Page 89 of Sway’s Peace (Delivery Service #2)

Grace

“And then he just started screaming and yelling about someone chasing him and needing to get females. It was weird.”

Goldie, over behind the mediscanner control console frowned, as, sitting beside her, Garnet let out a long, thoughtless hum of consideration.

“When Sway reported it to Tanin,” she said, “he immediately went to go talk to the twins. I didn’t hear the conversation, but Tanin is just saying it has to do with their past. But no one will tell me what it is.”

“It’s not like them to keeps secrets from us,” Grace frowned. “I mean, at least not something like this. What do you think it is?”

“I don’t know,” Garnet blew out a breath. “Tanin says it won’t be a problem though. I trust him.”

“I guess,” Goldie agreed, though she looked a bit uncertain.

But Gace could only nod in agreement. She understood completely. She wasn’t really scared of the universe, no matter what it might hold. Why would she be? She had her own personal monster to protect her from it.

They swung back into subspace yesterday and were on their way to their next job.

While in subspace, they didn’t have access to the subnet, which meant that Grace couldn’t really work.

Meanwhile, Sway was up on the bridge, doing the calculations for their next swing already.

So, she had a lot of free time on her hands without him.

She was using that time to help Goldie. Garnet’s twin sister was the official medical officer of the Humble Delivery Service. However, her certs were all faked. They’d forged them for the sake of getting human bio scans for their mediscanner.

Goldie had been in vet school on Earth though, so she was trying to learn advanced medicine using a combination of online modules Alred would find for her and basic trial and error.

That’s what Grace was here for. She was lying on the medscanner bed, letting Goldie try to restart her ovulation.

It was a specialty process that, typically, was rarely used.

Humans were much more fertile than most species, so humans were the only ones who frequently used birth control.

Grace had it done before she ever left the moon.

She hadn’t had a period in years at this point because she’d just put pause on the whole system.

The only other person Goldie had to practice on was Garnet, but she was already pregnant. She could practice on herself, but it would be much more difficult to do so from the bed, if not outright impossible.

So, Grace was here, letting her learn, waiting for the restoration of her fertility. Sway already knew she was doing this. It had taken some convincing to make him go to the bridge so that the girls could work and chat in peace.

And in the way of gossipy ladies from time immemorial, they started talking about the guys on the ship.

Particularly Tanin and Sway, since they were their mates.

They quickly went from comparing how stone cold their mates could be to their different dicks.

And as freaked out as Garnet had been by the thing on Sway’s cock that pushed its way into her cervix when he came, Grace was equally freaked out by the fact that Tanin’s shaft was covered in spikes.

Goldie laughed at their discomfort before admitting that she’d looked up the anatomy of all the guys on the ship and she knew which guy had two cocks, which one had a knot, etc.

All except Alred, whose species was purely technological.

His light form was like a mannequin – nude and male in shape but otherwise neutered.

“ You know, my species has scans of our original biological forms, ” the male in question said, popping up beside them in a shower of sparks, speaking perfect English as they had been just in case the guys wandered by.

“Alred,” Goldie gave him an amused, chastising look. “When we’re talking in our native tongue, that means we’re gossiping. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t hear us.”

“ But you were talking about my cock, ” he said, affronted. “ And as a proud male, I would just like it pointed out that I do, in fact, have one. ”

“Uh-huh,” Garnet grinned, deliberately looking down at his crotchless groin and back up to his face.

“This isn’t even what you look like though, is it?” Grace asked from the bed, earning his attention.

“ It’s not, ” he admitted.

“Do you even remember what you used to look like?”

“ I do not, ” he admitted with a shrug. “ The only way to find out would be for me to restore my original memories. And I checked them recently. They’re so old and corrupted, I think only about thirty to fifty percent of them are still recoverable at this point. ”

“What does a biological undroitt look like?” Goldie asked, her fingers still working on her console.

“ My kind doesn’t really maintain their physical forms much any longer. A few will make light forms like I do, but I haven’t met anyone who still used their original form. ”

“In other words,” Grace grinned, “you don’t know.”

“I’d love to see it,” Garnet said.

“Me too,” Goldie smiled.

Alred gave her a look that she didn’t see because she was so busy working. But Grace didn’t miss it. And it made her eyebrow pop.

Longing? From the light form of an AI that had no real physical body? She supposed his core could be considered his physical body, but it still wasn’t a biological one.

Before she could even decide if she wanted to mention it or not, a sharp pain twinged on the right side of her lower belly. Like a cramp that made her hiss.

“Ow.”

“Sorry!” Goldie grimaced. “My bad.”

“Did you just twist my ovary? What was that?”

“No, er, that was you ovulating.”

“It hurt!”

“Yea-a-ah. I think I did it too fast and I forgot to dull the pain receptors to keep that from happening. Sorry. Er, point is though that I’ve restored your fertility.

I did waste a couple of your eggs in the process, but don’t worry!

I can figure out how to force your body to make new ones. That’s going to be my next lesson.”

“Wait, so it’s done?”

“It’s done!” She declared happily, turning off the mediscanner, sending the three rings spinning around Grace’s body back to their dock at the head of the bed.

She sat up, throwing her legs over the side and standing. The pain in her abdomen had faded as quickly as it came, leaving only a gentle soreness behind. It had been so long since she felt period cramps, even that little bit of pain was extra uncomfortable.

“Thanks,” she beamed at Goldie who waved away her appreciation.

“I’m the one who should be thanking you for letting me basically experiment on you.”

“ Shall I tell Sway that you’re finished? ” Alred asked, giving her a knowing grin.

“No,” Grace smiled wickedly back at him. “I’m going to go get a surprise ready first. In fact, tell him that Goldie is struggling and it’s going to take her a while to figure this out.”

Alred looked confused for only a moment before laughing. “ I can certainly do that. I’ll be all dramatic about it. ”

“How is that any different from usual?” Garnet snickered.

He let out a sigh, putting a hand to his heart. “ I’m afraid that Goldie is not getting this lesson well. It might take her a while longer. In fact, it might even take a few days. Don’t be too discouraged if it doesn’t happen by tonight. ”

“Yes! Do that!” Grace laughed evilly, bouncing on her heels.

“What are you going to do?” Goldie asked, tilting her head.

Grace tossed her hair with a smile. “I’m going to set the scene.”