Well, you've been to the clubs and the discotheques

Morgana practically had to be carried out of the movie theater. Nick and Carly were more or less alright, even though anyone who gave them even a cursory glance could tell that they had just finished having some manner of sexual contact. Their hair was damp from sweat, their faces were glowing, and their clothes were rumpled- or, in Carly’s case, absolutely soaked from the waist down.

But even with that, they were still able to comport themselves with some degree of dignity and coverage. Morgana was almost limping. Her pale face was flushed and her eyes were glassy and unfocused. Her hair looked like it was glued to her face. And she clung to Nick so hard he thought her nails were going to tear through his shirt.

“Hah… haaaaaa…”

It didn’t help, either, that her little panting breaths in his ear were really turning him on. Nick restrained himself and struggled not to succumb to temptation. He was pretty sure she’d be fine with it, but still- now was definitely not the right time.

“Let’s get you somewhere you can sit down, alright?” He said gently, tucking his arm around her waist and guiding her towards a bench on the curb.

“You sure about that?” Carly followed after him with a cheeky smile on her lips. “Morgana just spent quite a lot of time sitting down, didn’t she?”

Nick turned and gave Carly a “Are you serious right now?” sort of look that she let wash over her like a wave on the beach.

“I-I’m fine,” Morgana said, letting go of Nick. She staggered over to the bench and sat down, taking a moment to catch her breath. Her brain was going wild right now. “I’m just… really overwhelmed, that’s all…”

Nick wasn’t surprised, given what she’d gone through. “It wasn’t too intense for you, was it?” He asked. “Should I have gone a little easier?” In the moment he’d thought that she’d enjoyed what she did to him as much as he enjoyed doing it to her. But if he’d crossed some sort of line and went too far, he wanted to know-

“No!” Morgana looked at Nick like he was a truck ready to transport her to another world. She shook her head frantically. “You were amazing!” She assured him. “That-! That… that was amazing!”

Nick was relieved to hear that much, at least. “You’re sure?” He asked, looking at her reluctantly. “Because you look-”

“I think she looks satisfied,” Carly interjected, shooting Morgana a playful smile and wiggling her eyebrows. “Aren’t you, Morgana?”

Morgana blushed and looked shyly at Nick. She nodded her head sheepishly. “Yeah it… it was… satisfying,” she said awkwardly.

Well, Nick had no doubt about that. It was written all over Morgana’s face! But he was still worried that she’d gotten overwhelmed.

“…I guess it was kind of stupid of me,” he admitted with a sheepish smile of his own. “Getting worried that you’d be upset at me for being too generous of a lover with you…”

Morgana sputtered out a laugh and shook her head. “Yeah!” She chortled. “No kidding!”

A playful sock to Nick’s arm was anything but. Still, he didn’t mind. “I just wanted to make sure you’re okay.”

“You do look a little zoned out,” Carly agreed. “I guess that was pretty intense! So- you scared off from doing that?”

Morgana shook her head quickly. “No! Um… but I know you only felt like doing that because of your transformation… so if you’re not comfortable with what we just did, um… I’m sorry. For, uh, you know. Giving you the… fetish.”

She only stammered a little bit! Progress.

Nick and Carly shared a look with one another. They both almost burst out laughing. The idea that Carly would have reservations about what just happened?

“Morgana,” Carly said, joining the other girl on the bench, lounging out like she didn’t have a care in the world, “let me tell you something about me.”

“Um… okay…” Morgana sat up straight, and looked apprehensively at Carly. “What?”

“You’re really going to have to push the envelope if you want to find something I’m not okay with,” Carly assured her. “Trust me. Just because the transformation has worn off, it doesn’t mean I’m going to suddenly have regrets about what we just did. That’s more of a Nick thing.”

“Hey, I don’t have regrets!” Nick frowned. But he understood that he’d kind of earned that reputation with some of the women in his life, given how he’d acted after coming down from the sexual high of certain activities, so he didn’t object too strenuously.

Carly just smirked.

“Also… what did you say just now?” Nick had almost missed it due to his defensiveness. “Did you say… the transformation’s worn off?”

Morgana sat up, surprised. She looked at the other girl with a questioning expression on her face, and Carly waved her hand. “Don’t worry about it,” she said, shaking her head. “You know what the transformation says, right? I was confused, too.”

She pulled up the text of the transformation.

• Free Sample: Part of being adventurous means trying out new things that you’ve never thought of before. With this transformation, any time Carly touches someone, she will temporarily acquire one of that person’s fetishes! Whether it’s footplay, BDSM, maid costumes, Carly will acquire a taste for it! Only one fetish can be acquired at a time, and if the current fetish is not indulged, it will fade after a couple of hours like nothing ever happened! (Adventurous)

“See, it says that the fetish will naturally fade away if I don’t indulge it, right?” She pointed out. “But it doesn’t say anything about what happens if I do indulge the fetish.”

“So, if you indulge it, then, what, it goes away immediately?” Nick questioned. “Just like that?” If so, that was a little worrisome. It meant that Carly could burn through a fetish in the middle of a sexual act, and acquire a new one before she could even come down.

Then he had a thought.

“Wait, does that mean you inherited a fetish from me?” He asked. “I mean, depending on how it wore off, you were still, um… touching me, you know, in the movie theater, so…”

Morgana’s face turned red as she imagined what the two of them had gotten up to when she wasn’t paying attention. She’d been so blissed out as a result of Nick’s fingers on her nether regions that the two of them could have been fucking right next to her and she wouldn’t have even noticed.

Which was a hot image in and of itself…

“I don’t think it works that way,” Carly said, shaking her head. “I don’t know when exactly the fetish disappeared, but… if I had to pick a time, I think it was when I climaxed. As I came down from my orgasm, all those feelings just kinda… vanished. And we weren’t touching during that time, so I think I’m safe.”

Nick nodded, and contemplated what Carly was saying. “I think that makes sense,” he agreed. “So, we can assume that the transformation copies a fetish, and if you’re brought to orgasm while indulging in that fetish, then you satisfy it.”

Carly nodded. “Right, it’s like an achievement in a video game! I completed the ‘fool around in a movie theater’ task, so I ‘cleared’ it from my list. Which is why the fetish disappeared. Because I already did what I wanted to do with it.”

Morgana was only half-following their conversation, but that part made sense to her. She nodded in agreement.

“That being said… we’ll have to be careful about tonight,” Carly pointed out. She looked back and forth between Nick and Morgana. “I mean, we’re still… on for tonight, right?” She asked, hoping this new bit of information hadn’t scared them off.

She really wanted to help Morgana with her dream, and finish out this three-person date with the two of them.

“Of course we are!” Morgana exclaimed. After how much they’d done together already, the thought of having to start over with someone else this late in the afternoon made her feel like she was going to be sick!

…Or maybe it was the dehydration. Either way, she was thirsty for something, and wanted Carly involved with it.

Carly cracked a grin, relieved. “I’m glad to hear it,” she said, nodding. “Thanks, Morgana.”

She turned and looked at Nick. “And thank you, too,” she said, reaching up and putting her hand on his leg. “You know. For sticking with me through this whole mess.”

Nick nodded. “Yeah, of course I would,” he said, smiling at her. The last thing he wanted was for Carly to feel like she wasn’t welcome in his bed.

“And, hey, we had a lot of fun already, right?” Carly hopped to her feet and stretched her hands over her head, making the skirt of her maid costume shake. She turned to Morgana and flashed a saucy smile. “I was happy to do my part!” She said with a wink.

Morgana’s blush returned with a vengeance. What kind of response was she supposed to give to a statement like that!?

Nick was just glad to see the two of them getting along so well. It brought a smile to his face and warmed the feelings of doubt in his heart.

“Oh, and if you want to indulge that fetish again, you just let me know,” Carly said with a wink. “I have a pretty good idea how we can up the intensity.”

“Eh!?” Morgana’s jaw dropped and she stared at Carly in shock. Her eyes nearly bulged out of her face. There was no way she could think of that “upping the intensity” was a positive!

…Well, no, it was definitely a positive, it just came with some negatives.

Like dying of too many orgasms.

…Or was that a negative? Honestly, Morgana couldn’t say for sure.

“Carly, restrain yourself,” Nick said with a faint smile, knowing exactly how she would respond.

“Not a chance!” Carly said, sticking her tongue out at him playfully. She never failed to disappoint, that’s what he appreciated about her. She always went at her own pace.

“…No, but seriously!” Carly turned back to Morgana with an excited gleam in her eyes. “See, you were really getting into it, right? Nick touching you?”

“Um…” Morgana had almost completely come down from her orgasms at this point, and she looked at Carly in kind of a daze. Her heart pounded, and she quickly averted her eyes. What exactly was she supposed to say to that!?

“I… I really, uh… r-really…” she managed to stammer out, all but stammering herself silly.

“It’s fine, Morgana, come on.” Carly rolled her eyes and snorted. “You don’t have to play all shy and wilting wallflower with me! I know where we stand, okay?”

Morgana gulped. Yeah, now that she thought about it, it WAS kind of silly to be this shy and embarrassed after everything they’d done together, wasn’t it?

She swallowed and nodded in resignation. “Yeah… you’re right,” she admitted.

“Sure! ‘Course I am,” Carly chirped. “Anyway, where were we? …Right, you and Nick getting handsy in the theater.”

“Don’t act like you weren’t a part of that,” Nick interjected. He wasn’t about to let Carly pin everything on Morgana. Not a chance.

“I know, I was, and it was great,” Carly said, nodding, “but that isn’t my point. No, what I’m saying is, Morgana, you know what might make it even hotter? Next time, instead of me getting directly involved, how about I’m sitting a few seats away? You know, as a casual observer. And then while you two are feeling each other up, I’ll be pretending like I can’t see anything. And maybe at one point, I’ll clear my throat loudly and startle you two, what do you think? That might make it even hotter for the both of you!”

Nick could see where Carly was coming from. But he didn’t know if Morgana would go for something like-

“Eh!?” Morgana blanched. A million thoughts raced through her head all at once as she contemplated Carly’s offer. “That, uh… th-that’s…!”

“Sexy, right?” Carly giggled.

Morgana was too ashamed to admit that, yes, she found what Carly was proposing to be incredibly sexy, given how amazing what had just happened was.

“Trust me, I know all about the spice that makes a relationship… spicy,” Carly assured the other girl with a wink. “It’s sorta my bread and butter, you know?”

Morgana gulped and nodded. She did, in fact, “know” what Carly was talking about.

There was a reason that the other woman had the Exhibitionist transformation path, after all.

“And, well, I’ll admit, I have a bit of an ulterior motive here,” Carly conceded, earning her surprised looks from Nick and Morgana.

“What kind of ulterior motive?” Nick asked her suspiciously.

Carly wiggled her eyebrows, then winked at Morgana. “Oh, you know. Remember one of my other transformations?”

She pulled up another one on her screen for the two of them to read.

• The Other Side of the Window: Carly’s always had a bit of an exhibitionist streak to her, and likes being watched. But now she’ll find that she enjoys being on the other side of things just as much. She’ll become a voyeur, getting aroused by the sight of other people having sex. [NOTE: The effect will double if one or more parties to the act are aware that she is watching.] (Exhibitionist)

“See?” Carly flashed a smile. “It works out for the both of us! I’ve always been a bit of an exhibitionist, but watching you two have sex in the movie theater? I bet that would be pretty steamy, don’t you agree?”

Morgana’s jaw dropped. She had no idea how to respond to that.

“I… I don’t know if I want to go that far,” she admitted, shaking her head. She glanced cautiously at Nick. “I mean, unless… unless, maybe you…?”

Nick could tell that Morgana wasn’t quite at that level of comfort. So, he didn’t want to put any pressure on her, even if he knew that she would probably enjoy it.

“Whatever you’re comfortable with,” he said diplomatically. The last thing he wanted was to strain her thoughts. “If you think it sounds exciting, then we can try it. After we have a bit of time to cool off, I mean. I’m not ready to go that far today.”

Morgana squeaked. She wasn’t ready for that, either. But even so… she was glad that Nick didn’t dismiss the idea out of hand.

“Yeah, I think it’s a little too late for another movie,” Carly agreed. “But it’s not like we have to go back to the Master’s Suite right now, do we?” She pointed out. “We can still walk around a little bit, maybe get some dinner at one of the restaurants?”

Carly knew how much work Mary had put into helping out with Rose’s party. She didn’t want to pressure the girl into having to cook dinner for them, too. That wasn’t fair to her!

Nick nodded in agreement. “I’d be fine with that,” he said. “Morgana, what about you? Are you hungry yet?”

“Uh… huh?” Morgana blinked. She hadn’t actually been listening to him. She looked from Nick to Carly and back again, and her face reddened. “Um… wh-what’s that, now?” She questioned. “Sorry, I, uh… I was…”

She’d been thinking about the movie theater again, and Carly’s proposal. Her face burned with embarrassment at the realization that she was being looked at, and she sank down onto the bench and squirmed.

…But doing that just reminded her that her clothes were soaking wet from her juices.

“I need to get changed!” She blurted out, springing to her feet. The strength had returned to her legs. In fact, it took everything she had not to break out into a spring and run away!

“Yeah, uh, now that you mention it, same,” Carly said, looking down at her ruined skirt. “…Think Echo will let me change, if it’s into another maid outfit? I kinda don’t want to be walking around with this stickiness between my legs.”

Nick was pretty sure that Carly had put up with worse, but he wasn’t going to question it.

“So, I guess we’re returning to your rooms, then?” He asked. “Unless you want to do more clothes shopping.”

Morgana shook her head rapidly. She didn’t want to go anywhere until she was wearing something dry, clean, and orgasm-free.

So, with that decided, the three of them shunted aside their plans for the Shopping District, and returned to the hotel. None of them said anything as they stepped into the elevator, mainly out of consideration for Morgana.

Once they arrived at the girls’ floor, Morgana quickly scurried off to her room to change into something else. And that just left Carly and Nick.

“…So, to be clear, there’s no way Echo is going to let me change my clothes,” Carly said, gesturing to her soaked skirt. “Not a chance.”

Nick sighed and nodded. “Yeah, I didn’t think she would,” he agreed. “That was really sweet of you, Carly.”

“Hmm?” Carly batted her eyelashes and smiled innocently at him. “I don’t know what you mean,” she fibbed.

“You said you were going to get changed too, so Morgana didn’t feel self-conscious and guilty, right?” Nick had seen right through her. He knew how Carly’s social savviness manifested itself. “That was sweet of you.”

Carly blushed. It was a rare sight to see.

“I’m just being myself,” she replied, playing with a lock of her hair. She wondered when her transformation would be returned to her and she could control her hair length again. The 24 hours must have been almost up, right?

“I know, and that’s what’s so great about you,” Nick insisted. “Looking out for people that you care about. It’s great, Carly, really.”

She opened her mouth to reply, but for once, she couldn’t find the words. It made her feel all weird and tingly. She was the girl who always had something to say- being stunned into silence wasn’t her style, it made her feel… weird.

But before either of them could continue the conversation, a set of footsteps came up to the two of them.

Nick and Carly turned, relieved at the distraction for a moment, but when they saw who it was, things got complicated.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin’s piercing blue eyes stared at the both of them, with her lips pressed together into an unusually serious expression.

The two of them glanced at the assassin and then back at each other, neither of them knowing what to say to her.