47. What Were You Thinking?! Part 1
Saturday Mid-Day
The light in the short entrance hallway to her apartment didn't respond when Maddie flicked the switch a few times, and the other rooms she could see were unusually dark as well. She made a noise of confusion as she walked in with Leila behind her, saying, "Leave the door open while I go look at the breakers, babe." She started to rummage around in her purse for her phone, wanting to use the flashlight mode, when her arms were suddenly pinned against her sides by a strong grip.
Moments later, Leila let out a yelp as the door was slammed shut, leaving them in darkness. Maddie caught a glimpse of two people jumping out from behind it as it closed, at least one of whom had grabbed her girlfriend. "Leave her alone!" she yelled, struggling against the arms encircling her.
There was the sound of loud scuffling and then a male voice Maddie didn't recognize cried out, "I've got her, but she's really strong!" The last word stretched out into a kind of yell as the strange man fell to the ground with Leila, who was clearly struggling to get away despite her lack of vocalization.
Another voice, feminine and sounding slightly accented to Maddie's ear, said, "I don't think she's got it on her! She's naked, nowhere to hide it! Did she have a bag when she walked in?"
Maddie stopped struggling abruptly when Cassie's voice rang out loudly, almost in her ear. "Okay, come check Maddie's bag for it instead!"
Suddenly grasping what the assault must be about, Madelyn shouted, "Trigger trance!" angrily. When she felt Cassie's grip slacken she easily disengaged herself and scurried toward the living room. There were sounds of confusion from the two strangers, probably because they didn't know why Leila had given up fighting, nor why Cassie had stopped responding to them.
Finally locating a light that worked, Maddie noticed that the windows had been covered with blankets to increase the darkness. She was a little surprised to see that both of the other attackers were nude, and thought she recognized the girl from school. The man was sporting a pair of antlers, which delayed Maddie's realization that she actually knew him slightly from college as well. These were clearly the friends Cassie had accidentally used the remote on, and probably she had spread her nudism to them as well.
Thinking quickly, Maddie pulled the remote out of her purse and pointed it at the naked pair, who were blinking against the light and looking toward the entranced Cassie with concern and growing alarm. Their eyes went even wider when they saw the device being brandished at them, and Maddie snarled, "Get the fuck away from my girlfriend or I'll use this to turn you into a couple of piss-drinking sex slaves!" She shook the remote a little to emphasize her threat and was pleased to see her adversaries quickly retreat from Leila's prone body.
"Stay on the ground!" Maddie ordered as she approached the couple, trying to remember if Cassie had mentioned their names to her. Too frazzled to concentrate on such details, she made her way cautiously toward Leila and leant down to whisper her awake, keeping the device trained on the terrified pair that were now hugging each other for comfort. Madelyn found her power over them almost intoxicating, and it took all her resolve and restraint to avoid zapping them punitively.
Once Leila had been revived and gotten a brief explanation, Maddie handed her the remote and said, "Keep an eye on those two while I deal with Cassie." Looking scared but determined, the bunny girl nodded and did her best to be intimidating as she stood guard. Her nervously twitching cottony tail betrayed her anxiety, but her girlfriend was the only one in a position to notice that at the time.
Madelyn eyed Cassie speculatively, wondering how to protect herself from her roommate now that the secret of the device was out, or at least some of its secrets. Any triggers she gave people had to be sexual, she remembered, so after some thought she stood on her toes to whisper into the redhead's ear, "If you try to use the remote on me, my friends, or my family without my permission, you'll be completely unable to orgasm unless we forgive you." She was relieved that the trigger was accepted quickly and without fuss, and told Cassie to awaken, stepping back quickly just in case.
Cassie blinked in confusion for a moment or two before taking in the drastically different situation. Her expression went from confusion to panic and then to a kind of angry despair. "Well, fuck," she muttered, noticing the bunny girl pointing the device at her lovers. "I guess this means you win, bitch," she said coldly, glaring at her.
"What did I win?" asked Leila, appearing completely baffled. Maddie wasn't entirely sure what was going on either and stared at her roommate in confusion.
"Us, I guess, you monster!" shouted the angry redhead. "I don't know why you're trying to turn people into your naked sex-pets or whatever, but I guess you have some kind of power to make us black out or whatever, so there's not much hope in resisting you, is there?" she sneered.
Leila looked even more bewildered than before and turned to her girlfriend, hoping for an explanation. Maddie thought she had a glimmer of the misperception Cassie seemed to believe, so she asked, "Um, why exactly do you think Leila is behind everything?" The picture got increasingly clear as her roommate explained her reasoning and the changes she was aware of. For the most part it seemed plausible to connect everything back to Leila, but Maddie saw one glaring mistake in Cassie's conclusions.
"I kind of get why all the nudity and petplay and animal features seem like they're linked," Maddie offered, "But you hadn't even really met her yet when you adopted nudism, remember? That happened basically right after you got back from your softball camp, and you didn't even know I had a girlfriend until later that night."
The look of shock on Cassie's face was rather comical, right down to her mouth forming an 'O' of surprise as she realized her mistake. "But that means... you!" she finally managed to gasp out.
Feeling just a little smug and aroused at the reminder of her power, Madelyn nodded and confirmed, "Yep. Me. I used it on you, and you became a nudist. I'd already used it on Leila at that point, and she turned into a bunny girl."
"But... I have so many questions, now!" Cassie said loudly. "Where did you get it? Why did you use it on us in the first place? Did you pick what it did to me, or was it just random like with Dana and Miguel?"