"Wow! Would you look at that view?" Kasumi stared in amazement over the edge of the balcony. You can practically see the entire city from up here!"
Jacob leaned his hands against the railing, looking out with little interest at the panoramic sight of Nos Astra below them. "Yeah, really nice."
Kasumi's friend had given her directions to a public rooftop garden, and several couples and families were also taking in the sights around them. It was a beautiful vista, the bright lights of skyscraper windows and aircars below them like a dizzying galaxy of multicolored stars.
But it wasn't anything Jacob hadn't seen before. And besides... right now his mind was on other things. The same things he'd been thinking about for the past few weeks, ever since he had suddenly decided to take a seat across from the lovely Japanese thief who was currently standing next to him.
Kasumi looked over at him in concern. "You okay? Seem a little distracted tonight." Kelly must not have trusted Kasumi to borrow another one of her dresses tonight, so the lovely Japanese woman was wearing a simple red blouse and tan slacks. But even without getting all dressed up, Jacob couldn't help noticing how utterly enticing she looked. Her eyes, her lips, her body. Every single part of her seemed designed to bring out the animal in him, the primal urge to mate with her.
After a second, Jacob remembered that she had asked him a question, and snapped out of his lustful thoughts. "Distracted? Yeah, maybe a little," Jacob said with a shrug. Looking over at her, he gave her a suggestive smile. "It's just that... this view, the city down there below us? Kinda reminds me of that night on the Citadel. You remember? How the lights reflected off the pool water. How you stripped off your dress and I got between your legs and..."
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Kasumi quickly interrupted him, glancing over at an asari and turian walking by. Each of them holding the hand of an adorable, blue-skinned girl who stared at the two humans curiously. Kasumi smiled and waved at the young asari, then turned her attention back to Jacob. "Let's keep any stories family-friendly, huh?"
Jacob waited until the couple and child were out of earshot, before moving in close and wrapping his arms around Kasumi's waist. "Listen. I know you said you wanted to take it slow," he spoke softly, his words only for her. "But I can't stop thinking about that night. How amazing you looked. And how much you made me want you." He leaned forward to place a kiss on her bare neck, and felt her shudder at the touch of his lips to her skin. "Come on, Kasumi," he said, his voice low and filled with husky desire. "Let's go back to the ship, and we can finish where we left off in that pool. I know you want to."
"Jacob, please," Kasumi said, voice trembling. She didn't pull away from his embrace, but she still felt a little stiff, a little nervous in his arms. "I'm not saying you're wrong. I really do want to. But... look, I feel like we might have something here. Something more than just two people enjoying a little casual sex before the Reapers come and everything gets complicated."
Taking a second to collect her thoughts, Kasumi stared soulfully into his eyes as she spoke. "If somebody had told me a month ago I would have the chance to be alone with you, to make love to you, and I was going to turn it down, I would have thought they were crazy. Or that I had gone crazy. But these past few weeks, getting to know you, spending time with you... it's been amazing. I just worry that if we take that next step too soon, it might screw up the good thing we've got going."
It aggravated Jacob so much, hearing her say those words. The logical part of his mind knew she was right. On those nights when he'd been able to forget about his libido and just spend time talking with Kasumi in Port Observation, he had found himself enjoying it more than he expected. Kasumi was charming, funny, and one of the kindest, most caring individuals he'd ever met.
A few nights ago, he had found himself talking about his experience on Eden Prime, and out of nowhere all of the bad memories came spilling out of him. Watching people he knew, people he considered friends getting impaled and converted into mindless zombies. Seeing his men getting cut to ribbons by the geth's weapons. And then the anger and frustration he had felt when the Alliance sidelined him, refusing to let him pursue the matter further. Forcing him to leave them behind and join a less bureaucratic (and also less ethical) organization.
Kasumi hadn't said anything, simply sat and listened as he vented all of his emotions in front of her. After he was finished, she simply leaned over and embraced him without a word. And for a brief period, all of the overwrought sexual fantasies that had seemed to be constantly running through his head, just simply disappeared. The two of them simply held each other silently, and Jacob felt more peaceful than he ever had in a long time.
But that was then. Then, the idea of waiting until later for sex sounded like a good idea. But now, Kasumi's hesitation was only making him more and more frustrated. Her simple desire to "wait until the right moment" seemed more and more like her toying with him. In fact, Jacob was increasingly sure that was exactly what it was.
Kasumi knew how crazy she was driving him, the little cocktease. Stringing him along, enjoying watching him suffer. She probably thought that she was going to end up making him beg for it, make him crawl and grovel until she finally gave it up to him.
Well, if that's what she thought, Jacob had a surprise in store for her.
The plan started to form. In his mind, he could see himself tearing off her clothes, carrying her struggling, sexy little body to the center of the garden, and then bending her over and fucking her for everyone to see. She would scream and cry at first, but before long she'd surrender to him, the crowd getting a good look as the taunting little whore ended up begging for his cock. And with all these strangers watching, Jacob would make Kasumi declare that she was his fuck toy. That she belonged to him, and she would do whatever he wanted from now on, fuck him whenever he said so.
In that split second, he could feel his hands moving up her back, gripping the fabric of her blouse and ready to tear it off her body. He couldn't take it anymore. He'd show this little bitch what teases like her got when they pushed a man like him too far. The potential consequences of doing something like this, in public no less, didn't matter to him anymore. All that mattered was to show Kasumi that he was in charge from now on. And to make sure she would never disrespect him again.
But the haze of lust that was filling his mind was interrupted by the beeping of his omni-tool. The shrill sound of it was like an alarm clock, waking him up from the trance he had fallen into. He took a breath, felt the madness that had threatened to take him over starting to subside. The fantasies of Kasumi struggling and weeping, his cock buried deep inside her, vanished from his mind. Replaced with the incessant beeping, indicating an incoming message.
"Just ignore it," Kasumi said, shifting her weight and leaning against him, her head resting against his chest.
"Could be Shepard," Jacob said, pulling away from Kasumi and stepping away to answer the message. While Kasumi looked disappointed at the interruption to the date, Jacob couldn't have been more relieved. He had been seconds away from forcing himself on Kasumi, raping her in front of this crowd of people. And he doubted Shepard would have been willing to bail him out of an Illium jail if he'd done to Kasumi what he'd been picturing in his mind. Jacob's relief over the interruption immediately vanished when he saw who was messaging him. "Come to this address. I've got a surprise for you," said the simple block of text, along with directions from his current location to a building about a block away. The sender field at the top of the message indicated the author: Kelly Chambers.
"Not right now, I'm busy," Jacob typed back, hitting the reply button and starting to take a step back to Kasumi. Almost immediately, however, his omni-tool chimed again.
When Jacob pulled up the response message, he hissed in his breath. Quickly, he turned his back to Kasumi and the rest of the people in the garden.
The top of the message had an image attached: the head was cropped out of the frame, but from his previous experience with her back on the ship, there was no doubt that it was Kelly's body in the picture. She was wearing a long coat, which was currently being held open to show off what was underneath for the camera: aside from a pair of boots, she was completely naked. The text below read, "I'm waiting for you, Jacob. Or would you rather I come up there and see if Kasumi wants to borrow my coat?"
"Is it Shepard?" Jacob heard Kasumi's voice behind him, and he stabbed for the omni-tool power button in panic. The lewd image vanished just as Kasumi reached him.
"Uh, no. It was... nothing important," Jacob said, turning to give Kasumi an innocent smile. "Say, I think I saw a liquor store while we were on our way here. How about I go get us something to drink? Bottle of wine, maybe?"
"Jacob, are you trying to get me drunk?" Kasumi said playfully. "A sweet guy like you, I know you couldn't possibly be thinking about taking advantage of me while I'm not of sound mind."
Jacob shook his head. "I wouldn't dream of it," he said, even while the fantasy of stripping and raping Kasumi reappeared in the back of his mind. "Just wait here, and I'll go see if I can find that store."
"Sure you don't want me to come with you?" Kasumi offered. "After all, Nos Astra's liquor taxes are absolutely insane. And I'd hate to see you wipe out half your bank account on a simple bottle of wine, when I can get it for you at a whopping 100% off discount."
"Not that I don't appreciate the offer, but how about we have a date without any criminal activity involved for a change?" Jacob responded with a casual smile.
"Oh, you're no fun," Kasumi said, putting on a pouty face. "Okay, I'll wait here. Don't take too long, now."
"I wo..." Jacob started to say, but was cut off when Kasumi leaned forward and pecked him lightly on the lips. Before Jacob could respond to that, Kasumi turned and made her way to one of the nearby benches. Jacob watched her ass sway as she walked away, the savage lust he had just managed to resist threatening to flare up again. Before he could let himself consider it too long, he turned away from Kasumi and headed toward the lift down to ground level.
* * *
With the directions Kelly had given him, Jacob found himself at the door to a small, unassuming storage facility. He glanced around first, making sure nobody was around that would recognize him, before opening the door and ducking inside.
The building was barely lit, the storage crates inside only slightly visible under the dim glow of the light fixtures above. Once Jacob had entered the building, and the door slid shut behind him, he saw Kelly step out from behind one of the piles of crates. Her coat was closed now, but Jacob could catch glimpses of the bare flesh underneath as she walked towards him, a lewd smile on her face.
"What are you doing here?" Jacob hissed at her. "I thought you said what happened in your office was between us. Now you're going around sending me dirty pictures while I'm with Kasumi? Shit like this can't happen, you understand?"
Kelly weathered his anger without a reaction. Once he was finished, she rested a hand on his chest. "Jacob, I'm here to help you. After what you told me in your office, those thoughts you were having about Kasumi? Urges like that don't just go away with one little quickie in my office. Tell me the truth: I bet you were thinking about doing things to Kasumi, right when I sent you that message." Dammit. How in the hell could she know? "Yeah, maybe I was," Jacob admitted. "Kelly, I... I don't know what's happening to me. It's getting harder for me to control myself around her. I swear to God, I'm pretty sure I was seconds away from... attacking her."
"It's like I said, Jacob," Kelly calmly explained. "You just need an outlet for those urges. A way to release all that frustration you have building up. And I'm here to help you with that."
"Okay, fine," Jacob said, reaching for his belt and loosening his pants. "Let's just make this quick. Kasumi's waiting for me."
Kelly reached to take hold of Jacob's fumbling fingers. "Not me, Jacob. Looking at you the way you are now... I don't think I'm going to be enough to satisfy you."
"Then what is, dammit?" Jacob said. He could feel his erection straining against the crotch of his pants. Right about now, he didn't care about who it was. He just needed to fuck, so badly it was almost driving him crazy.
"I've got a surprise for you, Jacob," Kelly said, turning away from him towards the door to the building. "Should be arriving any second now."
Jacob followed her gaze to the door. As if on cue, it slid open, and the last person Jacob would have expected to see stepped inside.
"Okay, I'm here, dammit," Jack said. "Now what..."
"Stop talking," Kelly said, her tone commanding but still with that unmistakable Kelly cheeriness. "Step inside the building and let the door close behind you. Don't move again until someone instructs you differently."
Jacob watched in awe, as Jack began following Kelly's instructions to the letter. Was he really seeing this? Jack, the woman who had spent most of her life hating anyone connected to Cerberus, following Kelly's instructions without protest? It didn't seem possible.
Kelly turned to him, saw the confusion on his face, and giggled. "Jack here has been taking some of my special therapy. Turns out that, under all that anger and rebelliousness, Jack just wanted to be controlled."
Jack's face twisted in anger, her mouth opening as if to protest. But nothing came out. Kelly watched her struggle to speak with a devious smirk.
"These last few weeks, I've been training her," Kelly explained. "Teaching her how to follow instructions, to do anything that's asked of her. As you can see, it's been working remarkably well." Turning to Jack, she mockingly cooed at her, "Isn't that right, Jack? You're an obedient little slut, aren't you? You'll do anything I'll tell you to, won't you?"
Jacob stared at Jack, expecting any second for her to spring forward and latch her hands around Kelly's throat. But she just stood still, her only movement the snarling expression of rage on her face.
"This... doesn't seem possible," Jacob said. "What kind of 'therapy' would do something like this?"
"Oh, I have my methods," Kelly mysteriously responded. "And right now, I think my methods are just what you need, to keep those urges of yours in check."
Turning her attention to Jack, she put that authoritative tone back in her voice. "Jack, answer this question, and answer it truthfully: would you like to fuck Jacob?"
The command to answer the question brought Jack's voice back to her, it seemed, and she wasted no time in using it. "Fuck no! I'm not going to let some Cerberus fuck like him stick his cock in me! I'd sooner rip the fucking thing off and shove it down his goddamn throat until he chokes on his own..."
"Stop talking," Kelly commanded, and Jack immediately fell silent. Turning back to Jacob, Kelly let her coat fall partway open, revealing her naked body in the dim light. Jacob felt her lean against him, pressing her warm flesh to his body, as she reached down to his unfastened belt and sought out his throbbing erection.
"You hear that, Jacob?" she whispered into his ear. "She hates your guts. She'd rather die than let you fuck her. But with a single command, you could have her down on her knees, worshiping your cock with her mouth."
Kelly's hands found his manhood, and she gently withdrew the throbbing piece of stiff meat from his pants. "I'm giving her to you, Jacob. She'll follow your orders just as she would mine. Tell her to do anything, and she'll obey without a word of protest." As Kelly stroked his cock, Jacob stared at the angry, but obedient woman in front of them. The logical part of him was telling him to walk away from all this. But as he looked at Jack, standing stock-still and waiting for further instructions, he found he couldn't resist the urge to put Kelly's claims to the test.
"Jack," Jacob said, filling his voice with authority as he spoke, "Take off all your clothes."
And immediately, Jack grabbed the straps across her breasts and yanked them off. As Jacob watched Jack strip off all her clothing, he found himself grinning. It was true. Jack was completely under his control. She would do anything he said, fulfill all of the desires that Kasumi refused to.
"Come over here and suck my cock," Jacob said as soon as Jack was finished removing her last bits of clothing. And despite the resistance she had shown to the idea when Kelly had questioned her, Jack wasted no time walking over to him, dropping to her knees, and wrapping her lips around his throbbing cock. Even with her under his complete control, Jacob couldn't resist the urge to put a hand on top of her head as she sucked, forcing his cock deeper down Jack's throat.
"That's it," he heard Kelly whispering next to him. "Look at her, Jacob. She's yours. Yours to command, to fuck any way you want. I bet Kasumi isn't sucking your cock like this back on the Normandy, is she?"
She wasn't, and Kelly reminding him about Kasumi's teasing ways just reminded Jacob of the anger he had felt earlier on the rooftop. Roughly, he grabbed Jack by the sides of her head and forced his cock all the way down her throat. He could hear Jack making gagging sounds around his prick, but he didn't care. "Yeah," he muttered. "You were gonna rip off my cock and make me choke on it, huh? Well, see how you like choking on this, bitch."
After several seconds of holding his cock down Jack's throat, Jack choking and trying in vain to take a breath, Jacob finally released the grip on her head. Pulling away from Jacob's cock, Jack immediately inhaled a deep, raspy breath, coughing a little as she was able to breathe again. Jacob watched in sick amusement as, only a second after she had recovered, Jack went right back to blowing him as if nothing had happened.
"She'll really keep going until I tell her to stop, huh?" Jacob marveled to Kelly, who simply nodded in response. "Damn, that therapy of yours is powerful stuff."
"You have no idea," Kelly said, a hint of something in her voice. Jacob couldn't tell what, but right now he really couldn't care less. His attention was completely focused on his brand new toy.
"Okay, Jack," he ordered her, removing his hand from her head. "Stand up and come over this way."
Pulling away from Jacob's cock, dripping with thick gobs of her saliva, Jack rose to her feet obediently. Jacob led her over to a nearby work table. Beckoning Kelly to join them, Jacob pointed towards the table. "Sit down there and spread your legs," he instructed Kelly.
While Kelly wasn't under the same influence as Jack, she still complied with Jacob's orders just as dutifully. Sitting on the edge of the bench, she tossed open her long coat and spread her legs wide, putting her damp pussy on display without hesitation.
"Eat Kelly out while I fuck you," Jacob commanded Jack, pointing his pleasingly subservient slave towards Kelly's spread legs.
Robotically, Jack walked over to stand in front of Kelly. Bending over, she planted her face in Kelly's crotch and began lapping at the yeoman's dripping snatch. Kelly looked down at Jack's bobbing head with a lazy smile, reaching up to fondle one of her breasts as she watched Jack carry out Jacob's orders.
Coming up behind Jack, Jacob saw that her pussy was bone dry. While she was obeying all of Jacob's orders to the letter, she was obviously not enjoying herself. Jacob was about to rub the head of his spit-covered cock against the folds of Jack's snatch to lube her up, when he had a brainstorm. "Jack," he said, leaning forward slightly to make sure Jack heard him from between Kelly's thighs. "You're feeling incredibly horny right now. In fact, you've never been more turned on in your life than at this moment. You want my cock inside you so bad, you feel like you'll never be able to cum again until I've fucked you."
And like magic, Jacob watched Jack's entire demeanor change. He could hear her start to let out gasping breaths as she ran her tongue along Kelly's pussy. She spread her legs a little further apart, and Jacob watched in amazement as Jack's previously dry pussy began to drip with her arousal almost immediately.
Grabbing the base of his shaft, Jacob grinned wickedly as he rubbed his cockhead against Jack's now wet snatch. Teasing at it, but not entering her just yet. "Jack, tell me what you want me to do."
"Fuck me," Jack moaned, as she pulled away from Kelly's pussy to speak. "Fuck me, you fucked-up Cerberus piece of shit! Just fucking do it already, you pervy fuck!"
Jacob continued rubbing the head of his cock against her folds, Jack trying her best to thrust her hips back against him, but Jacob pulling back every time she pressed her pussy in his direction. "Can't say I like that tone, Jack. You want this so bad? I'm thinking maybe you should beg me for it. Don't you think so, Kelly?"
"Absolutely," Kelly said, rubbing herself in the absence of Jack's tongue as she watched this all play out. "If she wants the privilege of having your cock inside her, it's only right that she should show you the proper respect and beg for it."
Kelly was right. As he stared down at Jack, still bent over with her pussy warm and wet against the head of his cock, Jacob felt hot anger rising up in him again. Damn that Kasumi, going around acting like she was such a big deal. If she knew what was good for her, she'd be on her knees every night, begging Jacob for the chance to feel his stiff cock inside her. What made her any better than Jack here? Why shouldn't she be pleading for him to fuck her, just like Jack was?
Leaning towards Jack again, Jacob growled at her. "You heard her, you stuck-up bitch. You want this cock? Beg me for it. Beg me to fuck you."
He could see Jack wince for just a split second, before the order took effect. "Please, Jacob," Jack finally said, and the sound of it made Jacob's manhood throb against her wet snatch. "Please fuck me. I need that fucking cock inside me. Give it to me, now! Make me cum, Jacob! Make me cum with that fat cock of yours!"
Damn, he could have listened to her plead with him for hours. The desperation in her voice, the uncontrollable need in every single word. She was his. His to do whatever he wanted with.
In his mind, he could hear Jack's voice replaced with Kasumi's. "Fuck me, Jacob," he heard Kasumi moan, the little slut naked, bent over, and waiting for him. "I need your cock inside me! Do it to me now! I'm begging you please. Fuck me!"
And that was enough for him. Jacob grabbed Jack by the hips, took aim, and buried his full length inside of her with one thrust. As he began roughly fucking Jack, he renewed the order for her to eat Kelly's pussy.
All three of them grunted and moaned, the small storage building filled with the sounds of their cries and of wet slaps of flesh against flesh. In between thrusts, Jacob delivered hard slaps to Jack's ass. With each impact, Jack would let out a pained cry, that would turn to a heated moan as Jacob's cock reentered her. All while Kelly gasped and squealed in delight, Jack's busy tongue driving her closer and closer to the brink of climax.
As Jacob felt his arousal starting to build to the final release, he heard his omni-tool beeping. Most likely Kasumi, wondering where he was.
Fuck her. She could have been here in Jack's place, getting the chance to have Jacob fuck her like she deserved. Let her wait.
Finally, Jacob felt the familiar muscle spasms of his orgasm hitting, and he let out a savage cry as his cock dumped its load inside Jack's eager cunt. Kelly seemed to reach her own release around the same time, and he could hear the horny yeoman moan in release as she came from Jack's oral attentions. With the haze of arousal dispelling, Jacob's rational mind returned to him gradually. He blinked, looking down at his cock still buried balls-deep inside Jack, and quickly stepped away in shock. His shrinking manhood fell out of Jack as he moved backwards, and cum started spilling from her pussy as soon as it was removed.
The sight of his semen running down Jack's scarred and tattooed legs brought home the reality of what Jacob had just done. "Jesus," he muttered. It had been just like the last time, when he'd had sex with Kelly in her office. That odd sensation he'd had, like he wasn't in control of his own actions.
"What the hell did I just do?" he asked. More to himself than to anyone else in the room.
But Kelly answered anyway. "Nothing but what's in your own nature," Kelly said. She whispered a command to Jack, and the compliant biotic stood up straight. Hopping off of the table, Kelly walked up to Jacob and laid a hand on his shoulder, staring intently into his eyes. "This is who you are, Jacob. An alpha male, a powerful man that any woman should be honored to serve. I knew it from the first day I met you. You weren't meant to go on dates with women. To pretend to care about their feelings, waste your time listening to their pointless stories. You were meant to take them. To fuck them like animals, and make them your docile slaves."
Stepping around him, Kelly wrapped her arms around his waist from behind, her mouth coming up to his ear as she whispered. "Jack isn't the only woman on the Normandy who's had my special therapy. There are more of them. Lots more. They're my gift to you, Jacob."
"I didn't ask for this!" Jacob snapped, pulling her arms away from him and whirling to face her. "Dammit, this needs to end! Whatever you've done to Jack, undo it."
Looking disappointed in him, Kelly reached down to fasten her coat, hiding her sweat-soaked naked body from view. "I could do that, Jacob. Of course, if I did, Jack would be free to do whatever she wanted from then on. Get her revenge on us for manipulating her. At the very least, I'm sure she'd tell Kasumi all about what happened here today. Somehow, I think that would be a bit of a damper on your relationship."
Jacob placed his hand to his forehead. What was happening to him? How had he let this go this far?
"You still want me to undo it, Jacob?" Kelly asked him.
"No, don't do that," Jacob finally said. "Just... make sure she doesn't remember this."
"Not a problem," Kelly said. Walking over to Jack, she delivered her orders. "Jack, you're going to clean yourself up, get dressed, and then leave this building. After that, you will walk to the commercial district, lay down on a bench, and fall asleep. And when you wake up, you won't remember anything that happened after you opened the door to this building. Do you understand these instructions?"
"Yeah," Jack muttered, and immediately set to work at making herself decent.
"There, problem solved," Kelly said. She arched her brow when a beeping noise filled the building again. "Think your date is getting impatient, Jacob."
"Shit," Jacob spat out, turning away from Kelly and making his way towards the door.
"Uh, Jacob?" Kelly called out. When Jacob turned around, Kelly made a motion with her finger towards Jacob's crotch. Looking down, Jacob quickly tucked his flaccid cock back into his pants and redid his belt before making his swift departure.
* * *
"Jacob!" Kasumi cried out in relief, standing up from the garden bench as Jacob came out of the lift. "What happened to you? You've been gone for more than..."
Jacob breathed heavily, the combination of his recent sexual adventures and the run back to the tower leaving him slightly winded. "Kasumi, I'm so sorry. You're not going to believe what just happened. Got finished buying that bottle of wine, and as soon as I walk out of the store, this salarian bastard just runs up to me and snatches it right out of my hands!"
"My God," Kasumi gasped. "Jacob, that's terrible! I guess you chased after him?" "For a while, yeah. But he was too damn fast for me," Jacob said, rattling off the story he had prepared on his way back to the building. "Gave me the slip after about ten minutes of running."
"Ten minutes?" Kasumi said, looking confused. "But you were gone way longer than that."
"Yeah, remember how I told you I wasn't as familiar with Illium as I was with the Citadel?" Jacob said, trying his best to look embarrassed. "Well, by the time I'd given up trying to catch the guy, I realized I had no idea where the hell I was. Had to ask directions from three different people before I found my way back here."
Kasumi wrapped her arms around him. "Oh, you poor thing. Going to all that trouble." She looked up into his eyes in concern. "But you shouldn't have chased after him, you know. What if he was going to lead you into a trap or something?"
"Yeah, you're right. I guess I wasn't thinking," Jacob said. "It was just... I didn't want anything to screw up tonight, you know? Was hoping I could grab the guy and get back here with the wine before you even realized anything had happened. Dammit, if I'd just been a little bit faster..."
"Just forget about it," Kasumi said. The warm smile she gave him made the guilt Jacob was feeling about the lie even worse. "We've still got an hour to go before we've got to get back to the ship. Let's just take a walk around the city and do some sight-seeing." She snickered as she added, "Make sure you don't get lost the next time you go chasing after wine thieves. Sound good?"
Jacob nodded. "Sounds great." He extended his arm out, and Kasumi linked her arm with his as they walked towards the lift.
As they entered the lift and the doors shut in front of them, Kasumi looked over at him curiously. "So... what type of wine was it?"
"Huh?" Jacob said, caught off-guard by the question.
"It's just... you probably spent a lot of money on it, and I'd hate to see you lose all those credits for nothing," Kasumi said, getting a determined look on her face. "Just tell me what type of wine it was, and I'll make sure to get us a replacement the next time we take shore leave."
"Nah, don't do that. I'm not going to risk you getting caught holding up a liquor store or something just because I was too slow."
"I insist. Just tell me what brand it was. I promise, they'll never know it's gone once I'm finished."
Fumbling, Jacob struggled to come up with a name. Finally, he gave Kasumi a nervous chuckle. "You know, to be honest? I don't remember. I just asked the guy at the store to give me the best wine he had, and I bought the first thing he handed me. Sorry."
"Aw," Kasumi said. "Well, I'll get you something special to make it up to you, I promise."
The lift doors opened, and the two of them stepped out for their walk around the city.
While the smile and warm tone in Kasumi's voice as she chatted with him indicated she was having a good time, Jacob was miles away. The encounter with Kelly and Jack had thankfully dealt with his urges to drag Kasumi in an alley and have his way with her, for now at least. But his mind was now focused on what Kelly had said just before he had left the storage facility.
"Jack isn't the only woman on the Normandy who's had my special therapy. There are more of them. Lots more. They're my gift to you, Jacob."
So while Kasumi talked, and Jacob gave brief, off-hand answers to any questions she posed him, he was thinking about the rest of the Normandy crew. So many beautiful women to choose from. How many of them were just like Jack now? Eager to follow any order given to them. Ready to offer themselves up to Jacob with the snap of a finger.
The thought of this kept Jacob's mind occupied long after they'd arrived back at the docking bay.