Copyright 2014, 2020 Lisa Summers
All characters depicted in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Chapter 1
"You've had a pretty tough month," Beth Hightower said sympathetically to Sloane Gamble, as the brown-haired girl sat up in bed checking her phone. Sloane didn't look up at first at her auburn-haired partner, and missed seeing the cup of coffee the twenty-five year old woman was offering her.
"Ummh, what..." Sloane murmured, and then looked up. "I thought I smelled coffee...for me?"
Her hopeful expression made Beth giggle. "So much for your 'extra-sensory abilities,'" she laughed. "But, yeah," she said as she handed the coffee to her twenty-two year old lover. "Be careful, it's hot - but you already knew that."
Sloane smiled. "It's only 'a better than random chance of perceiving the actions that someone else in the vicinity will be taking in the near future' - according to Pax Terra's scientists in Canberra, anyway. And, it only affects a small percentage of women who've been converted by Pax. I don't know if it happens to FIT women, though."
"Anyway, I was listening to you, and yeah it's been kind of a shitty month except for you," Sloane replied. "First, there was that husband that killed himself while we were taking away his wife. He just couldn't believe that she had poisoned his coffee every morning, he thought he was just 'coming down with something.'"
Sloane shook her head. "And then there was that mother that killed her two sons...geez. It's unbelievable what those FIT infected women are doing. And I think their virus is unstable, besides routinely making them kind of violent and psychotic."
Sloane looked at Beth, then down at her cup. "And I'm kind of worried that there might be a FIT mole in our office - besides Gretchen, I mean."
When she looked back at Beth, her eyes were moist. "And Gretchen...I didn't want to have to take her out, but when she infected my glass of wine at dinner with the FIT virus and had plans to do the whole office...I had to eliminate her." Beth looked sympathetic.
"You're supposed to get the confirmative toxicology results today, right? On the wine and the iced tea?"
"Yeah," Sloane replied. "That should be cut and dried, I'll get them from Leticia. Still, Gretchen...if only there was some way to save her, but she was a FIT woman all the way."
Beth held Sloane's hand. "You wanted to fuck her, didn't you."
Sloane smiled. "God, yes," she said. "I'm pretty sure it would have been fantastic, but when I flashed on her putting their virus in my drink while we were at her condo, I had no choice."
Beth sat on the bed next to the nearly nude twenty-two year old, shrugged and said, "And what am I thinking right now?" she asked, teasingly.
"I have no idea," Sloane said. "I only know what you're going to do, not what you're thinking. I do flash that you're going to be moaning very soon."
Beth laughed. "I don't think you needed your particular special ability to know that." She leaned in to kiss Sloane, and the two women melted together with the particular heat and passion found in women converted by the Pax Terra virus, an organism developed by an ill-fated researcher in Australia decades before, and which, along with a mutation, the FIT virus, had been slowly circling the globe and inevitably leading to a humankind made up of women who were exclusively lesbian, and a small number of women who were bisexual. As to how many men would survive this 'conversion' process, as both Pax Terra and FIT called it, that depended on which group was ultimately successful.
FIT, or more commonly, Family Interactions Therapists as their main organization was known, would eliminate all males and were believed to have developed a means of impregnating women without using sperm. Pax Terra, the group for which Sloane worked, had no quarrel with men but neither did they have much use for them. The two groups were engaged in a global war with each other to capture the souls and minds of all straight women - the source of all future membership for them both.
The war was entirely sub rosa, with very few men even aware that the groups existed, or that the future existence of males was in jeopardy. If not for the efforts of dedicated Pax Terra agents like Sloane Gamble, FIT would have won long ago and the world would be a much different place.
It is not inconceivable that perhaps 99% of men would be dead (or never born), with only exclusively gay males spared and a small 1% of straight males surviving as breeding stock - unless the rumored FIT breakthroughs in sperm replacement were true, in which case male elimination might be 100%.
To those men who may scoff, I refer you to the numerous cases of politicians and military leaders recently who have died in their sleep "of natural causes" - some as young as 32 years of age - with their wives going into "seclusion" afterwards with other women all with known connections to FIT.
But Sloane and Beth weren't concerned with these facts of global life now - all they wanted just then was to make love, and they did.
Coffee forgotten now, Sloane gently pushed her partner back onto the mattress, Beth's chest already rising and falling quickly as her heartbeat increased rapidly, her breathing becoming quicker and more shallow, chemicals pouring into her bloodstream turning her interests to the pleasure to be found in her body and that of her younger lover. She looked up at Sloane, her green eyes meeting Sloane's brown eyes, both women's gaze soft with love and lust.
The tip of Beth's tongue moistened her upper lip, a signal to her dominant lover of her immediate and initial need, to feel a woman's soft, warm lips on her own, a woman's wet and active tongue exploring her mouth and teasing her to greater sexual heights. Sloane responded by pressing her lips to Beth's, their breathing becoming mutual as they shared breath, moist warm air rushing from Beth's lungs into Sloane's, an intimate sharing of the life's breath of the two young women.