A Dar Future

Authors Note: This is a newly edited version of Chapter 1. Nothing of substance has changed, but I did clean it up, and add about 400 extra words. I'll be working on some of the other early chapters soon as well.

Relevant portion of original Authors note: This is a post-democracy fantasy story. Any similarities to real world events or people is completely coincidental. I do not endorse any of the things happening in this story actually happening in real life.

"Honey, did you see what I sent you?" Robert asks as he walks into Jane's office.

"The Better America Act thing?" Jane takes off her headset and replies, too focused on her monitor to look at him. Robert notices she is taking notes, and actually has a video of the press conference paused. That seems a bit unusual for her, as she is rarely interested in politics.

"Yes, it's fucked up. How the fuck is this ok? How do we call ourselves a civilized country and do this shit?" Robert asks, his blood pressure clearly rising.

"Calm down, honey, I'm looking into it. Remember what we talked about, you can't get upset about every single thing that happens now, or you are going to stroke out within a few days." Jane sighs, frustrated both with the situation, and her inability to think of anything that will make Robert not stress out over this.

"Why don't you just go back to work, and try to avoid the news for a few days? I promise I will let you know if anything else big happens, and tonight I'll give you a summary of the BAA thing." She asks, hoping to buy herself some time to figure out a better solution.

"Fine. I've got a meeting in a few minutes, and after that I'll do my best to stay off the internet. Sorry, I don't mean to take these things out on you, I just can't believe this is actually happening. I love you" Robert says, clearly still frustrated, but realizing he is making Jane's life more complicated.

"I love you too. Back to work with you" Jane answers, putting back on her headset and continuing to watch the press conference.

Jane takes the following notes:

• All borders will be closed immediately. Military and national guard units, as well as drone surveillance, will ensure no one goes in or out.

• All citizens to submit DNA samples within the next two weeks.

• Citizens found to be less than 95% European ancestry to lose citizenship immediately and be detained.

• Citizens who appear to be less than 95% European ancestry will be detained by authorities as they are located, but will be released if testing shows they are over the limit.

• Adult males detained will be sent to detention camps, and then assigned to various long term work camps. Corporations are allowed to lease detainee labor.

• Female detainees over the age of 40 will be treated as the male detainees.

• Female detainees between 18-39 will be screened for health issues, STDs, mental disorders, drug addiction, etc, and those deemed fit to reproduce to be auctioned to various white males to be their breeding slaves (they are calling them concubines).

• Adult females in the previous group not deemed fit will be sterilized and assigned to various jobs.

• Children who are detained will be raised in camps, and as they age out are treated the same as the adults.

• Auction criteria listed on the Better America Act site.

"Robert isn't wrong" Jane mutters. "This is some sick shit, and this is just what they are publicly admitting. Who knows how bad things will actually be?"

Jane can't help but be curious, and pulls up the Better America Act website. Looking at the bidder criteria, she notices the following:

Initial bidding restricted to those with:

• At least 99% European ancestry

• Men with a stable employment history

• Men with proven fertility via sperm testing

• Men who do not yet have children

• Men who have the means to provide for additional partners and children (over 200k net worth and 100k household income minimum)

As Jane reads through this, she realizes Robert meets all of the criteria. They both have had DNA testing in the past, and are both 100% European, Robert has been at his job for a decade, their fertility issues had been on her end, and they just barely met the income and net worth levels. She decides to schedule the DNA testing for both herself and Robert for the morning, knowing Robert would want to put it off. She also applies for bidder status for Robert, using his previous DNA test results, attaching a copy of their medical records from their fertility specialist.

As she is doing that Jane hears Robert making noise in the kitchen. "He must be funneling his frustration into making dinner for me." She thought, smiling. "Now how do I explain this in a way that doesn't send him into a cleaning frenzy..."

As Jane gets off work, she sends the notes to her phone, along with a brief description of her plan. As they sit down to dinner, Robert asks. "Anything else happen after I came down?"

"We aren't discussing that at dinner, honey." Jane says. "After dinner we can go through it all. I'd like to have a nice, normal meal together, while we still can."

Jane and Robert make small talk, but Jane can tell Robert is still thinking about the 'Better' American bullshit. As they finish their meal, Jane decides it's best to get the conversation over with, while it's still early enough for Robert to work through his frustration.

"Ok, honey, you've been patient, so here is the deal. Yes, what they are doing is fucked up. Probably more than you realized, if you didn't read the entire Act summary before you sent it to me. But there is an opportunity here, both for us, and for a few of the detainees." Jane proceeds to summarize her notes, while Robert gets more and more aggravated. As he begins to cut in with questions, Jane tells him to just type them into his note app on his phone, and she will answer them at the end. As she finishes going over her notes, she flips pages, and says "Now onto the opportunity bit. Don't freak out, and please let me finish, because I know you are going to have questions and objections."

"Yes, Ma'am" Robert says with just a bit of sarcasm, clearly concerned about where this is going.

"I'd like to propose that we bid on one or more of the women who are going to be auctioned." Jane says.

"Are you insane? I'm not going to buy a person." Robert says quickly.

"Honey, I knew you would say that, but please let me finish so I can explain why we need to do this." Jane says patiently. "Look, honey, all of these women are going to be sold to someone, and chances are most people bidding are going to be doing it because they like the idea of owning a slave. Think of some of the men we've run into over the years on BDSM sites, and what they would do with a woman who has absolutely no ability to say no to anything."

"Fuck." Robert says, and takes a minute to think. "This is so screwed up, but you are right. So explain to me how this would work, and how us buying a woman makes us any better than those creeps."

"Well, for starters we can interview the women before we bid. You qualify for priority bidding status, and in our area, not many men will qualify. That means we won't have a ton of competition, at least at first. We can find a few that could work well with both of us, and then interview them, and see if they want us to bid. If they say no, we move on to the next woman. I'm not suggesting that we force this on anyone." Jane explains.

"Plus, anyone who doesn't get any bids at all may end up sterilized, and probably will be forced into prostitution or worse." Jane continues. "Given the choice, I can't imagine not choosing the nice couple that shows up offering a quiet, safe life."

"I'll need to think about this. We can't have another Dee situation. Neither of us can handle that." Robert says, getting a bit choked up.

"I'm going to vet the women carefully, and make sure we don't screw up like that again. I know I fucked up choosing Dee, and not seeing the problems sooner, but I promise this will be different." Jane says quietly.

"We fucked up with Dee, not you. I should have said something sooner, but you liked her so much, and I kept hoping things would get better." Robert says, taking Jane's hand in his.

"Well, this time we need to communicate regularly about how things are going. I promise I'll do better about asking you how things are going on your end, and please be honest, even if you think I won't take it well." Jane soothes Robert.

"This is a lot to take in. I need to sleep on it, we can talk more tomorrow, if that is ok. I'm going to go do my evening walk, I don't suppose you want to come?" Robert says, standing up and clearing his plate.

"No walking for me tonight. I may have scheduled our DNA tests tomorrow. Better to get it over with sooner rather than wait until it's busy at the testing site." Jane decides not to tell him about the bidder application just yet. "Have a nice walk."

"Thanks, I'll be back shortly." Robert says as he grabs his shoes and walks out the door.

As Robert walks around the neighborhood, he struggles with the decision. On the one hand, he potentially could help rescue someone from a terrible existence. On the other hand, he thought they were helping Dee, and instead they got used, and Jane had gotten very hurt. He remembers back to Dee, how she had wanted to be 'owned' in a BDSM sense, and then how badly it went when she started staying out all night, acting coldly and avoiding them during the day, the almost certain cheating, and the pain when he finally had to end the relationship for Jane's mental health.

As he thinks back to what Jane had said earlier about the types of people who would be bidding on these women, and what they would do with them, he decides to do some research when he makes it back to the house. Getting back to the house, he kisses Jane, and tells her he is going to do a little research.

Jane was right. If anything, she may have underestimated the danger to the detained women. Robert finds men discussing how to torture women into full compliance. Another is asking about how to induce Stockholm syndrome as quickly as possible. Some of the worst were the posts about body modification, things like removing tongues so the women wouldn't be able to speak.

Robert notices with grim amusement that several of these men's profile pictures clearly showed that they were minorities. Robert guessed they hadn't read that part of the act yet, and wondered how long it would take for them to figure it out.

He wasn't sure either of them was ready to do this again, but it didn't look like he had much of a choice. He texts Jane to join him for their shower, and heads to the master bathroom to start the water.

Jane hugs him when she comes in. "Are you ok?" She asks.

"You were right." He says. "It's worse than you said, if that's possible. If we can find the right fit, I'm willing to consider it."

Jane looks relieved. "I knew you would come around." She says. "I love you, and I promise, I'll make sure we get the best girl we can."

"I'm sure you will." Robert says, kissing her on the forehead, before stepping into the shower, and then making room for her. "The question is how do we go about it?"

"I may have already applied for a bidder license for you." Jane admits, stepping in to join him. "It doesn't really say when or how the auctions will work, it sounds like they haven't really worked it out yet. Most of what was announced was general, not specific information that we plan around."

"I love you." Robert says as he washes Jane. "But please talk to me before doing anything else. We are a team, we can't have you going rogue."

"I'll do my best." Jane says, leaving some wiggle room to make decisions that need to happen quickly. "We have time to make decisions. Testing lasts for two weeks, that gives us time to plan."

"We need to start thinking about how to make the choice, if we have multiple women who are interested." Robert says.

"Why take just one?" Jane asks. "I suspect we'll have plenty of interest."

"I agree to one, and you immediately want more." Robert says, shaking his head. "How many women are you thinking of? I don't want to agree to two, and then you push for three."

"It depends on what we find." Jane says. "But I don't see any reason we can't support two or three."

"Or four, or five." Robert says. "How long until we have to buy a second house?"

"Just hear me out." Jane says, rinsing off and starting to wash Robert. "Say we end up with 3 sweet girls. They can split up the chores, maybe one of them will be my shopping buddy, and the other two can hang out with you while I'm gone. It could work out great for all of us. It's not like we don't have the space."

"Or they could murder us in our sleep." Robert points out. "Or argue constantly. Or be messy and lazy."

"We'll have to let them know that none of that will be tolerated." Jane says. "As for the 'murdering us in our sleep' thing, I mean, I guess it could happen, but it could just as easily have happened with any of our former subs. If either of us get murderer vibes, we pass on the woman. We've got time to work out the details."

"I guess." Robert says. "Maybe we'll find out more at testing tomorrow."