Back home in Sector 17

Lena walked through the door, worn out from the trip.

"Sarah? You home?" She set her coat on the rack and walked into the living room, admiring the view of the city through the floor to ceiling windows.

"Here Mom!" She walked in to the kitchen to find her daughter Sarah chopping onions at the cutting board, blinking teary eyes but smiling at her, "I told you I'd use it." The blonde women embraced, planting a kiss on each others cheek.

"Making dinner again?"

"I thought you'd be... tired. Mom?" Lena released her, smiling as she walked back to the living room, wiping her eyes.

"Just the onions Sarah, I'm fine."

"Wait, Mom!" Sarah followed her mother to the couch, sitting close and taking her hand, "What's bothering you?"

Lena stared out at the city for a moment then brought the hand to her lips, laying a kiss on it, "I just wish you hadn't had to go through... all that, when you were so young."

"Mom, I'm 22. I'm fine! You had no way of knowing what dad was involved in. Besides, do you remember what it was like outside? Because I do: you would come home every night half dead from some computer using your brain for extra processing power all day. I hadn't seen you for more than two hours at a time in half a decade. And half the people out there were men! Mom..." Sarah took Lena's head in her hands, "coming to Sappho is the best thing to ever happen to us. It was rough at the beginning but its like that for everyone, they've all been brainwashed to accept men on the outside. We don't have to deal with that in here and one day you'll prove to Corporate that our way is better."

Lena felt a tear slide down her cheek and Sarah leaned in to kiss it away. Pulling back, she made the slight adjustment to meet her mothers lips. Lena grinned against Sarah's lips, "so that was your plan huh? Butter me up and drag me to bed?" Sarah pushed her back on the couch, lips following the older woman's as she fell back, "the thought had occurred to me (kiss) you're a pretty popular woman these days (kiss) I have to do what I can to get some mother/daughter time." Her tongue slipped out to invade Lena's mouth, the two going silent as they shared a long, deep kiss.

When they came up for air Sarah hopped up off her gasping mother, skipping back to the kitchen, "But first I have to finish making dinner."

"Ugh! You're a goddamned tease."

"Wonder where I learned it? Speaking of teasing, will your amorous pilot be joining us tonight?"

Lena rolled her eyes, sitting up, "Rosa isn't a tease, she's just a little more shy about PDA than you are."

"Ha! No, I was talking about you. You have that poor girl wrapped around your little finger. When are you gonna ask her out?" Lena sighed, "I'm too busy for that, I don't want to take away from our time together. Oh don't give me that face. You were just asking for more 'mother/daughter time'."

Sarah slipped the onions onto a sizzling pan, rolling her eyes, "I was kidding Mom! I have a life too, it's not like I sit around longing for you all day. Usually I'm standing." She winked over her shoulder at her groaning mother, "Enough with the teasing! Do you want to get through dinner or not?"

Sarah giggled but sobered quickly and waved her spatula for emphasis, "You're one of the most powerful women in the city Mom, it's a little weird you don't have more concubines. If it helps, don't even think of it as a personal move, think of it as a professional one."

"Madam Lin has two and nobody gives her the respect she wants."

"Well, that's because Lin's concubines are her daughters. Pot calling the kettle black, I know, but they weren't exactly difficult to catch is what I'm saying. If I'm you're only concubine then they'll treat you the same way. They don't know how much of a handful I was for you."

Lena smirked, rising to pour herself a glass of wine, "Hopefully it'll be a long time before anyone but me knows just how much of a 'handful' you are." She grabbed her daughters ass in passing, whispering in her ear, "But Sector 17 cares about ability, not libido."

Sarah guffawed, pressing her butt back into her mothers hand as Lena reached over her shoulder for the wine, "I seriously doubt lack of libido is your problem but back to my point: your concubines are a show for the public, they're how you show off your power and, by proxy, how you show off your ability. The more girls you can keep satisfied, on top of everything you do for the Sector, the more capable you seem. And I think Rosa would learn a lot from you if you took her under your wing... Or just under you in general." Sarah cooed as her mother spooned up against her, offhand sliding over her thigh to her groin, pressing into the material of her dress.

Lena whispered into her daughters ear, "Is this you telling me you're not up for sex tonight? I'll call Rosa right now and get her over here. Better yet, you can have the whooole apartment to yourself while I track her tight body down and ravish-" Sarah clicked off the burner, spinning to intercept her mother's traitorous lips. She tried to push Lena back against the kitchen island, to prove her wrong, but her mother had too much leverage and she was **** to be on the receiving end of the dominating kiss.

Lena let her up for air and held her gasping daughter close as she recovered, "Let me worry about my non-incestual sex life, if you're a good girl maybe I'll share it with you. But until then, you can finish dinner later." Sarah giggled as her mother dragged her to their bedroom, shedding clothes along the way.