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Note #2: Once again, all artwork in this chapter was created by Steve Rayner,

Note #3: Thanks to volunteer Literotica editor TheNyxianLily for her help with editing.)

Sal and Calley spent the rest of Alezanna’s watch examining the ship for damage they might have missed before. They also looked over the cargo to ensure the prolonged transit time wasn’t causing it any problems. That done, the captain introduced his young crewmate to a few strategy games he enjoyed but Calley didn’t have a lot of talent for. She made a few advances towards getting him into bed again, but he told her to keep some fuel in her tank for Alezanna. As the Bellixan’s relief time approached, her two shipmates busied themselves making a nice meal for the three of them that they could all eat in the cockpit.

Once it was completed, the two brought it to her. She happily reported that the ship had not hit anything so therefore, they were all, for the moment, still alive. The trio exchanged chit-chat about the ship and Alezanna outlined what their priorities should be if and when they could get the ship into a repair facility. Sal asked her what kind of parts he should prioritize going after and wasn’t surprised when she handed him a five-page list that she had already prepared.

“That’s just the things I can think of off the top of my head. There’ll be more as we go along,” she warned him.

As they finished eating, a chime sounded from the navigation station and the taller woman switched places with the captain. Now in the pilot station again, Sal shut down the Hi-Vel engines and the crew was surprised as they were all thrust forward far more forcefully then they’d expected. It was only the trio’s quick reflexes that prevented the plates and utensils of their meal from flying forward.

“Pet,” Collondo asked the mechtech, “how high on your list of priorities is fixing up the gravity compensators?”

“It just shot to the top. Not sure how they got misaligned, but at least that’s something I can look at right away. I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen again. But just to be on the safe side, we might want to be in here and strapped in the next time we come out of a jump.”

“Good idea. But now that we’ve survived our first puddle jump, time for me to get to work figuring out our position and firing off another signal for the nav computer data. Might as well leave the cockpit to me and see what you can do to make the ride less bumpy.”

As the two women were about to exit the cockpit, Sal warned Alezanna, “Be careful with this one,” nodding towards Calley. “She’s turning out to be a nymphomaniac.”

The two made their way to the reactor room where the mechanic spent the next few hours showing Calley how to realign a ship’s gravity compensators. It was a slow, careful process that involved many mathematical equations. The Gynapsi wasn’t so sure she would be able to do it on her own if required. The older spacer shrugged and told her they could practice on it if they ever got the ship in better shape.

The recalibration hadn’t involved much literal dirty work so not much cleaning of the reactor or themselves was required. Once the two women had finished their work, all they needed was to sanitize their hands. As they did so, Alezanna asked her companion, “So, what’s this about being a nymphomaniac? Were we trying to run our poor captain ragged earlier today?”

Calley blushed slightly and answered, “Not really. We fooled around in the hot tub but that’s all. I flirted with him a little after that but he wanted me to save my energy for you.”

The raven-haired beauty giggled and told her, “A nice way of saving face. He was worried about his own stamina, not yours or mine. Maybe if he wasn’t such a take-charge-type in the bedroom, he would’ve had the energy for a second romp. Or maybe you really are a little devil,” she said as she took Calley’s hand and led her out of the reactor room.

The two returned to their bedroom where, once inside, Alezanna opened up the horizontal storage unit. She examined how her two shipmates had ordered things after adding Calley’s clothes to those already inside. “We’ll have to buy a second unit if we get to Rangxu,” she observed. “This one is starting to get a little cramped already. I notice you put your clothes on the other side of Sal’s.”

“His idea. I told him there wasn’t much chance of our wardrobes getting mixed up, But he still thought it was a good idea to keep our clothes separate.”

“Hardly necessary. Different style and different sizes. I couldn’t wear your clothes even if I needed to. And you wouldn’t fit in mine either. Sal just doesn’t understand these things.” She turned to face her friend and continued, “As for the styles, that might change soon. If you’re going to be my girlfriend, I’m going to want to show you off, and I have some ideas on the types of outfits that would do that. We’ll work together to figure out a good style that you like, and I’ll make you some real clothes. After I made you that dress, I’ve been itching to do a little bit more. And it gives me an excuse to study your body some more anyway.”

“Wow! It seems like you’ve thought about it a lot already.”

“While I was on watch. I could only plan the ship’s repairs for so long. Eventually, I had to put my mind on something else. The state of your wardrobe might not be as dire as that of our poor ship, but it could definitely be improved. That project, at least, will be far more fun to tackle. But still important. If word got back to Bellixa that I was letting another paramour wander around in store-bought clothes, the family might send another troop of bounty hunters after me.”

Calley laughed aloud and then settled into a smile as she said, “Paramour. I like the sound of that. That’s another word for ‘lover’, isn’t it?”

“More or less. On my planet, it usually denotes a somewhat illicit companion. Someone a married person might be seeing on the side and not bothering to hide. A slightly scandalous lover.”

The medic was amused and asked, “What’s so scandalous about me?”

“You’re so young,” her companion told her as she stepped forward to stroke her paramour’s cheek. “Nineteen, to a Bellixan, is still over ten cycles away from adulthood. We’re still children at that age. Selfish brats. At least, I certainly was.”

“I’m not Bellixan.”

“I know. The other races mature faster. Your bodies, but also your minds. Your experiences leave more of an impression on who you are than they do with us. And you learn faster. I was probably still in diapers at the age you were learning to read. I think it’s why my people keep to themselves. It’s difficult for us to adjust to greater wisdom or intellect than we’d expect from someone that age. If I took you to my family, they’d wonder why I’d seduced a child. They wouldn’t understand that you’re an adult woman. Not at first, anyway.”

“Well, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. We’re a long ways away from Bellixa.”

“We’re a long ways away from anywhere at the moment. But I wish we were closer to my homeworld. Now that I think about it, I think I’d like to introduce you to the family. Regardless of their initial impression of you, I’m sure they’d be happy for me. Now that I’m talking to them again, it would be nice to give them some good news about me for once. They’d accept you a lot more readily then they would Sal. You may be too young for them to accept at first, but Sal, with the way he dresses? They’d never understand why I like him.”

“Why haven’t you ever made any clothes for him? Do you not like to make men’s clothes?”

“I have and I do. A made him an outfit for fancy occasions. We haven’t had a lot of call to wear our formal clothes in the last few cycles, unfortunately. Hopefully, you’ll get a chance to see him in the ensemble I created for him. It suits him very well, if I can say so myself. Speaking of clothes, why don’t you hand me your robe?”

“More like your robe,” Calley said as she removed it. She handed it back to Alezanna. “Thanks for lending it to me. When we get to the planet, I’ll go buy one for myself.”

“Don’t be silly,” the Bellixan said as she hung the robe on Calley’s side of the storage unit. “Consider it a  gift. The colour suits you better than it does me anyway. And I can’t have you walking around naked. It’s not so bad when we’re relaxing, but when we have work to do, you’re far too distracting.”

“I could say the same for you. And it’s not like we can do any work right now, is it?

“I suppose not,” Alezanna conceded as she slipped off her own robe. Calley realized that, as many times as she’d seen her crewmate naked since she’d come aboard the ship, this time was different. The times before, it had been a question of being comfortable with one another. But now, the raven-haired beauty was being deliberately seductive, offering her body to her friend. Even the way she turned around and hung up her robe was slow and deliberate. Calley couldn’t stop herself from stepping forward and pressing herself into her lover’s back. She slipped her arms around Alezanna’s sides and gently stroked her torso. She nuzzled her face into the woman’s long black hair and inhaled the sweet fragrance. “Stop that,” she quietly told the mechanic.

“Stop what?” Alezanna replied in a dreamy tone of voice. She placed her hands atop of Calley’s but didn’t stop the medtech’s sensuous exploration.

“Stop trying to seduce me. You’re too good at it. I don’t have a chance when you get like that.”

Alezanna turned around and wrapped her arms around Calley. “And I wouldn’t have it any other way,” she declared as she leaned in to kiss her younger shipmate.

The kisses they shared were slow and sensuous. Each knew that they had hours to spare before Calley’s watch would begin. So there was no great rush and they could enjoy themselves. Without breaking their embrace, they lay down on the nearby bed and positioned themselves facing one another on their sides. They continued to exchange kisses and their hands drifted across one another. Unlike the previous night’s, this wasn’t as passionate an exploration of each other. Not at first, anyway. They simply enjoyed the feeling of each other and of skin grazing skin.

Calley stroked her lover’s hair, marveling at its length and how, somehow, Alezanna always seemed to keep it out of the way of whatever she needed to do. She knew full well that if her own copper hair had been so long, it would constantly be tripping her up. She wondered if she would ever be as graceful and elegant as the Bellixan.

The young woman also couldn’t help but compare her current lovemaking with her earlier tryst with the captain. She realized that he’d never even kissed her in the entire time they were in the hot tub together. He’d made love to her but not really with her, unlike right now. She had submitted to him and been rewarded with a very pleasurable encounter. But she and Alezanna, at least thus far, were far more In sync with neither taking on a dominant position over the other.

I could do this forever, Calley thought as the two continued exchanging kisses and caresses. Eventually, she moved her lips away from the older woman’s to run them over her slender neck. The mechtech let out a sound midway between a coo and a moan. Her companion moved her hand down to the Bellixan’s sex, finding it moist with desire. She lightly moved her digits around to please Alezanna, but at a leisurely pace.

“That’s nice,” the older woman said in a slightly husky voice. “You can do that to me whenever you want. I’m so glad I took you to bed.”

“Me too!” Calley said in between the kisses she was still planting on her lover’s neck and left shoulder. “I never thought I’d ever have someone like you as a lover.”

“What kind of woman did you have in your mind?”

“None, really,” the younger woman answered as she stopped her kisses and planted her chin on Alezanna’s shoulder. She thought back to her days before boarding the Ravenfang for a moment before admitting, “I never thought of having a girlfriend. Or a boyfriend either. That just wasn’t something I thought would ever happen to me.”

“And here you are with one of each. How do you like it?”

“It’s great!” Calley gushed. “I’m the happiest girl in the universe! I love you so much, Alezanna!”

Her excitement made her stroke her lover’s sex faster and a little more forcefully. Alezanna arched her back as the intensity of her pleasure increased. “Easy, girl!” she told the excited Gynapsi. “I love you too, but that’s not a hyper-wrench you’re playing with down there. Keep it light. I’d like to enjoy this for a little while. It’s different with you than with Sal, and I want to savour the experience.”

Calley returned to her gentle stroking of Alezanna as the latter moved herself around slightly to resume their kissing. But many of their kisses were broken when the medtech touched her partner the perfect way and the taller woman lost control of herself for an instant. After the dozenth or so time it happened, the Bellixan let out a sharp breath and exclaimed, “Gods! You’re too good at that! You’re driving me insane, Calley! Just you wait until the boot’s on the other foot.”

“Help yourself,” the Gynapsi said as she moved and bent her left leg, exposing her vulva to the beautiful mechanic.

“I can’t, Calley. I’ve never been able to give and receive pleasure at the same time. Not even with Sal. I get too worked up and lose control of what I’m doing. The only times I was able to stay focused was because my lover was a dud.”

“Oh!” said a slightly-disappointed Calley. “I guess a sixty-nine won’t work then.”

“I’m afraid not. The only way I’ve gotten a lover off while he did the same to me is with good old-fashioned fucking. And as much as I love you, I’m afraid neither one of us is equipped for that.”

“Not without some special accessories, no,” Calley added with a little chuckle.

“I’ve never used those. Anything that’s touched me has been attached to someone. Even if it was only me. You?”

“Same. Too shy to go buy anything like that. And I had to stow my gear where everyone could see it in my jobs before this one. Would have been embarrassing to let everyone see what size dildo I preferred. So I made do with my fingers and watching porn holo-vids.”

The thought of those holo-vids gave the young woman an idea. “Hey, you wanna try something different?” she asked her naked partner.

Alezanna arched an eyebrow. “What did you have in mind?”

“Well, I told you I didn’t watch girl-on-girl porn vids. I meant not ones that were exclusively girl-on-girl. But some of the straight ones had threesome scenes or two women together for just one scene. And in some of those, I saw two women open their legs and rub their crotches together.”

“Tribbing,” the mechtech named the act Calley was describing.

“You know about it?”

“Of course! You may be the first woman I’ve slept with, but not the first one I’ve encountered with a taste for women. I grew up in the fashion industry, Calley. All those gorgeous models showcasing their beauty. You don’t think some of them seduced each other? Or talked about it afterwards? Believe me, I’ve heard of all sorts of things women can and have done to each other.”

 “So, you wanna try it?

Alezanna smiled as she said, “Could be fun,” and flipped herself over sideways in one graceful motion. She parted her legs and Calley did the same. The two women maneuvered themselves into position with Calley on her back and arching her midsection up slightly while Alezanna lay on her back as well. Because of the height and stature difference between the two, the Belixan’s feet were in the Gynapsi’s face. Noticing the issue, the taller woman bent her knees slightly to keep her toes out of the shorter one’s eyes.

As neither of the two had ever tried this type of frottage before, it took them a little while to find the right rhythm and moveset that worked for them. At first, they found themselves moving away at the same time and then coming back together a little too forcefully. Alezanna was also worked up from Calley’s earlier stroking and had to calm herself down a little to match her younger lover’s pace. Soon, however, the two synced themselves up and both started to breathe more heavily as they began to feel and share an exquisite pleasure together.

“Oooh… I think…” Alezanna said between breaths. “I think… we’re on to… something here.”

Calley couldn’t think of a witty comeback as she was too overwhelmed by the sensations emanating from her crotch. She responded with a grunt and continued to rub herself against her companion.

The two went at it for quite some time. They eased off slightly when the feeling got too intense, neither having to tell the other when to slow down. Calley was amazed to find the two had an instinctive understanding of how to prolong this wonderful experience. She looked over at her Bellixan paramour’s face and the two locked eyes for a few moments before Alezanna graced her with an empathic smile. The taller woman sat up a little to reach out her right arm. Calley shifted her body’s positioning to take the offered hand into her left one. Her other hand was on the mattress, anchoring the arm holding up her body so that the two women had another point of union between themselves.

Calley saw that Alezanna had worked up a sheen of sweat before realizing her own body had done the same. The speed of their gyrations was increasing. The young spacer didn’t want this encounter to end, but knew there was no backing off now. Her older friend was gritting her teeth and her earlier coos and sighs had turned into grunts and louder exclamations of pleasure. The same held true for the excited Gynapsi. She was beyond vocalizing now, transformed into a writhing sexual animal.

Alezanna suddenly shifted herself up more and pulled her partner up with her. She wrapped her free arm around Calley’s back and let out a choked moan as she climaxed in a series of tremors that shook her body. Calley quickly increased the speed and force of her rubbing as she instinctively knew this was the moment to join her lover in reaching bliss. The older woman was going limp as her orgasm ebbed away like a receding tide. The medtech held her close as she reached her own plateau and ground her convulsing crotch into the mechanic’s body. Like her lover had done, Calley let a primal shout of pleasure escape her throat as she climaxed. She continued to hump Alezanna with increasingly feeble intensity as her own orgasm likewise faded away.

The two were still entwined and neither was in any great hurry to disengage herself. They continued to hold each other as they calmed down. As soon as they had a breath to spare, their lips found each other’s in a series of intense but fast kisses. Their bodies, it seemed, needed a breather, but their passion for one another had not been entirely sated. It took a while, but eventually their kisses slowed and stopped. Alezanna bent her head down to place her forehead on Calley’s. They remained in that position, sitting up, their buttocks resting on the other’s leg, their arms around each other and their foreheads touching, for a few silent minutes.

“I like this,” Calley said softly, immediately feeling a little guilty that she’d broken the silence. Still, she continued. “I like our heads touching like this.”

“I bet you don’t see this in your porn holo-vids.”

The young spacer realized the older one was right. “No, not that I can remember. I guess it’s not an exciting thing for a viewer to watch. Feels nice though.”

“Very nice. It can be a very powerful connection between two lovers. Very intimate sometimes. I like it too. But right now, my neck will get a kink if I keep bending it, sorry.”

With that, she straightened herself up and planted a quick kiss on Calley’s forehead. As if to make up for the broken connection, she tightened up her embrace of her paramour’s body.

“Still,” Alezanna continued, “if those vids inspired you to think of tribbing with me, I guess they can’t be all bad. I might have to send the production company a thank-you message.”

Calley let out a laugh at the idea. “I dunno about that. I watched a lot of those vids growing up. Made by lots of different studios. Might be hard to figure out which one to thank. Prophet’s breath, I was a real pervert growing up!”

“Still are,” the Bellixan opined with a chuckle before adding, “and thank the Gods for that! If you’re the happiest girl in the universe like you claim to be, I must be running a close second in that race.”

The two continued to exchange jokes and loving words for a while. They then put their robes back on and went to the galley to feed a different sort of hunger that they’d worked up. As they made the meal, Calley found herself letting her hands wander to Alezanna constantly. She couldn’t bear to be disconnected from the raven-haired beauty for too long. She realized it was not unlike the behavior she had noted back when she’d joined the captain and the mechanic a cycle ago. Just as she’d observed how much it was obvious the two were in love back then, she knew anyone watching her with Alezanna would have to draw the same conclusion. And she was fine with that. Let the universe see she was in love. She was proud of it. And if her paramour had any issues with Calley’s behavior, she certainly wasn’t expressing them. She was acting pretty much the same way.

After they ate, they took some food to the cockpit where they found Sal getting ready to get the ship underway. With the ship’s navigation computer full of the data it needed, the crew activated the Hi-Vel engines again and resumed their journey. Calley shooed her crewmates out of the cockpit to begin her watch and the two spacefarers went off to their cabin to sleep. Calley doubted the captain was up for much else considering how tired he’d looked on his way out. But if she was wrong, she didn’t care. Her days of peeping at her friends were over.

Instead, she spent her watch keeping one eye on the controls while she pondered the new situation she found herself in with her crewmates. It was her first time alone since she’d been taken to bed by the captain the day before. Only 24 hours had passed since, but Calley felt like the entire universe had shifted under her feet. She’d been a single girl, and now she had two romantic partners. She’d been a virgin, and hadn’t expected that to change anytime soon. But now she wasn’t anymore. She wondered if there was a word for a girl who had lost her virginity. “Ex-virgin”, maybe? She didn’t think she could call herself “experienced” yet as she was still discovering new ways to have sex with Sal and Alezanna. And while she trusted both implicitly to guide her through experiences she wasn’t familiar with, she was already thinking of things she wanted them to let her try.

She thought back to something Sal had told her in the hot tub and it concerned her. He said he would help her navigate her first relationship with a man. What did he mean by that? Why her first and not her only one? It seemed to imply that he expected her to have others. But why would she need to? She loved him, he said he did too, so why would she look elsewhere for love? The more she thought about it, the more the questions bothered her.

And then she remembered something else he had told her in the tub. The more you examine relationships, he’d said, the less you enjoy them. Yet, here she was, falling into the very trap he’d warned her about. She admonished herself to cease worrying so much so soon about how things would turn out with her lovers. Best to just enjoy the ride, she decided.

With her mind so cleared, she spent the rest of her watch listening to music from the ship’s library as the communications system didn’t have the range needed to access the holo-channels she normally perused. Eventually, Alezanna and the captain entered the cockpit a few minutes before the chronometer announced the end of the Ravenfang’s Hi-Vel jump. The trio of spacers strapped themselves into their seats only to find the precaution was unnecessary. When the captain slowed the ship down, the recalibrated gravity compensators worked perfectly. Collondo praised his crewmates for their excellent work. Calley accepted his thanks and went off to bed as her friends began the task of reorienting the ship again. It had been a long and eventful day for her and she was asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow.

NEXT CHAPTER: Calley looks back and goes down.