[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-protagonist-system":3,"chapter-the-protagonist-system-the-protagonist-system-chapter-516":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Protagonist System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1824124,2426,"509 Hot Tamales","the-protagonist-system-chapter-516",516,"\u003Cp>After a little while, Gloria broke her silence asked me if I needed anything, then she immediately corrected herself and said she only meant non-personal or non-intimate things. That she had to state that openly, told me everything I needed to know about what kind of things had been going through her mind all morning and I didn't even need telepathy to figure it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I responded by saying I was taking a nap and then reminded her that it would be lunch soon and that I'd want a number one with the works, soy fries, and a can of NiCola. Her eyes darted to the vending machine in the kitchen and returned to me, so I repeated what I said at breakfast. She could eat as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I closed my eyes after that and let out a soft sigh, as if I was exhausted, and pretended to go right to sleep. I used my X-Ray Vision to continue watching her as her face went through many expressions before she seemed to come to a decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria waited exactly six minutes before she very carefully stood up from the couch and watched me closely, to see if she had jostled me or woke me up, then she walked over to the kitchen and stared at the machine. I thought about poking her with telepathy and chose not to, just so I could be pleasantly surprised by whatever she decided to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hand reached for a particular button in the beverage selection four times before she actually managed to push it. The loud thunk of the bottle dropping made her gasp with fright and she whirled around to stare at me laying on the couch. Since I had watched her the entire time, I didn't flinch at the sound or showed that I had reacted in any way. My chest rose and fell in even breaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She let out a relieved sigh and leaned her head against the vending machine, luckily not on any of the buttons. She took several long deep breaths that were similar to the pretend sleep ones I was using and she reached down and pulled out the expensive bottle of alcohol. By the look on her face, it was something she sorely missed, and she walked over to her EMT coat that hung on a kitchen chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again, Gloria tried four times to tuck that bottle into different pockets before she tried putting into her sleeve and she sinched up the cuff to stop it from sliding out. Once it was out of sight, she walked away from it, then went back and checked it. She had a nervous look as she tried to come into the living room and she stopped walking when she saw my calm sleeping face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Jodido joder!” Gloria whispered in exclamation and her Spanish accent was out in full force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fucking fuck?I thought and wondered what she was going to do now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria walked back over to her coat, retrieved the bottle, and walked over to the couch and sat down. She set the bottle on the coffee table and stared at the thing for a long time. The news channel changed programs once and signalled that it was noon, because the actual news for Night City came on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pretended to stir and Gloria hopped up and ran to the kitchen, chose the meal I asked for from the vendi, chose the same for herself, and came back with a very full tray. Instead of saying anything about the bottle of alcohol, Gloria proceeded to talk about normal things as she fed me, again only managing to get about a third of the way through the food before she mixed up which meal was which and she fed the two of us from both of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sharing two burgers with her, two heap of salty and surprisingly tasty fake french fries, and topping it off with a small processed apple flavored paste in a foil dish? It was one of the best dates I'd had in a while. The thought made me chuckle and Gloria gave me raised eyebrows at the sudden laugh out of nowhere. I thought about lying or denying it, then thought there was no point in keeping it from her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I'm trussed up like a gonk mummy and I can't bend my arms or legs to sit up. Wiggling my fingers is about all the action I can do safely.” I wiggled said fingers and laughed. “Even with all of that, this was one of the best meal dates I've had in a long time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria looked shocked before her face flushed red and she had to turn away from me. I assumed it was so she could compose herself and probably to gather up the courage to tell me about the expensive alcohol she had taken from the vending machine without my permission. Since I didn't want to sour our relationship, or have her think she had ruined everything by doing what she did, I decided to mitigate the whole situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh! I see you grabbed a bottle of my favorite smash brand, too. How did you know?” I asked with fake excitement and then I sighed sadly. “Too bad I can't touch the stuff while I'm dosed up with dorphs.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria looked back at me in surprise and saw my sad face. “Veder, I...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I can't leave it around or Syn'll either confiscate it or bug me to let her drink it before it goes bad.” I said with a scoff. “Like it can go bad! She's gonking out if she believes that drek.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria's surprise didn't fade. “Veder...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You better chuck it...” I started to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“NO!” Gloria gasped in fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...or take it home. I don't care.” I finished and she relaxed. “I ain't drinking it and there's no way it'll still be here in a week when I can have it... unless you don't like...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria's hand moved like lightning and scooped the bottle up and she hugged it to her chest. It settled easily between her breasts and she leaned back on the couch to cuddle the thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I mentally smiled at her accepting my explanation. “I guess it won't go to waste in your hands.” I said and then looked down at myself. “Uh, could you... you know. I gotta go again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, choom. I'm on it.” Gloria said and almost hopped up, seemingly full of energy, and she reached for the towel across my waist. She only had one hand free, so that was not going to work. She walked to the kitchen and set the alcohol bottle on the table, opened her backpack, and retrieved the hose and container.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria came back over to the couch and knelt beside me, set the apparatus up, and pulled on a new set of rubber gloves. She lifted the towel to attach the hose and froze as her eyes saw that I was still erect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You... you still...” Gloria whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You said tot ell you when it went away.” I said, a little smugly. “It didn't.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria swallowed audibly at the fact it hadn't gone away in all that time. That only distracted her for a moment before she attached the hose to me again. Since I had drank a significant amount of liquid during the last meal and much larger amount this time, my kidneys had to make room and my bladder had to get rid of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your kidneys must be working overtime.” Gloria commented as the gush of warm softly yellow liquid poured down the hose and into the container.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I was laid up and vegged for four days on nutrient IVs, choombatta. The first one after I woke up needed a recovery bucket to catch it all.” I joked and Gloria laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I was done, she repeated the slight jiggle and one pump to finish me off and I had to grit my teeth to not moan for her. She again caught my reaction and that complicated look was back on her face as she used a few cleaning wipes that fixed me right up and disinfected the area. She covered me with the towel again and took the thing into the bathroom to clean it and herself up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After she packed up her backpack, Gloria took out some gauze strips and wrapped the bottle up. She tucked it away in the backpack and closed it. She stood there and stared at the backpack for a few seconds, then walked over to the couch and looked at where she had sat before. Her eyes drifted to my waist and then to my face. The complicated look changed to determination and she took a step and knelt beside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Veder, I have something to confess.” Gloria said to me, her voice firm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to head that off quickly, before she embarrassed herself, so I put an innocent and slightly confused expression on my face. “I thought you said I was too young to look at you like that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria looked startled and then blushed. “That... that's not...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wiggled my fingers at her. “Choombatta, it's all nova. I wasn't saying no.” I reassured her. “It obviously still works, like you saw. There's nothing wrong down there after my accident and there's nothing on the medical report receipt about it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria's eyes widened at what I was implying. “Veder...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I had to fight not to blow before, so you know the plumbing still works. Well, I assume it does. They didn't do a live sperm count or anything...” I let my words trail off and made my face flush red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ay Dios mio.” Gloria whispered and her eyes flicked to the bulge under the towel that was still there. She knelt there and stared at it for a few moments before she took a breath and let it out. “How long before it goes away?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With you here? It's never bailing.” I told her, being completely truthful. I also looped the camera feed to show only a static image and no one would ever know the difference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“N-never?” Gloria asked, her wide eyes narrowing back to normal. “It's never going away?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not unless you want to do something about it.” I added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Me.” Gloria said and looked away from the bulge to stare into my eyes. “You want me to take care of it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You're the medical professional here.” I said and then smiled. “What's your diagnosis for having an erection last for most of the day with no sign of it going away?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria looked angry for a second and then huffed. “You planned this, didn't you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha! I wish, choombatta. I'd be half out of this getup already if I knew this morning that you'd be on your knees beside me and giving me a look like that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A look like what?” Gloria asked, even though she knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Like giving me a thrill might be worth double the hazard pay.” I answered honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked surprised and then squinted her eyes at me. “Excuse me? What did you just say to me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pretended to use the clicker in my other hand to change the vidscreen display and nodded towards it. Gloria only turned her head to look and gasped at the breakdown for her day shift. Each half hour was marked with 50 eddies as a base value, from nine A.M. until four P.M., which meant she was guaranteed a minimum of 350 eddies if she didn't do anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With feeding me breakfast marked as a basic medical service for an additional 100 eddies and lunch marked as well for the same amount, that was another 200 eddies on top of her base salary. What made her gasp was seeing the two hazard bonuses, marked as an emergency medical bladder relief. They had earned her an additional 200 eddies each for the danger and the extra work she had to do to clean up. That brought her total up by another 400 eddies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, for her single day of work at the promised EMT pay rate, Gloria pretty much only had to keep me company for seven hours and provide basic medical and hygienic care. That alone had already netted her 950 eddies and she stared at the total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before I could think about asking her again, Gloria took that decision out of my hands as she pulled on two more surgical gloves and lifted the towel off of my waist. It bobbed for her, as if she needed the encouragement, and one of her hands slid around my firmness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ohhhh.” I moaned and throbbed under her hand. The surgical glove almost felt like a condom as she gave me a few tentative strokes. My breath started panting as she kind of played with it for a few minutes, her movements overly gentle, as if she was trying to figure out the best way to handle it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria's eyes constantly went from my erection to my pleasure-filled face as she handled me and pleasured me with just her hand. Her face almost didn't show any emotion until she added her other hand to her movements and I sucked in a sharp breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“M-m-more... f-faster... please, Gloria.” I pleaded between panting breaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying her name seemed to be the key as Gloria gained a determined look and really got into jerking me off. I didn't see where she had grabbed the lube from and I didn't ask. She only put it on her hands and her hands only caressed the shaft, which while it felt good, was a little disappointing. Before I could ask if she had plans to include the tip in her motions, she ducked her head down and sucked the tip right into her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I moaned loudly and she made a satisfied humming sound, quite happy that I appreciated her doing that. I did and didn't hold back as I quickly approached climax. “C-c-close!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria opened her eyes and she gave me a look of appreciation as she sped up both her mouth and her hands. Since I didn't want to disappoint her enthusiasm to take it, I let it go only a moment later. She let out another happy sound as I poured myself into her mouth and down her throat. I was sure she had a good taste of it, because the sucking pressure actually increased instead of stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria didn't stop sucking and jerking until ten minutes later and I blew another load for her. She took that one as well and swallowed it all, her throat and mouth working hard to not let any of it escape. Her tongue worked me over a little to clean me off as she finally relented and eased her mouth off of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked satisfied that she had gotten me off twice so quickly and let me go as she turned to look at the vidscreen across the room with her pay breakdown still on it. The event was marked as an intensive and thorough medical examination that earned her 400 more eddies for the first checkup and an additional 400 eddies for the follow-up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was a grand total of 1,750 eddies for the day and she probably never had that big of a pay for a single shift before. The satisfied look stayed on her face until she turned back to see me still rock hard for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It'll go down later.” I promised in a whisper. “It's just you're right there and there's no way I'm gonna disappoint such a preem doll by going soft before you want me to.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria looked surprised and then blushed as she looked away from me. “You g-gonk.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With you around? I guess I am a gonk.” I told her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria used a couple more cleaning wipes to disinfect me and clean me up. She chucked them and the gloves into the trash and covered my waist with the towel. She stood up and looked down at me, then she looked at my face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew what she was going to say before she said it, because the expression on her face said it all. “No one knows what just happened here, Gloria.” I said in a serious tone. “No one but us needs to know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria didn't believe me and thought I was going to brag to my friends about it. She looked resigned and let out a sigh. “Go back to calling me choombatta. I don't want you accidentally calling me by my given name when it's not appropriate to do so.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't try to argue that all that did was make it easier for her to keep her distance from me and that was something I didn't want her to do. “You got it, choombatta.” I said with fake happiness and wiggled my thumb up for her. “You can count on me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria opened her mouth to straight out tell me to keep it to myself and then closed it. She knew if she said it, I'd definitely spread it around as soon as I could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I'm no snitch.” I said, again my tone was serious. “I don't even have the capability to make a BrainDance right now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria gasped and her eyes went to the bandages on the back of my head. She had completely forgotten I had most of my chrome removed by Victor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, no cyberware to catch how nova what you did was.” I said and she blushed. “I even spoofed the security cameras.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria gasped again and her head whipped around to stare at the top corner of the room and the black dome there. She squinted as her eyes gained a blank look for a few seconds and then she physically relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I told you, choombatta. No one but us needs to know what happened.” I reassured her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Okay.” Gloria said with a small smile and looked back at my face. “Okay, V.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gave her a warm smile in return and didn't try to push her for more, even though she knew the only recording that existed was the one she had in her own head, assuming she backed it up before it was overwritten. I also undid the hack to the security camera feed and pretended to change the television back to the news channel with the clicker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloria stood from her kneeling position and gave the towel over my waist another look, saw the bulge was still there, and her small smile grew into a full one as she sat down on the couch to watch the television.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She only had a couple hours left for her shift and then she could go home to spend it with her son after school was over for the day. It would be the first time a long time she was able to do that and her thoughts held a lot of gratitude for me and a little disbelief, since she thought I was a typical teenager on the cusp of adulthood and would yell it from the rooftops that she had sucked me off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since I wasn't an idiot, I would never do that. Showing her that she was the one in control of what happened and what was recorded or not, did more to reassure her than any of my words did.\u003C\u002Fp>",3236,"2026-06-09T05:52:49.484Z",1,"novelbin.me","67f3525a55289284554c87068b59e7157e27ab94ccf7c56c61d45f75dd0560f7","the-protagonist-system-chapter-517","the-protagonist-system-chapter-515",542,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-protagonist-system-cover.jpg"]