Lazarus

I'm sitting on the couch smiling at Elina and Kurn. Seems like my little human is a game nerd. On our little excursion we got stuck in the game room and have been here for almost three hours now. I messaged Kurn to come and he obliged immediately. I don't think he's ever obeyed a request as quickly and obediently as this.

Right now they are playing a VR Invasion-game where you have to protect your planet from invaders. Kurn is also a big game nerd and he has even programmed a few games and simulators that we use when training.

"Left! You have to go left! Take that you sucker!" Elina is shouting instructions at Kurn and he is entertaining her by following them. "Fucking bastards!" Elina throws off the VR-set with the most adorable angry pout on her lips. "They took me from the back. They were everywhere." She looks at me. Even if she has an angry pout on her lips I can see the joy in her eyes. She is breathing hard and there is sweat running down her temple. I take a water bottle in my hand and reach it towards her.

"Perhaps if you had a better protector you would have survived." I taunt Kurn, who makes a rude gesture back at me. He is also breathing hard. "And you should do more cardio." I point out to him.

"Shut up! If I did as much cardio as you I wouldn't have these babies." He says and kisses his biceps. Elina laughs at him shaking her head.

"That was a fun game. I have never played such a good VR-game ever before. On earth we have started with a little VR but our technology has not reached as far as this." She plops down on the couch next to me, close enough that our thighs touch. I don't know if she's doing it councusly or if it is just a matter of me being her only anchor right now, but I like it very much. I do my best not to reach out and pull her on my lap and lick that sweat off her. "I'm so sweaty! I shouldn't have worn long sleeves." She lifts a handkerchief I gave her earlier to dry the sweat of her brow.

"Perhaps you should have worn a dress as I told you to?" I whisper in her ear as I lean closer to her. I see the shiver that runs through her body at my close proximity.

She leans away from me and turns her face towards me. "And what would have been the fun in that?" She raises her eyebrows and stares deep in my eyes, challenging me. I realize what she has done. I asked her to wear a dress and she chose something else to defy me. My lips turn up in a smile. That little minx. "Can you play three players on this?"

"Not on this. But in the VR-room you can play up to six players." Kurn gives her a wink as her jaw practically lands on the floor.

"There is a VR-room?" She turns her head towards me and looks at me pleadingly. "Can we go there?"

I smile down at her. "Not right now. Skillys wants to check in on you so we should head back to our room. I think you would want to take a shower." She gives a cute little pout and crosses her arms at that.

"I feel just fine. I don't see the point of sticking me with all those needles again." I'm hit with a spike of painful guilt in my chest at her words. I know she doesn't like the thought of being examined and pricked by needles. She told me that she has a fear of needles. To be honest I don't really like it either. If I could I would protect her from all that. But I need to know that she is healthy and that her body adapts to our food and living in space. I do my best to tamper down my apprehension before answering her.

"That might be true, but the Farnders are extremely thorough with everything they do. And we don't want to disappoint him at a chance to study our only human." I give her a teasing wink to ease up her mood and she scrunches up her face in the most adorable way. "And I thought that we should make a visit to the dining hall and have some lunch before seeing him. But first I think a shower is in order."

All I get as an answer is a huff as she crosses her arms over her chest pushing her plump bosom together. The outfit she chose to wear gives me a good look at her cleavage and I like that. But at the same time everyone else has that view as well. At that thought my eyes darted over in Kurns direction and of course his eyes are plasters to her chest. I give out a low growl and his eyes switch their focus to me instead. I narrow my eyes at him and all he does is shrug and give me a wink as answer.

"Well. It was nice finally meeting you Elina. I have to head to the gym and entertain my other loves." At this he gives Elina a flirting wink to which she giggles. "See you another time." He gets up to leave the room. At the door he pauses and turns back towards us. "And remember. If you get tired of this bore" nodding in my direction "I will always give you a good time." He quickly runs out the door, chuckling like a mad man, as I throw a controller at him. The controller hits the wall and shatters.

"That was unnecessary." I turn to see an irritated Elina standing in front of me with her hands on her hips. "He was only teasing. Trying to get a reaction out of you."

"Yeah, and I guess he succeeded." I turn away so she wont see my anger. I know that Kurn only does this to spite me but that knowledge doesn't help when I'm in this position. Mine and Elina's bond is yet to be finalized and before it is any other male could come in between and take her from me. But she doesn't know that and I don't want her to know either. I take a deep breath to calm myself before I turn back towards her. "Lets go freshen up before lunch. But right now I'm contemplating if we should just stay in our room and eat." I motion for her to come closer to me so we can go together. I want her to go beside me so I can keep an eye on her, and perhaps a hand as well if she'll let me.

She quickly obeys and comes to me, lets me put my hand on her back to lead her back to our living quarters. "I like Kurn." She says out of the blue and before I can stop myself a possessive growl works its way up my chest. Elina frowns at me and gives my abs a light slap with the back of her hand. "Stop that!" She shakes her head but now I see a small smile playing on her lips. She is pleased that I'm possessive of her. I feel a satisfied smirk climb up on my lips. "What I was going to say before you interrupted me was, I can see why you two are good friends. You complement each other. He is the mischievous one and you are the one to put him back in place."

I chuckle at that thinking how she has gotten everything backwards. "Actually, I'm the one who was up to no good while he got us out of trouble with his charming smile." She laughs at that. This feels so good. It feels natural. I'm hoping that she is coming to terms with her situation. It was a good decision to take her on a walk around the ship.

Her face falls and she turns serious. "All this is really hard for me. I know that your kind is in a pressing situation and needs to find a solution fast, but I still feel that it's wrong. Sure I could have wanted to help you out by agreeing to this experiment but you never even considered my feelings here."

She falls silent but I don't say anything, giving her room to express her feelings. It feels like she has more to say. We reach the elevator and enter and she speaks again. "I have no idea how I actually feel about this. It is true that I don't have much back on earth, only a few friends and my colleagues." The elevator reaches our floor and we make our way back to our room. "But I will miss everything. It is scary to leave all known for something unknown." She falls silent again.

We have reached our room and I take her hand to lead her to the couch. Just because I like it and want to have her near I put her on my lap as I sit down. I put my hand under her chin to make sure she's looking at me when I speak. "I will always be there for you whenever things feel scary. I might not be able to replace your life on your home planet, but I will make sure that your life with me will be a good substitute."

She gives a sigh and turns her gaze towards the windows to look out at the dark and empty space. "You seem sincere about what you're saying and I want to believe you, but I also know that relationships can break and then I'll be all alone in a world where I don't belong." I can see that her eyes are filled with tears and again I turn her face to mine. Cupping her cheeks in my hands I carefully drag my thumbs over her eyes to dry those unshed tears.

"That's where humans and Galrians differ." I tell her with a smile. "Do you remember what I said in the shower? A Galdrian always mate for life." She nodded her head. I let my back rest against the backrest of the couch and put my arms around Elina to make her rest against me which she does without any resistance. This is going way better and faster than I had hoped after this morning's failure. "When the male chooses his female-"

"Doesn't the female get to choose?" She cuts into my explanation.

"Both yes and no. It's not that simple." She nods but is silent to let me continue. "The male has stronger senses. We can identify a female's compatibility by sight and smell. The female releases a pheromone that the male will recognise as a match for him. And-"

"Wait a minute!" She sits up straight and looks at me with narrowed eyes. "Did you gather samples for smelling when you did your research?" Her voice is pitched and her face is filled with horror.

I have to give a chuckle at that. My mate is clever. With a mischievous smirk I tell her. "In fact we did." She gives out a small sound between a shriek and gasp and puts her hands over her mouth.

"My favorite panties disappeared after I used them and also a pair of my leggings and a dress." That beautiful pink tint creeping up her neck and cheeks. "Did you steal them?" I can't hold back any more and I give out a loud laugh feeling my whole body shaking. She narrows her eyes at me and slaps me on my chest. "You did, didn't you? You are such a pervert. You actually smelled my used underwear?"

"Well, yes. I had to know if you would be a good match."

Then I feel her body going rigid and I see anger flash in her eyes. "Did you smell other womens underwear as well?" Is she jealous?

"Are you jealous?" I tease her. All she does is turn her head away from me and huff. "I'm sorry Elina. I will not tease you. I did not smell any other females. I fell for you soon in the exclusion. The Galdrian males have evolved to make this decision through hundreds of thousands of years so I trusted my first feeling. There was no need to proceed to smelling any other women." I give her a smile trying to show her that what I say is true. "Now let me get back to explain the mating of galdrians."

I cajole her into leaning against me again and slowly run my fingers on any surface of her body I can reach and aren't a typical sexual area. "When the male has chosen his female he courts her with gifts and other actions. Sometimes there can be two males interested in one female and there will be a fight to show the female who is the strongest. If the female deems the male to weake for her she rejects him to wait for another male to show interest."

"Once the female has accepted the male, which usually happens within a few hours to 2 days, they will mate and during the mating the male will bite the female and inject a hormone into her bloodstream. This will bind the female to the male and ready her body to accept his seed. Without this hormone from the male the female body will reject the seed and will be unable to conceive."

"Humans don't need any hormone from the male to conceive so perhaps you don't need to bite me?"

"The hormone works in the other direction as well. My seed will not recognise your body worthy of carrying my child if it can't sense the hormone. We have already done a lot of research about this. The Galdrians are unique in this area." She hums and leans closer to me, deep in thought. I keep stroking her hair, back and thighs, enjoying the feeling of her body close to me.

"Skillys called Nim his mate." She furrows her brows together deep in thought.

"Yes. There are a lot of other species that mate in one way or another. Most species have their own way of reproduction and relationships. The Farnders mate by choosing each other, much like you humans do."

"So their mating can break and they can separate?"

"Yes. That can happen. But mostly they expand their families by adding more mates."

She giggles at this. "That sounds like a good way of not growing tired in the relationship. Just add a new mate and have double the fun." I chuckle at her reasoning.

"Yes. But being Galdrian I can't see the use of it." She giggles some more before she collects herself.

"Please continue your explanation."

"The hormone binds the female to the male, making sure that the female will not grow tired of her male." I give her a wink and she giggles again. "And the pheromones the female releases make sure that the male will not grow tired of his female. The hormone alters the pheromone to make it even more perfect for the male."

"Do I release that pheromone as well?"

"Yes you do. We found that out when we stole your panties." She playfully slaps my chest and I laugh. "The hormone has to be continuously administered or else it will fade. That is to allow the female a new mate if hers should die."

"So technically I could mate with you and if something happens I can have a new mate?"

"Yes. It takes a few weeks for the hormone to leave the female. The male will never find a new mate should the female pass away. Most males die or they go insane with loss if that happens." We sit silently like this for a while before I feel her starting to shiver. "Are you cold?"

"Yes. I think I need to take that shower." At this her stomach rumbles and she giggles again. "And it seems my stomach is upset about not getting that promised lunch." I give a light chuckle and then press her tightly to me, giving her butt a squeeze.

"Can I join you in the shower?"

"No!" Her answer is short and not open for negotiations. I laughed at that and let her down from my lap. Before she sees it coming I give her ass a loud slap. "Aaaah! What did you do that for?" She glares at me while rubbing her behind.

"It just looked so ready for a spanking." I lick my lips looking at her lips, her breast and the crevice between her legs. I groan from wanting to rip off her clothes and mate her right here and now. But I know she's not ready yet.

"Keep your hands to yourself, mister!" She says as she turns from me and makes her way into the bathroom. I admire her ass as it sways while she walks away from me. When she is in the bedroom I groan and rub a hand over my painfully hard cock. Fuck! I hope she agrees soon or I'm gonna explode!