One week, two weeks and more passing every second. Time seemed to go on forever for Giovanni as he ran from door to door of his old contacts list. He’s lost count of the days and lost track of the many NO’s he was receiving. They weren’t letting him hide. None were sending him money.

Finally he’d decided to call Mistress Raven again. He was dirty and in need of a change of clothes. His own money supplies depleted for he only stayed at the best of hotels instead of conserving as he should have been.

Her phone rang and Raven was actually lucky that she still had her phone to answer. After so many details came to light about what Giovanni had done, it was made public that should anyone help him, they would be considered just as guilty by association.

“Hello?” Raven answered her phone. “Who is this?”

“Raven...” Giovanni huddled against the old Pay phone. “I need your help.” He was glad that she couldn’t see him. “I need a place to stay where it is safe for me and acceptable to actually live in.”

“Giovanni...You..are actually calling me? I told you once..I wasn’t going to lose my life because of you. I’m NOT helping you.”

“You don’t understand! I need more money at least. MY accounts have been locked I can’t get into them.”

“Do you even know what is being said about you now a days? My gods man. HE has made things public about you and your past. And..the girl. You kidnaped her, Giovanni. YOU didn’t tell me that yet you had me riding her!”

“You wanted to ride her. Look..just send me some money so I can get to Gentry’s.”

“No..and not just because I don’t want to. You won’t find Gentry. His license..to practice has been suspended. He’s not going to be there and if he is..it won’t be the same Gentry you know. No one is going to help you. You’ve brought enough trouble down on us, Giovanni. All of us. When you conspired to have a special agent man brought in to capture? How stupid are you!”

“Raven...I NEED somewhere to go. I have friends..powerful friends..once I get a hold of them..I’ll get things back like they are supposed to be. If you help me now..you could be the queen..and rule beside me when I get my Caballo back.”

“There is NO where for you to go. I’m lucky that I even have my stables and home, no thanks to you. Your powerful friends aren’t powerful enough. There are much more powerful men at work here. It’s time you realize it and turn your self in. And believe me..If I knew you had kidnaped that girl..I would have turned you in my self and ended this a lot sooner than what’s going on now.”

“How can you speak to me like this! I am Giovanni Arrington!”

“Turn your self in, Giovanni..You’re not anyone anymore. Good bye Giovanni..I’m done with you.”

The line went dead and Giovanni slammed it down and growled loudly. This wasn’t happening to him!

“Where...Where to go..” He gasped. “MY stallion...Cochise..he is still in power..He will still see me as his master.”

Quickly heading off. He had to get there. He wouldn’t call. He’d just show. They couldn’t track him down if he didn’t call and say he was coming.

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Back at HIS home

A difficult two weeks but the progress was progressing agonizingly slow. The first day he had to sleep in the stable with her as well as the next. But James brought a bed in on the third day and set it up in the stall and started laying with her in the bed. It was the only way to ensure that she’d stay in the bed.

She tried to crawl down and sleep in the hay but he didn’t let her. The fourth and fifth days the same but he actually slept in a separate bed beside her. But it was still in the stables. She would balk and run when she was told she’d be going inside.

There was also her name. Her name Seren was supposed to be hers and she wouldn’t answer to it. James had problems at first but he figured a way. When the next week came, he was smart and made an inside Stall in the bedroom inside the house for her.

She accepted it and slept on the bed but he always had to be in the room with her. The butler, Gerald, would call his master and report the progress, albeit slow, to HIM. At least it was progress. At least on some parts.

Her first bath alone was hell. James had to finally go in and wash her because she sat there unsure of her self in the tub. Her mind had been broken so badly. It was taking so much longer to bring her back than it took Giovanni to make her Be a pony.

But her second bath went better, aside from her gasping when James dropped her into the water and she ended up pulling him into it with her. Poor James. He simply laughed and sat up smiling at her to let her know it was alright.

By the fifth bath, James discovered the use of bubble bath and how she liked to play with them. It was childish but bubbles were soap and she liked to rub the bubbles on her when she thought noone was looking. Caballo’s mind still thinking that she’d be scolded for not acting like she should, so she hid the behavior.

But now, he was trying to work on things like getting her to respond to her name and walk on two legs. That was hardest part really. It was a difficult hurdle for she still bore the marks of that world and Giovanni. The tail ring was surgically placed so it couldn’t be removed. The nipple rings could though.

That brought a whole different issue to life. She would shed clothes when he dressed her. Again, Caballo was thinking that she wasn’t supposed to be dressed as a human. They would find the dress laying on the stairs and find her in the inside Stall waiting for James to come back in the room.

Frustration and guilt that he had helped make her this way sometimes over whelmed him but then he would see her do something out of the corner of his eye and smile for that something would be so human of her. He couldn’t give up on teaching her.

And it wasn’t that Pony Play was bad. It was the fact that she couldn’t distinguish between the two lives. That one life was only..for play. A pleasure. The other, her human life as Seren Angelus, was hidden deep down in that broken pony spirit somewhere.

But Ever persistent, James found another weakness. Today he was using that Weakness. He entered the room and licked his lips as he tasted the Bbq flavored chip. He mmd and licked his fingers.

She liked BBQ chips. Caballo inched off the bed and started crawl from the little pen he had made her. He used a pet fence actually but it sufficed. James shook his head at her and she backed up into her ‘stall’.

“I want to share these chips with Seren..the human. I wonder if Seren..would like to come and sit beside me while we share the chips together.”

Her mouth opened to speak but she looked down and quieted her self instead. James shifted on the bed and turned to face her. He took another large bite of the chip and mmd again. Her stomach rumbled in want. Caballo tensed and looked up at him.

“Does Seren want to share the chips and watch television with me? Cartoons. Seren likes cartoons.”

“I..” She flinched as if someone might hit her.

“Yes?” Urging her to speak more. “I couldn’t hear you. Did you want to come and sit with me, Seren? Your favorite kind. Bbq flavored Fritos.”

“I....” Caballo whimpered. “I..want one..” Her voice very soft.

“Hm? Of course Seren can have one. She just needs to Walk, on two legs like the human she is, and come come sit beside me to get them.”

James held the bag out to her and smiled. The girl frowned and looked about quickly. He was in her mind everywhere, yelling. ‘BAD PONY’ and ‘PONIES DON’T TALK OR WALK ON TWO LEGS!’ She kept hearing Giovanni over and over again.

“Seren..Come on. It’s safe, Seren. It’s just me, James and this..yummmy bag of chips. All you have to do is Stand up and walk over here. No one is going to yell at you.”

“I want..one.” Caballo started to crawl but stopped when he gave her that ‘no’ look. “But..”

“Seren..He’s not here. He will never be here or around us again. You are not a pony. Humans eat chips. Humans sit on the bed and watch cartoons while making a mess for the butler.” James laughed. “You like making Gerald grumble..because he finds that you snuck down and raided the cookies. Because he finds the crumbs in your bed.”

Smiling at him, she laughed then quickly covered her mouth. James smirked and ate another chip messily. Some of the crumbs falling on the bed as he did.

“I..want one too.” Seren, the girl, started to stand. “I..”

“They are right here..” Holding the bag up. “So many yummy chips and crumbs to get all over the bed.” He nodded to her. “Not prance..walk..hands beside you..you’re human..not a pony.”

She ran, out of the open gate, over to him and jumped on the bed with him. Caballo pounced James and grabbed onto him which made him spill some of the chips on them both. He laughed and fell backwards with her attached to his chest. If she ran quick, no one could surely catch her walking and yell at her for it.

Seren couldn’t help her self. She started to laugh too because he was covered in the chips on his chest and had some of the red seasoning, from the chips, all over his chin.

“Somehow..I didn’t think I would be turned into the chip but..mmm..”

He took a bite of chip that had fallen between her breasts. Getting her to wear clothes was still a huge issue so one thing at a time. That was his plan. She laughed again and picked up one of the chips on his chest. It was Caballo’s eyes who looked at him as if asking permission to eat it.

“I bet Seren would just eat a mouthful because Seren, the human, lovvvveeess these chips.” James picked up another one and crunched it. “So does James..”

Timidly, and quickly, she ate the chip while still clinging onto him with one arm. James was her security blanket when acting so against the yelling thoughts in her mind.

“Hey..there’s Seren.”

She blushed and ate another chip. James then nodded and grabbed the remote and clicked it on.

“Cartoons, chips and Seren.” Pretending to nip at her arm which had some of the BBQ salt on it. “Arrrr..” Plus it was the arm that had the death grip on him. He was trying to get her to relax. “BBQ Seren.” Making smacking noises with his lips and licking at her arm.

Seren laughed and pulled her arm away from him some. She had finally, without noticing it, sat up completely beside him, on her own. He pushed him self up and several of the chips fell off his chest and onto the bed. James laughed and nodded to her.

“Teach me to wear a white t-shirt, huh? You’ll turn it red with chip salt.” He spoke Playfully, of course. “Think you, Seren, want to go swimming in the pool after we watch Cartoons and eat chips?”

She liked swimming too. Her eyes brightening. She opened her mouth to speak but paused momentarily. That voice yelled again.

“I’ll blow up the Ducky floaty.” He whispered. “Just talk to me..say yes.”

“The S..Squeaky one?”

Yes, in too many ways, she was still like a kid but he hoped that as she grew to accept her self more, that more of her old self would come out and she would remember that she was Seren Angelus, the human girl who liked swimming and going shopping. He could only guess at shopping but she was from a rich family so yeah.

“Yeah..but..only if you put on your bathing suit. Remember? I found one that’s Purple..your favorite color..and it makes you look so pretty in it..”

“I..” Seren looked down. “I...”

“The one I like to se you wear because I get all jealous of Gerald and those others here seeing you all naked. Want to do that to me? Make me turn old before my time.”

“No..” She whispered.

“So you’ll wear it for me and go swimming with me?” leaning close to her cheek. “Because I like swimming with Seren the human girl.”

“O..okay.”