Author's note: all characters in this story are 18+ years old, as previously established.
Brad was confident that despite the concerns some had expressed about Katie's behaviour at the last Club evening he had her well under control. And everything that happened in the next two weeks seemed to confirm this. Katie, for the most part, was a model servant and sex slave. Cheryl's concerns were soothed somewhat, while Stacey seemed to develop something of a girl crush for the older woman and spent a lot of time with her.
Katie had even volunteered to give up her office work and join his web-cam stable. There was no need for her to do this. As Brad was not reducing her intelligence she was fully capable of holding down a job. However, she had said she wanted to help out and Brad was sure she would be popular, as indeed proved to be the case.
Katie had asked to take the persona of a dominant mistress type, noting that none of the other women were doing anything similar. Brad had agreed and, as Katie had reasonably pointed out that she would need someone to dominate for it to be much of a show, he had allocated Stacey as her sub-slave. This set up had soon attracted a good number of well-paying fans.
Brad had been at pains to assure Mac and Billy that all was well with Katie, and they had eventually agreed to come to the next session of the Club. Connor, naturally, had no choice but to attend as Brad was keeping him firmly under his control. Stephen had no such concerns, indeed he was rather looking forward to seeing Katie again, and Russ would be bringing both Megan and Sara this time.
Brad had even found the time to sketch out his next adventure for the group. Yes, all was well and he was looking forward to the next session of the Friday Night Games Club.
*****
The first thing Katie had to do was persuade her Natalia half that she didn't suffer from any of the weaknesses of being a vampire. This she had done by successively: taking a shower -- no problem with running water; eating a garlic baguette -- not scared of smelly herbs; and going outside in the sun -- no sign of turning to dust or busting into flames. Check, check, check.
The final test had been going inside the local church. Natalia really hadn't liked that one, but she'd had to admit they could do it and had shown no reaction to the sight of a cross. From there, Katie had been able to point out that they didn't need to sleep in a coffin and -- thank God -- didn't need to drink blood. A nice salad was still on the menu.
There were two reasons Natalia and Katie had agreed they should give up their job. The first was that Natalia was singularly unsuited to the role. Katie was the second most junior member of a team of twelve, which the domineering Natalia found wholly unacceptable. Less than two hours into the first Monday morning Katie's manager had asked her to do a mundane but simple task that formed part of her normal duties, only for Natalia to respond with a tirade of abuse.
Katie had found that when her Natalia personality was feeling calm, relaxed and in control it was very difficult for the Katie part of her to take back control. However, when Natalia was feeling panicked or alarmed she tended to want Katie's support, which meant Katie always seemed to end up trying to sort out messes Natalia had created. In this case Katie had realised that the office job was never going to work.
The second point was that while she was out at work she couldn't do anything to investigate the question of what Brad had done to her. Brad worked during the day, and Stacey was also still working, mainly so she could continue drugging Lily and Alice. Cheryl didn't have a paid job, but she still went out of the house, for example to do shopping. This meant that if Katie could be in the house during the day there would be opportunities to search the place.
Therefore, Katie had tendered her resignation, a decision that pleased Natalia too. It was easy to sell this to Brad as a wish to him help out with his web-cam scheme. With Natalia in control, sex work made sense anyway given her extremely high libido.
There was the additional bonus that the constant access to Stacey was an opportunity to work on her allegiance. Stacey had been brainwashed to be submissive to those stronger than her, and Natalia was more that capable of playing on that. Given that there was a residual part of Stacey that had never much liked her stepfather, before long she was far more Natalia's slave than she was Brad's.
Natalia continued to meet whatever sexual demands Brad made on her. She didn't find that difficult as she actually enjoyed the sex. Katie, observing carefully, had noted that her Natalia personality was bi-sexual, but in a rather specific way. She enjoyed sex with dominant men, like Brad, but despised submissive ones. Given the chance she would have happily bossed the latter around and made them serve her, but she would never have had sex with them. With women it was the reverse. Using submissive women for her (and their) pleasure was something she desired, but she would have shunned other dominant females.
If Natalia was pleased not to have vampire weaknesses, she had proven less impressed with Katie's physical attributes. Admittedly she was healthy, young and reasonably fit, but where was the super-strength and deadly combat skills?
With more spare time now, having given up her job, Natalia persuaded Brad to buy gym membership for her and embarked on a ferocious training programme that she intended would, over time, build her fitness toward Olympic athlete standards.
What she didn't tell Brad was that she had also signed on at Martial Arts Centre and joined a gun club. The latter required background checks, but good girl Katie had never been in the slightest trouble with the law and passed easily. Natalia fully intended to acquire the combat skills she deemed appropriate to her new status.
All this had taken time to organise and Natalia had not yet made any useful progress with her investigations by the time the next Games Club night came around. She would need to ensure that she behaved herself and played nicely.
*****
Russ had been worried about bringing both his wife and his mistress to the same event. He was concerned that Megan would want to know why Sara was there and potentially make a scene.
When Russ told Brad his concerns, the latter had just laughed and said, "You don't get it yet, do you? You've been drugging Megan for three weeks now and she has also had a session at the Club. Just tell her you are fucking Sara and that you fully intend on carrying on doing so and see what happens."
"You're joking!" said Russ in amazement.
"No I'm not. Do it tonight and then text me what she says. You'll see."
Later that evening Brad received a text from Russ. "She just said, 'That's nice dear. I'm pleased you're having fun'." Russ had followed it with three smiley faces.
Brad smiled to himself and texted back, "Suggest a threesome."
Shortly after, Russ replied, "OMG, she said yes."
Brad responded, "Do you think my treatment is worth the money?"
Russ's reply was immediate, "All right, Brad, I concede you're genius, ok?"
Brad laughed. He could agree with that thought.
*****
The fourth session
Given the sour note that previous gaming session had ended on, Brad was pleased with the turnout. In the male corner were Mac, Billy, Connor, Stephen and Russ represented in the game by Hemmet the torturer, Petior the mage, Ghom the barbarian and the two mercenaries Wolf and Godwin.
The females were present in even greater numbers. In addition to Cheryl, as usual ready to step into any role required, Stacey, Holly, Claire, Lily, Ali and Megan all had their established characters; Orella the thief, Joane, Magdalen, Fleur, Alice and Elaine the priestess. Then of course there was Katie, playing Natalia the vampire, and finally Sara, new to group and as yet without a character.
Brad thought Sara looked surprisingly like a younger, slightly slimmer and shorter, version of Megan. They could almost have been sisters. But then, perhaps it wasn't that surprising. Russ clearly had a look he found attractive in women, and his wife and his secretary both fitted the pattern. Sara had similar blue eyes and her hair was only a shade or two darker than Megan's auburn. Still, there was no arguing that the 24-year-old was delightfully fuck-able, and he was looking forward to doing so.
Brad had already run quickly through the tidying up from the last session. Wolf was happy to agree to Natalia joining the party (and Stephen had indeed looked happy with the idea). With her on side to issue orders to the guards there had been no difficulty about leaving the castle.
Brad had also explained that whatever Lady Calantha and Natalia had done to Joane and Magdalen the night before appeared to have affected their intelligence; he insisted on the 'mind' statistic being reduced on their character sheets. Here, of course, he was just aligning the game to real life, as Holly and Claire had met a similar fate at his own hands.
As they didn't really qualify for their dancer and courtesan roles now, Megan's character Elaine recruited them to join Lily and Alice's characters as acolytes of her goddess, Thelisa, patron deity of lust, perversion and debauchery. With the result, as Billy observed, that the party now resembled not much more than a travelling brothel.
"In light of which," Stephen suggested to Brad, "I think we should allow Sara to create a character that actually has some useful skills outside of a bedroom."
Brad wasn't keen on this. Personally he didn't have a problem with all the women being turned into whores, but seeing that Stephen was determined, he permitted Sara to be a healer, with some secondary skills in self-defence. It turned out she knew something about swords and sorcery, having read some fantasy fiction in her time, and called her character Yasmela, after one in a Conan story.