Authors: Yvonne Morgan
Curiosity piqued, Caitlin stood on her tip toes and tried to look into the first window, to see what all the fuss was about. Inside, a man and woman floated, entwine
d, in what appeared to be
thick
water
. How on God’s green Earth can they breath
e
in there! Is it some kind of super water, li
ke that movie I saw that time? H
eavy enough in oxygen for people to breath?
As she stood there, staring, puzzling it over, she was jostled suddenly by several new-comers. It broke the spell and she gave up her spot to them.
Have at it. I’m not much on watching anyway.
She felt confidant she’d solved that little puzzle.
I’ll just G
oo
gle it when I get home tonight.
Moving down the hall
,
she sidled
up to
another
window when she heard the loud gasps of the onlookers, intrigued in spite of herself. Inside, a naked woman was chained spread eagle between two metal pillars. Some
thing,
some strange and terrible, ugly
thing
had hold of her. It looked like it had a hundred mouths and it had every one of them plastered to that poor woman’s body. Caitlin looked at the backs of the men around her, the few profiles she could see, in shock, wondering what that thing was and why no one was stopping it.
Surely it’s just animatronics or something.
A loud moan from the woman inside drew Caitlin’s attention back to her, belying her last thought.
It can’t be fake. I’ve never heard of anything this good, even in a movie.
She squinted at the glass, certain it wasn’t really a screen. The woman was writhing under the mouths, moaning loud enough for the onlookers to hear through the glass. Caitlin felt her own pussy tingle when two of those mouths closed over the woman’s mound and the woman moaned again.
Caitlin pulled herself away f
orcibly, and continued
down the hall in shocked silence, a little faster than before.
I hate to say it, but…I want one! It isn’t much to look at but…my god!
She felt goose bumps run up her spine.
It looked like fun
.
What the hell am I saying? It’s an alien! A real, honest to goodness alien!
She
ha
d heard about them. Who hadn’t? Since people had discovered a method of bending space, travel was
now
a cinch
. There were colonies going up all over the place, and a few alien races had been trying to negotiate to settle on the outer planets around the sun too-not that they would be allowed since most people were anthrophobic- but she had just never
actually
seen
one
before
. At least, not that she knew for a fact.
So this really is about galactic dates and mates. Would I really want one?
It was obvious they had some that looked nothing li
ke humans but she had to assume one of those people in that first room had not been human, even though they both looked it
. Maybe she could get one that looked mostly human without being like a typical man? She stilled herself, deciding to go ahead and try.
I’m already here. As bad as I’ve had in the past, an alien couldn’t possibly be much worse, right?
The crowds thinned the farther she walked, and she walked swiftly past the last group, continuing on several minutes. Val had told her to take the first empty room, but she wanted to get as far away from the crowd as possible, too self conscious of her body and shocked at herself for what she planned to do, to live and stand having all of those men watching, judging her.
It’s too much like having your parents come in on you!
She finally stopped at a door, looking quickly back at the peepers in the distance to see if they’d noticed her. They didn’t seem to have, at least none of them were looking in her direction, so she went inside and closed the door, leanin
g her back against it heavily. Unmoving except for her heart palpitati
ons she remained where she was,
staring at the room around her and wondering at the implications.
The room was spacious,
plain white walls and a plush grey carpet, but
completely devoid of true furnishings, having only a huge touch screen against the opposite wall. There was a distinct lack of anything male, alien or otherwise, in the room. She found herself worrying that she may have chosen the wrong room.
Is this why you’re supposed to take the first empty room?
She didn’t really want to go back out again and chance being noticed.
I think I’ll stay here a while. Maybe they’ll eventually work their way down here some time tonight.
If they don’t? I’m going home in a few hours either way.
She turned around to see if anyone had run up to the window.
“It’s gone!” The window was completely gone! There was nothing there now but wall
.
She opened the door, forgetting for the moment the potential of attracting unwanted attention, and looked in the window. On the other side was the hand she was using to brace herself. She drew back inside the room
.
Bastards!
It was just like the glass at the police station!
And of course there weren’t any drapes she could pull across it either.
What if you don’t
want
people to watch!
She shut the door, studying the glass, scratching at it with a fingernail, surprised that pain
t didn’t come off.
She felt along where she knew the edge was supposed to be, but could feel nothing at all. Was the whole wall made of the stuff, or just part of it? That brought to mind other questions and s
he wondered
just how many public buildings had this stuff in them now.
Do they install it in shopping centers t
o catch thieves? In the jails to
keep an eye on inmates?
The possibilities seemed endless. Truly hor
rifying as far as privacy went, which
was
her chief concern.
I can’t have sex in a room wi
th a window! What if somebody wa
nders by? They’ll attract everyone else’s attention and I’ll have a gaggle of men outside
looking
at me!
She finally left the window and walked over to the touch screen.
“Damn it Val, what am I supposed to do now?” She looked the scr
een over and decided, due to it
s obvious complexity and her own inability to comprehend even one of the symbols on the many buttons, to simply leave it alone. She sat cross-legged on the floor and waited for something to happen. Nothing did. No alien came out of any wall, or in through the door. She started to wonder if she was supposed to tell someone outside what she wanted before coming into a room, but thought better of asking, just in case it wouldn’t help. She giggled to herself, imagining a group of men standing outside the window right now, watching her sit on the floor.
After twenty minutes of sitting and staring at the walls she finally decided that perhaps she was supposed to type something on the key pad. It took several minutes after standing for the numbness and ensuing pain to subside, but when it had she stumbled over to the screen. She looked it over harder this time, but only one button seemed to really stand out. “Let’s see. On my DVD player, the little circle with a line through it turns it on, so….” She pressed the button, but aside from a click, nothing happened.
Shrugging, she tried again, pressing
a few more i
nteresting looking buttons. S
uddenly a voice that
seemed to co
me from nowhere startled her.
She’d already asked what it
had said before she realized the sound
originated somewhere inside the touch screen. “What language is that? Greek?”
Instead of responding, t
he voice continued
as before
and seemed to repeat itself several times. She
had
pressed a dozen more buttons try
ing to get the language changed
when
at last it stopped altogether.
Chapter Two
Killian stared hard at the plain building before him for several moments before looking again in consternation at the card he held cradled in his hand.
This is it. I think.
Nori had told him to expect a normal building, but it just didn’t seem natural for it to contain such wonders, yet look so ordinary
.
But
Nori wouldn’t lie. Not about
something like
this.
He pushed the doubt
s
from his mind and strode across the plaza, pausing only a moment at the door before entering.
It took many moments for his eyes to adjust to the gloom of the interior, but when they had, he felt deflated.
As was typical in a bar
,
there was
an orgy was in progress. Bodies were
everywhere, entwined, lying in clumps all around him on the padded floor. For many, the mating dance was still visible.
I don’t know why I expected differently.
He felt the stirring of his own mating dance, which he was quick to squelch.
He’d always been unsettled at the way most people behaved during mating, willing to perform at any time and place, mati
ng so rarely in the comfort and
privacy of one’s own home, as it was said to have been done in years long past. He longed for monogamy in a world where most women never settled for just one male. Not that there had ever been enough women to go around, even in the grand old days. His brothers always called him greedy to want one all to himself to mate with, alone, at his house of all places
where no one else could even get the pleasure of watching
. It was such an unnatural desire
these days
.
Nori, of course, changed his tune after he had discovered Lexi. The beautiful Lexi.
Killian thought she
had the loveliest hair
he’d ever seen. He understood Nori’s immediate attraction to her, one shared by every man who laid eyes on her.
Killian
was the only one who had not performed the mating dance for her
, out of respect for his friend. It was
no easy feat
to resist his natural urges
, but it had done none of the others any good. She only had eyes for Nori.
The irony that Nori had found first what he himself was so notorious for pursuing was not lost on Killian. Nori had done his best to make it up to him the only way possible, sharing with him the location of No Holes Barred
-the place he had gone and found her
. ‘You can get a mate there. A true life mate! You can even pick and choose. It’s paradise Killian. Truly paradise.’
It had taken Killian one whole, excruciating
cycle to prepare himself for the mate he planned to bring home.
In that time, he had expanded the small house in which he lived to include numerous other rooms, had amassed a small fortune to ensure her comfort and his own ability to give her just about anything she could ever want. He had even worked to improve his body. He wanted everything to be perfect. In all that time, he had avoided this side of the city, afraid that if he so much as laid eyes on the club, he wouldn’t be able to resist going in. Now at last, here he was.
Nori said it would appear like any other bordello
,
h
e repeated
to
himself several times, reassuring himself with that thought
.
But w
hy would any male settle for
this?
Don’t they know what’s up stairs right now?
It was possible they thought they were just in a normal club. Then again, wasn’t it also possible they were?
He scanned the room for a flight of stairs. He spotted two sets against opposing walls and opted for the path of least resistance. Killian had to step over many thrashing bodies, nearly tripping over out-splayed limbs twice, but finally managed to gain the stairs. He took the steps three at a time. At the top, a guard scanned him, glaring down at him. After several moments, Killian began to wonder
if he would even let him pass. He
prepared himself to fight his way through, but at last the man nodded and stepped aside.
Killian walked through the only door and was greeted by a hallway. A quick scan of
revealed the obvious choice of doors.
Galactic dates and mates.
His member awakened again and started it’s mating dance, too insistent now to discourage.
So close. I’m already so close.