The Erotic Mind-Control Story Archive

“Two”

“I love you.”

“One”

Jimmy’s eyes break through the silence. He stares hard into Nicole’s eyes. He swore he would never do this to Nicole, but now he must. In his angriest, darkest, and soul-rendering voice, “Nicole! Put the gun down!”

And Anna finished, “Zero.” Anna smiles as she waits to hear the explosion. What catches her off guard is the low audibility. She turns away from Jimmy to see that Nicole dropped the gun. “What did you do that for? I ordered you to shoot him!”

Nicole’s face showed aggravation, but deep inside she was happy that she did not shoot him, but curious why she did not, she waited as did Anna for her body’s excuse, “I’m sorry Mistress, something is wrong. I tried to pull the trigger, but my hand opened up instead.”

“Is the base personality affecting you?

“No.”

Jimmy’s eyes widened upon hearing that sentence, “Base Personality?” His teeth clenched and his fist tightened as the room sounded with cackles and smelled of ozone very much like the smell that fills the fields before a summer thunderstorm. “What the fuck did you do to her!?”

“Made improvements... Nicole stop him, anyway you can.”

Nicole charged him. She through a kick at him, he caught it and used her momentum to pull her in close. Jimmy immediately took control of the situation, “Nicole sleep.” Nicole stopped struggling within Jimmy’s arms, and her eyes closed peacefully.

Anna stared in shock, “What are you?”

“Helpless.”

“What are you?”

“I am trapped by my own morality not to invade an innocent mind. I am helpless.”

“What are you!?”

“I don’t know!” The room begins to shake; floor tiles begin to crack, frames on the walls crack and drop to the ground. At first Anna believes it is an Earthquake, but the ground beneath Jimmy drops to the floor below, and she realizes that it is him. He stands where there is no ground, where the floor was only seconds before. The shaking continues and the windows crack and explode. The electricity fades in and out.

Anna calls out as loud as she can, “Implant 021 corporate defense pattern!” Nicole’s eyes open once more and her arms reach up to grab Jimmy’s throat.

He just looks into her eyes, “Sleep my love.” Her arms barely touch Jimmy’s neck before her arm starts to drop. Anna notices Nicole’s arm start to drop rapidly, but slows its decent and she immediately knows that it was Jimmy.

Anna is desperate for a logical explanation, a reason that would let her survive this nightmare. “What did you do to her? You can’t override our neural implant... How!?”

“Implant? I don’t know much about that... yet.” He stops and slides across the air holding his love until he is mere inches from Anna. “I just have a natural talent to read and manipulate synaptic relays.” He raises one hand and opens his palm pointing it to the wall. The wall, as if it was made of liquid swirled as if a toilet flushed until there was an opening to the outside sky. “And a few other talents.” As his body approached the window, he looks back at her, “I will be back once I’ve helped Nicole through this, until then...” And with a sadistic smile Jimmy’s and Nicole’s bodies vanish before them.

Anna fell to her knees, tears at her eyes trying to control her hysteria. And her logical mind starts kicking in, “Why open a door, when he can teleport?” Her mind wandered through the possibilities, and she knew she would have to find a way to protect herself.

Jimmy was still holding Nicole as he opened the door to their house. In mere moments they had moved from California to Massachusetts. Jimmy had no idea what to do next. But he had to remove the implant without injuring her. He laid her on the couch in the living room. He placed his hand on the front of her head and closed his eyes. He felt his own senses expanding and he could feel one sell in her forehead and he felt it moving, he felt synapses firing... She was dreaming. He continued to explore the biological functions of the brain without actually interfering or reading exactly what was going on; that would violate her.

Her head was clear, but there seemed to be some strange signals interfering with her normal thought patterns. He continued to check cell by cell, millimeter by millimeter. Inch by inch. One region at a time he continued to delve into her brain. He found nothing, no implant. Is the implant biological? Transplanted? He had to continue, he started to go at her spinal chord. He stopped. He found something plastic embedded in her spinal chord in her upper neck.

He had to be careful now. He slowly had to remove the implant without doing damage to her. Jimmy did not know enough about the human nervous system to fix any potential problems if anything went drastically wrong. He rolled her onto her stomach and put the palm of his hand on her neck. He closed his eyes and was visualizing the cell structure within and around her neck and could see and feel everything. He continued the streams of fluids in her neck with is own capabilities, not hers. He was mentally controlling each drop of fluid. He studied the implant and its effects on her neck, he slowly opened her neck and then opened his eyes. He was looking into her spine. He was watching streams of blood floating in the air where her veins and arteries were just moments before. He bent the streams, and cracked the vertebrae that the implant was in. he focused intently on preventing the fluids in her back from shifting directions or changing behavior. He raised the implant into the air, and watched as it floated in the air in front of him, then it dropped to the table.

Now Jimmy had the hard part to deal with, fixing the damage. He started with the spinal chord itself. He started at the bottom finding the patterns that warped and tangled their way to her brain. Now she had a quarter inch hole where the implant was. He had to fill in the hole cell by cell. He was unable to use cells from around her body as they were cells from her nervous system which do not regenerate. He had to literally create them out of thin air. He had to arrange the first cell atom by atom to be the perfect replica of one of her other nerve cells. He manipulated the protons and electrons of the very oxygen around him until he created the proper atoms and molecules, then he started building the components of the cell. Within moments he had accomplished cloning her nerve cell perfectly. He really was unknowledgeable of exactly what he did, in terms of cell function, but he did have it fully functional. He created another and another. Within minutes he had a quarter inch of tissue. That on the other hand was not enough. Now he had to match each one. As his eyes cannot see on a cellular level, he had to visualize what he was doing feeling with his mind and start putting the puzzle that was her spinal chord together. It took nearly an hour of his full concentration, but at last her spinal chord was fully repaired. Next he had to put the vertebrae back in place. He adjusted it perfectly in place ad made each and every cell bond perfectly as if they had never been detached. Then he replaced the veins and arteries, once again and it appeared as if nothing had ever been removed, and finally he reattached the muscles and skin tissue.

He turned her around and shook her slightly. Her eyes slowly opened. “Jimmy?”

“Yeah, are you okay?”

“I don’t know. Did I have a really bad nightmare? Or was that real?”

“Real.”

“Where are we?” She sat up and looked around. “Home?”

“Yeah.” He paused to let it sink in. “I wanted you to wake up somewhere more familiar.”

“But it’s not safe here, Jimmy.” She got up and felt a little dizzy, he rushed to her and helped support her. “we have to figure out a plan.”

“Yeah, but just for a bit, I have a plan.”

“You do?”

“Yup, get some clothes together. Plan on being gone for a week.”

“Alright. What about work?”

“You quit.” Jimmy found it hard to look into her eyes. “Before I went to LA, I called to tell them you were sick and couldn’t even get out of bed. John told me you resigned the day you got back from California.”

“Yeah, I remember, you were cooking dinner, and I had just got out of my bath.”

“I’m sorry hun... hey would it be okay if I asked you to pack for me too? I gotta do a few things. I’ll be back in half an hour.”

“Where are you going?”

“I just wanna see if I can find a name.”

“whose name? Anna’s?” Nicole was obviously worried about his answer.

Jimmy just smiled back at her, “Nope.” He paused, “Don’t worry I’ll be fine.”

Nicole watched as he left. She walked into their bedroom and started opening the door to her closet. It did not seem real. Her senses felt almost surreal, it was very weird having full control of herself even after the brief time being unable to control the simplest of motions.

She really had no idea what he had planned. She gathered good clothes, and casual clothes, summer and winter clothes, but more like enough to last two weeks. She had three suitcases. She went into the bathroom and dumped the contents of the medicine cabinet, which really contained toothbrushes, make-up and various other health and beauty aids, and they only had headache medicine to give accuracy to the name ‘medicine cabinet.’

Jimmy got home. She was all ready. They immediately got into the car, but it was cold. She did not pay attention earlier, but wherever Jimmy had gone, he did not use the car. While in the car they stopped at a drive-thru ATM and withdrew $5000 from Jimmy’s savings account. But in the car they had a long trip, during this trip there were many unanswered questions for Nicole. Questions like how Jimmy had fixed her and how he controlled her, how long she was unconscious from the time they were in Anna’s office until she awoke in his arms. It was a long ride.

They arrived in Saratoga Springs in New York. It was a very nice area, and both Jimmy and Nicole wondered how green it would look in the Spring and Summer. They needed food. Since the hotels that they usually stay at generally did not have stoves, they looked for cold food. They entered the super market and looked around. Jimmy immediately noticed that on his right the bakery and produce signs could be seen, on his left he could clearly see the dairy department. He looked at Nicole, “You want to get the milk and cold cuts? I’ll get the veggies and bread?”

She nodded, “sounds good, meet you back in the front in a couple.”

“Okay.” They each went their separate ways. They returned minutes later with all the stuff they needed. As they waited in line Nicole saw soda on sale. She ran over and picked up two 2-liter bottles. They waited their time in line, and finally made it up to the cashier. They paid in cash with a single twenty-dollar bill. As they left the building they found themselves in a downpour. The continued to drive until they finally saw a motel. They pulled in and Nicole went into the main room to rent the room. When she came out she went straight into the room, and Jimmy tried to bring in all of the luggage in one trip. Nicole laughed when she saw him walk through the door.

He smiled, “I don’t see you helping.”

“I’m sorry, I forgot the camera.”

He managed to make it to the bed before he dropped all the luggage. “So.. Nicole...Buddy, pal.. am I doing all the work or are you gonna help with the groceries?”

“Well I wasn’t sure if you were done being Mr. Macho-tough-guy.”

“Since when am I Mr. Macho-tough-guy?”

“Good Point.” She started to walk toward the car and stopped at the motel door entrance. “Maybe we should call you Ms. Sissy-weak-girly-guy”

“Hey, hey! That’s mean.”

“I’m just kidding hunny. I’ll be right back.” She left for just a minute and returned with the groceries. She laid them across a bureau. As she looked across the table she realized she had no butter, salad dressing, mayonnaise, mustard or anything else that would go with the cold cuts and salad. It looked like it would be a bland night. “Hey hunny, if you want, I’ll throw a salad together...” she looked around and whispered to herself, “in the bag” then continued in calling over to Jimmy who was now in the bathroom, “and make us a couple sandwiches.”

“Alrightty. I’m gonna take a shower, I was gonna invite you, but I guess you’ve got other plans.”

“Next time hun, promise.”

“Okay, I might hold you to that.”

“No you won’t, you never do, but I will.”

“Well you keep yourself on such a short leash, I figure somebody has to loosen up on ya once in a while.”

“If you really want to discuss this, come out of the bathroom, or shut up, cause I hate talking to doors!.”

“Okay okay, I’ll be out in two minutes.”

Nicole turned her attention toward her meats. She opened up the bread. She laid out four slices and threw two pieces of cheese onto each one. Then she took the salami and once again threw two slices onto each slice. Then she looked over and saw the jar of kosher dill pickles she had bough that had been so conveniently stacked near the deli counter. She threw a few ‘sandwich stackers’ onto two of the slices of bread, and took the cheese and salami bread pieces and placed them atop the pickles. Two sandwiches. She made two more of them. Then she turned her attention to the salad. Jimmy had bought Iceberg lettuce. She took the bottom and smashed it into the bedpost, and then dug out the core with her fingers. Then she took the two outermost layers out and started pulling and tearing chunks of lettuce and throwing it into the plastic bag that had just moments before held all the their produce. She went to her suitcase and with drew her plasticware, which she always kept for her traveling needs. She peeled a vidalia onion and expertly sliced it so quickly that she did not shed a single tear. Then she had both a green and a red pepper which she also cut pretty well. Then she took out the carrots. She looked at them for a minute and felt herself feeling kind of dizzy. She shook her head and snapped them all in half. She cut each section into quarters and added the carrot sticks to ‘the salad in a bag.’ Lastly she pulled out a cucumber, and she just held it in her hand for a minute.

Meanwhile, Jimmy was rinsing himself off in the shower. He loved the hot water. He finished and reluctantly shut the water off. It was a hard choice, but he did not want to leave Nicole out there by herself for long. As he ritually did, he stood at in the bathtub for just a minute to drip off a bit, something Nicole had always found cute. Finally he opened the curtain. Nicole was standing there in front of him. “Nicole? You okay?”

“Mmm-Hmm”

“What?”

“Nothing. You’re just looking a little sexy at the moment.” She moved up and pressed her body against his.

He pulled away from her for a moment, “I’m also dripping wet.” Noting how her wet tank top was defining the curves of her nipples.

“You’re not the only one.”

Jimmy took a step forward out of the shower. She practically ripped her top off in a frenzy to get her own clothes off. “Calm down Nicole. You don’t have to rush.”

“I know.” She kissed him. He kissed her back. He felt her hands on his dick. He was kind of caught off guard by her rapid advance. She slowly moved down to her knees. She kissed the head of his penis gently and soft. She used her left hand to raise it slightly, but it was not yet hard. She used the tips of the fingers on her right hand to stroke the bottom and top of the head. When it started to grow she moved in close and licked the length of the underside three times. By the third lick he was completely hard. She always found that one little trick fascinating, he always found it amazing. She started to slide up her lips back and forth. Her right hand was wrapped around the base of his penis and was moving back and forth meeting her lips in the center. She speed quickly grew faster and faster, her lips tightened, and she was breathing hard. Jimmy himself was having trouble controlling his breathing at her ministrations. Finally he felt the growing urge, and he told her.

“Slow down hun, I’m gonna cum.”

She sped up, “Mmm-hmm.” Something suddenly felt wrong. He tried to pull away, she just grabbed on tighter. She sucked harder, she moved faster.

“Nicole stop!”

“Nnnt-nnn” Once again she held onto him tighter, and worker harder. Jimmy was getting scared. He literally grabbed both sides of her head, and prayed that what ever was happening was not going to make her bite, and he pulled her head off his erection.

“NO! give it back! I need it.” She continued to jerk him off with her hands, but his erection was slowly fading. “No please. Cum in me! On me. Anywhere. But please, I need it!” Tears started to race down her cheeks as she saw that nothing her hands would do could keep him up. Her fingers started to slow down. Finally he pulled her in close and her head rested on his chest, she hugged him, as she just laid their crying in his arms. “I.. need.. it...”

“shh... shh... It’s going to be okay.”

“I need it...” She sobbed.

“Why do you need it?”

The question shattered through everything for Nicole. “I don’t know...” And her arms retracted from around Jimmy and her legs curled up until she was lying against Jimmy in a fetal position. Both of them just laid there, neither capable or knowing what to say next. They laid there for over an hour. Finally Nicole realized Jimmy was shivering, he had been for a while, but she had not actually consciously acknowledged that. He had never dried himself off after the shower. She forced herself up, and held out a hand for Jimmy, and helped him up.

She looked to him for answers, “What next?”

He had an idea, but was kind of scared. “You know it was more than just the implant?”

“Now I do... Mental conditioning, right?”

“Yeah.” He took her hand, “There are ways to get through this.”

“Like what, ten years of therapy for what some assholes did in less than a week.”

He shook his head, “No. That is one option, but I have a better answer. But lets try to get us some food first, I have to think this through.” They walked to the bureau with the food on it silently. They each took a sandwich and went to the bed. Jimmy sat at the headboard while Nicole laid back against him. They both silently ate their sandwiches. They finished but continued to lie there silently.

Finally she broke the silence, “What’s your plan?”

“Well remember how I was able to stop you form shooting me?”

“Yeah, and in the car you said that you had some way of affecting synaptic wavelengths in peoples heads.”

“Yeah, well there is a little more to it than that. I can read a thought as well. I have not done that in a long time, but I was really good at it in my teens when I enjoyed seeing other people’s thoughts.”

“You could do this in your teens?” She looked curious, “Then why did you stop? I figure that if you developed it now you might have more control.”

“Getting off topic here, but quickly, I read a few too many minds and realized that most of the best people I have ever met, known or seen have had the darkest thoughts. Basically I learned that everybody has parts of themselves they are not proud of, and they each good or bad deserve privacy. The Demons were a big turn-off as well. So when I was 21, I promised I would never delve into someone’s mind again.”

“Demons? Ahh... nevermind. So what is your plan?”

“To delve into yours.”

She smiled, “That’s what I thought.”

“Look I’ll avoid all the personal stuff, and we’ll focus specifically on—”

“Jimmy, I trust you, you’re free to look at whatever you want. But please just help me.”

“I’m, still only going to go in on the mental conditioning they did to you. Do you remember any of it?”

“The mental conditioning? No. I’m sorry”

“Don’t be, that’s good.”

“It is, why?”

“’Cause I just have to look for repressed memories.” He smiled.

She hugged him, “so this is actually gonna work huh?”

He nodded, “Yup, plans easy, execution is a little tricky, first we are going to see exactly what they did to you, then we are going to take a break and redo it. Only the second time it will be more like a dream than a memory. Lucid dreaming actually. The second time you will be able to control what’s happening, and although it will be more of a dream in your memory than a solid memory, it should have the same effect in your subconscious, and hopefully bring your pretty much normal self.

“I think I got that... yeah...”

They both laughed, but he cut it short, “I’ll let you rest for a bit, then we can get started. Let me know when you are ready.”

“I’m ready now.”

“No rest?”

“No.”

Jimmy found himself looking at the physics of her brain. He looked at the memories from a purely biochemical standpoint. Even with her permission he did not want to violate her memories unnecessarily. Finally he found the ‘black spots.’

He started to access the first memory. He was standing in a hotel room, a very nice one. Nicole was standing in front of him. “Jimmy, this is my hotel room. The one I had when I was in LA last week.”

I expected as much. I’m about to start the memory, when it starts you will be stuck doing exactly what you had done before. There will be no going back, even if you do remember. If you know what is about to happen, you won’t be able to change any of it... this time anyway.”

“Its okay, I’m ready.”

“If things get to intense, I’ll stop it and—”

“No Jimmy, Let it go, until the end. No interfering.”

“Alright.” Even though they were technically in her head, he walked across the hotel room, and kissed her gently on the lips. He stepped back into the corner. “Good luck, I love you.”

“I love you too.” The memory started. Nicole walked across the living room and turned the corner into the kitchen. “Who the hell are you?!” There was a man in black. She backed away and backed into another man in black. He held her, as the first one walked up with a needle.. He was about to press it into her arm, when she suddenly kicked up, and the syringe went flying. She struggled and the man behind her lost his grip. She kicked him in the crotch, and turned around and ran for the door. She reached it and opened the door. Pwing. She was his point blank in the stomach by a tranquilizer dart. Her legs stopped almost instantly, and she fell down, her arm started to get numb and she fell to her back,. She was trying to talk as her throat went numb. In silence her lips kept moving for a couple more seconds and finally she fell unconscious.

She awoke and she was strapped face down on a table. Her face fit through some kind of hole and she was staring at the floor. She tried to move when she heard a voice say “She’s awake.” She saw a number of feet moving around. Then some pressure to her neck. She heard the same voice again, “scalpel.” Her eyes widened, but she could not move. She felt the doctor make the incision. She could feel everything except the pain. It took less than five minutes, and finally the voice said, “activate it.” Nicole felt the sensation return to her. “You may get up young lady.” She felt a compulsion to do so. “You will obey everything I tell you to do correct?”

Nicole nodded and responded, “Yes sir.” This was followed by two hours of basic commands. Testing her limits and knowledge. That session she was not mistreated beyond losing her mind to piece of technology. That was it. The second day she returned to her room and the men were there again, this time she was just told to come along and she put up no struggle. In the lab she was ordered to strip naked, and sit on a chair. In this chair she they plugged into her neck a feed of submissive training. But her mind was too fortified against the basics. So they had to find another way. Oral sex on a male. They gave her an obsession with male semen to reinforce the submissive behavior. The third night was spent with introducing her to several thousand sexual and serving techniques. And the final night was spent testing her and instructing her what to believe and what to do in order to get away from those closest to her, specifically, convince her that Jimmy was a creep, and that he had always been one.

With an explosion, Jimmy was out of her head, and in the motel room in Saratoga Springs. “Those assholes.”

“So that’s how they did it...” Tears once again streamed down her face. Her stomach was upset. She covered her mouth afraid that her sandwich was coming back up. She ran to he bathroom and knelt over the toilet. Jimmy stood behind her for a minute as she just remembered her experience over and over. Finally he helped her up.

“Don’t worry, we’ll fix you up, and then I’ll take care of this mess.” He made a fist, but quickly loosened it, “I’ll make sure they fix everything.

They took a few hours to get over the migraines and discuss how to go about the next part, the dreaming. During this time, Nicole seemed a little withdrawn. Jimmy had expected this. She was dealing with memories that made her both scared and ashamed. It really was no surprise that everything that happened would alter her behavior.

She looked to Jimmy for support, “Why did they do this to me?”

““I don’t really know. But we’re gonna fix you up.”

“You’re so good to me.”

“You’re so good to me.”

She liked that. She held his hand. She wanted this all to be over with. “How much longer until you want to do that dreaming stuff with me?”

He shrugged his shoulders, “Whenever you say that you’re up to it.”

“I’m up to it.”

“Are you sure?” he frowned for a minute, and then quickly covered it up with a smile, “I don’t want you to stress yourself out to quickly.”

“I need to get this dealt with, and the sooner the better, or else I really will stress out.”

“Okay lets go.”

The two found themselves once again in the LA hotel room. This time details were occasionally distorted, an obvious sign that they were in a dreamscape not a memory. Nicole looked to Jimmy, “Is this gonna be difficult.”

“Yeah, just remember, it is your world now, not your memory, you can achieve whatever your mind wants to.”

“Alright, let’s do it.” She started walking across the floor and turned into the kitchen. There was a man there. Unlike her memory, this time she did not back, up into the other man. But the man in front of her tried to grab her, but Nicole started to push him back. The man from behind grabbed her tightly. “Jimmy help me.”

“I can’t. You have to do this on your own.”

“I can’t beat them, they’re going to win!”

“I’m sorry, Nicole, but they are only going to win, if that’s what you really want deep down, you may be too far gone for this to help you.”

“NO!” a smolder of hatred streaked across her eyes and the man behind her exploded through the wall. “I want to be safe!” She punched the man in front of her, he collapsed and did not move. A third man came out and tried to tackle her, but he hit her as if he ran into a telephone pole, she did not budge. She picked him up by the scruff of his neck and walked into view of the hotel room’s door. She knew there was a man standing behind the door waiting for her to try and escape, She threw the man in her arms nearly 20 feet to the door, the door broke through it’s frame and leaving a pile of wood covering to unconscious men. “Let’s go to the next one Jimmy.”

“You got it love.”

She was lying face down, she heard a man talk, “She’s awake.” She felt herself unable to move, but she forced her body this time. She felt restraints tearing beneath her wrists as she forced herself from her belly to her knees, and then jumping from her knees off the table and landing on her feet. The people in the room just looked at the table and the mangled restraints. They barely gave each other enough time to look for approval, to the scientist in charge, before running away from the room. “Next one.”

“I like that, first you show them how strong you are with your attackers, now you’re showing a little intimidation showing that you don’t need to use violence.”

She smile, “Ya... But to the next one please.”

“Oh, yeah. Let’s see what you got.”

She was in the hotel room once more, a creep was standing in front of her, “Let’s go and there will be no trouble.”

Nicole looked right into the creep’s eyes, “No.”

“No?”

“I said, ‘No.’”

“Umm.. alright.. I guess. That’s weird. Come on boys, let’s get out of here.” Three more thugs came out of hiding places and followed the first thug out of the room.

Jimmy started laughing. “That was great! Next?” She nodded.

She was standing in the laboratory again. There was a scientist standing in front of her. He ordered, “Take off your clothes.”

Nicole just shook her head. “No, you take off your clothes.”

The scientist Began taking off his clothes, “I suppose that it would be okay just this once.” When he was completely naked, he looked at her, “Now that I’m naked, I would like you to sit on this chair so that we can start feeding you the knowledge that you will need to know.”

Nicole actually was starting to enjoy this. She was controlling everything about her ‘dream.’ Jimmy sat with a smile, proud of how strong his girlfriend was being. “I think you made a mistake, I’m suppose to stand out here for my training, you are supposed to get in the chair to protect yourself doc.”

The doctor’s right eyebrow rose, “My god you’re right, I could have just turned myself into a seriously messed up sex slave.” The naked doctor sat in the chair while Nicole locked him in, then she walked over to the computer and just typed in ‘the works.’

The doctor suddenly called out, “wait, I made a mistake, unlock me!” Then Nicole pressed ‘enter.’

She then turned to Jimmy, “A little role reversal. Next.” Jimmy clapped as they rematerialized in the lab once more. This time the doctor was telling her that tonight she would be programmed with several thousand sexual and serving techniques. She talked him into playing a game of cards instead. She said, “Tell you what doc, let’s play a game of poker. If I win, I don’t have to learn your stuff, if you win, I’m yours to do with as you please.” He nodded and sat at a table. The doctor dealt. Being her dream, she really was able to control what cards landed in whose hand, but she played anyway. She looked at her cards, all hearts, ace, king, queen, jack, and a 10. He had a 2,3,4,5 of clovers and 9 of spades.

Jimmy clapped his hands, “Gambling to win huh? I didn’t see that coming.”

“I was thinking more negotiating.”

“Good point, I’ll let you slide this time.”

“You’ll let me slide? What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Next?”

“Errrr. Yeah.”

Finally the lab time where they told her how to respond to Jimmy the night before when she got home form LA. She went to the computer, and deleted everything on the screen. Then she typed in a couple sentences of her own. She sat in the chair and let it program herself.

Jimmy asked, “What was that one?”

She smiled, “Accepting the changes I want to change.”

Jimmy nodded approvingly, “So we’re all done?”

Nicole shook her head, “Not quite, just one more to go.” This time she caused the change. They were in their house together. Jimmy watched as a copy of himself acted just as he normally would. He took her luggage into their room and came out a minute later. She calls out to him, “Hey, I’ll start cooking dinner.”

“Oh no you won’t...” he steps into the bathroom.

“Oh no I won’t?”

“No you won’t.” He steps out of the bathroom. He walks into the kitchen and stops just past the doorway, “I just started drawing you a bath, and we wouldn’t want that nice warm water to go to waste now would we?” She smiled, “But for now, I’ll cook dinner, you just unwind a bit.”

“Alright thanks.” She gives him a big hug. “You’re the greatest boyfriend in the whole world.”

“I know, thanks hun.”

The world melted away leaving Nicole several feet away from Jimmy. He smiled and nodded approvingly, “That was nice, much better than what really happened last night. But... I wouldn’t have just said ‘thanks hun’ after telling me something like that. I wold have said something like, ‘You are the most wonderful person to have ever graced my world,’ you know, just to up ya one.” He snickered.

“I know, but I’m done, can we leave, go back to reality?”

“Of course.” And in a flash they were embracing one another in the motel room.

They just laid together in the bed, sometimes asleep, other times they were not. But they were both relieved. During the waking hours, they did not speak, their bodies holding each other was all the articulation they needed that night.

6am came in California and Anna had been at the office for nearly 18 hours. Nicole’s boyfriend Jimmy had caused a lot of unexpected setbacks. A man walked in. “According to our reports both were seen leaving their house yesterday afternoon at approximately 1pm EST.

“1pm?” Anna questioned?

“Yes ma’am.” The guard was waved away by Anna and was quickly dismissed.

“Ten o’clock here. That would make them nearly 3,000 miles away within an hour.”

A voice came from behind her, “Sounds about right.”

Anna spun around, it was Jimmy. “You again, what exactly have you done?”

“I fixed Nicole, removed the implant, reversed the mental conditioning.” He nodded his head, “and now I’m here to make sure you stay the hell away from us.”

“We could make a deal. Tell us how you acquired such—”

“—I think not.” Anna felt a pulsing in her head. “I’m sorry Anna, I generally don’t like taking information from people, but I’m afraid I just don’t trust you.”

“What did you just do?”

“Well I found out about Robert Graham yesterday, but when I probed him this morning I found out he just did not have the influence I was looking for. I figured you would, and I was right. Next stop Jason Klein.?”

“Jason Klein? Wait, you can’t—”

“Later.”

Jason Klein was in the middle of board meeting. “This quarter’s profits are expected to go up nearly ten percent from last year’s.” A fat pudgy man in an expensive suit raised a finger. “yes?”

“I was wondering if—”

“You were wondering if what?” Nobody was moving. “Davis? Greenburg? Hopper? Tsukami?” he looked around, “What the hell is going on?”

“I am” the man turned around to be face to face with Jimmy.

“Who the devil are you?”

“Name’s Jim, nice to meet you.”

“What’s this all about?”

“Programmed slaves.”

Jason Klein’s face turned a shade of pale. “How do you?”

“I was the guy who caused the disturbance in LA yesterday.” The man’s jaw drooped. “Look, I’m not gonna be much of an ass about this. But I’m gonna offer you my hand, you shake it, quite simply all that means is that you are going to stop this slave market, stop programming people against their will, and make it right for those who you have already wronged. If not, I think we are going to have to label each other as adversaries.” Jimmy held out his hand.

Klein looked down, “okay, I think that sounds...” he pictured the photos of what Jimmy had done to Anna’s office, “...fair.” And he took Jimmy’s hand and shook it. Jimmy literally walked through a window without any damage occurring to the glass and appeared to simply vanish. Jason Klein looked at his frozen board members and shuddered. He picked up his cell phone, and dialed a number, “Anna?” a moment passed, “too late, I just had a talk with him.” Another pause, “I’m fine, look as of right now, the project is scrapped, I want a list of all those who we have transformed faxed to my desk within the hour.” He waited another moment, “And By 3 o’clock I want everyone associated with the project in our LA branch to discuss clean up. I’ll be in the city by then.” He clicked the off button.

“—we were going to start advertising earlier than usual for the holidays?” The fat pudgy man continued.

Nicole was packing her stuff, she awoke and Jimmy was gone. They could not stay at any one place for too long, and one day was long enough here. She packed the car and just waited for Jimmy to get back. Finally at about ten he walked in the door. She ran up to him and gave him a quick kiss and a hug. So where do we head today?”

“Home.”

She was surprised, “Home?”

“Yeah, I made some arrangements, they decided to leave you and me out of their affairs from now on.”

“Oh my God, I’m so excited! How?” she hugged him tightly and they shared an long kiss.

“I love you Nicole.”

“I love you too Jimmy.”

“Ya know I was thinking, maybe we get back in time how about we go out for a nice night, maybe eat at that little place on the corner of Oak and Washington?”

“Little place?” she raised her eyebrows and smiled, “That’s the nicest restaurant I’ve ever seen in my life!”

“Yeah well considering everything we’ve gone through in the last two days, I thought it would be a great idea... You know to have a wonderfully romantic evening.”

“Sounds great.” He helped her into the passenger side of the car. As he walked around the car he checked his coat pocket for the engagement ring he was going to give to her that night.