Kevin dressed after their most recent bout of sex. He was really going to have to get Mina to cut her nails, if this was going to keep going. He thought as he winced when his shirt landed on his scratched back.
Mina stepped out of the bathroom in her short uniform, still braiding her damp hair. Kevin stopped to watch her move about the cabin. The sight of her excited him, but he forced himself to think straight. He had several things he wanted to discuss with her.
"The meeting with the other men is set for conference room five in fifteen minutes." Mina told him, glowing with contentment. The sex they had just finished only complimented the glow from her finding out she was pregnant.
"Good, we need to talk." Kevin said as he stood and walked into the other room.
"What about," Mina questioned as she followed him.
"Sit down." Kevin said, pacing the length of the room.
"I think I know." Mina said, looking down at the floor. "You are still upset about how I have been treating you."
"Somewhat," Kevin conceded.
"You have to understand. This is all very new to me. I have never had to balance my command with my feelings." Mina told him. "I have to get used to the crew seeing us together. I love you, I have never been in love before and I don't know how to react when the crew is around. I have always been alone and in control. The crew has dubbed me the Ice Queen, but I am not supposed to know that. Please patient with me and help me adjust to these new feelings that I am dealing with."
Kevin felt his anger dissolve before her honest pleading. She was trying to get used to a new social dynamic. Now that he thought about it, he was going to have to rethink a few things as well. Like how was he going to explain all this to his boss, the press and government?
"I will try to be patient, and I will try to help you adjust to my presence. You are also going to have to adjust to being pregnant. That is going to change your command abilities as well. Are you going to keep command or retire to help raise the children? And if you do keep command, what am I going to do? We need to have several talks about that. I am not going to insist that you give up command, but we will have to talk about the future."
"Very well Kevin." Mina said smiling softly. "But that will have to wait until at least after the meeting. We should be going."
"Not yet," Kevin said. "One more thing, what did you mean when you said that you would only share my genes, not my body? How can you do that?"
"You will just have to wear a condom." Mina said simply. "We have developed several that will not break, but will keep the sperm alive long enough to go into stasis or be inserted into another female in the crew or back home."
"Condoms," Kevin almost groaned. "I hate wearing ..."
"I know. I have heard you complain about them often enough at home. But these ones were designed expressly for this task. They are so thin, that you will not even know that you are wearing it."
"Trust me, I will know." Kevin said firmly.
"You did not notice earlier." Mina said shyly.
"What do you mean?" Kevin demanded.
"I slipped one on you before you fucked me. It is currently in the stasis chamber in the bedroom. I wanted to keep it on hand depending on how your meeting goes. If you agree to share your genes then we can start right away. If not, then they are waiting for me if we want to have any more children."
"Mina..." Kevin said exasperatedly.
"Kevin, you know that this for my people. Trust me when I say that I will not let anyone have your genes without your consent."
"Next time warn me." Kevin said softly.
Mina smiled and said, "I promise. Now let's go, we are going to be late to the meeting."
"Okay, but I don't want you or any of your crew around while we talk about this."
"Okay," Mina replied, looking hurt.
"It is not that I don't trust you, but you are very distracting when I am trying to concentrate on something other than taking you to bed and making mad passionate love to you all night long."
"Well, we will just have to keep doing that until you get it out of your system"
"In that case, we will never leave the bedroom, ever again."
"Promise?" Mina grinned and gave a very un-captain like squeal when Kevin swatted her behind as they went out the door.
The walk to the conference room took only a few minutes, Mina, showed him several of the features of the ship, but Kevin was having a hard time focusing on as the female crew wandering about the halls on various duties. Several times Mina took his hand and squeezed to get him to watch where he was going.
They arrived at the conference room and found all fifteen men seated around the table. Their mates were hovering behind each chair. The men were from all corners of the globe and represented every nationality. Mina waved Kevin to the chair at the head of the table and stood beside him to address the humans.
"Gentlemen, I am Mina, the commander of this vessel. This is my mate, Police Sergeant Kevin Jacobs. You all know why you have been brought aboard. You have all agreed to be mated to the women standing behind you. There is however, a larger issue pressing us at this time. I will now leave Kevin to discuss this with you. Ladies, if you will come with me, we are needed in medical."