"This is an incredible place" Don said, looking around the living room of Fenton's large suburban house. "You must have it goin' on, Fenton!"
Fenton the Felon chuckled.
"Remember what Fitzgerald said to Hemingway, Don..
'The rich are different from us' and Hemingway responded.
"Yes, they have more money' I'd offer you a jay, but Tali is a government attorney, and it's not politic to have pot here in the house."
Don gazed at Fenton the Felon as the door slammed, and a harried young woman stalked in the living room.
Fenton smiled.
"Tali, how are you? I'd like you to meet John O'Donnell, but they call him Dirty Don"
Natalia Snowden, 30 year old assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Montgomery County , Maryland , greeted the middle aged guys in their leather jackets, a stark contrast to her business suit.
"Hi, Don...Fenton, this isn't a good night for company. I am so fucking pissed at this defense attorney..."
Tali shouted, and stamped her foot, but then suddenly blanched.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm terribly sorry, Fenton...I didn't mean to swear."
Don remembered that from reform school...Fenton had a dirty, filthy mind, but never used the seven curse words, he said it was a weakness of vocabulary.
"I'm just in a bad mood, that's all."
Tali was babbling now "I'm working too much, this plea arrangement..."
Fenton shook his head gravely, but inwardly he was smiling. Tali looked a lot like Melanie Griffith, Fenton thought, or perhaps Bernadette Peters, though Bernadette was way before Tali's time.
She had tousled, curly blond hair that went down just below her ears, full lips and big, innocent emerald eyes that put Fenton in mind of a gamboling kitten.
She looked so out of place in a beige business suit, the button down shirt just covering her considerable bosom...like a cheerleader who had mugged Steve Forbes.
Tali looked somewhat alarmed as Fenton cocked his head.
"You really feel big, using those bad words and being uppity in front of your Master's friends, don't you?"
"Fenton, let up."
Tali threw her arms in the air, and Don watched her chest heave beneath the beige jacket.
"I'm an adult, and this is my house, I work hard, unlike some people, and my job makes me tense!" Tali stamped her foot again. Noting the look in Fenton's eye, Tali faltered.
"Fenton I just have a demanding job...please don't puni-"
Tali looked at Don.
"Please let's resolve this later. Any way you want."
Tali looked imploringly at Fenton, who remained implacable. Don was astounded. Any way Fenton wanted. She was afraid he was pissed because she'd said fuck. Fenton turned to Don.
"Look, Don, I'm sorry to have to take care of this now, but it won't take long, and you'll enjoy observing, I think."
Don smiled nervously. "If you guys are having a fight—" Tali interrupted.
"Fenton, we can't do this in front of strangers, please. I have my career to consider."
Fenton pointed at the door leading to Tali's study.
Tali turned without a word and went in there, and returned with a large, thick wooden paddle with holes and what looked to be a razor strop like Granddad O'Donnell had used when the truancy officer came around.
Fenton took the paddle and the strap calmly.
"Please take off your jacket, and pull down your panties. Tali blurted
"Fenton, PLEASE. I'll make you guys a nice dinner."
Fenton shook his head. "Afterwards. Take off your jacket and pull down your panties." Tali's face was bright red.
" I'll buy you a new motorcycle, I'll—" Fenton shook his head, and Tali burst into tears.
She draped her jacket over the living room chair and went to the sofa, where she flipped up her skirt showing rose colored panties, and to Don's amazement garters attached to nylon stockings.
"I don't believe in pantyhose" Fenton smiled at Don.
"Pull them down, Natalia." Tali gave the uncomfortable Don an mortified look and pulled her panties down, throwing herself over the arm of the couch.
Don had been watching Tali's behind twitch in the little skirt, and now was mesmerized by the sight of her full pale cheeks and the little tuft between the backs of her legs.
"Not low enough." Fenton smiled, pulling the rose-colored panties to mid-thigh. Fenton raised the paddle and struck
Fenton touched the globes of Tali's opaque bottom once or twice very gently with the wooden paddle, and then gave Tali's right cheek a harsh swat.
WHACK!
Don expected Tali to begin screaming, as a nasty red spot had come up, but the girl made no noise .
WHACK! Fenton was keeping to the right cheek WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! Don noted that a purplish bruise was rising on Tali's right cheek.
"Fenton" Don interposed, "Maybe she's had enough."
He wondered if he should call the police. Don's dick was nearly ripping out of his jeans, but he thought Tali might be in shock.
"She's not saying anything, she—" Fenton held his hand up, cocking his head as he had did in the old days at the reformatory, right before he'd kick a Mex gang lord in the nuts.
"Why, Don? " Fenton asked again
"Because she's not making any noise?
Think she's passed out?" Don looked at Tali. Her bottom was a mess.
There were raw, red blisters around her butt and thighs.
Fenton kicked Tali's right thigh roughly just under a big bruise, and Tali gasped.
"Tali, Don's worried that you are catatonic. To show him that you are with it, I want you to say the mantra after each whack, and then recite the Presidents backwards." WHACK!
"Thank you Master, may I have another? George Walker Bush.
WHACK!
"Thank you Master, may I have another? William Jefferson Clinton."
This went on until about James Buchanan, when Fenton let her off, moving to the leather strop. After ten of these, Tali moved her bottom a bit. "Why are you moving, Natalia?" Fenton asked, with a tight voice.
"I'm sorry, Fenton."
Tali's voice had a slight catch in it, but was steady. Fenton moved to the other cheek. The strop fell ten times. At the final WHACK, Don heard a moan from Tali, and Fenton pulled Tali up by the hair, pushing her tear-streaked face near his.
"Are you complaining, honey?" Fenton smiled. "This doesn't seem to be your night." Fenton dropped Tali to the floor and snapped his fingers, and the girl mechanically undressed, revealing a body like Don had only seen on Betty Cooper in Archie Comics.
Tali crawled to the sofa and leaned over the arm again.
Fenton shook his head. "No, I want you to show Don your tolerance training." Fenton grinned at Don, who was unconsciously playing pocket-pool at this point.
"I'm sure Don is impressed at your ability to not show pain, but wouldn't he be amazed to know that you can give him service, and be reprimanded at the same time!"
Tali looked up at Fenton.
"Fenton, I hardly know Don...I can't" Fenton leaned over and slapped Tali across the face. Then he stood up.
"C'mon Don, let's get out of here...Tali has decided that she wants to curse, throw tantrums and alienate her guests...
Let's go to Ruby Tuesdays." Tali jumped up, her bare breasts jiggling.
"No, please...I want to cook your dinner, Fenton. I just can't...with a stranger." Fenton turned and began discussing dinner with Don as if Tali wasn't in the room, and soon after they left, with Tali still beseeching them.
Tali lay crying on her Princess bed, her bruises and welts forgotten. What would she do now? Fenton was the most loving, kind Master she'd ever known, and a wonderful guy as well.
Before Tali had met Fenton, she was a chubby cocaine abuser with a serious ulcer...and he'd brought her back, and made her feel wonderful again, just in eight months.
What could she do? Tali sat up and wiped her eyes, and thought about how she could make amends to her wonderful master of eight months. She would have to service his fat, ugly friend. Jesus.
But that was what Fenton wanted. Tali went to the closet, and began going through her things, remembering when she'd met Fenton.
"This one should be easy, Tali...we should get this boy on the three strikes law, hell ten strikes." Lee, Tali's supervisor was talking earnestly to her, trying to prep her for trial. "We're talking about a thirty-five year career of grand theft auto."