The room reminded Jean of a meat locker. The floor, through spic and span and polished to a sheen, was sturdy tile with shower drains at regular intervals. Designed to be hosed down. It gave the room an air of degradation that Jean wasn't sure if she liked.
The architecture was marble, with the right wall dedicated to a line of vanities that would be the envy of any Vegas showroom or chic make-up parlor. Domino was seated at one of them, wiping off her face with moist towelettes. Her panda-bear black eye seemed to be shot through with the same white as the rest of her body. Seeing Jean, she gave a little wave.
Jean waved back, though her attention was focused on the left wall of the room.
The top half was frosted glass looking into another room. Male silhouettes were gathering, waiting, talking in murmurs through the soft music that played. The darkest of them were up front, seven shadows facing front but unable to see through the glass. The bottom half of the wall was regular plaster, with a row of circular holes cut about three and a half feet up, each about the size of a woman's fist.
Seven of the holes had men's penises dangling through them. Before those holes, kneeling on silk cushions, were Colleen Wing, Misty Knight, that new Tarantula Maria Vasquez, Jessica Drew, and a few celebrities Jean couldn't place, but who looked familiar from magazine covers and the occasional commercial. If she hadn't been dead, she would've known them. And they were sucking on those cocks like they were trying to drag their owners into the room.
"Mistress calls this the Glory Room," Rogue drawled, going to the little salon where Domino was fixing her make-up. Jean trailed numbly after her. "There's one for the boys at the other end of the Club; good for yer viewing pleasure if you ain't in the mood to take a load."
"Those are glory holes," Jean said, allowing herself to be sat down in a stool by Rogue. "Seven women are giving blowjobs and they're—they're goddamn
heroes
, some of them!"
"Yeah, but it's Thursday. Thursday's always a slow night."
Domino got up, leaning into the mirror and smiling to check her teeth. After swiping her tongue over her gums, she turned to Rogue. "Ready?"
"In a few minutes. Ah've gotta hold Jeannie's hand here."
"Alright. Jean, lovely seeing you. You should've told me you had a membership here. We can come together next time." Domino's black-lidded eye winked at the innuendo, then she turned to leave.
"Ready for what?" Jean asked.
"Ah'm takin' her shift."
Just as Domino reached the door, it slung out of her way. Psychic trick. She and the new arrival brushed against each other as they passed in the doorway, sizing each other up with open lust. Then she was out and Madelyne Pryor was in.
"Goblin Queen!" Jean yelped, coming to her feet. She reached out with her psychic senses, preparing for battle, but the inundating lust she felt in every room, every foot of her surroundings sent a shock straight to her clit.
"Relax, Jeannie." Madelyne smiled dangerously. "I'm not going to fight you over
Scott Summers
. Or anything else. You've already died. What more can I do to you?"
"Then—then—" It was hard for Jean to think with Madelyne dressed like that. She was Jean's exact double and she was naked. No, not even naked: barely censored by thigh-high black boots, a ragged black loincloth that hung between her creamy thighs to caress her pubis, and a cape that did not so much cover her breasts as draw attention to their lower halves as they jutted and quivered and occasionally slipped to offer the attentive viewer a glimpse of her erect nipples. Every step she took was a peepshow.
"What am I doing here?" Madelyne sat beside Jean at the make-up table. "Isn't it obvious? I'm here for my shift."
On either side of Jean, Rogue was checking and triple-checking her inhibitor collar while Madelyne was burying her lips in gloss.
"But... you're me," Jean said disbelievingly.
"No, I'm
me
. You're a stuffy preppie chick who was satisfied having everyone want to take her to sock-hop while she was in junior high. Me—I actually fuck people. And not just my dear, darling hubby. Strange men. Men whose names I don't know, men whose faces I won't remember. Women too. And the list doesn't end there." Madelyne popped her lips. They gleamed with wetness. "Watch me, Jean. Look what I do with your body."
Madelyne got up and sauntered off, Jean watching her altogether exposed buttocks rise and fall with each peepshow step. It was all so
casual
. And that just made it more exciting.
Brazenly, Madelyne sat down at an empty hole. She pressed a button on a little console over the hole, and a few seconds later, a long penis had come through. It wasn't hard, but Jean had given enough blowjobs of her own to know that it wouldn't take long once a pair of lips had touched it. It'd been years since Jean had seen a prick other than her husband's, and though this one didn't quite measure up, it was fat enough to make her shiver just a little.
"You don't even know..." Jean began. She had never seen so many cocks in her life. "You don't even know who you're sucking off."
"That's the beauty of it, sugah," Rogue replied.
"It could be your worst enemy!"
Rogue put her hand on Jean's knee. "That makes it so much better! Just keep watchin', hon. Ah love seeing a girl's first suck of the night. Always gets me hotter'n a sauna in hell!"
Jean didn't want to get hot. She didn't want to look away either. The unknown man's cock was getting hard just from the situation, the anticipation of a stranger's warm lips wrapped around his member. Madelyne's fingers, her fingers, took hold of the stiffening prick. She clung to it with both hands, brought her nose to its head like she was sniffing a rose. Precum dripped out from the head and her thumbs neatly wiped it away. She sucked on them first, letting her coy mouth pop off each in turn. Moaning at the whiff of taste she'd taken.
Jean tried to distract herself by talking to Rogue, but she couldn't look away. "And you—you do this too?"
"Damn near every night!"
"But
why
?" Jean demanded, her voice almost shrill.
Madelyne's lips brushed over the cockhead. They could hear a groan thundering through the muting glass.
"Cuz even if I put one of mah collars on, in the outside world, I still can't get loose of the thought of what would happen if it ever came off. Ah spent so long with mah curse that I can't shake it. I feel it in other people; worrying what I could do to a child or old folk that don't know no better. But in here, everyone knows. Jus' nobody cares. It's like everyone puts a collar on. They all let go of the outside and we do what we need. Emma just gives us the tools."
Jean didn't say anything. She barely listened; the words hit her mind like water dripping from a sink. Her body was throbbing so much louder than the conversation. The sight of her own mouth, as appropriated by Madelyne Pryor, opening wide to take a swollen cock inside—her own lips with a different shade of gloss moving over the engorged shaft—it sunk inside her and played a deep bass beat that rattled right against her clit.
Her body was burning.
"Ah thought you'd like this," Rogue said, and her voice was so unlike herself—so dark and sexual—that Jean had to glanced at her. Had to see her settled back against the make-up counter, her legs splayed and the knot on her tied-off shirt coming undone. "Mistress Emma said you would."
Jean watched Madelyne's tongue drift from the tip of the stranger's cock to the wiry pubic hairs he was trying desperately to push through the opening. She wondered if her own tongue was that long. Silly question. Of course it was. She was just like Madelyne. Exactly alike. She had never actually
watched
a blowjob before, just given them on occasion. Now she knew what she'd looked like then.
Madelyne grew more active, as if the excitement Jean were feeling was somehow funneling back into her. She sucked furiously, head moving back and forth, each thrust of her mouth trying to make her target disappear. Jean knew it was impossible from the very beginning. As thick as it was, Madelyne couldn't swallow more than a few inches of it. But the attempt made Jean's focus narrow until all she could see was cock and mouth. She felt a tension at the corners of her mouth, knowing what it would look like if she herself tried to swallow a thick cock.