TW: mind control; brainwashing; questionable consent;
All characters are over 18 and consenting.
Love, Iri x
-- Part 3 - Shona --
The tourists had stayed for almost the whole day, filling up our till and emptying the tea bag pot twice, as they took shifts to walk around the place getting photographs of the misty mountains and grey skies. They were a mixed bunch - all different sorts with the shared love of photography. Either way, we'd made more today than we expected to all week, so we were happy.
Plus, you know, the
other
development of the day.
After work, me and Hannah made a point to delete the security tapes of the day - Mr. Cooke didn't need another heart attack - and cleaned up the mess we'd made in the back. Lots of mopping, and shared glances as we scrubbed the tiles down.
The shift ended with us standing at the back door while I locked it, the rain pattering down onto my jacket and slowly darkening Hannah's black hoodie.
'So,' she said as we followed the gravel trek back up to the main road. 'We're doing this as a fun thing, right - no commitment?'
I nodded. 'Except for those videos. I'll be expecting one tonight.' I said it with a smile, half-joking at how it sounded - straight out of a bad porno.
But, she just nodded and said, rather seriously, 'Yes daddy.'
God, that made my cock swell.
She agreed she was leaving Matt, if only because he had 'served his purpose', as she put it. We weren't starting a relationship, but neither of us liked the idea of cheating either, and Matt wasn't giving her what she wanted. I was.
So, we parted with an awkward hug, neither of us knowing what the boundary should be - as the Dom, I should think of that, right? - and I headed home. It wasn't until I was in the shower half an hour later I remembered I had plans for the night with Shona.
Shona!
How the hell could I forget our 'date', as we had sarcastically dubbed it. She was my first crush, the MILF everyone I knew wanted a piece of, and she had taken to my suggestion of sharing dinner and a movie at her place. This was my dream.
It hit me that, from my date with Shona to my 'thing' with Hannah, using my gift to get what I wanted was - shock horror - getting me what I wanted. Sure, I'd always influenced a bad situation or lightened a mood, but these people were the two I had arguably
changed
; Shona with her thoughts of me linked to sex, and Hannah with lowering her walls so I could get inside them.
And her.
I started giggling in the shower, just pure glee taking me over. Why had I been scared to do this before?! All I had to do was keep my wits about me, keep any stories I told straight, and not push anyone beyond common sense.
My mind flashed to Ali, as I fucked her mindless virgin form on her bed, and wondered if that would be the furthest I'd ever go. Completely
owning
her, having complete control of her pleasure, her thoughts...
Another part of me wondered how people might take it if I told them the truth. There was little risk, after all - I could just order people not to tell anyone, or to not care so much they forget.
It was a lot. A lot of possibilities, a lot of risk... a lot of power. Power as yet unexplored.
Another factor was that all of my 'big' influences had been sex related. I had never made a change to someone on that level that wasn't, in some way, borne of my own lust. That connection needed to be watched with a wary eye.
Nevertheless, from Shona's dry-spell comment, I was fairly sure I could make a guess at her intentions. If she was interested in me, I was going to roll with it. How couldn't I? I had been dreaming of this for years.
Plus, after winning over Hannah with some help from my gift, I was running on a bit of an ego high.
I dressed in a t-shirt with a shirt over it, buttoned up and smart, with fresh jeans and my good leather shoes. I was trying to make an impression, and I wanted her to feel like she could connect with me. The last thing I wanted to remind her of was that I was her daughter's ex, so I figured I would shoot for maturity. She was a catch, and I was going to show her.
I grabbed a bottle of wine from my parents' wine rack in the kitchen - I didn't know the first thing about wine, but it was red and I remember her drinking red. After that, I grabbed a coat and made my way out into the rain.
And
boy
was it raining. The fact that she lived just up the road, and therefore driving would have been a bit superfluous, didn't stop me from regretting walking. By the time I walked up those familiar wooden steps to the door, I was drenched. Hair ruined, shoes caked in grit from the road. Good job, James. So much for the ego.
Saying that, this house did bring back a few memories that lifted my spirits - mainly of me and Ali, educating each other on anatomy. She was a wonderful girl, really, and my drifting from her to protect her was a massive shame. Without her interest in me, without her care, I would never have developed what I think of as a healthy relationship with sex - before her I was mostly uninterested, and since her I've tended off my worse instincts by way of reminding myself what could be done when it went wrong.
But it was at the cost of her - whether she remembered it or not, what I had done to her was terrible. Not because she didn't enjoy it - rather certain she wasn't capable of
not
enjoying it - but because I took her agency away. I made her less than she was, which was never my intention. My intention, now, was to help people be more than they were.
Hannah was in an unsatisfying relationship, I started a satisfying one with her. Shona has a dry spell, I help her find her wetness.
As the thought of that made me smile a wicked kind of smile, I knocked on the oak door.
Shona answered in less than a minute, her eyes wide with worry as she saw my drenched form.
'Oh James! Come in, the fire's going - do you need a towel? I'll get you a towel-'
She kept fussing as she pulled me out of the rain into her kitchen. It had been a while since I was in here last, and she'd moved some things around - the kitchen tops had a white marble finish instead of black now - but it was familiar.
I stopped her fussing, holding out the wine. 'For you, Shona.'
She gave a surprised smile and took it. 'Well thank you, young man.' I grinned at her, shrugging off my jacket and hanging it. She eyed me a little as I did, that smirk still on her lips. 'You didn't need to get all dressed up, now.' Her Irish lilt was coming through more than usual, and I wondered if she'd already had a glass or two. Dutch courage, and all that.
'Nonsense,' I said, taking in what she was wearing. It was a comfortable white jumper - very conservative - with a high neck and long arms, but it hugged her figure just enough to be tantalising all the same; she had on loose black trousers that seemed like they might be comfortable, but not
too
comfortable. It was a costume of self-checking repression. Which, of course, meant she had something to repress.
I tuned in, and got a good feel of her state; there was a mix of confusion and almost giddiness, a nervousness I wasn't expecting. Then, there was the sexual interest - not arousal, not yet. Just an awareness on her part that I was, at one point, part of a fantasy of hers, and now I was in her clutches. Then, there was her caring, motherly side that was legitimately concerned for my health as I shivered, the rain getting to me.
'You look beautiful,' I said, smiling as she blushed.
'Oh, shut up. You're freezing, James. Let's get you warmed up.'
She bounced through to the wide living room, full of dark oak and warm red furnishings. As promised, the fire was going, soothing my chill almost instantly. Despite the fact it was
supposed
to be summer, I'd never known it to be so damn cold and damp before.
She sat me down on the sofa facing the fireplace, and tutted at me.
'Your shirt, James.'
I looked down - it was soaked through. 'My jacket wasn't as waterproof as I thought.'
'You'll have to take it back,' she said, as I felt her nerves swell. I decided, as I had with Hannah, to lay her nerves to rest, and put a damper on them at about 10. Then, the same with her embarrassment, and shame, giving her mental room to breath.
She instantly relaxed, and looked at me with a glint in her eye. She frowned at me.
'What?' I asked.
'How do you do that?' she asked.
'Do what?'
'Manage to make me feel so... comfortable. Even when you were here with Ali, we never had a man around the house, so you were an unknown quantity. But you just slotted in.'