Nova Terra Gen2 Ch. 02

And with that, he started to leave, then turned back and said, "And you do realize, that as you approve these different mergers, that a whole bunch of the Gen2s who are dating now are going to find that they've suddenly become a poly-sibling to someone in their quad and will have to break up until they're 20, all because of you, because you were in such a hurry that you caved in to Hannah? After all, the polys your parents spent the most time with when you were a kid, resulting in you getting to know their kids really well, were probably also their other sexual relationships - most picnics I ever organized actually ended with the very sex parties you seem so opposed to. My first two blood daughters inside my poly each met their quad-mates as kids that way. Good luck getting the support of kids, who have benefitted from their parents' activities but will now be forced to break up, when they're eligible to vote." And he turned back around and left, to a round of applause from the Gen1 folks in the room.

Oh, Fuck. I think I overstepped - right into a vat of shit.

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Friday, 5 November, CY 6

Mario, Sukie, Tina, Blake

Three days after the Council meeting, the new quad was walking towards a pond that was on Tina & Blake's parents' farm, to go swimming. It was their third date.

"So, let me get this straight," Tina said. "Cooper and Spinz got all of these people to give them their proxies, but never actually told all of them exactly what all of the amendments said?"

Mario nodded. "Yeah, most of them didn't even know Amendment 11 existed. I'm not sure Cooper's even going to last a week as leader of the Council - most of the people I've talked to are furious, mostly with Cooper, about the Amendments getting shoved through the same day without review. They expected at least a little debate within the colony, but Cooper just saw that he had the number of proxies he needed and acted out of anger, not logic. And my mom went along with it for her own reasons, and is now getting flak from her bloc over Amendment 9, instead. I know Spinz brought up the idea of debate during their organizing meetings, but Cooper overruled him every time."

"So, what now?" Blake asked. "Do the new Amendments get revoked, changed, what?"

Mario answered, "Depends on whether people can accumulate the 2/3rds votes needed to repeal them. They're mostly toothless, anyway, except the one that changes the voting age. and the only effect they've really had is making the more sexually open polys glom together so they can keep doing what they were doing before anyway, and the increase in the number of poly-siblings as a side-effect. Certainly it's not accomplishing what the cabal wanted it to. The real problem for Cooper is that he sold the amendments as restricting the sperm-fathers, but they try to restrict everyone, yet wind up impacting Gen2 daters more than Gen1. Pisses everyone off in both generations."

Sukie added, "Even our parents' poly is considering a merger with your parents', to help bury Cooper in paperwork, even though they've never been intimate with each other, just really close friends from when they were neighbors a decade ago, before all the farms had to relocate farther away from Colony Center due to soil depletion. They're having dinner at our house on Saturday to discuss it."

"Oh, that discussion should be interesting," Blake said. "But since they haven't mentioned it to Tina and me, I don't think we're invited."

Mario responded, "I know Sukie and I aren't. Our moms said we've made such a big deal of not being part of their poly any more, that it doesn't concern us."

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Cooper Chess' Journal

Friday 5 November, CY 26

Okay, I admit it. I fucked up. I was in such a hurry to push everything through, that I forgot to get everyone fully on board with the Amendments. What I'd promised was to limit the sperm-fathers, but the text of Amendment 9 affects everyone, and Hannah's Amendment came as a surprise to most, and is deeply unpopular with Gen2 folks, especially those who are dating age already and don't want their parents dictating who they can or can't date, whether or not there's a poly-sibling in their quad or not. Spinz tried to tell me the Colony would want debate, but I wouldn't listen, and he's barely talking to me right now, except to say, "Told you."

My anger clouded my logic. Or at least I hope I would think clearer than that if I were calm.

Even Chinah's pissed with me, because two of her younger brothers, one a blood-brother, the other a former poly-brother, are being impacted by the poly merger her father Thom announced - one has a girlfriend in each of the other two polys, the other has one, and now they're all about to be in the same poly. I tried to make the point that the merger was her parents' decision, not mine, but it didn't go over too well. And, of course, Melany's taking her side. They're both menstruating right now, neither of them pregnant from our honeymoon, but even if they weren't, I'd still not be getting any sex from them.

So here I am journaling instead, after a day of farm work.

So many people have revoked their proxies, that I wouldn't be able to repeal the Amendments on my own on Monday if I tried.

I've got to figure a way out, or through, this mess I've made.

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Saturday, 6 November, CY 26

Mario, Sukie, Tina, Blake

The quad were at Doctor Gideon Fowler's office in Colony Center, to receive the results of the genetic screening required for all applications for marriage. He happened to be Blake's sperm-father, as well.

Doc Fowler walked in, carrying a data tablet, and sat behind his desk. "Okay, kids, I've got bad news and good news, and I'll just have to start with the bad. I have decline your application for your quad to marry."

All four gasped, and then Blake asked, "Dad, are there whys behind that result?"

Doc nodded, then answered, "Two, actually. The main one is that there are some recessive gene issues between Mario's DNA and Tina's, that put you just over the risk level that is acceptable. The two of you can't be in the same quad."

Tina teared up, and asked, "And... and the second?"

Doc actually smiled, which puzzled the four. "That's where the good news comes in. The size of a poly is a factor affecting that risk. In a quad, Tina, you and Mario fail the assessment because you would be expected to birth two of Mario's children, and the odds of either or both of them having a problem is higher than having one. But, if you were applying for marriage as an octet, and the additional members did not introduce more incompatibility issues, the risk level would be nudged over the acceptable side of the line, because you would be expected to have one child by each of the four men, so the odds of having four healthy kids total goes up, when you're not rolling the dice with Mario twice. We would still have to monitor each pregnancy that could potentially be with Mario carefully, but you'd be okayed."

"That makes sense," Mario said. "So we have to form an octet?"

"If your heart is set on marrying Tina, yes," Doc said, smiling. "Or you could form a sextet, if you two committed to only having one child together. Look, you four are a no-go, without adding people. Add another woman and man and retest, and you could pass as a sextet. Or add two of each instead, and choose to either form two quads, one with Mario in it, and Tina in the other, or apply as an octet. If that octet passes screening, you're good, if not, you still have the people lined up to make the two quads, which you wouldn't have if you tested as a sextet and failed. And if your brother's Amendment 9 gets repealed, there wouldn't be anything prohibiting those two quads from being together, so long as birth-control were used between you and Tina. My recommendation is to start by finding four other people first and then worry about quad vs. octet."

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Cooper Chess' Journal

Tuesday, 9 November, CY 26

I resigned from the Council yesterday.

I figured that it was the only way to get my own anger, and the anger others had towards me, whether for the takeover itself, or for how I'd handled the Amendments, out of the mix, so that the rest of the Council could function.

As my last two official acts, I launched a Colony Debate to discuss Amending or Repealing the first four Amendments I'd passed. I wanted the last, to change the voting age, to remain, so I left it out of the debate. Then I nominated Spinz to take my place as head of the council, explaining that he had tried to reason with me, when all I saw was red anger, and he would make a better Council Head than me. Then, I stepped down, and immediately left, coming back home.

And cried and moped in bed for an hour, until Chinah, and Melany came home from the meeting. Spinz had stayed behind, to work on scheduling debate sessions.

Chinah crawled right into bed with me, and kissed me lightly on the lips, then said, "Do you KNOW how proud of you I am right now? That can't have been easy for you, but it was exactly what the Colony needed, and maybe the most selfless act I've ever seen." Then she gave me an even firmer kiss.

I shuddered, a huge release of tension, and returned her kiss gratefully, then passionately.

Then I felt Melany hug me from behind, saying, "What she said, goes for me, too. I couldn't be prouder, and sorry that we've been among the people who've been angry with you. How can we make it up to you?"

"Make-up sex?" I joked.

"So much for 'Selfless Cooper'," Melany said, chuckling. "Well, I guess we owe you that for shutting you out for a week. Just don't start making us angry on a regular basis, to get more sex, okay?"

"Agreed," I said, before kissing Chinah again, as my hands started working on removing her clothes.

Soon, we were all naked, and I was lapping my tongue slowly around Chinah's dark nipples, one hand between her legs, rubbing between her labia, wet and warm, while Melany was pressed behind me, reaching her hand over my hip to frig my dick, which was hot, hard and pulsing in her hand.

Chinah pushed me to my back, and swung one leg over me, and took hold of my dick, pressing it against her clit. Melany turned and swung a freckled leg over my head, lowering her tantalizing pussy onto my lips. My tongue slid deeply into Mel's hole at the same moment that Chinah dropped herself onto me, sheathing me in one instant. Oh, that felt good, after a week without.

I focussed most of my attention on Mel, slithering my tongue softly along her glistening labia, gradually working closer and closer to her clit. When her moans had escalated enough, I attacked it, flicking quickly back and forth around and over it, increasing my pressure and speed as her moans got louder.

"Oh, Cooper, yes!" she screamed. "Suck it! Suuuuuuuck!" I clamped my lips around her button and sucked it in, continuing to attack it with my tongue tip. "Aaaiiii!!" filled the room, as she shuddered through her first orgasm.

I eased off Mel's clit but kept slowly licking up her fluids from her pussy as she came down from her peak, looking to build her up to her second, but letting my attention shift more towards what Chinah was doing to my dick. My balls were ready to let loose, but I wanted to last a little longer. But when Chinah's vaginal muscles squeezed around my length, I couldn't do anything else but cum, shooting a dozen shots of my sperm up into her. She continued stroking up and down, still squeezing on my penis, and I managed to retain my erection, then started thrusting in synchrony with her.

I returned my focus to Mel, attacking her clit once more with a flattened tongue, longer strokes up and down, back and forth, causing new moans. Then I pointed my tongue again and tried to flick it across her clit as fast as I could, and she screamed, "Coooooop! Oh, fuck! Fuuuuu--!" and she came again, her back arching, and shuddering over me again and again. "Ohhhh, too much, I can't take more," she finally said, flopping off of me to lay beside me and cover my face with kisses. "I can't believe you've only been doing that for a few weeks," she finally whispered, before nuzzling her face into my neck.

I could now see Chinah riding me, her eyes closed and her hands squeezing her nipples. I began increasing our pace by thrusting faster, and slipped my left hand under her to rub her clit, while my right went to her hip, to pull her down onto me faster and faster.

"Ohhh... oooooo... My gawd... fuck me!" came from Chinah's lips, as she opened her eyes to make contact with mine. "I... love... you... husband!" she moaned, in between thrusts.

"As... I... love... you... wife!" I managed, between mine.

And then I felt her orgasm begin, her vaginal muscles squeezing me and her body beginning to shake, and it triggered my own orgasm, "Fu-- OH.. cumming! cumming hard!" issuing from my mouth, as another series of bursts shot my sperm into her cervix, headed for her womb.

Chinah collapsed onto my chest, and my dick flopped out of her. And that's the moment when Spinz walked in, saying, "All is forgiven, I take it?" Chinah slid to my either side to look up at him.

"The girls have, at least," I answered. "How about you, Spinz? Will you forgive me for not listening to you in the first place? I know I apologized to you during my resignation, but I left without waiting for a response from you."

"Yes, I forgive you, Cooper." he said. "I think your resigning is defusing the whole situation quite a bit. I've heard a lot less anger from people since you did it, and I think the Debates will accomplish some good now. I think Amendment 11 about forbidding poly-siblings is toast, first off - we would get at a least 75% vote on repealing that right now. And because of the reactions to Amendment 9 and its side-effects, I bet we could get the same for repealing it, too. But making everyone debate the repeals first should really give the Colony an opportunity to air out some of the grievances that have arisen due to the sperm-father and poly-family relationships, which I think is healthy."

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Cooper Chess' Journal

Thursday, 10 November, CY 26

We had invited Mario's quad over for dinner, hoping we could talk them into locating their future farm next to ours, only to get their bad news about their genetic assessment.

"So, any prospects on new pairs to date?" Melanie asked, as we finished eating.

"Not really," Tina answered. "Most of the people our own age have already been dating for a year or more, and are just waiting for the youngest person in their quad to reach 20 so they can marry. Almost all of them announced engagements when Amendment 12 let them. Right now, there's not a single unmarried quad where everyones's over 20. And none of our friends are looking to start over, anyway, particularly if it means splitting their quad to form two new ones with us. And looking for younger folks would just mean we'd be waiting years to get married, after we already waited years just to be able to date."

Chinah said, "That sucks", then turned to me and asked, "Cooper, can you help me with dessert in the kitchen for a minute?"

In the kitchen, I turned to Chinah, and asked, "You just did that to get me in private, because I know you don't need my help in here. So, what's up?"

She smiled, then said, "I have an idea, but want to get everyone's input first. What do you think about helping them by asking them to join our poly, and expand it to an octet? We already want them to live next to us because they're such good friends, why not live with us?"

"Mario's my blood-brother! And he's Spinz' brother too."

"It's not like you're going to get him pregnant, silly. And there's precedent - Jake and Danny Clavell are blood-brothers, and they married Ann and Delia three years ago. The Charter prohibits blood-brothers from procreating with blood-sisters, but says nothing about blood-siblings of the same gender. Is that your only objection?"

I thought for 15 seconds, and said, "It's not even really an objection, more a reaction. I actually like the idea, if they do."

Spinz and Melany walked in, and Spinz asked, "What idea?"

I answered, "Asking Mario, Sukie, Blake and Tina if they would want to join our poly, to make us the octet they need."

"Okay, this is freaky, because that's just what Mel and I were coming in here to ask you two," Spinz said. "We're in agreement?"

Four yes votes, and we returned to the table, with the cream pie for dessert.

Chinah turned to Sukie and Tina, and said, "You haven't mentioned approaching any existing polys, to see if they might want to expand. So, we're going to approach you, first. What would the four of you think about maybe merging your quad with ours instead of being just neighbors?"

Both girls gasped, then Tina turned thoughtful. "With Cooper and Spinz both being Mario's brothers, aren't we likely to have the same DNA clashes between me and one or both of them, too?"

"That's possible," I said. "I don't think it would be both of us, though. If Chad and Hannah both had the same problem genes, they would never have been paired together, so either Spinz has a chance of inheriting them from Hannah, or I have a chance of inheriting them from Chad, or maybe neither of us got them, or maybe it would be some other problem altogether. We really won't know until Doc runs the assessment. If it does pass, though, how do you feel about doing it, or at least doing some dates together before we make any final decisions?"

"Yeah, I'm in for dating," she responded. We got similar assent from the others, and we celebrated with hugs and kisses, before sending Doc a message asking him to start the genetic assessment, even though we weren't getting engaged yet.

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Author's Note: I hope the mix of first-person and third-person narration didn't throw too many people off. It didn't make sense to have Cooper telling Mario & Sukie's story. Chapter 3 will definitely be coming, I think I have enough plot to make it the same length as Chapters 1 & 2. And if I can keep coming up with more ideas for how to explore an evolving society on Nova Terra, I'll keep writing more. As always, I welcome any and all feedback, to become better at my writing.