Author: Arthur_Brash

Clara insisted she hadn’t slept with my double a second time. A rule was a rule—no sex without alpha Harry. No beta, no omega. This double was obviously different in small ways—some large ways, she admitted when pressed, so maybe he only needed a single orgasm to achieve lucidity. Or maybe orgams hadn’t been a trigger at all. Maybe they only needed time. We were on the cutting edge of biochemical automation, she said; nothing was known with certainty.
My well-endowed double, for his part, claimed that he did, in fact, have sex with my wife. But this was of course true. We’d all been there. The question was whether he was lucid enough to be confirming a second sexual encounter, or merely reaffirming the first.
Whatever the case, I didn’t care for him. He only wanted to talk about numbers and science. Occasionally some idiotic TV show. He played video games too loudly and bounced his basketball—over and over and over and over and over—as if it’s necessary to dribble in a friendly game. Plus he was always hitting on my wife. He wrapped his arms around her waist as she washed dishes. He lifted her dress when she bent to pick up a sock. He even massaged her foot and kissed her leg as she protested their affair.
On Saturday I went for a long jog to clear my head and reconsider the interface. The three of them were passed out in bed when I returned.
“I thought rules were rules,” I shouted from the doorway.
Clara sat upright, holding the bed sheet against her body. She looked at me, then at both doubles.
“I thought you were one of them,” she said.
“I went for a jog!”
“I thought one of them went for a jog!”
I decided to dye their hair. I gave my first double a subtle brown, only a mild change from our natural chestnut, but enough to set him apart. I gave my second double a loud, nearly white shade of blonde, very unbecoming with our skin tone.
“What if they wear hats?” Clara asked.
“Baseball caps in bed?”
She shrugged. “Firemen hats. Sailor hats. Police hats.”
I instituted a new no-hats rule, but this only made Clara more interested in hats. I bought her a cowgirl hat and a pair of boots. She wore them and nothing else and took turns straddling each of us in the kitchen chairs.
***
I was beginning to feel left out. I told Clara that I needed her. Just her and me for a moment.
“Harry, of course!” She pulled on a tight pink sweater, a favorite from the days before we were even engaged. We went for a drive through the valley. We listened to music. We stopped for burgers. After a couple of hours, we parked on a hilltop overlooking the town.
“If you need to take a break from the Harrys, we absolutely can,” she said.
“You couldn’t do that,” I said.
“I could! Especially now that his hair looks like it’s been in the freezer.”
“I don’t want to stop,” I said. “I don’t even know what it feels like yet.”
Clara sat up in her seat and straightened her sweater.
“What is it you’d like to feel?” she asked.
“Your perfect body with my six hands, for starters.”
“Two’s just not enough?”
I shook my head. “Not enough.”
“What else?”
“Six lips on your skin,” I said. “Three mouths. One here…” I touched the side of her neck. “One here…” I touched the side of her breast. “One here…” I touched the inside of her thigh. “All at once.”
She took my hand, keeping it in the last spot. “Three cocks? I still have my rule.”
I turned to face her more fully. I was a little tired, a little needy, but she looked so lovely. She squeezed my hand around her thigh, offering me one comfort even though she’d already provided another.
“I’m sure you know what I’d like to do to you. The benefits of three bodies,” I said. “But don’t forget that I felt the same way you did. That I wanted to give you more of myself than I was physically able to give. To reach you in a way I never could never do with a single body. So honestly the thing I most want to feel is you. You accepting every part of me. Not the pieces I parse out for you at different moments. You accepting the whole me.”
Clara looked at me for a moment. She unbuttoned her jeans and pulled them awkwardly from her legs. She took off her sweater. She slid backwards over the armrests and settled in the backseat in her white cotton panties and white cotton bra. She bent one leg in the cramped space and swayed her knee side to side.
“Do you want to just lie here a minute?” she asked.
I took off my clothes and settled in beside her. I held her hand and we stayed that way until we both fell asleep.
***
This night led to a week of celibacy in our home, much to the chagrin of the doubles. When one pinned Clara against the bookcase in the study, she politely declined. When one reached a hand beneath her tennis skirt, she said she was on her way out the door. Clara and I slept in our bed alone. Eventually they got the message and seemed not to mind. We began playing board games and card games at night. The doubles and I were quite good at poker, while Clara preferred gin rummy.
But the old ways began to return. One of the doubles—likely that snow-capped idiot—snuck into our bed late one night. He gently spooned Clara and she, remembering her own appetites, squirmed against him. Not to be outdone, I slid closer and kissed her deeply just as she moaned from the stir of him pushing inside of her. She stroked my cock as we kissed, I touched between her legs as she bounced, and soon she had to bury her face in a pillow to keep quiet. We told that alabaster dingus to get back to his bath before he was missed, then we went to bed.
The next night we received a visit from the other double. He slipped into bed next to Clara, slowly moved his hand beneath her nightie, and slid two fingers inside of her. She squeezed his wrist, but didn’t remove his hand. Again, feeling them squirm beneath the sheets, I slid closer and kissed her deeply. She moaned and took my cock in her hand. I massaged her clit as he moved his fingers inside and soon she needed another pillow. We asked my double to go back to his bath and to please be quiet about it.
At some point over the next few days the doubles got wind of each other’s trysts and it seemed our old habits were back. I came home one day to find Clara in the kitchen wearing only an apron and panties. She sucked frosting from a double’s finger as the other knelt behind her, tugging at her panties with his teeth.

A new double meant I needed supplies. A second hibernation bath, obviously. An ample supply of basic elements. Another copy of my own DNA, carefully collected. And of course I’d need more car batteries. With the occasional squeal from the house interrupting my train of thought, I also insisted that my double act as my lab assistant.
“A good idea,” Clara said, straightening her skirt and glaring at my double.
The two of us drove around town breaking into cars. One of us pried open the hood while the other served lookout. We tried to pick older cars left on deserted streets, but we were a bad influence on each other. Occasionally one of us would dare the other to go for a shiny sedan parked in a driveway. The house lights would flip on, the lookout would honk the horn, and then we’d peel away hooting.
He was a big help in the lab, too. He seemed to have an innate understanding of the task at hand, the complex scientific theories we were wading through. Alas, he was as stumped as I when it came to the cranial transistor problem, the crux of the interface. We discussed possible solutions while tossing a tennis ball back and forth. Then the potassium indicator alarm would go off and I’d roll my eyes and I’d toss him a banana, instead.
The second double was complete in a few weeks. We ran diagnostics as he floated naked in the hibernation bath. By some fluke of chemistry, this one actually did have a slightly larger penis. Thicker and an inch longer, maybe two.
The interface, on the other hand, remained inoperable. I sighed and booted up our new member.
***
Clara had just come out of the shower when the three of us entered the bedroom. She had one towel wrapped around her body, another around her hair. We wore nothing. She stood with one foot on the bed, rubbing lotion on her leg, and she jumped when she saw us.
“Jesus, I thought you two were working.” Then she glanced at us in turn and her smile began to grow larger.
“He’s ready?” she asked, barely able to control her excitement.
“It’s ready,” I said. “But you have to be gentle this first time.”
We began to approach her slowly and she began to back away, beaming.
“Is that an order?” She pulled the towel from her hair and dropped it on the bed.
“The first of many,” I said.
We kept approaching and she kept backing away. She looked over our bodies, one at a time, and bit her lip.
“What if I say no?” Clara said.
“No?” We walked closer, she backed away.
“What if I can’t handle all of you?”
She stopped, having backed herself into the corner. She clutched her towel as we stood in front of her. One of my doubles reached out and ran his fingers along the cotton. He gave the towel a gentle tug and it fell to the floor. Clara swallowed and instinctively held an arm over her breasts, a hand between her legs.
“What if I can’t handle all of you?” she repeated.
“You’ll just have to take us one at a time,” I said.
We lowered Clara gently to her knees. One of my doubles lifted her chin, letting her suck briefly on his thumb. Then all three of us let our cocks rest against her face.
***
“Okay well we have to give them names now,” Clara said the next morning, cutting into an enormous stack of waffles.
“That defeats the purpose,” I said. “We’re all Harrys.”
“It’s nothing personal, sweetie, there’s just too many of you. I can’t call all of you the same thing.”
“Why not?”
“Harry, Harry 1, and Harry 2. Though I think the new one may be a Harry 9?”
I groaned and leaned forward to steal a piece of toast from her plate.
“I’m not imagining it this time, am I?” Clara said.
“He’s slightly bigger. I have no idea how.”
Clara raised her eyebrows, pursed her lips, and reached for a bear claw.
“He’s resting?” she asked.
“Hands out of the water,” I stressed. “No reminiscing this time.”
“I would never! But if history repeats, just one more orgasm and he’ll be able to help you in the lab.”
I stood to refill her juice glass.
“Patience, Clara,” I said. “Patience.”
But one morning, with only the single orgasm on the books, my new double strolled butt-naked into the bathroom.
I was brushing my teeth and he asked if I had a spare. I fished around a drawer and handed him an unopened toothbrush. He cracked the seal with no trouble, then reached for the toothpaste. “Only four out of five dentists approve,” he mumbled, reading the label. We both stood there brushing.
“I was also hoping to get a copy of today’s paper,” he said. “Does that come to the house?”
I didn’t answer.
“Not the whole thing. If someone else wants the arts section, that’s fine by me. But I would like to flip through the business page.”
“We get a paper,” I said.
He smiled and nodded in approval just before spitting in the sink. “After breakfast then?”
I watched him rub his fingers through his chest hairs, plucking any grays.
“Did you have sex with my wife?” I asked.

It was impossible to keep my double in permanent hibernation after that; he became much more lucid after his second orgasm. I lent him my clothes and he joined us for meals. We discussed the science of his situation, a topic he found fascinating. He had a good head for numbers, so we often talked about my day job with finances and the economy. Other times we just talked about TV shows or the news. I actually enjoyed hanging out with him. We played video games and basketball in the driveway. And, of course, he shared my infatuation for Clara.
Watching a movie one Sunday afternoon, she came and sat between us on the couch wearing a tank top and short shorts. We sat quietly for a few moments, but soon my double began pawing at Clara. She swatted his hand away, staying focused on the movie. After a few moments more he started to run his fingertip over her breast. She smiled and slapped him away again. Moments more and he slid his hand between her back and the couch, reaching into her shorts.
“No!” she laughed. She hit his chest, but also leaned against him so that it was easier for him to squeeze her bottom. “Not without Harry,” she said.
I tried to focus on the film, but every few minutes I’d hear them squirm. Then Clara would giggle and repeat “not without Harry.” I eventually glanced over and found them both staring at me hopefully, one strap already hanging from Clara’s shoulder. Who was I to say no? I shrugged, nodded, and my double pulled down Clara’s shorts and underwear in one go. We fucked right there on the couch and missed the whole second half of the movie.
It was a good rule: no sex with the double unless it was the three of us. But the limits of “sex” seemed to stretch on a daily basis. I came home one day to find Clara pressed back against the refrigerator in a sports bra and yoga pants. My double, on his knees, kissed hungrily across her stomach.
“He wants it really bad,” Clara said. And, of course, she did, too. When I began to unbutton my shirt they both let out a cheer. My double wrapped his arms around her legs, lifted her onto his shoulder, and ferried her toward the bedroom as she laughed and swatted his back.
The next day I walked in and Clara was lying back on the dining room table with her panties around her knees and my double’s head bobbing beneath her dress.
“Oh thank God,” she said, arching her neck to smile at me. “We were just warming up for when you got home.”
She extended an arm to pull me closer. She let her head hang back over the edge of the table, her hair reaching down to my shoes, and unzipped my pants.
The day after that they were in the shower. Clara’s breasts were pressed against the fogged glass as my double thrusted back and forth from behind. She waved me over frantically, too breathless to speak, and came the instant her hand touched my cock.
Another rule, longstanding: As Clara rode me in bed one evening, my double began to ease the tip of his cock between her ass cheeks. She gasped and stopped him. “Not there,” she said. She smiled apologetically and took turns riding each of us.
That night, the very early morning, I saw Clara turn to my double in bed and rub her hand across his chest. “Harry,” she whispered.
“I’m over here,” I said.
She turned to look at me, then back at my double, then shifted to rub her hand across my chest, instead.
“Harry, do you remember why you took on this project?”
My darling wife. “Because you asked me to,” I said.
“No, but I mean do you remember why I asked you?”
“Oh.” I thought for a moment. “Well, you said you wanted more of me.”
She sighed and rolled her eyes.
“I said that when you, you know, took me to bed…”
“Very regal,” I interrupted.
“Took me to bed! That you always felt so good. Made me feel so good. So good that it just wanted possible for me to express—to sexually express—how good it felt. It just wasn’t physically possible.”
“You were unfulfilled,” I said.
“No, no, the opposite. You know this! I was overflowing.” She kissed my cheek. “And now you’ve given me this wonderful gift.”
Clara hugged me tightly and rested her head against my arm.
“I wonder,” she began after a moment. “For all these same reasons, how you’d feel about adding one more?”
“Another double?”
“Aren’t you curious to see if you can duplicate the process?”
“I don’t know,” I said. “I”m not sure it’s smart to add another unit until I get the neural interface worked out.”
“Well you’ll fix that soon, right?”
“I haven’t had much time to tinker with it, honestly.”
“Well maybe some time in the lab is just what you need.”
“That’s possible.”
“And maybe starting from scratch will help you approach the problem in a new light.”
“That’s true, too,” I conceded.
Clara smiled up at me.
“Yeah? What do you think? You’ll fix your interface and then you’ll have two bodies ready to go.”
“You’re insatiable,” I said.
“I’m in love,” she said. “Maybe this one could be, I don’t know, younger? Slightly younger?”
“Absolutely not!”
“Okay, okay.”
Clara kissed me gently then glanced over her shoulder at my sleeping double.
“Still,” she said. “Sometimes I think it’s nice if it’s just the two of us.”
She grinned, held a finger to her lips, then slipped beneath the covers to quietly slide her tongue across my cock.