24. I'll Be There.

The voices came closer, and I rolled off Charles and wrapped myself in the sheet. We were ready. I could do this. The Damons and Mariella just came straight into the room, and Mariella jumped on the bed next to Charles and started kissing him wildly. 

She looked at Charles and said, " Will you marry me, Charles Cornick? "

Charles smiled and said, " Of course, sweetheart, of course."

It seemed that he was feeling the love or then he was just in a good mood. I was not too phased about this even i prefer to keep these two as my own, I knew that damon's possessiveness and jealousy would not let Mariella be much with Charles.

Then Mariella climbed over Charles next to me and started kissing me wildly. She was quite enthusiastic about it and I let her kiss me and I kissed her back. She finally stopped her assault on my lips and smiled smugly.

She looked me in the eye and said, " How about it, Mimi, will you dare to marry me? Dare you to be my wife? You know I'm quite demanding, and I might require my wife to work now and then?"

I was surprised and felt Damon's slight pressure in my head. It was like I did not have much of a choice here. 

I said, " Of course I dare. Let's get married then."

Mariella kissed me for a while longer, and I hadn't even noticed when Charles had left the bed and was making out with Damons. We were making out as well, and I had my experience with women, so I showed Mariella a few tricks of mine. We heard men's passionate sounds causing us to stop our game. Mariella and I watched it for a while, and then the three men ran off together somewhere.

Mariella said, "How about it? Let's eat. We've got a pretty hungry bunch in there, and although you've been well stuffed, I have to say, the puppies will soon have you reduced. They love the bump and they have soon consumed all of it."

I said, "I'm going to take a shower first, and then I'll come back."

I knew I smelled like sex and sweat. I needed to clean myself up a bit. 

Mariella said, " Let me drink some of your blood. You are tasty and I haven't tasted you that much and then you can go the shower. And I'll choose your clothes, my future wife."

I had got out of bed naked, and Mariella came and wrapped herself up in me and drank my blood. She bit down right on Damon's mark, and I smiled, wondering what Damon would think if Mariella took me for her own. She drained me quite a bit and then she took her fangs out of my neck and licked my neck. Licked my pheromone gland.

But thanks to my little thing, no one will ever smell me. Ever. I will remain just as strawberry and that's final.

Mariella licked her lips and said, " Do you want some company? I can help you wash up, can't I?"

She looked at me seductively.

I was in a bit of a wild mood and said, " Fine, come on, if you're dirty." I kept my voice low and a little dangerous even. 

I went into the shower beforehand as she was still undressing and turned the water on nice and cool. It was lovely and fresh and refreshed me right up.

I had just wet my hair when Mariella came in and almost screamed." Gee, how cold the water is, no Mimi, it's so cold, the puppies don't like it. "

She quickly adjusted the water to pretty fucking hot, and I just thought fine, let's boil ourselves then alive. It's not the first time. I was soon feeling almost sweaty. 

She washed me fine. I was now expecting a bit more intense action, but Mariella washed me vigorously on all sides. Even my cunt. It was properly soaped and scrubbed with great care. She was not a seduction, but she was scrubbing every last inch of me and getting rid of Charles' scent that had clung to my skin.

Then Mariella energetically cut my hair, which was light pink and grew dark red, with long, curly hair in its place. Fine, we are then the women of Salvatore. After cleaning me up, she washed herself with a liquid that smelled like Damon, not just passionfruit, but Damon. I smell like myself.

Mariella looked at me and said, " Honey created this body wash for me, so I always smell like him. Maybe he can make you your own."

I chuckled and said, " No need. You're supposed to smell like Damon, not me. No need to complicate things anymore."

I grabbed one robe and pulled it on.

I grabbed the towel and thought I would lazily dry my hair and maybe let it dry naturally. I sat down on the bed, rubbed most of the water out of my hair, and dried myself. Mariella came out of the shower in a bathrobe, her hair wrapped in a towel. She had another big towel with her.

She watched for a moment as I opened my bathrobe and lazily dried myself.

She came over to me and said, " You haven't been in Damon's care, so how would you know everything? But first, wrap your hair in the towel so it dries properly, and close your bathrobe. Honey will be here in a minute to help you with the follow-up."

Oh, so this was a trap or something. There was no seduction but just entrapment for me. Fine. I wrapped my hair in a towel and put on my bathrobe. I just thought I should have worn a thinner one because I was getting pretty hot. Fucking hot shower. I was not an energy creature, and I wanted to feel fresh after the shower. Being wrapped up after that boiling shower made me almost sweaty and then I knew the shower had been useless, as I would soon be sweaty and stinking. 

Mariella got up and went into the hallway. Apparently, the Lord and Master was coming. I sat on the bed and wondered what to do next when Mariella came into the room without Damon. I had things that I could do still and my life being what it was, I wanted to have some fun for a change too.

Mariella said, " Come on, let's go to the medbay. Blood tests and Damon wants to monitor you to ensure there are no bad deficiencies and the puppies are well and not too disturbed by Charles's bump."

I asked, "Do you want me to get dressed?"

Mariella said, " Don't bother. As I said, Damon wants to give you a good going over, feel you up, and grope you. so you may well be naked already. "

Fine. I then stood up and started walking to the medbay. I don't mind walking. It's nice to get some exercise in my body. As I said, I insist on exercise. It keeps my body in better shape and not teleporting all the time helps me keep my muscles in good condition too.

But Mariella came and grabbed me, and we teleported to medbay. Damon was already there waiting, and he lay down on one bed off to the side and looked at me. Fine, let's go to that bed then and wait and see what happens next. He was in doctor's mood so no worries here.

Mariella had been watching for a while Mimi paid no attention to the temperature of the puppies. Well, she's not an energy creature, she doesn't understand the caution. First, the water in the shower was freezing cold and it shouldn't be that cold when you're pregnant. Then Mimi didn't dry herself off but sat with her bathrobe open again, cooling her pups.

Mariella had felt a strange energy in Mimi's neck and Mariella suspected it was some sort of ball of chaos and will and alpha power. It had been fucking strong, and when Mariella had amused herself by trying to put her own DNA on it, it had been destroyed as instantly as if the DNA were some kind of virus or bacteria. Mimi had somehow made it so that she couldn't have someone else's DNA put into her. Well, Mariella knew Damon had some work to do.

She reported all her findings to Damon, who was waiting in the hallway.

"Honey, Mimi has somehow made it so that her body destroys the foreign DNA now I don't know how to fix it, but your first wife is totally indifferent to the temperature of the puppies. She went into the shower and the water was something like 18 degrees, then she came out of the shower with her hair down her back, sat on the bed, opened her robe, and dried herself off a bit. So no idea what puppies actually require. What are you going to do with the young lady now?"

Damon sighed. Mimi was demanding when she was pregnant precisely because she wasn't a creature of energy and he didn't have the energy now to explain everything to his wife, but he had to try.

Damon looked at Mariella and said, " Fine, come to medbay. I'll go through the lady and then we'll see about that pheromone thing."

Damon went to get the medbay ready, and he understood completely why Mimi had done the pheromone thing, completely. It was that year and then that stunt with Damien and his obsession with Mimi. 

But his alpha side insisted that Mimi carry his scent and Damon frantically tried to think of a way to make sure that no one else's DNA would match his. He had not yet found any solution to this dilemma.

Damon came to examine me and first, took my temperature and gave me a reading of 39.2 Celsius when it should be 40.2 Celsius

He looked at me meaningfully and said, "Those puppies of ours inside you are energy beings, as you have noticed. They need warmth. You need to remember that from now on when you are pregnant. Now I'm going to put you under a blanket and you're going to get my warm bump directly into your vein. It will help, but you won't get out until that reading is 40. Also, it's blood test time and Mariella is over there collecting tubes, so we'll be taking them soon. Then when you're warm and keeping your temperature, that's when I'll do the examination. But for now, I'll put your hair up first and you'll put on a nightgown and then you will go under the blanket to warm up."

I took off my bathrobe and put on my night dress, even though it was only morning. Then I sat on the chair while Damon dried my hair with energy and braided it carefully. He cannulated me and put a warm bump dripping quite fast and it was a big bag of it. And then into bed under the covers with my arm outstretched as Damon inserted a wing needle into my vein and then took tube after tube. I thought this was going to take a couple of hours. The hot bump dripping from the central line made me tired. I closed my eyes and let Damon continue to draw blood.

When Mimi fell asleep from the sedative that he had mixed in with Bump, Damon finished the blood drawing and said to Mariella. " She's going to sleep now, wait for the results, and then we'll see about that pheromone thing. Baby needs rest."

Mariella sighed and said, " What are you thinking of doing about it? How do you get your scent to match Mimi's if her body rejects foreign DNA?"

Damon looked at his wife for a moment and said," I do not know. Not a clue."

His voice was tired. This was just one more thing for him to think of, to find some way to make this work.

Mariella put the ready tubes in the machine and watched Damon take Mimi's temperature and run it through her. He didn't keep the blanket off Mimi for long and always covered her carefully. He was very gentle with her, frowning slightly as his hands glided over her body.

Then he washed his hands and came over to Mariella. He put her on the bed, too, and examined her carefully. Then he went to Mimi when he was satisfied that Mariella was all right, checked that she was asleep and still warm. After an hour when the beep of the computer told him that the results were up, he rose and went to the computer, began to look over Mimi's results, frowning.

Mariella came over and curled up to him, touching and stroking him, asking, " What do you find, darling? Can we put the IVs in?"

Damon said, " Not for now. Her values are just high enough not to need any IVs. Has Mimi been exposed to platinum at any point because she's teeming with enzymes? Look at these values. I don't understand how this is possible. First, she has had an enzyme problem for years, and now, overproduction. "

Mariella went to test Mimi's liver area. She felt the enzymes there. Then Shadow also came and jumped on the bed and went to partially lie on top of Mimi, examining her enzymes. Shadow was happy because she loved thriving enzymes, and these could be harvested now.

Shadow said, " These you can recover, these will last, but how Mimi got them, I don't know."

Damon then went to work and recovered eight units of enzymes from Mimi and packed them carefully, as Shadow instructed. Then Shadow left again. Because Damon told her to rest and take it easy. There was still buzzing with enzymes in Mimi and Damon was truly perplexed but he was very thrilled about this, because this meant no need to torture Mimi if her enzymes would be sometimes fickle.

Damon said to Mariella, "I could try a kind of magic on that pheromone, but as the lady has such a strong will, and if she gets upset with me anywhere in between, it's out of there in a flash. I'd have to find some permanent solution. But what? It's actually an advantage that no one can tag Mimi, not even Charles, but I'll work something out."

Mariella looked at Damon for a moment and said, " Make a spell, but remember, Damon, the actions, and the consequences. If you make Mimi angry, then your scent will be gone, but then you can be in the mood again. It won't matter even at that point."

Damon nodded and said, "You know me better than I know myself. I can try the magic, but I can't guarantee anything. I'm old and fickle when it comes to me and Mimi and I might get her upset in a flash."

Damon walked over to Mimi and put his hand on her neck. He couldn't tell Mariella everything, but he tried to put the healing energy into Mimi's mind at the same time, slowly, if it would go where the horrible year would be. He hoped it would help even a bit and maybe someday he could help her with that. 

Damon knew he owed Mimi so much, and yet he had to be the alpha male. He got his own scent from Mimi's magic, but it felt fragile and faint. Damon knew it wouldn't take much from Mimi now that his scent was no longer with her. 

Mimi's will and chaos, including the emotions associated with that year, and Damien and that AI torture as well had been changing Mimi's pheromone, and he knew he wouldn't get his own scent with Mimi properly until the trauma of that year was dispelled from Mimi's mind. And whatever Damien had done to her mind, he had not seen a peep of that shed session in her mind. But that could take decades. Damon just had to be patient.

Damon said to Mariella, "Go on darling, go to dinner already and Mimi will probably wake up soon and I can explain it to her. She might fall back asleep. My sedation is not mild and is still done for Mimi. But it keeps the puppies a little more even, not so much draining from all Mimi's resources. "

Mariella looked at Damon for a moment. He was hiding something or then he wanted to have time alone with Mimi, but it was not up to her, and she shrugged her shoulders, saying, "Fine, I can go. Come when you're ready."

Damon nodded and waited for Mariella to be a suitable distance away. He sealed the medbay so that no one would hear anything, not even the two. Damon went to sit next to Mimi and stroked her. He had removed the IV long ago and was now waiting for his wife to wake up. It was time for her to awaken, and he could then explain a few things to her. He loved her very much, despite all of this and it broke his heart when he knew just what he had done in the past.