A rescue - a rape club - another naughty bath - a merger - arcane skills - The Caliph of Abbasid's view
I suddenly found Dee could take over if she wished.
Without willing it, I found I had pulled the horse-tailed dildo from my belt and was driving it hard just below his sternum. As he doubled over, gasping for wind, she swung it across the back of his head and he dropped like a poled ox. The dildo-cosh was tossed aside and then she withdrew her control, her voice in my head saying,
"Shall we go in?"
I stepped over the stunned doorkeeper and, after ensuring there was no one else nearby, crept down the passage that led back to the little room I had stayed in. It now seemed so long ago. The door there was ajar, and peering in I saw a scene that made my blood boil. There was Lucy, naked and bruised, huddled against the far wall. Between us were two more men -- hulking brutes in black. Given their unfastened breeches, the tenor of their interrogation was clear. The further one had other sport in mind as well. He was in the act of flailing a heavy studded belt over his head, postponing the blow to savour the girl's terror. The nearer one was more alert than I expected. He heard my approach and drew an ugly stiletto from his jacket even as he turned to face me. He stopped and his face twisted into an evil leer as he saw there was one more girl to add to their little party.
In the same moment my own knife was in my hand. Even as I threw myself inside his reach, my arm was slashing upward across his throat - with Dee's skill and strength, but my own will and hate. He gurgled and slumped, and I was past him and crouching to leap at his partner. But now the bastard was aware of danger, and he spun to aim his blow at me. I sidestepped and let Dee take over once more. The man's momentum threw off his balance, and, crouching low, Dee swept out his legs with one of our own. As he fell, she rose to meet him and caught him by the head. His own weight did the rest and I felt the horrible crunch as his neck snapped. I dropped him to the floor and stepped over to Lucy. The poor thing was still huddled in a ball in expectation of the belt and had seen nothing of the brief fight.
"Get dressed and gather up your things -- it's time to go," I whispered. At that moment I felt my ring heat, but even without this clue I knew Dee had 'stepped out', as it were. After long hours together, I felt a sudden aching emptiness at her departure. I was on my own -- and still a girl. Plus there was a certain amount of belated terror. I was soaked in blood -- I remember being glad both that it wasn't mine, and that it didn't show much on my lovely black pyjamas. I'd never liked knives much, which was paradoxically why I carried one. Now I tucked the ghastly thing in my sash and hoped I would never need it again. Trembling slightly, I then gathered up the still confused Lucy to wrap her in a heavy black cloak that had been thrown on the bed. Its previous owner no longer had need of its warmth.
Within a few moments, there appeared at the door ... me. It was Dee, of course, having assumed my old face and body to help reassure Lucy. This effect was offset by the fact she was dressed in ill-fitting pieces of same black armour as our attackers, partly concealed by one of their woollen cloaks over her shoulders. I watched Lucy go to embrace her missing lodger and then stop, as confused by the Black Mantle costume as I was.
Dee grinned at the two of us, and said in my voice, "We must go now, my lovelies!" She bent down to give Lucy a gentle kiss, and then took hold of my bum and steered us both towards the front door. On the way out, we passed the poor brute who had watched the door. He was still lying face down in the hall, but was naked now ... and sporting a black tail, owing to some ten inches of plumed dildo planted in his butt.
Dee filled in the details for me later that night. It seems she had coalesced as herself behind the groggy Black Mantle who was still sitting by the front door. Having picked up her unusual truncheon, she stepped naked into his line of sight. Whether dazzled or dazed, he answered her question as to how many men were with him - just the two we had already disposed of - and then she bashed him again. She then changed her form into mine and dressed herself in his clothes, for want of other apparel. When eventually he came fully to his senses, his only recollection would be of a small girl occasionally dressed all in black. What sort of story he would actually tell was anybody's guess.
At all odds, we three slipped past him into the street. Dee (as me, remember -- I've said this was confusing) reassured Lucy more extensively in a doorway when we stopped several streets away. This time when they kissed, there was a good deal of heat. Looking at the couple I realized that Lucy cared for her star boarder more than she had let on. Oblivious of me, she had one thigh rubbing into her hero's groin. It was only then that I realized that Dee hadn't bothered with trousers, so that her erect peggo was sawing against Lucy's leg.
I half expected them to couple right there in the street, but with a last quick squeeze Dee told the girl to follow me, as there was one more thing to be done. So, with what speed we could, Lucy and I returned to the Cat ... checking with care that we were not followed. By now it was past midnight. Once inside the door I remembered it was I -- as Dee -- who was in charge of the place, and so I ordered a very surprised Lance, who was still manning the door, to detail staff to fetch his 'Captain' Peter, and to then look after Lucy and find her a room. I sent her off with a hug, having reassured her that she was safe now, and told her to make herself at home.
I had begun to debate with myself as to whether I should get Peter to gather the lads and go back to cover Dee's retreat, when the man himself appeared -- Peter, that is. He began fussing over me -- God knows what he made of my bloody appearance, but he made no enquiries beyond ensuring I was unhurt -- and I found myself distracted by his strong jaw and his warm, concerned, no,
passionate
eyes ... He quickly stripped my bloody garments off me, and used his own shirt to towel me down before wrapping me in a fashionable shawl taken from the inventory of oddments left near the door.
In any event, I needn't have worried. Even as I allowed Peter to comfort me, Dee (still styled as Thornton, naturally) appeared with Lola and her girls in tow. Charlotte and the other girls were ashen, having glimpsed the latest massacre in Lucy's quarters, while the madam looked positively livid.
"My Lady," Dee said to me, "This is Lola. I've told her everything. How you hired a soldier-of-fortune -- that is to say, me," -- here she gave a little bow to our guest -- "to track down and stamp out the gang of beasts who have been attacking the working girls in this neighbourhood. Of course I apologized for my misjudgement in luring the blackguards to her house and putting her and her employees at such risk. I also conveyed to her your offer of restitution."
I tried to follow Dee's lead as best I could. "Thank you ... Thornton. And thank you, Lola, for coming."
"Didn't Have much bloody choice, did we? Seeing as your man sez that this 'ere gang will be sendin' even more of them bastards 'round. They just burst in the place and started to drubbin' poor Lucy. Got what was comin' to 'em, though. Fancy there being a bloody club of rapists." Here she paused, and gave Dee a nod acknowledging his efforts at making London safe. Then to me she said, "Anyways, milady, your offer to buy me out and to take on my girls at your own establishment was a generous one, I'll admit."
"You're very welcome," I responded, and meant it. I had a feeling Lola could probably now retire to Oxford with Rollo -- who also was due for a share in the swag.
When our new recruits were suitably re-united with Lucy, Dee gave me a wink and drew me up the stairway. When we reached our quarters, I was quite ready to throw myself on my back with my legs spread wide. I was seriously aroused, having been a woman for ... had it only been a day? I had been fucked all too briefly that morning, and had since been steeped in powerful urges, not the least being the unaccustomed flush of battle. I was positively twitching with unspent energy.
Dee was more inclined to leisure, and began by stripping off the oversized cloak and the black armour hidden beneath it. And the hot sudsy bath she'd called for was probably in order after that evening's work.
Once we finally set to, Dee managed to outdo herself. She orchestrated a symphony of teasing caresses, of galvanizing nibbles. When she entered me I was already aflame -- and then! As we approached the crescendo together, her body began to ... I was going to say shimmer, but that wasn't it. It appeared almost liquid, like a mirage. As did mine. Wherever we touched -- cheeks and tits, bellies and thighs - out flesh felt as firm as ever. But in the low gaslight it looked as though our flickering surfaces had actually merged. Except that she continued relentlessly to drive her cock into me. That was unquestionably hard. And the thing was that I could feel it -- not just that raging shaft plunging deep inside me, but from the other side, too. As before with Jane, I was sharing in both our orgasms as they grew. But now, I could feel