Some moments in time part two

Charlotte and Delilah

Charlotte winced as Delilah threw her shoulder into the door again, raising her hands and making the motion like she was about to pull her friend back away. “Delilah! Stop, you’re going to hurt your shoulder doing that. It’s not opening and I don’t think **** is going to work here…”

Delilah grumbled, rubbing her bruised shoulder as she glared at the door to the Library. She flexed her arms and scowled at the door, as if that would suddenly make it open. “I don’t get it, the door said something about it being set to me, you and Olivia going into it right? So why’s it not opening?”

Charlotte rubbed her chin, thinking hard. Then she extended her hand towards the door and said in a voice as commanding as the timid girl could make it. “Open!” Charlotte felt the spike of arousal in her pushy as her magic worked and for a moment she thought that the door would indeed open, but it remained stubbornly closed. Turning to look at Delilah, Charlotte could only tilt her head as her friend opened her mouth as wide as she could and stuck her tongue out. This lasted a few seconds longer before Delilah seemed to shake herself out of it and closed her mouth.

“What the hell was that? You said open and all of a sudden I couldn’t stop myself opening my mouth!” Delilah didn’t look angry, just bemused and confused.

Charlotte held her hand to her mouth but couldn’t suppress the giggle. “Oh my god I’m sorry Delilah, I used my magic and I guess…I guess the magic just went to the closest person? Since it couldn’t interact with the door?”

Delilah nodded slowly, playing a wizard in a game and trying to work out the rules of Charlotte’s magic, the girl who’s face was flushed and sweaty from the sudden arousal spike, we’re very different things. Charlotte gestured to one of the other doors. “Could we…I mean I’ve got the BP to spend? We could have a look in one of the other rooms maybe?”

Charlotte: -50BP

Rose

Rose almost ran out of the dining room, her fingers still feeling phantom sensations of Rebecca’s nipples as she had milked her bully. She was almost blind with the tears gathering in her eyes and rolling down her cheeks and she just didn’t want to be followed as she ran up stairs and along corridors at random, trying to lose herself in the depths of the Lodge. She’d caused it, even more suffering, even more heartbreak and distress because of her.

Her parents screaming at each other as Rose tried to sleep, she knew they were fighting about her and had every night for the last week…

Rose shook her head and wiped at her eyes, looking around she found herself looking out at a wild garden that was open to the sky. A heated mesh of thin wires covered over a mass of plant life that grew wild and free in the courtyard, rising to be taller than Rose. She stepped forward and started walking through the garden, leaning down to read some of the descriptions on small stone plinths that she realised that the plants were not alive, they were made of some green tinged metal, flowers of beautiful brass and gold sprouted and despite the garden being metal, Rose could feel the sensation of life in this place.

A sound drew her attention ahead and as she turned a corner, Rose found Aurora sitting on a stone bench with her eyes screwed tightly shut and one hand covering her mouth. A number of conflicting emotions went through Rose in that moment. On one hand she’d never asked to come here or have people she knew dragged here as well and the transformations…some of them she wouldn’t wish on anyone. On the other…Rose had never been any good at turning away from someone is distress and she remembered what Aurora had said in their very first conversation after she’s been brought to the Lodge.

Rose sat down on the bench and leaned into Aurora, the taller woman as solid as a stone pillar. “Hey…I..I don’t like that Rebecca got a transformation. But…I bet you’ve got pressure coming from above and…you’re trying to keep us safe from worse things…you’re bosses…” Rose trailed off as she felt Aurora stiffen a little. Looking over, Rose saw Aurora had turned her head towards her, no tears visible in her eyes but there was some faint traces of black fluid that had been smeared beneath Aurora’s eyes.

“I had to punish her somehow…the producers wanted docked VP’s…but it’s already so hard for Rebecca to earn them that I thought this would…be the better option..” Aurora’s breath hitched before she steadied her breathing.

“I am the Host. I enjoyed being included Rose…but I can’t let fear of being disliked get in the way of my job. I…I just hope you won’t hate me entir..” Aurora stopped speaking as Rose hugged her, resting her head on the tall woman’s shoulder.

“I get it Aurora…I’m not going to hold it against you. And I’m going to try harder…I don’t want to get you in trouble with your bosses…and…it will help the other girls not get really bad transformations…” Rose nodded to herself, biting her lip as she swore to herself she’d become the Mistress the show needed her to be, even if she’d do it her way.