Sue's Brain

Running a few minutes late, Fiona finally found the restaurant.  She looked across the street to the patio and saw Laura, but didnt recognize the girl she was sitting with.  Where was Laura's girlfriend Sue?

After running across the street to meet them, she realized who it was. "Holy shit, you shaved your head!"  Sue didn't even look at Fiona, continuing to stare straight ahead at the umbrella in the center of her table.  "Sue!  Snap out of it!"

Sue turned her head.  She looked beautiful, as always, with her shirt buttoned low and a bell around her neck, for some reason.   "Hello."  She smiled and blinked.  "Snap... out... of it?"  She asked, confused.

Laura couldn't contain herself.  "She doesn't know what to do with idioms" she laughed.  "I'm afraid she's not much of a conversationalist without her brain."

"Without... oh for Christ's sakes, I knew even before she sold her feet and ankles you two were kinky, but I didn't think you'd sell her brain."  A year ago, Sue surprised everyone by joining in to the cheap body modification craze, getting her legs amputated just below the knees.  Her and her girlfriend Laura evidently had a dom/sub relationship with each other, and Sue ended up with cheap and almost useless steel pegs which attached to her shin stump with a plastic cup.  With only a two-inch diameter rubber base to the pegs, Sue couldn't stand on her own, and could only walk while holding her girlfriend's hand.  The two of them couldn't get enough of each other, and all their friends had long since tired of seeing the two make out in public.

"We didn't sell it!" Laura put her hands up.  "We did one of those things where you rent it out.  And it wasn't even the whole brain!"

"Ah yeah, I heard of that.  They say computers are really just good at crunching numbers, but the human brain can do all sorts of other crap that computers can't really do.  So, what, the took her brain and put it in a vat and now they've got it folding proteins?  Decoding the human genome?  Searching with a radio telescope for E.T.?"

"Actually, I think they put hers to work in a vat somewhere doing math for engines or turbochargers or some car crap."  Laura smiled, and looked at Sue.  "And like I said, they just took MOST of the brain.  They take it out, bisect, it, blah blah blah, and then put a little part and a computer back inside.  Apparently the leave her with the front part of the brain which processes vision and sound and speech and stuff, and the top part with all your memories.  Or something.  That little computer chip is smart enough to keep her heart beating and keep her walking around and doing what I tell her to do.  Anyways, she's dumb as hell, but she still has all her memories, so its still her... I guess.  When the lease expires and she gets the rest of her brain back, she'll remember all of this!"  

Sue remained staring into the distance with a vacant smile on her face.  It seemed as if she understood none of what was going on.  "And how long, exactly, is this lease?"  Fiona was still skeptical.

"Well, she signed up for six months minimum, but-"
"But what?"

Laura grinned sheepishly.  "Immediately after the brain removal she 'agreed' to a six month extension I suggested."

Fiona sighed, and turned to Sue.  "What do you think about all this?"

"Think?  About what, Fiona?"

"Hey, at least she recognizes me" Fiona said to Laura.

"Right?!  She's got all her memories!  Its just, all of her thinking is done by that little computer, and so she's not very good at it.  by default, she just defers to other people when she needs to make a decision."

"No way."  Fiona grinned.  "So you are in total charge of her?  So you can be like 'Sue, show me your tits', and she will jus- hey!"

Other customers on the patio swiveled to look as Sue immediately began removing her shirt.  "No!  Sue, stop it!" Laura swatted her hands down from her buttons, and leaned over the table to do them back up for her.  "You cant say things like that, she's an idiot now!  Look."  Laura reached over, placed a finger on Sue's cheek, and turned her head all the way to the right, ringing the bell around her neck.  "They had to shave her head to get her brain out."  On the back of her head was a steel hexagonal plate, with a tiny screw on each corner.  In the center of the plate were two small recessed buttons and a blue coloured LED blinking softly.  "She's got a bunch of different modes.  There's this one, then another where she just goes into a sleep and her brain turns off, and a few others.  And before you ask, yes the bell IS necessary.  A bunch of times now she's gotten distracted by something and wandered off.  There are probably smarter cows out there.  Plus, I think it's cute!"

Fiona couldn't help but laugh.  "Wow, this is NOT the Sue I knew in college."

"Yeah, they even buy brains now outright.  But I don't know, selling it would be kinda mean and plus - how would she ever get to enjoy her money!"

"Yeah, how much money is she making off of this?"

"Oh, quite a bit.  And of course we're gonna spend it on more body mods.  I think she wanted either a couple more tits, or these big black wings on her back or something.  Like, huge, soft, angel's wings.  They wouldn't do anything, of course, but wouldn't she look fucking incredible?"  Sue was watching an ant inch across the pavement, distant look in her eyes and contented smile on her face.  Laura continued "another thing I think she'd look good in would be hooves.  Like, no fur or anything, just get rid of those steel pegs and get two hooves transplanted onto her legs.  And make her taller!  Like, 6'4"!"  She was starting to get excited now.  "That would be sooooo hot!"

"You two are fucking crazy" Fiona sighed.

"What, you don't want to play with her?"  

"Excuse me!  She's my friend!  And YOUR girlfreind!"

"Sure she is, and she will do anything you tell her to.  She wouldn't have had this done to her if she didn't want us to play with her.
 Come on... you wanna come over?"

Sue looked up, refocusing her attention from the ant to Fiona.  "You're gonna play with me too?"