Panic!
For an infinitely long moment, I stood unmoving. My lips planted on my eighteen year old daughter's with my tongue entangling her's, and my left hand encircling her breast. Meanwhile, my eyes were locked onto my wife, Marsha, who was staring back at me, mouth agape.
Seconds ago, she had walked into the family room and caught my daughter and me in the midst of a passionate embrace.
Chani, my daughter, had not yet registered Marsha's startled exclamation of, "What the fuck?" And, as such, she continued kissing and groping me.
So, like I said... Panic.
You ever watch a movie and see the protagonist acting all weak-willed or just plain stupid in an intense moment? Then, you think to yourself, "What an idiot. That wouldn't bother me. I'd handle that situation, no problem."
Yeah, me too. But, I've got to tell you, I didn't handle it. I just stood there like an inept moron.
Two things saved me at that moment. First was that my wife was so completely dumbfounded by what she walked in on that she seemed to be in shock. The second was that my daughter was so wrapped up in her own grief turned to passion that she likewise failed to react.
This gave me the precious seconds I needed for my heart to pump some blood back into my brain (it having previously been diverted in a more southerly direction).
Then, more fully oxygenated, that lump of grey matter between my ears rebooted, and I was finally able to think.
Breaking the kiss with Chani, I stood up straight, looked Marsha in the eyes, and in an authoritative tone, said, "Marsha, you look very sleepy."
Instantly, the confusion and anger left her face. She yawned, turned, and walked back toward the bedroom.
Then, disengaging from our intimate embrace, I held Chani at arm's length and said to her, "It's time to play, Chani."
She smiled, leaned in, and gave me a chaste hug, then turned and skipped off toward her bedroom.
Holy shit. Crisis averted. At least for the moment. This wasn't over just yet, so I began after my wife. And as I walked, I thought about how to handle this.
The command I used, "Marsha, you look very sleepy," had worked, but honestly, I wasn't sure that it would when I said it out loud moments earlier.
I couldn't even remember the last time I'd used that post-hypnotic suggestion.
I had installed that into Marsha years ago when we were first beginning the hypnotic training. It was a simple way to get her to go to bed so I could "work" on her, without her being consciously aware of what I was doing.
But, as I said, it had been years since I'd used it, and it was a real gamble that it would still work. I got lucky.
Even so, all I had accomplished was to send her to bed (which wouldn't last long). I needed to address what she had seen. And once I'd taken care of this specific event for Marsha, I'd have to come up with a more permanent solution. Indeed a solution for both my wife and my daughter.
I had let things get out of my control, and I didn't like that one bit.
With my wife, I had completed her training before my daughter was ever born. And, since the vast majority of my wife's training had involved creating the sub-personality, Ashley, there was never a need to cover my tracks before. (Plus of nearly all of my "hypno-kinks" remained in the bedroom, so I never worried about Chani noticing anything.)
Of course, over the years, I'd had several other subjects, women who had eventually become sexual playthings. But, again, that always remained outside the home and never really required me to worry about being caught in this way.
But here, in my home, with both my wife and my daughter, getting caught was inevitable. I was stupid not to have already considered it.
So, once this brush fire was completely extinguished, I was going to sit down and work up a plan.
A few moments behind my wife, I entered our bedroom just as she was lying down in bed. She'd been asleep for nearly 12 hours, after working a double shift, so it would only be a couple minutes before she woke up again.
The command I gave her was intended to put her to bed at the end of the day. It simply wasn't powerful enough to overcome all the complex brain chemistry that was involved in the process of sleep, so I had better get to work.
I walked over to my wife's side of the bed and kneeled down on the floor, near her head, and began to speak by uttering the phrase I always used to deepen a hypnotic trance.
"Deep sleep, Marsha. Deep sleep."
"That's right," I said as I began to gently pet her head in a calming, loving way. "Just allow yourself to drift down. Calm, Peaceful, Relaxing. Drifting down into the familiar, deep, comfortable, safe place."
"I'd like you to remember, Marsha. Remember a time when you had a strange dream about me, about your husband. Remember a time when you had a strange dream, and you woke from that dream full of emotion. Maybe you were mad at me when you woke, I don't know. It's your memory."
"Remember what that was like, how it felt so real, how even though you knew, with all your heart and mind, that it was just a dream, you couldn't help but feel those strong emotions."
"Maybe it even took you several hours to fully let it go."
"Remember a time when that happened. Do you remember?"
After just a brief moment, her eyebrows knitted together ever so slightly, and she softly grunted in the affirmative.
I continued, "Of course you remember. It's a common enough experience. It's something that happens to everyone from time to time. Perfectly normal. Perfectly understandable."
Her eyebrows relaxed. Sometimes it's important to remind people that, even if something seems weird, it's usually pretty normal. We all just want to be normal.
Okay, this was going good, time to move it along, "Well, Marsha, you just had a strange dream about Chani and me. It probably felt very real. You might even have some strong emotions connected to it, and that's okay. But, it was just a dream. You will know it's a dream because you are going to wake up in a couple minutes. And, since you were sleeping, it must have been a dream. Do you understand?"
Again she gave me a soft grunt in the affirmative.
"Good," I went on. "In just a couple minutes, you will wake up after a long sleep. That weird dream may still exist in your memory, or it may fade away just like any other dream. But, if you remember it, you will understand that it was just a dream. Rest now, and awake in a couple minutes when you're ready."
With that, I quickly exited the bedroom, returning to the kitchen to finish dinner. A glance at the clock told me it had only been a few minutes since this whole crazy event started, even though it felt like hours.
About ten minutes later, Marsha mozied into the kitchen. As she talked about her day at work, Chani joined us (as her younger, bubblier persona -which Marsha continued to ignore).
Dinner commenced as usual.