Chapter I: Rookie
"Jesus," Lisa bitched into her beer, "if I wanted to be a damned secretary, I wouldn't have bothering going to college. I want to be a cop, damn it!"
"Know what your problem is?" Barney asked. He didn't lisp any more than he simpered. So much for her naive stereotype of gay men. He was the only person in the precinct she could talk to - her first true friend since high school, really.
"Yeah. I was born without a cock."
He laughed. "Wrong. You could be riding in a patrol car in under a month if you'd just loosen up."
Officer Lisa Cole leaned back. Her wide leather belt creaked. Her narrow, high-boned face was made ugly by her sneer. "Like Sally Dawson loosened up? Had her uniforms tailored so tight that her nipples poked through and her ass crack showed?"
"Come on. You know that's not what I meant."
"I should file sexual discrimination charges. The only reason I'm not pulling some kind of real duty is because -"
"Whoa, girl. And lose any chance you've got to ever make it? Bad plan, Lisa," he warned. "You walk around with a chip on your shoulder. Everybody thinks you're arrogant. Know what they say behind your back?"
"Yeah. They think I'm a fucking dyke or something."
"Are you?"
That hurt. She didn't show it. "Are you out of your head, Barnes?"
The conversation drifted away from anything serious after that, but haunted her for the rest of the week. She hated to admit it, but Barney was right. She acted cold, impersonal - entirely asexual and professional was the way she'd thought of it. But that wasn't the impression her fellow officers got. That kind of thing shouldn't matter, but it did.
She observed Sally Dawson with new eyes. The woman had a great body, and didn't seem to care if the men looked at it. Her uniforms weren't really as tight as all that, and Lisa grudgingly confessed that the woman was a good cop. Not better than she was. Not even prettier, for that matter. What rankled was that she managed to use her femininity. She let her big tits bounce and her hips sway. And she was out there where the action was as a result.
Over the weekend, Lisa grudgingly admitted that she had a choice. She could enter and retrieve data for the rest of her career, or make some changes and get on with her life. On the whole, letting herself act a little more feminine seemed less odious than the alternative. She didn't have to look like a fucking bimbo, for Christ's sake. Just a human being.
So, when Monday came, she steeled herself, stifled her fear, and went to work literally with her hair down. And her bra off. With an almost invisible trace of makeup she'd had to go out and buy. She felt ridiculous at first, but her astonishment at the difference it made in the way the rest of the guys acted banished her self-consciousness before lunch.
Not that she was able to forget about any of it. The continual covert looks directed her way kept her aware of herself all afternoon. Her badge and nametag attracted more attention than usual, as did the revolver on her hip. People who hadn't even known her name went out of their way to smile and say hello. Every time she used the john, she studied her reflection in the mirror. Each time she touched up her powder, she did it with a severe expression, as if that could offset the unseemly joy of finally losing the invisibility she'd wrapped about her when she was twelve.
And it wasn't just the patrolmen who noticed her. Captain Wilson actually smiled at her a couple of times. He was the one responsible for her assignment. She made herself smile back.
The next day, she added a refined touch of lip gloss to her look. The day after, a hint of mascara. Wednesday, she wore the slightly altered uniform she retrieved from the tailor. Every evening, she pored through magazines, desperate for information on how to use the unfamiliar feminine utensils that were making all the difference in the world. That Friday, she went so far as to buy herself a dress to wear to a party she'd been invited to the next evening. In entire five months she'd been on the force, it was the first time she'd ever been included in any extra-curricular activity.
Lisa spent hours getting ready. Curling her hair. Doing her nails. Shaving her legs. All the things most women took for granted, she felt like a fool for doing. But, she was a determined fool. If this was what it took to get out from behind her desk, it was worth whatever humiliation she had to endure.
Walking through the door of the apartment where the party was happening was harder than anything she'd ever done in her life. She was terrified. The dress was too small and too tight and too red. The nail polish made her fingertips feel heavy. The lipstick made her afraid to talk. The heels made her awkward and the pantyhose made her legs oddly slick.
But nobody noticed her tremendous discomfort. The looks she'd gotten at work were nothing like what she got that night. Within an hour, everybody there had pulled her aside, had expressed sincere interest in getting to know her better as they stared at her half-exposed tits. It was exciting as hell. For the first time, they treated her like a real person, not some damned robot. Hell, even Sally Dawson complimented her and displayed more friendliness than she ever had before.
It was a night of firsts. Her first experience with hard liquor, and, consequently, her first time drunk. Her first cigarette. Her first slow dance in years. And, later, her first fuck since she was raped.
It wasn't a conscious decision to do it with Captain Wilson in the back seat of his car. She was way too drunk to drive, and he offered her a ride home. Somehow, before she knew it, he was kissing her - and she was kissing right back, with a hunger she'd never known. When he'd stretched her dress down below her tits and turned his lips to them, she'd shouted with joy, gripped his head with stubby red nails so he couldn't change his mind.
Nothing had ever felt that good. Bolts of lightning shot from her suddenly bone-hard nipples and electrified her entire body. Parts of her came to life that she didn't know she had. A sudden flood of dire need, of utter desperation, consumed her. She didn't care who this man was, or what the repercussions of fucking him might be. All she knew is that if she couldn't get his cock between her legs, she'd surely die.
And, she thought that's what her orgasm was - the precursor of a glorious death. It transported her, took her into realms she'd never suspected even existed. She'd masturbated a few times, had what she thought were orgasms twice before. But they were utterly insignificant in comparison to the racking, glorious convulsions that overwhelmed her that night. Then, when what little consciousness she possessed told her that it could get no better than this, the cock filling her, making her whole for the first time ever, leapt and jerked and spewed the nectar of the gods deep, deep inside her. Her eyes widened. She arched into it, drove it deeper still, and fainted.
Or passed out. But just for a moment. The captain was still gasping atop her, muttering her name, telling her how wonderful she was when her senses returned to her. Her legs were still wrapped around his, and her hips were still rolling slowly. But she felt dulled, somehow. Sluggish in mind and body. She barely noticed his awkward disengagement, the slight tension as they finished the drive to her apartment. There was no goodnight kiss, no more tenderness, no final words of endearment. It was over. That was fine by her. She wasn't after a romantic attachment any more than she'd been after sex. He was married. He was her boss. She was no starry-eyed kid.
But the memory lingered, colored her entire Sunday. It was more clear and distinct than she'd experienced it in real time. She could still feel traces of each kiss, each caress.
She thought she should feel guilty, so Lisa tried to make herself feel bad. She told herself that she'd made the biggest mistake of her life. Drunkenly parading herself like some fucking hooker. Laughing and smoking cigarettes and dancing with half the guys there. Damned near raping her superior officer. Word was going to get around. Her reputation was ruined. Her career was in jeopardy.
But no matter how hard she tried she couldn't make herself care. A persistent glow filled her every time she recalled what it'd been like to have that many men wanting her. And, after ten years, a man inside her. She hadn't felt helpless or weak, as she'd always imagined women were during sex. She felt strong, stronger than ever before.
She got on with her Sunday routine, but, while she was ironing uniforms, she kept catching sight of the nail polish she couldn't make herself remove, and smiling. Every time she moved, the slight soreness between her legs wistfully reminded her of what had happened.
That night, she masturbated, used the little red nails to replicate what had happened the night before. It wasn't as good as she'd hoped, but was far better than her previous tries. She drifted into a lazy sleep feeling hopeful.
But, Monday morning, it was back to the daily day. The nail polish came off and the uniform went on. The precinct looked the same. She and the captain both pretended nothing unusual had happened, but the sly smirks and quiet whispers told her that everyone knew otherwise. She tried to ignore it all, but wasn't able to hide from her tremendous confusion.