"Good morning, Miss Morales, and how are you this fine Christmas Eve morning?"
"Good morning, Mr. Lowell. I'm just fine, thank-you. Doctor's running just a bit behind so please have a seat. She'll be with you as soon as she can. Are you all set for the holiday?"
"Oh, I'll spend Christmas just about like I do any other day off. I'll put a log on the hearth, pour myself a single malt or two since it's a holiday and put some eighteenth century Christmas music on the stereo and toast the season. What will you be doing?"
"You're going to
what
? Aren't you going home for the holidays? It's only an hour to Boston. Why are you staying here?" Leticia Morales folded her arms and glared at the patient.
Everett Lowell sighed. "I don't get on with my family. My sister is an investment banker and she's outraged that I'm not taking charge of the family trust. My mother is disgusted that I am quite happy living modestly on my late aunt's trust fund when I could be emulating my 'late, noble father who dashed around the world doing wonderful things for the underprivileged.' My grandmother despairs of my ever getting married and carrying on the family name so she's always trying to line me up with some vacuous debutante. I gave up trying to be civil to them years ago. It's just better this way."
"Poor Mr. Lowell! Don't you even have any pets?"
"Miss Morales, I'm sorry but I'm so absent-minded a pet would have to pour out kibble for me. If some poor creature moved in with me it would probably starve to death before spring. I am, as my mother so pithily put it, a natural academic drone. I'll finish my doctorate in a year or so, probably find a junior professorship somewhere in a small college in the South or Mid-West and live out my days boring undergraduates to death with my interpretations of Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers."
Leticia was aghast. Everett was still so young and so dashing looking in his tweeds and tattersall. He should be the object of coed daydreams and faculty wives' conspiracies instead of moping about like some octogenarian emeritus. He certainly made her all warm and misty-eyed whenever he came in.
"Doctor will see you now."
Everett stood and followed the white starched figure down the hall. His mind wandered as he watched the firm backside ahead of him. Dr. Lee's nurse, Susan, was old enough to be his mother but somehow managed to keep the atmosphere around her charged. He wondered how she did it.
"Hello, Mr. Lowell," Doctor Kim Lee was a China doll of a woman. "I'm glad you could wait. You're my last patient for the day so we don't have to rush. Now take off your shirt and let me have a listen." Dr. Lee nodded to herself mentally. Leticia was right; Everett was a fine figure of a man. All that rowing and squash was obviously good for him.
As the physical exam wore on, Dr. Lee became more chatty and personable, setting Everett at his ease and joking with him mildly. By the time it came for him to drop his trousers and be checked for any hernia, he was feeling positively jovial. Then she pulled out a surgical glove and told him to turn around.
"Hey! I'm only twenty-seven. Men aren't supposed to need prostate exams until they turn fifty. What . . .?"
The slap on his butt stung. Thinking back on the incident later, Everett was sure she had left a red hand print.
"Funny, as I understand it," Dr. Lee was growling, "
I
am the doctor and
you
are the patient. I decide what you need and you do what I say. Is that not correct? Why, bless me, so it is. Now, turn around, spread your feet and bend over!"
Stunned, Everett complied. He heard the cap of the lubricant bottle pop open and a glooping sound as Dr. Lee applied some to her fingers. He felt the cool gel on his anus and the gentle massaging pressure as she rubbed around. Oddly, she was making no attempt to penetrate. The sensations were startling, exciting. Unfortunately, he thought, they were also arousing and his physical response was embarrassing.
"Ah, a healthy male response." Dr. Lee's voice was light. "That's a good sign. Perhaps we ought to do a sperm count while we're at it." She slipped a latex covered finger inside and gently stroked his prostate. "Well, that feels healthy. Does it feel good, too, Mr. Lowell?"
Everett gulped. "Dr. Lee?"
"Hush. We need that sperm count."
She withdrew the finger, added more lubricant and then pushed in two fingers. His eyes widened just as his sphincters were widened, stretched, loosened. Now the stroking was firmer and so was his response. Within in seconds his cock was ramrod stiff.
"Oh, very good, Mr. Lowell. That
is
a healthy male response. It's always gratifying to see one's patients in fine physical condition."
Dr. Lee's other hand began to stroke the underside of his manhood. The stroking from outside and in soon had Everett on the edge of climax. She reached to one side and placed a large test tube at the tip of his cock. A couple of rubs more on his prostate and Everett shot into the test tube with a groan. Again she stroked and again he ejaculated and again.
"A very,
very
healthy male response, Mr. Lowell. Now don't move . . ."
There was a sudden sharp pain in his buttock. "What?"
"Nembutal, Mr. Lowell. Nighty-night—and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lowell."