Author's note:
Thanks for the excellent feedback on chapter 1! I feel like there are a multitude of directions this story could go, and some of you have given me additional great ideas. I definitely will fit some of those ideas in. But as tempting as all these possible story lines are, I feel I must stay on a more focused path so the story doesn't get out of control. This chapter begins with some back-story, but have no fear, it heats up as it goes.
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Having led Brittney back to her car, Doctor Jennifer Drake hurried back to her office, anxious to monitor the progress of the clinical trial she just started. The application of the nanomaterial to her patient Brittney Banyard's lips and sex appeared to be a success, but of course this was just the beginning.
The doctor logged onto her laptop to check the remote connection to Brittney's collar. Everything was in order, with the collar transmitting data back on the status of the nanomicrobial material that was currently fusing to Brittney's body. She was able to ping the material and got a confirmation response that it was active and currently processing initial startup instructions.
"Excellent!" the doctor exclaimed. Just then her assistant Darnus entered her office.
"Just in time, Darnus. Take a look at the signals were are getting back from patient X. Everything is in normal ranges and the material should be 100% integrated this evening."
"What the hell, Jennifer, I see you've already moved to patient testing? I'm guessing you are not exactly telling the board about this yet?" Darnus questioned as he strode towards Doctor Drake, annoyed. Doctor Drake just grunted in response as she concentrated on the data scrolling across the screen.
Darnus Johnson looked over the doctor's shoulder, angry, but still interested in the information that scrolled across the screen. As he brushed up against her, the doctor ignored the pang of sexual attraction from his close presence and kept her concentration on her work. The doctor and Darnus had dated in the past, or more accurately had a wild workplace fling. They both knew it wouldn't last, though. Darnus was eight years younger than Jennifer, black, six foot four inches tall, and built like a professional athlete. That could have been his path in life, but he instead hit the books and got his masters degree in biology from Stanford. He landed this job at Biozene two years ago and quickly showed himself as an asset to the company. After six months he was assigned to work with Jennifer. Their affair was soon after that and lasted several months before they both agreed to call it off. And as for dating, Darnus was a player and liked his women young. As the doctor could attest, Darnus also had a massive nine inch cock that he felt obligated to share with as many women as time allowed. Jennifer, on the other hand, worked 16 hour days, which didn't leave time for romance and she knew it was a losing battle to compete with the steady stream of college aged girls that chased after Darnus.
"Let's just say the opportunity presented itself," the doctor was saying. "We'll keep this testing private for a while, if you don't mind. You know the board is annoyingly conservative and doesn't have the stomach for the type of testing needed to keep our research ahead of the competition. And besides, we both know the potential ethical issues that we can run up against with some of our recently developed treatments. We need some research on how people respond, how the use of our materials might make them susceptible to manipulation by others. What might happen if an unscrupulous person had the ability to inject a material into someone and enslave them into some misguided cause? What better way than to test our material on sex organs and monitoring the psychological impacts," the doctor explained.
"Mmhmm, I get it," responded Darnus. "But I know you, doctor. I think you enjoy these experiments a little too much. What makes you better then these 'unscrupulous people' when you do your experiments on unsuspecting individuals? I'm assuming patient X hasn't been informed of all of your plans or of the full functions of the material you've treated her with. And besides, what makes you an expert in psychology?"
"The difference is, Darnus," Jennifer responded as she became aggravated with Darnus, "is that I'm not in this to turn someone to my will. I'm studying the potential psychological risks of our invention, and whether it's possible to make someone do things they wouldn't otherwise do. If we understand this than we have a better chance at avoiding these issues, and also keep from getting sued by product safety activists. At the end of the experiment we deactivate the nanomaterial and that's the end of it, patient X returns to their old life. And obviously, if she was aware of the experiment then it would skew the results."
"If you say so. But you are taking a lot of risk here, there's too many unknowns, not to mention that you, and more important, me, could be put in prison for this sort of thing," Darnus responded, equally aggravated with the doctor.
"It's a calculated risk. And don't be so quick to judge, I know you are just as interested in moving forward with testing as I am. Don't tell me you've let the board sway your opinion," the doctor argued.
"Ok, ok, I get it. Look, I'd never rat on you, you know that. I just wish you'd let me in on your plans before you put us both at risk," Darnus responded.
"Fair enough. Now let's get down to business, shall we? Take a look at this," the doctor said as she turned back to the screen. "We are currently at 78% absorption, with only a 1.5% loss. Your latest synthesis is by far the most effective. By 9pm this evening the process should be complete, and achieve a better than 97% absorption."
"Wow, that is impressive," Darnus responded, momentarily proud of the result since she was using his latest strain of synthesized material. "Wait, what is that?" he asked, pointing to another window on her screen.
"Ha! So you noticed, very quick of you! That is the new program I've been developing. These nanomaterials are not just able to be put into a simple on or off state. While you've been developing the biological advances, I've been working on a fully programmable nanomaterial to go along with it. This batch of material is capable of any number of different functions. There is the low level code that manages the basic functions. In this case they are programmed to detect and avert all known STD's and also manage birth control. But here..." the doctor stated as she scrolled down through the code on the screen, "Here we can both measure and control sexual response. Not only that, but this material learns from its host. Basically once it's figured out what buttons to push to give the host sexual pleasure, it can then use those to please, or to deny, pleasure."
"Holy shit!" was all Darnus could say.
The doctor beamed as she watched the screen. "Yes, holy shit is right. The material is currently in learning mode. It will attempt different stimuli on patient X and grade them based on the host's response. Once complete it will go into a wait state. The collar that the patient is wearing is linked to us here, so we'll be able to monitor progress. We will also be able to transmit and execute different routines remotely as desired if we want to introduce additional functionality."
