John had met Dennis earlier in the day. He was truly a niave young man. Despite his human size, he was merely a few weeks old. He was already speaking well. He had mastered self care and he was already absorbing at the rate of a child. John was very happy to meet his cloned grandson and he was very happy that Dennis had chosen to attend the Academy and truly wanted to learn.
John never expected to be a father, let alone a grandfather. When Peter passed away during the Andorian attack, he thought that opportunity had come and gone. Paul had chosen an alternative lifestyle that is unlikely to produce an offspring and given their service to the fighter squadron, adoption is not likely as well.
John left the meeting at the Younger Academy and went over to the Qach. He wanted to meet Treble Dennyson. He agreed to meet the beautiful Aquarian for supper. He remembered the hover chair used by Rhythm Dennyson to keep her tail wet as she moved throughout the colonial city of Atlantica and even in service to the Phoenix and Omega Fleet on the colony of Atlanta. Treble ordered the fish which John found very puzzling.
He finally had to ask. Treble giggled reminding John that dolphins still ate fish despite the fact that they were fish on Earth. John shared a chuckle at the thought. John listened intently as Treble explained that Peter and Rhythm had obviously fertilized one of the many eggs expelled by Rhythm during sexual contact and one of the those eggs had embedded in her scales only to be carried back home. The zygote had been transferred into the water to Treble's scales.
Once identified and given an environment to grow, the zygote grew to be Dennis Warren. Effectively, Treble became his surrogate mother even though she was technically his aunt. John then asked about Peter and Rhythm and had Rhythm ever described Peter. Treble began to describe their great romance. John listened. He had been so hard on Peter over his choice of a non-human life partner. Funny, because John would later mate with the T'Waakian hybrid Dawn Keystone.
Treble informed John that once Peter became comfortable, Rhythm was able to show him how the scales retract to expose her opening. Peter and Rhythm could then do more than having Rhythm give Peter oral sex or having Peter expel onto her breasts. John was a little creeped out by the graphic description of sex between Peter and Rhythm. Treble then winked at John, "Aquarians and humans are surprisingly compatible."
John thought of Dawn and their recent cooling off period in their romance as Dawn was focused more on her career as an officer than on romance with the Captain. Treble looked at John, "It would be nice for Dennis to have a grandfather AND a grandmother."
John was very uncomfortable. He politely excused himself but as he walked down the hallway of the wej'veQ he could not help but wonder about copulation with the Aquarian. He tried to think of Dawn but the very human sailor fantasies about mermaids and sirens danced in his mind. At his heart, he was a sailor. Most people who chose fleet service are.
Posted by:
Captain John Warren
Commanding Officer
USS Quasar Quest
King's Fleet
