Chapter 12

Lydia sat up and looked around the room. It was dark cold and very chilled. Pushing her hair back she felt the sharp pain cramp down hard in her lower stomach. Looking down she blanched. Her stomach had grown and she appeared to be about 6 months pregnant. "Oh my God!" She ran her hand over the hardening belly and heard his voice. Oh so familiar and so very well loved at one time.

Gerard stood over her and smiled. This smile however was not tender, loving or forgiving. This smile held a hint of evil and triumph. "Oh now my dear you should know god had nothing to do with this. You are now in my domain and my first."

Lydia skittered back on her haunches pressing herself up against the headboard of the bed. "Your domain what the hell is that suppose to mean?"

Gerard clucked his tongue and sighed dramatically, "Tisk, tisk, tisk my dear, surly you realize by now what I am and why you were selected. There is just something about an innocent that has been disillusioned that makes my conquests so much easier."

A sickness was tickling the back of her throat looking upon the face of a man she had thought she had loved and would have gladly said yes to any marriage proposal. What really frightened her most was she would have said yes to any decent or indecent proposal he had made. She had fallen that hard for him. He leaned forward and placed his hand on her stomach and immediately the cramp that had formed was now forcing the child into a relaxed position.

"How, why, what . .. " The three words she managed to get out before she was totally stuck for anything else to say.

Gerard smiled and sat next to her curling up next to her and relaxing to the pillows, stretching his long body out to cross his ankles fold his arms in front and prop himself up with his arms. "Well shall we take them in order; how?" he pursed his lips and thought a moment. "I suppose it because I am demon incubus and it is my drive, my need, my desire to procreate with any young female that is of child bearing age and can produce a child for me."

He studied her face and smiled. "Let us proceed now as to the question of why? Because I can, and I want to and as I said I have a drive and a need to procreate and I choose my vessels with care and ease. I know some are fairly easily succumb to my charm and the fact I am a lawyer just attracts the silly ones and does so quite easily."

He was so smug and self-assured and she wanted to slap that smile from his face. "I think its something about power, control and being a lawyer gives me both. Finally as to the what part of your questions.

"What I plan to do is make you my ultimate first breeder. For as long as you can produce a child for me, I shall keep you here and pregnant. I have rather grown fond of you. Had those silly interlopers from S.H.A.D.O.W.S. not interfered we could have gone about this from a normal human point of view."

Lydia's mind was reeling with the cocky over confident way he was taking her situation and throwing it back in her face. "You are the one that has been impregnating the women and killing them off?"

Gerard rolled to his side lifted his hand and caressed her cheek pushing her hair back from her face so he could cup her face and hold it in place and then capture the look in her eyes and pin her with his own mesmerizing stare. "Yes."

He smiled at the thought that had thrilled him to no end. "After they were brought here and had given birth to what they thought were still born males, I had my nanny shrews take them and place them in their incubators. Once they reach the age of six months, they breathe and then they begin to growth at an enormously rapid rate and usually reach maturity within one year. Obviously I could not allow the mother to live they have a habit of interfering with my way of parenting my nest."

Lydia slid from the bed and backed up from him. "I find you monstrous and demand that you return me to my home immediately!" Her words were uttered to deaf ears watching Gerard lay on the flat of his back locking his fingers behind his head.

"My dear you do not realize I rule this empire and you are here at my mercy. Do not make me regret my decision to take you as my first vessel and allow you to live." He glanced over at her pale white features and even in the darkness of his chambers he found her very enticing almost delectable.

"As for being monstrous, of course I am. I am a demon for all that is unholy and evil. No one can help you now and you are here because I desire it. You are alive because I desire it. Now calm down and come rest you've had a horrid day and we do not want you upsetting my son now do we?"

With a flick of his hand she felt her body grabbed and she was once again lying in the bed next to him feeling her body encompassed by something restraining her. Leaning over he placed a light kiss on her lips and whispered so softly "Sleep." Lydia felt her eyes flutter close and she was once again blissfully unaware of what was happening around her drifting into an unnatural deep sleep.

Gerard studied her next to him. His fingers gliding over the curve of her face, over her lips, down her neck to the cleavage between her breasts. "Yes, lovely to say the least. You shall make an excellent first until you are no longer able to produce any more sons for me. Sleep sweet my dear. Daddy has a little foot work cut out for him."

Rising from the bed he moved to the darkness and pressed a stone, the door slid open and he exited the chamber and paused. "Watch her carefully, she is a clever puss and has powerful friends. If they show up trying to take her kill her." The shriveled form of an old crone with a hideously crooked nose stepped forward, her ragged robes clung to her body much as a shroud would to a dead emaciated body.

"As my lord wishes and the others will you see to their return or do we build a new nest?"

Gerard took a protracted amount of time to straighten his cuffs of his shirtsleeve tugging them down then tugging his suit coat sleeves down. "We begin another nest. I am sure the others are now buried somewhere in a void or a demi-plane of existence. Which annoys me to no end. But as long as the first can continue to produce me children, we will soon have our nest re-populated and you will once again be a nursemaid."

The crone stroked her hands over one and another and laughed. "Oh I await thy words with much anticipation my lord. She shall be guarded as you wish and should they come we will destroy the wench." Gerard nodded and moved into the darkness allowing his form to be absorbed into the darkness and soon gone from sight.

The old crone entered the impregnation chamber and looked upon Lydia. "I was once young and beautiful like you my dear. I was his very first. Now you will know what it is like to live a full life of servitude to his lord and master and when your time is up, you will join me along with the others firsts to help tend to his nest and needs." She cackled and in the depths of her dreams Lydia heard the hideous laughter and knew she was in trouble.

Blackthorn studied the area that had held Lydia's body and frowned. "So Stokes do you think the Incubus knew we were on our way and he had taken her to his chambers?"

Tim shrugged and looked around the room and his frown deepened. "I think he suspected we were on to him when you raided his nest and took his incubators. I know his choice is to either try to locate his progeny and have them returned or start a new nest and my fear is that Lydia is now the new beginning for a new nest."

Blackthorn touched his wrist and waited noting the color light flashing under his skin was a red light. The air around them began to charge and the hair on their arms lifted with the static build and the room was suddenly filled with a team of medical experts.

They moved in successive order gathering up all the items that were left behind from bed sheets to computer records on the patient. "I am calling this a Class A Incursion with a MIA team member. I trust you will contact Headquarters and file your report."

Blackthorn folded time and left the room. As quickly as the team members had arrived they too were soon gone leaving only a hint that the room was occupied at one time and now had been stripped of most forensic evidence.

Tim moved down to the doctor's lounge and removed his communicator and phoned headquarters. He waited as the lines were connected and he was put in touch with Josette. "Jo, we have a huge problem."

There was but one moment's hesitation as Josette's voice filled his communicator. "What is going on Tim?" Tim took a deep breath held it and then let it out slowly. Hearing this action Josette knew he was calming himself before telling her and he knew she was not going to be a happy camper with his information.

"Your Aunt Lydia has been impregnated by an incubus and she has been taken and we do not know where she is." Josette thought she would be prepared for anything but hearing this she most certainly was not prepared and her face suffused with color. Growing a bright red from the slow burn she was doing to keep her self under control. "I am on my way."

Those words alone were enough to make him shiver; it was not the words so much as the delivery of the words he noted she held no emotion to her voice. He knew it was a bad sign and she might be ready to do take actions she very well may regret later.

Within a span of five minutes he felt the air around him begin to shift and fold and once again the familiar feel of static entered the room held him with that prickly skin feeling. From a tear in the fabric of time she stepped forward dressed in her sensor protected suit, her hair pulled up in a ponytail. She was not happy moving to stand in front of him. "Blackthorn et al have they been here?"

He nodded. "Show me where she was."

Tim sighed. "The forensic group already sanitized the room. There is nothing left."

Josette took a deep breath, dropped her voice and spoke evenly. "I said show me where she was." Tim opened the door to the doctor's lounge and noticed the nurses were gathering at the nurse's station.

"Can you locate and teleport to the location we have non coms in the hallway and I am sure you don't want them to know you are here."

She nodded. "Go, I will follow."

Tim ducked out into the hallway and made his way to the exam room that had just been sanitized and waited. Josette located him on her g.p.s. and teleported without fail to his location. Appearing in the room she looked at the exam bed and moved to it.

Placing her hands on the bed she closed her eyes and began to concentrate with a softly uttered word she spoke, "Rewind 90 minutes." In her minds eye she watched as the flurry of activity began to rewind in reverse to the bed her aunt had been placed on. The starting with Tim's arrival back in the room, to the sanitation team arriving to Blackthorn's group arriving and finally back to what she needed. "Freeze."

She froze the image in her mind and stepped back looking at the dark figure that was just barely in focus entering the room in his fifteen hundred dollar suit and his silky smooth smile. Josette stepped around his image laying his fingers to her Aunt and could feel his evil emanating from his very core and she shivered.

She studied him and knew she would know him again if she saw him. Then touching him she felt her body wracked with an intensity of desire, lust, and craving. It was very powerful and very overwhelming. "Show me you bastard." Then it hit her. She was no longer standing in the room with her Aunt and the Incubus but she was now in the old house and her mother was in danger and no longer in this time frame.

Frustrated she screamed out in anger and rage. "NO!" With such an expenditure of strong emotions; She felt herself thrown down to the floor and then nothing. The essence of her mother was gone. She was no longer in this plane or this reality but now had been taken again to another dimension.

Josette feeling the fear her mother had left behind and knowing she was in any number of alternate realities she knew this was not going to be as easy as she had hoped. Jeanette was still weakened from her attachment to her mother when she had been thrown into the other reality that set the whole cascade into effect.

She was not sure how she was going to deal with this new crisis and it seemed the whole hellmouth was starting to revolt against the mortal world they so despised. She was not even sure how she was going to tell her father that his beloved Vicki was no longer in this reality.

What would his reaction be, would he want to rush off and try to rescue her? All these thoughts tumbled through her mind sending her reeling as to what to do. Then she felt it a touch and heard his voice as he spoke to her softly. "Jo, Jo, come on girl snap out of it. We are going to have company you gotta fold time."

Josette blinked and moved with expert ease to slip into the time flow and stream her self - back to headquarters. Appearing in the ready room she collapsed to the bench and bent over feeling her stomach wanting to revolt. This was beginning to become complicated and they were down a team member.

Rubbing her temples she began to feel the edge of a severe backlash headache which was happening more frequently now she had gotten older and was using her talents more to the advantage of the light and good powers.

She knew when she had touched the darkness that was the demon she was going to have problems with backlash. That always happened when she got close to extreme evil. Standing on shaky legs she made her way to her apartment on the fifth level and moved to her medicine cabinet and found the aspirin. With fingers that trembled she shook four caplets into her palm and quickly ingested them.

Moving to her bedroom she lay down and closed her eyes. "Now Josette think. Calm down and think." She was speaking to her self out loud when she heard a soft chuckle.

"You know the first sign of insanity is when you start talking to yourself."

Keeping her eyes closed she could smell him and then heard his voice. "No, the first sign intelligent conversation is when you have it with yourself, its when you start answering yourself and second guessing your intentions that you must worry if you are sane or not. So, I guess you have bee told?"

She opened one eye and peered up at the dark handsome features of Camron. "Yes, I heard and I know who the incubus is and I will take care of that situation and get your aunt back. What you must do is find your mother before we implode."

Josette sighed deeply and let her body relax. "We should do this together. I just don't have Jeanette to help."

Camron sat on the edge of the bed and looked down at her now pale features wracked with the pain of her headache. "Dark powers, did you touch them again?"

She nodded. "The incubus that has my aunt. I touched him to find his lair."

Camron took his fingertips and gently brushed her bangs from her face and smiled at her. "Josette, that was the worst thing you could have done. You know you should leave those things for my touch. You risk a lot by just touching him. He could have taken you then and there and what then? He would have control over a powerful time folder. You worry about your mother allow me to handle Gerard. I have already warned him to stay away from your family. I fear that I tipped my hand by allowing him this much knowledge."

Josette frowned as she peered up into the face of a man she knew she was beginning to fall in love with and did not want that complication in her life. "You know it's this Gerard?"

He nodded. "He is acquainted with my brother and will no doubt try to enlist the help of the other lords of the under dark to help him keep what he perceives is his."

Josette was not so sure she was ready to hear this she closed her eyes one more time. "Camron before we go again, I have a confession to make."

He looked upon the beauty he had forsaken his old life for and smiled. "I know Josette and I feel the same way."

She opened her eyes and smiled, "Then before I go, make love to me Camron. Hold me, kiss me and make me feel special again." Her words were so soft that he was not sure he had understood what she was saying.

"You want me to make love to you?"

She nodded. "It will be one of my biggest mistakes but yes. I want you to make love to me."

Camron smiled leaned over captured her lips with his and before either knew what was happening they were in a frenzy of their clothing falling off and falling into each other as if their whole lives had been designed for this particular moment in time for just them.

They found themselves entwined together in a frenzy that was passionate, heated and mindless finding their souls and brought each other to a peak of satisfied calm. Lying in each other's arms, the covers pulled over their bodies Josette felt exhausted but happy. Camron kissed her neck and nuzzled it then whispered in her ear. "Thank you my love. Thank you for sharing this time with me. You know we both may not come back from this one."

She nodded and felt her chin rub over his strong arm the fine dark hair on his arm tickling her chin and neck. Curled into his hold, she felt safe locked in this room at this time with this moment to be held forever as another part of history that would become nothing more than a blur in a thousand years.

Time was not relevant to either of them holding each other and what they had found in each other's arms. "Camron, know this should neither of us return from this mission, then know that I gladly gave of myself to you freely and with a pure heart. That it has taken me to come and face my own destruction to know how much you mean to me and what you mean to me."

Camron was truly touched by these words and he kissed her ear lobe and whispered. "I fell in love with you that day in my brother's chambers Josette, I would follow you to nine hells and back if that meant I got to spend my time with you. Together we make one hell of a team."

She smiled so touched by his idea of what love was and meant to him and she turned to wrap her arms around his neck and peer deeply into his gaze and let herself become enmeshed in his eyes. She could see herself reflected in his gaze and she smiled. "I did not want to fall in love with you Camron. I wanted our lives to be as they were. Not to be encumbered the sexual tension teasing us on. You know Jeanette was in love with you at one time and I did not want to interfere with that if you and her were to get together."

Camron kissed her nose then put his lips lightly to hers and spoke to her. "Kiss me Josette, kiss me like you love me and mean it."

She felt the press of his lips close to hers and she opened her mouth to allow him to use his tongue to plunder her mouth and once again she felt the world around them grow warm and she was caught up again taking pleasure in each others arms. Their lovemaking had become frantic and passionate writhing in each other's arms finding fulfillment as they climaxed in a heated rush of satisfaction and contentment.

Laying spent and happy once again in each other's arms Josette let out a soft contented sigh. "Well I guess we need to get our butts up and you take the low road I will take the back road and maybe we might be able to team up again soon?"

There on her lips was the quirky smile he had come to love and expect. Sliding up he slapped her bottom and laughed. "Like I said we make one hell of a team. Come on we have time for a shower."

Josette was sliding into her sensor suit with Camron beginning to towel off. Reaching for her hat she slipped her hair up under the sensor hat and pulled on her gloves. Finally sliding into her shoes she turned amazed at how quickly he had gotten out of the shower, toweled off and he too was nearly dressed. "So I will go on to the old house and see what I can pick up from there and find the portal. You are going to take Radu are you not?"

Camron nodded, "Yah I think I can use Radu and J.B. we all will go to the lair and I will find your aunt and bring her home safe and sound to you. You just worry about fixing the time slip before we do another cascade and find ourselves bouncing through alternate realities through all times."

Josette moved to him and now they had shared each other's bodies and confessed their feelings she no longer felt the sexual tension that had plagued her with him before. Grabbing a quick kiss she smiled, "I promise that I will do my utmost best to return time to its normalcy and come back for another team effort."

Smacking her on the butt one more time he smiled, "I would expect nothing more or less from you my dearest Josette. I just ask you to separate your personal feelings from this mission. You know when you get all personal you also get emotional and things go down hill fast and you will not have me there to fix them."

Josette studied him and saw that he held a half serious tone to his words. She nodded and assumed her own professional attitude one last time.

"For you I will make every effort to divorce myself from the fact this is my mother and she may be in danger. I will also keep in mind that this has to be resolved to stop the cascade. But, I want you to also consider if she fell through a portal someone had to opened that portal and I do not know if I am dealing with an A/U of one of our own that may have slipped in by accident."

He frowned as he thought about this. "Just be careful my love. Come home to me safe and sound. Know that I send you with my love and in one piece don't make me regret sending you alone."

With that he folded his time band and was gone from her view and she sighed deeply looked up and then folded her own time and found herself in the hallway of old house. "Now to rewind."