The dictaphone

Mary thought more about it. Yes, she had the power to regain control in her own house. But then, why for? Her kids? Teri was a tyrant who wished to be able to make her own mother feel miserable. Her son Louis? The boy didn't support her own mother when in distress, too horny whenever her sister was around. Such a perv... Her husband Donald? He stopped fighting and was just a mess, not even standing to confront his own daughter. And her friends, like Greg? A traitor who messed with her life for his own pleasure, now fucking her daughter in a nearby hospital room.

Sure, Mary could shrink Teri and Greg back but... did she want to return to this life now that she had seen the true nature of the people around her? And to her boring daily life, working, helping her ungrateful kids, and waiting for something interesting to happen in her life?

Well, for this last part, today was the day. She could change her life. Especially since she had seen the true nature of her relatives.

She clicked the record button.

"First of all, Greg and Teri are back to their normal bodies. Nobody but me remember what happened, and to everyone else, nothing special happened. Greg doesn't even remember about this dictaphone."

She heard a sparkling sound, and guessed something happened. But she couldn't see a thing. Cautiously, she left the exam room and walked back to Greg's room. As she opened the door, she found Greg inside, indeed.

But a normal Greg. Laying in a hospital bed, with one leg covered in plaster. Around him were Donald, Louis and of course, Teri, now again a normal teenager, busy texting with a bored look. Mary smirked. Alright. It worked. Greg indeed had an accident, but now, he never grew to monstrous proportions afterward, and Teri never entered some kind of super growth state.

"Hey, Mary! Did you pick my stuff up?" asked Greg from his bed with a nice smile "I'm sorry I worried you all so much! I'm so thankful to have such loyal friends!"
"Yes, loyal..." Mary said with obvious disdain "Sure Greg, I have your stuff..."

Mary's tone made Donald frown.

"Is there a problem Mary? Wait there Greg, Mary and I have to speak just for a minute outside."
"I'm not moving!" Greg joked, pointing at his paralyzed leg.
"No, I'm done there Donald."

She said this before she left the room, and once the door shut, she heard inside Donald telling Greg he just needed a minute to talk with his wife and was sorry about her strange behavior. He... even right now, he was supporting Greg, despite not knowing what was up. Mary didn't care. She heard the steps coming for her, and before Donald reached the door, she recorded :

"I'm divorced. And working far, far away from there, so my family is used to have no contact with me."

Mary looked at the hospital room door, as Donald started pushing it and... all the lights in the hospital went down, and the door stopped moving. Mary looked around and realized she was in the dark. Except for some light visible from under the door she was facing. What happened? Where was she? Mary tried to push the door and...

... it opened from inside.

A tall man in what looked like a super warm orange coat, looking like a mountaineer, was standing in what looked like a long corridor where seconds ago, it had been Greg's room. The man had a large beard, with some snow trapped in it, and looked relieved at Mary.

"Mary, I'm sorry, looks like we have another electricity shortage with the storm! This part of the base is completely dark, but I'll dispatch a team to activate the emergency generators!"

Mary blinked. Where was she? She looked down and realized she was too dressed with a huge coat now! What the hell? And why was it so cold? The tall man guided her inside the corridor he was in, and led her to a thick, automatic door, that opened in front of them with a "pssh!". Behind it was what looked like an office, full of scientific instruments, various boxes, and heavy clothes.The man found a coffee machine in the mess, pressed a button, and looked at the hot drink flowing in the cups while he talked on a radio, ordering some teams to go check the emergency generators.

Through the small, only window of the office, Mary saw... white. Only white. It looked like... a snow storm?

"Sorry about calling you Mary, earlier." the man said, as he gave her a hot coffee cup, and sat on a chair in front of her."
"That's okay... that's my name after all!" joked Mary nervously, unsure of what happened.
"I know, but you're my superior, so I should always call you "Dr Juno", like everyone else in the base. I was just... worried."

Mary blinked. Doctor? Juno? She stopped university long before she became a doctor! And Juno was her name before she got married with Greg! She noticed on the walls a few pictures of her family. Of herself with Donald, and Teri and Louis as babies. And then, she saw framed university degrees next to them. The years...

Mary's mind connected the dots. And maybe was it the dictaphone magic, but despite having no memories of it, she suddenly understood it all. She wanted to be divorced and work far, far away from her family. So she got married with Donald, got two kids, but in this reality, she divorced from Donald soon after, and instead to go on with the family life and her basic job in the company she used to work for, she returned to university and eventually got a PhD in "Biomolecular Physics" according to the degree above the desk in the middle of the office. Then, she made the career she dreamed of, going higher and higher, with no responsibilities in her private life... meaning she had few contacts with her kids, and eventually, she got on a very big project, in a place, far far away... and according to the map on the desk...

... she was working in a base in North Pole. And from how the man was talking to her, she was the director of this base.

She was divorced, had few contacts with her family, and worked far, far away. In a reality where she worked on her career instead of her family. And it looked like it paid off! The dictaphone had nicely worked...

Now, she had the freedom and the time to think about the next step... and of course, it involved a lot of fun for her! She had several ways to do this :

Option A - Mary uses the dictaphone so this base is an experimental project of her own about new ways of changing people. She uses it to makes herself young and beautiful again, then, returns to America to have fun! Maybe she'll cross Teri or her father once in there...

Option B - Mary uses the dictaphone to make herself a spoiled, young college girl with a lot of free time, a lot of rich and sexy friends, and of course, a lot of sex!

Option C - Mary thinks about other options...