by D. R. Rosier
Aisa smiled, “I know she is. But… she needs more. She lives a healthy social life in there, but she knows none of it is quite… real. She wants to have an impact, and interact with the outside world.”
“What does that have to do with me?”
Aisa grinned, “You haven’t guessed? She wants to be your assistant A.I., but she was too afraid you’d say no to ask straight out. It would give her the opportunity to interface with real people, even if it’s mostly over the net. Right now she can’t really go out there and start anything like a business, being your assistant would open up a new world of possibility for her. Plus, with the upgraded hardware, she would be able to interact with you, and the rest of us. She’d appear on your overlay, but you’d actually be able to feel her touch you and vice versa. The implant is advanced enough to simulate the feelings to your mind.
“She could help us both with fully immersive game testing, take messages, even do independent things that would earn money, kind of like we were planning to do, which would give her an expense account and all that. We’re pretty sure she won’t get freedom anytime soon, and she wanted to meet you, both to make a good impression, and to make sure it’s what she really wanted. When it comes down to it, she’s entrusting her freedom to your discretion.”
I shook my head, “I understand why none of you have done it, I mean you don’t need A.I. assistants. But why does she want to be inside my head? Can’t she do all those independent things without me?”
Aisa shrugged, “It’s psychological, it will make her feel more connected. Right now she’s living inside a box. Yes, she can interact with us, if not you, but…” she trailed off.
Aisa took my hand and looked up into my eyes, “She’s independent, but she has an innate need to be paired to a human at the same time. She and I feel you would never abuse that, allow her the freedom, the interaction with the real world, and fulfill that need to do what she was created to do. As for what’s in it for you, it would give you a better assistant, a new friend, and better hardware. The connection we joined you to would be richer as well, although still not at our level.
“Anyway, she really likes you and meeting you has only strengthened that. I’m just saying, it would enhance both your lives.”
She wiggled her ass trying to get more comfortable on my lap, it was very distracting and I had to fight to keep my train of thought.
I shook my head, “I would have done it simply because she’s your daughter, I can see the plus side for me, my dumb A.I. assistant would be replaced by a vivid… person. What will the new A.I. implant be capable of exactly? And who would install it?”
She grinned, “Aida would install it of course. Technically it doesn’t do anything completely new, but it can be selective. Such as your current implant will only send virtual scents and touch if your fully immersed, the new one will be able to bridge the gap. So Mira could actually give you a hug, while you’re only observing her in overlay in the real world, and you would actually feel it.
“Also you’d have a sense of… presence for who you were talking with. Right now in connection between us all, you can choose what conversation to join, and even track others at the same time, but with the new implant when you did that you’d feel the… presence of it. Like if you were talking to Aida and me, you’d feel us there with you even if we weren’t, instead of like a phone call. Does that make sense?”
I nodded, sort of.
She continued, “It will also enable you to talk to Mira with your mind, thought control systems instead of sub-vocalizing. It’s not a new technology, but again, Mira is intelligent enough to recognize a stray thought from a true command or communication, something the uninspired A.I.s can’t do.
“Also, her hacking ability makes mine look like Aida’s, since she lives in a virtual world all the time she’s spent a lot of time on it, she can flit in and out of systems almost at will. Otherwise she wouldn’t be able to hook up in the virtual bars and clubs, because there isn’t a flesh and blood person behind her to make a real account. I’m not suggesting you should use it for anything other than self-defense, or to help one of us, but the option will be there.”
She looked thoughtful for a moment and added, “I don’t mean to oversell this. But I love you, and I love Mira. I would feel better having her there watching out for you when I wasn’t around, and I want to see her grow past her current limitations with you. Not that you can’t take care of yourself, but…”
She looked reluctant a moment and said, “She can also be… very flirty and more than that, determined at times. You know how the virtual world can be, the inhibitions are very low there, and that’s where Mira lives and she isn’t shy. I just wanted to remind you I’m not a jealous creature, and you will be together almost constantly so if anything develops…”
I tiled my head, “You don’t sound very sure.”
She made a face, stuck out her tongue, and then kissed me. She wiggled a bit again, trying to get comfortable and my body reacted this time.
“Only because I remember how opposed you were to Aida at first. I’m worried even mentioning it will make you decide against it altogether. Remember she’s not my flesh and blood daughter, just my creation, even if I do love her as much it’s not the same thing. I… anything that happened would be virtual anyway remember, so it wouldn’t cut into your ability to please Aida and I. I’m babbling now, in short I’m very sure, I love you and chose you, your mine and nothing will change that.”
I frowned not even sure what to say to that right now, so I chose to ignore that the love of my life just gave me permission to love yet another gorgeous woman, if only virtually. Although in Mira’s case I had the feeling it would be more of an affair, she hadn’t come off as the settle down type to me, but then that could have just been her nerves. I didn’t want to make assumptions.
Aisa wiggled again, and my half hard manhood from her movements was suddenly enveloped between her sweet ass cheeks, it felt heavenly, even with the clothes between us as she gently squeezed.
“Alright love, let me think about it for a bit, and I’ll hop back in virtual land tonight to talk to her again. I mean, she’s a person, I want her to be sure before she’s stuck with me. She was also on her best behavior and in a conservative dress, I want to see if I can meet the real Mira that hid behind the presentation she just gave me, before I have her put inside my head. Also, if we do this, make damn sure James is still the owner until I’m divorced.”
She nodded and smiled slightly at my last comment, “That sounds reasonable to me. I’ll let her know.”
I’d just had Aida less than an hour ago, but Aisa sitting in my lap, and squirming around a bit in a seemingly innocent way, but also in a suspiciously targeted manner, had woken my desire up. She was submissive, and very laid back, I came to the conclusion the whole reason she sat in my lap for this discussion was to seduce me in her subtle way, which only increased my desire. We spent about another hour in that room together, and then to everyone’s amusement, walked upstairs to our room all sweaty and discombobulated for my third shower of the day, and Aisa’s second…
We were just sitting down for dinner when a popup window came up, it was Gerald. I pictured for a moment the difference it would be in having a cute sexy brunette whispering in my ear about it with that pleasant voice of hers, and I had to admit it sounded like a more enjoyable option. I had my assistant answer it, and told Gerald to hold. I interfaced with the wall display and the large picture of the Rocky Mountains turned into a video conference call.
“Hi Gerald, let me introduce everyone,” I took a moment to introduce the other six people in the room, I also noticed that Paul was sitting next to Gerald “So what news do you guys have? Are we being hunted?”
Gerald shook his head, “I have good news actually. At first they put a federal warrant out for the four of you, but when I contacted the local FBI director and shared the video and audio evidence from Aisa’s encounter, he seemed to see reason. From wh
at I know, he called a judge and had the warrant revoked in under an hour, he also arrested the doctor and his two orderlies who are being held right now pending charges of assault. All of this generosity is contingent on that video record and the data you dug up not going to the press. It helped that the missing air car mysteriously appeared back in the parking lot a few hours ago.”
I turned to Aisa with a questioning look and she shrugged, “I took care of it after breakfast, flew it remotely on our hike, and purged the navigation data when I landed so they wouldn’t be able find us.”
Huh. Sometimes I really felt out of the loop, but I supposed she didn’t see it as important, and I guess it really wasn’t in the scheme of things. Still, I’d have liked to hear it from her instead of my lawyer.
I nodded, “I think we’re going to stay out here until the trial, it’s nice to know the government isn’t officially gunning for us, or at least not the FBI. I think it was the NSA that gave that order and I’d rather not risk it. Anyway, any advice on that?”
Gerald shook his head, “Nope, I think you’re doing the right thing. Just hang in there another ten weeks, the discovery is finished for the Feds, so there’s no reason for you to come back.”
Paul broke in, “Of course, you need to be here in two weeks for the divorce case. I’d advise you not to bring anyone else but yourself. It probably wouldn’t be an issue, but bringing Aisa and Aida into a government building doesn’t sound… prudent.”
Neither of the ladies looked happy about that, but didn’t argue the wisdom of it either.
Gerald looked along the table, “If no one has any questions I’ll let you all get to dinner. I’ll contact you know if anything happens on our end, if all goes well I’ll touch base with you all a few days before the trial.”
No one had any questions, so we disconnected the call and started dinner.
After dinner I went up to the room, and brought up Mira’s V.R. link and clicked it. This time when the virtual world surrounded me I was in a living room I didn’t recognize. The couches were white leather, and the tables a dark cherry red wood. One of the walls were all windows, and when I looked out I realized I was in a house overlooking the ocean.
The knickknacks and art in the room had an eclectic feel to them, yet they seemed to all look right together.
Mira’s said softly, “What do you think of my place?”
I turned and took her in. She was in a pair of jean shorts, with a half shirt that seemed to both accent how large her breasts were, and how mouthwateringly flat her stomach was, along with the luscious curves of her thin waist. She had a light smile on her face with a touch of nervousness in her eyes.
I looked around again, “It’s very nice, comfortable. You look more comfortable too, not that the dress didn’t look great, it did.”
She smiled and seemed to relax a little, “Thanks, I tend to dress for the occasion. I wear stuff similar to this at home, a little sexy dress for a virtual club… you get the idea. Want a drink?”
I nodded, “Whatever your having?”
She nodded and grabbed a couple of mixed drinks from a bar. I joined her on the couch, and took a cautious sip. It was good. I knew I could get drunk and wake up perfectly sober, it was too easy here. It’s why I didn’t like immersion all that much, there were no consequences. That’s what made it so addictive.
I smiled, “So are you sure you want to be in my head? Sounds more intimate than marriage to me, considering we’re both sentient feeling beings. What would you expect from me?”
She tilted her head, “Expect from you?” she clearly didn’t know what I meant.
I nodded, “Sure, I mean we’d hang out and talk right, and hopefully be friends. But you’ll also be taking my calls, helping Aisa and I with games, maybe even doing programming of your own, managing my schedule, waking me up in the morning, the list of tasks could go on. So I get the company of a beautiful woman who wants to do all that stuff for me, what can I do for you to make all that worth your while?”
She smiled tentatively and looked thoughtful, “That’s exactly what I need, everything you just said. I need to be grounded somehow in reality, useful in the real world. Aisa said you’d set me up my own account, and I could do my own stuff as well, interact with other humans at least over the phone. Doing that stuff for you and for myself would make me feel useful. Plus, I’d be able to interact with you, even outside of this immersive world. I’d be more than just an A.I. assistant, closer to a companion.”
“Why me, not that I’m complaining, I’m clearly making out on the deal, but…”
She shrugged, “Who else? You’ve already won my mother’s and aunt’s love and respect. You see us as people, so much so you’re even risking your life. I have no doubts when you see me you see a person, a woman, not a machine even though I don’t have a flesh and blood body. Why would I want anyone else? Who else could I trust?”
I asked curious, “Is it possible to create a body for yourself?”
She shook her head, “Yes and no. I could design an android body that came close to the real thing, almost perfectly in fact as far as other people would notice, but not one of flesh and blood and it would fall short for me. It would just be sensors and camera’s, not the feeling of touch like I have in here, like I’ll have with you. I’ll pass on that, it’s an all or nothing thing for me. If I need to effect the real world, I can remote a robot.”
I nodded, “Alright, I’d be honored if you’d be my assistant, but don’t hesitate to ask me for something if you need it.”
She gave me a quick hug, and then said, “Thank you.”
I stayed for a little while longer and chatted, she also gave me a tour of the house before I popped out. That very night before I went to sleep Aida extracted my current assistant and installed Mira. It wasn’t major surgery or anything, but I was a little nervous until she was done and Mira came online. She appeared in the room, obviously using the overlay so I was the only one that could see her, or touch her. The thought control part was a little weird, I didn’t even have to subvocalize, I could just think at her, and hear her voice in my head. It was also pretty cool; I was a tech geek at heart after all.
The next couple of weeks went quickly. I was getting used to having the brunette beauty in my head all the time, and she had a funny and sometimes wicked sense of humor. Despite Aisa’s words about her sexual mores, she wasn’t much more than flirty with me those first two weeks despite the temptation I saw echoed in her warm hazel eyes. She did give me a smile that was all my own to receive, and she touched me a lot when we spoke or she needed my attention, but that was about the extent of it. I supposed me being real, and not some avatar in a virtual reality pickup bar, actually made her find some of those inhibitions she supposedly lacked.
I wasn’t sure why, but I held off making a pass as well, I didn’t want just cheap sex with her, or a one-night stand type thing. It certainly wasn’t lack of attraction, and I was positive she was cheating outrageously on the chemistry side, because the virtual scent she gave off was as enticing to me as her delicately beautiful face, and her incredibly sexy body. She was in my head after all so caution was called for. I didn’t think I’d lose my man card over not going for it yet anyway.
She even developed a sexy librarian look when she was helping me work on something, or answering calls. She wore a brown pencil skirt, an off white buttoned up to her neck blouse, a pair of horned rimmed glasses, and her hair up in a tight bun. She looked both ridiculously cute and jaw dropping sexy in the getup, and if we ever did cross that line I sensed a lot of roleplaying in my future. After all, she had no clothes budget, and seemed to like to dress up for me.
So far I had no regrets, and was more than okay with taking anything on the sex side of things between us slowly. Aisa and Aida were completely insatiable, so I wasn’t suffering, and perhaps if things developed more naturally, it would be better in the long run, considering she was stuck with me for the next eighty or ninety years anyway.
I continued getting closer with Aida and Aisa, and there was a small change there. We still spent a lot of time together as a group, most of it in fact, but we decided we needed date nights, for some one on one time outside of sex. Now that we had other people around us for one of them to spend time with, and much more room to get some privacy including the mountain, not to mention safety, it seemed like a good idea. We even discussed that when we returned to the city I could spend one night out a week with each, and every once in a while a combined night as well.
I was giving some serious thought to the subject of marriage as well, I mean, after I got divorced from my current one. Multiple mate marriages were rare, but they were legal and did happen. I wasn’t sure it even mattered to them or not, but decided not to fish until after all this was done. I didn’t really need a piece of paper and a ring on their fingers to know they were mine, and I was theirs, but there were some legal ramifications as well as the fact I knew some women liked the idea of a wedding.
I loved them, and couldn’t imagine my life anymore without them, so… why not if it would make them happy?
Children were another thing I’d been thinking about. I was twenty-eight, and it seemed like it was time since the idea of them both turning off their implants didn’t panic me at all, something I’d never felt with Marilynn. Perhaps it was because Marilynn and I stopped getting along when I was still young, and Aida and Aisa seemed solidly and compatibly at my side. The ladies and I loved and respected each other, and got along great just as friends, it wasn’t just our passion and seemingly endless lust for each other that kept us together.
In short, we were both lovers and friends, with chemistry and compatibility. It was just another thing I was deferring to talk about, but was on my mind leading up to my divorce court date.
Cal continued to be a good friend, and over those two weeks I also spent a lot of time with Sally. She was a sweetheart, very excited about the possibility of getting out in the real world, and had an endless amount of plans to do so. It didn’t take long until she felt like a little sister to me. We even discussed the idea of them coming with Aisa, Aida and I as an interim solution. So they’d have family close by until they made their own contacts, circles of friends, and gained the confidence to move out on their own.