The Fallen Part 9
Chapter 25 - A Rash Act
Thank you very much for dinner Monsieur and, of course, for the beautiful lovemaking after we got back to Room 215 at the Pleasure Palace. I can continue with my saga if you wish.
Monsieur, the defiance by Deborah Gene of the Junta was the first open loss it had suffered. More were to follow. The next blow was inflicted by supposedly beaten down and defeated Victoria McMasters.
Even self-absorbed Robert McMasters eventually realized that Victoria suffered from depression. She was just too quiet. He came to fear she might do something foolish.
McMasters decided it would be a good for Victoria to be guarded. Big strong Miles, who had reluctantly had anal sex with a reluctant Victoria on McMasters' orders, had always been a loyal servant. McMasters thought Miles could both serve as a bodyguard and a reminder to Victoria of the pain and humiliation that would follow if she ever again thought to step out of line.
McMasters did not understand Victoria or Miles. Victoria was indeed profoundly depressed, but there was some method in her madness. She was bidding her time.
Miles had been a loyal servant. McMasters had hired him and deliberately paid him and other servants ten percent more than the paltry wage the casinos, hotels, and the brothels paid for most labor. McMasters felt this gave him a right to loyalty. Miles at the beginning of his service agreed.
But Miles following McMasters' order to have anal intercourse with Victoria in front of a jeering audience had changed Miles as much as Victoria. He had felt resentment at Victoria's privileged status as the wife of a very rich man, but after following orders to humiliate a tearful Victoria, Miles felt he'd been used to further oppression. He began to wonder what he could do to make up for what he came to see as a horrible act of complicity.
During her months of her pregnancy, Victoria and Miles began first by exchanging sympathetic glances. Later, they engaged in small talk on such matters as the weather and what the most comfortable shoes were to wear when one was heavier than usual.
Robert McMasters thought it was cute when Miles, Victoria and the children took walks around town. He joked with Miles that if he played his cards right he'd get to fuck Victoria up the ass again the next time she stepped out of line. McMasters hired a wet nurse saying that he wanted his new child to have the benefits of breast feeding but he wanted Victoria ready to conceive again as soon as possible.
A month after the birth of Victoria's child, two weeks after the birth of my fourth child, Miles and Victoria made a bizarre move.
With all the sex tourism in the City of Orange, foreign governments had established local consulates mainly for the purpose of rescuing their nationals who had gotten into trouble in one of Orange's casinos, bars or brothels. Sweden had such a consulate. A result of the Nordic approach to prostitution which punishes johns but does not punish prostitutes, was to cause some Swedish men to go to other countries to buy what they could not safely get at home.
Miles, Victoria, and the wet nurse were walking with the three children of Victoria and McMasters in various baby carriages and child carriers when Miles and Victoria steered toward the building in which the Swedish consulate was located. With no warning, Miles and Victoria started to throw leaflets everywhere before entering the building. The guard, expecting nothing, asked where they were going. Miles grabbed the man and physically forced him to open the elevators for them, taking the guard's gun and giving him a bear hug that could not be challenged. The wet nurse started screaming before Victoria told her that if she did not shut up she would die horribly although Victoria had no weapon with which to hurt the nurse. The wet nurse became quiet.
Once in the consulate, Victoria, frantic to the verge of insanity, began demanding to see the Consul General, insisted there were horrible human rights violations going on in Orange, and chained herself and several of her children to the largest item she could find, which happened to be a long metal bar in front of the counter where Swedish officials generally issued papers for people wanting to get identification papers certified to do business in Sweden. Miles said he and Victoria were wired with explosives and would take out the whole floor of the building if anyone touched them. He was lying, there were no explosives.
The hungover Swedes in the room who had been trying to figure out where they'd left their passports the night before, were scared shitless. A standoff hostage situation soon developed with none of the Swedish authorities willing to call the bluff of Victoria and Miles with so many young children and other innocents around. Victoria told her whole story to numerous consulate personnel who became sympathetic to a pretty, intense and very sincere woman who clearly was acting under great stress.
The leaflets Victoria and Miles had scattered outside stated that the City of Orange was controlled by murderers and kidnappers, that hundreds of women were being held as sex slaves in the brothels, and that an insane group of millionaires called Spenser's Helpers were forcing many women to have children without their consent in order to further their plan to force what they considered genetically superior women to have more children.
The news coverage on the tense events in the Swedish consulate was mixed. Some newspaper stories included a summary of the accusations regarding sex slavery. People in the know thought to themselves: tell me something I don't already know. The city's propaganda machine said that Miles and Victoria were obviously crazy terrorists who had placed children and others in great danger; the wild accusations of these dangerous fanatics threatened to undercut the local economy. The television channels loyal to Mayor Kelly said that the tolerance shown to Deborah Gene and the teachers had obviously emboldened all the immoral forces of chaos in Orange, but expressed confidence that Mayor Kelly was a strong man who would soon set things right.
Robert McMasters said publicly they should send in a SWAT team in to liberate his children and shoot Miles and Victoria dead on sight. Particularly, given the harsh dictatorial tone of McMasters' voice, McMasters' statement was felt by many to support the accusations Miles and Victoria had made.
Mayor Kelly told McMasters privately that there was no way he was going to risk a lot of people being killed because McMasters could not control his wife. McMasters' suggestion that the floor on which the Swedish consulate was located be attacked with drones was rejected. Publicly, Mayor Kelly said that Miles and Victoria were obviously mentally ill and the city was working to defuse the situation peacefully.
Miles and Victoria said to numerous witnesses that they wanted to talk to neutral reporters from abroad about their lives and what was going on. This request was granted by the Swedes. Mayor Kelly tried but could not prevent the Swedes from allowing reporters to talk to Miles and Victoria.
The Swedish consul general publicly said that Victoria and Miles seemed sane if very stressed. The news outlets that supported Mayor Kelly correctly noted that Victoria and Miles did not know anything about the brothels and that their story of women being raped was entirely based on conjecture and hearsay except as to the alleged rape in which Miles claimed he had participated. Even that was arguably consensual. After all, Victoria had done what her husband had asked her to do without a struggle. Anyway, how could anyone believe a crazy woman and a man who admitted he was a rapist? The report of numerous women being displayed spread eagle nude and electronically stimulated, as dinner entertainment, while guests ate was just too bizarre to be creditable.
Other news sources, while deploring their methods, suggested that Victoria and Miles might be right about some things given the failed attempt to kidnap Deborah Gene, the numerous disappearances of women that had occurred and the unsavory connections of the brothels with mobsters and of mobsters with Mayor Kelly. Debbie Gene, now head of the teacher's union, said that an investigation should be made of the brothels and the millionaires said to be in Spencer's Helpers before there was any resort to violence against Miles or Victoria. The Federal District Attorney's office refused to comment about ongoing investigations.
Solomon Whyte Jr., while deploring the brothels as an evil to be eradicated in time, said that Mayor Kelly should be supported as he was keeping the city from chaos and promoting prosperity for the faithful. Whyte Jr. claimed that Victoria had obviously been driven crazy by pornography, masturbation or drugs and Miles was a barbaric sub-human criminal. Christians should pray for Victoria to recover her mental health and for Miles to be sent back to the devil.
The stalemate continued. Miles and Victoria and the three children stayed in the consulate with hostages that were rotated every twelve hours. Food and clean clothing were moved in and out. Most of the building was put back into use except for the floor of the occupied Swedish consulate. The wet nurse was released and Victoria nursed the baby alone. Sympathetic and hostile news stories came out frequently for another week before the public lost interest and the whole thing stopped being front-page news.