Slumber party, we'll have a real good time

A few hours before the party, Sylvia and Vivian had snuck off to go experiment with upgrading Vivian’s transformation.

Vivian was fine with it.

Sylvia… was a little more than fine with it.

“You sure you want to upgrade your transformation?” She asked, her eyes teaming with excitement. She was practically licking her chops. “Just saying, I’m not going to be responsible for what happens. You know, if it doesn’t work out the way you want to…”

She didn’t want to discourage Vivian, because she really wanted to see what would happen if the heiress upgraded her transformation. But it wouldn’t be responsible of her if she didn’t at least warn the other girl of the possible consequences of her actions.

So Sylvia really hoped that Vivian would disregard her warning and go through with it anyway. Even if that might not have been the best thing for the heiress. Not that she expected things to blow up in her face, but hey- shit happens.

Vivian had a playful smirk etched on her face as she sat back on the couch in the lounge, legs kicked up. The faeries hadn’t started setting up for the party yet, so for a brief moment they had the common area all to themselves.

“Don’t play those games with me, girl,” Vivian laughed, drumming her fingers on the armrest of the couch. “You and I both know I’ve got a bit more experience when it comes to drawing up contracts and making deals. So let’s skip with the quibbling, shall we?” She pulled a pen out of somewhere Sylvia couldn’t begin to imagine, and twirled it in her fingers. “And get down to signing on the bottom line.”

Sylvia raised her eyebrows, surprised. “Well, uh… that’s not what I anticipated from you,” she giggled, shaking her head. “I thought for sure that you would think a little more carefully about this.”

“Well, it’s only temporary,” Vivian acknowledged. “And what can I say? I don’t know you very well, Sylvia, but I’ve got a feeling that you wouldn’t try to screw me over on something like this. After all, if you did… it would be pointless, right? I’m trying to make things better for your precious ‘Daddy’ after all, so why play around with me?”

Sylvia nodded thoughtfully. Vivian was actually making a lot of sense, and she was glad that the heiress was thinking about things in that way.

It would make it easy for her.

“You’re such a good girl!” Sylvia giggled. “You’re lucky I’m not in charge anymore, or I’d take so much advantage of you!”

Vivian wiggled her eyebrows playfully. “Sure you would,” she purred, shaking her head. “Shall we get on with it, then?”

She was a little nervous about the outcome of today. Sylvia’s words didn’t help with that. But Vivian wasn’t the kind of woman who would let herself get shaken, and she impudently leaned forward, ready for Sylvia to work her magic.

The former host held up her hands, and used her transformation, upgrading Vivian’s.

“…You wanted me to upgrade the one about matching the acts of other members in the harem, isn’t that right?” Sylvia clarified, joking with the other woman. “I wouldn’t want to mess up or anything and get it wrong!”

Vivian snorted and rolled her eyes. “Come on, let’s not play games,” she said, laughing. “Just get on with it already!”

Sylvia nodded, her eyes bright. “Right away!” She chirped, and snapped her fingers.

A light spread from her hands and washed over Vivian, upgrading her transformation. When it was done, the heiress didn’t wait for a second to call up her transformation, and take a look at what had changed.

• Leading by Example: It’s important to practice what you preach, and if Vivian wants to be the manager of the harem, she’ll have to take some steps to prove that she’s up to the task. What this means is that for each contestant, until Vivian has completed each sexual act with Nick that that contestant has already performed with him, they will not view her as worthy of the position of harem manager. Conversely, once she HAS managed to complete those acts, it will increase her esteem in the eyes of those contestants, and they will be more amenable to respecting her in that position. UPGRADE: The perception of Vivian in the eyes of the other women in the harem will shift slightly. Now, instead of earning worthiness in the eyes of the other women in the harem, her actions will be seen as more of a bonding experience with them; trying to see things from their perspective. Instead of affecting how everyone perceives her, it will lead to a more mutual view of their bonds. (Harem Manager)

Vivian had to read it over again, just to make sure. She raised her eyebrow quizzically and looked up from the screen.

“…Is that it, then?” She asked, tilting her head to the side.

Sylvia looked a little embarrassed by this outcome. “I’m, uh… not exactly sure what that’s supposed to mean,” she admitted, shaking her head. “It’s pretty vague.”

“You’re telling me!” Vivian nodded. It looked like a bunch of words slapped down on the screen with no concrete explanation behind what exactly was happening. She hopped to her feet and began pacing around, stroking her chin thoughtfully as she considered the situation.

Then she whipped around and faced Sylvia directly. “So we’ll just have to experiment with the transformation for ourselves,” she said, smiling.

Sylvia looked at her surprised. “Oh?”

“Yup, starting with you, of course!” Vivian pointed at Sylvia and strolled towards her, poking the other girl in the chest. “After all, you should be affected by my transformation yourself, right? Considering what you’ve done with your ‘Daddy’ and all, it’s a bit more than I’ve managed to accomplish, so…”

Sylvia blushed, and scratched her scarlet hair playfully. “Well, I mean… you’re not wrong,” she admitted. In spite of her rather chaste relationship with Nick, the two of them had done a few more things together than he and Vivian had so far.

“So, we really should have done this before you upgraded my transformation, but hey- explain it to me anyway.” Vivian plopped back down on the couch and looked up at the younger girl. “How did you feel about me? You know, before I upgraded my transformation.”

Sylvia blinked. “Uh… I thought, well… that you’re okay. Not a bad person. Pretty nice, even though you can be a little-”

“No no no.” Vivian held up her hand and shook her head. “Not that kind of stuff, that’s not what I’m talking about.”

Sylvia looked a little surprised. “Huh?”

“I don’t mean big-picture, ‘do you like me’ kind of thing, what, are we a couple of schoolkids passing notes in class?” Vivian asked, laughing. She shook her head. “No no no, I want to know how you felt about me as the head of Nick’s harem.”

Sylvia blinked again. “…Oh. That.”

“Yup.” Vivian nodded. She looked sharply at Sylvia. “That.”

Sylvia frowned. She looked like she didn’t want to answer the question. But she could also see that this was something really important to Vivian, so she couldn’t exactly back down here. With a sigh, she shook her head and scratched her cheek.

“Listen,” she said gently, approaching the other girl. “You… well, it’s not a problem. I just kind of thought that you weren’t worthy, you know? Like, you still had to prove yourself! By giving yourself up to Daddy in every possible way, you know?” Even though her own relationship with Nick hadn’t gotten very far, that was how she felt on the matter.

She snickered out of reflex, but realized maybe that was a little insensitive to Vivian, and stopped with that.

“…Sorry, is that too harsh?”

Vivian’s eyes widened. “No, not at all!” She said, shaking her head. “I don’t think it’s too harsh at all, don’t worry. It seems fair enough. And by the wording of the transformation, that’s what I would expect you to think.”

Sylvia sighed in relief. The last thing she wanted was for Vivian to hold a grudge against her over this. But it seemed like Vivian was the kind of girl who didn’t tend much for grudges anyhow. “Well, okay then,” she said. “Did that help?”

“Oh, definitely,” Vivian assured her with a nod. “You were a big help, Sylvia, don’t worry!” Her eyes twinkled and she winked at the other girl. “Now then… the root of the matter. How have things changed, hmm?”

“Huh?” Sylvia blinked.

“Well, my transformation has upgraded, so how do you think differently about me?” Vivian inquired. “Has anything changed? Or is it exactly the same?”

If she wanted to know the limits of her transformation, that would be the kind of thing she would need to work with.

Sylvia bit her lip. She hadn’t actually thought about it. She paced back and forth, thinking about her current thoughts about Vivian. It was a little hard- her feelings had gotten all jumbled up due to the sudden change from the transformation.

But that just meant there was a change.

“I think… I want to share Daddy with you a little bit!” She said, her voice pitching up with excitement.

Vivian looked at her, and her mouth dropped open slightly. It wasn’t often that she got surprised by what other people said, but when she was, her brain kind of stopped working for a bit.

But she quickly moved past it.

“So… you want to share me with Nick, huh?” She mused. “Well, that’s definitely a change. So you no longer think I’m unworthy of being the head of the harem?”

Sylvia shrugged. “More like… it’s not even really a factor. I don’t care if you are or not, but I think that, if you were, I would want to share you with him. You know, assuming you were. Which I don’t know if you would be, or not…”

“Do you think it would change if I did more stuff with him?” Vivian pondered.

Sylvia could only shrug. “Dunno. There’s definitely a tangible shift in my perception of you, Vivian, but I don’t know how it really takes root, you know?”

Vivian shook her head. She didn’t really get what Sylvia was going for, if she was being honest. “Eh, but I guess there are still some kinds of things we’ll need to think about, if we want to figure out the extent of my transformation. Let’s see… so you don’t care if I haven’t, say, hugged him yet, for example?” She asked.

Sylvia scratched her chin. “No, uh… I don’t think, no,” she said, shaking her head. “But I get the feeling that I want you to hug Daddy, because then we’d have something in common! We would both have hugged Daddy!”

Vivian blinked. She looked a little alarmed to hear that. “So… my upgrade… it’s making you want to share me with Nick, huh? You want me to hug him, along with other things… I see, that’s something to work with, maybe?”

She was definitely perturbed, not that Sylvia could understand why.

“That’s better though, right? Instead of thinking of you as unworthy, I want you to do it!” She chirped, nodding excitedly. “Isn’t that just the best thing ever?”

Maybe to Sylvia it was. But not to Vivian.

The heiress frowned. “I wonder… what kind of thinking is that based on? Is it because you’re you, Sylvia? Or is that just how the transformation works now, things are different?”

Sylvia looked more confused. “Huh?” That was more logic than the more tactile-based thinker was used to working with.

“Well, think about it like this,” Vivian said, leaning forward intently and looking up into the other woman’s eyes. “You’re the kind of girl who likes the idea of Nick being with other women, right? That’s sort of your whole thing, I mean.”

“Of course!” Sylvia chirped, smiling cheerfully from ear to ear. “After all, the more women in Daddy’s harem, the better!”

Yep, that was what Vivian expected from her. She nodded thoughtfully, considering that perspective. “So maybe that’s the root of the transformation,” she pointed out. “That’s our bonding moment, you and I.”

“Bonding, huh? I guess I’d like that, so we’re bonding over getting closer to Daddy?” Sylvia said, considering the idea. She decided she liked it.

Vivian nodded. “My way of thinking is that before, my transformation was a strict thing of approval, yes or no. Did I do all the things? If yes, then they respect me. If no, then they don’t. But with that upgrade, I think it’s a little bit more complicated.”

She leaned back and tapped her chin, running through scenarios in her mind. “Sylvia, because you like the idea of Nick getting together with other women, you want me to do those things with him. You know? But maybe for someone like, say, good ol’ Teach, that wouldn’t be enough for her. It could be, I’d have to do something else to earn her favor, like maybe she would want to grade me on all the things I did with him. ‘I’m sorry, Miss Carrington, but you did not properly hold his hand, so I’m afraid I won’t be able to approve of your relationship with my friend’,” she chortled in a mock exaggeration of Amelia’s voice.

Sylvia snickered.

“…Just a thought, anyway. I mean- I’ve already done more with her stepson than she has,” Vivian smirked. “But it’s definitely something to experiment with, I suppose.”

Whether it was better than the baseline transformation or not, that was hard to say. Vivian honestly didn’t know. But she really didn’t like the idea of her previous transformation to begin with. After all, the fact that she had to earn the respect of the other women through a transformation, instead of the natural way, that was something that irked her severely even though she tried to hide it.

Right now, though? It was a possibility. Something she could consider, something she could handle a little differently.

She wasn’t sure yet. But maybe she could make do.

“So what now, then?” Sylvia asked. She had been happy for Vivian, but seeing the look of uncertainty on the heiress’s face was causing her to doubt herself now. She bit her lip. “Do you like the upgrade of the transformation, or…”

“…I don’t know yet,” Vivian said after a brief moment of contemplation. She got back up on her feet and clapped her hand on Sylvia’s shoulder, giving her a beaming smile. “But thanks, Sylvia, I’ll make use of it! In the meantime, well…”

She glanced around the room. The faeries had begun to file in, getting the party ready.

That was a thought!

“…I’m coming up with an idea right now,” she purred. “This slumber party of Gina’s… it might be the perfect opportunity to test things out!”

Sylvia was surprised to hear that. She looked at Vivian with wide eyes. “Oh, really? What were you thinking?” She questioned. “You know Daddy’s not going to be there, right?”

“Well… I guess we’ll just have to see,” Vivian said with a smirk on her lips. That vague hint was about as much as Sylvia could hope to get. For better or worse.

She didn’t even notice.

“Want to keep hanging?” Vivian asked, heading towards her room. “We’ve got a bit of time before the party, I suppose.”

In spite of Vivian’s excitement for the party, and the fact that the party had been thrown partially for Sylvia’s sake, the two women still hadn’t arrived.

“Vivian’s your roommate, right, Dani?” Mary questioned. She was pretty sure that was the case, but in fairness, ever since she’d been eliminated from the competition and was now sleeping in the Master’s Suite, she was no longer paying all that close of attention to who was sleeping in what room.

Dani nodded. “Yeah. She was around a couple hours ago, but then she went off. And Sylvia was with her at the time.”

So that was the last time anyone saw either of them. Marley started to get worried.

“You don’t think that she would-” Before Marley could finish her concerned sentence, it became unnecessary.

“Hello, girls.”

Everyone turned to the elevator, which had just opened to see Vivian saunter out with a big, beaming smile on her lips and a twinkle in her brown eyes. “Oh! Don’t tell me we’re too late to the party!”

“Hi,” Sylvia grinned, wiggling her fingers in a “Hello” gesture to the others. “Sorry we’re late, we were doing something.”

Sylvia was dressed up in the pair of cute pajamas she’d bought from Kim’s boutique the other day. As for Vivian, she’d come dressed in a rather modest set of pajamas herself- at least in terms of design. It was made of the finest silk, and looked rather gorgeous.

But the biggest surprise? Who the two women had with them.

Serenity.

The siren wore a strange expression on her slightly-glowing face. She had her lips pinched together in a display of annoyance, but her eyes showed a slight gleam of eagerness.

What she was doing with Vivian and Sylvia, though? That was the question.

“Serenity!” Gina’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Serenity?” Dani sat up, her eyes wide as well. “Hey, uh… what?”

“What are you doing here?” Mary asked, frowning. “…And why are you naked?”

The siren hadn’t bothered with bringing a pair of pajamas. She was completely nude.

“Is it bad that we brought Serenity?” Sylvia questioned, looking a little worried. “I-I don’t, um… I just thought…”

“It was my idea,” Vivian cut in. “I wanted to bring her!”

Serenity looked over at Vivian and raised her eyebrow, concerned. Her lips twisted into a scowl.

“It’s not a problem, right?” Vivian chirped. She was excited to bring Serenity. She’d wanted to get to know the siren better ever since the last party!

All heads turned to Dakota. As the host, she would be making the final decision. But Dakota seemed a little confused herself.

So Gina jumped in with her own thoughts on the matter.

“No, it’s not a problem at all,” the punk girl exclaimed, nearly jumping off the couch. She was fond of Serenity, and would love her here! “Yes! That’s great! Everyone’s welcome, after all!”

This party was really starting to go well!