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The Reaches of a Dream Chapter Four

Genome File R314

By Lucian Canad

Sometimes the flow of time seems as slow as the river that cuts a grassy plain, others, faster than the foamy waters on rapids. I experienced life in the chaotic meeting of the two on the days that followed my agreement with Meeya. Each day seemed to last forever, I could enjoy every tiny second of being at home. Yet, the days flew fast, and before I knew it, my work called to me again. One month passed, thirty days we spent among aisles of knowledge. Eventually Meeya would have to be introduced to life in society, and it was Rheia's work and my own to make her ready for it. The only thing that impressed me more than the ease Meeya acquired new knowledge was the quickly growing friendship that was born between her and Rheia, sometimes it took quite an effort from me to separate the two so I could give Meeya her more "private" classes. But mistake me not, we had lots of fun and good times as well, as in the day Earth allowed me to fulfill the promise I made her on chapter two:

"Chris! Chris! Wake up, it's snowing!" I opened my eyes. Meeya was up and jumping, while she looked excitedly out our room's window. I rubbed sleep out of my eyes and joined her. Covering the house from where we could see and good part of the outside was the gathering of the flakes fallen from the sky.

"No wonder last night was so cold" I smirked. No reason to complain, since a cold night meant we slept snuggled together. I can never get tired from it.

"You promised!" I couldn't suppress a chuckle as she tugged childishly on my arm

"I know. I was just wondering how someone of your size can act so much like a child and be so damn cute doing it" She let go of me and flushed heavily, looking at me with the corner of her eye, wrapping her tail around her legs "See? What did I tell you?"

I gave a big smile and kissed her on the lips "Go get a c..." I stopped dead on my tracks.

"What?" She cocked her head at my face, half smiling, half wanting to slap self.

"You have been born for weeks..." I had a hard time containing my laughter "And I completely, totally, utterly forgot about the last surprise I had for you"

"Surprise?!" Her face lightened up.

"Surprise!" I repeated "Come here"

I pulled her by the hand until our dresser. "Nothing special, right?" She nodded "Watch what happens..."

It opened the doors of the cabinet, holding a few sets of clothes. Without suppressing a large smile I clapped my hands twice. Poor Meeya almost fell over when all the contents of the dresser vanished through a newly opened tunnel, a clear passage leading into darkness. Fearlessly, I stepped forward; with another clap of my hands, the lights turned on.

A full closet fascinates any woman, and I couldn't wait to just turn around and see Meeya's reaction to what was in front of her eyes. A large room, rectangular in shape, with walls covered in shelves and hangers. Every few feet was a full body mirror and a line of comfortable puffs separated her aisle from mine.

"What do you think?" I turned around. Expectedly her expression was of pure wonderment. Clothes for all seasons, all trends and all countries were stored in this supposed-to-be birthday present "Sorry I didn't recall of this earlier. You had my mind full"

She blushed at my smile and words, then went back to look around the room. Winter clothes were just by the secret entry for the room. For her, a wool skirt and high-heel boots that would be absolutely astonishing in her lithe legs. Obviously this particular occasion requested something warmer and more comfortable, so I reached for a hanger and took out a raspberry red snowboard jacket, black trousers, a pair of artics and two thick wool blouses. I left her admiring the garments with her beautiful emeralds shining in happiness and went to my side of the closet; fetch my favorite jacket, insulated pants and a pair of boots, getting ready for what would be a perfect morning.

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"It's so... crunchy" The cat giggled as she took her first steps over the layer of frozen flakes "And cold too"

"Snow is a marvel of this planet reserved to cold climates. Do you remember your classes about change of physical state?"

"Yep! Since we are in a temperature below water's freezing point, the raindrops gathered in the clouds freeze and fall as this" She let a few flakes land in her hand. I applauded her.

"You are learning so fast. If I could learn as fast as you in my times of college..."

She looked from the corner of her eyes, a finger to her lips and donned that cute cat face we love in catgirls "That would take a cat's natural curiosity, my dear"

Oh, I couldn't stand that pose! I ran at her and tackled her to the ground. We rolled around in the snow pretty much like a pair of lion cubs most people know quite well, except that in the end, I pinned her down.

"Pinned ya" I grinned while I held her against the white ground "Now I'll kiss you to death!"

I started to deliver a flurry of small pecks all over her face, while she squirmed and giggled uncontrollably. It was a matter of time until or lips met each other, then all around us was lost. We didn't feel the snow below us, the flakes from above, we only felt each other.

After a couple minutes of fiery kissing and tongue-wrestling, my watch started to beep annoyingly. I sighed after breaking the kiss "Class time..."

"Aww..." She sighed too while I helped her get up "Which one?"

I looked at the pocket digital agenda I carried and grinned hugely "Biology. We should be able to finish mating habits today"

"Awww, already? But it's such an interesting topic" She rubbed my chest sexily and with a lusty look on her eyes. Do I have to explain anything else? We held hands and walked back inside. Another day of our new life started.

"Behave now, you two" I gave my cat a sweet peck on the lips and waved her and Rheia as I made my way across the house's courtyard "I should be back late. No need to wait for me"

"Right! Take care!" Meeya shouted and waved back "I love you!"

"Love you too!" The black Mercedes sped forward and I drove by them to the path leading to the open gate.

Back inside, Meeya collapsed on an armchair, sighing contently. Today was her weekly break from her studies and, though she and her mate usually spent those days together, one of the many things she learned by herself is to enjoy a time of her own. Today was to be a day for her, and right now she yearned for nothing more than to do nothing.

"Enjoying your break?" She opened her eyes. Rheia was before her, sitting on another armchair.

"Oh, I am..." She purred "Chris has taught me many things to do when I'm by myself"

"I can imagine" A sly smile crossed the hologram's face "You know, I need to thank you, Meeya"

"Why is that, Rheia?"

"For this past month. I enjoyed my own part of it, surely, but especially because of Chris" She spoke at the feline's look of curiosity "He created me even before he did any practical effort on you. I was his best friend for years. I helped him with many of the projects that made him have the renown he has. And I don't remember seeing him so alive since we decoded the last gene of the human genome"

"Alive? You mean before I came he was dead?" Rheia laughed heartily.

"One month worth of studies and you are still so naïve..." She laughed more at the cat's offended face "Yet, I can consider you right, in a way. After the decoding was complete and Chris and I created the Genomic Mirror, he was very, very happy because it meant he could start the research to bring you to life. But, with every clone that failed, no matter how undeveloped, I could see that a part of him died along with them"

"You mean he was dege...dega..." Meeya stammered.

"Degenerating" She corrected "Spiritually, yes. Undoubtedly you felt the depth of his feelings for you when you first met, in the gestation tank"

"Yes..." The cat looked away, dreamily "It was such a pleasant feeling. I felt like a void of the size of the world was gone inside him. This may sound strange, but I decided at that moment to feel the same for him, so I could feel like that too, just like that"

"Perfectly understandable. Shame you never did"

"What do you mean?" She cocked her head.

"You said you felt his void filled. That, indeed, brought him happiness, and that much you can mimic by choosing to 'feel like that'. But this coin has another side. Probably what he felt with the greatest intensity was relief, though he may not have perceived it as so at the time. One does not live with such emptiness for such a long time and remains unscathed. Christopher Reagan must be the human with the strongest willpower to walk on this planet. I doubt anyone else could have withstood the depth of his feelings without going insane as a result"

"But where does this come in with me not understanding his feelings?" The cat questioned.

"Simple. Being rid of that torment brought him a level of peace that you could only understand by suffering the same. You know that line about being best to have loved at least once and lost it than to never have loved?"

"Yes. Chris considers this a lie" Meeya interrupted.

"But it is. I simply don't have words to tell what he went through every time he reached for you and you managed to step away. To have love at your fingertips and have it torn away from you... Well, I wouldn't know, but most humans say there is no greater torture for the mind or for the soul"

"This is awful..."

"I'm almost done. Though in his heart you were as solid as you are now, in his mind you were but a shadow. He couldn't think of you, consciously, as real. That brought unbearable pain for him. I remember seeing him masturbating several times in a row, crying his lungs out while looking at the image he commissioned from your original creator, after a particularly promising clone died" She waited the equivalent of a deep breath for Meeya to catch up "That's why you have my deepest, sincerest thanks. You brought him relief from the ultimate pain, which, ironically, you caused yourself. I love him, as my creator, as my master and, especially as my friend. I can see it is difficult to you to take this all in, so I'll finish with this: I don't have a physical body, but if I ever get one, even if only on another life, I will give you a tight embrace to show just how much your existence makes me happy"

She got up from the chair and disappeared, leaving Meeya alone, with her head in her hands and sobbing quietly, tears falling to the ground.

Meeya sobbed herself to sleep a couple hours later. Rheia was right, of course: it was confusing to her brain to understand something so antithetic as platonic love, but it was especially painful for her heart to know she caused her loved one such pain, even if she herself was the panacea to it. Sleep is a holy remedy, so when she woke up, she felt lighter. Her brain decided to ignore the confusing parts of Rheia's speech and settle itself with the clear ones: Chris suffered without her, but she was here now and her dear lover was happy, period.

"Rheia?" She called. In seconds the avatar materialized in the room.

"You called? Feeling alright?"

"I've been better" She shrugged, but smiled reassuringly "What you said was very difficult for me to accept, but I'm happy you told me"

The hologram smiled too "I felt you needed to know. During your two first days, I noticed Chris only told you how happy he was that you were alive, but didn't tell you why. I chose not to as well because your mind was too young, I waited for the right time. Dinner's ready, interested?"

"Hell yeah!" The feline leaped from the chair and followed Rheia to the dining room.

"Ah!" Meeya drained the last drops of wine from her glass and fell back against the chair, rubbing her full tummy in happiness "No offense, Rheia, but I'll never understand how can a computer understand so much about culinary in order to be able to cook such delicious meals"

"I have my tricks" The hologram winked. She wasn't offended, of course; Meeya didn't knew what she and Chris knew. If she recalled right, ten days after Meeya's birth, when she said something just like she just did, he called Rheia to a corner and told her what he discovered in her mainframe. Needless to say, she was very surprised; she had been feeling different the past weeks, but it never crossed her mind she could actually turn into a human. This last thought reminded her of something; a quick scan of the data feed from somewhere in the house told her it was time "Meeya, If you are finished eating, could I ask for your assistance on something?"

"Sure thing"

She motioned for the feline to follow her. So Meeya did, and she ended up in the library; with a flick of her hands, Rheia opened the elevator both knew to lead down to Chris' lab. They went down, and a few minutes later, cat and hologram were in the middle of the half-sphere room that housed the Genomic Mirror.

"What are we doing here?" Meeya looked around uncomfortably. Chris had asked of her never to enter that room. Of course he didn't think she would cause any harm willingly, but the wrong press of a button among the sophisticated software could cost him all data stored in the memory banks of the device.

"You shall see" She walked to the console in the center of the room "Open genome file R314"

The room hummed for a few seconds then the computer voice sounded "Voice code correct. Opening locked file"

"Locked file?" Meeya questioned.

"Yes. A small feature I added. You can create a genomic file and lock it so only you have access to it" She smiled softly "Can you figure out who it belongs to?"

"R314...' The cat's face contorted in concentration "In number-to-letter coding, it becomes..."

"Project phenotype" Rheia ordered. A new hologram appeared along with the chromosomes composing the genetic code.

Meeya raised her eyes and her jaw dropped. With Rheia standing by the hologram that showed the appearance of someone with that genome, it was like looking at twins "It becomes... REIA"

"Smart girl" Rheia was still smiling.

"So you...?"

"Yes"

"All this...?"

"Exactly"

"In the end...?"

"Quite right"

The feline was confused. Happy, but confused; she know knew what Rheia intended, and she was happy about it, but one piece of information was missing "But what about your computer stuff?"

"I was hoping you'd ask that" She waved her hand and the outer layers of the image's tissues vanished, leaving most organs exposed. Rheia then motioned to the brain; instead of a normal, organic brain, the Rheia clone's seemed like a metal sphere, weirdly connected by nerves and blood vessels "This is a specially designed bio-mechanic brain. While holding all the functions a human brain would, it will still keep my mind connected to the hardware that currently supports me"

"Meaning you will still have your database, personality and controlling functions" Meeya smiled broadly "Amazing!"

"But you are probably wondering why I asked for your help, aren't you?"

"Just a bit"

"Well, I'm sure you remember everything you felt once you woke up beside Chris"

"Yes..." She looked off in the distance, swimming in the memories.

"Well, this will be pretty much like being born to me, and I would like it to be just like when it was your turn. I would ask you to be there to greet me, like Chris did with you. I have come to consider you as my close friend, almost like a sister, and I'd like it to be you to do it"

"But Chris and I..." She blushed from the memories and by what her friend obviously meant by 'like her turn' "But we are both female. Will it work?"

"Chris taught you about homosexuality, didn't he?"

"Just a bit. He told me there are men and women that seek company of the same gender; and that it is a form of love as any other, so it should be respected"

"Perfect. He also told you how to make yourself feel good, I trust?"

She flushed even heavier and hesitated for a bit "...Yes"

"Finally, you two had experience in oral sex?" She was still blushing, but looked at Rheia with puzzled eyes "Did he ever lick you between your legs?"

"Oh! Yes, he did, he does that every time we do it..." She lowered her head and confessed in a low voice "And I like it very much"

Rheia took a few steps forward and looked at the cat in the eyes "Then you will be just fine" She smiled reassuringly and Meeya nodded, though still feeling uncertain "This way"

Rheia was unexpectedly prepared for everything, as Meeya would come to discover when the hologram led her into a secret room, housing a gestation tank. Inside, bathed by the same liquid that once held her, was a clone exactly like the hologram Rheia used for her appearance.

"Just to be sure, I have been developing this clone over this last month, so there would be no problem between the immunological system and the brain" Since it was set on slow growing rate, it didn't have the feeding tube Meeya had, instead she had a small one entering her nostril, and the NEUSYM one parting from her spine.

"Very clever. What now?" Rheia motioned for the feline to follow her to something looking like an operation table. She laid on it, and her last reminiscence was the stinging of the syringe with anesthetic in her arm.

As her brain drifted back to consciousness, Meeya's first though was that she dreamed it all, and she was still in the bed with Chris. But it couldn't be, her surroundings felt wet; she opened her eyes. Floating in a green-lit liquid, pleasantly warm, it seemed like she had awakened for the first time, back in her own tank.

"Are we up and running?" Rheia's voice sounded in her head, along with the sensation of their minds fusing, though not completely. Even so, the way the cyborg paid attention to everything around her, in all five sensorial dimensions, was enough to make the cat feel a bit giddy herself "This is so weird... I have been seeing things in a third-person perspective for so long... being in first-person is a bit awkward"

"Third-person? First-Person?" The cat asked and Rheia giggled and uncurled, looking at her surroundings with interest.

"It means I always saw all of you with the perspective of the house's cameras. My avatar was always just something tangible with which you could interact. Chris programmed me as so. Now I see through this body's eyes, which is an entirely new way of seeing the world"

She kept looking around until she saw the cat in her immediate left "There you are"

"Shall we get to work, then?" Meeya giggled "I'm removing the permeability wall"

The glass dividing them faded, bringing them close. "How should I start?"

"Mmm, use your imagination" The grin Rheia donned was enough to arouse her a little.

Meeya stopped for a second, thinking, going through memories of her and Chris, thinking of a good point to start the fun. She decided, and pulled Rheia into a kiss. The cyborg murred in pleasant surprise, and opened her mouth to allow Meeya's tongue to meet with her own. What caught the cat by surprise was the fact she could feel air inside Rheia's mouth.

"I decided to give this body a breath of air before I uploaded my mind into it" She answered Meeya's unasked question "To prevent unnecessary complications"

"Very clever" Meeya smiled on the kiss. A venturing hand, almost moving on its own, grasped Rheia's left breast, eliciting a gasp from her. In response, her hands passed around the cat's waist and gave her cheeks a firm squeeze, resulting in a gasp of Meeya's own.

"Oooh... so this is the 'arousal' you organics love so much? Aaah! I can see why!" One of the hands on the cat's waist retreated, then drifted downward, touching Meeya's lower lips, while the other one proceeded to rub against the base of her tail.

Meeya followed in suit, her left hand squeezing Rheia's nipple, the other one starting to rub against the virgin vulva. Both moaned deeply as the pain was dulled by the pleasure, though never breaking the kiss. After a few minutes of rubbing, Rheia broke the kiss and stared into the cat's eyes, smiling "Good Earth, this is amazing! I feel so hot, like all my processors are on fire! But I want more! Let's see if all your lessons worked to any good" She swam backwards and spread her legs. Meeya couldn't say it wasn't an inviting sight; let's be frank now, she was almost drooling at it. She wasted no time.

Placing her mouth over Rheia's lips, she blew some air to force off the liquid of the tank, then let her tongue run free, lashing against labia, tickling clit, delving deep into the tasty channel.

"This taste drives me crazy" She commented, drunken with lust.

"Why don't... you let... me return... the favor?" Rheia said between the moans of pleasure. She grabbed hold of Meeya's hips, turning her around, so the cat's pussy was at her own mouth's reach. Mimicking her acts, she blew the liquid off from the space between them, choosing to start with a deep thrust into her love channel, getting to taste for the first time the savory liquid of female arousal "You're right, it's delicious!"

Meeya resumed her own work, having groaned deeply and arched her back at Rheia's first taste of her. Since it was the cyborg's first experience ever in sex, she knew it was not to last long. And she was right, of course: a few minutes and fiery tongue lashings later, Rheia's body rocked with the waves of her first orgasm ever, the feeling triggering Meeya's own, so both were rewarded with an extra spurt of juice from the other's pussy, which was gladly lapped up.

"Lucky for us that females can have several orgasms in a row, eh?"

"You bet!" The cat grinned lustily, and again they went.

And again, and again, and again, every time trying new sensations: each other's fingers on their tailholes, tongues following shortly thereafter, while pussies received treatment from the vacant fingers. Their stamina appeared to be endless. After a not-too-particular orgasm, Rheia finally thought they had enough.

"Right, I believe this is enough sex for now" She smiled and Meeya smiled back.

"Just for now, though" The cat winked at her friend.

Both put themselves back face-to-face, sharing exhausted smirks "Time to breathe some outside air"

In another familiar setting for the cat, giant bubbles of air formed on the ceiling as the liquid level began to lower. She received one last hug from Rheia; they didn't kiss, just held each other tightly like Chris and Meeya had once done.

"This is a promise fulfilled" Rheia closed her eyes, letting a dam of good feelings flood her companion "Thank you very much for existing, Meeya"

To Be Concluded...