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Virtually Lovers (MF, FF, M-solo F-solo, sci-fi)
by Krystoff Vagabond (kvagabond@lycos.com)

***

This story is Copyright 1999, Krystoff Vagabond. It may be
freely redistributed as long as it remains completely intact
and unmodified (including these headers). I welcome comments
and criticism. Please send any thoughts you have on the story to
kvagabond@mailcity.com - You may find other stories of mine at:
/~kvagabond - Take a look and tell me what
you think.  -Krystoff
***

 "Lights"

 The lights dimmed and Jarod sat alone in the dark. He tapped a 
five digit access code onto the keypad under his hand.

 "File: Sylvia - Sequence: One. Scenario: Alpha"

 There was an electronic hum as the holo-projectors
engaged and the memory drives spun up.

 "What level, please?" The digitized voice was female. Soft, but 
cold at the same time. Reassuring and almost sexy,
but clearly inhuman.

 Jarod closed his eyes and took a deep breath. In a moment the 
world would be at his disposal. With a word, he could have almost 
anything. Almost. his realization of the harsh reality of 
technological limitations quashed his passing fancy of something 
more. "Aries" he whispered. When his eyes opened, he was engulfed 
in the familiar blue glow. How many times had he run this 
sequence? Dozens? Hundred? It didn't matter. Each time was as 
anticipated as the first.

 His study dissolved away. Projector casings and computer consoles 
were replaced with bookshelves and desks. Prof. Richards stood in 
the front of the room. His classmates surrounding him. Jason, 
Thomas, Erica, Charlie. Others. Some names long since forgotten. 
But not one. There she sat. Directly in front of him. Sylvia 
Austin. The most beautiful of all God's creatures. He sat behind 
her. Awestruck. Unable to tear his gaze away from the tiny fingers 
twirling that long golden hair.

 * * *
 
 "Access: Charlie Page"

 The door slid open and Charlie entered the loft that she and 
Jarod shared. It had been a long day and she wanted nothing more 
than to slip out of her office clothes and into a nice hot bath. 
Unfortunately, that was not to be. The Ultrachem report was still 
incomplete and she was forced to bring it home with her. She would 
probably be up all night working on it. Relaxation would have to 
wait until the weekend. Hopefully, at least Jarod would keep the 
trideo turned down low so she could work in peace. She kicked off 
her boots and threw her card key on the coffee table.

 "Jarod? I'm home." There was no answer. It was already past 
19:30. He couldn't still be at work. He must have gone out. 
Wonderful. She might have the place quiet and to herself after 
all. She reached in her purse and pulled out the memdisk with the 
Ultrachem files on it. She looked at it for a moment and discarded 
it on the table next to her card key. She might not have enough 
time to soak in the tub, but Ultrachem would at least have to wait 
until she had taken a steam shower.

 * * *
 
 "21-115: Introduction to the Fundamental Structures of Non-
Euclidean Geometry."

 Mr. Richard's recitation was the first place that
Jarod had ever met Sylvia. Well, not met her really. He still 
vividly remembered seeing her that first time. He was talking to 
Charlie and Jason. They had gotten to class early and were 
discussing the classes they had earlier in the day.

It was second semester, sophomore year. He and Jason were both in 
"Advanced Graphic Interface Design" and Charlie was just coming 
out of "Twentieth Century Law" Charlie was going over the lecture 
she had just heard on the Menendez defense when she walked through 
the door.

 Her hair was like sunshine. Her eyes were large and inviting. A 
deep ocean of blue that even the most accomplished navigator would 
get lost in. Her smile was wide and inviting. That was just her 
face. His eyes followed her long neck down to her chest. She wore 
a tight, light blue shirt. Black suspenders beautifully framed and 
accented what were already perfect breasts, the suspenders were 
attached to a short pleated skirt that only barely covered the 
longest, most wonderfully toned legs that one could ever imagine.

 She entered the room. And she sat in front of him.

 That's how it was. Three times a week. The sweetest torture one 
could ask for. And it was torture. Radiant beauty. Luminescence. 
An arms reach away and it might as well be a galaxy. A full 
semester. She was right there in front of him. That long straight 
hair. That creamy neck. Those perfect shoulders. But he couldn't 
touch her. Four months of 21-115. Two more years of similar 
experiences and now. 5 years later. He was still running 
simulations of the same thing.

 * * *
 
 "Oh God, yes!"

 This was exactly what Charlie needed. Every muscle in her body 
tensed as the hot jets hit her back, her hands tightly gripping 
the towel rack. Slowly she relaxed as she became accustomed to the 
steamy hot water. She loosened her hold on the bar. A slow deep 
sigh gently rolled off her tongue and escaped her lips. Ultrachem 
was but a distant memory now, the problem of another woman; a 
woman in some other place. Nothing mattered at that moment save 
the tingly sensation running down her spine. She shifted her face 
and eased around so that the jets could hit her chest, moving 
slowly to enjoy the pressure as it rolled across her side.

 She reached for the shelf and picked up to the small green 
bottle. She squeezed a generous helping of the juniper scented gel 
into her palm and began applying it to her shoulders and neck then 
working the lather down across her small breasts. "Heaven" she 
thought to herself, forgetting, for the moment, the disappointment 
of not being able to soak in a bubble bath. After the strenuous 
day she had had, this felt like the most sensuous experience of 
her lifetime. She reached again for the green bottle and applied 
more of the shower gel to her pale skin.

 Charlie's mind began to wander as she titled her head back and 
let the mist drench her face and soak her short auburn hair. Her 
skin tingled from the soothing gel and the hot water and her 
nipples began to harden from the gentle rubbing motion of her 
fingers. How long had it been since anyone had touched her like 
this. She couldn't remember the last time she had even masturbated 
and actual sex seemed more like a adolescent dream than an adult 
experience. "To hell with Ultrachem, this is something I need," 
she thought to herself as her hand reached for the warm spot 
between her legs.

 * * *
 
 "Pause Program."

 Just like that, Sylvia's fingers ceased twirling her hair. She 
was frozen in time like a Greek statue. Jarod looked around the 
room. Professor Richards was at the HUD Board, laser pointer 
gripped in his hand. Petrified in the middle of his explanation of 
a hyperdimensional cube.

Students around the room - Erica, Jason, Charlie, the others
- all similarly paralyzed as they punched notes into their keypads 
or scribbled onto their tablets. He stood from his chair and 
walked right through the wraith that was Sylvia to face her from 
the other side. He savored the pose he had caught her in. She was 
between notes. Still twirling her hair with her left hand while 
she held her stylus to her ruby red lips with her right, sucking 
gently on the head of the small pen. As unattainable now as a 
ghost as she was an actual being.

 There had to be something more.

 He walked around her. Not through her this time, but around her, 
careful not to disrupt the projection of her beauty. He took his 
seat and began punching an access code on his keypad.

 "What program?" The computers voice again echoed through the 
room. Just as impersonal as always.

 "File: Sylvia - Sequence: One. Scenario: Gamma"

 "What level, please?"

 "Capricorn," he shouted in return.

 And with that Prof. Richards and all of the students faded from 
the room. All save Sylvia, of course. She was alive again. She put 
down her stylus and ran both of her hands through the sunshine 
yellow locks on her head. Jarod sighed audibly. She heard and 
turned to face him. Both smiled. He half out of pride for what he 
had created and half out of the realization of a long time dream. 
He was acknowledged by this... goddess. She because she was 
programmed to.

 He waved his hand upward, motioning for her to stand. She 
obediently rose from her chair like a puppet when her strings had 
been tugged. After all, that's all she really was. It didn't 
matter at this point though. Jarod twirled his finger in a circle 
and like a puppy who had just learned a new trick, Sylvia 
responded. The pleats of her skirt rose into the air as she spun. 
She lifted her arms so that he could get a glimpse of the perfect 
curvature of her tits. After the second twirl she stopped so that 
she was again facing him and her hair swung to the side. She 
giggled as she brushed it from in front of her face.

 Jarod rubbed his chin with his fingers. He smirked as he gazed at 
her. Her smiled broaden. She had been programmed to live for his 
approval. She dropped her arms to her side and repositioned her 
skirt then slid her hands up and down her torso gently caressing 
her breasts and stomach. Jarod crossed his legs as he felt his 
pants tighten.

 Sylvia tugged on her suspenders and pulled them off of shoulders 
letting them fall down around her waist. Again she rubbed her firm 
stomach. Jarod focused on her bare midriff and the ring through 
her navel. Focused for a moment until he noticed the ruby red 
fingernails tugging at the hem of the half shirt and pulling it 
up. Her breast were perfectly round and firm. Her nipples large 
and erect. The orbs bounced gently as they were freed from the 
baby blue spandex. She pulled the shirt over her head and her hair 
flowed out from under the fabric like a silken ocean wave and 
landed gingerly over her shoulders and neck. She slowly began to 
approach him.

 As she neared him he uncrossed his legs and unzipped his pants. 
He breathed heavily in anticipation as she bent down before his 
erection. He gripped the sides of his chair waiting for the sweet 
warmth of her mouth. She bent ever closer. A shiver went through 
his body. "God, please," he whispered under his breath. Sylvia 
closed her painted lips over the head of his cock and he watched 
as her immaterial face passed right through him.

 "Dammit."

 Sylvia didn't notice, she continued mock sucking at
him, just as she was programmed to do. But he felt nothing.

 "Pause program. "

 And she froze there. Just as before. But this time half
naked. On her knees. He stood up and walked away from her. Her 
pose was suddenly so unnatural. Hungrily, ravenously gobbling at 
some unseen phallus. It was simply. . . ridiculous.

 He couldn't be a part of this. He wasn't a part of this. He could 
watch but not touch. Imagine, but not feel. This was just. . . a 
fantasy.

 "End Program."

 The classroom faded and the study returned. He zipped
up his pants and walked back over to his console and began 
feverishly tapping at the keys.

 * * *
 
 "Unnnnnggghhhhh!!"

 Charlie bit into her bottom lip trying to suppress the urge to 
scream. Any harder and she might have drawn blood. Not that she 
realized that. Her stomach, her back, her entire body tightened as 
she ground three fingers into her crotch. Each touch from her 
fingers to her clit shot fire through her veins and each blast of 
hot steam to her skin sent electricity across her entire body. By 
this time she had fallen back and was only standing by propping 
her shoulders against the tiled wall. Her back was arched and the 
rear jets shot steamy water directly at her ass. The forceful mist 
rode up inside of her with her fingers and provided yet more 
stimulation. She was moaning audibly; gritting her teeth.

 Her other hand was on her chest; tugging and tweaking her own 
small nipple. In her minds eye, she imagined a lover biting at it. 
Pulling with his teeth as he pushed himself deep inside of her. A 
perfect lover. Rubbing just the right spots. Pushing all the right 
buttons. Holding her. Loving her. Pleasing her. Knowing her like 
he was inside of her head. A part of her life. The best part. She 
felt the urge to scream and bit her lip. The anticipation. The 
moment. She wanted it to last longer. Forever. It was too late. 
She couldn't control herself any longer. Couldn't hold back her 
body. Couldn't slow the motions of her fingers. The jets kept 
pulsing. A million tiny fingers hitting her from every direction. 
Massaging her neck. Caressing her breasts. Rubbing her stomach. 
Seeking out and filling every curve, every orifice, every crease, 
every inch of her body. There was no holding back.

 She came.

 "Jarod!"

 And she screamed.

 * * *
 
 "What Program?"

 It felt wrong. It really did. Jarod had run simulations of his 
fantasies more times than he could count. He had stolen the 
likenesses of hundreds of people and programmed them to do his 
bidding. But never before had it bothered him. Not before now.

 Why?

 Programming a holo-suite for sexual scenarios certainly wasn't a 
crime. It was one of the systems major selling points. Live out 
your every fantasy. Your every fantasy.

Every one did it. It was expected. Why shouldn't he? Why should he 
feel guilty? Why should he feel anything but pleasure? A pleasure 
long since denied. He'd run countless simulations with Sylvia. Why 
should this one be any different? Why should it feel like such a 
violation? It shouldn't. It couldn't.

 "File: Sylvia - Sequence: One. Scenario: Epsilon." There was an 
electronic hum as the holo-projectors re-engaged.

 "What level, please?"

 Jarod closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Nothing was left 
but to say the word and the world would be at his disposal. His 
creations actualized. His fantasies realized. He opened his eyes 
and spoke the word. "Zulu."

 The room was filled with the blue glow and his surroundings 
dissolved. He again found himself in Professor Richards' class 
room, but things were different this time. The lights were dim and 
there were only two other figures seated with him. Sylvia was in 
front of him just as always and to his right was Charlie. Charlie, 
his best friend throughout college. His roommate for the last two 
years since.

 She was as real as he could make her. From the short bobbed hair 
cut to the wire rim glasses. From the white tank top and suede 
leather jacket to tight knee length blue skirt and go-go boots. He 
sighed as he realized what he was doing, but he couldn't stop 
himself. All he could do was sit back and watch.

 Sylvia put down her stylus and ran both of her hands through the 
sunshine yellow locks on her head. A smirk started to form across 
Jarod's face. She turned to face him. Smiling as though she were 
pleased with his approval.

 He waved his hand upward, motioning for her to stand. She 
obediently rose from her chair like a puppet when her strings had 
been tugged. He twirled his finger in a circle and like a puppy 
who had just learned a new trick, Sylvia responded. The pleats of 
her skirt rose into the air as she spun. She lifted her arms so 
that he could get a glimpse of the perfect curvature of her tits. 
After the second twirl she stopped so that she was again facing 
him and her hair swung to the side. She giggled as she brushed it 
from in front of her face.

 Jarod nodded his head in approval. This was what he had wanted. 
This was the scenario that he had written. So far, everything had 
gone as it always had, but it was soon to diverge. He found 
himself becoming aroused, but not at the vision of the goddess but 
in anticipation of what he knew was to come. She dropped her arms 
to her side and repositioned her skirt then slid her hands up and 
down her torso gently caressing her breasts and tummy.

 She took two steps away from her seat and stood facing the 
simulacrum of Charlie. Charlie looked up at her. Not speaking, 
somewhat in shock, her slow steady breathing the only sound in the 
room.

 Sylvia tugged on her suspenders and pulled them off of shoulders 
letting them fall down around her waist. Again she rubbed her firm 
tummy. Charlie focused on Sylvia's bare midriff and the ring 
through her navel. Focused for a moment until she noticed the ruby 
red fingernails tugging at the hem of the half shirt and pulling 
it up. Her breast were perfectly round and firm like two ripe 
melons. Her nipples large and erect. The orbs bounced gently as 
they were freed from the baby blue spandex. She pulled the shirt 
over her head and her hair flowed out from under the fabric like a 
silken ocean wave and landed gingerly over her shoulders and neck. 
She took another step towards Charlie and leaned over her desk.

 Jarod unzipped his pants. He held his breath in anticipation as 
Sylvia bent ever closer to Charlie.

Charlie's breathing quickened and deepened. She sank back into her 
chair shying away from Sylvia's approach. Sylvia reached out. 
Jarod's eyes focused on the long red-painted fingernails and the 
delicate tips beneath them as they stroked the rims of Charlie's 
glasses. His erection hardened. Charlie closed her eyes as Sylvia 
slowly pulled the glasses from her face. Charlie's deep breaths 
became rapid pants. She knew what was coming. She made no move to 
stop it. Sylvia face came ever closer. Slowly. Fluidly. 
Deliberately. Closer and closer until their lips touched. Gently 
at first. Light kisses. Lips teasing like playful children, but it 
soon deepened beyond that. Charlie couldn't resist. Slowly her 
lips parted and allowed Sylvia's tongue to probe inside.

 Jarod's lips parted slightly forming his mouth into a small "O" 
as he began to gently stroke himself.

 * * *
 
 "Jarod?"

 Why had she said that? They were friends. Just friends and 
nothing more. That's what Charlie wanted to believe. How could she 
ever allow herself to think of him in that way. She couldn't. That 
was the answer. She simply couldn't.

 She was sitting on the bench in the steam shower. The water was 
still showering down on her, rolling down her face like tears. The 
steam was still running and forming beads of sweat down her back. 
But the sensations. The wonderful tingles brought on by 
hydrofingers caressing her every spot. That was gone now. What was 
left was confusion.

 All this time, Jarod had never shown any interest in her. She had 
none in him. How many nights had they sat up in college talking 
about their relationships? How many times had she cried on his 
shoulder about her problems with Jason? How many times had he 
lamented to her over his unrequited love for Sylvia 
Whateverhernamewas? They never wanted each other. They were just 
friends.

 Charlie stood and turned off the steam shower, resting her head 
against the tiled wall for a moment. "Why? Why would I say that?" 
She whispered the words to herself, but had no answer. "Why?" She 
spoke more forcefully now, as though being curt wither herself my 
force an answer, but again there was none.

 She was just lonely. That was it. It was a fleeting fantasy 
brought on by a moment of loneliness. Weakness. Jarod was her 
roommate. Her best friend since college. More like a brother than 
a lover. He was just someone that she could talk to. Someone she 
could trust.

 She climbed out of the shower. She hadn't washed her hair yet, 
but she just couldn't be in there any longer.

There was just something - not right about it. Something she 
wanted to get away from. She pulled her long white towel off of 
the rack and quickly began to dry herself, trying to rub the 
memory away with the water.

 The memories. There were so many. Senior year. After fighting for 
months she had finally broken up with Jason. For good this time. 
She knew that. She couldn't take being with him anymore. The lies. 
The cheating. All it had taken was one phone call, and Jarod was 
right there in her dorm room. He was comforting. He said he 
understood. He gave her exactly what she needed. He held her and 
that made it a little better.

 She cried herself to sleep in his arms that night. He spent the 
night in her bed. Nothing more happened. She was heart broken. 
Hurt. Vulnerable. And he was so compassionate. She would have 
easily surrender her body to him that night if he had simply 
tried. But he didn't. Because he cared for her. Because he loved 
her.

 "Because I love him," she said to herself, slightly out loud.

 It startled her. The shock of calling out his name in
an orgasmic fury was nothing compared to this. She loved him. In 
all the time that they had known one another, that had never 
occurred to her before. She loved him. She stood there in the 
bathroom, naked and dripping, staring at her reflection in the 
slowly defogging mirror.

 * * *
 
 "Pause program!"

 The world froze. Or, at the very least, every thing in the room 
did. Sylvia. Charlie. Even Jarod. For a moment. What was he doing? 
What the hell was he doing. He looked at himself. Sitting there in 
his chair, his pants and his boxers pulled down around his ankles. 
His hand covered in cum, holding his own cock. The electronic 
ghosts of two women he claimed to care about petrified in the 
throes of passion on the other side of the room. What was he 
doing.

 Jarod released his grip on his softening dick and wiped his hand 
on his T-shirt. He pulled it off and used it to wipe up the rest 
of the mess he had made on his stomach and the arms of the chair. 
He looked at it for a moment and threw it aside by the desk, again 
turning his attention to the frozen holograms. He pulled up his 
pants and walked over to the other side of the room, where the 
girls had been paused in their lovemaking.

 Sylvia was on her knees. She had earlier discarded her halter top 
and suspenders. Her hand was awkwardly rubbing her crotch through 
her pleated skirt while her tongue hungrily explored the folds 
between Charlie's legs. Charlie.

"My God," Jarod thought. "What have I done to her?" Physically, it 
looked like Charlie, of course. The hair, the eyes, the skin. Even 
the small mole under her right eye. But It just wasn't her. It 
didn't feel like her. 

She was propped up on a table near the corner. She had pulled her 
tank top up and was pinching her nipple. her long skirt was hiked 
up around her waist as Sylvia buried her face into Charlie's 
pussy. Her head was tilted back, her eyes closed as she stood on 
the brink of orgasm. Frozen.

 "Close Replicant: Sylvia."

 There was a blink of light and Sylvia vanished. Erased
as though she had never been. No evidence save for the fevered 
state she had brought Charlie to. He looked at Charlie. She was 
amazing. He had never noticed before. The long legs. The flat 
stomach. The small pert breasts. Her smile was wide and her lips 
full. Her beautiful round face perfectly framed by the short black 
hair. Her eyes. Her eyes were closed.

 "Replicant: Charlie. Eye lids .795"

 Sylvia's eyes blinked open. It was eerie. She was still standing 
perfectly motionless, exactly as she was when he froze the 
program. Except for the eyes. Those beautiful, green eyes. He had 
never seen them this closely before. She always wore her glasses. 
But her eyes were so warm. So innocent. How could he have violated 
her like this? How could he have perverted her? He felt ashamed. 
Guilty. How could he use her like this? Charlie was the one who 
brought him dinner at two in the morning when he was working on 
his integrated systems final project. Charlie was the one who was 
there for him when he needed to obsess over Sylvia. She was the 
one who tried to convince him to move on. She was his best friend.

 He slowly reached out to the hologram. He touched her cheek. 
Gently, slowly, being very careful not to pass through the image. 
She didn't flinch.

 "Play Program."

 She came back to life exactly where she left off. Still moaning 
and squirming from the unseen tongue manipulations of Sylvia's 
tongue. Her breathing was sharp and shallow. She closed her eyes 
again. She arched her back and threw her head even further back. 
Her tiny voice chirping as she quickly gasped for air.

 "Reset emotion track. Replicant: Charlie."

 She stopped, opened her eyes and stared quietly at him.
He could see something in those eyes. There was love there. Not 
the love that Sylvia had. The love that he had programmed in. 
There was something different. Something that seemed so real. He 
leaned in close to her, and wished that he could smell her hair.

 * * *
 
 "Jarod!"

 Charlie stood there in the door way in utter shock. She had spent 
some time in the bathroom composing herself trying to decide what 
to do about the feelings that she couldn't stop herself from 
having. She resolved to tell him, then to keep it from him and 
then to tell him again. When she left the bathroom her head was 
racing in chaos with the possibilities. With the reactions she 
thought he might have - some good, some bad - to what she would 
say to him. She imagined the proper moment. Should she tell him as 
soon as she saw him? Should she do it over a romantic dinner? 

When she finally left the bathroom, she saw the blue light leaking 
out from under the door to the study. She leaned against the door 
and listened. She could hear Jarod occasionally speaking commands 
to the computer. She could hear the computer responding. She could 
hear movement and mumbles. She knew that he must be working on yet 
another simulation, but she couldn't make anything out. Her heart 
was racing. She couldn't keep this to herself any longer. She had 
to tell him. She opened the door slowly, both anticipating and 
fearing his possible reaction, but she never expected this.

 She stood there in the doorway, wrapped in her towel, still 
somewhat damp, though she had ended her steam shower quite some 
time ago. Jarod spun around when he heard her call his name. Their 
eyes met. Jarod's heart dropped. Charlie stood there. Trembling. 
Shivering, not from cold, but from something else. He looked 
behind him, and she was there as well. Only not in a towel. 

Instead she was dressed in a blue skirt pulled up around her waist 
and still clutching her white tank top near her neck, exposing her 
breasts. The real Charlie's eyes began to well up with tears.

 "Charlie!" Jarod called out to her while struggling to zip up his 
pants; not knowing what he would say next; not knowing how to 
explain, but knowing that he must.

 It was too late. Tears were pouring down her face. She covered 
her mouth and ran from the room.

 Jarod turned again to face the hologram. This Charlie stared at 
him. Confused. Her artificial intelligence not knowing how to deal 
with the situation but realizing something was wrong. Her mouth 
opened, but like Jarod a moment before, she found no words to 
speak. He found two.

 "End Program."

You may find other stories of mine at: /~kvagabond
Take a look and tell me what you think. -Krystoff