The wait had been excruciating. Weeks and days had stretched on to an eternity but it was finally time for Mesmerized, the annual winter hypnosis convention hosted in Colorado.

 

3 years ago this hotel had been host to Bella’s very first in person hypnosis event and now its halls were a familiar home away from home filled with all of her favorite people. It was amazing how quickly things could change.

 

“Okay, this one is me.” Bella announced, pressing her keycard to the door handle and swinging room 321 open. The number was a coincidence but it made her smile every time she saw it. An appropriate room for a hypnosis convention.

 

The room was a standard double queen that Belladonna had already turned into her private base of operations for the weekend. The bed closest to the door had Elphie sitting on the pillows with its stitched on kitty smile welcoming the pair. The bathroom was full of make-up and toiletry products, the closet was stocked with a number of fancy outfits, a litter of snack boxes lined the desk space and the bedside table was stocked with shiny trinkets and flashing toys.

 

Bella knew from experience that the hotel was full of rooms just like this. Private little collections of hypno toys for toys to be hypnotized by. She wished to be counted among their ranks over the course of the weekend.

 

…Donna wished to be the one wielding them. The key was dividing their time well enough that no member of their system felt neglected.

 

Bella took off her coat and hung it up next to the tailored suit and vintage gown that were each waiting for their moments to shine that weekend. As soon as she had she checked her neck to ensure her play collar was firmly in place. It was not going to be removed for the weekend.

 

“I made sure to get two beds just in case.” she said, turning to face Madison who entered the room behind her. “I know we shared a bed when you were in town for the wedding… but–”

 

Madison set her bag down on a chair and sat on the bed closest to the window, patting the empty space next to her, “But– cutie? Maybe you want to have a bed for play and a bed for sleep?”

 

Madison’s teasing voice sent a shiver down Bella’s spine causing her to blush fiercely and hide her face.

 

“Oh…? Do you like that idea?” Madison cooed, patting the bed again to make her invite more plain, “Don’t hide from me, sweetling”

 

Bella let out a meep of shyness and obeyed Madison’s command hurrying to sit at her side.

 

“There you go, pretty. I don’t get to see you nearly often enough. I like looking at your face when I can.”

 

“Yes, Miss. Thank you, Miss.” Bella whimpered.

 

Madison framed Bella’s cheeks and Bella in turn grabbed her wrist. “I’m here, sweetling. It truly is me. But we should discuss our weekend before we get up to too much fun and games… and sweetling? There will be fun and games.”

 

Bella’s leg began bouncing. Though Madison seldom saw it on a video call she was quite aware of this stim that belonged solely to her soft sweetling. The only time Bell or Donna would bounce their leg like that was if Bella was awake and reacting to the situation. The webcam would often shake when she did it on their calls.

 

“First off, let’s talk about sleep arrangements.”, as Madison spoke Bella’s face lit up in hope, “Saph and I discussed it and we agreed to spend Sunday night with other partners so, if you’ll have me, I can stay here overnight on Sunday?”

 

The leg bouncing became so rapid that the bed began to rock, “Please, oh please Miss? Please may that happen? Please? Oh I wish that ever so much!”

 

Madison kissed the top of her adorable partner’s head, “So eager, sweetling… that’ll match up well with the party on Sunday, so we’ll be together the whole night.”

 

“The vampire party, right?”

 

Madison nodded the affirmative. One of her other partners, Audrey, had arranged for an event on the final day of the convention to gather people in a party where all attendees played the role of hypnotic vampires and their obedient thralls. It was the event Bella was most excited to attend this year.

 

“We’ll meet up for dinner, get our outfits put together, attend the party and then I’ll bring you right back here…”

 

“I’m in trouble…!” Bella sang out, giddy.

 

“Yes.” Madison stated firmly, stopping Bella in her tracks, “Yes, you are. But we’ve got a whole weekend to enjoy before we get to that fun stuff.”

 

“Oh!” the enthusiastic redhead chirped, “We should work out class stuff, too. Because we’re both teaching, right? Your class is Friday morning and mine– well Donna’s is on Saturday afternoon. I’ll be at yours, of course!”

 

“You don’t have to be, sweetling, y’all know your 101 toolkit just fine on either side of the watch, I’ve seen it.”

 

“I know!” Bella all but whined, “But I wanna support you!”

 

“Then I’ll be happy to have you there, cutie.”

 

“Oh, and tomorrow Dove is running her polyamory class.” Bella blurted on a tangent, swaying back and forth.

 

“I’ve attended it in the past.”

 

“Same! But it’s important to support my Goddess, so I’ll be at that one.”

 

“Of course you will be, you’d said as much before. Don’t worry about me, my love, I scheduled some time with Audrey. You know how busy she gets during these events.”

 

“Especially now she’s with Ember!” Bella said, “I’m worried I won’t get to see them much outside of the vampire party. We like Ember! They’re always so busy teaching though.”

 

“Which is why it’s good we took time to schedule things in advance. Who knows, maybe we’ll get some time in between things.”

 

Bella’s swaying stopped and she looked shyly at her partner, a guilty expression blossoming within her blushing features, “I feel bad about how much we spend together as it is… I don’t want to steal time from your other partners, Miss!”

 

“It’s not stolen, it’s freely offered. I’d not give you time if it were not available. Saph and I make the intentional choice to spend events with other friends and partners that we don’t get to see all the time. Saph prefers keeping his play private.”

 

Bella shyly nodded, “I understand…” she said, though she knew that Donna did not share that sentiment. Her more extravagant alter was quite fond of performing for audiences and playing to multiple partners at once.

 

“...and Audrey has a fully booked trance card” Madison continued, referring to her only other partner, “so I’m at loose ends for a lot of the event. I promise the time we spend together is a blessing and a joy and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”, she punctuated her statement with a kiss to her soft cutie’s head. She really wouldn’t have it any other way.

 

“I believe you.” Bella chimed, repeating her words of trust, “We’ll adjust our schedule around you. The House get to spend a ton of time together when we’re not at the event so I’m way more available than you are. Though Kayleigh does want Miss Donna to do something special for her on Friday night. Other than that, I’m open.”

 

“That brings another point up, doesn’t it, cutie?”

 

Bella tilted her head and blinked her wide eyes in confusion, giving out a confused sound.

 

“Well, Miss Donna will be with Kayleigh on Friday and she’s also teaching her class on Saturday, isn’t she?”

 

Bella nodded, still awash with confusion.

 

“And I want you with me for the Sunday night event.”

 

Bella squeaked and buried herself against her partner, hiding her face against Madison’s shoulder.

 

“My point, sweetling.” Madison continued, trying to stay on track, “Is that I don’t want any of you to feel like you didn’t get enough time this weekend and I also worry what will happen if Donna isn’t able to be there when you need to be.”

 

“I know… I’ll be good and share as best I can. Clare has said I need to work on stopping my excitement from ‘taking over’”

 

“I’ll remind you, sweetling. Just remember. I want to spend time with all of you. Not just you or Donna. Bell gets some time too, okay?”

 

Bella nodded shyly, “I’ll be good.”

 

“Yes. You will.” Madison swiveled and picked up her bag, reaching into it, “I am going to ensure that, cutie.”

 

From her bag she produced a portable VR headset and a pair of headphones. Bella knew this was coming and yet she felt wholly unprepared for the fantasy to become reality.

 

Madison was going to plug her into a brainwashing device and program her for the duration of the weekend.

 

They had discussed the contents of the brainwashing file and negotiated what would be appropriate programming for the weekend. Though the more Bella tried to remember those conversations the fuzzier she seemed to feel. It was just so much easier not to think about it.

 

“I’ll be here the whole time, love, all you need to do is put on the headset, lay back and be a good girl.”

 

Bella let on a meep of shyness and scurried to the sleeping bed, plucking Elphie from the pillow and holding the plush kitten close to her chest, “Please, Miss? Please brainwash me? Please make me feel powerless and controlled and program my silly silly little brain?”

 

Madison let out a dominant chuckle as she put on the headset and began to set up the program to play, Bella made herself comfortable and held tightly to Elphie.

 

“Now when you have the headset on, just settle back and I’ll handle everything from my end. All you have to do is keep your eyes open for as long as you can and listen… but I don’t need to tell you to do that, do I?”

 

“No Miss!”

 

With a swift motion Madison pulled the headset off and switched to the bed Bella was positioned on and helped lock her into the device before setting her back against the pillow, “And I’ll be right here beside you, holding your hand, okay sweetling?”

 

Bella brightly beamed, only the bottom half of her face visible under the headset. One arm wrapped around her beloved kitty and the other groping the air for Madison’s hand “I understand!”

 

Inside her headset, Bella found herself floating in the center of an endless sea of spirals, green light splashing around as far as she could see. Her vision was just a little blurred from the imperfect depth display of the headset and the audio from the hotel room was consumed by a white noise hum that sealed her into her own private brainwashing chamber.

 

Bella squeezed Madison’s hand and could tether herself to the hotel room so far away, even as her eyes were locked onto the swirling green vortex that already threatened to pluck her every thought away.

 

“Hi there, sweetling.” Madison’s voice echoed through the vast void  “Look at you, all eager to let my magic voice wrap around your mind and run you through my brainwashing machine.  And we both know you want me to brainwash you.”

 

Bella whimpered and squirmed on the spot, the fuzzy warble of the white noise pulsed against Madison’s voice and the vortex altered its speed to match Madison’s words, as if every flicker of audio was represented in pulses and pulls of this light.

 

Bella’s eyes were drawn deep into the central point that always was in the center of her vision no matter where her gaze wandered. That single pinpoint that seemed to go on forever. As if she could see beyond the veil if she stared hard enough.

 

“You want me to use my voice and words to get inside your mind and have my way with you.”

 

Bella’s lips parted and emitted a vulnerable squeak.

 

“Good girl.”

 

She couldn’t tell if that voice came from inside or outside of this brainwashing machine. It didn’t matter either way. Madison had her and she was helpless to do anything but listen, sink and melt to her voice.

 

Within the green spiral void, Madison’s voice continued to resonate within the white static pulses

 

“And you can be aware that I’m right here in the room with you, even as you allow yourself to be drawn into this recording, into this brainwashing. Take a moment here, love, to evaluate how you’re feeling, if you’re still comfortable with this. Once you know how you’re feeling, go ahead and give me a color. I’m right here with you, listening.”

 

“Green…”

 

It was a gentle whisper into the air but Madison, in the hotel room, could hear it just fine. She did not have headphones on, after all. She knew the script well. Recording this file had taken her quite a while and there had been a lot of trial and error to get the file exactly as she wanted it.

 

She squeezed her hand and stroked the back of it, lovingly. She always looked so soft and tender when she was entranced.

 

“If at any time during this brainwashing process, Bella, you stop feeling green about it all, you’ll find you can automatically tell me what color it is and remove the headset or squeeze my hand three times to safeword, if you can’t form the words. I’ll be here to help you wake all the way back up, to set any suggestions from this file aside so we can talk about what happened and take care of you. But as long as everything remains green, my love, you can just enjoy just how inevitable this brainwashing is going to feel.”

 

Madison was always so careful about her programming and suggestions, always making a framework to ensure that hypnotee agency was checked in and encouraged constantly throughout the process and for a pre-recorded script this was all the more evident and important.

 

It was so much a part of Madison that it just struck comfort and familiarity. Bella trusted Madison and every second of this brainwashing was a confirmation that this trust was well placed and eternally respected.

 

Within the swirling void of pulsing lights, Bella beamed with fondness towards her Miss.

 

“Good girl, that’s it. Dropping so easily as my magic words settle into your mind and enchant you. Notice me stroke your hair gently as you just keep dropping down for me. That’s right, sweetling, that’s exactly right. And I know there’s a lovely spiral, but you can just let your eyes drift closed every time you sink into trance. You can know that spiral is still there, but I want your eyes to be comfortable. Besides, my magic voice is what’s going to brainwash you, my sweet. The spiral is just for fun.”

 

Bella let out a swooning sigh and just melted back, finally able to rest her tired eyes. She had not even noticed how misty they had become from staring, nor how exhausted the day of travel had made her, but now, with full permission, she just let go and it felt oh so good to let go.

 

“Good girl. Such a very good girl for me.” Madison’s recorded voice was so playful and filled with that familiar rush of dominance which was seldom seen besides playing with her sweetling, “Notice me kiss your forehead as you drop even deeper.”

 

Another hollow sigh of euphoric bliss rang out as all tension in Bella’s body evaporated and her limbs became completely limp.

 

“And then coming back up on 1… 2... and 3.”

 

Bella mewled out a disgruntled whine at being denied her blissful reverie so soon after being granted it.

 

On the bed, Madison knew where she was in the file and squeezed her hand.

 

Waking up only revealed a sea of green spirals and Bella instantly found herself drawn in, staring into the eternal abyss at the center of the swirling lights that followed her no matter where she looked. Her lips parted, drool pooling at the corner of her mouth. Madison chuckled softly to herself as her cute partner fell right into the trap she had set for her.

 

The file continued on and continued the tease of drops with sudden wakes. Bella had not the mind to become frustrated with the continued denial as she was just becoming more and more fractionated with every dip in and out of trance, every time she woke the spirals captivated her and drew her back.

 

She was trapped. Between the depths of inky black trance and the green pulses of light that beckoned her back down. All the while her beloved Madison’s voice filled every inch of this reality. Eyes open or closed, Madison’s voice followed her and surrounded her and brainwashed her.

 

“That’s right. That’s exactly it. Just going up and down and up and down until your mind melts into a puddle and even when you’re awake, you’re mostly entranced and enchanted by my voice.”

 

In the hotel Madison dared to lean over and kiss the top of Bella’s head, she was so pleased with how Bella was reacting. Every time she squirmed, every time she sighed, every time she whimpered or whined was confirmation that she was a good girl.

 

The brainwashing didn’t need to make that a reality, it was already true.

 

“And coming back up for me, knowing I’m only waking you up to drop you deeper into my power. 1… 2… 3. That’s right, love. Awake, staring into the spiral and listening to my voice, and I know you’re trying to be awake, because I told you to wake up, didn’t I?” Bella squeaked as the compulsions to stay awake and the conditioning to sink into the spirals collided. It felt like she was floating, her eyes were so blurry and wanted to close so very much but she was a good girl and good girls obeyed, “And you’re such a good girl that you’re trying to obey, but the spiral endlessly spinning in front of your eyes and my magic voice echoing in your head make it so very hard to stay awake. Spending so much energy to keep yourself up when it would be so much easier to just DROP.”

 

And any last vestiges of life and will that remained escaped Bella’s mind and spirit as she husked out a euphoric sigh of delight.

 

She was gone.

 

It didn’t matter which way was up or down anymore. Awake or deep.

 

There was only Madison’s voice. That’s all she needed. That’s all that could possibly exist within her mind.

 

“But of course, sweet Bella, I know you know that any of the brainwashing to come is just for you. Donna and Bell can easily disregard it, and of course find it just as easy as it would be otherwise for either of them to be present through this weekend, because I value all the time I spend with them as much as I treasure the time I get with you. But this conditioning? This is just for you, sweetling.”

 

Especially after the incident with the Silver Crystal, Madison always wanted to ensure that Donna would not be impacted by anything she did with Bella. The function of her plural partner’s dissociated identities was an endless learning process and this bit of care was simply an outcome from previously established lessons.

 

“Even when you’re so powerfully affected by it, this brainwashing will also only be in effect when it is safe, comfortable, and appropriate for it to do so and should this brainwashing conflict with anything your Goddess asks of you at any point, her words will always take priority over anything I’ve done. You can let these constraints sink in, knowing that first and foremost I want to keep you safe and happy, and second to respect the collar that Dove gave you, and I never want to challenge that bond.”

 

While one of Bella’s hands held to her beloved’s hand the other had been curled around Elphie and now it reached up to clasp at her collarbone. Madison could feel that even in her mindless state Bella still felt the need to confirm her play collar remained on underneath her clothing. Proof as ever that she was a good girl who listened and respected all of her partners.

 

“These safeties can just sink in and create the foundation of the brainwashing to come, my love.”

 

“And sweetling, I promised you some suggestions for this weekend. Wonderfully fun suggestions that we’re both going to enjoy you responding to.”

 

Bella squirmed a little in anticipation. She’d waited so long for this.

 

“First, my love, summoning. You’ll know that when I gesture at you with one beckoning finger - you know the gesture- you’ll sink into a light trance and come to my side, waking up when you reach me with no memory of walking to me. You will, of course, keep your eyes open and easily navigate around anything in your path, but the pull will inevitably draw you to me. If, for any reason, you cannot come to me, you’ll be able to make a gesture letting me know, just as we discussed, a cutting motion through the air with your hand.”

 

Bella didn’t remember discussing that. But then she was hardly going to remember this programming, either. Compliance did not require comprehension. She could trust herself to obey and trusted Madison to take care of any thinking involved.

 

“And the other suggestion I want to give you, love, is that every time you - and specifically *you,* Bella - nuzzle against me while in con space or in a private room, you’ll just slowly drift into trance more and more with every nuzzling motion. You won’t notice it happening, it’ll just slowly happen. If Donna or Bell nuzzle against me because we’re just enjoying cuddles, it won’t have any effect, of course - just when you do it, sweetling. If we’re in aftercare mode, however, nuzzles will just be nuzzles.”

 

Absently Bella began nuzzling the bulky headset into her pillow with the most adorable beaming grin on her face. Madison could only shake her head fondly at how adorable she was being.

 

“And of course, both of those suggestions will be so much more fun when they’re suprises, my love, so while you can remember that you have a couple of triggers I’ve given you, you can just let yourself forget what they are. Also, if you’re journalling or taking notes about the weekend at any point, you’ll be able to remember everything clearly while you take those notes. You’ll write whatever you want to write, trusting that you’ll forget when you’re done writing. And when you finish writing, or re-reading over things you’ve written, your mind can just hide those memories again to keep the fun surprise.”

 

In her deep reverie, Bella simply floated and held the tether that was Madison’s hand. Her mind was so foggy and she couldn’t process anything but emotions told her that she was a good girl and was following along perfectly. That made her feel so content and peaceful.

 

But the file was coming to an end and as Madison’s words softly roused her the spiral abyss retreated to the menu of the brainwashing program and the hum of white noise vanished, allowing the ambience of a hotel by the highway return to her ears.

 

“Wakey, wakey, cutie…” Madison sang, beaming ear to ear.

 

Sluggishly Bella pulled herself back up, swaying a little at the effort and struggled to remove the headset. Her hair was disheveled from the effort and her eyes were reddened and moist from the continued bouncing of fractionation. Her smile was infectious.

 

“Thank you, Miss! Thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!” she sang, clinging tightly to her Miss, “Oh that was so good!”

 

“Oh, cutie, your reaction more than makes up for any effort it may have taken.”, as Madison spoke she began to pet the back of Bella’s hair. Soon enough Bella’s began nuzzling affectionately into Madison’s touch, purring softly. The action was short-lived as her eyes rolled back and she slumped helplessly against Madison.

 

“Oh… so you took to that suggestion so quickly, cutie.” Madison laughed, gently setting Bella back down on the pillow. “Good girl… and you know that you’ll continue being a good girl and let yourself forget what brought you into trance so you can discover it over and over again this weekend. Doesn’t that sound fun?”

 

“‘es Miss…”

 

This time there wasn’t a visor covering most of Bella’s face. Madison could enjoy how placid her features were and how absolutely smitten she was.

 

She got to her feet and walked to the opposite end of the room, smiling to herself, “Then come back when you’re ready, my love. Up, up, up.”

 

Bella’s eyes open and she shot up, a love-struck smile plastered to her face, “Hiiii…!”

 

“Hi, cutie…” Madison husked.

 

“What are you doing all the way over there?”

 

Madison’s only response was to raise her hand and beckon. Bella’s eyes grew wide and she was plucked from the bed by the force of her desire to obey. She swiftly rushed to Madison and then blinked hard, her expression switching from gentle joy to confused bewilderment.

 

“I… you…?”

 

“Don’t worry about it, sweetie, all you need to know is you obeyed perfectly.” Madison said, plainly. Bella swayed on the spot and nodded slowly, she did not understand what was happening but Madison had told her not to worry and she was fractionated enough to take it as a suggestion.

 

“Oh, my love…” Madison softly sighed, placing a hand to her cheek and guiding her forward, “May I?”

 

Bella, eager and fuzzy, launched forward and kissed Madison. Bella’s kisses were always so swift and soft, little flurries of passion. Nothing like the intense intimacy of Donna’s kisses or the gentle trust that Bell offered.

 

“I get to kiss you!” Bella sang, swaying giddily. “Kiss you, kiss you, kiss you!”

 

“You’re only now realizing that, hmm?” Madison couldn’t help but smile at the affection being placed before her. Bella was uninhibited at the best of times. When she was this fractionated she was simply incapable of experiencing an emotion that she didn’t instantly display at full force.

 

She found it so endearing.

 

“Hop back to the bed, sweetie. I still have things I want to do to you.”

 

“Meep!” Bella squeaked, skipping over and launching onto the bed.

 

“So eager…” Madison mused, making a slow play of walking over to her new position, “So willing… So compliant.”

 

“Yes Miss!” Bella sang, plucking Elphie up and swaying on the spot.

 

“Hey, sweetling?” Madison said, smirk plastered on her face, “Drop.”

 

Bella obeyed instantly. Her shoulders sagged, eyes rolled back and body yielded to gravity as she limply flopped to the side, collapsing safely on the bed, her hair splaying around her.

 

“Mhmm…” Madison cooed, petting her entranced love. “Such a programmed good girl…”

 

Bella started to nuzzle into the petting but the effort soon came right up against the compulsion to sink into trance when she nuzzled and she merely flopped back.

 

“Do you even know how many times you’ve come in and out of trance for me tonight, cutie? And it’s only the first night. I wonder how many times you’ll sink for me… we have at least 4 more days to enjoy…”

 

Bella let out a muffled sound of enthused joy. If there were syllables then they were swallowed by the bedsheets.

 

“Wakey-wakey, Bella. If you can even work out which way is awake with how fractionated you are.”

 

Bella struggled to sit herself back up and flopped back helplessly. As she did there was a knocking thud as her head collided with the backrest of the bed.

 

Madison broke out of her dominant streak instantly. She burst forward and cradled her partner gently in her arms. “Bella, up, up, up.” her voice awash with concern.

 

Bella blinked a few times and broke through some of the haze of her trance. “Uh… sorry… I wasn’t paying attention.”

 

Madison breathed in sharply, “Oh, Bella. You don’t have to apologize. Not one bit. We got a little caught up in play and we weren’t watching our surroundings. Right now I’m just concerned about you. Stay sitting up, please. Does it hurt much?”

 

“Nu-uh…” Bella sighed, “I feel fine. It was just a little knock.”

 

“I just want to be sure you feel ok and that didn’t give you a headache, I know you’re prone to them. Here, keep sitting up, I’ll be right back.”

 

She crossed the room and got a bottle of water from Bella’s convention supplies before returning to the bed and handing it to her.

 

“Drink something.” Her voice was stern, but not in the way it had been a moment prior while she was playing up the dominance. This was the kind of stern reserved for taking command of a tense situation.

 

Bella obeyed, willingly and intentionally. After taking a second to take in the drink and breathe in, she looked up and stared at Madison with a silly smile on her face before she started giggling wildly.

 

“...whaaaat?” Madison asked, not quite sure why there was such a dramatic shift in Bella’s mood.

 

“You switched from Dominant Space to Protecc Space!” Bella said.

 

Madison nodded and gave out an incredulous “Uh—huh?”

 

“No, like, it’s kind of like how we imagine it must be for you seeing me go from “me” mode to “Donna” mode! You were all strong and commanding and now you’re all gentle and caring!”

 

“Of course I am, sweetling.” Madison assured, settling down on the bed next to her, “You’re my responsibility when I take away your ability to think.”

 

Bella whimpered at that concept.

 

“I’m always going to drop everything to take care of you if I need to, sweetling. Even if I were the one all trancey, there’s nothing that would stop me from caring for you if you need it.”

 

Bella’s face sank down shyly, “I’m sorry I broke the momentum of our scene.”

 

“I already said, cutie, you don’t have to apologize. I meant that. Right now I’m calling yellow to check in but once we know you’re okay we can get back to things, if that’s what you want.”

 

Bella wrapped her arms around Madison and held tightly, Madison kissed the top of her head fondly. 

 

“Right now I just wanna hold you… but… we can maybe do some more trancey stuff after? If is okay?”

 

“Of course it is, Bella. You know what happens if you ask for what you want, right?”

 

“I might just get it?”

 

Madison sighed happily and gave Bella another kiss on the head, “Always so eager to listen and learn, aren’t you? That’s exactly right.”

 

Bella beamed and nuzzled into Madison a little. Inherently she understood that the scene was on pause and so the suggestion, one she did not even recognize herself as having, did not work. Madison smiled fondly at her, feeling a wave of pride and trust.

 

“Good girl.” she stated firmly, “Oh, Bella. I do love you so…”

 

“What did I do…?” Bella asked, genuinely confused as to what could have elicited such a strong reaction.

 

“I already said. You listen. You keep yourself safe.”

 

Bella hung on to Madison, pausing to take sips of water when she desired it, and continued to take stock. She felt lucid and her head was not hurting. The only negative, outside of being generally fuzzy from hypnosis, was that she could not feel the presence of the others in her system.

 

Fractionation typically silenced them a while, but there was evidence that the others could cut through and front in an emergency. The bump on the head was surprising but she didn’t feel any crisis. There was no pain at all.

 

“Miss… I think I’m ready to go back to play. Can you kiss my forehead, please?”

 

Madison smiled fondly, “If you’re sure.”

 

“I am.”

 

“Good girl… asking for what you want…”

 

She leaned in and kissed Bella’s forehead and felt her eagerness melt back into emptiness as she dropped deep into trance and slumped against her.

 

“Oh what am I going to do with you…” she sighed.

 

“Mm… bite me…” Bella mumbled from her light trance, a touch of mischief in her tone.

 

“Oh…? Don’t you want to wait until Sunday when you can enjoy being my obedient thrall, sweetie?”

 

Bella’s head shook against Madison’s form, “Nu-uh… want to have it nooow…”

 

“And I thought that Donna was the impatient one…” Madison laughed, “Neck or wrist?”

 

In lieu of a verbal reply, the entranced Bella pushed her hair aside and exposed her neck, presenting it for Madison’s ‘embrace’.

 

Accepting the invite, Madison moved in and clamped her teeth against Bella’s neck. Though it was just a gentle bit of pressure Bella’s entranced mind was able to feel the vampyric kiss, sharp and euphoric against her skin, Madison’s lips sucking the vitality out of her and strengthening her control.

 

A mewl of ecstasy erupted from Bella and for a brief moment she tensed and struggled before submitting to Madison and flopping against her, all life fading from her entirely.

 

“Such a good girl…” Madison sighed, softly, “I am so looking forward to you being my thrall on Sunday…”

 

Bella’s smile radiated bliss at the reminder of all the joy that was to come for the rest of the weekend.

 

“But we have so much to look forward to before that, my love.” Madison said, getting up from the bed and putting her VR equipment back into her bag. “Is there anything you still need to do tonight, sweetie?”

 

“Nuuh… nothing until morning.”

 

“You’ll be a good girl and remember to journal in the morning, won’t you? You remember that you’ve been brainwashed to be a good girl and make sure nothing gets missed in your journal, isn’t that right?”

 

“Yes, Miss…”

 

Madison returned to the bed with a ziplock bag. She set it down on the bedside desk and selected from within it a tiny heart shaped chocolate.

 

“Then get ready for sleep, cutie. I can’t stay with you tonight but I can at least put you to bed.”

 

Bella’s hand wrapped around Madison’s wrist tightly on instinct. It remained for a moment before releasing. She nodded meekly and began to pull herself up, disrobing and switching into her night clothes. Madison gave her the privacy to do so while letting out another fond sigh, she didn’t enjoy leaving her when they had finally been reunited but that just gave her something to look forward to on Sunday as well.

 

Soon enough Bella was in the bed, Elphie nestled up against her. Her eyes blinked a little with a lack of focus but her smile radiated sweetly.

 

“Open your mouth, my love.”

 

Bella obeyed.

 

Madison put the heart shaped chocolate between her lips and softly guided her jaw closed.

 

“Focus on the taste, my love.” a sharp orange mingled in with sweet milk chocolate, a pleasant pang of silky and sugary comfort that bid comfortable pockets of joy in a past full of discomfort, “I made these just for you, sweetling. Yours to enjoy and be entranced by whenever you like. And I’m sure you can tell but that’s British chocolate, the kind you seldom get to enjoy out here. Just notice the taste and let it mingle in with that soft trance you’ve been building up all night, my love. Intoxicating you, controlling you, pacifying you. Just let my enchanted chocolate pull you down into a comfortable and cozy sleep, sweetheart.”

 

Madison watched as Bella’s features melted while the chocolate melted in her mouth. Her slow chewing eventually yielded as her head slumped on the pillow and soft and rhythmic breathing indicated she was already slipping into a serene slumber.

 

“I love you, Bella…” Madison sighed, kissing her sweetling’s forehead, “And we really do have so much to look forward to before the night where you get to keep me. But for now you can just sleep soft and have pleasant dreams.”, she brushed her hair back with her palm and lingered to endure the soft features of her pacified girlfriend, “See you tomorrow cutie.”

 

Bella didn’t respond, but she felt it. She felt loved.

 

The wait was over and her favorite weekend of the year had begun… and this year was special because it was her first Mesmerized with Madison.

 

No matter how sweet her dreams were, they paled in comparison to how she imagined reality would be for the next 4 days.