What's In A Name?

"I'm really going to enjoy having you as my minion, Annie" Tina told her closest friend warmly "And you are going to basically be super powered soon"

"These enhancements you have given me are all pretty cool, but maybe we can go easy on them for a while now?" Tammy, speaker of a dozen languages, mathematics genius and world class coder suggested to her mistress tactfully "I don't want my life to be too easy"

"That's so you, Annie" Tina giggled "Okay, no more commands for now. But we might need you to be superhuman to extract your cousins from their masters. I don't think it will be easy"

"We could let them watch that ritual they would have to do" Tammy suggested, only half jokingly "So would it just be Haley and Kelly, or would you be involved as well?"

"I always have to be involved and naked" Tina confirmed "That's just part of my craft"

"I still can't believe I was able to do that in front of everyone. I think all that Strip Fighter, and losing literally every round, has inadvertently desensitised me to public nudity or something"

"That's right Annie, from now on you'll strip naked whenever you have an audience" Tina joked.

"Yeah, right" Tammy rolled her eyes and giggled "Anyway, I'd better go now. I have an English presentation I need to prepare for"

"That's cool. I have about a bazillion emails to send you. Sorry in advance"

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"So this is how you like me huh? Long red hair and tiny?"

"You look so beautiful with that hairstyle and colour, like a movie star" Martin gushed as Kelly looked up at him from his dresser, five inches tall, naked and stood with a couple of his favourite action figures "And yeah, I have always fantasised about being able to make hot girls nice and small"

"So that's why you kept having me spam Haley with the shrink spell in that magic fighting game" Kelly realised.

"Yeah, that was pretty awesome" Martin reminisced briefly with a dreamy expression on his face "Hey, would you mind if I made your voice more high pitched? It would be super cute"

"Sure, though I feel like my attempts to strategise with you are going to sound comical"

Once the command had been made, an adorable sounding Kelly was ready to plot with her master, but it seemed he was keen to switch the venue for their discussions.

"Are you cool with me picking you up and maybe giving you a bath in my washroom sink?" Martin asked hopefully.

"You can certainly give me a ride there and watch me bathe while we scheme together" Kelly squeaked "I'm getting kind of sweaty down here"

Minutes later, the little redhead was pleasantly immersed in warm water.

"This is actually quite nice, like my own private hot tub" Kelly declared "Can you squirt some of that lotion onto me?"

Martin eagerly did as he was told, and happily watched Kelly massage the creamy substance into every nook and cranny of her miniaturised body. He was just about able to keep his thoughts clear enough to discuss tactics.

"So what is your plan? If secondary commands can be overruled by primary ones, I'm really not sure how we do this"

"Teamwork" Kelly explained "For a start, you work on making your best friend see, in a compassionate way, that what he has with my cousin is totally fake. That he can never truly be happy with someone who doesn't love him but has been programmed to act like she does"

"I'll try" Martin nodded.

"Meanwhile myself, Tammy and Emily can work together with our masters to use the combined powers we can be given to find a chink in Haley's armour. I know my cousin. I know how her mind works and what she is going to do to try and stop us. She usually thinks several moves ahead. But between us, hopefully we can save her from herself"

"How are you going to get Emily to help you? I know Tina isn't her master"

"I can't tell you who her real master is, but I can tell you they will help us" Kelly revealed as much as she could, as she smeared the coconut scented lotion into her breasts "As soon as I'm back to full size I'll start putting this all into motion. And, if you don't mind, it would be great to have my original speaking voice back. I need to be taken seriously"

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"Hey, I almost didn't recognise you with your clothes on"

"You know, your Dad has made that joke, like, four times already" Jessie rolled her eyes.

"Ouch, it sounds like I need to up my game" Andrew chuckled "But it's nice to see you looking so relaxed now. Have you spoken to your fiance?"

"Yes, and it went really well" Jessie told him "I know I had a few doubts about marrying Craig, but we talked about it and he put them to rest"

"Oh" Andrew looked surprised, but was smart enough not to argue with that. He already had his suspicions about what was going on here "So did he apologise about leaving you naked for so long?"

"Honestly, that was mostly my fault" Jessie answered, quite illogically "I had done something to upset him, and he only meant to do it for a few minutes because he was angry. It was just really unfortunate he got knocked out in some kind of freak accident right afterwards"

"Okay.." Andrew responded, somewhat biting his tongue to prevent himself blurting out what he really wanted to say "Well, it's great to see you looking so at peace with everything"

"Thanks" Jessie smiled.

If Andrew had any doubts about the curse before, they were gone now. Craig had only just returned and was back to abusing it already. Jessie hadn't just had doubts about her engagement, she had never wanted it at all, and blaming herself for being stripped naked in public was insane. He hated seeing someone he cared so much about being brainwashed like this. But he knew trying to reason with her was pointless right now. He was going to have to speak to Craig instead.

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"So basically the spell worked perfectly and everyone thinks I'm awesome" Tina bit into her sandwich as she met for her next lunch with Amy "And now my beautiful best friend is also my minion. And I am already proving to be a responsible and benevolent mistress"

"I'm happy for you both. But please always be careful" the witch cautioned her young friend "Accidental commands are definitely a thing. And you do like to say most of what you are thinking out loud"

"I'm a total open book" Tina admitted "But don't worry, I have that covered. I call her Annie instead of Tamsin now. So there is nothing to worry about"

"Yeah, it's not quite that simple"

"Huh, what do you mean, Amy-san?"

"The curse is very adaptive. If someone gets called by something often enough, it will add that to the list of command triggering names. So you have already got Tamsin and Tammy that would work. And if you put a san at the end of either of those, I'd be prepared to bet that would work too. Even pet terms like princess or babe can start to function as command triggers if they are used by the master often enough"

"Oh right, her last master used Annie all the time and I don't think there were any problems?"

Amy almost spat out her drink.

"There have been two of you calling her Annie? Drop that name now, it will definitely be live. Just don't call her by any name. That's the only safe way"

"Okay, got it. It's lucky I have you around for stuff like that" Tina breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is there any chance you could have given her any accidental commands using Annie without realising it?" Amy checked.

Tina thought for a while. She hadn't been Tammy's mistress for long, and other than them hanging out for a while while she boosted some of her skills, they hadn't spent much time together since the switch.

"No, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure we're good!"

Author note: Thanks to Willow Tindersmith for inspiring the 'Annie becomes a command name' subplot.