CH17
Kate had watched them eat dinner, only this time Alexis felt better about having Kate only watch.
A few of the movies were a little mature for Alexis, but none of them had anything she shouldn't be seeing at her young age.
Alexis managed to stay awake enough to dance with Rick and Kate at the same time for just one dance. After that Kate carried her all the way home. She weighed almost nothing to Kate.
By the time they got home Alexis was completely asleep and didn't even try to wake up when she had her clothes changed. Kate tucked her into bed and kissed her forehead. "You've been perfect." And Kate runs her hand through her hair.
Kate opened her mouth again, but closed it again. She wanted to say it, she did. Kate just couldn't get the words to come out. And did she already feel the same about Rick?
Kate makes it back downstairs and finds Rick already changed for bed and was holding a small pile of clothes in his hands. "What are those for?" Kate asks pointing.
"They're for you. …. This is my way of asking you to spend the night. No funny business, I promise. It's just that there have been a lot of revelations today, and I really want you to stay." Rick walks up to Kate and offers the clothes.
"You can change in the bathroom if you're shy." Rick grins and arches his eyebrows a couple of times. Noticing that it got Kate to smile back. "You're wanted here Kate and I want you to know that. Vampires and Hunters notwithstanding. I've had training too, even if it has been a few years, and if these Hunters do come we'll handle them together.
Just give us a chance Kate, there is no reason to run away, I'll fight them if they show up right next to you." Rick offers.
It got Kate to blink back the tears. She had spent her life running, was this a place she could stay?
Kate took the clothes and stepped into the bedroom with Rick, but she didn't go into the bathroom to change. Rick made himself busy adjusting the comforter and pulling the sheets back while Kate stripped of everything except her panties and put on Rick's boxers and one of his t-shirts that smelled like him.
Rick was lying in bed on his back having taken his top off and only saw Kate pull down the t-shirt he had given her to wear. All he saw was her bare back.
Kate climbed into bed and cuddled in close with her head on his chest. Kate found out she was right over his heart and could easily hear it beating, and buried her nose into his chest and breathed him in. It made her melt and want to smell him for the rest of her life.
Kate could feel his arms holding her in place, and she felt safe and happy for the first time in a long time. "Where are your parents?" Rick asks softly, moving his hand to hold her head in place.
"Two Hunters showed up at the last planet we were at. A mining moon technically. We got separated while my parents tried to draw them away from Lanie and me. They know roughly where we were supposed to go, but we are so lost I don't know if they'll ever find us again." Kate's tears started, she might never see her parents again.
"Trust me Kate, if they love you and they're still alive they will never stop trying to find you. I would never give up trying to find Alexis and would pay any price to get her back.
They'll be here Kate. I don't know when, but they will be here. Loving parents never give up, … never." Rick tries to instill some confidence back into her. Rick got a kiss to his chest in return.
Kate woke up in the morning and found she was still lying on top of Rick. She could still hear his heartbeat and breathed him in deeply, loving the way it filled her lungs. Kate also woke up feeling different somehow, there was a need that she wasn't used to feeling.
Kate wanted something and the need seemed to be centered between her legs. It reminded her of that first time in the tub with Rick's fingers raising her to heights she had never achieved before. It also reminded her of a moment in time when she was ready to lose her virginity.
And while she still wanted to feel his fingers and feel him inside her, she wanted to be in love with him first, and she could feel she was getting there fast.
These two only wanted to help her and spend time with her. Even share their blood with her when she needed it. They were learning a lot about each other lately and Kate was enjoying the process.
Kate could feel that Rick was awake, so Kate turned her head to look at him. "Hi." Kate whispers to him.
"Hi, you can have the shower if you want. I need to get Alexis up and into the bath to get ready for school." Rick tells her.
It got Kate to lift up and move forward far enough to kiss him. Soon stroking her tongue along his bottom lip asking for entrance and getting it instantly. Kate pressed into the kiss, searching his mouth and taste him in the morning.
Kate could feel his arms wrap around her and hold her close. Kate finally breaks from the kiss and turns her head to bury her face into his neck, and was soon kissing his neck, alternating between kissing and licking.
It gained her a moan from Rick, which got her to smile into his neck. "You keep this up and you're going to be delayed making it to the shower and Alexis is going to be late for school." Rick warns her, but not releasing his hold on her.
"Oooo, I'm so scared." Kate teased, and soon squealed as Rick had her flipped and below him and kissing her deeply again.
Kate could feel his hands finding their way under her t-shirt and could feel skin on skin, and her mind was starting to leave her as she kissed him back.
Kate decided while she could still think straight and used her strength to flip Rick back onto his back while she straddled him. Then used her hands to grasp the lower edge of her t-shirt and pull it up over her head and throw it who knows where, or care.
Rick's eyes were now firmly on her breasts as his hands came up to palm them as Kate bent down to kiss him again, searching his mouth with her tongue. This time it was Kate who moaned as Rick's hands started pinching her nipples since her back was arched allowing him access.
Kate was ready and left his lips and started to work her way down his chest, kissing and licking all the way. Kate had just put her fingers below the rim of his boxers with the intent of pulling them down and off his body so she could reach her prize.
"Daddy?" Getting Kate to squeal and fall over the side of the bed and onto the floor. It also got Rick to grab a pillow and place it in a strategic location, just as Alexis walked into his bedroom.
"Daddy?" Alexis walked up to the side of his bed.
"I'm awake pumpkin, how about you go back upstairs and I'll be right up to give you a bath and make you breakfast while you get dressed." Rick offered, knowing that's what he should have been doing all along.
"Okay. …. Love you daddy." Alexis turned around and started to slowly walk back out of his bedroom.
"I love you too pumpkin." Rick started breathing as soon as Alexis was gone.
Kate could tell she was gone so she was up on her knees next to the bed, with her exposed chest pressed into the side of the bed. "Damn that was close." Kate pressed her face down into the sheets. Finding that they smelled like Rick too, which only started to fire her back up.
"She damn near gave me a heart attack." Rick comments sinking back into the bed. "We are going to have to be a little more careful after this." Rick points out.
Kate could only silently agree, and then stood up. "I'm going to go take that shower." Kate states and heads for the bathroom.
Rick is up and out of bed in a flash and shows up behind Kate and wraps his arms around her, and starts kissing Kate's neck.
Kate bends her head to give him better access and can feel his hands work their way up her stomach and soon feels them cupping her breasts. "Rick?" Kate cautions.
Rick starts nibbling on her earlobe. "I am going to make love to you one of these days Kate. … One of these days." Rick switches to kissing her shoulder.
Kate twists in place so she is facing him and pressing her breasts into his chest while wrapping her arms around him. "I look forward to it." Kate tells him and kisses him quickly, and then pulls away to head for the shower.
Kate is leaning against the cool shower wall. "So close, so close. Maybe too damn close." Kate knew she didn't love him yet, but knew she was getting there. Kate wanted these two in her life. She had never felt like this before.
Rick was in the kitchen making breakfast knowing Alexis was upstairs getting dressed with the clothes Rick hand left out for her.
Kate sneaked up behind him and snaked her arms around him. "Hi." Kate buried her face into his shoulder and breathed him in again. Rick hadn't taken a shower yet, so he still smelled like all Rick.
Rick twisted round in her arms and wrapped his around her. "Hi, Alexis will be down soon." Rick warns her.
"Yeah." No more fun this morning. Kate gave him a quick kiss and moved around to sit at the breakfast bar and waited. Kate was soon grinning as Rick's eyes were still on her. "Something is burning." Kate points out.
"SHIT!" Rick spins around and gets back to work making breakfast for himself and Alexis.
"KATE!" Gets yelled out from the top of the stairs and Alexis does her best to race down the stairs as fast as she can without falling down them.
It gave Kate just enough time to get off her stool and stand before Alexis crashed into her legs and wrap her arms around them. "Hi Alexis." Kate bends over to kiss the top of her head.
"How long have you been here?" Alexis asks innocently.
Kate swallowed. "I, … I actually, …." Kate is interrupted.
"Kate only just got here while you were dressing for school. She wanted to see you off to school today." Rick answers her question for Kate.
"Really?" Alexis looked up at Kate smiling.
"Really, I start school this time next week so I'm going to be busy with school and not here as much." Kate adds a little truth to Rick's lie.
"Oh." Now Alexis was suddenly sad about not seeing Kate very much.
"Maybe if you invite Kate over for a sleep over you could see her more often." Rick offers. "We can create a fort in your room to sleep in." Rick offers.
"PLEASE KATE?" Alexis gave Kate another of her puppy dog eyes look.
"Uhm, …. sure." Kate tells her and then turns her head and mouths "I'm going to kill you" to Rick, who only smiled back.
Kate watched Rick and Alexis eat their breakfast. Alexis was eating, her dad was eating. "Do you need blood Kate?" Alexis offered up her arm in front of Kate and her father yet again.
"No honey, I don't, … I'm not thirsty." Kate told her the truth. Kate's throat wasn't burning.
Alexis looked like she didn't believe her, since Kate always said no. But Kate was a vampire who needed blood. Was she starving herself.
"You're sure?" Alexis wasn't sure.
"You're father offered me his just the other day, so I'm good for a few days still." Kate tells her the truth again.
"You bit dad?" This was new to Alexis.
"Twice actually, so I swear Alexis, I'm fine." Kate tells her, leaving out all the guys she has bitten getting all the money they have. Even Rick didn't know that and unless it came up she wasn't going to offer that information either.
Kate kissed Rick and then Alexis at the door so that Rick could take Alexis down to the car and Kate could walk home. "You coming over for a sleep over?" Alexis asks before Kate leaves.
"How about Thursday?" Kate offers knowing her and Rick would have another date on Saturday.
"YES!" Alexis jumped up, getting Kate to smile.
"Where have you been girlfriend, or do I already know the answer to that question?" Lanie spots Kate as she comes home.
"I spent the night with Rick." Kate was in a telling the truth mood still. "And nothing happened, we just slept in his bed together." Leaving out that Kate was going to do until Alexis interrupted them.
"And you bit him again?" Lanie questions.
"Actually no, however Alexis offered hers at breakfast this morning." Kate tells her.
"ALEXIS KNOWS YOU'RE A VAMPIRE?" This was new to Lanie.
"Yeah, she caught Rick and I talking about being a vampire on the run from the Hunters." Kate explains.
"So they both know about Hunters too?" Lanie questions and wonders just how deep Kate is in now?
"Rick was in this planets military at one time a few years ago. He even has a number of guns at his place." Kate tells her.
"Lanie, … You're medical." Kate paused. "Rick says he has a bullet lodged next to a disk in his back that they are afraid to remove. But if it moves, he may end up paralyzed for life. … Can you remove it?" Kate knew Lanie was good at medical things and they had a medical area on their ship that might be old, but it was still likely better than anything this planet had.
Lanie could see the pleading on Kate's face. Lanie could see Kate was in love, even if Kate wasn't talking about it yet.
Lanie thought about it. "He would have to stay on our ship for at least a week after the operation." That meant food and water problems, both things that their ship didn't presently have. "However having said that. I don't really know that much about his human body. It's the reason for the classes we start soon.
Could I? Probably, but without knowing a human body well enough, I might make a mistake and be the reason he ends up paralyzed for life." Lanie warns Kate. "It would be better if we had a more advanced medical system. It would also be nice to have the EMH operational." Lanie adds.
"Can you download the EMH and work on him while we take classes?" Kate asks.
Lanie shakes her head. "Downloading him is easy, fixing him is beyond me. We need a computer programmer and that just isn't me." Lanie wanted to help, she did.
"Maybe Rick knows someone?" Kate whispers to herself. Now she had a task to do. Go download the EMH and give it to Rick, maybe during her sleep over.
"Oh I'm also sleeping over there this Thursday." Kate informs Lanie ahead of time.
"OH?" Lanie was grinning now.
"Not that Lanie." Kate shakes her head. "Alexis wants a sleep over with me in her room."
"And of course you said yes." Lanie was still grinning.
"Seriously Lanie, I'm not having sex with Rick in Alexis's bedroom." Kate was ready to smack her.
Lanie just kept on grinning Kate with wanting to smack that look off her face.
Kate with Lanie's help spent the next 3 days and nights finding things and shuttling them up to the ship.
They already had a microwave, so they bought these frozen meals that could be cooked in the microwave and put them in the freezer. It addition that had bought these large containers and filled them with water. Then poured them into the ships water storage tank.
They also went up with sheets, blankets and various medical items that Lanie picked out and stored all of it on the ship.
They were flying home Wednesday night. "Think of anything else we need?" Kate asked.
"We've got frozen food, canned soup, crackers, Jell-O and something to make it in. The water storage tank is at ¼ full, should be enough for Rick and Alexis.
Enough sheets comforters and pillows for them, we just need their clothes and something to keep Alexis busy with while Rick recovers. The drugs we need are already on the ship, this stuff is just an addition to all of that.
We'll need to move blood bags up just before we take them." Lanie points out.
"You think you can do this?" Kate finally asked her biggest fear.
Lanie shrugged her shoulders. "I think I'm pretty good, it would be great to have that EMH as a backup. Someone to hand me the items I need and who understands the equipment.
I could probably do it now, but I think both or all of us would feel better about it if I understood these human bodies better. Maybe a few months of classes along with extra reading in the library each night, …." Lanie trailed off.
"Best guess?" Kate asks.
"It's not that easy Kate, I screw this up and I'll leave him paralyzed for life, just like the both of you fear. … Does Alexis know anything about his injury?" Lanie asks her own question.
Kate shook her head. "I don't know, maybe I can get Alexis to tell me something tomorrow."
"Just don't scare the girl Kate, if Rick is keeping it from her, he's doing it for a reason." Lanie warns her.
"I know, I wasn't planning on just asking her. 'Honey do you know about the bullet in your fathers back that might leave him unable to move anything for the rest of his life?' Yeah, that'll go over big." Kate rolls her eyes.
"Honey?" Lanie teases.
Kate turns her head to look at Lanie. "Shut up." It only got Lanie to grin wide. Yeah, Kate was in deep and going through all of this long before they were even ready to attempt it, or talk to Rick and Alexis about it told Lanie a lot.
Now did this tell Kate anything too?