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Slippery Slope
Chapter 3
Sitting on my bed, I start planning my next move as I stare at the dull glowing ring on my finger, a small smile on my lips. It works, beyond that it does far more than I originally anticipated, and I have seen the proof of its power.
Sarah would never have just ignored my presence like that if she wasn't under the effect of some form of supernatural influence, but after my hypnotism took hold she did exactly as I wanted her to do, revealing her secret that really should have been obvious in hindsight.
I've thought about what to do about Sarah before I came to a simple realisation, I don't have to do anything, she isn't hurting anyone and is it really any of my business if she plays cam-girl in her free time? It is her choice and I can see her logic, aside from her actually enjoying her time in front of the camera, it is also a very good source of money that mother can't track. I rely on money I draw out slowly over time, but her method is certainly faster and more profitable.
Less likely to be stolen as well, leading to the next problem I want to solve. I want to make mother less... overbearing, and I want to try and make Elle actually leave her room, but the biggest issue is the thief.
And I've realised I know exactly how to get the proof I need to both confirm that she is the guilty party and have my evidence to deal with her. I can use the exact same technique I used on Sarah, all I have to do is get her to ignore my presence and then lie in wait for her to try and grab some money if I leave my wallet out.
Easy right?
Well, firstly I have a small issue.
When I headed downstairs to get another drink, I briefly spotted her coming in with her friend and realised something that actually kinda hurt, there was no connection between us. I took some snacks up to Elle, checked on mother and there was a connection with the other three, but Claire had no such connection.
My ring helpfully informed me that pre-existing emotional connections would help the ring influence targets, which means that me and Claire have so little a connection it didn't even translate over to the weakest form of link.
Or, in the simplest of terminology... there is no link, emotional or otherwise, between me and my sister. It hurt more than I expected, because I can remember her babysitting me when I was younger, watching movies together and just having fun, but I guess she's either forgotten or simply doesn't care any more. She changed around the time she started going to high-school, and she went from being my fun big sis to this distant cold bitch who has no qualms about robbing me on a regular basis.
It hurts, but it just reinforces my decision to get even. If she doesn't care about me then I have no reason to let family ties stop me from making her pay for the non-stop theft.
Hearing my phone buzz, I stand up and wander over to the table I left it on charge, swiping up and unlocking it quickly before my heart skips a beat at the message waiting for me.
Sarah: We need to talk, you free?
From Sarah, who I just spied on and somewhat molested less than an hour ago.
Ben: Not really, but what's up?
I reply as I quickly consider my options, she doesn't know right? I mean, she would have reacted faster if she did... maybe the hypnosis wore off too quickly? If it did then she might remember me lurking over her playing with her breast, a stupid move in hindsight and one that might have doomed me from the start... but I couldn't resist.
Sarah: So, your online alias is still BentheBuilder0110 right?
It occurs to me that I am an idiot, a buffoon of the highest order and I've just given the game away before I could even start.
I use the same name for everything online, I just couldn't be bothered to think of a new one so I always used the same thing. It is my Steam id, my email, my Twitter handle, my Xbox live username and literally everything else, including my chaturbate handle which I followed her account on.
Does my brain just not work?!
Sarah: Ben?
It's Ben the Builder because I used to... still do love Lego, and spent all my time playing with it building sets, and 0110 is just the tenth of January, my birthday. To make it worse, SARAH GAVE ME THAT NICKNAME. What the actual fuck was a thinking? Oh wait, I wasn't, my second head was doing all the planning for us and all it thought was 'Big tiddies' and didn't think beyond that. Besides, she had thousands of followers so I figured I'd slip in through the cracks, how was I supposed to know she checked them all herself?
Ben: Yeah, it is
Okay, okay... I can work with this.
Maybe?
I was going to let her know I know eventually anyway, I just need to speed things up a little bit.
Sarah: Knew it. So... yeah. This is awkward
Well, that's putting it lightly.
Sarah: I don't suppose you wanna tell me how you found out? Was sure I was being pretty subtle
Ben: You've never been as subtle as you thought, and it was a mixture of some suspicions over what you do all day in your room and dumb luck
Well I can't exactly say I used a magic ring to hypnotise her, can I?
Sarah: Yeah... honestly I'm just surprised it took so long for anyone to catch on, especially after I started putting my face on cam as well. I wasn't that subtle with my shopping, huh?
You weren't, but I'm a dumbass anyway and barely caught on. Genius with amazing grades here, by the way, if only people were as easy as trigonometry.
Ben: Curiosity made me google the brand, you were acting kinda weird. My bad?
Sarah: Nah, I should have put them in a more discreet bag, you've always been too curious for your own good. We need to talk about this, in person.
The speed of her responses doesn't surprise me, she must be staring at the screen waiting for my response, while I think about what the fuck I'm doing.
Ben: When?
Sarah: Tonight? Wait for everyone, and by everyone I mean mom, to go to bed and come to my room? I want to keep this between us.
Well this is going to be fun.
Ben: Sure, I'll text you before I come over.
Sarah: I'll be waiting, one question though...
Sarah: Why follow my account, hoping to see more?
...I am not answering that because she knows when I'm lying. Sarah always knows.
Sarah: Gonna take that as a yes ;)
Closing the message app, I facepalm as I think about what the hell I'm going to say tonight.
Leaving my room, I head to the lounge and lie in wait, using the fairly public area to ward Sarah off until I have my story straight.
Fuck it, I'm going back to watching some Space bounty hunter defend his green baby. My problems can't bother me if I ignore them, right?
Mixing my time between watching the space man go pew pew and planing my excuses, time passes quickly and before I hear a knock on the door, weird since we have a nice smart doorbell.
Getting up, I walk to the door since I'm closest and I am immediately rewarded for my diligence and willingness to pause my show as I open the door, the girl on the other side blinking at me lightly before she gives me a small smile.
"Hey, Ben." she says, playing with her dirty blonde hair lightly as I step back. The girl in front of me is technically dressed, but the small booty shorts and tank-top barely conceal anything and her lack of a bra makes me stare for a second, large nipples pressing against the white tank-top.
"Hey, Holly, come in, Claire is upstairs." I say as I pull my eyes away from her body, using the simplest of command and smiling as a connection forms between us. "Go ahead, you already know the way."
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I mostly did it as a test, for when I have to deal with Claire... but a part of me has to admit, the idea of having Holly under my control, or just under me in general, would be very, very nice. It would be no exaggeration to say she was my first crush, and she's been inseparable from Claire since they started high-school.
"Thanks, Ben." Holly says easily as she walks past me, pausing on the steps upstairs for a moment. "You know, if I cared about staring I'd wear more." Holly adds with a small grin before she bounds upstairs, a small blush growing on my face at being caught.
As she turns the corner, I hear distant giggling and sigh as I take my seat.
It's getting later and later, and soon I'll be out of time and have to go see Sarah, if I avoid her she'll just track me down herself and that would just make things worse.
Finishing my episode, I head to my room, get changed into some simple pyjama bottoms and a t-shirt and listen to some music as the hour of judgement approaches, I hear Claire and Holly go past my room at one point, probably to a party and as Holly comes close enough to my door for the connection to form, I feel a brief moment of worry from her but she moves out of my range quickly enough that I can't really feel more.
Weird, you'd think she'd be excited over wherever they are going, but I mostly just picked up some worry and concern, plus a feeling of... need? Maybe, it felt like a mixture of need and something else but I would need to be close to her for longer to work out what it actually was.
Emotions from the bond feel weird, especially when the bond is just forming like mine and Holly's is, they are blurred and dampened, it makes it hard to really work out what is going on.
Sarah: Mom's asleep, Claire's fucked off and Elle wouldn't notice if we were shouting across the house instead of messaging, you coming?
And there it is.
Ben: Mom's asleep already? It's barely eight.
Sarah: I checked, she overdid it in the gym today, she's out of it. She's on her new fitness thing she got sent by Aunt Laura, give it a month and she'll give it up but it works for us, now stop delaying and come over here, I know you too well Benny.
If there is one person I can't really lie to, it's Sarah. Even over text she seems to know what I'm thinking.
Ben: Fine, on my way
No point delaying the inevitable, and I'd rather get this over with instead of sitting her worrying.
As far as she knows, I haven't done anything wrong, maybe a bit weird but all I have done is looked at what she posted for the world to see.
Heading to her room quietly, I don't even get to knock before she opens the partially cracked open door, clearly lying in wait to ambush me as she pulls me in and shuts the door behind us.
It locks with an fearsome click and she moves past me, sitting on the edge of her bed with an awkward smile. Taking a glance at what she decided to wear, I have to wonder if she is testing me or just enjoys making things uncomfortable since her chosen clothes is just a very sheer red babydoll with a matching thong.
"This is what I normally sleep in, and I figured I didn't have to get dressed since you've clearly seen it all before." Sarah said in response to my look, patting the bed next to her. Taking a seat myself I sigh slightly as we both stare at each other.
It's nice to know that she has as little an idea what to say as I do.
"Ugh, this is stupid." Sarah says with a groan as she take a breath. "So, I'm a camgirl. You've probably figured out I started it because I wanted an easy source of money I could pocket away for things I didn't want mom to know about, but I actually really like doing it because it makes me feel sexy and kinda naughty since I'm doing it a single room away from mom usually. It's my little rebellion, just a bit more risqué than your coffee shop." Sarah says quickly, barely stopping to breathe between the sentences. "Are you going to tell anyone?"
"Wasn't planning on it, and I get the feeling it'd make mom keep a closer eye on the internet if she found out, which is just worse for everyone. I love the woman but..." I trail off making her laugh, nodding.
"Yeah, definitely." Sarah agrees, nudging my shoulder with hers as she smiles, a bit of worry fading.
"...how the hell did you manage to convince her to upgrade our internet to have such good upload speeds? I never really thought about it before but I did wonder why we had such good uploads when no one actually uploaded." I say making her pause.
"Elle does, she streams as well... though her streams keep her clothes on, we had a bit of an awkward realisation that we needed to work around each other before, she knows by the way but Elle won't say anything. We were trying to stream at the same time and it was messing with both our streams, and since mom knows Elle streams her games for fun..." Sarah pauses.
"You talked her into upgrading the internet, for Elle." I say, laughing quietly. "Sneaky."
"Yup, I was pretty proud of that one." Sarah admits with a giggle.
"So, what now?" I ask making her pause, staring at me for a moment. "Business as usual, pretend this never happened?"
"Well, I was thinking... we could do that, just another little secret between us, well maybe not that little." Sarah said with a bit of a giggle as she paused, staring at me with a look of hesitation.
Through the link I can feel her reluctance and nervousness before it fades and is replaced with determination, our bond is stronger and I can feel a lot more than I can from Holly.
"Or?" I prompt making her smile at me.
"Did you enjoy the show?" Sarah asks instead, making me freeze. "Or did you just quit when you were sure it was me?"
"Does it matter?" I ask quickly making her giggle again.
"Yeah, you enjoyed the show. You've always been easy to understand, my brother the little perv~" Sarah teases, smiling brighter. "Not that I can talk, I'm the cyber-stripper after all."
"Where are you going with this?" I ask quickly making her grin.
"So, would you like to see the show first hand, and some behind the scenes extras of course... people keep asking me about an OnlyFans, but for that I'd need to record videos, shoot picture sets... and I can't do it by myself. I need a camera man." Sarah says making me pause, staring at her in disbelief.
"I... seriously?"
Did I break her when I tried hypnotising her? I can feel her embarrassment, along with some hope.
"I know it sounds bad, but hear me out. If we are both together, mom won't really pay attention to whatever we are doing, both in the house and outside if we do outdoor shoots. I can buy the equipment myself, I've looked into good cameras for this stuff, I just need someone to use them, and I don't want to ask Elle, even if I wanted to she doesn't leave her room except to accept her deliveries if no-one else is in to fetch it for her, and you can get a cut of the profits." Sarah offers as I stare at her.
I honestly want to accept, and not because of the money. Watching her in secret was one thing, but this would be with her willing agreement. I guess I am a perv, but it clearly runs in the family for at least two of us.
"You don't think that'd make things more awkward?" I ask making her scoff.
"More awkward than realising my little brother watched me strip and ride a large dildo, and probably jerked off to it?" Sarah asks bluntly, watching with amusement as I fail to deny it. "We are so far past that point we might as well keep going and see what happens, look just... try it out, one photo shoot and if you don't like it we can call it off, I want to get the camera anyway and I can afford it."
"Well, you have a point. Can't make things any more awkward." I agree as she grins.
"That's the spirit, might as well pour fuel on the fire and see what happens." Sarah says with a carefree shrug.
"That... is a terrible idea, but I guess doing dumb shit runs in the family. I'm in, one shoot." I agree making her smile at me, her worry fading completely.
"This is either the start of something brilliant or something stupid, but it'll probably be fun either way." Sarah says with a beaming smile.
"This is going to end badly, but hey... boobs." I say with a dull tone making her giggle again.
"There is that, boobs are great. I should know." Sarah agrees as she pauses before shrugging, pulling her babydoll up and over her head. Her nervousness increases again, but I also feel her excitement at being watched in person as her breasts bounce free, jiggling enticingly. "We might as well get used to this, I'm gonna be naked around you a lot from now on if this works." Sarah says with a half shrug, her movements making her breasts bounce as she does.
"...then why don't you lose the thong as well." I say after a moment, making her eyes widen before she smiles again.
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"True, you got over your awkwardness fast." Sarah says as she reaches down and hooks her fingers into her thong, standing so she can pull them down, the same pussy she was playing with on camera early exposed again as she pauses shyly, looking away with a light blush. "It's... a little different when the person watching is right in front of me."
"You're gonna have to get used to it if you want this to work." I point out, before I pause and smile slightly. "You have nothing to be embarrassed about, it's normal for you to be naked around me."
Hey, I'm helping.
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Current Influence Level 3
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"Heh, I guess so." Sarah says as she sits back down next to me, her nervousness fading but her excitement remaining behind, growing stronger without anything to temper it. "Enjoying the view?" Sarah asks, glancing down at my crotch.
Despite my... vigorous session early, I'm already hard again and it shows.
"If I wasn't, would I be willing to get dragged into all this?" I ask making her pause, nodding after a minute. "Why wouldn't I, it's natural for me to find you attractive, even if we are related."
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"True, I guess any guy would enjoy having a naked girl right in front of them." Sarah agrees, smiling at me. "I prefer sleeping like this anyway, it's freeing, you should try it."
All I have to do is keep this up and the bond will strengthen, every accepted command increases my influence over her... I could have her do almost anything.
"Maybe, I'm gonna call it a night, let me know when you have the camera." I say quickly, rising from the bed as she pauses in confusion at the sudden tone shift, I need to get out of here.
"Oh, sure... Night, Ben." Sarah says, grabbing me in a tight hug as she presses her bare breasts against me chest, and before I can stop myself I wrap my arms around her, my hand resting on her bare ass. "Erm... I should have thought this threw better, I can feel you down there." Sarah says awkwardly, not breaking the hug.
"Well, you caused it, it's your fault I'm like that. Don't worry about it and just relax."
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As the tension leaves her, I can't help myself from squeezing the ass in my hand slightly, relief and guilt filling me as she fails to react, just leaning into me, her head on my shoulder.
"Night, Sarah... sweet dreams." I say as I let go and step back.
"Sweet dreams, Benny." Sarah says happily as she lays back on her bed, watching me leave with a smile.
If I stayed I was going to do something I probably wouldn't even regret...
As I leave, I take a deep breath and head back to my room, I have an appointment with a cold shower that I shouldn't put off.
Either that or my right hand.
Heading to my room, I pause as I pass a pair of slightly open doors.
Claire's room was left unlooked, and mom's room is open as well, I can even see her sleeping form threw the barely open door.
I've never been in Claire's room, not in years anyway... or I could go and snoop around mom's room, I don't even have a real reason to other than plain curiosity.
Or I could just ignore them both and go to bed, I guess. Kinda boring though.
Authors Note: This fic isn't a quest, but I'm gonna try leaving some decisions up to readers, both on what to do at the start of the next chapter and what to do long term (what girl to focus on, etc), so if you have any preference, just leave a review/comment/whatever the term is on your site of choice.
I know I said Freedom 11.5 was next but I got an urge to write this again, and I said this wasn't gonna have a place in the rotation anyway.
Next Update: Freedom 11.5 (For real this time)
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Benjamin Grant
Portrayed by Anton Yelchin
MC/Barista
Samira Stewart
Portrayed by Gal Gadot
Boss, Hates Ben
Influence Level - 0 (0/1)
Isabelle Johnson
Portrayed by Alexandria Daddario
Co-worker, Criminal Record (?), Framed Ben
Influence Level - 1 (0/2) (Guilt)
Olivia Grant
Portrayed by Scarlett Johansson
Mother, Overprotective Helicopter Parent
Influence Level - 2 (1/3) (Love)
Elizabeth 'Elle' Grant
Portrayed by Molly Quinn
Younger Sister, Introvert
Influence Level - 2 (0/3) (Love)
Sarah Grant
Portrayed by Anna Kendrick
Eldest Sister, Camgirl
Influence Level – 3 (4/5) (Love)
Claire Grant
Portrayed by Michelle Trachtenberg
Elder Sister, Thief
Influence Level - 0 (0/1)
Holly Kirk
Portrayed by Sydney Sweeney
Claire's Best Friend
Influence Level - 1 (0/2)
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Suggestion
Allows the user to implant suggestions In the targets mind, larger commands needing a higher influence level
Empathy
Allows the user to sense the emotions of the target, and affect them at higher influence levels.
Hypnosis
Keeps the target in a trance state, causing them to follow the orders of the user, larger orders can break the trance
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