Another device

Noah held up the CORD. "Make another one of these."

"What?" asked Katie. "Why?"

"I want Lily to get one. She deserves to have whatever she wants."

Katie sat on the floor and stared at him. "Aren't you worried that she'll use it on you and escape your control?"

"You fucking bitch!" yelled Lily. She got up from the floor and moved agressively towards Katie. "I would never use it on Noah! I should kick the shit out of you for even suggesting-"

"I'm sorry!" yelled Katie. She apologized and threw her arms up to protect her face right as her older sister was pulling back a black booted foot to kick her. "I didn't mean it!"

Noah grinned a tiny bit. "Make another device."

Katie looked at the two of them nervously. "No. You're... you two are too dangerous even with just one."

Noah put a hand on Lily's shoulder to hold her back. He calmly turned back to Katie. "I could make you do it, but I want your head clear for this job until I completely fuck you up. I'll make you a deal. I'll let your parents and your younger siblings go when you give me another device."

Katie thought about his offer. "What do you mean, let them go?"

"Do it, and Lily comes with me, but we leave and make the rest of your family forget everything that happened. They can have their house and their lives back. Don't do it, and your family can rot."

Mrs. Bauman came into the living room from the kitchen. She was still wearing the ridiculous French Maid uniform with the neckline so low her large breasts were almost falling out. Katie watched her mother take a can of soda to Henry, then drop to her knees in front of him without prompting and rub the side of her head against his crotch like a cat wanting attention.

"Okay," said Katie, "I'll do it."

"Good," said Noah. He looked over at Henry. "Take her phone so she can't call for help."

Henry awkwardly pushed Mrs. Bauman away from his crotch. He went to Katie and helped her to her feet, a bit more gently than she expected. She handed him her phone without a fight, then started to head upstairs.

"Wait," said Lily. "Baby, give me the device." Noah looked slightly confused, but he didn't hesitate to hand if over. For a brief moment Katie wondered if her sister had resisted his control and was about to save her, but that was dashed quickly when Katie put the device to her throat and addressed her sister. "Don't do anything except work on the new CORD until it is done." She handed the device back to Noah and said, "You have to watch this one, she doesn't always do as she's told."

Kaite headed upstairs, noticing out of the corner of her eye that her sister and her captor had started making out again. She pushed down her revulsion and went to her room. She set aside her backback, which contained the new counter device she'd been working on all day. Obviously she couldn't work on that now, her only priority was making another CORD.

Over the next several hours she worked nonstop. Either Robbie or Henry came in to check on her from time to time, but they must have been under orders to behave themselves. Henry brought her a soda, but she couldn't even drink it, she could only work on the device. Some time after midnight she heard everyone make their way down the hall, with Lily and Noah very clearly going to her room. Loud sex noises came from Lily's room every couple of hours for the rest of the night. She also heard enthusiastic female sex noises from her parents room that weren't her sister, but she tried not to think about those.

Fortunately, it didn't take nearly as much time to make a second CORD as the first one. Katie was even able to salvage parts from the various prototypes she'd worked on before. So by 3 am she had completed her order to make a new device and could do other things again. Completely dehydrated and hungry, she opened the soda and drank it all quickly. She started to take off the horrible pink crop top that was uncomfortably tight and by now a little sweaty, but then she thought better of it.

They didn't know that she was done. Her new device still needed several hours of work. If she changed clothes, went downstairs for food, slept, or anything else, they might figure out that she was done, then do whatever they were going to do to her next. She had to ignore all her other needs and keep working, pretending she was still compelled to work on the new CORD.

Katie worked through the night. By morning she was exhausted, almost a little loopy, but she forced herself to concentrate. Robbie and Henry continued to check in on her every so often, but they couldn't tell the difference between soldering one circuit board and another, so of course they throught she was still working on the new CORD.

By around noon, she was finally done. She decided to call her new device the Neural Reset Broadcaster (NORB for short). 'NORB' sounded really dumb to her, but her exhausted brain couldn't think of anything better. The real problem was that it needed to connect to wifi to broadcast a big enough signal, and she hadn't had the parts for that. For this plan to work, she needed to get her phone back.

Robbie came in and Katie shoved NORB into her pocket and grabbed the CORD. When Robbie saw her looking at him instead of working on the device, he said, "You done, bitch?"