Four All Hallows Eve's had come and gone since Rustin Peace had began the experiments. It began with a thought, a desire really, to be someone he was not. He wanted to be seen as having daring bravado, the quick complement, the inviting smile, exuding humility and confidence, and passionate. He envisioned having this charm so intense that almost every woman he met would want to go to bed with him. But how does one become a ladies man when you're not Warren Beatty or Wilt Chamberlain and you closely resemble a frog as opposed to Prince Charming. Desirable females are all around but Rustin wasn't getting any of them, thus began his quest. For Rustin, love was like a ghost, something thought about and talked about but never seen or experienced. But he was going to change that with his mysterious concoction he called "Charm."
By day he was a biochemistry professor, and the grant money he acquired was to develop safe effective birth control drugs. By night he was a crazed feign looking for that elusive charm. Late into the night, after being frustrated time and again, a friendly white ghost came into the room. Real or imagined, Rustin didn't know, nor did it matter because the ghost had some ideas and every single one of them brought him closer to his dream of female conquest. Under the friendly ghost direction, his research was finding ways to tap directly into the biological processes that control a woman's sexual urges, bypassing reason and going straight to passion.
By day Dr. Rustin Peace, PHD, had developed a chemical which made a woman's eggs infertile. It didn't stop her natural menstrual cycle but she was unable to conceive. The problem was a single dose made all the eggs infertile, so she could never have children again. The development team ended up calling the drug, "COOC," for Conceptive Out Of Control.
"COOC"
Before realizing the deadly potency of this drug, back when they first thought this drug was going to make them millionaires, Rustin had convinced his wife, Sheri, to try it, even though it was highly unethical to do this so early in a drugs development. When it became clear what he had done to her, she was devastated and went into a severe depressed, knowing she would never bare a child. Until this happened they had been a reasonably happy couple. Some said he had married above his pay grade. Not that she was a super model or anything; it was just that Rustin was quite a bit below average when it came to looks; brains yes, looks no. But now Sheri became consumed with thoughts of revenge. One afternoon she was sitting by the pool soaking up some sun. Eyes closed, facing the sun, the red glow that came through her eye lids began to swirl until a red devil appeared. "Sweet revenge would be the best, he counseled, because you are naturally sweet and giving. Let him suffer with the pain of a thousand cuts. Let him feel you slipping away, helpless to stop you. At the same time make him want you all the more by generously feeding his sexual appetite."
So when they made love, Sheri started making up stories about how she would catch a man eyeing her, or how a male coworker was giving her unusual attention. She gradually let the stories become more graphic, like the time she had finished taking a shower at the "Y," then getting confused about which door went back to the lockers, she ended up out in the pool area. "The lifeguard was so nice when he brought me a towel," she mused as she stroked Rustin's penis, "but I do declare I saw the end of his cock poking out the top of his swim trunks! He was a big handsome fellow and I couldn't help but fantasize what it would be like to be with a guy like that."
Sheri convinced Rustin to go to the annual community Halloween party. Sheri dressed as a good witch, Rustin as a knight. As the evening wore on and the alcohol had its desired effect, Sheri removed her cape, her low cut dress revealing all but the nipples of her breast. Taking Rustin with one hand and holding a little wand in the other, she paraded around the room admiring the other women's costumes and flirting with the men. She'd touch them with her wand and declare she had cast a lover's spell on them. In a flirty ways she would let them know she was available if they wanted to live any fantasies. When Rustin would object she scolded him, saying it was just a game.
Sheri didn't just want to make Rustin jealous, she want to make him hurt. She would leave cryptic little love notes for him to find that she would write to herself, as though from a lover. Sheri shared what she was doing with her best girlfriend, Karen. Karen's marriage was also in trouble. She was sure her husband was seeing other women and if she could prove it she would get a nice divorce settlement. As they muse over the problem, the Red Devil reappeared and suggested a plan. Sheri could start having an affair with Karen's husband. After a few months, Sheri could then let Karen know where they would be so she could catch them in the act, camera and witnesses in hand.
The affair was soon underway. The devil suggested she leave her semen stained panties by the shower for Rustin to find, than that night in bed, with her naked body pressed next to him, describe her latest affair, telling Rustin it was a dream she had the night before.
The grand finality came when Karen unexpectedly showed up at Rustin's work and demanded he come with her. Returning to her home, she quietly led him to a spare bedroom where Karen's husband and Rustin's wife were making love. There was a big scene, lot of crying and shouting. When it was all over Karen got her divorce as did Sheri.
"PM"
With the divorce Rustin was not only hurt but bitter. Though, he did admire how his wife could so easily entrap a man with her witches brew. That is when Rustin started his nighttime quest to find his own "Charm." If she could play the part of a witch, so could he.
Back at the daytime lab Rustin was unable to overcome the problems with "COOC," so at the suggestion of his ghost friend, he switched tactics and concentrated on sperm instead. Because sperm are manufactured on a continuing basis and not in a single batch like the female eggs, Dr. Peace found a way to sterilize the sperm as long as the medicine was taken at least once every month but when stopped, after about 40 days, the newly produced sperm were alive and well. The lab assistants dubbed the drug, "Peace of Mind" or "PM" for short.
Trials of a new product can take years. The "PM" test worked well on the fruit fly but mice, rabbits, dogs and monkeys have a much longer life cycle and are not as driven to mate as often as fruit flies or people for that matter, so the good doctor brought his nighttime research into his daytime lab. Now with the aid of graduate students he was able to perfect his "Charm" concoction. It worked surprisingly well on female and male subjects. Just a small drop in a cup of water or food and the sexual response was profound. Within an hour the males had an erection and females were in "heat," willingly accepting the advances of the first male who showed interest in her. Now years of testing could be condensed because the animals were eager to mate every day, all year long.
To everyone's delight, the male conceptive drug was 100% effective. Testing showed that the females remained fertile but never conceived as long as their male partners were on the "PM" drug before copulation happened. Take them off the drug and within 80 to 180 day the females became pregnant. The offspring were healthy and normal but still it would require several years of clinical trials with successful results before human trials of "PM" would be permitted by the FDA.
"Charm" Works
It was Elizabeth, a doctorial student, who first noted that the "Charm" drug only needed to be administered once and the male and female desire for frequent copulation did not diminish for at least six months, after which they returned to their natural sexual cycle. In the male they did not get the artificial erection stimulant but did respond rapidly when approached by a willing female partner. Later on in the Trials, it was Liz again who noted that in the dogs and monkeys trial groups, there was a special bonding that took place between a male and female when they were the first ones to mate after being given the drug. After extensive study she concluded that there was something unique, though she could not determine what it was, in each male's semen that reacted with the "Charm" drug, making the female particularly attracted to that male. On average, Elizabeth observed that the female would seek out and have coitus, six out of ten times, with her first partner. This sexual attraction would end after about six months unless the "Charm" drug was re-administered. Even then a bond remained, along the lines of friends, but the sexual union became random with no better chance of it happening then with any other male.
In all research there is a bit of fudging that goes on. Because Dr. Peace didn't want the world to know about "Charm" the sexual stimulant drug, he back dated when their trials began and greatly exaggerated the number of animals that were tested. It was just a gray lie because the total number of copulations without a pregnancy was accurate.
When human trials were approved, a large pharmaceutical company purchased the rights to produce it. The University got a large sum of money from this transaction and Dr. Peace was given more grant money for research.
Deal with the Devil
But Rustin Peace wanted more than grant money, he wanted to be rich, and he wanted women. One night as Ruskin was contemplating this problem, the friendly white ghost stopped by. "I have a friend who can open the doors for you if you like to meet him," the ghost said. The ghost had never steered him wrong so Rustin readily agreed. The room suddenly became cold, the ghost left, a speck of light appeared in the corner of the room which grew until a full size person appeared, red with piercing eyes. "Money and women," the devil said. "Good choices if I don't say so myself." The devil handed Rustin a note with a phone number. "Call these people now, they are expecting to here from you." As he dialed, the devil vanished. The deal the devil had brokered was for Rustin to secretly sell the formula for "COOC," the female egg killing conceptive drug, to the Chinese. It fit well with their one child policy, so he reasoned it was OK, even if it didn't really belong to him. With the money flowing in, he turned his full attention to women.
Princess
Rustin used a Halloween costume party for his first try using "Charm." It was a department party so he knew most of the guest. Clad in his dervish costume, he was giddy as he went around trying to decide who he wanted to bed with. There was a good looking grad student he had an eye for but she was being courted by a Prince and a Clown. The wife of the Clown, costumed as a Princess, was sitting alone, with a white ghost standing nearby, beckoning for him to come over and meet the her.
Approaching her Rustin said, "Say Princess, what can I get you to drink?"
"Oh sweetie, nothing for me, I've not in the mood for a drink," she said as she glanced over at the Clown. "On second thought I'll take a cup of coffee and one of those brownies," Princess said, "I need to get out of this funky mood."
