[Nixie x Zero]

[Zero]

Kai walked into his recitation, sitting in one of the back rows, awaiting for other students to shuffle into his room. After only a bout a year and a half of research, he had stumbled across something pretty amazing. After contemplating its theory, he began to slowly work off the books, and not record some of his findings. As a psychology major, and his workings with the human brain, he believed he had been able to hammer out a device which could... in essence, nudge people in the direction in which he wanted them to, subconsciously or even actively. Of course, without a live subject, all of this was just theory... which is why he brought it into class today.

He was around 6'1", short black hair contrasting from his fair skin. He was quite lanky to be honest, not really much in terms of strength and he often skipped out of phys ed. By no means was he popular, nor did he even had a small group of close friends. No, he could be considered a loner, and not even those that some girls swooned over. He kept to himself and the fact that others seemed to do the same made him happy enough.

He wanted to find a nice subject for him to use it on. He already had someone in mind, a girl whom he had a small crush on in this class. Hopefully she'd sit in front of him, like she normally did, and then he'd be able to easily use the device upon her. Unfortunately, he didn't know too much about her, but that would be easily fixable. Especially since now he'd be able to screw around with her subconscious and make her to things that she wouldn't even realize she was doing. Luckily, the recitation itself was quite boring.... so this time would be quite well spent.

 

[Nixie]

Maria heaved a sigh as she settled into her seat, glaring at the droning tutor at the front. She was a pretty girl with snow white skin that looked baby soft, and white blonde curls that spilled out from beneath a forest green beret. Her coils of hair gleamed in the light like her deep blue eyes. Although for the minute, her eyes were closed, the black fan of her eyelash kissing her milky skin, as she tried to drift into a light snooze. Her chest rose and fell beneath the black, v-neck jumper she wore, the silver chain that graced her slimneck glimmered with the movement. On her bottom half she wore a pleated green skirt that matched her beret and a pair of over-the-knee socks that she wore with a plain pair of pumps. Maria wasn't the sort to wear make-up, she was too lazy, however she cared enough about her appearance for there to be a small blue nose piercing settled above her right nostril and numerous silvers ones in her ears that tinkled and sang when she moved.

Maria was a quiet girl herself, but she had a close group of friends with whom she was very intimate and people didn't really know alot about her. One got the impression that she had come from a very sheltered and very strict background, possibly even an abusive one as she was so lacking in confidence, despite her looks. She never asked questions and rarely approached individuals by herself. One thing people did know though, was her love for music. She was almost always plugged into her MP3 player- something she was considering doing even now.

Unable to drift off, Maria sat back and tilted her head to the ceiling so she could count the tiles, her almost pewter locks tumbled down the back of her chair in a lustrous cascade as another sigh excaped her coral lips.

 

[Zero]

Kai watched as Maria moved and settled into her seat. He smiled a little, enjoying a few moments of just watching her as he looked down at the device in his hands. Actually, his crush went a little further beyond Maria and encompassed more her roomate as well. But, he wasn't in any classes with her, since he believed she was a year lower than him and Maria. Nontheless, he moved and placed the little device and pointed it at her before he connected it to the miniature keyboard, as he activated the little program as it moved to scan her brainwaves, and connected straight into her mind.

He decided to first test how it might affect her subconscious as he sent her a simple command to jot down her full name, and her birthdate on a paper that she might use to jot notes before folding it and handing it back to him. Hopefully if it was done right, she would continue to do what she was doing, looking at the ceiling as her body would move upon its own, as if doing it by muscle memory. Or perhaps she would look down, do it and then return to what she was doing by forgetting it.

Or the worst thing might be if she realized what was going on... It was an experiment after all... and he couldn't really know what could go wrong and what wouldn't.

 

[Nixie]

Maria reached a hand back to rub at the nape of her neck while the other pressed against her lips to stifle another yawn. The tiles were almost as interesting as this lecture, she thought bitterly before something attacked her senses and she felt like her head was about to explode. Marie nearly cried out, both hands coming to hold her head at the temples. However, just was quickly as this wave of pain had came, it vanished and Maria was left blinking in wonder.

In these few seconds when Marie thought she had been holding her head and shutting her eyes tight from pain, she had actually torn a corner of her note pages off and scribbled down her full name and date of birth in her usual curly, barely-legible handwriting and passed it back to the boy behind her. What was his name again?

Maria was still wondering what had happened, she lent forward onto her elbows and held herself by the neck again, her dainty fingers pressing worriedly into her skin. Obviously she thought what she had been doing to her neck at the time was connected with the sudden and violent headache. Scowling and passing it off for a day dream conjured up from the dark depths of pure boredom, Marie took her beret from her head and threw it down onto the table. This was when she notcied that there was a corner of her notes page missing. She frowned and cocked her head slightly, her jewellry singing with the motion. She picked up the paper, as though it were a ticking bomb and kept her piercing blue gaze on it for a minute or so as the memories of what had just happened slowly trickled back into her conciousness.

Her pink tongue swept over her curved lips and hesitantly, she turned around to face the boy behind her.
"Um, hi, this is going to sound a little strange: but did I just hand you a note?" she asked in her soft as ash voice, her creamy cheeks filling with a rosy blush.

 

[Zero]

Kai enjoyed how well Maria seemed to respond, and how she looked straight back at what she was doing, not noticing that her mind had been assaulted. That wasn't really how he wanted it. He had actually thought it would be quite a painless process, but it wasn't like he ever tried it on himself. He read the note and smiled before he pulled it off the desk and placed it in his bag before his head went up again and met Maria's, whom had looked back at him with a small blush. When she asked him whether she handed him a note... he shook his head, being pretty smooth about it. "Err, No? Heh, having some heatwave problems? It's getting mighty hot in here isn't it?" He asked her before he decided to test where to send an emotional command such as that.

He decided it would be best to swap to conscious, hopefully it would modify her patterns and force it to stick that way, releasing hormones and creating such a reaction that would leave her... 'hot' persay. The command was simple enough, 'To feel the need of something inside her.' Non-specific as he wondered what she would do in such a situation such as this. After all, if she stayed too long she might stain, not that she knew that and she might think it were just a passing thing. Of course, if she got up right away, she'd be quite rude to the TA, whom had full control over her grades and such. He hoped that this would at least take her mind off of what seemed to be her realization that she had done something weird, and something that perhaps she couldn't even remember for herself.

He'd have to work on the subconscious section of the device. It was supposed to modify her without any after effects... after all, it was still a prototype, and mistakes were bound to happen. Hopefully there wouldn't be a big one, wouldn't want to fry her brain or anything like that.