Revenge - Chapter 27

Revenge

By Karen Singer

Chapter 27

“Hello?”  Just being able to say that one simple word Monday morning was a tremendous relief to Steve.  He didn’t know how the witches had accomplished it, but that curse of theirs had kept him behaving partially as a dog, and partially as a man all weekend – and much of the time it had been totally like a dog!  Especially while Diane had been there.  He still couldn’t get over that, not to mention all the kinky bondage gear she had.  He never had any idea!  She was…really wacked out!  But there was no doubt that her stay had also been one of the most epic love making events in history.  The woman just didn’t quit!

Once his shower had been taken, he faced his underwear drawer.  He didn’t even hesitate as he selected one of his new bra and panty sets and a lacy garter belt and stockings to go with it.  The damn witches had told him he had to wear them, and they were just too powerful to defy. 

Who would have ever believed they were witches?  And who would have ever believed how powerful their magic could be?  Not him.  Not anymore.  The things they kept doing to him absolutely defied belief!  And the part that worried him just as much, was the future, because obviously they didn’t act like they were done tormenting him yet.

But tonight….  Tonight after work, he was finally going to get his gun.  The gun he should have been able to get last Friday.  And once he had that gun…  Pow!  Pow!  Pow!  Pow!  Monica, Carla, Diane, and Ruth!  Four dead witches coming right up!  He was going to save the world from their evil.  Unfortunately, he realized that since he’d rather avoid prison, it would be better if he found some way to kill them without anyone knowing about it.  Which was a pity, because he was going to be a hero, and nobody would ever know.  Unless he just shot them all the first time they started messing with him again – which was not only what he had planned on doing, but was also most likely what he was going to do. 

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Susan had been on pins and needles all weekend.  She hadn’t heard a single word from Karen.  What had happened?  She had spent a good bit of time putting together her recommendations for Monica’s little witches spell ceremony.  Had something gone wrong with it?  What had been the results?  Had Steve somehow overpowered Karen?  Had he harmed those women? 

It wasn’t until Susan got up out of bed on Monday morning that she found an all too brief message from Karen. 

Fantastic weekend.  Total blast.  Completely exhausted.  More tonight.  We need to be careful though.  Steve is more determined than ever to get that gun that he bought, and he’s bound and determined to shoot Monica and the rest of the women too! 

That was all Susan got, but she felt very relieved.  She couldn’t wait now to hear the details.  But the part about Steve being so determined to shoot Monica was very troubling.  Karen would stop him of course.  There was no question there.  But what if somehow Karen couldn’t stop him?  As unlikely as it seemed, there were no absolute guarantees in this at all.  Susan knew she was going to have to hope for the best. 

So what had gone on all weekend that had Karen so exhausted and kept her from contacting her?  Having no answers from Karen, and knowing that most likely it could be later in the day or even later that evening before she heard from Karen, Susan did the next best thing, she emailed Monica and asked how things went. 

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It was the middle of the morning by the time Monica got Susan’s email.  She immediately wrote back:

Sorceress,

It all went great!  I don’t know how you did it, but we were all totally amazed by the results – especially poor Steve.  How do you do it?  How can you do what everyone knows is impossible?  What other things can you do to him?

Monica

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Susan got Monica’s email a short while later.  She wrote back:

Monica,

What I have done to gain control over Steve is complicated beyond measure.  Everything I do with him on my end is very complex and takes a lot of time, thought, and effort.  I’m sorry, but I won’t tell you more.  Please just be aware that there are some things I can do with him, and many things I cannot.  As much as it seems otherwise, my powers are still very limited. 

This last weekend was my idea to give you some kind of demonstration of what I can manage.  If we’re sharing Steve, then it’s now your turn.  What would you like to do?  If you need me to do something on my end, please just be aware that I can’t make things happen immediately.  It usually takes me a day and sometimes more before I can set these spells in place on Steve. 

So how shall we play with him next?

The Sorceress

Just before lunch, Monica showed Diane the Sorceress’s latest email.  They decided they should meet with all the women and discuss it after work…right after they had Steve show them what frillies he was wearing that day.

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Steve “endured” two different underwear checks in the morning – from Carla and later Ruth, who was more concerned with finally seeing the underwear she had been told about since she hadn’t been there when Steve had bought it.  Later in the afternoon, Steve had to endure underwear checks again from Carla and Diane.  And after work, he found himself down in the shipping department, lowering his pants in front of all four women, while Diane took more embarrassing pictures of him.  But the entire time he was doing it, he had only one thing on his mind – getting his gun so he could kill them all. 

Steve’s latest humiliation in the shipping department didn’t last long however, and he was soon in his car heading straight to the sporting goods store.  He was very much afraid that somehow Monica’s magic would prevent him from getting the gun.  But he went into the store with no problem.  He picked up his gun permit with no problem.  And he walked out of the store with his new gun and plenty of ammunition with no problems at all. 

He went straight to the gun club to try out his new toy.  Two boxes of ammunition later, he was in love with his new gun.  As far as he was concerned, it worked like a dream…a dream of killing witches. 

That night, after Steve fell asleep, Karen was up and typing a lengthy email to Susan, describing in detail her entire weekend.  She also took particular care telling Susan that Steve now had his gun and that he was more determined to kill all four women than ever. 

After sending the email, Karen anxiously waited for an answer from Susan, telling her what to do about Steve.  It was nearly half an hour before she finally got something back.

Karen,

I need to think about this situation more.  Are you sure you’re up to preventing Steve from hurting anyone, especially if he has that gun?  Please call me if you have even the slightest doubts. 

Karen was sure she would have no problem controlling Steve.  She had proved it many times in the past.  She just didn’t like guns.  They made her nervous.

She wrote back:

Susan,

I’m sure I can control him with no trouble.  I just don’t like guns.  Even when Steve is doing the shooting, I’m still afraid of them.

Karen

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The next morning, when Steve left for work, he was wearing another of his new bra and panty sets, another of his new garter belts and stockings, and his new gun was hidden under his sport jacket.

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All night long Susan considered the implications of Steve having a gun now, especially in light of how determined he seemed to be about actually killing Monica and her friends…and that included Diane who evidently had spent a rather unbelievable time with Steve for much of the past weekend.  But even knowing that Karen felt she was completely up to the task of controlling Steve, Susan was still very worried.  Something could still go wrong. 

She absolutely felt she had to warn Monica and her friends about Steve.  She opened her email program, and was surprised to see a return email in her box from Monica.  But it was earlier in the day where they were than where Susan lived. 

Sorceress,

We discussed what to do next with Steve last night, but couldn’t come to any conclusions.  We do have another question though that hopefully you will be able to answer.  Evidently, it was something you did to Steve that night he first took me out and I discovered what underwear he was wearing – and evidently he really did have no knowledge of it.  Like everything else you’ve shown us so far, it’s rather unbelievable, but now we know it must be true.  Since then, we’ve all noticed that except for this past weekend, you’ve attacked Steve by trying to make him more feminine, or as Diane says, more of a sissy. 

I’m afraid that I too have pushed Steve in this direction, mostly because I thought he was really interested in those things and I had wanted to use those inclinations to punish him.  I now realize that I was wrong in that assumption.  But still, we have all enjoyed teasing Steve with his new underwear and other things like that, and it still seems a perfectly logical direction for us to continue. 

Our question is this, is there a reason why you seem to prefer that direction for punishing Steve?

We wanted to ask and make sure before we reached any conclusions as to our next course of action here.

Thank you,

Witch Monica and her coven

Witch Monica…and her coven?  Susan actually laughed out loud.  Still, it was nearly as apt as she herself using the Sorceress.  Witch Monica…and her coven.  Her mind could just picture all the women standing around a witch’s pentagram, lit only by candlelight.  They would all be dressed in black, perhaps with pointed black hats on their heads.  She could just see poor Steve tied up in the middle of their pentagram while they chanted spells and curses around him.  It was so…so….

She went no further as an idea struck her.  She needed to get ready for work.  She would be late if she didn’t.  But she didn’t move as she tried to picture something…tried to figure out exactly what she was considering…and tried to figure out if she really was considering it.  Mulling all too many things over in her mind, she forced herself to get ready for work, but her mind never stopped working. 

If they actually did what she was considering, she felt it stood a good chance of preventing Steve from ever actually trying to harm anyone ever again.  It would be difficult.  It would be dangerous beyond belief.  But in the state she was somewhat sure Steve had to be in just then, she was also fairly sure that it really might work.  If…the witches went along with it.  And she wouldn’t blame any of them for saying no.  The danger factor was…unthinkable. 

She waited until she got to work before she emailed Monica back.  She waited, because she wanted to be absolutely sure she really wanted to even suggest such an idea to them.  But in the end, she did sent her email:

Witch Monica…and dear friends,

I can answer your question, but I also bring very troubling news, and an even more troubling suggestion.

First of all, to answer your question, I have gone this direction because for as long as I have known him, Steve has always been too full of himself.  He has always been too proud of his masculinity, and he honestly believes himself to be God’s gift to women.  All women!  He has always used that masculinity to his advantage, and I’m afraid, to the disadvantage of many others.

There is another reason I have gone this direction with him as well.  It is simply much easier to force him to humiliate himself this way than trying to make him do other things.  More on that I cannot say.  I’m sorry.  Simply trust me that it is so.  But in this direction, I believe we can do very powerful things with Steve.  And trust me, you don’t know how much it thrills me every time I can take Steve down a peg or two.

Now, I’m afraid I have some disturbing and troubling news.  I found out late last night that Steve did go and get his gun.  And worse, he is intending on shooting not just you Monica, but all of your “witch” friends as well.  Please rest assured that I have taken firm steps to make sure he can harm no one!  But as confident as I am of the measures I have put in place, I know there are no absolutes in life.  For this reason, I would like you all to be extra careful.  I do not wish to see any of you come to harm, especially not from the hands of a degenerate like Steve.

If you are interested, I have come up with a further plan to deal with Steve and his gun.  But please consider it carefully.  It is a dangerous plan for you no matter how you look at it.  But if it works, I believe we have a very good chance of completely preventing Steve from ever trying to pick up another weapon to use against someone again, or from ever trying to physically harm anyone in any way – ever!  I will detail my suggestions below.  If you are interested, then please remember that it will take me at least another day to arrange my end of things. 

Either way, as I said before, I AM fairly confident in the safety measures I have already taken with Steve.  He may carry his gun, but as to using it, hopefully he should find that to be nearly impossible.  I would simply feel better about things if we took this further step – to make sure he knows he can never do such a thing again.

Susan followed with a lengthy description of what she wanted to do, including reiterating all of her concerns.

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Monica read all of the Sorceress’s lengthy email.  And it scared her.  If someone as obviously powerful as the Sorceress was concerned about Steve, then Monica felt she had a good reason to be concerned, if not downright scared as well. 

It was nearly half an hour before she found Diane and could show her the email.  At Diane’s suggestion, Monica called Ruth.  “Ruth, I’m sending you an email from the Sorceress.  Can you call Carla, and can we meet in your office right away.  This is important.  Deadly important!”

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Steve was feeling better and more confident with each passing hour.  He had his gun hidden in his desk drawer for now, but he wasn’t planning on keeping it there.  With the boost in his confidence, he managed to concentrate on his work better than he had in days. 

None of the witches had bothered him even once yet that morning.  Of course, he had stayed at his desk working all morning, but that didn’t always stop any of them from stopping by and demanding to see what panties he had on that day. 

Just knowing that his gun was close by, ready for him to grab and use it at a moment’s notice, kept him confident and made him feel stronger and more in control than any time in the last few weeks.

  

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Monica read the Sorceress’s email out loud – all of it.  Including exactly what the Sorceress had suggested they do. 

“We knew he had bought the gun.  Now we know he’s got it,” Ruth noted.

“But it’s the fact that he actually wants to shoot and kill all of us that has me worried,” Carla exclaimed.

“And me downright scared,” Monica added.

“Me too,” Diane agreed. 

“We’ve been playing games with someone who’s very dangerous,” Monica said to them.  “Much more so than any of us thought.  And I already knew he could be dangerous.  Look what he did to my apartment!”

“Okay ladies,” Ruth said.  “As of right now, we need to suspend all his underwear checks.  At least until we get this all sorted out.”  There were nods of agreement among all of them.

“And what about the Sorceress’s suggestion?” Carla asked.  “What do you all think?  She says she’s confident that what she’s done will be good enough to protect us.  What do you think?”

Ruth shook her head.  “I’m not sure what to think.  I only know I’ve seen her do some truly impossible things…and for the life of me I can’t figure out how.”

“That’s for sure!” Diane agreed.  “And like Carla said, she does seem pretty sure that whatever she did to him will keep him from hurting us.  But at the same time, she was still worried about it.  I’m not sure what to think, except that now I’m worried about it too.”

“I hate to say it,” Monica said, “but as strange as it seems, the Sorceress hasn’t yet done anything to steer us wrong.”

“It is possible though that this could be something she’s doing to…get rid of us all – permanently!” Carla suggested.

Ruth shook her head.  “I doubt it.  As Monica says, believe it or not, she’s been pretty straight with us so far.  And I have a feeling this Sorceress is a pretty smart cookie.  I don’t know what kind of job she has, if she has a job, but she seems to be pretty smart.  I’m wondering if maybe we shouldn’t listen to her.”

“Really?” Monica asked skeptically.  “Did you read that?  Did you see what she wants us to do?  What she wants me to do?  Because it would be more dangerous to me than anyone else!”

“Of course I read it.  I read it thoroughly before you all got here,” Ruth replied.  “But I also read the precautions she suggested we take.  And I think if we do like she says, then maybe it just might work.  You’ve got to admit, no matter what, it’s going to make one hell of an impression on him.  And I think the Sorceress could just be right.  Do that to him, and there a good chance he’ll never try to hurt anyone ever again – with or without the Sorceress’s magic.”

The room was quiet for a few moments as the women all considered that.  “You really think so?” Carla asked.

Ruth nodded.  “Yes.  I do.”

“So you want us to…and me to…do all that?”

Again Ruth nodded.  “I think it might actually work.”

Monica nodded.  “As much as I hate to agree, I think it might work too.  If nothing else, it should scare the hell out of him.  I’m just not sure if it will scare him more than me.”

Carla put her hand on Monica’s shoulder.  “You can do it Monica.  You’re strong.  Tough!  And one hell of a powerful witch!”

After a moment, her comment actually brought laughter from all of the women.

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Steve got the call from Diane shortly before he went to lunch.  There would be no need for him to come down to the shipping department after work that day.  They were much too busy.  Steve was very happy about that.  Now if he could just keep them from bothering him with any more panty checks for the rest of the day.

He looked at his desk drawer where his gun was hidden.  It was almost a pity.  He could have shot them all tonight after work and then been done with them all forever.  But soon now.  He was sure of it.  Very, very soon.

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Susan got the email from Monica just before she went to lunch.  It was on.  The women were actually going to try it.  Susan took a deep breath.  She had a lot to figure out between now and later tonight.  A lot! 

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Late that night, after Steve had gone to bed, Karen was on the phone with Susan.  It was a long and instructional phone call.  A call that planted things deep into Karen’s mind.  But even longer was the time Susan spent planting things into Steve’s half of their shared brain.  Because the things she planted into Steven were far more critical than the simple things that Karen would have to know.

An hour and a half later, Susan hung up the phone.  She had done everything she could.  She had even come up with a new spell for the witches to chant and had emailed it to Monica.  Now it would all be up to Witch Monica…and her coven.