Ask Me Anything

Despite them being close relatives, a similar age, and having grown up together in close proximity, Holly didn't really feel she knew Ellie very well. Perhaps nobody in the family did, she always seemed to close herself off from her relatives somewhat, maybe in a defensive move against the curse or possibly just because she didn't feel she had anything in common with them. Melanie, Ellie and Kylie all had different fathers and weren't very similar to each other at all, and Aunt Carly had been a shadow of herself ever since what happened with Matthew. Ir wasn't that Ellie was ever anything other than pleasant but, as awful as Kylie could be, Holly still had a stronger relationship with her than the middle sister.

It was for that reason Holly wasn't quite sure how Ellie was going to handle all of this as she opened the door to her to let he into her doom. After the usual brief and slightly awkward hug Holly led Ellie into the main area where the bad stuff was happening. As soon as she saw three strange men, with a naked Melanie draped around one of them and giggling like an escort girl, Ellie knew instantly what was happening. She shot Holly a "How could you have been so careless?" kind of a look before turning to try and exit.

"This is Ellie" Professor Jarvis raised his voice smugly "And she too is cursed"

Ellie stopped in her tracks, instantly regretting not trusting James enough to reveal her secret to and instead allowing something like this to happen. Ellie always seemed to deduce things in a split second. Clearly Melanie was under the control of the guy on the chair and the ring leader, who was doing the talking had claimed Holly first of all, and used her to orchestrate this against her will. That meant the third guy, a tall and well dressed man with no other distinguishing features, was her master for as long as he lived. It was already a done deal. He stepped forward and was about to issue his first command to his **** when ellie suddenly put out her hand to halt him.

"Wait, I have something to say. Hear me out, please!"

The three men looked at each other, amused, knowing there was no deal someone they could do absolutely anything they wanted to whenever they felt like it as many times as they pleased could offer them. But for sport, they indulged her.

"I know I have to do whatever you say from now on" she addressed the trio, since they were all obviously in on this together "But I don't want my mind messed with, so if you want me to do something, if my master asks I'll do it. You don't need to command me with the curse"

The three men looked at each other, then waited for their leader to speak.

"What, so if my friend here asked you to strip naked and act like a chimpanzee you would do it?" Professor Jarvis raised an eyebrow doubtfully.

"I'd have to do it either way and I'd just rather not become some mind controlled zombie" Ellie looked over at Melanie, who was smiling contentedly and stroking her masters hair while her sister was talking "So yes"

"You know, people would like that" the Professor folded his arms and nodded his head "The girl who does whatever her master says willingly, no matter how humiliating or degrading, and does so fully understanding her shame, because she is terrified of him using his powers on her. We just need to test it"

He nudged the man who was in charge of Ellie, who cleared his throat and spoke.

"Take all of your clothes off and act like a chimpanzee until further notice"

Holly could only watch, and Melanie even laughed, as Ellie did just that, and was soon scampering about the room naked making screeching, ooking and eeking sounds. Somehow knowing that this was still completely Ellie behaving in this way, not being controlled by some magical compulsion, did make her behaviour seem all the more painful to watch.

"I'd say this is all going rather well gentlemen" Professor Jarvis smiled at his friends "On more to go, and she is going to be quite the handful as I understand it. But of course, she will do whatever we want her to. Once we have her, I have called an extraordinary general meeting for tomorrow evening where our four new stars will be demonstrated by their owners. In the meantime, I will set my own **** to work tracing every other unclaimed member of her family, having first given her world class skills in that specific ability. Who knows how many of them there are big this thing could get? It seems probable to me that my **** will have distant relatives who don't even know about the curse. Imagine the look on their faces when one of them gets claimed!"

"We should start doing claiming videos" one of the men suggested "collect them on our website, and it will be a lovely keepsake for the masters to look back on"

"An excellent suggestion!" Professor Jarvis enthused "Holly, you will film all claimings on your phone from now on, starting with your youngest cousins, whenever she eventually gets here"

At that moment the doorbell went again. It had to be Kylie. This was where things could really get explosive.