AN: Sexual content implications, though I think the rating of T will still suffice. You've been warned. Thanks for the reviews, btw!

Chapter Ten

"Still in Love After Child"

Even if the war against the Andalites was won, and Earth was taken over and turned into something like the home world, there was still Saturday morning cartoons. Children hosts had to be kept happy, and sometimes life for the average Yeerk was a bit boring. Helen was one of those Yeerks the next morning.

Her parents were in the other room together and wouldn't let her in. It was frustrating because they weren't exactly clear on why they would not let her in the room, so she was forced to watching cartoons for at least three hours of the morning. Helen felt very frustrated at the moment because she had hoped that her parents would go straight to getting her the pet she had wanted so badly, for so long. At least a week going on now since she wanted a pet, anyway. Everyone else seemed to have a pet!

"Ohhh, yes!" she heard her mother scream. Curious, she got up to see what was going on, though a part of her was weary. She went down the hall of the family's private floor, towards where her parents were hiding. (They did after all seem to be hiding from her anyway.) Halfway through the hall, she came to her parent's room. The sun filtered through another window, rays of light hitting the metallic door. (Somehow the empire had managed to fuse kandrona rays into the earth sun, so that the Yeerks were constantly getting some sort of supply, so that they rarely had to exit their hosts.)

Helen entered a supposedly unknown code to her into the keypad, and the door opened sideways. She looked in the rather dark room, wondering what her parents were hiding from her, yet not wanting to know at the same time. Standing on the bed was her father, while her mother (in human form obviously) sat on his back, pulling his head backwards by the neck with black lace.

They looked like they were completely into what they were doing, until one of her father's eyestalks caught a glimpse of her. He seemed to have said something to her mother, because her eyes opened glancing over at her daughter, before falling off of his back in shock. She reached for a blanket to cover up her dark-colored lingerie. Helen didn't seem at all affected by the whole sight, because she just stood there patiently while her parents straightened themselves out. It was obvious that she was used to seeing such things.

Visser One brushed her hair out of her face, clearing her throat. "What do you want, honey?"

Helen put on her biggest sad face she could muster. "Daddy, when are you going to get my pet? I've been ever so patient." She pouted, her bottom lip trembling.

Her father fell for the ploy, and stepped off the bed. "Soon, soon," he replied earnestly. A mad look appeared in his eyes: he was determined to keep his promise.

Helen seemed satisfied enough and left the room to continue watching her cartoons. Edriss breathed a sigh of relief, and looked over at Visser Three, who stared at the door that their daughter exited out of.

"Honestly," she said lightly, with a smile in her eyes, "I think you are more loyal to our daughter than to me."

When Visser Three turned to look at her, before he could say anything, she winked at him, and came over, intertwining her fingers around each other around his neck.

About another hour or so later, Helen turned around hearing slamming noises from her parents room, before hearing the door swish open. Her mother stormed out of the room rather dramatically, her father following 'helplessly' after her. Edriss was back into her normal host's form; her hooves could barely be heard on the flooring.

((Honestly,)) she said even more dramatically than her exit out of the bedroom, ((You do not give me any respect!)) Her cat-yellow eyes pouted, but this seemed to be the final straw for Visser Three.

((I give you everything, and this is what you say?)) his voice bellowed, echoing in the minds of at least half the people in the building.

Edriss turned her back on him, delicate arms crossing over her chest. ((How dare you not see-- I want a divorce. I am moving out right away!)) With that, she turned and left, just like she said she would, leaving Helen feeling very confused at all that had transpired. So that was why she was strangling daddy…

Visser Three sighed, looking slightly wistful. He walked over towards his daughter and pulling her by the arm away from the TV. ((Let us go find our little pet, shall we?))

The next thing Helen knew, they were both out of the opposite door, with the sound of Visser's cackling ringing through out her mind. 'Finally,' was all that she was thinking of, as an evil, greedy, child-like smile spread on her face.