I wanted to get out of the hospital immediately to go home and rest and recover but Aunt Tammy insisted I was too weak to be on my own. She told me that Mom and Audrey were also recovering in different facilities and would be released as well. She said the Survey Service would put me up at a private apartment her on Kiawah Island, and send an orderly to look after me.
I made a face. "I don't need some orderly, Aunt Tammy."
"He's a very nice man, Shelly. Someone from the Service I can personally vouch for. You've gone through a traumatic experience. It would give me great peace of mind to know that you weren't alone during this trying time."
I nodded reluctantly. "All right."
"Good." Aunt Tammy touched her Pad. "You can come in now."
And then Half Commander Thomas Dolby Fisher stepped through the door.
"Hello, Shell."
*********
"T-tom," I stammered. Suddenly I felt quite helpless.
"I see you two know each other," said Aunt Tamara. "Well, I'll leave you to it."
I jumped in bed as the door slammed shut behind her, leaving me with-
Tom.
He still had the same gorgeous blue eyes. His hair had gotten a little darker, a little more browner, his face a little more lined. More mature, I thought, deciding I liked it. He looked so handsome in his black and dark blue Survey Service uniform.
Handsome, and
single
.
I remember it like it was a dream. Tom was divorced from Melissa. How had that happened? But here would be time for questions, later.
"How are you feeling, Shell?"
How was I feeling?
Fuck!
"A little disoriented, Tom."
"That's naturally, Shell," he said, smiling at me. He had me at that smile. At that moment, I would do anything for him.
Anything
.
"Tom, I'm sorry for what I said."
"What you said?"
"When I saw you last. The things I said about you-"
"Shell, you were under alien mind control. There's nothing to apologize for." Again, that handsome grin.
He reached out and started to gingerly stroke my hair. I felt like crying. "Tom! Don't come near me!"
"Why?"
I made a face. "I'm dirty... disgusting... tainted...." Tom probably knew everything I did. He must know how I had fucked the Revered One, been impregnated by it, and given birth to an alien child. He must know how I had fucked all those men, like a common whore.
And Audrey!
"Hey!" Tom grabbed my hand suddenly. "You are not tainted. Never say that. You're gorgeous."
"Tom-"
"You're
gorgeous
," he repeated firmly. His lips moved down over mine, giving them the lightest touch. I felt fireworks from head to toe.
"You... you're going to take care of me?" I said.
He nodded.
"Don't you have important things to do?"
"No, Shell. Nothing more important than you."
Oh my Goddess! Tom was still in love with me!
*********
I found myself living in a beautiful apartment with beach views. "Is this your bachelor pad, Tom?"
"I guess so, now that my divorce to Melissa is finalized," he said. Tom said he had joint custody of his five year old daughter Megan, though I didn't expect to see her in the few days I was here.
"Have you done much bacheloring here, Tom?"
"A little." Tom gave me an uneasy grin and I blushed. What right did I have to complain? I had certainly been fucking enough people and aliens over the past few weeks! If Tom didn't think I was untouchable, I had no right to complain about his life as a single man!
********
At first, everything was fine. Tom was so gentle and sweet. He was with me full time. He brought me breakfast in bed every morning, and cooked me lunch and dinner, and was with me all day. I immediately grew used to the security of having him around me. I asked how long he would be staying with me.
"Two weeks," he said.
Two fucking weeks? I thought maybe it would be two or three days!
"I have months of vacation saved up, Shell. My commander insists I use them or lose them."
He was so nice!
I should have really cherished my time with him.
Instead, I suffered from terrible nightmares. The first night I dreamed of Mom in one of those tentacles, being dragged underwater. "It's all right, dear. It's what I want," she said, as she was pulled under, to the sounds of my screams.
The second night I dreams of Alpha, bursting out of my cunt, fully grown, ripping my body nearly in half as he yelled, "Hello, Mother!"
The third night I dreamed that Audrey was being penetrated by the Revered One's penis. But instead of enjoying it, she was crying out in pain. "Shelly, Shelly, help me!" And all I did was stand there and laugh.
Audrey!
I woke up screaming. Tom was always there, holding me, hugging me, telling me it was going to be all right, that everything was going to be all right.
"It's not going to be all right! I did terrible, terrible things!" I cried.
"You did what you had to," said Tom. "You kept your family alive long enough to be rescued. You saved Audrey's life. You saved your mother's life. You saved many lives."
"But I also did terrible things," I said. "Tom, people died in there!"
Tom paused. "Your Aunt told me about what happened to her on Ramada.'
"She did?"
He nodded. "We spent several days together, before you woke up. We were sitting vigil outside your hospital room."
My jaw dropped open.
Tom sat days... waiting for me to wake up?
I so wanted to kiss him!
"We got to know one another. Your Aunt... she's an incredible woman, Shelly. But one with equally incredible guilt. She feels those lives that were lost were her fault."
"I know."
"You don't, not really. You Aunt was ordered to go in and attempt a rescue. She had no choice. You, Shelly, had even less choice than she did. I know it may feel, subjectively, that you were responsible for what you did, but you weren't. You weren't, and you have to believe that, Shelly, you simply have to!"
I stared into his fierce blue eyes, and felt the power of his calm masculinity, and I hugged him tightly.
And after that the nightmares went away. Mostly.
*********
By the fifth day I felt more or less normal. I stopped thinking about the past and started thinking about Tom.
Tom, the man of my dreams, was living with me, however temporary. I realized I was still powerfully attracted to him.
And he was still powerfully attracted to me.
He was always polite, always the perfect gentleman, but as he served me breakfast, or lunch or dinner, or sat on the beach with me, he was always thinking about me. How beautiful I was. How lovely I looked. How he longed to kiss me.
But he never made a move on me, never so much as tried to touch me, as if he didn't trust himself.
What was more eye opening was what happened every night before we went to bed. Tom slept on the couch and gave me his bed. But before he would go to sleep he would take a long, hot shower. And when I just happened to linger outside the bathroom I couldn't help but pick up on his thoughts.
Tom was pleasuring himself, thinking of me. And not just thinking of how nice my hair or lips were; Tom was pleasuring himself to thinking about
fucking me
. The intensity of his animal-like feelings floored me; I had no idea he still felt such a powerful attraction for me. When he was around me he acted like the perfect butler, perfectly calm.
But the price of calmness was having hot monkey sex with himself every evening in the shower. It was as if he had to drain his excess sexual energy that build up in him in order to remain sane around me.
I of course was powerfully attracted to hm. I realized now that Tom was the only man I had ever loved. We were together, we were single, and yet... nothing was happening.
I tried to give him little hints, and clues. When we walked together I rubbed against him. When we sat on the beach I put my hand on his arm or his leg. He smiled at me but never reciprocated. I smiled back at him, looking at him from the corner of my eye and giving him my best "come hither" look, but all he did was look away, clearly embarrassed.
There was a time factor in play. Tom and I would have to part ways in little more than a week when he had to return to work. But even more immediate than that was the onset of my period. In about four or five days I expected to get my period. That means I would go into Michelle mode any time now. I would start having paranoid thoughts about Tom and drive him away. That's what had ruined things with him the last three times we had gotten together. I knew this would truly be our last chance and resolved not to let my native biology
fuck me up
yet again.
My paranoia would peak a day or two before I got my period. That gave me a scant three days to seduce and bed Tom before I went crazy. It was a very tight deadline.
I told Tom I wanted to go shopping for clothes. Since I had no clothes with me it was certainly a reasonable request. Tom watched as I tried on shorts and shirts and bathing suits. He couldn't help but notice how revealing the shirts were and how immodest the bathing suits were. He looked at a suit which showed off my titties and asked if I really wanted to wear that at the beach.
"Why not?" I asked.
"You'll attract the crabs," he said playfully.
"You'll fight them off for me, won't you Tom?" I asked, as I rubbed against him. I was always rubbing against Tom now, trying to start a fire.
Later that day we played gravity tennis. Tom watched as my breasts bounced up and down in my new, revealing shirts. I could sense he got an erection from watching me and smiled. When we got home, Tom insisted on taking a long shower.
The next day we went swimming. Tom couldn't keep his eyes off my breasts. My new bathing suit clearly revealed the tops and inner sides of them, almost to the areolas. "Do you like my swimsuit, Tom?" I asked innocently.
"You certainly dress...
differently
than you used to, Shell," he said, choosing his words carefully.
I wrapped my arms around him. I felt the heat of his arousal. I put my face next to his. "Differently good, Tom... or bad?"
Come on, Tom, kiss me! Kiss me kiss me kiss me!
"Just different," said Tom, abruptly pulling away.
By dinner time I had had enough. I already had started hearing the very first of my Michelle premenstrual whispers.
Tom doesn't love you. Tom doesn't want you. He just feels sorry for you.
I had to trip him up in bed before the whispers became overpowering!
That night we were watching something on holo, I don't remember what, just that we were sitting on the couch together. I was wearing a revealing shirt showing off my titties once more. Tom loved them, and he was busy thinking of how he was going to have to pleasure himself extra hard in the shower that night.
Fuck that!
I didn't want Tom pleasuring himself in the shower! I wanted him pleasuring himself in