It wasn´t long after Aidan had eaten his treats that he and Mark sat in the living room together, Mark at the laptop and Aidan on his carpet. Mark used the chronivac for a few edits about Aidan. First, he created a second back-up of both Aidan´s old data, meaning before he started any of the changes, as well as his current data, as he wanted to be able to return to it. The reason for a second backup was to torture Aidan even more with his predicament.
Mark made sure that as soon as he saved the changes nobody would remember Aidan Starns as the human he was, but him and Aidan himself. And that would alter soon to only himself. Instead, everyone remembered Mark having a dog named Starny, which had a nickname that was Aidan as to remember an old friend.
Another edit was that everything owned by Aidan would belong to Mark afterwards, as Aidan as a dog couldn´t really own anything. Mark would keep Aidan´s flat, making sure it would never cost him anything. It had the same reason as the backup, maybe sometime he would get bored of Starny and turn him back to Aidan, or change him another way.
When Mark was satisfied with everything, he saved the changes. “Showtime” he thought, turning over to Aidan, who was again chewing on one of his toys while reading.
Getting his attention, Mark said grinning evilly: “Aidan, while you can´t act any different from now and are still subjected to all commands I made to and for you, your mind will be able to go back to how it was before said changes, but you will remember everything that happened since then.”
Aidan looked confused at first, not understanding what Mark meant. When it came back to him, however, Aidan looked horrified at Mark, seeing his predicament. He also turned bright red in embarrassment, seeing as he had walked around naked.
He dropped the chew toy he had been happily chewing on only moments before, but was too embarrassed to say anything at first. Only when his shoulder itched a bit and he bend his legs to scratch it with his feet he finally got something out. “Master, what the hell? What have you done with me, you asshole? Are you getting off on humiliating me? Or is it so funny to have me act like a dog?”
Aidan only stopped shooting questions and insults at Mark when Mark raised his hand, showing him the stop sign, instantly silenced. Then, still smiling evilly at Aidan, he answered: “You know, I made sure nobody would find your behavior odd, all would see you just acting like you normally did, or simply ignore you, so all that humiliation you feel now is only towards me and yourself, no one else. I made you act like a dog, step by step, because I planned to make you my dog in the end. Yeah, I realized I can be cruel, but I didn´t get off humiliating you, so don´t worry. But it was much fun seeing you act like a dog, that´s for sure.”
Aidan looked at him in shock, only really having gotten to one point of Mark´s answer. “You … You want to make me your dog? Please master, I beg you, don´t do this. I´m still human, not a pet. And why do I call you master, master?”
Mark laughed at him. “Yeah, that´s my plan. Why do you think I let you remember everything, but not act on it, huh? You call me master, because that mask makes you loyal and obedient to me, resulting in you seeing me as your master. Also, I wanted to hear you speak a last time before finishing you off. See, to make sure you will be my dog, I will delete that backup the chronivac made of you, so you can never be turned back to that.”
Aidan watched horrified as Mark showed him the folder with backups in the chronivac, showing three files. One for Mark, one for Aidan´s start settings, and the one of his actual settings beside the memories. And without waiting for Aidan to beg to not do it, Mark selected the original Aidan settings file and deleted it laughing cruelly.
Mark watched still laughing as Aidan´s dog-acting body broke down sobbing and yowling for his fate, the wailing in it clearly meaning a long “No” to Mark. When Mark finally calmed down again, still watching the miserable Aidan on his carpet, he decided to end Aidan´s misery now and really finish him off.