What it means to be small, truly small
Family's New Shrink Ray
chapter 22
by
copier
· original author:
irrational
Debbie shifted uncomfortably in her bed as she stared unblinkingly at the tiny figure of her neighbor and occasional late night fantasy standing on her palm staring right back at her. She could feel the tension in the air, and while she already regretted her harsh tone directed at the obviously frightened boy, she felt a strange sensation in her gut, something she had rarely ever felt really, and then only ever in the worst of cases at the ER.
It was at that moment that she realised that Nathan's life was now in her hands, literally. He was totally helpless without her, and if she wanted to, she could dispose of him and it would be as if he had just disappeared of the face of the earth. Steve would never even know, there would be no questions beyond a short investigation by the police responding to the missing persons report that would inevitably be filed, and in a couple of months, the town would go back to normal assuming that the young man had just decided to run off to some other state.
Heck, it could well be the case that that would be the story from the start. Did Nathan even have any close friends or family here? Would any of his teachers at the local community college notice if he just stopped showing up for classes? What about a girlfriend? Just as the thought came up, an image of the young man making love to some nondescript girl flashed into Debbie's head, and she felt a simultaneous pang of jealousy, mixed with a twinge of regret and a serving of lust even as she felt her loins heating up.
And here he was, in the flesh, all 2 centimetres of him, fresh from being dipped into the deepest regions of her body and she would never have noticed. Still her desire for him roared unabated, even as the idea of sorting out whatever it would take to get him back to normal without costing Steve his job prodded at the edge of her conscience.
"Do you know just how small you look standing there Nathan?" Debbie said finally, her voice no longer as harsh nor as loud as it had been.
Her words had the desired effect on him nevertheless, as she saw his tiny forehead crease with worry.
"Look obviously this situation is nothing either of us intended, or ever imagined for that matter," Debbie started saying, in tones usually reserved for the nursing staff working under her at the hospital,"but here we are, and while I don't know what I'm going to do to help you given the implications of all of this for me and my family, I am certainly not trying to hurt you Nathan, even if it seems that way to you."
Nathan seemed to take in her words as his look of worry turned into one of pensive thought. For his stature, and the obvious danger he had just survived, Debbie had to give the young man credit. He wasn't bawling his eyes out, curled up in a ball like some of the older men she had seen facing tragedy in the ER. If only she knew how to trust him not to tell on Steve.
It was bad enough that he had seen her naked, and quite possibly been inside her, though not in the carnal sense by any measure, and certainly not by Steve's, but the fact that he would find out about the shrink ray and all the government secrets Steve was working on, that itself would be a tremendous betrayal of her husband's trust, and quite possibly a risk to the welfare of her family. Debbie could not allow that to happen, not when her children's welfare and her husband's livelihood could be so seriously jeopardized.
Maybe she should tell Steve, she reasoned, even as Nathan stood silent in thought himself. He would know what to do, maybe there was a way for him to speak to his supervisors at the government lab and get them to handle Nathan. Then again, she could not be sure if that would work out well for Nathan. He was after all, the first human ever shrunk by the shrink ray. Debbie could not imagine what sort of tests and procedures they would want to run on him before returning him to his rightful size. If that was even possible! Steve said it was but how did they know really, it had never been tested on a living breathing person!
As she stared at the young man standing on her palm, his life so precariously dependent on her own decisions, Debbie felt an overwhelming rush of emotions she could barely begin to understand. She just hoped that when the time came for her to decide, she would make the right choices, for all their sakes.
It was at that moment that she realised that Nathan's life was now in her hands, literally. He was totally helpless without her, and if she wanted to, she could dispose of him and it would be as if he had just disappeared of the face of the earth. Steve would never even know, there would be no questions beyond a short investigation by the police responding to the missing persons report that would inevitably be filed, and in a couple of months, the town would go back to normal assuming that the young man had just decided to run off to some other state.
Heck, it could well be the case that that would be the story from the start. Did Nathan even have any close friends or family here? Would any of his teachers at the local community college notice if he just stopped showing up for classes? What about a girlfriend? Just as the thought came up, an image of the young man making love to some nondescript girl flashed into Debbie's head, and she felt a simultaneous pang of jealousy, mixed with a twinge of regret and a serving of lust even as she felt her loins heating up.
And here he was, in the flesh, all 2 centimetres of him, fresh from being dipped into the deepest regions of her body and she would never have noticed. Still her desire for him roared unabated, even as the idea of sorting out whatever it would take to get him back to normal without costing Steve his job prodded at the edge of her conscience.
"Do you know just how small you look standing there Nathan?" Debbie said finally, her voice no longer as harsh nor as loud as it had been.
Her words had the desired effect on him nevertheless, as she saw his tiny forehead crease with worry.
"Look obviously this situation is nothing either of us intended, or ever imagined for that matter," Debbie started saying, in tones usually reserved for the nursing staff working under her at the hospital,"but here we are, and while I don't know what I'm going to do to help you given the implications of all of this for me and my family, I am certainly not trying to hurt you Nathan, even if it seems that way to you."
Nathan seemed to take in her words as his look of worry turned into one of pensive thought. For his stature, and the obvious danger he had just survived, Debbie had to give the young man credit. He wasn't bawling his eyes out, curled up in a ball like some of the older men she had seen facing tragedy in the ER. If only she knew how to trust him not to tell on Steve.
It was bad enough that he had seen her naked, and quite possibly been inside her, though not in the carnal sense by any measure, and certainly not by Steve's, but the fact that he would find out about the shrink ray and all the government secrets Steve was working on, that itself would be a tremendous betrayal of her husband's trust, and quite possibly a risk to the welfare of her family. Debbie could not allow that to happen, not when her children's welfare and her husband's livelihood could be so seriously jeopardized.
Maybe she should tell Steve, she reasoned, even as Nathan stood silent in thought himself. He would know what to do, maybe there was a way for him to speak to his supervisors at the government lab and get them to handle Nathan. Then again, she could not be sure if that would work out well for Nathan. He was after all, the first human ever shrunk by the shrink ray. Debbie could not imagine what sort of tests and procedures they would want to run on him before returning him to his rightful size. If that was even possible! Steve said it was but how did they know really, it had never been tested on a living breathing person!
As she stared at the young man standing on her palm, his life so precariously dependent on her own decisions, Debbie felt an overwhelming rush of emotions she could barely begin to understand. She just hoped that when the time came for her to decide, she would make the right choices, for all their sakes.
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