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I got home after another enjoyable and informative session. In the space of only a few weeks, I'd managed to seduce the remaining daughter and mother of our latest project.
My mission could almost be classified as ‘inhumane’,  but since I'm not actually human, it doesn’t apply to me.
I could be considered as an emotional vampire, taking the raw emotional control from my victims and directing the energy into my own being. At first it was simple energy, but since I discovered the pure pleasure that could be induced from sexuality, in this instance with females only, it was so much more.
It all began two years ago when I was a history teacher and the special girl in the class named Melanie was the one I managed to seduce. Her mind was fascinating and the raw energy from her intelligence kept me feeling tip top.
Then I discovered that she engaged in sexual activity with members of her own sex. On our world it was considered to be immoral, but I was on a mission and decided to indulge myself. The rest is history.
It transpired during one of our long and exciting mouth to mouth sessions, that I realised the fluid from within her was quite delicious. She talked about ‘family’ and I used my knowledge of the local business network to find out exactly what that was.
I also discovered that the human brain was so easy to manipulate and the liaisons I had with Melanie could be easily forgotten. I even managed to seduce her mother, who clearly didn’t remember the two of us meeting.
And now, I'd managed to complete the family tree with her sister Charlie and a second encounter with the mother.
I had one more task to complete.
Once home, I changed out of my work clothes and took a quick bath. I needed to rid my body of Charlie's smell before I compiled my latest report and then make contact with my clone.
*
I felt a lot better after immersion in H2O, otherwise known as water, and was ready to end this.
“Channel Open.”
I waited patiently for the archaic computer system to connect me. Whoever thought that broadband was something to be admired had a screw loose, back home we had this type of technology for at least a thousand years before.
The light changed to green and I opened the portal.
“Report.”
“Clone 47, I have some important news regarding the latest mission.”
“Go ahead.”
“Observation of the two females, Charlie and Diane, has resulted in an unexpected bonus.”
“Elaborate.”
“Sexual coupling.”
I temporarily closed the line and began smiling. This had gone better than expected and the mission was now at an end.
I reopened the portal.
“Clone 47, you have the ‘act’ fully recorded?”
“Yes, I will transmit the data for viewing.”
I clicked the download button as the data began to transfer into my own personal data stream, this was going to be such fun watching.
I turned back to the portal and discovered it was still active.
“Clone 47, why haven't you closed the link?”
“I am sorry but there's a problem.”
“Problem?”
I hoped there was nothing amiss, I was already onto 47 clones and these situations should not happen, but I'd become too much like these mongrels, humans and something was in the air.
“Yes, there was a problem during the final exchange and the power source fluctuated.”
I knew the answer before I heard it.
“Don’t tell me, the cloaking device.”
“Yes”
“So what happened?”
“After sex the two of them entered the sleep phase, so I moved away from them and into the bathroom. The CD failed while in there and the human Charlie entered the room to relieve her body of poisonous urinary fluids, when she briefly looked over to where I was standing and saw my shadow.”
“Damn”
“I'm sorry.”
“It’s not too much of a problem, we have all the information.”
“Not quite.”
“I detected another problem.”
“Yes the memory faded as expected within Charlie, but it remained within Diane.”
“Wait a minute, you said Diane?”
“That’s right.”
“No it's not. The sexual encounter was supposed to be with Charlie and her mother, the title only and not the name. How did this happen?”
The clone ran a systems check and the error was found. It turned out to be my own fault.
“The residual effect left in the room mentioned the mother by name, so Diane made love to Charlie, but then Charlie made love to her mother.”
“Cryptic but true.”
“So what now?”
“I must stay with this family until the coupling happens again and the error is corrected. What happened after?”
“Charlie reacted badly to what Diane was saying and they had a major falling out. She's gone away to recuperate.”
“Ok, where did she go?”
There was a very lengthy pause, the clone was keeping something from me.
“Tell me now!”
“Charlie left her mother and went to visit her sister.”
I pondered this latest development. No doubt Melanie would tell her sister she'd been involved with me, but I couldn’t see how that would enlighten the situation and then I had an idea.
“Transmit yourself to the home of Melanie. This game can be concluded and the error will be ignored.”
“What must I do?”
“Observe only. I'm guessing that Charlie and Melanie will be grieving, especially when it's revealed to the duplication of what they went through, in turn that will lead to the sisters sharing an intimate moment.”

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