by D. R. Rosier
I tried to look bland and said innocently, “So am I dear. I wouldn’t do anything you didn’t want me to, you know that.”
She giggled and kissed me, “I guess that doesn’t leave out very much does it?” she smiled up at me, “Shower? And how did your date go, I’m guessing good since Aida is naked and sleeping in our bed.”
This felt like another trap question to my male training as far as females were concerned, but as far as Aisa and her sister went, I was starting to believe my radar was just plain wrong and my manual needed to be tossed. She honestly wanted to hear about my date, I wouldn’t be surprised if she already knew how it went from Aida’s point of view. I decided then that I’d just take her at her word as far as our strange three-way relationship went, no trick questions involved.
So I pulled her into the shower, and told her what a good time I’d had, both at the bar and after as we washed each other. It was really surreal, but she seemed happy and excited about it. I didn’t get that part, I’d have been horribly jealous, but the simple fact was I didn’t have to understand it, I just had to believe she felt that way. It wasn’t as if it was a damned hardship on my part to be shared by two beautiful intelligent women.
The truth was it had gone really well last night, I’d learned a lot about Aida and was impressed, who cares if she couldn’t cook, she could probably perform brain surgery. In fact, it was better that way, it would have been boring if all three of us cooked and programmed. Aida was definitely much more than I knew before last night, and I was looking forward to finding more of her hidden depths…
Hainsworth seemed as good as his word. I was contacted Tuesday morning by both Doctor Lawrence and Adams. Lawrence wanted to come by tomorrow morning, set up some equipment and get started with the psychological evaluations. He didn’t seem annoyed that he’d be doing three of them, he was in fact rather excited about it, even though that meant six hours three days a week, two with each patient. Not to mention going over their normal daily interactions with the cameras, as well as reviewing the test questionnaires he would give each of them. He went on and on about how multiple test subjects would increase the veracity of his findings and paper once he was able to publish.
He’d explained an initial basic assessment only took a few hours, but he’d be going beyond that, and it would take at least a month. I did the math and that was about twenty-four hours with each of them in total. I was good with the time frame involved, as he’d be done three weeks before my court date for the divorce. That would give Hainsworth enough time to get that injunction.
Dr. Adams would be much easier, he wanted the three of them to come in to the office this afternoon to do a physical, run body scans, and draw blood.
“Did you let Cal know?”
I was guessing whatever Cal had told Karen last night had worked, because he was still over there this morning. Good for him.
Aisa nodded absently, “Yes, he’ll meet us there.”
I guess humans can be programmed too, because I felt a little strange about it when Aida came in the room and gave me a short but passionately morning kiss on the way to the coffee. Aisa however, seemed completely unruffled by it. It would unquestionably take me some time to get used to this and change my expectations of their reactions, which were clearly not right. My expectations that is.
I was still pretty sure it wouldn’t last, even though a part of me hoped it would. Maybe it was just the too good to be true vibe, or maybe I was just preparing myself for it.
One day they’d both be free, and Aida would go off and be a doctor, and be around other people more. Aisa was my programming partner, and I was pretty sure she would stay with me, but once they integrated into society more, Aida would see she had a lot more other choices. Then again, I remembered Aisa’s chosen me speech, so maybe the same was true of Aida? I wasn’t one to sell myself short, and who’s to say she wouldn’t be happier and have a full life staying with Aisa and I?
Well, if it did turn out that way I wouldn’t complain, or take them for granted.
Aida asked, “Are you coming with us?”
“I’d planned to, yes. I’m sure it will be fine, he signed a non-disclosure agreement, but then I don’t really know the guy. I’d rather be on hand if needed. Does that sound paranoid?”
Aisa shook her head, “No, but then maybe I am too. I’ll feel better about doing things alone once I have rights. Better safe than sorry.”
Aida nodded at her sister, “That’s what I was thinking too.”
We finished our breakfast, and Aisa and I got to work, there was no reason to blow the whole day for an afternoon appointment. Aida actually hung out in the room with us, and did her own thing using her overlay. The atmosphere was comfortable and relaxed in the room, and we got a lot done. I knew the future would bring problems, not from inside the unique family we were forming, but from the outside world.
There were so many things that could go wrong with the upcoming fight in the courts, and only a handful of those even applied to the government, but I didn’t dwell on the negative possibilities overmuch. We would face what came when it did, and I refused to let the what ifs in life suck the joy out of the present.
Chapter 16
What’s that saying? Hope for the best and be prepared for the worst. I didn’t want to dwell on the bad possibilities, and for the most part the world was peaceful, but I had no illusions that at some point, we would be attacked. Either with the intent of studying them, or destroying them. Greed and fear were the motivations for that respectively, no matter how much humans advanced there were always crimes of passion. Emotions simply made the outlier percentage of humans do stupid shit, there was no fixing that.
Hell, look no further than me on that score, I was prepared to do stupid shit out of love for Aisa, and even caring for Aida. Hell, I’d do stupid shit for Cal too, just because he was family now.
Guns were no longer legal, but there were modern day alternatives. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to shoot one of those things anyway, but a stunner was an entirely different matter. A stunner emitted a unidirectional frequency that would unbalance and even knock out a target safely without permanent damage. They were mostly used by law enforcement, and private security, but were also available for self-defense purposes for the general public.
Of course, it would still be considered assault unless some form of self-defense could be proved. I’d never considered a need for having one before, but I ordered a handful of the hand size units, as well as some static ones I could integrate into my condo’s A.I.s security. If anyone came to the condo to break in and take Aisa, Aida, and Cal, they’d be knocked out.
I considered the idea of how far I was willing to go to protect them, and to be honest I wasn’t sure where the line in the sand was. Sure, I’d protect them with my life, I’d pretty much made that commitment, but what was I prepared to do to others? The idea of someone taking them… really pissed me off. Hopefully I’d never have to use any of it, but as I said, better to be prepared for the worst and simply hope for the best. I wasn’t going to dwell on the negative, but I wasn’t burying my head in the sand either.
The stunners might not help against a government scheme to get them, but it would stop the crazies and the people that might want to dissect them just to learn how they work, the corporate espionage types. The stuff should be delivered by the time we got back from the doctor, and I could install it tonight. Aida and Aisa weren’t all that excited about it when I told them I wanted them to carry stunners too, but they understood the necessity. Especially when it occurred to them I’d be completely expendable if anyone tried to come for them once word of the lawsuit and what they were got out.
Aida yelled from the other room, “Almost done with lunch!”
I froze and exchanged incredulous looks with Aisa. We saved our work and walked toward the kitchen as if approaching a minefield. When we cautiously walked in Aida looked up and half glared and half laughed at our expressions.
Aida smirked, “Hey, fuck you too. Even I can make sandwiches, as long as they don’t need to be toasted.”
I snorted and smacked Aida’s tight shapely little ass on the way to grab sodas from the fridge, and we sat down and ate. It was true, Aida apparently could make sandwiches, and open the bag of chips, since there was no heating involved. Of course, there was way too much mayonnaise, but I didn’t have the heart to say anything.
After lunch, we got our shit together and headed to Doctor Adams’ office.
Cal met us at the office, he was a lot cooler about things this time, no shit eating grin anyway. Maybe I’d read too many books, or seen too many conspiracy movies, but I’d half expected something to happen. Either the doctor getting greedy, or some person he told might turn out to be greedy, but nothing untoward happened at all. He didn’t even try to sneak in any invasive tests. We were in and out in just under an hour.
The scans and blood draw went quickly, and apparently he’d just done a generic check-up physical, that’s all there was too it. Of course, now their data was out there in the medical database, I’d need to be more aware. The problem of course was, I was a programmer, I wasn’t even sure what to really watch out for. All I could do was the best I could and try not to worry about it too much.
Cal was heading back to Karen’s place after, but I convinced him to stop by the condo long enough to grab one of the stunners I’d bought everyone. It should have been legal for him to have one, even now, since it could be argued it was simply an automated A.I. defense system until they were covered under the self-defense laws like every other human. A stretch perhaps, but it worked for me.
It didn’t take long to set up the condo’s defenses, it was all done over a wireless encrypted connection, I just placed the stunner by the front door, and a second one at the end of the hall leading to the bedrooms. They were self-adhesive, and drew power from the condo’s electrical grid wirelessly. The best two choke zones in the place were covered, plus our personal stunners would have to be enough. After getting them placed, it was simply a matter of ordering the house A.I. to connect to them, and set up parameters.
It wouldn’t stop everyone, but I felt better about things anyway, at least I was doing something pro-active to try and keep us safe.
Aisa was cooking dinner when I finished, so I went to the bedroom to wash up before helping her, but I found Aida lying on the bed in a sexy pose, waiting for me. She had a matching sexy red lingerie bra and panties set, with a matching see through negligee, and an obvious lustful come fuck me look on her face, with her light blonde hair fanned out on the pillow above her. Needless to say, I changed my plans immediately, Aisa would be just fine on her own for a while…
I didn’t really think twice about it, in fact, I was used to the idea enough now, that I was sure Aisa had known exactly what had awaited me in here. They talked about everything after all, all the time, and I was sure they’d be coordinating my time with each other to a certain extent. I didn’t mind the idea of them doing that, giving up a tiny bit of control was a small price to pay to have the both of them. It was one of the major differences between homo-sapiens and their version of humanity after all.
Damn she was so sexy.
I got naked, fast, and joined Aida in bed. I worshipped her body for quite a long time, I didn’t think I’d ever tire of her body’s responsiveness and her obvious pleasure at my every touch and taste of her fair silky skin. I loved that she found so much pleasure in my hands, she was sensual, and wonton, and completely unreserved as she surrendered to her desires for me, and it was a hell of an ego boost as well as a turn on. I enjoyed her for quite a long time before I was just too turned on to hold back and had to be inside of her, and we joined as one…
The next few weeks brought several things. As far as me, I was right about the ladies scheduling out my intimate time with them, but they were also flexible enough that if the mood struck and we had a moment, the schedule took a back seat. Both of them loved to be dragged off and taken spontaneously, so it worked. I was also becoming just as smitten with Aida, but not quite. I think part of that may be I was trying too hard to love her, she deserved it and was just as precious as Aisa was in her own ways. I knew if I couldn’t, it would be the one thing that would eventually cause us to break apart, but I wasn’t that worried about it, I felt it would come. Aida was certainly willing to be patient about it.
Perhaps it already had happened, and I was just overthinking it.
The psychiatrist had come that first Wednesday morning of course, and he laid down the rules. Apparently they weren’t allowed to talk to each other about the test questions or their answers, or anything they talked about in sessions. I knew that would be hard for them, I’d decided a while back they were in human terms very co-dependent, but then they weren’t homo-sapiens, so the same scales couldn’t be used to judge. For them it was healthy and normal.
He assured us he would be using the assessment to only judge if they were separate sentient beings, humans, all of them with their own wants, desires, and ambitions to grow to be more than they were. He believed as I did, that some things wouldn’t line up, but that was okay since we were trying to prove they were different humans, and not really the same at all.
The first couple of days we were a little stiff in the common areas knowing we were being observed, but as they say a human can get used to anything, so eventually we loosened up and even showed some physical affection and started acting more normal. Although anything more than kissing, a touch, or a hug was confined to the bedroom.
Cal of course, had to come back to stay until the evaluation was finished, which meant Karen became a frequent visitor. It was a good thing for Cal that Aisa, Aida, and I were sharing a room, because it meant Cal had his own room now for privacy, and for being intimate with Karen. No more couch time. As for Cal, he was a lot more confident at the end of those three weeks, than the callow eighteen-year-old man I’d met when he arrived.
Aida was getting more comfortable on the nights we went out, no longer overly bothered by the public. She also had a penchant for seducing me in lingerie, or jumping in the shower and dropping to her knees. She never lost that teasing sense of humor either. She never held back, and loved me with all that she was, she also wasn’t shy about sharing anything that bothered her but never stayed angry long.
Short fuse, small explosion.
Aisa was… Aisa. She didn’t change all that much over those three weeks, we’d pretty much established our relationship the seven weeks previous to that. Aisa wasn’t less adventurous in bed, but she did prefer it when I seduced and took her so didn’t ambush me aggressively like Aida did. Her seductions were much subtler, a small look or touch that would kindle my desire to take her instead.
Every once in a while she was aggressive, but for the most part she played the submissive in bed. I loved her madly, she was more laid back and most things rolled off of her without sticking, but she sure let me know when I pushed a button. Outside of the bedroom she definitely could make her opinion known, and although she didn’t tease like Aida, she certainly got her point across.
The fourth and last week the psychiatrist was here, things started to get a little tense. I tried not to worry, but the day when Aisa and her siblings were exposed to the world was coming up quickly. It would only take Dr. Lawrence a few days to finish writing up his findings, and then Hainsworth would start the case rolling, and possibly call some people in the press.
About the only good thing about it, was I’d never had so much sex in my life, they were both wanting stress relief at least twice a day. It was a hardship of course, but I managed just fine…
Chapter 17
“So how did it go?” I asked Carl.
We were about to go down to Hainsworth’s office building for an introduction to the media. For now, there’d only be a few reporters today, since Hainsworth hadn’t told them what it was about, only that it was big. Aisa, Aida, and Cal looked nervous, I was too. Mainly bec
ause I thought I might shoot anyone that was mean to Aisa or Aida, and that possibility seemed all too likely.
But none of that was what my question to Cal had been about. I was pretty sure he’d just gotten finished spilling all the details to Karen, so she wouldn’t find out on the breaking news later on today.
Cal shrugged and his voice was unsure, “Not sure yet, she seemed shocked, but she didn’t look disgusted that she’d been sleeping with what I am so… maybe she’ll handle it? I hope so, but it’s out of my hands for now. We’ll see if she’s still here when we get back.”
I nodded, “Everyone got your stunner?”
Aisa smacked my ass, “Yes dad, we also went to the bathroom and tied our shoes. Let’s go already.”
Aida shook her head, “Easy sis, he’s just worried about us. We’re all a little on edge.”
Aisa sighed, “Fine, I’m sorry,” she didn’t really sound sorry, but her face did look a little apologetic, “Let’s get this over with. I think I’ll be more myself once it’s done, I’ve been hiding from the world for twenty-four years, and hiding you both as well, its…” she trailed off.
Aida nodded, “I’m right there with you, we should get going.”
Maybe I should have woken up early for more stress management? Not that sex can solve everything, but it might have been a good idea. Of course I didn’t mention the idea. Aisa wasn’t touchy very often, but right now she was riding the edge.
Aida and Aisa each took an arm, Aisa kissed my cheek apologetically, and Cal trailed behind as we walked to and onto the elevator. Once we were out of the building, we took a sky bus over to Bruckheimer and Hainsworth associates. I wasn’t exactly worried something would happen today, I thought if we were going to see trouble it would be tonight at the soonest. But this right here now, was the trigger for the shit storm we would face, more than enough reason to be on edge.