The one positive thing that had come from the death of humanity was that the fragile paradise he found himself in was orbiting Jupiter once every thirty hours, now. Normal days and nights had been reestablished a little over a century ago, now that there was no one on earth to view them.
He thought it strange that there was a morning sun and an afternoon sun, but never a ‘noon’ sun. For a couple of hours each day, both the northern and the southern sun were lit at the same time. That was as close to ‘noon’ as it got.
There were hundreds of disks of data to sort through. Sabrina had evidently spent several years downloading data from the last remaining Praetor. Most of the disks were labeled in her handwriting. They weren’t in the pristine order he would prefer, but after a day of sorting through and reestablishing a semblance of order to them, he knew which ones to study.
It had been two days now since he’d seen his wife. It was two more days before her case was to be brought before the justices. But he had to take a break. Jake was so exhausted he couldn’t even operate the primitive computer to read the data he needed to know and Sabrina was off taking care of his wife, as usual.
Tabatha looked up as Jake came into her room. She cried out joyfully and fled into his arms, sobbing hysterically. Finally getting herself under control, she merged her mind with his, discovering that he had not found anything that could help save her.
“It’s all right,” she cried softly, sniffing back her tears. “Just make love to me. Make love to me and never stop. Make me forget. God, I’ve missed you so…”
He kissed her wet face passionately. For some reason, he didn’t feel aroused like he normally did when he was around her, but he used his hands and mouth on her, making her cry out her orgasm to the uncaring walls and the cold stone ceiling surrounding them.
As she lay on the bed, breathing heavily from her efforts, Tabatha mind-linked with him again to let him know how much she appreciated his company. They both felt his exhausted body finally begin to respond to her presence. She twisted around and started undoing his trousers. He helped her get his clothes off, then climbed into bed, his head buzzing from lack of sleep.
He knew he couldn’t give her the loving she deserved – the loving she so desperately needed to forget she had no future – but he would do the best he could.
Tabatha reached for him and kissed his growing member. She sucked him into her mouth, moaning with her pleasure at having him in her bed again. Her mind was open to his and he could feel the thickness of himself in her mouth – the eroticism of sucking him into her mouth that made her feel so vulnerable, so ready to be taken by him.
She knew when he was ready, and released him, lying back on the bed to make her body available for his pleasure. Jake climbed on top of her and shoved his cock between her legs. He could feel her sensations as well as his own as her body opened up, expanding to accommodate him. Then they were fucking as one – a single sexual unit thrusting into itself and receiving itself in ecstasy.
In only a couple of minutes, it was over. He rammed his pelvis against hers and pressed as hard as he could as he pumped his semen into her. Tabatha was coming, too, arching her back, lifting him into the air as he lay on top of her, trying her best to make their bodies become one with each other as she came.
They collapsed down together, his heavy weight crushing her into the primitive mattress of the cot. In seconds, he was asleep, snoring on top of her. Tabatha lay like that for hours, barely able to breathe under his weight as tears streamed down the sides of her face and into her ears and hair. Instead of pushing Jake off, she held him as tightly as she could until she finally fell asleep, still lying beneath him.
Chapter 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“So, what’s going on between you and Lisa?” Frank asked his daughter. There wasn’t anyone near them on the walkway, so he felt free to talk to her as they traveled.
“Well, she was trying to show me how to make pancakes,” Alicia explained. Her dad looked at her sideways, trying to keep a straight face. “And we kind of got into a food fight.”
She decided to leave out the vampire sex part, not certain if her dad would understand or not.
“Anyway,” Alicia continued, “you called and we were trying to clean ourselves up before you got here. I didn’t know you lived this close. I thought we had more time.”
She sighed, knowing that she’d just lost at least fifty years of kudos from him.
“That doesn’t sound anything like what I saw,” Frank told her, grinning at her. “You’re leaving out a lot, aren’t you?”
She started to reply, but they were at her dad’s house, now. Frank stepped off the walkway and grabbed his daughter’s hand to help balance her so she could swing off, just like she always did. This time, she lost her balance and fell into his arms.
“Whoops!” she cried, then she grinned up at him, wrapped tightly in his arms.
Daddy’d caught her again. His cheerful mood was infectious and they were both laughing by the time her mom opened the door.
“Hi, sweetheart,” Tanya said, hugging her daughter.
Frank stood back and watched the two of them; mother and daughter. They looked so alike they could be twins. Finally, they all went inside.
It had been Tanya’s turn to cook, now that all the kids were home – at least, it felt like they were. Alicia and her brother, ‘Doc’ Frank, and Alicia’s daughter, Jackie, were there. The body count was correct, anyway, and they were still all family.
Tanya began clearing the table. Alicia had been explaining Béla’s plan to her dad and her brother.
“So, tomorrow I’ll go back to D.C. and tell Walter about you,” Alicia was saying. “I mean about the new ‘Cancer Specialist’ I discovered.”
“Okay,” Frank Junior said. “I can take some samples and run a few tests to see whether Béla’s blood will suppress his cancer cells. But remember, Béla said not to be too hopeful. Her blood could just as easily cause the cancer cells to run amuck through his body. They could eat him alive. I’ll rent an office tomorrow and get nephew Jake to handle the paperwork.
“That reminds me, Dad,” Frank Junior said. “Why aren’t Jake and Tabatha here?”
“I don’t know,” Frank said, frowning. “I’ve called them several times. They’re not responding. I was going to wait until after dinner and run a security check on their residence.”
“Well, it’s after dinner,” Frank Junior said candidly.
“So it is,” his father agreed.
They both rose from the table and went into his study.
Tanya came back from the kitchen. “Where’d the boys go? There’s ice cream…”
“They’re checking on Jake and Tabatha,” Jackie volunteered.
“More for us, then,” Tanya said cheerfully.
She went back into the kitchen. Moments later, she reappeared with three small bowls.
Tanya sighed as she sucked on a spoonful of vanilla and gazed at her daughter and her granddaughter.
“What?” Jackie asked, intrigued by her Pollyannaish expression.
“You two could be twins,” Tanya said, grinning sappily.
“I was just thinking the same thing about you and Mom, Grams,” Jackie admitted.
“We could all be triplets,” Alicia said, smiling. “Remember when we used to go out and raise all kinds of hell – the three of us together?”
“Boy! That was a long time ago,” Tanya laughed. “The news vids called us the Terrible Tabor Triplets!”
She sighed. “They probably don’t even remember us now.”
Alicia sighed, imitating her mom.
“Well, We’re all together now,” Jackie said, grinning wickedly. “We could hit the clubs – make a new reputation right here in Boston!”
All three laughed. Then Frank was standing in the doorway. He looked upset. He motioned to Tanya. In the apprehensive silence his presence cast over the room, Tanya rose and walked over to him. He led her into his study.
As Tanya walked into the room, she could hear a young child crying.
“Where is it?” she asked, looking around. “And who?”
“It’s Ethan,” Frank said quietly.
Tanya looked at him. She could see he was sick with sudden worry. The sound was coming from the wall console. Tanya read the location on its display.
“I’ll be right back,” Tanya said.
Then she vanished.
The house was dark. Tanya could hear Ethan crying.
“Lights on,” she said.
The room became brighter.
“Jake? Tabatha?” Tanya called out, not too loudly.
She took a deep breath. The only smell in the air was Ethan.
“Well, at least, they’re not dead,” Tanya said, more to herself than anyone else. “I hope…”
She knew that Frank and her son, and probably the rest of them, could hear her through the security system that Frank had connected into.
“There’s no one here,” she said, looking around. “I’m going to get Ethan and bring him back with me.”
Following the quiet sobbing her grandson’s son was making, she soon found him in his own bed and picked him up.
“Hi, sweetie,” Tanya cooed. “What’re you doing here all by yourself, huh? Ooo. You’re all wet!”
“Frank,” Tanya called out, “Call Béla and have her come over. Maybe she can find out where they went.”
She put Ethan back down and searched around for some clean clothes for him. Finding some, she helped him take his little shirt off and then his pants.
The more clothes that came off him, the riper he smelled.
“Young man, you are going to get a bath, okay?” she said, grinning at him and trying not to gag.
“Okay,” Ethan said. “Where’s Mom?”
He wasn’t an infant anymore. He was already four – and a half, of course.
“I don’t know, sweetie,” Tanya admitted, “but I’m here to baby-sit. Is that okay with you?”
“Yep!” grinned Ethan. “I’m hungry.”
He wasn’t scared anymore. Grammaw was here. He liked Grammaw.
“Bath first, then food!” Tanya exclaimed.
Having found everything she needed – clean clothes, towels, etc., she picked up little Nathan and carried him off to the bathroom.
Frank was calling Béla. The wall screen brightened. Béla and her daughter appeared.
“What!” Béla snarled into the wall console.
She was naked. She had her daughter in a half nelson. Alicia shrieked in hilarity as she realized what she was seeing. Lisa tripped her mother like Alicia had tripped her earlier that afternoon when they had been fighting in the bathroom. Even Frank laughed with glee when both vampire girls fell in a heap on top of each other.
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