Quaranteam Ch. 01-10

"Why not just give men the shots directly?" Lauren asked.

"Because when we've tried it, it's been fatal." Phil took out a vape pen and inhaled a drag off of it before blowing the vapor back out. He'd been a smoker when they'd first met, but Andy had convinced him to quit. The legalization of pot in California had helped some, naturally. "But if a woman with the vaccine is having regular sexual activity with a man, he's getting a non-toxic dose, and both parties have about 70% resistance to the virus. I wouldn't have put Andy down as polyamorous, but it's going to strengthen your armor even more, my man."

Andy smirked, looking at his feet. "I actually put no preference, so it looks like I'm going to get a full slate."

"Nah, you'll probably stay where you are. Unless you got rated something ridiculous."

"Me and Eric got rated level 5s."

Phil nearly dropped his vape pen, his eyebrows raising. "Are you shitting me?"

Andy laughed and shrugged a little.

"How the fuck did that happen?"

"The guy coming to test us was a fan of the books, so I gave him an ARC of the new one that's been delayed a few months. As a way of saying thank you, he rated me and Eric as level 5s."

Phil chuckled quietly, shaking his head. "You son of a bitch. I'm not even rated a level 5 and I work for the goddamn military on goddamn black ops shit."

"Allegedly," Andy added, grinning back.

Phil nodded. "Allegedly." He dragged the word out before he looked up then shook his head. "You're gonna get two more, huh? Good lord, I'm both jealous and terrified for you all at once. How are you going to keep all those personalities from conflicting?"

"I'm going to do my best to stay the hell out of their way, mostly."

"That's not going to work forever, luv," Aisling said to him. "It's not like we're going anywhere, even when this virus recedes."

"You say that now, but..."

"No, they're always going to say that. Isn't that part of the public facing info about the pairing system?" Phil said.

It was Andy's turn to raise his eyebrows. "No, whatever you're implying, it isn't public knowledge. But you're already in for a penny.."

"Might as well be in for a pound, I guess," Phil answered, nodding in agreement. "Alright, but keep this just between us, okay?"

"Well, I'll tell Eric, Eric's partner, and my other two partners when they show up, but other than that..."

"Yeah, well, that's what I meant by us, alright? Okay, so here's the deal. Do you remember the first time they got a bit of you in them?"

"You mean..." Lauren started.

"I think you know what I mean."

Both Aisling and Lauren blushed and grinned widely. "Most intense thing that's ever happened to us," they both said.

"What do you remember right after though, Andy? Just you. They'll both have been passed out."

Andy stroked his goatee for a second then snapped his fingers. "They kept mumbling a word over and over, so quiet I could barely make it out... something like... imaging?"

Phil shook his head, taking another drag off his vape pen. "Not imaging, imprinting. You're bonded now. Mated for life, like walruses."

"You mean penguins," Andy corrected. "It's penguins that mate for life. And what does that mean here, mated for life?"

"You're intertwined on a chemical, biological and physiological level in a way we can't even begin to comprehend," Phil said, exhaling another cloud of mist. "If you go away from one another for more than a couple of days, you'll start to feel nervous, anxious, fidgety. After that, it'll be panic attacks, cold sweats. Past that, nervous breakdown. Unless, of course, the other person is dead, in which case that doesn't seem to happen." He shrugged a little bit. "We're kids playing with the building blocks of life here, man. We don't even know what we don't know. But you, Lauren and Ash, you're a unit now. And anyone else you add into that will be as well. I mean, why do you think that questionnaire is so damn long? We don't want to screw up anybody's lives trying to help them. Besides, another of the side effects is that being in each others' company will produce natural dopamine to keep things relatively smoothed out, helps you get past the small stuff, and let's face it, it's all small stuff at this point."

"And this is happening all over the country?"

"Shit, no," Phil sighed. "We've barely gotten this off the ground in the Bay Area, and all the tech for this shit is here. There are governors all across the country absolutely in arms against this plan, saying they'll fight it tooth and nail, keep people from getting the vaccine until it doesn't have any of these crazy side effects."

"I assume you're still working on that."

"Of course we're still working on that," Phil said, rolling his eyes. "I'm just baffled by how many goddamn Republicans insist a semi-viable solution isn't a solution at all. Even if we were just hitting high risk areas, we could manufacture enough of this current formula to inoculate sixty or seventy million people in this country, all of whom would be 70% resistant to it."

"They claiming it's a sin against god or something?"

"Worse. But, I guess, more honest." Phil had a slightly bitter laugh filling the air. "They're angry they can't make a buck off of it. Now, of course, there are factions that are just going ahead and doing it anyway. Front line medical workers, emergency services, and a few branches of the armed forces, and their associated contractors. Of course, the whole Bay Area is taking part in it as well, so I guess I would've gotten treated either way."

"So we're resistant but not immune?"

"Fuck, man," Phil groaned, "I'm not promising you won't get the virus at all, but even if you do, it won't be life threatening. That said, you still shouldn't go out of your way to expose yourself to this shit. It's a mean as fuck virus under the best of conditions, and this ain't those."

"You think they're going to start testing this vaccine in wider areas, Phil?" Aisling asked him.

He shook his head. "I wish to god they would, but the Moron In Chief is still calling it Kung Flu and the Chinese Virus, like he can spin blame onto other countries instead of admitted what a fucked up job he and his have done with this."

Andy felt his phone in his pocket vibrate at the same time as his Apple Watch buzzed at him. Phil was fishing out his phone as well, clearly having felt the buzz.

There on his wrist, Andy read a news blast from the Associated Press. "President contracts Covid-19, collapses in Oval Office. 25th Amendment being invoked."

"Well, shit, looks like you report to somebody new now, Phil."

Half an hour later, the trio had returned to the condo, where Eric and Lily had the television tuned to CNN. "Can you believe this shit?" Eric said. "The President dropped into a coma this morning, apparently, and already they're moving Milquetoast into his job."

"Anything's better than the orange goomba, don't you think?" Andy said as he moved to sit down on the couch on the other side of Eric and Lily. "I mean, this guy's-"

On the television screen, the former Vice President was being sworn in, but as soon as he placed his hand on the bible being held by the Chief Justice, he collapsed onto the floor as the news anchors covering the story intently.

"Out before he even got in, it looks like," Eric laughed.

"That puts a woman in charge, thank god," Lily said.

"Assuming they hold to the rules of law at this point," Aisling said. "And at this point, that's anyone's game."

The next few hours, the news was a flurry of chaos, as people argued what was legal and what wasn't. When they went to bed, no decision had been reached. In the wee hours of morning, Andy's phone beeped with an AP news blast - the Speaker of the House was, in fact, now the first woman to be acting as President of the United States.

The world turned upside down.

It was that same day there came another knock on the door. Andy remembered the warning Lily had given him, so he glanced from his desk and nodded to Aisling. "I think you and Lily had better go answer that, don't you?"

"Are you scared of Lily, luv?"

"Scared, no," Andy chuckled. "But I respect her opinion. And frankly, I don't know how to tell those government folks no, so if someone's got to do it, it ought to be you and her."

The knock at the door came a second time, and Aisling moved to her feet, putting her hand on Lily's shoulder, as she closed her laptop and set it on the couch. "Alright then, let's see if I need to get my punting boots on," Lily said, taking a break from her coding.

When Aisling opened the door, on the other side stood Dave, the man who'd set up Andy and Eric at the start. Standing next to him was a woman in a camouflage jumpsuit, a scarf over her mouth, goggles over her eyes, a duffel bag slung over one shoulder. She had a military cap atop of her head.

"Hey Eric," Dave said, giving him a wave. "Brought another girl for Andy."

"We'll see about that," Lily said, taking the tablet from him. She looked down at the form, a strange smile crossing her lips, before she looked up at the woman in uniform. "That really your name?"

The woman squirmed a little, but nodded. "Yes ma'am," she said. "Is that okay?"

Lily handed the tablet over to Aisling. "I'm not one of Andy's partners, but Ash here is, so she can sign."

As Aisling started to sign, the woman in camo moved into the condo. She set her duffel bag down just inside of the door as she started to walk over towards Eric. Lily stepped back, and shook her head. "That's Eric. He's mine. Andy's over there," she said, pointing into the other room at Andy who was looking on from his desk, "but if you want to go upstairs-"

"Thanks again for the book, Andy!" Dave called out, just before Aisling closed the door on him.

The woman was already walking over towards Andy. Lauren was in the kitchen, working on dinner. She pulled her hat off and tossed it onto the dining room table next to Aisling's computer, revealing a tight black ponytail. When she pulled the goggles off, Andy could see her brown eyes, and got a sign of her skin, deep golden, looking somewhat Asian but also somewhat distinctly not.

"Andy," Aisling said, "meet 2nd Lieutenant Niko RedWolf."

Niko was pulling off the scarf and tossed it onto the table. Andy started to stand up, but Niko shoved him back down suddenly. "Sit," Niko said to him.

Andy's head cocked to one side. "Shouldn't we go upstairs, Niko?"

"No time," she growled. "Can't think straight." She dropped down to her knees in front of him, pushing his legs apart as she moved up and in between them, nuzzling her face against his crotch through the jeans. "Need this now."

"I really think-"

Niko reached her hands up and pulled her top open quickly, a feverish yank down on the zipper to expose her tits beneath the camo jumpsuit. She wasn't wearing a bra, and her skin was all that deep tan, with brown nipples that looked as hard as rocks. She looked up at Andy for approval as her hands moved to his waist, popping the button on his jeans before unzipping them quickly. Her tongue was wetting her lips, an almost feral look to her eyes which kept darting between his face and her hands.

"This is new," Aisling said as she moved to sit down at her seat at the dining room table, a straight eyeline to Niko and Andy.

"We ought to get her to the bedroom," Andy said to Aisling almost imploringly.

"I don't think you have a choice, luv."

Lily walked in just as Niko fished Andy's cock out, although she barely had any chance to even register it as Niko pushed her mouth down on it suddenly, trying to stuff it all the way into her throat. There must have been a droplet of precum there on the tip, because Niko began to tremble, but refused to lift her head up.

"Niko's a Japanese name," Lily said, "but RedWolf is definitely Native American. She's going to town on you, isn't she?"

"I feel very awkward with you watching, Lily," Andy said.

Lily laughed, shaking her head. "Fine fine, I won't take advantage of this poor girl in the state she's in. I'll just go back to my coding." Lily walked back into the living room as Aisling moved over to get a little closer, a wry grin on her lips.

"She's fucking voracious, isn't she?"

Niko pulled her head up, gasping for breath, her eyes looking up at Andy. "Good. Hard now."

"Niko, shouldn't we -"

She shook her head, standing up before spinning around, pushing the jump suit down even further, down to her thighs. "No, now. Need now." The inside of her thighs was damp, glistening with wetness that had clearly seeped down her legs from her snatch, which was soaked.

Andy's hand moved onto her bare hip, but Niko took his hand and pulled it away, as she backed up and reached between her legs to grab his cock, moving to sit back, settling into his lap as she guided his cock right into her pussy. There was something desperate and sudden about it, as he felt his dick slip inside of her, feeling exactly how soaked she was. Her cunt was hot and molten, the wettest he'd ever felt any woman.

"Good," Niko moaned, tossing her head back, that short black ponytail flicking him in the face. "Dick good. Want cum. Give cum."

"But I-"

Niko reached behind her head to curl one strong arm behind Andy's head, pulling his face forward as she turned her head to kiss him hard, sloppy, her tongue forcing its way into his mouth as she pulled her hips forward and then pushed them back into him once more.

Andy had never fucked anyone this way before, but there was something intense about, as she bounced in his lap. Lauren had turned the heat down from the food and walked over towards them a bit, cocking her head to one side. "Gonna have ta try that one meself some point."

"You and me both, sister."

Lauren reached forward and smoothed her hand along Niko's thigh before pulling her fingertips up, holding her hand out to Aisling. "She's fucking sodden, Ash."

"Andy, don't hold out on the poor girl," Aisling said.

"I'm not doing it intentionally, Ash," Andy moaned, "but I don't want to take advantage of her."

Niko shook her head frantically. "Not advantage. Need cum. Give cum. Please." Her voice was breathy, whimpering, as she tried again. "Please. Give bitch cum. Your bitch." She swallowed a breath, as if trying to put together words into some logical order. "Belong to you now. Need. NEED. Give cum. Claim. Fucking do it, man. I'm fucking begging you already. I need to be your slut so fucking bad it hurts." A wounded cry limped from her throat. "Please? GIVE."

It wasn't an intense orgasm on his part, but Andy felt his body give away as his balls drew up and his cock blasted a shotgun spatter of jism against the back of Niko's snatch, as her body spasmed, her spine arching, her ass grinding against his stomach, the trembling lasting for longer than anyone he'd ever seen shake before, until it finally ended and she slumped back against him, drool dripping from the corner of her lips as she mumbled that oh so familiar word - "imprinting" - over and over again, her body covered in goosebumps.

"Lauren? Ash? Help me get her upstairs, will you?"

Chapter 7

That evening, Andy and the girls decided to curl up in bed and watch some television with Niko asleep next to them. At first, Andy was worried that the volume would be high enough to wake up their newest addition, but Aisling assured him nothing was going to stir her from her slumber. Sure enough, despite the volume of the show - a Spanish Netflix crime drama called La Casa De Papel - Niko didn't budge an inch.

Andy fell asleep with Aisling pressed up against his right side and Lauren pressed up against his left, both of their heads resting against his chest. When he'd first started sleeping with Aisling in his bed, he'd had trouble falling asleep easily. It wasn't something his body had any regular experience with, so it had to be trained. He'd had similar trepidation when Lauren joined them. But now, having had both of the girls for nearly three weeks, he'd grown comfortable with their bodies nestled against his.

In the middle of the night, he was in the middle of a strange sex dream only to be woken to find Niko bobbing her head up and down on his cock, her lips latched around it firmly. Neither Lauren or Aisling had woken. Andy couldn't see Niko well in the low light of the wee hours, but her head was feverish, her mouth suctioning on his member until he popped a load against the back of her throat, a thankful, almost vulgar moan coming from the woman, as her tongue lathered over his cock to make sure no droplet remained. She was still spasming in orgasm long after he was done. Once she'd finished licking his dick clean, she crawled back up into the bed, and moved to lay against Lauren's side, folding one arm over the Aussie.

Andy fell back asleep almost immediately.

When dawn broke, Andy awoke to find Niko straddling his hips, his cock lodged up inside of her snatch. He often woke up with a hard on, but Ash and Lauren had agreed to let him at least wake up in the morning before having a go at him.

Clearly no one had informed Niko.

He didn't feel bad taking a better look at her now, her tits pressed together between her arms as her hands rest against his chest, while her hips snapped back and forth. Her skin was a deep tan, her nipples a chocolate brown, her hair a jet black. She wasn't tall, about the same height as Aisling so half a foot shorter than Andy, and a full foot shorter than Lauren. She was muscular, toned, a life of military training having kept her very in shape.

His orgasm wasn't strong, but it came on quick.

By this point, Andy was a little surprised he wasn't cumming dust.

As soon as his orgasm hit, she fell forward against his chest, burying her face in the crook of his neck. Aisling and Lauren were both already awake, each with a hand on one of Niko's thighs affectionately. "God damn, sorry about that, sir," Niko laughed, breathy and still shaking. "2nd Lieutenant Niko RedWolf, reporting for her new life, sir. I think my head's finally clear again."

"Wasn't it before?" Andy asked.

She shook her head, lifting her head up enough so she could look down and smile at him, her hair threatening to spill out of her ponytail at a moment's notice. "Would you believe this is the first time it's actually registered to me what you look like, sir?" She had a mischievous smile and kind brown eyes. "They may have told me your name, but I don't think it cut through the fog. Who are you?"

Andy blanched. "My name's Andy Rook. What do you mean, you don't think it cut through the fog?"

Niko looked over at Lauren, who scooted a little bit to one side, so Niko could slide off of the top of him and in against his side. "I serve on the Air Force base where they were testing the vaccine, and I agreed to be a test candidate. The two men who were injected with it died immediately, but I and the other female officer seemed fine. At first. Within a few days of it, I started feeling, well, pardon my saying so, sir, but I started feeling horny all the time. The other female officer as well."

Aisling smirked over at Niko. "Permission to swear freely is habitually granted in this home, 2nd Lieutenant. In fact, Andy likes a girl with a filthy mouth," she giggled, slapping his thigh.

He wilted a little bit, but then nodded in confirmation to Niko. "It's true."

"Duly noted, sir," Niko answered. "Anyway, they didn't know about the side effects during the early testing stages, but it started to become pretty fucking apparent to them when I would continually get all fidgety. I tried to resist as long as I could, but eventually I was jilling off in bathroom stalls every chance I could get. Within a week or two, they had an answer, and the program was born."

"The Air Force developed the vaccine?"