Nothing much, until Lucy falls asleep...

After lunch, the girls went back to the dorm and spent the next several hours working on assignments in their room, each buried deep in their laptops and books, headphones zoning out the world. Kim was a little less focused, the girl occasionally getting distracted with texting, but Lucy remained laser focused on her school work. Which meant that she jumped in her seat when Kim's phone started ringing.

As she calmed her nerves, Kim answered the cell, "Hello? ...Yeah, that's me. ...Awesome, I'll be right down."

She hung up, then said to Lucy, "I'll be right back. The take-out I ordered for dinner is here."

"Dinner?" Lucy asked, checking the clock in their room. Sure enough, it was twenty past seven, and the sun had nearly set without her even noticing, "Man, we were really going at it."

"Yeah we were," Kim said, grabbing her purse, "You get up and stretch a bit, I'll be right back."

Kim opened the door, flicking the light switch on her way out. Lucy stood up, stiff from sitting around for most of the day. She left the room and walked down the hall to use the bathroom, which was empty at this point in the evening. By the time she returned, Kim was back with a plastic bag and two drinks.

"There you are!" she said, setting the drinks down and pulling out two take-out boxes. She offered one to Lucy, "I know you didn't ask for it, but you haven't eaten since lunch, so I got you some General Tso's chicken. I figured you'd appreciate it."

Lucy wasn't hungry due to how large said lunch had been, but she wasn't feeling bloated anymore, and Kim had already paid for it. She took the box with a frown and a somewhat reluctant, "Thanks... but did you have to get the large?"

"Sorry, I was thinking with my stomach, not yours," Kim said with a frown, before perking up and adding, "But hey, at least I remembered to get you tea this time!"

She handed Kim one of the cups, the 'Tea' button on its plastic lid firmly pushed down, "I double checked. Unsweetened and decaf, just how you like it."

Lucy took a sip, and was relieved to taste that Kim was telling her the truth. She moved over to the desk and pushed her stuff aside to make room, then took the chopsticks Kim offered her and slowly picked at her food. Being parched, she finished her drink rather quickly, but only ate about half her food before setting it down and moving to her bed.

"Hey, you okay?" Kim asked with a concerned frown.

Lucy yawned, then gave her roommate a nod, "Yeah... I'm just still full from lunch."

"Okay then," Kim muttered, going back to her own food as she surfed the web on her laptop.

Lucy grabbed her book from earlier, intending to pick up where she left off. However, she hadn't even finished a single chapter before she felt her eyelids start to grow heavy. She yawned again and looked at the clock. It was barely past eight, but she was already feeling so, so tired. She didn't usually feel this exhausted this early unless she had pulled an all-nighter. Lucy tried to keep reading, not wanting to fall asleep just yet, especially since Kim still appeared wide awake. But it started taking longer and longer for her to open her eyes, and her limbs grew heavier, and at some point in the middle of a section about African folk tales Lucy shut her eyes and didn't open them again, her open book resting face-down on her chest.

Kim continued to mess around on her computer, occasionally looking over at Lucy to see if she was still asleep. After close to an hour of Lucy not stirring, Kim slowly got up and started cleaning up their dinner. She probably didn't need to wait so long: the crushed sleeping pills she had mixed into Lucy's drink appeared to have done their job, and done it well. Still, with what she was planning to do next, it was better to be safe than sorry.

Kim brought the empty bags and cups to the common room and threw them in the trash, then wrote Lucy's name on the half-eaten takeout box with a sharpie and put it in the fridge next to the pie from earlier. She then went over to the sofa and, after making sure Lucy didn't follow her, dropped onto her knees and reached underneath it. After a bit of feeling around, she found what she was looking for, and pulled out a small metal box. She got back up and delicately carried it back to her room.

She opened the door slowly in order not to wake Lucy, peeking in to confirm that Lucy was still asleep. Satisfied that she was, she came in and shut the door, making her way over to the sleeping girl's bed. She veeeeery slowly moved the brunette's hands aside, and caaaaaaarefully took the book and set it on the bedside table for the moment.

Now for the tricky part, Kim thought to herself.

She took a hold of Lucy's arms again, this time moving them above her head, then gently grabbed the bottom of the other girl's top and slowly started to work it up her torso, occasionally tilting the body to work it up her back. It was delicate work, as she didn't want to accidentally wake her and be forced to come up with an explanation for what she was doing. Once she got to the chest, she peeled it up over the girl's breasts, then tried to bunch it up as far as she could. However, the material of the top was too thick, and she couldn't get enough space to do what she needed to do, so with a sigh she gave up and moved to working Lucy's arms out of her sleeves. Once she did so, she lifted Lucy's head softly and pulled the top off completely, leaving the girl in just her white cotton bra. Kim turned Lucy onto to her side and expertly worked the clasp open, then gently set Lucy back down. Kim waited to make sure Lucy didn't stir, then pulled it off completely, exposing Lucy's perky breasts and little pink nipples.

Kim took a moment to stare at Lucy's bare chest, finally in its natural and intended state after being confined all day. She was tempted to strip Lucy completely, but what she had already done was risky enough, and she still had a job to do. Still, she couldn't resist taking a moment to pull out her phone and take a snapshot of the sleeping topless girl, her hair disheveled from the awkward removal but otherwise looking positively adorable. Then it was back to business.

Kim moved Lucy's book over to the desk to make room on the bedside counter, then picked up the metal box and set it in the now freed space. As quietly as she could, Kim undid the latches and opened the box, thankful that the hinges weren't squeaky. Remembering the instructions Tim gave her earlier, she first put on the latex gloves before taking out the small brown bottle and cotton swab. She opened the bottle, wincing slightly at the chemical smell that her nostrils picked up, and poured a little of it onto the swab. Once it was wet, she gently rubbed the cotton swab about an inch above Lucy's right nipple, erring on the side of caution and coating the space generously. She saw goosebumps appear on Lucy's skin as the cold liquid made contact, and when the girl shivered Kim pulled back, her heart beating in her chest as she waited to see what she would do. Thankfully that was all Lucy did, and after a few moments her breath resumed its slow, soft rhythm.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Kim set the bottle and swab aside for the moment and took the unmarked green bottle and one of the small syringes out of the box. She popped the safety cap off of the needle, then poked it into the top of the bottle and carefully drew out the clear liquid until the syringe was full. She flicked the tube a couple of times, then found the spot where she had applied the numbing agent on Lucy's breast. Kim took a breath to steady her hand, then stuck the needle into the soft flesh and pushed the plunger down.

Lucy barely stirred, to Kim's relief. Still, the blonde girl hesitated after pulling the syringe out, waiting to see if Lucy reacted at all. When several seconds passed, she was satisfied that Lucy was still out cold. As she prepared the injection site on Lucy's left breast, she thought back to the conversation she had with Tim in the library earlier that day...

"So you'll do it?" the thin boy asked, fingers interlocked in a prayer position on the table between the two. They had sequestered themselves in one of the private study rooms, having told the librarian to stall Lucy on the off-chance she arrived before they were done and forgot to text Kim.

"As long as the stuff actually works," she replied, before adding, "And is safe. It is safe, right?"

"It is according to all the testing we've done so far," Tim answered, "Of course, we're only in the preliminary stages of human testing on these particular growth hormones, and we've only mixed both of them together in bovine test subjects before, but from what we've seen from prior tests, Professor Liston projects that the health risks should be acceptable for her."

"What risks are we talking about here?" Kim asked, brow furrowed in concern, "I don't want Lucy puking her guts out and ending up at the vet."

"Oh no, nothing that awful," Tim assured her, "For one, there will likely be increased sensitivity in the targeted tissues, especially as growth progresses and the new nerves start to develop. Soreness is to be expected as well during the initial stages of growth, though that should work in our favor as it'll mask any lingering pain from the injection sites. Darkening of the nipples and areola are likely to happen as well. Speaking of the nipples, the hyper-accelerated breast growth may cause them to invert if the area isn't stimulated on a regular basis, which would obviously be bad, so if the other symptoms don't cause her to do it herself naturally you'll need to make sure that she or someone else does so at least once a day. Though if they do invert, enough suction should get them to pop back out."

"Which shouldn't be an issue once she starts needing to be milked," Kim said with a grin, "How long do you think it'll be until she starts producing?"

"Hard to say exactly," Tim said, "It depends on her personal biochemistry. With the amount we're giving her though, it'll most likely begin happening sometime within the first day or two. It won't be too much to start with, but as the hormones start building up in her body and her breasts grow larger, her milk production should start increasing exponentially. Once it really ramps up she'll be producing more milk than any human ever could naturally."

"Ooh, I can't wait!" Kim squealed giddily, "I can't believe you get to work on this kind of stuff! It's so cool!"

"Well, I don't think I'll be directly working on it as much anymore," Tim admitted, "Once the higher ups realized the potential effects this would have on Lucy, pretty much every biochemistry expert in the world offered to lend a hand in developing it. Even now they're working on optimizing the formula as much as they can before tonight's drop, and they'll keep doing so as treatment continues."

Before Kim could ask any more questions, her phone vibrated in her pocket. She pulled it out and read the text, "Lucy's on her way back. I should probably go meet her outside so she doesn't come back in and piss off Miss Crabbypants downstairs."

Tim laughs, "Yeah, I think that'd be for the best. Oh wait, one more thing!"

Kim turned to face him again, already halfway out the door, "Hm?"

"All of that milk and extra breast tissue isn't just going to materialize out of thin air, so it's imperative that Lucy has plenty to eat at every meal. Preferably stuff high in calories like starches and fatty foods. It might not be what you'd typically feed a dairy cow, but she's going to need all those extra calories to fuel her explosive breast growth and milk production. The dean's already letting the cafeteria staff know, but you'll need to encourage her to eat as much as possible."

"Got it. You can count on me!" Kim said, giving the redheaded boy a thumbs up as she rushes out the door.

Kim packed everything back up into the metal box and latched it shut. She took another loving look at Lucy, who now had matching small red spots above each of her nipples. Tim assured her that the redness would fade by morning, so Kim took the opportunity to take another picture for posterity's sake. It was a shame that Lucy's breasts will need to be covered up again, and Kim was sorely tempted to leave her this way, but as unnatural as it'd be to re-clothe her she knew it'd be too suspicious if Lucy woke up completely topless. So with great reluctance, Kim picked Lucy's bra off the floor to put it back on the future cow-girl. On a whim, the girl checked the size of the bra.

"So you're a C-Cup, huh?" Kim whispered to herself, "Not for long, sweetie. Soon they'll be the proper udders you were always meant to have."

She gently put the bra back on, careful not to rub it too much against the injection sites (even if they were going to stay numb for a while longer), then even more gently put Lucy's shirt back on. The girl looked decidedly more disheveled than when Kim started, but she figured that could be passed off for the typical night-time tossing and turning. Smiling sweetly at the sleeping girl, Kim picked up the metal box to take it back to where she retrieved it from. As she quietly left the room, her mind drifted back to the pie still in the common room fridge. She decided to finish it off herself after all: she deserved a little reward for a job well done.