Interlude
My hand, as I lifted it, was still steady.
I felt the smile spread across my face.
"Ear to ear," I thought.
This cannot be a cure, can it? But of course, it can't. It's probably something psychosomatic.
I smiled as I thought of a T-shirt I got from one of the dozen specialists I had been to since I was diagnosed. "The body achieves what the mind believes," it read.
"Well," I thought, "if all it takes is the occasional strapping from my son, I'm good with that."
He was lying there, his lips almost touching my breast.
God, he looked so sweet, so innocent there. But then I remembered that feral, predatory look on his face as he swung the strap, experimentally at first, getting the feel of it.
But my hand wasn't trembling and I used it to brush a stray hair away from his forehead.
"Thank you, my beautiful boy," I said, smiling as I drifted off again.
Interlude Finis
When I woke she was smiling at me, lying on her side, her chin propped in her palm.
"You are a beautiful sight to wake up to," I said.
Yeah, it was flattery, almost automatic from me, but it was true too. She was disheveled. Her hair was a mess. Her makeup was mostly gone except for a bit of smeared eye shadow and mascara on one side. She tended to drool a bit in her sleep and the corner of her mouth had a little crust.
"And you are a wonderful flatterer," she said, giggling a little but kissing me when she said it.
I caught her hand, held it at the elbow, and watched.
"Steady as a rock," she said.
I grinned, kissed her, and used that leverage all of those hours in karate dojos had taught me to roll her onto her back.
I slipped inside of her, naturally fitting, no guidance with my hand or hers was needed. We fit. Hell, we matched, and she sighed, a deep sigh of relaxation, of contentment, and kissed me back when I brushed her lips with mine.
Our joining lingered. Our "I love yous" were whispered at first and louder as our mutual excitement increased. She cried "I love you" as she came, an almost gentle orgasm, our legs locked together, her fingers digging into my back, my lips kissing that soft place at the hinge of her jaw just below her ear.
I felt the tension slowly drain from her body, and I held still, letting my own body relax but staying hard inside of her.
We lingered like that, basking.
The monster in my head frowned, but he knew his time would come.
Mom's hand remained still for a week. I attended my classes and then, when I got home, would spend time in the basement, working on what I had dubbed in my mind the
Therapy Room
. It was coming along nicely I thought. I had built a pillory that would make the Puritans in colonial New England proud. The
Spanish Donkey
was under construction and coming along nicely. I had worked out the pulleys and cables and hooked up a small winch rated at 8,000 pounds, something with plenty of power to do whatever I wanted with her body. A small water line ran along the main beam where the pulleys were bolted and terminated right at the point where the cable made its final descent from the beam. I experimented and found that the water would, as I had hoped, follow the cable. I could see, in my mind's eye, how it would work, dripping down her wrists onto her head, adding a special level to her discomfort.
I smiled.
On one wall a board, painted bright white, displayed the collection of devices I was accumulating. The place of honor, center top, was reserved for that first switch she cut. The rest of the board included cuffs, a big coil of soft nylon rope, starter cord for power lawnmowers if you care, and, my personal favorite, a buggy whip.
The buggy whip was a thing of beauty, almost art the way the long braided, semi-rigid rod dipped with another foot and a half of braided leather. It rippled and flowed in the light. It drew my eye and drew my hand whenever I was down there and I was getting very good with it. I could hit a sticky note with it now, ten times out of ten, hard enough to dent the paper but not tear it. My dick got hard as I pictured the way it would raise little welts on her body when I used it.
I bided my time.
It was Wednesday, a week later, when she got home, with her shoulders slumped, obviously sad and upset.
Even as a student, I wasn't completely oblivious.
"What happened?" I asked, holding and kissing her, "Somebody die at work?" a real possibility since she owned that nursing home and she always took it hard.
"No, Honey," she said, giving me one of those wan smiles.
She pushed me away, looked into my eyes with tears running down her cheeks, and held out her hand.
It was trembling in that oddly rhythmic way I would come to hate.
I wrapped her in my arms and just held her while she cried. I said the sort of things you said in cases like that. "It's okay," I said although it, manifestly, was most certainly
not
okay. "I've got you," which was true. "Dave's here," another truth.
She pushed me away and I only caught a glimpse of her face, running mascara making dark streaks down her cheeks and clear mucus from her running nose hanging in a thick string from her chin, before she turned and went to the dining room saying, "Stay there."
The monster in my head started dancing with joy as I watched her carry one of the dining room chairs back to me. She placed it, carefully, in the middle of the room, came to me, and said, "Please, Honey, make it stop."
The monster danced and I said, "Stay right here," and went into the basement. From that rack where I was displaying my growing collection of discipline aids, I selected the
Slapper
. It looked like a black leather ping-pong paddle with a slightly overlong handle. I hadn't used it on her, hell, I hadn't used any of my toys yet, and my dick got hard as I took the handle in my hand.
Back upstairs, after carefully locking the door, I didn't want her to see what I was preparing until I was ready, I liked that she was still standing beside the chair, her head hanging,
I moved behind her and whispered, "Don't look at me."
My hands went around her and I found the button on her uniform pants. Her breath caught as I unbuttoned and then unzipped them.
"Don't look at me," I said again as I worked the pants down, just enough to expose her ass, the waistband of her panties just below her
gluteal sulcus
, that line where her ass met her thighs.
I moved around the chair and sat, watching her face, liking that she was obeying, her eyes were focused on a spot on the wall.
"Assume the position," I said and she breathed a deep sigh, I thought it was probably a sigh of relief, as she bent forward to lay across my knees, still fully clothed, even wearing her glasses and shoes, her ass the only thing exposed.
"Now," I said, trying for a pedantic, a teacher's, or maybe a doctor's voice, "this is a temporary fix but I think it will get us through until Friday night."
I caressed her ass, making her squirm a little.
"If you scream, I will stop," I went on, "and you will count. There will be ten strokes."
I dragged my fingertip very lightly up her asscrack and there was no reaction. Her sensitivity was blunted.