Changed Redux Pt. 02

Mary's eyebrows came together in a scowl. "A bit more receptive to being a .... Really?"

"I was nervous that you would not take well to having so much power over other people. I could easily see through the bonding that you were not a naturally self confident or assertive person and the thought occurred to me that I could ease your transition and make you more comfortable with the changes by making you a bit more... assertive."

"'Not self confident or assertive'. Wow, this is sounding more like a bad performance review at work. Thanks, this really helps." Mary bit out sarcastically. In truth, she knew that Marcellene probably wasn't that far off the mark. She never had been all that self confident and she had definitely never been very assertive, but to hear it said out loud and especially by someone she really just met stung. A thought clicked, "Wait, ok, I get that I was never really assertive or confident. You're probably right. But, how do I know that? If you changed me shouldn't it be like when I changed Julia, she didn't realize it? The only reason she knows now is because I told her. I mean, I know you just told me, but shouldn't I not believe you like Julia didn't believe me at first?" She paused and gave a little laugh, "Did that even make any sense?"

"Yes Mistress, it made perfect sense and no, I can only make small changes in you because I am part of you now, not because of the power of the ring. That is, well, not quite separate, but not really the same either. I'm sorry, it is a little difficult to explain." She stopped for a second to collect her thoughts. "I can change small things in you because I am in your mind. Essentially a part of you now. But I cannot effect the physical world. I can only touch your mind. It's not the same a you using the ring's power."

"So you can make me do things, but not do them yourself. Does that about sum it up?"

"Essentially, and only small things, but yes."

Mary's lips curled into a crooked grin, "So making me enjoy being Julia's Mistress is a small thing?"

"Essentially, yes. All I did was make you more assertive and self confident. Small tweaks to your personality. The 'Mistress' part was an unforeseen consequence.

"Ok, well going forward, please talk to me before you go messing around in my head." Mary's voice was surprisingly calm but had an edge of steel to it. "I don't need you trying to make me a little more aggressive to win a card game and turn me into a chainsaw murderer as an 'unforeseen consequence'. Understood?"

"Yes Mistress." Marcellene's voice was soft and contrite. "I do apologies for what I did. It was not my intent."

"I know. But lets talk about it next time."

"Yes Mistress.".

A while later Mary was just finishing up vacuuming the living room when there was a knock at the door. Opening it Mary found the UPS delivery woman waiting for her. With a little smile and quick hello, the woman handed her a package and the tablet for signature. Mary hadn't ordered anything but she assumed Julia had so she signed without even looking. It wasn't until the door was closed behind her that she realized that the package wasn't actually for either of them. It was for a woman named Alissa West. but the packaged had been addressed to their condo, unit number three. Mary figured she must be somewhere else in the complex but she couldn't recall anyone by that name. A thought occurred to her that it was probably woman who just moved into unit number thirteen. The "Unit 3" on the package was likely a typo and just missing it's '1'.

She slipped on a pair of sneakers and walked across the grounds to number thirteen. The parking lot was almost empty at this time of day since almost everyone in the complex was some kind of professional or trade. There was only a couple small families and only two stay at home moms that she knew of.

An old, silver Jeep Wrangler was parked in front of unit thirteen so she thought that perhaps someone may be home. She didn't know the woman who lived here yet but she had seen her a couple times from across the parking lot. She looked to be about Mary's age, low to mid twenties, and about her build. Well, about her build before she thought with a glance down at the vast swell of her new boobs. She smirked a little at the way they bounced and swayed as she walked, their heavy motions obvious even under the baggy sweatshirt she was wearing.

Mary had found that just as Julia's clothes and even old photographs had changed to reflect the changes that had been made to the young woman's small body, so to the world adapted to the changes in Mary. It had been both startling and oddly exciting to find that her lingerie drawer, formerly filled with size 6 panties and 36C bras, was now filled with size 12 panties to accommodate her wide hips and 36G bras to support her huge new assets. Holding up the massive lace cups she was amused to notice that they had five hooks on the wide back strap. Well, she guessed it was supporting about thirty pounds of boob so that about figured. Briefly she had wondered if she would develop back problems because of her new girls but pushed the thought aside. She hadn't even decided if she was going to stay like this. She rather thought Julia enjoyed her liked this but she still thought it was too much. She liked the curvy new hips and fabulous ass, but the boobs were a bit over the top. She thought maybe she should take them down a size or two. Pushing aside the thought for the moment, she mounted the steps and punched the doorbell.

"Hold on a sec." came a faint, muffled voice from beyond the door. Mary waited patiently while much more than a second went past, then a little more until finally after a couple minutes, the door was flung open and a young woman stood there wrapped in a large, fluffy blue towel. "I'm sorry I was just..." The woman started to say but when she saw Mary she let out a startled sounding "Oh!" and took a step back, closing the door a little.

In response to the somewhat ambivalent greeting, Mary quirked one eyebrow and gave her a little lopsided grin. "Hi." She said, trying hard to keep the amusement from showing in her voice. "I think this is yours. It got delivered to my place a few minutes ago. That is if you're Alissa West." As she spoke she gave the woman a quick once over without being too obvious about it.

She decided her earlier guess of about age and build was close but maybe a bit off. She looked to be a bit younger, maybe early twenties and she was a bit taller than Mary by a solid three inches. The woman was very cute in a girl-next-door kind of way with amazing copper red hair that looked to come about halfway down her back, though that was a little hard to determine with the woman now hiding partway behind the door. Her eyes were a brilliant green and her cheeks and the upper part her chest were covered with an adorable smattering of freckles.

Mary just stood there for a moment holding the package out until the woman finally gave a little laugh. "I'm sorry, it's just, well, you see I was expecting my sister to arrive soon and I thought it was her." She took a step out from behind the shelter of the door and gestured at the towel, "It's just I'm not usually in the habit of answering the door wrapped only in a towel but I was just about to step into the shower." The woman's voice was rich and throaty with a distinct southern drawl though Mary wasn't well traveled enough to be able to tell what region of the south she might be from.

Smiling, Mary said, "Doesn't bother me if it doesn't bother you." She pointed over towards her own condo, "I'm a woman, I have a sister, my roommate is a woman, so I'm kinda used to seeing women walking around in towels. No biggie." But actually, I'm still rather enjoying how you look in that towel. Mary thought but of course didn't say. Holding out her hand, she said, "I'm Mary. Nice to meet you and invade your privacy."

The woman laughed again, this time sounding a little more genuine. "I'm Alissa West, but I guess you already figured that part out." She said, pointing at the label on the box. Sorry about the mix up and the cool welcome." She smiled a broad, dazzling smile, "I usually make a much better first impression."

"I would have to say I've had better, but I've had worse too so we'll call this one a draw." Mary smiled, trying to will her eyes not to look the woman up and down again, "So, you just moved in?"

"Yeah, just moved up here to Massachusetts last week. I'm starting a new job next week at the Oceanographic Institute."

Mary was impressed. The Institute was a world class research center. It wasn't exactly her field of study, but from what she had read, only the best in the field got hired there. She looked at Alissa again more critically, "Are you doing an internship there?."

Alissa laughed, "No, I'm long past my working for free days."

"Oh." Mary said, a little surprised. "Sorry, I had you pegged as a college student."

Alissa laughed again, "No, but I get that a lot. I look young I guess. I'm actually twenty nine. But I am still a student, of course it's post grad now.

"Wow, I never would have guessed that, you look a lot younger." She paused then changed the subject slightly, "So, I'm assuming you haven't actually started work yet since it's the middle of the morning and you're standing around talking with strangers dressed only in a towel? Why don't you come over tonight? You can meet my room mate Julia, we'll get some take-out, maybe watch a movie or something. Kind of a meet the neighbors thing."

"Um, sure. I guess that would be fun. I don't really know anyone in town yet so meeting some new faces would be good."

Smiling, Mary said, "Perfect. About six? Julia should be getting home around then."

Alissa smiled and Mary felt her insides leap a little. When she smiled her whole face practically lit up. She is adorable. Mary found herself thinking.

A few hours later the front door opened and Julia walked in, dropped her purse and computer bag down on the counter and without preamble, flung herself into Mary's arms.

"Woah!" Mary exclaimed, laughing as she just barely caught the smaller woman. "I guess you missed..." The rest of her words were cut off and Julia planted her soft lips on Mary and kissed her fiercely. Mary allowed her lover to kiss her for a few minutes, thoroughly enjoying the wonderful feel of the woman in her arms.

Eventually Julia's hands started to wander and with an iron will, despite the pleasant glow beginning to spread through her body, Mary gently set Julia down and pushed her away.

"What?" Julia said, looking more than a little disappointed.

"We have company coming over tonight."

"You made plans? What? Who?" Julia said, looking a little miffed.

One of Mary's eyebrows quirked up. Oh, she was going to pout, huh? Mary thought, Well, if she wants to play games... She straightened to her full height, thrust out her heavy breasts an glared down at the smaller woman. With some steel in her voice she said, "Is that how you talk to your Mistress?"

The change in Julia's whole manner was instant and to Mary, a little bit shocking but also very exciting. The young woman before her went from almost petulant to embarrassed and subservient in an instant. She looked down, bit her lower lip and clutched her hands behind her back, fidgeting. She looked for all the world like a little girl who just got caught cheating on a test and was now standing in front to the school principal.

"Well?" Mary asked.

"No Mistress." Julia mumbled.

"That's better. Now, why don't you be a good little girl and go get ready. Alissa will be here any minute now. And of course you'll have to stop acting like that for now. We don't want to scare her away in the first three minutes.

"Yes Mistress." She paused, then said, "I mean, ok. Yeah. And who is coming over?"

"Alissa West. That new woman that just moved in a few buildings over in number thirteen."

"The redhead?" Julia asked a little too eagerly.

Mary couldn't hold back a smirk. "Yes, the redhead."

"Did you make any, um, suggestions?" Julia asked with a wicked little smirk.

"No. And here I thought you said I was the love of your life." She said in mock indignation. "One weekend and you're all ready to jump into another pair of panties." She sniffed, "So, who is being the pervert now? Huh?" Mary waggles a finger at Julia, "You can just keep your raging libido in check there Missy. We'll see how the evening goes."

Truthfully, Mary still didn't know exactly what she was really planning for tonight. She didn't even really know why she had asked the woman over in the first place. It had just seemed like the thing to do at the time once the woman was in front of her . She was a little nervous to think that maybe the idea had come more from the ring than from herself. A knock at the door interrupted that line of thinking.

"Guess who..." Julia said, heading for the door.

"Well, someone is looking forward to tonight." Marcellene's voice echoed though Mary's head. "You may have done your work a little too well with that one."

"I don't even know what I really did. I just wanted to boost her sensitivity so sex would be, you know, more fun. That was all. This..." She gestured after Julia, "was not what I had intended."

"Then you need to learn to be more careful with your wayward thoughts and wishes. I think the thing that changed her was when you were just about to tell her all about your new powers. You muttered something about 'Please be ok with this.' or something like that and there was a change. The question is, what were you thinking when you said that?"

Pausing to think, Mary tried to recall what had been running through her mind. "I think I was thinking that I hoped Julia would be alright with the changes I had made with her and with my new powers." She closed her eyes, trying to bring the moment back in her mind. "I was thinking..." The memory clicked and with a sudden realization, Mary groaned. "Oh, no. I had just thought about how I could manipulate and control her and she'd like it. But I also was thinking about other women, changing and controlling them as well. Also that thing you said about how the old ring masters used to gather vast harems of beautiful women. Then I think I said, 'Please be ok with this.' or something like that.".

"Well, you seem to have gotten your wish." Marcellene laughed, "She seems to be looking forward to the idea of you controlling other women and maybe even building your own harem." She laughed again, the sound surprisingly musical in Mary's head.

"Wonderful." Mary muttered as she heard footsteps approaching. A moment later Julia followed by Alissa came into the kitchen.

Taller than Julia by probably almost a foot, her long, brilliant copper-red hair was loose and pushed back over her shoulders framing her adorable befreckled face. She was dressed in grey leggings and a tight fitting black blouse that set off her hair wonderfully and did absolutely nothing to hide her slender figure.

Alissa smiled and despite herself, Mary felt her insides melt.

"Dear Goddess, she's lovely." Marcellene whispered.

Mary couldn't help but agree. A glance over the woman's shoulder at Julia and she could see that she agreed as well. No, more than agreed, Mary thought. She could clearly see the lust burning in Julia's deep eyes and this time it wasn't aimed at her, at least not entirely.

"Thank you so much for inviting me over." Alissa said, coming over and holding her arms out to give Mary a friendly hug. Before Mary could even react, the taller woman had come up to her and wrapped her arms about her, pulling them lightly together.

"Well, someone is friendly." Mary heard Marcellene mutter wryly in her head as she felt the taller woman's small breasts pushed up against her own mounds. Even that slight contact was enough to send a wave of pleasure and longing washing through her body. Oh dear Goddess, what had she done. She glanced over at Julia and saw the smaller woman smirk knowingly.

Backing away perhaps a little too hastily, Mary stammered, "Yes, it's so nice of you to come. There aren't many other women our age in this complex and honestly," she cupped her hand to her mouth and whispered theatrically, "most of the people here are pretty boring anyway."

Alissa laughed, "Well, hopefully you won't think I'm boring after tonight."

From behind her, Julia piped up, "Oh, I can almost guarantee that we won't."

Mary could see that Julia's little smirk of earlier was slowly changing to a wolfish, predatory grin. Nervously, Mary coughed and said, "Yeah, I'm sure. So," She clapped her hands and rubbed them together, "Pizza sound good to you? It better be if you're going to hang around with us, we practically live off it."

"Yeah," Julia said, "We actually have a running tab down at the local pizza place. The owner knows us so well he invites us to his family parties."

"Really?" Alissa asked.

"Sadly, yes." Mary confirmed. "We just went to his daughter's eighteenth birthday party a few weeks ago. It really is kind of pathetic honestly. We almost never cook. The only thing in our fridge is drinks, snacks and anything that can be microwaved." She paused then added, "And wine of course."

Laughing, Alissa said, "Of course. Well then maybe you can come over my place once I have everything set up and I'll do some cooking for you. I rather enjoy it and I'm told I'm quite good." Alissa said, giving their spotless and largely unused kitchen a glance. "Or I could cook over her if you prefer. You have a lovely, big kitchen."

Julia laughed, "You better bring your own cooking utensils! I think the only things we own is a few pans, some tupperware, a can opener and maybe a spatula."

Nodding, Mary said, "That's probably about right. We do kind of a lot of take-out here."

With her own smirk, Alissa said, "Well, we can work on that." Looking back and forth between Mary and Julia, she asked, "So, pizza?"

Four hours later Mary shut and locked the front door. Turning around she found Julia staring at her with a curious expression on her face. "Yes?" Mary asked.

Julia looked at her silently for a few more long seconds before finally answering, "Nothing. I was just... no, nothing." She turned and headed for the kitchen.

Mary sagged against the door and let out a quiet sigh of relief. The evening had been an odd one for her. Alissa was an absolute delight, both on the eyes and just to be around. She was an excellent conversationalist, very worldly, witty and most important of all, brilliant. After talking with her for a very short time, it hadn't surprised Mary at all to find out that Alissa was actually almost done with her Doctoral Degree. The primary reason she had transferred to the Oceanographic Institute was to continue work on her Doctoral Thesis. Something about deep sea bacterial growth around deep ocean geothermal vents.

Or at least that was what Mary thought. Most of the conversation had gone over her head. Although she was a little surprised at how engaged Julia had been. Of course, Julia had always been interested in anything to do with the ocean so sue supposed it fit.

And in all fairness to herself, she thought she may have followed the conversation better if she hadn't been so distracted by the woman who was speaking because in addition to her brilliant mind, Alissa was also lovely to look at. A fact that had been very hard for Mary to ignore when the woman was sprawled out on their sofa only a few feet away, her long shapely legs on perfect display encased in the skin tight leggings and her blouse riding up slightly exposing her flat, toned midriff. More than once she had caught Julia sneaking glances at Alissa while squeezing her thighs together or sneakily giving one of her boobs a quick rub or pinch.