Becoming the Solution

Before she began her quest to identify and locate the Purest Petersen, Tammy decided it would be useful to know what the role actually entailed. Her research skills were phenomenal now and, as deep as the information was buried, it wasn't too long before she had what she was looking for.

In short, being the Purest Petersen amounted to having the regular version of the curse dialled up to eleven. In order to ensure its long term survival, the curse had been strengthened within that individual and went out of its way to ensure they produced at least one female child to carry it forward. The positive element of that was improved health and high fertility and, if the Purest Petersen had a child before they reached twenty five years of age, they might never see any negative aspects of their unique position beyond what the other curse bearers suffered.

However, if they were childless once their twenty fifth birthday arrived, a new element of the curse kicked in, one that was intended to **** them into pregnancy. At this point the Purest Petersen would become frequently, persistently and insatiably sexually aroused many times each day, and this would not stop until they were impregnated. It seemed a brutally effective way of ensuring the curse would live on generation after generation.

Tammy was eventually able to track down Isabel Petersen's birth and **** records and from there, with her new found detective skills, the rest of the search wasn't too tough. The hereditary line had moved to the US at some point in the early seventeen hundreds - New York initially, before gradually shifting south. Tammy's interest had really heightened when, around the turn of the twentieth century, it seemed to settle in North Carolina. By the late nineteen seventies, the line had reached Mary Petersen, which was the name of her grandmother, then Holly Petersen and then...

Her heart thumping, Tammy picked up the phone and dialled Tina.

"It's me!"

"What is?"

"I'm the Purest Petersen!"

"What? No fucking way! Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure" Tammy reiterated "So can't I make the curse vanish or something? What do I have to do?"

There was a noticeable pause on the other end of the line.

"Forget it"

"What?"

"Don't worry about it, it was just a back up plan we aren't going to need. We'll have everyone transferred soon anyway"

"But what about all the other cursed women in the world?"

Tina was really regretting starting down this path now. When Amy had mentioned the huge sacrifice the Purest Petersen would have to make in order to reverse the curse, she hadn't realised they would be her best friend.

"It's way more complicated than you think. Honestly, it was a stupid plan. I'm sorry for wasting your time with it. Anyway, I gotta go" there was a short pause before Tina signed off "I love you. Take care of yourself"

Tammy sat looking baffled as the line went dead. What had suddenly spooked Tina so badly?

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"I need to ask you a favour" Kelly informed Martin in her most endearing tone "I want you to give me complete power over Haley. Almost as if I was her master"

"Really? You sure that's a good idea?"

"Of course! I'm not going to use it against her am I?" Kelly tried not to sound too irritated "I think she's almost capable of extracting herself from Carl's control on her own now. But it would be awesome if I could give her a bit of a boost, to make her as persuasive as possible, allow her to read body language perfectly, know exactly what to say and how to say it. That kind of thing."

"You want me to help your cousin to trick my best friend?"

"Not trick, that would invalidate any decision he made to free her. Just to make him see sense and do the right thing" Kelly argued as best she could but, sensing Martin's hesitation, she decided she would need to be more persuasive herself "If you do this for me then you have my permission to shrink me for the rest of the evening, high pitched voice and all. I'll even act out some of the role play scenarios you were talking about wanting me to do. And, if you promise to keep it private, you can film it all for posterity. Basically, I'll become your tiny, naked toy for the whole night if you just grant me this one, silly little power"

Martin suddenly seemed a lot more convinced by the wisdom of Kelly's proposal.

"Kelly, you now have complete and total power over Haley Davison. You can make her do anything you want just by saying her name first, exactly as if you were her master"

"Thank you!" Kelly smiled as she gave her own master an affectionate peck on the cheek "I just need to go and say a few things to my cousin real quick, after that I'm all yours!"

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Jessie's face lit up as she opened her front door to find the love of her life had turned up unannounced, though she was surprised to see that Craig was looking a little shamefaced.

"Can I come in?"

"Of course!" by now Jessie's expression had shifted from delight to concern "Is everything okay, babe?"

"Not really. We need to talk"

A worried Jessie took her fiance by the hand and led him through to the living room where she perched next to him on the couch.

"I found myself saying some stuff I've done out loud, and when I did I realised how awful I've been to you, my supposed best friend" Craig began, sounding more than a little choked up as he spoke.

"What do you mean?" Jessie asked, looking genuinely perplexed by this.

"I thought I was acting out of love, but I wasn't. I was just giving myself what I wanted whatever the cost was to you. I turned you into my ****. I hate myself for that"

"I don't understand what you're talking about" a baffled Jessie replied "How am I a ****? I'm completely happy and in a loving relationship. Everything is great with us"

"No, that's not true" tears were welling in Craig's eyes as he **** out the words he could barely bring himself to speak "Jessie, you don't love me. Maybe you might still love me as a friend, if I haven't totally screwed that up forever, but only if you feel that way of your own free will. Any false romantic feelings you have developed for me are because of the curse and you will understand that now. Any feelings you have from now on will be your own and natural."

"Oh...."

Jessie wasn't sure what to feel as she regained full control of her own thoughts. Part of her was furious with Craig's betrayal of her trust now it had suddenly come to light, another part was grateful he had done the decent thing eventually, when she knew many masters never did. And, in a way, she felt sorry for him. She could see her friend was hurting, but wasn't in a place where she could bring herself to hug him right now. Equally, she didn't want to antagonise someone who still held such power over her by taking him to task for his poor behaviour.

"So how do we proceed from here?" she asked in a neutral tone, almost business-like.

"You can go with my blessing" Craig told her "Take Tina as your mistress, or whoever else you would like it to be"

"Thank you" Jessie answered with relief "Before I switch, are there any commands you still have over me? It might be best to remove them first"

"I'm honestly not sure" Craig admitted "But we can soon fix that. Jessie, you are now free of every command I have ever given you before this one. And any deceptions you are under because of this stupid fucking curse you will now see right through"

For a moment, Jessie seemed calm as the command sank in. Then she let out a sudden gasp, and her face turned pale with a look of disbelief, as if a ghost had just floated into the room.

"Are you okay, Jess?" Craig asked "Shit, I guess what I did to you was more fucked up than I realised"

"No" Jessie still looked and sounded as if she was still in a state of shock "It isn't that"