We finished the meal and by the time we started on dessert, the conversations had moved to lighter subjects. “They usually just spray paint the leaves of existing trees and flowers when they do movie scenes that are set on Earth,” she said. “Of course now with FTL, they can now bring real Earth plant seeds to use in sets.”
“They’ll probably need to use special lights if they want them to grow,” I said. Suddenly an awful smell filled the air. I wrinkled my nose and then looked around for the source of the smell.
“Oops,” said Alison. Her face turned red and she smiled slyly.
“You didn’t?” I asked astonished.
She took one last bite of her dessert and then stood up. “I’ll go shower,” she said. She turned and waddled away with an obvious bulge in the back of her EVA diaper.
The next day I caught her in a wet diaper. “Alison,” I asked, “are you trying to get to the bathroom on time?”
“I am wearing a diaper,” she said. “I don’t really need to worry about getting up to use the restroom. Besides you don’t tease me like the other crewmembers of the Fortune.”
I sighed. “You know you can become dependent on diapers if you don’t try to avoid accidents. You don’t really want to deal with diapers when you get to the beach on Earth and want to wear a bikini.”
She nodded. “You are being nice about this. I still might have accidents, but I promise I’ll try to make it to the bathroom.”
“Good,” I said. “That is all I ask.”
After that she made more of an effort to get to the bathroom. She still used her diapers at night when she was in bed, but I didn’t notice her sitting in a wet diaper as often during the day.
When we had been together for almost five months, the incoming ship alarm went off. I raced to the control room and Alison followed behind.
“What’s that sound?” she asked.
“Our ticket to Earth,” I said. “We can tow your ship back to Earth so you can sell your cargo and then arrange passage back to Eridani. You might even make enough on your cargo to buy an FTL drive for your ship, make repairs, and head back home to see your parents.”
“I’ll believe that when I see it,” she said.
