"Sure," you said and rolled out of bed. "I wish I was dressed and clean," you added as you got to your feet and crossed the room to her. "What's up?"
Lauren looked to the side nervously, "So it's about all this."
"You're going to have to be more specific," you said, "there's been a lot of 'this.'"
"Yeah and I mean all of it. Everything since we popped into your bedroom yesterday." You decided that now was not the time to tell her that you'd made her clothes disappear then made her forget about it.
"You want me to put you back," you said.
"No!" You raised an eyebrow as Lauren shook her head. "See at first I thought it was just because you made me love you, then I thought that it was just because of you making me accept things and maybe those are part of it but..." she sighed. "You know what my last name is?"
"Wu?" you said. This conversation was not going in the direction you suspected.
"Only half right. I changed it at the station manager's 'suggestion.' He thought that Lauren Patterson was too plain sounding. I graduated near the top of my class and he had me covering dog shows. I was there as eye candy and a token hire, and I only got the latter job because I don't look 'too' Asian. I also could never tell him I was bi because he was pretty sure it was still the 50's."
"So what are you saying?"
"I'm saying that this situation may not be ideal and that they way you kind of brainwashed me is still creepy, but my old life was no basket of roses either. And my hands aren't exactly clean on the whole brainwashing thing either." She stepped a bit closer and you became acutely aware of her nakedness. "I just have one request from you..."