Eloise sends Seamus home.

Pulling him aside privately, Eloise said: "Seamus, I'll need to talk to you tomorrow, and since Jill has moved you both in the same office, I need to ensure we all have enough time to talk so would you mind going home for the rest of the day on HR orders? I'm filing it as a HR investigation and I need to ensure that everything stays above board and that you don't handle any sensitive work while this is going on." At the sudden look on his face, Eloise reassured him: "I have to investigate both sides but rest assured, I have your report and will be investigating as swiftly and thoroughly as possible. I'll be sending Jill home too, once I'm done talking with her."

Feeling the time crunch and bemoaning the loss of so many hours of time on critical projects, Seamus sighed and nodded: "Very well. Am I putting this under overhead or am I not getting paid for this time off?"

"It'll be going towards overhead." Eloise said. "But, I'm afraid your work laptop will have to stay at the office during the duration of the investigation."

Shaking his head in frustration, wishing he hadn't needed to file that report, Seamus then nodded in acquiescence. "Very well. Please let me know when I can get back to work."

"Will do, and privately, I can't say much but please, don't worry, okay? I'm here because you filed a report and once the report is filed, the investigation clock starts." Eloise smiled at him.

"Understood." Seamus said. Actually, he didn't entirely, he'd never read the HR procedures handbook. It was a dense book of policies and procedures and he only knew some of them, mostly the ones that were in every 'don't do this, do this' HR class. But it seemed the right thing to say.

Leaving the office, Seamus headed home, sans laptop for the first time in years. Walking in the front door, he called out: "I'm home!" Hearing no answer, he checked the master bedroom, no one there. Working back through the house, it seemed like no one was there. He checked on his son, but saw lots of indications of hurried packing. Off to camp. Alice must have dropped him off, which meant he was home alone.

Hating being home alone, because it was boring, Seamus walked back to the living room and sat down to read a book. He thumbed through his stack of books and landed on Skunk Works. Yeah! Now he could finally get around to reading it.

His head buried in his book, Seamus heard the key turn in the front door and he looked up to see Ailis walk in, closing the door quickly after she cleared the threshold. Ailis was wearing a pleated micro mini so short he could tell she wasn't wearing panties, a pair of 6" high black heels about 5" higher than Seamus had ever seen her wear before, and a sheer white blouse crop top that was cut so short, the underside of her breasts were visible almost to the areolas. Thankfully it was buttoned to the throat and had pockets that covered the nipples, and had long sleeves, but that was scant comfort.

Seamus was still staring in surprise and finally realized she was head down in a game on her cell phone, which he only realized when he heard her groan, stab viciously at her phone and swear violently about losing. "Ailis! Language!"

"Daddy!" Ailis shrieked, her hands dropping to cover first her groin, then flying to to cover her breasts, then she turned bright red, shifted her body a little and tried to cover both top and bottom simultaneously. "Daddy, what are you doing home?!"

"Never mind that right now, what are you wearing?!" Seamus asked, aghast.

"Um, Daddy? One moment please Daddy." Ailis chose to turn a little more away and swiftly pulled up her phone to her face and made a few more button presses, then closed her eyes in frustration before opening them and making a quick additional couple of taps on the phone.

At which point, just a few seconds later, Seamus was horrified and checked his watch to verify that Ailis hadn't somehow been added as one of his Custom Girls, because her breasts had clearly just grown a cup size, straining her blouse buttons, and tightening against the bottom of her breasts as they had also grown even perkier. Ailis had also shrunk two inches to five foot six with the heels. Then all her blouse buttons popped open, leaving a single button straining, just below the horizontal line between her nipples.

"Ailis? You don't happen to have an odd app on your phone called Gem Ladies, do you?" Seamus asked.

"No Daddy, I have an odd app on my phone called Words With Fiends." Ailis replied. "What's Gem Ladies, Daddy?"

"I don't know but based on your actions and the fact I just saw something magical happen, I assumed that was Gem Ladies." Seamus said.

"Magic, so you know what's happening to me, Daddy?" Ailis looked relieved.

Trying to look anywhere but at his daughter, Seamus said: "no, your mother and I have been dealing with a different app entirely. Gem Ladies was brought up in connection to that one."

Ailis looked frustrated, and suddenly said: "I have to change clothes within 4 minutes of walking into a private residence because otherwise I lose the right to wear any clothes for eight hours Daddy. Sorry, Daddy, but I need to change quickly, please turn around!" She had already started to dig into her purse swiftly, pulling out several items of clothing.

"What? Oh yes, of course." Seamus turned and waited while the rustling of clothing finished and then turned back around at Ailis's prompting. He saw that she was wearing something far less revealing than she had been a moment before and asked about it.

"When I'm at home, Daddy, I'm allowed to cover up to 75% of my skin, otherwise I have to cover no more than 25% of my skin." Ailis said, explaining the significant difference in clothing coverage. "Daddy, I'm afraid I need to ask you something important."

"Okay, what is it?" Seamus queried.

"Daddy, I need you to be my owner." Ailis said.

Feeling his world tilt, Seamus asked: "I'm sorry, I think I must have heard you wrong. Did you say you need me to be your owner?"

"You heard correctly, Daddy. If you don't take me as my owner Daddy, then someone I've known for a while that I hate and loathe becomes my owner tomorrow, or if they refuse, a random person that I would hate to have as my owner gets me on their phone." Ailis said. "It's one of the words I earned on a punishment tile, Daddy: 'Rather'. Daddy, I thought if I played that word on a punishment tile, it'd be too hard for the imps to come up with something hideous. That thinking failed, Daddy."

"Imps? Not succubi?" Seamus interrogated.

Looking very quizzical, Ailis nodded and clarified: "Imp, Daddy, I take it succubi are what you are dealing with?"

"Yes. I wonder, Vavnagal, the succubus we've been dealing with, told me that I needed to hold off on learning something important from her until very soon. Also, there's a bit of a... One moment, can the imps hear you?" Seamus asked.

"Yes, Dad, they can hear me." Ailis responded. Then winced when she heard a ding on her phone. "I mean Daddy." Another ding and Ailis relaxed a little.

"Ah. Another word you are dealing with?" Seamus intuited.

"Yes, Daddy, 'Cute' combined with 'Respect' means my terms for authority figures have to be cute and always present in every sentence." Ailis explained.

"And here your mother and I thought you were working through something." Seamus grimaced, "well, you are working through something but you know what I mean."

"Yes, Daddy, I know what you mean." Ailis continued: "Daddy, I made a bet with Vep that I hoped would get rid of 'Rather'. Daddy, I negotiated hard but each time I negotiated, the terms grew more unfavorable so eventually I just said yes in frustration."

Sighing, Seamus said: "not surprising, Vep knew you would likely do nearly anything to get rid of that word from your list and thus you were negotiating from a position of weakness. It's hard to get from there to a position of strength without being willing to give the other party something you may not want to give up otherwise."

"Yes, Daddy, well, it means that I agreed to play five games in a row. Daddy, if I won all five, I could get rid of that word and seven other words as well. Daddy, if I failed to win even one game, 'Rather' goes on the permanent list and I gain three punishment words minimum per lost game, in addition to any punishment tiles I actually use during the game, plus Vep gets to pick at least two words from any of the words played that game to be my punishment words." Ailis squirmed a bit.

"Daddy, each lost game after the first lost game adds another word to my permanent list, again per Vep's choice and I just lost my first game of five that I needed to play." Ailis explained.

"That would explain your swearing." Seamus said.

"Yes Daddy, but it also means that I'm probably going to lose the next four games." Ailis looked worried.

"Why? Your vocabulary is fantastic. You've always excelled at Scrabble." Seamus was very confused.

Ailis looked very uncomfortable. "Daddy, I have to play the next game within a very short time from now and whenever I'm within a certain distance of the person whose going to be or is my owner, I get very worked up and it's extremely distracting, which is probably why Vep chose just before I got home to make his counterproposal." At this, Ailis bit her lip and pulled out her phone and started playing her next game while swiftly walking down the hallway to her room, keeping her knees tightly pressed together.

Rubbing his face in frustration, Seamus tried to figure out how to handle this latest development, wanting to go to his daughter's room, but she was an adult and could ask for help if she wanted it. Also, his presence might be just the distraction that Vep needed to make her life worse. He looked longingly at his book, wanting to escape into the world of aerospace development but sighed again.

He set down his book and looked at how many gems he was going to have to spend down. He was over 99 again, and the plus next to that number told him that once again he was fifteen over. Looking through some of the notifications, he wasn't happy with how his earnings had come about. 5 gems for upskirting a Custom Girl! 10 gems for upskirting a non-Custom Girl! Growling, he looked through some of the changes that he could do with Alice but at this point, the list was growing shorter for things that wouldn't actually change her life much.

Well, this option he found could work: 'Leaking': Custom Girl produces enough lubricant to always be ready for sex. Only 2 gems though.

Hmm. 'Rugburn Not': Custom Girl never gets friction pains or skin issues from too much sexual use. Again, only 2 gems. Wait! He could use that for all his Custom Girls. No downsides, and the selection for selecting to apply to his entire current and future Custom Girl harem - oi! What a term - was 50 gems. Perfect.

And another one: 'Blue Moon': Custom Girl shall never suffer the negatives impacts of menstrual cycles and all reproductive issues shall be repaired. That one was 90 all by itself to apply to everyone though.

Looking at his gem list again though, his gem count was up to 99+ again. What gives? Oh. His first Custom Girl - Harem wide, non-Hotkey congratulations gems. Seamus thought to himself: 'they really give out large gem bonuses for the least things, don't they'. Oh well, he groused to himself and made the purchase and finally his count dropped to 25.

He looked at his list of perks for himself. Zero Refractory: definitely purchased. Unlimited Stamina: of course purchased. Deep Pockets. Huh? He looked at that one, which essentially meant he could always reach into his pocket and pull out any item or currency that was needed at the moment to purchase or for a particular job. Oohhh, that was tempting. So very tempting.

Imagine being on a job site and being able to pull out a FARO laser scanner, or needing to reach for something and being able to pull out a long reach arm grabber. Then Seamus thought a little more. How would that work if you wanted to 3D Print something? 3D Printers can't fit in your pocket... For that matter if you wanted to fly but there weren't any planes nearby, you can't exactly lift a 747 out of your pocket. You wouldn't be able to lift a 747 by hand even if it was sitting on the runway in front of you, much less grabbing it by the nose or tail and pulling it from your pocket, how would that work? But, magic. But how would magic solve the issue of: you need to fly, there isn't an airport nearby: would it create the airfield and the plane from your pocket?

Shaking his head trying to clear the spiral of thoughts he was getting into, Seanus browsed some of the other less mentally perplexing items. 'Strongman', obvious and not necessary. 'Iceman', not so obvious, and sounds painful during sex. 'Colossus', what is this? Someone spent way too much time reading comic books. 'Angel', at that one a shiver went down his spine. After the lengthy talk with Vavnagal, picking 'Angel' seemed too on the nose for some of this stuff. He thought a moment more and realized he should actually wait for Alice and Vavnagal before making his third selection. He didn't get enough perks to spend them willy-nilly.

Looking at the time, Seamus wondered if half an hour was enough time to play four more games when he heard the tap of heels of Ailis walking from her room to the living room. He looked up and put on a brave face and smile: "Hi Ailis, come on in, sit down, tell me: how'd it go?"

Ailis walked around the corner, wearing leather straps that compressed her breasts together, visible underneath the sheer white top she'd been wearing when she walked in the door the first time, but with the single button holding it closed. This time the pockets were sheer, and the sleeves had become the poof short sleeve, shoulder baring type.

Ailis was back to wearing a pleated micro mini, and she was back to wearing the very high heels, but this time she had on thigh cuffs that had short metal studs set so that as she walked the nubs were rubbing her inner thighs. When she stopped walking, the nubs on her thigh cuffs shifted into short spikes, causing her to snap her legs open to keep the spikes from digging into her thighs.

Seamus steadfastly kept his eyes up above her collar bone, but Ailis was also wearing a leather collar with a short leash on the front that fell behind the leather straps of her new 'bra'. "Um. Ailis? I take it one of your new words was BDSM based?"

Ailis winced: "Bondage." She sighed, "I lost every game. As a consolation prize, 'Cute' and 'Respect' were removed." Ailis continued: "I don't think you'll want me sitting right now because if I'm sitting down in a room with a man in the room, I have to sit on his lap."

"Ah." Seamus said. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"No, but I need to." Ailis replied. "If you become my owner, I'm no longer allowed to sleep anywhere except the foot of your bed or floor next to your bed, titled: 'Tailing'. I'm also not allowed to get dressed without your permission, which is 'Code', and I can't leave the premises without your permission, or 'Captain'. Even with all that, I still need you to say yes."

Closing his eyes, Seamus counted to ten and opened them again. "Why? I know otherwise it'd be someone you hate but there's a chance that person might change for the better, right?" Seamus shook his head, "scratch answering that. It was a stupid question and I knew it was stupid the moment I asked it."

Smiling thinly, Ailis responded anyway: "I thought about it. Really, I did. The particular person I'm thinking of was cruel in his treatment of his girlfriends and when I convinced two of them to leave him, he never said anything to me after the fact, but the look in his eyes was frightening. He was never physically abusive, just extraordinarily controlling, verbally demeaning, and demanding. I don't know why my friends were dating him in the first place or why the second even agreed to go out with him after the first left him but she was always into the bad boys. Based on those conversations, he is definitely someone that would make full use of me being his owned person, and the look in his eyes...I realize this isn't the relationship either of us is interested in, but I need you to say yes."

Tapping his fingers on the arm of the couch, Seamus immediately nodded. "You know I'm always here for you, anytime you need, right? If you need this, and you don't think there is a way out, then yes. I think we should bring Alice and Vavnagal in on the conversation first but if you need, yes." A ding from his watch, and Ailis' collar acquiring the word: 'Pet' on the front, told Seamus that he wasn't going to get the chance to discuss it with Alice first. Sighing, Seamus watched as Alice's car turned into the driveway. "Now Alice gets home. Right after I needed her here." Groaning, Seamus put his head in his hands and pressed his palms against his closed eyelids.

The front door opened, and Seamus heard Alice saying: "Ow! Ow, ow, ow, I'm here, you infernal chains, you can stop pulling me now! Owewech!" Alice rushed over to Seamus, sat down and pulled his head onto her shoulder and sighed instantly in relief. "Finally! They've been pulling me for the past twenty minutes!"

Alice looked up and saw Ailis standing in the doorway: "What in blue blazes are you wearing?!" Then she turned and looked at Seamus: "Seamus! How could you?!" Indignantly she exclaimed further: "Vavnagal as a second wife is one thing, but your college freshman daughter is quite another thing entirely!"

Ailis looked shocked: "Second wife, wait, what's this?" An angry buzzing from Ailis' phone erupted. "Vep, I don't know what's going on with that, but you told me when I became owned by Dad, you no longer had control of my game, now go away." More angry buzzing. "Dad, make me a Custom Girl, quick. Now, don't delay. Please!"

At the desperation in her voice, Seamus quickly pulled up his app and thanked God he still had enough gems to do it, selected Ailis and added her, shushing Alice's questions with a quick terse, "One moment please, dear." Looking up, he said: "Done, Ailis."

Ailis quickly swiped through her phone, looking for something: "Come on, come on, please don't have had enough time to switch my owners! Please! I didn't think that was possible! Come on, please!" Ailis begged aloud. "Finally! That's the screen I need. Owned status: owned by: "

*Author's Note: Thanks to and Permission obtained from Ggnt to use elements of their story: Magical Board Games: Words With Fiends. Thanks to and permission obtained from duduvar to use those elements in this spinoff of their story.

Additional note: I have zero plans on having incestuous sexual intercourse in this story. I don't want to give too much away but right now I have two branches I am thinking through for how this story will progress but neither one involves a father/adult daughter incestuous sexual relationship. That said, Ailis dealing with this issue was part of the foreshadowing and the interplay in trying to manage their existing relationship with the succubi/imp interference was a psychologically interesting avenue I hadn't seen explored yet.*