Now that Liam wasn’t focusing on the crazy lady coming at him with a needle gun, he realized that he could now understand Cornelius clearly and without difficulty. Halfway listening to what Cornelius and Jessica are saying, and looking around as best as I can, being strapped down. Jessica is at the desk typing away, inputting what I assume are coordinates to wherever they are kidnapping me. The screen changes, and I can see my name at the top, and she is putting my information in. I am focusing on trying to read what I am seeing, because even though I now understand what is being said, I still can’t read it. I jump when there is a hand snapping in front of my face, bringing my focus back to Jessica, who apparently has been asking me questions. With a slight smile, she continues, “Now that you are paying attention, when was the last time you had sex?” Liam just looks at her, following but unable to say anything, so he is just staring at her with his mouth open. Jessica gives a low, uncomfortable laugh. She continues, “Okay, we will come back to that one. I know you don’t have any STIs. We pulled some blood when you were out, so medically, we know you are healthy. The sex question was just so we can have records of your sexual history. For example, have you ever had sex with a woman, and would you consider partnering with a triad with a woman, or would you only like to be partnered with an all-male triad?” Before he could process what she said and come up with an answer of his own, Cornelius moved forward, “That won’t be necessary, Liam is our Parabatai, the center to our triad.” Again, Liam is just laying there with his mouth hanging open, his eyes are pinging between Cornelius and Jessica. He understands that Jessica is asking about his medical information just to find out what his preferences are, which he is happy about because everything he saw in movies or read about in books told him there was going to be some probing, and he wasn’t sure in a good way, but with the questions, maybe it won’t be that bad. He is also wrapping around the concept that this stranger, an alien, is saying that none of that is needed because he is claiming him for himself and the others in his triad. Jessica looks unsure, “Even if that is true, we will still take the other samples and put them in the database, so if he really is your triads Parabatai, the system would flag it as well as any others he may be compatible with.
After that, Jessica shooed Cornelius out of the room, and the automatic doors closed. She turned and came back to me. She then went to another side of the desk, typed something, and pressed a button. All at once, mechanical arms came out of the chair; they probed and prodded me. Taking saliva, semen, and mucus from his nose, when the arms tried to push his legs up or flip him, he protested, telling her she would have another injury if she tried to put any one of those shiny toys around my ass. Jessica laughed unexpectedly, her hands flying to cover her mouth, which made her snort. She noted all my tattoos and piercings, my lavender-colored eyes that were natural and a gift from my great-grandmother, a few generations removed. I am the only one in the family to get this trait. As the chair readjusted sitting me upright instead of having me lying down. With her turned away from me, I looked back outside the window, hoping to see the Milky Way again, but it was gone. In its place, I could see stars that didn’t look familiar to me at all. I slowly realized that what I saw wasn’t a black hole but a wormhole that allowed us to get closer to where we were going and make it easy for me to be handed off. She explained to me what she was doing and why. She stated that since one person from the triad was here, he would be able to tell if he was a fit for them. Others not here will tell if I was a match for their triad by the analysis of my genetic material. When that happens, I will be contacted to see if I want to meet and get to know them or stay where I was, which Cornelius was here and already claiming a match would be with him and his triad, unless I say no, and they would place me in what was essentially a halfway house. At the end of her explanation, the mechanical doors opened, and Cornelius walked in, his tail swishing and then wrapping around his legs when he stopped moving. When he saw that they were done, he walked over to Liam, hitting a mechanism that set his arms and legs free. When Lian started rubbing his wrist, Cornelius took his hand and rubbed them himself. Liam could feel his claws lightly grazing his skin, making goosebumps appear. I noticed that there was an I.V looking thing in my arm that I didn’t see at first. When I questioned Jessica about it, she said that they put it in when I was out and that they gave me meds to help me adjust and make living off Earth better for me. Looking down at my hand I slowly bring my eyes up, looking at Cornelius, “Dragon Dude, why are you still rubbing me?” the last thing I hear before my eye closes is Jessica snorting again and Cornelius growling, Liam smiles and turns onto his side wrapping himself around Cornelius tail that apparently untangled itself from Cornelius and making its way onto Liam.
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