The Society of Guardians Ch. 04

"There was a woman..." he began.

My head exploded!

HE'S A SHE!!

With that one comment it suddenly all clicked into place for me. Tracy had told me this morning, "They all looked at me as I went by..." The eye contact! That's how he... or she... got control of all these guys... and that's why it was mainly guys that came after me. Women typically avoid eye contact with anyone they pass on the street. Guys? Many of them aren't going to miss a chance to catch the eye of an attractive woman they pass... especially if she's staring right back at them!

I gave Steve a once-over, noticing the thick glasses he was wearing.

"Were you wearing those today?" I asked him still confused as to how he wasn't under control.

"No." He shot a guilty glance over at the captain. "I lost a contact on the way in today, so I took them out and had to wait until lunch to go home and get my glasses."

"Tell me about this woman."

"She's blonde, evidently hot, because everyone was staring at her. She walked through the precinct this morning like she owned the place. Everyone that walked up to her suddenly turned around and ignored her as soon as she glanced at them." He shrugged, "When she got to me, I couldn't really see her too well, but I could tell she was someone important, so I didn't question it... I just did what everyone else seemed to do as she came by."

The captain was staring slack jawed at Steve, not believing what he was hearing.

"You sure? I don't remember that at all." He said with a bewildered face.

I was still holding his arm, so I scanned through his memories of the morning. Oddly, I didn't see any blonde in them. I thought I had to have missed her, so I scanned them again a little slower.

That's when I noticed the blip. There was a point in his memories where it skipped.

"Crap! She erased your memory of her!" I cursed. "I hoped to get an image of her! I think I can use it to erase her damn influence." Much like I'd been able to remove Clyde's influence knowing his voice, I needed to know what she looked like to remove hers.

Captain's eye widened with a realization, "That's what that was!" He exclaimed. He noticed our confused looks and explained, "Earlier today, I lost control of myself. I went down to the video room and erased all the morning's tapes." He shook his head, "I knew something completely fucked was happening, but I thought it was just a weird daydream or a hallucination or something... but it was bizarre. I had to ask people where everything was, like I didn't even know."

I groaned. Dammit. I was just thinking that might be an option. At least, I learned another limitation, "You didn't... Well, she didn't... know where anything was. She doesn't have access to all your memories. She must just be able to change recent ones to make you forget her. Strange, but it's good to know." But I still needed an image of her. "Where else might there be video cameras to catch her?" I still had a hold of the captain's wrist, monitoring if Toni was back.

"Most convenience stores have them now," Steve suggested. That'd be a crap shoot!

"Banks, too." Ed suggested, "Oh, schools and hospitals, too."

"Hospitals!?! Like Bellemar?" I had no idea they videoed people in hospitals. If I didn't know, it's a good bet she didn't either!... I hoped, anyway!

"Definitely!" Steve answered excitedly, "I know that one. They have the security room in the basement, under the ER wing."

"Perfect!!" I grinned. I swapped cell numbers with Steve and the captain and told Steve to go back out to his desk. "Act like you just got reamed out by the captain again. Certainly not like anything has been cleared up."

He looked to the captain for a moment, nodded and left.

"Captain, she can't access your memories, so you should be safe, but she's going to-..." I cut off and removed myself from his vision. Toni had come back.

Ed stood up and looked around. She was certain I was somehow involved. She just still didn't know how. Her access to his memories must be extremely limited.

I slipped behind him, still holding his wrist and making him ignore it as he walked angrily to the door. He yanked it open and walked out into view of everyone in Precinct.

Without me, thankfully.

I let go of him and slipped behind the door as he stormed out of the room. He went across the room and I could hear him yelling at Steve. I quickly went to the window, opened it and slipped out onto the ledge, closing it behind me. I jumped down to the sidewalk and took off at a sprint. I heard the screams behind me from the street, but I didn't care to look.

I wasn't useless anymore!... And I had somewhere to be.

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Bellemar Hospital was a sprawling complex, so the security room with all the surveillance cameras was impressive. It was startling to see how many different cameras they had. The wall was covered with videos that were cycling through different locations.

Dan, the nice security guy I was able to coax into opening the door, was showing me the videos of the day. Unsure if he had a tiny gap in his memory somewhere, I kept my hand on his shoulder as he scanned through the videos. We were watching Cecelia as I had walked away from her that morning. She had immediately made her way back to her patients to continue making her rounds.

It wasn't five minutes later that a blonde woman walked up to her. The initial angle was from behind the woman, so I couldn't immediately see her face. Cecelia spoke casually with the woman for a moment, but she suddenly jerked in surprise and took a step away, but stopped and stood still. An orderly joined them, his face holding a cruel sneer. Together, the blonde and the orderly led Cecelia away.

As the blonde turned, I felt a wave a nausea pass over me. Her face was still distorted due to the resolution of the current video, but I didn't need it anymore.

I had already seen her!

I'd almost run her over when I was leaving the hospital! I focused on my own memories trying to isolate that memory and focus on her image. I was odd to think I could more easily review other people's memories than my own.

"Go back to me leaving the hospital." I told Dan, "The ER exit."

Dan nodded and switched to the current ER camera.

"WAIT! STOP!" In ER waiting room, her hair and clothes were still a little frazzled from everything she'd been through, was the redhead from the subway. Sitting. Waiting nervously. "That's live, right?"

"Uh, yeah." Dan answered, confused.

I would have to check in on her later.

"Ok. Let's go back to my exit."

It took a little while, but we were able to get a good picture of Toni. Once I saw her face, I focused on Dan's memories, trying to force him to remember if he'd seen her. Unlike when I was scanning Ed's memories just looking for what he remembered, looking for a specific image was different. I was tapping into his subconscious mind. It was startling how many blonde women he had seen. Many of them were just in the edges of his perception, but the details of each were readily visible.

Thankfully, Toni wasn't one of them. He seemed to be free from her influence.

I had him send the picture to my phone. I immediately called Steve's cell.

"Hey, Steve!" I spoke excitedly, "I have a picture of her. Can you search the database to find out who she is?"

He paused for a moment, "Uh, no. Ma'am. You'll have to call the Fire Department for that."

His answer was so off, I knew something was up.

"They're watching you very closely, aren't they?"

"Yes... Ma'am." He answered politely.

"Alright, I'll be there as soon as I can."

"Oh, no. You don't need to do that. I'll see if I can forward you the information you need. I'll just need a little while." I heard him shuffling a moment, "Let me have your name and email address and I'll send you that information when I'm able to retrieve it."

"Ok." I knew he was ad-libbing for his listeners' benefit, so I didn't bother making one up. "I'll stay away then."

"Uh, huh. Ok, thank you, Mrs. Goslam. I'll see what I can find about that and get right back to you." Steve responded.

"I'll be waiting. Don't do anything crazy!" I warned him. "Good Luck!"

The line went dead.

I was concerned Steve was taking chances he didn't really need to, but as a Police Officer, isn't that just part of the job? You typically were putting your life on the line for the good of the community. Kinda like doctors...

I really needed to see about Cecelia. That was gnawing on my gut like a thousand leeches.

Until then I needed to be sure I could remove Toni's influence. I needed someone I knew had been under her influence. I knew Miguel was under her influence, but I had no idea where he was at the moment.

However, I did know exactly where the redhead was.

The fact that she had an incredible body really had nothing to do with it... Honest!

I made my way to the ER waiting room, trying to avoid the large traffic areas and anyone at all really. She saw me before I'd even made it to the room and ran greet me.

"I knew you'd be here! Thank you!" She jumped into my arms.

She wasn't exactly a frail thing. She was probably five-seven and her lean frame was strong. Far more muscle than fat. The impact of her greeting pushed me back a few steps, but I was able to catch her as she wrapped her arms and legs around me, burying her face into my shoulder. I quickly ducked into a side room, out of sight of everyone else and I delved her to see who was in control.

Thankfully, this was all her.

She clung to me like her life depended on it and I could hear soft whimpers coming out. "Please don't leave me... I-... I don't want to lose control again!" I could feel her trembling as she began sobbing. "It's-... It..."

"It's okay. I think I know what to do." I peeled her off of me as I noted where I was. It was the same supply closet where I'd had my first chat with Cecelia... What are the odds?

I took her head in my hands, staring into her green eyes.

"I need to go through your memories to look for someone... Do you trust me?"

"Yes." She responded quickly. A faint smile crossed her lips as her eyes bored into me and her hands clung to my arms.

God, where was this trust over the past few years when I was a lonely Help Desk geek?! I glanced down her body before shaking myself and focusing.

I scanned through her memories searching for an image of Toni. It took a little while, but eventually I found what I wanted.

It was a few days ago. Nikki (the redhead's name came to me as I joined her mind... useful!) had been scanning her social media while waiting for the subway when I saw Toni in her peripheral vision. Her eyes light up as she saw Nikki. Toni walked up to Nikki and pushed her phone down. Nikki looked up, agitated, but I felt her body quiver as she met Toni's gaze.

And that's all it took. A simple gaze and Nikki was Toni's... pawn? Minion?... Slave? Not sure what the best definition was, but Nikki was hers.

It sent a shiver down my spine.

I 'watched' Toni wander away through the crowd as Nikki went back to her phone, completely forgetting about the rude interruption. I zipped ahead a bit to see what happened afterwards. This morning Nikki had been in a meeting at work, when suddenly she was a passenger in her own body. I couldn't feel any of Nikki's emotions as her mind seemed to be blocked off from her body. She stood up and left the meeting, the office and the building and made her way to the subway. While she was waiting, five skinheads walked up calmly to stand next to her in eerie silence.

Together they all boarded the next train. Still riding along in her own body, she stood in the middle of the subway car and raised her arms allowing the men to tie her hands to the handles. Once locked in place, Nikki was suddenly back in control of her body. I was suddenly able to feel her overwhelming emotions as she was thrust into a situation that was completely overwhelming. She screamed and cried and begged, but no one in the car moved to help her. The women in the car were confused since moments before she'd just put herself in that predicament. A few more couples came into the car and the women screamed for the men to stop, trying to push their men to do something. One of the skinheads pulled a knife threatening them, creating the situation I'd encountered.

As agonizing as it was, I forced myself to relive everything with her. I wanted to know. Wanted to experience it as if it were me. I forced myself to feel her pain. Her terror. Her humiliation. Her helplessness. I wasn't anything like I was expecting. I wasn't quite sure what I was even expecting, but it was far worse than anything I'd even imagined.

The moment I saw myself burst into the subway car, sending the thugs flying through the car, I felt like I was rescuing myself. Freeing myself from this horrid event. I felt tears on my cheeks to mimic the ones Nikki had shed. The rush of emotions as I released Nikki (myself?) from the restraints was overpowering. Only to be devastated as she suddenly lost control and attacked me. I felt the despair and mortification she felt for having attacked the person who had saved her... and go through it all yet again a few moments later.

Surprisingly enough, I was also able to feel a hint of an unbearable fear that ran through Toni as I watched myself stare into her eyes and threatened her, "I'm coming for you, Bastard!"

It gave me chills seeing myself like that. There was such intensity in my eyes.

Toni fled Nikki's mind right before I jumped out of the subway car. Nikki rolled out of the way of the guys running in pursuit. She found herself being comforted by a few of the remaining women... The ones that didn't chase after their men, screaming bloody-murder.

Nikki followed my instructions and went straight to Bellemar's ER, where she was treated for her attack. After all the formalities, declining to alert police, they finally discharged her, but she just stayed in the ER waiting room. Waiting for me. I sped through her day until the moment she saw me. Another flood of emotions hit me. I was swept up by it all like leaf in the wind. It carried me on a cloud like there wasn't an issue in the world.

At that point, it seemed to most natural thing to do at that moment.

I pulled her to me and kissed her. Passionately. Enthusiastically. Ravenously. She responded back with the same intensity.

It wasn't the lust-filled passion I had with Tracy... though, there seemed to be quite a bit of lust in it too, but it was instead incredibly emotionally fulfilling.

I enfolded her in my arms and crushed our bodies together, mashing her breasts against my chest. Her arms snaked around me to cling to my shoulders, digging her nails into me as if staking herself to me, never to part. She seemed to just melt against me, forcing the exhilaration of our bodies ever higher. My straining bulge pressed firmly against her pelvis. She unconsciously lifted a leg to wrap about mine, rubbing herself shamelessly against me, enticing me to proceed, but neither of us felt any urge to break from our passionate lip-lock.

The rising excitement of our bodies was ignored as our tongues' passion-play continued unabated. Our breathing intensified. Hearts beating wildly as our tongues delved each other. Finally, unable to catch her breath fast enough, Nikki finally pushed me away, gasping.

"Oh... God!" She gasped. "I-... I-..." She dropped her head to my chest, panting. "Oh my god!"

I wanted her. I had to have her at that moment. Maybe I was feeling greedy. Maybe more than a little lusty. Either way I didn't think she'd mind.

I grabbed her hips, crushing them against my hardness. Making her feel what she was doing to me. Her eyes widened in surprise but were quickly overcome with desire.

"YES! Take me! Take me here. Now!" She moaned.

Her hands went to my crotch, unzipping my pants and fishing inside for my hard cock. I lifted her skirt up to her waist and pushed her panties to the side and raised her leg to give me better access. As soon as my dick escaped my pants, she lined it up with her pussy and shoved herself down on it. I gripped her hips and drove my rigid member completely into the hilt inside her.

"AHH!"

"FUCK!"

I held her there for a moment relishing the rapturous feeling of her walls gripping me, squeezing me so delightfully. It was heaven! Our lips found each other again as I began to plumb her depths. My hips became a blur as I pounded her against me. One leg high in the air with my hands on her hips, I pulled her hard against my crotch, driving my hard dick deep into her over and over. The slapping of our skin started splattering and squishing as her juices flowed over our union.

Her mouth became rigid as her pussy began spasming on me, pushing me farther and faster that I'd ever dreamed it would.

"FUCK!" I groaned, trying to stay quiet.

Locked in an ecstatic 'O', her mouth voicelessly screamed out her orgasms again and again as I hammered her relentlessly. Her arms clutched at me, gripping me so hard her nails should have broken skin.

I felt my balls tighten as I let loose. Pulling her lips against mine, I screamed my release into her mouth, muffling myself slightly.

"FUUUHHH!" I smashed her hips to mine as I shot rope after rope of semen deep into her womb. I kinda hope she was on the pill, cause those swimmers wouldn't have far to go!

I held her tight for a few minutes savoring the sensations of her still spasming cunt. Her mouth finally began responding and she brought her hand up to pull my face harder against her, kissing me passionately as her chest heaved trying to catch her breath.

"FUCK!... That was... incredible! I've never cum... so hard... or so many times... I thought I was gonna die!" She panted out finally breaking the kiss. "Very happily, I'd say... but I really thought I was going to die."

I finally let her leg down and just held her close as we both came back down to Earth.

"I'm sorry. I couldn't help-..."

"Don't be sorry! I loved that!... You can do that to me any time you want!" She admonished me, still breathing heavily. "I'll be willing to go again in a moment... I just need to catch my... breath."

I wanted to take her again. My cock already twitching in her snug confines.

But I also wanted her to be safe.

First things first... It was time to deal with Toni.

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Removing Toni's influence from Nikki was something of a crap shoot. I did what I thought would work, but the only way I'd know if it was working was if Toni tried to take control and couldn't... of course, if it didn't work, then I'd have to deal with Nikki trying to claw my eyes out yet again!

I left Nikki 'safe' in the storage room while I moved through the hospital. I reached out and touched every person I passed, making them forgot all about Toni... and the creepy guy grabbing them in the halls!

In the half-second moment while I touched them, I was able to scan their memories for images of Toni and force a block on Toni's image and commands. I had no idea if it was working, because I couldn't know if Toni had tried to take control of anyone... but I was sure I'd find out... eventually.

I didn't find Miguel, but I'd 'bumped' into a few other orderlies that had been influenced by Toni. I hoped my efforts weren't futile.

After I wandered through the hospital, I went back and picked up Nikki. I walked with her through the city. One hand holding her, the other touching every person I passed. It was surprising how many people had been influenced by Toni.

I'd expected someone to scream or yell or something as we walked down the street, but nothing happened.