'Hey guys GhostNobody here hoping that you are all having a fantastic 2017 so far. Firstly, I'd like to thank my new Beta reader Evilservant1094 who's now assisting me with the editing on this so a big thank you goes out to him for his work. Secondly I'd like to assure a few of you that even though Tik and Jack have escaped the bad bloods this is not the end of the story and there's still a few twists and turns for me to throw at you guys that I hope you'll enjoy. Lastly I'd once again like to thank you all for your kind words of support and suggestions for my little adventure in love here and I'd still gladly welcome any input or suggestions that anyone wishes to make, so with one last big thank you to you all this is GhostNobody signing off and saying on with the show….'
Chapter 21: New Home New Hope.
Jack woke up feeling like he'd been cut apart and stitched back together by a blind man with a serious case of the shakes, Yaujta medical tech was seriously efficient and could cure just about anything you threw at it but it was about as subtle as knocking on a door with a car.
As his consciousness rebooted and he became aware of more than just the pain he realized he was being gripped from behind, he smiled as he realized he had one of Tik's hands planted squarely on his heart and their fingers were locked in a lover's knot. Her other hand was pressed on his stomach forcing his body and hers into a perfect curve, feeling her rough but soft skin pressed against the entirety of his back and her long legs entwined with his. He had to admit that although he was used to being the big spoon this was rather nice, there was something very comforting about being held like this, it felt safe.
As he laid like that for a little while he started to noticed Tik twitching and moving, he heard her click her mandibles more than once and he realized it was not the happy click, he also heard his name murmured softly in her sleepy voice. Her grip tightened on him more than once and it almost seemed like she was trying to stop him from being taken from her, he figured that she must be having a bad dream. So he decided to do a little comforting of his own, with a bit of work, considering Tik's grip was like a vice, he managed to disengage from her and turn over in her arms. Slipping his own arms around her large frame he pulled himself tight to her chest and pressed his face into her shoulder, "It's ok my mate I'm here" he whispered in a soft voice into her ear. With one hand, he stroked the back of her head tenderly, while with the other he traced up and down her back, allowing his nails to softly rake into the curve of her spine. The effect was instantaneous, she immediately calmed and pulled him closer. Her grip becoming more gentle and pleasant, yet still firm and possessive.
As Tik eleth woke the first thing that swam into focus was the face of her male, he was laid facing her with his arms blissfully wrapped around her. She could feel him stroking the back of her head as well as running his finger up and down the curve of her spine, "Good morning sleeping beauty, sleep well?" he asked in a cheerful voice. The feeling of his fingers stroking her spine made her purr in pleasure briefly then smile back at him, "I always sleep well with you beside me" she said softly, Ack flashed her his wonderful teeth and leaned in to kiss her, she opened her mandibles wide for him and he slid his tongue into her waiting mouth to begin the loving dance with hers that they both enjoyed so much, he never could find the words to describe just how much he adored the feeling of twisting and wrestling his tongue with hers before inviting her to leave her own mouth for his.
They parted breathlessly from their passionate kiss, Tik eleth smiled at the wonderful face of her mate, "We're finally free of those pauks" she said, he smiled back at her.
"I know and I've never been so happy in my life, we're free to live and love together for the rest of our lives. But I suppose, in a way, we do owe those sick fucks a debt of gratitude" Ack said, Tik eleth looked at him with a confused and surprised expression,
"Debt? What debt?"
He reached in and nuzzled the side of her face, planting a few soft kisses on her mandibles,
"Without them dragging me to that hell hole to hunt me then I'd have never met you and I'd have never known the power of true love" he said. His words made her purr softly, she realized he was, surprisingly, right. Without the bad bloods, they never would have met and she'd still be alone. But she now laid in bed, naked as the day she was born, in the arms of the male she loved more than life itself.
As she ran her fingers over the skin of his back she felt herself growing hot under the collar, she wanted to celebrate their victory and their love in the most beautiful way. The look in Ack's eyes as well the feel of his malehood pressing against her belly, told her that he felt the same way, but he was still injured and it would be risky for them.
He seemed to read the hesitance in her eyes, "It's ok my love, take me if you want me, but just please be gentle. I got enough wounds for one day." he said in a soft growl in her ear, his words drawing a deep purring growl from her throat. She rolled him onto his back and climbed on top of him, resting her weight on his hips, "I will be gentle my love, and I will be slow. I wish to savor you." she purred seductively. With that she reached between her legs and took hold of his throbbing malehood gently with her large hand, she slowly peeled his skin back and exposed the large bright purple head. She lined it up with her entrance and moved down a little till his tip kissed her lower lips, before moving down any further she swirled her hips around in a circle causing his tip to rub around between her burning hot lower lips. This drew a gasp and a soft moan from both of them, after a few seconds of this she couldn't take it anymore she needed him inside her. She pushed down slowly, savoring each and every delicious inch as it forced her open, her moan echoed around the room as she felt his throbbing flesh grind against her insides on its way to her molten core. Tik eleth moved her hands to her male's broad chest, gently racking her claws over his skin as the wonderful sensation of him filling her body made her moan in delight. As soon as he was fully hilted inside her, she rested her remaining weight on his hips and sat there enjoying the sensation of being connected to her male again. Then with a push, she withdrew him nearly all the way out of her, feeling his tip catching on every ridge of her inner folds before sinking right back down on him. She heard him moan in pleasure from under her causing her heart to race, she loved knowing that she was making her male feel good with her body. After all, he'd suffered on her behalf, making him feel good was the least she could do for him. Pretty soon, her pace increased, each push was accompanied by a wet slap as their burning flesh connected. He began pushing up into her downward thrusts so he was now reaching as deep as he could into her molten hot core. Stroking it with his malehood, each push was now drawing a moan from her as the intense pleasure welled inside her. He suddenly grabbed her hips and began to thrust harder and deeper into her, she leaned down onto him and he leaned up to her. They grabbed each other and pulled one another into a passionate kiss as their bodies continually connected over and over again, pretty soon neither of them could hold back and with a huge roar of pleasure she screamed his name to the goddess. It echoed around the room as a mind melting explosion of pleasure tore through her causing her inner most walls to clamp down on her he mate's throbbing malehood holding it in place, wave after wave of raw intense pleasure crashed through her, only to be intensified again as she felt her love release inside her, sending jets of hot liquid pleasure into her core.
After the sheer intensity of their mutual orgasm had passed, they lay there locked together in a blissful embrace just enjoying the feel of each other, but eventually they both begrudgingly broke from it, got up from their bed and got dressed. As they made their way to the control room they held hands as they walked.
"How long till we reach our destination?" Jack asked, Tik was looking at he read outs,
"Too long for us to remain awake, we'll have to use the hyper sleep bunks" she said. While Jack didn't like the idea of being asleep for that long, he figured that it would at least give his body a chance to heal up. Tik eleth finalized a few things with the controls like using the optical and sensor camouflage to hide the ship completely, then she took Ack's hand and led him down to the hyper sleep quarters.
He stood looking at the massive glass coffin like contraptions, the whole premise of being asleep while the ship flew itself with no-one at the helm really seemed like a bad idea to Jack. But he trusted Tik and she didn't seem worried, she told him to strip to his underwear before getting in and as he did so he noticed her doing the same. Despite what they had just done, he couldn't help but watch her. He felt so lucky to have found such an amazing woman out here in the depths of space. He knew the chances of them coming from totally different worlds, cultures and species and falling so completely in love with one another were astronomical. But yet here they were, the thought made him smile. Tik noticed him smiling at her and smiled right back.
"Not worry my love, we will be together again soon I promise" Tik said as Jack climbed into his hyper sleep bunk. She placed all sorts of sensors on his chest and read outs began to pop up on the side panel of the bunk.
"Well at least when I wake up we'll be free and clear" he said,
"And together" Tik said and with that she closed the tube and the mechanism kicked in, the last thing Jack heard was a whirring noise, the last thing he saw was Tik mouthing 'I love you' clumsily with her mandibles through the glass, then the black came.
As Tik eleth watched her life mate fall into hyper sleep she smiled at him, she couldn't wait for their trip to be over, then they could finally start their new lives together. She climbed into her own bunk after setting the auto engage, she quickly placed the sensors on herself, the mechanism kicked in and the black came for her.
Hyper sleep is a dreamless state, it's like being in a void of infinite nothingness where neither time or reality seem to exist. But the benefit is that long periods of time pass in the blink of an eye. The four years it took for Tik eleth and Jack to complete their voyage to the planet that Tik eleth had selected for them, passed in what felt like a split second.
The first thing that Jack became aware of was his own breathing, it seemed to echo through his mind as his thoughts slowly reconnected to his consciousness, and soon he was slowly able to open his eyes. It took a while for them to focus properly and he did feel rather dizzy for a bit, but the capsule opened by itself and a rush of air entered from outside. To his left, he heard the other capsule opening, he leaned forwards just in time to see Tik's large hands grip the sides and pull herself forwards. She immediately looked over at his capsule and smiled as she saw him looking right back at her, "It looks like we've arrived" he said. She nodded,
"Our new home" she said happily.
After getting themselves changed back into their gear, both of them went to the control room. Through the window Jack smiled as he saw the massive deep blue and browns of the massive planet, Tik dropped herself down into the pilot's seat and started entering navigation data. She also scanned the planet for any hostile or sentient races, neither were detected. Thankfully there were no traces of the bugs either, she looked up at him with a smile, "Where shall we make our home my love?" she asked. he thought for a moment before smiling,
"Well I've kinda had enough of jungles for a life time now so how about a nice normal forest, I kinda like the thought of building a log cabin." he said, Tik clicked her mandibles happily and looked at her scan data before pulling up an image that showed a large forested area that was flanked by plains, "It's perfect." he said looking at the image of the massive trees moving in the breeze. Tik nodded and set the coordinates into the flight computer, slowly the ship turned and began it's decent to their new home.
The forest reminded Jack of the giant redwood forests of Earth, the massive towering trees that looked like living skyscrapers. They decided to hide the ship in a large cave out of sight, so that it could be properly powered down and conserve its fuel supply in case they needed it. While Tik was scouting the place for prey to hunt for food, Jack was scouting for a place for them to set up home. He smiled as he thought about moving into a house that they built with their own hands, just him and his alien life mate/wife. Sometimes life throws you a curveball and sometimes you hit a home run off it.
Thanks to the tech that was on the ship, it took Jack no time at all to fell the trees he needed to make the house. The forest was an amazing place, so full of life of every verity, from what looked like small song birds that even sang. To small canines that reminded him of foxes running around, curious of their newest residents. They lived on the ship for the entire three weeks that it took for them to make the bulk of the house, he had to admit it was fun watching Tik trying to get to grips with building things instead of killing things. She took to it like a duck to water, her immense strength came in rather handy while they were connecting up the frame work and when he had to raise the roof. But finally, with many cut fingers hammered thumbs and curse shouted in both languages, they now had a home to call their own.
After two whole months, the place was complete to the level that they truly called it home, the two-story house made from huge wooden logs and planks, stood like a sentinel on a flat plateau that over looked the main bulk of the forest.
Inside the house was furniture that had been hand carved from wood and softened with the skins of various animals Tik had hunted.
The walls were already covered with skulls that had been mounted to them in a number of places, trophies from their hunts.
Their cutlery was metal made in a forge that Jack had set up behind the house, he would spend hours making things from utensils to bullets for his guns. Tik loved to watch him work the forge and would happily sit on a massive swing chair that over looked it while she polished skulls from her latest hunt.
Jack put the finishing touches to a dagger that he'd been working on for Tik, it was made from the metal that he'd found here. It was light like Aluminum but as strong as Titanium, it was a nightmare to forge, but the results were more than worth it. He ran the polishing tools over the long-curved blade which flashed gold silver in the sunlight, the handle had been made from the tusks of something that reminded Jack of a massive crocodile crossed with a lion. Tik had found the beast living a few miles away in a swampy area. Tik, being Tik, not only killed it, but she'd dragged the whole damn thing all the way back to the house to show him. But it had come in handy, for making the grip for this dagger. He'd also managed to find some blue gem stones that looked like sapphires down in the mine he'd made for digging up the metals, he'd set two of them into the hilt and polished them up as apparently sapphire blue was her favorite color.
Jack found Tik at her work desk furiously working on a skull with her polishing tools, "Hey sweet heart got something for you" he said sliding up beside the big huntress. She looked away from her work and spotted what he was holding in his hands, her face lit up as she saw the massive curved dagger, "For me?!" she asked,
"Know any other gorgeous Yaujta huntresses that I should give presents of love to then do you?" he said playfully, she smiled and gently punched him in the shoulder for teasing her, taking the dagger from him she admired the craftsmanship in the blade.
"It's wonderful, many prey shall fall to this weapon, I shall call it Love's fury" she said proudly holding the dagger in her big hand, suddenly a wave of pain gripped her and she doubled over,
"Tik! Are you alright my love?" Jack said rushing in to grip her and hold her up,
"Cramps" she said, he shook his head,
"Ok, proud huntress or not, that's the third time this week. We're going to the ship to use the medic scanner" he said guiding her by the hand, the last few times she had resisted this time Tik allowed her mate to lead her by the hand and shoulder out of the house and to the ship.
At the ship they powered up the med bay computers and Tik laid down on the bed, the scanner ran over her body a few times before it brought up a picture of her in a hologram. There was a red circle around her abdominal area and text began running up, Jack tried to read it but his Yaujta wasn't strong enough yet to grasp it. He turned and wasn't instantly caught by the whirlwind of emotions passing over his mate's face, "What is it?" he asked in a worried tone, Tik turned to look at him and her face cracked into a huge smile and for only the second time ever, he saw tears in her eyes,
"Ack I'm pregnant, I am carrying your cubs" she said,
"We're going to be parents?" he asked in total disbelief, she nodded trying to read his face, Jack's heart nearly exploded in his chest and he just threw his arms around his mate and sobbed for sheer joy into her shoulder.