This story plays fast and loose with Ancient History and Linguistics; be warned.
Chopperfan327 strikes again!
For my readers, who put up with a lot.
Victory in battle is a matter of skill. Victory in war is a matter of persistence.
(Tuesday)
Aya followed me to Medical for my daily checkup. It seemed I was no longer to be trusted with my welfare. Aya found the visit fascinating; not because it was new. Because she knew so many of the personnel. That sucked. The frisky doctor took care of me with the bonus of a little exchange with Aya.
"He's got a really big 'thing'," Aya chirped. I was suddenly wishing Elsa had given me a concussion.
"Oh, I know," the doctor smiled at Aya.
"He's quite proficient too. Loraine said he has had over 150 sexual encounters and he's so good he gets stabbed a lot," Aya related. I wasn't sure how one led to the other, though they did.
"Do you like having sex with women, Cáel?" the doctor teased me.
"Not when I'm sleeping," I sighed.
"I keep him safe when he's sleeping," Aya provided. "Its real serious work."
"Aya sleeps in your bed?" the doctor was a tad bit suspicious.
"To be specific, she sleeps on top of me, like a bear cub on a Momma Bear," I informed her.
"He's my Daddy Bear," Aya piped up.
"What does your real Momma Bear think of that?" the doctor poked playfully.
"She wants him to be my Daddy Bear too," Aya beamed kittens and rainbows.
"Oh, I bet she does," the doctor gave me a playful wink. Sex.
"This is all great, but I'm getting a bit uncomfortable and would like to flee to the dubious safety of work," I mumbled.
"All done," Doc said then patted my cock.
Oddly, that was one of the only two places on my body that hadn't been clobbered; my face being the other. They wanted me pleasing to the eye and sperm-functional. I dressed and crutch-walked away. At the elevator door, Brielle and her friend were waiting.
"Guarding you is going to be a full-time job," Aya took my hand and looked up at me.
She saw the lascivious look those two were shooting my way.
"You brought a child to defend you?" Brielle teased me as the elevator headed up.
"It worked, didn't it?" I countered.
"Aya stand in the corner and cover your eyes," the companion directed.
"Sorry...I apologize, but I can't do that," Aya said defiantly. "He's my bed buddy." That earned me some looks.
"Jeesh ladies, give me some credit," I groaned. "She's nine."
"Ugh...fine," Brielle relented. "So Aya, what's he like in bed?"
"Warm and he smells wonderful," Aya sighed dreamily. I was getting dreamy looks from the other two, but most likely a very different dream. "And he hugs me before I go to sleep and the first thing when I wake up."
"Fine Aya," Brielle's eye sparkled. "How about I trade you a band of 'honor gold' for a night with Cáel?"
"I can't do that," Aya reasoned. "He's the only Daddy I have. I think he is the only Daddy any of us have." Thank God the elevator opened on my floor. The philosophic elements of this conversation had become way too convoluted. I was the last one of us to get to Katrina's office which seemed to amuse Katrina.
"Cáel, you have the day off," Katrina informed me. "Didn't anyone tell you?"
"Oh, I'm not here to work. I'm here as your newest hire's - Aya's - lap-monkey," I replied gravely.
"Very well. Aya, stand in line with the others to receive your work review and assignments," Katrina ordered calmly. Aya took her spot next to Violet.
Aya nearly cried when she got my work review for Monday. Apparently I had done the equivalent of threatening World peace, or created a tidal wave generator that swamped the Maldives.
"Look on the bright side," Violet patted Aya's shoulder. "You can't do worse."
"How does it feel to know you will be less productive than a child?" Fabiola taunted me.
"It is nothing new," I snickered. "After all, I've been working with you for a whole week." This insult was compounded by the other five girls snickering at the jest. Aya didn't get it and Katrina was undoubtedly laughing on the inside.
"I'm going to get you," Fabiola ground her teeth.
"Come on," I sighed to Fabiola, "it was a joke meant to give a little levity before charging off to your days."
"Well, don't mock me," Fabiola snapped.
"But it is so easy," Paula giggled. Fabiola turned on her.
"Enough," Katrina demanded gracefully. She handed out assignments and the group departed. Aya had my job from yesterday. She also had Katrina's Nerf gun. Seconds after the first incoming bolt, Aya decided she loved working at Havenstone. After my fellow Executive Services sisters discovered that I had a secondary gunner, they began to triple team us in true Amazon fashion.
Aya countered by building a fort using sofa cushions. She'd also scamper out and round up spent darts every time her work queue was filled. To change things up, and gain a lesson in simple tactics, Aya would move furniture around the office. When a woman, or women, would pop in to shoot me, Aya would shoot at them from an ambushing angle.
Honestly, for a warrior culture, these ladies were remarkably fooled by a pile of towels on Katrina's sofa - hiding a miniature sniper. Lunch came by way of Buffy and Dora. I had a feeling that Buffy was still stung by Daphne's betrayal. Watching Aya try to stare down Buffy was both amusing and a tad chilling. I was going to have to do something about her frustration.
After Katrina released us, I pleaded with Desiree to entertain her niece - Aya, while I went to grab a few drinks with 'the guys'. The club they chose screamed overly-pretentious, overly-privileged and insanely over-priced. I didn't have the Class Ring, or Mummy/Daddy's bank account to go to a place like this. I had a sudden unsettling feeling.
I double-checked my bank account. I had around two grand squirreled away when I got the job with Havenstone and I knew that cache had to be running dry. I checked it and I had over five grand. Unless banks had radically altered interest rates, somebody was propping me up financially. Barring a rich girlfriend, I had a rich girl friend. Every guy I knew and liked was as poor as me.
I hobbled in on my crutches, drawing some stares. No one called out, or recognized me, so the general snobbish assumption was that I was a person who didn't 'fit in'. A few more hobbles forward and the looks began to change. My suit was tailored, I was an impressive physical specimen and exuded a charisma that implied 'eminently fuckable'.
Felix, Trent and Brian were polite enough to turn my way though they didn't call out. They hadn't grabbed a side booth, or a place at the bar. No, we had a table sans chair in the middle of the place because I had a bum leg and crutches - sadistic fuck-nuts. My first introduction was almost comical.
"Hey, Jared, isn't it?" some stranger tapped my shoulder.