174 The Aftermath

174 The Aftermath

I woke up alone in my bed and couldn't remember falling asleep. My last thoughts had been about how excited I was that my left hand had twitched and that alone wasn't enough to fight off unconsciousness apparently. It took me a few minutes to come up with a reasonable explanation.

I had taken three potions in quick succession that affected my body and the last two had stamina boosts. When they ran out, my natural tiredness hit me a lot harder than it normally would and conked me right out. It made me chuckle to inadvertently discover a quick way to fall asleep and I would have to remember that reaction if it was ever needed again.

My attention was caught when a knock sounded from my bedroom door. “I'm awake.”

The door opened and Viper stood there wearing the same thing she wore the night before. My eye popped out and stretched to get a better look at her. She looked a little ragged and her hair was messy, which said more about what happened than anything else.

“What happened?” I asked and let my eye sink back into my head.

Viper sighed and walked into the room and over to the bed with an unsure look on her face. I patted the bed beside me on my right side and she sighed, then she climbed onto the bed and cuddled up to my side and snuggled in. She didn't say anything at first and I didn't push her, because I knew she would tell me in her own time.

“One of the calls I made was to an old friend of mine. She's going to visit later to talk to you about everything... in a professional manner.” Viper said and I knew she meant a psychiatrist. “The second call was to Rikki and I told her what you told me about how you were feeling about what happened between you and Bobbie.”

I had to blink my eyes at that. “Why did you tell her about that?”

Viper let out another sigh. “Because it's like I told you. That kind of thinking isn't normal and your boss needed to know that you were compromised.”

“Oh.” I said and then I understood. “Oh, boy.”

“Yes, that's where I went last night. I met up with Rikki and a squad of handlers, because we knew that Bobbie was not going to be happy when Rikki started asking her exactly why she had conditioned you like that. No one should so easily accept verbal abuse on a constant basis, neither man nor woman, and Rikki was quite upset about it when I told her.”

I let out my own sigh at them going over there to confront Bobbie about it. “How did Bobbie react when you told her why you were there?”

Viper stiffened under my arm briefly. “We never got the chance to talk about that.”

“Why?” I asked, confused. “That's why you went there.”

Viper lifted her head to look into my eyes. “Hank, I... I don't want to lie to you.” She said and her hand reached up and caressed the left side of my face. “Do you really want to know what we found when we checked the surveillance footage?”

“Just tell me.” I said.

“Bobbie was... in a compromising position. When Rikki saw it, she ordered the squad to bust down the door to stop her.”

“Stop her? From doing what?” I asked, frowning.

“She was... she...” Viper looked really embarrassed. She didn't break eye contact with me, though. “She was sucking off your son Vance on the living room couch.”

The world seemed to slow down and greyed out as the World Pause function activated. I ignored the menu pop up telling me it was a pivotal moment in the story, because that was redundant. What I actually needed was the unlimited time that the pause option gave me to think about everything.

It also gave me the perfect opportunity to take out my Adventurer Card to level myself up without any witnesses around and I did exactly that. The divine glow happened for every level I gave myself, so jumping up to Level 50 had me glowing like a small sun for several minutes and I felt a presence cuddle up to my right side.

I put my arm around it to hold it. “Hey there, reading buddy. Long time no see.” I joked and heard a soft female laugh echo through the emptiness, because they were just a presence and I had never been able to see them.

I chuckled and motioned to my wheelchair. “I need to get to the phone to call Rikki and then Ed Mode. They'll handle the details and I'll see if Rikki can find a nice compliant maid to help Ed corral the kids until I'm better.”

Viper stared at me and looked like she was going to refuse, then she took a deep breath and let it out. She let me go and climbed off of the bed and brought the wheelchair over to the bed and locked the wheels. She helped me slide off the bed and into the chair, adjusted my floppy arm and leg for me, and secured my ankle before pushing me out into the living room.

“I'll start on breakfast while you're busy.” Viper said and parked me beside the wall phone.

I could easily reach it with my stretchy arm. “Thank you, love.”

Viper froze and her eyes were really wide. “H-Hank...”

I reached up and caressed her face. “Yes, Viper. I love you. I always have, actually. I just couldn't say it before.”

Tears came to her eyes and Viper knelt beside the chair to give me a long and tender kiss. “I've always loved you, too.”

We held each other for several minutes before she let me go, wiped at her eyes, and went into the kitchen.

I picked up the phone and dialed Rikki's number from memory. It shouldn't take long to arrange things and Ed's place wasn't that far from either of the schools that the kids attended. It wouldn't be that big of an inconvenience for them to live somewhere else for a while, assuming Vance hadn't been arrested with Bobbie. That might be a little inconvenient to work around.

*

Bobbie sat in her jail cell in the gonvernment building and she didn't know what she was going to do. She had let herself be convinced by Vance's insistence that he was the man of the house and he was going to take care of her. Her desperate need to feel some kind of love after so long had played a part of it, too.

Vance had made her feel wanted and appreciated, as if she was a woman and not his mother. That alone had been a pleasant surprise, then she had been extremely turned on as he rubbed her down during the massage and then he started licking her and fingering her, telling her how hot she was, and she came so hard.

Of course she had to thank him for his hard work by doing it back to him, her orgasm-clouded mind had justified. His cute reactions to her skills had given her even more reasons to keep going after he blew a hot load onto her breasts... then the whole world came crashing down around her as government agents broke into her home and caught her with Vance blowing another load down her throat.

Her first and quite wrong reaction, was to stop them from taking away yet another man from her, so she fought. Vance tried to help and was taken down as well, which she quickly regretted. That doubled her own guilt about what happened and then that doubled again when Rikki told her she had violated her probation by using her powers again to attack her agents.

In other words, she was fucked and not in the good way.

How could I have been so stupid? Bobbie asked herself listlessly, her emotions dulled after sitting for hours in an empty cell with only her bathrobe on. At least they had let her keep it after they searched the pockets. It was wrong of me to do those things with Vance, no matter how good it felt.

Her thoughts kept going down that direction and she couldn't help but wonder what it would have felt like to have him inside of her. Yes, it was very very wrong, and more taboo than the worst taboo; and yet, she couldn't help but think about welcoming her son home in such an intimate way. He would have been hers completely and no one would be able to take that experience away from her.

The cell door opening brought Bobbie out of her horrible thoughts and she looked up at a scowling Rikki. “I called in a few favors, so they're letting me handle your processing.”

Bobbie blinked her eyes at her in confusion. “My what?”

“Your processing.” Rikki said and waved at the door. “The newly reinstated Super Registration Act requires all people with powers to register. An addendum was also pushed through this morning in an emergency session of the government to allow criminals to be chipped to keep track of them.”

Bobbie's heart almost shattered and she felt a pit form in her stomach. She couldn't move or speak as she stared at the old woman that had always been there in her corner to support her.

“Before you ask, the answer is yes. Vance is being processed as well. I didn't bother trying to stop it.” Rikki said and nodded at the security guard.

The man stepped forward and grabbed Bobbie by the arm and hauled her to her feet. She didn't resist at all as he dragged her out of her cell and down the hallway towards the room where the procedure would be done. An extremely angry Rikki Dicker followed in their wake.