We arrived at our destination and the freighter would be hanging around for a while. Someone had booked a high priority cargo and they paid handsomely upfront for them to wait. Of course, it was actually us that did it anonymously so that we could smuggle out any freed prisoners we might have, and it ensured we had an escape.

No customs officials and no security screens greeted us as we left the freighter and stepped onto the planet's surface. No one asked about the two missing men, either. The sky was dark and dreary at the time with storm clouds overhead and a vocal warning from a nearby building told us that an electrical storm was scheduled to hit sometime in the next three days.

I exchanged glances with Simone and Gleas, nodded, then we moved off into the hustle and bustle of the crowded streets. It took us a while to make our way across the city we were in and hired an off-road vehicle. It had wheels, which none of us liked, and I sorely missed having access to my own ship and shuttle. Of course, dropping in directly wouldn't have been a good idea, either.

It took us half a day to follow the datapad's instructions on how to get to the right town that had the training camp. Our backsides were sore and we were not in a pleasant mood when we finally arrived at the place we needed to get to. I drove the vehicle to the first hotel we came to, parked it, then the three of us got out and went inside.

I was barely halfway across the lobby when I spoke. “Please tell me you have big bathtubs!” I said loudly and rubbed my lower back.

The woman behind the desk smiled widely. “Someone went on an off-road trip, did they?”

“I never thought I'd say that I hate wheels!” I said and groaned. “I think my spine is an inch shorter.”

The woman laughed. “Your companions aren't much better off.”

“I want to book your best room; but, any room would work right now.” I said. “With a tub. I said tub, right?”

The woman kept laughing and registered us. “It's the best suite in the place. Top floor.”

“Just top floor?” Simone asked, her eyes bright as she leaned on the counter. “Not a room on the top floor?”

“The entire floor is yours.” The woman said smugly and held out the key card.

“I could kiss you!” Simone exclaimed and took the key with both hands, and the woman's face flushed red as she blushed.

“Keep it in your pants, Paulina.” Gleas whispered loud enough for the woman to hear.

Simone laughed softly and looked at the woman behind the desk. “Sorry, cutie. My kisses are taken.”

I started to hand over some credit chips and the woman waved them away. I smiled and picked a fifty credit one out of the pile and gave it to her. “Any chance for a meal right away?”

“I'll have a menu sent up, sir.”

“Thanks.” I said and Simone led Gleas and myself over to the elevator. We put in the key card and the elevator took us right up to the top floor.

“It opens into the living room.” Gleas said in surprise. “That's not very secure.”

“Worry later. Bath now.” I said and started to strip off my sand and grime covered dirty clothes. “Good lord, I miss my flight suit.”

Simone laughed and started to strip, too. “Hunter, get the bath going.”

“Right.” I said and almost tripped over my clothes. “Dammit, I hate doing things by hand.” I said and picked them up and walked over to the bathroom. “Oh, nice.”

I dropped the clothes and walked over to the huge tub. I quickly filled it up and added some bath bubbles from my bag of holding. It was one of the requirements that Hailey made me promise to before she would let me out of her sight. I needed to take a bath and think about her.

“Ooo, very nice.” Simone said and dropped her dirty clothes on mine, then she chuckled. “Hailey's bubbles?”

I nodded. “I promised.”

“You're so good to her.” Simone said and gave me a kiss. “If I wasn't already having sex with you, I might be a little jealous.”

I chuckled. “Hey, you know nothing's going to happen for years... so does she, actually. She may say certain things when around other people; but, it's because she's the one that jealous of you.”

“What?” Simone blinked her eyes and was surprised when the Presence didn't waver.

“You get to be with me when she lets us sneak off. We can have fun that she can only imagine what we're doing.” I smiled at her surprise. “No, I'm not letting her 'see' or experience anything until she's old enough to know what she wants and what it means when people share each other like that.”

“You really don't want to influence her at all, do you?” Gleas asked as she dropped her dirty clothes on the same pile. “I was a little worried about that.”

I turned to look at her to see that she was completely naked. I couldn't help but stare at her.

“Especially considering how I've seen you kiss her a few times.” Gleas said and ignored my stare.

“Oh, he does that for her.” Simone said and ran a hand through the bubbles. “She's seen him kiss us a few times and wanted to try it.”

Gleas thought back to the night they had made the bet during the show. “Hailey saw me?”

“She was right there on Hunter's lap and stared at the two of you making out like horny teenagers.” Simone laughed. “Which she is, by the way. Her hormones are starting to kick in and she's getting a bit irritable and frustrated with everything.”

“Hunter? Is that true?” Gleas asked and walked over to me.

“Uh... yeah.” I said and looked at her face. “She's... becoming a woman and that's got her blood pumping.” My eyes dropped down briefly and back up again. “Yeah.”

Simone snorted a laugh. “Get in the bath.” She said and pushed my shoulder. I climbed in and she climbed in beside me, then Gleas climbed in and sat down on my other side.

“This is nice.” Gleas closed her eyes and relaxed against the side of the tub. The bubbles didn't quite cover her chest, then she took in a deep breath and her breasts rose out of their partial concealment. I wasn't sure why that was sexier than having just seen them completely exposed. It just was.

“Are you having a good look?” Simone whispered into my ear.

“Yeah.” I said and felt her hand touch me.

I closed my eyes and leaned back a little as I put my arms out to either side of the tub and held on. She let go of me and put a hand over my eyes. I felt her kiss my chest, then she moved down and I heard the water a little and felt her lips somewhere else.

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You are really lucky I'm not looking right now. I thought to Simone.

No, you are. Simone thought back to me.

I felt her amusement and I had to agree.

We start the mission officially in the morning, so we have all night to play. Simone thought wickedly.

We need to sleep. I thought back, then felt her speed up and the water churned.

Later. Simone thought. For now, just relax and accept the love that you deserve.

I heard the water churn and she took a deep gasping breath. “You better climb on and finish what you started.” I said, then felt Simone's lips on mine. She broke the kiss and kept my eyes covered, then she straddled me and carefully sat down. We didn't talk much, either mentally or physically, after that. My face was soon covered in her breasts and I sucked and played with them as she rode me fairly hard for quite some time.

When we were both expended and rested, my eyes were covered by a small towel and I was washed by three sets of hands. I thought about protesting it, then decided that it wasn't worth the time. I was washed completely and then rinsed off, then the towel was removed and I saw Simone holding out the soap to me with a huge grin on her face.

“You're really getting off on having someone else here, aren't you?” I asked and took the soap.

“More and more every time.” Simone said with a laugh. “I think that little dalliance we had at the hover bike races gave me a bit too much of a thrill.”

“No doubt.” I said and started washing her all over, then I looked at Gleas. “I'll be right with you.”

“But...” Gleas looked at where I was washing and fell silent.

“I can wash someone and not have it lead to other things.” I said and scrubbed between Simone's legs. She panted as I cleaned her properly, even though neither of us were thinking sexual thoughts. I saw that she was looking at Gleas, so maybe I was a little off that no sexual thoughts were occurring. I rinsed her off and then turned to Gleas. I started to wash her from the top down and when I reached her breasts, she spoke.

“What if... it did lead to other things?” Gleas asked.

“I'd have to warn them about workplace safety.” I joked and gave my hands a good lathering, then gently rubbed my hands over her breasts.

“Oh... oh...” Gleas moaned and she stared at Simone.

“Do you two have something going on?” I asked and moved my hands down to Gleas' waist.

“Kind of.” Simone said with a knowing smile.

“Well, as long as it doesn't interfere with work, you know my stance on that.” I said and started to wash Gleas between the legs. She gripped my shoulders hard and leaned all her weight on me.

“Oh, goddess.” Gleas whispered and I felt her go. I looked up at her face and she was staring down at me as she dripped over my hand. She had a determined look on her face and it was all for me. “Hunter, please. Just this once.”

“Gleas, you know that I'm...”

“We all know.” Gleas said and started to rinse off the soap. “I'm fine with that. I wouldn't be here, naked in a bath with you and another woman, if I wasn't.”

I gave a look to Simone and she smiled. “This is what you meant when you mentioned me taking Gleas aside to ask about what you told her.”

Simone nodded. “I knew a while before that; but, that cemented it in my mind.”

I looked back at Gleas and saw the resolve on her face. “You know I can't use Presence.”

Gleas nodded and reached out to take my hand. “Hurry up and dry me off, then you can make me wet again.”

Simone snorted a laugh. “That's a good line.”

“It only works once, then it loses its magic.” Gleas said with a self-assured smile.

I shook my head and grabbed three towels, then dried Simone off, then Gleas, then myself. We left the bathroom and went to the bed, completely missing the paper menu on the floor by the elevator door, then Simone moved all the way over to the side and laid there and waited.

“You're really only watching?” Gleas asked.

Simone nodded and Gleas climbed onto the bed and I laid down with her. Since I was actually going to do it, I made sure to make it the best experience I could for her. I couldn't use my own Presence; but, that didn't mean I couldn't manipulate hers. I played with her for a while and made her squirm and beg a little, then we joined together.

I wasn't using my own Presence to enhance the sensations, and yet, I felt her mental barriers drop and she let me hear and feel everything she was experiencing. She really wanted this, more than she had wanted anything else, and her legs and arms wrapped around me and she kissed me like she had that night of the bet.

Simone rolled around on the bed and literally wallowed in Gleas' thoughts. The repressed purity they held pretty much did it for her and she rode along with Gleas as I made love to her, then Simone finished when she did. After we cleaned ourselves up, we laid in bed together and cuddled. All three of us.

“I just realized something.” I said. “Gleas, that was you in the tub.”

Gleas didn't say anything and just nodded.

“You waited until I couldn't see with Presence.” I said.

Gleas nodded again and whispered. “Please don't be angry.”

“I should be furious with you... both of you... for tricking me.” I said and let some anger into my voice. They flinched a little and tried to pull away. I held on and they didn't struggle, then both looked at me with sad faces. I kept a scowl on my face and gave Simone a kiss, then turned my head and kissed Gleas.

“Wh-what was... w-what?” Gleas stuttered.

“It's a good thing that neither of you are employees.” I said and smiled.

“What?” Both of them said together.

“What? Did you miss the fact that your shares of the salvage went into the purchasing of a space habitat for you to live in and you didn't get paid?”

Both Gleas and Simone's mouths dropped open at that realization.

“You're all partners with me in this.” I said with a self-satisfied air. Both women sat up to look down at me.

“We went to all this trouble...” Gleas started to say.

“We planned all of this out weeks ago...” Simone started to say.

“...all because you thought you needed to trick me.” I said. “Now you know why I said I should be angry at you. You didn't need to trick me at all.”

Both of them gave me looks of disbelief.

“Wait a minute.” I said and looked from Simone to Gleas. “Which one of you was playing with me on the freighter?”

The two of them exchanged looks, then both of them put up a hand.

“That figures.” I laughed.

“Hunter, is this really okay? Is it true?” Gleas asked. “I'm not an employee anymore?”

“Once you invested into the company, the long term employee contracts were automatically converted into shareholder contracts.” I said. “Now lay down and get some sleep. We have a big day tomorrow.”

“I had a big day today.” Gleas whispered and laid down and cuddled in and Simone did the same on my other side.

“Just so you know, I won't sleep with you when at home.” I said. “I don't even sleep with Simone.”

“You don't?” Gleas asked, a little surprised. “You don't even sneak around?”

I shook my head. “I won't take the chance that Hailey will be exposed to things like this.”

Gleas let out a laugh. “You do realize that she's seen her regular babysitters run around their rooms naked, right?”

Simone laughed. “We've all seen that.” She said. “At least they keep it in their room.”

“Only because I told them to.” I said and that made Simone and Gleas laugh again.

After a moment, Gleas spoke a little worriedly. “Won't Hailey get this experience from me?”

“Don't worry. We'll help you push this into your long term memory after the mission.” Simone said. “She can't dig deep into our minds, thanks to Hunter's lessons and our explicit warnings.”

“Can it really be that bad?” Gleas asked.

“For a barely trained mind to delve into someone else's deep thoughts? It could be catastrophic.” I said. “For both people.”

“They could be trapped, or altered, or even go catatonic at the different base memories becoming their own.” Simone said. “The dangers of it are many and varied.”

Gleas lifted her head and looked at us. “I'm glad you are both here to help her.”

“Thanks, Mom!” Simone gushed and then laughed.

“I said to stop calling me that!” Gleas said, then she laughed, too.

We eventually fell asleep and spent the rest of the night resting. I had a feeling that the next day was going to be pretty hectic. I knew better than to ignore my feelings when it came to things like that.

*

Sandy spent a few minutes washing Hailey's nightgown. A bit of blood had seeped into it from her underwear. Beatrice talked softly to her to explain about what her body was doing, and why, and Hailey listened to it for the most part. She knew that things started happening when you were a teenager and she had grown quite a bit from her growth spurt. She remained calm and collected as she thought about what it was going to mean.

Beatrice could see Hailey was thinking hard about things and she paused to let the girl come to grips with what was happening.

Sandy came out with her nightgown and it was clean. “It didn't stain.” She said with a smile and set the nightgown out to let it dry. “How are you doing, Hailey?”

“I'm... fine.” Hailey said and looked at her, then looked at Beatrice. “Is this... does this mean...”

“Yes, sweetie.” Sandy said and sat down beside her and gave her a one arm hug. “You're becoming a woman.”

Hailey didn't react at first, then she let a smile start to form and it spread across her face and left her with a huge grin. “I'm becoming a woman.” She said confidently as her eyes blazed, then her Presence burst out, covered Beatrice and Sandy, and they felt how happy she was. The two women exchanged glances of concern for the budding beauty that was becoming more powerful every day.

*

Hunter twitched in his sleep as he felt a fluctuation in the Presence. It wasn't bad, so he didn't wake up like he normally would. If he had, he would have felt a tingling in his heart as his special connection with Hailey grew. He would also see another small scar slowly form between the two new scars he had discovered when he almost died the second time.

If someone was to look at them closely enough and connected this new scar to them, they would see that they formed the shape of an 'H' in the middle of the two concentric circles of scars above his heart.