She liked him. He was funny, and kind, and very patient too, she suspected. He wasn’t the first boy she’d gone out with, but he was the first boy ...who had asked her out more than twice. He’d made it very plain that he’d like to kiss her when he walked her to her door too, but she hadn’t been able to let him do that. She was too nervous about it. That was one reason the fact that he’d asked her out again - four more times, now - meant so much to her. She liked men who let her be who she wanted to. Even Tara.The Captain sent me on a number of errands, and I had to help her when she had her bandaging changed. The wound had almost healed although it was obvious that there would be a very visible scar there when it had healed. By the time I had returned from my latest errand – to the armoury for the Captain – Tara was talking to the Captain in her quarters.'Ahh ... John... ', the Captain called as I entered the room. ' ... We will be in Hamilton tomorrow and I really don't need you for a. When I was approached by Saitx and the Asparian people to join the fight against the Empire and their Cybernetic Army, I thought that all my fan boy fantasies had come true, but it's been a hard fight. I've needed to recruit others, and along the way, yes, I did impregnate the alien who recruited me. She gave birth in half the time a human would, and I was blessed with my son, who I named after the god of War, Ares. When Ares was born, my fiancée was impregnated with our daughter. Leiara Ailee. All I care to know is, do you feel the same way I do? Do you love me?”“I…” He couldn’t do it anymore. His guilt and doubt flared and turned to ash in the heat of her confession. “Yes, goddammit. I love you! “Kerri growled and shoved him onto his back in the grass. “Then stop treating me like your baby sister and love me, you hulking idiot!”Before he could even consider protesting, his sister straddled him, bent over to cradle his head in her hands, and kissed him. Her lips were soft but very.