Chapter 1

“Honey, did you see what I sent you?” Robert asks as he walks into Jane’s office.

“The Better America Act thing?” Jane takes off her headset and replies, too focused on her monitor to look at him. Robert notices she is taking notes, and actually has a video of the press conference paused. That seems a bit unusual for her, as she is rarely interested in politics.

“Yes, it’s fucked up. How the fuck is this ok? How do we call ourselves a civilized country and do this shit?” Robert asks, his blood pressure clearly rising.

“Calm down, honey, I’m looking into it. Remember what we talked about, you can’t get upset about every single thing that happens now, or you are going to stroke out within a few days.” Jane sighs, frustrated both with the situation, and her inability to think of anything that will make Robert not stress out over this.

“Why don’t you just go back to work, and try to avoid the news for a few days? I promise I will let you know if anything else big happens, and tonight I’ll give you a summary of the BAA thing.” She asks, hoping to buy herself some time to figure out a better solution.

“Fine. I’ve got a meeting in a few minutes, and after that I’ll do my best to stay off the internet. Sorry, I don’t mean to take these things out on you, I just can’t believe this is actually happening. I love you” Robert says, clearly still frustrated, but realizing he is making Jane’s life more complicated.

“I love you too. Back to work with you” Jane answers, putting back on her headset and continuing to watch the press conference.

Jane takes the following notes:

• All borders will be closed immediately. Military and national guard units, as well as drone surveillance, will ensure no one goes in or out.

• All citizens to submit DNA samples within the next two weeks.

• Citizens found to be less than 95% European ancestry to lose citizenship immediately and be detained.

• Citizens who appear to be less than 95% European ancestry will be detained by authorities as they are located, but will be released if testing shows they are over the limit.

• Adult males detained will be sent to detention camps, and then assigned to various long term work camps. Corporations are allowed to lease detainee labor.

• Female detainees over the age of 40 will be treated as the male detainees.

• Female detainees between 18-39 will be screened for health issues, STDs, mental disorders, drug addiction, etc, and those deemed fit to reproduce to be auctioned to various white males to be their breeding slaves (they are calling them concubines).

• Adult females in the previous group not deemed fit will be sterilized and assigned to various jobs.

• Children who are detained will be raised in camps, and as they age out are treated the same as the adults.

• Auction criteria listed on the Better America Act site.

“Robert isn’t wrong” Jane mutters. “This is some sick shit, and this is just what they are publicly admitting. Who knows how bad things will actually be?”

Jane can’t help but be curious, and pulls up the Better America Act website. Looking at the bidder criteria, she notices the following:

Initial bidding restricted to those with:

• At least 99% European ancestry

• Men with a stable employment history

• Men with proven fertility via sperm testing

• Men who do not yet have children

• Men who have the means to provide for additional partners and children (over 200k net worth and 100k household income minimum)

As Jane reads through this, she realizes Robert meets all of the criteria. They both have had DNA testing in the past, and are both 100% European, Robert has been at his job for a decade, their fertility issues had been on her end, and they just barely met the income and net worth levels. She decides to schedule the DNA testing for both herself and Robert for the morning, knowing Robert would want to put it off. She also applies for bidder status for Robert, using his previous DNA test results, attaching a copy of their medical records from their fertility specialist.

As she is doing that Jane hears Robert making noise in the kitchen. “He must be funneling his frustration into making dinner for me.” She thought, smiling. “Now how do I explain this in a way that doesn’t send him into a cleaning frenzy...”

As Jane gets off work, she sends the notes to her phone, along with a brief description of her plan. As they sit down to dinner, Robert asks. “Anything else happen after I came down?”

“We aren’t discussing that at dinner, honey.” Jane says. “After dinner we can go through it all. I’d like to have a nice, normal meal together, while we still can.”

Jane and Robert make small talk, but Jane can tell Robert is still thinking about the ‘Better’ American bullshit. As they finish their meal, Jane decides it’s best to get the conversation over with, while it’s still early enough for Robert to work through his frustration.

“Ok, honey, you’ve been patient, so here is the deal. Yes, what they are doing is fucked up. Probably more than you realized, if you didn’t read the entire Act summary before you sent it to me. But there is an opportunity here, both for us, and for a few of the detainees.” Jane proceeds to summarize her notes, while Robert gets more and more aggravated. As he begins to cut in with questions, Jane tells him to just type them into his note app on his phone, and she will answer them at the end. As she finishes going over her notes, she flips pages, and says “Now onto the opportunity bit. Don’t freak out, and please let me finish, because I know you are going to have questions and objections.”

“Yes, Ma’am” Robert says with just a bit of sarcasm, clearly concerned about where this is going.

“I’d like to propose that we bid on one or more of the women who are going to be auctioned.” Jane says.

“Are you insane? I’m not going to buy a person.” Robert says quickly.

“Honey, I knew you would say that, but please let me finish so I can explain why we need to do this.” Jane says patiently. “Look, honey, all of these women are going to be sold to someone, and chances are most people bidding are going to be doing it because they like the idea of owning a slave. Think of some of the men we’ve run into over the years on BDSM sites, and what they would do with a woman who has absolutely no ability to say no to anything.”