Three days after Dean's visit to the Board, Rebecca Patterson arrived at the Research Centre, trailing Givenchy perfume in her elegant wake and bringing bad news. The Dionysus Project was coming to an end.
"The therapy is simply not effective. Sorry, Kerry, but the procedure is just too painful."
"But it works," Moriarty insisted, almost striking the table to emphasise her point.
"No, Kerry, it doesn't. At least it doesn't work for normal men who do not have four hours a day, everyday, to sit with a hot stick rammed down their pisshole. It won't work. I should have brought all this to an end much sooner, and saved everyone a lot of money."
"What about the research subject? What about Dean?" Moriarty was not only concerned by the setback to her research career. She would be losing her gorgeous sex slave, her toy.
"He'll remain here until we find somewhere for him. We should keep our part of the bargain after he has suffered so much for the project." Moriarty sensed a critical tone in Patterson's voice, yet she had sanctioned all of Moriarty's schemes. She may have been hesitant, but she had ultimately agreed to her plans. Patterson was disowning her and the Dionysus Project.
"We've taken bookings, and we've taken money. They'll be disappointed, and very angry."
"Fine, we'll keep our promises. I've come to let the nurses and your secretary go, today. The only ones who'll be staying will be the night guard, because we have to provide security, Tiffany, as the only actual nurse among your team and, for the moment, you."
"What will happen to me?" Moriarty bluntly asked.
"You're on the payroll until the end of next month, but I wouldn't turn down any lucrative job offers if I was you."
Moriarty sank into her chair. She knew that she had not fully reached her ambitions for the project, but to learn that the entire scheme was coming to an end was a bitter disappointment. She asked if they had been unhappy with her presentation.
"The presentation was fine. They all enjoyed that." Patterson could not suppress a laugh. "However, they don't need to pay you, three nurses and a secretary as well as fund a course of expensive injections for a great fuck with Dean, especially as the expansion therapy has made very little difference. He was, as you recall, pretty sensational when we found him. Where is he now?"
"He's in the Treatment Room having his morning dose of therapy."
"Let's pay a farewell visit. I will miss that wonderful body and that quite amazing cock."
They arrived to find Dean sweating on the table, his eyes closed as the hum of the generator reminded everyone that the electrical current was still pulsing through his body.
"Turn it off," Patterson ordered Tiffany. She looked at Moriarty, but Patterson repeated her message, adding "Dr Moriarty works for me, and so do you." The tone was polite, but the message was clear. Once the machine was silent and the probe extracted from his shaft, Patterson sent the nurse from the room. She examined his radiant body, touching the skin to sample the sweat and casting a glance to Moriarty by the door as she raised a damp finger, highlighting the brutal price of her therapy.
"Thank you, Miss Patterson," he gasped.
"My pleasure," she replied, laying a hand on his chest and letting it rest there for a moment before allowing herself to stray towards his gleaming erection. "Now, Dean. I have some more good news. Your therapy is now at an end. No more zappers down your pisshole. I'm sure you're pleased about that." She returned to the head of the table to stroke his chest with a towel. "You can treat it as an early birthday present."
"Is it the seventeenth?"
"Tomorrow."
"Is it your birthday?" Moriarty asked, and immediately regretted the question because Dean and Patterson both offered a disappointed stare. It was Patterson who spoke.
"I thought you would know that." The tone was distinctly unfriendly, and Moriarty was aware that the mood around the Research Centre would be changing now that the Dionysus Project, and her value to the Corporation, was coming to an end.
"Now, Doctor, I have some important matters to discuss with Dean."