Hi guys, I am late with this chapter. I had some personal shit to deal with. But I hope you'll like it.
Chapter 4: The First Dose
Maya was looking at Joe, who was rambling about something. She stopped listening to what he was saying a few seconds ago. She sat on her chair, cross-legged, back to her computer and facing Joe. Joe stood a few steps back so that Maya didn't have to crane her neck. She was searching through his mind for something. 'Pleasure center, there.' she thought to herself. 'Look at my feet,' she Commanded. She didn't have to speak it out because Command didn't have to be verbal. It could also be mental. She hadn't used Command on someone for a long time.
Commands had a long-lasting impact on the subject's mind. It could shape the rest of the subject's life to abide by that Command. It could sometimes be very harmful. She learned that the hard way. So, she rarely used the Commands. Even then, she only used the Commands which are only present in nature and would have no impact on the future of the subject. Now, the Command she used on Joe was only to perform an act that didn't require him to continue abiding by the Command for a longer time frame. So, the Command will be terminated after the performance.
Joe looked down at her feet. Maya flooded the neurons out of the pleasure center, and they would reach other parts of the brain. And that would let him feel the pleasure. Pleasure in looking at her feet. Maya tied that response to the hippocampus, so that pleasure he just felt would be remembered. Here on after, he would feel the pleasure every time he looked at feet in general, at least she hoped that would happen. Her plan only works when he was generally attracted to feet and not just her feet.
She called it Dosing. It would flood, like now, the brain with chemicals like dopamine, serotonin, adrenaline, etc. She could flood the brain with whatever chemical she wanted and control the subject's brain accordingly. She had identified three ways of controlling someone's brain. She had assigned names for them, the first was Dosing, the second was Emotional manipulation, and the third was the Commands.
The Commands are commands, they would let the subject do what she wanted of them. Emotional manipulation would let her control the subject's emotions like happiness, sadness, fear, etc. She called it Surging when she increased one's emotion and Soothing when she reduced it. She didn't know much about what she was doing, but she suspected these methods were three levels of control. The top level was Commands, when commanded the subject still could understand that they were following an order which was violating their own will.
While emotional manipulation was a slightly deeper level of control and easier to do, the subject still could suspect that their emotions were being manipulated if there was no sufficient reason for that change in emotion. Dosing was a far more complex way of control, as it requires you to understand the brain chemistry. It was an even deeper level of control because these chemicals when released would lead to emotions on the above level. When you're using the Dosing, it would not make the subject do what you want. It would only convince the brain to be agreeable or disagreeable with what you want.
Maya realized Joe was not speaking and was looking at her. He looked at her feet, and she saw he felt the pleasure of it. But now he just stopped talking. And then he just walked to his desk and mumbled, "I'm sorry. I have to work on this." Maya acted like she was annoyed and irritated that someone would just abruptly walk away from a conversation. He looked at her annoying expression and apologized again. Maya nodded and twirled her chair around towards her computer. A satisfying smile appeared on her face.
She opened her journal, wrote the date on the top left, and wrote:
The initiation has been completed on the subject. It was a successful first dose. The Subject seemed very responsive to the Command. Judging by the long stare at my feet and uncharacteristic behavior, it felt the pleasure I wanted it to feel.
She wanted her plan to work as she hoped. And worked it did. Throughout the day, she noticed Joe was sneaking a few peeks at her and Samantha's feet. 'He will go home and question his sexuality.' she thought to herself. 'He is not a fetishist or a masochist, but he will be one. I will make sure that will be his reality.'
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Joe was in extreme delight. He couldn't pinpoint why it was right away. Then he realized he was hard and hot. He looked away from annoyed Maya after apologizing to her. He set his eyes on his computer, and his complete concentration to figure out what had happened. 'I have had a glance at her feet, accidentally. And I felt that sweet delight,' he thought. 'That was for the pleasure I felt.'
He couldn't understand his sudden reaction to Maya's feet. He searched backward to comprehend this. Slowly and surely, his previous interactions came to his mind. Not every interaction was exactly with feet, but they were somehow connected to it.
He remembered his first girlfriend in primary school, Charlotte. She used to punch him and snatch his lunch money. It was not like she stole from him. She bought the food for him. She controlled what he ate. He liked being under her control. He remembered when he was with her, he always used to lower his head and looked at her feet. It only happened for a year or two until he changed schools. He thought he was afraid of her. 'Now I think about it, it might've started my fascination.'
When he was in early high school, there was a girl who used to wear knee-high socks. She was a good friend. He enjoyed their conversations and liked spending time with her. He also liked her dressing sense, particularly her socks. He remembered complimenting her. She only blushed.
He could see the dots now. He only had to connect those dots.
That liking for knee-high socks had blossomed into a fascination for knee-high boots. He felt his fascination tingle whenever he saw knee-high boots in movies, songs, and games. As recently as his last relationship, his girlfriend rocked red knee-high boots. They had sex naked except for those boots. It was the best sex he ever had.