Judge Not - Chapter 14: Bait (Mf hff creampie oral)

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Chapter 14: Bait

Skip.

The vision of May, Uni's mom, flew past, almost too fast to see the details, as if it was trying to catch up to something, making up for lost time, or, perhaps, becoming corrupted or flawed. Skip. Skip. Skip. Skip. The vision paused briefly and I asked myself if I really heard Dad speaking Japanese to the woman. Skip. Skip. Skip. Dad was inside May, filling her, the woman seeming to vibrate with her own orgasm.

- - -

"Another one?" Abby asked me. I was on the stairs, slumped against the rail heading up to the upper floor where my bedroom and Dad's were located. I came out of the vision feeling rather rushed, like I hadn't had any time at all to watch Dad with Uni's mother.

"Yeah,"

"Who this time?"

"Uni's mom."

"Oh," Abby whispered, "jeez, Tera... you're all cool with this?"

"What do you mean?"

Abby shrugged, "Oh, I dunno, never mind me. I suppose after all that's gone on since you saved me... It should still feel strange to think about what your dad did when he was stuck... I dunno what I would do..."

"Yeah... me neither..." I replied, "I think I'd go crazy and... probably do some crazy things..."

"Like Curt?" she asked.

I chuckled once, remembering the slightly older asshole of a boy I'd planned to go out with on a date before my father convinced me to spend that night with him, the night I gave him my virginity. "Yeah... something like that." I sat a little straighter, feeling a little drained after the rushed vision of May. I watched Tristan, Dad, and Theresa talking in the living room below, but I drifted back to some of the visions I'd seen and asked Abby, "Did I ever tell you about Dad and Curt?"

Abby seemed to flinch, "Did Quinn... have sex with him?"

I laughed, "No, no... just the opposite..." I told her how Dad had explained about what Curt did to me, how he'd basically raped me on our date and Dad had killed Curt a couple of times in the loop. "But every night, he went over and stuck a knife in Curt's tires so that he couldn't take me out. I never knew, of course, not until Dad's loop became unstuck and he told me. He said he never wanted me to spend another minute with that asshole."

"God, Tera," Abby breathed, "that's sweet what your dad did! And... I never did much like Curt, you know..."

"I remember," I nodded, recalling conversations with my best friend weeks earlier, back when everything was still normal, that suggested her measure of Curt was not a very positive one. "I kinda just thought you might be jealous, Abby..."

"Jealous? Of you and Curt? Ha!" Abby pushed my shoulder and I grinned.

"Yeah, I know... Seems real stupid now, right?" I reached out and took Abby's hand, stroking her fingers gently.

"Very," she replied, shaking her head with a smile.

- - -

Skip. Something was different. Unlike the last couple of visions, this one didn't feel rushed, but I was just watching a parking lot, the mall, I thought. Nothing like the normal visions which centered on Dad and his partners. I felt a presence, someone with me. I tried to call out but felt no response. Why was this what the vision was showing me?

I tried to find a focus around the essence or my own powers, something I'd tried many times during the visions but usually failing to do more than acknowledge they were out there, in my real body, somewhere far away. Even when I'd managed to control a small aspect to change the color of Kacy's swimsuit, it had been a muted control, at best. But I felt different in this vision, and, with a modest effort, I took hold of the energy, feeling it burn through me, knowing I was in complete control. I didn't try to shift the vision or move it along. I felt like, whatever had been in control was waiting for something. Something inevitable. I felt the equivalent of goosebumps rise up.

It was that moment when I realized it was my best friend watching with me. Abby?

Tera? What's going on!? I can't feel my body!

Relax, I told her, this is one of my visions... I'm not sure why you're here... something is different this time...

I'm kinda scared, Tera... this is very strange!

Just watch and listen.

I reached out and sent a comforting vibration into her awareness and felt her calm down a little bit.

We watched the parking lot, cars shifting in and out of spaces. I recognized Dad's car, but he was not inside it.

The wrongness I felt suddenly would have dropped me to my knees, if I had knees. I felt Abby recoil in terror. Tera! What's happening?

I struggled to control my own fear, the power of something set firmly against me and those I loved drawing close, strong and overwhelming. I tightened my grip on my powers, and though I had no body, I felt the essence spinning, something like excitement being radiated from it. Excitement, and a sense of purpose. A sense of dread, as well.

I saw the man then. Or the man-like shape he took in the mundane. The same man who'd appeared to me in an earlier vision, the one where I'd been on a cot, the angry man yelling, calling me names, but unable to see me. Only this time, I knew I would not be invisible to him.

Daedalus' presence took my breath away and I fought rising horror to see him appear.

Had this really happened? Had Daedalus come to the parking lot to find Dad during the time loop? If he did, why did Dad survive? I tried to find signatures of other powers, other beings who might help protect him, who had fought to keep him alive, and unaware of the evil force set against him.

I found none.

I would have shuddered with fear if I had anything solid to shudder.

Why was this vision so different? Is this the point? Is this what I needed to see? What the essence needed to see?

I sent a warm comforting sensation to Abby, trying to keep her rising panic from distracting me. Daedalus leaned against an old truck, eyes closed. He took steps closer to Dad's car. Soon, he was right beside it. As if the rest of the mundane refused to acknowledge the presence of such an obvious wrongness, no one moved anywhere close to the man. I saw him smile, then felt him wrap something into the fundamental definition of Dad's car. It was subtle, to be sure. I watched him work, paying attention to every fold, every twist, every carefully-knotted strand. What was he doing? It felt like a trap, something designed to tear from Dad, at the time the host, the raw power of a god held inside.

Daedalus was close to finishing his work, the last few knots almost slipped into place. I had not yet figured out what to do when I felt reality pulse and shift and the parking lot disappeared and I was corporeal again, Abby too, now in a bowl, of sorts, not much bigger than my living room, foggy air, a smell like burning grease mixing with decaying fungi. I felt Abby's panic explode, and mine was right with her when I realized we were not alone.

"You fall for things easily, host," Daedalus chuckled, "like a fucking child. Like a fucking stupid whore thief."

My defenses were in place around me and Abby, as best as any I could create. What had just happened? Something was restraining me, something wrapped tight around the connections to the essence inside me. I screamed on instinct.

"Oh, don't bother struggling further. I was always going to find you, you know..."

The fish bowl sensation became a shark tank, then a pool for whales, then vastly larger than the world on which theme parks exist. I was speechless, trying to protect Abby and keep her calm, barely able to do the same for myself. What was he doing? Was he really taking hold of the essence? Was I at the end of things, for me and all others unable to fight this evil?

"This is the part where the bad guy reveals all his plans, right? Delaying just long enough for some silly savior to jump in and rescue the frightened girl. No one is going to save you, Tera. No one. It's already too late. Your essence is already mine... and in moments, I'll hold more power than any immortal could dream of possessing..."

I swallowed hard, feeling a pull on the essence which was foreign and wrong, painful. Whatever Daedalus was doing was causing the essence to sever connections within me. It struggled, but was impotent, unable to stop the disconnections. I could feel it pulled away from me, little by little. My fear and anguish began to boil into a fresh scream.

"Oh, it will take only a few moments, delightful seconds, to finish. Don't worry," the man said, licking his lips, "the agony you'll feel by the end will be quite... delicious... A perfect end for a whore thief."

My panic nearly overwhelmed me. I tried to trace Daedalus' efforts. How was he doing it? How was he taking my essence? I lashed out, trying to strike him, trying to injure him, to delay him. I sent raw fire into his body, tearing at his shields and trying to burn through his defenses. I thrust into his being, grasping at anything I could tear or cut or burn or destroy.

Daedalus simply laughed. "Like a fucking child... You never were worthy of being a host, whore child."

His fingers slipped over my throat. It was physical, his own hands, Daedalus actually bothering to strangle me without using his powers. I fought him, twisting, screaming, pain in my neck, in my lungs, as I fought. I felt lightheaded, unable to tear away his grip, to tear any measure of his powers from his control. It was like fighting a fire in a tornado of fire.

Daedalus paused, letting me gasp a few times for air, "Do you know the best part of all this, Tera?" When I didn't reply, he said, "It was you who led me right to you... your visions of your father lit you up like a beacon for me. It was foolish of you, whatever you sought to do. I chased you from one to another until I finally saw where you might head and got there in time to catch you unprepared. You didn't even realize I had you until just seconds ago, yes?"

I struggled, nauseous, retching against his fingers. "Let me go!" I screamed.

"Tsk, tsk," Daedalus said, pulling his face close enough for me to see every odd crease in his flesh, every ancient scar, to feel his fetid breath on my lips. I felt the essence disconnecting more rapidly, and I knew I was running out of time. "I've changed my mind, Tera... The best part of all this, aside from finally gaining the power I desire, is that, here at the end of all things for you... You find yourself utterly alone..."

Alone.

I latched onto that word, fought to create just a small gap in Daedalus's strangle hold of the essence, and failing that, found that I had full control of my innate strength, my manifest powers. I pushed out a force which masked my intentions, a feint against him, causing Daedalus to narrow his eyes and chuckle, "You struggle still... you are quite adorable, Tera. Perhaps I'll make use of what's left of your whore cunt when this is done..."

I shut him out, ignored his words, ignored his fingers pressing again around my throat. I felt Abby's presence and tied a thin link between my powers, those outside the essence, and her spark. Using my own powers, which were pretty much all I could still control, I yanked on the spark and turned it so that it remained hidden from Daedalus just long enough to prime it.

I had just enough oxygen, just enough awareness, to pull the trigger.

Daedalus jerked like he'd been struck by a bullet, gasping, face showing shock. I didn't hesitate, punching him through the hole Abby's weapon had torn in his defenses. I found where his energy flowed out of him, the energy pulling away my essence, and I severed his hold on me. I felt the essence snap back into place, almost seeming relieved. Daedalus tried to flee but I caught him, twisting his own energy so that any move he made tightened the hold. He struggled and I pounced.

Reaching into him, I found his source of power. I could feel the weight of awareness pressing in from all around, other powers turning attention to our fight. I had no time to waste. I found the point inside Daedalus where his powers seemed to have a fatal flaw, a power button, of sorts, and with a fairly simple, effortless intention, I simply switched it all off.

Daedalus' scream was nothing any mortal could survive. I shielded myself and Abby as best I could, drawing us as far away from the evil being as possible, slamming us back into the realm I'd constructed, falling onto the floor in the simulated living room, gasping for breath.

Abby screamed for several seconds and I tried to refocus and figure out what all was broken inside me. To my surprise, other than a sensation something akin to soreness or bruising where the essence's boundaries and my own were mixed and indistinguishable, everything seemed to be in place. The same was true for Abby.

Dad, Tristan, and Theresa were with us immediately, frightful expressions, questions of well being and concern. I calmed everyone when I was able to swallow, using my powers to ease the soreness where Daedalus had gripped my throat, and I told them what had happened, my voice splitting and trembling from the force of adrenaline flooding my body.

Tristan shook his head the whole time, "How did he track the visions? I don't understand..."

Theresa said, "Caracus was aware of them too, remember? Maybe they can sense them as some of us do, but with more detail..."

"Or maybe," I said quietly, "I've been inviting them along..."

"What?!" Tristan gasped.

The situation which had played out had been more dangerous for me, and the rest of reality, than any I'd known before, but I was growing very confident that I, and the essence, had orchestrated the whole thing, a sort of deadly-if-wrong, calculated risk. "I think... Daedalus was the point of the visions... I think... the essence knew he would be close enough to me to find me earlier than he did. The visions, though, were a bit of a distraction with a purpose. They kept him occupied, following the only trail which made sense to follow since, every time, it guaranteed that I would be there. Daedalus caught up to the visions just before Dad's night with Uni. I think, had the visions not led him to that moment, he would have caught me much earlier and he would have found me too weak to resist him..."

"That's crazy," Dad breathed, "you used yourself as bait?"

"In a way. I wasn't conscious of it, it was the essence doing the baiting, but... it mostly worked."

"You were damn near destroyed!" Tristan bellowed. "He came within seconds of consuming your essence! We would have never recovered!"

I nodded, "I think you understand, Tristan, that we won't win this fight from a distance... It was a risk worth taking, and it paid off... I... switched off... Daedalus's powers."

"Switched off," Theresa said quietly, "but not destroyed."

"No... no, I didn't have time for that. I could feel him recovering near the end. Even if I could have destroyed him, or his powers, I knew it would immediately draw in the next enemy. We already alerted every being of power to our struggle. I felt them coming. The Paladin. Maybe the fallen god. Many others. I might have killed Daedalus, or forever wiped him of power, but... I would have lost the essence to something else. I knew it was so, so... I did the only thing I could think to do. I just, sort of, flipped his switch."

"But he can turn it back on, yes?" Abby asked.

"Not directly," Tristan muttered, "though I'm not sure anyone would help that one regain his strength. I doubt anyone is his ally unless compelled to be..."

"So... he's out of the fight?" Abby said, still shaking where she leaned against me.

I replied, "No... no, just... temporarily on the sidelines, I think... I had no time to do anything permanent..."

"Why didn't he see Abby?" Dad asked. "Why was she hidden?"

"That," I explained, "is something I'm rather proud of, and... so is the essence. See... The essence understood that I was bait, and Daedalus was so focused on me that he never even considered someone else might be with me. I'd always been the sole voyeur in the visions. His assumption, I expect, became his expectation. He never bothered to check after a certain point.

"I'd thrown protections around us immediately, but I was too late to fully protect myself from him. Since he never expected Abby, the protections I laid effectively masked her presence until I could link my innate powers to her spark and turn it loose. The shock on his face..." I said, smiling. "Regardless. I've been testing and examining the essence, making sure Daedalus didn't mess with it or leave something in it. I've found nothing so far, and nothing like what I put in The Paladin. I'll keep checking, though."

"The visions, then..." Dad breathed, "they were only a way to distract Daedalus, to delay the inevitable, and to give you a chance to surprise him in order to save yourself at the end... Jesus, Tera, the risks..."

I nodded, "I know. I can't say, if I'd been aware of what the essence had planned, that I would have gone along... and it was... close to a horrible result even so... The sensation... of the essence being taken from me... I cannot describe the anguish that brought to me..."

"Tera?" Theresa asked.

"Hmmm?"

"Why did the visions speed up lately? You said the last couple moved along faster than others."

I shrugged, "My guess is that Daedalus was getting closer and the essence was moving to try to prevent him from fully catching up, to buy me some time. The last one was quite different, and not just because Abby was with me. It was like Daedalus had found me and it was just a matter of awaiting a showdown with him."

The room grew silent.

Abby whispered, "I feel something, Tera..."

I knew instinctively what she meant. "I have to teach you immediately how to control what you hold..."

Abby nodded, clearly in shock.

"It seems my plans for Uni need to take a back seat for now. Abby can sense her spark. I guess what I did built the remaining controls she needed to finally see it, to feel it..."

"She'll be a danger to us all until she can control it," Tristan muttered.

I nodded, "And so we begin immediately."

- - -

It was something like teaching someone to breath fire, but with an urgent need to do so quickly. Oh, and there was also a rather deep reserve of alcohol which might be drawn out accidentally, turning a small spray of fire into an enormous flamethrower. I shut Abby and myself in my room and we worked for hours, starting with small things, just a brief burst of her powers, to teach her the controls. I created clones, like I had when testing my ideas about linking the sparks to the essence, and she learned to direct her energy at the points where I had created weaknesses. By the end of a marathon first session, I felt that Abby would have enough control to not accidentally destroy us, or our surroundings, and, possibly, might even be an asset in a fight.

We were utterly exhausted, but Theresa insisted we eat. I turned her down, instead taking Caracus' advice from earlier and simply creating the nutrients Abby and I needed.

What I couldn't artificially imbue was restfulness. That seemed to be a literal physical law issue, one even a former mortal like me could not overcome by using the essence. Abby and I collapsed together on my bed and were very quickly asleep.

- - -

Theresa woke us, saying, "You two okay?"

"Hmm?" I moaned groggily, Abby stirring and stretching beside me.

"Just checking on you... you've been sleeping for over a day..."

The weight of the fight with Daedalus crashed in on me from nowhere and I began to cry openly, anguished. I felt again the near-loss of the essence, of how close I'd come to dying, or worse. The adrenaline had kept my emotions somewhat in check in the immediate moments following the fight, but waking many hours later and realizing how close I had come to losing everything hit me like a stone.

I cried against Theresa as she held me. I felt Abby close the short distance between us and wrap her arms around my shoulder. My best friend whispered, "Aww... Tera..."

"Sorry," I muttered, "I don't know why I'm crying..."

Theresa gently said, "It's okay, Sweet girl... You've been a rock through all of this... I'm surprised it hasn't all hit you like this before now..."

I let it all go, as best I could. Part of me wished I could return to being an innocent fifteen-year old girl again, worrying about boys and when I might finally have sex and whether Dad would take me on a vacation soon. That dream lingered in my thoughts as I began to control my weeping. Those days were gone for me, in more ways than one, and I felt sad a little longer to never again be able to think about the future with mundane fantasies of what life might be like for me.

But I hadn't suffered near destruction at the hands of Daedalus to weep like a child. I wiped my eyes and nose on a tissue Theresa handed me, then sat up. "I love you both, you know... Please... don't tell Dad and Tristan about... this... I don't need them worrying about me, okay?"

Abby nodded, and Theresa offered a warm smile, "Our secret... Take your time, Tera... It's okay to be sad..."

I sniffled, wiped my nose again, then nodded, "I'm over it. There is too much to do to let this linger."

"What's next?" Abby asked.

"Next... I need to gain access to the other sparks the way I did yours. Not through the essence, like it is now... through my own power. That's the only way it worked in the fight, Abby, because the essence was being warped and constrained. I worry the direct link, had one been in place to you, would have exposed you to his awareness and would have kept me from accessing what you hold. I need to sever the other links as soon as possible."

Abby nodded, brushing the hair out of my face, "Okay. You might want to clean up a bit first..."

I chuckled. I supposed I really didn't need to shower. I could just blink myself clean and fresh and presentable. But, like eating food, other than just before our long nap, physical self-care had been a comfortable habit which kept me grounded and feeling human. A hot shower was another ritual I wanted to maintain. "Wanna join me?" I asked Abby.

She grinned, "Oh, yes... I need one, too..."

As we stepped up to the tub, hot spray creating a fine mist, I let myself open up the trace I'd left in the Paladin. The flood tried to burst through my filters and overwhelm me again, but I tightened my grip. He'd been aware of the fight I'd had with Daedalus and was actively trying to find either of us. He wasn't sure, I knew, which of us had won. I got the sense that he believed Daedalus was the victor, that I'd been destroyed. There was a wariness in his search for the man that I didn't expect. The Paladin was now marking Daedalus as his equal, or, perhaps, his greater. That alone might buy me a little more time, at least until The Paladin recognized the mistake in his assumptions and discovered that I'd not only survived, but that I'd bested Daedalus. I wondered what he might think of me at that point.

I shut him out again, the energy needed to control the overwhelming amount of information sent from the immortal too much to maintain long without rest, and stepped into the tub, naked, with my best friend right behind me.

- - -

"So... how do we do this, Tera?" Abby asked me quietly. "I mean... this is gonna be super weird to Uni..."

We'd been standing in the room modeled on my bedroom where I'd moved Uni's sleeping body so that we might have a more private setting. I'd created a room similar to the one in Caracus' realm for the others, though it was styled much like my bedroom because it felt more comfortable to me that way.

Uni slept on, oblivious. Ever since I'd created the links between the essence and the sparks, I'd wondered what might happen when one of the survivors was awakened. I thought about how difficult it had been for me to accept the truth of things in the beginning. Abby had not really believed me when I'd told her about what I'd experienced, not until I'd traveled her to Tristan's workshop, at least. Even then, she'd taken some time to really accept the truth. What would Uni think? What about the others?

Uni had always been a rather shy girl, except around me and Abby, but even then, she was often demure, letting us direct conversations. I'd always had the sense, though, that Uni had a more wild side. She gave us hints sometimes. Abby and I knew the girl was no virgin, though she'd not shared any details. Uni might have had sex even before Abby for all we knew. I hoped that the connection to us, the friendship, and, perhaps, her hidden private side might help ease her into what I needed the two of us to do.

"Tera?" Abby asked after I failed to respond to her question.

"I don't really know," I replied, "we just have to wing it, I guess..."

Abby nodded, "Well... we should get started, right?"

I agreed it was time.

I gently untied the effects which were keeping Uni sedate and unconscious, easing away the sensations so that she could rouse slowly. I was seated on one side of the bed, Abby on the other, both of us turned to face Uni as her breathing changed and her body started to stretch and twist.

Uni's eyes blinked open, closed again, then opened much wider. "Tera?!" She sat up, shaking. I sent a gentle calm into her thoughts, just enough to keep her panic from rising.

"Hi," I said, smiling, "how you feeling?"

She looked at Abby a moment, then around the room. "I... I don't know..."

"Having some... intense dreams?"

Uni nodded, her dark hair mussed and tangled over her shoulders. She wore a simple white top and white leggings, as I'd given all the survivors. "What... what am I doing here? Is this your room?" she asked me.

I replied, "Yeah," ignoring the details of the actual situation for a time, "everything's okay, Uni..."

"Okay," she breathed, "but... I feel like I've been asleep forever!"

"I know... there's... there's a lot going on."

She looked at me, a hint of fear in her dark eyes, "Tera... I'm scared..."

Abby took her hand and said, "I was right where you are now, Uni, trust me. I know this is weird... and it's gonna get a lot weirder..."

I asked, "Do you trust me, Uni? Do you trust me to tell you the honest truth of things?"

She nodded, "Of course! What's going on?"

"I just want you to listen a while, alright? I have a lot I need to tell you, and... like Abby said... it's gonna get weird..."

Uni swallowed hard, confusion in her expression.

- - -

It was clear Uni was growing distressed by the time I got to the point of describing how we'd rescued those with the sparks. I hadn't told Uni, yet, about how she and the others gained the modules of power, only implying that they'd been given to them in a special way. "Your mom is fine... she's here too," I told her. "And since then... you've been asleep while we figured out how to help you..."

Uni shook her head, "I gotta get out of here... I... This is insane! I'm still asleep!"

The girl jumped off the bed, a look like a cornered animal on her face.

I worried about this part a lot. Did I press her and keep adding complexity to her fears? Did I ease off, pretend things were more normal than in reality? I had no idea how best to calm Uni short of forcing my intention upon her, and I really didn't want to do that much more than I already was. At some point, using too much of that force made Uni a puppet for me, and I knew it would only be too easy to push her to do what I needed without her full will involved. Consent mattered to me, and despite Tristan's protests, I thought maybe it mattered to the essence. Certainly it would matter to my innate powers, the ones which were built on doing things my way. The right way.

Abby suggested, "How about we go for a walk?"

"Yes," I agreed, "Uni?"

The girl looked frightened but nodded, "Yeah... I need to go outside..."

"Well... outside is a rather... odd concept right now... but I know a beautiful place we can go... if you'll let me take you there..."

"Take me there?"

I nodded, "I told you I can travel places, and I can take you and Abby with me... but you have to consent to it. I can't force you there..."

Uni was shaking. "I don't understand any of this, Tera!"

"I know... it's gonna take time..."

"This place," Uni said meekly, "where you want to take me... is it... like... on Earth?"

I shook my head, "No... I think somewhere even better would help right now. Somewhere beautiful and almost divine, in some ways..." I didn't bother to tell Uni that, even though she believed she was in my bedroom in the mundane, she was rather far from the planet she knew as home.

"O-okay..." she said at last. "I'll go. I just need out of this room..."

In a blink, we were in one of the beautiful, open-air hedge-walled chambers in the greater sanctuary, dozens of bennu pecking at the soft grass, flexing their wings randomly. Immediately, I felt my weariness relax a bit. I sensed Uni's nausea in time to catch her in my arms as she retched on her knees, Abby holding back hair as our friend spit out bile. Abby said gently, "Happened to me the first time, too. You'll get used to it..."

I reached out to the attendants and registered Uni as my guest. The spectral beings had begun to treat me like one of the more powerful entities which visited the sanctuary. There was an obedience in their reactions to my requests which hadn't been there before. When I conjured up a small, cushioned couch and a low table near it, I asked for a selection of food and drinks I knew Uni would enjoy.

I carried a cup of hot tea to her and knelt down beside Abby. Uni looked up, her almond tones a little pale. She looked at the tea as if I was trying to poison her a moment, then took it, hands shaking, sipping it carefully before saying, "What in the hell happened?"

"That was me traveling you. Like Abby said, it takes a little getting used to..."

"And... where are we?"

"It's a sanctuary... A lovely place for relaxation and recovery. Do you feel a little better?"

Uni nodded, "Yeah... after I spit up, I mean..."

I guided us over to the couch and sat us down, Uni between me and Abby. "Hungry?"

"Very," Uni agreed.

- - -

We all ate heartily, mostly in silence. I could feel that Uni was starting to destress, though still frightened. She asked near the end of the meal, "So... you did all this?"

"The table and seating, that was me, but the food... that was made for us by the attendants." When she narrowed her eyes, I added, "They sort of service the sanctuary... provide for the visitors. And the food is always delicious, yes?"

"Completely," Uni nodded, "the best food I've ever had."

I sent the sense of Uni's statement out to the attendants. There was a simple acknowledgement but nothing similar to thanks or pride.

"So... what happens to me now, Tera? Like... I don't understand anything... really anything... but... I can't go home?"

I shook my head, "Not now, no... Unfortunately... I need to keep you close to protect you and the others... I'm sorry you got involved, Uni... No one knew this would happen to you or anyone."

My friend thought a moment quietly, then said, "Can I see my mom soon?"

"We'll wake her next, I promise, but... there's something I haven't told you yet, and... well... it's gonna sound just as strange as everything else..."

"What?"

Abby looked at me with sympathy.

"See... because of your spark... I had to create a link, of sorts, to my power... but it's not the best solution, I think. Abby has a spark, too, but I had access to hers without needing to create the link..."

"Why?"

"Well... our theory is... there's a way to join the two ends directly and it involves... uh..."

Uni's eyes narrowed, "What?"

Abby spoke before I did, "We had sex."

Uni didn't say a word, gasping in surprise, her eyes reversing and growing wide quickly, "You did?"

Abby nodded, a little flushed, "I got my spark the same way you did... I had sex with Tera's dad..."

"What?!"

"In the loop... he and I had sex... that's how I got my spark... And... he made love with you, Uni... while in the loop..."

"I don't remember anything!"

"No one does," Abby explained, "only Quinn..."

Uni's mouth moved as if to speak, but nothing came out but another gasp.

I pressed forward. "The reason we didn't need a link to Abby's spark, we think, is because, before they tried to reach out to the essence, Abby and I were together... The essence uses intimacy to pass itself from host to host, either to a partner or a child conceived. We think that... you and I, Uni... we need to make love..."

"Oh my goodness..." Her almond flesh grew a little rosy on her cheeks.

"But I'm not going to force anything, Uni... this is tricky, and... letting the links linger is dangerous, I think... but... it's important to me that you... that you want to lay with me..."

Uni blinked a few times. I hated, in that moment, that I hadn't gotten the chance to see Dad with Uni. Unlike all his other partners, Uni was the one I hadn't been able to watch. She was such a pretty girl. My age, soft, dark Japanese features, a mouth which naturally hung open just a little, hair which, when brushed out as it was now, waved with silky shadows. I longed to see Dad making love with Uni. The essence pulsed gently, and I felt another lever in my grasp.

- - -

Skip.

What? My immaterial form did something like a blink. I was watching Dad talking to Uni outside the mall, two other girls nearby. Abby was with me again, and this time, so was the real Uni. I sent a calming energy to both. Uni, I told her, do you want to see what happened during the time loop... how you came to hold the spark? I knew I had opened the vision myself and taken my friends with me. The essence opened the controls fully to me, no longer sending the blinding beacon which had lured Daedalus to follow the visions.

Uni told me, What happens?! She seemed to be ignoring or misunderstanding Abby's explanation moments earlier, perhaps too discombobulated by being in the vision to think straight.

You make love with my dad...

What?!

You don't have to see this... I can send us back...

She didn't respond a moment, then, I'll watch...

Skip. Dad and Uni were in his car, and it was obvious that the girl was letting her skirt rise up so that Dad could see more of her thighs. She was teasing him, flushed, and quite clearly horny. I began to suspect this was the private side of Uni which Abby and I never saw.

Skip. Uni seemed to take charge on the couch at my house, pulling Dad's cock out and sucking it. There was no doubt my friend had some practice given the way her movements were confident, teasing and edging my father. I stopped the skipping scenes and let us watch, in full, the moments Dad and Uni had sex.

Dad came in Uni's mouth, and when she pulled back, some of his sperm was hanging from her lip. My father began to lick Uni's cunt, and I knew the ethereal Uni, the one watching the scene with me, was very turned on to see herself spreading her legs and letting my dad lick her pussy. After a lovely orgasm, Dad offered Uni his slippery finger, coated in the girl's cream, for her to suck on.

Uni mounted my father, taking him inside her vagina without a condom. She orgasmed soon after, and I thought, Oh, Daddy, so aroused by what I was watching that the thought slipped out easily. I recalled wonderful moments, riding Dad's cock, orgasming on him, and swear my ethereal self almost orgasmed. Oh... Daddy... Ohhh...

As Dad began to unload in Uni's cunt, he moaned, “Oh... Tera... Oh...”

I felt the voyeur Uni flinch, He called me... Tera?!

I hadn't expected that. How would Uni in the time loop react?

At first, the lovers began to relax, my father's cock staying inside Uni's cum-filled hole. The girl said, “Did... did you just say your daughter's name?”

“I... uh.. I...” Dad sputtered.

“You... you imagined I was Tera... Tera... Your daughter...” Uni's shocked tone gave way to a more moderate disbelief. “Like... when you came... you imagined you came in... in Tera?”

“I...” Dad paused, then, “Yes...”

Uni started rolling her hips on my father's penis.

“That's... that's the perviest thing I've ever heard,” Uni said. “Like... the perviest...”

Dad breathed, “Yes... I want to fuck my own daughter... I want to fuck her pussy... her ass... I want to cum inside of every hole she has...”

“Your own daughter...” Uni was moving more quickly, more urgency his her rolls and rising-falling hips.

“My own daughter. I've licked her pussy, Uni... I've licked Tera's pussy. She came so hard...”

“Seriously? You went down on your daughter... on Tera? You licked her there?”

Uni rode my father faster and Dad was thrusting up to meet her.

“Yes... I licked my own daughter's pussy. She was delicious. I can't stop thinking about Tera's pussy.”

“So,” Uni asked between light moans, “will you fuck her?”

“Yes.”

“Yes?”

“Yes... I will fuck Tera. I will fuck my daughter.”

I felt the watching Uni's words pound into me with insistence, Is that how you got the essence, Tera? Did you fuck your father?

I was so fucking horny watching Dad fucking Uni, pretending she was me, that I felt myself burning with arousal. Yes... that's how the time loop stopped.

There was a pause, the lovers in our vision rutting hard, Dad with a finger in Uni's butthole. Then Uni said, And you still do it with him?

All the time.

Can we stop this? Uni sent, I need to stop.

- - -

"Is it true, Tera? Did you do it with your dad?"

I nodded, "It's true..."

Uni was flushed, sweaty, pacing in front of the couch where Abby and I were lounging. "Oh my goodness! You had sex with your own dad! That's... that's... so hot!"

I smiled, pleasantly surprised, "I agree..."

"Abby... do you do it with him, too?"

My best friend grinned, "Yeah... I love it."

Uni shuddered, "I'm so horny right now... do you think he might... uh... want to do what he did with me in that thing we just saw?"

I chuckled, "Yeah... uh... first, though..."

"Oh, right!" Uni exclaimed, "Yeah... let's do it, Tera! I'm so horny!"

Abby smiled, "Which do you prefer, Uni? Boy or girl parts?"

"Huh?"

I blinked away my clothes and showed Uni what I could do to my genitals. She stared a moment in disbelief. I asked, "I can change them back, if you prefer..."

"Oh my goodness, Tera! Can I... touch it?"

"I'd love that..."

Abby stood from the couch, "I'll just leave you two..."

Uni put a hand on her leg, "No... please stay..."

I nodded, "Oh, yes... please stay, Abby... I want us all to share this..."

Uni's private sexual side took control, pulling Abby to us as she sank down between my legs. My penis was throbbing in her mouth in seconds. Uni's practiced lips feeling so soft and certain around my glans. Abby kissed Uni's cheek and started to pull away the girl's shirt. I blinked away their coverings and left the three of us completely naked.

"I want you inside me so bad," Uni breathed, pulling her body over me, feet on the cushions. I felt Abby take hold of my cock, sucking it a moment, then guiding it right into Uni's tight, carefully-trimmed pussy, the straight dark hairs cut short around her slit. Wet heat stretched around me as Uni took me inside.

She rode me steadily, pumping her hips up and down as I fondled her lovely light-brown breasts. I felt Abby licking my pussy below where Uni fucked me. I can't say exactly why I chose the penis I did, or why I didn't bother to add balls to my form. But when I felt Abby's tongue probing my vagina as Uni's juices leaked down my shaft and onto my pussy, I knew it was a perfect combination of male and female parts.

Abby licked and fingered me, Uni starting to shudder and climax, "Nnnn... nnnnn... Nnnnnn! Ohhhhhh! Nnnnnn... Nnnnnnnnnn... nnnnooooooohhhh... ohhhh..." I pulled Uni down and kissed her. I could feel Abby spreading her buttocks and licking my shaft and Uni's labia at the same time.

The sensation drove me higher and higher, my mind so aroused by the scenes of Uni pretending to be me while fucking Dad, the tight, slippery pussy riding me clenching as the teen orgasmed. I started to fill Uni in tight spurts, not yet climaxing, but ejaculating with several rapid, quick bursts of cum.

Uni kept riding as her pussy churned the front end of my load, and Abby licked the creamy juices from my shaft and Uni's cunt. "God, Uni... you are so hot!" I breathed.

She only moaned and grunted and kept slamming herself down on me hard.

When I felt Abby's tongue on my anus, Uni's juices and mine coating my tighter hole, I started to let go at last. "Ohhhhhhhhh! Ooooooooooohhhh! Uni! Ohhhhhhhh!"

"Cum in her, Tera!" Abby exclaimed with her lips moving through the cleft in my bottom, "Cum in Uni!"

I filled the teen with thick globs of semen, Abby licking it up as it squished out of Uni's vagina. Uni slowed and stilled and we kissed a moment, Abby joining us and sharing the unique flavors in her mouth, a mix of my semen and Uni's cream. Uni wrapped her arms around me, my cock still twitching in her randomly-clenching cunt. "Oh my goodness..."