CHAPTER 2

	Jack was still on the floor rubbing his eyeballs.  He picked up his tail but could still not control the dang thing.  "Umm how long does this trip take?".
	"About 20 days" Graphite replied.  
	"Oh boy" Jack mumbled.  He was not too suprised though, he knew space travel took a long ass time.  He did some pretty easy math in his now furry head.  "So what do we do now?"  
	"Well I am really hungry right now, could eat an entire capybara,  I will see what is left for food" Graphite said.  Jack followed hir to the living room.  Shi rummaged through the storage closet.  "We got all kinds on wonderful processed edibles in here,  hmm vegetables,  kitten noodle soup, kitty crunch cereal,  canned chili,  and a bunch of other stuff.  Got some Dr Pepurr and Mello Yello soda".  Graphite walked over to the fridge and opened it.  "Might have some frozen hot kats in the freezer".  Shi mentioned.
	"Hot cats?" Jack asked.
	"It's just the brand name,  they are just hot dogs,  though I have no idea what critters the meat comes from".  Graphite stuck some of the hot dogs into a microwave like cooking device along with some canned sliced carrots.  
	Despite being immensely embarrassed he had to ask.  "So if this trip takes 20 days,  not quite sure how to put this,  what happens when certain embarrassing issues come up,  particularly the female thing?".
	"Oh yeah I forgot about that,  guess you have never dealt with that before.  I do have a special box of stuff I keep under the bathroom sink for just that purpose."  Graphite giggled a little.  "Of course you could always just borrow me."  
	Jack was wide eyed again.
	The food was finished cooking after 30 seconds in the microwave.  "That dang thing takes forever to cook"  Graphite complained.  
	"Thanks for feeding me, haven't eaten anything in about 260 years".  Jack said.  
	"You're welcome" shi said.  "Here is a napkin, you might need it".
	"Oh yeah not used to having a snout and I am a bit of a slob" Jack giggled.  "So does this spaceship fly itself?"
	"For the most part yes,  there is alarms that go off if anything is wrong but I take a peek every now and then anyway just to be safe" Graphite said.
	"So what do we do now for the next 20 days?" Jack asked.
	"Well got books up the kazoo on the computer to read, you could outlive the universe and not look at 1% of them,  got board games like Kat Scrabble, naughty words worth double points, backgammon and a bunch of others,  could always fire up Super Mario" shi said.
	"Ohh fire up Mario, something from my century"  Jack said excitedly.
	The controller looked actually rather normal but had no wires.  They sat down and played through the game.  This was something Jack was actually pretty good at.  Jack had to help Graphite through the final level.  "You need to go down each pipe after a lava pit,  there is a hidden block there to get in that pipe,  watch out for those fish,  little bit of swimming,  avoid that hammer brother and dunk Bowser into the lava,  now you are done".
	"Wow that was intense"  Graphite commented.  
	"Next time we could try something a little tougher, like Megaman" Jack said.
	"So where do you sleep in here?" Jack asked.
	"I have one of those self expanding mattress things stuffed in the closet" shi said as shi went to the closet to dig it out.  "Also got some sheets in case I drool at night, no cat hair on this one" shi laughed.  Graphite set the large mattress on the floor and opened a little valve.  The mattress expanded neatly.  Shi plugged the valve and put the sheet on.  "Ready for snoozing, my superpower" shi said.  
	"Got any blankets?" Jack asked.  
	"Well generally we don't really need blankets because of our fur,  I do have a couple for emergencies though you would most certainly be way too hot if you used one" Graphite explained.  
	"I would like to snooze a bit if that is okay,  been a hell of quarter millennium for me" Jack asked.  
	"Go ahead, knock yourself out, well not literally, I am not tired yet so I'll just read a book or something" Graphite responded.  Shi lowered the lights and went into the cockpit.
	Jack lied down on the mattress.  It was only maybe 6 inches thick but was suprisingly comfy.  It was kind of an odd feeling on the mattress without a blanket or pillow but Graphite was right it would have been too hot with a blanket.  Before long he was drifting off to sleep.
	Jack did not sleep very well though, lots of disturbing dreams though he would not remember what actually happened in the dreams except the feeling.  He was crying a little.  Graphite was there "are you okay?" shi asked.  
	"Yeah I'm fine, just got some cat hair in my eye or something" Jack said.
	"I am not that easy to fool, what is wrong?  shi asked.
	"I was just thinking about how my whole family must be gone by now and I don't really have a family anymore" he said tearfully.  "I think I might be like freaking out".
	"Oh, I was wondering about that, well you could be part of my family"  Graphite said.
	"That is so sweet, thanks" Jack said.
	"Well if you need a snuggle I can help you with that too" Graphite said.
	"That would be nice" Jack repied.  Shi crawled onto the mattress and they both snuggled together.  Graphite had an almost cute scent.  Jack didn't know how a smell could be cute but it was.  He could feel his misery quickly fade away and was able to fall asleep without dreams this time.
	Jack woke up actually feeling decent for once.  He looked at Graphite still snoozing.  Shi was so cute with that little stub tail.  He carefully got up to avoid disturbing Graphite.  He wandered to the bathroom and looked in the mirror.  He ran the water and used it to clean out the eye goop.  He looked at the toilet which  was longer than normal.  The soda was working it's way through him and he had to pee again.  He wasn't quite sure how he was supposed to use the toilet.  He lifted the lid and akwardly aimed.  No splatter at least.  He lowered the lid and flushed.  The toilet made a powerful BA WHOOSH sound.  "Yikes, sounds like Al Bundy's Ferguson" Jack thought.  He went to the sink again to wash his hands but there was no soap.
	He opened the door under the sink and saw a plastic bin full of bathroom stuff including some hand and paw soap.  On the right of that bin was a cardboard box.  He had a pretty good idea of the types of things that might be in there but he wasn't that pervy right now. He grabbed the soap bottle. He squirted some soap on his hand.  It was catnip scented soap.  He finished washing his hands and dried them on a towel. 
	He walked back to the living area.  Graphite was just getting up and yawned.  Shi trotted off toward the bathroom.  Jack sat down and was thinking to himself.  There was no way to know what time of day it was unless you looked at a clock.  There obviously was no sunlight in space.  The jet lag was going to suck when they got to solid ground again.  A minute later Graphite came out of the bathroom.
	"Are you feeling better?" shi asked.  
	"Yes, quite a bit better now" Jack replied.
	"Okay that's good,  I should probably show you the basic controls of this space ship for safety reasons"  Graphite said.  
	Jack walked over to the cockpit with Graphite.  He was actually pretty fascinated by the subject, spaceships from his time were clunky and dangerous.  Shi showed him the functions of all the  different knobs, buttons, switches, and other controls.  Jack found it interesting that you could theoretically land the spaceship on a planet without any power as long as you could pop out the landing gear and had a suitable stretch of ground for a runway.  The tough part would be the reentry angle, screw that up and you are toast. Hopefully in that situation your computer still was working and it could guide you.  All the information was kinda overwhelming.  It obviously took quite some time for someone to learn to fly a spaceship competently. 
	"Alright enough of that crap for now, here is the basic manual for this particular spaceship", Graphite said as shi plopped down a binder with about 4 inches thick of pages.  
	Jack looked at the binder.  "Yikes, that is just the basic information?" Jack asked.
	"Well if the troubleshooting in the manual doesn't help, you call an expert on the phone, if they can't help you than you know you are fucked" Graphite replied half jokingly.  
	"Is it okay if I take a shower?" Jack asked.  "I am starting to smell  kind of ripe".  
	"Yeah go ahead, shampoo and hair dryer is under the sink".  Graphite said'
	 Jack walked into the bathroom and looked under the sink and pulled out the hair dryer and a bottle of tearfree kitten shampoo.  He turned on the shower and waited for the water to get to a nice temperature.  Washing himself was going to be a pain in the ass he figured.  He got into the shower and got soaking wet.  At least he wasn't a long haired.  He squirted some of the shampoo into his fur and got all soaped up.  He rinsed off the suds and shut off the water.  After most of the extra water dripped off he stepped out of the shower onto a towel on the floor.  He looked at the hair dryer.  It did not even have a power cord.  It must have very powerful batteries to power it.  He turned it on and used it to dry off.  After several minutes he was finally dried enough.  Jack finally felt clean and actually pretty decent.  He left the bathroom and went back to the living room.
	"I should probably get clean too"  Graphite said and wandered off to the bathroom.
	Jack lied down and wondered how someone could stay sane stuck in a spaceship for 20 days.  He took a little nap.  About a half hour later Graphite finished in the shower and came back into the living room.  Shi went into the kitchen area and got out a cereal box.  
	"You want some?" Graphite asked. 
	"Sure, I could feed again"  Jack said.  "So what else does someone do on these spaceships to keep the sanity level up?"  
	"Well generally there would be some screwing around going on" Graphite said giggling.
	"Um screwing around?" Jack asked. "Oh you mean actual screwing".  "I am not sure if I am even coordinated enough".  
	"I think you can figure it out" Graphite said.
	"Ok but don't make fun of me too bad" Jack giggled.  
	Graphite rubbed up against him and purring loudly.  He was definitely having a reaction now but was also feeling a bit pervy.  Was he really going to screw a cat person.  "What the fuck" he thought "can't let hir down now".  He looked at Graphite's cute little stub tail, at least it wouldn't be in the way.  "Just don't put it in the wrong hole, that would be mortifying" he thought.  He was able to mount Graphite with little trouble.  He started to thrust into hir trying not to finish too fast.  Despite his best efforts he finished in just a couple minutes though Graphite seemed to have an orgasm too, or at least a good fake.  "Whoa" Jack said as he lied down panting, snuggled next to Graphite.  
	"Yup, you are a cheetah all right" Graphite joked.
	"Sorry, it's been a while" Jack said rolling his eyes.
	"Well we could go to round two if you wanted, but no pressure, I understand your situation" Graphite asked.
	It took Jack a couple seconds to register what Graphite was talking about.  "Oh, um" Jack mumbled.  He wasn't sure about that at all.  He did have the right parts and was a bit interested what it was like but it was a bit terrifying to him.  At least Graphite was absolutely lovable he thought. "So you are sure I won't become, you know, pregnant?" Jack asked.  
	"Oh no,  you would have to be in heat for that to happen, and you would definitely know if you were" Shi said.
	"Um okay I guess, but go easy on me, I've never done this before" Jack said nervously.
	"Okay I will" Graphite said, "just relax".
	Jack did his best to relax.  He looked away as if he was anticipating a flu shot.  Shi then proceeded to mount him.  "What did he get himself into this time?" he thought.  
	"You are still too nervous" shi said.
	"Sorry bout that" Jack said.
	"It okay" Graphite said while scratching his ears and snuggling into him with hir nose.  After a few seconds he was finally able to relax.  "Ok here goes" shi said and pushed inside him.
	"Yikes" he said.
	"Are you okay?" Graphite asked concerned.
	"Yeah yeah" Jack said.  It was an odd sensation at first but quickly started to feel pretty nice.  He noticed he had an stiffy again, was that normal?
	Graphite had also noticed his erection and grabbed his penis with a hand paw.
	Jack had not expected that.  Shi started to rub it while still thrusting.  Before long he could feel himself about to blow.  He felt Graphite orgasm and that made him quickly follow suit.  He felt almost about to pass out.  He lied on the floor trying to catch his breath, not even enough energy to pant.  
	"Damn!" Jack finally had enough energy to say something.
	"Pretty good huh"  Graphite said.  "I call that the double gasm, it runs your energy out pretty good but it is fucking worth it".  
	They snuggled together again.  Jack loved to snuggle with Graphite,  he felt basically zero anxieties when snuggled with hir.  They both fell asleep quickly.