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SLEEPOVER [ part 5 ] I was confused! What was happening to me? I didn’t recall hogtying Pauline and Billie-Jo like that! I … I couldn’t do such a thing to my daughters! … Daughters? What was I thinking … they had FAILED me, they SHOULD be punished, they were mine to do with as I … Daughters? Well yes, I suppose they were … but … then why would I? … The brats were mine to do with as I want, it’s my business what I do with them and nobody else’s! But they were under my care; I wouldn’t do that to … Huh! They are property to be punished when and as I wish. “Nnnnnnoooooooo!” The cry was forced through my lips before I realized it. I looked around. I was in my bedroom – but it was a mess! The bedding torn and the chairs knocked over. I was holding a photograph in my hands, Pauline and Billie-Jo with their arms around me and smiles on their lips. “Paul?” Sharon’s voice sounded from the door of my bedroom, she looked at the devastation and then back at me. “Sharon … what’s happening to me, why did I do that to them?” I sat down on the bed looking at the photograph. “Paul, we know you have a problem, one that’s been getting worse over the past few months you have to get medical help!” Sharon said softly. ‘Help? They think I’m mad! What do they know about me?’ “Who said that?” I asked, the voice had seemed loud in my ears and I looked around for the invisible person. “Who said what Paul?” Sharon asked softly, “I heard nothing and there is nobody here but us.” I felt the anger rising in me and I tried to breathe deeply to calm myself down … but it didn’t seem to be working. Sharon looked at me, concern in her eyes. “Paul? PAUL … fight it, resist it, you don’t have to…” The clunk of the photograph frame as it connected with the woman’s head stopped her prattling. This is getting ridiculous! All these women telling me, ME, what to do! … Well NO MORE. This is my house! My rules! My property and all those within are for me to use as I want. I quickly bound and gagged the baggage that had been hounding me, a movement at the corner of my eye made me look to the door, but there was nobody there! I went out of the room and went down to where I knew the computer was … My computer was. I looked at the keyboard … whatever happened to the typewriter that I used to have? … but, I never had a typewriter, my father did! … It was an Underwood and heavy to use. I pressed some buttons on the keyboard, activating a lock-down program, no doors would open and all windows were locked, the phones wouldn’t work and nobody could access the computers around the place. I guess I laughed out loud as I heard a gasp from behind me. “Well slave? What do you want?” I said. “Master, I don’t think you want to do that. We need to get medical attention to the girls.” Pauline said. “The what? You mean the bitches that are my slaves? They’ll get better; they’ve only got ruptured hymens and asses. They wanted to know what it’s like to be a slave … now they do!” I spat out at the girl. “Master … what is your name?” Pauline asked me. “What? You know my name … I’m Simon, Simon Gill!” I told her, what business was it to her as to my name … but Simon was my father’s name? What’s going on here? Pauline took a step back and her eyes glazed over slightly, then she spoke again. “Of course master, what are you commands?” she asked, she was a nicely trained slave and I knew she was mine. “Well Slave, first of all we’re going to get those bitches downstairs back on their feet, and then I’m going to whip them until they understand that I am the master!” I told her. “Yes master, shall I go and remove them from their cells … you’ll need to remove the lock-down command?” She said with a lilt in her voice, so nice to have proper slaves who knew their place. I pressed the buttons to unlock everywhere … a thought tried to interrupt me, but I ignored it! Pauline bowed in front of me and then walked away to get the slaves into position. ----- As Pauline went downstairs, she was having an internal conversation with her other selves. “It’s not him … it looks like him, but that’s not him in control!” “He’s not an avatar, his body doesn’t move like anyone different!” “I would hazard a guess that he’s been invaded, or more likely taken over by something, the use of a different name would show that it was an entity that he know or knew, and somewhere it was implanted” “Fancy words psych! Now how do we get our master back to normal?” “…I don’t know … I don’t think this body is capable of doing that, we would need to speak directly to our master’s mind … I’m not sure I could do that.” “Hey I like this person, he knows how to hit a girl, I think he’d be good!” “Pain slut you’d like anyone with a dick and a whip! We have others to think about.” “Okay, Doc you say there’s nothing we can do, wimp there says it’s not our master! So I say we take him out and deliver him to Ropeville central, and give them the problem. Any objections to the plan?” “What plan?” “I think I like this one, can’t we keep him?” “Go!” “Agreed, we need experts to help him, I’m just a field medic in this case, so go ahead.” “Apart from pain slut any objections?” Silence “Now we go ahead, Pauline! Relinquish control to combat!” this was a command, which brooked no argument. There was a twisting as Pauline’s attitude changed and the combat personality took control. All this took seconds to achieve. ----- I watched the girl as she went down to the basement, I must say this was a better place than I had before and so much under control of this marvelous box! Pauline had reached the first of the cells and was rousing the girls from their beds. I smiled as I thought through the plans for them, how they will shriek as the canes strike their unclothed bodies. “Master Simon.” Pauline’s voice sounded in my room, I put a smile on my face and turned to face her, just as the bitch shot me with a dart-gun. I got to my feet and staggered towards her, falling down to the floor as the darkness overtook me. I had to hide, bury myself deep down until … until I could sort these bitches out properly … it would only be a matter of time and then I’ll return… There was a taste in my mouth … I recognized it, it was a stimulant used in only one place. “Hello? I’m awake.” I said out loud. A familiar voice answered me, “And so you should be … what is your name?” “My name … well recently I’ve been called Paul Purple, just what happened Elizabeth?” I said looking around, and that was all I could do! I found that I was strapped onto a hospital bed, and I mean strapped! My wrists, ankles, each leg and my chest were firmly tied down, I couldn’t move. “We’ll come to that in a moment! What’s the last thing you remember?” Elizabeth asked me. I had to think … what was the last thing … “I…I was talking to Sharon in my bedroom, I think I must have trashed the place but I don’t know why or when … I was talking to Sharon, while looking at the photograph of my girls … and then I woke up here.” There was a sigh, “What happened to Sharon Paul?” “What?” I didn’t understand the question. “Sharon was found unconscious and tied up, who did that to her Paul?” Elizabeth asked me. “Wha … I don’t believe you, she was perfectly fine, apart from being angry with me, she was moaning at me for … for something? … I tell you nothing happened to her.” I said feeling worried. “Okay, we’ll pass on that question for the moment. Were you angry with the girls?” Elizabeth asked me casually. “Well I was annoyed with them, can’t you release me I’m not going to…” I began “I’m sorry Paul, until I’m certain that you are no risk I’m afraid you have to remain like that.” She said. “For Gods sake Elizabeth, I’m not going to …” I began but then I remembered what I had done to the girls, all because I was angry. “Oh God … what have I done … what have I done?” I said wretchedly, would Billie-Jo and Pauline ever trust me again? “How are they?” I asked Elizabeth. “Why? Do you care about them? They are just slaves for using.” Elizabeth said still in that casual tone. “Bullshit! I’m responsible for them.” I said feeling the anger rise, but not feeling anything else. “Well, you’re certainly responsible for their condition, honestly Paul, what were you thinking of?” This time she was emotional in her tone. “They had failed me … I had to punish them, it’s just that for some reason … I … lost … control.” I said feeling my body go cold. “Paul? … PAUL? … Goddess … don’t do this to me Paul …” Her voice seemed to fade along with the light of the room. I was … somewhere? Nowhere? Although it was light I couldn’t see where it was coming from, it just seemed to be there. I heard a movement behind me, but I couldn’t turn around, my body was frozen in place. “Well mortal, you give me a problem … you have provided much over the years and have much more to offer me and so, somehow, I am in your debt … but I can’t fathom how to repay that just yet … you are infected, but it’s deep inside you and beyond my powers to cleanse you, it needs something else … I will consider what and…” There was another sense of movement and then the light went out I felt a pain in my chest and then heard a pinging noise along with voices. “Got a pulse! Weak but getting better.” A male voice was saying. “Heartbeat, weak but regular.” Another voice said “Good work everyone, let’s get the cart out of here and keep monitoring that heartbeat.” An authoritative male voice said. I felt a cloth being passed over my face, cool and refreshing. “Master? Are you alright?” Pauline asked. “M…me? What about you?” I managed to croak out it was faint but Pauline heard me. “I’m fine and so is Billie-Jo, they managed to treat us all here. The others are unconscious at the moment so that they’ll never know that they were here.” Pauline said almost in a happy tone. I tried to reach out to her but found I was still strapped down. “I’d give you a hug… but you see how it is?” I said looking down at the restraints. “If you want master I’ll release you?” She said almost eagerly but I shook my head. “As much as I’d like to I wouldn’t! For one thing Elizabeth wouldn’t like it, and for another I’m still not sure if I’m safe to be around.” I told her. “Oh master! It’s so good to have you back!” Pauline said and wrapped her arms around my neck hugging me while crying. “Please Pauline, I want to hold you but after all I’ve done to you … I thought you’d never want to see me again.” I said feeling useless. “Master! I know it wasn’t you, that person was … crazy! Like an avatar who had taken you over. You wouldn’t hurt us like that. I know it and Billie-Jo knows it” She said. She pulled away from me and then her stance changed. “Although she is very emotional at the moment Pauline is correct, your mannerisms and attitude are more in line with your previously observed behavior.” And I recognized the tone. “Thank you Elizabeth, I must confess I was surprised when Pauline offered to release me…” I said trying to sound rational to this person. “That was my order I’m afraid Paul.” This time the voice came from Elizabeth herself, she had entered my room without my noticing, “Do I really act like that? I’m sorry dear but you sound so …” she gave a gesture to Pauline/Elizabeth who laughed. “I’m sorry Prime, but this is how I was programmed, perhaps you should update the avatar file.” Pauline/Elizabeth said. “I think I should, now, opinion?” Elizabeth said. Pauline/Elizabeth stood back. “Yes Prime. The subject is conscious and lucid, shows remorse for actions taken and seems to be back to normal. I can see no need for the restraints but would recommend constant surveillance, just in case the rogue avatar returns and also on medical grounds, the cause of his collapse is not known.” She then fell silent. Elizabeth smiled, “Congratulations, concise, direct, and correct! I had already decided on the same thing myself … and please don’t refer to me as Prime!” Pauline/Elizabeth gave a smile (just like Elizabeth herself), “But how should I refer to you, you are the primary source of my program.” Elizabeth was quiet and so I stepped in, so to speak, “Why not mother?” I said flippantly. Elizabeth looked at me in shock, “Don’t be so…” She began. Pauline/Elizabeth nodded, “It seems logical, in a sense I am a part of you, and as such you could be considered my parent. Hello Mother!” She finished and the smile was pure Pauline. “Look what you’ve done!” Elizabeth scolded me, although I thought I could see a smile on her face, “Now all the avatars will call their programmer’s Mother!” “You don’t have to tell them.” I said but Elizabeth gestured to where the camera was located. “Some of them will already know.” She said shaking her head, “Oh well it can’t be helped. Now you … daughter … can help me with Paul’s restraints!” And with the same smile on two different faces the pair of them started on the buckles holding me to the bed. Although I was now free, I stayed in position. I looked at Elizabeth, “How do you know I won’t go mad again and start striking out at people, or start ordering the staff to obey only my orders?” Elizabeth shook her head, “Paul I trust your word and I trust you … However the council – who are probably watching you at this moment – have decided that all the staff on this floor are male, not to mention that the doors are all under computer control, much like your system.” She said. “And let me guess, designed to lock in one person?” I said calmly, why couldn’t I get angry? “Have you also done something to me?” I asked her. This got her interested, “Not that I’m aware of … why what’s wrong?” She asked me. I shook my head, “I don’t know, but I seem to have lost my ability to get angry! Have I been given a sedative?” I asked her. But Elizabeth shook her head, “No Paul and I’ve double checked the medication list twice, I needed you fully responsive when I questioned you, a sedative would have invalidated any answers you would have given.” She said and started using a PDA that she had in her hand. “So what’s happened to me? Why can’t I get angry?” I asked her. “I don’t know, it might be that whatever possessed you has drained you slightly, after some time you may return to normal. But when that will be … I just can’t say at the moment.” Elizabeth said. “Okay then, do I stay here or can I go and visit Billie-Jo … that’s if she still wants to see me.” I said sadly. “I’ll go with you daddy.” Pauline said and for some reason I found that I had tears in my eyes. “Even after all I’ve done to you; you still want to call me daddy.” I said surprised. “Of course … I’ve told you it wasn’t you doing those things, anyway it didn’t really hurt me.” Pauline said and then her attitude changed again. “Yeah! But boy could he give pain!” Pain slut said eagerly before Pauline was back in control. “But that aside, you wouldn’t do that.” Pauline said. I looked at Elizabeth, “Is it okay if I get up now?” I asked her. She nodded, “Of course Paul, it’s not as if you’re a prisoner here.” She said looking at the camera again. “Thank you!” I said, slightly sarcastically and also looked at the camera. “Pauline I want you to watch me closely, should I try to attack either Billie-Jo or yourself … you are to incapacitate me!” I said to Pauline. She looked at me as if I was mad. “But daddy!...” She began. Elizabeth spoke up. “Pauline! Delta 5 sub-code 789688!” Immediately Pauline’s aspect changed and I could recognize the combat personality taking control. “Master Paul was correct with his order, which is why I’ve overridden Pauline’s normal control.” She said. I turned to look at her, “Elizabeth! I would have explained to Pauline why I wanted her to go into combat mode; I don’t expect others to interfere with my people!” I said and I wished I could get angry at that moment. Elizabeth was unrepentant. “You forget Paul, the council had recalled Pauline because of her aberrant behavior. Until we’ve decided what has gone wrong with her she belongs to us, you have no hold on her.” She said I nodded, “But that was my fault, I’d forgotten that I said Pauline could have a sleepover, she’s used to arranging the home life and so I suppose she went ahead and arranged it as normal, it’s just that I forgot about it and it was a shock to see the girls there, and then after finding not one extra but two!! I think something snapped and I blamed her. But it wasn’t her fault it was mine!” I said imploringly to Elizabeth. She nodded, “That may be, but until we’re sure, Pauline is also under supervision and re-evaluation.” She said and before I could complain again she turned and left the room. I turned to Soldier, “Well, shall we go?” I said to her, at first she looked oddly and I saw her relax as Pauline started to take over. “Soldier if you’ll escort me to Billie-Jo’s room.” I said, looking meaningfully at the camera for Pauline to notice. Pauline immediately took up the stance of Soldier, although I could see she was now back in control, it seems that the override had been overridden itself! Pauline guided me out of my room and along a corridor, as Elizabeth had said, the nurse at the station was a man, he nodded to me as I was passing, not saying anything as if it was normal for a man to be following a young girl into another girls’ room. ----- The room was in darkness and I could hear a sobbing noise coming from one of the beds, the other beds were unoccupied and so it could only have been Billie-Jo. I quietly walked to the side of the bed and squatted down beside it, I could see that Billie-Jo was sleeping, but crying away in her sleep, I gently brushed her hair away from her face, she opened her eyes. “Master … I’m so…” She began but I stopped her. “Billie-Jo I’m the one who should be saying sorry to you. I treated you so badly I don’t deserve to have you.” I looked at Pauline, “Either of you!” I said. “But we played you up! We invited those girls and didn’t remind you! It was our fault!” Billie-Jo sobbed. I held onto her, “BJ, Pauline had asked me if she could have a sleepover, and I said yes! But I got so involved in my work that I forgot all about it, it was my fault not yours. I haven’t allowed you girls to be just that, children! I’m thinking of you as my partners and ignoring your feelings.” I told her. Billie-Jo shook her head. “But we are your slaves, we’re supposed to do what you tell us, not have fun!” She said. “No Billie-Jo, not at all, when I train a slave I also allow her to have as much of a childhood that I can, I just forgot to allow my slaves … my children the same.” I’ve been driving you two more than you needed and for that I’m sorry.” I turned to Pauline, “I’m so very sorry.” I said and held out my arm to her she ran to me, tears in her eyes as well. “Maste … Daddy, what can we do if the council demands that I stay here?” Pauline whispered to me. I was at a loss to answer and couldn’t speak. Then the corner of the room began to darken and the same voice I’d heard in my … dream? Spoke. “You will remain together, this is my decree …” It said before the darkness vanished. Pauline was kneeling by my side and had cast her face down to the ground. “What was that?” I asked her. A crackle of a speaker saved her from answering. “It seems you’ve been honoured Paul Purple, it doesn’t matter what we of the council think, you have been allowed to retain Pauline until you decide otherwise, and maybe not even then.” And the speaker cut out. “There… there is a … story … supposed to be a fantasy … it tells of a daemon deep in the earth … we are supposed to … prepare for his … arrival. I … I think … we’ve just … heard … from … it?” Pauline said between gasps. I lifted Pauline up to her feet, her body felt cold! I looked around for a call button and pressed it. The sound of running feet answered me and the door was opened by the male nurse from the desk. “Pauline needs help … do something!” I told him and stood to one side. After a glance at me, presumably to ensure I wasn’t going to attack him, he started to check on Pauline. “What happened here?” He asked but then Elizabeth and another, male, Doctor entered the room. “We’ve seen the video feed, and I can’t say what it was, but it affected Pauline.” Elizabeth said. “She said something about a daemon, it sounded like almost as if she was in a dream.” Billie-Jo said. Elizabeth and the doctor looked at each other and something passed between them, “I see, so we’ll need to give her warmth and plenty of liquids.” She spoke directly at Pauline then, “Soldier! Code…” She began but was stopped by Pauline’s voice. “Doctor Elizabeth, that aspect was suppressed when the voice spoke.” She said softly. Elizabeth gave her a sharp look and then said, “Very well, Pauline you will remain here under care until you are completely well.” She said and then turned around to me. “Paul, I’ll escort you to your room.” She took my hand and pulled me away from the bed. “But what about Billie-Jo, I can’t leave her like that.” I said. “It’s alright daddy, I’ll look after Pauline and then I’ll come to find you.” Billie-Jo said and this time there were no tears on her face. ----- Before she returned me to my room Elizabeth took me to an open space. “The council can’t hear us here, but they can watch us.” She warned me. “So why are we here?” I asked her. She regarded me with a strange look on her face, “First of all … We don’t know what it was that happened to you. It hasn’t appeared again no matter what we tried. And we are stumped.” “So what’s stopping it from emerging again?” I asked her. She didn’t answer which in a way gave me the answer. “So what’s going to happen to Billie-Jo and Pauline when it comes out again?” I asked her, “They should stay here until either I’m cured or …” I couldn’t say it. But Elizabeth shook her head, “I’m sorry Paul, but you heard the decree. The girls have to stay with you no matter what.” She said. “But that’s daft Elizabeth, I could kill them! I’m not safe to be around anymore!” I was almost angry … but it still eluded me. Elizabeth shook her head, “No Paul, hurt them, possibly even injure them, but you wouldn’t kill them, even your … ‘hulk’ personality wanted slaves, so I doubt if it will kill them either.” She patted my hand, “Pauline was very precise in her reports.” She added and then there was the look in her eyes again. “What else is wrong?” I asked her “Pauline!” She said and then looked around, “She shouldn’t have broken the override, not even with … with what happened. If the council found out she would be completely removed … all of her and a new construct made. It’s one of our fears … that if one of our … girls … could break the conditioning. We’d never be able to control her!” she said. “Pauline would never betray Ropeville, she couldn’t. Even when she knew that the council wanted her back she still did her duty and zapped me before calling out for help … which reminds me, what about Sharon. I’ve got to see her.” I said. Elizabeth nodded, “I thought you’d want to. She’s this way.” ----- We went to another ward, this time with female staff in attendance, and stopped before a door to a side-room. With some trepidation I knocked on the door. “Come in.” Sharon’s voice said from inside the room. I cracked the door open slightly, “You might not want me to.” I said from behind the door. “Come in Paul, I hope you’re feeling better.” Sharon said. I entered the room to see Sharon sitting up with a large bruise on the side of her face, “Christ Sharon did I do that to you … I’m sorry!” I said knowing that even saying that wouldn’t make it alright. But Sharon shook her head, “It wasn’t all your fault, I should have been watching you closely, or rather what was controlling you. I should have ducked!” She laughed and then winced at the action. “But what about the girls, what have I done to them? They’re never going to be the same.” I protested. “No, but then they’re going to think it was all a bad dream, Elizabeth has told me that they can implant false memories so that they all have a different version of what happened to them, and after this time any soreness they would have would pass.” Sharon said shaking her head. “I just don’t understand this! You’re saying that it doesn’t matter … it does! I treated those poor girls miserably and you’re just accepting it, I’d be angry shouting the room down, hitting me!” I said and cursed the fact that I couldn’t really rant and rave in anger. Sharon shook her head, “It wouldn’t do any good Paul, Elizabeth has explained everything, I won’t say I didn’t want to kill you for what you did, but I knew it wasn’t really you in that body, and if I kill it, I’d kill you as well.” “To be honest Sharon I would hand you the gun if it would help.” I said She smiled, “It wouldn’t Paul. But I know what would.” She said I was hooked, “What would that be?” I asked her. She looked at me “Carry on with the sleepover, and this time I mean a sleepover, the girls deserve it!” She said, still smiling. I was surprised, “You mean it? After all this?” I asked her. “Yes Paul, you might surprise yourself with the results.” She said. ----- I left Sharon pondering her words. ‘Why should I carry on with the sleepover? What’s going to stop me/him from attacking the girls again?’ I thought to myself. ‘You will be unable to become angry for at least two weeks, that’s all I can do at the moment’ a voice seemed to say in my mind and that left me in no doubt at all. I met up with Elizabeth by the elevator she pressed to call the car and turned to me. “So Paul, what have you decided?” She asked me. I sighed, “It seems that I’m going to be having a sleepover at my house.” I said. |