Tymber Dalton - Spider Bight

“Do you mind if I keep Bucky? I promise I won’t throw him away.”

He let out a snort. “No I don’t mind. Can I ask where did that topic come from?”

She shrugged. “I just don’t want to give him up.”

He stroked her arm. “You can keep him as long as you want him, babe. He’s part of the family.”

“He helped save our family.”

Caph seemed to mull that over for a moment. “Yeah, I guess you’re right about that. He did, in his own rubber way. I hope we can retire his assistance, though. I’m looking forward to the explore. I’m done wishing for boring, because it seems the past two times I have, it’s brought us nothing but trouble. I won’t deny I’m glad Rob and the K-2 will be close by for most of the trip.”

“How long until we get there?”

He kept her pressed against him with one arm, while with the other he leaned forward and brought up a display on the command console. “Five weeks, from here.”

“No jump?”

“Nah, not worth it, we’re this close. We’d expend more fuel with a jump than we would going sub-jump. We’re not close enough to any stars to get a good recharge from the solar arrays.” He rubbed noses with her. “Why? Anxious to see what other kinds of trouble we can find?”

“Not really. I just want to go somewhere inhabited so I can go shopping.”

“Shopping? For what?”

She grinned. “I want to see if I can find Bucky a brother or sister.”

THE END

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