2593, Chapter 10
#38 of Orr Chronicles
Welcome to the year 2593, the furry race has spread through the solar system. Corporations run Earth, the rest of the system is being supervised by a central government. Peace, of a sort, reigns.
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Edit: Eric doesn't do relationships. I have been made to realize that it's never mentioned in the story before (Blame it on this being a first draft) but everyone he employs is told that when they get hired.
Eric is all setup to have kids, but in the middle of providing his genetic material he realizes something about Xavier that causes problems
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2593-10
"Captain Orr, it's a pleasure to see you again," the Bull said as Eric transfered the Array's manifest to him.
"Thanks." With the visit to the fertility clinic right after this he was actually happy to be here. Normally he didn't look forward to being here anymore than he looked forward to being on any station. He belonged in space.
He received the acknowledgment of receipt, which contained the usual clause about the total being subject to visual inspection, and he was ready to leave. Xavier was waiting for him at the bottom of the ramp.
Eric had planned on asking Jeff to help him, but Xavier had volunteered, and the tiger had said yes. As far as he was concerned any of the guys would do. Jeff had been his first choice simply because after three hours on approach to the station, due to a minor delay when the shunter shuttle was late in moving the empty array away from the connector, he could use some release. One of the other guys would see to him.
"You must be really looking forward to having kids," the zebra asked, a wide grin on his face.
"I am."
"Are you going with full typing?"
"No. that doesn't feel right to me. Procreation is about two set of DNA mixing, not being fabricated out of nothing."
"Yeah, that's true. Never thought about it that way. So, are you going to get any typing done?"
"Of course. Who ever heard of not typing their child. Even my dad, who got us the really old fashion way, had us typed as soon as we were born."
Xavier missed a step. "You were born out of a woman? Wow. Why did your dad do that? doesn't he know how risky that is?"
"It's not that risky. It just means they have to wait until birth to do the DNA typing. He did it that way because he was madly in love with my mom and couldn't stop himself."
"Still, most couples go to a fertility clinic, even if they're going to use their own sperm and eggs."
"Dad can get really impulsive."
"And he didn't get himself sterilized?"
"He never thought he'd fall in love. and once Eugene came about, he and mom figured they might as well have the rest of us the same way."
Xavier shuddered. "I can't imagine giving birth. That's got to be unpleasant."
"It's a good thing you're a guy, it isn't something you have to worry about."
"Yeah, you're right. have you decided how you're going to get them typed then?"
Eric nodded.
"Well, don't keep me in suspense."
"I'm not doing anything major. I'm going to have their emotions dampened a little, nothing like what my dad did to me, but I think it's a good idea they have control over their emotions. My dad is a perfect example of runaway emotions." He hadn't been sure how much dampening he should ask for. He thought his own was too low. He should feel something more than slightly excited when talking about his sons, and yet that's all he felt. Unfortunately, because emotions varied so much from one person to another there was no easy system to code emotions, so getting a set result was difficult to achieve. He'd settled for getting his son's emotions reduced by a quarter. his were typed to be down to half, like his brothers, but because it was done after birth, he suspected He'd actually ended up below that.
"What else?" Xavier asked in the silence.
"I'm going to get their intelligence raised a bit. as well as their curiosity. Obviously, all the health-related retyping."
"Gender?"
"All boys."
"To be like the rest of your family. When I read up on them I saw it's all guys. I guess it's kind of lucky your father ended up with boys too, even though he didn't type you that way."
Eric nodded but didn't say anything. He didn't feel like explaining that no one in his family ever typed their kids' gender, and he wouldn't have to do it either. Orrs had only had boys for as long as they had been around. The current records only went back accurately as far as the war, but while he couldn't give details, Uncle said he had a memory of someone before that building records that went back to the first Orr and that it had always been boys even back then.
"And you're staying on the ship. You're not going to settle down even if you have kids."
"I told you, my home is on the ship, I can raise children there was easily as anywhere else."
"That's true. I just never thought about doing it like that. I always envisioned a house with a large yard, children running crazy under the sky."
Eric suppressed a shudder at that image.
The clinic was ahead of them, a gray door among other gray doors. like everything on Titan Station, if his implant didn't tell him what was there, he wouldn't know. This far off in to space, they didn't seem to bother with aesthetics. All they cared about was things working.
Eric supposed that with the right program and access to the implant it was probably easier to impose visuals rather than build them in the station. he hadn't received any requests for that to happen, but it didn't mean the locals didn't have a private line on which those visual inputs were stored.
"Welcome to Titan fertility," the woman chimp greeted them.
"Eric Orr, I'm here to conceive children."
"Of course. Yes, I have you on my list. And this is?" She asked indicating the zebra.
"Xavier Aubouros." Xavier answered.
"He's just here to help," Eric said.
"I see. Very well, you're in room eight. The system has been configured for your implant, the code is open for you to verify there hasn't been any tempering. I expect you'll be providing your own genetic material, so once you've placed the order you can seal that with your own encryption, so that again you can ensure no one tempered with it when you pick up your children."
"Thank you." They went to the room, which queried Eric before the system became active. As soon as he entered, he went through the verification it hadn't been tempered with. Genetic tempering hadn't been heard of for over two hundred years, but everyone remembered the generations of deformed children born because of feuds or simply people trying to sow chaos in the post war peace.
Eric couldn't know how others went about it, but he wouldn't take any chances with his children. He ran the checks twice before he was comfortable proceeding. He'd already built the profile he was looking for, deciding on six sons, and filled the form the clinic made available so all he had to do was send that to the system.
He'd requested pure tiger DNA for a base. there wasn't much cross species breeding, since survival rates were extremely low for mixed breed babies, even with all the medical technologies they had, but within species there had been so much breeding that some classes had disappeared. there used to be a dozen variant of tigers, before the war, but those had mixed so much as to become one class of felines. he'd heard that some entire classes of felines had vanished, becoming bred into another class.
Again, he didn't know how much other people cared about something like that, but obviously there were enough who thought like his family that it was still possible to get women's eggs with pure DNA. With the data in the system, a receiving cup extended from a compartment.
"I guess it's time to get to work," Xavier said with a grin. "How do you want to do it?"
Eric took the cup and a flexible tube, two feet long, kept it attached to the wall. A chair was the only thing provided, and the tube wasn't long enough for them to lie on the floor. If he'd mentioned he was bringing someone to help would he have gotten a room with a bed?
"You're going to have to fuck me standing up."
"That won't be a problem," Xavier said, leaning against Eric's back.
Eric felt the zebra's fur against his now naked body. he did a last check of the cup and confirmed it was stimulating. This room was for solo providers
Eric used a hand to support himself while holding the cup in the others. He didn't need it's help, even if Xavier wasn't there he wouldn't need help.
Xavier lowered himself and buried his muzzle under Eric's tail. The tiger let his head drop down as he enjoyed the rim job. As the zebra's long tongue pressed in he reached up between Eric's legs to rub his balls and then his shaft, slick with precum.
"You liked that, didn't you?" Xavier whispered, standing. He didn't wait for Eric to reply, he bit the back of the tiger's neck hard and pressed his cock inside him.
The tiger moaned as he felt himself being stretched. Once he was fully in Xavier pulled out and shoved his cock back in, roughly fucking Eric the way the tiger liked. He didn't do that for long, too quickly for Eric's taste the zebra slowed and nuzzled his neck.
It wasn't that Eric didn't enjoy languid loving, it was simply that today he was in a rougher mood, but he let Xavier move at his own speed. He knew he'd go back to being rough, the zebra was adept at reading Eric's sexual moods.
Xavier licked one of Eric's ears as he reached around to stroke his cock.
"I can't believe this is happening," The zebra whispered. "We're finally going to have children. I can't wait to see them, to raise such wonderful boys."
"What?"
Xavier tensed over him.
Eric raised his head. "What are you talking about." He straightened, pulling away from the zebra.
Xavier took a few steps back, hands raised. "I just meant there's going to be children on the ship."
"No, you said, raising them. you're not raising anyone. They are my sons, not ours."
"Come on Eric, you're going to need help raising them, you can't handle that all by yourself." Xavier placed a hand on Eric's arm. "I know you Eric, you're going to spent all your time in your office or fucking one of the crew. I'm the perfect guy to look after them. I know what to expect, and I've already seen your whole family having sex together so when that starts I won't be weirded out by it."
Eric looked at the hand touching him. The gesture was familiar, even overly so. He remembered many other times when the zebra had been overly familiar over the years. He hadn't paid attention to them at the time, but now he saw that a pattern of familiarity had develop from Xavier.
"It's captain."
"Eric, I don't."
"It's captain. I don't know what you think is going on, but there is no us. I didn't allow you to help me here because I have special feelings for you. Any of the others would have done just as well."
Xavier put his other hand on the tiger's other arm. "Eric, let me explain."
"Let go of me, Xavier," Eric said in a glacial tone.
The zebra backed up.
"Unless we're in the lounge, you are never to address me by my first name again. It's captain, boss or Mister Orr. Am I making myself clear?"
Xavier stared at him.
"Am I making myself clear?" Eric tone was even colder.
The zebra nodded, eyes becoming wet.
"Get out."
"Eric."
"Get the fuck out of here, Xavier." Eric commanded the door open.
The zebra ran out of the room.
"Great," Eric grumbled as he closed the door. How hadn't he seen this happening until now? Xavier had been with him for three years, he should have seen something. He wasn't that oblivious, was he?
He shook his head, at least Xavier knew where things stood now. He sat down and grabbed the cup that was dangling down. he held it at the ready while he stroked himself.
It wasn't often an Orr had to reach orgasm by his own hand. In fact, he'd only done it once, before this, back when he was a kid. He'd heard one of the older students talk about jerking off, and Eric had gone to his dad for an explanation. He'd gotten both of them naked, an easy task, and then showed him what it was about.
It didn't take Eric long before he was panting and moaning. He pushed the cup on his cock moment before his orgasm hit. The vibration and suction from the cup made him groan as he emptied his balls in it.
He rested his head back and enjoyed the continued stimulation the cup produced. That thing was surprisingly nice. He could see how for most people that was enough. But after a few minutes he had enough.
He had a ship to get back to, forms to fill and an array to bring back to Earth.