After some discussion, I decided to implement Outback law rather than Australian sector law. The former hadn't changed much since Outback was colonized, where the latter changed all the time. Outback didn’t have politics in the normal sense, so its laws had none of the stuff competing political parties added into laws, and then had modified by the next government. The basics were the same in any case, so most people wouldn’t notice any difference. Customizing the law was something I'd do once I had an entity in place, and received the benefit of a lot of legal expertise.
We returned to BigMother for lunch, where we were joined by the 266 pilots, and O'Neil and his wife.
I formally gave the station to O'Neil to command, and bid him talk to Walter for Militia information, since he'd be acting as head of my mini-sector's Militia in this system.
By two, David and his people had moved onto BigMother, and we undocked to head for Nexus.
David kept me busy all afternoon, and I was glad to escape to dinner.
The girls dragged me along to the communal spa after we finished eating. I hastily turned my arousal suppressor back on as we stripped. I was about to get in after them, when a voice came from behind me.
"Can I join you?" asked Amy.
I looked over my shoulder to see her looking at my butt. I hastily eased myself into the water, and turned to watch her come in, closing the door behind her.
"Sure," said Amanda. "No clothes though."
Amy giggled, and stripped. She slid into the water next to me. There was another round of compare bruises, with a lot of giggling. I still won with my down the left side mottled yellow, although they all had purple ones where I no longer did.
By nine, we were all in bed. In our own beds.
I lay there for a long time, patting Angel and pondering things in general.
It was ten weeks since I'd left Outback as an apprentice. Now I owned three systems, and apparently ruled Outback as well. I had my own fleet, stations and shipyard. Someone still wanted me dead, Walter dead, and my team dead. Everything had changed, and yet nothing had changed.
Angel was fourteen weeks old tomorrow. Maybe that was a good reason for a party.
Jane let me know we were jumping into Bad Wolf, and I watched the forward view on a wall screen as we did. The pop-up closed, and I dimmed the lights again.
I dreamed of naked beach babes.
Forty Eight
I slept through the jump into Nexus 618, but was up in time to be on the Bridge as we approached the center of the ring of jump points just before seven.
Hunter's Haven was dead center of the ring. The distance to each jump point to the Australian systems varied, but not by more than ten minutes. The Shipyard was positioned well below the station. Jane informed me a connection tube was being designed to link the two.
There was substantially more traffic moving between the jump points than when I'd left the sector. It moved in both directions around the ring, and crisscrossed between them all.
The others joined me on the Bridge before we started the docking sequence, and Annette welcomed us home.
BigMother docked, and I sighed.
Home sweet Home.
I grinned around the Bridge, and was about to stand, when Abagail spoke into the silence.
"Boss," she said. "You know that email problem?"
I nodded. She indicated Amy, and I looked back and forth between them.
"I think we cracked it!"
Jonathon Hunter
will return
in
Hire a Hero
Acknowledgements
Once again, a big thank you for Helen Ellis. My editor, sounding board, ear that listens, and experience which talks.
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A Message to my Readers
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