Three of a Kind

[Veroe]

System: Ashford
Time/ Date: 2:44.14 PM; Octo 26, 412 A.E.
Location: Turner Station spaceport: Salvager's Guildhall, Level 17-D, 38,987.05 KM from Kai Epsilon 136E warp point termini

IC: Callista Kailokainos (C.K.)

"I can take care of my own problems," She told him, "Always have."

Instead of responding to her Jon turned to Lupo asking, "How much more?"

"Considering how much trouble she's given me..." Lupo shrugged dismissively, "...A lot more."

"Hey," C.K. fumed at the two men, "Don't haggle over me like I'm a pseudo-apple at a grocer's stand."

Still ignoring her Jon agreed to Lupo's price. "Done. Now cancel the auto payments."

"Now just a minute," C.K. promised as Lupo nodded and began to poke around in her auto wallet again. "Hey...that's not the problem...the problem is this undeserving asshole thinks he can rig an entire market to pay him for doing absolutely nothing."

Lupo looked up at her annoyed at that but then to Jon he smirked, "No refunds if you get sick of her lip." He handed him the auto wallet adding, "Anything else?"

Jon came over to her and the thugs began to let her go. C.K. pulled away from them and taking her auto wallet back, but to Jon she said idly, "Thanks."

Jon looked back to Lupo saying, "And I would like to take her out with me. So I can get my up-coming load."

With that Jon led her out of the guildhall but on the way out she gave Lupo the bird reminding him, "Yeah and fuck you, asshole."

 

[JonathanBair]

As C.K says"I can take care of my own problems," Jon tried to hold back a smirk. When C.K says "Always have."

Jon nods and says " I will have fun with her one way or the other." Jon put his arm around her shoulder and says "come on we are going to B bank of small to mid sized landing platforms." Jon lightly guided her tho he made it look a bit more rougher of a grip then what he really had.... The grip was more for show really after all as he whispers " Go with it reluctantly, don't fight tho."

Jon was unaware of the parting message she gave Lupo and his crew as they left...

After a bit from the hall Jon says "keep walking like this till we get to my ship, then we can drop the act."

Jon did not try to think of it, but he kinda liked walking with his arm around C.K, but knew not to expect it as it was a one time deal odds are...


Jon never really though about being with anyone. Tho Jon wasn't going to try and on C.K but a strong spirited woman that would be happy in a ship in space. Would be the kind of woman Jon would want as a partner. Right now Jon was very happy keeping life so simple with his 3 droids, 2 always get left at home and then Taya stays with him just about all times. Even with Jon trying not to think about how nice it feels with his arm around C.K, and Jon trying not to think of how attractive she is as a woman. As Jon tries to keep his work persona on. To be friendly, but guarded and reading to react who he is talking to.

 

[Veroe]

System: Ashford
Time/ Date: 3:02.23 PM; Octo 26, 412 A.E.
Location: Turner Station spaceport: Docking ring Section 4 Bank B, 38,987.05 KM from Kai Epsilon 136E warp point termini

IC: Callista Kailokainos (C.K.)

As C.K. followed after Jon, this smuggler, her would be savior, out of the guildhall and down this section's main corridor to the lift doors she was fuming on the inside. She kept up the performance in case Lupo had people watching them as Jon had wisely suggested to her, but she hated hated hated it.

C.K. owed Jon now. Owed him her freedom. Maybe even owed him her life. She hated that.

To anyone who'd grown up on Galloway colony owing anyone was a life sentence. Debts were shackles no one could break, designed to never let her go. The keys dangled before her face always just out of reach. Was Jon going to treat her like that now? Or was he going to jump into a bunk and demand she crawl into it with him like a meek and grateful little girl?

If he was she'd have to disabuse him of that mode of thinking. Hell he was handsome enough for her to fuck at least once, but "meek" was lightyears away from describing her in the sack and certainly not "grateful". No, when C.K. fucked a man she liked it with way more spice than either of those words implied. She fought, and bit, and scratched, and rolled, elbowed, punched, twisted...all words no where near close to "Meek" or "Grateful". Her last lover, some dockworker big and rough enough to keep her interested, who by the end of their night in the same bunk sported a black eye and a sprained wrist called it "Bare-knuckled fucking" and more like "a bar fight rather than a run of the mill one night stand".

They took the lift to the docking ring section B bank. She followed Jon through the main thoroughfare avoiding spacers heading from their ships to the commerce promenade or the entertainment section of the space station. They had to avoid cargo hauler droids carrying cargo crates off docked freighters and into nearby station cargo bays.

The noise level was high enough here with background chatter that she could quietly ask him, "What the fuck did you do with little miss royalty?"

 

[JonathanBair]

Jon see's they are a pad away from Jon's ship. Jon uses his communicator and taps is saying "Taya stand by and get the ship ready for flight. I will be coming with another passenger." Jon clicks it off and looks to C.K saying "Shes locked in my cargo hold with my droid that has instructions to take off if anyone is coming to mess with the ship. To leave me behind if need be and fly home. Speaking of that, I am going to have to put you in my cargo hold where you will have to lay down till we get to my home and drop her off. Then we can come back for your ship once it is just us two."

Jon lead the way into the next door where they could see his fighter with the ugly fat nose that was made for a cargo hold. Jon used his coms again and said "Taya unlock the cargo hold soon as I am in we can go." Jon walked to the side of the nose of the fighter and opened it up. They could see Aurora laying on her back with the light from the observation hatch shining down into the hold. Jon says "Sorry but you two will have to get close for a bit in there. C.K if you would please get in, so we can head out and get you both to someplace safe."

As this is going on, the fighters two original engines fire up into a low idle state. The added pair above there head level from the fighter bomber fires up to the main stand by state. The human shaped droid is sitting in the rear cockpit seat facing back to the engines and she has the cockpit hatch open for Jon.

 

[Veroe]

System: Ashford
Time/ Date: 3:04.41 PM; Octo 26, 412 A.E.
Location: Turner Station spaceport: Docking ring Section 4 Bank B, 38,987.05 KM from Kai Epsilon 136E warp point termini

IC: Callista Kailokainos (C.K.)

The noise level was high enough here with background chatter that she could quietly ask him, "What the fuck did you do with little miss royalty?"

He spoke into his communicator to his droid. The noise in the background covered up much of what he was saying, but C.K. got the gist that they were going to arrive soon and Jon wanted the droid to get his ship ready to leave.

He then looked over to her saying, "She's locked in my cargo hold with my droid that has instructions to take off if anyone is coming to mess with the ship. To leave me behind if need be and fly home. Speaking of that, I am going to have to put you in my cargo hold where you will have to lay down till we get to my home and drop her off. Then we can come back for your ship once it is just us two."

"Thanks for getting her somewhere safe," She nodded to him then added, "I hate leaving my ship, The Last Chance, behind here, but Lupo's definitely has people watching it by now. They're probably watching us through their taps on the station's security system."

He led her to the next docking bay section and Bank B of the landing pads inside. Within it she spotted a vintage Imperial Navy Starhawk heavy bomber/combat starfighter. It was once a sleek and deadly and beautiful spacecraft. This one however some moron chopped off it's nose and welded in its place a large bulbous cargo pod section. It looked more like it was designed after an obese pelican than the nimble bird of prey it was named after.

"What an ugly piece of shit?" She exclaimed as Jon activated the cargo hatch of the poor butchered fighter. "Did it insult your mother or something? I mean it had to have done something wrong to deserve the atrocity you've made it into?"

The cargo pod's hatch lowered open and Aurora gasped holding what looked like Auto-spanner like a sword to defend herself, but froze when she looked at Jon and then shifting to C.K.. "I was getting so worried. I was beginning to believe the worst had happened to you two."

C.K. smiled with the spit lip she had been sporting from the tussle with Lupo's goons. She hoped the princess found it reassuring. "I could've taken care of myself, but Jon's help was appreciated."

"Sorry but you two will have to get close for a bit in there. C.K if you would please get in, so we can head out and get you both to someplace safe." Jon said gesturing for her to slip inside the cargo pod with Aurora.

"Scoot over blondie," She said to the Princess as she bent over to squeeze into the tight pod's interior with her. "And don't jab me with that Auto-spanner when he takes off."

 

[JonathanBair]

Jon asked C.K "Do you need any help getting in?" Jon watched and waited to see if she would take his help or not. Tho he doubted he would need it.... Jon knew once the door was shut, the small window in the floor of his cockpit would give them light and fresh air. Tho the hold had its own air and temperature controls.....Jon couldn't help but to smirk at C.K saying not to poke her with the tool.
Jon will wait to tell the story how he got this ship till they where in the air.

 

[Veroe]

System: Ashford
Time/ Date: 3:07.13 PM; Octo 26, 412 A.E.
Location: Turner Station spaceport: Docking ring Section 4 Bank B, 38,987.05 KM from Kai Epsilon 136E warp point termini

IC: Aurora Fairmont and Callista Kailokainos (C.K.)

"Scoot over blondie," C.K. said to the Princess as she bent over to squeeze into the tight pod's interior with her. "And don't jab me with that Auto-spanner when he takes off."

Aurora scooted over as she was bade to, "Are you sure you're okay? You look like you've been assaulted by those criminals."

"Don't worry about me. I'm a tough-assed bitch, and you should see the other guys," She dismissed with what would've been a flippant smile if not for the fact her lip had been split and swelling up and she was sporting a pronounced bruise on the side of her cheek.

Aurora gave a little chuckle at this and shook her head. It was amazing to her how attached she was feeling towards this crass, foul-mouthed, and uncouth woman she'd just met the day before. She imagined it would be similar in someways if she'd had an older sister rather than two brothers. It was probably all a reaction to the fact that her entire family was gone...murdered by someone out there that had tried to murder her too.

Dear lord...what was she going to do about that?

"Do you need any help getting in?" Jon asked from outside the cargo pod as CK was trying to shimmy herself inside the cargo section of his modified fighter.

"I'm sure any assistance you could offer us will be greatly appreciated, Captain." She said at the same time CK looked over her shoulder and out of the pod where Jon could clearly get a good look at the ship's coveralls stretched tightly over her shapely ass. "And give you a chance to cop a feel, buster...ha...I can guess what you're after with us, and you're going to have to try a little bit harder for that. Maybe a few shots of whiskey and dancing first. If you play your cards right you might be in for a threesome."

"The three of us...what?!?" Aurora gasped face growing beet red in embarassment at the thought of the idea of the three of them together all at once. Dear lord, this cargo pod was starting to feel warmer in here all of a sudden. CK was far too brash with her words. Though Jon was certainly a handsome one, and she was old enough now to consider herself who will be her boyfriend or even a girlfriend on her own terms. She just thought there'd be a suitably slower and controlled courtship period before the notion of physical intimacy with anyone would come up first.

CK chuckled hoarsely at that. "Don't worry about it, sweet thing. After the prerequisite whiskey and dancing I'll be more than he could handle on my own."

She pulled herself into the cargo pod and gave Jon a wink as the hatch closed shut for their little joyride. "Ok hot shot." She said to Jon, "Show us how this ugly duckling flies."

 

[JonathanBair]

Jon tried to keep his eyes on making sure they where getting in to lay comfertable more then his eyes checking out CK, but with him being a man. His eyes did not fail to take in the sight, but not focus on it. Jon smiled as Aurora showed the look of the purest look of shock and embarrassment in his life that he seen. Its clear CK is more a woman of the same cloth he is cut from as a scraper to make ends meet, and Aurora had such a sheltered life. If any one had a shot of the 3 of them to pair up. Jon could see him self and CK getting along in time tho there was clearly allot of friction with them. Aurora came from a life Jon couldn't dream of and sounded like hell where he would be seeking the first airlock he could find to escape(with or with out more likely without a space suit)

With CK saying "Show us how this ugly duckling flies." Jon nods. Waits long enough to run his hands over the joints of the doors to make sure the skin felt right. Jon then started to climb the side of the fighters body that is at all as him at nearly 2 meters tall. Once Jon had cleared the lip of his cockpit and before he was sitting. Jon was on the radio saying "Calling Control, This is the beast from pad delta two delta wanting to depart as soon as possible." Jon mutes his mic and says "Taya soon as we can I want to jump to the next system and go home the back way. Please start the calculations." Jon now sits in his seat fully and buckles up as the controller approves his his request and gives him clearance to the north west but keep a eye out for a transport departing from Eco 1 Alpha." Jon mutes his mic saying "Roger, departing now will climb soon as I am out of the bay to clear the traffic." Jon mutes his mic again as the controller can be heard contacting the other ship relaying what I am doing, and talking to other ships wanting to depart at the soonest that is possible....

Jon starts to power up to fully taxi way settings. As the ship lifts he starts to turn it right away as he lifts rather then getting to a full hover then turn to taxi. Jon makes his way from his pad to the bays main taxi way and out the space doors into the open air. Jon says "hang on steep climb" as he clears the door. Jon looks over to the next bay seeing the basic cheep public transport shuttle leaving them doors. Jon says to Taya " Keep a lock on that transport till we are clear of it." Jon turns his body to check the rear to see his ship is fully clear of the doors then pulls up into a steep climb making a direct rout for space. Jon knows Taya will have them jump soon as they are clear of the planet in the open space.

As they climb Jon looks at the small window into the hold at the base of his cockpit by his feet. Jon playfully says "This is your captain speaking, please stay seated, no eating or drinking on this flight we will have a short trip." Trying to spin the announcement a public mass transport liner would make to the passengers letting them know when they can move around seating cargo hold area.

The "ugly duckling" hasn't lost a move as she is has all the moves as the pure fighter build.

 

[Veroe]

System: Ashford
Time/ Date: 3:10.06 PM; Octo 26, 412 A.E.
Location: Turner Station spaceport, Modified vintage Starhawk starfighter: cargo pod, 38,987.05 KM from Kai Epsilon 136E warp point termini

IC: Aurora Fairmont and Callista Kailokainos (CK)

CK pulled herself into the cargo pod and gave Jon a wink as the hatch closed shut for their little joyride. "Ok hot shot." She said to Jon, "Show us how this ugly duckling flies."

The pod's interior was not that wide. In fact it was rather tight for one person. For two...CK and Aurora was snuggled up right against each other. Aurora could feel her spooned up against her back. Her arms curled around her protectively as the fighter began to lift up off the landing pad and exit the docking bay shifting them around as they went to a gravity situation to suddenly one without any gravity in a moving tin can.

They were so close and pressed together. The positioning made certain of her body parts press against certain of Aurora's body parts. They seem to fit together nicely even though. Aurora could smell her. C.K. had an earthy scent to her. Not bad, nor masculine, just different and unique. When she moved those certain body parts moved against her certain body parts. It all brought a new awareness of this woman as something more than just the person that rescued her from.

What did this mean? Every suiter she had seen before had been a man. She liked boys not other women or at least she thought she did.

C.K. asked over her shoulder noticing her sudden discomfort, "What's wrong."

Aurora hadn't realized she was blushing, "Nothing...nothing's wrong."

After a second CK snorted, "Look, princess, I'm flattered, but now's not really the time."

Oh god. Aurora just wanted to die.

Above them was a tiny window where they could look up directly between Jon's legs into the cockpit as he operated the controls of the old fighter. "This is your captain speaking, please stay seated, no eating or drinking on this flight we will have a short trip." He announced in a mock announcer's tone of voice as if he was some sort of flight attendant on a passenger liner.

"Hey." CK shot back up at him, "Eyes on your stick, Ace. Quit joking around up there."

 

[JonathanBair]

Just as Jon was expecting soon as they where clear of the planet, Taya had them jump out of the system to the next system outer asteroid belt. Jon dose a hard 180 into the belt and starts a wide turn to his home asteroid that is build around his family's hidden bay. As they get near, Jon says "Taya transmit on low band to ready the home systems." Jon looks down to the window and says "I got two more droids that keep the air and power in a extremely low state that while I am away. We will have fresh air by the time we land." Taya handles the coms as they come into sight of the asteroid. Jon sees one of the two hidden doors open up. Jon makes a landing in bay 1 of the 3. Bays 1 and 3 both have space doors where bay 2 is storage basically with his parents shuttle and sheets of metal stacked.

After Jon lands in bay 1 he asks Taya "Can you slowly shut it down please as she cools down." Jon opens the cockpit and starts to make his way to the hold to open the hatch. As Jon is opening the hatch a new droid comes into the bay reporting "All systems are operating at there normal setting for when your here." Jon knows this is Patty who is reporting.

 

[Veroe]

System: Ashford
Time/ Date: 3:46.12 PM; Octo 26, 412 A.E.
Location: Turner Station spaceport, Modified vintage Starhawk starfighter: cargo pod, 38,987.05 KM from Kai Epsilon 136E warp point termini

IC: Callista Kailokainos (CK) and Aurora Fairmont

"Hey." CK shot back up at him, "Eyes on your stick, Ace. Quit joking around up there."

The fighter began accelerating and both of the ladies soon learned the inertial compensator's effect did not seem to stretch quite as effectively to the contents within the fighter's modified cargo hold.

As the fighter began to accelerate to full speed both girls were pressed to the rear of the pod by the g-forces. Thankfully it wasn't completely ineffective the g's weren't quite enough to turn them into something similar to crimson-colored toothpaste. Still they certainly could feel the G-forces.

"Hang on to me," She told the princess reaching out to brace her arms against the sides to keep them from being crushed against the back of the cargo pod.

She felt Aurora's arms wrap around her in a big hug. they traveled like that for some time before CK looked down to find Aurora's face beet red again.

"What is it now," She sighed.

"Nothing," she siad pointedly trying not to look at CK, "It's nothing...nope...nothing going on at all."

CK looked down to where they were pressed up against eachother, "Is this really the first time you've been this close to another woman?"

"I said it was nothing," Aurora squeaked the flush on her face brightening crimson like a Gallowayan redfruit. "It's nothing."

CK rolled her eyes but left the princess some delusion of modesty.

Then she felt the lurch as the ship reached the warp point out of the Ashford system and made the jump to hyperspace. "Wait, where the hell is he taking us? How can I get my ship back if we're in a whole other system?"