Blood Tide by D.J. Bershaw

Author:D.J. Bershaw [Bershaw, D.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998679624
Google: LMq7wAEACAAJ
Publisher: Sucker's Junk Press
Published: 2018-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

EVENING PLANNING

Jordi sat in our room waiting for us to finish getting dressed, drinking a large glass of water while watching us, speculation in her brown gaze and her legs crossed over the arm of her chair.

“What’s on your mind, Burke?” I asked as I laced up my tennies.

“How you had the twins was a thing called Haploid Combination? The genetic material from each egg combined, then allowed to divide once, after which a fertilized egg was implanted in each of you?”

“Exactly.”

“So they came out of the womb like you two are now, but both of you were normal human beings once, from birth until you became” – she hesitated for a second – “what you are now.”

“Yes.”

“How’d you get it?”

“Colonel Tierney transfused five cc. of his blood into me. I did the same thing with Farrell.”

“How old is the Colonel?”

“He was born in 1890.”

“I’m going to guess he didn’t get your little bug with a syringe.”

“That’s correct.”

She swung her legs around and rested her feet on the floor, her hands holding the water glass between her knees, her eyes intent. “Who was the woman?”

Farrell whistled. “Smart little cat-girl!”

I grinned at Jordi. Farrell was right. “Her name is Deirdre.”

“And she’s a piece of work,” Farrell added.

“So it’s body fluids, the slow way, without the syringe?”

“Yes.”

“I could get it now?”

“You may be infected, yes.”

“Really?”

“If you are, you’ll get sick in a few hours, a fairly high fever, then spend the next forty-eight hours with the modifying cells proliferating and beginning their task of re-building you to your new specs.”

Farrell smiled evilly at her. “It’s basically crapping for the first day or so, then things get settled down and put the new you together. After forty-eight hours, you’re back on line.”

Jordi’s eyes grew distant. “There were a lot of fluids going on in there, saliva, lubricants, secretions, the whole gamut. Are all your bodily fluids loaded with whatever it is?”

I nodded. “Yes. But don’t get alarmed too quick, Jordi. You’re different genetically from us, with your extra chromosomes and shape-shifting powers. You may not be able to be infected.”

“But I could be?”

“If you can be a recipient, then it’s a possibility. This is really kind of unfair, Jordi. We should have had this conversation before we had hot-monkey sex for an entire hour.”

She got all remote again. “I don’t for a minute think I didn’t partake of enough of your vital fluids to give me some of the bug. Is it maybe slower if you get small amounts by having sex?”

“Could be. The Colonel took a while to get infected, but he’s never told me how wild he and Deirdre were in their initial encounters. He’s a very private man in that regard.”

“Shit,” Farrell said emphatically. “He’s a private man in every regard. Guy’s a Victorian prude.”

“She’s not wrong, Jordi. And, just like AIDS, it’s easier to get it from a man than it is from a woman.”

“That makes sense.” She grinned at me. “But, hey, Megan, you squirted!”

Now Farrell was really tickled.

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