"But we can't do that here", Alex said. "This house feels tainted now. And there's no way we could raise this baby together here. Too many people know... that we're mother and son", Alex said."So, where do we go", Alicia asked, so glad that Alex was willing to give their relationship another chance that she would agree to go anywhere with him. "I don't know, but far enough away that the temptations of our past won't find us. Somewhere we can live as man and wife", Alex said.Alicia heard those last. “What?!?”“Doryn, don’t,” her husband warned, his tone darkening.“I won’t have some xeno bitch trying to spirit him away!” she accused.Aesha rolled her eyes, not wanting to deal with this right now, having more pressing concerns on her plate. She watched the couple briefly as they began to argue, with the Artucian woman looking to sidestep her way out of this. As she moved, she noted something odd at the clinic window.She saw a young man, maybe all of twenty years old, walk up and put something. Without caution she reached down and started cleaning me off with the washcloth, her hand moving back and forth in a wraparound scrubbing motion. The sudden feeling caught me off guard and my back went stiff.Her hand never actually came into contact with my skin; it was on the other side of the washcloth. But only when my body tensed up did Danielle seem to realize she was touching me in a very intimate manner."Oh! Ohmigod. Well, uh," she dropped the washcloth into my lap. "I guess you can do. "AYE-TEN-SHUN!"I leaped from the bed, crashed into the wall, bounced to my feet and faced the general direction of the commandant's voice. My eyes weren't quite open and everything was fuzzy—I was still half asleep.There was some giggling."Cadet," Commandant Mackie said solicitously, "I would be greatly honored if you will join us for dinner." SIR, YES, SIR!" I replied at full volume. I liked to think my voice was at least alto, but it was most likely a mousey soprano."This isn't the parade.