"What the hell happened to you?" Becky almost lunged off the bed as Liz came through the door of the small studio apartment.
Becky had still been asleep when Liz had left for art class. The sight of her friend - despite weeks of shared living space and passionate sex Becky still wouldn't allow herself to think of Liz as her girlfriend - was startling. Liz's provocative miniskirt and halter top, clearly without bra, was really only a little more extreme than her usual attire, hardly worth surprise. The drops of dried blood spattered on the milky curve of her full breast and the edge of the top, however, along with the wad of bloodstained tissues which the coed held to her ear as a crude bandage was more of a shock. Liz's long curly brown hair was tousled and disarrayed. She looked... Becky hesitated. Liz looked strangely wild, almost feral. Becky found she wasn't sure whether she wanted to rush to Liz's side or back away slowly.
"I got fucked," Liz smiled at Becky, in a way that wasn't at all reassuring, while dropping her bag on the bed they shared. Behind Liz, a tall dark man stepped into the apartment, closing the door lightly. Derrick.
Becky sucked in a tense breath, jealously surging through her momentarily, obliterating her half hearted denials about her feelings for Liz. Derrick was the definition of darkly handsome: dark hair, dark eyes, dark clothes, but strangely without the goth pretentiousness that should have come with it. He radiated an air of confidence and control that was thrilling and frightening all at once. Becky's feelings toward Derrick were no less intense and confusing than her feelings toward Liz.
"You," Becky seethed at him. Derrick regarded her mildly, his face betraying nothing of his mind.
Momentarily confused, Liz looked from one to the other, struck by the contrast between the passionate, blonde coed and the controlled, dark grad student.
"Becky, no," Liz said, suddenly comprehending, "Derrick just walked me home. You know he would never..." Liz smiled, "well, unless you said it was ok."
Derrick inclined his head slightly, acknowledging the point without saying anything. His dark eyes never left Becky's. Becky looked away, trying to conceal her unwillingness to meet his gaze for long behind her jealous anger.
"But," Becky stammered, reaching toward Liz's bloody ear, "what happened? Are you ok? Who did this?"
"Professor Ashton, my art teacher," Liz almost cheered, sounding triumphant. She lowered her hand from her ear, glancing down at the bloody tissue. "He was a little rough, but it was ok." Seeing the concern in Becky's eyes, Liz smiled, "It's ok. Really. I'm going to get cleaned up." With a smile and a deliberate wag of her hips, Liz turned and swayed into the apartment's small bathroom.
"God, she is such a slut," Becky cursed, practically quivering with jealousy. She wheeled to face Derrick only to be brought up short by the flash of anger on the man's normally composed face. "What?"
"I don't like the way John Ashton treats women," Derrick said, his usually soft voice thick with menace.
"Derrick, you're a dom," Becky said, in puzzled shock. "I've personally watched you put clothes pins on a helpless woman's nipples and beat her with a stick." The blonde coed turned away, to hide her sudden blush at the memory. In getting to know Liz and Derrick, Becky had found her sexual horizons expanding in surprising ways.
"That's different," Derrick said dismissively.
"Whatever," Becky snapped. "Where does she get off fucking her art teacher, anyway?"
"I believe she got off while bent over a table in the art room," Derrick replied smoothly, clearly unwilling even in his own frustrated anger to let the straight line pass.
"What?" Becky whipped around to stare at him, "Did you watch?"
"No, but as I said, I know the way Ashton treats women," Derrick replied. Then his dark eyes glittering as amusement briefly overcame his anger. "Also, I could hear her. Liz can be quite a screamer."
"I'll make her scream," Becky snapped, then shouted, "Liz, get your ass out here."
"I should go," Derrick said softly.
"You stay right where you are," Becky snarled.
Derrick raised an eyebrow, smiling slightly. For a moment, Becky felt the air of absolute confident command that Derrick usually kept carefully masked. For a moment, Becky wanted to sink to her knees and beg him to forgive her for snapping at him. She pushed the feeling aside, but still changed her tone.
"Please," she added. Becky couldn't command him, but she could ask. She wasn't altogether sure why she wanted him here. Only that she did.
Liz came out of the bathroom, fidgeting as she checked the band-aid she had tried to wrap around her bleeding ear. She had cleaned the blood off her neck and breast, and the thin straps of her halter top hung loose around her arms. She stopped, looking from Derrick's smooth composed face to Becky's flushed, passionate one.
"Let me get this straight," Becky snapped, trying to sound firm and commanding. "Your art teacher fucked you."
"Yeah," Liz smiled back.
"You walk into this home that we share and tell me you let you art teacher fuck you," Becky felt her jealous rage rising like a wave.
"Um," Liz hesitated.
"You're mine," Becky snarled. "You don't fuck anybody without my permission!"
"Becky, I'm sorry," Liz said quietly. She'd been flirting with Professor Ashton long before she'd met Becky. The consummation of the chase had been completely separate in her mind from her relationship with the pretty blonde coed. Liz hadn't even thought about the idea that Becky might be upset.
"What," Becky snarled. Her breath was coming in short, heavy gasps. She could feel her body growing warm with passion. Her nipples visibly hardened against her t-shirt.
Liz looked at her blankly, shaken and silent in the face of Becky's anger.
Becky stalked across the apartment until she was almost touching the other woman.
Looming over Liz by the difference in their heights, Becky glared down at her. Liz looked up at the blonde coed, meeting her eyes meekly. Becky grabbed Liz's chin and kissed her passionately. She felt her lips bruise against Liz's teeth with the force of their embrace, her tongue thrust almost violently into the other woman's mouth. Liz moaned, her body melting against Becky's. After a moment, Becky sharply pulled her face away from Liz.
"What did you say," Becky snarled quietly.
"I'm sorry, mistress," Liz replied meekly. "I shouldn't fuck anyone without your permission, mistress. I belong to you. Only to you."
Becky felt as if she couldn't breathe. She loomed over Liz, trying to be menacing and controlled. Trying to ignore the weakness in her knees as the intensity of her feeling for the other woman briefly overwhelmed her.
"I did wrong," Liz continued, her eyes downcast, "I deserve to be punished."
"Yes," Becky answered hoarsely. "Is that what you think?"
"Please, mistress," Liz begged, her downcast eyes briefly flicking up to her lover's face, then away. "Please punish me."
"Take your clothes off," Becky replied, her voice heavy.
"While Derrick is here, mistress?" Liz whispered coyly.
Right, Becky thought, Derrick who is standing behind us watching this. Which, she realized, was part of what she wanted.
"Derrick," Becky said loudly enough for him to hear her.
"Yes," Derrick's cool voice replied.
"Liz needs to be punished for her indiscretion," Becky said.
"She is yours." Derrick said evenly, "You are free to do what you will."
"I would like you to witness her punishment," Becky continued in a rush. There, she'd said it.
"I would be pleased to do so," Derrick replied and Becky thought she heard the desire in his voice.