North American Vampire Council & Past Calling (Hypernaturals 12 & 13)

Cert Style Training

As we walked to the stairs that would take us up to ground level, Anne said "I never thought to ask him that thing about if he tried to get Cert pregnant. Good question. That would have pissed her off royally."

"It was a sequel question to the one I asked Cert at the Camp, before they fled. I never really believed she might take advantage of having one of the two known Catalysts within her control." I told Anne.

"She might have had his kid before yours, but yeah: I never believed it either. Having to stay hidden for an entire pregnancy? The only reason to do it would be to stay a kill order. No way we kill a pregnant woman." Anne said.

"I asked about it because I wondered if Cert was tired of getting Vampire-laid on a regular basis, or if he did something to precipitate her ejection of him from life on the run. She always planned to do it this way. She never meant to keep him as her partner in crime. Now I am wondering if kept him for shorter or longer than she meant to. She burned a great deal of prep with that run. Cities. Safe house. Identities. This is a feeling, but I kind of think she decided to hang on to him for longer than she originally expected. I think Cert enjoyed having a tractable male Vampire she could fuck senseless. Even discounting half of what Alexander said as self-centered hyperbole, she likes it hard and long. I think she was tired of human level-of-effort sex and wanted a Vampire powered carnal pounding. Like Vera, she seems to be more into higher levels of physical engagement. My opinion."

"That is hard to imagine: That she kept him longer I mean. Not the part where Cert likes Vampire powered sexual intercourse. That I believe." Morgan said.

"Alexander is a braggart about his sexual conquests, so I would write off his normal statements about what a woman he was with likes. In that interview it was the other way: He talked about being inadequate to her needs. Very un-Alexander-like. What Anne said about her hunting struck a chord for me about her. Cert is an old badass, but she has had a steady diet of human males for a really long time. I think she enjoyed having Alexander around so that she could require and receive a more aggressive fuck from a deferential male. She was in charge of that relationship and made him do what she wanted. She may have burned more of her safe-locations and ID's to stay close and keep getting laid for a while. After a long time in the desert, it might have been nice to get what she wanted for a change. I don't know if it has any meaning, really. A data point about her I did not know if nothing else. She is back to humans now." I shrugged at that. "Funny thing is: if she came in from the cold, I would put them in that same cell and let them continue their snogging if they wanted."

Anne gave me a shrewd look. "You think Cert's problem is that she just needs to get laid?"

"No. That's me. Not Cert. When Cert had the chance, she tried to make up for lost time, but you can't really make up for the lost moments. She gave regular sex up abruptly. I think she realized that to be sexually satisfied long term she had to keep him and keep training him to her specifications. That was never the plan. Cert is a 'go big or go home' kind of lady, and when she had the chance, she took big bites. She was on the lam with a male Vampire known for his personal lack of sexual self-control, so she leveraged that. My comment was more about what prison is. It's like any other thing where people are forced into unnatural sexual situations. It leaks out in other ways. Worse ways. Better to have both of them bouncing off each other than the walls."

I sighed.

"What?" Denise asked.

"We have to keep Crew way out here to keep him locked up. If we don't catch Cert soon, which I doubt we will, I am inclined to close this place down and send him back to Boot Camp. There we can put a full-time escort on him to enforce behavior, but not have to maintain this place." I did not sound happy about that option.

"OK. Let's keep him a week though. You'll have to talk the rest of Council into that, anyway." Denise agreed.

"If he tries to pheromone a guard, longer." Anne said tersely.

"Agree." I said.

"We should have all the guards wear revealing clothes." Denise sounded like the light bulb went on.

"Why?" I asked.

"Let him out when he can control himself." She replied.

"More of the Cert style training." Anne sounds like she agrees with Denise's idea.

"Ladies: I am not asking anyone to strip off for work."

"Not asking you to. We can get volunteers. Explain the why of it. Don't let the guy out unless he can see female flesh for a week without having a little leakage." Denise said.

"Be clear it is not coming from me or is my idea." I said firmly.

"You see naked women all the time and do not release pheromones." Denise pointed out. "He needs to learn that. He needs to learn how to go a week without sex but still keep control. It's not much to ask."

"I do not disagree with the concept, but I will not ask Crew to objectify themselves."

"Of course you wouldn't. I will be very crystal clear on the subject." Anne said. She's Lead right now, so that settled it. Her Crew. Her plan.

"Luciana looks nice in a bikini." Denise commented offhandly to Anne as we walked to the cars.