Aftermarket Lover (SDS Robots) (5 page)

Lin
’s cheeks had a bit of pink in them now. His skin was gradually turning a Caucasian flesh tone. Two days before, Ash noticed dark roots in Lin’s hair and they ran to the mirror like a pair of kids, excited to see what color hair he had.

“It’s brown,”
Ash announced. They stared at the mirror as Lin leaned in close and peered upward.

He turned to
Ash. “Is brown a nice color?”

“Of course it is,”
Ash replied. “Looks like your hair grows fast. You’ll be two-tone soon.”

At night
Ash held Lin close, and Lin would tease him by grabbing his wrist and bringing his hand down to touch his new parts. “I’m getting you used to them,” Lin said one night, his eyes shining. Ash smacked his ass lightly and Lin giggled.

Ash
liked Lin’s new parts. A lot. He marveled at how natural Lin’s penis and balls looked and felt; there were no stitches, seams or scars. Lin’s own will had helped to heal the incisions. It was as if he’d been born this way.

He’d enjoyed watching
Lin taste food for the first time. Lin had woken up hungry two days after the surgery and Ash cooked him a breakfast of oatmeal with dried fruit and natural bee honey from Earth.

Lin
put a spoonful of warm oatmeal in his mouth, along with the sweet fruit and golden honey—and his eyes opened wide. He beamed with pleasure. “The food—I can
taste
it,” he said happily.

Watching the former robot over the next few days as he tried bread and butter, beef and chicken from Earth and vegetables from
nearby planets made Ash feel warm and happy inside. The things he’d always taken for granted were like revelations for Lin.

He
came into the bathroom one morning and found Lin staring down at the toilet. The amazed expression on his face made Ash howl with laughter. “Get used to it,” he said, gasping and finally leaning against the wall for support. “You’re going to do this every day for the rest of your life.”

Finally it
was two weeks since the surgery. After dinner, Ash and Lin headed down the hallway to the bedroom when Ash heard Tiny padding along behind them.

The dog tried to follow them in. “Sorry, little guy,”
Ash said, bending down, “We need a few minutes alone, okay?” He moved Tiny into the hallway over the dog’s whimpering protests and shut the door.

Lin
stared at him. “Really? Only a few minutes? I thought we would be having sex for longer.”

Ash
was about to say it was just a figure of speech, when he caught Lin’s mouth quirking. “Come here, you.”

He chased a laughing
Lin to the bed, pulling the smaller man in for a kiss. “Now what am I going to do? You’ll be springing practical jokes on me next.”

He started unbuttoning
Lin’s shirt while Lin went for his pants zipper. Soon everything was off and they were in bed, hands moving over each other’s bodies.

Ash
ran a finger up Lin’s ribs, and Lin started. “You like that?” Ash asked.

“No—yes—I’m not sure.”

Lin sounded hesitant so Ash stopped. “We don’t have to do anything you don’t like,” he said. “Just say stop and I’ll stop.” He laid a gentle hand on Lin’s cheek and kissed him.

They kissed
for a long time, tongues lazily probing and exploring. Ash was flushed all over, his body heated and ready for action. He was hard already and felt for Lin’s cock with one hand.

Lin
was getting there. Ash decided to help him.

He moved down and got face to face with
Lin’s new part, licking the underside and tonguing the slit. Lin moaned and jerked his hips.

Ash
covered the head with his mouth and began to suck, sliding down and taking as much as he could down his throat. Lin cried out and clutched Ash, and started writhing and pushing into his mouth.

He rode with
Lin’s movements, determined to make the former robot’s first blow job the greatest he could manage.

Lin
was panting and whimpering. Sounds Ash had never heard from him before were coming from his throat. When he came, he shouted and Ash nearly choked on the waves of fluid that shot into his mouth.

He waited until
Lin totally relaxed, then cupped a hand below his mouth and let the cum drop down into it.

Ash
peered into Lin’s face. He was out like a light.

“Uh,”
Ash said. “Wake up?”

He nibbled on the other man’s earlobe until
Lin stirred and opened his eyes. “How was it?” Ash asked eagerly.

“Oh,”
Lin said. “Oh my.” He stared at Ash blankly.

“
This came out of you.” Ash carefully brought his cupped hand to Lin’s face and showed him. Lin’s eyes grew huge. “Wanna taste it?”

“Um… no.”

Ash chuckled. “That’s all right. I’m going to use it for something else soon.” He kissed Lin’s cheek. “How do you feel?”

“Great,”
Lin breathed. “What about you? Oh.” Ash’s hard cock was jutting into his thigh. “You want to…”

He touched
Ash’s face lightly with his fingers. “Give me a minute?”

They rested,
Ash half-lying on top of Lin with his fingers closed around the former robot’s first cum. Lin eventually tapped Ash’s hand. “All right—I’ll taste it.”

Ash
grinned, opening his hand, and Lin dipped a finger into the sticky fluid. He watched as Lin put the finger in his mouth and sucked it, then blinked. “It’s salty,” he said.

“When you did me before, could you taste mine?”
Ash asked curiously.

“No,”
Lin said. “My machine side processed it and evaporated it out through my cells. I could tell that it was a fluid substance, but couldn’t taste it at all.” He looked at Ash. “I can smell and taste everything now. As well as feel.” He caressed Ash’s hand. “And all my senses are my own.”

T
hey kissed again. Ash could taste Lin’s tongue, his saliva, and feel the warmth of his mouth now. Lin felt more real to Ash as well; it went both ways.

“I
want you inside me now.”

Ash
instantly sat up. “Okay.” His cock was like an iron rod against his abdomen and he was more than ready.

Lin
turned onto his stomach and got up on his knees, and Ash smeared Lin’s cum against the entrance, reserving some to coat his fingers with. “Just so you know,” he said, “humans aren’t self-lubricating back here.”

“I’ll keep that in mind
,” Lin said with a straight face.

Ash
inserted a finger, then two. Lin emitted a little gasp. “You all right?” Ash asked quickly.

“Yes. It’s tight, but—it feels great.”

Ash grinned.

He moved his middle finger in as far as he could, looking for the spot. If he was really human now—

“Ah!” Lin cried out.

Ash
froze as Lin pushed back against his finger. “Do that again,” Lin said breathlessly, and then Ash probed, trying to hit his prostate again.

As Ash hit it,
Lin suddenly stilled, and a low moan came from his throat. He moved a hand down to his cock, frantically rubbing it as it got hard.

Ash
leaned forward and touched Lin’s shoulder. “You ready for me?” he asked huskily.

“Yes. Yes.”
Lin’s eyes were closed as he palmed his cock, lost in pleasure.

“Okay.”

He set himself at the entrance and started in slow, but then Lin jerked back, trying to take more of him in. So Ash held Lin’s hips and pushed in faster.

The slickness of
Lin’s cum let him slide in the rest of the way, and Ash’s breath hitched. There was nothing like the feel of being balls deep inside someone and he stopped to revel in it for a second.

Lin
pushed back impatiently, and Ash grinned. Then he began to move.

A
nd as soon as he did, he knew he was in trouble. There was no way he would last more than a minute. Cursing under his breath, Ash tried to slow down but couldn’t. Every nerve cell in his cock was alive with sensations that made his knees shake, and each thrust in and out of Lin’s tight flesh brought him closer to the brink. He was coming already.

“Sorry,” he said, and then he noticed
Lin’s movements were also quickening. “Sorry about what?” Lin said hoarsely. Lin’s hand was rubbing his cock so fast it was almost a blur. He was nearly there too.

Ash
slapped his hand over Lin’s, helping him. “I’m going to come,” he said.

They came together,
Ash thrusting for all he was worth and Lin squirming and screaming beneath him.

As it was the next morning when
Lin surprised Ash in the shower, only their positions were reversed. Ash started with his hands against the wall, Lin pumping in and out behind him, but each jab from Lin’s cock spiked him with bursts of intense pleasure that radiated out to every nerve in his body, and soon he collapsed down to his knees.

He shouted as he came, hands grappling
helplessly on the slippery shower floor, feeling Lin bruising his hips, he was gripping him so hard.

Lin
lay heavily on top of him afterward. The water rained down on their exhausted bodies, washing the sweat off before it could even form. “Sex between humans usually lasts longer than this,” Ash said, as soon as he could speak again. “We’re going to have to find a way to slow down.”

“Yes,”
Lin said.

****

Ash was watching the news when the story flashed across the screen.

He ran into the
bedroom where Lin was dusting, and grabbed his arm. “Come,” he said.

“What is it?”

“Just come.”

The news anno
uncer was reporting, “Schuman was a galactic innovator, a man who broke new ground in artificial intelligence engineering. His many contributions to AI development made him extremely wealthy at a young age.”

A still image of
T.E. Schuman’s handsome face appeared on the U-net screen. Ash felt Lin stiffen beside him.

Together they watched the pictu
re change to live footage of a short, slender robot with long silver hair being led away in handcuffs. The caption at the bottom of the screen read, “Schuman’s Robot Suspected in Murder.”

“His new robot,”
Ash breathed. “The one he got after you. He must’ve still had that glitch.”

Lin
was clutching Ash’s arm hard. “Don’t worry, you’re safe,” Ash said, and then he looked at Lin.

His
face was wet.

Tears rolled from his eyes.
Lin touched his cheek, then looked at the sheen on his hand. “I’m crying, aren’t I? That’s what this is.”

“What’s going to happen to him?”
Ash asked, meaning the robot.

“If he’s guilty, they’ll terminate
him,” Lin said. “It could have been me.”

“But it wasn’t,”
Ash put his arms around Lin. “You survived. And now Schuman is dead, and you’re safe from him forever.” He held Lin until Lin’s shaking stopped.

****

Morning dawned, and Ash crouched down and fixed Tiny’s leash for his walk.

“I’ll do that,”
Lin said, coming into the front room. “Didn’t you want to get out to work early?”

“Let’s both walk him,”
Ash said. “I have time.”

They
exited the station and Ash shut the door behind them. “Maybe I should get a job,” Lin suggested. “Then you wouldn’t have to work so hard. And I could start paying you back for the operation.”

“No need.”

“I hope it didn’t cost too much,” Lin said. Tiny barked at his feet, and Lin bent down to untangle his leash.

“
It’s fine,” Ash said.

Lin
stood up and looked at him seriously. “Ash, what did it cost? Please tell me.”

“Well, let’s put it this way. We’re
living paycheck to paycheck for the time being.”

“What?”
Lin stared. “Are you serious?” He came up to Ash, his face stricken. “But you were saving that money to get offplanet and finally travel.”

“Don’t worry about it,”
Ash said gruffly.

“Why?”

Ash didn’t know how to put it. He’d lived for himself for years without ties or commitments. He’d never done anything for anyone else that he could remember. Maybe he’d just wanted to do something big for someone else for once. He’d been moved by Lin’s plight and wanted to help.

“You don’t owe me for this
. I just wanted to do it, okay?”

Lin
stared at him for a long moment. Then a gentle smile appeared on his face. “Let’s get another of those machines you use,” he said, “and I’ll look for gold too. We’ll be able to leave this planet in half the time then.” He raised up and kissed Ash on the lips.