The Erotic Mind-Control Story Archive

I glanced at three costumed women glaring at me outside my cell, and sighed. “Well, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised to see you girls here. I have been having a run of bad luck...heh, well, even more than usual. I’ve been trying all day to explain, to apologize, to tell someone what this is all about... but no one has been willing to listen. So, um.. any chance you ladies would accept an apology?”

The tall redhead, Ruby, laughed, stepping inside the cell. “Really?” she said in mock surprise. “You want to apologize? For real?” She laughed again, crossing her arms. “Hmph... it’s amazing how that works. When you were still free, you didn’t feel much like apologizing, did you? You felt like causing mayhem and destruction all across the whole damn country.. and beating the shit out of anyone that got in your way! But now that you’ve been caught... now that you’re the one who’s vulnerable and helpless—suddenly you want to apologize..“

Jette, the dark skinned girl pushed past her friend, grabbing my by the neck, squeezing tightly, choking me. “Fucking little shit! If you wanna apologize to someone, try apologizing to our teammates, Amber and Emerald! You remember them, don’t ya?” She glared daggers at me, while I gasped and shook, trying to break free, but having no leverage with my arms locked behind my back. “You left them out in the middle of the goddamn Interstate, fucking themselves raw in a mindless daze!” Her grip around my throat tightened in her anger. “Apologize to them, you fucking bastard!”

“Emerald? Really?” a familiar and feminine voice spoke from out in the hallway. “Woulda thought a certain Katya Emerald would have made someone think twice about taking that name.” Not that Aurora didn’t know, but she played it up anyway. Dressed in her Silver Girl uniform, she stepped into view, knocking on the inner wall with a raised eyebrow. “Funny, I didn’t realize I’d gone to a jewelry store, but here we are, Silver Girl and the... Beautiful Gems, right? Wonder, did you ever ask Amethyst to join up? Suppose she’s a little old, but she doesn’t look a day over twenty five...” Which was true enough, thanks to good ol’ witch blood. Not that Valerie would ever accept. She was a doctor these days... she hadn’t been Amethyst in years, but she still had the moves. If needed, she still could be in a pinch. Aurora just took a certain amount of pleasure in a bit of not-so-friendly ribbing. “Nice to meet you. Oh... and you might wanna ease up on him.“

The Beautiful Gems glanced back in surprise at the intrusion. Jette finally released my throat, and I immediately gasped, panting, sucking in lungfuls of air. “Silver Girl? Wh... what are you doing here? I heard you were missing!” Glancing at me sidelong, she gestured with her head. “Do you actually know this low-life or something?”

“Sorry about that,” Ruby said, blushing sheepishly. “Jette’s temper just got the better of her. Mine too, truth be told. This guy... he hurt a couple of our team mates. Frankly, whatever they have planned for him is too good for him, far as I’m concerned. So... what’s your interest? Have you crossed paths with him before?”

“Family,” she said succinctly, stepping into the somewhat crowded room, walking over to face me. “And if anyone gets to kick his ass, it’s me.” Aurora scowled, and as soon as Jette released my throat, my sweet adorable cousin slammed her fist across my cheek. Not trying to break my jaw, or hurt me... too badly... just... sending a message. The kind of punch you give a friend who took things way, way too far. “Don’t want my help? Fine. You say so. You fucking SAY SO! You involve Counter Spell? Fine. She’s a heroine. She knows what she signed up for! You involve... my... cousin? My sweeter than can be, innocent, helpless, cousin? And I will wreck you, Jimmy! I will make you wish your Mother found you moaning out her name while going through her panty drawer! Do you get me, Jimmy?“

I blinked. The room was so silent a pin dropping would have sounded like a gong. Not that I didn’t understand her perfectly, her words or her anger, but... damn, woman! And I thought Katie was the Queen of ‘Things Not to Say in Polite Company’!

Aurora blushed, just a little, a silvery tint to her cheeks. “Uh... sorry, ladies. Sort of... things went... a little far. Pleasure to meet you, though. Sorry... I was a little rude, wasn’t I? And don’t think me giving him what he deserves means I’m okay with him being beaten to a pulp in his restraints, ’kay? Just... we’re family. We have special privileges.”

I groaned inwardly, and not merely from the punch. Aurora was here... dammit... which meant I’d screwed up royally somehow. Again! I didn’t much care what happened to me anymore, if I spent the rest of his life in jail, or if the Gems beat me into the ground... or even if I ended up buying the farm in the firefight I’d foreseen... after everything I was responsible for, it would only be fitting. But ’Rora... I didn’t want her involved... not if it meant she might get hurt. She was pissed...And rightly so, I grudgingly admitted to myself. Maybe she would leave now that she’d had a chance to release some anger... maybe she was so pissed off she would simply leave me to my fate... but I just couldn’t take the chance. I needed to come clean. I had to tell her.

The Gems merely chuckled in amusement. “Well, looks like you DO know him then,” the white haired Asian girl, Pearl, commented drily. “So... family, huh? My condolences. Well, you know what they say, you can pick your friends... but not your family...” Heading back into the hallway, she gestured over her shoulder “C’mon, Gems... let’s let the two of them have a moment alone. We’ll have time enough to settle up with ‘Jimmy’ on the trip back to River City.”

“Take care, Ladies. Hey, before I go home, maybe we can have a word. I try to make connections.” Aurora smiled, wiggling her fingers to them in that cutesy way she’d learned from Sarah. She wanted to have the same network in Midas she’d made in California, without the mind controlling techie involved. Of course, a full team might be more than she wanted to handle again, but... having backup... she smiled a little more, weakly, fingers wiggling again.

So I sat there silently for a long moment, waiting until Aurora and I were completely alone. “I’m sorry, ’Rora. Again. This... wasn’t the way I wanted to see you...”

She slowly turned to face me again, the smile gone. “Yeah. Well you had a choice, you know. Normally, I’m way less angsty. More... ‘I’m a heroine for goodness, hooray!’ and to hell with all of the grim dark we have to put up with. But you screwed up, royal... Then you screwed up again. The only reason I felt comfortable taking a punch at you is that if it weren’t for this room... my metal would have come out. She’s my cousin, Jimmy. She’s not involved. You involved her. And me.” She sighed deeply. “Seems they already assigned a squad to you... but... I have a good reputation with the cops here.” She smirked a little more, arms crossing over her chest. “I’m going to stick around you till you’re gone. I would have trusted you... but I would have trusted you in my apartment, too. Fool me once, shame on me. But I don’t give second chances like that.“

Yeah. It figured. Damn stubborn metal-headed, rust-brained...no. Stop. Cool down. “Okay. First of all, if I hadn’t been in this room, and your metal had come out, it wouldn’t have hurt nearly as much as it just did. And second, you don’t need to make nice with the lovely ladies in spandex out there, itching to pound me into pulp. I have it on good authority those three are ‘not your type’.” Her smirk turned into a scowl. Dammit, that hadn’t come out the way I’d meant it. I wasn’t winning her over with snide comments. I needed to control my angst a bit better if I was going to get through to her.

“Sorry. Look...you want truth from me, I’ll give you truth. And I won’t bother to say anything cheesy like, ‘You can’t handle the truth’ despite that fact. Aurora... honestly? I do want you here. Hell, I need you here! It... it’s not easy... being here by myself... having EVERYONE against me... including you right now... and, well, not knowing what’s going to happen to me? You don’t know how much it helps to have a friendly face in my corner... even IF she wants to kick my teeth in.” I took a deep breath. “But.. I need you to leave. You HAVE to go back home! Forget about me. Let whatever happens to me happen... let the chips fall where they may. Just.. just go. Please!

“I’m sorry... for betraying your trust... for diving into your head, despite everything that we said to each other the night before. And for doing the same to your cousin and your partner. But... do you think this was all just a game or something? That I did it for kicks? Or that I tried to make you all my obedient slaves?!? You may not think much of me, right now..” Or ever, actually, for that matter... “but at least give me more credit than that!!

“I did it... to keep you OUT of this... out of what going to happen. I didn’t want you here at ground zero, ’Rora.. hell, I told ya last night that I hadn’t even planned to run into you at all while I was here! The idea was for a quick visit to lay low, then a quick exit in the morning... but, well, you know what they say about the best laid plans. My point? I heard what you said that night in the alley, the same way I know you heard the advice I gave you. I turned myself in. I’ve stopped running from my problems and I’m facing them. But,... I can’t have you involved in this, Rora. Please! For your sake, I can’t let you stay here.“

“Too bad.” Aurora snorted, and leaned back against the wall, frowning down at me with a sigh. “You get to make choices. To a point. Once you get yourself locked up, once you betray your own cousin, once you... just... no. No.” Aurora sighed, shaking her head, biting her lip in such an exhausted, frustrated way. “Not happening. You don’t want to see my face? I’ll wait outside. But its too late for you to make choices for me. I’m sticking around till you’re out of my city, because I don’t know how to trust you anymore—”

“AURORA!! Goddamit!!” I yelled, losing my temper. At least it was safe to do so while I was stuck in this room. “Will you stop being so damned stubborn for a change and just LISTEN to me?!? You CAN’T stay here! You will DIE if you do!!” I was panting slightly, with the sheer force of the emotion. I hadn’t meant to blurt it all out like that... not in so many words... but I needed to get through to her just how dangerous the situation was. Her expression showed shock, that I’d at least gotten her attention, but I needed to drive the point home before her stubborn nature reared its ugly head again.

I sat back down on my cot... sliding over to make room for her as well. “Would you sit down for a moment?” I asked quietly. “I have to explain this... so you can understand... so you’ll know where this is all coming from.”

Aurora frowned, shaking her head. “Standing. Sorry. I’m short, remember?” She looked up, and then looked down. “I feel better when I stand. More in control. So you sit there. And talk.” She frowned just a little more, sighing melodramatically. “Now, you can talk. But know, I’m proooobably gonna stick around anyway.”

I was probably going to have to see the prison dentist from all the teeth grinding she was causing. “You know, cousin... when I invaded your mind this morning before leaving, I felt really bad about it... horribly guilty. I almost couldn’t go through with it, specially after what you and Sylvie have been through the past several months. But I said to myself, ‘she’s too damn stubborn, if I told her the truth, she wouldn’t listen, or she wouldn’t believe me. This is for her own good... to save her life’ And so I did the bare minimum I could... I simply made you think last night in the alleyway was just a dream.. nothing more. Why? Because I didn’t want to hurt you, or subject you to the same kind of trauma you’ve already been through so many times before. All I wanted was to keep you from coming here today. But I should have known better... should have guessed that you’d figure it out, that you and your partner would compare notes or something... and be too pissed off about what I’d done to even consider why I’d done it. I was so busy trying to protect you from ME damaging you that I should have thought to protect you from yourself!“

Geez... if I’d thought she would actually show up... if I actually believed that she’d actually come here this soon, before this was over and I was on the way to prison, I would have sank my tendrils deep into her head and make ’Rora my fucking slave just to keep her out of this mess! Damned hindsight...

Sighing slightly, taking a moment to get myself under control I began again. “You might not know this about me, but... my dreams... they aren’t like other people’s dreams. Well, sometimes they are. I suppose. But.. other times, they are very different. Last night.. I had a ‘different’ kind of dream. A very vivid dream... and in that dream, as I was about to be loaded up into the police transport, I was shot... blasted... possibly mortally wounded.” I sighed deeply, the image coming to mind all too clearly. “And you, in your anger and anguish, rushed in to protect me... and ended up shot yourself. The last thing I saw before I woke up was your lifeless face staring up at me.. one hand reaching towards me...”

Aurora just listened, taking it all in.. nodding. “’Kay. Now I know your reason. Now YOU listen to me. What you did? Taking control of us, even if briefly, to make choices for us, to protect us? Is no better than if your mother had kept you chained up in a room the minute you started getting all angsty because she had a dream you were going to end the world. For your own good. Did you tell me this? Did you consider maybe you not being there would make it happen anyway? No. You just made choices for me.” A long, silent pause. “Going to make excuses, or give up? Because I’ve got patience.”

I... couldn’t believe it. I really couldn’t believe my ears! Was her brain really rusted inside that thick skull of hers?!? I laughed sardonically. “You don’t get it, do you? You think that just because I had a ‘bad dream’, I just got scared and overreacted... It wasn’t a dream, it was a premonition! You’re a bloody witch, ’Rora, you used to watch Charmed, you know what I’m talking about!” I shook my head is disbelief. “I don’t know how I could possibly be any clearer. I. Saw. You. Die... You know, I’ve never really talked about this much, not even to Katie... but... well... the things in my dreams... they’re not always clear, and not always what I expect, or even how I expect... but they’re ALWAYS accurate.“

She still seemed skeptical. I closed my eyes, considering. “Do you remember... back when we were kids? It was your tenth birthday.. and Katie and I were visiting... you had those really pretty porcelain dolls... my mom had it commissioned to be a perfect likeness of you and Sylvia, as a birthday present... and you were so excited we all went into the back to play with them... sigh and I had wanted to hold it but you wouldn’t let me, so I jerked it out of your hands... and shattered it by accident?“

I laughed humorlessly to hide the pain. “You were so mad that you sparked me into a drooling puddle on the floor... and then you and Sylvia and Katie got into a big argument...and your parents made you apologize to me once I could finally stand up straight.”

“Yeah... I try to forget those things...” Aurora didn’t stop her scowl. Though for a moment she longed to hold the Sylvia once again. Too long. So cruel to only see her again so shortly. “So you dreamed that, dreamed me dying, and didn’t tell me. You don’t get it Jimmy. I don’t care what your reason is. You betrayed me, and ran off. Trying to control people to protect them... do I need to bring up Sylvie’s mom? Because I will. I will.”

Now I’m being compared to the infamous Domina Argenti. My cousin doesn’t just hit below the belt, she draws blood.

“I’m not finished. There was more to the story.” I took a deep breath, looking down at my feet. “Did you know that up ’til that point... well... I had a crush on you?” I knew of course that she hadn’t know... hadn’t a damn clue, but now that I’d started I couldn’t stop the words from coming out. “I mean.. you were the prettiest girl I’d ever met...you were smart, and funny... a real ‘spit-fire’... and we weren’t really cousins by blood... sigh I’d used to wonder what it would be like to... never mind.” I shook my head to try and shake off the memories. “Anyway... when I broke you toy, you screamed ‘I hate you!’ and sparked me into oblivion... maybe it was part of your power, or maybe the fact that I have a near photographic memory.. but those words just kept echoing in my head... I was... well.. devastated... Afterwards, it was over and done with... you, Katie, and Sylvie moved on... went into the bedroom and played a board game... and eventually forgot about the whole thing... but I remembered...

“That night, we all went to bed. I was still hurting... the girl I ‘loved’ hated me... and I couldn’t understand why. I went to sleep wondering if I could ever fix it... and that’s when... that’s when I knew EXACTLY who your one true love was and always would be. I saw Aurora.... saw you... and Sylvia... as adolescents... as teenagers.. and as adults... flashes, and images, a lot of things I didn’t fully understand at the time... but the point is, I saw what was destined to happen with you two... even that night in the car before Sylvie left for New York... back when I was only nine years old.“

That was the night that my powers had came into their own. My hair and eyes had turned dark almost overnight, my body had started growing, upwards and outwards, and all the little minor annoyances that had followed me around turned into full-blown bad luck. It was the night that Katie and I had began to drift apart, when we who had so identical that we were almost the same person became as different as night day. It was the start of a lifetime of feeling apart from everyone and everything around me. And though I never really blamed Aurora herself for what had happened, or the way things had turned out, in truth... it had all started with her.

My words had apparently had some kind of an effect, because this time she stayed silent. “Just let me say this one last time,” I said quietly, still staring hard at the ground. “It is NOT a just a dream. Not a hunch, not speculation... it is a FACT. If you stay here... if you don’t leave the jail right now and go home... you will be caught in a firefight... you will get shot... and you will die! So please... if you’re EVER going to listen to me about ANYTHING... listen to me now... and walk out of here.” Finally, I raised my head to look her in the eye. “I don’t care if you still hate me... for this morning, or for the past... I don’t want anything to happen to you. I... I couldn’t... bear it.” My vision blurs slightly, and wetness slides down my cheeks. “If doing what I did to try and save you is betrayal in your book, then fine. But... I can’t let you get hurt because of me...”

Aurora looked positively stunned. “Loved me...? Huh. I... huh. To think I kinda had a crush on Katie back then... Was really excited she was coming. I mean, I’ve always loved Sylvia, more than words can express, but...” Aurora slapped her own forehead. She felt like a genius. Yes, tell your cousin who had a crush on you that you had a crush on his sister. She was really feeling like a genius. “Okay. I’ll accept that you know these things. That it could happen. But... That me didn’t know. That me couldn’t have known. And you said you saw Sylvie and me, together, right? I’m going to be here when she gets back. I’m going to find my mom. I’m not going to die.” She sighed softly. “I don’t hate you, but I don’t believe in fate. My mom taught me that fate can be averted. Your mom, too. Fate is what we make it. And I? Am going to live. But I’m not walking away. Maybe I’ll go chat with the Gems if you want some space... but I’m not going. Sorry.“

And... I was done. She has always been stubborn... she might not believe in fate, but I do. I’ve been fighting fate my whole damn life. Averting fate? Denying it? That was what I was trying to do by getting her to leave. If anything, she’d just proven my point for me. I’d tried to change the future I’d seen by making her stay away... All to no avail. I’m a fucking modern day Cassandra... forget Umbra, call me the ‘Doom Sayer’ Well... fine. I’ll accept that. I’d had to accept a lot of things growing up... but I do NOT accept her dying... not today. Not if I can help it. If there is some way I can stop it from happening... even if I have to sacrifice myself... so be it. I still had time to try and change things.

“I do have one last.... one thing to ask you before you head out though... a favor.” She pauses at the doorway to glance back at me. “Um... Ellen Hunter... the girl from the alleyway... the one that was being mugged that I, um... made be quiet? Apparently I was a bit more... forceful... than I thought.. and she still can’t speak....I could fix it if I could have five seconds with her but her older sister, a very angry Lieutenant Hunter, won’t let me within 500 feet of her. If you can’t convince her to let me try and help her... could you at least see if maybe Counter, or one of your other friends could help? I don’t wanna leave and have the poor girl suffer just because I was in a bad mood.. I can at least make sure she gets some help...“

“I’ll... do that. I’ll make sure of it. Maybe I’ll even help.” If it was just mind control... well, she’d beaten mind control with mind control. It always felt weird. but she was sure somebody could do it... She didn’t care if Jimmy thought she was going to die. Her expression was stubborn, her frown was stubborn. She wasn’t going to accept it. She shrugged very faintly. “You can think you’re some magical future teller all you want. But your mom has weaved fate before. It’s not static. According to one lady, I don’t even belong. At all. I’m not supposed to exist! So think of me as a game changer. I’m going to give you some time to think about that... find the Gems... but I’m not letting you get too far till you’re wherever you end up. Capiche?”

Capiche? I couldn’t help it, I chuckled despite myself. She was always so feisty when she had a goal or a mission in mind. “Yeah, I got it... but consider this. Katie and I aren’t supposed to exist either. Myself, doubly so. We do only thanks to Sarah’s magical intervention. You know... I’m not sure if my powers are magical in nature, or just genetic... but whatever part comes from my mom... Katie and I alter fate.. with just our very existence! Which explains my bad luck and Katie’s good luck. And yet even WE can’t change what is meant to be.“

“If you’ve stopped trying,” she shot back “it’s no wonder.” Aurora laughed... not a happy laugh, but it was clear she wasn’t going to give up. Aurora was a fighter. A lover, but a very stubborn fighter when it was called for. She wiggled her fingers just a little. “You aren’t getting rid of me. You may as well get used to the notion.” And she stepped out, making sure the door closed behind her.

And I watched her walk away, thinking about her words. She was so sure of herself, so positive, that I almost believed her. Almost. Because I’d already seen the future. And all the good will and positive thinking in the world couldn’t change it. Only action. I only hoped that when the time came, I would be able to take the right one.