Jack was having a Hard Day. Every day was a Hard Day for Jack because he thrived on stress and if the day wasn't Hard, it wasn't a good day. Nothing irked him so much as relaxation. Whatever he did, he did full-force, with every ounce of energy he possessed. He was thirty-six and, if he had been able to see into the future, he would know that he was destined to die at 42 of a fatal heart attack which would strike him as he was driving home and eyeing some sexy brunette in the slightly-better sports car opposite him. That, however, was all in the future, and he wouldn't thank you if you told him, busy as he was with Work and Things of that Nature.
The office was quiet. Too quiet. Jack hated quiet as much as he hated calm. If he didn't hear a buzzing of people outside his open office door, he got agitated. He stood up, his tall, toned, gym-flexed body moving to the door and sticking his gelled-black, jet-topped head around the corner, his angry eyes glancing around. He saw people working, for sure. Nothing wrong with that, of course. Work is good. Well done to them. But they were so QUIET about it. Realising that he had no reason to chide them, he grunted, annoyed at his lack of justification for being annoyed, and stepped back into his office, loosening his tie, simply so he could straighten it again.
Jack was Successful. Jack wasn't a Bad Guy; he was just highly-strung - passionate, if you want to look charitably upon him, which few people did, except his wife. Ah, his wife. Bless her. No kids, not yet. No time for kids, he always said, and Marie agreed, which was what Marie did. She agreed.
Or at least, she usually agreed. On this particular day, at this particular time, as Jack fumbled about his office looking for things to be annoyed about, Marie was standing in the elevator, her buxom, blonde figure clad in short pleated skirt, a soft black sweater and black heels, her blue eyes smouldering with determined rage. She'd not seen him for days. He had a "Big meeting" or a "Big dinner" or a "Big conference" and he had no time to come home. Marie could take a lot. In fact, there wasn't much she couldn't take, but she believed in Karma and she believed in Fate and she believed that her husband was due to get some.
She stepped out of the elevator, nodding to the few people in the office that she knew, smiling at the rest and stalking, rather unsteadily, towards her husband's office. She entered and closed the door, smiling brightly as he looked up, feeling a flash of rage as Jack looked at her - for the briefest moment until recognition struck - like he had no idea who she was.
"Marie. U..hi there."
"Jack..uh..hi there," Marie sneered.
Jack blinked. True, he almost didn't recognise her at first. There were two reasons for this. Firstly, he hadn't seen her for a while. Secondly, she looked good. No wait, Jack, that's not fair. She never looked bad. True, but she never looked THIS good. She had done something to her hair. And that skirt. Wow. Ummm..
"Wow..ummmm. You've done something to your skirt."
"I've done nothing, Jack. Just bought a new one. Do you like it?"
Jack nodded, dimly aware that the silence outside was now even more intense, looking over his wife's shoulder at the closed door.
"You closed the door," Jack muttered.
"Yes, Jack. I did. I need to talk to you. There's something you should know. Sit down."
Jack never sat down. He was part of some non-sitting religious cult, Marie figured. A member of some fringe group of anti-chair people. Jack didn't feel there was anything he could do sitting down which he couldn't do standing up, which led to some interesting moments in the bathroom. Marie had invited him to sit down merely because she knew he wouldn't, and so she took the initiative and parked her pert ass on the soft sofa, deciding to pull her skirt upwards so a flash of black thong was clearly visible to her addled husband, who was struck with a choice between looking at his watch or looking at her legs. Sensibly, he took the latter option.
"Uh..so what do I owe this..pleasure?"
"You're going to fuck me, Jack. Here and now, in the office, and I am going to moan loudly enough for the world to hear it. And if you don't, I will personally make your life hell. And I mean Hell."
She glared at him. He wasn't sure what she meant. Maybe she would ban standing in the house. That would be hell. Maybe she'd make him sleep more than three hours a night. That would be Hell. Well, purgatory.
"F..fuck you? Uh..here?"
Jack stared at his wife, who was nodding with malicious intent, a scowl furrowing her otherwise-smooth face.