Conquered

Chapter 21

The men had their marching orders. It was going to take three trips. Kate and Rick would go, followed by Alexis and Michael, and then Anderson and Martha. Since each of them needed a ring and the truck didn't fit that many at one time, going a couple at a time was all they could do. And after Rick and Kate found a store they could use, they could tell the others where to go.

It was late. Libby was in bed asleep and everyone was in their bedroom. "Where's your dress?" Yes, Rick was planning to take a peek. Not really taking it out to take a look at it, but just to take a peek.

"Martha has it on the boat. I have Alexis's dress, and she has Martha's dress. Alexis warned me about you, mister." Kate raised an eyebrow and eyed him as she began taking her clothes off starting with her shoes.

"I'm hurt that you would think such a thing," Rick told her even if that was what he was thinking.

"I'm sure you are, but Martha's hiding it on the ship. So even if you go out there you're going to have to search the entire boat," Kate informed him, hoping that really was what Martha did with it.

"And what's wrong with me wanting to see my beautiful bride in her wedding dress?" Rick was sure she was going to look amazing.

"Nothing, so long as it's at the wedding. You know our luck, babe. I'm not taking chances and risking it. I've gone through enough already."

Sadly, she had a point. Still Rick had every idea of making love to her tonight, so he had some compensation. That was until he saw a naked Kate take out that massive anal hose thing.

Kate turned and saw the look on his face. "Relax, babe. It's not for you, it's for me. The last time we used this thing I had the single most powerful orgasm in my entire life. I want to see if we can duplicate that. All you have to do is insert it into me."

"You're sure that thing doesn't hurt?" He was sure it had to given how long it was.

"Positive. Now find the anal lube while I get on the bed." Kate handed it over to him. Then she got on the bed and laid on her back. Kate made sure her legs hung down the side of the bed and that her ass was exposed.

She watched him lube her up and apply lube to it. "I'm ready." Kate kept her head up so she could watch that as best she could. She felt it and saw it disappear little by little until finally she felt the bulb at the end go in.

"It's in all the way," Rick told her, still not entirely convinced that it didn't hurt. But the only noises she made were the ones of pleasure.

"Now fuck me, babe, I want you inside me this time." Kate scooted slowly back onto the bed and wrapped her arms around him as he mounted her.

O~O~O

"What's with the tears?" Sex was over for the night and they were both trying to get some sleep.

"I love you. I didn't really know my heart was capable of if. You put up with so much of my shit. Any sane man would have dumped me years ago. Now I'm going to marry you." Kate wiped her eyes and at her nose. "I've never felt like this in my life."

"That and that orgasm was maybe my new strongest orgasm I've ever had. Are you sure you don't want to try that thing?" Kate asked him. "I swear to you that it doesn't hurt, and it adds to your climax several fold."

"I'll think about it." At least it wasn't her fucking him in his ass with that device.

"YES!" Kate got up, sat on him, and looked down at him; she didn't miss that his eyes were on her tits. "I swear, babe, it's amazing and it doesn't hurt. I've got one more thing I want to try on you." This one was maybe almost as extreme as fucking him in the ass.

"I want to tie you to the bed and have my way with your body. Do whatever I want to it."

Rick looked at her and thought about that for a moment. "Only if I get to tie you to the bed and do anything I want to your body." He was already coming up with ideas.

Kate squealed which was a sound she had never used with any of her other lovers. Or at least not since Alina back when she was in college. "DEAL!" Kate leaned down, kissed him, and then lay down on him, hoping to allow her brain to shut down so she could go to sleep. Rick made a pretty good body pillow.

O~O~O

"I'm going to let you get Libby out of bed and get her ready. I know you know how, and she needs to learn to get used to seeing you."

"I can do that." Rick was even looking forward to it. He hadn't taken care of a child that age in years. In his mind six was the perfect year, or at least it had been with Alexis.

It was about a half an hour later. Kate was with Dean and Laura in the dining room when Rick and Libby walked in. "MOMMY!" Kate heard her name and watched Libby rush her and end up in her arms.

"So did Rick get you up and dressed?" It didn't look like what she would select to wear. Kate watched her smile and nod her head.

Rick walked toward the kitchen. "She was perfect. We're here just long enough to get a glass of water, and then she's going to help me with my morning chores."

"I get to get eggs from the chickens, Mommy." Libby was so excited. Rick had told her he was going to teach her how to get eggs and she was going to get to pet a goat.

"Chickens, huh? Well, you be careful for me." Kate trusted Rick that he wouldn't let her get hurt.

"Let's go, munchkin. We have eggs to collect and a goat to pet." Rick had a glass of water and a basket for the eggs.

That had Libby scrambling away from her and running to catch up to Rick.

"Sounds like you have nothing to worry about," Laura commented since Libby sounded happy.

"Munchkin?" Kate questioned the use of that name. "Now my daughter is a munchkin?"

"If she likes it I think you shouldn't fight it," Laura said.

Dean spoke up. "What my wife said. You're going to marry Rick, so that's eventually going to make him daddy. She needs to love him at least nearly as much as you. If he calls her Munchkin, let him. Yours is 'Sweetie' and his is 'Munchkin.'" He shrugged. "Works for me."

"Yeah." Kate knew that was the ultimate goal, to get Libby to see Rick as being daddy. She knew he was an amazing father based on how Alexis turned out.

"Isn't Alexis 18 or 19?" Kate questioned. She didn't want to ruin it for her with Michael and she didn't even know how old Michael was. She was so focused on Rick and Libby.

"She might be a little young but from what I've seen of her she doesn't act like it. That young woman is far more mature than I ever was at that age. She doesn't complain about anything. She willingly goes fishing. She does laundry. She doesn't boss Michael around, and she knows how to put Rick in his place." Laura wasn't concerned.

"She does know how to do that. Rick is a friend, but I treat him like a guy friend. She knows how to control him at least to a point. Have you seen him with his remote control helicopter yet?" Dean asked her.

Kate thought about that. "No." She didn't even knew he was using it.

"He's lucky it's still in one piece. Alexis was ready to turn it into Black Hawk Down and watch it sink into the bay. Rick's lucky he listened to her and took it away," Dean advised her.

"I know he has a remote control speed boat, too. I haven't seen him use it yet, either." Kate thought about that. Was that just bad timing or was he avoiding her so she didn't blow up at him? "Don't tell Alexis, but better her than me." That got both of them to break up laughing.

"Well, I have chores to do. So if you two will excuse me." Dean got up, leaned down and kissed his wife soundly, and left them.

"Sadly, he's right. I have work to do. I think the washer and dryer are free if you have something," Laura offered as she got up and walked out of the dining room.

"I do actually." Kate started with Libby's dirty clothes, added hers and Rick's and started a load. Then she went back to Libby's bedroom and began general cleaning. She stripped the bed, got out a new set of sheets, and put them on the bed. That was followed by picking up her wayward toys and finding a place for them.

Kate moved to their bedroom and stripped the bed. She was able to find fresh sheets for it, too. Thankfully Rick wasn't messy, so there were no clothes lying on the floor. There wasn't a bit of carpet anywhere, so they didn't have a vacuum. However, she had learned that they had this robot that even squirted some kind of cleaning fluid. She just had to find it first since they only had the one and everyone used it.

Eventually Kate found it and put on a pad followed by the cleaning fluid in it. Then she set it in their room, pressed the button, and left it behind. She would move it to Libby's room later.

Walking out of their room she could hear and then eventually see Libby running around screaming, but she looked and sounded happy. So while Kate wondered why, she trusted Rick.

Kate went back into their bedroom and changed clothes. They didn't have an exercise room, but she had spotted something she could make do with for her Yoga. She hadn't done any for far too long. She wanted to keep their lovemaking as perfect as possible, and that meant she needed to be very flexible. Rick was really putting that ability to the test. Last night hadn't been an exception.

O~O~O

"What are we doing?" Rick had taken Libby to her room and she noticed it looked different for some reason.

"We're looking for a game that I know I got you, but it was a little while ago." Rick knew it was on one of their buying trips. He just needed to find it. "Found it." Rick gathered up all of it.

"You know where the very large open area is?" Rick watched her nod. "Good. I'll race you there. Get set, go!" He watched her take off running and screaming. She was turning out to be a lot of fun. He knew she would win, but that was the point. She needed to get used to winning and wanting to win.

"You win." Rick half jogged into the area and saw Dean give him a questioning look as he arrived since Dean was cleaning up.

"Alright, this is a game. It's a memory game." Rick began placing 12-inch by 12-inch cards face down on the floor until he ran out of cards.

"The rules of this game are very simple. You turn over a card and see what's on the other side. Then you choose a different card to turn over and try and get that one to match this one.

"Say this one is an ice cream cone. You need to find another ice cream cone. Whatever you find, you need to remember what it was and where it was. The more cards you match, then the better the chance that you'll win.

"You start. Pick a card and turn it over." Rick let Libby go first so he could teach her and have her catch on. Libby turned over a card. "That one says One More Time. Now turn over another card and see if it matches." Rick watched her turn over a card.

"That one's a palm tree, so it doesn't match. Now turn both cards back over, but remember what each card was and where that card is. It's my turn now."

Rick stepped into the area and picked a card. "An umbrella. Pay attention, remember where this card is," he told her and picked up a different card. "Two strawberries. Not a match. But remember where this card is." He then turned his two cards over.

"Your turn again. Pick a card, any card." She picked up a card no one had touched, so maybe she was catching on. "An umbrella. You've seen an umbrella, now do you remember where that card is?" Rick watched her literally jump right to it and turn it over. "VERY GOOD! You're very good at this game," Rick cheered and saw her smile.

"You get to keep those two cards. Put them in your pile over there." Rick pointed a spot away from the other cards. "My turn." He selected a card. "Five little triangles. Haven't seen one of those yet." He looked around and chose the wrong card on purpose. "Ice cream cone. Wrong card. You remember each of these cards," Rick told her and turned them over.

"Your turn." Rick watched her turn a card over. "Where have you seen that card before?" He watched her physically jump to that card and turn it over. "VERY GOOD! You're so much better at this game than me." Rich listened to her giggle and saw a very wide smile.

In the end Rick had two sets of cards, and Libby had all the others. "You're way too good for me. Have you played this game before?" Rick was sure she had to be cheating and watched her shake her head while smiling wide.

"You won, so let's go find mommy." Rick gathered up the cards to take them back to her room and saw her still smiling wide as they went back to look for mommy.

"MOMMY! I WON!" Libby raced right for her and ended up in her arms. Kate still found that she weighed nearly nothing like Kate thought she should, but she was eating, so she had to be putting on weight.

"You did? Did you beat Rick?" She wasn't ready to call Rick daddy just yet. It was something Libby had to be ready for.

"She's good. I think she cheats," Rick teased both of them.

"Did you cheat?" Kate questioned her, knowing Rick was teasing, and watched her shake her head. "Of course you didn't. My daughter doesn't cheat."

Rick was back after putting the game away. "She's all yours. I have to pick up goat poop and chicken poop. Unless someone wants to help me?" Rick looked at Libby who quickly shook her head. She definitely didn't want to do that. "Your loss." He leaned in and kissed Kate's cheek and left them.

"See, I told you Rick was nice." Kate kissed her. "I have work to do. How about you go find Laura. She's probably in one of the greenhouses." Kate put her down.

"Okay." Libby took off running for one of the greenhouses. This was a lot like hide and seek for her which was fun.

Kate took the opportunity to take the robot from their bedroom into Libby's bedroom. She pressed START, watched it get moving, and left it to its work. Next came a trip to the washer and dryer to move a load and start a new one.

O~O~O

Laura soon found herself with an enthusiastic helper. For reasons she didn't understand, Libby was in a really good mood and was eager to learn what she was doing. It took no time at all to find out that Libby was willing to get dirty. Since she didn't have to give Libby a bath after this, she didn't have a problem helping Libby get dirty.

Later though… Kate put a hand over her mouth to keep from saying something wrong when Libby came back. "What happened to you?" She had sent her to Laura, so how did she end up this dirty?

"I helped Miss Laura." Libby was proud of herself. Laura was fun and she was happy.

"You helped?" Kate was wondering helped her to do what? Dig a hole to hide a body or something? "Well, then let's get you in the tub and after that you can take a nap." Libby had clean sheets and Kate wasn't putting her into her bed looking like this.

Kate soon had a naked Libby in the tub. "You play with your toys and I'll be right back after I find your pajamas." She needed something clean to wear, and that was as good as anything to sleep in.

Libby was still playing when she got back and was still dirty so Kate had to get wet to get her clean.

"Go to sleep." Kate kissed her forehead after putting her down in her bed.

Kate sighed and went to her bedroom so she could change her shirt and if necessary, her bra. Getting Libby clean had meant she got wet for some reason.

She was standing there topless while she decided what to wear and if that meant wearing a bra. Rick walked in and saw a topless Kate. "Looks like I'm just in time."

"Pervert, are you spying on me?" Not that Kate cared if he was. She was willing to be naked in front of him all day long. But she just couldn't do that here.

Rick wrapped his arms around her from behind and that had her humming as she leaned back into him. No sooner than she had done that then she felt his hands work their way up till they were on her bare breasts. Now she was moaning. She knew that he knew that she liked it when he touched her.

"Where's Libby?" Rick questioned her.

"I just put her down for a nap. Somehow she ended up dirty, so I gave her a bath and then tucked her in for a nap."

"So you mean no one will interrupt us." Rick smiled wide.

Kate got the meaning of that sentence. She spun in place and was down on her knees and got to work on his pants so she could release his cock.

O~O~O

Kate was feeling just fine as she lay there naked next to a naked Rick. A quickie while Libby slept was something she could get used to. It was only then that she realized they hadn't used a condom, and she was long since out of birth control pills. Hell, everyone was.

Then there was a knock. "Anyone decent in there?" Alexis called.

"Well, shit!" Rick swore.

"Give us a minute, Alexis." Kate got out of bed, found a top and shorts, and threw Rick's shorts at him. Dressed, she went to the door.

"What's gone wrong now?" Kate questioned.

"That pollution-clearing thing is right over us if you want to actually see it." Alexis told her.

"HELL, YES! Get dressed, babe." Kate followed Alexis to the large open area where everyone was there but Martha and Anderson who had to be on their boat and save for Libby who was still sleeping.

"WOW!" Kate looked up and watched that thing slowly move across the sky. It looked just like Alexis had drawn it except this thing had color to it.

"WOW!" Rick showed up and stood behind Kate. He stared up at this thing.

Then eventually they all felt it. It was like a wall of air washed over them, and suddenly everything smelled different. "This is amazing," Rick said in a hushed voice.

"And to think they're doing the same thing in orbit," Dean commented as he stood next to his wife. Both of them were doing what everyone else was doing – looking up at this thing and gawking.

They all watched till it vanished behind the trees. "The bay looks different." Alexis was looking out at the water. Then she and Michael headed over, got down to put a hand in the water, then taste tested it.

"It's clean. It's really clean," Michael said. Watching the pollution-cleaning thing do it's job was one thing, but knowing that the thing actually did was it was supposed to do was quite another!

"It doesn't make up for all the deaths but this is amazing," Alexis declared. Now that she had seen it and experienced it, she could understand what it was doing. "So what's next?"