Placebo Effect - Part 4

[Proteus]

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Part 4

Two months had passed since Jake dropped the bombshell on Regaro that he had grown twice as fast. In those two months, Jake had, of course, changed, but changes were starting to happen in his everyday life as well.

Thanks to the supply of extra food provided by Regaro (who Jake suspected had a desire to see just how much he could grow), Jake was not eating himself and Jeff out of house and home, but he was going through clothes on a weekly basis. He settled into a pattern of buying sneakers, underwear, gym shorts, a T-shirt, and a gray wife beater every week to keep decent?buying larger and larger sizes each time he visited the department store.


Mentally, Jake was transforming. He became increasingly full of himself, Jeff had noticed. He would take every opportunity to strut around, flexing his muscles round the clock, trying on the previous weeks? clothes that, to his great delight, were so tight that he literally had to rip some of the older articles off of his body.


And what a body he had grown into! Jake now soared to a height of 6? 8? and the readout on the special high-capacity medical scale Regaro had given him read an astonishing 471 pounds! He was very tall, but he had grown thicker at a greater rate than he had grown taller. Even if he was scaled down to a mere 6 feet tall, his size would blow any professional bodybuilder out of the water! He made all of his heroes, bloated with massive amounts of muscle, look skinny in comparison.

At a whopping 33 inches, his arms were bigger than Jeff's waist! He delighted in approaching Jeff from behind (he tried in vain to sneak up on him, but there was no way to be quiet when you weighed that much, not to mention the waddling swagger he now was forced to walk in), wrapping his colossal arms around him, and squeezing him gently, but firmly, against his mammoth 85 inch chest. Jeff would always be amazed, and increasingly, frightened.

Jeff had seen his boyfriend?s growth first as something exciting, then as something to be suspicious about, and now it had evolved into something to be scared of. Jeff was not shy about standing up to Jake?s more bombastic personality, however. He flat out refused to be a bottom, citing his lover?s 13 inch, thick, veiny dick. Their love life persisted, with Jeff being a top when they still had penetrative sex, and him pleasuring Jake with his skillful hands and eager mouth all of the other times.


Things were looking up for Jake, at least. Not only was he enamored with his own physical presence, but a few weeks prior he had taken the stage for a local bodybuilding competition?and won by a margin as wide as his vast, contoured back.


When Dr. Regaro called Jake to propose an experiment, Jake was puzzled at first. Hadn?t he demonstrated results beyond any of the feeble experiments the study had produced? But the doctor insisted: they wanted to observe him overnight, when his prodigious growth was actually occurring.

So Jake lifted Jeff in a passionate goodbye embrace, cracking his spine in the process, and went to the overnight study. Once there, he learned in detail what had been briefly explained over the phone: while he would be in a sedative-induced sleep, he would be hooked up to an IV of a nutrient-rich formula. A lot of it. They had several vats of the stuff. The idea was that his body would able to take in as much mass as it needed, and they would find the ceiling to his growth rate based on which point he stopped absorbing and growing at.


The next morning, Jake roused from a deep, dreamless sleep. The room was dark, save for rays of golden light that managed to break through the blinds. It took him at least fifteen minutes to become fully conscious. He was stiff?very stiff. He groaned as he tried to sit up, but found that moving any amount was difficult. His legs always responded poorly to stretching?he could never touch his toes without bending his knees?and now his whole body felt like that; tight and held in place. He strained, feeling his shoulders stretch as he positioned himself with his arms, which felt especially tight. His lower back stretched painfully as he bent and sat up in bed.


The overhead light flicked on as a medical intern, wide eyed and seemingly startled, entered to remove his IV and monitors. As the intern clumsily reached to remove the needle, Jake came to a starling revelation: he was larger?much larger! He had expected to grow one or two pounds, maybe more since he had access to so many calories, but after cracking his neck, he began to take in the sensations of his entire body.


He realized that the hospital gown he had fallen asleep in now barely covered his front, whereas he had been able to wrap it partially behind him the night before.


?Is this??? he began, his brain still groggy. He could not determine what word to say next. The intern nervously left, replaced by Regaro, who was beaming.


?Jake, I?m going to cut to the chase,? he said, ?There?s a scale built into the bed. Do you know how much you weigh now??


Jake scratched his head with an arm that seemed harder to bend at the elbow, an arm that was definitely bigger than he expected.


?Jake, you took in all of the formula last night. We did not discover a limit to your rate of growth.?


Regaro stopped smiling and took a deep breath, trembling slightly. He patted Jake hard on the shoulder, though he didn?t feel much more than a light pressure on his globular deltoid.


?You weigh 519 pounds. We estimate that you utilized an incredibly high percentage of the mass in the formula, since there was about 50 pounds of that stuff total after we thawed out the reserves we were saving for further experiments. Given your previous rate of growth, you?ve probably gained a couple of inches in height, as well. Overnight, for crying out loud!?
The doctor was more celebratory with his last phrase, as though he considered himself somehow responsible for Jake?s incredible growth. He had only kicked it off, of course, but Jake decided to let him have the small victory. He was too caught up in flexing and feeling each muscle group one by one, until he had a feel for his new size.


When he stood up, he nearly fell over, unaccustomed to his new height.

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