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They slept for another couple of hours, waking to make
love again in
the morning�s small hours. This time it was slower,
deeper.
Half way to paradise, Kitt�s hand stilled on Michael�s
erection.
Finding his voice with some difficulty, Michael asked,
�Kitt? What�s
wrong?�
Finally, Michael nodded. He wanted this, he knew
Kitt wanted it.
It wasn�t like they could wait. �You�ll tell me,
won�t you, if you
want me to stop?�
Michael slowly moved over Kitt, entering him slowly and carefully, making sure the pain was minimal. The body gave with more ease than a human body would have done, even if it was only Kitt that recognised that. He�d done his homework, although at the time his reasons had been analytical and fuelled by his innate curiosity. Kitt felt every push, every movement of his lover�s cock inside him. There was pain. Michael�s initial entry had ignited a fire over his nerves. But along side that he felt the incredible sensation of being completed by his partner. They�d spent almost two years in one another�s minds, to have Michael physically as close as he could get was what he needed, what he wanted to remember. As he�d found he could do the first time, he stopped processing the input and just �let go�, just experienced. Kitt felt perfect around him, under him. The first strokes were uncomfortable, dry and tight. But this was right, it felt so right�. Michael dropped his mouth to his partner�s neck, nipping the delicate skin there. Reaching around, he palmed Kitt�s erection and started to massage him into the same rhythm, slowly taking them further, higher than they�d been all night. They came together, their cries mingling. Michael collapsed on to Kitt�s back, breathing settling
back down, placing
tiny kisses across his lover�s skin. �You�re so
addictive.
I love you so much.�
* Kitt was dressed by the time Michael awoke. He was
buttoning his
crumpled shirt when he saw Michael�s eyes open.
�You�re up�.�
There was a sadness, a disappointment in Michael�s tone
that was impossible
to ignore.
* They hadn�t meant to look so formal, but when Michael and
Kitt finally
descended to the ground floor, Swan, Bonnie, Nicholas and
Karr were all
waiting. Karr was parked a little way from the
gathering, and as
soon as Kitt came into view he started a broadcast.
They approached the small party, all three of whom tried
to make themselves
look less like they were waiting for something. He
caught Swan�s
eye, motioning for her to come to him. She pushed
off the work surface
and followed him away from the others. The
awkwardness between them
was still there.
They went back to the others, Kitt going to Bonnie and hugging her silently, being hugged back without question. No words were needed between them. Bonnie wouldn�t have known what to say anyway. This experience had changed Kitt more than any previously. It would be a while before she understood exactly what those changes were and what they meant. Drawing back, Kitt moved to stand in front of
Michael. In sync,
they reached for one another�s hands. �There�ll be
more pros than
cons.�
As they started to hook up the cables, Kitt met Nicholas�
gaze through
the activity. He winked, and smiling knowingly, Nick
winked back.
�If you just� lie down,� Swan suggested. Michael went with Kitt to the workbench and continued to hold his hand as he jumped up and lay down. He felt Bonnie�s hand on the back of his neck and a shiver ran through him as she plugged in the cable that connected him to his own CPU, safely installed in the car. He heard Karr pull in closer, ready to help if something went wrong. �Whenever you�re ready, Kitt. When you get settled, track the scanner left to right so we know to disconnect you.� Then Swan and Bonnie both backed off. Michael leaned down and touched his lips to his partner�s. �I�ll always be yours,� he whispered softly. Kitt squeezed his hand before closing his eyes. One by one, he stopped the processes running, shutting
the android�s
systems down cleanly. Finally, he ended the
sub-routine controlling
his hand, and with one final touch, the fingers fell limp
in Michael�s
grip. Michael stopped fighting the tears and let
them fall.
He knew it was over, Kitt was no longer truly in the
android�s systems
any longer, but for a minute or two he couldn�t let go of
the hand whose
feel and touch had become so familiar to him over the last
three days.
It took several hours for the transfer to complete. They had to reverse everything they�d done, downloading the data from disk stack to disk stack. Kitt remained between the android and the CPU until his memory was moved across. Only when he could finally return did he release his hold on the android and shift his consciousness in its entirety to the CPU. He accessed the scanner and flashed it once from left to right before shutting it down again. He was disconnected and the car hood was dropped closed. The familiarity of it, the wonderful feeling of knowing he was home overrode any uncertainties he still had about returning. He spread himself through the neural nets, touching all the functions, interfaces to the car, connections to the external world, to satellites and modems. Finally, he looked to the places where the links went out, to Karr and to Michael. He brought visuals online and sought out his partner. Michael was sitting on the couch closest to the TransAm, staring into space. Kitt touched the place where his link to his brother had
evolved.
Blocking Karr, Kitt nervously touched the other link. Nothing happened. //Michael?�// Kitt tried to force the connection but all he found was a black wall where his partner should have been. //Michael!// What the hell was happening? Michael had watched them remove the cables and close Kitt�s hood. He�d expected the implant to burst into life immediately, to overwhelm him with the need and desperation of his partner, an echo of his own feelings. But nothing happened. Closing his eyes he reached back to where the implant fed into his mind. There was a whisper of something, his name on a breath. //Kitt?// Panicking, Kitt drove himself against the
blackness. On the other
side, Karr could sense his brother�s building
anxiety. Kitt wasn�t
all that stable at the moment, he�d only just returned to
his CPU and for
him to be winding himself up now was dangerous.
Breaking through
the block with ease, Karr stretched a tendril of himself
into his brother�s
CPU.
They both hurled their own energies at the invisible block. Without warning, Michael�s mind exploded with the bright presence of his partner and the darker one of Karr. The latter immediately backed out, of Michael�s mind and of Kitt�s CPU, but not before Michael had felt the touch of the cold warmth. He shivered. But Kitt enveloped him, drowning him in his presence. Michael went willingly. For a long few minutes, Michael knew nothing but his
partner, his own
thoughts lost in the sea of emotions that Kitt was
projecting. Very
slowly, the AI pulled back.
//I thought I�d lost you for a minute// Michael
felt his partner
entwine himself further. Breathing deeply he just
let Kitt control
this encounter, giving himself up completely to what he
knew the implant
could do.
Michael didn�t know if his body was reacting physically
or not.
At this moment he didn�t care, although his heated
imagination was already
starting to work on possibilities. For now it was
enough that his
very real arousal was being echoed back to him from Kitt�s
presence.
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