After spending all weekend re-experiencing what it was to be a seventeen year old heterosexual male, I decided I would have to double my efforts the rest of the week if I was going to finish my work by Friday.
James seemed indifferent to me when he and Eric came back from Wally's. And Eric was acting a little strange too, but I couldn't quite put my finger on exactly what it was he was doing that was strange. But I let it go, figuring it was just a little depression since we would be packing up and going home the week following this one.
I spent all day and most of the night in the lab, having set up three teams that would work for six hours before the next team would show up and take their place. I guess I was pushing myself too hard, but I was feeling the pressure of a deadline, and since in the evenings I was having to take small doses of the drink to keep my brain from hurting, I was getting some stress relief from the six blow jobs three of the girls gave me.
Monday wasn't too productive despite all the effort we all put in. Tuesday began to look like it would end up just like Monday, but suddenly I saw something I had looked at a hundred times before and simply ignored it because it was too obvious to be right. But it was right, and when I knew I would get it the following day, I sent everyone but Jillian home early and spent the evening showing her what it meant to have a telepath make love to a woman with nice tits.
Jillian had such a wonderfully dirty mind. We kept taking turns being the master and slave, and I loved every one of her wicked little orders. Things like.. picking your nose and letting her taste it, or picking her nose and tasting it yourself. Stuff like that. And she surprised me by ordering me to fuck her ass before I got the chance to order her to do it in my next turn.
The only thing we didn't get a chance to do before we wore each other out was the thing I had wanted to do in the beginning, and that was fuck her tits. But I didn't really care, figuring I could just do it the next night, not suspecting everything would be different by then.
I went home and straight to bed, not even bothering to check on James and Eric. And then the next morning when I woke up, my mind was so set on finishing my work that day, I never noticed that Eric hadn't come in to snuggle that morning.
There must have been plenty of indicators that there was something going on around me that I normally would have instantly been aware of, but I was extremely distracted by what I needed to do that day that I was taken completely by surprise.
It all started when Alex and Mike paid a surprise visit.
"Hey guys. What up?" I said, having to break my concentration on decrypting Bridget's attack on Janice's mental barrier since Janice was distracted by Mike.
"Janice, can I talk to you outside a minute?" Mike said with a sparkle in his eyes. "We'll just be a minute," Mike said to me, leading the excited Janice out by the hand.
"What's he gonna do? Pop her the question or something?" I asked Alex in a hushed voice.
"Oh, you'll see soon enough," he said in a way that made me a little uncomfortable for just a split second. "Do you have your coin with you?"
"Yeah," I said, digging it out. "Why? You want to see it again?"
"Yes. Very much," he said stepping forward eagerly, almost anxiously.
I held it out and was about to drop in into his open hand when my empathic senses finally got through to me that something was very wrong with him.
"Alex, are you feeling okay?" I said, trying to capture his eyes with mine.
"I'm feeling fine. Can I hold it?" he said, his eyes never leaving my hand that was holding my coin.
"How's Wally doing? He was pretty upset about you going away for.."
"Wally's fine too. Are you going to let me see it or not?"
I was starting to feel something more than just an anxious nervousness from him. Almost a greed or need for pow..
"No. I'm not," I said, slipping the coin back in my pocket as I began a probe.
"GIVE IT TO ME!" he screamed with a sudden surge of rage, instantly lashing out a powerful array of control symbols, nearly disabling my barrier simply by the pure volume and the element of surprise.
"Shit!" I said, realizing he had not only discovered his abilities, but had completely lost touch with reality. My probe had confirmed that he had intended to use the coin against me somehow, and just as I was starting to beat down his attack, Janice suddenly began her own.
I was straining myself to hold the two off when I realized Mike had broken Bridget's own barrier and was enslaving her to their cause. Shutting my eyes and sitting down in the chair immediately behind me, I started opening myself up to my new senses, having found I could increase my concentration when I didn't have my other senses distracting me.
By the time Mike had turned Bridget against me, I was fully prepared for their attack and easily began countering the waves of symbols coming at me. They probed, they commanded, they even used the mutes in the room to physically try and rush me, and somehow I managed to counter each and every one of the attacks, and was even beginning to push my own offense against them.
But then suddenly Eric rushed in the room in a panic and I lost my advantage since I had to counter the attempts to take his mind as well as my own.
"Tim! James is ru.. ACKKK!" he gasped when I accidentally let a BE OBEDIENT symbol through.
A couple of minutes must have gone by before a small break in their attack allowed me to send the cancellation symbol for the one I had let through. As soon as Eric was capable of thinking again, I moaned out, "Eric, get behind me," with a considerable amount of slurring.
Eric was quick to respond, but Alex still managed to grab him by his long hair and quickly had his bulky muscular arm around Eric's neck. I could literally see the thoughts as they circled around his head, and as his powerful arm began compressing the air passage in Eric's neck, I suddenly feared for Eric's life.
"NO!" I spat as I lashed out with every ounce of my strength.
Alex had expected me to concentrate my attack on him, and I did, but not in the way he was prepared to deal with.
As he continued to squeeze the life out of the neck of the already unconscious Eric, I began to telepathically crush his testicles, having long ago decided that when someone wants to play dirty, I would play the dirtiest, and had learned how years ago.
Alex struggled desperately to numb the effects of what his nerves were reporting from down there, but when it came right down to it, Alex didn't know what the hell I was doing, and wasn't skilled enough to keep his own body from reporting what it felt was going on.
Mike was picking up a chair to throw at me when I lashed out the same attack on him, then quickly started sending the two women the symbols that would trigger labor contractions, effectively physically disabling them by making them double over from their straining internal muscles.
Finally Alex couldn't take it anymore, sinking down to his knees in agony while Eric sagged to the floor unconscious but alive. Because the other three were still attacking my mind, I couldn't dare risk losing my concentration by opening my eyes and go help him. But Alex was already beginning to fight off my mental hold on his testicles, and knew if I didn't get Eric over by me, I wouldn't be able to protect him.
I suddenly sensed the presence of my coin in my pocket, and realized I had to make a choice. And since there was no choice to be made when it was between a coin and Eric, I jerked myself into a standing position, literally ripped the pocket out of my jeans while pulling the red object out, then screamed, "YOU WANT IT! GO FUCKING GET IT!" and threw it as hard as I could out the open doors.
Alex scrambled towards the exit to fetch it, and as I carefully crawled over to Eric's unconscious form, I struggled to fend off the other three battering my handicapped mind.
Eric wasn't breathing too good, and with a surge of desperation from seeing the way his tongue looked bloated, I scan what his nerves were reporting and found Alex had in fact caused severe internal bleeding within my poor Eric's head, mostly in the tongue and sinuses.
My body went cold as the thought, "He's dying," sank in, and for a moment there was nothing but the sight and feel of my loved one's haggard breathing. Then the pitter patter of the four telepaths attacking my mind began to anger me, and suddenly I was so angry I could kill.
With one huge surge of my will and power, all four of them crumbled when my empathic ability knocked them out cold. Ah, the twins would have been proud if they had seen me, but all I cared about was my Eric, getting weaker by the second as his blood clotted within the ruptured vessels of his brain and tongue.
There was only one way I knew of saving him, and there was no way I was going to allow Joey's current attitude stop me from doing it. I wasn't sure if I could find Joey's mind over the distance we had between us, and I was sure I would have to literally force him to form the share link, further enraging him and probably causing him to have another violent fit.
And that was exactly what happened. As soon as my mind touched his, he almost locked me out before I could stop him, then he began screaming and hollering in the middle of his class. Before he was restrained by the other students, Joey had picked his desk up and threw it at the teacher who thankfully got out of the way just in time.
Once I had inserted the controls to prevent him from cutting the share link off, I proceeded to link up with as many people as I could around me, then finally linked up with Eric.
By the time the damage to Eric's neck and head had been sufficiently spread over the nearly thousand people I had linked to, I was almost too weak to think. Somehow I managed to close the links before I laid my head on my lover's chest and fell into a deep sleep.
Well, not that deep. Otherwise Eric wouldn't have been able to wake me up when he found himself surrounded by a sea of unconscious bodies.
"Tim, please wake up.." he whispered as loud as he dared, having noticed Mike stirring in his sleep as he shook me. "Are we safe?" he asked when my eyes parted briefly.
I struggled to shake off my exhaustion as I sat up and attempted to recall what it was I needed to do.
It wasn't until the shock of Mike waking up and immediately taking advantage of my vulnerable state that I was able to think clearly enough to do something completely accidental that still got the job done.
Instead of making Mike wet his pants as a distraction, somehow I caused his bladder to leak a small portion of his urine into his blood supply. At least that's what I later decided must have happened, since he had every indication of having a mild case of blood poisoning. Whatever the case, Mike suddenly turned extremely pale, and instead of tossing his cookies like he had begun to do, he rolled his eyes up into his head and passed out.
Once I had made sure the other three wouldn't awaken, I gasped to Eric, "I need the coin... Alex had it,"
Eric nodded his head, then crawled with some difficulty over to Alex's crumpled form. I was just trying to stay awake when Eric gasped, then I echoed him at the sight of Wally standing at the door holding the leash of a nude Lana who was struggling to suck his cock.
"Lana?!? Noo..." I whispered as Eric half stopped half crashed next to me with my coin.
With coin in hand, my mind began to sharpen from its refreshing comfort and energy. I was preparing to defend Eric and I against Wally's attack, when suddenly I found Eric standing up and dizzily walking towards Wally and his slut.
"Ah, Timothy. You have given me so much without ever knowing it, haven't you? Lana and Eric have been very helpful to me, haven't you been, my sluts."
"Fuck me master. FUCK me!" Lana said, rattling the chains that were hanging from her neck, wrists, and shins as she violently pressed her ass against his cock.
Her mind.. Her beautiful mind... It had been warped, perverted, twisted into that of a complete fuck slut, wanting only to serve her masters cock and nothing else. And then when Eric pushed her out of his way to begin sucking Wally hardening cock, I realized that Wally had enslaved Eric without me having sensed him doing it.
I couldn't understand it. I had focused my attention on him just so I would be able to counter anything he tried, but somehow I missed it. And I had missed him undoing the sleep commands I had given Alex and the two girls? At least I saw their commands coming when they took my body's control from me.
"ALEX!" Wally bellowed once I was immobilized. "You nearly FAILED me!"
"I'm sorry, my lover!" Alex said crawling up to him. "Please my lover! I tried to make you prou.."
Alex was cut off in mid-sentence by Wally's hand connecting with his cheek with a loud "SLAP!"
"Something is very wrong with this picture," I thought to myself as Alex desperately sucked Eric's dick just as his master had commanded. "That isn't the real Wally. There has to be another telepath in control here."
"That's enough, you pieces of shit," Janice suddenly said.
That was when I knew something really odd was going on, finding Wally giving up his position of command to Janice who couldn't have been...
"Where were those symbols coming from?" I thought to myself when I noticed a short burst of symbols merging into Bridget's mental streams. "And how are they penetrating her barrier without... Oh shit!"
I felt the minds of the four conscious telepaths attack mine at once, having formed an Einstein link which Wally had apparently lifted from Lana's mind before breaking her to his will. But I found myself handling their attack fairly easily, having no trouble at all meeting their otherwise powerful and complex symbol streams with the exact opposites and canceling them in mid air.
I began understanding more and more of what was going on, how I was able to do this, finding everything becoming almost child's play... and after several minutes of comprehending it all, I actually began toying with them by purposely not defeating them right away.
My mind began to wander a little, and when I remembered Eric and the others having been enslaved, I had a ball slipping commands in the four telepaths' minds without them knowing it. It was so funny to me to make them undo the commands they had used to enslave the others without them realizing they were doing it or making them give up on their pointless struggle to enslave me.
I was just about to finally call it a day when Eric suddenly lunged for my throat.
Even before I was helping his unconscious body to the ground, I traced the source of the symbols which were trying to program another helpless victim behind me into ramming me with his head.
As soon as I found my real enemy's mind, I turned my four attackers back into my friends with one single sweep of my hand, and exclaimed "So, Miss Young Lee! You're the one behind all this! I hope you like sucking cock, because when I get through with you..."
"Shit! Not bad.." I said a moment later when she penetrated my barrier with a cunning probe.
But even though she knew what I was going to do, she was pretty helpless to stop me forming an Einstein link everyone in the room.
With the combined intelligence of twenty people, nineteen of which had great experience in either using telepathy or analyzing it, Miss Young Lee a.k.a. Miss Lee Vo didn't last more than thirty seconds before I plunged the OBEY ME symbols into her fucking mind. And then I began probing her mind for every secret and thought she ever had.
Lee Vo was a thirty eight year old woman with a cool, calculating mind who had developed her own telepathic powers and skills in the confines of a small town in Utah. She had no ambitions that would cause anyone to see her as a threat, and was content as a grade school teacher and the wife of her father's best friend's son.
About a year before that day in Chemistry where she had saved me with her calming emotions, Lee Vo began sensing eyes watching her without being able to locate the owner's minds. Then a week later, two policemen came to her home with a warrant for her arrest for the murder of her father.
Lee Vo was too shocked to suspect anything immediately. She went with the policemen quietly, but as soon as she realized she couldn't sense the mind who was driving the strange unmarked van, Lee Vo knew she was in danger and began planning her move.
She effectively rendered all three men unconscious with a simple command directed at their livers, then after discovering the driver had a suitcase size device with wires attached to his head, she used her abilities to alter another human being for the very first time in her life.
The information she gained from the driver lead her to a small group of scientists looking to do research on telepathy and needed a test subject. While Lee Vo had never publicized her talents, most people in the small town knew she was very perceptive of other people's intentions and that had been what the scientists had looked for first.
After erasing everything about her and their own work from their minds, Lee Vo went home and sent her loved ones in hiding until she could locate other telepaths in hopes of forming a kind of alliance to watch each other's backs.
After spending nearly six months without success, she ran across one of the Cabal's office slaves running an errand for her master. Through that single contact, Lee Vo managed to copy every ounce of information in the woman's head concerning the Cabal and their activities, including bits and pieces of a report the woman had typed up concerning my attempt at trading myself into slavery.
Lee Vo had quickly decided the Cabal was not interested in keeping innocent people safe from others and continued her search to find allies with better morals than the Cabal.
Her search led to Northwest State where one of Stan's old slaves had gone. Lee Vo was at that time getting rather desperate, and seeing how the girl had been left to live her life after Stan was through with her, she went to Northwest State to search for the same telepath I had been looking for.
Once she had worked out who I was, she kept me under observation for months before making contact with Joey and I. But when she found out what we were doing there, she left, intending to give up her quest to find anyone to aid her.
All of that changed when she ran into another telepath a week following Christmas. After nearly being enslaved herself, she began seeing her last approach as having been informative, but knew she could never trust another telepath unless they were under her own control.
It had been Lee Vo whom I had sensed probing someone in the records office looking for me while I was in the dean's office with Dr. Kinmon. She had been searching for any leads on finding me in hopes of gaining control of another telepath who she believed she could easily overpower if not trick.
What Lee Vo had not realized was that the telepath who had attempted to enslave her had in fact successfully inserted a few commands before she had enslaved him. Her perspective had been altered on what was appropriate and moral, and every time she went back to check on her family which she had left in his care, her perspective was further altered by the desire to protect her family at all costs.
As soon as I found the incomplete commands within her mind, I removed them and restored her will to negotiate a peace. She apologized immediately, and then asked if she could join the Harrison group if they would help protect her family. Wally's answer was yes.
Nineteen of us had the satisfaction of knowing our job was done, but the one who had only been a bystander within the link quickly made it public to the rest of us that there was another problem.
James and Eric had run across a gang of bikers while playing hooky that morning, and James had pressured Eric in going up with him and talking to them. Eric liked the group of guys, especially since a few of them were not much older than they were and they were all obviously gay.
Baker, a shorthaired seventeen year old blond with tattoos up and down his arms, was actually starting make Eric feel a little horny by the way he could rub himself without it looking that obvious. Baker had just admitted to Eric he had joined the gang when his family rejected his homosexuality when James suddenly got on the back of a bike as the bald headed bear of a man started it up and tore out of there.
Eric chased them as long as he could, James screaming to Eric he would write and not to worry about him. When the other bikers rode past him, Eric finally couldn't run any further and fell onto the dead grass beside the road with James words echoing in his ears.
"I Love You, Eric...."