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    Molly Stan...In His Own Words.
    Molly Stan...In His Own Words.
    Molly Stan...In His Own Words.
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    Molly Stan...In His Own Words.

    By Heather Mar-Gerrison

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    Stan is sent to Earth from his homeland, Gore, a planet in outer space that has intelligent life.
    He meets Molly and his life suddenly becomes far more interesting, especially when he makes a discovery in her father's office that makes him question whether Molly is really quite as human as she first appears...
    This is the first part of the Stan series, only told entirely from Stan's point of view.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHeather Mar-Gerrison
    Release dateMay 23, 2011
    ISBN9781458162953
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    I love to write M/M romance and as a sucker for a HEA, you're guaranteed one in my books. #happyheatherafters

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      Molly Stan...In His Own Words. - Heather Mar-Gerrison

      Molly

      (Stan – in his own words)

      Heather Mar-Gerrison

      Copyright 2011 Heather Mar-Gerrison

      Smashwords Edition

      Revised 2021

      Front cover design courtesy of

      diversepixel

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanically, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the author, except where permitted by law. This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead is purely coincidental. The Author holds exclusive rights to this work.

      For Jessie and Chloe

      Chapter 1

      When I was first advised that I was being sent to Earth I was shocked. Perhaps shocked is a little extreme. Mildly surprised is probably closer to the truth. Gore is a strange place. It seems to deaden the feelings of a person. I wasn’t aware of what this meant at the time, having always lived there. I had no idea just how intense human feelings could be. Back then, I had absolutely no idea about anything on Earth apart from what I’d been told, which, in all honesty, wasn’t much.

      I wasn’t worried or scared about the move, simply accepting of my fate and mildly interested to see how Earth differed from Gore.

      I found out exactly one week before I was to leave, from my mentor and friend, Kopi Khol. She was much older than me and I guess I looked on her as a substitute mother, since I had no idea who my own mother was. I was a hybrid and I had always understood that I had been created in the lab. My mother, I knew, had been a human and my father a gorevan. It was part of an integration program following an environmental disaster on my planet, Gore.

      Our most experienced astronauts were sent out and as luck would have it, found Earth, They realised that the humans were very similar to our own kind, and they started an integration program, which involved inter-breeding trials. As far as I am aware, these were not particularly successful and were abandoned shortly after the trials were started. I, however, was one of the successful ones.

      Stan. You have been chosen to visit our complex on Earth. As you are aware, you are one of our hybrids and we feel it would be a good time now to see if you are suitable for integration into the wider community.

      I nodded. I had been vaguely aware that this day would come and I was sort of ready for it.

      I scratched my neck. I didn’t usually suffer from nerves. On Gore, it was unusual to suffer from any emotional related condition. Even so, there were times that I felt mild anxiety. I just didn’t tell anyone about it, Kopi? I asked, how will I get there? I haven’t been very successful with the whole dematerialisation program, so far. I grimaced. I was absolutely hopeless at it.

      Kopi smiled at me sympathetically. No, you haven’t, have you? She said.

      I shrugged. I didn’t really see that it was so important and I certainly couldn’t see, at that point, how being able to disappear in one place and to appear again in another almost simultaneously would be of any benefit to me.

      She shook her head, It really doesn’t matter, Stan, Kopi said after a while. You can go in the ship. Agent Corby will meet you from the landing stage.

      Agent Corby? I asked. Will this Agent be my new mentor, then?

      Kopi looked at me as if she didn’t know if she should tell me anything else. Whatever her personal feelings were about it, however, she told me, Actually no. You will be mentored by Agent Corby’s daughter, Molly. She is similar in age to you, and since that is the community we are aiming for you to integrate with, we feel she is the perfect person for you to study with.

      Study? I frowned. Seriously? I didn’t think there was anything I didn’t already know, What will I be studying?

      Human interaction, Kopi said shortly.

      Well, that told me, didn’t it? I took it that the subject was now closed.

      Chapter 2

      Agent Surt was my transporter. He was detached, for want of a better description. What I mean by that, is that it was difficult to hold a conversation with him but I’d always rather liked him. I had known Agent Surt for years.

      As we landed, Agent Surt reached over for the meeting instructions. I noticed him reading the paperwork. A frown clouded his face and he seemed to freeze.

      I was instantly concerned, What’s the matter? I asked.

      His eyes flickered towards me, Don’t trust Agent Corby. Surt said in a low urgent voice.

      My eyes widened. I was being told this now? "What?" I asked incredulously. Seriously? Couldn’t someone have mentioned this before we arrived?

      He shook his head, You cannot trust Agent Corby, he shrugged, Molly, yes, his eyes softened, trust her with your life – but him...? His voice got slightly louder and anger flashed in his eyes. I was taken aback. Agent Surt was the mildest mannered man I had ever met. He never showed emotions usually. He did a very bad thing. Unforgivable. He... Agent Surt clamped his mouth shut as the door opened.

      I found myself face-to-face with a man that could only be Agent Corby. I don’t know if it was Agent Surt’s timely advice or just the way he looked, but I took an instant dislike to the man.

      Good to meet you, Stan. Agent Corby smiled widely and stuck out his hand. I took it in mine and shook it. Between you and me, it was like shaking a piece of limp lettuce.

      Agent Corby nodded to Agent Surt. They definitely shared a history which was intriguing. As far as I was aware, the only humans to have visited Gore had been involved in the integration program. Hmm. My curiosity was piqued and I made a mental note to do a little investigating...

      Chapter 3

      A couple of months later...

      I waited patiently. I wasn’t altogether sure at that point what patience was. This was all new to me. Back on Gore we had no such concept of boredom and I didn’t realise until much later, that boredom, coupled with a desire to see Molly was what caused most of my anxiety, which had increased ten-fold since I’d been here.

      Finally, there she was. I knew she’d been in the building for a while. I’d heard her arrive hours ago. I stood, as was only polite, when she entered the room. This seemed to cause her some discomfort. She grimaced and her skin changed from her usual pale, peaches-and-cream complexion to the red of the sun on Gore. I was more than a little intrigued with her.

      She had been joining me for a few months since I’d arrived here at the beginning of Earth’s year, and I enjoyed her company immensely. My life up to now had been rather clinical. Still, I guessed that was only to be expected, growing up in a laboratory.

      My mother, I understand, knew what was going on, but I would like to think that she had perhaps a human’s slightly romantic slant on the whole thing. In any case, my life had not been romantic or fun or even particularly interesting. Like I said, I had grown up in a laboratory, surrounded by scientists. My intelligence level was, as you would expect, higher than average and I possessed traits from both gorevans and humans. In short, I was stronger than the average human and my senses were far more developed. I differed from gorevans in that they had no real capacity to feel emotion. I however, was learning fast, since being on Earth, that I did.

      Molly was incredibly interesting to me. She was the most beautiful creature I had ever encountered. I had always appreciated beauty back at home, and also experienced a capacity to love. I had always kept pets, which wasn’t exactly the norm for Gore but I had never known the words to describe my feelings before, never mind discuss them with anyone.

      Molly made fun of me. At first, I was confused by her humour, but after a few weeks in her company, I felt as though the fog lifted between us and I started to understand her a lot better. I was tuning into her fast and we were, or at least I hoped we were, becoming friends.

      Uh, well. Today Agent Corby wants us to study the inner working of the combustion engine. Her lips twitched and I knew she was joking.

      You are making fun of me again, aren’t you Molly? I asked. I had to check, even though I was fairly certain that was what she was doing.

      She grinned back at me. That sense of humour of yours is coming on in leaps and bounds. She turned and picked up the trigonometry books that we had been working through for the past week, "Okay, I admit it, just trigonometry again." She tossed me one of the text books.

      I sighed and felt it was time I told her what I was feeling. Molly. I started, I understand trigonometry. I understand quadratic equations. I could write a better book than this. I waved the book at her, feeling anxious again. What I don’t understand is how people’s minds work. What makes you feel happiness or sadness or frustration or anger?

      She raised an eyebrow, which was something she did quite a lot and then she surprised me a little with her answer. You’re doing a pretty good job at frustration and anger right now. She leaned forward then and looked me right in the eye. I could feel myself unable to tear my eyes away from hers. They were such a mesmerising colour. As blue as the sky. I held my breath. The smell of her was so intoxicating that I found it hard to concentrate. Tell me, Stan? she asked, "just how are you feeling, right about now?"

      I blinked and leaned back in my seat to try to create a little distance in order that I may stay focused on what she was saying. I don’t know, I lied, I feel... Casting around for something to break the tension I was feeling I caught sight of the rain outside. Phew; that, I had found, seemed to tone down my

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