The producer-Controller was waiting for us on the deck. "Welcome", he said humbly and turned to the young male human next to him: "Jeremy, here's Victor Trent, the top leader of The Sharing."
The Visser and Jeremy saluted each other in the common human way, or shaking hands.
"And she", the producer went on pointing me, "is…"
"Jill Love, also from The Sharing", I said and shook hands with Jeremy. I noticed his look wandering out of my face to the neckline of my top. I remembered one Human-Controller had once told that human males think it's beautiful when a female has large breasts. I don't understand why, but in my morph I was able to appraise Jeremy's appearance too. I have to admit that considering the fact he was a human, he was very good-looking with his light brown hair, big blue eyes and plump lips, but he hadn't at all the charisma that makes Visser Three so desirable.
The crew of the yacht –they were all Controllers- loosened the ropes and we began to sail around the bay. Jeremy, the producer, the Visser and I went onto the back deck of the yacht for discuss.
"Mr. Trent", Jeremy started. "Your organization's some kinda scout activity, isn't it?"
"It's more", said the Visser. "The Sharing is like a big family where everybody can feel themselves useful and every single one is needed. We love to help especially those who haven't had luck in their lives. The Sharing is their gate to better life."
"I'm a living example", I cut in and started to tick off things I had read from humans' newspapers. "When I was young, there was just violence, arguing and boozing in my home, and at school I was mistreated by everyone… I suffered from depression, cut myself and used drugs, until I finally tried suicide and ended up to hospital. There I heard from The Sharing and joined it just after getting out. Nowadays I'm a happy and positive person."
I saw Visser Three looking at me with a sidelong glance –it could be seen in him that he was contented with me.
The day went by with negotiating and discussing. Of course, the Visser and I should go to our cabins at two-hour intervals and morph. We had two single cabins, so that Jeremy Jason wouldn't doubt anything. Well, it didn't matter to us –before the day started to turn into evening, and Jeremy hadn't signed the contract yet. He was harping on something about getting rid of his "good boy" image and how touting The Sharing would make it even more difficult. Or then he was doubting for different reasons, I saw him quivering instinctively every time he talked to Visser Three.
Anyway, the situation had turned to that we should spend the night on the yacht. It was already dark when I walked alone on the deck. Everybody else was inside, at least Jeremy had been playing some ancient video game when I had last seen him. I cursed the Controllers who had provided clothes to me and the Visser –the wind was blowing cold and I, a hairless human, had no coat. Suddenly I felt a touch on my shoulder. Humans' physiology is so senseless that I had to turn around to see who was behind me.
It was Visser Three.
"Meditating, Jill?" he laughed. I shrugged my shoulders and shivered in cold. The Visser threw his arm around me and pulled me close to him. My heart leaped. Visser Three had never given me that kind of token of his affection. I didn't feel cold anymore.
Clouds were running with the wind exposing a piece of star bright night sky. I pointed one twinkling light dot.
"Look, Visser, isn't our home there?"
The Visser looked to the direction I was pointing at and nodded. I put my head onto his breast and whispered: "Do you ever feel homesick?"
"Homesick? No. What sort of a visser I'd be, if becoming attached to places was my habit? It's a part of this job, to travel around the galaxy in the places you're sent by the Council of Thirteen or where you have best chances to deserve a promotion. I haven't visited the home planet for over ten local years, but when this little world is mine I can finally return there. As the mightiest Visser of all. And with you."
I looked at the sea and the city lights reflected from it. I thought it was beautiful and didn't like the idea it would be destroyed. But that disappeared out of my mind when I lifted my look to Visser Three's human face. His coldness and carelessness, but in the same also his powers, attitude and self-confidence, could be seen in his eyes. I felt love and lust cutting me. To top it off, the Visser had just said he wanted to keep me close to him in the future too… it felt too wonderful. We looked one another deep into the eyes, pushed our lips together and moved our tongues against each other.