The television in Olivia's room was off for the first time she could remember, the silence was strange. No erotic propaganda bombarded her. Beside her she felt the warm and weight of a body. She turned her head.
"Billy."
Her love smiled mischievously at her. "Good morning, Olivia."
"So... early." There was no clock to tell the time but the sun had not even begun to rise.
"Sorry to wake you," he said, planting a kiss on her lips. "I though you might sleep better with a man beside you than just the films playing."
Olivia rolled against him gratefully. In an instant she had fallen asleep again. The sound of dozens of feet pounding the floor awoke her hours later. Morning education. She was going to be late. "I've gotta... uh... late..."
"You're not going to morning education today," Billy told her.
"What?" Fear started to rise inside of her. "I..."
He placed a hand on her should and mind went instantly quiet from the reassuring touch. There should have been something disconcerting about being so easily controlled but nothing about it felt worrying to her at all. He was there to comfort her. He made her smile. "You sounded frightened."
"Yes."
"Nothing here should ever frighten you," he said, rubbing a finger up and down the folds of her sex. "This is a community of love. Tell me what it was."
She opened her mouth to respond. "I..." Telling him the truth would be so easy. Billy loved her, after all. He'd understand. Lying had become such a burden. "I..."
He masturbated her patiently while she tried to form a response. She was already slick with need.
"I..."
"It sounds like you're having trouble thinking." He replaced his hand with hers. "Make sure you don't cum, now. Just keep on the edge while I talk. Your brain will be all gooey."
Olivia stared at him as the pleasured herself. Splitting her attention was so hard. Holding herself back while she tried to come up with a lie he'd believe.
"For my first guess," he said, "maybe you are scared that you'll miss something important at morning education."
"No."
"I didn't really think so," teased Billy. "For my second guess." He hummed thoughtfully and watched her for a few minutes. "You are so beautiful like that."
Olivia nodded.
"Okay, for my second guess I'm going to say that you're a reporter."
Olivia's jaw moved soundlessly, unable to stop touching herself. "You... how..."
Billy smiled comfortingly. "I have my ways of finding out."
"I can explain," she said helplessly. "I can... I promise I can explain."
He placed a hand on her shoulder. "Of course you can, honey, but that doesn't matter. You're a part of our community now. Nothing you used to think matters anymore. Only the good thought we've given you are worth having. Just be happy."
"Billy..."
"Hush." He silenced her with a finger. "You are a beautiful and sexual woman. It's no wonder they tried to use you like that. We've taught you better haven we?"
Olivia couldn't think of an answer.
"The wonderful emptiness in your head is so perfectly feminine." He kissed her. "Keep edging yourself like that. The only thing you need is that sense of need. Desire. Lust. Love. It's so nice to be in love."
"Yes."
"I can see in your eyes how close you are."
"Yes."
"But you're going to stay on this side with me until I send you over the edge, aren't you?" He pressed their lips together as he dragged her hand away. "Whatever you were afraid of is all gone now. That's how we get rid of things we don't want. Every bit of it just dribbles right out of your ears."
Olivia nodded.
"It is perfectly okay that you're a reporter. We want you to keep doing that."
"N... no..."
"Good girls only say yes," admonished Billy. "That's a hard lesson to learn but I know how to help you get past it. Those propaganda video you always watch, the ones with the smiling sexy girls in them, always need new actresses." He nibbled at her ear and made her shiver. "Would you like to be a star and set a good example?"
"Yes."
His loving fingers began to masturbate her again. She moaned. "I think you deserve a big reward for taking this step." Billy turned her on his lap and undid the ties of his pants. With one hand on her back and the other collaring her neck he leaned in to kiss her. As their lips touched his manhood slid inside of her inch by inch. "Very good."
"Billy..."
"Yes?"
"I love you."
He smiled. "And I love you, too."
"You have to help me," begged Olivia. "Get me out of here. I don't want to be brainwashed and turned into whatever... a bimbo or something."
"Once you're a bimbo it won't be nearly as scary."
That made sense. "But..."
"I know you're scared of being educated because you were told that we're bad people but we're in love. Trust me that this is for the best."
"But I'm getting dumb and horny and..."
"And that's why you need to take advice from a person who loves you. A silly girl like you doesn't know what's best for her." He kissed her again. "Let me help."
"You're the one doing it," Olivia said, confused.
Billy stroked her cheek. "Then it must be good for you to be silly."
Olivia nodded.
"Good, I'm glad you can be so obedient."
Billy placed her down on the bed, using some pillows to prop her up. "I have to go out but I want you to stay here and keep practicing making your head empty." He arranged her hands so Olivia was masturbating herself. "Here, I'll put the television on for you. Special show. Make sure to pay attention."
May's smiling face appeared on the screen as quiet music began to play. "Hello Olivia, don't speak just listen. Listen to the music. It's going to help me hypnotize you."
"Yes..."
Billy placed a finger on her lips. "Listen."
Olivia nodded.
"Make love to your own body," suggested the matriarch. "Feel yourself. Embrace the sexual impulses inside. Accept desire. Accept lust. Know that your will is meaningless. Being of service to a man is the purest expression of femininity."
The fingers in her sex that kept her on the edge made her moan. She could feel the Truth.
"We always need girls who can set a good example for the others. Our propaganda videos could use you. Wouldn't that be nice? Rather than struggling all day to read and think you could simply make love all day. Imagine it." The matriarch's smile brightened. "I was much like you when I started, all of us begin as outsiders in one way or another. I learned about my body and became free. Speak to Billy tomorrow, he will help you become a conduit for the truth."
"Yes..."
"Feminine sexuality can be a wondrous thing if you allow it to be. Participating in sessions with the propaganda division will give you a chance to explore yourself. While you work your every action will be under careful direction. Are you touching yourself, dear?"
"Yes," said Olivia as she continued to pump her fingers in and out of her sex.
"I know you are. Keep doing that." The matriarch's voice was smooth and comforting. "By the time we're done with you, Olivia, you'll be a drooling idiot who fucks like an animal and you'll love it. No more being clever. Just a silly obedient slut. Good girl."
"Yes..."
At some point the video began to loop but by then she was too far gone to care.
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The very next day Billy took her back to the propaganda office where she had been working. This time, however, she went into one of the main rooms where they made the films. Knowing what was inside, her breathing deepened as they approached the door.
May was waiting inside with a video camera on a tripod pointed at a couch. She smiled as they entered but Olivia couldn't take her eyes off the couch against the wall. It was the same one she'd seen Apara on in the video that was sent to her. The images from the video reeled through her mind.
"As I'm sure Billy has already told you we know that you're a reporter," said May. Her voice remained as kind and understanding as ever. "We would like to have a story written about us."
"No." Olivia shook her head. "I know what you're trying to do and it isn't going to work."
Billy wrapped his arms around her belly. "Trust me, dear, it works very well. Women like to be in love. They don't even know how to resisting being controlled like this."
"So... so you admit that this place is brainwashing people."
"No at all," said Billy. "We're only telling your the truth. Deep down even the strongest women are weak and pliable. Their lives are so much better once they understand that. Civilization teaches you to be something other than what you are."
"No," she shook her head again, "that's a lie. You force us to feel the way you tell us to."
"Maybe it is," her lover admitted softly as he pulled her into his lap. "Perhaps everything about the High Truth exists to fuck with your head. Drugged food to make you into a whore. Indoctrination to make you love it. Hypnosis to help the seeds take root. Constant sex to encourage every horny degrading thought we put in your hollowed out little head."
The captive reporter's teeth chattered.
"But you're in love, Olivia, so all of that is okay."
May picked up a glass of something green and took a sip from it. "Anything they are drugged with I am drugged with as well." She shook her head. "These drugs don't make you feel anything you wouldn't feel otherwise. They merely strip away civilization's demands about how you should feel."
"They do it to you, too!" cried Olivia. "They fuck you until you do as your told.
"What do you want?"
"A discussion." She gestured to the video camera. "I've already recorded a bit. Let us present our position in counterpoint to yours. Isn't that at least fair?"
Olivia eyed the camera warily. She refused to believe for a second that there was any kind of fair debate being planned. Unfortunately the only alternative was being taken forcibly by Billy. The thought of it made her shiver in anticipation but she shook the feeling away. "Fine."
"This is going to be very simple, you answer a few questions then you'll edge yourself stupid." Billy kissed her on the back of the neck.
"Stop!" gasped the reporter.
To her surprise Billy moved to the other end of the couch.