Alex sported a mischievous grin as Caitlyn's head slumped down toward her shoulder. Thrilled to see her first successful induction, she turned to Beca and Chloe. The amateur hypnotist asked, "how was that?"

"Not bad. You've been paying attention," Chloe replied as Beca looked on in awe. Evidently, the couple had been less than discreet in the past and attracted a little attention. Alex had seen Beca getting a little spacey while talking to Chloe in a coffee shop once, and after a slightly awkward conversation, the trio hit it off quite well! Chloe ultimately invited Alex and her partner for dinner one Saturday night.

Chloe leaned forward, a slice of pizza in one hand and a glass of white wine in the other.

"Has she been hypnotized before? She went under pretty fast..."

Alex perked up a little as she replied, "I don't think so? I did, uh..." The new hypnotist blushed slightly. "I mentioned a few things about what I saw you guys doing one day, and she got all excited!"

Beca and Chloe exchanged a sideways glance and smirked, realizing what Alex had done, even if Alex, herself, had not.

"When you set up the mind for a given expectation, it makes it easier to introduce desired behaviour even if..." Beca was interrupted by Chloe gaining Beca's attention, the redhead waving her fingers bewitchingly before Beca's eyes.

"Deep sleep, sweetie..."

Beca's eyes glazed over rapidly as she stared vacantly at Chloe's hand. Her half-eaten slice of pizza, forgotten, fell from Beca's hand and landed on the couch. Chloe moved to retrieve it before it left a grease stain on the cushion.

"Wow... What's it feel like when she's like that?"

A sly grin formed on Chloe's face as she reached for her cardigan to retrieve her pendant from its pocket. She made it about halfway there before she noticed her phone vibrating on the table.

Weird... who could that be at this hour?

Alex was too busy gaping at Beca's hypnotized form to notice Chloe turning white as a sheet at the video sent to her phone. Chloe quickly pocketed her phone before turning to Alex.

In a sheepish voice, Chloe said, "Um, I am so sorry, but something's come up. Can we continue this some other time?"

Alex's smile quickly faded. "Oh! Yeah, of course. Caitlyn, snap out of it!"

Alex snapped her fingers a few times and Caitlyn sat up, taking a deep breath. After the briefest exchanges of farewells and thanks, their new friends were out the door.

Chloe turned her attention to Beca.

"Hey, wake up! Right now!!"

Beca became increasingly animated as she turned to her partner.

"Mmm, are you being the steely, no-nonsense..."

"Red! Knock it off, we have a problem," Chloe interrupted, before Beca could finish.

A wave of sobriety washed over Beca as the safeword took effect. In her newly wakeened state, she saw something was truly wrong.

"Chlo, what is it? Talk to me."

Chloe pulled up the video she received and played it for Beca. Beca's jaw dropped to the floor, speechless, as she watched Cara pledging her submission to Alison while Lisa caressed Cara's legs. Just as the video ended, a text message appeared below.

"See what a real hypnotist can do? Thanks for the trigger, btw ;-)"

Beca's heart was pounding a mile a minute. She paced back and forth across the living room floor as she picked at her nails.

"Oh my god, this is bad. This is my fault. I gave her that trigger, Chlo! Shit, this wouldn't be happening if I didn't - "

"Stop it! It's not your fault. Just because we play by the rules doesn't mean everybody does."

Beca heaved a sigh of relief at hearing that.

"You're right. Of course you're right. We still need to help Cara, though! We invited her here. We exposed her to Alison."

Chloe took Beca by the shoulders and looked deep in her eyes.

"Focus, okay? Take a deep breath and centre yourself." Beca complied and felt a little better almost immediately.

"Right. Thanks. So, what do we do?"

"Let's find out."

Chloe typed out a reply:

"Give her back."

The pair stared at Chloe's phone for what felt like an eternity before the next message posted.

"Hmmmm... keep a slave, or let one go? How ever shall I decide...?"

The next message came much more quickly.

"No. She's mine now, but my all means, try and save her. If you think you can. Toodles"

Chloe and Beca looked at each other, astonished at the events of the last few minutes.

"So, what now? I mean, it's clearly a trap," Beca said.

"Yeah, no shit," Chloe chided. "But I'll be damned if I'm leaving our friend in that... woman's... clutches."

"Then we call the police," Beca offered.

"And tell them what, that a spiral-spinning hypnotist is brainwashing our friends one at a time?"

"Ok, then we spring the trap - get a bunch of people together and storm the place."

Chloe stopped in her tracks for a moment to give Beca an incredulous look before breaking out into a genuine giggle-fit.

"'Storm the place?' Oh, that's rich. Thanks, babe. I needed that."

Beca gave her partner an equally incredulous look, slightly embarrassed for being laughed at. "Well, I don't hear you coming up with any ideas!"

And just like that, Chloe had a plan.

"Don't worry, sweetie. I've got this."

"What? No. Whatever you're doing, don't. We're in this together."

Chloe ignored her partner and proceeded to sort out the details...

The following morning was damp and cool in the aftermath of long, steady rain overnight. Chloe stood on a street corner, wearing a black double-breasted trench coat and dark grey leggings.

Had Beca been present, she'd have informed her partner that if Chloe was going for 'inconspicuous' this was the exact opposite of what she ought to wear!

Nevertheless, Chloe maintained her position: standing just around the corner of the building next to Lisa's favourite coffee shop. The redhead knew that Lisa, forever a creature of habit, would be walking by at any second on her way to getting her morning coffee.

"This has to work... This has to work," Chloe kept thinking to herself.

Lo and behold, right on cue, Lisa walked slowly past Chloe on her way to work. Chloe, caught up in her own head over trying to psych herself up, nearly lost her time to strike. Just in the nick of time, though, she realized the pivotal moment had appeared!

In one quick motion, the redhead quickly stepped in front of Lisa, blocking the blonde's path, while simultaneously waving her gloved hand before Lisa's eyes. Lisa, true to form, responded exactly how Chloe had expected: Lisa’s eyes had a look of confusion as they dutifully followed Chloe’s fingers around around, back and forth…

Chloe managed to keep the confusion levels high as her fingers fluttered and her arm moved erratically to keep Lisa's attention.

Chloe snaked her other hand around behind Lisa's head and whispered, "sleep," as she pulled Lisa's head down. "Deep sleep. That's right, deeper and deeper down for me, all the way down, hundred times deeper, sleep deep, Lisa..."

Chloe pulled off the butterfly induction like a pro. Part of her almost wished she had an audience to applaud her!

Instead, Chloe pulled Lisa in close so she could whisper into the ears of her subject, while any passerby would just think that the two women were hugging.

"Now, I want you to listen very closely..."