The hivemind is conquering for me?

After the 'shower', I put on a nice, warm, newly created set of clothes and began making my way through the ship to go and flirt with Jewel a little bit. However, the fact I was now practically in her embrace once more, being inside of her ship, I felt an overwhelming sleepiness overwhelm me and changed my trajectory towards my bedroom.

Upon arriving at my room, Orchid was lying on my bed naked, with an expression on her face like she had read me like a book. She did not try to be flirty or suggest anything lewd. She simply opened up my blanket, revealing her form as she invited me in.

I looked around for Keyla momentarily, but she didn't appear to be here. I would have liked to be sandwiched between the two of them as I slept, but I was just as fine with my Orchid. Not even bothering to undress, I walked over to Orchid and crawled into the bed.

I then placed my head between her pillows, grabbing one for safekeeping before almost instantly falling asleep.

Orchid watched me for a short while, a content loving smile upon her face. She knew her Apollo had pushed himself far during this hunt. And the entire hive was proud of him for seemingly overcoming his lesser species morality.

It was not his fault after all that his inherited memory was polluting his mind with 'morality.' Orchid then proceeded to run her hands through her mates hair for some time, enjoying the sensation of his deep breathing against her skin before her form got caught up in Apollo's current state as her eyes began to feel drowsy and she too fell asleep.

...

I was having a deep sleep, only darkness in front of my eyes, unlike my usual active sleep, as I was truly recovering from a great deal of mental stress. That was until I heard a voice inside my Mindspace.

"Aha! Finally I made it! Apollo!" Recognising the voice, I opened my eyes and I was inside of my Mindspace. Sure enough, nearby was a scene of Kathrine's bedroom as she just got off her bed, leaving a silhouette behind.

Feeling the presence of her master gazing at her, Kathrine turned to me and instantly her eyes became wet. She ran as fast as she could towards me before hugging my form tightly for a moment before collapsing against it as she began bawling her eyes out.

"Woah! Why are there tears?" I asked Kat as I began stroking her back after bringing her in close for a hug. I let the woman cry for a good five minutes before she composed herself enough to reply after sniffling.

"Apollo. I could tell you were fighting all week and I have had a knot in my stomach at the thought of you in danger. I have barely been able to function. I am just so glad you are ok." Kathrine then tightened up her hug once more and her hands started to get wanderlust.

Pulling away slightly, I caressed the side of her face and watched with a smile as she practically melted into my palm. Having her attention as her eyes looked up at my own, I declared.

"Kathrine. I am exhausted mentally, I don't have the energy to get frisky right now. What I do want however, is a little bit of normalcy. Tell me about your week. What did you get up to?"

Kathrine seemed a bit disappointed at first, but as we made our way over to the bed she had so kindly brought with her, we lay down and began talking about her. A welcome distraction to my weary mind.

Apparently Kathrine had been spending a lot more time at Sophia's, despite having a lack of me there as incentive to go. She has been enjoying spending her time with the 'aliens' as it has been giving her a fresh perspective into my life.

I then attempted to explain to Kathrine how the cults are basically outliers in the hive's hierarchy and their perspective is still relatively human, but Kathrine shrugged her shoulders at that as her inner Spartari came out when she claimed. 'Aliens are aliens.'

Kathrine spent the next few hours complaining about her mom and how she had become insufferable while also going on about how she cannot wait for her to experience the feeling of being inside of the Mindspace.

The messages she was giving off were conflicting as at one point she was exclaiming about the training they did earlier before she went to bed and how she wanted the 'old bat' to drop dead already and that it was 'beyond her time.'

A few hours of chatting with Kathrine had caused my weariness to catch up once more as I fell asleep on her bed once more. Kathrine took this opportunity to give me a kiss before positioning herself perfectly in her silhouette, causing her to wake up in her own bed.

Upon waking up, she was greeted to the sight of her mother standing over her, as she had somehow developed a sixth sense for when she went to go and see her favoured child. Valerica did not have the usual worried expression on her face and instead, after seeing her daughter wake up, she grabbed Kathrine's nipples from above the sheet and twisted hard, causing Kathrine to scream in agony.

"Old bat am I? Beyond my time am I? I will show you who is old you ungrateful brat! Training room. NOW!" Kathrine's eyes went wide with shock. She was unaware of course that being in contact with her silhouette while in Apollo's Mindspace allowed her more... Passionate opinions to escape her unconscious lips.

Kathrine wanted to protest she had no idea what her mother was talking about, but with the threat of her nipples falling of if her mummy twisted further and the sadistic expression on Valerica's face, as though daring her to lie, Kathrine sighed through the pain and accepting her fate, replied. "Yes mummy. Sorry mummy."

Valerica was glad her daughter understood her current position. She wanted to remain strict until she beat the slander from her ungrateful mouth. She also wanted to have a few words with Kathrine about her recent browser history on the computer, the reason she came in the room in the first place, but she just could not help herself. It had been over a week since the last check in after all.

"How is my baby by the way? Other than you slandering your dear, sweet mother to him, you did not say anything else out loud. Is he well *GASP* You did not tell him about my surprise did you? I want to see the look on his face when he finds out he is going to officially be my son! Did he mention me at all? Does he miss me at all? Did you tell him I love him very much? Did you-"

…

Gabrielle was orbiting Ecumenopolis 3, staring at the planet below. With the ship she had liberated from Hailey, she could clutter the orbit as much as she wanted after all. She had managed to track down a certain shit she really did not want to see, but he deserved to know the truth.

Just as Gabrielle built up the resolve to get it over with, her communicator rang. Seeing who it was, Gabrielle chucked it to the side, she could deal with the overbearing giant later. Or so she thought.

"Did you just throw your communicator to the side when your boss rang you? Unbelievable Gabrielle." She heard Hugo all of a sudden, causing her to jump in surprise. "Did you just take over the communicator's frequency? That is a huge invasion of privacy Hugo. What if I was naked?" She said, attempting to guilt trip the man.

"*Sigh* Gabrielle, I have seen you naked hundreds of times, as well as every other recruit of Olympus, trust me, you have nothing special." He said to the woman, causing a gasp of shock to escape the unstable woman's mouth.

Gabrielle then got out of the pilot seat and went to pick up the communication, causing a panic sweat to build up on Hugo's face as he watched the twitching eye of Gabrielle. "Hugo, you better have a good reason for contacting me or I am coming to kill you."

Hugo panicked as he put a finger to his lips and shushed. "For fuck sake Gabrielle, not on an official Olympus line! If someone checks this, you will be branded a traitor for that you imbecile! And of course I have a good reason for contacting you, it pertains to your son."

"Speak." Gabrielle spoke tonelessly, a thing that Hugo feared more than unstable Gabrielle. As at this point, even an unstable Gabrielle was predictable. Hugo eyed the milkshake to his side, but held off a moment.

"I cannot share over the communicator Gabrielle, return to Ecumenopolis 1. You are still banned from Olympus however, so I will meet you at Ron's shakes in two days." He said, getting another toneless reply. "Understood."

The communication was then ended and Hugo immediately went for the shake to his side to appease his nerves. "That woman is getting scarier by the day. I hope she stays calm when she sees the footage..."