Loretta was drafted. She didn’t want this for herself, but once her degree was done it was pretty much an inevitability. She didn’t have the money to go for her masters so here she was, being shipped off from basic to the carrier Rings of Saturn. Things started off ok, since she was educated she was given an officer's commission and a place on the bridge as an Electronic Warfare officer.

The captain was nice, things were going well, and she became a valued member of the crew, but eventually, they lost the war. The entire bridge crew was brought together to decide what to do. Loretta and the captain argued to respect the armistice, but the rest of the bridge crew, who were career military men and women, had other ideas.

The two arguing for surrender were called plant fuckers and told in no uncertain terms that if the ship attempted to surrender there would be a mutiny. After that things got much worse. Loretta and the captain were ostracized from the rest of the crew, and days dragged into weeks and into months as Loretta was forced to watch horrible things be done to anyone who even dared dissent.

Loretta began to dissociate, Loretta began to bring Fluffy with her everywhere, Loretta began drinking with the captain almost every night once their shifts ended. Loretta was laughed at behind her back. Loretta could barely feel any emotions. Loretta was scared almost constantly.

The captain held Loretta close as she cried. The captain kissed Loretta. Loretta was pushed against the wall. The Captain and Loretta began to share a bed. Rumors began to spread, Loretta ignored them. Loretta began to be harassed, The Captain could not stop them. Loretta was cornered by two of the other bridge crew, one held a knife up to Fluffy. Loretta couldn’t let them harm Fluffy.

The ship was about to jump, Loretta had to get away. Loretta pushed herself down the hallway away from the men after the Captain yelled at them to stop. Loretta threw herself into an escape pod. Loretta pulled the eject lever. Loretta saw the bright flash of white. Loretta began to forget, Loretta began to cry.

Loretta had abandoned the Captain, Loretta didn’t deserve to be happy. Loretta was a failure.

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Loretta woke up.

When Loretta awoke she was gasping for air and screaming at the top of her lungs. She didn’t want to go back, she didn’t want to go back to the ship, she didn’t deserve to be here, Cherry cared about her, Loretta didn’t deserve that at all.

The captain cared about her and Loretta ran away, she had left the one person who had ever truly loved her and now she wanted to do it again. She pushed Cherry away yesterday because she was terrified of giving in, of letting herself be cared for.

She didn’t want this, she was crying, screaming at the top of her lungs in between gasps for air. She was going to hurt Cherry like she probably hurt the captain, whose name she couldn’t even remember. What a terrible lover she was, she couldn’t remember the captain's name. She felt sick with herself, sick with existing. Fluffy would be disappointed with her, she knew that for certain.

Tears fell from her face as she sobbed her eyes out, she didn’t deserve love from anyone, definitely not from Cherry, definitely not from the captain. There was a part of Loretta screaming that she didn’t want to be a pet, that this wasn’t what she wanted, that she just needed to hide alone with Fluffy and never get close to anyone ever again, but the rest of her mind was screaming at her, telling her to go to Cheery, apologize, and beg to be hers.

Wasn’t she manipulated? Loretta still felt sick at the thought of it but eventually realized that it didn’t matter. She would have wanted this anyway. She needs somebody to take care of her or she is going to let herself waste away. Loretta tries to sit up, to leave the room, go to Cherry, but luckily for her, the door opened before she had to.

Cherry was there, looking deeply concerned as moved over and pulled Loretta into a hug.

“Petal, are you ok?” Cherry asked.

Loretta sobbed into her plant, crying. Cherry didn’t bother prodding her further, just holding her close as she cried. Loretta let all the tears of pain run out. It took an hour but eventually, she did calm down, leaving the girl a sniffling dead mess.

“Do you want to talk about it?” Cherry asked Loretta, who nodded.

“I-i uhh… I had a dream, I remembered what happened on the ship.” Loretta said, looking away in shame.

“I presume that this isn’t a good thing?” Cherry replied.

“Not at all… The captain and I were… essentially held hostage by the rest of the crew. We wanted to surrender when the armistice came through but nobody else did, and it sort of had us labeled as ‘plantfuckers’ from the start. The bullying was terrible and nobody would even talk to me but the captain.”

Cherry nodded, holding the girl close. “That must have been terrible.”

“It was… the only good thing about it was me and the Captain eventually started uh…” Loretta blushed. “Sharing a bed I guess.”

Loretta sighed, squeezing Cherry closer. “I didn’t want to be your pet because I felt like I had failed the captain. I mean I can’t even remember her name, my entire time on that ship was so fuzzy that I barely remember anything. I felt like I didn’t deserve somebody who clearly cared as much about me as you do. I don’t want to abandon somebody like that again…”

Cherry chuckled softly, stroking Loretta’s hair. “Well, if it’s any consolation, if you become mine I don’t think you will have a choice on the matter.”

Loretta blushed, squirming a bit in the embrace. “W-what do you mean by that?”

“Well, if you become my pet, you will get something called a Haustoric Implant, which we put in via a little incision right abooout here,” Cherry said, brushing a finger along the back of Loretta’s neck, eliciting a moan and a shiver. “It would be grown with a sample taken from my core, and it can do a lot of useful things. It can manufacture your regular xenodrugs and balance your hormones and body functions, keeping you as healthy as can be. It would also let me take all of those traumatic memories of yours if you wanted me to, and even if it doesn’t it would help with those bad intrusive thoughts telling you that you don’t deserve me.”

Loretta blushed. “S-so a part of you w-would be inside of me?”

Cherry smirked, putting a finger under Loretta’s chin, forcing her to make eye contact. “Is somebody excited about the prospect of being my little obedient pet?”

Loretta moaned, staring into the deep, beautiful eyes. The song returned to her mind, flooding her with feelings of comfort, safety, and submission, and this time, just this once, she let it in. Loretta wanted to know how it felt to belong to Cherry, body, and mind. She let her plant's song wash over her, guiding her words and thoughts and it was wonderful.

The dreams couldn’t even begin to replicate this feeling, the submission that filled her head to toe. She began to loosen up, smiling slightly. “I-I want to be y-yours m-m-mistress.”

Cherry’s grin grew wider, and her eyes took on a predatory smirk. “Oh? You want to be mine hmmm?” A flower-tipped vine sat in the front of Loretta’s vision, dripping with a pink liquid, she was then injected right in the neck, a feeling of warmth flooding over her entire body.

Loretta’s mind filled with one urge, to be touched by her mistress, to feel that physical contact against her. Everywhere Cherry touched her was electric, and Loretta soon found herself shoved onto the floor, a vine forcing her to look up at Cherry from her kneeling position.

“That my dear was something we call Class A xenodrugs. They make touch far more desirable and far more pleasurable. However, If you want to be mine, show me how much you want it~ Beg.”

The command burned itself into Loretta’s mind, focusing it through the xenodrugs and biorhythm. “Please m-mistress, make me yours, I want to be your good obedient slutty pet, please please please please make me yours I’m a good little slutty pet make me yours break me use me d-”

“That’s enough pet,” Cherry said, and Loretta stopped.

Soon, the girl was pulled up into her plant’s vines, before being pushed back onto the bed. The vines began to run all over her, as they began to remove her clothes. Loretta found herself moaning in ecstasy at every touch, every brushing vine over her naked body.

“M-mistress!” Loretta moaned, softly and needily.

“Oh, look at how quickly you gave in~, to think just yesterday you were against being mine, now look at you, moaning my name like a needy pet.”

A vine squeezed Loretta’s breast, causing the girl to arch her back, moaning once more. Every touch sent her thoughts reeling, unable to do anything but softly moan for her mistress as she melted, giving herself completely and utterly to Cherry.

After several hours of pure bliss, Loretta felt the xenodrugs melt away, leaving her panting, exhausted, and naked in Cherry’s arms. “How was it dear?”

“W-wonderful! I-i’m yours… take me…”

“What a good girl~,” Cherry said, accompanied by Loretta moaning in delight. “We can do the paperwork tomorrow, for now, we should cuddle I think, aftercare is important cutie!”

“Y-yes mistress,” Loretta said, nuzzling against her plant.

“Oh! I almost forgot one thing~” Cherry grinned, before sending a vine into the closet and returning with a collar. It was soft, pink, and wonderful. It also had a nametag that read ‘Loretta Adaira, First Floret.’, Loretta was in love.

“T-this is mine?” Loretta said with eyes wide.

“Of course, I had it made juuuust in case you decided to be mine, not that there was ever any doubt my cute little pet~”

Soon the old ward collar was removed, and the new collar was wrapped nice and comfortable around her neck, attaching with a click. The sensation came with another moan from Loretta and headpats from Cherry.

“Now, I think it’s about time you got back to sleep little cutie, You woke up in the middle of the night, you need more sleep.”

“Y-yes mistress.”

“Sweet dreams!”