The Shadows

Appointments

WARNING! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT AND SEXUAL SCENES AND IS DEFINATELY NSFW. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

I head down the stairs swiftly, adjusting myself to my normal height as I ignore the gawking stares of women and men at my uniform as I walk. I walk past the pole dancers and head over to the bar and the right of the door.
Anti waves at me as he watches Jeremy mix a drink beside him, his eyes practically alight with interest. I laugh and walk over, heading behind the bar beside Anti. Jeremy nods at me in a friendly way as he hands the drink over to a tall lean man behind the bar.
"Hey, Shadow. You gonna work here for a bit? I've got an appointment waiting for me." I nod at him and he smiles, gliding past us both as he exits the bar. "Thanks. Anti's a fast learner. Soon he'll be good to mix on his own. Good luck." I laugh as he exits, and struts over to a younger man waiting in the waiting area, looking extremely nervous.
"Good luck!" He turns round and smiles at me as I yell at him, pulling the younger man up from his seat and leading him away. Anti looks at me, impressed by Jeremy's swiftness and confidence.
"He's been doing this a while too." I explain to Anti and he nods, thinking.
"You said you were starting training tomorrow, right?" I nod and he pauses again. I lean my head foward so he can see me more, an enquisitive look on my face.
"You okay Anti?" He looks back at me, nervous.
"What are you going to teach me?" I scrunch my face slightly, thinking.
"You're gay, right?" Anti nods and I take a breath. "Then  you'll be taught mostly with woman. It is easier to focus on the job if you are not aroused by who you are pleasuring. Why?" Anti looks down at the counter, fiddling with his fingers.
"Well, I was wondering, since you are such an expert, if you could teach me in men too, so I can maybe be better with Dark when we.... yeah." I smile at Anti, and Hannah giggles in my head.
"Of course I can Anti, it's no problem!" He smiles, looking relieved now and I quickly move from behind the bar, checking the bookings. My eyes stop on two names I encounter in my evening shift tomorrow.
"I have Lillith and Joe tomorrow. They are a couple who likes to experiment, and they are very kind. I'm sure they wouldn't mind you training with them." I speak as I walk back up to Anti and he flushes red.
"R-really?!" I smile at his disturbed expression.
"Yes, they are very open to experiment and I have used trainee's on them before. It'll be fine. I can train you without live subjects but it is harder as some things you wouldn't be able to practice. Practicing on actual people is best for you to actually learn." Anti nods, keeping his calm as I grab and mixing vile from behind the bar as a woman orders a cocktail with strawberry juice and whatever is strongest. Jesus. She may regret that later.
I reach behind the alcohol on the shelf, past the moonshine and grab the bottle of Hell's liquor, made in hell itself with a different kind of alcohol derived there, it is the stronges liquor on Earth ever made. One drop of this is enough to get someone tipsy immediately. But this lady says she wants a shot of it in the drink.
I dash in a shot of the liquor, and top it off with the strawberry extract and some ice, smacking down the cap and shaking the vile, keeping my hands on either end of it.
I shake it for around thirty seconds, until the vile becomes cold in my grip and open it up, pouring the concoction into a tall glass, dressing it with a strawberry slice on the sugared rim of the glass to make the drink even sweeter.
I slide the drink slowly on a napkin over the counter to the lady. She takes it, smiling sweetly at me as she drinks it, sitting on a stool at the counter.
"What was that stuff?" Anti looks confused by the bottle I am placing behind all the others on the shelf.
"It's Hell's liquor. Made in Hell, it's the strongest alcohol in the world." Anti raises his eyebrows, looking at the girl, who is drinking her drink quietly.
"Oh jeez." He looks at the girl with wide eyes. I nod at him and shrug. There isn't anything I can do. I can't deny a customer what they want.
I start mixing another drink for a man who has approached the bar, a quick shot of vodka with a salter rim. I wet the shot glasses rim, spreading some salt on the table, before dipping the rim in it to pick the salt up. I pour the man his shot of vodka and he downs it quickly, smiling at me as he walks away to meet Mae, who walks him to one of the rooms at the side. She waves at me as she leads him away and I smile at her in return.
Lottie walks over to the bar, curiosity on her face.
"How'd it go with Molly?" I smile, and she laughs.
"She's currently asleep for the next couple of hours in the upstairs room to the far right." Lottie raises her eyebrows in shock, and pulls her hand up for  high five. I oblige, high-fiving Lottie as I simulaneously keep my eye on the lady with the strongest drink. She has finished now, and has already started to sway in her seat.
Lottie follows my eyes and face palms.
"That's my appointment, Vicky Romerez." I snicker and Lottie breaks down in laughter, tears brimming in the edges of her eyes. "Oh god."
She touches the womans arm and smiles. Vicky tries to stand with Lottie, but falls over her feet. Lottie catches her, but I can see her strain with the weight.
"Can you hold down the fort for a moment, Anti? I think Lottie needs some help with her." Anti nods, moving aside as I rush from behind the bar, helping Lottie support the woman. I grow myself slightly to compensate for my height, even with the heels. We both support one arm and the back and I follow Lottie's lead as she pulls us towards one of the rooms straight ahead of us.
I hold the woman up as Lottie opens the door, helping me get the woman inside. She leads her over to the bed and we watch as the woman collapses on the bed, clearly wasted as shit. I move to leave the room, but Lottie touches my arm, making me turn back around.
"Um, Vicky wanted to be hypnotised to enjoy herself more and not be self concious. I kind of have a headache, so I'm not sure how effective I'll be. Do you think you could help me?" Lottie looks upset and in pain, and I can see her discomfort. I nod, smiling.
"Of course." Lottie's eyes light up, excited.
"Thank you so much!"
"No problem, Lottie. I need you to stand her up though." Lottie nods, carefully pulling the woman up, placing her bag on the bed. The woman sways, giggling lightly as she stands up, supported by Lottie holding her back. Drunk people are always easier to hypnotise, so this should be easy.
I tilt Vicky's head so she can look into my eyes, making those patterns appear in them again for her to focus on.
"Vicky, I need you to look into my eyes." Vicky obliges, moving her eyes to stare into mine, though it takes her a few attempts.
"Vicky, I need you to focus on the sound of my voice, and only of my voice, understand?" Vicky manages a nod, still looking into my eyes.
"Vicky, you will let your control go to me." Vicky's eyes straight away relax, her shoulders slumping.
"Vicky, you will not resist me. You will let me control your body." Vicky's eyes dilate quickly as her shoulders slump forward quickly, Lottie having to catch her as I grab her arm to steady her. I look at her eyes, and her pupila are the size of her irises, confirming she is under. Next step. I look up at Lottie.
"What did she request this for?" Lottie thinks.
"She wanted to be able to be pleasured easily so she could climax several times, and she wanted to not care what people thought so she could strip. She also said she wanted to be ordered around, submissive." I nod, tilting Vicky's head up to look into my eyes again.
"Vicky, you will only listen to the sound of my voice, and the sound of Lottie when she speaks to you, okay?" Vicky nods, her movements heavy as the trance deepens.
"Vicky, you will find everything Lottie does arousing, and you will find great sexual pleasure in every act she does to you and your orgasms will be a lot stronger than before, understood?" Vicky nods again.
"Vicky, you will do everything Lottie tells you to do, when she tells you to do it, understood?" Vicky nods in reply.
"Vicky, you will not be nervous around Lottie, and will be comfortable being naked around her, understood?" Vicky nods again, her movements even slower now.
"Vicky, only Lottie can now break this trance when she decides to. Nothing else wil break this trance, understood?" Vicky nods.
I look up at Lottie. "You wanna do a test run to make sure this worked?" Lottie nods.
"Vicky, we are going to start now, understood?" She nods once again as Lottie lets go of her. She stands on her own, still slumped slightly.
"Try kissing her. If she gets aroused easily, we know it worked." Lottie nods, slowly strutting over to Vicky. She slowly kisses her, gentle and calm. Almost instantly Vicky lets out a sigh, her breathing becoming erratic as she responds to the kiss.
Lottie kicks it up a knotch and carefully slots her finger between Vicky's legs, stimulating her slightly through them. Vicky orgasms immediately, the sound ripping through her body as she bends to Lottie's will.
Lottie breaks off, leaving Vicky lusting, and gives me the thumbs up signal that it worked. I smile at her and exit the room, locking it behind me.
I head back to the bar and I can see Anti serving a teenage boy, who is with an older lady sitting beside him. As the boy talks to Anti, a girl of his age comes strutting over to him, laying her hand on his shoulder. I see him tense up and smile. Nervous teens. Oh dear.
His mother turns and I recognise her as Lucy Strattman, a woman I have served before, and the name written in the book as my next appointment. Ugh. Godammit. Fine.
I walk over to her, a smile plastered on my face as Anti watched me, picking up on my faked happy attitude.
"Hello Lucy, if you would like ot come with me." She stands up from the bar, the two teens following her as I lead them through the crowd to a room off the side.
We all head in and the teens stand nervously, looking around them in awe and fear. I feel bad for them to be honest. This has to be disturbing.
"Okay, Lucy, what is it I am doing today?" The woman looks at me, and I could swear even she looks nervous now.
"Okay, well, this is my son John and his girlfriend Raina. They are both 16 now, but they are too nervous to have sex with each other, though they want too. I was hoping you could put them into a trance and allow them to." I nod at her, calm.
"I am able to do this if the both of them are consentual and want to do this." The two teens look at each other and smile, before the boy speaks up.
"We do want this, we are just too scared to initiate it ourselves. We need help." I smile at him and he shuts up, nervous still.
"Okay then, I need you both to stand up and take your coats off." They both oblige and I pull the boys mother aside.
"What kind of a trance am I putting them in here?" His mother thinks for a second before answering.
"I want their first time to be amazing for the both of them. An unforgettable experience. I want them to be turned on by everything the other one does, to the point that they can barely contain themselves. I want them to have sex so viciously and so thoroughly that it ends with them both passing out from pure pleasure." I stare at her in slight shock. That's pretty fucked up. But then, everyone who sells their soul for this has to be kind of fucked up anyway, so it's not my place to judge.
"I can do this, have you discussed this with them?" The woman nods at me and presents me with the consent contract all members have to sign, which bears the teens signatures. "Okay then, shall I get started?" The woman nods and I clap my hands, causing the teens to look at me.
"Come over here, you too." They obey, coming to stand in front of me, both looking excited and nervous at the same time. I make the patterns appear in my eyes.
"Okay, I need you both to look into my eyes, and don't look away, okay?" They both nods, looking into my eyes.
"You will both focus only on my voice, on no other noise. Focus on my voice, okay?" They nod again, still keeping eye contact.
"You will both calm down and give me control." I keep my voice low and calm, and watch as their eyes relax.
"You will not resist me. You are not afraid of me." They relax more, their eyes half open as they watch my eyes. My voice is soft and warm, drawing them in.
"You know I wil not harm you." Their shoulders slump more, their faces relaxing.
"You will let me control your bodies. Relax." Their shoulder slump completely forwards, and their heads fall fowards with them. I stop talking and walk to them. I lift their heads and look into their eyes. Dilated pupils the size of their irises? Check. Do they respond to breeze? No. They are under. I turn to the mother.
"When this is done, do you wish for me to stay with them to make sure they stay safe? I asume you will want to leave the room." The woman nods.
"Yes, I will leave, but I would like you to stay." I nod, turning back to the teens. The mother leaves the room as I remove my heels and chuck them into the corner, and I hear her lock the door behind her.
"You will both look at me." Both teens heads raise slowly, their trance growing stronger. They look once again into my eyes and I keep my voice level and calm.
"You will listen to the sound of my voice, no other noise will disturb you now, understood?" They both nod, their eyes half open.
"You will only be released from this trance by me and my voice, nothing else can release you, understood?" Another slow nod from the both of them.
"You will both find everything the other does extremely arousing, and will find it hard to resist them. You will find great pleasure in every act they do to you, with very strong orgasms. Understood?" The teens nod again.
"You will be rough with one another, and thorough, making sure to pleasure each other greatly, okay?" They nod again, their eyes never shifting from mine.
"You will pleasure each other to the point where you will both only finish having sex when you have both pleasured each other to the point of passing out, understood?" They both nod again and I pause.
"You will start teasing each other, until I give the order to have sex, okay?" They nod once again, their trance strong.
I walk over to the corner of the room, sitting on a chair.
"You may begin now." The teens begin immediately, the girl circling the boy smiling gently, as he watches her, biting his lip as she struts. He becomes aroused almost immediately, and begins sweating as he holds back his urges.
The girl approaches him and he begins teasing her too, slowly running his hands over her as she sighs. He places his hand in her crotch, gently running it over the shape of her. Her breathing becomes erratic in reponse and she begins to sweat, closing her eyes in pleasure at his tease.
They continue to tease for a few minutes, both of them becoming visibly more uncomfortable as they hold back from one another, their desires written on their faces.
"Okay, go." My voice is stern as I command them. They obey, their bodies pressing together furiously as they practically tear the clothes off of one another. Their searching hands reach into every crevice, every pleasurable spot, and they moan in unison, their voices colliding with one another, their pitches mixing together.
They don't bother going to the bed, they press each other against the wall, squishing together as if they want to merge. They both find the most pleasurable parts of one another, running their hands over them, causing the other to retract and moan in pleasure.
They have stripped each other down to the skin, their clothes dropped on the floor as they focus on each other, ignoring me sitting in the corner of the room.
They are definately being violent with one another slamming each other onto the wall with such voilence, I flinch at the sounds.
Their orgasms become more frequent and more explosive, the two of them getting louder and louder as they pleasure one another. They learn quick, both of them focusing their attentions to achieve their climaxes.
They last maybe two hours together, including their tease. I am watching them as the boy has dragged the girl to the centre of the room and is stimulating her while she does the same to him. It erupts through them both quickly.
Their bodies shake with the pure pleasure as their mouths hang open as they practically scream with the ferocity of their orgasms. They finish simultaneously, both collapsing to the floor, still tangled together, completely unconcious.
I get up from my seat, walking over to them. Carefully, I untangle their limbs from each other, pulling them apart on the floor. They both are sprawled, all of them on display. Then I think about it.
When they wake up, they may feel awkward about what happened, and I have to wake them up and clean up so the room can be used again. Guess I'll have to do it while they are still under my influence.
"Raina, you will wake up, but you are still under my trance, understood?" I address the girl. Her eyes open almost immediately, her pupils still huge to indicate she is under. She stares ahead of her, blank.
"Raina, you will stand up now, understood?" Raina stands up in front of me, her body still limp from where her mind is shut down. Her head hangs forward as she stands, her shoulders slumped.
"Raina, you will allow me to clean you in the bathroom, understood?" She nods slowly, alowing me to grab her hand. She follows me to the bathroom, her footsteps sluggish.
I sit her down in the shower and bathe her quickly, cleaning her off throroughly.
She remains calm as I clean, staring ahead of her, her body moving as I tell her to.
I pull her out of the bath and into the main room, dressing her quickly as she moves according to my instructions. When I am done, I look at her.
"Now, Raina, you will relax, give in to your tiredness. Sleep." She responds, falling back onto my arm. I lay her back down on the floor and address the boy.
"John, you will wake up, but are still under my trance, understood?" He opens his eyes as Raina did. I repeat the process with him, cleaning him off and dressing him. I lead him into the main room where Raina is sprawled on the floor again.
"John, you are tired. Give in to your tiredness. Sleep." He collapses back onto my arm as well, and I lay him down on the floor again. I stand in front of them both.
"Now, both of you, you will now wake up and be released from this trance. Awake." They both open their eyes, sitting up quickly to see one another. They smile at one another, and turn to me, looking sheepish.
I smile at them both to settle them.
"Come on, your mother will be waiting for you, John." He nods and he and Raina follow me out fo the room, as I lead them back out to the bar, where Johns mother is still waiting for them, Anti serving her small drinks while she waits.
She jumps up and thanks me, walking out of the club with John and Raina, asking them how it was and I giggle slightly, feeling bad that they now have to explain to her.
I smile at Anti as he notices me, waving behind the bar.

I spend the next four hours working with Anti, making drinks for the patrons and making small talk with them as others come to lead them to their appointments. Half my shift is done and Luce signals for me to take my break, so I drag Anti away from the bar.
He follows me as I lead him up the stairs, past all the other rooms, to another, smaller, set of stairs.
"What's this?" He questions me and I turn, keeping my face neutral.
"The way up to the library." My voice is steady and I hear Anti snort in disbelief.
"It's above this place?"
"It's a part of this place. We have our own library above all the work rooms, thats what this place used to be, and we just built under it." Anti looks incredulous but follows me up the stairs regardless.
We reach the top, to an old and withered library, filled with a million books with wilting covers. Anti looks around him in awe as I begin searching. I swiftly walk over to the supernatural section, scanning the shelves.
I find the dark magic section, running my finger over the book covers until I come accross a book titled 'The rise and fall of the Wing family' the name rings a bell and so I pull the book off the shelf. I walk over to a table, plonking the book onto it's surface, sitting down as Anti follows, sitting next to me.
"Woah." He practically breaths the word, staring at the old book. It has a lock on it, which looks like it has a fingerprint locking mechanism. I place my finger over it, and the book clicks open, much to mine and Anti's shock.
I flip through the pages, skimming the words, finding the names of the members of the family. Amelith, the mother. Lucash, the father.... and Antis and Shadeish, the children. I recoil in shock, pointing to the words as Anti reads them too.
He looks up at me, fear in his eyes.
"Maybe it's someone else?" I flip the page, and a portrait of the family appears, with mine and Anti's faces painted in it. We look younger, but not by much.
"Okay, maybe I was wrong." Anti sighs. "So, you are my little sister after all. Well then, thats... uh, unexpected I guess." I nod. Anti gets up and starts to leave, amking me realise we have used our two hour break already. Anti leaves, presumably to get his lunch from my bag and eat at the bar, but I stay sitting. I flip further into the book, finding another lock at the back, protecting some more pages.
The lock has two cross indents in it to open it. One looks like my cross necklace, but the other I don't know. Anti doesn't own a cross, otherwise he'd wear it for sure. Curious.
I follow Anti, bringing the book with me. I pass hima t the bar, though he doesn't notice me, too busy wolfing down his food.
I walk into the dressing room and slot the book into my duffel bag.
"Figured you'd find that book eventually." Luce's voice booms from the corner of the room, and I look up to see him smiling. "You might not like the answers you find, Shadeis." He doesn't sounds mad, more concerned for me. I frown at him, my eyes steely.
"I have to try, I have to know." He sighs, defeated.
"I won't stop you, just - good luck Shadeis, you might need it." He leaves the room and I zip up my duffel, following him as he enters his office. I walk back to the bar, and immediately start serving people, distracting my mind with work.

Me and Anti work the rest of the evening at the bar, I only have one evening booking in between shifts so I work with him, showing him how to mix drinks, and lok good while doing it. He learns fast, soon able to mix every drink on the menu, though I won't let him touch the Hell's liquor yet. Not quite yet.
We walk home briskly, the breeze of the morning biting at our skin. We enter the living room at one in the morning, and are met with Stranger and Dark on the floor, surrounded by paper, with long scrawls of writing covering them, as well as images. Neither of them registers us entering, so I place my work bag down near the door, closing it quietly behind us.
Dark is sitting with his head in his hands.
"None of it makes any sense, why doesn't it make any sense? None of it links. It makes no sense..." He is muttering to himself and Anti looks at me, looking simultaneously tired and worried.
I walk over to Stranger, picking up ona slightly hidden image of Anti's face among the mess. I touch her shoulder slightly and she recoils, surprised. Dark jumps too at Stranger, instantly shifting his sheets around on the floor to hide them from me and Anti. I frown gently, holding my tongue.
I smile at Stranger, my eyes dark with tiredness.
"Heya love, I'm gonna head to bed, okay? I don't know if you wanna come too, you guys seem kinda busy." I stroke Strangers head softly as I head up the stairs.
"I'm gonna go to bed too Dark, if you want to come." Anti speaks softly, his mood seeming to be a lot better tonight. I don't know if either fo them hear us or not, it's hard to know.
I get int bed quickly, changing into my pyjamas from my normal clothes, and tucking myself under the covers.
I don't know hoe many minuted or hours pass, but I hear Stranger come in after me, and I hear her get changed. She lies next to me on the bed, and I pretend to sleep. I think she buys it as she tried to be gentle, manouvering around me.
I wait until I hear her breathing change as she falls asleep to open my eyes.
Oh dear...
Hannah sounds worried in my head as she knows what will happen.
Another night of insomnia awaits me.
Great.