Stuck

“Yo, Tedd!”  Catalina dropped into a seat across from Tedd at the lunch table.  “Where is everyone?”

Tedd shrugged.  “Susan and Elliot had some feminist club thing.  I’m surprised you’re not there.”

“Oh yeah, that,” said Catalina, rubbing the back of her neck.  “Still, perfect time to ask.”

“Ask what?”

“You were talking about... permanent stuff, last time we dropped by.  How’s that going?”

“Kind of stalled for lack of test subjects.  Sarah let me test on her a couple of times, but then a joke went awry and... stuff I can’t talk about in public happened.”

“So that’s why Sarah was ‘out sick’ last week?” asked Catalina with a broad grin.  “She seems okay now.”

Tedd’s blush intensified as Sarah sat down beside him.  “Oh, is this about last week’s experiment?  I told you, I like the side effect.  I’ve ordered a bunch of new bras, it’s all good.”

“Yeah, but you don’t want any more... experiments.”

Sarah shook her head, and held her hand up to forestall further comments.  “Too tempting.  I can’t afford another round of bras.”

Catalina studied Sarah more carefully.  “Shapeless tops, I should have guessed something was up.  How many cup sizes?”

“Two,” whispered Sarah conspiratorially.  “I’m trying to sell it as a growth spurt.  Not sure the gym teacher’s buying it.”

“Now I wish I had gym the same period as you.  Just to see the looks.”

Sarah giggled.  “I have been getting some interesting ones.”

“No weird side effects?” asked Catalina.

Sarah glanced sharply at Tedd.  “What did you tell her?”

“Nothing!”

Catalina glanced back and forth between them.  “Something bad?”

Sarah blushed and shook her head.  “Nope.  And that’s all I’m going to say.”

“I’m quite sure I can fix...”

“Oh hell no!” interrupted Sarah.  “Not a chance.”

“Okay...  So it is safe?”

Tedd nodded.  “One hundred percent guaranteed.”

Catalina’s eyes flicked to Sarah and then back to Tedd.  “How?”

Tedd glanced around the cafeteria, and shook his head.  “I can’t say, here.  Meet at my place Friday night?”

Catalina nodded eagerly.  “Wicked.”

*** *** ***

“Hey Catalina,” greeted Sarah.

Catalina’s tail bottled out.  “What the jackass... why are you here?”

Sarah smirked.  “I’m Tedd’s lab assistant and test subject.  Gotta be here to haze the newbie.”

“I’m here for design work,” called Grace cheerfully from her perch beside the computer.

“I didn’t think I’d have an audience,” said Catalina softly.

“Oh!  I didn’t think it would matter, you’re so... enthusiastic about everything.”

Catalina glanced down at the ground, where she was scuffing one toe.  “I... um...  Kind of want something a little kinky.  For my girlfriend.”

“Something your wand can’t do?” asked Tedd.  “I can add more spells.”

“You wouldn’t want to add a permanent shrinking spell to it.”

Tedd shook her head rapidly.  “Nope.  Definitely not.  I can add a normal duration shrink-growth combo, though.  Not as strong as Rhoda’s spell.  I haven’t been able to figure out her system yet.”

“That’s okay,” said Catalina, holding out her wand.  “The normal one would be great.”

Tedd tapped it with a finger.  “There.  Think ‘shrink’ or ‘grow’ while using the wand, and there you go.  Was that all?”

Catalina shook her head.  “I want you to make me smaller.”

Tedd pointed to her wand.  “That can do the trick.”

“No, I mean... permanently.”

“Ah!  That shouldn’t be too hard.   You need to be willing for it to work right, but... that doesn’t sound like a problem.  How small?”

Catalina put the wand away in her cat-eared satchel, then set it down beside the couch.  She held a hand out at waist level.  “Half my height.”

“If you’re that small, you won’t be able to use the wand to go back to normal for school and such.  Are you sure?” asked Tedd.

“Jackass the school.  I don’t care.  Rhoda said she’d do it, but I’d have to wait a month and I’m impatient.  I want to be her pet now.”

“Still...  I’d feel uncomfortable leaving you unable to go out in the world at all.  How would you feel about just going to half size?”

“Isn’t that what I asked?”

Tedd shook her head.  “You asked for half scale.  Half size is one half your starting volume, it’d leave you a little over four feet tall.”

“Four foot three,” volunteered Grace.

“That.  Do you want to try being that size for a bit, to see if it’d work?”

Catalina shook her head.  “No, just do it.  You can make me even smaller later if I ask, right?  I’m moving in with Rhoda once school’s over.”

Tedd nodded.  “If you’re really sure about it, and Rhoda is here to take you home.  And if she agrees.”

Catalina grinned fangily.  “It was her idea.”

Tedd glanced over at Grace and nodded slightly.  Grace picked up something that looked like a piece of two-by-four that had been polished up nicely.  She brought it over and handed it to Catalina.  “Hold on tightly with both hands, then press the buttons on both ends.”

Catalina looked it over, and noticed that there were two bright red switches where her thumbs would sit if she grasped the bar by the ends.  She settled her hands in place, then pressed the buttons as instructed.  A little red LED lit up at either end, then quickly turned green.  “What does this do?”

“Primes you for a permanent change,” said Tedd.  “Ready?  If not, just release the buttons and nothing will happen.”

Catalina gripped the bar a little more tightly.  “Ready.”

Tedd held up the TF Gun, set to ‘maximum shrink’.  “Firing in three.  Two.  One.”

Under the glow of the beam, Catalina swiftly dwindled from her usual five foot four to a hair under four foot three.  The lights on the bar went out, but it did not change size.  Catalina adjusted her grip, then handed it back to Grace.  “Wow.  That felt about like any other shrink.  How can you tell it worked?”

Tedd flicked a switch then zapped Catalina with the TF Gun again.  Nothing happened.  “If it hadn’t worked, that would have made you normal sized again.”

“So... I’m a shrimp now?”

“No, you’re a cute little catgirl,” said Grace.  “Um... are her ears permanent, too?”

“Uh...  Catalina?  Can you change your ears back to normal?” asked Tedd.

Catalina closed her eyes for a moment.  “OK, I...”  She glanced into the mirror, and saw that her ears were still as perky as always.  “Oops.”  She pattered over to where she’d left her cat-eared satchel, pulled the wand out, and tapped it to her head.  The ears remained.  “Double oops.”

“We can fix this,” reassured Tedd.  “We scanned your form before...”

Grace was shaking her head.  “We haven’t.  She was in a rush and we forgot.”

“Well, carp.  Okay.  We can still fix this.”

“Fix what?” asked Catalina.  “All I need is a cute beret like Sarah’s, and I’m good.”

“No, we can do better.  We can and should reconstruct your normal form.  Just step over here and we can get your current shape scanned.”

Catalina did so more docilely than Tedd expected, standing in front of the scanner quietly until she was given the all clear.  “Now what?”

Grace pulled up the scan.  “Now we save a copy, and put it back to normal scale, and get rid of the tail and ears.  Oh, and ... hm.  Do you remember what your human ears looked like?”

Catalina shrugged.  “Doesn’t really matter.  Didn’t much like ‘em anyway.”

“Oh come on, you must have a selfie somewhere that shows them.  I want to get this right.”

Catalina shook her head.  “My hair always covers my ears.  Just put whatever in, it’ll be fine.”

Grace sighed, tapped a few times, then hit save.  “There.  If you ever want to go back to normal, we now have an approximation of that form ready to go.  Tedd can load it on your wand, if you like.”

“Uh... yeah, sure. That’d be handy.”

“Plus you could turn Rhoda into your twin, and get twin snuggles...”

“Or get her to take my exams for me...” mused Catalina, ears perking avidly.

“Bad kitty.  No cheating with magic,” scolded Sarah.

Grace looked over at her friend.  “Why are you in front of the scanner?”

“Now that you’re done with Catalina, I want this shape saved.  I know you were just playing off my joke when you made it, but... I really really want to keep your bonus feature.”

Grace tapped the ‘Scan’ button, and Catalina’s eyes went wide as she saw the wire-frame version of Sarah that showed up.

“Between your tits?  Oh man.  What’s that like?”

Sarah blushed.  “Oops, forgot you’d see that.  Very rude.  Very fun in the shower.  Haven’t had a chance to test it with Sam yet, but he knows about it and is looking forward to it.”

“Can I get a spell for that on my wand?” asked Catalina.

Tedd blushed.  “I didn’t program that one.  I’d rather not give it out as a spell before we’ve done proper testing.”

Sarah giggled at that.  “Oh, I’ve done plenty of that already, but if you two want in I think I can arrange something.”

Tedd’s blush spread over her entire face and down her neck.  “I... that...”

“Okay, okay.”  Catalina held her hands up.  “I can wait until you three sort that out.  But not too long, mmm?”

“Erhem.  Right.  Fine.  Let’s just get that wand of yours loaded up with your proper ‘Catalina’ body, then we can do a little testing.”

“Of?” asked Catalina.

“Maximum size, minimum size, and whether or not ‘Catalina’ form changes those.”

Catalina sighed piteously.  “I hope Rhoda appreciates the sacrifices I’m making here to become her pet.  Fine, do your worst.”

*** *** ***

Rhoda studied Catalina carefully.  Her lover was practically vibrating with excitement.  “Come in.  Mom and Dad are going out in a bit, we’ll have the house to ourselves soon.”

Catalina blinked at that.  “I have to wait?  Wait, why are they...”

“I asked when you said you were coming over.  They’d been talking about picking up some plants for the garden anyway, so I... encouraged.”

“Sorcery.”

Rhoda giggled.  “Good grades help, too.  And puppydog eyes.”

Catalina brayed a laugh.  “Wish I could pull that off.”

“The grades or the eyes?”

“Either.  Both.  I’m trying to make good on that promise, but...”

Rhoda tapped Catalina on the nose playfully.  “No buts.  Make it happen, and we get a week together with nobody to interrupt or discover anything.”

“And just what would we discover, hmm?” asked Rhoda’s mother, grinning at her daughter.

Rhoda smiled at her innocently.  “Do you really want an answer to that?”

“Nope.  Have fun you two.  We’ll be back in a couple hours.”

Catalina boggled at the exchange, and just... stared until the door closed behind Rhoda’s parents.  “They just...”

“Yep.  Wait a tick for their car to pull out... yep, they’re gone.  What was your big secret?”

Catalina pulled out the wand and handed it to Rhoda.  “Restore me.”

“But...”

“I promise it’s worth it.”

Rhoda shook her head, but smiled indulgently at Catalina as well.  She tapped the wand to Catalina’s forehead.  “Restore.”

Catalina dwindled before her eyes, from somewhat above her height to significantly below it.  Rhoda just stared, and when she noticed the ears she stared some more.  She tapped Catalina twice more with the wand.  “You’re... small?”

Catalina nodded happily.  “This is the new me.  Extra cuddly, extra shrinkable.”

“You... what?  How?”

“Tedd can make transformations permanent.  And I wasn’t willing to wait to be your pet.”

Rhoda’s eyes went very wide.  “Catalina Jane Bobcat...”

Catalina winced at the invocation of her full name, and that tone...  She couldn’t meet her sweetie’s gaze.  As her eyes turned downward they got stuck part way.  She hadn’t realized just what her new stature would mean... she was eye-level with Rhoda’s breasts, and couldn’t look away.

“Did you really get your whole existence rewritten just to be my plaything?”

“Yes’m.  I mean, yes Owner.”

“My eyes are up here, sweetie.”

Catalina tried, she really did.  But the reality of her new situation was sinking in.  She was boob height on her girlfriend.  No magic, this was really her.  And she couldn’t stop grinning.

Rhoda put a finger under Catalina’s chin, and gently forced her to look up again.  “Are you happy with what you’ve done?”

Catalina nodded eagerly, a broad smile on her face.  “Fuck yeah.”

Rhoda tried not to let her startlement at Catalina’s unusual crudity show.  “And you can go to school somehow?  You looked normal when you got here.”

“Wand has a ‘Catalina’ spell on it.”

“Good.  Good.  Because I have a little surprise for you, too.”

“Oooh?”

“My shrinking spell got a lot more complex.  It took some practice to sort it out, but... I figured out some of the sacrifices I can make to boost its power.”

Catalina’s eyes went wide.  “You can make me even smaller than before?  So I didn’t need to do this to become small enough to hide in your bra?”

Rhoda nodded.  “Sorry, I should have told you.  It’s just... some of the sacrifices are...”

“What?”

“I have to take things away.  Make the target... simpler.  I can shrink you to mouse sized, but you wouldn’t be able to think like a human any more, and some important details might get lost.”

Catalina smiled up at Rhoda.  “Sounds like fun.”

“There is... another alternative.”

“Ah?”

“I can transfer your mass into something else.”

Catalina’s gaze slipped down.  “Like your boobs?”

Rhoda smirked at her sweetie.  “Yes.”

“Wicked.  What are you waiting for?”

Rhoda pulled Catalina into a hug, squishing the short catgirl’s head between her breasts.  “This.  You’re already the perfect size.”

Catalina squirmed and tilted her face up so she could see her sweetie.  “I wanna stay like this forever.”

“That works for me.”

“Though...”

Rhoda chuckled softly.  “Yes?”

“Still wanna ride in your bra now and then.”

“It’s a date.  Tomorrow.  For today... no more magic.  We don’t need it.”

Catalina purred happily and cuddled up against Rhoda.  “Yes owner.”

“None of that either.  Just you and me... and an hour and a half to ourselves.  Whatever shall we do with a house... or more importantly a bedroom to ourselves?”

Catalina’s eyes went wide.  “Are you serious?”

“You turned yourself into a pet catgirl for me.  Yes, I’m serious.”

“Show me.  Shrink me out of my clothes.”

Rhoda wiggled her fingers.  “Okay, one little bit of magic...”