"We're hookers!?" Jamie yelled.
"Yep," Jack said. "Well, to be specific, escorts."
"What are you talking about?" Danna asked, somewhat scared.
"People arrange appointments to have sex with you three now," Jack informed them.
"WHAT?!" the two daughters yelled in unison.
"I'm too young to have sex!" Danna said.
"And I'm not letting some creep pay me to give me a disease!" Jamie yelled.
"Girls, girls, I know that this is a lot to take in, but this is God we're talking to," Olivia reminded them before turning to Jack. "Jack, please think about this, me and my daughters really don't want to be prostitutes, and even if you want to make sex less private, isn't consent still important?"
"Well, I did say I was a nice young man," Jack said. "Don't worry, ladies, you have God's protection from rape, STDs, and any other dangers. But it looks like I'm gonna have to alter your minds to make you a little more... enlightened."
"You think you can just make everyone agree to anything you do!?" Jamie yelled.
"Yep," Jack said.
"Jack, I think we can work something out without you doing that," Olivia pleaded.
"Mom!?" Jamie yelled.
"Jamie, he's God," Olivia said, worried about making things worse.
"That sick son of a bitch is trying to force us to have sex with random sleazeballs and you're just gonna-" Jamie's mouth kept moving like she was talking for a moment before she stopped and kept trying to talk before realizing she couldn't.
"Don't worry about her, Olivia, I'll listen to your negotiation," Jack reassured her.
"Well..." Olivia said. "You're willing to protect us and renovate our house, maybe there's more things you can do like that you can do that might persuade us instead of having to change us more?" Jamie was visibly freaking out at what her mother was proposing.
"I just have to sweeten the deal? Your skills with people are outstanding, Olivia," Jack complimented her. "They even work on God, that's how you know you're a great mother!"
"Thank you," Olivia said, "but... can you consider my offer?"
"Oh, don't worry, God can give you much better than just flattery," Jack said as he clapped his hands and started walking towards the stairs, the Carters following against their will. "First things first, I know what you're thinking - well, literally, but that's besides the point," Jack noted as Jamie shivered at the knowledge that Jack knew the rage-fueled thoughts going through her mind, "you three still don't want to be escorts and just want to go back to before I came over. So I'm going to let you go back to normal - well, except Jamie for now, but she can once we've had sex - but not before I've shown a little something for you three."
"Jack," Olivia started, "you're blackmailing Jamie..." Looking at Jamie, it was clear the poor girl's sobs would be deafening if they were audible.
"Hmm, maybe I am, but I'll do whatever it takes to get her consent without changing her mentally," Jack said, materalizing an infinitely absorbent tissue to wipe away Jamie's tears. "Maybe it could take turning her back to normal, I can do anything she wants until she feels truly ready." Jamie felt surprisingly comforted, but there was still a lot of resentment that Jack could sense. "But for now, into Danna's room," Jack said as he brought them into the 12-year-old girl's room and walked over to her desk, taking a small laptop off of it and putting it onto her bed, opening it up as it turned on without Jack even pressing a button on it, and instantly a screen showing Danna's current form popped up.
"That's me!" Danna pointed out.
"Indeed it is," Jack told her. "This is the Escort Editor, an app for every device with a screen ever made or to be made. All you have to do to open it is will a device you want to open it, and even if it's unplugged with no power, your Escort Editor will instantly open even on something as primitive as a cheap LCD calculator, and when you no longer want to use it you will for it to go away and it will be as if it was never on there, but the changes you make to yourselves will still be saved."
"So we can use this to change ourselves like a game character?" Danna asked.
"Yes indeed," Jack said.
"So we can just go in there and change all the settings back to normal?" Jamie asked before her eyes bulged. "I can talk again?!"
"Yes to the second one, and yes but it's quite impractical to the first one," Jack said. "I have made it so there is a toggle right here that will let you turn back to your normal selves and back," Jack said as he pointed out a toggle labeled 'Identity', "and thusly, that your escort identities are seperate from your normal ones. Down here you can edit your escort name," Jack said, pointing to a blank box, "and of course, on the left here, the various options for changing your body." Jack picked up Danna's laptop and showed it to her. "Danna, I believe you mentioned you were too young to have sex, would you like to change that, or perhaps something else? Maybe even change back?" Danna looked at the screen and put her hand on the touch pad. She moved the cursor over to the toggle that would let her change back. However, after a moment of contemplating it, she instead went over to the side and looked through the options. She spent a moment contemplating the age option before she clicked on it, seeing it was set to 15. She turned it up to 19, which made both the model of her on the screen and herself age up.
"Danna, why are you doing this? You're not actually that old!" Jamie asked, trying to keep her concern down.
"...I'm curious," Danna admitted. "I might change more later."
"At least now she's of age... technically," Olivia said, trying to find the silver lining.
"Indeed, I have much more to show you, like the final touches of this lovely application. Of course, being an escort means literal business, and you can get all that done here." Jack pointed to a selection of green text saying 'Available', orange text saying 'Busy', and red text saying 'Unavailable', with it currently set to the latter. "This should be self-explanatory, but for complete clarity, unavailable means you will not take any new 'requests', busy means that you'll take them but you're not there to answer, and available means you're ready to talk. Requests and appointments are here and here," Jack said as he pointed at two icons with empty lists inside, Danna saw as she clicked on them.
"How do requests and appointments work?" Olivia asked.
"Mom, you're seriously not considering this!" Jamie told her before Jack snapped his fingers, and in an instant the model on the laptop changed to Jamie.
"I've opened up Jamie's own editor to demonstrate."
"Oh, no..." Jamie said, trying to will it closed to no avail.
"Well, first, people go to a little website," Jack said as he pulled out his own phone, displaying a website with a list of escorts saying it was empty. "Right now, nobody knows about the website and none of you are taking requests, but for this example..." The editor changed Jamie's status to 'Available', and she showed up on the list on Jack's phone with a picture of her doing a sexy pose, some info about her - but no name given since it was still blank - a button to contact her, and a price which made the ladies' eyes bulge.
"We can get how much?!" Danna exclaimed.
"I don't think I'll be doing this, but the money's tempting..." Jamie confessed.
"Indeed it is!" Olivia agreed.
"I can make it even higher, but it might be too steep for some clients - though God's neighbors deserve to be paid appropriately," Jack said. "Oh, yeah, they're not happening for the demonstration, but ads will be sent out when any of you are available or busy, just a heads up. Anyway..." Jack tapped the contact button and there was only a name box, a box for a message, and a send button.
"Shouldn't there be more info to put in?" Olivia asked.
"If this was being made with human technology," Jack said, "but this puts out a lot more than what anyone would put in." Instead of typing out an entire message, Jack snapped his fingers and one was typed up and sent for him, displaying a message that it was sent as Jamie felt something odd. "And the notification is sent straight to your mind while available, but to manage it you'll have to use the editor." Speaking of, the editor now had Jamie's status as unavailable again, and a number 1 on the requests icon, which Jack opened up to show his message on the list, his name labeled as "Real", and a bunch of other information next to the message. "You can see my name is confirmed - if someone uses an alias, lies, misspells, or somehow gets their own name wrong, it'll say and list their real name. There's my age, date of birth, address, current location, sexual orientation, even what I'm thinking, a bunch of stuff. But from here, you can send them a message back, call them, set up the appointment, or just decline." Jamie leaned over, moved her hand to the touchpad and went to click the 'Decline' button, but instead of declining it just automatically set up and filled out the appointment as having a flexible time and location. She then clicked on the appointments icon to see it in the list, and tried to click the 'Cancel Appointment' button, only for it to keep moving around the screen and avoiding the cursor. "When an appointment is set up, managing it is self-explanatory - but this is the only one you can't cancel, Jamie."
"Fuck you," Jamie muttered, willing the editor shut as Jack closed the laptop and put it back on the desk.
"Indeed you will," Jack replied. "But what do you three think of my new offer?"
"The money's tempting..." Olivia said, thinking it over.
"Being a grown-up sounds cool..." Danna admitted.
"Well, I'm not going to sell my body!" Jamie said. "To anyone other than Jack..."
"Coming around?" Jack asked.
"NO!" Jamie said. "I just... I know I have to do this, but I don't... Mom, can you tell Jack to quit it?"
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