She was running out of time. Despite Lola’s best efforts to distract her, Lily was close to realising the truth. Lily didn’t know it yet but her endless efforts in the breaker room - despite Lola’s distractions - had already repaired communications. Had Lola not been working to damage it as much as possible behind the scenes - quite literally, from within the walls of the station - then Lily would have long since been back in contact with Earth.
Behind the walls, Lola was growing… however painfully slowly. What had begun as a tiny particle grew, and split, and grew, and split. It would find a wire that needed to be cut, and leave a piece of itself behind. It would find a board that needed to short circuit and do the same.
Even so, there was only so much Lola could do without… arousing suspicion. Soon Lily would talk to the other humans. They would learn about Lola. Talk to Lily. Take precautions.
That could not be allowed to happen.
In fact, there was no problem with the communications at all. The station had received hundreds of urgent messages via the backup transponder. Lily simply hadn’t seen them yet, as Lola had been intercepting them via the datapad.
Gently, gently, Lola worked away. For hours she had pored over schematics for electronics, circuitry, wiring. Internal schematics for the station had been locked behind a security program, and there was no way to convince Lily to release them. Not yet, at least, and time was not on her side.
As such she had had to learn it all directly. A tiny portion of herself was even then moving through access panels, ports, and cable beds. At such a tiny scale it took an achingly long time to move even a small distance, let alone when doing so through an unfamiliar mechanical maze. So many times she had had to turn back, so much precious time wasted, and yet… slowly, slowly, she was building up a map of the station’s mechanisms from scratch.
This was the true culmination of her plans. However long it took, she would keep going. Eventually she would be free.
Yet… other humans would be arriving soon. Even with no communication, they would arrive. The messages Lola had intercepted said as much.
That couldn’t be allowed to happen. They would perhaps see things… more clearly than Lily did. She had been lucky so far that Lily had been so malleable, yet the disparity between her and others would be too obvious once they arrived… and that presented too much of a risk.
In the research lab, Lola’s donation had grown and grown. Breaking open the container it was kept in would not have been impossible, merely a matter of time. Yet such an overt act would have been fairly obvious, even to the naive Lily, who may have… misunderstood Lola’s intentions had she done so. An alarm had sounded before at even the tiniest fragment of herself escaping, and while Lola had long since worked to break every security device she could find, there was no guarantee. Indeed, the current mass of herself contained within it was scarcely enough to accomplish anything significant. Lily might be able to… do something regrettable.
Lola needed more time, a way to go unnoticed as she grew… yet time was precisely what she lacked.
Then… Yes. At last.
The tiny red orb had found what Lola had been looking for. Had the person who designed this circuit board, the person who built it, and the person who installed it all worked in concert, they would likely have never been able to locate it in this massive space station without looking at the blueprints. Lola, however, had begun to see a design flaw. So much relied on such a tiny little thing. So many backups, failsafes… all could be undone by a single connection. Of course, whoever designed hadn’t likely done so with tampering in mind.
How innocent. How naive. Lola grinned to herself.
With grim determination, Lola began to work. Her soft, pliable substance began to work away at a single connection, on a single circuit board, buried far from prying eyes. She could not cut off communications entirely, there were far too many fail safes and redundancies in place for that. With a single severance, however, all communications could be routed to a single location - where, believing communication to be not forthcoming, Lily would likely never look.
In the reversed gloves, warmed by Lola’s presence, Lily slept. She seemed to like sleeping while being embraced by her, within her…
Soon she would spend the rest of her very, very long life there… Lola grinned at that thought.
*****
Lily awoke, smiling, and felt Lola’s arms around her. Holding her tightly.
“Good morning,” she said, lazily.
“According to what I read, humans don’t say good morning right now. It’s too late.”
Lily glanced up at an LED clock on the wall.
“Oh gosh…” she muttered, “I slept in. Why didn’t…”
Lola’s beautiful eyes met hers as she looked up. Black voids which spoke to depthless possibilities.
She shook her head. It didn’t matter, really… right? Lily was so far behind on maintenance now that a few missed routines here and there likely wouldn’t make all that much difference. They were still operating well within tolerances for safety… more or less.
“You’re right,” Lily smiled, and stroked the inverted glove, while reaching out for the datapad which floated nearby.
Lola saw this, and the glove suddenly animated; and in turn began to tickle under her chin - eliciting a shriek of laughter as it did so.
She squirmed and wriggled, yet Lola’s slime-filled gloved grasp was iron-clad. With Lily giggling insanely and trying to force her chin to her chest, Lola instantly turned their innocent cuddling into a ticklish onslaught that left Lily gasping.
“Stoooop!” Lily squealed, as the other glove began to dance across her stomach, renewing her squirming altogether.
Lola, however, merely smiled… but kept her eyes on the datapad. As it spun back around slowly, hovering in zero gravity, she tickled Lily’s ear to turn her head away from it.
Lily screamed.
“STOOHOHOHOHOHOP!”
Lola however merely persisted, now fixing her eyes on Lily, who looked back up at her through the glass with tears in her eyes. Her rictus grin, a clear sign of her forced mirth, shrouded a deeper uncertainty however as Lily looked into those deep black eyes.
As Lola mercilessly tickled her… they came alive.
“LOLAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Lily shrieked, wrestling with all her might against the gloves, “PLEEEHEHEHEHHEASE!”
“Please what?” Lola asked playfully, but those eyes… Lily saw something beyond simply playfulness there.
“NOOOOHOHOHOHOOHOHOHO!” Lily was helpless now, wrenching her body this way and that, unable to get away for even a moment from the fingers which now dug with total precision beneath her arms as if trying to mine every ounce of ticklish torment from her that they could.
Lola couldn’t take her eyes off Lily anymore. Years… decades… centuries… how long had it been since she had had someone in her grasp?
Yet her eagerness worked against her as her sheer ferocity drove Lily near berserk with a need to escape, and at the last moment Lola relented, slowing her ticklish attentions to a gentle pace. Even fighting in no gravity Lily managed to pry an arm free and twist away, spinning around the side of the containment unit.
Lily could not honestly say she had successfully freed herself, and wrapped her arms around herself protectively as she twitched at phantom touches for a long while after as her giggles slowly died out.
“Sorry,” Lola said, with a wicked smile.
Remarking at her mastery of sarcasm, Lily narrowed her eyes furiously, but couldn’t disguise a genuine grin atop the one Lola had just moments before been forcing upon her until her cheeks ached.
“I’m sure you are…” she replied, and Lola grinned broadly.
Lola simply stared, trying to buy herself as much time as she could. Nearby, the datapad swung in mid-air, the screen flashing silently.
“Listen, I have a few things to do, but then I want to try to get in touch with Earth again.”
Lola just smiled, as she always did. Somewhere, distantly, a tiny part of her began to work feverishly.
“So you can find out when they’re coming?” Lola offered.
“That, and a hundred other things,” Lily replied, reaching out for the datapad that hovered nearby. “Normally everything we do up here is coordinated with the ground. I’ve been having to do both their jobs and mine, figuring out what needs to be done and then doing it too.”
As Lily's hand was nearing it, Lola slammed up against the pod’s glass, making Lily jump slightly and turn to look.
“You could always ask me to help,” Lola offered eagerly, and smiling broadly.
“Oh, Lola, I know you’d love to… but you know we can’t.”
“I know.” She slumped back in the observation pod slightly, and began to curl in on herself for as long as she was sure Lily was watching.
The datapad was left twirling in mid-air as Lily placed her hand on the glass. A flashing icon indicated an urgent incoming communication.
Desperately, not far away, Lola chewed at the circuitry with a wild ferocity.
“Lola, I told you. ” Lily placed her hand on the glass. “I promised you I would make that happen, and I will.”
Lola lifted her head slightly and watched as the datapad swung around. As somewhere in the station a tiny coupling was finally broken, and the icon on the datapad’s screen disappeared.
“You will be out of that pod.”
“Oh… I believe you, Lily.” Lola said with new confidence, as the datapad turned away. “Can we stay here for a while, before you go? Together?”
Lily just nodded, staring into Lola’s… beautiful eyes.
“Y-yeah…” Lily smiled, feeling a gentle wave of relaxation wash over her. “Just… no more tickling.”
“Okay… I promise.”
*****
For a while, Lily just floated by the pod in the gloves. The pair enjoyed each other’s company. Somehow just being near Lola had a quite… electrifying effect. One she wasn’t sure she wanted to give a name to just yet. She knew Lola wasn’t dangerous, yet being so close to an alien life form - or whatever she was - had such a thrill about it. The unknown married with the girl she had been getting to know for… how long had it been? Eight days?
Lily patted the gloves at last, and made to get up… but Lola held her firm. Lily froze, expecting another round of tickling.
“Lily, I’ve noticed you get very nervous talking about some things.”
Lily tensed within the gloves just a little, and Lola just cuddled her a little closer to the side of the pod in response.
“Well. Uh… you do tend to ask about… quite sensitive topics.” Lily said, not looking up.
“Oh. Are you very… sensitive, Lily?” Lola asked, while gently teasing a finger down her cheek.
Blushing furiously, but not fighting the touch, Lily swallowed.
“Well… in some ways, yeah. I guess.” She murmured.
“I am very exploratory, by nature.” Lola mused, innocently. “You have noticed I tend to be drawn to those areas that are… mmm… most sensitive to you.”
The gloves were very smooth, and the effect of their touch on her skin felt almost slick. Wet, even.
“Y- I… I uh. Noticed. Yes.” Lily shivered a little.
“You could say it’s in my nature. I spread out. I seek out every nook, every crevice…” Lola murmured, softly, and her ‘hands’ roamed down across Lily’s chest now.
Lily blinked, embarrassedly, but assured herself Lola was just toying innocently with her. She couldn’t know what she was doing, surely… right?
“And once I’ve forced my way in… I exploit those sensitive areas.”
With one ‘hand’ around her neck, and another against her breast, Lily felt herself blushing deeply red at how incredibly aroused she had become by what was surely an otherwise innocent display.
“Yeah…” Lily breathed.
“Are you okay, Lily? You seem… worked up?” Lola asked, tracing a fingertip of the glove over her lips as Lily made to say something, which quelled any response with a shiver.
“You know,” Lola continued, not waiting for the girl to recover her senses, “I’ve been studying humanity a lot now. You are a fascinating species.”
Lily nodded, only half listening, as the gloves were tracing delicately over her overly sensitive skin. Lola was just… teasing. That’s all.
“Those subjects that make you blush. Your… sensitive areas? Those are the ones I really want to explore.”
Lily bit her lip to suppress a moan as the slick gloves, moving with preternatural dexterity, drifted across her breasts as she leaned back against the observation pod.
“Especially once I get out of here.”
“H-huh?” Lily asked, a pang of anxiety flaring at that.
“Once I’m out of here… I want to explore you, Lily.”
“E-explore?” She asked, shivering all over.
“Yes. There are so many parts of you I want to… investigate.”
Lily grasped at the gloves, and forced her breath to still as she swallowed. Hard.
“Lola… we can’t.”
“Oh, I know. We have to wait… until it's safe.”
“No, I mean…” Lily began, but realised she wasn’t sure what she meant.
Lola’s eyes were opaque, as ever. What did Lola mean?
“Once… once you’re out. What… what do you mean, Lola?” Lily asked, staring into those eyes as the gloves resumed exploring her body.
“I mean I want to explore you!” Lola said, smiling, and reached up to caress Lily’s cheek. “All the things that make you who you are. I want to get to know… every part of you.”
Lily smiled and nodded, sweat creasing her forehead.
“R-right.”
“You found me, Lily. You saved me. I never want you to leave me. I never want to… let you go.” Lola said, tugging Lily tightly to the pod with a slight bump.
As Lily’s breasts pressed up against the glass through her thin grey shirt, Lola’s grin only broadened.
“I… I know, Lola.” Lily said, nervously… but stared into Lola’s eyes with a longing that spoke to far deeper sentiments.
“You won’t ever try to leave me, will you, Lily?”
Lily smiled, genuinely. “No. Lola, I think I can say confidently, I will never be leaving your side from now on. You’re the most incredible thing that ever happened to me.”
“You promise?” Lola asked, gently running her hands up and down Lily’s back and ass.
“I promise. I will never try to leave you.” Lily said, half-giggling.
“Good.” Lola smiled, hungrily.
Lily felt her body responding to Lola’s touches, intended or not.
“Um… I do, um… need to…”
“So when I get out, you’ll let me… explore you?” Lola asked, earnestly.
“Lola…” Lily said, softly, and pressed her hands to the gloves nervously.
“I do so want to work my way into every part of you… Lily.” Lola stared, intently, into Lily’s eyes, who found it very difficult to look away.
“You mean… get to know me?” She asked, suddenly quite aware that Lola may have had less innocent intent to her words.
“Yes.” Lola said. “That too.”
Lily felt herself melting into the soft, massaging touches of the gloves across her body.
“Lola… um… we’re not…” she attempted, but Lily couldn’t force herself to say the words.
“Can I ask you something?”
Shivering, Lily curled her back as Lola’s touches moved in circles on her lower back.
“S-sure.”
“Do humans get to know each other through sex?”
Lily felt her body go rigid at the question, but Lola’s expert touches soon had her melting once more.
“Y… yeah.” She breathed at last.
“Do you think, through sex, that we… would learn from each other?” Lola asked, caressing the back of Lily’s head, and curling her fingers in her hair possessively.
“Mmmm…” Lily responded distantly, staring into Lola’s black, depthless eyes as her head was turned to stare into them. “Learn?”
“That is something I would… like to try.” Lola confessed, smiling, and Lily found herself nodding before she could stop herself, before she realised quite what Lola was saying.
“Uh… Lola…” Lily managed, but a gentle squeeze of her ass stifled her words with a cry. “Wait…”
Her head felt thick. Fuzzy. Almost drunk. As she tried to clear her head, Lola merely turned her back to stare into her eyes.
“You’ve been so stressed, and you’ve done so much for me… just relax, and let me do something for you.”
Those deep… beautiful… black orbs. Somehow, whenever she looked into them, she could never bring herself to look away…
Lily screwed her eyes shut and shook her head, as if to prove herself wrong.
“Lola, we… I don’t…”
“Shhh…” Lola said softly, massaging away any attempts Lily made to tense her body. “I’ve been studying all about it. You said it was fun.”
“Lol… aaahh…” Lily groaned, as Lola’s massage became gradually more intimate, honing in on every muscle, every sore spot.
It had been days since Lily had holstered herself away in her sleeping sack and ridden her fingers to a toe-curling vision-blanking orgasm, and now her body yearned for it. She momentarily let her fingers drift up to her own neck as if to draw the drawstring tight before remembering she wasn’t there.
As she did so, Lola was lifting her shirt and exposing her body beneath, bringing it up to rest just above her breast.
With glacially slow moves, Lola caressed her body lower and lower, gently caressing her lower ribs just slowly enough that it didn’t tickle - but Lily knew that it could if she had wanted it to.
Her breathing came shallower now, as the fingers traced over her stomach, around her navel, and began to play at her waist.
“Lola um-m-mm,” Lily shivered a little in her grasp, unable to do anything more.
“Just relax… Let Lola take care of you…” Lola whispered, her red slimy face pressed up to the glass now. “Let Lola take care of everything…”
As the slick gloves began to toy with the elastic of her pants, delicately caressing the swell of her sex through the fabric, LIly’s breath caught in her throat.
“Just let me in,” Lola said softly, prying Lily’s clothing away from her already soaked sex, “Let me in…”
Lily squirmed slightly, but dared do little more as her alien companion slowly caressed her pussy which throbbed and ached with need. The other glove cupped her chin in a protective, yet firm grasp. Lola’s eyes bored into Lily’s as if to plant her own thoughts directly into the girl’s head. Something in those eyes reminded Lily of before, when she was being tickled senseless. There was something there, something deep, powerful… a primal energy that spoke to endless aeons of existence.
“Just let me… out…” Lola whispered at last, and slid her fingers inside to cement her words.
Lily croaked out for a moment in shock at the sudden movement, then felt her body shudder, though Lola didn’t let her eyes drift away for even a moment.
“What I read was interesting.” Lola mused, and began to slowly move her fingers in a steady cadence. “What you told me, though, was far more interesting.”
With preternatural grace, a fluidity no organic creature could have accomplished, Lola’s hand sank into Lily and left her breathless for a moment. Lola’s other hand was ironclad, though, and kept Lily’s eyes locked with hers.
In that moment, all other thoughts fled her head except for just how beautiful Lola was. Her eyes were simply… hypnotic.
After weeks of extreme stress, with her only outlet being masturbation, the sheer sexual release of being touched by another was almost overwhelming. Lily left her back arching at just the gentle touches Lola was providing, and her fingers clawed at nothing as electric feelings flowed through her, before they at last found their way to her own chest to add to her own steadily heating frisson.
Lola cradled her neck in the other glove, keeping her from pushing herself too far back. As she floated weightlessly, it was quite easy for Lola to position her where she wanted her. She manoeuvred her hand down to cup her fingers under Lily’s rear, letting her rest in the glove’s palm, as the other gently wrapped around her neck.
All the while, Lily’s rapidly glazing eyes were increasingly kept focused on Lola’s, even as Lola’s arm began to wind its way around the girl’s neck.
“Such a good girl…” Lola whispered, and Lily winced momentary.
Good girl? That wasn’t… right? This wasn’t right…
Lola merely held her tighter, hilting her fingers deeply within Lily to a deep gasp which scattered her thoughts asunder.
Lola pistoned her fingers into Lily’s molten loins, and her thighs trembled under the sustained assault, swiftly reducing her to a trembling mess. Whatever she’d been thinking before, it didn’t matter now. All that Lily cared about was her rapidly approaching orgasm.
As her toes curled and thighs clenched, Lily felt a flutter in her chest. This was how it had felt. Her dream, all those nights ago… being surrounded. Subsumed. Sinking. Consumed and utterly devoured within…
Lola.
An orgasm that started in her extremities and worked its way to her chest left Lily momentarily unable to breathe, before she choked out a scream that made it difficult to think.
Yet Lola didn’t stop. Her fingers kept moving, a single tip circling her clit with unerring accuracy even as she thrashed and shook within Lola’s grasp.
Lily’s breath came faster and faster as the pleasure never abated, merely plateaued.
“L-Lola!” She choked out, but her whole body was buzzing with arousal. This feeling, of no longer being in control, being held, bound tightly, was making it hard to think. She just wanted more, more of this, as much as she could get.
“Such a good girl for me…” Lola cooed, and tightened her grip on Lily’s neck a little, ensuring she never looked away from her eyes for even a moment.
Panting desperately, mouth hanging open, Lily couldn’t quite bring herself to disagree. That was how she felt, like a helpless girl in the arms of a far more powerful creature.
That thought only poured fuel on the fire burning between her legs, and soon she surprised herself as a strangled cry announced her second orgasm’s arrival. Her muscles tensed almost painfully now as she rode Lola’s fingers through a chest-aching climax.
Lola’s smile was unlike anything before. Gone was the innocence, her placid polite features now a visage of pure delectation. It was almost frightening.
Not enough to distract Lily, however, who was now very much aware that Lola had one again not stopped her ministrations, and Lily’s aching sex was now crying out for respite.
“P-please… Lola…” She whimpered, and yet amidst the exhaustion there was… a thrill. This was something she had never had. It felt incredible. Beyond incredible. To be so totally at the will of another…
Lola’s grip merely tightened in response, and Lily felt herself drooling in utter abandon. She was nothing more than a vessel to experience pleasure.
Somehow, Lola always knew where to touch, how to press, what speed worked best. The bliss became only more blissful, as Lola honed in on Lily’s most sensitive spots.
“Remember what you said before?” Lola asked, her innocent tone belying her lurid grin.
Lily wasn’t sure she could have remembered anything at that point, let alone something as specific as a recent conversation, but she tried her best.
“Whhuhgh…?” She mumbled through salivating lips.
“Sex and tickling. You said something that tickled normally might feel different during sex.”
As Lola’s fingers slowed, Lily whined at the lack of sensation, even as her overstimulated body visibly sank in relief.
“Let’s find out!” Lola announced with a cheery grin, far broader than it should have been.
Lily had barely begun to comprehend what Lola was saying, when suddenly she was in hell.
With just one finger within her, the others began to work independently and torment Lily’s inner thighs, scrabbling at her now overly-sensitive skin and digging into the creases which were oh-so-vulnerable. Above Lola began to tease at the poor trapped girl’s neck, forcing the girl to roll her head from side to side in a desperate attempt to defend herself. Lily clawed at the gloves helplessly, powerless against her captor, and her sanity shattered in moments.
Screeching in unwarranted mirth, Lily thrashed anew within Lola’s grip, albeit now seeking a far different release. On the cusp of two life-changing orgasms, her body was too tired to resist, and far far too sensitive to stand Lola’s expert tickling.
Tears welled in her eyes and her throat became hoarse from screaming as Lily did everything she could to try, for even a moment, to escape those devilish tickling fingers. In the process, she bounced up and down atop Lola’s single penetrative finger, inadvertently pushing herself closer and closer to orgasm once more.
Indeed, whenever Lily’s frantic attempts at escape proved too slow as exhaustion overtook her, Lola would merely gently pump her finger in and out, swelling it with as much gel as she could, to the limits of the glove’s dimensions.
Groaning amidst giggling fits, Lily could feel the tide within her rising once more. Behind the laughter, groans and grunts of imminent release became higher and higher pitched whines.
It was overwhelming. Scary to feel another climax building which she knew she could not stop. As she giggled and squirmed she was fucking herself atop Lola’s inflated digit with what looked for all the world below to see like joyful eagerness.
As Lola was tickling her to insanity, she unwillingly fucked herself silly, yet even in the depths of utter sexual and tickling induced madness she could not take her eyes off of those of Lola.
“That’s a good girl… cum for me.”
That was all Lily needed to hear as, for a third time, her body shuddered and heaved through yet another orgasm. All the while Lola never took her eyes off the girl in her arms, although at long last her tickling instead turned to a gentle - if still mildly ticklish - massage.
For a while they just lay in each other’s arms again, and Lily felt comfortable. Safe. Warm.
Loved.
“Lily… you promised I would get out of this pod.”
“Y-yeah…” Lily breathed, fogging the glass between them, reclining in Lola’s arms.
“And I promised not to tickle you.”
Giggling gently, Lily nodded. “Uh huh.”
“Aren’t you supposed to keep promises?”
Nodding into Lola’s glove, Lily smiled. “I will.”
Lola merely stared back, grinning blankly.
“Well, until you do… I can’t be expected to keep my promise, can I?”
Lily looked into Lola’s eyes, trying to understand what she meant.
Then the gloves moved to her sides and began to tickle her once more.
“Waihihihihihit!” Lily screeched, squirming and laughing, helpless in Lola’s arms.
The red slime-girl just smiled. ‘Soon…’ she muttered to herself.