Chapter 5
When the group did stop, they got several rooms at a small cheap motel. After they had cleaned up Sarah and Harry were in their room cuddling when there was a knock on the door. Harry opened the door. It was Six. She looked freshly showered, her blond hair looking darker due to being damp.
"Hey. Can I come in?" Six asked. "Sure," Harry said as he invited her in.
Sarah sat up on the edge of the bed and stared at Six. Six looked a little nervous. But she seemed to quickly come to a decision.
"Could Sarah and I talk in private?" Six asked as she looked at Harry.
Harry looked to Sarah who nodded.
"I'll be outside if you need me. Take as much time as you need," Harry said. He left the room with both ladies watching him.
"It's hard to believe he is real," Six said.
"What do you mean?" Sarah asked curiously.
"I vaguely remember playing with him as a kid. But for the longest time I wondered if those weren't just dreams. I always knew intellectually that we would be required to bring back our species from the brink of extinction. But now that time is here or at least fast approaching," Six explained.
Sarah patted the bed beside her before drawing her legs up and facing Six as the other woman sat.
"That sounds like a lot of pressure," Sarah said.
"I suppose it is," Six admitted. "So, the elephant in the room. What do we do about Harry?"
"I suppose we have to share him. The truth is he could just act as a sperm donor for you. You two could only have sex when it is needed for you to get pregnant. But I don't think that is an ideal situation. I also don't like the idea of Harry being torn and possibly leaving me for you. I don't want to cause him any hardship. He's an amazing man," Sarah explained.
"He sounds like it," Six said. "Can you do it...share him?"
"I'm not going to lie and say I won't feel jealous. But I will try to work through that jealousy," Sarah said. "Can you share him?"
Six nodded and said, "Both of us giving him babies means my species stands a much better chance of survival. I don't like the idea of sharing him any further. But it might one day become necessary. I'll do what I must. Besides, I think I could grow to like you."
"I think I could grow to like you too," Sarah said. "So what do you want to do about the sleeping arrangements?"
"Could I sleep in here with Harry and you?" Six asked.
"I don't have a problem with that. I don't think either Harry or I are in any shape to get up to anything tonight," Sarah said. "He's exhausted and so am I."
"Me too," Six agreed. "Don't feel the need to hold back on my account when you do feel the need. That could be fun to watch," She said with a grin.
"I'll keep that in mind," Sarah said. "Let's get Harry back in here."
Six gestured and the door opened.
"Come back Harry," Six called quietly.
He appeared in the doorway a moment later looking between the two ladies uncertainly.
"We've come to an agreement," Sarah said as Harry closed the door. "We decided we can share. Six is going to sleep in here tonight. Are you ready to go to sleep?"
"Yes," Harry agreed. "Two girlfriends is uncharted waters for me. If I screw something up please let me know."
"Oh you'll know," Six teased.
Harry climbed into bed. Sarah snuggled up to him on his left and Six on his right. It felt pretty nice to be cuddling with both ladies. He was used to doing this with Sarah. Six was entirely new. She felt very good against his side. Normally it would be hard to fall asleep cuddling. But all three were so exhausted that they were quickly out like lights.
Hermione Granger-Potter sat in her bedroom at her parents' house. To call it a bedroom was misleading. It was really an expanded suite thanks to magic. She had her own study, a bedroom, a nursery for her children, a bathroom, and a library. She had copies of the entire Potter and Black libraries within her personal library.
Her thoughts drifted to all that had happened. Two days after finding out she was pregnant with Harry's children she had awoken to a miracle. It was only her own entry in the book of Potter that had revealed to her what had happened. Her babies were incredibly powerful. There had never been a natural born Loric and wizarding child. They had wanted out and to cause her as little pain as possible. While she had slept, the babies had used their power unknowingly to erect a time dilation field around themselves. It was only thanks to that power that the physics of it had even worked. They grew to maturity over the course of minutes outside of the field. They then disengaged themselves from her body and apparated out. She woke up to find two healthy babies next to her quietly laying next to her.
That had been quite the shock. At five months old baby Daniel Harry Potter and Rose Lily Potter were unusual babies. What she would have called accidental magic came often to them. They also never cried. Where a normal baby would cry to signal they needed something, Daniel & Rose would use their powers. She hadn't had to change a diaper yet. Dobby and Winky had been such a blessing. They helped look after the children so Hermione could carry out her research.
Hermione had always been a brilliant young woman. It wasn't immodest to say that she was a genius. The Book of Potter had been able to take her so much further. There had been tests hidden within the book for a Potter brilliant enough to handle the truth of the life of Ignotus Peverell. Hermione may have not been a Potter by birth. Magic certainly considered her one now. By unlocking the puzzles, Hermione had gained access to the life's work of Ignotus and his brothers. The Peverells had been magical researchers of the highest caliber. They had created three artifacts. All three artifacts harnessed soul magic to incredible effect. Ignotus had created an invisibility cloak that completely hid the wearer even from the ravages of time.
One of his brothers had created a stone that could summon the souls of the dead. And the other brother had created a sentient wand imbued with a soul able to wield magic of incredible power. Through the sentient wand, magics of incredible complexity could be worked with ease. When combined the artifacts had been capable of greater soul magic than the sum of their parts. They had even been capable of summoning and interacting with an entity known as Death. Hermione read about the lives of her husband's ancestors with relish. There was even a full accounting of Rowena's life herself and all her research. Hermione was able to use the work of these great wizards and witches to quickly build off of them rather than having to come up with these things
herself. The pensieve in its modern form had not been around in the time of the Peverell brothers. Hermione was quickly able to modify the Book of Potter magic so that she could experience the memories of Harry's new life complete with sensations and emotions rather than just read about it in a book. She was able to keep track of his life in current time. She understood intimately what was going on in his life.
She had already used knowledge in the book to recall the three artifacts created by the Peverell brothers. They had teleported into her room. She was continuing to research these artifacts and the veil to see how she could at the very least communicate with Harry and possibly reach him. It would take time. But every day she learned more and more. She grew in confidence that she would achieve her goal.
"I will be with you again my Harry," Hermione thought to herself.
Until then she had her babies, her parents, her research, and her nightly visits from Harry in her dreams. They still couldn't talk in those dreams. But talk wasn't needed with his ability to physically satisfy her.
Pennsylvania
Six followed Harry at a hard run. The pair of them scaled rocky faces of the mountain they were climbing as if they were squirrels. She had never met anyone who could keep up with her let alone who it was hard to keep up with. It was so peaceful out here in the forest. This was part of their training. Yet it was easy to forget they were training instead of just spending time together. Over the past couple of weeks their group had stayed constantly on the move. Every few days they switched motels. Every member of the group had started training with some type of Loric weapon. Most had begun training with the Loric energy pistols Harry had produced. Sarah, Sam, Emily, Jake, and Tim had started training with a Loric version of a sniper rifle Harry had created. They wanted to be able to help protect their friends and family.
"I think this is a good place to take a break for lunch," Harry said as he came to a stop in a clearing beneath some evergreen trees.
The forest floor was a bed of pine needles. Harry sat down and Six sat next to them. Both were breathing moderately hard.
"I love this place," Six said as he began taking food out of the thermal lined backpack he had brought with them. "It's so peaceful and green here."
"It is pretty nice," Harry agreed. "I love the green too. But the company makes it even better," He said with a grin.
They were sitting close enough that she was able to lean forward and gently kiss him. Their relationship was progressing nicely. Ever since that first night where she had slept cuddled up to
Harry along with Sarah, Six had slept in the same bed with them. Whenever Harry and Sarah were intimate, Six would watch while pleasuring herself. The pleasuring herself part had proved unnecessary. The three of them had found when they were so close, any time Harry gave Sarah an orgasm it was as if Six was experiencing the pleasuring and climax herself. They had speculated it was possibly a legacy. Whatever the case it was a godsend because it helped cut out the jealousy. Harry and Six had progressed to making out and heavy petting. They were taking things as slow as they could physically with one another as they got to know each other better. Sometimes that was a very hard thing. But the ability to experience Harry from Sarah's perspective helped.
"I like spending time with you too," Six said as she pulled back from the light kiss and began eating her sandwich.
They ate in silence as Six thought over other things that had occurred. She and Sarah had both noticed Harry's efforts in their relationship. He made time to spend with Sarah alone, with Six alone, and both of them together. Sometimes he would just take them out for a meal and window shopping in the town they were in. Sometimes they could find local attractions like bowling or seeing a movie. His efforts were much appreciated.
"Penny for your thoughts," Harry said.
"I was just thinking about us including Sarah and how things have been progressing nicely," Six said.
"Are you happy with how things are going?" Harry asked after chewing the potato chips he had in his mouth and swallowing.
"I am," Six said. "Sharing will never be ideal. But I'm coming to like Sarah very much. She is making this as easy on me as possible. And I'm trying to do the same. It helps that she is a very kind person."
"She is," Harry agreed. "But you're also very kind."
Six snorted and said, "I don't know if anyone has ever called me kind before."
"It's there. You just have to be patient to observe it because you've been so consumed with survival. Now that we're together we are stronger," Harry said as he reached out and took her hand giving it a squeeze.
"We are," Six agreed and squeezed it back. "I'm also very grateful for my bike," She added with a grin, not letting go of his hand.
Harry laughed and said, "I'm glad you like it."
Harry had finished making Six her own cycle the day before. She had begun learning a little bit of Loric science along with him. But it wasn't something she was greatly interested in other than
the basics. He had put expanded space saddlebags on her cycle. Six was under the impression that the Loric version of space expansion was compact enough to fit on a cycle. Harry did not disabuse her of that notion.
"I really enjoy my toys," Six said.
When they were finished eating Harry laid the pack back against a raised portion of the earth and laid back on it. Six cuddled into his side. They had to let the food settle before they continued their run. The two of them cuddled and talked. They got to know one another sharing their fears, their hopes, and their dreams.
"This is nice," Sarah said as she strolled down the street of the Pennsylvania town they were currently staying in, looking inside the various windows while her right arm was intertwined with her boyfriend's left.
"It is," Harry agreed.
The pair of them had just had dinner at a local restaurant. The food was excellent, the company even more so. To others they didn't appear as they had back in Paradise. The illusion currently over their features was of a random attractive couple. But to anyone wearing a Loric pendant like those in their group they would appear as their true selves. The pendants were a mixture of Loric science and Harry's wizarding powers. He had gradually been able to master more magic runically and windlessly. He was nowhere near at the abilities he had been at with a wand. But he was bridging that gap slowly but surely.
"Let's go in here," Sarah suggested as she nodded towards a shop that specialized in various works of art.
"Alright," Harry agreed.
Harry followed Sarah in and admired the various works of art. "This one is gorgeous," Sarah said.
"It is," Harry agreed as he eyed the painting.
Sarah couldn't see it. But every work of art she liked was tagged with a tracking charm. Harry fully intended to apparate back to the shop later and buy all the works of art. He would store them in his saddlebags protected of course until he slowly gave them out over the years as birthday and Christmas presents. He would do something similar with Six when they went out on the town.
After they left the shop the couple found themselves next to a local dairy.
"Two medium twist cones please," Sarah ordered. Harry paid. The sight of Sarah licking the ice cream from the cone shouldn't have aroused him. But it did. "I'll admit that being on the run and wanted for questioning as potential terrorists isn't ideal. Yet I find myself enjoying traveling around and seeing places. I didn't get to travel much before."
"I find the company certainly helps," Harry said. "I've had more than my share of traveling. Yet never before has it been this enjoyable. Having you and Six here...it means a lot to me."
"It means a lot to me too," Sarah said as she leaned up and kissed him. "Mmm...you taste like ice cream," Harry said.
"So do you," Sarah said with a laugh. "This shop looks interesting."
It was a clothing boutique. He happily went inside with her. While she looked at various clothes, Harry couldn't help but be reminded of Hermione. He had been into similar shops with her before. His thoughts turned introspective. He had Sarah and it looked like even Six now. Yet he still found himself missing Hermione at times. She was his first love. He still loved her today. He found himself wondering what she was doing. He hoped she had found happiness. When Hermione later experienced this part of Harry's life it only firmed her resolve to get back to Harry.
When Sarah noticed her boyfriend was quiet and looking around with an almost sad but fond expression she thought she knew what was on his mind.
"Hermione?" Sarah questioned after touching his hand to draw his attention back to the here and now.
Harry nodded and said, "Sorry."
"You can't help it," Sarah said. She knew enough about Hermione by this point to know how much Harry loved her. She didn't know all of the circumstances. Yet she knew enough to know Harry could never get back to Hermione. "I don't expect you to forget your first love."
Sarah turned to look at another piece of clothing when Harry asked, "Do you still think about Mark?"
"From time to time," Sarah admitted. "But it's more of a comparison at how much better you do things. Don't get me wrong. Mark wasn't all bad. He gave into peer pressure too easily. Yet he also had his redeeming qualities. But Mark was a teenager slash boy. Despite your age you are a man."
Harry smiled at that and said, "You're quite the catch yourself my Sarah." "I like that, the way you say my Sarah," Sarah said.
"Well it's the truth," Harry said, his tone possessive.
Harry stepped closer. He cupped her butt possessively and leaned in to kiss her. Sarah hungrily returned the kiss. Sarah glanced around and found the dressing room.
"Come on. I'm feeling a bit puckish still and feel the need for a different type of treat," Sarah said as she cupped his package and led him towards the dressing room with an extra sway in her hips.
Harry happily followed her into the dressing room. When she slipped to her knees and began undoing his belt and zipper he couldn't help but stare down at her in hunger. She stared up at him with just as much hunger while licking her lips. It was good to be Harry.
Harry found himself in a vision unlike the others he had experienced. There were no beautiful women in this dream. Instead he finds himself floating in a dark cavern. Two figures stand on the other side of the cavern illuminated by dim torchlight.
"They got away. All that were sent against them were lost. We sent piken and krauls along with warriors. None of them survived," A short Mog told a larger being.
The larger being silenced the other with a gesture and turned towards Harry's presence.
"Harry, I've been expecting you," Setrakus Ra said as he approached Harry's presence. Harry took note of a thick ropy scar around Setrakus' neck. He has short hair, a chiseled jaw, tan skin. He pulls a sword from his hip that seems to become liquid metal while retaining its shape. "It has been a very long time."
"Have we met?" Harry asked.
"Oh yes," Setrakus said. "I'm not surprised you don't remember."
Then without any further warning Setrakus raises his sword and charges. Just as Setrakus got close, Harry woke up. He woke up in a sweat with a concerned Sarah and Six sitting up beside him.
"What happened?" Sarah asked with concern.
"You were speaking Mogadorian and a little Loric," Six said. "I think I just met Setrakus Ra," Harry said.
Six sucked in a sharp breathe and Sarah asked, "Who is that?"
"He's the Mogadorian leader," Six answered. "He's as bad as they come. How did you meet him?"
"It was some kind of vision. It was like how I met you except without the beautiful woman. I would much rather be meeting you in a dream vision," Harry said. "It was in a dark cavern. One of the soldiers was reporting our escape from Paradise when Setrakus sensed me. He said we had met before. I don't remember that."
"Maybe he means he met you when you were a young child. You've told me you don't remember a lot about that time," Sarah pointed out.
"She's right," Six said. "He might have been visiting Lorien for a diplomatic reason."
"It could be," Harry agreed. "Well I'm definitely awake now."
Sarah and Six exchanged a look with each other. Sarah nodded at Six.
"I think you need something to cheer you up and take your mind off of this," Six said as she leaned in and kissed him.
"Let's take a shower together," Sarah whispered into his ear before nibbling on the lobe.
When the two women pulled back Harry could only watch in wonder as they stood from either side of the bed. They both walked towards the bathroom. He could already hear the shower warming up thanks to Six's telekinesis. He watched enraptured as Sarah and Six turned their backs to him. Sarah slipped off her nightgown and Six her tank top. Beneath the night shirt Sarah only wore blue panties. Six wore a pair of those boy shorts for girls colored silver. Harry's libido skyrocketed as Sarah and Six in unison bent over and drug their undergarments down their smooth long legs exposing every bit of their privates to him. He gazed hungrily at the gashes that appeared between their legs.
"Are you coming?" Six asked as they stood up once more with their butts sticking out a bit. "Not yet he isn't. But he will be," Sarah teased.
Harry hopped out of bed and hastily got his own night clothes off as Sarah and Six got into the shower. Six pushed him back against the shower wall and kissed him hungrily as he entered.
Warning Smut Scene Begins
Sarah kissed her way down Harry's chest starting at his collar bone. She dropped to her knees in the shower and immediately engulfed the head of his prick in her mouth. Sarah was intimately familiar with his appendage by this point. She put that knowledge to good use by swirling her tongue around the head before slowly massaging his frenum with the pad of her tongue. His right hand immediately rested gently on top of her head while his left cupped Six's butt. All three of their minds connected on a sensation level. For Sarah it felt like she had a cock of her
own being sucked. She felt Harry's lust and desire for her, his intoxication with her beauty. It made her suck his dick with more vigor. It felt to her like Harry's finger was buried in her own pussy slowly massaging her g-spot even though it was actually Six's sleeve he was probing.
Harry was in absolute bliss as his mouth engulfed the end of Six's right breast while his tongue bathed her nipple. At the same time he felt Sarah's head begin to bob back and forth on his shaft. She knew just how to work him as her right hand engulfed the base. It felt like he was fully engulfed in a pussy as she used her hand and mouth in tune with one another. Speaking of pussy, he wanted to taste Six's for the first time. Telekinetically he began to lift her. His mouth kissed down her body over her tight toned tummy. When her hairless gash came to mouth level she wrapped her legs around his head and threw her head back in a pleasured gasp. His mouth dove into her juicy slit. Her nectar tasted wonderful to his Loric senses. His tongue began to massage up and down her gash, the tip flicking across her clit. Both his hands came up to cup her butt as he began to make love to her snatch with his taste organ. He could sense how much pleasure she was in, what got her going the most. He strove to concentrate on those areas.
Six groaned approvingly as she had her pussy eaten by the beautiful man with his head buried between her thighs. She had to remind herself to relax because her partner could take her increased strength. She wouldn't pop his head like a ripe grape if she let her legs tense upon him. He proved this with the strength his tongue delved through her folds. She had never been this juicy below. She also felt like she had his dick in her mouth, his pre-cum flowing over her tongue. It was a wonderful taste. Sarah was doing a good job of getting him warmed up. Six felt a primal instinct to dismount and impale her virgin pussy on that shaft. She fought with the instinct she felt to breed with Harry. It wasn't time for that yet. She knew that someday in the future she would thrash on his thick shaft as he filled her with his creamy seed. Six lost track of all sense of time as she ground her gash upon her lover's mouth. He couldn't seem to get enough of her either. He happily massaged her pussy with his very strong tongue. She gave herself up to the sensation. She looked down and found his eyes staring up at her with a look of primal hunger. He loved what he was doing to her. She threaded her hands through his hair and ground her mound down upon him. Then she felt his tongue slip a ways into her tunnel thanks to his Loric granted strength. Her kegel muscles resisted. But his strength was even greater than her Loric granted strength.
"Harry...I'm going to cum," Six warned.
Six wanted to give him plenty of warning should he wish to draw back. Instead he renewed his efforts and licked her harder. Six came within moments of her warning. It was like a bolt of lightning surged into her pussy. She screamed as her legs clamped down on his head. Her cunt muscles pulsed and squeezed down on his tongue. Her juices squirted all over his face. He drank as much of her offering as he could. Sarah cried out with her mouth full of cock as she experienced the full might of Six's orgasm as if it were her own. Her own pussy squirted with the intensity of the climax. It took some time for both ladies to come down from their release. When she became aware of herself once more Six found herself still mounted upon Harry's face. She carefully dismounted him and slid down his body until she was on her knees next to Sarah.
"It's your turn Harry. We want you to cream in our mouths," Six said as she accepted Harry's prick from Sarah.
Six immediately began sucking his shaft for the first time. Never before had any of the human men she had sucked tasted so good. This was the seed that would one day breed her womb. It tasted simply divine to the young Loric woman. Sarah meanwhile had kissed her way down to Harry's balls. She began to gently suckle upon his testicles using both her mouth and fingers to gently massage them. She also fondled his butt possessively. After a time of Six's head bobbing to and from his groin, her lips sliding up and down his shaft while her tongue massaged the underside of his sensitive prick, the two women changed tactic. A pair of lips slid up and down each side of his dick, meeting halfway across the top and bottom of his shaft. They did this for about five minutes before taking turns sucking on the first half of his sausage. While all of this was going on their eyes gazed hungrily up at him.
"You have such a beautiful cock, Harry," Six said while Sarah sucked upon him. "I could suck it all day. Can you imagine how big a load I'd have to suck down if we did that?"
Then Six took over sucking while Sarah said, "It would be such a huge hot creamy load to fill our bellies. The thought makes my pussy drip," She added while massaging his testicles with her left hand.
Then it was Six's turn to suck dick and Sarah's turn to tease.
Sarah said, "We'll have to get a car at some point so we can give you road head. We do so much driving and there are two of us. Think how often we could suck your dick while you drive."
They switched again and Six said, "You like that don't you. I can feel your dick throbbing in my mouth when we talk about it."
Sarah could feel Harry was getting close. They had to have been sucking him slowly for over half an hour at this point. She bobbed her head vigorously back and forth, getting a few last sucks in. Then she squeezed Six's thigh in a pre-arranged signaled and pulled off. Six was immediately impaling her mouth upon their boyfriend's sausage eager to swallow his load. Sarah decided to help it along.
"We can tell you are close Harry," Sarah said. "Your hot shaft is throbbing in our mouths. I told Six she could swallow your load this time so she knows what it is like. There's nothing to compare it to. The feeling of your throbbing shaft exploding in my mouth," Sarah said before letting out an approving moan.
This proved too much for Harry. He groaned and held on gently to Six's head. The force of his seed erupting into her mouth took Six by surprise. His first spurt filled her mouth forcing her to swallow. She could feel his orgasm through their mental connection. It immediately triggered her own orgasm as it did Sarah's. Six swallowed spurt after spurt of his delicious cream until she couldn't take anymore. Sarah's mouth was upon his spurting shaft as soon as Six drew back so that not a drop was spilled. Sarah's mouth was filled several times. She hungrily swallowed
it down as his orgasm gradually faded. Sarah gently suckled upon the tip of his now very sensitive shaft. She could feel exactly how sensitive he was and gently suckled as he enjoyed the come-down from his orgasm.
"Fuck that was hot," Six said as her chest heaved while she caught her breathe. "And tasty," Sarah said as she released her lover's spent prick.
"You weren't kidding about that," Six agreed. "I don't know that I've ever cum that hard." Six began to stand up on shaky legs. She fell against Harry who easily caught her. Sarah had the same problem as she stood. "If this is what it feels like when you haven't even fucked us...all I can say is wow."
"Agreed," Sarah said.
"I could die a happy man right now," Harry replied with the biggest shit eating grin.
"No dying. We love you too much for that," Sarah said as she kissed him.
While Harry and Six hadn't admitted that they loved one another yet, they were quickly getting there. They were very fond of one another.
"We had better get cleaned up or the others will be wondering where we are at," Six pointed out. "Good point," Sarah agreed.
End Smut Scene
Harry, Six, and Sarah entered the room Jake & Tim Hart were staying in with Dave Knapp to hear Jake say, "The rewards change nothing."
"You're not worried that a million dollar reward will make people take notice?" Dave asked with surprise.
Ever since Paradise, Harry, Henri, and the other members of their group had been wanted for questioning. It was only within the last day that a reward had been offered. For Henri and Harry, the reward being offered for information leading to their capture was half a million each. If someone actually captured them and brought in the reward doubled. Everyone else in their party had a fifty thousand dollar reward on their head.
"It isn't a pleasant thought," Jake replied. "But with the illusions masking who we are to anyone outside the group it shouldn't be a problem. This just proves how desperate the Mogs are. Am I right Harry?"
"You are," Harry agreed. "He has a point," Paul added.
"It does make me nervous because we can't see that we look different than we should without those special glasses Harry showed us," Patricia admitted.
"I completely understand that," Annie said.
"I still can't believe the Mogs killed all those people even after the school was led to safety," Sarah said while shaking her head in dismay at the images of the three teachers, the school basketball coach, and the janitor the Mogs had killed and blamed on Harry's group.
"The Mogs could have easily caught up with the group after they got away or on the escape route. Hell, they could have even gone after these people in their homes just to have something to blame on us," Six suggested.
"There is a positive to this," Tim said. "What's that?" Jake asked.
"The other members of the Garde will now know Harry survived his first battle and won it," Tim said.
"That's true," Harry mused.
"We will have to find them," Six said into the momentary silence. "Now that the charm has failed with Harry and I being so close to one another for so long. They are all now vulnerable."
"You mentioned a Mogadorian stronghold, a cave," Harry said. "Can you point it out on this map?" He asked while indicating a map laid out on a table.
Six nodded, stood, and walked over to the map.
"Here," Six said while pointing to a location roughly in the center of West Virginia. "There may be more strongholds. But this is the only one I know of." She moved her finger to a point on the tip of Arkansas. "This is where Katarina hid my chest and some of the other stuff she brought from Lorien. I went back to check after Katarina died. It was no longer there."
"If you ever want to talk about Katarina's death I am here," Harry said quietly.
Six nodded and sat back down. It wasn't lost on several people in the room how closely Six was now sitting to Harry and Sarah. The little meeting didn't last long after that. When they were once more back in their room, Harry climbed onto the bed. Six and Sarah climbed on with him, snuggling. Even though his taking his relationship with Six to the next level had only occurred earlier that day it felt absolutely natural to have her curled against his side.
"Thank you both for letting me in," Six said, referring to their relationship.
"I need all the help I can get looking after this one," Sarah said with a teasing grin while pointing to Harry.
"He is something of a trouble magnet isn't he," Six said just as teasingly.
"You two better watch out or I'll pin you down and tickle you," Harry warned.
"You don't have the balls to try it," Six said.
"Oh I can assure you he does," Sarah said. "I am very familiar with the fact he does."
Six and Sarah suddenly felt themselves pinned in place with telekinesis. Harry slipped from beneath them and began tickling them. The girls could both move their heads.
"Stop," Sarah squealed.
Six pretended she wasn't ticklish even while Harry switched to her thighs. It turns out she was ticklish there. She tried fighting back against his telekinesis using her own. Although she was strong she found that he was stronger. She couldn't break his telekinetic hold. Six eventually gave up and ended up grimacing instead of letting herself laugh. A smile did crack through by the time Harry stopped.
"You are a big meanie," Sarah said in a teasing tone while poking his chest with her finger.
"He's a big something," Six said. "I think someone like that," She said while pointing to the obvious bulge Harry was sporting.
"I can't help that," Harry said with a shrug. "My hands were touching the bare flesh of two beautiful girls."
"Fair enough," Six said with a grin.
The three spent the next little while just hanging out and occasionally horsing around.
When they went outside that evening it was to find an SUV waiting next to their cycles. When Harry opened it up and began loading their belongings next, Sarah and Six stopped in surprise.
"When did you get a different vehicle?" Sarah asked.
"I ordered it online. Our cycles can auto-pilot behind us invisible," Harry said. "I thought this might make travel easier."
"The saying money talks must really be true if you were able to get a vehicle online so quickly," Six mused as she threw her stuff inside and climbed into the passenger seat.
"It really does," Harry agreed.
Ten minutes later the caravan was on the road. Harry had slowly been converting the engines of all the vehicles in their caravan to Loric technology using his nano-constructor. He had come up with a casing that would mask the most likely methods the Mogs would use to scan for Loric technology unless the Mogs were a foot or two away. At that distance they would already know it was a Loric vehicle. As a result, these vehicles ran off of water and sunlight. They could also travel faster than most human-built vehicles. He would have to upgrade the SUV when he got a chance.
It was fifteen minutes into the drive when Six decided to share a painful part of her story.
"The Mogs caught up to us when I was thirteen," Six began. "There was a stupid mistake made in Mexico. We fled to West Texas. Two had made a stupid internet post. Katarina and I were very lonely in a dusty town in the middle of nowhere. We just had to know if it really was a member of the Garde. We stupidly responded."
"Nine, now eight. Are the rest of you out there," Harry said, reciting the post. "You saw it too. That's the post," Six confirmed.
"Henri tried very hard to hack the computer and delete the post. But Two was killed just after that. My guess is that either the Mogs already had Two captured or at least had Two under close surveillance. They could have been using two to try to locate more of us if Two was already captured. If Two was under surveillance they might have been holding off because of not knowing Two's number," Harry suggested.
"Because if they tried killing a garde who wasn't the next one in line then it wouldn't work and they would likely give Two the chance to escape?" Sarah clarified.
"Yes," Harry confirmed.
"Do Garde or Loric in general emotionally mature faster than humans?" Sarah asked.
"Henri never mentioned it," Harry said while glancing at Six. "We do physically mature just a little faster. But it isn't a big difference."
"I got the same information from Katerina," Six said. "Why do you ask?"
"I'm just trying to put myself in the shoes of you and the other Garde dealing with what you have been dealing with at your ages," Sarah said.
The SUV was silent for a few moments.
"The Mogs didn't discriminate between kids and adults," Six said. "It's why all these fuckers need to die."
"I've often wondered if I was given the chance would I choose to exterminate the entire race of Mogadorians. I still haven't come up with a good answer. There have to be some Mogadorians back on Mogadore who don't support what their military did to Lorian. But I would imagine that they are in the minority," Harry said.
"I never considered that," Six said. "If it came down to the survival of our species versus theirs, I would choose ours every time," Six said. "But if we take out their military and their civilians survive what do we do then?"
"I wonder if the repository in your chest mentions anything about it," Sarah suggested.
"It just might," Harry agreed. "Science and technology has been a higher priority," He mused.
"I think if you were born human and not fighting a war you would have been a good engineer," Sarah said.
"There's a thought. If we were back on Lorien and just two other members of the Garde I don't know that you would have gotten to play with all of this tech. From what I understand there weren't many if any Garde scientists. We were the brawn to the Cepan brains," Six mused.
"When we rebuild we don't have to go back to the same way things were. I think I'd like to encourage Garde to do more if they want. And there's no reason with our tech that Cepans couldn't be a more effective fighting force if they like. I also don't want to go back to the weak military we had before. Not again," Harry said.
"Agreed," Six said.
It struck Sarah in that moment that if they survived all of this she was riding in the car with two of the leaders of the future Lorien people by default of survival.
"What else is moving around in that brilliant mind of yours about our return to Lorien?" Six asked.
"Well there is some gate-way tech that will allow us to travel back and forth between Earth and Lorien very quickly," Harry said while thinking of mixing runic gateways with Lorien tech. "We can maintain a presence on both planets. I'm also thinking we should build colonies on other worlds. We can choose worlds that don't sustain life and create domed civilizations. We would have to limit the population on these domed cities. But it would allow us to conceal colonies better. Nobody but the Loric would know about these colonies."
"Smart. Don't put all of your eggs in one basket," Sarah said.
"It will be a while before we have the population do something like that. But I agree. We should definitely spread out," Six said.
"I wish humans could do the same," Sarah said wistfully from the back seat.
"Who is to say they can't," Harry said as he glanced at his lover through the rear-view mirror. "We can help with domed colonies on Mars and some of the moons in this solar system. Granted that is quite a ways off in the future."
"It could be a good bargaining chip with the human governments if we need it," Six suggested.
"It could," Harry agreed. "All it would take is a few key technological boosts to do. I don't intend to share 98% of Lorien's technology. But all it would take is boosts from 2% of our technological database."
"Thank you," Sarah said gratefully.
"I'm quite fond of humans. I've lived most of my life amongst humanity," Harry said. "Same," Six said.
Just then something occurred to Harry he hadn't talked with Six about.
"So, the visions we've been having...I've also had visions of Lorien. I believe a second ship took off from Lorien after ours. It was a much older model from a space travel museum. Henri and I figure if it made it here it would have had to refuel somewhere. It's possible we didn't know about all the bases or plans. We think it had three Cepan, a whole bunch of Chimaera, and possibly a baby. I couldn't tell because it was swaddled in cloth," Harry said.
"I had no idea," Six said. "It's entirely possible I suppose that the Elders had other plans and sent Loric to other planets or hidden bases."
"Henri and I wondered that as well," Harry said.
The car was silent for some time as Six digested what she had just learned. Then she decided to continue her story.
"It was only a day after we responded to Two's post when the Mogs caught up to us in West Texas. We'd driven fifteen straight hours from Mexico. We were both exhausted. We stopped at a motel off the highway in a tiny town. It had cowboys and ranchers. It even had some hitching posts outside some of the buildings. We were eating at a diner when a man wearing a western style shirt and tie entered. He must not have been a local because the other locals stared at him the way they had stared at us. We went back to our room. Katarina took a shower. When she came out in a towel there was a knock on our room door. A man answered it was the motel manager with fresh towels and ice. I was 13 and stupidly opened it," Six said.
"Take your time," Harry said when Six paused. He could tell it was hard for her.
Six nodded gratefully and said, "He came straight into the room. My pendant was showing. We realized he was a Mog when it was too late. This was before I had any legacies. He pulled a long knife and stabbed at my head. I would have been too slow to dodge. It was so strange. Instead of the knife digging into my skull, it dug into his. Later on, I learned the Mogs had no idea how the charm worked. He hit the ground and burst into ash."
"That must have been pretty terrifying," Sarah said. "It was. I thought I was dead," Six confirmed. "What happened next?" Harry asked.
"Katarina was in her robe. She threw my chest to me. We made it to the unlocked truck and inside just as another Mog charged towards us from the other side of the motel. Kat was so flustered she couldn't even find the keys. The Mog punched through the passenger side window to grab me. Kat's scream drew the attention of some guys. The Mog was forced to let go of me to confront the guys. I managed to retrieve the keys from the motel room because Kat was in a panic. The guys had drawn a gun or two on the Mog. They are the only reason we made it out of that Texas town," Six said.
"Gotta love Texas," Harry commented which caused Six to nod in agreement.
"We hid the chest a few weeks later just before they caught up to us for good," Six explained.
They were silent for a time. Harry could tell Six wasn't ready yet to talk about what happened when the Mogs caught up to Six and Kat for good. He didn't know anything about Mogadorian reproduction. He hoped they weren't sexually compatible with Loriens. Otherwise it could have been a very unpleasant imprisonment for the two Loric women.
"What happens if the Mogs get ahold of the chest?" Sarah asked.
"The Mogs would have a hell of a time getting inside. If they did manage it the safety measures would make everything inside useless," Harry explained.
"And if we die everything inside is made useless," Six added. "It will disintegrate." Everyone was silent for a time.
"Harry, have you thought about trying to locate Numbers Seven or Nine using the information the people from They Walk Among Us had?" Sarah asked.
"What is she talking about?" Six asked.
"A tabloid newspaper had a source who apparently captured and tortured a Mog for information. From that they got that Number 7 is being trailed in Spain and Number 9 has been spotted in South America. That isn't really a lot of information to go on. But I have paid more attention to any special reports in those countries. So far, nothing has hit my radar," Harry explained.
"I remember from our trip that Number 7 is a girl," Six said. "I don't remember about 9 though."
The trio discussed more plans as they drove. But for now, they were still trying to figure out how they might go about uniting with the other Loric on Earth.