The Possessed

Erin said, "I'm worried Cathy. None of this makes a lot of sense. After what happened to Pam, Kelly, and me, you would think Zax would be hesitant to do anything illegal with their diapered slaves."

Rolling onto her side and facing Erin, Cathy placed her hand on Erin's ample breast and said, "I agree. Something doesn't add up. This is a dangerous game we're playing, Erin. I'm concerned about you. Maybe we should back off, at least for awhile."

Erin remained silent for a moment mulling over her friend's words. Cathy was right; they should back off now, she thought, before something bad happened. She loved Cathy and considered briefly if she was being foolish in not agreeing to wed and return to a more conventional life. However, the thought of the diapered slaves being forced to participate in another of Zax's cruel schemes angered her. "You might be right," she finally said. "But, I need to find out what's going on first. If it's legal, then we'll perhaps back off, if not...well it's a chance to significantly advance our cause."

"OK," said Cathy. "Whatever happens though, remember I love you."

"I love you too," said Erin. And she meant it.

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"Is everything in place?" asked Katrina.

"Yes Mistress," answered Prudence. "We've stepped up the frequency of the sample returns from the infirmary. Not enough to be noticeable, but sufficient to help move things along. I've made the arrangements for tonight, so in about a week we should start to see some results."

"Good," said Katrina. "I've arranged for the release of some additional papers by the professor. Together, these should be suggestive enough to prompt them into action."

"How can you be sure Mistress?" asked Prudence.

"Nothing is sure," replied Katrina. "However, logically their choices are few."

"And if they aren't logical?"

"Then so much the worse for them."

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Prudence, Camille, and Katrina reclined at table, in the ancient Roman style. Each woman was dressed in a long shear diaphanous gown. Jewels and gold bands on their fingers, heads, wrists and waists complemented their costumes. The woman chatted casually as they ate, served by three nude slaves. Rachel filled Prudence's glass with red wine as she spoke, "Alex has finished moving the professor's equipment to the area of the dungeon where the diapered slaves are. The professor has informed me that in a few days she will be ready to begin working again."

"Good," said Katrina "Security?"

"Alex just finished another sweep of the dungeon and the Castle yesterday. Nothing to report, security looks tight."

"Very well," said Katrina. "Let's keep it that way. From what Camille tells me, if word ever got out about the professor's work, we could be in serious trouble."

"Yes," said Camille, confirming Katrina's statement. "The professor's work on chimpanzees was extremely controversial. She was forced to destroy the animals afterwards. If anyone found out that she was repeating this work on humans...well, serious trouble, is putting it lightly."

"Don't worry," said Prudence. "No one is going to find out. If the professor is successful, then we will soon have all the diapered slaves we could possibly want or need."

"Then, here's to her success," said Camille, raising her glass. Katrina and Prudence lazily raised their glasses, and the three women drank. Rachel and the other two slaves quickly refilled their glasses and returned to their positions along the wall. For her part, Rachel was anxious for the evening to end. Kirsten would be most interested in learning about what she had just heard; most interested.

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Two weeks later, Erin, Cathy, Pam, and June were again sitting around the conference table in the great room. "Well, that seems to cinch it," said June. "They clearly are planning something with the diapered slaves."

The four women were discussing the latest message from Kirsten that they had just received that morning. "Yes, it would appear so," seconded Pam. "But the question is what exactly?"

"On the face of it, whatever they are doing seems to involve cloning," said Erin.

"But what exactly," said Cathy "and why with the diapered slaves?"

"The most obvious answer" said Pam "is that they are trying to clone one or more of the diapered slaves. They would be the logical choice since they essentially have no rights."

"Yes it would seem so" agreed Erin reluctantly.

"I don't know" said Cathy "though they might be the logical choice for such a thing, actually cloning a human being is blatantly illegal. I'm no expert on the law, but I would be extremely surprised if they could get away with it."

"I have to agree with Cathy" said June. "Even Zax with all its connections would have a hard time getting away with cloning women, slaves or otherwise."

"It would seem so" said Erin. "However, maybe we should look at this a bit more closely. On the one hand, cloning is illegal, even the cloning of slaves. If discovered, Zax would face serious repercussions from the Federation. On the other hand, it would be difficult to discover and even more difficult to prove."

"How's that?" asked Pam.

"Well" said Erin, "the cloned slaves would be genetically identical to their biological counterparts from whom they were created. It would be extremely difficult and maybe even impossible to tell them apart. If Zax were careful, and kept them separated, they might escape discovery for a very long time, maybe forever. In addition, Kelly found out that Zax Island is considered an independent state by the World Federation. How they managed this is unclear, but most likely they used their considerable connections to get the grant of statehood from the Federation. It's clearly convenient for them considering their, hmm, extra-curricular activities, both kinky and otherwise."

"But even statehood would not grant them immunity from violating the laws against cloning" said Cathy.

"True" agreed Erin, "but it would make discovery and prosecution much more difficult. Considering its clout and recourses, Zax could probably tie any investigation up for years with legal technicalities and other evasive maneuvers."

"You make a reasonable case" said June. "Still..."

"Still" interrupted Cathy "I don't buy it. Zax might in principle be able to circumvent the law and the World Federation, but they won't be able to evade the court of public opinion. They just suffered a major scandal, a few years ago, as we can all bear witness to. I doubt they can afford another so soon, especially over something so blatantly illegal and universally abhorred like cloning. In my opinion the World Federation would be forced to take immediate action against them, and despite Zax's considerable influence and connections, they would be hard pressed to escape the consequences. In fact, such a scandal might even destroy them. In addition, I don't think they will be able to keep such a secret for long. Their organization is too large to keep something like this quiet for years on end."

Pam and June nodded their agreement and much to Cathy's surprise, Erin said "Yes I agree too."

"Then that leaves us back where we started" said Pam. "What are they up to?"

"Well" said Erin, "I think we can safely rule out that they are cloning the slaves."

"Yes" agreed Cathy. "That means they are doing something else. It may involve cloning in some way, either directly or indirectly, but they are definitely not cloning the slaves or anyone else for that matter. I think we can also conclude that whatever they're doing it got to be legal. It may be controversial (and hence the secrecy), but it's definitely legal."

"Do you think that perhaps the cloning information was intended to mislead us?" said June.

Everyone looked at June, startled. This was an idea that none of them had considered. All had believed the duplicate key cipher they were using essentially secure, although primitive. Was it possible that Zax had somehow broken the code and was now feeding them misinformation? If so, then Zax was onto them...A collective shudder went down the spines of the four women as these thoughts and their implications ran through their minds.

Cathy was the first to break the silence. "I think we need to consider this as a very real possibility."

At that moment Kelly came into the room saying "I just finished my research and discovered..." But she stopped, seeing the grim look on the faces of the other four women. "What?" she said.

Erin looked at her and said, "We think Zax might have broken our code and is now sending us misinformation."

"But how?" asked Kelly in disbelief.

"In any number of ways" answered Cathy. "But most likely they discovered that we were sending messages to Lily and how we were doing it. From there, it would be a simple matter to determine the type of code. Once it was revealed that a duplicate key cipher was being used, they could have monitored the slaves to discover the text being used. After that, they would be able to send us messages."

"But then..." began Kelly.

"We are being set up" finished Cathy.

"Possibly" said Erin. "We don't know at this point that they have broken the code for sure."

"Erin" said Cathy, a bit exasperated, "I think we need to assume that they have discovered and broken the code. It would be dangerous and foolhardy to assume otherwise."

"OK," said Erin, forced to accept Cathy's logic. "But that also means that Zax is up to something, something they desperately want to keep secret."

Pam and June nodded and it was Cathy's turn to concede that Erin was right. "Yes, but what?"

"That is the question, isn't it" said Erin. Turning to Kelly she said "When you came in, you said that you discovered something?"

"Oh, yeah" said Kelly. "I almost forgot. I looked at the papers Professor Fritz published on cloning. They are all quite old. Perhaps more interesting, is the fact that she was doing what is known in the literature as therapeutic cloning, which is legal and used to regenerate diseased, destroyed, or damaged organs or body parts."

"Hmm" said Cathy. "This supports the idea that Zax is feeding us misinformation. Therapeutic cloning is entirely different from reproductive cloning, which is, of course, illegal. Zax is trying to mislead us hoping we might confuse the two."

"Possibly" mused Erin.

"There's more" said Kelly. Everyone looked at her and she continued "Apparently what makes Professor Fritz's work interesting is that she applied therapeutic cloning techniques to facilitate human reproduction, in-utero, as opposed to ex-utero, as is done exclusively today."

"So?" said Erin. "What's important about that?"

"Well the professor maintained that there might be certain advantages to in-utero reproduction, especially when fertilization takes place inside the body. She apparently experimented with primates, with some success."

"I don't get it" said Pam. "What could this possibly have to do with the diapered slaves?"

"I don't know" said Kelly. "But it appears that Professor Fritz is an expert on in-utero reproduction, for what it's worth."

"It doesn't make any sense" said June. "None of it does, and worse, it's starting to sound down-right bizarre, if you ask me."

"You can say that again," seconded Pam.

"Bizarre...," echoed Erin.

"You don't think..." Cathy began.

"Think what?" said Erin.

"Well this is really bizarre, maybe even crazy. I am almost embarrassed to say it out loud" said Cathy.

"What?" Erin demanded.

"It occurred to me, that Zax is not trying to clone its slaves, but rather it's trying to impregnate them" said Cathy. "I know it sounds crazy, but it also fits the facts."

"Incredible!" said Erin, sitting back in her chair, stunned.

"But to what purpose?" asked Pam. "That's even more ridiculous than cloning them."

"Maybe not" said Erin. "For starters it's not illegal, at least not in the same way cloning is."

"But even so," said Pam, "to what purpose? What do they gain by doing this? If they wanted their slaves to have offspring, why not do it the usual way? It makes no sense."

"Perhaps it does" said Cathy. "I agree if the purpose is just to let the slaves have offspring, then it doesn't make a lot of sense. There must be something else. The question again is what?"

"It does explain something else too" said Erin, "the secrecy. Forcibly impregnating the slaves, even diapered slaves, would be controversial to say the least, even if legal. Any publicity would surely be unwelcome and might even interfere with what they are trying to do."

"Makes sense" agreed June. "But again, there still remains the question of, why."

"Yes," said Erin. "Why bother? Especially since there are easier means to the same result that are not nearly as likely to cause the kind of uproar and controversy that this would."

The women around the table sat and looked at each other, thinking. Finally, Cathy said, "It would only cause a controversy if exposed. As for the question of why, I don't have any ideas. However, I think we can safely assume there is a good reason. The next question is what do we do?"

"Expose them," said Erin.

The other women looked at each other startled by Erin's statement.

"I don't know," said Cathy. "We would need to get conclusive evidence and publish it, at a minimum. We can't just make wild and unsubstantiated claims. Zax would be all over us. The only way to get that kind of evidence would be to travel to the Island and record what Professor Fritz is doing. I don't think Prudence is going to allow us to even get near the Island, little lone down and into the professor's lab in the dungeon."

"The only way we're going to get on that Island is to swim," said Kelly.

"Even if we did somehow get on the Island, we would still have to break into the dungeon. Prudence would have us all back in diapers," said Pam.

"Only if she caught us," said Erin.

'That's not very comforting" said Cathy. "But there is another question, even if we are successful, we may not legally be able to use what we find."

"How so?" said Pam.

"Again, I'm not a legal expert, but if we take private information, without the permission of the owners, we may not be able to legally publish it" answered Cathy.

"Not to mention that we would be stealing, which is a crime" added June.

Erin frowned, and ignoring June's remark said "Perhaps, but we don't know for sure. We would need to consult legal counsel."

"You can't actually be thinking of breaking into the dungeon," said Kelly. "It would be suicide. Alex has security all over the place. She'd catch us before we set two feet on the Island."

"I'm not so sure about that," said Erin. "Alex's security is mainly concerned with keeping the slaves in, not with keeping intruders out. After all, it's not likely anyone would seriously consider breaking in. We might have a very good chance of getting in."

The other women looked at each other startled by Erin's bold statement. After a few minutes June nodded and said, "Yeah. You might be right."

Pam also nodded in agreement. It might be possible, she thought. After all, staff constantly came and went. Even the slaves did not seriously consider escape, knowing even if they did there was no place to escape to. Security might not be as tight as they imagined.

"Cool!" said Kelly.

"OK, let's get busy," said Erin smiling slightly as she began discussing tasks with each woman.

Cathy sat silently and thought, "I only hope it's as easy to get out, as to get in."

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Dianna was now nine months pregnant. Her swollen belly had shifted her center of balance and she found standing and walking awkward and difficult. Her large breasts felt swollen and hard, like two large rocks on her chest and she could no longer reach her pussy to touch herself. Not that she wanted to. After her seventh month, Dianna's excitement was replaced by the growing discomfort of carrying the child inside her. At night, she found sleep difficult as she lay uncomfortably on her bed trying without success to position her body so that she could fall asleep. Even breathing was difficult, and most nights Dianna lay awake in the darkness thinking about what would happen after her baby was born.

The four slaves discussed this almost daily now. Lisa and Candy at four months had started to show and each could feel the growing child within them. Soon they knew Dianna's baby would be born and each wondered what would happen to both mother and daughter. Phoebe, Dianna, and Candy speculated that Alex and Laura would allow Dianna to care for the child, at least for a while. Lisa was not so sanguine and believed that Dianna would not be allowed to keep her baby. This of course upset Dianna and Lisa was henceforth excluded from their discussions on the matter.

One morning about half an hour after their breakfast, Dianna began to feel cramps in her stomach. Rubbing her belly she looked at Phoebe and said miserably, "Great! Just what I need, a bowel movement, right after morning changing!"

Phoebe looked at the uncomfortable pregnant young woman and said, "It's OK, Laura said to call her if you need additional changing. Let me know when you're done."

"Thanks," said Dianna, somewhat relieved that she wouldn't need to sit in a soiled diaper for half the day.

Laura had given Phoebe orders to call her if Dianna messed herself between changes about two months ago. Anne had been worried about the possibility of infection after watching Dianna's punishment and noting how loose and open her vagina was. Up until now Dianna had not needed the extra changing. In fact, she usually had trouble messing herself in the morning and was forced to sit on her heals on the floor and push the mess out of her body and into her diapers. This of course, added to her embarrassment, as now Phoebe had to watch her grunt and strain during the morning ordeal.

After awhile Dianna noted that although the cramps had continued, she was unable to relieve herself. Sitting on her heals on the floor she began to rub her swollen belly in an attempt to relieve the cramps. Phoebe, noting her discomfort went and knelt beside her, rubbing her back. "Are you OK?" she asked.

"I don't know," said Dianna. "The cramps are getting worse, but nothing wants to come out."

A look of concern spread over Phoebe's face and she was about to get up and call Laura when Dianna cried out, "Oh my god, I just flooded my diapers!" Looking down, both women saw a large bright green stain spread over the front of Dianna's diaper.

Turning around, Candy rushed over to examine Dianna's diaper. Sticking her hand into the crotch and pulling it out, she held her green stained fingertips to her nose and said, "It doesn't smell like urine. In fact, it doesn't smell like anything."

"Well, if it's not pee, what is it?" said Phoebe.

"I don't know, but there is a lot of it," said Candy pointing at Dianna's diaper "You'd better call Laura."

Getting up and going to the wall, Phoebe touched the communicator plate and a few seconds later Laura's voice said, "Yes, what is it?"

"Mistress," said Phoebe, "something strange has happened to Dianna."

"Strange?" said Laura, "Explain."

Phoebe told her about Dianna's cramps and the green stain in her diaper. "Get her on her feet, I'll be right there," said Laura. About a minute later, Laura and Alex entered the recreation room. One glance at Dianna's diaper told Laura all she needed to know. Grabbing Dianna by the arm she said, "Come with me."

Alex took Dianna's other arm and the three women left, without another word. "What was that all about?" said Candy, clearly exasperated and worried about Dianna.