Acheron Chapter 3 – Small Town
A/N- Hadley's Hope is the name of the colony established to maintain the Atmosphere Processing Plant (APP) on Acheron, with a population of 158 colonists until Edd arrived with his team. Princess belongs to Dshell99 Sy belongs to Sybrann
Edd woke up the next morning to the smell of bacon and coffee, and the sound of the mug being placed on his bedside table. Kevin sits upon the bed so his back was touching Edd's stomach as he lay on his side, leaning over he kisses him on the cheek and whispers in his ear, "Wake up sleepy head."
Edd stretches and rolls over on his back, Kevin's free hand caresses the cheek he had just kissed then comes to rest upon his chest, Edd asks sleepily, "What time is it?"
"A little past eight," He hands him the plate that had his breakfast on it, "This is so unlike you."
"I must still be groggy from the hypersleep," sitting up he begins to eat his meal and looks up at Kevin as he picked up his coffee, "What?"
Kevin had been looking at him affectionately as he devoured his meal, "Just that you're so handsome," he wipes a little yolk off of the side of Edd's lip with his thumb then sucks it off.
"Flattery will get you everywhere, Pumpkin," Edd looks at him with sultry eyes as he took a sip of his coffee and waged his eye brows, using his free hand he slides it up Kevin's thigh toward his groin.
"As tempting as that offer is," Edd grabs a hold and begins to stroke it through the thin fabric of his pajama bottoms and Kevin's mind shorts out a little, "I've umm, got to introduce you to some people."
Edd puts his cup down and moves the plate off his lap, "They're not going anywhere," getting out from under the covers he straddles Kevin's lap and nibbles upon his ear lob, "We've got time."
"You're so naughty," Kevin breathed out as Edd sucked upon a sensitive spot on his neck.
"No just horny," he brought their lips together so Kevin would get the point to just shut up and fuck him already. An hour later they were dressed and saying their farewells to Kipper, hoping he wouldn't get anxious being left alone in a new environment and thus act out.
Making their way down the corridor they climb the nearest stairwell to the second floor and continue towards operations. Passing the med lab on the right and Edd's offices which were on the left they enter the sizable room that was the control center for the colony. From here they monitored the APP and the colony as a whole, passing along maintenance orders to Kevin's department as they were needed. Taking a sharp left once in the room they climbed the four steps to the raised platform and enter an office on their left, "Major Hadley, I would like to introduce you to my husband Eddward."
The man stands up and walks around his desk extending a hand to Edd, "A pleasure to make your acquaintance Dr. Vincent-Barr."
Edd takes the hand firmly and shakes it, "Likewise Major."
"If you need anything at all just let me know, my people are at your disposal," The man sits on the corner of his desk as he looks Edd in the eyes, apparently sizing him up.
"That's good to hear Major, I look forward to working with you and your people," as Edd finished there was a knock on the door.
A young blond hair woman enters after the Major beckons her with his hand, "Sir we have orders coming down from the company," Edd and Kevin made way for her to pass so she could hand the papers over to him.
"Thank you Sarah," He takes them from her and then turns his attention back to the both of them, "If you'll excuse me gentleman, urgent matters to attend to." He extends his hand again, "It was nice to meet you sir, enjoy your day off with your husband, and I'll see you bright and early tomorrow to go over your schedule for phase two."
They both said their farewells and leave the office heading toward the exit, "He seems rather busy for such a small colony."
"Still a lot of things to delegate and accomplish regardless of its size," Kevin replies as they reach the door.
And as they exit the room they could hear Major Hadley speaking rather loud as he exits his office, "Who does this Burke think he is, like I have the man power for a survey that size." As the door closed they paid the outburst no mind, figuring it was some unreasonable demand from some pencil pusher in a cushy office.
Heading back the way they came, they took a left and crossed an enclosed suspended bridge that connected the north module to the southern one. Taking another left and descending another set of stairs to the ground floor they passed a small casino, "Hey shovelchin," Kevin looks back at the shorter man who owned the establishment, "We got a high stakes game going, you want in on this?"
"No thanks Skipper, I'll pass," Kevin was not so frivolous with his money as to get mixed up with that scam artist.
"Well if you change your mind, we'll keep a seat warm for you." All Eddy saw when it came to Kevin was dollar signs, the red head is one of the top salary men in the colony, right under the Major. So in the short mans opinion he was a goldmine ready to be plundered, and if his sources were to be believed his husband was just as well paid.
Continuing a little further down the corridor they enter the garage that had several ATV's lined along both walls and a supply depot along the back wall. Walking up to the counter Kevin leans over it and yells, "Hey Ang."
An African American woman in her mid twenties with a curly afro hairstyle wearing a brown jump suit comes walking around the shelving unit. "Boy what are you doing yelling at me," she points to the counter, "Do you not see the bell."
Kevin stammers out, "Yeah but I was just…."
"The bell, do you not see it," she says punctuating each word as she makes a motion with her hand as though she was hitting the top of the bell that sat on the counter. Kevin opens his mouth again and she hums out a negative response while admonishing him with her finger, Edd just snickers at the interaction between the two of them, it was like a mother scolding her child. Finally Edd rings the bell just for humor sack and she motions toward him and says, "Thank you, so how can I help you sir?"
She heads over to Edd completely ignoring Kevin now, "But Ang."
"Manners, can't you see that I'm with a customer," She holds the straight face for a few more seconds before cracking up at the one Kevin was giving her. "Now Kev, come here, I'm just messing with you," she props herself on the counter and wraps an arm around his neck, "So what brings you around here."
"Just showing my husband around," Kevin motions toward Edd with his right hand.
"You mean parading him around," she smacks him on the left shoulder.
"Of course, have to make the lot of you jealous by showing off my fine ass man"
Removing her arm from around Kevin she extends it toward Edd, "I'm Ang but most call me Princess." Turning her head toward the open garage she yells out, "Sy."
From under one of the ATV's a blond haired woman rolls out, peeking her head from behind the wheel and hollers back, "What woman?"
"Kevin's brought his man for a visit, so get your ass over here and introduce yourself," She turns her gaze back to Edd as the blond extracted herself from under the vehicle.
"So why do they call you princess," Edd asked.
"I'm the princess of procurement around here," gesturing with her hand in the universal sign for money, "They pay tribute and they get what they need."
"Oh so you run the black-market around here."
"More or less," Ang replies then motions toward Sy who had just joined them, "And this stunning vixen is our mechanic Sylina."
She gave Edd a nod, "Hey."
"If you need something fixed around here she's the gal to talk to," And ignored the look Kevin just gave her.
"And what am I, chopped liver?" Kevin's expression was one of exasperation, he thought his men did a fine job keeping the place running smoothly.
"If you want to wait a month for Kevin's team to get around to it, then I suppose you can ask him." She gave the man a side glance and a wicked grin as she saw her teasing was pushing the right buttons.
As those two bickered about maintenance schedules along with having to wait ungodly amounts of time for parts to arrive, Edd leans over to Sy and asks, "Do those two always pick on each other like this?"
"If Ang doesn't like you, she won't pick on you," Sy replied matter-of-factly, "It'll be straight to business then done."
"Don't worry Edd, I already like you," Ang smiles broadly, "Kevin has told me so much about you that I feel we're practically family."
"Speaking of Families," Sy said looking over at the group of people who were headed their direction from the entrance. Two young children, one boy and one girl both of whom had blond hair, which they seemed to have gotten from their mother who was standing with them at one of the ATV's.
The father comes over to the counter and pushes his way right to the front, "Hey Ang, I'm taking number four out for a couple of days."
"Where ya headed Mr. Jorden," she asks as she hands him the clipboard.
"Just got to do a little survey out past the alien range," Signing the last form he picks up the keys from where Ang had laid them and walks off, "Don't worry I'll bring her back in one piece."
"There better not be a scratch on her," Sy calls after him, to which the man just waved back to her nonchalantly.
Loading up his family he turns the ignition of the ATV and heads toward the door which was now opening for him, the wind was howling outside kicking up dust and debris into the air obscuring the view. But Edd could still see the giant ringed planet of Calpamos taking up most of the sky along with the other two satellites which hung low on the horizon, the view was beautiful to see, and was something that Edd has always longed to see, an alien worlds sky.
A/N- Just so we know the colony is still under a supply run kind of situation, seeing how there is no real life on the planet so no other way to get food. Hence Princess and her side business, everyone wants more than just rations now don't they.