How Far Will She Go?

"Okay Holly, I want you to go and fetch me your phone"

She reluctantly got up from her chair and walked over to near the rooms entrance where she'd had to leave it after being immediately ordered to strip to nothing on arrival. She didn't like the sound of this - "fetch me?" What business did Dr Lewis have with her phone? Perhaps he wanted to learn everything he could about her. All of the people in her life, all of her secrets. Of course, he could just ask her and she would have to tell him. Her life was as much his as hers now, maybe even more so.

She returned calmly to her hypnotherapist and handed it over.

"What's the code to unlock it?"

"1002, my birth year backwards"

"Good. That will be easy to remember" the doctor smiled, worryingly indicating this wasn't going to be a one time deal. The doctor fiddled with Holly's phone for a while before locating and bringing up the camera then aiming it at her. This confused Holly a little - the nude photos weren't a surprise but why on her phone and not his, which was on his desk right in front of him?

"Holly, squat down, legs spread and look right at me?"

Again, Holly obeyed without emotion, only deep concerns she couldn't find the feelings for.

A photo was taken and the doctor was back to playing with her phone again.

"What is your Facebook password?"

"Hols1002 with an exclamation mark at the end"

Now it was starting to become clear what the plan was, though quite why he would want to make her post nudes of herself on her socials was a bit of a mystery. The reason didn't matter, it would be catastrophic for her. She didn't actually use Facebook much, but she had collected a lot of contacts on there - friends, relatives, colleagues, former teachers. There were people she was linked to who Holly really looked up to and admired. What were they going to think of this?

"I don't want anyone to assume you have been hacked. I want this to sound authentically you. If you were going to post a photo like this, which I appreciate is completely out of character, how would you word it?"

"Maybe I'd try and pass it off as a joke" Holly decided after thinking for a while "Something like "I went to see my hypnotist today, let's hope he doesn't make me too suggestible"

"Okay, that's good, I like it!" the doctor smirked before tapping out the message and handing Holly back her phone to inspect, having first ordered her not to delete or edit anything.

The picture looked even more explicit than it felt when it had been taken. The message was there in black and white, just how she has worded it, ready to be circulated to 512 recipients.

"Holly, you are now going to press the button to post that photo and message"

Holly's heart should have been racing, her adrenaline should have been pumping, her hand should have been trembling. None of those things were actually happening as she lifted her arm. She was about to bring it down, index finger at the ready, when...

"Holly, stop"

She turned to the doctor with a look of confusion, though she was very glad she had been halted just in time. Another half a second and that would have been sent whether he said so or not.

"You were actually going to do it weren't you?" Dr Lewis realised with a mixture of disbelief and delight "This is the real deal isn't it?"

Holly nodded at him, not conveying any of the emotions she should have been feeling.

"Okay, it looks like we are definitely doing this" Dr Lewis rubbed his hands purposefully "Time to stop testing you and start to put my plan into action"