"Dr. Alex?" The uniformed man looked tentative, as if he was not sure he should disturb the doctor after all.
"Yes?" She answered, then noticed the man standing next to the guard in an orange jumpsuit, cuffed and shackled.
"Oh, is this my intake physical?" she asked, as she rose from her desk and walked around to her office door where the men stood.
The guard pushed the prisoner roughly into the doctor's combination office and exam room as he answered her. "That he is, Doc...and he's a dilly. For your own safety, I think you better plan to do only whatever you can do with the handcuffs still on him. Skip the rest."
"That bad, huh?" She studied the dark haired prisoner with a two-day-old beard, and a significant scowl. He was thirtyish, 6' tall, medium build, and disturbingly attractive, she thought, in spite of his apparent bad temperament. She felt an unexpected twinge inside her, but did her best to push it away.
"Well then," she said, "why don't you just bring him on over to the exam table? We can restrain him quite nicely there. By the time I'm finished with him, he should be a bit more cooperative." Or he would be if I could just do to him what I would like to do,) she thought. She sighed aloud as she picked up her stethoscope and waited for the officer to get the prisoner situated.
She was a beautiful woman, with ebony hair, Mediterranean blue eyes, and a real woman shape like Marilyn Monroe . But the overwhelming demands of medical school and her residency had destroyed any possible chance for an active social life, let alone any time for the kind of sweaty, hip-pumping, body fluid sharing, sex life she longed for. Now, as a doctor in a medium security prison working twelve hour shifts, her prospects were every bit as dismal. She was only thirty-two, but sometimes she felt old...old and lonely. And horny.
Jesus! She thought to herself. Am I really so desperate I'm lusting for a foul-tempered felon about to be locked up for God knows how long? I need to get laid, and bad, but I need someone I don't have to get patted down just to visit! She laughed at herself.
The guard pushed the prisoner toward the black leather exam bench, and handed the doctor the man's folder. Then he directed his prisoner to sit down by applying firm pressure to the middle of his back.
"Get up on that seat before I have to 'help' you get up there. Understand?" Jake Sullivan snarled at him. The convict slid one butt cheek onto the bench in a half-assed response, leaning defiantly more than sitting on it.
"David Meyer?" She asked; as she looked up at the man, then skimmed thru pages and pages of court documents, arrest reports, sentencing depositions, and the like.
David looked at her momentarily in answer to his name, but said nothing, and quickly returned his gaze back to the floor. He was thirty-four, according to his intake report, and an unpleasant sort if his arrest record was any indication.
Incredibly good looking though, Alexandria thought to herself. What a waste.
She turned to the guard. "Officer Sullivan, is it?" she asked, reading the shiny nametag on his shirt. He nodded.
"Jake" he told her.
She continued, "Okay, Jake, let's see if we can't get Mr. Meyer settled and secured, and then we can get this exam started."
The guard grabbed Meyer by the shoulders and steered him forcefully back on the exam bench so he sat squarely.
Alex said, "I think we need to get him undressed down to his shorts before we totally restrain him. Don't you agree?"
The guard nodded his head. He stared at the prisoner as if he expected trouble, and wanted to make sure he didn't get any. "We can do this easy, or we can do this hard." Jake said. "It's your call. Do you want to undress yourself, or do you want me to get a few helpers to get you out of that jumpsuit?"
In answer, Meyer shrugged. "How do you expect me to undress myself with my hands cuffed behind me?"
"I guess he has a point," the doctor laughed. She turned towards the guard. "Maybe you and I can manage this together. "Let's get him restrained from the waist down for now, okay?"
The two worked together to manhandle Meyer into the position they wanted, with leather restraints secured tightly around his ankles, each attached to a side of the exam table, and a thick leather strap buckled snugly across his mid section.
"Okay," the doctor said to Officer Sullivan, "Why don't you release one hand at a time, and then you and I can get the top half of the jumpsuit down to his waist. That might be all we need, if he's as healthy as he looks."
Eventually, with the temporary help of an additional guard, the prisoner was stripped to the waist and restrained to the satisfaction of everyone but the prisoner.
Alex couldn't help but admire the convict's physique; washboard abs, and muscular arms and shoulders like a gymnast or swimmer. She found herself sexually stimulated by his appearance, in spite of his bad reputation. She tried to ignore her feelings, but she kept imagining her naked body next to his. (What am I doing? This is ridiculous!) She admonished herself, but her panties suddenly felt moist.
Putting his face only inches from his prisoner's face, Jake Sullivan looked sharply at Meyer. "I'm expecting you to cooperate fully with the Doctor," the guard warned his prisoner. "If you give her the least bit of trouble, I will be on you like flies on shit, and you will not like where we end up. You can take that to the bank, Meyer, so you damn well better behave." He poked Meyer's chest with his stiff forefinger for emphasis. "I'll be right here watching you every step of the way."
The doctor moved over to stand close to Meyer, with a small white instrument in her hand. She felt safe now that her patient was lying down and completely restrained, his arms held securely by thick straps fastened to each side of the padded gurney.
"I'm going to take your temperature now, David." She held up the digital thermometer. "This goes in your ear. Doesn't hurt at all and it only takes a few seconds." She put the thermometer in his right ear until it beeped at her, then looked at the display, and raised her eyebrows in surprise.
"Mr. Meyer, your temperature is nearly 105. How long have you been feeling ill?" she asked with genuine concern. He shook his head negatively in response. "Tell me about your symptoms," she ordered him. "Are you in pain?"
He shook his head again. "I'm fine." He insisted. "Why don't you just let me go to my cell?" he snapped angrily.
"We will do that Mr. Meyer, but first I have to figure out what's wrong with you. A fever that high is serious, David, I can't stress that enough. And it doesn't usually come without any other symptoms, so you need to stop being tough and start being straightforward with me. You are putting your health at risk...perhaps your life, so you need to quit playing games." she stared at him with obvious irritation, but he turned his gaze deliberately away.
She continued, "If you think I'm just going to leave you alone, you are sadly mistaken. It is my obligation to treat you and that's exactly what I'm going to do. You aren't going anywhere until I find out what's wrong with you. Even if I wanted to turn you loose, I can't put you in the general population before I know whether you are contagious."
She looked David straight in his haunting brown eyes and felt drawn to him, in spite of her anger and frustration. She thought he felt a connection too, but she could tell he was holding something back from her.
She frowned. "If you really are feeling just fine, which I don't believe, I suppose it could be an equipment failure. Sometimes technology is not our friend. The only way to be sure is to use a standard thermometer like we grew up with."
She continued, "I have one," she paused, looking at the guard, "but Mr. Meyer needs to be on his tummy for me to use it."
Meyer's eyes widened as her words sunk in. "You don't really think I'm going to let you stick something in my ass do you?" He growled at her threateningly.
"Back off, Meyer," Jake responded to his threat. "I guarantee the doctor is going to stick anything she wants anywhere she wants, and there are a whole mess of guards here that will back me up on that. Should I call some of them now?"
The guard looked pleased, almost cheerful, as if he expected his prisoner to put up a fuss, or hoped he would. Meyer slumped dejectedly on the exam bed, and stared blankly at the ceiling in anticipation of the inevitable.
"The truth is David, a rectal thermometer is still the most accurate measure of your temperature, much better than the digital ones. And if your fever is as high as it seems, I'm thinking I need to continue to use the rectal one. It's about your health, not about your modesty." She did not wait to see David's reaction to her explanation.
She turned to address Jake. "The first thing we have to do is get his britches down. Doesn't this jumpsuit unbutton or zip down or something?" Alex asked.