(This story is set in a world where legalized, non-hereditary slavery is commonplace--usually as punishment for serious crime or foreclosure when a person pledged his/her body as collateral for a loan and was then unable to pay. This particular account addresses the third reason for slavery, when a person voluntarily self-indentures. Eighteen years of age is the minimum for anyone in this world to be enslaved or have any intimate/sexual contact with slaves. Thanks to Joe Doe, Mr.
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mith, ZeeChromosome, ESS, Avvy, et al for helpful suggestions. WARNING: includes incest. This is pure fantasy; please don't try this at home, even if you live in Texas.)
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Shannon O'Brien's viewpoint
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A gentle breeze across my uncovered skin made being outside uncomfortable on a cold December day, even in Texas. Then my grandfather's executive assistant, "Belle" Bergen, gave the expected command, the first step into hell: "Collar."
My bare knees made painful contact with the sun-warmed gravel of the Long Horn Slave Market's parking lot; in the tradition of all slaves and people undergoing grading, my twin brother Sean and I were "butt nekkid" in full public view, our thighs wide apart, one hand on the waist and the other reaching up to hold our honey-blond hair (mine was shoulder length, his was barely long enough to comb) out of the way while Mistress Belle calmly cinched leather dog collars, each attached to a dog leash, around our necks. Once that was done, she issued another laconic command, or rather two commands: "Stand, back hands," which placed us in position for her to use zip-ties, restraining our wrists behind our backs. The tension of my hands behind my back forced my un-tanned breasts up and forward, my treacherous nipples erect (who knows why--nerves?) as if I were enjoying this humiliation and exposure. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that Sean's dick was more than half erect and he was blushing at the indication that he also was enjoying his helpless nudity. We'd both been through the optional Slave Studies course in high school, where we practiced slave block moves and learned about the whole process, but this was suddenly REAL and more than a little scary, so our "fight or flight" reactions were kicking in.
Mistress took her time installing the collars and zip-ties; she was probably silently enjoying the sight of two 18-year-old "spoiled brats," whose antics had caused headaches for her and her boss, now reduced to collared slut-meat under her control. Eventually, however, she instructed us to "Heel" as she set off at a brisk pace (easier for her, clothed and wearing shoes, than for her barefoot and bound subjects) towards the large illuminated "Office" sign that marked the entrance to the slave market.
I guess I had better explain: since the death of our parents, killed a year ago by a drunk driver in a rainstorm, my brother and I were the sole heirs to O'Brien Enterprises, a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate that included everything from petroleum and natural gas to retail stores in 20 shopping centers; Grandfather even held a major stake in the Longhorn, where we were about to be sold!
Yeah, about that. Grandfather loved us both, but he was a self-made man who made no secret of his opinion that our deceased parents had spoiled us rotten. In retrospect, he was probably correct. Mom had always laughed off and forgiven any transgressions while giving us everything we could dream of, including not only Centurion black credit cards but twin Shelby GT's as soon as we got our driver's licenses at age 16. While we were too careful to have serious accidents or drive drunk, each of us had run up a number of tickets for speeding and recklessness. These and other rather-minor shenanigans (including sneaking out at night for sexual trysts) had led Grandfather to put his foot down: he demanded that, between high school and college, we spend the summer working at the Longhorn, but that seemed so lame that we had demurred. So grandfather upped the ante, demanding that we self-indenture ourselves for a year to experience the real world. If we refused, well--he would pay for college and then cut us loose, giving his stock in the company to long-suffering retainers like Mistress Belle. And we knew that Grandfather was stubborn enough to do it, too. Sigh.
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Grandfather was reasonable in his unreason--he reluctantly allowed us to attend our first semester of college (thus allowing me to keep my spot on the cheerleading squad) before we took a supposed "gap year" in collars. So, there we both were, seven months after high school graduation, being checked into the slave market on a Sunday afternoon in December. (The thought that our family owned the Longhorn made it even more humiliating.) In return for the one-semester delay, Grandfather had deliberately chosen the worst time of the week for us: no new slave grading or auctions would occur until Monday late morning, and in the meantime Sean and I would be just two naked "sluts" (the colloquial term for slaves) at the mercy of the weekend (and therefore probably least supervised, least professional) slave wranglers for whatever games they wanted to play. Good thing I had an IUD and had already lost my hymen...
At least it was warmer when we got inside the lobby, where a semi-circle of check-in stations stood, most of them unmanned at this hour on a weekend. But the humiliation of being naked, collared, bound livestock was reinforced when she led us up to the one active podium and ordered us to "Kneel, slave spread." Normally, that position meant not only widespread thighs but also fingers interlocked behind our heads--but with our hands still bound behind our backs, all we could do was kneel with our backs very straight, which in my case meant thrusting out my D-cup boobs even more. I have always been proud of them as they attracted the attention--and often the admiration--of almost every male who saw me since age 14, including the house slaves. I had even had to strap a household slave who was so mesmerized by my breasts that he didn't hear me give him an order. It felt very different for me to be the one wearing the collar, especially because, without a bra, my girls wobbled everywhere as I moved. In this instance I swear they didn't stop bobbling until 10 seconds after I knelt. Not only that, but the cold weather ensured that my nipples remained at full alert.
Another small mercy was that the person behind the podium was female--I knew that lots of guys were going to look at and probably play with my "girls," especially during the next two days, so I was glad to delay that experience for another few seconds. But this African American woman was intimidating in her own right, and not just because we were nude on our knees and she was looming over us, dressed as a slave wrangler--jeans, boots, and "Long Horn" logo T-shirt, plus an equipment belt festooned with various menacing objects including a taser, quirt, and handcuffs. The slave quirts that I had seen and used on others for years suddenly seemed much more frightening. Not that she would need these weapons with me--I was bound and besides, she was huge. Not an ounce of fat on her, but just BIG. She towered over Mistress Belle, and was probably taller than Sean even if he hadn't been on his knees looking up, his half-erect dick hanging out where she could easily kick it. The woman--whose nametag read "Florence"--was well-muscled and her body--well, let's just say that her chest was larger than mine, although proportionate to her form. Not surprisingly, she exuded self-confidence and control as she grinned down at us:
"Well, what do we have here? A matched pair of fresh-caught slaves?" she inquired in amused voice. Her eyes swept past my breasts (and erect nipples) and came to rest on Sean's cock. "Lookin' good, sweetie," she remarked, winking and obviously ogling that prick (I assure you I had NEVER wanted to see my brother's package, especially when it was erect--eeuuhh--but I had to admit it looked bigger than the two guys I had sucked off since turning 18.) Wordlessly, Mistress Belle handed "Florence" the notarized powers of attorney that authorized her to sell us into slavery--with minimal restrictions such as "No foreign travel"--for the next 365 days.
Florence glanced through them, then looked hard at our temporary mistress. "I've seen things like this before--did these two screw up big time, or what?" Belle didn't answer, but her face seemed to agree with the comment.
The Black wrangler fiddled around with some electronics, apparently scanning the documents into PDFs, and then returned them to Mistress Belle. She must have pushed a button to summon help, because a moment later two wranglers came through the double doors behind her. One was a Caucasian copy, almost a photographic negative, of Florence, a tall, smiling, pink-skinned woman wearing a nametag that read "Willow"; she headed towards Sean and replaced the dog collar with a heavier one that I knew must be the battery-powered shock collar used by most slave markets--as if they needed more control over us!