This choice: You let Julia shrink you too. • Go Back...Chapter #9You let Julia shrink you too. by: Wanderer20   You take the shrink ray and the potions from the dumbwaiter and set them down on the nightstand, next to the bed. Then, after a moment's thought, you quietly slide the nightstand over so that it's touching the bed. You glance down at Julia, who was looking at you quizzically and answer before she can ask, "So we can get to the potions safely once we're ready to grow back to normal." Her eyes light up in realization as she noticed how far (to her, at least) from the bed it had been. It had been maybe a foot away from the bed, and unlike a lot of furniture in the resort, there was nothing on it for a little person to climb to the top with.
The thought of actually shrinking is starting to hit you, and you can't help but feel a little nervous, which given the circumstances, is understandable. You've never done it before, and even though this is a controlled environment, you can't help but feel that you're giving up your ability to control the situation, even though Julia is the only other person in the room, and she is in no position to affect anything. You slide off of the bed, startling Julia as the bed shifts with the absence of your weight, causing her to stumble forward slightly. "Hey!"
"Sorry," you mumble, as you walk across the room and open the door slightly, just enough for you to put a "DO NOT DISTURB" sign on the outside doorknob. You shut the door and lock it, and then put the deadbolt on. You walk into the bathroom and grab a glass, and quickly fill it with water, and after chugging it down, you fill it up again and walk back into the bedroom, setting the glass down next to the potions. "I'm, uh, trying to make sure we won't need anything for a while." You grab your cellphone out of your pocket and set it down next to the glass of water, face up. You never know, after all.
"Oh, well, that makes sense, I guess," Julia said, rubbing her arms. You wasn't sure if it was from being small and naked, or being nervous, or a combination of both, so you walk over to the thermostat and raise the temperature of the room by a few degrees. That was one thing you certainly wouldn't be able to do once you shrank. You glance down at the floor and then back at the thermostat, and you realize that from Julia's point of view, the thermostat is as high as a building. Wow. You rub your neck as you walk back over to the nightstand and pick up the shrink ray. Julia, who has been watching you the entire time, smiles slightly. "Are... are you ready to get down here with me?"
"I, I think so," you reply, sounding more nervous than you intended to. You point the shrink ray at yourself, and try to pull the trigger, but... you just can't seem to make yourself do it. There is a part of you that is terrified at being the size of a toy, and you hadn't realized it until just now. Maybe it was the loss of control, or the idea of being a plaything, or there was still a part of you that still had trouble believing that you could actually shrink a person, even though you've seen plenty of evidence to tell you otherwise. Or maybe... you just couldn't do it to yourself. You try to squeeze that trigger one last time, but after a minute, you sag in defeat and sit down hard on the bed, causing Julia to roll forward and plop into your thigh. "Oh, shit, sorry Julia!" You gently lift her up and set her down next to the shrink ray.
Julia glares up at you. "I thought you were gonna shrink!"
You look away sheepishly. "I want to... but I... there's a part of me that's fighting it. I think I'm having trouble giving up control...."
Julia crosses her arms (which, you can't help but notice, highlights her lovely chest nicely). "Hey, if I can do it, so can you! And if you can't shrink yourself, then I can do it for you! You DO know that they set their shrink rays up so that a little person can do it, right?"
You raise an eyebrow. "Really? Why?"
"It's for role-playing purposes. You'd be surprised at how often the scenario of using a shrink ray to bring down the big, bad sexy monster comes up around here, so they designed the shrink rays to be dual-purpose: one setting for normal-sized people as a gun, and a setting for little people to use as a cannon." She walked over to the barrel of the shrink ray and pointed at a little bar that I hadn't noticed before. "Here, you can slide these down and use them to prop the gun up, and point it at yourself. I can do the rest!"
You are surprised that she knew that, but you chalk it up to her doing her research on what they offered here, something you did absolutely none of before tonight. You flip the bars out so that the gun will stand upright, and set it down in front of Julia, pointing the gun at yourself. Julia smiles for the first time since she shrank, and examines the hilt. "Lets see... there's supposed to be a set of controls that only little people can- oh, I found them." She pushes both hands down on a switch, and a panel flips open that you hadn't noticed before. She starts pressing tiny buttons on the panel, and the shrink ray begins to glow. "Are you ready?" she asked, looking up at you.
You think about it for a moment. "Do it." A part of you is relieved that she's taken this out of your hands. The idea of someone else doing it... just sits better for you, for some reason.
Julia nods and motions on the panel, and suddenly, a beam of light shoots out from the laser and strikes you on the chest. Almost as soon as it does, you feel your clothes expand around you, as the room around starts to grow....
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