Confined With a Goddess

While they were content to spend the rest of the day rubbing each other with oil, there was a rumbling in the sky that changed their minds. Grabbing their chairs and going back home, they took down their clothes from the line and grabbed some food before cooping themselves up in the small hut. They made it just before the rain set in.

"Well, so much for that beach day," sighed Celestia. "Half-baked as it was, I almost expected it to break down sooner. I suppose good job on the plan for surviving as long as it did."

Jake put a hand on her shoulder. "Oh, come on. It was fun. Good, clean, oily fun!"

"The fact that is was oily makes it literally unclean, and the fact that we were rubbing each others' genitals makes it figuratively unclean, as well. Add in the fact that we're unwed and you hit the trifecta."

"Not to mention the fact that we both have dicks..."

Celestia cocked her head to the side. "Why should that matter?"

Now it was Jake's turn to look confused. "Doesn't it?"

Celestia shook her head. "Equestria has universal healthcare and happy citizens. The growth rate of our population is fine. Why should we care if two stallions want to rub their dicks together? It's kind of hot, actually."

Jake shrank back a bit. "We don't have universal healthcare... Or happy citizens. I'm barely allowed sick days."

"Sick days?"

"Yeah. That's how many days a year you're allowed to be sick. I have three days out of the year when I'm allowed to be sick."

"But what if you're actually sick? What if you catch pneumonia and have to stay in the hospital for a week?"

Jake shrugged. "They'll probably give my job to someone else."

"That's stupid."

"Is it? I've been gone for quite some time, and they had to hire someone else to do my job while I was away, and the person they hired was working harder because they wanted to take my job, and if they're only going to pay for one worker to do the job, anyone new will start at minimum wage, whereas I would have several cost of living adjustments. And worse, because I was fired, my health insurance goes away, so I have to pay for the hospital visit with my sudden lack of insurance."

Celestia was dumbfounded. "How does one survive in your world?"

Jake shrugged. "Just don't ever catch a cold. If you do, cover it up; don't report it. If your employer believes that you're healthy and doing your job, he'll treat you like you're healthy and doing your job. If you're sick at home, you're not making any money for him; why should he give you anything?"

Celestia shook her head. "I would not stand for this."

Jake shrugged. "That's the way it works. I can't change it. If I tried to be the change I wanted to see in the world, I'd just be replaced with someone else who already wants my place in the already-established system."

"I can't imagine anyone actually wanting those conditions..."

"Oh, they're fine conditions if you can meet them. I've never taken a sick day. I just suffered through the symptoms until I had a day off, and then I rested."

"And what'd your doctor have to say about that?"

"Didn't see one."

"But you were sick, you said?"

"Every expense in the hospital has to be paid by someone, and if the insurance company hears that they have to pay two hundred dollars for some doctor to tell me that I have a fever and that I need a bowl of chicken soup, they'd have a field day with me."

Celestia shook her head. "Rest assured, if you fall ill here, I'll take good care of you."

"You have medicine?"

"Luna has medicine. She wants me alive, and she seems to be okay with keeping you alive, too."

As a burst of thunder shook the walls, Jake took to Celestia's embrace. He wasn't frightened by the thunderclap, but rather, it just happened to coincide with him trying to hug her. "I don't know what I'd do if you fell ill."

"Don't worry, pet. Luna would know." Celestia ran her fingers through his hair. There was already a bit of oil in there from the time they had spent together during the afternoon, but what still remained on her hands smoothed it out yet further.

She sighed and looked around as the rain hammered against the roof. It was coming down pretty hard out there. "You know, we probably won't have to hide out in here the next time it rains," she mentioned.

Jake looked up at her. "What do you mean?"

"Well, I mostly mean that we should have the roof up by then."

Jake nodded. "And probably walls and window shades, right?"

"Maybe even a fireplace. And we'll have definitely hung up the door."

Celestia nodded and turned to the door. "It's days like this that are pretty much the only reason I have a door."

"Not for wild animals?"

"Have you seen anything aside from birds and fish?"

Jake smirked. "An alicorn."

Celestia chuckled. "Well, if I'm a wild alicorn, you'd better hurry and domesticate me, huh?"

Jake chuckled, then shook his head. "I'd rather you stay the way you are."

"Hm..." Celestia grabbed one of the cheeseburgers and held it up above him. "I'll just have to domesticate you then. Beg."

Jake scoffed. "Why?" He reached for a cheeseburger, but Celestia used her magic to levitate them all to the ceiling. "Very mature."

"You're the one being naughty," shrugged Celestia. "Beg, and I may just give you a bite."

"This is highly inappropriate."

"No, that command is "speak." I said "beg.""

Jake pulled his wrists up to his shoulders and begged like a dog. "Woof."

"Good boy." She lowered the burger to him, and he grabbed it out of her hands, unwrapping and eating it before she changed her mind. "So, did you enjoy being domesticated?"

"It puts food in my hands. It's more humiliating than working at the gas station deli, but not by much. At least it tastes better..."