Remote Controlled Romance

"It's hard to explain," Chloe said, "but basically we need another body in the mix. In order to keep you alive as well as keep me alive, the easiest way that's going to happen is if I have roughly ten percent of my slime form in a healthy body which I can regularly transfer. Think of it like a kidney, where it's filtering and cleaning a portion of your blood from toxins at any given time. Except in this case, it's slime, and it's energy transfer from a healthy host, and it's a manual slime-swap."

"...so it's nothing like a kidney," you quickly replied.

"Precisely. So, do you have a lucky lady friend or anything that would be willing to help us out? It's going to be a lot less awkward if you do, so Amanda doesn't need to tag along everywhere."

You sighed. This was going to be a long month. "Not... really, I guess? There is a girl I like that shows up to my place when we do game nights and stuff, but Willow's some tough ice to break." You shrugged a little, thinking about Willow. Chloe, with her many gifts, was able to get a vague sense of the girl from your thoughts: dyed hair, incredible curvaceous body, but always under a baggy sweater or something which kept her figure hidden. To top it off, Willow wasn't exactly a talker, despite your best efforts.

"Well, we can get her to act the part!" Chloe said. You blinked silently in response, and Chloe took that as a sign to continue. "There's something you should know about my slime. Even remotely, I can control a body. Which, in this case, if I do a little tinkering with your brain, means you can remotely control a body too. Just a limb, the whole form, making someone say or do whatever you like. Which means that if some of my slime was in her, you could just make her be that special someone for the duration of things, because you're going to need to be close with whoever it is. Real close."

Your face turned beet red at the thought. You, moving Willow's body with your mind? That sounded like a dream, quite literally since that ability seemed to only exist inside your head when you were thinking about her. You thought for quite a while about it, your breathing quickening slightly--and then you stopped.

"There's no way, absolutely no way that she would go along with this," you said, shaking your head slightly.

"You need to think a little more creatively, buddy." It was strange seeing lips on your hand frown at you, but that oddity was fleeting as Chloe continued to populate your mind with other possibilities. "Consider that you don't have to tell her anything, just get close enough and I'll move in on my own when the time is right. And then you could come up with any kind of story: how your injury gave you superpowers, or how you don't know anything about this girl suddenly doing whatever you want so it must be just her own brain is acting weird, or, try this one on for size: the truth. And ultimately, you're probably going to have an easier time with her if you ask her anyway than if we play these games, but that's not up to me. I'm ready for a challenge if you want to try to hide what's going on."

That was a lot of possibilities. You could see if she'd volunteer, just rope her into it anyway and tell some lie about it, or just let Chloe take care of all of that and play dumb. "Okay, well, beyond that, once the slime is in. How do you trade slime from body to body?"

"Depending on just how willing Willow is with this plan, you'll likely want body-to-body contact. Kiss her, have sex with her, whatever works. I just need two openings that connect and I'll do the rest. I can't let more slime out of your body at that point or you might destabilize, and if I remove her slime then when she's regained full control, she might be tough to catch. Just forewarning. And again, if this isn't to your liking, Amanda here is very willing to--"

"Kissing or nothing if I'm in any way a participant," Amanda said, not looking up from her phone in the process.

"--Amanda here is slightly willing to help. So what do you say?"

You liked Willow. You think she might like you too, and maybe this would be a way to get her to come out of her shell? But you also knew that this was a delicate operation, where you didn't want to ruin your chances with her just because the thought of having Willow under your control for a month was the only thing you could think about. What if she said no? Or yes? Or nothing at all? There were a lot of risks, but potentially more rewards. You could take Willow out on dates, make her dress and behave differently, show her some carefully-scripted fantasies so she falls madly in love with you when she can move under her own power again, or just make her insatiable under the covers, if everything Chloe told you was true. In theory, you didn't even have to control her, but that possibility was still there... and you couldn't help but think that you'd be using it.