time to just reach out and touch Tommy, to
reassure him that they were there for him if he needed them,  but not
pushing him, Aaron decided to head to bed early, he was going to maybe grab
a book and read before turning in, so far it looked like the nightly pair
offs were a little different, Kenny had taken charge of Pat and Doug and
after they cleaned up their places, they headed off back to their rooms, to
either play a video game or with each other more than likely both. Surprise
of the night was Damien and Richard hand in hand walking towards the
recreation area, both of their pointers leading the way; he just hoped that
Damien held to his order of nothing other than oral with Richard, until his
mind had a chance to settle down after a good rest.

David, Derrick and Fred followed Mark back to his rooms, and he expected
that they would be having fun quickly as Fred led Derrick by his hard cock
out of the kitchen all the way back. Grinning as Tim was massaging Tommy's
shoulders as he whispered in his ear he figured those two would be doing
something shortly. Walking past his office, he thought that left Pete, Kevin
and Brian though now that he thought about it, didn't Pete leave early,
saying something about finishing an experiment before he could join in the
fun, shrugging, Aaron wondered who would end up in his bed later on, ever
since they became lovers, they all took turns making sure he never slept
alone, and more often than not, the partners switched in the morning so he
had some type of sex with all of them in a twenty for hour period and they
with him.

Walking into his bedroom, the first thing he noticed was the new bottle of
lube on his nightstand, the other was getting low but he had enough, he
thought, someone must be planning something tonight he chuckled. Walking
past his bed, he went into the bathroom and turned on the shower before
hitting the closet toilet to use the hose to clean himself out, he had
gotten in the habit like the rest of them of morning and nightly cleanings.
Finished, he went back to the bathroom for a nice hot relaxing shower,
letting the surround water jets relax his tired body.

Standing there with the hot water washing away his day, Aaron had to admit
he was one very lucky guy, all the bullshit of being a King aside, he had
nine committed lovers who did their best to share their love with him as he
shared his with them. By now, the shower was filled with steam and it was
hard to see through the steam so when he felt the cold draft from the door
opening and glancing behind him Aaron did not see anyone but he felt a hand
touch his back. Not sensing another telepath, and judging by the hand's
size, he assumed it was Tommy, turning around and pulling him close Aaron
knew right away it was not Tommy.

Hand grasping his hard cock Aaron had two choices of who it could be, and
reaching down to reciprocate, he found a cut and very stiff slender five
inches or so, "Brian.what.are you very sure about this, is this what you
want truly?"

Fascinated by what he was holding in his hands, he played around with the
foreskin covering the hard head before in a husky voice answering, as he
stood on his toes to kiss Aaron, "Yes." releasing the kiss and smiling
through the steam, "yes I know what I want and I talked with everyone and
they are giving us this time for me to be alone with you. I want this."
Brian stroked Aaron several times, "inside me, you will be my first."

Now he knew why there was a fresh bottle of lube on his night table,
smiling, Aaron leaned over and gently kissed Brian, ever so slowly tasting
his lips and rolling them between his own before letting his tongue examine
Brian's teeth before going deeper into his mouth exploring every inch of the
inside of Brian's mouth. Reaching over and touching the controls Aaron
activated the drying cycle, if Brian was sure of this it was time to move to
the bedroom where the lube was waiting for them.  Smiling as the air started
its cyclone action around them Aaron moved away slightly so the front of
their bodies could be dried, once dried, Aaron pulled Brian close once more
before letting his hands run down Brian's back until he cupped each ass
cheek gently, all the while going back to explore Brian's mouth.

Moving his body to one side, stopping Brian's thrusting into his legs, Aaron
reached around and scooped Brian up and bouncing him once or twice to settle
him in his arms he laughed at Brian's giggle before backing out of the
shower stall.  Aaron slowly walked into the bedroom, stealing kisses the
whole way, before gently laying Brian on the top of the bed. Capturing
Brian's lips and gently kissing him as his hands roamed up and down Brian's
arching body, touching the hard cock between Brian's legs, he felt it start
to swell and using his free hand to create a cup he stroked it while kissing
Brian as he climaxed. Milking the very last drops from the still hard cock
Aaron released Brian's lips and moved away just enough that the panting teen
could watch him bring up his offering towards his lips where he eagerly
licked his hand clean before leaning back over and sharing the last taste
with him.

Looking deep into Brian's eyes, Aaron wanted to make sure this was something
he still wanted before smiling and reaching for the bottle of lube,
unsnapping the lid, he smiled at the eager expression on Brian's face when
he heard the snap.

Brian, hearing the snap of the bottle of lube he had brought in earlier,
smiled and lifted his legs up slightly as he moved them a little further
apart so Aaron would have better access, not really knowing what to expect,
he was surprised that a finger back there felt so good, and Aaron had not
even put his finger inside him yet. Feeling a slight pressure he did what
Kevin had whispered to him earlier, he pushed out like he had to go to the
bathroom and was rewarded when he felt the finger slip inside him.

Watching closely for any sign of discomfort as Aaron slid the first finger
inside Brian, and not taking his eye off Brian's face, he slowly moved his
mouth down and licked the hard shaft between Brian's legs before reaching
the tip and sucking it into his mouth, making sure to use his tongue around
the tip of the head so he could get any lingering droplets from Brian's
first climax.

Brian threw his head back and moaned out as the pleasure of having someone
suck on him for the first time hit him, the warm wet mouth was doing things
to him while at the same time the two fingers inside him moving in and out
was causing pleasure from the other end as well, it was all he could do to
hiss out, "Oh, don't stop, whatever you do don't stop."

Moving off Brian's hard cock as he found his prostate, Aaron secretly
grinned as Brian arched his back and screamed out, "Oh.oh.yes.good..."
leaning over, Aaron licked up the small spurt of pre-cum before licking the
tip of Brian's hard shaft one more time as he inserted the third finger into
Brian's virgin hole, slowly stretching his fingers apart as he moved them in
and out. Standing back up and keeping his fingers moving, Aaron reached over
for the lube once more. Brian, seeing what Aaron was doing, smiled in
anticipation and pulled his legs up and held them with his hands.

Squirting some lube on the end of his cock, Aaron climbed up onto the bed
and positioned himself and in one flawless move, replaced his fingers with
the head of his hard cock and when he felt the head pass the muscle guarding
Brian's sphincter, he waited, looking to see if Brian was having any
discomfort. Not seeing any, Aaron started to slowly move in and out of
Brian's moaning body, each time he pushed in, he went deeper, always
watching Brian's face for the first sign of pain. Seeing and sensing nothing
but pleasure, Aaron moved a little closer until he was soon all the way
inside Brian and moving in and out slowly, causing the teen incredible
pleasure.

Brian, seeing the tip of his cock, inches from his face leaned up and
stretching, was able to get the end in his mouth, running his tongue around
the tip of his cock, he shivered in delight as he received sensations from
both ends, the hard cock inside him rubbing up and down past his prostate
and his own mouth on the end of his hard cock.

Watching Brian take the end of his cock in his own mouth drove Aaron crazy,
picking up the pace, he was not far off from exploding, the fact that he was
the first in most everything sexual with Brian, coupled with the visual
stimulus of the teen sucking himself off, sent him over the edge, groaning
out, Aaron started rapid firing his seed deep into Brian.

Feeling something inside him swelling, putting more pressure on that
wonderful spot inside him, sent Brian over the edge, it was all he could do
not to release the end of his cock as he shot his cum into his own mouth,
swallowing the first volley out of instinct, he let the rest pool in his
mouth, and after finishing and lying back and letting his legs go, he opened
his mouth so Aaron could see the prize he had saved for them to enjoy
together.

Aaron slowly opened his eyes to see Brian lying back and open his mouth, a
mouth full of his sweet offering, pulling out only enough to be able to lean
over, he accepted the gracious offering, doing his best to suck every drop
out of the willing mouth.

Now that the need was not so great, Aaron picked up one of Brian's legs so
he could maneuver around while staying inside Brian, letting the leg back
down as he sank to the bed behind Brian, still inside, spooning him from
behind, Aaron let his hands wander Brian's body as he moved in and out
enough to stay hard.

"That was incredible." Brian whispered as he ran his hands along with
Aaron's over his body, slowly rocking his hips back and forth in time to
Aaron's small gentle thrusts, enjoying the movement as he came off his high
and felt the stirrings of another round building. Reaching for his own hard
cock that was starting to throb once more, Brian sighed in frustration when
his hands were intercepted by Aaron.

"Oh no you don't; you need to save that next load for when you are inside
me," Aaron whispered, as he started to move in and out at a faster pace,
once more sending pleasurable signals to Brian's brain. Nibbling on Brian's
ear, Aaron whispered, "I am going to get you all hot and ready, and after
Cumming one more time, it will be your turn to put this," Aaron let his
finger brush very gently over the hard cock on the other side of his moving
body, "inside me and plant your own offering."

Intertwining his fingers with Brian's, Aaron used their combined hands to
roam around Brian's body, stimulating everything in reach except the one
part that so wanted to be stimulated and was thrusting into the air hoping
to brush against anything that would help relieve some of the building
pressure. Feeling the climax building once more, Aaron increased his pace,
not intent on making it last, "I'm so close.I'm Cumming." he whispered in
Brian's ear, as he felt his balls unload once more, unfortunately way to
soon, but Aaron did not think Brian could wait much longer before he too
unloaded.

Releasing one of Brian's hands only to have it captured by his other, Aaron
reached behind him for the bottle of lube, once finding it he squirted some
onto his fingers and slipped his hand around behind him and started to work
the lube into his own hole, once he felt slick enough he took his lubed up
hand to Brian's hard cock and very carefully lubed it up, not touching it
any longer than he had to so he did not cause any premature explosions.
Slowly sliding the rest of the way out of Brian, he rolled him on his back
as he captured Brian's lips in a kiss while he crawled over the teen's body,
once above him, Aaron reached back and slowly picked up and bent upright the
very hard cock that was not very willing to move much and when it was in
position, he slowly sank down on it.

Brian felt this incredible warmth near the head of his cock and as soon as
he felt this popping sensation, he came, violently bucking his way deeper
inside with each shot, fully inside Aaron, he panicked slightly before being
embarrassed, "I'm sorry I couldn't mmph."

Aaron silenced Brian by capturing his lips, "I knew that could happen, now
you can make it last this next time," he smiled down at Brian as he hooked
his legs under Brian's butt and rolled backwards, so he was lying on his
back and Brian was kneeling while still inside him, pushing back slightly
and scooting away before repeating the motion, Aaron smiled, "Now slow and
steady in and out until you build up some speed when you feel like it."

Grinning, Brian repositioned himself so he was more comfortable and followed
orders, slowly thrusting in and out, eyes closed relishing the incredible
feeling he was experiencing as his hard cock was wrapped inside that warm
tight tunnel. All too soon, the only sounds were the rapid slapping of flesh
as Brian let his body take over and he thrust in and out, his ball sack
meeting Aaron's ass cheeks, sweat dripping off his face, Brian was oblivious
to anything going on around him when Richard and Damien walked into the
room, stopping near the bed, eyes wide as they watched what was happening.
"I'm.I'm.I'm Cumming," Brian panted out, as he jerkily thrust inside Aaron.
Finished and not moving, Brian enjoyed the climax as he stayed inside Aaron,
too tired to move at the moment.

Legs moving around behind Brian's butt to keep him inside, Aaron turned his
head to the side and motioned the two watchers closer, pulling Damien over
as he was not as hesitant to approach as Richard, Aaron kissed him deeply as
he reached over for the hard pointer poking the mattress and gently
rearranged it for him, so it was lying flush against the side of the bed.
"Hello you two; what brings both of you here? As if I didn't know," Aaron
smiled, as Richard made it within reach and he snagged him and pulled him
over to the bed for a kiss.

Crawling up in to the bed and Kissing Brian on the way past to the other
side, Damien smiled as he let his hand circle Aaron's nipple, "Richard is
not all that much longer than I am and I wanted to ask you if we could go
all the way."

Glancing at Richard, he wanted to laugh, but held back as he knew how
fragile the teen probably felt, especially seeing that he was being chosen
because of his lack of size, yet still able to cum. Feeling Brian slip out
of him, Aaron reached up and pulled him down on top of him so he could
whisper in his ear, "Let's help these guys out, get the lube and loosen
Damien up, would you," Aaron ended the whispered question by kissing him
long and passionately as he reached over and felt Richard's hard cock with
his hand, knowing that he had already made the rounds with his cousins, and
Pete and Tim, he wasn't too worried about him not knowing what to do, and
the girth and length he was feeling, he did not think would cause Damien any
problems.

Grinning at finally being able to feel someone inside him, Damien quickly
turned over so he was on his knees butt in the air. Brian, after getting a
hold of the lube scooted so his legs were between Aaron and pushed off the
bed so he was kneeling once more, once on his knees, he moved over Aaron's
leg so that he was behind Damien and squirted some lube out onto his fingers
and pressed them against Damien's tight hole gently until a single finger
pushed through. Remembering what Aaron had done for him he slowly worked the
finger in and out of Damien and when he felt the hole loosen up slid the
second one inside, he knew what he was doing was being liked, by the moans
of pleasure Damien was vocalizing.

Aaron, sitting up and pulling Richard into the bed with them moved around so
he could position Richard on his knees near Brian and lubed him up, when the
time came, he would control Richard entering Damien for the first time, and
once he was sure Damien did not have any problems, he would back off so they
could enjoy themselves.

Brian placed his hand next to Richard's cock, fingers extended so he could
figure out how many he needed to use to stretch Damien in preparation for
Richard's entry, deciding that the two he was using now were enough, he
moved to the side so Aaron could move Richard into position and when he felt
the tip of the hard cock touch his hand, he removed his fingers as Aaron
slid Richard's cock in enough to pass the inner ring. Aaron held Richard
still by holding onto his hips and keeping the hand he used to guide Richard
in between the two of them, "Slowly Richard, slowly in and out, and each
time I'll let you go further in," Aaron whispered in Richard's ear as he
nibbled on it before kissing his neck. Several minutes later, only having to
slow Richard down once, Aaron removed his hand and reached around the couple
to pull Brian over, once he was in his arms, he moved them so they could lie
down and watch them, spooning into Brian's body from behind, arm across
Brian's chest as they enjoyed each other's company, and watched the other
two have their fun.

Half an hour later, Kevin walked into the room and smiled as he saw Aaron
and Brian spooned together along with the sleeping couple, Damien finally
got his wish he thought, as he moved closer and saw Richard asleep but still
inside Damien. Having relieved his sexual need with Mark earlier, he pulled
the covers up over Damien and Richard before going to the other side of the
bed and pulling them up over the sleeping Brian and Aaron, the last thing he
did as he climbed into the big bed to snuggle up spooning into Aaron was to
use a bit of kinesis to turn off the lights as he pulled the covers up over
him and lay down to sleep.

The next morning, all five of them were rudely awakened by a brilliant light
show complete with sparkles and the seeming beaming in of Pete, the resident
evil SCIFI nut who was giggling.

Aaron opened an eye and looked over at Pete and frowned, as he saw it was
five minutes until five, he had a whole whopping five minutes of sleep
before he had to be awake, "I need a shower, after that, and I feel more
human, we will talk about whatever invention you've come up with now," Aaron
groaned, as he slipped out of the tangle of arms and legs, throwing a tired
smile towards Pete, "your punishment, for waking me early, is to wash my a
back."

Pete ducked and picked up his light show gadget and ran to place it on
Aaron's desk top then rushed to the showers to take his punishment with a
grin on his face.

Walking into the steam filled shower stall, Pete picked up the soap, "Sorry,
I thought you would be awake; I perfected my light show last night before
bed and I guess I was a little too excited, I should have checked to see if
your were awake first."

Turning around, Aaron pulled Pete into a hug and kissed him before looking
him in the eye, "Other than a glaring wakeup call, what is a light show, and
why did you build it?" he smiled so Pete would know he was not mad.

Grinning, Pete hopped in excitement for a second, "I was thinking that the
longer we kept our gifts hidden the better off we would be in the long run,
we already let out that we have telepaths, which could make us targets, if
they knew we were kinetics and teleports on top of that, we definitely would
be targets."

"So that's what you were building last night, something to disguise how we
teleport," Kevin yawned as he entered the steam filled shower, "if you're
doing backs as punishment, you owe me," he giggled as he walked around Aaron
and gave him his good morning kiss before moving backwards towards Pete.

"Yep." Pete lathered up his hands and started to soap up Kevin's back, "I
made two versions, one which we can install in a floor grid for cargo
transport, and the other that can be worn and when triggered a small micro
wire drops from the device to start the light show between a person's legs."

Moving so he could lather up the front of Aaron, Pete smiled, "The device
can be triggered with a brush of kinesis and from what I watched during
testing in the mirror, it carries along the light show when you leave to the
point you arrive. The battery is good for a hundred ports before needing to
be recharged; I just need to come up with a smokescreen for kinesis.oh."
Pete trailed off as Kevin knelt down and took him in his mouth, after all,
the shower was a no work zone.

Chuckling at the unique way Kevin had come up with to deter any further work
related discussion, Aaron reached over, turned the water off and started the
drying cycle, halfway through it, Pete stiffened as he shot his load into
Kevin's waiting mouth, "Man that was wicked intense, the air added to the
whole feeling."

Moving through the closet, Aaron stopped and grabbed a polo shirt with the
Clan crest on it and a pair of khaki's along with his deck shoes before
entering the bedroom, only to find Brian was gone as well as Damien and
Richard. Shrugging, he followed Pete and Kevin out of his bedroom into the
common room where he found a clean but still wet Brian along with similarly
wet and clean Damien and Richard, "There's where you guys got off to."

Brian smiled, "We decided to save some time by grabbing a shower in one of
the other rooms, everyone else has already gone topside to the farms for
morning chores."

"Alrighty, well there are three of you and three of us so who is riding
whom," Aaron smirked, as Damien jumped up and rushed to grab hold of him,
throwing his arms around Aaron's neck for the ride and good morning kiss.
Brian shyly went to Kevin, as Aaron ported to the vet barn.

Seeing the empty stalls, Aaron along with Damien went outside and Damien,
seeing Kenny, took off so he could start his chores and let Kenny know he
was successful and they could talk about the best way for Kenny to join in
and get off restriction.

Aaron of course picked up on Damien's surface thoughts, and considered
letting Kenny do what he wanted as long as Richard was willing and one of
the other guys supervised and helped out, he would wait until Kenny had the
courage to ask, before letting him know he was willing to allow it.

Spotting Mark, over by the pasture fence herding the two cows with calves
towards the rest of the herd, he looked back at Kenny who was glaring
daggers at the calves and chuckled as Richard and Pete came up behind him.
Placing a hand on Richard's shoulder to stop him, "Richard, don't forget
that I am going to be taking you home, or at least back to the palace and
your grandmother, right after breakfast, so show up to the dining room
clothed, please," seeing the downcast expression on his face, Aaron tipped
his chin up so he could kiss him, "don't worry, you'll see all of us around
noon on Friday and we will be spending the weekend," swatting his ass cheek
playfully, which turned into a group swatting, causing Richard to jump and
giggle, he let him run over to the haulers so he could help out.

Turning to an expectant Pete who was holding a small device, Aaron pointed
to the other side of the barn, "Let's go out front and you can show me what
you've built."

Listening as Pete described what he tried to do and how he eventually came
up with the idea as they walked through the barn, Aaron let his mind think
about the possibilities, "Okay, let me see if I have this correct, you would
need to fine tune the device to an individual's height, so the wire would
only go down so far so everyone that ported out looked like they were beamed
out, so the question I have is, how difficult is it to adjust these for
height?"

"It's not so much as height above ground that needs to be adjusted but the
distance between the belt and the space between a person's legs, so for the
most part, if you knew that distance you could grab the right one, even if
it was not yours. Tim being shorter than I am, still has the same distance
between belt line and opening between his legs so we match." Pete explained,
as he put on the baling string he picked up in the barn, for a belt to
demonstrate. Touching a recessed button, the micro wire slid out of the
device and a very small glow at the tip showed where the end was.

Examining the wire, Aaron nodded his head before standing back up and moving
away, "Okay, let's see how this works then, you told me you brush the device
with kinesis and it goes off and then while it is doing its light show, you
port."

Pete grinned, "Yep, I need to find a way to do away with that part but so
far I am not sure where to look to even begin to outline the problem, watch
close, I'm going to trigger it, I built in a half second delay before it
activates."

Aaron watched as suddenly a cascading light started around Tim's middle and
a light wave shimmered outwards, kind of like a cross between a Star Trek
transporter shimmer and a column of light, in a flash, the light was gone
and shimmering sparkles were on the other side of the field which, as the
light dissolved away, there stood Pete grinning and waving. Rushing over,
Aaron grabbed him and twirled him around in a circle laughing and proud of
his accomplishment.

"I have to say young Jedi, that it was a success, if I didn't know any
better, what I saw would only lead me to one conclusion, a mechanical means
of transportation.well done.truly well done, Love," Aaron told him, as he
pulled him in for a long kiss. Setting him back down on the ground, Aaron
grinned, "two things come to mind, one of which will probably answer your
search. The first is for your cargo pad can you change the light show so it
is half as long and only has half of the special effects?"

Grinning, Pete nodded, "Yep, I already thought of that and programmed in no
sparkles at the end and only half the duration."

"That's my genius, well, all of you are in your respective fields, to tell
the truth. Now for the icing on the cake, for you at least, if you
incorporate the sensors from the limiters, you can do away with the whole
kinetic aspect entirely, you would not have found the plans or components
for the limiters anywhere but a certain terminal inside the Clan Hall, the
one in the back of my library off the bedroom." Aaron smiled, thinking of
the possibilities and how quickly he could get these into production;
depending on how complex it was he could retool one of the motherboard and
chip lines for a day or so and have them built and stockpiled, yes, he
thought, that would work.

Picking up on Aaron's train of thoughts, Pete smiled, a feeling of intense
pride in a job well done and one that was appreciated, "I built this with
standard parts, so I don't think there would be much retooling necessary;
all the lines already produce the components we just need to build and
encase them.well, add the limiter circuit, I can't believe I did not even
think of using that, after all if it detects and stops porting."

Chuckling, Aaron agreed, "Once breakfast is over, go into my library with
your schematics and redesign the case for solidification using the terminal
hidden in the room behind the library. Go to the corner farthest from both,
the bedroom and the common room and remove the large red book; you'll see a
slot that will fit your medallion without taking it off, once you insert it
in the slot, a panel will open with the words push here on it, you have to
use kinesis to push or it will not open the door." Thinking about it for a
moment, "Take Kevin with you, as he is the only other one right now that has
passed his ordeal, other than you and Tommy, and Tommy has not been altered
yet."

Gauging Pete's reaction, "All those designs and futuristic weapons and what
not you were looking for, way back when, well their designs are locked into
that terminal. Promise me that you will not, without my permission, attempt
to build any of the weapons you find in the system, only if I have been
killed and things are dire can you build them, promise me." Aaron looked at
Pete intently.

Pete solemnly nodded before taking a big deep breath, "I promise I will not
build weapons unless you have been killed or things are so dire and you are
gone and that both Kevin and I agree they are needed."

Thinking about the added and changed condition, Aaron smiled, "I can live
with that, you'll find all the plans for the starships and bases there, so
you have plenty to keep busy with anyway. Adjust the prototype for me will
you, that way when I take Richard home after breakfast, I can give it its
first official field trial."

"You did real good; I'm proud of you, Pete, if you get everything done
schematics wise by the time I get back this afternoon, we'll set the
automatics to building a bunch of these, maybe into belts with the Clan
crest on the buckles for our use and the Altare symbol on the others." Aaron
looked at the time, "I need to get moving; I'll see you guys at breakfast,"
he added one more kiss just because, before smiling and porting over to the
trauma hospital.

Rounding the corner, Aaron saw the five department heads or the only full
doctors around and waved them down, "Good, I found all of you together,
let's hit the cafeteria and have a talk I've been doing some thinking."

Entering the atrium, Aaron spotted John and Scott near a corner table with
breakfast and several P.A.D.D.'s laying about, "Good, you guys are here,
don't go anywhere; we will be joining you for our first official staff
meeting."

Grabbing some juice and a piece of sausage between two slices of toast,
Aaron sat down near John and Scott, "So how goes staffing?"

"Slowly, the biggest hurdle is, even though we are getting plenty of
applicants, we really don't know the quality of their cooking, the other
thing until Kyle gets back tomorrow, we can narrow it down but need to have
him do backgrounds on the applicants, I want to make sure they are what they
say they are," John looked at his brother with a funny expression on his
face, "You know, I never thought I would ever get to use 'they are' like
that in real life."

Laughing, Aaron saw that the others were getting close, "leave a note with
the applications for Kyle to go through when he gets back Tomorrow, and plan
on coming back with me so we can begin your procedures today, that way, next
week, when you go on a round of taste test trips and meet the people, you
will have a few advantages." Seeing Scott about to argue Aaron glared, "No
arguments, this needs to be done quickly so you have time to master your
gifts."

Sighing, Scott sat back and nodded unhappily, sensing Aaron did not want to
discuss this in front of the others.

Giving everyone a moment to start eating, Aaron started, "I've been doing
some research in genetic alterations available to us, and made a slight
discovery.  While all of you are too old to go through the full alteration
process safely, I have come up with a process we can run you all through
that will be an advantage, especially for you, Theo."

Seeing he had their interest, "What I propose to do is to do a partial
upgrade to each of you, including the residents, after all of you have gone
through the process, what it will do is to correct any underlying health
problems, clean out your arteries and so forth, in a sense, it will give
you, Theo, the insides of a thirty year old. I expect it will extend your
lives to around a hundred and twenty full active years."

Aaron paused to take a bite of his sandwich and chew it, "All the
simulations agree that what will happen at the end of your life cycle is one
or two days at the most where you will all of a sudden slow down and
painlessly age and succumb to the grim reaper at the end of your time. Up
until then, you will be healthy and spry, barring accidents of course."

Theo looked at Aaron awed, as he never gave it a thought, "I never
considered running us through the bio-tubes and scanners for practice,
preventative medicine at its best. When do you want to do this?"

Dipping into the others' surface thoughts, Aaron smiled, "Theo, you and Phil
on Saturday and then on Monday you will relieve the two who go with the
Asclepius to Elswick tomorrow, to set up a temporary hospital while the
permanent one is being built, from there, Larry and Miguel will return and
take their turn and that leaves Gabriel for last, well, chances are you will
go through the process on Monday also."

Finishing off his breakfast sandwich, Aaron looked at John, "Not enough
sage, close, but you need another ten percent, I think." Watching the
snickering from Scott out of the corner of his eye, "if the Asclepius leaves
for England and docks at Elswick tomorrow as planned, and I have been
assured the runways are in excellent shape, you can expect to be open for
business by Saturday at the latest, meaning Altair Trauma will be up and
operating Sunday, at limited capacity," Aaron looked at Scott to see his
wide eyes and nod that he understood. "It also means we will not be able to
hold off the outcry that will start to pour in, so expect to reach fifty
percent capacity on Thursday, which means after Tuesday, we need to cycle as
much of the staff through the process."

"Are you going to offer the upgrade or longevity package to the general
public?" Phil was curious and hoping he wasn't.

"No." Aaron shook his head, "only residents of our kingdom that are either
on the island or one of the many bases and hospitals we will be building;
the politicians and Joe off the street can do without. The world has a
population problem as is right now, even with Pete working on space travel
and colonization, it will be a good long time before we are ready to offer
the average citizen the process."

Aaron smiled at the relieved thoughts and emotions he was receiving, "And
lastly, speaking of staff, while we have a good core staff that will move
into management, most likely on the nursing side we need more, also, use
your contacts to scour the fourth years that I'm sure will be applying along
with residents, as Theo has told you, we do have a way to offer them the
full treatment if they are young enough, plus, instead of opening one
hospital, we are opening two and while it may take some pressure of off
Altair Trauma, it does not take it off our staff as all the equipment that
is out of kingdom will be DNA locked. If the worst would happen once the
cycle completes, those bio-tubes will self destruct before being allowed to
be reverse engineered, I have a feeling one country or group will make the
attempt, at least once."

Seeing Gordon walk into the atrium looking directly at them, Aaron paused,
"Main Med Bay alright or do you need me back there," Aaron was trying to
remember if they had any patients being treated.

"No you're fine, it's pretty empty there right now, no Carl and I flipped,
so I get to go with the Asclepius tomorrow, and we'll switch off weekly, I'm
just here for the announcement and to answer any questions the residents
might have, once you break the news," Gordon smiled as he pointed to the
wall clock, it was almost time for morning rounds.

"Unless you have any questions with what I've gone over this morning?" Aaron
waited for them all to give their negative, "then I will join you in the
auditorium in a few minutes, we'll make assignments and then I can get my
ass in gear and back for breakfast before the Clan sends out a search
party," he laughed.

Once everyone but Scott and John were gone, Aaron turned to them, "There is
another reason why the two of you need to be altered at the same time, as
you have a unique relationship, the process leaves you extremely horny after
completion, without a friendly hand to help out it has been known to take as
many as seven or eight climaxes before you settle down enough to even get
dressed." Grinning at Scott's wide eyed expression while John looked
thoughtful, "besides, you had no way to know we are going to open next week,
and I need both of you through the process before then, so you can be
effective."

"We understand," John spoke for both of them as he stared at his brother as
if considering something.

"I'll leave you two then to make arrangements and I'll see you in half an
hour then." Aaron told them as he stood and placed his glass on the conveyor
on his way out.

Entering the auditorium, Aaron made his way to the front of the room and
stood behind the empty podium, "First of all, let me say this right off the
bat.WELL DONE.all of you handled a total of four hundred patients with
practically no training whatsoever in the equipment we use here on Altair,
not to mention dealing with their families who came along." Aaron smiled as
he waited for the applause to die down, "Now for the news you have all been
waiting for, let me put the rumors to rest; the Asclepius will be setting
sail tomorrow, destination Elswick England. He will sail into port around
noon and be stationed there until the new hospital is built, meaning for all
intents and purposes, we open for business Saturday and this Trauma center
officially opens next Thursday."

"Which means we need to seriously staff up, so if you know of people who
would be a good fit, get them to apply and we will set up interviews
starting on Monday, and they do not all have to be from the states, they
just need to be accepting and good at what they do," Aaron told them. "I'll
let the different department heads talk to each of you about your rotation
on the Asclepius, but what I am thinking in the beginning, we will do one
week there, one week back, with four hour days and then one week here with
eight hour days before repeating, hopefully by the time it cycles one more
time, we will have attracted enough staff so that we pretty much can settle
down to a steady schedule, or at least as much as a trauma center ever can."

"One more thing before I let you get on with your day, we will be installing
a long range teleporter on the Asclepius and it will be one of the first
things installed at the new hospital, so even though you will be scheduled
for rotation on the Asclepius, you will not be gone from your home for more
than your shift, that is, unless you plan to go into town and do some
shopping." Aaron frowned,  "You know that one more thing phrase is starting
to turn out like that damn American potato chip commercial," Aaron let them
laugh before saying, "make sure each and every one of you makes it to the
security office to get your new passport before leaving on the Asclepius,
one of the benefits of working for the kingdom is that you become a citizen
of the kingdom, and I'll let the others," Aaron pointed to the five
department heads," let you know what the benefits are like, and don't
forget, those of you that brought your families, that means make sure all of
them make it to security to get their passports, in case you want to take a
day trip after your shift. Now really, that was the end, I'll let the others
pass out the rest of the news." He left to the standing ovation his people
gave him, feeling pretty weird before he made it out of sight and ported to
the atrium.

Seeing John and Scott, "You guys ready to go?" Aaron asked as he walked over
towards them glancing at the time, breakfast would be almost over if he did
not hurry, grabbing on to them when they nodded in the affirmative, he
ported to the main med bay. "Carl, are you around here somewhere?"

Carl, sticking his head out of one of the resequencing pods, waved, "Over
here, did you bring me some new guinea pigs.I mean customers," he laughed,
as he walked out into the hall.

"Oh great a saw bones with a sense of humor, of all the docs we could get
stuck with, we get stuck with a comedian.how's it hanging Carl?" John
laughed.

"Come on over here guys and I'll get you set up for your resequencing; we'll
use the end pod," Carl waved them over as he started down the hall towards
the end pod, leaving Aaron smiling and waving goodbye.

Walking out of the med bay, Aaron noticed the Graves boys over by the lake,
"Hey Adam," he called out when he spotted the three of them walking by,
"you guys finish breakfast already?"

Nodding as he ran over, followed by the twins, "Sure did, Chris made french
toast and bacon, and we had some eggs and juice.have you heard any news
yet?"

"That's why I called you over, Brialey probably has not found you yet, so
I'll go ahead and tell you, we found your dad, and tomorrow night right
before midnight, we expect to pick him up in Yokohama, he'll probably meet
you Saturday morning on Altair Minor some time after breakfast, I'll make
sure Brialey finds you at the dining hall right after breakfast, so stick
close until he gets there okay?" Aaron accepted the hug from the twins and
Adam with a smile.

"Thank you.thank you very much," Adam had tears in his eyes, tears of joy.

Spending a few minutes talking to the teens, Aaron finally was able to port
to the Clan Hall, as he approached the kitchen, he looked into the steam
table pans sorrowfully as they were empty, sighing, he entered the kitchen
he could whip something up real fast he thought, walking around the counter
he smiled at Richard and Kevin sitting and talking, "Hi loves, I hope this
is not the way the rest of my day is going to go," Aaron sighed, as he
opened the refrigerator to see what leftovers were around the he could
quickly reheat. Not finding anything, he looked in the freezer compartment
for something and found one of his chocolate donuts and decided that would
have to do for now.

Seeing the worried look cross Kevin's face, Aaron smiled, "I had a piece of
toast and a sausage patty which is not my idea of breakfast, people just did
not seem to want to let me go this morning, so I missed breakfast and don't
have time to start things from scratch not with having to be in England at
the palace in." Aaron looked at the clock "shit ten minutes and I still have
to get that whatever he is going to call it from Pete before I go." Aaron
stuffed more of the donut in his mouth as he walked around the counter and
realized he had finished the donut and was not full. Staring at his hand, he
sighed before going back to the freezer, pulling out another donut and
eating it.

Pulling his scanner out of his pocket, he set it to scan and pointed it at
himself as Kevin and Richard followed him towards the house, by the time he
made it to the library off his bedroom, he pathed Pete, "Pete are you in the
hidden room or your room, I need to get a move on," he frowned at the
readings he was getting. He needed some time off that was one thing for
sure, well it would have to be an early day or else they could handle it all
themselves he thought.

Pete, sneaking out of the hidden room, saw Aaron frowning at his scanner and
saw the worried expression on Kevin's face, "what's wrong," he pathed Kevin.

"He finished off two of those donuts without hesitation and probably could
go for another and he does not like the readings he is getting from the scan
he ran on himself." Kevin returned on a tight channel so Aaron would not
eavesdrop.

"That settles it, I'm on portation duty for you this morning, when you are
ready to come back and I do mean be ready before lunch time, path me and
I'll port you back, you can spend the rest of the day puttering about in the
Clan garden." Kevin was forceful, as Pete handed over the device.

Putting his scanner away, Aaron shrugged, not about to fight Kevin about
something this simple and it would give him practice he thought. "Ready
there Richard, let's get you home to your grandmother, everyone will show up
tomorrow around noon, and then you guys can go out on the town or something
while the old fogeys listen to me bitch them out in the house of lords
tomorrow morning, so it's up to you and your cousins to come up with a plan
to take everyone sightseeing."

"Thanks Pete, I'll let you know how the special effects are appreciated,"
Aaron told him, as he walked towards his office and the generator; Kevin was
practically running to get there first. Aaron, arm around Richard's shoulder
and side by side with Pete, walked into his office to see Kevin still with
his concerned look on his face holding one of the energy drinks and another
donut out towards him, looking at Kevin as if he was playing a mother hen,
Aaron nevertheless took both the drink and the donut and quickly ate the
donut and drank from the energy drink, smiling at feeling a lot better,
"Thanks Kevin, trust me I am planning on getting back here and resting for
the rest of the day. Honestly Kevin let me get through this morning and I'll
probably take a nap and then do some emails and stuff from bed."

Kevin nodded slowly before looking at Pete, "I'll need a visualization from
you for the palace dining room, and then how to activate the device Aaron
placed on his belt."

Pete walked behind Kevin and placed a hand on his shoulder and did as he
asked, sending both the information and visualization and a second later,
Aaron and Richard ported out in a dazzling light display. Looking at Kevin,
Pete nodded his head and pathed the rest of the Clan, "Emergency Clan
meeting at the dining hall; grab the non telepaths and meet us there."

Editors section:



RadioRanchers Musings:

Okay, It looks like we have not been able to save everyone.  I suppose it
had to happen sometime. What happened to the boy at the mall, who's father
tried to kill him?

I am somewhat surprised that Richard didn't ask for asylum. Maybe he still
will.

Getting both hospitals running at least to some level is a very good thing.
Pete seems to be quite that gadget guy, doesn't he?  That was a cool idea to
make something that looks like technology to explain the porting. Well, I
know there were more things I was going to say, but i can't think of them at
the moment, so maybe next time.

Darryl AKA The Radio Rancher

A/N: Mall what mall J, as far as not being able to save everyone, well even
with all the wonderful tech I built for the guys in my story, you just can't
save everyone, and it is how you deal with that that I, I think makes these
characters interesting to hear about.

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