1-800 just ain't working at all

Rose was hesitant to make any deals with Sylvia. While most of the women in Nick’s harem had accepted the situation around the host-turned-aspiring-daughter, and Rose counted herself among them, she was still savvy enough to remember that she was dealing with a former host here.

Sylvia may be sweet and bubbly and excitable, but she was also the woman who had manipulated Rose onto this show by exploiting her love for her brother. Rose could like her just fine, but she wasn’t about to trust her completely.

Even if the bright-eyed girl wore her heart on her sleeve.

Still…

“It won’t be anything major!” Sylvia said, seeing the doubt on the other woman’s face. She quickly waved her hands. “I just want a little favor down the road sometime!”

“What kind of favor?” Rose asked. That was the important thing here.

Marley frowned. She wasn’t sure about this herself. Knowing her mother, she expected Sylvia would be happy to upgrade Rose without asking anything in return. The fact that Sylvia was trying to get something out of it was worrisome.

“Um… I’m not sure, really,” Sylvia admitted sheepishly. “Just, you know, a favor. Down the road! Would that work?”

Rose blinked, and kept studying Sylvia, wondering what she was missing.

Sylvia puffed up her cheeks. “It’s… playing to win,” she explained awkwardly. “I’m in this game to win Daddy over, and right now, you’re one of the front-runners. Well, out of the girls still in the game, anyway,” she clarified, alluding to Mary.

Rose stared blankly at her.

“Wait, so… you want to use my position in Nick’s harem, to… what? Move up in the rankings or something?” She questioned, tilting her head to the side.

Sylvia shrugged awkwardly.

“I just… want to live my best life, that’s all,” she said. “Rose… can you help me do that? Please?”

Rose looked at her. Then, ignoring her better judgment, she sighed and shook her head. “…Fine. I can live with that. I’ll owe you a favor later, but within reason! Nothing too ****, got it?” She cracked a grin. “…Gotta say, though, Sylvia… you’re pretty sly. Pretty sharp. I like that line of thinking, way to get your head in the game!”

Of course, her compliment went unnoticed because Sylvia had basically stopped listening after the “I’ll owe you a favor later” part.

Sylvia beamed up at her and smiled. “Oh… thank you so much!” She gushed, hopping up and hugging Rose tightly.

“But you’re going to help me, right?” Rose insisted, slipping free of the other woman’s grip. She liked hugs, but mainly from Nick. Hugging other girls felt weird when she wasn’t the one initiating things herself.

“Right!” Sylvia nodded. “Yes, yes, of course, my girl! I’ll use my transformation right now!” She summoned up a screen and applied her transformation.

Rose let out a hitched gasp. Her body flashed from the power of Sylvia’s transformation, and just like that it was done.

“Well, let me see what I’ve got now,” Rose said, summoning a screen of her own to check out her newly-upgraded transformation.

• All Work and Role Play*: As an actress, Rose really knows how to get into a role and play her part. Now that experience will translate to the bedroom! Rose will be able to perfectly attune her sexual nature to any role necessary, whether a sexy nurse, a sexy librarian, a sexy police officer, or a sexy... well, you get the idea. UPGRADE: Now Rose won’t only be able to attune her sexual nature to any role, but she will also have an innate sense of whatever fetishes and desires can turn on her sexual partners the most. She will be capable of figuring out what her partners desire, and take on the perfect role to share it with them. (Actress)

It took Rose a second to process what she had read, while Sylvia figured out immediately and was over the moon.

“Oh, wow!” Sylvia gushed. “That one is-!”

“Wait, let me get this straight,” Rose said, silencing Sylvia with a raised hand. “So the upgrade to my transformation means, whenever I’m sleeping with Nick-”

“Or anyone else,” Sylvia quickly interjected, earning her a look from Rose and an elbow in the side from Marley.

“…Right, or anyone else,” Rose scoffed, rolling her eyes. “Whoever I’m sleeping with, but probably Nick, I’ll be able to sense their fetishes and desires, and be able to act in however will arouse them the most, is that right?”

“So it’s kind of like Mary’s milk, then?” Marley hadn’t been subjected to Mary’s transforming milk herself, but she’d heard enough stories.

“I suppose that’s a good comparison, yes!” Sylvia nodded in confirmation.

Rose winced. Then she sighed. “Well… I guess complaining would be a little hypocritical,” she supposed, scratching her head. She ignored the slight flair of pleasure that shot through her as she did so. “It’s not bad, I suppose. But it won’t **** me to do anything, right?”

That was the downside of Mary’s milk; it turned the drinker into what they thought Nick’s perfect wife would be, whether that was what they actually wanted or not. But with this transformation, Rose could choose to attune her sexuality by her own will.

While she might not have any opportunity to take her transformation for a test drive, she could definitely imagine buying this one for long-term use. It definitely had its perks!

She closed her eyes and tried to… “activate” it or whatever. But she couldn’t. So she opened her eyes and let out a sigh.

“Well, so much for that,” she said with a shrug. “I guess it doesn’t work unless I’m already having sex, or about to, anyway.”

“Then we could always seek out Daddy!” Sylvia chirped. “Take it for a spin?”

“Are you crazy?” Rose’s jaw dropped and she looked at the redheaded girl in shock. “I can’t… it’s Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin’s day today! She… there’s no way I could interrupt them on their date!”

Rose usually respected the privacy of the other women on their dates, and expected as much in return. That was why she used Dream Alley for all her dates and encouraged the other girls to do the same on their nights. And Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin, to boot? Yeah, no way, Rose wasn’t about to interject herself into THAT date of all dates.

Sylvia looked disappointed, and Marley just shook her head in exasperation.

“Sylvia, I really don’t think you’ve thought this one through,” Marley said, giving her mother a saddened look. “Rose is right.”

That wasn’t something Rose was used to hearing, but she was happy about it. “Well, I’ll let you girls get back to your makeover,” she said, stroking her chin thoughtfully as she wandered out of the hair salon, wondering what Nick was doing on his date today, in spite of herself.

Nick’s date wasn’t exactly going the way he had planned. He had intended his time in the pool to be some fun endeavor, the two of them splashing around and enjoying themselves, even if he knew in the back of his mind that Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin would try to make it all gooey and sexual as she was want to do.

But he hadn’t anticipated things to go this route.

“SPLASH!”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin had gotten tired of the teasing and titillating. Her methods of seduction were less subtle, and more the forceful and hands-on kind.

So, growing impatient, she’d decided to yank the whole deck chair down into the water just to speed things up.

“H-hey!” Nick cried, splashing around frantically as he surfaced, staring incredulously at Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin. “What the fuck are you doing!?”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin surfaced as well, flashing a smirk his way. She wiggled her eyebrows and licked her lips playfully, hoisting her arms up onto the edge of the pool and arching her back to show off her swelled breasts.

“So that’s your game, huh?” Nick said, exasperated. “Skipping the teasing and getting straight to the action, huh? Well, I-”

A burst of water sprayed him in the face, cutting him off. He blinked, and wiped his face off, staring a few feet in front of him at Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin. She had her hands clenched together below the water in a wide fist. She squeezed them together tighter, sending a spray of water up at Nick again.

Her aim was on-point; Nick got a burst of water up his nose this time.

“H-hey! A-Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin!” Nick sputtered, wiping his nose and splashing back in frustration. “Stop it!”

She giggled silently, flashing a sneer of triumph. Apparently, she’d decided to throw an impromptu splash fight, and she was winning. And Nick didn’t have nearly the familiarity with water to compete with her.

He still splashed her back, though, sweeping his arm over the surface of the water and sending a tidal wave rolling towards the brunette.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin took it on the chin without even flinching and lunged forward, grabbing Nick by the shoulders. He just barely had time to see her blue eyes flash and her lips curl up into a playful smile before he was dunked under the water.

For a second, he was afraid he was going to drown. But he shouldn’t have worried about that because she didn’t keep holding him; moments after dunking she let him swim back to the surface, where he broke free, gasping for air.

“Don’t… don’t do that!” He coughed out. “Look, there are ways that we can have fun, and ways that we shouldn’t, okay? And this is definitely not a way we should be trying to have fun.”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin must have sensed the disappointment and frustration in his voice, because her smile finally disappeared. She looked contritely at him and nodded in acknowledgement.

Nick was just glad she could listen to reason.

“So… I did have an idea,” he said, coming up with something fun. “No dunking, sure, but we can still play around in the pool.”

She looked curiously at him, hanging on his every word.

“How about… a contest of who can hold their breath the longest?” Nick suggested. “We both sink under the water, and hold our breath. First one to give up and come back for air loses! Don’t you think that sounds like it could be fun?”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin’s eyes widened in surprise and she looked at Nick, wondering if he was really suggesting that.

He knew what she was capable of, right?

Among other alterations to her genetic code, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin had an enhanced lung capacity and circulation, to better allow her to pursue her foes and take them down. If she wanted to, she could run at top speed for an hour without even getting winded.

Nick was really suggesting a breath-holding competition against someone like her? That was so cute! She smirked, snickering silently as she nodded in agreement.

Nick just smiled back, because he had a secret weapon.

While Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin may have the physical skills to defeat him in a head to head match, she didn’t have the guile of someone who had grown up playing games like this with Dakota and Gina.

They made eye contact, took breaths of air, and sank below the water. It was peaceful down there; tranquil. The two continued to stare at each other in the silence below the surface, and Nick could see a sense of familiarity in the killer’s gaze.

Like this, it didn’t matter that he could talk and she couldn’t. Down below the water, they could interact with each other as equals and see each other for who they were.

Now then… Nick was going to implement his secret weapon.

His hands shot out, and he touched her hips, moving up her slender frame to just below her ribcage- and he started tickling her.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin’s eyes widened like saucers and her mouth burst open, a bubble of air escaping as she gasped in silent laughter.

Never in a thousand years would she have expected a tickle fight!

For years, the trained killer had ruthlessly dispatched the targets in her way, without mercy. And now she was the one subjected to a merciless ****, and for all her skills and techniques, she was completely helpless to fight back. She was completely blindsided, and she thrashed about frantically, while at the same time finding it hard to resist Nick’s caressing touch.

Soon enough, it became too hard to resist, and she was **** to scurry back to the surface, coughing and hacking silently as she glared furiously down into the water, her cheeks flushed in frustration and outrage.

Nick surfaced right after her, smirking proudly.

“I win,” he said, rather pleased by her fuming. While he shouldn’t have been happy about how angry she was with him, he did think it was important to get her to lower her guard. Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin seemed so much more reachable now than when she carried herself smugly and triumphantly.

Getting her to open up and let her guard down, taking advantage of her like this and putting himself on top, that was how he knew he could reach her. Humanize her. Make her a person who could lose, instead of an invincible killer that couldn’t.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin had a different perspective, though. She glared at Nick, her flushed cheeks puffed up like balloons as she slapped her palm against the water over and over, kicking up tiny little waves.

“What, you want a rematch?” Nick asked.

She nodded adamantly.

Nick saw that coming; after all, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin hated to lose. But for his plans to work out, he needed her to lose occasionally.

But he could let her win once in a while, too.

“Okay, fine, if you insist,” he agreed, bracing himself for what was to come. He and Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin both took deep breaths of air, and he could feel the burning determination in her eyes as they sank down into the pool again.

Just as Nick anticipated, his head had barely dropped below the surface before Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin lunged at him underwater, and started a ruthless tickle **** of her own.

And she was a lot more pinpoint in her attacks. Putting her expansive knowledge of human anatomy and the vulnerabilities of a man’s body to use, she tickled all the parts that made him burst into laughter, and he wasn’t under for more than three seconds before he burst up coughing and laughing, pulling himself up onto the pool’s edge to catch his breath.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin didn’t come back up to the surface, though. Confused, Nick looked down at the shadowy, ephemeral flutter of her black hair floating under the water.

Well… I should have figured that.

He’d wounded Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin’s pride by tickling her and forcing her back up to the surface before the first contest could be resolved.

So she wanted to prove just how long she could stay down there.

Nick climbed up onto the edge of the pool and watched her with wonder. It was really a sight to see; she looked so gentle, floating peacefully beneath the water for five minutes. Then ten. At the fifteen minute mark, she finally started moving, kicking her legs and breaking the surface with a triumphant smirk on her face.

She wasn’t even gasping for air. She just smiled at him and wiggled her eyebrows teasingly, as if to say “See what I can do?”

He had to admit, it was impressive.

“You were great, that was… wow!” Nick shook his head, happy to lay compliment after compliment on her as her face glowed proudly.

She nodded along, puffing out her chest.

“I can’t believe how long you could spend down there,” Nick continued, thoroughly impressed. “Being able to hold your breath that long, that’s…”

His voice trailed off as he saw a look of dawning realization flash across Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin’s face, as if she was just figuring something out for the first time.

She smiled slyly and slipped silently towards him in the water, staring up at him with just her head bobbing out of the surface. Her long black hair pooled around her, forming a twisted halo.

The assassin’s fingers crept up towards the hem of his bathing suit, and he realized what she was after now.

“H-hey! Wait!” Nick scurried away from her, standing up. She looked up with another pouty expression, clearly disappointed that he’d backed out of her attempted seduction.

“…Yeah, that wasn’t an invitation,” Nick said, shaking his head. Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin just rolled her eyes.

At the same time though, he couldn’t help but imagine what it would have been like. As the assassin had just proved, she could hold her breath underwater for a long time. And with her new Oral Fixation transformation, she had quite a newfound affinity for blowjobs; it would definitely be an amazing experience, he could understand that.

Right now, though, there were other things they could be doing together. The day was still young, and he wasn’t quite ready to give into the assassin’s temptations yet.

No matter how much she had aroused him already, and no matter how much she continued to tempt and tease him. He really wanted to do that. But he also knew that with her voracious appetite (in more ways than one) she would absolutely never let him free once she sank her claws into him.

Nick would burn through his energy fast, and he wanted to appreciate this date a little bit more.

“Look… there will be time for all that stuff later, okay?” He said gently, leaning down over the edge of the pool as Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin gazed up into his eyes. “Right now, I just want to keep spending time with you, okay?”

She didn’t look like she was going to go for it. But a silent sigh escaped her lips and she nodded begrudgingly, rolling her eyes and resigning herself to having to wait.

That was quite a lot of progress for her; Nick was genuinely proud.