[©2010 BY CLINTON09; ALL CHARACTERS OVER THE AGE OF 18; NO EVENTS DESCRIBED ARE TRUE; THIS STORY IS TOLD WITHOUT RESERVE OR POLITICAL CORRECTNESS; READER SHOULD TAKE CARE AND CONSIDER LOOKING ELSEWHERE; CONCLUSION HARD EDGED; READER MUST BE 21 OR ABOVE.]
[THIS STORY CENTERS AROUND A MALE BULLY WHO GETS HIS COMEUPPANCE FROM HIS OWN DAUGHTER; HIS PUNISHMENT IS RICHLY DESERVED AND JUST, BUT MIGHT BE TOO HARSH FOR SOME READERS; CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED...]
[THE MALE CHARACTER MISTREATS HIS WIFE PHYSICALLY WHILE MENTALLY ABUSING HIS INNOCENT DAUGHTER.]
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I admit nothing, but confess that alcohol was my personal demon. When sober, I was a wonderful husband, great employee, and attentive and loving father. Ah, yes, when sober. If only....
Well Homer Simpson notwithstanding, drunks normally get ugly, real ugly. I have to continue the confession. When I came home after stopping at the local 'watering hole', I used to use my loyal, trusting, dedicated wife as a punching bag. All of the frustrations from work (and there were many, let me tell you) were taken out on her face (with a slap) or gut (with a punch or two). She took it because she was loyal to her marital vows and obsessed with protecting her daughter Heather. So she let the occasional abuse continue.
It would be nice to say that I was different with Heather as she grew up. Maybe I was a doting father, spoiling her constantly. Well, that would have made a nice paragraph or two, but alas, it was not the case. The truth was, I constantly berated her for not being the son that I wanted. If I didn't hit her outright as I did with her long suffering mother, I still would harass Heather mentally till I had secured tears from her innocent eyes. I myself was sometimes puzzled that I would hound this beautiful and wonderful young woman mercilessly for no apparent reason except to re-build my own fragile and pathetic ego. The ironic thing was, as I tore down her pride in self, she would retreat to our basement to get away from me. The ironic part of that was, the only things in the basement were our old water heater, a pool table, a black and white TV, and my (unused) weight set. From sheer boredom or curiosity, little Heather started tinkering away at that set from the age of seven. It got to the point that she went down there even if I wasn't around to harass her. She was zealous about not letting me see her body as she grew. That was for two reasons: she didn't want me to enjoy seeing her grow up and develop, given my cruel and callous non-support. Also, she was secretly developing a physique, for lack of a better word. She didn't want me to be alarmed about it until the day I abused her once too often...and then! In the end, I had never so much as laid a hand upon Heather, nor seen her in an inappropriate manner before her 18th birthday.
I should have had some warning when Heather asked me to sign a release as well as a complaint. I did not read it, since the NY Giants were on, versus the hated Cowboys. She could have given me a quitclaim and taken the house away, for all I knew. She got her mother to sign those things, too. Heather had just turned 18 and was a senior in high school. For two years, she had tried to play with the boy's football team in high school. They just laughed at her, leaving her only to take weight-lifting as a consolation. There, the instructress confided in Heather that she out-lifted all of the young men on the football team!
On the day of her first game, I was actually upset about her playing against men, perhaps showing them up. I got really tanked up and drove that way, carting her mom. We had a terrible accident, all of it my fault. I was in relative care in the hospital, my wife in intensive care. Unfortunately, just before kickoff, Heather was told about her mom and told that she could certainly take that game off. Being the trooper that she was, it just made her all the more determined to show her 'girl power'. Heather was 18, blond, five foot seven, a slender 130 who added 20 pounds of solid muscle with weights to be a rock hard 150. Her legs were shapely and silky smooth at all times. Her thighs were both like a Sports Illustrated bikini model's AND like an NFL running back's, with those powerful muscles that provided dazzling speed and frightening power.
A determined Heather, superpowered by adrenaline and the emotions of the day, just ran through the other team. She averaged eleven yards per carry, sometimes dragging two or three of the wimpy guys on the other team with her. She ran back kickoffs, taking two of the four for touchdowns.
Before the game, all of her fellow players had ribbed her with varying degrees of hostility. None of them wanted her there. After the game, though, they all came over to compliment and support her (now that she didn't need it, of course). Her highest compliment was when the quarterback quietly asked for her to 'make a muscle for him'. She did, and her bicep didn't stop expanding until it reached a record twenty-inches. That was near champion size for a male Mr. Olympia; for a woman, it was a record.
As the quarterback felt and caressed that beautiful mountain on her arm, he squeezed it in quiet admiration. He said: "God, that's as hard as a rock...no wonder you are so fucking strong!"
After the game and two local reporters' questions, Heather bummed a ride and went to the hospital. She already knew her mom's fate but saw me. The accident had been so serious that we had to be rushed to the hospital without any accident inquiry. Heather could sense I had been drinking. Now she knew that her mom had passed away because of my being tanked up. Right then and there, she vowed that she would get revenge on this slob for my cruelties to herself and her mom, as well as revenge for my irresponsible drinking.
After four days, I had returned from the hospital and continued my recovery at home. Heather came home and went directly to the basement to lift weights for a solid two hours, as she did every other night. Tonight was different. Instead of going directly to the shower, she came into her parents' (i.e. my) room. As I lay on the bed, she came to the side of it, within inches of me. I thought it was to offer comfort. Instead, Heather was going to perform the movie, Misery, Live, in person and in living color.
Heather: "Well, daddy, you finally did it. It was one thing to have to put up with your abuse all of those years. It was yet another thing to slap and punch mom around because she was just a 'punching bag' as you told her once--her role to be a dutiful wife and absorb your punishment. All of that time, I was secretly pounding your own weights, building up my body. As I heard mom whimper from the wallop you drunkenly delivered to her mid-section, I would lay in bed, dreaming that my muscle cells were even now replicating at an incredible speed, making my muscles grow and grow and grow. Every time you slapped her around, I would secretly measure my progress, vowing revenge on you when my arms were big and strong enough. I was so surprised and relieved to see my body develop, this weak useless girlish body as you called it, insulting me for not being a boy. Well, let's both have a look-see, shall we?"
Heather: [she came real close to me, wearing a skin tight cotton t-shirt. She flexed her muscles and you could hear that sound of material being stretched to its limit, then that sound as material gives way. Finally, her biceps bulged through the sleeves, tearing them into tatters hanging limply off her magnificent arms. Her broad but feminine shoulders burst out too. Her entire t-shirt hung limply about her waist as she presented her unbelievable upper body. I had seen bodybuilding shows on TV and even two in person; I had never ever seen a physique like that. Remember that this was the culmination of over 10 years of training by her. Heather's obsession with revenge and her vow to prove that 'girl power' could be as intimidating as guy power made her spend 30 or 40 hours a month doing hard core weight-lifting. And this was in addition to the weight training for football at school.]
Heather: "According to your doctor, you were let out of the hospital early. He said you should be fine by next week. Of course, mom won't be fine, will she?" [For the first time, Heather grabbed me; she took my wrist and almost twisted it clean off; as it was, she gave me a terrible sprain and bruise. God, it's frightening how strong she was, especially if I had to bear the brunt of it.]
To my shock and surprise, but most of all embarrassment, Heather opened the covers of my convalescence bed. With her determination, she had no problems about pulling my green hospital gown open, displaying my 'unit'. This was her first real bit of revenge. The truth was: I was really tiny down there.
Heather: "Gosh, what a surprise. You are the typical bully. Sexually inadequate, you just had to hide in a liquor bottle and then hide your impotence by appearing tough. Of course, you weren't tough to other guys, only to your loyal, dedicated, trusting and relatively weak wife. But you could slap HER around, couldn't you...COULDN'T YOU?" [Heather took the opportunity of my revealed tiny unit to grab the entire 'package' and give it a terrific squeeze. She only used a fraction of her frightening power, or I would've been a eunuch. Ouch!]
Me: [trying to distract her and defuse her rage, I tried something.] "Sweetheart, let me see those muscles again; let daddy see how big and strong his angel has gotten for her daddy!" [To my surprise, she apparently bought it and made a muscle, letting me feel that mountainous right arm. The only thing lacking on that swell was a ski lodge or a cartoon image of a nuclear power plant or atomic explosion, a la Popeye.]
Heather: "Well, I hope that you enjoyed the floorshow. That will be the last time that you get to feel my twenty-inch guns. You will feel their POWER, though...oh God, will you feel their power. You see, my little loving daddy, I did something the night of your accident that you did not know. I whispered to the registered nurse attending you that I needed something done for future reference. She took two blood samples at different times, and had them time-stamped into inventory. So, my dear daddy, I only have to collect those at the hospital, filed under a secure password only I know. With those in hand, we go to a lab, then to the police. And then your insurance company sues you and the state gives you lovely free bracelets in silver, just for you. Ah yes, poetic justice, to see you put away for the cruelties to mom, especially the final cruelty, when you drove into that bridge abutment. Then you had so little conscience that you collected on mom's life insurance, never letting the company know that you were at fault and they were not liable to pay you. What a bad daddy you are! Boy, if I was to tell them about you.