Brushed off the face, felt your light

Kim wasn’t sure she liked the look on Morgana’s face as the goth girl flipped through her spellbook with a manic gleam in her eyes. Morgana pulled back her lips in a wild grin as she found the right page, and her eyes snapped up to meet Kim’s gaze, sending a shiver down the curvy girl’s spine.

“I found it!” She said exuberantly, and Kim just **** out a shaky smile.

“Um… yay?” She said. The way Morgana was looking at her right now, it reminded her a lot of how the aspiring witch had been when she first came to the island and joined the show. Back then, Morgana had been so obsessed with her witch persona that she had put everybody off with her pompous ego, due to her lack of developed social skills. Luckily she hadn’t been stuck in that mindset for very long thanks to the help of Dawn and a few other girls befriending her, but right now, Kim was having some serious flashbacks.

“Whoa, hold on just one second,” she said, raising her hand. “You sure this is safe?”

“Mhm!” Morgana might have improved a bit in terms of her social fluency, but she still had a few issues when it came to reading the room. She seemed ignorant of how tense Kim really was. Her own excitement was more important. “Don’t worry, it won’t have any bad effects!” She assured the other girl. “And if you want to undo the spell, you just need Nick to bite your butt. That shouldn’t… be a problem…”

Morgana’s voice slowly trailed off as her cheeks started to redden. She realized belatedly what she was actually saying, and how it was kind of embarrassing, and sank back down into her seat with an ashamed look on her face.

“Uhum, uh… w-well, if you don’t want to do it, then…”

Kim sighed. Morgana did just do her a favor letting her borrow Like a Virgin, and she DID seem to think this spell would help…

Well, if Nick will like it, then… maybe? Kim glanced over at Nick, who seemed more curious than anything. That made her sigh.

“…Alright, fine,” she relented, scratching her head. “I’ll do it.”

“Oh, good!” Morgana slapped her hand down on the page of her spellbook, and became infused with the effect of the spell. Immediately a sweet aroma filled the room, bringing to mind the faint scent of peaches for Nick.

Kim took a big old whiff of it and gasped.

“Oh!” Her eyes widened in surprise as she felt her backside start to grow. Again. It was a familiar sensation at this point. And even if Kim still couldn’t get a good look (and wasn’t sure if she really wanted to, to be honest) she could guess what was happening by watching Nick’s eyes, which apparently were widening proportionally.

That thought was actually kind of amusing, and Kim couldn’t help but smile.

“So, uh… what… what do you think?” She asked, turning around and showing him her butt. She hadn’t thought twice about it, just wanting an opinion, but what she presented to Nick was a hard sight to resist.

Nick only had so much willpower. He could feel his hand moving unbidden and he stepped forward robotically, like his body was refusing to listen. Kim’s eyes widened like saucers and she gasped, realizing what was about to happen.

“No!” Morgana, in a surprising display of athleticism and reaction time, lunged forward and tackled him to the ground. Well, kind of. She jumped onto Nick’s arm, and slipped. Klutz that she was her weight ended up taking him down with her, and they landed in a heap on the floor.

Luckily, that was all Nick needed to break the spell Kim’s bolstered booty had on him, and he quickly came to his senses. Realizing what had almost happened, he went pale.

“S-sorry,” he said, looking down with a sheepish expression on his face. “I shouldn’t have… I mean… I didn’t think…”

“Hey, no, it’s cool,” Kim said, waving her hands. “Don’t worry about it, really! It’s my fault, for… showing off like… …Wait, ugh…”

Kim slapped her forehead and sighed. “Need to get out of that mindset. It’s the stupid transformation’s fault you acted like that, not mine. Still, I need to be more careful.”

The smile returned to her lips and she winked. “Can’t put something like that out in front of you and not expect you to react to it, right?”

Nick smiled. He was glad that Kim was taking this so well, given how things could have gone. That would have been messy for all parties involved, and thankfully it didn’t come to that.

“Um…” Morgana was still on the ground, looking frazzled. Somehow, her hips had landed above her head when Nick untangled himself from her. “A little help?”

Kim took full advantage of her strength, seizing the opportunity to give another person a princess carry. Morgana’s mouth twisted into a surprised gasp and her eyes widened as she looked at him, her cheeks reddening. When Kim set her back down on her feet she looked like she was going to blow over.

“You, you’re, uh, really strong,” she mumbled, smiling shyly. “…Thanks.”

“Sure, no problem,” Kim beamed at her. She stretched her arms over her head. “Just one of the perks of Dani’s transformation. Now then… um…”

She glanced at Nick for a moment before her eyes flickered back to Morgana. “Nick and I, we, um, it’s almost time for us to turn in for the night… see, I won a prize from one of my bounties, to spend the night with Nick in the Proximity Palace, so, um… we should probably get going. Thanks for helping us out with your transformation, it’s definitely gonna come in handy.”

What else was she forgetting? Kim knew there had to be something…

“…Oh, yeah!” Her eyes widened. “Don’t, don’t tell anybody about this transformation, alright?” She pleaded with the other girl. “My upgrade, I mean. I don’t know if I want to keep it or not, but until I decide, well, I don’t want the other girls to get any ideas. Specifically Rose and Vivian, those two… yeesh.”

While Kim was pretty sure that Rose wouldn’t take advantage of her upgrade to do anything bad, probably, she couldn’t say the same about Vivian given how the heiress had given her a boost to her chest this morning without asking.

Sure, it was to break a tense moment between her and Dakota that could have resulted in some serious issues, but Kim still felt a little violated all the same.

Frankly she just didn’t want Vivian to make fun of her.

Morgana nodded. “Sure, I won’t- Oh!” She gasped as she realized something and clapped her hand over her mouth. “I totally forgot… Rose!”

“What about her?” Nick asked, worried about what trouble Rose had gotten herself into THIS time.

Morgana bit her lip. “You guys asked before about why she wasn’t here… well, she was, but she went to go find Ella, said that she wanted to hang out with her roommate and see if she wanted anything for dinner… since we spent all day together with my spells…”

That all sounded fine, but the way Morgana was talking about it made Nick a little worried.

“And what happened?” He asked hesitantly.

Morgana scratched her cheek. “We-well, it’s not that anything happened, I just think, um, she was angling for… more. Like… she wanted to tag along with Ella tonight… up to your room.”

Nick’s heart sank in his chest. Rose was planning to go clean the Master’s Suite with Ella? She’d done it a couple of times before, and usually as an excuse to “clean” while trying to seduce him. Completely without shame.

He understood her thinking, he really did, but… still. If she found out he wasn’t going to be there and was spending the night with Kim in the Proximity Palace, that could lead to a bunch of sulking. And when Rose was in a bad mood, he didn’t tend to have a good time.

Nick glanced at Kim, and she knew what he was thinking.

“We do probably need to stop by the Master’s Suite before we go,” she conceded, agreeing to Nick’s unspoken request. “We have to let Mary and Holly know where you’re going to be tonight, after all. Don’t want them to get worried.”

Nick nodded. “Yeah, that… that’s probably for the best.”

One last awkward conversation, then they could retreat to the Proximity Palace and spend the rest of the night together. He just hoped it would go okay, for Kim’s sake. The tomboy looked completely drained. And he could understand why.

“Kim…”

“It’s fine, I’m gonna be fine,” she assured him, raising her head and flashing a smile. “Don’t worry about me, Nick!”

She may have said she was fine, and the smile she gave him was a brilliant one, one of her best. But Nick knew it was an act.

Man… I knew we’d have to talk to Mary and Holly… but I wasn’t counting on Rose being there, too. What a pain in the ass.

Still, there was nothing Kim could do about it. This needed to happen. She looked gratefully at Morgana again, who nodded back to her.

“Make sure… you let him bite you, so your butt goes back to normal,” Morgana encouraged. “It’s the only way!”

“Right, I will,” Kim nodded. “And you should probably take a shower as soon as you get back to the room, to wipe out that scent. Maybe even before.”

She was curious what would happen to Amelia if she was affected by the spell, but she figured Morgana probably wouldn’t like that.

Morgana nodded quickly. “R-right… …Good luck! Have fun!”

She went to go finish her meal, and Kim found herself licking her chops. Right, they hadn’t had dinner yet…

But she held herself back. That was for when they resolved their problems!

Kim and Nick’s eyes met, and they both knew they had one more tough conversation to get through tonight.

I wanted to just spend the day with Nick, without too much interference with other girls. Was that really too much to ask? Kim thought as they left the Banquet Hall and headed towards the elevator.

“SMACK!”

Evidently it was. A hand came crashing down on Kim’s backside out of nowhere, sending a stinging shockwave through her butt. The calamitous impact made her cheeks shake like jelly and Kim nearly pitched over, stunned.

“U-uwah!?” She gasped, stumbling and almost tripping over herself. She whirled around, shocked, and her eyes met the hostile glare of the last person she expected to see right now.

“Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin?” Nick gasped. It had been quite some time since he’d seen the mute assassin, and thanks to her nanomachine transformation her breasts had increased in size quite a bit. But that was the furthest thing from Nick’s mind right now (but he still noticed…) given the piercing look in her eyes and the disapproving sneer on her face.

She stepped forward and raised her hand again.

“H-hey!” Kim recovered quickly, regaining her balance and holding up her hands. “Cut that out! Don’t hit me! What are you doing?!”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin’s hand froze midway towards the other girl and she took a step back, stunned. Her face twisted in confusion as she looked at Kim, then her eyes widened in realization and her arm shot back down to her side.

Nick felt himself relax a hair. The look on the assassin’s face, it was a look of almost… contrition. With just a hint of embarrassment.

“…It’s me,” Kim said, realizing why the assassin had lashed out at her like that. “Sorry for confusing you. It’s me, Kim.”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin nodded again, the guilt on her face even more pronounced. She hadn’t recognized Kim from behind, with her enhanced figure; she thought someone else had come, putting the moves on Nick. And the borrowed transformation had made her act on it.

Nick was just relieved that she could actually express shame and remorse. It seemed that Amelia’s lessons were starting to take hold.

“Sorry about the mix-up,” he said, approaching the leather-clad woman. “Kim, uh… yeah, she looks a little different, she’s gotten a few…”

He almost said “improvements” out of reflex, but stopped himself. It wasn’t like this version of Kim was objectively better than her regular self or anything.

“…Enhancements.”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin’s eyes widened, and they snapped down to Kim’s chest. She raised her arms and cupped her own breasts, looking curiously at the other girl.

Kim shook her head quickly. “No, not like that,” she clarified. “No nanomachines involved, sorry!” She laughed.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin shrugged. Kim was grateful at least that she didn’t pry. She already dreaded explaining things to whoever they found in the Master’s Suite, the last thing she needed was more awkwardness.

Nick poked her in the arm.

“You know, if you still want to spar…”

Kim gave him a look. Was that really where his priorities were right now?

“Men,” she huffed, rolling her eyes. But her smile spoke volumes.

Nick just laughed.

To their surprise, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin followed them to the elevator. Nick wasn’t sure if he should discourage that or not, but given that Kim seemed to like the attention the mute assassin was paying her, he decided not to say anything.

Plus, there was no telling how things would go down in the Master’s Suite, it might be good to have some extra muscle. But he doubted that was the case.

As predicted, Ella was already in the Master’s Suite, cleaning. And to Kim’s chagrin, Rose was right there with her.

“Oh, bonjour, master,” she said with an exaggeration of her accent when she heard Nick open the door. She turned to greet him with a curtsy but when she saw who was with him, she froze.

“…Wait… Kim?” Her face turned from confused, to quizzical, to competitive. Which was the last thing Nick wanted to see.

Ella’s eyes widened behind her bangs and she quickly shrank back, not wanting to get involved.

“Oh my gosh!” Holly rushed over to Kim, her eyes wide with surprise. Nick was a little saddened to see she was back to wearing her maid outfit, but he realized that was also part of who Holly was.

“What happened to your body?” The energized sex gremlin asked, looking at Kim with an expression on her face that was almost reverent. “You look so… wow!”

“Kim? And… Nick, what’s up?” Mary raised her eyebrow as she approached them. “Why is Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin with you?”

Rose couldn’t help with her cattiness, seeing Kim looking so voluptuous. At least she tried not to speak with a sneer. “You know, Nick, if you were interested in another threesome with Kim, couldn’t you have asked me? With my transformation, I could have made it very… enjoyable.”

“We’re not doing a threesome,” Nick said bluntly. “In fact, Kim and I are planning to spend the night together, alone. In the Proximity Palace.”

“What?” Mary raised her eyebrows in surprise. “Just the two of you?”

“You can’t do that!” Rose pouted, crossing her arms over her chest. “It’s in the rules! You have to spend every night in the Master’s Suite, and once curfew hits everyone who’s in the Master’s Suite can’t leave, remember?”

“Well, it’s not curfew yet,” Nick pointed out. He wasn’t going to get dragged into Rose’s game. He suspected that she might try to run out the clock; but this was time he had earmarked for Kim, and she was going to get it.

Rose sensed something off with Nick, and decided not to push her luck.

“It’s a prize, for completing my bounty,” Kim said, trying to smooth things over. “Don’t worry about it. I just wanted to spend some time one on one with him… since I had to work this morning.”

Her eyes drifted over to Holly, and she made the faintest of smiles, remembering how happy Nick had been after his date with the girl.

Holly’s eyes widened, seeing something in Kim’s gaze. But there was something more important right now that she needed to concern herself with.

“Okay, that’s nice, but again, WHERE did you get this body?!” Holly asked determinedly. “Is it a transformation or something? Did you use a mirror? Pig out on candy? …Wait, you didn’t sneak some of Mary’s milk without us noticing, did you?!”

“No!” Mary exclaimed, her face heating up. “I would have noticed!”

Kim sighed, preparing to explain, and opened her mouth. But she never got the chance.

“It’s a private thing,” Nick interrupted her. That got Kim to look at him in surprise. He winked in response.

Nick could tell that Kim was exhausted by the copious explanations she’d given out today. But unlike with Gina or Morgana, there was no need to go into detail about what happened to her. So he chose not to.

Kim was awash with gratitude, even while Holly sulked.

“Oh, that’s no fun,” Rose pouted, sulking as well. “Come on, tell us!”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin glared at her. To Rose’s credit, she didn’t baulk. Much.

“No, this is their choice,” Mary said, seeing the sincerity on her husband’s face. “If he doesn’t want us to know, then that’s because it really is private. So we should respect their privacy.”

She turned to Nick and gave him an encouraging smile, which relieved him.

“Thanks, Mary,” he said, turning back to Rose and Holly. “Sorry. But like I said… private. The only reason we came up here was to let you guys know that we won’t be spending the night, so you don’t need to do any cooking or anything, we’ve got it covered.”

“That’s right, I’ll be handling the cooking,” Kim nodded.

Nick looked at her in surprise. This was the first time he was hearing about that.

“So… with that in mind, we’re going to head out,” Kim said, smiling at her friends, and Rose. “Thanks for understanding. See you guys tomorrow!”

Rose pouted, clearly not thrilled that her little game had been thwarted, but she didn’t push the issue. Nick and Kim left the Master’s Suite and parted ways with Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin back at the girls’ rooms. Then they headed down to the hotel lobby.

Nick was surprised at how determined Kim was, walking away. She was a woman on a mission. And it wasn’t until they crossed the threshold of the hotel and stepped outside did she finally allow herself to relax, freed from her burden at last.

“Whew!” Kim stretched her arms over her head. “Alright, let’s go!”

Time for what she’d finally been waiting for, they finally had the night to themselves!