A long spring and summer at the farm.

Ralph and Kira pulled up in the truck before noon, and John came walking up from a recently tilled farm to greet them.

When Kira saw her dad she ran to him and almost tackled him with a hug and a deep kiss.

“I missed you so much dad!” She said happily, smiling widely.

John put his hand on her belly and looked down at her smiling. “It worked then?”

“It worked, it worked great dad,” Kira said, her voice trembling with joy.

Ralph walked up, carrying a couple of bags from the truck, John could not help but notice how great the old sailor looked.

“You look good Ralph,” he said, extending his hand.

Ralph took it and shook his hand firmly, now seeing John‘s energy for the first time. He was good and noble, as was Kira. He had felt something different with a couple of his guys back at the shipyard. Some of his men were not good people at all.

He would have to make better choices moving forward.

“She told you right?” John asked, “I see you have it, and it looks good on you, I am happy for you Ralph, I truly am.”

And Ralph could see he was telling the truth. Her dad truly was happy, what would this mean? What would they do?

Ralph decided to wait to have that discussion. “Looks like the farm is coming along, looks like you broke a lot of ground, how soon will it produce?”

“We should get some carrots, potatoes, strawberries, barley and some rape around fall.” John replied. “The ground here is good, it hasn’t been farmed in a while, the soil looks rich.”

Ralph walked with John for an hour or so, leaving Kira to clean up at the house after their long trip.

“So lad, you know I was with your woman, you know she is with child...how does this work now? Do you hate me?” Ralph asked honestly, he had no idea how this would work.

John smiled and stopped walking, then headed over to a small stream and sat next to it, Ralph followed.

“We have not lived a normal life for a long time Ralph, not ever really. Kira is my daughter, and I had sex with her and got her pregnant just days after she turned eighteen.” He said quietly, “I didn’t plan it, I had never been attracted to her, but when we had sex something changed.”

“The world was getting sick, and I was a doctor trying to cure it and to treat women afflicted with it, and on accident we created the cure. Kira is special. She isn’t just beautiful, she is what cured that disease.”

“I fucked more women than I could count Ralph, doctors I knew, politicians and their wives, heads of state, royalty, entertainers, I honestly lost count. And the women at the time who caught the disease were forced to swallow semen from random men or die. I can only imagine how humiliating it was for them.” John continued softly. “And what we did, what I did after saved a lot of lives. They spent a lot of months using my sperm to get women pregnant as a possible cure, like eleven months. Ralph I done know for sure, but for those eleven months I usually fucked at least ten women per week, I think somewhere around two hundred women, and I got all two hundred pregnant while Kira waited for me at home.”

“They used my sperm a lot more often, they told me once my sperm had impregnated a hundred thousand women. And while those kids did not get our new strain of this thing, they were all stronger than regular people. At this point the number of people related to me might be impossible to calculate, because my offspring survived the plagues better than others.”

John took a deep breath. “She loved me through all of that, she cared for the world so much that she wasn’t jealous that I was having sex every day Ralph. And then more recently she saved us, saved our lives probably.”

“How so?” Ralph replied, fuck this was heavy.

“Twenty years or so ago, we got stopped crossing into Germany, I chose a bad crossing, and they were looking at us closely. They had machine guns, we weren’t going past without approval and we couldn’t run.” John explained, “I didn’t find out until later, but Kira had sex with the guards, the officers in charge. Two of them at the same time. They wanted our daughter, and Kira protected her with her body. She paid for our passage by letting them have sex with her. And she lied to me to protect me from even knowing about it.”

Ralph started to respond but John stopped him with a raised hand. “That isn’t all.”

“When we escaped Paris, she did that as well. I knew she was in trouble, they were doing terrible things to her, but I wasn’t strong enough or smart enough to do anything,” John took a long pause. “She was. She was strong enough and smart enough for both of us.”

“A guard there raped her, fucking her as she slept, and then every day when she was bound, and she managed to put away how she felt about that and make the asshole think she loved him.”

“They tied her down and let groups of men have sex with her. They were selling the chance to fuck her to any man who could pay. They made me watch, it nearly broke me. It didn’t break her.”

“And after she got that guard involved, she overpowered our daughter, no little thing, and then impersonated her to the point that two members of our bloodline, two powerful members, did not know she was doing it.” John looked at Ralph intently. “She planned our escape, buying the boat without me even knowing about it. Without her, I would be nothing but breeding stock. Without her, we would not have crossed the German border. Without her, who knows, the world may not have survived that first sickness.”

“Kira has been everything a father and husband could hope for, she is the best thing in this world as far as I am concerned. She wasn’t jealous when I fucked a couple hundred women, I think I will be fine not being jealous when she is with one man.”

“But how?” Ralph asked, as unbelievable as Kira was, how was that possible? “How can you not be? It doesn’t seem natural.”

“Ralph when we decided to try to pass it on to our daughter Amber, it was her idea, and I had sex with both of them. But I fucked our daughter every day for a long time.”

“Kira never gave me a cross look,” John continued. “In Paris I fucked Amber and another daughter we had, Celeste. And she never gave me a cross look. She was taken against her will, I did what I did willingly.”

“It was what we had to do to not be alone.”

Ralph did not understand yet, he had a blank look on his face.

“Ralph you have my blessing. I will still be with her, but you can as well at least until we work out when we are going to leave, to head back,” John “She can spend her nights with either of us, you need the strength she gives.”

Ralph was getting it, he understood now. He had heard so many pieces of the story, now he understood the boat they were in, the state of them when he saw them first, and their rush.

“Stay here lad, fuck Norway.” Ralph replied, “I have businesses in Wick, Aberdeen and in Tongue now. I have people who work for me, and I can expand that. Maybe put up a shipyard in London and in Glasgow. Between the three of us, we can manage businesses across the island, we can keep the employees moving, and I think we can stay here on this farm.”

“Stay?” John asked, “This is your home, we didn’t loan it to you, it was payment to your this is your home, we have no right to intrude.”

“Oh come on lad, for fucks sake. This is a big fucking farm then isn’t it?” Ralph asked with a laugh. “We need to go and shut down your place in Norway, and harden it, get it ready to handle winter up there in case it is needed again, and we can get you two set up here.”

Ralph looked out over the meadow before them, “pick your spot, we can build a house for you and Kira anywhere you like, this property goes on for a very long ways.”

“Ok Ralph, agreed. And in the meantime, we will let Kira decide how to handle what happens between us,” John replied. “And we can sell some property to fund your businesses.”

Ralph gave John an odd look, “you have more nearby us?”

John smiled, “we can look over what we own, you can help us choose. I fathered children with two princesses of Great Britain, one of my children ended up on the throne, my grandson sits there now, even though he doesn’t know it.” He paused briefly, “I was given titles and property here, quite a lot of it, this place was close to you and seemed to be a good fit, but we have a lot of others. I think fifteen other properties on this island, and several more in Ireland.”

“I will head back to your place in Norway, and get what you need to bring back,” Ralph replied softly, honestly not looking forward to the journey. “Can you make a list for me?”

“Not you Ralph, not this time,” John replied. “You have a child on the way, and you need to be around Kira more than I do right now. You need to get stronger. When the time comes, send someone with me to help me out. I will go get what I need.”

“It’s a tough trip lad, but if there is no hurry, you can head south and cross near London, get what you need and then come back down south again,” Ralph answered. “It would take longer, but we wouldn’t even need your boat, we could use one of mine that is smaller, we can keep yours off the books for a bit longer.”

“Off the books?” John asked, “what does that mean? In this context?”

“Heading south to London to cross the channel makes it a lot easier, but then you cross the waters of six nations. Much more likely to see customs. Lot of stops on the way, lot more scrutiny.” Ralph answered, “better to keep your boat out of all that. Better that no record exists of her, officially, for as long as possible.”

The two men walked back to the compound of buildings on the farm, and met up with Kira for dinner.

After dinner Ralph excused himself, and headed back to his quarters to get his things squared away after the trip. Kira and her dad settled into the guest house they had been staying in. This is when her dad explained how he thought things should go, at least for a while.

“Ralph is getting stronger, but he needs more time with you babe, we have to find time for that,” John stated. “I think you should alternate, spending a night with him, and a night with me, and you will be free to do whatever you want with whomever you want during the day.”

“Dad, are you sure?” Kira replied. “I never meant for it to be a lasting thing, I just didn’t want for him to die.”

“Lasting?” John said with a smile. “It has been just you and me for a long time, more than a lifetime, and this is temporary. Ralph will find his own mate. His own other half for life, that won’t be you. But what does lasting mean to us these days?”

Kira smiled and nodded.

“I am talking about till you have his child, and it is healthy enough to be with Ralph and away from us,” her father continued. “At that point maybe we move, or maybe we stay. We can do anything we want here Kira, but the last thing I will be is jealous. I love you, and I will love you for as long as we live.”

“That will be a very long time dad,” Kira answered with a smile.

The two of them spent the night making up for lost time, having sex for most of the night. They fucked again and again, deep into the night.

When they met Ralph for breakfast, Kira and her dad looked very tired, but at the same time very fulfilled.