Secret Base
Justine was a bit disappointed to find that the first of the Inner Circle's secret venues she visited was pretty much a greasy spoon. It was a daytime drop in for munches and the like. There wasn't any fetish furniture dotted about the room, just cafe style tables and chairs, though there were big framed photo prints on the walls, some of which showed activities that you'd never see on a poster in Athena and that Justine flinched just looking at. The place was in a cellar with a separate entrance under a pub, and the metal plated fire door had an entryphone by it. Justine had hoped for a password, but instead when she arrived with Juliette they just gave their names, were welcomed in and then directed down the single flight of stairs to the room below.
Only one of the tables had anybody around it. A group of half a dozen or so people, which included Madame Morticia and Mistress Anastasia. None of the other four Justine recognised, though one of the guys did have a neatly trimmed greying ginger beard and a pair of leather trousers, so he was presumably a top. Mistress Anastasia waved and Justine and Juliette made their way to the table, a big solid wooden trestle. There weren't even, Justine realised, any ominous stains on the concrete floor. Swizz, she thought.
Juliette took the free seat by Madame Morticia and Justine sat by her own patron. On the way over she'd been thinking about having Juliette as her slave for a year. Would it count as abuse to try to coax her into sex?
"Okay, girls," the beard said. "Nice to meet you both. I'm sure you're both nervous and excited, so I'll try to keep this brief. You're here to act as proxies in a contest of dominance between Anastasia and Morticia here. Their own contracts have much more severe and permanent penalty clauses for the loser than yours will, but those still deserve to be taken seriously. You've both seen and read the paperwork?"
Justine nodded, then caught herself. "Yes," she said. "I have."
"Me too," Juliette added.
"Right. I'm Lord Kelvin. I shall be overseeing the whole set up. Charlotte and Lydia will each be monitoring one pro and baby Domme double act..."
Justine managed to contain herself, but Juliette spluttered at that. "Baby Domme?" she said in a voice dripping with shocked hurt feelings. Lord Kelvin grinned.
"Had you not heard that one before? There's much nastier terms for young and unproven Dominatrices, trust me. And it was meant affectionately. Anyway, Roderick here is our legal advisor." This was the last person at the table, a tall, thin thirtyish guy with a bland face, sensible hair and a rather nice wool jacket over jeans and a cable knit sweater. He had a zipped leather document wallet in front of him
"Okay," Roderick said, in a much warmer and slightly deeper voice than Lord Kelvin's, "is everybody ready to sign? Last chance to back out."
"No way, I'm in," Madame Morticia said. Her voice was was a soft, throaty purr and she spoke flawless BBC English. Maybe the reason sessions from professional Dominatrices were so expensive was because they all had elocution lessons to pay for. Juliette and Mistress Anastasia both agreed and it was Justine's turn.
"I'm up for this," she said, and was relieved not to hear a quaver in her voice.
Roderick smiled and unzipped his document wallet. As well as a wad of papers, there was a pen stuffed into a loop down one side. "Okay," he said. He flipped through the papers and separated them into three sets, then took the last page off each. "If the duelling Dommes will sign first?" He uncapped what turned out to be a fountain pen and handed it to Morticia. Justine was a bit disappointed to see it was full of black ink rather than blood. Morticia signed all three, then handed the end sheets and pen to Anastasia who did the same.
Anastasia handed the pen and papers to Justine, and she signed them herself, then passed them to Justine, who signed with rather more of a flourish than anybody else had. Everybody sitting around the table noticed that, and they all made a point of not recognising it. Finally the two administrators signed, and then Lord Kelvin and Roderick as witnesses. After that, the documents were gathered back up and the pen tucked away. It wasn't one of the stockbroker things with a snowflake on the cap, but Justine suspected that whatever it was, it was just as expensive, just more restrained and less flashily attention seeking.
"All done," Roderick said after tidying up. "Wasn't that easy? One last thing to remember. Juliette and Justine can both choose to resign from the contest. This is an automatic loss, and will not, in all likelihood be regarded very warmly by their sponsors, but it is an option. The idea is that it should encourage your sponsors to treat you properly, and will save time by allowing somebody who's obviously losing to cut things short rather than sticking it out to the bitter end."
"Now," Lord Kelvin said, "the contest has officially begun, so if you two young ladies will tell the administrators what assets you have proving your dominance as we begin?"
Justine took a deep breath and looked over at Charlotte and Lydia, wondering which was which. Maybe the blonde was Charlotte: she had her hair piled up into a chignon that was almost a beehive and didn't look like a Lydia.
"Is it worth mentioning that I already have a slave boy?" Justine said.
"It is," the brunette said. Her hair was a pale toffee brown pushed back with a woven leather alice band. "Just how slavey is he?"
"I have him in chastity," Justine said. "I've got him sort of not quite crossdressing but wearing fishnets and leggings and heels in a gothy sort of way, rather than drag sort of way. And make up. I've banned him body hair as well. He was bi curious and I've seen to it that he explores that, which he seems to be enjoying. Does making a slave suck cock and take it up the bum still count as dominant if he's not resenting and and hating every second of it?"
"It does," the blonde said. Justine wondered which of the two she'd rather was administering her and Anastasia. "Anything else?"
"I've dyed his hair pink as well," Justine dug her phone out. "Want to see some pictures?"
The blonde shook her head. "You can email me some proof later on," she said. She must be the one who was going to be overseeing Anastasia and Justine, then. "Don't worry about that. Anything else besides your slave boy?"
"I also have a..." Justine paused and hoped that she wasn't grimacing. "I have a finduck site as well. I know that's looked down on, but even so, I do get a bit of money into my paypal through that, so even if it isn't real Dominant stuff, it must count for something, right?"
"Okay," Charlotte or Lydia said. "The site you're using for that and your online finDomme name?"
Justine lowered her eyes. "Princess Porpentine," she said. She'd spent the best part of three quarters of an hour trying to set up accounts with other names before resorting to that. "It's on Mindworm."
The blonde smiled at that. "Okay, Princess," she said. "I'm Lydia, and you're definitely off to a good start. Here's my email," she handed Justine a card, "so just send me a few details about your slave later. Do you have any of him with a cock in his mouth?"
Justine wondered if that was down to proof or prurience. "A few," she said. "None of him being bummed, though. Will one of him with me be needed as well? The sex shots are selfies from encounters with guys. He'd love to have his Mistress film him being spitroasted but I don't think his dates are as keen. At least one guy he's shagged is determined to rescue him from me."
"One with you, one or two doing gay stuff, and maybe a photo or two of him in fishnets in public will do nicely," Lydia said. "Okay Charlie, your turn. See what the other young lady can boast."
The Secret Origin Of Princess Porpentine
"Princess Porpentine?" Mistress Anastasia said. "Is that from a manga or something?" She was one of the very few people Justine had ever met who could deliver that question in a non-sneery manner.
"It was just alliterative," Justine admitted. "I started logging in with what I thought were a bunch of great names, but they were all taken."