More Eavesdropping

After getting back to you and Button’s little hideaway the pair of you chat and joke around for a time before deciding to secure some dinner from the back access of the replicator. Together you crawl your way up through the ship. When you get there you let Button deal with the food as you play lookout.

“Let me know if anybody approaches.” Button whispers.

“You bet.” You nod and peer through into the big common room beyond.

You smile as you see the Bailey gathering already begun.

Elsie was there setting out snacks in a cute and comfy set of white and pink pajamas and slippers that you’d never seen before. You weren’t sure where she got them but damn did they ever hug her curvy body in JUST the right way. Mmm! Closing your eyes you give your head a shake. It was still so weird thinking about Elsie like that, even if you couldn’t help yourself with it. Your voluptuous mother in her silky night gown lounges on a sofa as if floating on a cloud. You cannot help but giggle at her over the top happiness, a happiness that you knew you were responsible for. She was doing a lousy job pretending that all was the same as it was before but you could not begrudge your mother her joy.

Next to her sits the teal haired Kazia in pajamas similar to Elsie’s looking overwhelmed and a bit confused as to what was happening. She had been enveloped by the love and warmth of your family and seemed perplexed as to why nobody was initiating sex with her. She would attempt it herself only to be brought back to just cuddle by a very tickled looking Chloe. Your cousin looked to be embracing the role of some sort of ambassador to the ways of human non-sexual intimacy. Adding to your distant relation’s confusion though is your big sister sitting on her other side holding her in a big bear hug and whispering in her ear. Every so often Kazia would look to Fiona, who was wearing just a tank top you could see her nipples through and shorts so short her fat knob was literally sticking out the left leg, and nod her understanding to what had been said. Every so often Fiona rewards her with a pat or a rub or an uplifting word for following along.

The one thing you are able to make out is when Fiona’s voice rises to say. “Don’t you see Kazia? You’re being exploited. There are way more of you than there are of them. You do all the work. They get all the reward. Why should they get all the power? Why should they get all the spoils? Why shouldn’t the workers get a say?”

“Yeah! Preach it Cuz!” Chloe cheers for emphasis, caught up in the passion and indomitable charisma of your sister’s appeal even if she hadn’t a real care as to what Fiona was on about.

Kazia looks back and forth between them at a loss as to what to make of it all.

Fiona pets the woman’s smooth blue-green hair. “United as one behind the right leader, a strong and just leader with YOUR interests at heart, a benevolent goddess if you will, there is nothing that the workers could not…”

This grand speech in the making is cut off when Peg enters the room in a gorgeous jade nightgown as sleek and classy as she was. As your aunt once more warns a scoffing Fiona about introducing foreign contagions into an uninoculated population your mom reaches over to pull Kazia into her soft embrace. Chloe crawls up on her auntie Helen’s lap to join the cuddle. After a moment Kazia smiles and melts into you mom’s side. She might be befuddled by your family’s strange ways but she sure looked like she was enjoying it. In fact they all looked so happy that it made your heart sing. And unlike back on Earth, at least when you were about, out here they felt free and confident to let their bulges show proudly. How wonderful that must feel for them. You were so looking forward to being able to join them all again so that you and Button could share in evenings like this.

“Got it.” Button whispers as she scoops the food she’d replicated into a pair of containers that she’d brought with her. Quickly she sets to getting the machine back to normal.

Like thieves in the night you and your bonded dog girl sneak away with your ill gotten goodies. The moment you are far enough away not to be heard the pair of you laugh.

“That was risky.” Button titters. “We should have waited until they weren’t there.”

“Just made it more exciting.” You say with a wink. “Plus they’re gonna be there awhile. And I’m starvin!”

“If they catch me Jesse…”

“If they catch you they’re going to have me to deal with. Elsie too. Okay?” You smile. “You’re not alone anymore Button. I’m your boy. You’re my pup. That’s a bond nobody can break. No one is going to do a damn thing to you if I have any way of stopping them.”

With a beaming smile she nods, her doggy ears flapping as she does so.

“Besides, the only one up there you really have to worry about is Kazia.” You chuckle. “And it appears that she’s got her hands full enough without worrying about a stowaway or two.”