Faux_Pas
Santa Baby...
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Thread is based loosely on this song.
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I recall how it used to be. Before he found that bell.
It's funny, how simple a little instrument can seem, until you find it has another purpose.
Things can change so easily in your life.
I used to be his assistant, you know. I was a college freshman, so proud to have been chosen by the professor to help with his latest experiment. He insisted it was something that would be the next great theorist's debate. The same as the veins of Shroedinger, Thorndike and Woodworth.
But the one that fascinated him so much.
Pavlov.
How a single bell could cause such a change...
Every night, and every morning. We would meet. He would ask me to sit at that table, and he would ring that bell. Stare at me. Tell me a task. Ring it again.
He nearly drove me mad.
But that bell. I always heard that bell.
Weeks passed, then months. Of that bell.
His voice.
Commands. No longer simple tasks. But commands.
I started hearing it in my sleep.
I needed a task from him.
To hear the real bell, the way it sounded.... It could change my entire persona.
I became someone not myself.
I became someone who was not a person.
I became... Simply his.
It was all that bell, I swear. Something about it, a tone that it gave off. it did something to my head, to my mind. It made me want to forget myself.... To be everything he wanted me to be. That sound that haunted me, day after day.
I'm still his assistant, and still a student here at the University.
But he always carries that bell.
No one asks why we spend so much time together.
No one asks why he takes me places.
I think they know.
But once he rings that bell... I no longer care.
I am simply his.
The pet he wishes me to be.
Alice quickly closed her journal, setting inside the Professor's office, waiting for him to return. Something about a meeting. But she knew how evenings went. She was to wait for him, here, at the edge of his desk. Make her notes of the day, of how things had gone for her, of the thoughts that had come to her mind.
As the thick leatherbound book slipped into her bag, she traded it for a small mirrored compact she had buried into one of the bag's pockets, checking over her makeup briefly. Not that it really mattered. Sometimes he would completely wipe it off her face- other times, he would make her redo it entirely.
Two and a half years of this.
That bell.
She shivered at the mere thought if it, a wetness growing between her thighs. She swore she heard it right then, knowing full well that was impossible. He held so tightly to that thing, guarded it so completely.
His Bell.
His Alice.
His Pet.
Until that sounded, she was her own person. Free to do as she pleased. Another student, another young woman making her way through college, trying to make things meet as best she could.
But when the bell rang. That tiny tinkling sound filled her ears, clouded her mind.
All of that was forgotten.
Everything was to him. His wish, his command. Everything to please him. Every word he uttered, she would oblige.
She didn't really understand it either, aside from the psychological standpoint. Conditioning. That sound set off something within her, something he had planted so well inside her.
His little Pavlov's Dog.
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