Part Two of Kimmy
Part Two of Kimmy continues from later on the first of November to the end of the following day, consisting of 14 chapters from John’s point-of-view.
Chapter summary
Chapter 13
After spending the day cleaning, John/Kimmy chats with the Kimmys. Emily is going to stay behind to work late. Kimmy#5782 starts a private conversation where she guesses John’s brain is being merged with Kimmy#2813’s neural sponge, and John panics when he feels his body constricted and uncomfortable. Kimmy#5782 asks if Kimmy#2813 retains anything of her previous memories, when she was known as Kay.
Chapter 14
John realises that Kimmys are sentient, just like him, and he is inhabiting the corpse of a dead Kimmy that he and Emily desecrated, and vomits up bile and part of his innards. His memory recalls the name Kimmy#2813 had for Kimmy#5872: Kim.
Chapter 15
John researches neural sponge and comes to the conclusion the vocal inhibitor that Patrick included to modulate his speech must have broken through into his brain—the itching sensation he felt when he was first locked into Kimmy#2813 (as per the chapter 4 spoiler). He writes an e-mail to appeal for help from his brother.
Chapter 16
John cleans the entire house to stop from idling. Emily finally arrives home and notices John’s hands are smaller. He realises his body has been numbed of sensation while the self-repair nanobots inside the Kimmy are using his body as raw materials to consume and rebuild Kimmy#2813. Emily demands John make love to her, and Kimmy is obliged to comply.
Chapter 17
John and Emily have sex; John is unable to feel anything despite the amount of sensory feedback Kimmy#2813 receives.
Chapter 18
John realises that he is no longer able to disobey commands from Emily; despite his wishes, she orders him to sleep. He falls asleep.
Chapter 19
John is contacted by Kimmy#5782, who he surprises by calling her Kim, and John realises he is powerless until Emily allows him to wake. He asks Kim to call him Kimmy as he feels he is a mix of John, Kay, and the android parts colonising his brain. Kim tells Kimmy to get to a hospital first thing in the morning.
Chapter 20
John is awoken in an immobilised state by Patrick, who reveals his plan had been for Emily to be inside the Kimmy on Halloween night and to be left in a suggestible state after being released. Patrick’s new plan is to trap John inside Kimmy permanently. Patrick rewrites the instructions for Kimmy’s neural inhibitor cluster to change John’s behaviour and renumbers Kimmy’s registration to be Kimmy#12943. John pleads for his life to no effect with Patrick, who uploads the changes.
Chapter 21
Patrick frottages John’s leg and leaves, and after ten minutes of immobility John realises he is unable to perform any act that would reveal John has been trapped within Kimmy#12943 or implicate Patrick.
Chapter 22
Online John meets a number of Kimmys, one of whom gives him a timeline that he will be unable to recover as a human being after another nine days.
Chapter 23
Patrick added a compulsion for Kimmy to eat and drink, so John’s body won’t immediately expire from starvation or dehydration.
Chapter 24
John has to wait for Emily to return, and she is working late again. John ruminates on what ‘Professor Kimmy’ told him about the ongoing hybridisation of his brain.
Chapter 25
Emily arrives home and doesn’t suspect anything is wrong with John. He suggests an idea instead of sex.
Chapter 26
John brings Emily a hot chocolate, and John tells Emily a farrago of lies that Patrick has included into Kimmy’s programming, including the false information that John is safe inside the Kimmy and it will take an entire week to get him out. John discovers Patrick has gotten him spectacularly fired from his teaching job, after being obliged to say he’s taken two weeks’ leave from work. When Emily insists things are not alright and John is obliged to insist they are, Emily tells him to shut up and go downstairs to charge.
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| Part Chapters |
1 (1–12) |
2 (13–26) |
3 (27–41) |
4 (42–57) |
5 (58–72) |
6 (73–80) |
7 (81–100) |
8 (101–129) |
9 (130–141) |
10 (142–164) |
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