LiTTLE CHERiNE Book 02 - post074
“Maria told me that my body is rotting. What percentage viability?”
“Under thirty. The healer cannot save a body with less than forty.”
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“Then I will have to fire it. Get me one that is not so lazy.”
She giggled through her tears. “Shall I put an advert in the papers?”
“That’s my girl. An advert in my heart is good enough. Will you give me a sliver of your soul? I need a sliver from my lion cub so that I can feel you really are one with me all the time - just as it is with Diana and the twins. Come into me my love.”
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Without the slightest sign of disgust in mind or body she lay down next to me, cuddling up against me. She came. We danced, we played and she gave that tiny sliver I needed.
The two slivers within me met and fused and I exploded in a flash of power. I took my healer, grabbed Cherine’s and fused them. I gave them a prime directive to save the body of Robert Teller.
Cherine lay next to me, having muted herself, for hours watching over me as I slept.
“Cherine love, you awake?”
“I’m here. You feeling better?”
“I stink. Maria, I need to wash.”
“I’ll sponge bath you.”
“No, I will.” With small wet towels that Maria kept bringing her she washed me. When she raised my head to wash the back of my neck, I looked down and saw my body. It was filled with suppurating sores* that wept yellow-green tears. My god! My little girl was washing this!! (*a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus)
I demanded a viability report. Thirty nine.
“How do I wash this out of your mind my baby. I did not know. How could you bear to lie next to me and wash me now!!”
“Bear what my Robert? The man I love?”
“You are crazier than I am!”
“If you keep on paying me compliments like that I’m going to start kissing your body well. Will that help love?”
“Yuck! Cherine?”
“It is coming love. Your favourite from your daddy Alki.”
“Chicken soup!”
I was fed and slept and fed by my tireless love. She would not allow the others, except for Dommi, to see me. She ate and slept by my side and her love was constant as it flowed into me.
“Viability fifty two my love. Can I go home now?”
“Soon. Robert, is there nothing the protector can do to help?”
“It is not a healer.”
“If it can destroy then it should be able to help, please send it to me.”
I listened as she argued and then commanded. *In the beginning you used your power to hurt Robert. Use that power to help heal him now. If you cannot, then you will fuse with the healers, give them your power so that they can use it. There is no danger now, only that of losing our Robert. If we lose him all of us will hurt and die. You know it is the truth, so this is a prime. Help heal him.*
I felt it join the healers and the power was now incredible. From the faces of Maria and Cherine I knew what was happening. I lifted my arm and it was almost fully healed. I saw it was sheathed in a white glow.
“All of me!?”
“Yes my love.”
“Open the door, the girls must see; they deserve to.”
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They all dashed in, not waiting for Cherine and stopped and stared at me.
“Get yourselves ready, we are going home.”
The adults came in and stood mesmerised by the sight of my glowing body. Maria helped me sit up and put a couple of pillows behind me.
“Percy, Jonathan, sorry to have been a nuisance. Em-e?” She came forward, her face haggard and eyes red. “Do you remember?”
“In the void you said we are married.”
“Is your heart as one with mine. Are we a part of each other with love?”
“Yes.”
“Then what do we need a silly ceremony for. We are married, have you kissed your other brides, let them welcome you?”
As she stood, her face transfixed, Jonathan stepped forward and placed his hand on her shoulder. “You will not cheat my daughter of a ceremony. You asked to marry her and you will keep your word.”
“Today is your birthday Robert. Can we marry you here? We don’t have to go to that old church do we?”
They helped place me in a chair in the lounge and my wives and brides surrounded me. Alki performed the ceremony and we all joined and became one family of a mixture of relationships that a computer would not want to try and analyse. For instance, a daughter who marries her father and mother, is she also her own stepmother?
“This must be the first time anyone has married a glowing bridegroom…hmm, unless I get better soon, all our new wives will have the right to annul this marriage. As the twins said, a good incentive.”
Dommi cupped my face as she knelt by me. “Anybody tries to annul will be put over my lap and gets a spanking.”
“You sometimes scare me Dominique. You must come from the Greeks of 1820, fierce, loyal and really old fashioned!”
“It no longer matters where I come from, what matters is where I am going.”
“That is something I want to talk about to all of you soon, not just my family, I mean all of you my dear Cherinians.”
I was wrapped up like a mummy and carried to the car and then to our home. I asked them to stop, put me down by the front door.
“You are not carrying them Robert. You can forget that!”
“I can’t love. Now stop being such a mother hen Dommi. Alki, would you help me?” He came to see what I wanted. “You are my father in all ways that count. Would you do me the honour of carrying our brides over the threshold for me? Girls, all of you, I want you to be ten year olds now.”
Alki made a complete ass of himself, crying as he carried my brides one by one, with them insisting they had to kiss him once over the threshold. He quickly carried me in and made them kiss me as was proper he said. He did kiss his two daughters and holding them to him turned to me.
“You really got a bargain. If I had known how lovely they are to kiss I would never have let you get them.” That is the kind of gesture he makes that makes me love him so much. It was the sweetest wedding gift he could have given them.
They propped me up in our bed. I looked at the sea of happy faces and grinned. “I think my epitaph will be ‘Never has one man wed so many sweet damsels in one day and made love to such a few.’ I promise I will get strong enough to consummate our marriage soon.”
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“I told you Robert, no need to strain yourself, relax, I’ll be happy to help you out.”
“Nicko my friend, you want to help me out? Then you go get yourself a bunch, as many as mine, and marry them so that I can console myself with the thought that my friend is in the same spot I am!”
Not one of my brides was allowed in my bed that night. As I dozed off, even as the guests quietly left, Dommi sent them all to the satellite bedrooms and then lay down by my side and held me through the night. Cherine was not allowed near me as we were reacting to her sliver in me. Not one of the girls even murmured about being sent to bed hungry, without even a slice of wedding cake.
Soon as my healer pronounced me as being ninety percent viable, I ordered it to split and return the healer to Cherine. The protector resumed its normal activities of watching us all. Samantha returned to thank the aliens for their help and to tell them how I solved the problem. They, the girls, had all shared my mind and seen me as the void, so when she told them that part, she left a disturbed hornets nest behind her.
Cherine dampened herself almost to the point where I could hardly feel her and visited me.
“She was right. Her clue about sharing. By sharing my healer and …”
“Not right love. They are only a backup, a tremendous comfort to feel the power they have, but they have not solved the problem.”
“Then what?”
“Not that urgent anymore. Soon as I drop below whatever level we decide, they can get together and make my body better again. We will find the answer though.”
“If you love me you will do everything you can to find it as soon as possible.”
Αλέξανδρος Ζήνον Ευσταθίου
(Alexander Zenon Eustace)26th October, 2018
* posted on Steemit: 26th October, 2018
@nikosnitza
Δεν κατάλαβα πως ο healet τον έκανε καλά;;
Τι έγινε από κει που δεν μπορούσε να τον κάνει καλά ξαφνικά τον έκανε;;
Έγινε και ο γάμος ε.... Και όλοι περνάνε πάλι μία χαρά...
Το sliver τι είναι;;
Οι εξωγήινοι τελικά τον έσωσαν έτσι;;;
Επίσης δεν κατάλαβα γιατί έτσι ήθελε όλες μαζί στο κρεβάτι του;; :)))