Anton woke up feeling terrible – he felt drained and exhausted, not to mention the hunger that was simply killing him. He tried to move, but his body was all stiff from having stayed in an uncomfortable position for a while. He rested his head back onto his comfortable pillow and buried his face into it knowing that he will still have to get up eventually, then the memories of what happened before began to come back to him…

The fight with Damon, his rush into the ship and the sedative.. He opened one of his eyes and looked around as much as he could – yep, definitely in the ship he thought. He designed the ship and he knew there currently was no equipment or a drone capable of moving his body. A sigh escaped hi lips as he understood – just what was this comfortable pillow he was lying on.

A hand landed on his head and began to lightly scratch it in a comfortable and caring way, Anton just sighed again and buried his face in the soft breast of Anna. He stayed like that for a while, while she kept her hand on his head.

After a while she spoke.

* Im not against this Anton, but you know youre heavy. – her soft voice whispered a little away from his ear.

He turned his head just enough for one of his eyes to see her face, well the side of her face, her own eye was looking directly into his.

* Yeah I guess I am… how are you feeling?

* Like I went trough a meat grinder. And im hungry, I think I could eat a boar whole now.

* Yeah… nanite healing does that to you.

* Yes, I guessed that and your little helper Ashley was kind enough to explain some things for me, like why youre running.

* I see… wait. How did you talk with Ashley?! – his voice was a bit confused and a lot more panicked.

* Well your little helper decided to get herself comfortable in my head – as she said if she didn’t that a gruesome death would await me on the first occasion I got too far from you.. wahts done is done, why are you so scared?

Why was he so scared? His prized grade S AI had just created a copy of itself in somebody else’s brain! What was there not to be scared off? She could be hacked now, and all his plans would be revealed! This was unacceptable!

* She did didn’t she? – He tried to act calm, there was time right now and he should be able to solve this problem in time.

* Yes she did… So comfortable there? – Anna asked with an raised eyebrow.

* Yes, youre soft and comfortable pillow. – Anton replied and buried his face In her breast again.

* Oh, im so glad you enjoy my body. – with a little edge in her voice Anna replied.

Retractable claws slid from Anna’s fingers and lightly dug in into Anton’s head, he grunted a bit but stayed there refusing to move. Anna dug her claws a little deeper drawing a little blood with one of them, but Anton still refused to move, she just rolled her eyes and retracted her claws.

* Youre like a child you know?

* Yeah… Ashley and mother both say that to me a lot. Cant a man enjoy little comforts of life?

* These comforts don’t belong to you!

That said Annas nails shot out again and she painfully dug them into Anton’s neck. Anton yelped out of surprise and pain and jumped into a kneeling position. As he did so a small silvery line between the two ripped and blood flowed out of it for a second, before the silvery material hanging form both of them moved on it’s own and went to their bodies.

* Wait what? – Anton said as he watched this.

[Sorry master, but Anna would have bled out if I had not connected your blood streams…] Ashley quickly sent to him and Anna as she was connected could also see this message. Her cat eyes grew wide and her face quickly went trough a series of emotions – first came fear and confusion, then understanding and shame, then everything all together.

Anton just stayed frozen on his knees, his mind working feverishly to process the information it had just received. He had shared his blood with Anna, a beastkin… even if he was unconscious while that happened it was by his order…

Blood sharing in medicine is nothing unusual, but among beast kin this is a sacred ritual – warriors share their blood with one another if they wish to become brothers.. and if a man shares his blood with a woman they are considered married, yet if the woman was taken forcefully… that is quite different then.

Anton had saved Anna from death, he provided her with a place to recover and even shared his blood with her – in any beast kin’s eyes this would look like marriage of the highest caliber to them… or if Anna refused to become his wife she would be seen as his slave – a slave owning her life to her master.

Anna came out of shock first, her eyes still wide and ears standing straight in alert. For a couple more seconds she seemed to think about her situation and what Ashley had said, her eyes never leaving Anton’s face, watching his reactions – what she saw there she didn’t like. Anna’s eyes contracted into small slits and her ears shifted aggressively after what she saw on his face – she had to react! Quickly she got in front of Anton, who fell on his back startled by her sudden movement, Anna bit her lip deep enough to draw blood and wet her lips with it – Anton seemed to be slowly coming out of shock now and a devious grin was spreading on his face slowly, but Anna was faster! She leaned over his face as he opened his mouth to say something and with a bloody kiss she sealed their fates – her tongue invaded his mouth and he could only try to push her tongue out of his mouth – but that was a trap! She retracted her tongue and his own shot into her mouth – she didn’t delay and bit on his tongue drawing blood. Anton’s face turned red from anger! He was tricked!

After a few more moments they separated, a thin strand of saliva connecting them, both of them were breathing hard. Anna’s face was beet red but with a victorious smile on it, Anton on the other hand was red faced too – but because of anger and annoyance. They kept gazing into one another’s eyes silently not saying anything, their positions now reversed Anna on top of Anton mounting him. Finally Anton averted his gaze and rested his head on the floor a sigh escaped his bloody lips, his body relaxed from the tension he didn’t know he was holding. Anna on top of him relaxed too placing her head onto his chest and just drawing small circles with her finger onto his side, she licked her bloody lips – he was tasty she thought.

[Sister is this how organics form marriage?] Thalia asked her big sister Ashley.

[ Just beast kin Thalia, keep recording everything, this is good footage! We might get rewarded if we deliver this to the right people! Hehehe…] Ashley replied.

[Will master want to watch this footage? Should I send it to him after this?]

[Nnonononoonon! Don’t! this is going to be a secret between the two of us! You remember what a secret is yes?]

[Yes sister! We finally have a secret!]

* So Anton, my dearest husband… - Anna said this as if tasting the words and from the little nod she gave herself one could understand she quite liked the taste of them. – whats the next step on our little adventure? I wouldn’t mind going somewhere warm to spend our honeymoon…

She giggled after saying that and lifter her head to look into his eyes. A defeated sigh escaped his lips again, he just rolled his eyes at the husband and honeymoon part.

* My plan was to build this ship and to just disappear into the lawless outer rim of the galaxy, where I would build my own little paradise aboard this ship… and my plan doesn’t change with you in it or out of it. - Anton replied with cold eyes, his face had lost all emotion as he spoke.

* Oh come on don’t be like that with your young beautiful wife! You know, we have quite a bond now.. do you know what comes next after such a bond? And I don’t want to disappear into nowhere, a woman has her needs you know! We should just go to some civilized world and start our life there.

* Oh I do know what happens after beast kin blood marriage, so to you to go into heat what will it take three months? And if you don’t want to follow my plan ill let you out on the first station I come across. Other than that I will stick to my plan, this ship is but an infant in my plans, I need resources to upgrade it to it’s full potential. And outer rim has those resources and none of the annoying spies of my family.

* That would be so if we only shared a bit of blood… but dearest, your blood has been circulating trough my veins for hours and my body has already adapted to you. – Anna said with a glint in her eyes. – im already going into heat and I wont leave you, you cant just use a woman and kick her aside as if some kind of used trash.

Anton groaned hearing this – he was stuck with her… if she was already going into heat – she wont be able to find another partner. Once a beast kins body adapts to it’s partner it’s final. They are connected for life. And he just wasn’t that kind of a man to condemn another living being to torture.

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[Ashley give me a status report on our situation.]

[Ship is working five percent below optimal, because of the damage sustained during our escape form the station, the AI you ordered uploaded into the ship had it’s personality databanks corrupted because of your shock implant, but she is recovering and im teaching her also helping to develop her personality. Our destination is currently set to one of the rich mineral deposits on the way to outer rim. Latest data from the database shows that there have been a few pirate sightings there in the last few weeks, but I calculate a seventy three percent chance that we will be well on our way before we meet any pirates there after gathering the resources we need.]

[Good, once in system notify me and engage cloaking systems, I want a full scan of the system first before we start mining resources.]

[Understood.]

* Get off of me Anna. I have work to do.

* Indeed, would you mind doing me first? The itch I have is annoying…

* now get off. Find yourself a toy or something.

* How can you turn down a woman? Are you perhaps into… well men?

* What? No! I don’t have time right now for your nonsense! Ashley put her to sleep now!

That said Anna’s head slumped on his chest as she was put to sleep by Ashley, Anton rolled her off of himself and stood up. He stretched a bit and worked out a few kinks in his muscles, then looked at Anna and took her into princess carry, he moved trough the ship towards his cabin that had the only bed on the ship – they will have to share until he acquires one more. He looked at Anna’s body as he carried her – she was attractive, very much so, but he really didn’t have the time right now – Ashley’s warning of the pirates recently frequenting he system they were headed to weighted heavily on his mind. If hell upgrade the ship a bit before they will reach the system their chances will be much better. Hopefully they wont meet any pirates there and will be free to collect the resources they need.

The door into his cabin opened sliding to the left and disappearing into the wall, the whole room was one big ass bed with a little space at the entrance to leave your shoes, cupboards and drawers were installed in the walls to save space and Anton loved to roll in the bed when he just felt lazy and like doing nothing. He gently placed Anna onto the bed, his eyes lingered on her breasts for a second and he allowed himself a little reward for saving her. His hand touches these soft mountains of hers as he fondled them a little, his hand squeezed them and Anna released a moan in her sleep… his soldier immediately stood at attention.

* How can you be so annoyingly sexy when you sleep?! – he asked no one in particular frustrated.

Anton forced himself to stop fondling her breasts and got off the bed, his soldier throbbing painfully in protest against his decision. But he had work to do.

Anton made his way into the bridge deep in the ships guts, he strongly believed windows to be a structural weakness and relied on cameras to work instead as his windows. He sat into the commanders chair – the only chair actually, he never thought about having passengers, not anytime soon at least. He shook his head and focused at the job at hand – ship upgrades. The ship was fully loaded of all his gear and other possessions as he entered the hangar to fly away when Damon cornered him. Lucky him.

He placed his hands on the chair’s handles, where two metallic looking orbs were and his hands sunk into them – they were made out of nanites in such a way that only he or someone else having his nanites could connect and control the ship, his mind though that Anna could do that now if she wanted. A security risk she posed to him now. Annoying woman… it was already a pain to avoid her advances when he worked for her back in the station and now this? Was the universe laughing at him? Definitely. But no worries, hell have the last laugh, oh yes he will. A hardened murderer would have felt chills if he had seen Anton’s evil smile at that moment, but alas there was no one else there to see it.

Anton quickly got to work as soon as he connected to the ship’s systems, the ships AI Thalia introduced herself and bombarded him with childish questions – Ashley didn’t lie when she said that her personality databank was damaged and would need to be built over time. He clicked his tongue in annoyance – one more problem for the future. He ignored the undeveloped AI for now and went onto more important matters – checking the damage the ship sustained. The damage was little more than a few melted armor plates and a couple of blown processors under them – nothing his small army of nanites from the equipment loaded into the ship wouldn’t be able to fix. Order sent his little helper’s woke up in the cargo bay’s and rushed out to do what their master ordered them, time for completion they sent him was just a couple of hours. Speaking about time he thought and checked on the time left till arrival at the system – just over a day, meaning he and Anna were out cold for roughly two days. Damn that John Damon! He knew what sedative would work best on him, not to mention going all the length and creating a custom one!

His next task on the list after setting up the repairs was to upgrade ships power source – the mighty reactor that supplied the ship with power – the system of the reactor itself was efficient and powerful, but with a couple of parts form his collection and some tweaking he could push out twice the power it now produced for the same amount of power and that would be needed for all the rail cannons that will be installed into all the ships spiky protrusions extending from the wings and center of the ship. No way was he having simple civilian grade turrets as his only protection! Just no way in hell! Upgrading those was the third point on his lift after he finished with the rail cannons. For the time being he was low on ammunition for rail cannons and small containers of nannobots will have to work as ammo. They will deal quite some damage on impact, not to mention all the damage they will cause as they will begin to eat trough the enemy ship’s hull.

That done and everything set up Anton yawned, his body was still recovering and that hunger from before hadn’t gone away one bit, but he was so lost in his work for the last couple of hours that he had completely forgotten about it. His stomach now rumbling painfully and reminding him about itself and that he needed food influenced his next task – eat!

With an order to the ships systems – the fabricator came to life and began making a big steak with mashed potatoes for Anton to eat as he was making his way to his cabin. His nanobots will work for now on the tasks he had set up for them, so he had some time – filling his stomach and napping sounded good right now. Humming happily he reached his cabin doors and opened them.

Oh… right shes here. A thought lazily passed trough his mind and he sent another order to fabricator to print one more portion of food.

Anton laid on the bed close to Anna, he could feel her warmth on his left, it was not uncomfortable… when she was quiet like that she wasn’t so bad.

A slight hiss came form the wall on his right and a tray with two plates of food slid out of it, with two sets of forks and knives. For a drink they will have to satisfy themselves with water.

Anton rolled onto his side and looked at Anna, mentally he sent a command to Ashley to wake her up.

Anna’s eyes fluttered and opened. She looked at Anton for a moment at his horns and then at his face.

* If you ever do that to me again I swear I will tear your limbs off. – she said coldly to him. – now then, what is this delicious smell im smelling?

* Not a morning person are you? – Anton tried to joke, but quickly shut up seeing the look in her eyes, they were screaming bloody murder. – Ehem, yes I had some food prepared…

He sat up and took the plates from the tray, turning back he gave one to Anna, who took it silently and began to stuff her mouth with food as soon as she received it – just like Anton did. They were that hungry. Fifteen minutes later after a lot of munching, their bellies now satisfied and lazily digesting all the food they ate both of them plopped onto the bed on their backs. Moment’s later Anton was already snoring lightly, he would be woken up when the work was done. Anna on the other hand had a little talk with Ashley – womanly talk, that left Ashley afraid of Anna.

Satisfied Anna rolled on top of Anton and sniffed his scent – she liked it a lot. Her hand slithered like a snake into the man’s pants and gripped his jewels and sword lightly measuring them, with an approving nod she smiled – not bad, not bat at all!

She stimulated him a little, but he showed no sign of caring to wake up and Anna was annoyed because of that, oh well his loss she thought as her hand unbuttoned his pants and she slid lover…

She took his member into her mouth and began to work her head up and down, her rough cat like tongue licking him all over his member, the tip seemed especially sensitive as his whole body would tremble each time she licked it and she liked it, figuring our his weak point’s was just a bonus – oh how she liked to be in control.

Finally she couldn’t take it anymore and moved on top of him, she sat on his member slowly – his hot and thick shaft pushed her sensitive insides as it moved inside, she slowly began to speed up.

* What ? – his sleepy voice sounded startling her a bit, but Anna just leaned on him and kissed him softly and deeply.

* Just relax and enjoy ill do all the work this time.

He grunted, but said nothing and she kissed him again, his hands now on her sides forcing himself even deeper inside her every time she came down on him. Her climax was near and she could feel him also approaching his own, just a few more intense movements and both of them reached it at the same time.

She could feel him pulsing inside of her pushing out more and more of his seed into her, so she kissed him deeply and softly. Her hips have out after all the work she did and she rested with him inside her lying on top of his chest, a small bump grew on her lover stomach where he was forcing so much of his seed inside her.

Anton growled after some time and turned her onto her back it was his time to move… Her eyes went wide as she looked at him, but soon contracted as she leaned in for a kiss as soon as he began to move – the night was still young, when they continued to make love.