CW: Mind control, impregnation
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"It's looking good," I said.
My husband Andy smiled up from the nursery floor, where he'd just finished adding new baseboards to accent the newly sanded and varnished floor. A flat-packed crib and dresser waited in the next room, along with some pastel curtains.
"Thanks," he said.
"Now all we need is the baby, right?"
He sighed. "I forgot to pick that up at Ikea."
I grinned at him. "I think we have the materials."
He scoffed theatrically. "Yeah, if we want one designed by a couple of amateurs."
"I think there's a folksy charm to a homemade baby," I insisted.
He grinned. "I suppose," he allowed. "But let's finish the nursery first, okay? I..." he hesitated a moment. "I want everything to be ready first."
My eagerness for him to knock me up was a palpable force at this point. We'd been talking about it for years, and fantasizing about it for at least as long. Our plan was to get the nursery ready and then start trying, but waiting was desperately hard.
"You know what would help me wait?" I asked.
"What's that?" he asked.
"If I borrowed a girl for you to knock up," I said.
I guess this sounds weird if you don't know me. I have an ability that lets me borrow other people's bodies. First I make a link by touching them, and then I can put their mind to sleep and slip into their body.
Up until the past year I had only used my powers for good, by stealing money from billionaires. But last summer a buff girl named Julia had run into me while she was out running, and hurt my back right before date night. So, for my date with Andy, I'd borrowed her body.
It had been a thrill for both of us - I'd loved finding out what got Julia off, and enjoyed fucking Andy in a body that was taller and stronger than his; Andy had enjoyed getting closer to me while I was in a new body and had gladly filled Julia's fertile womb with his seed. A few months later we'd done the same thing to a rich girl named Keiko who had stolen my wallet for fun, and that had been a rush, too. But it had been months ago.
"Well, do you know of any?" Andy asked. "Most of the girls I've run into recently have been perfectly kind."
"Most?" I asked.
Andy sighed, but he grinned as he did it. He didn't want me to borrow a girl unless she'd done something to provoke us, and I intended to keep to that rule.
"I don't know of any girl you should borrow," he said.
"Okay," I said. I draped myself across his back, placing my hands on his arms and taking care to press my boobs against him. "I'll be patient."
"Your restraint is an example to me."
I kissed his neck. "Thanks, Andy. Maybe when I get back from the bank we can practice for our actual babymaking?"
"You're on," he said.
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I stomped the snow off of my boots as I stepped into the bank. One of the billionaires who unknowingly funded us sent paper checks, so I came by about once a month. I poured myself a cup of their complimentary coffee, which was just okay in quality but which was delightfully hot, and was about to step into the short line when a woman rushed past me.
I wasn't in a hurry, so I joined the line behind her. She was a few inches taller than me - about Andy's height - with vibrant red hair. She'd taken off her coat, and her black t-shirt revealed a half-dozen colorful tattoos running down her arms. As we waited for the one teller, the redhead tapped her tennis shoe against the tile, generating little sound but making her frustration clear.
The person in front of us finished and stepped away, and the redhead stepped up to the counter.
"How can I help-"
"You've fucked my direct deposit again," she cut in.
"I-I'm sorry to hear that," the teller said, keeping his customer-service face. "Can you give me your account information and I'll look you up?"
"Here," the redhead said, tossing her debit card onto the counter.
I had two views of her. On the one hand, she was being an absolute shit to the teller, who almost certainly had nothing to do with whatever mistake the bank had made. On the other hand, she was achingly hot. She had a slight Scottish accent, her voice sounding lovely even when she had nothing kind to say. Her t-shirt and her jeans were tight, and I could see the contours of her shapely bosom and the line of her hip.
Under any other circumstances, I would have stood awkwardly silent and then told the teller I was sorry once the redhead had gone. I'm well-practiced at being awkward, after all, and on any other day I would have been afraid she'd say something mean to me. That day, though, I welcomed it.
"It's not his fault," I said softly.
"What?" the redhead said, glancing over her shoulder at me. She had light green eyes, and I wondered what the world looked like through them.
"The teller's not the one who borked your deposit," I said.
She hesitated a moment, as if trying to decide whether to explain the whole story to me, then shook her head.
"Keep yer teeth together," she said, then turned back to the teller.
I grinned. This was a pretty clear provocation, and I was sure that Andy would agree if he was here. I took a pen from my pocket and bent down as if picking it up.
"I think you dropped your pen," I said, and handed it to her. As my fingers brushed hers, I made the psychic link that would let me borrow her. She tensed up, narrowing her eyes and baring her teeth, and for a moment I thought she'd hit me.
The moment passed, though. She took the pen without a word, and turned back to the teller. I smiled, and pulled my phone out.
Do you trust me? I texted to Andy.
Of course, he said.