Nadine Book 5

35. Ours

We wake up in the morning and take a bath. I bite him first in the bath. He bites me right back, and we hold each other again.

I kiss my mark on his neck. "I wish it would stay longer, love."

"Me too, sweetheart." He gives me a kiss.

We get to the command area. I pull my hair back, so my boys can see it better. "I want more of them."

Marcus winks. "I'm sure you'll have at least 200 more in the next 8 weeks."

"I even got it on the first try."

"He was like a damn over-excited teenager."

Older Dipak smirks. "And you still finished it. Good job." Then he nods. "Damn, I am good in bed."

Older me winks. "You do have amazing control. But I can still make you lose it."

He gives her a dirty look and the rest of us laugh.

Future Tre stands up. "We're ready to go in. The 8 of us are going in. Frode you sit here with the girls. Try not to let them talk you into anything weird. We'll be back in 3 or 4 hours."

"I WANT TO GO TOO."

"No, you stay here. We'll be way too concerned about you. We have to focus down there and get it done. This is the boys' training mission for taking control of a planet. You are not needed on this one."

"BUT."

"No."

"BUT."

"No. And that is final. You can wait for 4 hours. Make some popcorn and watch a couple movies. We'll take you to another planet on the way back. You can see that one."

"FINE." I slam myself down in a seat and give future Tre a dirty look.

He smirks. "I still got it."

Future Marcus nods. "The only one of us that could ever tell her no, and she wouldn't cry."

My Dipak laughs. "She won't cry for me, she gets pissed and tries to take my head off."

"Your approach is bad. It's always bad. You think you know everything."

Future Dipak smirks. "I do know a lot."

"Yes, the arrogance is always strong with that one." She walks out and her boys follow her.

I jump on my Dipak. I wrap around him.

He hugs me so tight. "It won't take us long sweetheart. Go watch a couple of movies. Maybe see what other kinds of outfits you have. I love you."

"I love you too."

He puts me down and gives me a kiss before he leaves.

Marcus scoops me up. "You are in for it now when I get you alone. I wonder if I can get 2 of my marks on you at the same time."

My eyebrows shoot up.

"I love you angel. I'll see you in a few hours."

"I love you too."

He hands me to Tre. I wrap around him. "Mine."

"All mine baby." He gives me the biggest hug. "I love you."

"I love you too. I'm gonna bite you."

"I know."

Him, Marcus, and Tye laugh.

"I'll see you in a few hours baby."

Him and Marcus walk out.

Tye hugs me. "I'm happy with a hug." He picks me up and I wrap around him. He has tears in his eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm scared."

"They said it's not bad."

"No, I'm scared because we're changing everything. What if you don't ever fall back in love with me? That's all I care about. I don't care if our lives last 8 weeks or 80,000 years, I only want you. I can't do it without your love. You're what matters." He hugs me so tight. "I f****d up so bad. I know that. But I need you. You're the only thing I need. I love you so much, and I'm sorry."

The bond slams together again.

He drops to his knees sobbing, then puts his head on my belly and cries. "You're everything babydoll."

I help him stand back up, and I give him a kiss. "I guess you don't have to worry about that anymore."

He wipes the tears off his cheeks. Then he pulls me so close and gives me a deep kiss. "I love you."

"I love you Tye. We're not done talking. I'm still upset, but I love you. You're mine Tye."

"I'm yours, babydoll."

I wipe a tear off his cheek. "I did not expect to fall in love that fast. That kind of hurt."

He smiles.

I step against him and give him another kiss.

Dipak and Tre walk in. "Damn teenagers. Let's go."

He gives me 1 more little kiss.

Future Dipak walks in. "What's the hold up?"

"We let the teenagers get bored."

"They're still like that. They turn into a couple of damn teenagers every chance they get. Probably off being bored now." He pokes his head out the door. "WHERE IS TYE?"

"Right here."

"Stay where I can see you."

Tye hugs me 1 last time and kisses my head. "We'll be back as soon as we can, babydoll."

"I love you."

"I love you too."

Future Tre steps in. "Time to go. Watch some movies. You'll be fine."

I wonder over to my place and order every movie snack. Then extra popcorn. I flip threw the movies and find a pirate one. It turns out to be excellent. So I play the 2nd one. I must fall asleep because I wake up with Tye kissing me. I open my eyes, and he kisses my nose.

"All done. Let's eat some lunch."

"Everyone's ok?"

"Of course babydoll." He picks me up, and I wrap around him like always. Then he carries me to the dining room.

"You are f*****g lucky. It took me 4 months before she would let me kiss her again."

"I am the luckiest man alive."

Future me smirks. "Don't push that luck anymore."

"I never will."

My Dipak smiles. "8 to 12 weeks isn't very long. We're going to have to let it go. Enjoy the time we have."

Tre nods. "Let's be happy we found each other in this life."

Tye squeezes me and kisses my head.

Marcus smiles. "It's worth it. Especially if we can get everyone out of the time loop. And knowing our kids would get to be kings and queens all over the galaxy is amazing."

Future me stands up. "You are going to change everything. I don't know if it's the correct path or not. I don't know what happens. I hope it works. I hope time will move forward like normal after that. But I know we'll more than likely have to die to change it. I feel bad that you won't get those 12,000 years. It's not fair." She pushes her Tre off. "I'll put some pictures and stuff together for you. I'll show you the life you don't get to have." Then she starts sobbing.

Her Dipak rubs his eyes. "Sweetheart, they could still live. We don't know what happens next."

She shakes her head. "It's all different. Even if the loop breaks and they get their lives. They won't be the same lives we had. There won't be a loop. They are giving up this life no matter what. They won't know their future. It's not going to be the same as ours."

He opens a drawer. Then he pulls out a black box. He puts it on our side of the table.

"This is the one that made us parents."

A baby girl shows up on the screen. She's got a little pink dress on. Then we watch her grow up through pictures and movies.

"She looks like you sweetheart."

I hold Dipak and cry. She really does.

My Tre looks at them. "Whose?"

"We don't know. It never mattered to us who the biological father was. She was ours. You could change that if you wanted for your lives."

"Mostly on the boys, as they started to grow up, we could tell who the biological father was. And a couple of them came out like their dads. But other than that, we didn't want to know. We loved them all the same. That little girl made us parents. She was my first."

"You only had her the first time?"

"No, I had 5 that pregnancy. 4 boys and 1 baby girl. She had to be first."

Her boys chuckle.

"I have 88 babies. We spent almost 500 years making them. It was always 88. The ones before us had 88. And before them. It was always 88."

"If we live, I need at least 89."

Dipak winks. "I bet we could get to 100."

Future Dipak smiles. "Here are the boys from that pregnancy. You can see. We had no idea whose was whose. We didn't want to know." He flips through the pictures. "As they got older, we could tell. This is how those 4 turned out."

I keep crying. "It's 1 from each of them. They look like their dads."

"Yea, once they are grown, you can tell. But we love them. And there are still some we can't tell. We love those too. They're ours." He puts it back on 5 pictures of the babies with their older pictures beside them.

"You know how you said if the time loop stops, only 1 group of us will exist?"

"Correct."

"If it's you, they get to live. I want my babies to live."

Marcus grabs me. He is sobbing. He holds me so tight.

Future Dipak smiles. "You're still a baby too. And you're already a good mother. Again, none of us know what will happen. The only thing we know is that your story isn't the same as ours. You are already changing it so much. Don't think about that. You think about everyone we're going to save. Whatever happens after that, happens. We can't worry about that. All we can do is stop this time loop."

"We stop the loop. Then I'll either see you again as orbs or we get to live a life."

Future Tre nods. "There you go. I mean hell, we don't know. You could get stuck 12,000 years in the future and have a bunch of children you don't even know yet."

Future me scratches her head. "I wonder if that happened, and she got pregnant with the 5 of them again... would they all be twins?"

We stare into space for a second.

Future Tye rubs his eyes. "Woman, you are breaking everyone's brains. We're dealing with stopping the loop. If something like that happens, I'm sure they'll figure it out. They'll have each other and some of us are smart."

Future Tre starts laughing. "Yea, Marcus and I can figure something out. Then Tye can make it work."

Tye nods. "Then Dipak can take credit for it."

The whole room laughs.