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Tales of the Cabal: Protecting the Mistress
by Tigger
Copyright 1999, All Rights Reserved.

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type is charged and provided that my authorship, the story
itself and this statement of rights are included and are
unchanged.

This story is based on the Cabal as I developed it in one of
my first stories, "Domination Games."  This story is archived
at the Nifty Archive.

Url:  www.nifty.org/nifty/transgender/by_authors/Tigger/

The file is Domination-Games.html

***********

Protecting the Mistress
by Tigger

Part 25: Aftermath

Mary's obnoxiously cheerful alarm chimed to announce that a
new work day had dawned.  Her fatigue-fogged mind did not
react immediately, and it was several seconds before she was
alert enough to slap her hand in the general location of the
snooze button.  The alarm cycled again seven minutes later,
and then seven minutes after that before Mary could finally
drag herself from beneath the covers.

That was when she realized something was missing, several some
things, in fact.  Gerald up and with her morning coffee for
starters since that service was one of his primary morning
chores.  A quick sniff of the air didn't even carry a hint of
brewing coffee either.

Well, she thought, if she was this blitzed, how must he feel? 
He'd been very listless when Freda had returned him, fully
dressed yet oddly still restrained hand and foot, to Mary's
suite a little after four the previous evening. Mary had been
a little surprised that Freda had taken the time to stop by
the slave dormitory so that Gerry could dress and gather his
things ahead of the other homeward-bound slaves.  That
unexpected consideration on Freda's part had permitted them to
leave immediately for home.  

Gerry had been so wasted, she remembered - he did not even
offer to drive as he had in the past - he'd simply settled
very carefully down onto his seat, and had not said a single
word for the entire drive.  She'd thought a couple of times
that he'd fallen asleep, but each time she'd checked he'd been
awake, and staring off into the darkness.

Once they'd reached home, Gerry had requested and received her
permission to go straight up to his room and get into his bed. 
He must have overslept.

A quick check downstairs revealed no sign of Gerald, although
his four wheel drive vehicle was still where she'd parked it
the night before.  Back upstairs, she heard him talking on the
phone in his room and had slipped inside.  Gerry was laying on
his stomach and talking into the phone.

"Yes, Vicki, that's right.  I fell and hurt my hip.  I can
barely walk.  No, I don't know if I will be able to come in
tomorrow, either.  If it isn't better, I will probably have to
go to the doctor.  Yes, I will call and let you know.  Thanks. 
See you later."

Gerald set the phone on the hook and only then realized that
he was not alone in the room.  "Good morning, Mistress," he
said, but did not attempt to rise from his bed in her
presence.

"Good morning, Gerry.  How bad is your hip?"

A surprised look flitted across his face.  "Oh . . . well,
that was just a little white lie.  I need some more time to
rest, and I would like to take my weekly eight hours today
after you get home from work."

Mary saw him trying to look sheepish, but he was too
intrinsically honest a man to dissemble very well.  "All
right, Gerry.  Tonight it is.  In the meantime, I want my
coffee.  I am going to go take my shower while you fix it."

She turned and left the room, but stopped just outside to
listen out of Gerald's sight. Hearing nothing, Mary reentered
the bedroom catching Gerald's tortuously slow, obviously
painful efforts to crawl out of his bed.  "*Stop* . . .
*right* . . . *there*!" she ordered coldly.  "Now, I want you
to pull down your shorts, right now."

"Mary . . .  " Gerald said in an exasperated tone.

"I am your *Mistress*, sir, by your own consent," she said
with quiet intensity in her voice and fire in her eyes, "And I
will remain your Mistress until *you* tell me otherwise and
terminate our contract with the Cabal.  Now, either formally
renounce me as your Mistress or do as I just ordered. . . . I
mean NOW, Mister!"

Gerald looked at her for a moment, and Mary could almost see
him considering trying to argue her out of her chosen course. 
For his part, Gerald saw the unyielding steel in her.  Then he
remembered why he was in this condition.  She would terminate
the contract, damn her, and then what he went through over the
weekend would have been for nothing.  Slowly, and with great
care, Gerald slid the white cotton jockey shorts down over his
ass.

"Oh . . .  My . . . god," Mary choked out, horrified.  Tears
started to prickle and burn at her eyes as she forced herself
to carefully examine the condition of her man's backside. 
With a cry of anguish, she ran from the room, slamming and
locking his door behind her.

~-----------~

Mary furiously brushed the wayward lock of hair out of her
eyes and snarled into the telephone.  She wanted to cry some
more, but just then, she was just too damned angry. "Gemma,
Look.  I want the Cabal's doctor over here at Gerry's place
right now, okay?  I don't give a good goddamn what he may be
doing.  Short of lifesaving surgery, I want him here in thirty
minutes . . .  "

"God damn it, of course I am serious.  Let me tell you just
how serious I am.  If that damn Doctor is not over here in the
next half hour, I will take Gerry to the Emergency Room, and I
will answer every damned one of their questions - truthfully .
. .  "

"Screw the damn parole file, Gemma.  He needs help. Gerald is
a physical mess and he can barely move . . .  "

"Gemma, you should see his ass, okay?  What isn't welted and
badly bruised is splotched with diaper rash!  And at least
three of the welts are showing signs of being infected. The
bitch must have left him in wet diapers all damned night! . .
."

"Fine.  You do that, and while you're at it, why don't you
come over and see for yourself. . . ."

"I don't fucking care how well respected she is nor do I care
that he didn't use his safe word during the nursery scenes
with that bitch.  He's been *abused*, damn her soul to hell,
and if she is half as good as you seem to think she is, then
she couldn't possibly have missed that. . . ."

"God damn it, Gemma - NO, I am *not* exaggerating and I am
most definitely not overreacting.  I have been doing what we
do for a long time, and I know when a scene has gone too
fucking far, particularly when I god damned know well the sub
involved.  If Freda is so damned experienced and well
respected, then she should have known the scene had gone too
fucking far, particularly since she knew next to nothing about
the slave involved and what he could or could not handle." 

"Good.  See you then."  The phone survived its sudden and
abrupt return to the cradle. Not by much, but it did survive. 
For several long moments, Mary simply stood there, staring
down at the phone and fighting to regain some semblance of
composure.  Other than for effect when she was playing the bad
ass Domme-bitch, Mary did not often permit herself to resort
to such language, but as enraged as she was at that very
moment, no other words seemed sufficient to her needs.

Actually, even those were insufficient to her needs.  She
simply did not know any words vile enough to express her fury.

Mary took several more minutes to start hot coffee and to cool
off  a little more.  Not too much, though - she wasn't done
venting her acute displeasure on the Cabal Queen Bee yet - not
by a long shot.  In fact, the only reason she was trying to
calm down at all was that she still needed to see to Gerry,
and she couldn't be raging when she did that.  

The coffee making took even longer than she'd planned.  In all
the time she'd been here, she'd never had to raise so much as
a pinky-finger in Gerald's kitchen.  As a result, she didn't
know where anything was stored.  Well, that was about to
change, too, at least until Gerry was well and truly on his
feet again.  Mary decided she had to enjoy doing such things
for him as much as possible while she still could. DAMN Freda,
she thought with a spurt of renewed anger, and damn the whole
blasted Cabal as well. 

Not good, she told herself, you have to be cool and collected
when you face Gerry again, and so she turned her attention
back to the task at hand.  The simple ritual of measuring out
coffee beans, grinding them and starting the brewer finally
helped calm her.  She called her own office and told them she
was ill.  By the time she was off the phone, the coffee was
done.  Mary filled two mugs with the dark, fragrant brew and
carried them up to Gerald's room.

Gerald was laying on his stomach atop his blankets.  His
shorts still down around his ankles, when Mary opened the
door.  Silently, she handed him one of the steaming mugs and
then settled herself on the edge of the bed, being careful not
to jostle him. "Gemma is sending a doctor over to check you
over." He started to protest but her hand on his mouth stopped
him. "You will let him check you over, so don't waste your
breath trying to argue me out of that.  He is a member of the
Cabal, completely.  Discreet and very good at what he does. 
You don't have to worry about what his records will say."  She
took a sip from her cup and grimaced.  Gerald made much better
coffee than she did.

"So," Mary continued in a saccharine sweet voice, "Why don't
you take this opportunity to explain to me just how the hell
you let yourself get into that abysmal condition when I
specifically ordered you use your safe word and when you gave
me your *word* that you would?!!?"
 
End Part 25


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