Mika’s Mesmerizing Mission
Part 4 — Gina
Everyone on set was surprised. They were all pretty much the same emotionally but recently Mika has been happier than anyone had ever seen, stories of her giving people cookies and skipping around during down time were filtering around, in fact others had seemingly caught her mood and the whole set seemed a much happier place as of late. All of the cast sat around out of costume, the days filming had finished but they did have to stay for a magazine interview. Normally everyone would be annoyed by this, but today it seemed kind of nice. Mika made conversation with Gina hoping to find a good way to get time with her. Gina was very childish and thus was the “child” of the group. Ironically she was also the most intelligent having a degree in some obscure branch of physics and Mika had always presumed that her childish sense of humour was a way to balance doing days and days of mathematics. As they waited Gina was the first to suggest that she go fetch food for everyone. Everyone smiled due to both the promise of sugar and due to the fact Gina was always the first to suggest such a plan of action. Mika offered to help and Gina of course saw this as more hands equalling more pudding which is something she would never turn down. Mika had an idea and as she stood and took orders from the other girls and any member of stage crew in earshot she turned to Gina and asked if she could come and help her find her coat and thus her wallet. Gina being polite followed Mika dutifully. Mika kept looking around and soon she found a quiet office at the back of the set. Gina looked around and frowned at Mika
“Why would your coat be in an unused office?” Mika stumbled and realized she might have been slightly over confident and she stuttered out the first thing that came out of her mouth “I always throw stuff here, I got tired of stuff getting moved and trampled on during set moves” Gina considered for a second before shrugging. Mika let out an internal sigh of relief, luckily Gina was not one to push questions. Mika gestured to the chair by the unused desk “Grab a seat while I sort my clothes” as she started to fake looking around in the cupboard at the side of the room as she used the other hand to grab her wallet out of her pocket and into her free hand so it can look like she found it. As she drew her head out of the closet she smiled “Found it! Just need to make sure I have enough!” She saw that Gina was fidgeting in the chair looking at her watch, Mika saw her chance and moved to her cast member “That is a pretty watch you have there Gina” Gina looked up at Mika and then back down at her watch with a slightly bemused expression
“Oh? Thank you, I guess” she replied. Mika held her friends wrist gently and moved it more into her vision
“Yes it is so so pretty, and you find it easy to watch, keeping track of time, getting so busy, so lost in it” Mika looked at her cast member with hope, she had not planned this and was hoping her extrapolation of the fidgeting in the chair was the correct assumption about her. “You find it so easy to get focused in your watch, so busy watching time to make sure everything is right making sure you divide all the things in your life by all the time you have in your day and it gets you so lost in its circling cycle, doesn’t it?” Gina’s eyes stayed focused, widening and blanking at the same time, her lips parted slightly and a low, almost whispered, yes dropped out and Mika felt calmer thinking she may have actually made the right choice. “Yes you are lost in the spiral of time, lost and tired by it, all your movement is so tiring, you find yourself just tiring and focusing more and more on your watch loosing yourself in time” Mika kept going, still with hope but also a large helping of doubt, but Gina’s eyes were getting progressively more glassy as she stared at her watch. “But now you are so tired, the spinning exhausts you and makes you want to break away and sleep, you need to rest don’t you?” once again Mika’s confidence was boosted as another unrestricted affirmative slipped from Gina’s lips. “Then rest my dear, let Mika take over for a bit while you take a nice deep rest as you sleep” In one fluid motion as she extended the last syllable Mika slid her hand down in front of the eyes of the girl and watched as the eye lids followed her hand and Gina went loose and limp eyes tightly shut. Mika finally let the internal sigh become an external one as she looked at the girl slumped over the desk. Despite this being a near disaster she was able to pull through. She then realized that the rest of the cast would be expecting the pudding Gina had promised before Mika had decided to intervine so she quickly went to work “You are just feeling wonderful and you want to come back here over and over and you will find, whenever I say “Gina’s naptime” you will sink back down into this deep deep trance. Also as you seem to be so obsessed with time you are going to find nothing turns you on more than a ringing alarm clock, it just sends shudders through you doesn’t it?” Mika giggled a little as she felt rather evil implanting such a thing but justified it to herself as making sure Gina would never be late to set again. “Now you can just forget all of this as you go out and buy that pudding you promised, 1,2,3!” Mika watched as Gina sat up and blinked her eyes a few time “Come on! People will be waiting!” said Mika as she made her way out of the door with Gina in tow.
Pudding and the interview that followed were good and gave Mika time to rest and reflect on her current progress. Despite nearly blowing it all with a simple mistake, she had come through and now she had only one more to go and she had high hopes she had saved the easiest until last.