?Maria ? hey don't go out like that, come in here.? She hesitated, looked at me, and then her eyes dropped away from mine andshe came into my office. ...It's so cold out there and just look at you.? As I spoke I moved around mydesk to meet her. ?You need someone to look after you don't you?? She was wearing a lovely dark green leather coat that just brushed her kneesand it was wide open. As she stood in front of me I reached out and, just likea mother to a child, buttoned it down the front and. He went the rest of the way into the bed, gathering her in his arms, and kissing her like he had dreamed of, every night he had been gone. Her arms and legs enveloped him, and her lips surrendered to his, in several long, hot kisses, that were full of love, and affection. Her breasts barely flattened as he lay on top of her. He felt moisture on his chest, and raised up to look. "I'm making milk, already." she told him. "Better get used to the idea of Mommy milk when ya suck my nipples from now. He had arrived outside S---- Hotel at 8:42 PM, eighteen minutes beforethe time instructed by the note. He worried that if he arrived early,then whatever was being prepared for him might not yet have beendelivered to the small locked metal safety deposit box. He thought aboutgetting a coffee while he waited, but the prospect made him feelnautious. In the end he simply stood, just around the corner from thesafety deposit boxes, and waited, watching the digital display on hismobile phone slowly. Their only crime was finding love, being caught in flagrante and her progressive pregnancy being diagnosed by the medico on board. They both knew that fraternising with crew members was absolutely forbidden, the sick bay unable to cope with childbirth or care. But human nature, being what it is, takes no notice of rules and regulations set out by man. Once they had been discovered, their fate was sealed. At the next available, habitable planet, they would be cast adrift to fend for themselves.