“Don’t worry I keep a eye on him. He’ll be ok. Sad but ok.”
“Just keep assuring him that I’m okay that I’m thinking about him,” Carlos said. “That’s… I guess that’s all we can do, really. If he’d even understand it…”
“I got it covered. Yourbaby space whale is well taken care of. No worries.” Smiles at him. “Some of the females looked a bit big.might be heavy with young.”
“Oh? Fun,” Carlos said with a smile.
Yondu smiles at him. “Yeah…. would be….” Sighs and goes back to helping Eduardo with the food. “You’d love to see them all……. how the new horns are so tiny…..” sighs.
“Yeah… I would,” Carlos agreed softly.
But he couldn’t go back to space again. He belonged on Earth. He cleared his throat and went to count out dishes for dinner. It’d still be a little bit, but he was getting depressed, and so he needed to occupy himself.
Yondu sighs then goes over to him and drags him off. “Pete go help Eduardo finish. Carlos and I need to talk.” Peter blinks and nods heading to the kitchen.
Yondu drags Carlos up to his room and closes the door then Yanks him into a deep kiss.
Carlos yelped in shock and clung to Yondu’s jacket. He was confused – what the hell was going on??
Carlos pushed Yondu back, just enough so that they could see each other. “Yondu, what are you doing??”
Yondu blinks and then pulls away ears drooping. “Shit I… I don’t know what came over me. I…. I’m sorry I…..I just….”
Carlos took a deep breath, trying to calm his speeding heart. “Yondu, we… we can’t be doing this,” he said slowly and carefully. “We… we’re just going to make ourselves upset and when you go back to space we’ll just… we’ll be hurting again.” Carlos frowned at the other and took his hand. “Yondu – I’m not mad. I just… I was shocked and… well, we need to stop this thing before we get hurt worse.” It felt like a horrible thing to say, but what else could Carlos say? It wouldn’t be good for them to torture themselves like this.
Flinches back. “To late for that….. my …senses see you as my mate. My whole body is screaming it. It’s driving me insane. Because the pill knows we’re not mates and it’s like I’m burning to death and freezing to death at the same time.”
Carlos stared at Yondu. “This… you mean your biology is affecting this?” he asked. “There… Yondu, I had no idea! There’s got to be something we can do!”
“I don’t know…. I was just s pouchling when I was torn from my parents… all I know is we mate for life. But other then that…….”
“Is there anybody who knows about Centaurian biology?” Carlos asked. “Someone who can help us sort you out? Yondu, if I had known I wouldn’t have let this happen…”
The Perfect Scientist 