It was a few minutes before the end of Disciplinary Implements class, and Professor Lawrence was collecting the single-fall whips they’d been practicing with, while the students traded and graded each other’s targets.

Kristen and Zach had both succeeded in annihilating most of the center of their targets while keeping a full circle of unbroken paper around the edge. From what Kristen could see when she glanced to the side, most of the rest of the class had, too.

The way Professor Lawrence kept bouncing on his toes and glancing at the clock told her this was not the last order of business for the day. She hoped they weren’t going to have to spend the final minutes practicing on their lowest-scoring classmate while waiting for dismissal.

“One more week,” Professor Lawrence said with a slow grin, stacking up the targets as the class passed them forward. “Are you excited?”

“Yes, sir,” the class answered in unison.

Chastity chains clinked against the hard chairs of the classroom, as the trainees shifted restlessly. Kristen gripped the edge of her desk and tried to look as desperate as if she’d been completely denied for months, like most of her classmates, instead of days, counting from the last time she and Zach had been able to sneak off alone together.

She did not look at Zach to check how well he was doing at the same performance.

“One more week to wrap up the discipline module,” Professor Lawrence continued, “before we move on to the pleasure module.”

The restlessness intensified. So did his smile.

“Right, and, incidentally, that’s also when you’ll all complete your mandatory deprivation period, and become eligible to spend points on pleasure for yourselves again. In case anyone hasn’t been counting.”

This prompted a nervous titter, which Kristen joined in on.

“I hope you’ve all been using this time to save up,” said Professor Lawrence.

The reactions to this were a little more varied. Some trainees nodded proudly, others ducked their heads and examined their desks.

Kristen had racked up a comfortable hundred and twenty points before quitting the taste-blocking experiment, and she was looking forward to spending them on some targeted vibration when the big day came. Not spending them would only attract suspicion, after all.

“For those of you who’ve been especially good, there’s an opportunity coming up that I think might interest you,” said Professor Lawrence.

The class waited in tense silence.

“As you’ve probably come to understand by now, your officer mentors are not some kind of all-powerful rogue agents. They’re humble servants of the Bureau, just like you. And they’re all due for routine evaluation. For five thousand points, you can turn the tables for a day and be the one to conduct that evaluation.”

The room filled with breathless silence.

“For some of you, this will mean a chance to discipline someone who’s made the last three months especially hard on you,” said Professor Lawrence. “For others, it will allow you new ways to please someone you’ve been trying to impress. Or, it might just be a chance to get straight answers to any lingering questions you have for your mentors.”

Kristen’s desperate grip on her desk became suddenly sincere. Those hundred and twenty points on her chastity device’s counter suddenly felt pitiful.

“How many of you haven’t been quite as good as you’d like?” asked Professor Lawrence.

Kristen heard a forest of other hands rise into the air, along with hers.

“Good news, then,” said Professor Lawrence. “We have some VIPs looking to schedule their visits, and we have multiple openings for volunteers to act as skin girls, skin boys, and skin enbies for them. Point value for this service depends on the actual contents of the visits, but it averages in the tens of thousands. The upper record is over a billion. Any takers?”

Kristen shot her hand back into the air.

Fewer other hands joined her this time, some of them shaking with uncertainty, but there were still enough that Professor Lawrence had to take a moment to count them.

“Wonderful. Tap your tablets to mine on your way out, and you’ll receive the full instructions,” said Professor Lawrence. “Dismissed.”

#

“Not trying for the mentor eval?” Kristen asked Zach, who had decidedly not touched his tablet to Professor Lawrence’s.

“No, I’m not planning on doing an extra gross job for the Bureau, so that I can buy the honor of doing a different unpaid job for the Bureau,” Zach answered as they walked the noisy corridor back toward the barracks.

“Are you going to try to talk me out of it, then?” Kristen teased.

“If you want to do the eval session that bad…” Zach sighed. “I don’t get it. But you already know what I can give you, and it’s not that. So….”

He made an effort not to say anything for several steps.

“You do know what it means, right?” he asked. “Being a skin girl?”

“Of course,” said Kristen. “I mean, I know the basics.”

#

The visitor room Kristen was assigned to report to for skin girl service was significantly more comfortable than the standard ones she was used to.

Instead of a steel table and chairs, there was an actual bed, as one might find in a hotel, surrounded by couches, end tables, and a drink cart. An armoire stood open, displaying a selection of pleasure and punishment tools as if there were no concern at all of them being misused. The whole scene suggested long, leisurely evenings more than appointments in a federal office.

Kristen’s ID card had successfully opened the door, and no one else was there yet, so she settled onto one of the couches, turned on her tablet screen, and snuck in a few minutes of studying for her finals.

The next person to enter was Officer Deacon.

She was visibly startled when her eyes fell on Kristen. “What the hell are you doing here?” she hissed.

“I volunteered,” said Kristen. “Are you conducting the appointment?”

“No,” Officer Deacon answered through her teeth.

“You’re not the VIP I’m serving, are you?” Kristen asked, momentarily hopeful.

“No,” Officer Deacon repeated.

It took Kristen a moment to realize what possibility that left. “You volunteered too?”

“I have the right to earn extra points,” said Officer Deacon with a hand on her hip.

“No one said you didn’t,” said Kristen.

Officer Deacon sighed heavily and pinched her nose at the bridge of her glasses. “Okay, this is what’s happening, then. Just, hang back, I’ll take the brunt of it as much as I can. We’ll tell them you’re only here as an understudy.”

“No!” said Kristen. “I have the right to earn extra points too. I need them more than you do. Being a trainee doesn’t count as point-worthy work.”

“I gave you a way to earn extra points!”

“I want these points,” Kristen held her ground.

She left out the incentive of getting to perform Officer Deacon’s eval. Part of the fun would be getting to surprise her with an easier, friendlier meeting than she was probably expecting from her higher-ups.

“Why do you have to—?”

Officer Deacon’s question ended when the door opened, and another officer entered, holding the door for two men.

The first was tall, lanky, and dressed in a crisp business suit. He looked to be in his late forties, perhaps very healthy fifties. A goofy smile and springy step helped soften what could have been an intimidating figure.

The second almost made Kristen giggle with how nicely things were coming together. That one, close to thirty now and in a plain white t-shirt and jeans, was definitely Nick Holland.

Nick Holland had starred in about half of the blockbuster teen movies Kristen had devoured not too many years ago. The plots were almost all the same, all about Nick’s character growing up and discovering his self-discipline and respect for society just in time to save something, a town, a rec center, sometimes a planet, from seductive hedonists. Kristen’s favorite part had always been watching him take a gulp and deliver the final monologue, full of quiet strength and resolve. He could be far more seductive than whoever he was fighting, which, in retrospect, she supposed had been the intent.

If Nick Holland was one of the VIPs, Professor Lawrence really should have led with that when pitching the skin girl job.

“Make yourselves comfortable, help yourselves to the refreshments,” the officer told the men, gesturing them to the couches and drink cart. “These are the girls, Kristen and Leila.”

Officer Deacon nodded stiffly. Kristen waved brightly at the men, enjoying being introduced next to Officer Deacon as if they were equals.

“I hope they’re all you’ve been envisioning,” said the other officer. Vichy, her ID tag said.

Nick gave them both a faintly appraising look. His tall companion returned Kristen’s wave and said, “I’m sure they’ll both be lovely. Hi, girls, I’m Noah. You might know my client, Nick.”

“For this kind of visit, I’m mainly here to facilitate,” said Officer Vichy. “As soon as you gentlemen are ready, we’ll get you both unlocked and from there, your only job is to enjoy yourselves. The girls will, of course, stay locked up. Gents, you’re free to ask them for anything you want, so long as it’s possible and reasonably safe. Girls, you’re free to say no, but for every request you fulfill, you’ll receive twice the points you got for the previous one, starting from one. A refusal breaks your streak. As you can imagine, the most daringly-obedient skin girls, boys, and others can reap significant rewards, which is how we’re able to provide outstanding citizens such as yourselves,” she looked to the men, “with such an indulgent unlocking experience.”

“Yeah, we know, we’ve done this before,” said Nick.

“Great. We’ll get started then.”

On the wall nearest the foot of the bed, Officer Vichy slid open a panel. There was a screen behind it, much like those in the standard visitor rooms. Instead of displaying a glaring live feed of the room itself, this screen was divided into four columns, each with a name at the top.

Nick and Noah’s columns each showed a clock set to count down from two hours.

Kristen and Officer Deacon’s each showed a tally of zero points gained so far, with one point available next.

Officer Vichy passed the men a bottle of alcohol gel.

Noah unbuttoned his shirt, and Nick pulled his off completely so that they could both use the gel to remove their own pleasure-proof pasties.

Kristen openly watched Nick, taking in the close-up, living view of his upper body, more than she’d ever gotten to see in his movies. Nick didn’t look at her.

“I don’t know why we have to do this part every time,” he said to Noah while rubbing in the gel and waiting for the adhesive to release. “I never end up using my nipples anyway.”

“When I invest in a full unlocking, I like to get a full unlocking,” said Noah. “You can leave yours on if you want to.”

“Too late,” Nick sighed. “I’ve almost got… there we go.”

When the pasties were disposed of, Officer Vichy tapped a command on her tablet.

At once, the two clocks on the screen began their countdowns, and a pair of clicks announced that the men’s chastity devices were now unlocked.

“Have fun, gentlemen.” Officer Vichy took one of the individual cushioned chairs in the far corner, where she could watch and track the proceedings with her tablet without getting in the way.

“Ah, now that’s what I’m talking about,” Noah sighed happily, reaching down the front of his suit pants to slide the rigid steel cage off his cock. He pulled it out, chains trailing behind it, and set it on one of the empty end tables. In celebration of his freedom, he stood up from the couch and danced his hips around in a full circle before sitting down again. “Nothing like it.”

Nick stayed seated while he removed his own. Kristen had never seen someone get out of a chastity device so expressionlessly, not even Zach, who could do it at will.

She glanced at Officer Deacon, to see if the sight was equally strange to her. Officer Deacon answered her with a subtle eye-roll.

“I’m sorry, girls, you’re just standing there, being so patient!” exclaimed Noah. “Would you join us?”

Officer Deacon immediately nodded and tried to push Kristen toward the end of the couch nearest Noah. Kristen veered to the side and grabbed the spot next to Nick instead. Officer Deacon sat next to Noah herself and shook her head exasperatedly at Kristen as soon as no one else was looking. Kristen smiled sweetly back at her.

“Could you open that bottle of wine?” Noah asked Officer Deacon, pointing to the cart behind her. “Is that a shiraz? That sounds so good right now. Would you girls have a drink with us?”

It was not lost on Kristen how many requests Noah had slipped into the conversation already, more than he needed to. “Would you have a drink with us?” instead of “Would you like a drink?”

Just by sitting and accepting the glass Officer Deacon passed down the line to her, Kristen had already earned three points. Officer Deacon had earned seven.

Sticking close to Noah definitely seemed like the smarter strategic position, but Kristen wasn’t ready to regret her decision yet. She intended to get a reaction out of Nick before the end of the session. She would have bet points on it.

“So, tell us a bit about what brings you both here,” Noah asked, swirling the wine in his glass and taking a sip. “Obviously, it’s not — oh, that is good — it’s not about, uh, personal satisfaction, for you two. Or maybe it is? Maybe getting used and left locked is what you’re into. I don’t know. We’re certainly not ones to judge.”

Tell us. That was another request.

“Well, I’m trying to save up for something a bit special next week,” Kristen answered.

She took a sip of her wine. It was much smoother than anything she’d had the chance to try at illicit high school parties. After a few moments, a tingling warmth soothed away some of the tense anticipation in her chest. A second sip spread the warmth down to her pussy, dilating every blood vessel, and pointlessly waking her imprisoned clit.

“Ooh, what’s next week?” asked Noah. “Birthday? Anniversary?”

“It’s… the end of a mandatory lockdown, for me,” said Kristen.

“Mandatory lockdown?” Noah gasped happily. “Why? Have you been a bad girl?”

Kristen could not bring herself to tell a lie as big as “no.”

“It’s part of my empathy and restraint training,” Kristen skipped to the truth.

“That’s too bad,” said Noah. “I think Nick would have enjoyed helping to punish you.”

Nick shifted in his seat between them.

“Aw, he still can,” said Kristen slowly wrapping her arm around him, brushing fingers along the back of his neck as she went. “If that’s what he wants to ask for.”

Nick gave no voluntary response, positive or negative, though a subtle stripe of goosebumps followed her touch.

“I might have been a bad girl,” Officer Deacon volunteered seriously.

Kristen’s attention snapped to her.

“I didn’t mean to be, but I…” Officer Deacon paused to choose her words, “I’ve made some dubious choices, and some of them might catch up with me soon. If they do, I want to have a nice cushion of points to take away, rather than going into debt.”

“That’s some sensible planning, right there, if I may say so,” said Noah, clinking his glass to hers. “With a head like that on your shoulders, I’m sure you’ll come through it just fine, whatever it is.”

“Thank you,” said Officer Deacon.

Kristen couldn’t tell if her gratitude was polite or sincere. Either way, she didn’t share his certainty.

“So, not to, uh, put too fine a point on it,” said Noah, “but from what I’m hearing, neither of you are running off to buy yourself a more satisfying experience after we’re done here, are you? Even with all the points you’re going to earn, you’re not going to cum today. Or tomorrow, or the day after. Tell me.”

“I couldn’t spend points before next week if I tried,” Kristen stuck to the truth. “Not without sacrificing my career.”

“I’m saving everything I can until… around that same time,” Officer Deacon confirmed.

“Oh, I just love knowing that.” Noah put a hand to the erection developing under his suit pants. “Don’t you just love knowing that, Nick? I know you do. Just think about those lonely, caged-up pussies, so close to this action with no way to get to it.” He poked Nick playfully on the thigh. “No offense, girls. Just trying to get this one in the mood. His buttons can be a bit intense, and specific.”

“No problem,” Kristen assured him, though her clit was throwing a tiny claustrophobic tantrum at his words. “That’s what we’re here for today.”

“Kristen, would you do me a favor,” said Noah, “and put your hand down those baggy jeans Nick insists on wearing, to check how he’s coming along so far?”

Kristen glanced at Nick, trying to gauge his feelings on this prospect. He clasped his hands behind his head and looked back at her with what she could only guess was expectation.

Very slowly, giving him plenty of time to react, she set her glass aside and slid her fingers down under his waistband. She found his unrestrained cock still pointing downward, swollen just enough that she had to push the stiff denim out of the way to move it comfortably to the upright position.

“He’s on his way,” Kristen answered Noah’s question. “But I’ll bet he gets a lot bigger than this. What do you need, Nick?” she let her voice get husky, her breath brushing his ear. “Do you want to hear me tell you how much I want you in my pussy, before you fuck me someplace else? Because I do. I always have. That might sound like a line, but it’s you. You’ve given me orgasms just by existing before. If anything, I’ll be paying you back. Would you like to play with my breasts? See how they feel pressed together around your cock? Better for you than for me, but I won’t mind.”

His half-erection twitched once or twice while she spoke, but did not fill the way she would have expected.

“I’d like to see them,” said Noah. “And those devices. Would you let us unzip you?”

“Of course.”

Kristen withdrew her hand, turned away, and let Nick pull the zipper of her tunic all the way down so that the loose fabric fell away from the front of her. When she turned back toward the center of the couch, she stole a few seconds to look at Officer Deacon, closer to naked than she had ever seen her, sitting there in the same pasties and steel chastity device as Kristen herself.

“Beautiful, by the way, both of you,” said Noah.

“Thank you,” the women both replied.

“Now, these,” he pointed to Officer Deacon’s device, “these are Bureau standardized, I assume, just like ours?”

“Yes,” she answered.

“I’m a little less familiar with the, uh, mechanics of your version, obviously,” said Noah. “But without digital access, there’s nothing we could do that would get past these, right? No matter how we play, there aren’t going to be any unauthorized, uh, detonations?”

“In testing, locked devices have proven one hundred percent effective at orgasm prevention,” Officer Deacon confirmed, “not counting prostate orgasms, which neither of us is capable of.”

“Terrific,” said Noah. “In that case, would you pass me one of those vibrators I saw in the display there?”

“Which one?” asked Officer Deacon.

“Oh, you know, the big, strong, wand one.”

Officer Deacon got up from the couch just enough to reach it and passed it to him, with a quick demonstration of the on-off button.

“Yes, that is quite intense, isn’t it?” said Noah, testing it against his hand. “May I touch it to your cage?”

Officer Deacon nodded and then sucked in a breath as Noah ran the vibrating head of the wand across the domed steel plate that covered her clit. Her head tilted back, and her nipples pushed visibly against their adhesive covers.

“You’re sure this could never make you cum?” Noah asked.

“I’m sure,” Officer Deacon said, almost ruefully.

“Here, Nick, you try it,” said Noah, passing the wand along. “May he do that, Kristen?”

“Yes,” said Kristen, grateful for another request directed toward her.

Mechanically, Nick mirrored Noah’s action, running the vibrator from right to left along the front plate of Kristen’s device.

Expecting very little, Kristen vocalized with surprise at the sudden sensation.

“Would you describe what it’s like for us?” asked Noah.

“It’s, uh,” she struggled for words as Nick continued dragging the wand back and forth. “Well, my device bends outward around my clit, so that not even the device itself ever directly touches it. For, uh, exactly this kind of reason, I guess. But I can feel the vibrations all around it, everywhere the edges of the plate press into me for stability. It’s tickling the right nerves from the wrong ends. It’s like trying to capsize a boat in the middle of a lake by splashing from the shore. Once the waves reach my clit, they’re barely ripples. But they’re so close, just inches away.”

“Does it make you want to touch your friend?” Noah asked.

Kristen paused, trying to think through the vibrations and trace the source of the question.

“It’s just that you keep looking at her,” said Noah. “Are you friends? I shouldn’t assume.”

“We’re…” Kristen started.

Officer Deacon gave her a yes-leaning shrug.

“Yeah, you could call us that,” said Kristen.

“Great, that works out,” said Noah. “Could you two take off your pasties and just make out for a while? Take out some of that pent-up energy on each other, give us something fun to look at until Nick’s feeling ready to join in?”

Kristen looked to Officer Deacon to check the legality of this request, forgetting for a moment that Officer Vichy was supervising.

“Each of you may either spend six hundred points for two hours of unrestricted nipple access or decline and break your streak,” Officer Vichy informed them from the corner. “With your streak broken, your next act of compliance will return to a point value of one.”

Both Kristen and Officer Deacon checked the accounting screen.

They had each racked up two hundred and fifty-five points so far, with another two hundred fifty-six available for their next “yes.”

If they said yes to the pastie removal, that would put them at negative eighty-nine. If they didn’t get the chance to say yes again before the end of the session, they could end up losing points instead of gaining them.

As frustrating as it was to be pulled farther away from her goal, Kristen could cover the loss if she had to, without going into debt. She was willing to bet on earning it back by keeping her streak intact, instead of starting over at one.

“I’m in.”

Officer Deacon bit her lip, evaluating Noah with her eyes. Apparently deciding that he was unlikely to leave them in the red for the hell of it, she nodded.

#

The two women moved to a separate, adjacent couch and passed the bottle of alcohol gel back and forth between them as they stripped off the pasties. Kristen tried to focus on herself, lightly brushing her own nipples for the first time in months when they reached the open air.

She couldn’t completely restrain herself, however, from taking her first glimpse of Officer Deacon’s fully nude breasts, with the sensitive tips out in the open, completely unprotected.

Tentatively, when the pasties were gone, Kristen put her hand on the back of Officer Deacon’s neck and leaned in to kiss her, slowly, lingering on the softness of her lips before trying to figure out how to proceed.

Just like every time the two of them had kissed, all the nerves in Kristen’s body were buzzing with life.

Officer Deacon relieved her uncertainty, using one hand to cup one of Kristen’s breasts and the other to guide Kristen’s hand to her own.

Kristen found herself grinning like a goofball, almost too wide to go on kissing, while she learned the exact texture of Officer Deacon’s nipples, the hardness encased within softness.

“Use this, both of you,” Noah directed, handing Officer Deacon the vibrator. “Keep it going. Anywhere you like.”

Officer Deacon sandwiched the vibrator between their devices and sighed with relief against Kristen’s neck. With that act, their points were back in the positive.

That was the only kind of relief to be found, however. The vibrations radiated through both of them, surrounding and excluding where they wanted them most. As they touched each other, they formed an endless loop of tantalizing frustration, with no exit.

Kristen tried to manage the desire pulsing through her by channeling it into Officer Deacon’s skin, kissing, sucking, stroking, pinching, biting every bit of it from her mouth, down to her hypnotically responsive nipples, down farther to the impenetrable edges of her device.

Officer Deacon responded in kind, pouring attention all over Kristen’s desperate, hyperactive senses, compounding her arousal faster than she could redirect it back outward.

Kristen was so hopelessly lost in that cycle, she almost forgot to listen to the men’s conversation a matter of feet away.

“Would you look at that?” Noah was saying to Nick. “How could someone ever have a bad day while looking at that? I mean, I’ve been lucky enough to spend time with a lot of lovely skin girls, but the way these two commit themselves…. Do you think they’re actually into each other? Is it insulting to their acting talent, to wonder that, do you think? Or is it self-involved to look at chemistry like — my god, like that — and think, ‘Oh, they must be working really hard for my benefit’? I’d ask them, but I doubt they’d tell me if I’m wrong.”

“Shut up, please,” said Nick. “I’m trying not to be creepy here, okay?”

“Oh, say no more,” said Noah, sarcastically serious. “I’ll just stare sourly at them for the rest of the two hours like they’re doing the worst job I’ve ever seen. That’s sure to make them more comfortable than a little honest curiosity.”

“Dude, could you try to make this easy on me?” Nick asked, a strangled note of hurt in his voice.

“Oh, baby boy, I am trying,” said Noah. “You don’t even know. But you gotta give me something to work with, here. You gotta give them something to work with. You’re the one who wanted to give this another go—”

“I know, I know,” Nick groaned. “I do. I just… I thought I could look at them in their little cages, block out all the conversation, and fill in the blanks how I wanted in my head. But it’s not working.”

“Then stop doing it that way,” Noah advised. “You spent more points than most people will earn in a year to live out a fantasy for real. Stop trying to talk yourself down to a half-version. Stop trying to keep it in your head. Go over there, and tell them how to please you, so they can stop guessing. You’ll be doing everyone a favor.”

“What if I’m not?” Nick hissed. “What if they’re not okay with it?”

“Then we’ll have an incredibly awkward session full of half-assed compromise, which is exactly the same thing we’ll have if you don’t tell them. We could have avoided that risk completely if you’d just made yourself clear when we made the appointment, by the way, but I really don’t think you have to worry. You’re not half as weird as you give yourself credit for.”

“Fine,” said Nick. “Fine! Fine, I’m going to prove you right or prove you wrong, I don’t even care.”

“I think you do.”

A hand tugged Kristen away from Officer Deacon, away from the vibrations between them.

#

Nick led Kristen away from the others, toward the end of the room where Officer Vichy hunched over her tablet alone.

With some difficulty, Kristen refocused her mind on her purpose here.

Antsy and pent-up as she felt, she had to marvel at the type of day when a private chat with Nick Holland was the lesser of the two things she wanted to be doing.

“What can I do for you, babe?” she asked, stroking his shoulder as she centered herself. “I promise not to laugh.”

The more she could draw Nick out of his shell, the more requests she could rack up from him before the time ran out, and the more likely she’d be able to protect Officer Deacon from whatever harsh judgment she was anticipating next week.

Even if that hadn’t been a consideration, though, it was an irresistible challenge at this point, getting to the bottom of what made Nick Holland’s motor run.

Nick folded his arms tight around himself and spoke to his shoes, lacking almost all resemblance to the steadfast heroes he played.

“I want you to pretend you’re not one of them,” he muttered. “Or stop pretending that you are, whichever way it works for you.”

“I’m not sure I understand,” Kristen said gently. “One of what?”

“My fans,” Nick answered. “Those things you said, like, about how special I am and how you used to masturbate to me. I want you to stop saying stuff like that.”

“Oh,” said Kristen. “Sure. Sorry, I was just guessing. A lot of people get off on being lusted after for their accomplishments.”

“So, you’re not really a fan? That was all just part of the service?”

Kristen paused and smiled. “Do you really want me to answer that?”

Nick considered and then shook his head. “No.”

“What would you like me to be instead?” Kristen asked. She tried lacing her fingers together behind his neck, but his shoulders stiffened, and she withdrew.

“Something… something for me to use,” he said haltingly, through clenched teeth, as if the words were some horrible medicine, passing over his tongue in reverse.

“That’s exactly what I am,” said Kristen, reaching down to dig her thumbs into the crease between her device’s front panel and her skin, showing off how she couldn’t reach underneath at all. “You paid for a skin girl. A rented toy who can only give, never accept. Someone you can’t waste your sexual generosity on, even if you try.”

Kristen threw herself into this description, filling her voice with eagerly compliant sweetness, carefully watching him for any response, seeing less than she would have hoped for.

“That… helps,” said Nick. “But not…” his face burned with shame, “not if you like it.”

“Oh,” said Kristen, processing. “You want me to not want you?”

“I’m sorry,” said Nick, covering his blazing face. “I’m so sorry. It’s gross. It’s fucked up. It’s just the only thing that’s far enough away.”

“Away from what?”

“From women yelling things they want to do to me, things they want me to do to them, every day since my first movie,” Nick muttered through his fingers. “I know, I know, poor me, too many women want a piece of me, such a tragedy.”

“Your first movie?” Kristen repeated, dropping all filters from her voice. “Fuck.” She let out a breath through her teeth. “That’s too young, man. I get that. Believe me.”

“Don’t pity me,” Nick said sharply, taking a step back, even though Kristen had not reached for him again. “Fans do that, too.”

“Okay,” Kristen said neutrally. “I won’t.”

“And don’t ask me to play out any of my scenes.”

“Definitely not going to do that,” said Kristen.

“Don’t tell me I have a fuckable face, or ask me to pull you apart with a couple of cars.”

“Not a problem. What else?”

“I can’t… I can’t list all the things.” Nick’s breathing was quick and shallow. “I can’t even fuck a locked-up skin girl who’s nice and friendly and good at her job without feeling like a prop in someone else’s fantasy. Everything is like something some of them do, or ask to do. Everything except….”

“Disinterest?” Kristen finished.

He nodded. “Jesus fucking Christ, why couldn’t I just develop a drug problem like everyone else? I’m so sorry.”

“It’s okay,” said Kristen. “I can be disinterested. What kind? Am I a terrified damsel pleading for mercy? A divine goddess appalled to be lowering myself to acknowledge such a worm?

“No,” Nick shook his head. “No, way more disinterested than that. Treat me like I’m the most— no, the third most annoying person you’ve had to interact with all month. If it weren’t for the points, you’d rather be doing almost anything else instead of serving me, but at the same time, it’s no big deal to you, nothing you can’t handle. You’ll forget me the moment I leave the room.”

“Specific,” said Kristen. “I like that.” She paused. “I mean, I couldn’t give less of a shit about that. Let’s start over. Officer?” She looked to Officer Vichy. “Can I verbally resist his requests and still have you count it as obedience, if it’s to give him a better experience?”

“I’ll allow it, as long as the requests are ultimately fulfilled,” said Officer Vichy. “I’m counting this change in attitude as a single request, by the way, so your streak stands at eleven.”

Eleven. Kristen stole a glance at the screen. If her math was right, she only needed two more answers of “yes” in a row to afford the eval, even after the pastie cost. Everything beyond that was a bonus.

“No, wait,” said Nick. “I need… I need to know…. This thing,” he pounded his chest, indicating the bundle of neuroses wound tight inside it, “I need to be sure I’m not passing it on, letting it spread and hurt someone else. If you’re serious—”

“If I’m serious about saying no, I’ll say ‘seriously,’” said Kristen. “If I say anything other than that, you’re good to go. That work for everyone?”

Officer Vichy nodded.

“Okay,” said Nick. “Yeah, I think so.” He smiled faintly, for the first time since he’d arrived. “Thanks.”

“Sure, whatever,” Kristen slid into character, letting Nick’s sullen, guarded posture seep into her, and out of him. “What was your name again?”

At this, he actually laughed for a fraction of a second, before stuffing the sound down under a new kind of seriousness, more artificial than the one that had come before.

“Get back over there and join the party,” he ordered her, pointing back to the couch where Officer Deacon was now slowly stroking Noah’s freed cock, while they both sipped their wine.

“Uh-huh, in a minute,” said Kristen, turning to look for where she’d left her tablet.

Nick stepped forward, wove his hand deeply into Kristen’s hair, and paused a moment. Kristen grabbed his wrist in both her hands, pretending to try to pull away, actually preparing to transfer the force from her scalp to her arms when he made the next move he obviously wanted to.

Once her grip was secure, Nick yanked her off her feet and dragged her across the room.

He plopped himself down into the seat next to Noah and pulled Kristen over his lap by the hair.

“Jeez, impatient, much?” Kristen huffed at him, as if this happened every day, or at least every week or two.

“Lie there and take what I give you.” Nick brushed his hand over her ass in warning, exposed by the open back of her device.

“Fuck you too,” said Kristen, struggling ineffectively against his grip, careful not to scratch him. After all, he had just ensured her the eval.

Nick brought his hand down hard, though not nearly as hard as Kristen had grown accustomed to from her disciplinary implements training.

Officer Deacon raised an eyebrow, and Kristen flashed her a brief thumbs-up.

“Nothing more to say?” Nick asked.

He hit her again.

“Ow!” Kristen complained, fairly convincingly if she did say so herself.

“Shut up and suck,” said Nick, pushing her head toward Noah’s sizeable erection. “I don’t want to hear you whining about the next ten.”

“Oh, Leila’s doing a fine job,” said Noah. “I don’t need… ah, hell, why not?”

Kristen lowered her mouth onto Noah, all the way to the back of her throat, and prepared herself to take the rest of the spanking that way.

Nick slapped her loudly.

“Oh, my, that is a thrill, isn’t it?” said Noah, while Officer Deacon moved on to rub his closest nipple instead. “I can feel her tense up—”

Slap.

“…each time. Her jaws want to clench, but she’s—”

Slap.

“…being so good, holding her teeth open for me.”

Slap.

It was a challenge, new and trickier than Kristen would have expected. As relatively mild as the pain was, she had to fight a deep startle reflex with each stroke. After the first one, she realized how glad she was that Nick had given her a number to expect.

Slap.

It didn’t feel like a good idea to move as much as she usually would, or to suck too hard since that would increase the pressure pulling her mouth closed. Instead, she held a rigid position and left the work to her tongue, flicking it against his shaft the way she’d click it against the roof of her own mouth.

“Oh,” Noah sighed. “That’s good. I’m going to be asking you for the recipe later if you don’t mind.”

Slap.

“His dick’s a lot easier to please than mine,” said Nick. “You shouldn’t let him flatter you.”

Slap.

In spite of his words, Kristen could feel Nick’s cock poking into her side, fully alert at last. She let herself smile on the side of her face he couldn’t see.

Nick picked up the pace on her last few slaps and pulled her upright.

“Bend over the bed, both of you, opposite sides,” he said, nodding to Officer Deacon. “I’m ready, and I know you are,” he said to Noah.

“Well, I, uh, yeah, I guess I could be,” Noah agreed, a little disoriented.

He set down his drink, grabbed a bottle of lubricant from the cabinet, and followed Officer Deacon over to her side of the bed.

“Ugh, do we have to?” Kristen sighed.

Nick shoved her forward over the other side so that her head landed right next to Officer Deacon’s. Accepting the lube bottle from Noah, he applied a layer to himself and dripped a little of the cold, thick fluid down the crack of Kristen’s ass.

“Can’t I just suck you?” asked Kristen, as Nick lined up the angle. “You don’t know what you’re missing.”

Nick drove his way in, setting off now-familiar waves of pain and hyperarousal. The break Kristen’s body had gotten while she was discussing Nick’s tastes was over, and instantly she was as charged up and restless as she had been while playing with the vibrator.

She did her best to disguise a moan of sensation as a grunt of annoyance.

“Maybe we should get our appointments separately from now on,” Noah said in a measured voice, as he slid himself much more cautiously into Officer Deacon’s ass, stroking her back and watching her carefully for hesitation.

“What?” said Nick. “Why would you say that to me right now? You told me to ask for what I wanted.”

“I know,” said Noah, “and I’m proud of you. But I also have to think about what I want. And, frankly, rudeness is a bit of a mood-killer for me.”

“Says the man who’s been hard the entire time we’ve been here. The man who’s having sex right now while picking this fight with me, without breaking stride. You don’t even know what a mood-killer feels like!”

“Just because I’m functional enough to make the best of things doesn’t mean I wouldn’t prefer a nice, courteous slow burn.”

“So,” Kristen whispered to Officer Deacon, “they’re totally into each other, right?”

Officer Deacon let out a sharp breath through her nose that was probably a snort of agreement.

“Do you think Nick would need this much help getting in the mood if it were just the two of them?” asked Kristen.

“Shh,” Officer Deacon spoke into the blanket under her face. “We’re not in a position to solve that one for them. Not today.”

“I’m not trying to solve it, I’m just talking shit,” said Kristen. “Sorry, the attitude’s harder to turn on and off than I thought.”

“What was that?” Nick asked them.

“Nosy!” Kristen scolded him.

Nick pulled her upward by the neck.

“Ow! I was just saying what a drag it is when a visitor has to go and fuck my ass like this,” said Kristen. “It’s practically a cheat. It doesn’t even take any skill or effort to make my clit so hard it hurts.”

“It hurts?” Nick asked, thrusting into her extra deep. “Right now?”

“Like a stomach ache from hunger,” said Kristen. “Like a swollen muscle that twinges when you try to massage the knots out. Even if I could touch myself right now, it might be too late to enjoy it. I’m going to be all sore for days, upfront and in back, for what? For you? Oh, right, and a fuck-ton of points.”

She laughed, and Nick let her drop roughly back to the bed.

“It really is sore,” Kristen whispered to Officer Deacon.

“Good!” Officer Deacon hissed, though she clasped Kristen’s hands in hers with undisguised warmth. “I hope you realize how lucky we got today. You have no idea what some of these VIP sessions are like. This is a cakewalk.”

“You’re not going to convince me to regret this,” said Kristen.

“You didn’t need to take this kind of risk,” said Officer Deacon. “Not at this point in your career. Not like me.”

“You’re going to be okay,” said Kristen. “I promise.”

“How could you possibly…?”

Kristen felt the element of surprise slip through her fingers, and let it go with a shrug.

“Oh,” said Officer Deacon. “Oh, no. No.”

“I promise,” Kristen repeated, squeezing Officer Deacon’s hands fiercely.

“Are you comforting each other?” Nick teased. “That’s about all you can do, isn’t it? Comfort, but not pleasure.”

His voice was getting vaguer, less coherent, and closer to the edge. He shoved Kristen farther forward, leaning over her and stretching his hands toward the middle of the bed.

Noah mirrored him, pressing his still-clothed abs against Officer Deacon’s back. There was a catlike coyness to the motion as if it might be a complete coincidence that he happened to feel like leaning forward at that exact moment.

Nick and Noah’s hands rested outside of Kristen and Officer Deacon’s, fingertips millimeters apart.

They got no closer than that before Nick gasped, and Kristen felt the warm pulse of fluid gush into her. He collapsed on top of her.

“Thank you again,” he murmured, sounding faintly forlorn but not bitter, soft inside and out. “I mean it.”

“No problem,” said Kristen, running her thumb tenderly along Officer Deacon’s knuckles.

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