Ruffled Feathers

After Tess had vacated the room, Jessica turned to her mother, “If what you two are saying is true, and there’s a miniature little man out there, why did you let her go off by herself. You should have encouraged her to take me up on my offer. I want to see this Tom you are all talking about,” she asserted, hands on shapely hips.

Lina met her daughter’s fierce blue gaze, eyes so very like her own, “Relax child, you need to exercise a little patience, unlike your headstrong sister,” she said calmly.

Jessica looked over at the now sleeping Janine before turning back to her mother, “Patience?” she asked. “Once that girl Tess gets ahold of him, she will never let him go again. I saw it in her eyes,” she stated.

Lina laughed softly, the sound neither derisive nor mocking, “There was nothing that I could have said to Tess that would have swayed her into allowing you to accompany her to go to her brother, especially after the way your sister used him,” she explained, rising from the chair.

“I just wanted to see him, not use him,” Jessica countered, some latent indignation buried in her tone.

“Really? Isn’t there little part of you, maybe deep down, wondering what it would be like? To surrender yourself to a sensation beyond your ability to imagine. To feel this young man, every twitch, every move connected directly to your pleasure center?” she asked, leaning in close and whispering.

Jessica pulled away, clearing her throat. “No,” she replied, shaking her head, blond hair dancing from side to side.

Lina smiled, a cat’s smile, “I know you better than you know yourself, you’re lying,” she said.

“I’m just find it impossible to believe is all,” she defended.

“What? That there is a handsome little devil who, by some accident has been made small? Or that this tiny boy can do things to your body no full sized man ever could, touching you in ways and places that feel so good you want to surrender yourself to the sensation of pure bliss?” Lina asked coyly.

Jess scoffed, but her face betrayed the fact her resolve slipping, her conviction was eroding.

“I told you it was difficult to explain when you asked me if I had slept with him. Once you see him, that part of you that wants to control, that wants to express your dominance over another will gnaw at the back of your skull, wondering how amazing it would feel to slide his little body up inside of you, igniting every nerve ending you have as he is thrashing within you,” she explained, tone a little throaty.

Jessica shook her head, “I don’t think so,” she dismissed.

“Think of him this way, as a catalyst of sorts, possessing the unique ability to awaken one’s inner goddess in all those he meets, making them feel, emote,” Lina replied with a knowing smile.

“What’s your inner goddess then?” Jessica inquired, pursing her lips together and narrowing her eyes.

“He helped remind me of who I am, both as a woman and as a nurturer,” she answered, slow smile parting her lips as memories of her time with touched the surface of her mind.

“Janine?” Jessica asked, pointing a finger in the sleeping girl’s direction.

“Your sister has always been aloof, some might say cold and dispassionate, yet this boy has ignited a fire in her, moving her to step beyond her normal shell, enhancing social relationships and exploring new dynamics,” she responded.

“What about her inner goddess?” Jess challenged, extending a hand in the direction of her slumbering sibling.

Lina laughed softly, “I love your sister as much as I love you, and while I see myself as perhaps gentler, in her, as she was prior to the accident, I see the embodiment of a goddess of war, of singular purpose and driven direction,” she opined.

“If he inspires that, what about Tess? What inner goddess did he bring out in her?” Jess inquired thinking perhaps she had stumped her mother.

“Following the basic archetypes, she has been placed into the role of mother, protector. An asexual loving relationship,” Lina supplied.

Jessica frowned. “Which is why you didn’t advocate for me to go along, if even just to see him,” she commented.

“Exactly. That, and given your sister’s handling of him, I was unsure of his condition,” she included.

“Now I am burning with curiosity,” Jess admitted, mind moving at a mile a minute now that she felt there was some credence to the notion of a miniaturized person.

“Patience,” Lina repeated. “”There are a very limited number of outcomes to this situation for Tess. She is a very bright young lady and she’ll realize she has few options. First, she can reclaim her brother from this nurse, meaning she will once more have to house him in a location that has already proven to be unsecure, or she can resign herself to the fact that she will have to have him with her at all times, which knowing Tom, will prove to be the ultimate test of her resolve. Or second, depending on the nature of this nurse who removed him from your sister’s person and alerted no one, which of itself speaks volumes to the effect Tom has, he may temporarily wind up in that location,” she explained.

“And?” Jess asked, spreading her hands. ” You’ve built it up, now what? Am I supposed to just go ‘Oh well, that was interesting,’ and just go back to school like nothing happened?” she inquired.

“Given the current circumstances, yes, there is little else to do but bide time,” she replied.

Frowning, Jessica plopped down in the chair, “That’s bull,” she muttered.

“Relax,” soothed Lina, walking over and placing a comforting hand on Jessica’s shoulder, “Despite Tess’s intention, Tom is an agent of chaos and I am certain our paths shall intertwine again,” she said. “Especially if your sister has anything to say about it,” she chuckled.

Jess nodded, eyes looking over to Janine before up to her mother, “You made the call didn’t you? That was the phone ringing wasn’t it”

Lina smiled, “Of course. I now possess all of Cassidy Lane’s personal information,” she confirmed, smile growing.