HFG: The NJP

Nike and Pax sat in their mess hall picking at their food. Both sighed exhaustedly, somehow today’s meal was somehow worse than the others. The silence awkward silence grew between the two women until Nike looked up, having thoroughly given up on her meal. 

“So Pax” 

“Hmm” Pax replied, stirring the sludge. 

“You said you’ve been in the Army for around 4 years now right” Nike asked curiously. 

“Yeah, why do you ask” Pax said as grabbed a spoonful of her food analyzing the contents further. 

“Why are you only a Private?” Nike asked. 

“Oh, ummmm huh” Pax  replied looking mildly bemused. “I uhhh, I got NJP’d” she said somewhat sheepishly. 

“Oh….what were you before” Nike asked slightly bemused herself 

Pax put the spoon in her mouth, wincing slightly as its contents hit her tongue. “Specialist, was in line to pick up Sergeant too” Pax said in between chews. 

“Fuck... that sucks” Nike sympathized. With Pax’s time left in the Army, there wasn’t much hope of her being able to pick up to where she was. 

“Yeah, it does” Pax exasperated. Taking a swig from her cup. “But I guess I fucking deserve it, and it could’ve been a lot worse.” She added now spooning up more of the concoction on her plate. 

“Why, what did you do?” Nike inquired as she followed suit, grabbed a spoonful. Pax’s wince earlier was well deserved. Nike wasn’t even sure if this was meat or some artificial protein compound. She began chewing the odd gelatinous mixture and began to swallow. 

“Oh got caught with a guy back in my bunk” Pax said somewhat nonchalantly. 

Nike coughed and hacked sputtering, Pax jumped up and gave her several almighty thumps on her back. 

“YOU DID WHAT?!” Nike exclaimed 

“Keep your voice down” Pax hissed, as they were drawing attention from all around the mess hall. She took her seat and sighed. 

“You fucking know how it is here, no fucking privacy whatsoever. Porta shitters are a million fucking degrees. And good god the monotony. It wasn’t so bad when they were running us ragged. But all we do is fucking hurry up and wait now.” She sighed exasperated leaning back into her chair. “We were lounging around one day and some fresh boots came off the airstrip near the border of the camp, they were combat engineers and our LT figured it’d be a good experience for them to “train” with us a bit before they shipped off east. We did some of the basic shit, mainly lectures on not getting their asses squashed” Pax smirked. 

“But there was this one kid, couldn’t have been more than 18. He was hardly paying attention and looked dejected as all fuck, more so than any other Joe in this shithole. Me, being the caring NCO I am, asked him when we had a moment. It took some prying but I found out, or rather he showed me.” Pax’s facial expression changing slightly stony. 

“Day before he shipped out, he got a “Dear John” letter from his girlfriend” Pax muttered somewhat bitterly. 

Nike’s expression turned somewhat stony as well, part of the reason why giantesses and human men had gotten along so well in combat arms, despite the sex (among other) differences was a somewhat shared societal experience. Divorces and breakups are especially common within the military, and due to the obvious societal strains giantesses have with their male partners relationships are difficult to say the least. Mix in a military career and giantess units rival that of those seen in combat arms. With these women only receiving a letter (or worse) an email telling them of their lovers bidding adieu. 

“Jesus Christ…poor kid” Nike mumbled. “That’s the fucking king of dick moves right there.” She added with venom in her voice. 

“I know, kid was really fucking torn up about it. He looked like he was about to break down sobbing right there so I took him aside and he just broke down, crying about her. I wasn’t sure what to do, so I did what I thought was best.”

“You fucked him?” Nike asked somewhat curiously 

“No you twat!” Pax growled “I comforted the kid. I…petted him I guess and sat next to him trying to calm him down. He kept blubbering how she’d promised him his first kiss when he got back and stuff, and well like I said you know how it is here. No one was around so I took the opportunity.” Pax sighed but a slight, wry smile appeared on her face. 

“I picked him up which caught him off guard, he made the cutest little yelp. At first I just hugged him. It calmed him down a bit more and I’ll be honest it felt good holding him close. I then kissed him, I tried to be as gentle as possible but, you know how it is. Poor kid couldn’t breath for a bit so I stopped pretty quickly. I offered to take him back to my bunk and well…we moved on from there.”