Message-ID: <44826asstr$1066439404@assm.asstr-mirror.org> X-Original-Message-ID: <20031017221129.16782.qmail@web20511.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lazlo Zalezac <lzalezac@yahoo.com> X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: {ASSM} John Carter II 21 (mf mmf ffm ff mm sci-fi) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:10:04 -0400 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr-mirror.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2003/44826> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: dennyw, hecate __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com <1st attachment, "Mesa21.txt" begin> DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. If you are offended by sexually explicit material or are under the age of 18, stop reading now. This material cannot be reproduced for commercial purposes without the consent of the author. John Carter By Lazlo Zalezak Copyright (C) Lazlo Zalezak, 2003 Part 2: Mantle Of Aries Chapter 21 The house was extremely quiet. Beth and Kelly were at work. They had been accompanied by Ling and Bob to serve as bodyguards. Tiger was at the hospital with them. John, Ed, Shadow, and Rover were in the informal living room getting ready for the days events. Marguerite was in the kitchen where she lived for most of the day and Bill was in his office taking care of the bills. John fiddled with the remote control for the entertainment center trying to get a cable news network. He pressed a button and the stereo came on. He punched another button and a CD started playing. He hit the off button several times. Everything went dead and then turned on again. He punched the TV button and nothing happened. He hit the power button and the TV came on, but there was no sound. The stereo was still on. He was tempted to throw the remote control across the room. He muttered, "Who picked out this system anyway? What's wrong with old fashioned televisions that you turn on and turn off?" Ed stepped in front of him with his hand out to receive the remote control. "Give it to me." Ten key presses later, Ed had the television on, the sound coming through the speakers, and the channel set to the news station. He smiled as he stated, "Now that wasn't so bad." John grumbled and went to the refrigerator. He poured two glasses of iced tea and brought them back to the couch. He set them on coasters on the coffee table in front of the sofa. "Have some tea." Ed smiled, "We still have half an hour before anything starts." John nodded absently. He finally answered, "I know. This is killing me." "Are you worried or excited?" John paced a little around the room. He answered, "I'm worried about whether it is going to go well. I'm excited about seeing the plan go into action. I feel constrained by the fact that I'm here rather than out there somewhere. I couldn't even stand the feeling of clothes this morning." Ed laughed. "I noticed that. You're still naked." John looked at Ed with a large grin. "What about you?" Ed's laughter carried through the room. "Same here. I got dressed this morning and found myself pulling the clothes off before I hit the door." "I need to be doing something." John walked over to the intercom and pressed a button. "Marguerite, could you fix a snack tray for us? We're in the informal living room." Her reply came back, "You already asked me five minutes ago." "Sorry, I forgot." Ed smiled at John's nervousness. He hadn't seen John this nervous since Betsy had visited him after their breakup. "John, how about I give you a blow job? Maybe that will help you relax." "I'm too tense to get it up." Ed laughed. "Same here. That's why I offered to give you one rather than ask you for one." John looked around the room. There were papers detailing the schedule of events were piled up on the coffee table. The pile was almost nine inches tall. The speakerphone was plugged in and he had tested it by calling Beth at work. He walked around the room again. Shadow and Rover watched him pace. Tired of it all, both cats got up and strolled out of the room. John watched them as they left the room and entered the atrium. They vanished amongst the plants. He always marveled at how quickly they could vanish so quickly. Bill entered the room and stopped abruptly. His eyes locked on John's cock, but his conscious mind didn't make the connection that John was naked. He announced, "Uh, Ann Moore is here to see you two." John absently stated, "Bring her in." He wondered if she was here to complete the argument that they had on their last visit to the office. She had been upset and he hadn't been all of that helpful. He walked over the refrigerator and poured a glass of iced tea. While pouring the tea, he stated, "I guess we probably owe her an apology." "I'm sure we will pretty soon," answered Ed with a grin. He had just realized that Ann was about to be brought into a room with two naked men. He was about to suggest that they go get dressed when Bill returned to the room. "What's going..." Ann, not yet in the room, was complaining already. She stopped the moment she saw the two men in the room and their lack of attire. Her eyes never reached as high as their faces. John walked over to her and handed the glass to her. He was totally oblivious to her discomfort. He stated, "Make yourself comfortable on the sofa. You will want to examine the stack of papers on the coffee table." Ann stated, "Mike ordered me to come here." Ed stated, "That makes sense to me. We should have invited you, but we were so caught up in this that thought didn't even cross our minds." She had finally gotten over her embarrassment at the naked men in front of her. Her anger at being left out of whatever was going on returned ten-fold. She stomped her foot. "Invited me for what?" John's voice was soothing as he said, "Ann, please read the papers on the coffee table. They will explain everything." Ann sat on the couch near Ed and picked up the first page. She started reading the material on the page with a frown. It was a timed agenda for a raid to take place on a restaurant in New York. The individuals targeted in the raid were identified, as were the agents. She picked up the next page and studied it. This was for another raid that took place the same time in Washington D.C. She looked up at the stack of papers on the coffee table. She looked at her watch and realized the raids were to start in five minutes. She stated, "How come I didn't hear of this before now?" John bowed to Ed. Ed answered, "No one has heard of this before now. The lead agents were woken this morning by a call from Mike Holden and directed to pick up a box of instructions. Inside the box were specific instructions for each agent. The instructions for the lead agent were to notify all participants to meet at specific locations at a specific time. Once there, individual agents were given their instructions according to a timetable." "How many raids are there?" John smiled, "Almost eight hundred spread across twenty cities." "This is huge! You've got local police, state police, ATF, Federal Marshals, and the IRS involved as well." "Darn right." Ed sounded as proud as he felt. "The security on it has been very tight. As of the last time that I was in your office, only three people knew what was being developed. John and I were two of them." "You've been busy!" John smiled as he thought about the past ten days. They hadn't been busy working at all. They had spent most of the time playing. John had even gone hiking for three days. John answered, "Well, we did put a couple of months on it." Ed had been hard pressed to help John with this effort and finish his degree. He complained, "It was closer to a year." Marguerite entered the room pushing a cart loaded with all kinds of snacks. They ranged from the healthy vegetables to the unhealthy potato chips. Ed frowned when he realized that she was still wearing the body jewelry and waist chain. At least she had added a chain mail bikini bottom to it. She stated that she was going to wear that outfit at work until someone broke down and did something about it. She took a very long time to position the cart. Her eyes flicked between John and Ed constantly. Ann looked up at Marguerite with raised eyebrows. She knew John was involved in a weird lifestyle, but she hadn't realized it was this strange. Ed decided the whole situation was becoming surreal. "John, do you realize that we have a guest and we are both naked? Did you notice that Marguerite is still protesting her work conditions by wearing her little outfit?" John looked around noticing the situation for the first time. He apologized, "Oh, I'm so sorry!" Ed watched Marguerite leave the room. She was smiling at John's discomfort. Ed turned to Ann, "I must apologize. You caught us on a bad day. We don't normally walk around the house like this when guests are here. Marguerite has been protesting her work conditions and has taken to dressing like that to make a point. Our lawyer is negotiating a new contract with her even now." Ann laughed, "I've had problem employees before, but none of them chose that way to express their unhappiness." "Well, I apologize for all this." John repeated. Ann glanced down at his crotch and licked her lips. She wondered how it was that both men were extremely well endowed. She was lost in her thoughts when Ed jumped up suddenly and shouted, "Oh yeah!" She glanced at the television. The news anchor was acting very flustered. She listened as it was announced, "We are getting reports that a large number of raids have just been launched here in New York. Oh, wait a minute, we seem to be getting similar reports from Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, and..." The telephone rang and Ed answered it in speakerphone mode, "Control Central. Report!" "This is city 4, group 2, raid 1, we have captured 9 and confiscated $200,000 in cash. Drugs and paraphernalia were present. They are nailed." Ed smiled, "Thanks. I'll hear from you after raid 2." John went to the fax machine and pulled out the paper that listed the names of the people arrested. He went over to another sheet containing the names of the important people they had wanted to catch and started marking off the names the list. Ed scrambled through the stack of papers and pulled out the one he was looking for. He wrote the basic report on it and put it in a separate stack. He smiled at Ann in elation. The telephone rang again. The report this time was from city 9, group 6, and raid 1. They had captured 4 and confiscated 500,000 in cash. Ann searched through the pile and pulled out the paper with the title that had been given. She handed it to Ed, who marked the results on it. The telephone was ringing constantly. They went through close to one hundred calls. It took less than twenty minutes as each call was kept short. Ann took off her jacket and started to roll up her sleeves. She was sweating from the tension. She looked around and then took her shirt off. Neither man noticed. When the calls stopped, they turned their attention to the news. The news anchor was stating, "We don't have all of the details yet, but it appears that massive raids on organized crime have been launched all around the country. We are trying to locate someone who knows what is going on." John came and sat down on the couch. He smiled, "We can relax. We have ten minutes before the next round of raids start." Ann asked, "Can I use your pool for a minute? I need to relax and I find a pool very relaxing." John smiled, "Sure, it's right through that door there. Towels are kept in the cabinet in the corner." Ed looked at John and remarked, "Now I'm excited enough that I could use that blow job we were talking about earlier!" John laughed and joked back, "I know what you mean, but this is not the time for it." The men went over to the snacks and started munching. They knew they would only have about ten minutes before the calls started. Between handfuls of food, they congratulated each other on the success of the first raids. The news station was going crazy. Live shots from all over the country were being put up on the screen as the press chased cop cars to find out what was happening. Ann came back into the room. She was topless with a large towel around her waist. Her hair was still wet. She grabbed a couple of pieces of fruit, "I can't believe how extensive this operation is. You guys are working miracles. I looked at the expectations for each raid as I found them. You're hurting them big time. It'll take them years to recover." John smiled, "You haven't even seen the big stuff yet." "We better get back to our positions. Calls should start coming in any minute now." Even as Ed and Ann sat on the couch, the telephone rang. Ed answered, "Control Central. Report!" "This is city 3, group 5, raid 2, we have captured 3 and confiscated their computers. We found records for money laundering on the computers. They are nailed." Ed thanked them and hung up. He gave a shout, "We took down a money laundering operation!" The telephone continued to ring. Short conversations were followed with marking sheets with the reported results. John continued to scratch off names on the master list as additional faxes arrived. The activities now were a little more involved than before. The raids took longer, but the confiscated materials were much greater. They were taking out drug manufacturing sites, warehouses, and fencing operations. Finally, it was quiet and all three sat back on the couch. John stated, "It's going to take them an hour to get all of the evidence removed. We've got a little time to kill." Ed suggested, "How about a swim and the hot tub?" John asked, "Should I call Bill in to butle?" Ann stated, "There's no such word as butle." Ed laughed. "Go ahead. My iced tea glass was empty and I couldn't get away to fill it." John corrected Ann, "There's no word describing what a butler does. Therefore, we invented butle to describe his activities. A butler butles." "Oh, I see." John actually looked at Ann for a moment and realized that she was just as naked as Ed and him. He had meant to get dressed earlier, but the excitement had distracted him. Now he guessed that it didn't matter. He debated between calling down Marguerite or Bill. He knew that Marguerite would be busy getting ready for tonight's dinner. He went to the intercom and pressed the talk switch. "Bill, we need someone to butle." Bill attempted a bad imitation of Igor. "Yeth, Mather." John laughed as he retorted, "You'd better be a hunchback when you get down here." "Yeth, Mather." John turned to head towards the pool. Ann looked at him, "You have strange relations with your staff." "Thank you. It almost makes having me work for you seem normal." Ann laughed at that. Nothing could make having John work for her seem normal. She voiced her conviction, "There's nothing that could make it seem normal." They went into the room with the swimming pool. Ed was floating on his back slowly moving across the pool. John entered the pool and took up a similar position. Ann went into the pool at one end. She pushed off and started swimming the length of the pool using a breaststroke. They swam that way for half an hour, then John and Ed went into the hot tub. Ed turned to John and commented in a low voice, "She's never going to be able to look at us the same way again." "You think so?" Ed stated, "Her eyes hardly ever leave our crotches." John laughed as he replied, "Well, we are rather large." "She's pretty." "Yes. Funny that I never noticed that in the office." Ann stepped out of the pool and walked over to the hot tub. She slowly got into it. Once settled, she stated, "Well, this is strange." "What?" "Sharing a hot tub with two coworkers with none of us wearing clothes." "Not odd at all. Most cultures are rather more relaxed about nudity than our culture. Most Druids could care less about clothes. The morning after our wedding, I was talking to a bunch of the Druids. Half of them were naked. Of course, that chased away several of the caterers that were packing up." Ann laughed. She was amazed at how easy it was to relax with them outside of a work environment. When they worked, their concentration of what they were doing was total. Anyone or anything that got in the way, had better watch out. Those two would run right over the impediment without even noticing it was there. Yet, when they relaxed, their attention for those around them was almost just as intense. When they talked to you, they listened to every word. She asked, "What about sex?" Ed laughed, "We are even more relaxed about that. There is nothing better that you can do than to please a person and bring them pleasure." John stated, "The exception is when the other one wants nothing to do with it. Then it becomes rape and that is the worst thing we can do." Ed added, "True. There's nothing casual about sex though. We just prefer to view that making love is a gift that people can give each other. It is a gift you can give as many times as you desire." Ann sighed. She leaned back and enjoyed the feeling of the water wash over her. She stated, "It sounds so easy the way you say it. Too bad life isn't more like that." John asked, "Why isn't life like that for you?" The question startled her. She hadn't ever thought of living any differently than she did. Did her job make her feel like her options were limited? She pondered the question. Ed interrupted her thoughts with the announcement, "Time for us to get back to work." They returned to their original working positions. The news anchor had just gone to a live broadcast in front of the FBI headquarters. The reporter was stating, "I am standing in front of FBI headquarters here in Washington D.C. I just talked to the public affairs officer and was told that they would not be able to release any information until they knew what was going on. More than one individual here has expressed surprise at learning about the raids across the country." The telephone started ringing again. The three of them returned to work. There were just as many calls as before. The raids were capturing more people and goods than they had predicted. Everything was going according to their plan. In this round of raids, the groups were usually caught packing up to leave. This led to the confiscation of more drugs, stolen goods, and money than the previous raids. Ed was smiling broadly as he listened to the reports coming in. Bill refilled their glasses and brought snacks to them as they worked. Sitting back after this round of raids, Ann shook her head in amazement. She asked, "How did you plan all this?" John smiled and then explained, "We took police reports and FBI reports. Looked at the times and places where things had gone on in the past. We used that to predict where people would be and when they would be there. So far, we're batting a nearly perfect score." Ed nodded his agreement. "Only four raids have netted nothing." John smiled, "If we get fifty percent on the next set of raids, I'll be amazed." Ann asked, "Why?" Ed answered, "We tried to predict where they would be going after the first sets of raids. We figure this one will net the big guys with lots of money in their possession." John stated, "We want to get them for tax evasion." She looked at the paper on top of the small stack that was left. The raids started in two hours. She looked up, "Why did you stagger them like that?" "We wanted to give them time to get to their hideouts." "How will you know where they will go?" Ed smiled, "We don't know yet. We are tracking their cell phones." John asked, "What do we want to do for the next two hours?" Ed shook his head, "I don't know. I can't believe how tiring this is." John nodded, "yeah. Let's just sit back and take it easy for a while." Ann looked at the two men. She inquired, "I know almost nothing about you two. How often do you guys just relax?" Ed answered, "Well, I'm getting ready to work on my doctorate. I consult here and there concerning minerals. I guess I'm one of the leading experts in determining what mine a particular stone was mined. However, it doesn't leave me much time to relax." John stated, "I'm obliged to continue my researches. Right now, I'm working on a new project. We've also got the charities that we run. I still get called away at times to save someone. I really don't have much spare time, either." "Wow. Maybe I've been too hard on you two. I guess I keep thinking of you as FBI agents with a normal home life." Bill came over and refilled their glasses. John looked up at Bill and asked, "Bill, what do you think of the activities in this house?" Bill shook his head, "You guys work harder than we do. I bet you put in eighteen-hour days, seven days a week. Those two wives of yours, they work just as hard. They work all kinds of shifts at the hospital. Then they work on the charity." Ann asked, "What charity?" Ed stated, "The Fusion Foundation." "You guys actually run the Fusion Foundation." Ann looked shocked. The Fusion Foundation had become the largest charity organization in the world. It had provided lifetime funding for various chairs at Universities all across the country. A catastrophe response organization had been created. It had helped put out several forest fires, restored areas after floods, and cleaned up after tornadoes. The group showed up with food, water, blankets, clothes, temporary shelters, heavy moving equipment, and medical supplies. Another organization established by them provided medical care. Both organizations would hire just about anyone that showed up and was willing to live in the provided housing. John stated, "We had better run it. I set it up." Ann sighed as she stated, "You know, I keep forgetting you're that John Carter." John laughed and agreed with her. "Don't worry. I keep forgetting that too." "So how do you function?" John shrugged, "When you work on something, you put all of your concentration on it. When you play, you extract every ounce of pleasure." Ann asked, "You play?" Ed told her about the medieval evening that they had. He told about the water pistol fights they sometimes had in the atrium. John told about the time that they had a paper airplane contest where they tried to see whose plane flew the longest distance. She listened in envy at the kinds of things they did. She understood that they were rich, but what they had done didn't require one to be rich. There were cheap ways to go about the same thing. It only required keeping a sense of play. She realized that sometime or another, she had lost that sense of play. She wanted to be alone. She asked, "Is there a rest room I could use?" John and Ed looked at each other and realized there wasn't a rest room just for guest use in the informal part of the house. Bill came to the rescue. "If you would follow me, I'll take you to one." Outside the room, she leaned over to Bill and asked for a place where she could be alone for a few minutes. Bill pointed to the atrium and told her about the bench in the center. She wandered into the atrium taking her time. When she reached the center, she looked around for a second. Seeing no one around, she sat down finally allowing herself to cry. John and Ed were looking for her all over. When Kelly came home from work, they told her that Ann had gone missing. Kelly was the one that found her in the atrium an hour later. Shadow and Rover were sitting among the plants watching her. Ann was still crying. Kelly asked, "What's the matter, honey?" Ann sniffed, "You wouldn't understand." Kelly asked, "Did John or Ed hurt you?" "No, they didn't!" Kelly hugged her tightly and just held on to her. Ann started crying even harder. After she calmed down, Kelly asked again, "What's the matter?" Ann cried, "I've forgotten how to live." Kelly cooed, "That's a rough one, but it's not terminal." "Not terminal?" Kelly stated, "You just need to learn how to play again. It's not that tough." Ann turned to her, "Can you teach me?" Kelly thought about it for a minute. A smile came to her as she had an idea. She stated, "Come with me." Kelly led Ann to Marguerite. In the kitchen, Kelly simply stated, "Marguerite, I need you to do me a favor." "What do you need?" "I need you to teach her to play." Kelly winked at Marguerite when Ann wasn't looking. She smiled, "I want you to have lots of fun." Marguerite smiled, "Yes, I have a very good idea what to do!" When Kelly went to tell John and Ed what happened, she found them jumping up and down in joy. John turned to Kelly, "We did it! We did it!" "What did you do?" "We wiped them out!" In this kitchen, Ann helped Marguerite cook while they chatted about playing. By the time dinner was ready, Ann was dancing along with Marguerite as she helped put the finishing touches on the meal. She could not believe how much fun Marguerite had while cooking. Marguerite talked to the food as she cooked. She made jokes and talked in funny accents to the food. She had laughed so hard that her sides ached when Marguerite had stuffed her fist inside a chicken and made it dance on the counter. <1st attachment end> ----- ASSM Moderation System Notice------ Notice: This post has been modified from its original format. 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