Phineas stared at Isabella with a vacant expression, watching her as she was crying, using her bedsheets to absorb her tears. Once he regained his senses, his first thought was to hug and hold her, to which Isabella responded by hugging back, crying into his chest.

'Isabella, listen to me. I promise that whatever you want from me, whatever you feel about me, I will always love you. Nothing could ever make me hate you, regardless of any crazy or messed up thoughts you might have.'

Isabella responded immediately, raising her voice. 'You're right, I'm crazy and messed up. Please, be honest. I'm a creepy, screwed up bitch, you can dump me now. I deserve it.'

Phineas's eyes widened and softened his voice. 'Isabella, no. I didn't mean to make you think like that. Look, maybe it is weird and messed up in a way, but I still love you. Even if you were weird and creepy, I care about you too much to just give up on you.'

'But wanting to be mind controlled for sex is fucked up, right?'

'I guess? But you're gonna have to tell me what the deal with this is. There's got to be a reason you feel this way, right?'

Isabella paused. 'Yeah, I think I know why my mind is like this. It probably developed out of desperation. You already know how badly I wanted you all these years leading up to us finally getting together. To be truthfully honest, sometimes I got so depressed and obsessive I fantasised about you basically forcing me to be yours.'

'Truthfully honest is pretty redundant.'

Isabella laughed. 'Oh Phineas, you're amazing. But my point is, from these feelings of desperation and wanting you, I ended up developing some rather kinky thoughts that would keep popping up. Sometimes you'd just come in and force yourself on me, one scenario that I kept on imagining was that you'd outright kidnap me to make me yours. Ironically sometimes you'd also come and save me from being kidnapped, but you'd still be forceful and possessive of me yet also a really passionate lover.

'And then there's the mind control kink. This came up most, I don't know why, but it's what I thought about most. I just wanted to give up all thoughts and surrender my will to you. You'd make me completely yours, and I would do whatever you please, especially if it came to sexually pleasuring you. I wanted you to come over and just make me completely for you, and devote my entire existence to serving you. All these failures trying to get with you made me so desperate, and I thought that finally being with you would get me to move on, but no. Ever since we started growing more intimate, these desires only grew, and now it's driving me crazy. College maybe is just stressful, as well as how rocky we started out, but I'm still so scared and confused.'

Phineas grew worried as he stared into the distance. 'This is my fault, isn't it?'

'Phineas, we've been through this. It was never your fault. You never could've known, it's not like you meant to hurt me. Plus, I really could've been less obsessive, I feel so possessive in hindsight.'

'But I did hurt you. And now it seems I've messed you up in the process. And we were best friends until our teens, of course you'd feel that strong about me. I'm so sorry, why couldn't I have just known? Why couldn't I see how you felt about me before you gave up?'

Isabella kissed Phineas. 'Of course I still wish for what might have been, and I know you do too. But this is where we are now, and now I'm super messed up.'

Phineas thought to himself for a bit. 'This is what you've been nervous about these past few weeks, isn't it? And what the art you've been doing has been about, to vent your feelings about this.'

'Yeah.' Isabella leaned her face into Phineas' chest and held on to him. 'I know I lied about how I was feeling, I'm sorry. It's just I didn't want to scare you and make you think you fell for some crazy bitch. I'm still so ashamed to feel these things. Especially since you actually would have the ability to make them real by creating things to control me.'

Phineas looked at Isabella. 'I'm worried about you, you know. I still will love you no matter what, but I really don't get how I could create something I feel comfortable with.'

'I don't blame you, but hear me out. All you're doing is just making some device that will allow you to control me, and I'll do whatever you please. It's just a thing we could sometimes do in sex, of course you would never approve doing this all the time.'

'Right, but Isabella, you're asking something huge of me. I think I get why you feel these things based on what you've told me, but I'm scared.'

Isabella sighed. 'Of course you are, you're dating a nutcase.'

'Isabella, please stop degrading yourself like that. I'm worried about you of course, but if you let me create this, who's to say I won't get carried away? I've done that so many times, what if I find it so much fun that I can't stop, and I violate you? I could turn into a monster. I already failed you by getting carried away before, I don't want to do it again.'

Isabella cried. 'Phineas, please, it was never your responsibility to date me, I just felt entitled to you. Plus, that was the past, we're together now.'

Phineas started panicking. 'But the past still is affecting us. Just look at these creepy things you want! Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to get like that.'

'Look, if you think it's creepy, just imagine what I've been feeling all this time. But listen to me. I know you. I never fell in love with you just because you're a prodigy, a genius, and super cute. If you weren't all of those things, I still would've fallen for you, because you are the kindest, sweetest person I have ever met. I have never known anyone with as big of a heart as you. And that is why I feel confident in you and believe you could be able to do this, I trust you with my life more than anyone I have ever known.'

Phineas stared at Isabella as she kissed him. 'Isabella, you're amazing. Maybe you now have a super weird side that I don't know if I can deal with, but my gosh you're wonderful.'

Isabella looked at Phineas. 'Look, I don't want to go too weird, I promise I'm not that far gone. I don't want you regressing my mind to that of an infant and doing creepy stuff to me.'

'People are into that? That's so messed up. Even if I guess what you want is too, that's just a million times worse because of the implications there.'

Isabella lay down and held Phineas, staring at the ceiling. 'Yeah. At least I'm not that far gone.'

Phineas and Isabella remained silent for the rest of the night, doing nothing but staring at the ceiling. Even as they grew tired and fell asleep, they didn't move their positions, not growing closer or moving apart.