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Jenny gave them both a kiss before she went back to the bedroom around five o'clock in the afternoon. She was completely exhausted, both mentally and physically. Alice was just getting up to fix herself dinner when someone knocked on the door.

They both looked at the other and Nodrog got up and headed to the door. "I'll get it."

Nodrog opened the door and was a bit surprised to see Sherman. "Do you have a couple minutes?"

"Always." Nodrog said and opened the door further.

"Are you all right?" Alice asked as she cut up a tomato for a tomato and cheese sandwich. One of her favorites.

"Yes and no. I feel better knowing I never have to deal with my father again." Sherman sat in the chair. "But after everything that has happened, Cindy ended our relationship."

"And I thought things were going good. Sorry to hear that." Alice said.

"Actually I thought so too, but it probably better this way since I..." Sherman said and paused mid thought.

"Since you are a monster." Alice picked up her plate and carried it out to the living room. "What? I knew what he said to Cindy was a stretch."

Sherman let out a sigh as Nodrog chuckled.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone since you want to keep it a secret." Alice handed her bottle of soda to Nodrog to open, she couldn't twist the lid off.

"Yeah, but I killed him, so he wasn't a real monster. According to you." Sherman said.

"We would have to ask Nightrunner, I thought he was." Nodrog said.

"Doesn't matter anymore. I don't want to know more about him, I want to know more about me." Sherman said.

"I might have an idea." Alice said after finishing her mouthful of sandwich. "Under normal circumstances a child generally gets traits from both parents. Since you never showed any signs until recently, you probably got more traits from your mother. My theory is that the super solder program amplified abilities you all ready had. Since the two of you have been working together, you have been... exposed... for the lack of a better term to all kinds of magic which further brought out what was once a smaller part of you."

"I think you are on to something, it is not uncommon for latent magic to be awoken when a person is affected directly by magic. To be fair that teleportation from the fake building to here was a major shock to your system." Nodrog said.

"Now I am glad I didn't ask to speak to you alone. Alice, you sure catch on to things quickly." Sherman said.

"In this case, I haven't had much of a choice in the matter." Alice took a bite of her sandwich.

"I have been impressed how well the three of you have handled most of the strange things. I am by no means a good teacher or a good example to learn from." Nodrog said.

"The same could be said of the two of them. Quite the handful it sounded like for your first time in this era." Sherman said.

"God that is the truth. He must have thought we both were crazy and horny all the time." Alice said a little embarrassed, but she figured they had talked about the three of them.

"I wouldn't go that far, quirky was the word I used." Nodrog said.

"It's been a long time since I have had friends I could be this open with." Sherman said.

"That makes two of us." Nodrog said.

"Better late than never. I guess in that aspect of my life I have been spoiled, I have never had a shortage of friends... I do have some more single friends." Alice said.

"Think I will stay single until I get a handle on things." Sherman said. However he had yet to meet a friend of Alice's he didn't like, and most were attractive...

"Might be a little too soon for that, wasn't thinking with my head." Alice said and finished the last of her sandwich. "Did you want anything to eat or drink? I'm not a very good host."

"I had something before I came over. I would take a soda or a beer if you have any." Sherman said.

"Preference for the beer I am guessing?" Alice asked as she walked around to the fridge after putting her plate in the sink.

"Whatever is colder." Sherman said.

"Beer it is then." Alice said as she reached to the back of the fridge to pull one out. "You want something since I am in here?"

"No, I'm good." Nodrog said.

"Am I going to need to learn that horrible language you and Nightrunner speak?" Sherman took the can from Alice. "Thanks."

Nodrog laughed. "No you won't need to learn it. But if you want, I do know someone who could teach you better than I could."

"Let me guess Nightrunner, or Pang Zsu." Sherman said and Alice wasn't kidding about it being cold.

"Not even close. So are you going to try and track down your half siblings?" Nodrog asked.

"I don't see a reason too, I doubt he treated them any different than me and my brother. Why bring up painful memories? I won't even bring it up around mom or Winston. They thought he died, and now he really is. Neither of them need to know anything different." Sherman said.

"As much as Jenny hates her family I don't think she could go farther then what she has." Alice wondered why everyone couldn't have parents like her and Joe had? She still felt sorry for the two of them even though they both hate their parents.

"I didn't know she could hate anyone." Sherman said.

"The only two people she cared about where her grandmother and grandfather on her dad's side. She cannot stand or outright hates her entire family. After her grandmother passed she told them never to try and contact her again." Alice said.

"Wait, Jenny is the daughter of..." Sherman just made the connection, even knowing their last names for a while.

"Yup that S.O.B. company big shot lawyer is her dad." Alice said.

"I had the pleasure of meeting him a few times, how did someone like that end up having Jenny for a daughter?" Sherman said, it was a rhetorical question. She was so sweet and nice, and he was dictionary definition of selfish, blow hard, pompous, asshole.

"It boggles the mind. Especially some of her more... free spirited traits." Alice said.

"Guess I don't follow since I never met any of her family." Nodrog said.

"All the nudity and teasing she does. The way her family is, I am surprised they managed to have children at all." Alice said with a giggle.

Sherman laughed with her. Maybe all he needed was to laugh, god knows he hasn't done much of it. He has done a lot of it since meeting Alice and Jenny. "I want to thank you Alice."

"For what?" Alice asked.

"For showing me what is really important in life, before it is too late. If you will excuse me, I need to call mom." Sherman said and got up to leave.

"Wait." Alice said before he opened the door. "Everything will be all right."

"Yes it will." Sherman said with a smile and headed back to his apartment. At least with the time difference between the coast and the mountain zones, it won't be too late out west. He pulled his phone out as he closed and locked the door to his apartment behind him.

"You think he is going to be all right?" Alice asked as she stretched out on the couch laying her head on his leg.

"At this point I would say he will be better then all right. I am a little worried about the two of you still." Nodrog said and looked down at her.

"Today was just lousy... Two days till the weekend and we can all unwind and relax. Jenny and I have some lab work to do, I expect you to go and help Jim and Kenny clean up the shop." Alice put a finger on the end of his snout, to emphasize the last part of her statement.

"Yes ma'am." Nodrog tried to suck on her finger before she pulled it away.

"They usually get down to the shop about eight. Plus I would imagine the department heads will want some explanations. Be a good little dragon and play nice." Alice said and sat up.

"I always play nice." Nodrog said.

"Sure you do... I'm going to bed. Night love." Alice said and headed back to the bedroom.

"Night love." Nodrog said. Like most nights he alternated between reading and watching the TV, or playing video games.

He was playing the football game when Jenny came out bright and early a little after five thirty. "Morning love. Are you feeling better this morning?" Nodrog asked as the girl dug around in the fridge.

"Mostly better. Still a little down on myself." Jenny rounded up some breakfast. Mainly she felt bad about screaming she should have died in front of Alice and sexually harassing Sherman. Compounding her problems, her emotions were a confused mess.

"You want to talk about it?" Nodrog paused the game, then turned to look over at her. She was wearing just a big t-shit and panties, something he had just recently found attractive. Depending on her mood it was either cute and adorable or very sexy.

"Not really. It's not that you probably would not understand, it's... I don't think I want to face it yet... If that makes any sense at all." Jenny said as she cracked a couple of eggs into a pan.

"Understandable, sometimes you have to do things on your own. I have had to do it myself." Nodrog turned back to the game. Today was a cute day.

Jenny put some bread in the toaster to toast while the two eggs fried away with just a little pepper on them. That was the question, could she face her own problems head on? Life was so simple before... before... before what? Life with her family generally sucked with the exceptions of time spent with her grandmother and grandfather. It sucked when she waited patiently for Alice to see her as more than just a friend.

Actually only within the last year has it not sucked. Alice and her finally got together and now are engaged. She is crazy in love with two people, one of who has finally found happiness in over a thousand years. Jenny should be really happy herself, but she wasn't. She had everything anyone could want, a job, love, friends, giant TV and has done plenty of traveling. Hell she has even spent a few days on a whole different world.

"Why am I not happy..." Jenny said so softly no one would have heard her as she looked down at the sizzling eggs. It brought a rumble from her stomach as the toaster popped her toast out. She scooped up the two eggs and put them on one of the pieces of toast to make her egg sandwich.

Jenny sat down on the couch with her sandwich and a small glass of juice. "I heard the three of you talking once, when I got up to use the bathroom. Is Sherman doing all right?"

"Except for Cindy breaking up with him, he is doing rather well for someone who found out he wasn't fully human." Nodrog said and looked over at Jenny.

"He can do better anyways... Wait, what do you mean?" Jenny asked.

"His dad was either part monster or an immortal of some kind. Sherman is going to become like him in some aspects." Nodrog said.

"So he could live forever too?" Jenny asked and hated the perverted thought that accompanied thinking about him being part monster.

"It could be possible." Nodrog said.

"I still need to apologize to him for the other day... But with him being single it might be too soon for a 'sorry I gave you blue balls the other day'... That sounds worse out loud then it did in my head." Jenny said and blushed bright red and took a bit of her sandwich.

"Does need a little more work. No one said you had to do it today or even tomorrow." Nodrog said.

"Good point, I need to think of a less stupid sounding apology. Something serious and heartfelt..." Jenny said. Having done lots of stupid things in her life, she would have thought apologizing would be really easy at this point. Yet somehow it never got easier as time went on, or how stupid the action.

"I'm sure you will think of something. Don't worry too much about it and it will be easier." Nodrog said.

"So what is on today's agenda?" Jenny asked.

"You and Alice have lab work to do. I am going down to help clean up the mess I made in the shop." Nodrog said.

Jenny ran a hand along where the shrapnel had tore her open. Just like her arm, or Alice's gunshot wound there were no physical scars. Inside and out, it was if it had never happened. But she knew it had, her blood was on the deck of the truck and ground to prove it did happen. "You are going to have to do more than apologize for that."

He leaned over and grabbed her, pulling her on to his lap. "Trust me, I will." He whispered in her ear and gave her a squeeze.

"Except it will have to wait to later." Alice said as she leaned on the back of the couch. "And before either of you think about it, no."

They both looked a little deflated, but too bad they had stuff to do. Alice thought as she made herself breakfast. Being the bad guy wasn't fun, because she wanted some attention too. The three of them finished getting ready and headed out to get some work done today.

"Morning, you want a cup?" Kenny said as he and Jim stood leaning against a counter each with a cup of coffee in hand.

"Morning, no thanks I am good." Nodrog said and leaned against a work bench.

"How are the two of them this morning?" Jim asked.

"Doing much better, they should be getting started on their work." Nodrog said and they all turned to the sound of the shop door opening again.

"Good you haven't started yet." Sherman said as he walked in, a bit surprised to find the three of them standing around.

"Not till we have coffee. You want any?" Jim asked.

"All ready had some this morning." Sherman said.

"What brings you down here today?" Kenny asked.

"Figured I would help clean up, seeing as I was part of the problem." Sherman said.

"We appreciate it, cause there is some heavy shit to be moved." Jim said.

"I think we can manage that part." Nodrog glanced down to the back of the truck were the bloody pile of metal laid in a pool of Jenny's blood. That was too damn close and it was his fault.

"I guess the first order of business is cleaning up the chunks of tanks. See what it salvageable and what's scrap. Kenny back the truck around so we can load up the scrap." Jim said setting his cup down on the counter.

Kenny pulled the keys off the peg board and walked over to the shop truck as the three walked over to the center of what exploded.

"Well that welder and band saw are toast for sure. Sherman help me pick this table up. Nodrog round up the empty tanks and stack them over there." Jim said and the three got busy.

It took them a couple of hours to straighten up that end of the shop, thankfully all the heavy and severe duty equipment weathered the blast better then Jim or Kenny could have hoped for.

"Aside from the two flat rear tires, some busted glass this big truck took it pretty well." Sherman said as they swept up the smaller parts and pieces.

"It should have given what it was before we got it. We un-armored it for our use, but at one time it was an under powered tank extraction vehicle." Kenny said.

"I get the feeling you think most things are under powered." Sherman said.

"We do, those troop transports I am sure you are familiar with, Jim and I redesigned the drive train. Nearly doubled the efficiency of them, making them faster, more powerful and better on fuel economy. They were slugs until we fixed some problems." Kenny said.

"I didn't know you guys did military work too." Sherman said.

"We don't, but we do help with testing on a good portion of ground transport. We can break even the unbreakable." Jim said.

"And if we can't, then it goes into production." Kenny said as he wheeled a dump cart over to them.

"Aside from the stuff in the ceiling, I think we got it all." Nodrog said and dumped a bucket full of chunks into the cart.

"I will call us in some lunch from the cafeteria, eat a little something and we can start on fixing the totaled stuff." Jim said. Sherman and Kenny both told him what they wanted and Nodrog just chewed on what was an aluminum oxygen tank.

While they waited Jim and Kenny made a list of things they needed to replace of the welding tanks and torches. Sherman and Nodrog jacked up the rear of the winch truck to pull both of the rear tires off.

"Maybe we should get them to change tires more often." Jim chuckled as Sherman pulled one of the eleven hundred pound wheel and tire off the truck. It took the two of them and a wheel dolly.

"That's no joke. I'm just glad the steel rack and all that metal survived. Picking it all up was a frigin' pain." Kenny said.

"Just roll 'em over to the back of the truck, we can load up after lunch." Jim said as their lunch arrived. Sherman washed up and sat down on an overturned bucket to eat lunch.

"That didn't take as long as I thought it would." Sherman said.

"You guys were a big help, but we did get lucky on a lot of it. Nodrog and I will go get the tires replaced if you would go with Kenny to pick up the tools and tanks we lost." Jim said.

"Sure thing." Sherman said.

"Guess when we get back we better get grounds maintenance over to see about fixing that hole in the roof." Nodrog said and they all looked up at the decent sized hole in the ceiling. Because of where he was standing a good portion of the blast went up, the winch truck blocked the rest of the explosion from Jim and Kenny... Nothing was between Jenny and the blast.

"You know this is the second time we have been involved with structure damage... They probably will not be very happy about it." Sherman said with a laugh.

"I can tell you they are not happy about it." Jade said as her Kathrin and Frank walked over to them.

"Finish lunch, we just came down to see what happened." Kathrin said.

"Christ you boys and Jenny were lucky." Frank said as they looked around.

The four of them breathed a little sigh of relief that the emergency crew reported what Jim had told them too. Jim had checked and the security footage had all ready been altered. He wasn't going to ask Nodrog about it, since it covered their collective asses.

"Yes we were, and so was most everything else." Kenny said and was glad they cleaned the blood up first.

"Equipment can be replaced, people cannot be. I have already approved a higher cap on your purchase cards to cover anything you need. If you need anything at all, you know where to find me." Jade said.

"Thank you very much ma'am." Jim said.

"How is Jenny doing?" Kathrin asked.

"A little shaken, but I am sure most of us were." Nodrog said.

"Why do you say most?" Frank asked.

"I've been blown up a few times before." Nodrog said.

"Good point. Well lets go check on her and Alice." Kathrin said, clearly relieved they were all right.

"Sherman, you and Nodrog, need to stop in and speak with Mr. October. Anytime this afternoon is fine he said." Jade said.

"Of course, we are just giving them a hand since we are free." Sherman said.

The three left and the four of them breathed a little easier. "I can't believe our luck." Kenny said.

"I better call Alice and let her know to expect company and what the story is." Jim said and pulled out his phone.

"They would have seen the security tapes, why didn't they ask about my dad?" Sherman asked.

"Don't look at me I was too busy to alter the footage at the time." Nodrog said.

"Wait if you didn't, who did? I checked last night and they clearly showed all of us on the other side of the truck. We all ducked when Sherman fell to his knee, the footage of the fight was completely gone." Jim said after he got off the phone with Alice.

"I bet that is what Mr. October wants to see us about." Sherman suddenly he didn't feel so lucky any more.

"You think he edited the cameras?" Kenny asked also feeling like there was another shoe to fall.

"You both are probably safe, because the fight did not involve you." Nodrog said.

"Lets not forget who told those guys what to report." Jim said.

"Actually, I found that to be good thinking on your part." Mr. October said, catching everyone including Nodrog by surprise. The giant bear flashed a quick smile and a laugh as they jumped. "No need to get up, something came up that needs my attention. I figured it would be quicker to find the two of you now."

"What did you need to see us about?" Nodrog asked.

"Cindy asked for a transfer for personal reasons. So I will need the two of you to find yourselves a new pilot. She had nothing bad to say about either of you, just that parts of the job were outside of her abilities." Mr. October said and turned to Jim and Kenny.

"The two of you handled yesterday rather well considering the circumstances. I did take the liberty of adjusting some footage from the cameras. So the three of you have nothing to worry about." Mr. October said.

"The three of us?" Kenny asked.

"Yes, the three of you. As for you, Nodrog, I am aware of your lengthy history and would like some reassurance that history stays such." Mr. October said.

"This should be the last problem. The rest of them are all dead." Nodrog said. He understood the man's position, it cost money to cover up problems like this. He also did not want to draw any more attention to himself this way. This hit to close with Jenny getting caught in the blast.

"You gentlemen have a good day. I must be going." Mr. October said and after they bid him fair well walked out of the shop to an awaiting SUV. The four sat in rather quiet reflection as the black SUV pulled away.

"We really need a buzzer on that door." Kenny said as they all remembered to breath.

"No shit. I'm too old for these kind of surprises." Jim said. And after a brief pause they had a good laugh about it.

"So how are we going to find us a new gunship pilot?" Nodrog asked.

"Hell if I know, I usually ride with whoever they assign." Sherman said.

"For your little secret mission stuff?" Kenny asked.

"Yeah, the secret that doesn't seem to be very secret." Sherman said and dug into his fries.

"After that press conference everyone knows, just a handful of us know it's the two of you." Jim said.

"Lets get going Sherman, we might beat the after lunch crowd." Kenny said checking his watch.

"All right." Sherman said and grabbed his drink and pitched the last of his fries in the trash.

"See you guys later. Well I guess since I am done with lunch we can get rolling." Jim stood up stretching. "Let me pull around the other service truck and we can get those things loaded."

Jim and Nodrog got the two tires loaded up with the aid of the crane mounted on the back corner of the truck. With them loaded they got in and Jim drove them down to the heavy equipment store to get them changed out.

"Damn we were hoping you would send the cute parts runner down." Gus said as Jim and Nodrog walked into the store.

"If only we had help like that all the time." Jim said and pulled up a stool along the counter.

"We wouldn't get any work done if that was the case." Gus pulled out a note pan and a pen. "What can we help you with today?"

"Got a pair of those N-9 tires that need replaced. We brought 'em down so your guys could just swap the new ones on the rims." Jim said.

"N-9... Oh them big bastards for the winch truck... You're in luck, we only got two. Those can't be fixed?" Gus asked over the top of his glasses.

"Nope, we had a little accident and put a mess of shrapnel in them." Jim said.

"No one hurt I hope." Gus said and waved over one of his tire guys.

"Thankfully not, that big damn truck took all of it, we were on the other side. Bunch of tanks failed and I had forgotten to turn off a heater." Jim said.

"Damn, I have been around when a bottle went off, took a few years off my life." Gus said.

"How's the world treating you?" Jim said.

"Not bad, my grand kids are getting big, the wife is still a little frisky and the Doc says my heart is doing good. How about you?" Gus asked, the sound of air tools and general shop nose dying down a little after one of the guys closed the door between the shop and the office.

"My little mouse got herself a first place trophy in that race a couple weeks ago. Otherwise same ol' same ol'." Jim said.

"I caught a little of the race, she is a hell of a driver. So who's the big fella'?" Gus asked.

"Gus this is Nodrog, he is kind of a jack of all trades of sorts. He helps a little with everything." Jim said.

Gus reached out and shook Nodrog's hand. "Pleased to meet you."

"Like wise." Nodrog said. They made small talk for the hour and a half it took to get the two tires replaced and loaded back onto the service truck. Winston had called him in that time to let him know a couple of dates for practice.

Chapter

They got back in the truck and headed down to the truck dealer to order some replacement glass. By the time they finished mounting the last tire, Sherman and Kenny pulled up with a bunch of new stuff.

"Their filling station is down, so we will get a few tanks tomorrow with the rest early next week." Kenny said as he walked to the back of the truck.

"That's fine, we just have to PM a couple of trucks." Jim said as he and Nodrog walked over to the back of the truck.

"They had to order the long hose real for us, but we should have everything else." Kenny said.

"The reason for it sucks, but I do love getting new tools." Jim said with a chuckle.

"I feel the same way. Well since the big boss man all ready talked with you, I guess that means after we unload you guys can take off." Kenny said and pulled out one of the new torches.

"And do what?" Nodrog asked.

"Go over personnel files and find a new pilot." Sherman said.

"Glad we just have to change some oil and grease a couple trucks." Jim said and picked up the hose, leaving the welder in the truck for the two young guys to get.

"You are more than welcome to help." Sherman said as he and Nodrog pulled the welder out of the truck.

"No, we have work to do. But thanks for the offer." Kenny said. They all turned as Alice yelled at them from across the shop.

"Hey I already called out to the tower. Just want to try a new program." Alice said and waved to them from the driver's side of the Lotus. She was wearing her fire suit and had her helmet on.

"Have fun." Jim said.

The four watched as she backed out of the garage and spun the rear end around in cloud of smoke and screeching tires then sped off to the mainly abandoned part of the air field. After she was out of sight they finished unloading the truck. Sherman and Nodrog helped get the new welder out of the box and onto the rolling cart.

Neither of them wanted to go looking at files so they dinked around in the shop for another half hour. With the shop mainly put back in order the four walked to the other end of the shop were the little office was.

All four of them walked passed Alice. "Hi guys." Alice said from her seat on the work bench. They all stopped and looked at her then the empty spot the Lotus was sitting in. Then back to her again, all four of them utterly confused as how she could be in her car and sitting on the work bench at the same time.

When they stuttered and stumbled over words she couldn't stop from laughing. She clicked the mic on the head set she held in her hands. "Hey, come back around, they totally fell for it. Oh, if you could have seen your faces just now." Alice said and cackled even harder as they stood dumbfounded.

The Lotus came around the end of the building and locked up the brakes, sliding sideways into a perfect park job just outside the shop. Alice hopped off the bench and walked over to greet the Alice that climbed out of the car. Standing side by side both Alice's looked identical. One in race suit and the other in street clothes. "Aren't boys cute when they look like that?" Alice asked herself.

The Alice in the fire suit nodded in agreement and the pair walked over to them. "So does she pass?" Alice asked and pointed to her helmet wearing self. However the two Alices really lost it when the three of them turned to Nodrog and asked him how he was doing it.

"Honest, I have nothing to do with it at all." Nodrog said, himself baffled at how there could be two of her.

"I can't believe how well this actually worked." Jenny said as she pulled off the helmet. "Suckers." Her and Alice laughed even harder as it took a little bit for their brains to figure out what just happened.

"Since when can Jenny drive like that?" Jim asked still trying to fathom how none of them could tell it wasn't Alice in the car. The helmet did a good job of throwing off the little difference in height between them.

"I have been teaching her a little here and there." Alice said with a smile.

"I can't drive as good as she can, but apparently I can emulate her style enough to fool you." Jenny said and was rather proud of herself.

"If Nodrog couldn't tell a difference, then we might just even fool my dad." Alice said.

"Why do you want to fool anyone?" Sherman asked.

"A couple of reasons. For the time being none of you are to say a single word about it." Alice said.

Jenny handed the keys to Alice and stripped out of the fire suit. She was wearing only a pair of shorts and a tank top. Alice pulled out a pair of longer legged shorts and her sneakers out of a backpack.

Alice packed the suit into the bag as Jenny tied her shoes after pulling on the pair of jean shorts. That covered up more of her leg and was not nearly as figure hugging.

"See you boys later." Jenny said as her and Alice got back in the Lotus and sped away again. Still giggling over their little accomplishment. The destination this time, Joe's shop to make plans to pull a practical joke on a whole bunch of people.

"Did it work?" Katie asked as the two girls came into the shop.

"Better then any of us could have hoped for." Jenny said.

"Did you remember the helmet?" Little Joe asked as he came out with a little box in his hands.

Alice handed it to him and he turned it upside down and removed a little of the foam from one of the vents along the bottom edge. He pulled a little black box with a single wire antenna out of the cardboard box in his hand. He attached it to the inside, then replaced the foam. "Take this microphone and head to the back of the shop. When you get there turn it on and we will test it." Little Joe said.

They waited and the disembodied helmet spoke. "Anyone seen the rest of me?" Alice said with a giggle.

"That is creepy how good it sounds." Jenny said.

"So, I sound good headless?" Alice asked through the helmet.

"Works prefect." Katie said.

Alice came back to the front of the shop. "With it hooked into the car radio, no matter where you physically are on track, people will think they are talking to you." Little Joe said.

"I still need to work on the little nuances she does when interacting with people." Jenny said.

"I don't have nuances." Alice said. Katie and Little Joe laughed as Jenny mirrored her every move. "You can stop any time now..." Alice said and crossed her arms, Jenny did the same.

"That is real good, only her dad might catch on to something being 'off'." Little Joe said.

"Joe is down at the track talking with a couple of the track staff who need to be in on it. With Kenny and Jim's help, this will be fun." Katie said.

"The hard part will be keeping me hidden until we need to switch." Jenny said.

"That's where we need Jim and Kenny's help. It would be nice to hide you in the big trailer, but Wes or Natasha might find you." Little Joe said.

"When it comes to pranks, I am sure Jim will think of a way to pull it off without any problem." Alice said.

"Of that, I have no doubt." Katie said with a smile. "So do you have plans for the rest of the day?"

"Yeah, just some shopping." Alice said.

"I will tell Joe the disguise worked and see what else we might need to do." Katie said.

"Sounds good, this will be so much fun." Alice said. Jenny and her left the shop and got back into the car to do a little shopping without the boys around this time. Mainly they just window shopped and thankfully this time did not have to worry about creepy guys trying to kidnap them. Jenny found some cute little rubber ducky wedding cake toppers, she had to buy them, even if they didn't use them.

Sherman went with Nodrog down to the club for the evenings practice. Work could wait until the following day. Plus he was a little tired from moving and carrying all that heavy crap in the shop. His brother was rather surprised to see him and while Nodrog read over some music they made plans to go to the airport on Monday to pick up their mom. Since neither of them was a good cook, they planned on taking her out for dinner. A nice dinner at that, she really liked seafood but, living out west in the mountains it was hard to get any good seafood.

The practice went smoothly and they were all pleased with the selection of music for the first performance coming up in the middle of the following week. They always tried to have a show when Winston's mom was in town. Actually they tried to have a show when any of their family was in town, but it didn't always work.

Friday came and the two of them figured they had better get started. "Well here are a dozen for you and I have a dozen to start with myself." Sherman said.

"What characteristics or achievements are we looking for?" Nodrog asked as he bit into an aluminum rod he had for something to snack on.

"Hell if I know, I have never had to do something like this for anyone other than a ground pounder like myself." Sherman said.

"Well we know they can fly, I guess we need to see how much combat experience they have." Nodrog said and opened the top file.

"I doubt any will have as much as you would like. There hasn't been much fighting." Sherman said.

"All right how about experience in foul weather." Nodrog said.

"Actually you might be onto something with that." Sherman said and reached for the top file in his pile.

"Care to elaborate on that?" Nodrog said.

"Some of them might have flown in bad weather to perform search and rescue, or severe weather research. A sky full of debris being hurled around in hurricane force wind isn't much different from being shot at." Sherman said.

Sherman and Nodrog spent the day in the defense department going over personnel files. Alice and Jenny met the two of them, along with several others for lunch in the cafeteria.

They made some plans for the weekend and thankfully someone reminded them they had to attend an event at the museum. It was to unveil some rare artifacts they and Franks team had unearthed.

"So I guess we better get you two boys a tux." Carrel smiled coyly as she thought about the two of them in a tux.

"We have to go?" Sherman asked.

"Technically you are our security, and technically he is one of the artifacts." Jenny said. After a little bit on the long side of a normal lunch break they headed back to whatever they were working on. Alice and Jenny finished their work after two hours and had gone up to their apartment.

"I told Nodrog to bring Sherman over after they got done getting fitted for a tux so you could apologize to him." Alice said as they sat on the couch.

"But I haven't..." Jenny was interrupted by Alice.

"I have... and it is going to be both your apology and payback for what you did to me after coming back from Jim's apartment." Alice said with a bit of an evil smile.

Jenny tried to hear what Alice was saying, but being stuck in Nodrog's room with the door partly closed she couldn't make out the words. Alice had brought her into his room and made her get undressed, followed by laying down on his bed. First Alice had tied her hands with bright red ribbon, then her arms, legs and ankles.

All the while, Alice did enough to get her aroused but left her far from climax as Alice tied her up like a present, what she had not expected was being blindfolded and gagged with the ribbon as well. She was laying with her back to the door, her heart was pounding in her chest. As time started acting funny she grew a little terrified, this was outside her normal comfort zone. And she understood instantly everything Alice had said about being hand cuffed. Except, Alice wasn't blind or gagged. Jenny strained to hear anything, even their approaching footsteps but the silence was maddening.

Was that one of them or both of them? Christ one was half a fucking ton of metal why couldn't she hear him move? She thought they were close but wasn't sure. Was Alice still here, was she going to watch them? Jenny's mind was going a hundred different directions at once until one of them gently ran a hand along her lower leg.

Jenny heard the light shuffle of clothing but who was in the room with her? She felt two of them get on the bed and sucked in a sharp breath as not one but two different pairs of hands started gently caressing her all over. The contrast of Nodrog's hard metal skin versus Sherman's soft and thick wolf coat was incredibly arousing. She couldn't help but shiver with delight under their gentle touch.

She had thought with the initial surprise over, they would at least start removing some of her bonds but that was not the case. Jenny gently moaned as the two began to start caressing her in more erotic places. But still they purposefully missed her more sensitive areas, she ached to be touched there. It was absolutely the worst and at the same time best thing she had ever felt at one time.

The fact that neither said a word added to the mood. Jenny couldn't speak and they refused, it was frightening and erotic. Gently she was rolled onto her back and both of them kissed Jenny from her neck down to her thighs. Jenny wanted to yell at them to hurry up and untie her, but everything they did was slow and sensual. Jenny sighed as they both rubbed her feet and she shivered in delight as the dragon slowly ran a claw along her lower leg cutting the ribbons.

After what she thought was an excruciatingly long time the last ribbon around her legs was finally cut. That's when she felt the familiar electric tingle as Nodrog ran the tip of his tongue along the inner part of her thigh. Sherman mirrored him, except he stopped just within a breath of her mound and Nodrog continued up her stomach between her breasts.

'Oh god...' Jenny thought as they finally, finally gave her the attention she wanted were she wanted it. She arched her back and softly moaned as Sherman went down on her while Nodrog nibbled and licked her erect nipples. She came as Nodrog cut more of the ribbons.

Jenny was almost relieved to finally be untied except they only untied her arms from behind her back to tie them above her head to the headboard. None of her bonds were tight, loose enough to not be uncomfortable but tight enough to keep her from doing anything. Sherman kissed his way up her stomach as Nodrog helped her get back on her side.

She purred as both ran a hand down her side, Nodrog's cupped her ass before he inserted a single lubed finger, then two into her. Sherman's hand ran down her outer thigh, then up along her inner thigh before he fingered her as well. Jenny moaned as loud as she was able with the ribbon gag as she came again. All they had done before really did not prepare her for what came next.

Both of them moved up the bed a little and much closer to her. Jenny was thankful Nodrog had all ready lubed her and himself as she felt him enter her. Once he was in her to his knot Sherman put her leg over his hip and she felt his tip part her lips. As he slowly pushed himself into her a little bit of terror set in as she realized both of them were big and they still both had knots.

Not being a full anthro like the two of them, Jenny had a human body temperature, which is only of note because the two of them had higher body temps and the heat of them inside of her was thrilling. She moaned as they both moved inside of her as they got in a little better position. Being between them, feeling the scales and the fur, all of those well toned and powerful muscles...

They each had an arm around her, even if she was not tied up it would have been imposable for her to do much. Not that she wanted to do anything, being helpless as she was, was exciting. The pleasure overrode the last of her fears and she let go.