Erasure and Affirmation (Hypernaturals 11)

Helpful Safety Tip

My Dad, in concert with Mom and Jessica, designed the collection suit Alexander and I are wearing. Marvin helped with some of the control electronics. The suit and related devices are plugged into a sidecar that all the hoses from the suit route over to.

Alexander lay on the exam table next to me in his tailor-made pheromone harvesting suit.

He is not happy. I hate to say that makes me happy, but it does.

As I concentrated on expressing as many pheromones as I could, from every pore, feeling the skin tingle, he was bitching and moaning and making it hard to concentrate. The price of my happiness over his misery.

It IS kind of interesting to know and feel in this way how much of my body can exude the pheromones. A way in which Vampire physiology differs greatly from humans. Interesting to me. Not Alexander.

My Mom walked around the Ninovan Clinic, in the 'extraction room', busily looking at the sidecars, and humming a song to herself. She has on a full-body covering that looks like it is made of Tyvek, and a full-face gas mask, with twin canisters. Mom intelligently wants nothing to do with being exposed to either Alexander or my special scents. The extraction room has cleanroom level air filtration and a high level of air turnover through it. There is a noticeable breeze when not in a collection suit. I can feel the air movement on my face though.

"I think that is it, mom. Nothing left. Out in the real world, I would have just started an orgy on 6th street." I said.

"Just what 6th street needs, dear. Another orgy. I'll start the collection cycle" Mom said and played with a touch screen, interacting with an app Morgan and I wrote. Pheromone collection is a family effort.

I felt the suit begin the rinse cycle to wash me, sucking off the pheromone/fluid mix and collecting the result for further processing. Ultimately, a couple needing Catalytic Vampire help will be able to reach for a small mister and spritz themselves. Then she'll ovulate quickly: whichever ovum is the next one up will be prepared and released by her ovaries. It will have lots of extra biochemical signaling to tell it to be ready for incoming guests. To try to remove the specificity to either myself or Alexander, our pheromones are mixed. Someday Mom and Jessica hope to remove the sub-scents that link sexual signaling to us at all and make this more general. For now, this is the way they try to keep it so that someone catching the scent of us walking down the street does not turn into a stalker. That would require a Vampire client of course: No human, Astral, or Siren would be able to scent at that level.

Alexander would prefer that they did. That way he could get laid.

"Why are we doing this? It makes no sense. We can help people have babies without all of this stuff." Alexander complained for at least the fourth time in this harvest session.

I did not answer, because there is no point. Alexander can't hear things he does not want to hear.

Mom went over to a counter and interacted with a computer there. Alexander turned his head in the collection suit that left only our faces uncovered and dropped his voice so Mom couldn't hear. "I did this for six hundred years! We didn't need this stuff, man! I just helped Kristi and Mikey have a kid a little while back... You know them?"

Shit. A direct question. "Not well. I know of them. I know they have a baby." I said.

"Kristi came to me, said she and Mikey were in love, and she wanted to have a kid. Mikey was OK with it. So I helped 'em. She's a Siren and he's an Astral, and they should have been able to get one going without help, but they had been trying for a year. I said I'd help. You know. With pheromones. Always breaks down the wall."

I did not reply. I wondered how long this part of the collection cycle is. I wrote the code, but I made that an input variable, so it depends on what Mom picked. I am sure it's set to an 'extra rinse cycle' or something. The better the collection, the less often I have to be here in this contraption. Laying here next to Alex-fucking-ander.