This choice: All is not as it appears with Emma • Go Back...Chapter #4All is not as it appears with Emma by: sdaze   Luke stood waiting silently for Emma to speak. Like many members of staff, it wasn't the first time he had been given a stern talking to from management. It was more likely to come from Liz but Emma wasn't known for being too soft on the employees when it came to discipline.
"Now there is a serious matter that needs to be addressed," Emma said while staring at him, "I'm not a perv. I don't even know how these rumours started."
"What?" the befuddled Luke asked.
"I've got a girlfriend who is nearly the same age as me." Emma looked down at her body. "Well, normally she would be."
Slowly Luke's brain pieced together the context clues but could barely believe it. "Nathan?" he asked quietly.
"In the flesh," Nathan in Emma's body said with a cheeky grin, "kind of."
"Did that watch thing do this?"
"It seems so."
"Ha, ha," Luke laughed, "You transformed your body and the first person you thought of was Emma. Deny it as much as you like. You have so got a thing for older women."
"You are an idiot. It was an accident and you're wrong. I didn't transform into her. This is her actual body. She must have been standing on the other side of the pallet when I ran away from, I mean went to hide from Liz. I flew right into her. The shock made me drop her clipboard."
"So you really are in Emma's body? Driving her around like some kind of flesh puppet?"
"I guess so. I'm not just controlling her though. I can feel everything she feels. I can even smell your cheap aftershave."
"It isn't cheap. It's eight ninety nine a bottle." A thought came to Luke as he got a sinking feeling in his stomach. "Wait a minute is she in there with you?"
"What do you mean?"
"She was in her body when you took over it. So is she in there with you, seeing and hearing everything, fighting for control?"
Luke extended Emma's arms to look at them. "I don't think so. I'm just moving around like I would normally. I can't hear her thinking or anything."
Luke sighed, "Well that is something. I was getting worried she might remember all this."
Nathan shrugged, "Who knows maybe she will. I don't have a clue how any of this works."
"Shit. That is the last thing we need. Better not stay any longer than you have to then."
"Good point," Nathan agreed, "I'll get out." An intense look of concentration passed over Emma's features. Nathan tried so hard her face started to turn red. "Grrrr....!!" he moaned as he tried to force his ghostly form out of his manager.
"You are meant to be getting out, not looking like your trying to take a dump."
"I am trying," Nathan said before Emma's face relaxed and her arms fell to her sides.
"Emma?" Luke asked timidly wondering if Luke had escaped from his manager's physical body.
"Nope, still me," Nathan informed him, "I can't seem to work out how to get out of her."
"Can't you just take the dial thing off?" Luke asked.
"Oh, of course," Luke said, feeling like an idiot. He pulled up the long sleeve of Emma's jacket revealing a bare feminine wrist. "Shit its not there."
"Where is it then?"
"It must still be on my ghost body."
Luke had now had enough of Nathan's antics. "Trust you to mess this up. How long you had that thing, a couple of hours? You've already got yourself stuck possessing your manager. Your female manager at that."
Nathan had an apparent moment of realisation as he grasped his crotch. "I don't have a cock."
"Well done Einstein," Luke said before rolling his eyes.
"It must be in there somewhere. I mean I am a guy."
"A guy with a middle-aged woman's body. Ghost cock isn't going to do much is it?"
"I'm feeling kind of wet down there though." Nathan rubbed Emma's thighs together. "I'm not sure but I think I might be horny."
A look of disgust passed over Luke's face. "I'm not interested in your screwed up fantasies or what it is doing to Emma's libido." Luke didn't really even want to consider Emma as a sexual being at all as it made him feel very uncomfortable.
Nathan tried to explain how he was feeling. "It isn't me though, it's this body. Maybe when I possessed her it did something, changed it somehow."
"Whatever you say but going by how much you have been smiling since you took her over, you seem to be enjoying it too much."
"So what if I am? I should enjoy it while it lasts. I'm in charge and people have to do what I say." He felt a rush of adrenalin as he began his power trip.
Luke was quick to burst his bubble. "If I were you, I'd be more worried about explaining away where you, I mean where Nathan is. You know how Liz is. She'll be like a dog with a bone, she's not going to let your disappearance go without some sort of explanation."
"Sod Liz, I'll just tell her I had to go home sick or something."
"Don't forget let Natalie know too," Luke said as he referred to the staff supervisor.
"Why?"
Luke pointed at the large pile of pallets they had been unpacking. "I ain't doing all this by myself. She'll need to assign someone else in your place."
"Oh I see," Nathan said with a tone of realisation.
"Do you actually understand what the managers and supervisors do?"
"Yeah, they stand about giving us stupid orders or they hide in the office," Nathan said angrily.
Luke gently slapped his own forehead. "Jesus man, how long have you worked here? Don't you have a clue about anything beyond your own job? HR? Stock? Rotas? Logistics? Payroll? Risk assessments? Key holding?" Nathan's face was a blank as Luke spouted off a long list of management and supervisor responsibilities. "Where do you think your uniform comes from or even your name badge? You think the Wilko fairy waves her magic paint roller and makes them appear."
"I'm not stupid Luke," he said angrily, "I just don't get paid enough to worry about any of that."
Luke knew Nathan was often very naïve. "You'll probably want to know that stuff though. Can't you tap into Emma's memories or something?"
"I haven't tried." His face went blank again for several seconds. He tried to recall some details about Emma's life that he wouldn't normally be expected to know. "Nope, just my own."
"You are going to have to bluff it when you get to the office, then."
"Why do I need to go to the office?"
"If you don't want Liz to get suspicious you better get you arse in there. You know Emma only comes out when she really has to."  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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