"The fuck I care anything about whoever these people were and the shit they're into," Jack thought as clicked on the option of no, and as the computer clicked and whirred and started to do what it was supposed, he turned his attention to a third laptop, inserted the Chronivac disk and waited for the programme to install.
As he did this, Damon, who still had the emitter, wandered away. Not caring at all what happened, wanting only to know how much money he could get for both the boosted laptop and the items he'd originally pinched, he fiddled with the thing in his hands. Still believing it had to do something with a television, a part of his mind worked over what it as he also flashed to the understanding Owen was the name of the dude he'd stolen the laptop from.
"Maybe it was this Owen who had some kink-fetish about being a woman, wanted to be called Felicity," he reasoned as he turned everything he'd seen around in his mind.
From where he sat, Jack paid little attention to Damon. To his way of looking at it, Damon was a two-bit-street-hood who believed he was lucky, would always fly high, but would one day crash and burn, ending up in some prison cell. Wanting to be there when it happened, to see when another useless association got what they deserved, he considered his own life, how he himself had been in and out of jail a couple times, the way it'd wise him up, made his more careful, and watching both laptops do their thing, he speculated on how long it was before Damon ended up a predicament he couldn't talk his way out of.
Probably not long," Jack mused and smiling to himself, he reached over across his work table and selected a couple disks.
The laptop once belonging to Owen and Aimee not deleted, he began to insert the various disks into it. As each ran a home-made programme Jack and a couple of associates designed, the computer was scrubbed of all traces of its former owners and, for all intents and purposes, reset back to factory default, leaving the thing like it had been the moment it was bought.
Almost done, he put the disks he'd already used back and turned his attention his computer. Seeing the programme was almost done installing, he commented, "Just about finished here. I can call you and let you know when I sell this stuff," in hopes Damon would take a hint and piss off.
Damon, still fiddling with the remote, answered, "Cool," in a distracted manner as he stared at the thing in his hands.
Not sure how he'd done it, but somehow the thing was now showing him a profile of Jack. Scrolling through what he could access, seeing things about the older dude he never expected to see, Damon stopped after a bit. Tapping, he brought information about Jack's brain, and after scrolling through the options, he switched the other's brain from a human one to a female cat. Finding this funny, he set the species of cat as "Siamese" when prompted, slid a bar so Jack would have a 100% beast intellect, and scrolling though what else he could alter, he soon changed Jack cock and balls to a fully-functioning external and internal reproductive organs of a Siamese get in oestrus. Adding a eight nipples, cat fangs, and long, fur-covered tail, he struggled not to laugh out loud at what he'd done.
With a soft hum, the device vibrated in his hands, and for a moment, Damon was sure Jack would come over to see what he was doing. Glancing at the other, seeing he was engrossed in reading something on his laptop, Damon turned his attention back to the remote. Clicking, scrolling, he set the changes as permanent, an awareness option of only Jack's associate Damon being aware, and not caring Jack only saw him as someone do business with, he clicked on the option to initiate changes.
Of all the things he expected to happen, what did wasn't one of them. Staring at the remote, watching as a load bar flashed across the screen, he was distracted from it when Jack grunted something like, "The fuck," and lurched to his feet. Looking over at him, Damon was about to ask him, "What's up," but before he could, the words died in his mouth as before him a confused Jack meowed as he started to undress.