Calm the Waters
Yon just stood fixed to the spot as he processed everything, then his face showed fear for the first time that I had ever seen. “You are well? A Kree pregnancy should be fuelled by the male’s seed at least once a week to keep both mother and child healthy, there have been no problems?”
”I’m not going to lie Yon, I feel like shit every day. I get up in the morning and go worship the porcelain, but I put that down to just being pregnant not an incompatibility with our physiology.”
”You just need the chemical imbalance sorted. Get undressed and into bed, I’ll sort that out” He was grinning from ear to ear and who was I to argue, I got stripped so fast it was comical and we were laughing so hard we didn’t even hear Fury and Maria come onboard.
”What the hell is this?” Fury yelled at me, “you sleeping with the enemy now Danvers? I think we need to talk, don’t you young lady?” I sighed; you’d swear that this man was my father.
”I better go unruffle some feathers” I told Yon who just looked at me confused. “It’s an Earth expression, you know, like calm the waters?” that was one expression that both our worlds used, “Ah, I see” he smiled as he raised the back of my hand to his lips and kissed it ever so gently, I nearly melted on the spot. My hormones were threatening to explode, my body was on fire and the last thing I wanted to do right this minute was to have a debriefing session with my new C.O.
“I’ll be as quick as I can” I told Yon as I pulled on one of his shirts to spare my blushes and got out of bed. Fury and Maria’s faces were one of complete shock when they noticed the growing bump. I had a feeling that this was not going to be a quick this is what happened the end that I was hoping for.
I leaned over and kissed Yon with such passion I heard, “Jeez, get a room already “from Maria to whom I had to point out that I had one and they were stood in it so deal with it. “See ya later babe “I said and there it was again, confusion. I was going to have to teach my man the local lingo.
"I wondered what happened to that shirt" He was laughing, I realised then I had never heard such a laugh come from Yon-Rogg, he sounded so free. I smiled and followed Fury and Maria back to the house. I have a feeling that this is going to be a long night.
"See you in a couple of hours"
”Will you please tell me why in the hell you are in bed with that genocidal maniac? That last time I saw that arsehole he was going to kill all the Skrull and have me and Nicky thrown into space” Maria screamed at me.
”Nicky?” Now it was my turn to look confused. I just looked at Fury with wide eyes that just begged for him to explain
”She’s hormonal “Fury explained. I was grinning from ear to ear as he got an elbow to the ribs for the comment. “You too Maria? How far gone?””3 Months”
”Oh, we’ll be due about the same time then”
That excited me to no end.
”Don’t change the subject. Wait. What? You look bout ready to drop “Now it was Maria’s turn to look confused. This was beginning to become a thing.
”I am Kree now Maria. A Kree pregnancy lasts 14 months” I explained, and then I had to give a talk on the Kree birds and bees to the pair of them
”OVER A YEAR?” Funny, that’s what I said when I found out too.
I managed to smooth things over but it took a good few hours of explaining what had happened since I left Earth with the Skrulls. Yes I did find them a new world that had be christened New Skrullos and that Yon would be an ally now and yes I trust him with my life, oh and he was basically my husband. That didn’t sit well but they agreed to be civil, oh and they’d both kill him if he gave them reason too. I was going to have to read the riot act to Yon, I had a feeling that Fury was itching to fulfil that promise. Be that as it may I pulled Fury to one side “I’m not sure if the Skrull are to be trusted, they’ve committed unspeakable atrocities that cannot be forgiven too. They wiped out a couple of schools back on Hala although Talos insists it was accidental and the bomb destruction sequence was inputted wrongly, but Yon made a convincing argument, wipe out the next generation and there’s no one left to fight the war. I was reading the Skrull histories and they are written in blood. It reads practically the same as the Kree. Talos made out that he didn’t care that I was giving myself a history lesson but when I went back to finish my reading I had been locked out of the computer. He had told me that it was a computer error, I’m just thinking there’s a lot of computer errors’ going around, don’t you?” Fury took it all in; you could see by the expression on his face that he was calculating all of this new data I had provided and he was not happy.
”Truth is kid; I didn’t trust the guy either. “he sighed. I could see that although he didn’t trust Talos, he liked him and this was my dilemma also, he was what my mother used to call a lovable scoundrel, but Trust needed to be earned and the Skrull really hadn’t done that. I just had a feeling in the pit of my stomach that something bad was going to happen. We needed to be ready for anything.
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She had told me that she wouldn’t be long. It had been hours, Vers was never one to follow an itinerary to the letter and it was damned infuriating. Time was order. Order was necessary, without order there was only chaos. whom am I kidding; My life is chaos as is my mate, my Captain chaos. I couldn’t help it I burst out laughing at my own joke.
”My god, it’s finally happened, he’s gone mad” I turned to face my Car-ol. She was wearing that same insufferable grin on her face, but so help me I thought it was cute. “What’s so funny?”
”I was just thinking that your time keeping is still less to be desired” I stood there bolt upright, my arms were folded and I arched my brow for good measure while tilting my head slightly to my right, she could never resist that one. I could hear her breath quicken. I’ve still got it as they say on Terra, sorry, Earth.
”Hey, homicidal maniac. You and me, we need to have a talk.”I believe it was human named Fury that was speaking to me, I looked at Car-ol and she had an apologetic look on her face, I couldn’t help but smile. I walked over to her and placed a soft kiss on her lips. “I haven’t got all day lover boy” was he grinning? I didn’t know that man had facial muscles.
We sat down at what passed for a, what did Vers, um, Car-ol call it? Ah yes, kitchen table and I waited for the long and laborious lecture but all he did was pour us both a drink that he called Mr Jack Daniels, it had a delightful burn as it went down my throat, I could get used to this
After a few glasses of the wonderful tasting liquid it started “So really, what are you playing at?” he asked me while pouring another glass for the pair of us
”I’m not sure I know what you mean” and truth be told, I really didn’t.
”Last time we met my friend you instructed for the Skrulls and me and my girl to be jettisoned into space, you tried to kidnap my god damned Flerkin and now you come back into my territory as if nothing happened expecting to play happy families with my adopted daughter” the liquid was doing strange things to me. I usually had more tolerance to alcohol than this. I was staring questioningly at the glass, had he drugged me?. “We Earthlings make our booze with more clout” he smirked as he took another sip from his glass. “I mean, you kidnap the girl, brainwash her and then you try to kill her? Now you turn up on my doorstep and you’re all lovey dovey like nothing ever happened. What is with that?”
I tried to think but my mind was so foggy with Mr Daniels. I realised then that Fury had lulled me into a false sense of security. I had underestimated this man, it would not happen again. “I believe you have probably heard this one before, but I was following orders. Also, I did not try to kill Vers. Everything I threw her way she was able to survive, I made sure of that. She carries my blood within her, it is impossible for me to draw it with malice. But let me ask you a question. You encounter the Skrulls and they give you this heart rending story and you believe them?
”They didn’t try to kill Carol and gave a convincing story” he told me calmly while taking another sip.
”They didn’t have a chance to kill her and I do believe that she was shot at on more than one occasion. Think about it. We never did find Soh-Larr so it is safe to assume that the Skrulls killed him. Do you really think that they would have taken the knowledge that they required from Vers and dropped her off at the next planet? No, she would have followed Soh-Larr out of that very same airlock and I doubt they would have let her keep her pressurisation suit while they did it either.” the very thought made my blood boil, “and I promise you this, if I ever meet that despicable lizard again I will kill him where he stands. He has made Vers think of him as a friend when his intention was to use her to obtain freedom to regroup and that is crueler than killing her. I promise you Fury, you will see him again and he will not be here for a visitation, he will be here to conquer Terra.”I continued
”Making her think of him as a friend was cruel? You did exactly the same thing my friend”
The accusation was biting. “No. What I did was much worse. I gave her my blood binding her to me. In effect I forced her to be my wife. Her memory was wiped and I lied to her for 6 whole years. I wanted so desperately to tell her the truth but the fear of losing her always won me over. This last 8 months has been torture. There was a void inside, without Vers I am nothing. You need not fear me Fury, I am with Vers and as long as you have her loyalty, you will have mine also” I could see him weighing the weight of my words
“So, you and Carol are expecting. Maria and I also. I’m a nervous wreck.”I believe this was what Vers called “Changing the subject
We both lost track of time, talking to someone about my fears was new to me, but Vers, um, Car-ol was right, It really does help. We laughed, swapped war stories and sang songs. I must admit we were both rather inebriated after we finished the bottle. “I think there’s a bottle Nantaxian Ale here somewhere, Vers always kept a bottle in”
”You will not touch my Nantaxian Ale, If I can’t drink it then no-one can” My love told me quite tersely. “Plus, I think you’ve both had enough don’t you? Go home Fury. And you, get in my bed now” Whom am I to argue, my love has spoken. I know I’m wearing what Fury called a goofy grin, and you know what? I don’t care. I am free, I have my love and I have a child on the way. I am gloriously happy
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Ah, there’s that look again. That look that makes my legs go weak at the knees and the heat build deep within me, but this time it’s accompanied with the goofiest grin that I had ever seen on a usually very serious face. It was infectious, I couldn’t help but return the grin. “Just how much of that stuff did you drink?” I was laughing so hard because at this point he was doing a stupid little dance as he stripped off his clothing. “You my love, are drunk!” I informed him
”And you my love are wearing far too much clothing. Remove them, that’s an order” He growled
”An order?” I glared “You are on my ship”I growled back.
”Das’t woman. Vers obey our blood, I command you!”I really don’t know what happened, as soon as he said it it was like a vail washed over my eyes and I was getting undressed. “Now, lay on the bed and receive me” and I did just that. I lay down on the bed and positioned myself for my mate. I couldn’t help myself, it was like I was compelled to obey him. Yon walked over to the bed, his eyes were heavy with want, he leaned onto the bed and slowly crawled up my body like a preditor stalking it’s pray. He kissed my swollen belly and gently rolled me over onto my side, spooning me gently he slowly entered me and I was lost. I was content. I felt loved. “You are loved” he whispered in my ear.