The Captain's Daughter
This story is set in a relatively 'hard' sci-fi universe perhaps inspired a tiny bit by series like The Expanse, but please don't assume it's in that setting. Pretty much all consensual heterosexual sex. All characters are over 18.
They say you shouldn't sleep with the boss' daughter, but I broke that rule and have never been happier. It all started during my gig on the freighter 'Leaping Koi' that usually does runs to habitats in the other system.
I'd served with Captain Sato for just over three years when it started. We were in dry dock at Ironforge and he told us his daughter would be with us on the next run. We knew he'd been married years before, but didn't even know he had a daughter! I expected some little girl in a polka dot jumper, but when we saw her talking to the father she was definitely a woman.
Ironforge is a pretty big orbital habitat dedicated to shipbuilding and repair, so even a small independent freighter like the Koi could get a berth in the wheel so we could do the upgrade work in gravity. Bristol, Janey, Murtaugh and Trim had wandered off to the Resort deck for some R&R, but the captain and I were sticking around to oversee the work on the engines. It was mostly normal stuff: Just the usual replacement of worn parts and the software patches you'd expect after eighteen months out in the void. Bristol, the lead engineer, had given me a pretty solid checklist to work through.
That meant I was the first to see Sato walking this cute girl into the repair bay. For a moment I thought Sato had found himself a lover for the layover, but I could tell they were family by the way they hugged. I remember that head-tilt from my own folks, too. Obviously she's getting some version of the "Don't embarrass me" lecture.
The girl was dressed in a striped top that showed a hint of cleavage and flared pants that were probably back in style on Earth. She's carrying a duffel and wearing a backpack. Pretty normal for someone about to travel to another planet these days. I couldn't tell from a distance if it was new rookie spacer gear or some stuff with a few orbits on it.
The girl was undeniably cute. Short at maybe 155 centimeters or just over five feet for the old measures. She was a bit on the heavy side, but it looked good on her, with shiny black hair in a thick braid that reached to a nicely rounded butt. Even a cute ribbon tied in a bow at the end of the braid. Her face was cute: She had her father's Asian features and a broad smile that seemed to make everyone around her calm just by seeing it.
I was obviously smitten.
"So you're the engineer?" she said as she approached. I guess being knee-deep in an open engine compartment made it obvious.
"Junior engineer. Call me Oleg. You're Sato's daughter?" The captain was standing right behind her, smiling himself.
She blushed, but seemed curious about my work, "I'm Hina. Is that the interchange dad told me you had to fix in space a few months ago?"
The captain hurried her inside before I could answer, and said we'd meet later. I was disappointed: Repairing that interchange mid-flight had taken some serious skills, even if we did need to rip out my hasty patch job to do it right now.
After I'd put the interchange back together and started the self-test, I got cleaned up in the backup head down in engineering. I had a hotel room rented over on the habitat deck, but it'd take forever to head over there to change.
Trim and I met in the access way. Apparently he'd heard about our new guest and decided to check her out. He was mostly sober. Oscar 'Trim' Turnbul is a good guy and nearly as good a pilot as Janey (but don't tell her that). He's got his habits, though. When he's on leave he's usually drinking scotch like they've stopped exporting it from Earth.
"Excellent!" The Captain welcomed us into the tiny lounge, "Trim, Oleg: This is my daughter Hina. She'll be joining us on the next run. My intent is to have her shadow everyone on the ship to get some experience. She's taken some academy classes, but needs some real experience."
"Sure, captain. I can show her the cockpit." Trim smiled. He leered, to be honest about it. Thanks, Trim. I owe you one for blowing your chance like that.
Sato's smile turned cold. "Oleg, perhaps you can give her the tour of the ship?"
Trim had blown his chances with her, but I was still in the running. I graciously and politely accepted, and gave her the grand tour.
The 'Leaping Koi' is a bit over 60 meters tall, but a lot of that's the engines, fuel tanks, cargo grapples, and such. It's build like most 'Lighthouse' ships as a sort of tall tower with lots of small decks. Inside I've been in earth-side townhouses that have more living space, but you make do. The repair bay was a giant chamber with a scaffolding to hold our tiny ship in place while we worked on it.
I took Hina's duffel to be polite and we started in the rear. The lowest deck of a Sylph class is the engineering space and suit lockers where I tend to hang out. It connects to the central access shaft that is basically a big ladder up through the ship to the forward flight decks.
"So is this your first time?" I asked, when I was pretty sure the captain was otherwise out of earshot. I couldn't resist a little double entendre.
"For space, you mean?" she said with a smile. "First time further than a month trip to the moon."