Author's note
: Just some fantasies that didn't make sense to include in
The Modified Slave
, although there are obvious recurring themes. I listed this story under BDSM but consent is... very, very dubious. It's not romantic or even necessarily sexy. Includes extreme (female) slavery, body modification (not including piercings or tattoos) and shaming, and degradation/depersonalization, with a pinch of submissive husband and pregnancy fetish. Oh, and just a dash of silly vulgarity, if that bothers you.
Henry Cooper woke to the hazy near-dark of a winter morning. The camel wool comforter kept him cozily insulated from the chilled air, but he couldn't help but miss the familiar heat of his wife's body beside him. She'd left yesterday for a professional conference in a tropical locale where she planned to spend the following weekend enjoying the sun and sand. It was a well deserved break; with four doctors and an office manager, her psychiatric practice had been doing better than ever. It was not her fault that the house felt like less of a home when she was gone.
He sat up, sliding his feet into the neatly arranged slippers waiting on the floor and removing his phone from the charger. He would have liked to send a
good morning
text message for when she got up in a few hours time, but her expectations about communication had been very clear. If she wanted to hear from Henry, she would contact him herself. And, of course, she could watch the security cameras that were mounted in every room except her private boudoir and office--both locked while she was away--whenever the inclination so arose.
It was Tuesday, and Henry rather liked Tuesdays. Per his wife's wishes, he worked remotely for two and a half days a week, from Wednesday morning to Friday afternoon. He would never have imagined giving up his biomedical engineering career when they first met; he would never have imagined quite a lot of things. But he had found a certain satisfaction in keeping the house, and as he checked his notifications, his mind settled at the comforting prospect of routine.
No alerts from the monitoring application he had coded, though his undisturbed night of rest already attested to that. He stood, scrolling through the data on the screen. Average sleep depth with some interruptions, but that was to be expected. Regularity and duration were more important, and both of those metrics were on track. Heart rate and oxygen saturation looked good. All equipment appeared to be in place and functioning as expected. On to more pressing matters.
Henry bypassed the inaccessible ensuite, but instead of making his way to the bathroom located off the kitchen, he followed the hallway that led to what would be described as a gym if they ever resold the house. This room was also locked, but the discrete digital display of the handle woke to his fingerprint and he had been given the four-digit code required for entry. Though the door appeared much the same as any of the others--blackened steel with a rust patina that added an old-world charm to the home's mostly modern sensibility--it was much heavier. It swung inward from a soundproofing strip installed into the casing, demarcating where dark wood flooring turned to pure black rubber.
He flicked on the bright overhead lights; the direction of the window and the privacy screen that obscured its view kept the room dim at almost all hours of the day. A countertop with an inset sink supported by white laminate cabinets and drawers ran the length of one of the walls, large mirror panels mounted seamlessly above it. The perpendicular wall had matching floor-to-ceiling wardrobes. It was
not
a gym, though the black metal and vinyl padded contraptions could be misleading upon first glance--when a nearly-naked body was not trussed to one of them, at least.
The body was face up in a modified gynecological chair that could be mistaken for a very high-tech massage table when laid at a slight incline for the purpose of sleeping, as it was now. The top was cushioned, but the adjustable structure beneath hid all manner of appliances and accessories. Cuffs at the wrists kept them restrained to the arms of the chair, which were flush with the surface in this position. The ankles were similarly confined, slightly overhanging the edge of the table and restrained to hard points at each corner. The figure was secured with additional straps crossing the torso and attached to a variety of tubes leading to nearby apparatuses.
Rounding the chair to head, Henry pressed his index finger into the mouth and received a small suck in return. He knew what the slave looked like beneath the mask--a once-a-week necessity for maintaining hygiene--but it was
that
face that felt like the true disguise. This was the slave: shiny black latex tight over a smooth bald head, matching blindfold obscuring boring brown eyes, and pale pink lips inflated to ridiculous proportions with far more filler than was recommended by reputable cosmetic aestheticians.
He removed the noise-cancelling headphones, hearing his wife's hypnotic degradation through the wireless receivers as he set them by the docked MP3 player and turned off the recording. The slave was suitably brainwashed two years into its indefinite servitude, but the soundtrack seemed to help set a state of mind that made hours of doing nothing easier to tolerate. He disconnected the nasogastric tube from the feeding pump--which had shut itself off once the formula bag was empty--and tucked it into a little pocket on the cheek of the mask that kept it mostly invisible. The IV hydration drip was detached from the saline lock in the right hand and taped to the skin before the cuff was unlocked and loosened enough to allow Henry to cover the disconcertingly human hand with the a more appropriate latex mitten. Reconfiguring all the other accoutrement for daytime use would be dealt with after his bathroom break.