Erasure and Affirmation (Hypernaturals 11)

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"You know what those two did after all that?" Jessica indicated Morgan and me.

Jessica had a rapt audience now. Three heads went left/right a few times.

"They took me to the woods, and they loved me. They kept loving me. They washed all the images of that dumb face out of my head, and the way he smelled and replaced them with images and scents of them. Later, when we were home, Adrian took me to the mountain where I first told him I loved him, and we made love on it over and over. Every time I get down on myself over my cheating ass, they love the hell out of me. I cheated on them and they respond by loving me. I took out a great deal of my anger on the house that had to come down anyway, and it felt great. I looked at the bed. He fucked me there, I smashed the bed into kindling. He followed me over to the shower and kept trying to have a peek. I smashed that bathroom all to shit too. I learned a valuable lesson. My spouses are smarter than I am about who I should be with. I even already knew that. I put Morgan on Adrian's list. She has been spectacular. I love her so much. She took care of me when I was a total numbskull. She explained to Alexander which way is up when it comes to me."

Tala guffawed, "If you mean that she will feed him his pet dick if he hurts you in any way ever again, yes. She explained it. Seems Morgan is pretty badass too."

"The baddest. I love her to pieces." Jessica said proudly and reached around behind me to touch Morgan's shoulder.

"The coda to the story of 'The time Jessica got horribly fucked' is that we did not solve our gender imbalance issue. We learned to let time solve it for us. It did. Carol and DeWayne's wedding was a revelation. Going forward we can do inter-mural family events, like with Vera, Angel, and Kevin..."

Vera perked up at that idea. "Oh, hell yeah. That would be the best orgy ever."

I continued, "Or do one with Danny and Lori, Or DeWayne and Carol... Like at their wedding, but with just us."

"Hey! First dibs!" Vera said, cheerfully.

"...but whatever it is, it will not be rushed or hurried or forced, and we four will all agree to it first. Maybe only a minute before we are diving in, but I do know this. Spousal approval required." I concluded.

"We are smarter together." Jessica said. So that lays it out. Depending on what you call the human-days beatings and subsequent sexual assaults..."

"Rape." Morgan said firmly.

"Ok. In that case, what I did with Alexander was not the second-worst sex of my life, it is the out and out worst." Jessica said.

Tala watched Jessica closely as she asked: "So, no matter how much Alexander asks or begs or pleads, you are never going to give him another chance?"

"Me? He is not on my list, so that question is not valid. The answer is: 'I will never cheat on my family ever again'.'" Jessica replied.

Tala glanced over at Alexander. Reading him. "I think I will stop even trying to put him into Kimberly's life. She does not need a man with his kind of BS as a male role model. I kept thinking she needed her father. Now I think she needs A father. Very different thing."

"That to me is the hard part of Ninovan." I said "You have fluid relationships, but your catalyst dude is a first-order prick. You want a kid, talk to a decent person who will be there for you and the child, and just take any help needed from the Catalyst."

"Adrian is one of those. You do not have to be on Adrian's list to have him help you start a child. That does not involve sex. He does not need to be there. Further: Bitch all he likes, I am collecting Alexander's pheromones via the collection suit. His blood with a syringe. Denise will make sure he is there at the appointed time. No more sexual blackmail in Ninovan. I'll also be testing Morgan's scent and blood for possible catalyst effects since she and Adrian are so similar. There are options now. None of them involve having Alexander touch you, or worse."