This work is dedicated to Tefler and is my humble homage to his wonderfully written work.
Fanfic by Recurve33.
Based in the TSM universe.
If you have not read Tefler's works here on Literotica, you definitely should. The following is a fanfic by one of his devoted fans. The author has since passed away, but, as her chief editor, she asked me to continue her work after her passing.
With great humility, and with Tefler's permission, I offer her work for your enjoyment. Be patient with the first chapter. Recurve was writing about her real-life loss. Her cat of many years, Agatha, had just recently passed. The reading gets much easier after the first chapter. But, this first chapter will grab your heartstrings.
Max Intel: Melinoe
Chapter 1 - Loss
Max raised her hand to the DNA lock and paused. Standing outside the comfortable flat she shared with her wife of ten years, Jooniper Smith, her mind began to race.
This wasn't going to be the joy-filled leave she usually experienced.
Max was on a three-day pass she managed to wrangle from her unit command by cashing in a perfect record for compassionate leave.
Agatha was dying.
For twenty years this sweet, intelligent, and very pushy black and white fuzzball was in Max's life. Her only childhood friend on Galon Prime and her constant companion through the months of safe house living during the exhaustive investigations and trials of the mass murders in her residential unit.
0o0
Denby square was riddled with criminals and gang affiliations. Someone stepped on big toes and the response was the Denby Square Massacre. Thirty-seven murders in less than four minutes: the only survivor and identifying eyewitness was an eight-year-old girl hidden in an air vent with a black and white kitten.
0o0
Max thumbed the DNA lock, stepped inside, and took off her armored mil-spec BDU jacket, hanging it up on a hook near the door. It was late; but she knew Joon would be awake.
Joon poked her strawberry-blonde head around the doorway from the living room. Speaking softly but with the sound of dread permeating her voice, "Max?", saying that one word conveyed her emotions perfectly.
Max gathered the petite woman into her arms, her warm massive breasts crashing like surf on the rocks of Max's abdomen. Holding her was just magic to Max, but that magic was dampened by the reason for this trip home.
"H-how is she?" Max stammered, already feeling the raw edge of emotions she knew would be slicing into her for the foreseeable future.
Joon peered up at the strong, towering woman who was her wife. "She's sleeping in your chair, I had to make some stairs for her so she could get to it last week, but she was struggling to walk when I called you."
Joon's eyes were brimming with tears. Glancing up with a soft smile, "Agatha will be so happy to see you."
Max and Joon walked together into their small, cozy living room and Max quietly kneeled down in front of a wing backed chair that once belonged to Dierdre Gilmore the TFIS inspector who issued twenty-three arrests and convictions for murder and conspiring to commit murder on the Denby Square Massacre case, severely crippling the Fulmetter crime syndicate on Galon Prime. The same woman who adopted a skinny, dirty, malnourished, illiterate, physically abused child... and gave her a chance.
Max leaned into the seat of the chair that Max herself used most; it fit her frame and was comfortable. Her face now mere inches from the soft coat of her oldest friend. Max softly whispered, "Ag's", the instant purry chirp of recognition and steady purring filtered into Max's soul as it always did.
Agatha opened her eyes, steel grey gilded with silver.
Her purrs increased with a breathy urgency that was deeply concerning. Gently sliding long fingers under the edges of the cat, Max carefully lifted her up, cradling Agatha into her own chest. She was very gentle as she carefully turned and sat back into the chair.
Joon leaned over, running fingers through marine-short dirty-blonde hair and kissed Max on the forehead, she left the room to make preparations, painful as they would be.
Joon's departure wasn't consciously noticed by Max: she was falling through years of memories, seeing flashes of black and white throughout, arriving on Jericho, never seeing so much green in all her life.
0o0
Daily sessions of education broken up with exercise that Deirdre always led by example. Agatha's purry chirp echoed in her mind. Growing taller throughout the painful years, Max was soon topping her guardian by several inches in height, and she was not showing any signs of stopping. Going to school for the first time, Max was not one to be afraid of asking questions; but she found herself being excluded from the popular social groups. "Being tall and smart isn't popular." Max remembered the words she said to Deirdre as she explained her problem; and her guardian looked up into Max's eyes and said, "Being popular is good for five minutes, being smart is good for the rest of your life... and being tall means, you can reach the top shelf without fetching a step." Deirdre smirked. "Find a friend, just one: someone who will like you for who you are, not what you look like."
0o0
Max blinked, a glass of chilled water was on the side table next to her chair, she didn't even realize Joon had been there and placed the water there for her.
0o0
Joon.
School was a micro expression of humanity and being tall had one very obvious advantage for Max; she was practically immune to intimidation. At age twelve she was six feet tall. No girls, no boys, no teachers were able to look down at her: it was a psychological game changer. It also allowed her to see things from a different perspective; especially how girls treated each other and particularly how they treated ones who did not appear average. Three girls who were "popular" were tormenting a much shorter and thinner girl; one who made up for her lack of height with advanced development of her bust and curiously large hands.
"You must be a slag." Proclaimed the one girl, the most popular of the trio, "To have tits like that. I know you just give it up all the time."
The smaller girl's face turned bright red as she was trying to get to her locker.