**I'd like to thank both Joe and Mistress Lynn for all the hard work they're putting into editing these chapters for me. I missed that thanks in Chapter 1, and they were both instrumental in getting that chapter done as well. Read and enjoy!**
Chapter 2: Shopping
With the speed that they had left the house, Doris couldn't help but think that she had forgotten something. Even with having a new friend, and even with that friend being a Genie, Doris still felt very helpless at the thought that she had forgotten something important. She tried to shake the feelings. A smile did return to her face, but she felt the need to cry again, welling up from someplace dark, deep inside her.
"Genie, what did you mean when you said you saved my life?" Doris asked quietly as she pulled out of her quiet neighborhood and onto one of the major parkways.
"You should have died, last night, Mistress," Genie said as equally as quietly. Doris's focus scanned over to Genie's face and saw that tears had welled up in her eyes and there was a tear slowly rolling down the cheek she could see. "Your body and mind were too weak to go on living. Even as my vessel was opened, I could feel your will, wanting to die." Genie's voice started to waiver. "Had you not opened my vessel at that moment, you probably would have."
Doris let that thought roll around in her mind for a second and she felt the wet sting of a hot tear rolling down her own cheek. Part of her mind was relieved that 22 years of pain and misery had almost ended last night, part of her was very angry that it hadn't, and another part was extremely sad that she had come that close to the edge.
"So you fixed me? I'm better now?" Doris asked, some of the strength returning to her voice through the silence between the two.
"Mistress, I only intervened to save your life, you are still not healthy. To put you in a state of perfect health would have been a violation of the rules. You became my Mistress the second you opened the vessel, and I did not even have time to form a body before I had to act."
"Out of protection then, like you said this morning?"
"Yes, Mistress, exactly!" Genie said happily.
Doris swung her small car onto the on ramp for the highway, being sure to double check her approach, though it dawned on her that it was a kind of foolish move; the Genie wouldn't allow them to come to harm.
"Genie, when we're in public, you can't keep calling me 'Mistress.' People will think there's some kind of weird sex thing going on between us," Doris said, reaching down to adjust the temperature settings on the climate control. It was going to be a warm day today, the heat already permeating into the passenger compartment of Doris's little coupe.
"What shall I call you?" Genie asked politely, the smile still plastered on her face.
"How about Doris?" she responded, smiling broadly.
"Yes, Doris, I think that will work just fine," Genie said, her eyes welling up with tears again. Silence filled the space between them again. Doris reached down and turned on the radio, pressed a few more buttons that were not missed by Genie's eyes and the radio started to scan the stations.
"It's an amazing world," she said quietly.
"How long were you in your vessel?" Doris asked. She shifted in her seat and she was instantly reminded of just how tight her t-shirt really was as it stretched around her new tits, the seatbelt passing between them. She looked down and saw what the tingles coursing through were already telling her; her nipples were standing at full attention, and her new and improved twins were almost perfectly round and firm, no where even close to needing a bra to keep them in place. She felt the tingle move lower at the thought; some place that until this morning she hadn't felt it for a very long time.
"I am unaware of the passage of time when in my vessel," Genie said flatly. "The old way of keeping track of the years doesn't translate into your modern calendar very well, either."
"Were you aware of the world before you were imprisoned in your vessel?" Doris asked, a hopeful tone in her voice.
"For a couple of days during the final stages of my creation, yes."
"What's the last thing you remember, or remember hearing about?"
The tingle spun up in Doris's mind again, and it lingered a while longer than what Doris had become accustomed to.
"The first king of Scythia after the Trojan War," Genie said slowly as if searching for the words. In her accent, the word Scythia rolled off her tongue like liquid poetry, the sound of the word giving Doris an image of serene country side just before the implication of the rest of the sentence shattered the image.
"The Trojan War? Like THE Trojan War?" Doris nearly shouted in surprise.
"Yes. If I have the years figured out from your knowledge of history, that was nearly 3200 years ago."
"Holy fucking shit. You've been imprisoned a long time!" Doris said, her mind reeling at the thought of being anywhere for 3 millennia.
"It may as well have been the day before yesterday. It was like falling asleep and suddenly waking up when you opened my vessel."
"You're pretty hot for your age," Doris giggled.