"Mother, Marcus," Margaret smiles seeing her mother laughing. Her smile drops as she remembers the reason why she came in here. "The woman that Marcus was supposed to take as wife? You need to listen to her and her mother. Marcus, you will need to do something about it." By the time she finishes she is wiping away tears.

"What is it, Margaret?" Aurora asks with some alarm. Margaret doesn't get very emotional and although the pregnancy has increased that it still isn't like her to cry like that.

"Please let me bring them in and they can tell you their story themselves. Her name in Felicia." Margaret tells them. They hadn't known her name and so they nod and told her that they would listen to Felicia and her mother.

Margaret ushers in not just Felicia and her mother, but two more children, a girl that looks to be about eleven years old and a boy that looks to be about eight or so. The mother is heavily pregnant as well.

"Hello, Margaret says that you have something we need to hear." Marcus welcomes them after Margaret introduces them to each other.

When no one says anything Aurora decides to start things off. "How is it that you were sent here when you had a child already?" This had bothered her. She doesn't like the thought that family would so easily send off other family members.

"I was married young. We were very happy, but since I was from a poor family and he was from money, they didn't like me. They tried buying me off, said that I was holding him back and that if I loved him I would leave him. I went to him in tears and tried to leave him. I loved him so much that I only wanted him to be happy.

"When he demanded to know why I was leaving I told him what his family said. He became furious. Refused to even talk to his family after that. We were doing fine, he finished school and got a job that made good money. I was about half way done with my schooling when I found out that I was pregnant with Felicia. Due to complications I had to go to online schooling and she managed to come out with out any problems.

"I somehow managed to finish my degree and take care of my daughter when my husband was killed. His family decided that since he was dead that I and my child should be sent here and they bribed the officials to take us even though I was able to fully support myself and my daughter.

"Felicia was four when we left."

"What about your family?" Marcus asks gently. He does his best to calm Aurora down. He too is upset at the woman's family doing that to her.

"My family died before Felicia was born. Even if they hadn't they wouldn't have been able to stop me from being sent here. They vowed to destroy me and they did. I found out they were behind the death of my husband. Although I was the actual target, my husband used my car that they had paid someone to tamper with. I was the one that was supposed to go off the cliff not him."

"That's not why I wanted you to hear their story, though. Monica, tell them about the journey here." Margaret tells them after Monica's astounding revelation.

"Please, we can't do anything if we don't know what we should do something about." Aurora says unhappily knowing that Margaret wouldn't have brought them to their attention if it wasn't something important.

"We were forced, not asked, to be impregnated when we came on board. We were told that we could either do it through artificial insemination or they would choose one of the males, either crew or those that were being sent like us, to have sex with us. They would choose, not us.

"If we told them we wanted to be inseminated they made sure that we were taken care of and once it was proven that we were indeed with child they would leave us alone. If we refused that option then we found ourselves drugged and with a male in our beds the next morning.

"Sometimes if the artificial means didn't work we'd find ourselves drugged and with a partner. That would continue until we were pregnant.

"That's how my second child was conceived."

Marcus is furious and doesn't have to look at Aurora to know how she feels, he can feel the fury radiating from her.

"What about your son and the one you are carrying now?" Aurora is able to control her anger long enough to ask.

The female is unable to look at them before telling them in shamed whispers, "I was told that since I was being so rebellious that they were going to make sure that I had more children by the time we would land.

"There was a group of men, both human and crew members that would corner me. They said that if I didn't want Felicia to go through this that I would let them have their fun until I was pregnant.

"After my son was born it started up once more. I have no idea who the father's are on any of them." The female starts crying and Felicia takes her into her arms. She does her best to comfort her mother but isn't having much luck.

Finally once the female is calmed down Marcus demands to know if the female could identify the males from the files of ship crew and the males shipped to their planet. The woman, Monica, nods not trusting herself to speak.

Marcus has the photos downloaded and shows them to the female. "Not just the ones that hounded you like that, but the ones that forced you to have relations by giving you drugs and the partner you woke up next to, please." Marcus tells her, doing his best to not let his anger out.

"What are you going to do to them, Marcus?" Margaret demands doing her best to not cry herself once more.

Marcus gets a truly ugly smile on his face. "They were intentionally breaking rules that were given to them. Not even Garrett would have permitted this. Having children before arriving was a choice, not to be forced on the females. Sexual assault and blackmail were never allowed or approved. Garrett wanted to have first chance at any female and wouldn't have liked that others sampled them first. As such the crew members knowingly broke a royal command and that is punishable with severe consequences.

"With this group we have enough males to open one of our long abandoned mines. There are enough mining engineers that we can safely do so. These males have just volunteered to be the first miners in over a century. But first they will all be neutered. They will be able to take their sexual frustrations out on each other. I will not tolerate that kind of behavior in our people."

The females stare at him in shock. They hadn't expected more than perhaps a slap on the wrist prison term, nothing as severe as this. "How long will they be sentenced to work in the mine?" Felicia demands.

"It's a lifelong sentence, no appeals no release until death and since we don't die natural deaths that sentence could last for centuries."

Felicia and her mother stand there with open jaws of shock. "I will look into the video footage to verify your claims and see if I can find others that have been dealt with like you. I want all those guilty to pay for their crimes."

"You believe me?" Felicia's mother whispers as she starts crying.

Aurora looks at her in confusion, "Why wouldn't we? You have nothing to gain by lying to us and the facts are easily able to be verified. What even the crew members didn't know was that there were video cameras throughout the ship and the footage was sent to us every day, to several different storage sites. It seems that the former king didn't trust the crew of the ship and so had it so that he could find those that went against his orders."

"Has the doctor had a DNA check done on your children?" Marcus does his best to keep his anger in check while talking to the distraught female.

"Not yet, no. He was somewhat busy trying to save the queen I was told. I hope she is better."

Aurora smiles, "Thank you, I am doing much better thanks."

The female turns white and looks from her to Marcus. "That would make you the king?"

"Sorry, didn't realize that you didn't know. Margaret didn't you tell her our titles before bringing her in here?"

"No, didn't think about it really. We don't really use them between us and I just forgot." Margaret shrugs.

"You really should have told them honey." Aurora says amusement glinting in her eyes but no sign of it when she turns to the distraught human. 

"I'm Queen Aurora or will be queen when we are married in a few weeks and then crowned. This is King Marcus who will also be crowned in a few weeks. My daughter you already met before us, Princess Margaret who will be queen consort after we are married to Marcus."

"I'm sorry, I missed your name. I got Felicia's, but I didn't catch yours." Marcus tells her trying to bring things back to normal.

"My name is Monica, Monica James." Monica replies still shocked that she met the ruling family and was able to get justice for what happened to her.

"Well Monica, I will be taking you, your children and Felicia as my personal servants. Since you were forced to have three children you will be excused from having to have any further children. Felicia, you won't be forced at this time to have children, but you will need to decide who or how you wish to have children with.

"All children are considered adult age of consent at the age of fourteen years. I was not the one that decided that age, I think that age is still a bit young, but," Marcus shrugs it is out of his hands at this point, "at that age your younger daughter will need to decide what she wishes to do. She can remain as my personal servant or look to see if any one wants to marry her or make her their mistress."

The females from Earth act rather shocked at his words.

Aurora decides to explain, "Mistresses are not looked down on here. They are bound to the one they are mistress to, which means they can only have his child. He, however, can lend his mistress out to someone to repay a debt or to give a favor. The mistress can refuse and he cannot force her, although he might release her from being his mistress.

"Many of the females you came with will actually become sexual relief workers, on Earth I believe they are called whores or hookers or something like that. They don't have any one to sell them or protect them, but they are allowed to say no.

"All the females are required to have children, at least five."

"What about my son?" Monica demands to know not sure if she really wants the answer.

"There are many opportunities available for him. He will have the same opportunities as Lockheartians have. All of you will be given a basic education and taught the language. That should have been started on your journey here that they didn't do."

Marcus was less than pleased about these things. He didn't need this on top of nearly losing Aurora and their children.

He calls in another of his trusted brothers that is in charge of the guards. After telling him what he requires the guard leaves with a grim smile and a determined look in his eyes.