Ennervia was a wreck, even more so than usual in this case. After the entire office decided to cram into her room to dote on her new Floret, Ennervia took the excuse to escape to the break room, feeling as if she was going to have a panic attack from all the attention. The plant for what it was worth never liked the attention, unlike most of her kin she wasn’t exceptionally social, preferring the company of close friends and rarely interacting outside her friend group.

Hazel had a habit of trying to push her out of her comfort zone and this time things had gone too far, too many people, all of them asking her questions about Aurora that she didn’t know the answer to. Aurora seemed to love the attention and didn’t even notice when her owner slipped out. Ennervia was certain that it meant that Aurora didn’t want her anymore, she probably would find one of her coworkers far more suited to her tastes. It was almost certain.

The plant for what it was worth poured herself some tea, something she had taken to as a guilty pleasure as of late and sipped at it as she slumped down in her chair, sighing. She was a terrible owner, a terrible friend, and a terrible coworker. Ennervia was certain of this as she was that the stars shone in the sky. However she wasn’t alone for long, as soon Hazel made her way into the break room, looking rather concerned.

“Ennervia? Are you ok? You kinda just slipped out… Are you moping again?” Hazel asked, taking a seat across from her.

“N-no.” Ennervia lied.

“You are a terrible liar you know that?” Hazel said, extending out vines to make her own cup of tea.

Ennervia was in fact, a terrible liar. She had been since her first bloom.It just felt icky to lie to people, even if it was for her own gain. It would hurt their feelings and then she would feel bad and it was all a horrible feedback loop that the plant really didn’t want to go through, ever in fact. Perhaps were she of stronger will she would be a better liar, and she would also be a better owner for Aurora, then the floret wouldn’t leave her for one of her coworkers.

“Spit it out you dolt, what’s wrong?” Hazel asked.

“I-I uh.” Ennervia paused.

Could she trust her feelings to Hazel, the only person who she considered a friend? She wanted to, so very much, but she also didn’t want to be a burden on her friend. It wasn’t her fault that Ennervia was a disaster. She didn’t deserve to be saddled with her negative emotions… then again, she did ask, and seemed like she wanted to help. Ennervia sighed and decided.

“I-i uh… I can’t shake the feeling that I’m going to be a terrible owner for Aurora. I’m a terrible nervous wreck, I don’t like being around large groups of people, and I’m not very excitable… she is everything I’m not. I’m pretty sure she has the impression that I’m some big hero who saved her, but that’s not me. I’m just a wallflower who likes paperwork.” Ennervia said.

Hazel blinked for a moment as if she were slapped in the face, then sighed, pouring her cup of tea and sipping it with a vine. “I think you misunderstand dear Aurora on a fundamental level. I didn’t come here of my own accord, Aurora was the one who asked me to talk to you.”

“Huh?” Ennervia said, shocked.

That couldn’t be right, Aurora was busy being doted on there was no way the blissed-out floret noticed such a thing. That would be absolutely preposterous. Did she really send Hazel to talk to her?

“It’s true. She noticed you slipped away, and told me to, and I quote ‘Stop my dumb plant from spiraling’. There was absolutely no way in hell she didn’t know exactly how much of a wallflower you are.”

Ennervia sat stunned for a moment, unsure of how to even process that bit of information. It felt like her floret was watching out for her as much as she was watching out for her floret. It didn’t sit right with her, it didn’t feel correct, yet she didn’t doubt the veracity of what her friend was telling her.

“But w-why?” Ennervia asked.

“Well, I’m not a mind reader, you’ll have to ask her to know for certain, but if I had to guess; You saved her life right?” Ennervia nodded. “Well, let me put it this way. Humans have a silly concept of debt, not in the monetary sense either. If somebody does something good for them they feel a need to do something in return, it’s just a part of their pack bonding response. Well, you saved her life, thus, she feels that she owes you her life in return. This isn’t a bad thing mind, she needed the help anyway, and she definitely isn’t hurting herself by worrying about you. She just wants you to be as happy as she is being with you.”

That didn’t make any sense. She barely did anything! All she did was stop some ferals, and she messed it up and got Aurora hurt. Why would the human feel any kind of debt for that? All she did was mess up!

“I can see it in your eyes, that you don’t believe me, so why don’t you go ask her yourself? See if I’m right or if I’m wrong. If you don’t want to leave here I can go grab her for you, so you can talk without all the attention. Is that alright with you Enny?”

Ennervia nodded and Hazel smiled. The other plant stood up and made her way out, leaving Ennervia alone once more. She didn’t deserve this, she didn’t understand why everyone seemed so good at reading her worries. Was she really that obvious? Her worries felt completely reasonable but everyone she knew kept saying that she was being silly. Not that she didn’t believe them but it hurt, it hurt to constantly be worrying about everything. It hurt to feel as if you constantly messed up and hurt the people you care about.

She noticeably wilted every time she messed up a piece of paperwork, every time she mildly inconvenienced somebody, every time she had to ask somebody for clarification or even somehow mildly inconvenienced them. Ennervia knew it wasn’t a great way to live, that she was a disaster waiting to happen, but the worries just flooded her mind and left her feeling empty and hollow.

It was worse now that she had Aurora. The moments where that predatory instinct inside of her came out caused her to act like a different person. She acted like somebody who wasn’t constantly on the verge of a panic attack any time somebody talked to her, somebody who was actually fit to take care of a floret.

Ennervia didn’t understand what she did to deserve the floret either. Everyone said she was a hero and saved the sophonts life but if she hadn’t arrived it was possible that Aurora wouldn’t have gotten hurt at all. If she had called for somebody more qualified Aurora might not have been hers. It felt selfish, that somehow her mistakes landed her the best floret on the planet.

Aurora was everything an owner could want. Sweet, obedient, adorable, and high off her ass. It felt wrong for an Affini as flawed as she was to have a floret that embodied perfection, who seemed so excited to put in the extra mile to make her mistress happy. Ennervia couldn’t even begin to understand what she did to deserve her.

She wallowed in these thoughts for several minutes, nobody coming to bother her for the long, excruciating wait. But eventually, she heard the door click, and she saw Aurora, worry in the poor thing's eyes. The second the floret saw Ennervia however, she lit up and ran over, practically leaping into her lap. She would have tripped and fallen had Ennervia not picked her up with vines in the process, but she supposed that was just a consequence of the amount of xenodrugs the poor girl was on.

“Mistress! You are a big idiot!” Aurora said.

Ennervia knew it. Aurora hated her, she was a disaster, stupid, dumb, and idiotic. Aurora was leaving her for one of her coworkers. It was probably June, she was sweet and good with florets. Oh how she wished she were June! There was nothing that coul-

“No not like that!” Aurora said. “You are an idiot because you think I would ever leave you!”

Huh? No that wasn’t right. Aurora was supposed to hate her, this was not the way this was supposed to go, no not at all. Aurora was supposed to say something like ‘I hate you and am leaving you for June!’ not… well what was actually said.

“You saved me, mistress! Even if you won’t let yourself believe that because your brain is full of gunk! I owe you my life and I won’t rest until you love yourself as much as I love you!”

Ennervia felt as if this were some kind of mortal threat. There was no other explanation for the sheer dread she felt due to the weight of the cognitive dissonance, which somehow Aurora treated with the subtlety of a thermonuclear explosion.

Ennervia felt tiny arms wrap around her waist and squeeze her tight before the clumsy human stood up on her knees and kissed Ennervia on the lips.

“Gah!” Ennervia said as she was kissed.

This human was lewd! An absolute degenerate! Kissing? On the lips? Preposterous! Ennervia was tempted to push the human away but the cute thing's lips were so soft, and the way that the human was synced to her biorhythm set off predatory instincts deep inside the plant.

Sure those instincts were underutilized, covered in mental cobwebs, and gunked up with self-doubt and rust, but those gears began to turn nonetheless under the sheer force of the onslaught. Ennervia hesitated but then decided to return the kiss. 

For just a moment, it was just the two of them together. The rest of the world faded away into nothing as the plant let herself focus on the sensations coming from the girl in front of her. The breathing and heartbeat synced to her biorhythm, the soft moans coming from her floret, the warmth of the girl against her skin.

Ennervia felt a need well up inside her, something she had repressed for quite a long time. She pushed the floret against the table, letting the girl wrap her legs around Ennervia’s waist. She began to run vines down the girl's neck, down her back, and up her legs. Aurora moaned as the vines slowly made their way under her dress and-

Hazel cleared her throat, and snapped the two out of their reverie. “While I am glad that you are finally excited about something Enny, you do know you are at work right? I don’t think anyone would mind if you went home to take care of your pet though~”

Ennervia’s vines turned that ugly shade of yellow as she realized what she was just doing with her floret. In front of Hazel no less. The plant let out an eep, but her floret just took to giggling.

“I knew you had it in you mistress! You’re the best!” The girl sat up on the table and hugged her plant.

Ennervia picked the girl up and kissed her on the forehead. “T-thank you, Hazel, I think I needed the little push.”

“I knew you did you dolt! Why else do you think I went through all the effort helping you.” Ennervia felt a vine slap her ass, causing her to let out a yelp.

Aurora burst into hysterical laughter at that. “I like you, Miss Hazel! Just know I’m better at teasing my plant than you are!”

Aurora stuck out her tongue, leading Hazel to giggle as well. “Go on home you two, you clearly have some things you need to take care of.”

“Of course.” Ennervia said, and off they went.

Soon the two had arrived back at their hab, and Aurora was giving the most tantalizing needy look. The poor girl had been teased too much, Ennervia knew that deep inside her soul. She would rectify that soon enough. Aurora was lifted out of her vines and pinned to the bed, roughly, but not so as to be jarring.

Aurora let out a moan as vines began to explore under her clothes, the class As she was on amplifying the pleasure considerably. Soon Ennervia pulled the clothes off the poor girl, leaving her in just her underwear. Just as quickly, even that was removed, leaving the girl stark naked.

Ennervia noted that the girl had a very pretty body. She had been on Class-Gs for quite a while, and it was obvious she had dipped into ones meant to make the user much more pet-like. She was plush in all the right places, her skin preternaturally soft. Her breasts were soft and supple and her cunt was needy and dripping.

Ennervia basked in the sight of her floret, her perfect little pet, staring up at her with eyes of pure desire.
“M-mistress.” Aurora moaned, her voice filled with need, a need Ennervia was all too excited to fulfill.

First, a needle was injected into Aurora’s thigh, class As to make the experience more tantalizing, followed by an injection of class Ns. These would keep her cute pet from cumming before she was given permission. Ennervia had dreamed of using these on a cute terran for so long, far too shy to do anything about it until now.She would probably regret indulging herself like this in the morning, but right now she wanted to see her pet broken and begging.

Vines began to squeeze the girl's breasts and Aurora let out the cutest moan Ennervia had ever heard, her back arching as her pet needily grabbed onto a vine provided for her. While the girl was distracted up top, a vine began to worm its way into her needy cunt, accompanied by another passioned moan.

Ennervia felt her pet was far more adorable when she was squirming like this and desired to make it worse. The vine between the girl's legs began to thrust, in and out, painfully slow at first. Her pet let out a needy mewl as she tried to buck her hips into it, but she wasn’t allowed. Vines wrapped around her hips and pinned her to the bed until Ennervia was certain her pet wasn’t getting any more stimulation than she allowed her.

Aurora groaned in frustration but before she could get too frustrated the vines sped up, Ennervia let the pleasure build inside her pet, slowly but surely giving her what she wanted, but not fast enough to stop her pet from getting frustrated. As her pleasure built, so too would her pet's frustration, and Ennervia felt it would be all too soon until she had what she wanted.

Another set of vines wormed their way into Aurora’s mouth when she moaned, which the pet seemed to adore for some reason or another. Her files did imply she had an oral fixation, so that was perhaps something to do with it.

Ennervia felt the girl's tongue slither across the vine, and eventually began to suck on it like the needy pet she was. Aurora’s eyes rolled up in pleasure as the vine teased her tongue to reward her diligence, 

“What a good girl you are Aurora~, sucking on my vine like that.” Ennervia said, stroking her face.

Her pet for what it was worth responded with an affirmative moan, muffled by the vines.

“Not that you are in any place to respond at the moment… Shall I let you in on a little secret pet?” 

Ennervia nodded, clearly getting close to climaxing, or well, she would if she were allowed that is.

“I didn’t just inject you with Class A’s… you see, there are many classes of xenodrugs, and one of my favorite to use is the Class Ns. They control practically anything about a pet's sexual response cycle, but one of my favorites is a little something called Narcina Mortosa. This one makes it so that you cannot cum unless somebody else gives you verbal permission.”

The look of shock, frustration, then arousal that fluttered across her pet’s helpless face practically made Ennervia’s day. Her pet was so close, the vines were reaching a fevered pace inside her. Another set of vines began to squeeze the girl's nipples to give her just that little extra bit of sensation.

Soon, however, the girl peaked, or at least, got as close as she was allowed. The girl was writhing, moaning, and panting through the vine shoved in her mouth, but was not allowed to cum. Not yet. Ennervia kept this going, for quite a while she felt, ensuring that she slowly broke down the girl's defenses. She didn’t just want her pet to beg, she wanted her pet to be well and truly broken.

A minute turned to five, turned to ten, turned to 20, and finally, at the half-hour mark, when all light of thought fell from her writhing moaning pet's eyes, she spoke.

“So pet, when I remove this vine, you are going to beg. You are going to beg me to let you cum, you are going to beg for me to break you. Do you understand?’

Her pet nodded profusely, and Ennervia grinned. The vine was removed from her pet's mouth and Aurora immediately shot into action.

“M-mistress please please please please please please please let me cum oh stars please oh stars I’m yours break me make me your little needy fuckpet oh stars please I need to cum I need it I need it I need it.” Aurora said at a rather rapid pace.

“Good girl. Cum.”

And Aurora came, and it was beautiful. Ennervia watched as her pet rode wave after wave of pleasure, practically screaming at the top of her lungs to get out all the pent-up sexual tension inside her.

Her pet’s needy cunt had all but ruined the sheets, the wetness running all the way down the girl's things, and only more coming out as the girl’s mind emptied of all else but pleasure. All else but the gift her mistress had given her. Ennervia wondered if she had perhaps gone a bit too far, as, by the time the girl finished her orgasm, she was passed out.

That was a problem for Tomorrow’s Ennervia. Today’s Ennervia wanted to cuddle her pet. And so she did.