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- "Alas, Eschiatos" Part Iby Frank T. Gilson@END_FILE_ID.DIZ
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- The waves of brownish water washed up against the old boat
- launch. They brought bits of garbage and the occasional dead fish.
- The pollution had gotten to the point where you really didn't have to
- worry about seeing that anymore; No more fish.
- I can almost imagine one of them. A fish, lost, perhaps
- wandering, moving in from the ocean and into the bay. Then, disoriented
- by the chemical spills, deliberate dumping, and poisoned runoff it
- swims here, then there, ending in this side channel. Almost like an
- unprotected man running through the city streets as the acid rains
- rip at his exposed flesh, searing his eyes.
- Enough morose thoughts, the task at hand was to try to convince
- the harbor authority to dredge the channel for a body. A body I knew
- had to be there. I'd been told about it.
- * * *
- "Agent, I... I don't want to waste your time."
- She was pretty, for a street kid. Too bad she hadn't been born
- in the right place. She'd be studying something supposedly important
- in some supposedly good high school right now if she had.
- "I can't pay you for any information you might supply. That's
- currently against the law."
- I hate stupid laws. This is one of them. They keep making it
- harder for me to do my job. When I need information, I have to dig
- for it. Sometimes I have to tear it loose.
- "I... I saw something... I don't want any trouble."
- She looked around, suddenly frightened. I walked two steps
- over to my car and opened the passenger door.
- "Get in, miss. We'll go somewhere safe. Don't worry, I'm
- trained to serve and protect."
- I figured she'd respond to the strong savior type, the kind
- of policeman that had long vanished from these streets. She got into
- my car. I glanced around casually and walked to the driver's side door.
- It opened, I keep waiting for it to betray me, I have that irrational
- fear about machines.
- "I'll take you to the Federal Building. We'll use a conference
- room. It will be completely confidential."
- At a push of a button the car started up. When the rains had
- finally gotten out of hand we switched to electric cars; some weak
- attempt to make amends. Maybe if we'd done that earlier things would
- be better.
- I pulled away from the curb.
- * * *
- "I don't care who you are! We can't get a massive piece of
- equipment in here on short notice just 'cause you say!"
- The harbor authority man wasn't cooperating. He wanted what
- everyone else wanted: Good pay, Little work. I put my hand on his
- shoulder. I squeezed. I enjoyed myself.
- "Under the federal agent empowerment act of 2019 I am justified
- in making certain demands. This is one of them. I don't have time to
- have my people talk to your people."
- He squirmed. Good thing he didn't know the law. With a cold
- stare and a steel grip I backed him up to the wall.
- "You can help me... or hinder me. It's your choice. I could
- help you out. Think about it."
- I pulled a wad of money out of my trenchcoat. I always made
- sure it was never more than a couple of hundred. I put it in his
- jumpsuit's breast pocket. He smiled.
- "That's more like it, mister. I think I could divert a
- dredger in here. What exactly did you say you wanted to find?"
- * * *
- The girl and I arrived at the Federal Building. I remember
- when it had been new construction. I was a small boy. It was the
- tallest building around. It had shone with the glow of sunlight off glass
- and steel. Now it wasn't like that. Yes, it still towered above most
- other buildings. No, it didn't shine. Before being coated to resist
- the more virulent, recent, rains, it had been pitted and pockmarked
- by hard years in the open. Whole beams of steel were blackened. Like
- a monument to our new society, it thrust, unclean, up into the smog.
- "I'm going to drive us into the parking facility. We'll
- exit the car and immediately enter the elevator. Once inside the
- building, match my pace and follow me from behind my right shoulder.
- Do not say a thing, and don't make eye contact with anyone."
- She looked startled; and puzzled.
- "But... this is where all the fedcops are. I don't understand."
- Oh my, not just pretty, not just a street kid, she was
- fairly naive as well. This was going to be fun.
- "Look, just because someone's a fedcop doesn't make them
- clean. If you follow my instructions implicitly, no one should
- remember exactly what you look like."
- Her eyes widened and she drew back from me.
- "What... What if you're not clean?"
- I chuckled, probably unfair of me but I liked the reaction
- it drew. I put a hand on her shoulder and smiled.
- "Then you are already dead. But trust me, you have no
- other choice."
- I got out of the car, walked around to her door, and let her
- out. She followed me just as I'd asked. We got to the most central
- elevator and I selected the twelfth floor. My desk was there,
- with a hopefully unused room nearby.
- The elevator rose uneventfully, no one else got on. We
- left and moved, through a sea of desks, to mine. Only a few
- agents were there. We didn't draw too many stares.
- "Sit in the chair while I get a visitor's pass."
- She sat down, facing the desk. I leaned over her left
- shoulder and activated my terminal. After the retinal scan the
- command line came up. I keyed in a request for the pass, then
- checked to see if a nearby conference room was available. I
- found one and had the computer key the palm plate on the door
- to that room for my print only. The printer soundlessly activated
- and the visitor's pass was soon finished. I picked it up and
- fastened it onto her shirt, just above her left breast.
- "Now follow me. We can talk privately in a room near
- here."
- * * *
- "I need the dredge so I can find a body. I have information
- that places it here, in this channel."
- The harbor authority attendant smiled again. He probably
- got a kick out of the whole thing. Dredging up this body would
- make his whole week.
- He punched up a code on his belt terminal, summoning a
- dredge. It would probably take a few minutes. I drowned out his
- mindless chatter about sports teams with thoughts about what
- that body would look like. About a week in this water wouldn't
- do anybody any good.
- Those few minutes later the dredge slowly moved towards
- us. It just fit into the channel, but then they were designed for
- that. It had a huge suction tube that could touch bottom. It
- had large, rotary brushes to stir up the muck and a screen to
- stop larger items, like bodies, from being sucked into it.
- "Here's your dredge, mister. Where do we start?"
- I though back to what she'd said.
- "Start dredging about ten meters before this boat launch,
- and dredge until about ten meters after."
- * * *
- I walked to the empty conference room with her following.
- I pushed my hand against the palm plate, opening the door. I
- motioned her in ahead of me and took a last look around. No one
- was paying us any particular interest. The lights had come on
- with the opening of the door. I dimmed them somewhat. I can't stand
- illumination that's too bright.
- "Sit down here, miss, and see if you can tell me why
- you contacted me."
- She sat and shifted uncomfortably in her seat. I stood
- in front of her chair, just a few feet away.
- "I... I saw somebody get killed. The word on the street
- said you were the guy to call, that you care about the law. I
- figured I'd probably get found, and found is killed."
- She looked into my eyes as she said that last bit, trying
- a sympathy play. I don't normally fall for that, but when a pretty
- girl who doesn't have a home to go to does that, I listen.
- "You've gotta take care of me, agent. I can tell you
- where the body was dumped, who he was, and who dumped him. What
- can you do for me?"
- She wasn't as naive as I had first thought. These days
- everyone was looking out for number one, even naive girls.
- "You can stay in my apartment until I sort all of this
- out. With the information you give me I should be able to make
- some arrests."
- She smiled at the mention of my apartment. She leaned
- forward in the chair.
- "I suppose you want more than information from me? Or
- do you feel that your apartment is the only safe place?"
- I had to laugh. Sure I was attracted to her, but even I
- hadn't consciously thought about using her for sex. I began to.
- She was frowning.
- "Would it be so bad to fuck me... agent... Don't think
- I don't know what I'm doing. You learn a lot, fast, out there."
- Her hands moved up from her lap to her jacket. She arched
- her back and slipped it off her shoulders, displaying her breasts.
- I admit I'm a sucker for a good pair of breasts. I was hard and
- ready to go right there. I decided to see if she was serious.
- I put my hands under her arms and lifted her up onto the
- conference room table. I spread her legs apart with one of mine and
- moved into the space between them. My hands slid, almost by
- themselves, down to her breasts. She moaned, and eyes closed,
- leaned back supporting herself against the table with her hands.
- "Ohhh... yes... touch me there. Protect me and I'll do
- anything... Ohh... anything."
- I liked the sound of that. I slid a hand down from breast
- to abdomen, from abdomen to crotch and began to work on her cunt
- through her pants. She wrapped her legs around me as best she
- could and thrust up against my hand.
- "Fuck me... Strip me and FUCK ME..."
- At those words I almost lost control. I usually don't but
- something about her, about the place we were in, made me. With the
- hand that was fondling her breast I ripped her flimsy shirt off
- her. She gasped and opened her eyes. I used that free hand, moved
- behind her back, to pull her closer. My mouth found its way to a
- nipple. I bit her.
- "Ow... No, stop, don't hurt me like that!"
- She pulled away, arms covering her breasts, an angry look
- in her eyes.
- "If you don't like it, you can go back out on the street."
- I never apologize. I'm perfectly capable of realizing I
- did something wrong and avoiding it in the future, but I never
- apologize.
- "You wouldn't do that. I'd be killed!"
- I reached out and grabbed a leg by the ankle and pulled
- her to me. I grabbed the other ankle.
- "I'll try not to hurt you again. Now what was it you said
- about doing anything for me?"
- She forced down her anger and gave me a half hearted smile.
- She took her arms away from her breasts and leaned back again. I
- pulled her legs apart and drew her farther forward. Her pants
- had a simple velcro closure. I knelt down and pulled it open with
- my teeth. Stepping back, I pulled them off her. She was finally
- revealed to me. She could use a good bath. Some make up and hair
- styling would do wonders, but all of the potential for beauty was
- there. I moved forward, put my hands on her hips, and knelt down
- again. I licked her pussy. She jumped. I took this as an
- invitation to dive right in.
- I pressed my shoulders against her thighs as I slid my
- hands up to cup her breasts. I licked her outer lips, then paid
- some attention to her clit.
- "Ohhhh.... Oh God.... I can't... I can't stand it!"
- Her hips started to try to buck up in rhythm with my
- licks, but the way I had her thighs pinned she couldn't really
- move. With one hand I started to pinch and twist a nipple. I
- brought the other hand down to assist my mouth. As I licked her
- clit I slipped my middle finger into her pussy. I thrust that
- finger in and out, in and out. I stopped licking her clit and
- looked up at her face. She was smiling for real now. I got back
- to work.
- "If you like this, little girl, how about this!"
- Pulling my one finger out, I thrust three into her. I
- started gently nibbling her clit. I pumped my fingers in her
- as fast as I could.
- "Uh... Oh... I'm gonna cum... I'm cumming!"
- She started to shake and she lay back against the table,
- legs around my head. Her juices flowed freely over my hand. I
- slowed and stopped as her orgasm subsided, pulled my fingers out
- of her, and put them up to her mouth.
- She eagerly licked them clean, not meeting my eyes. I
- unzipped my pants and dropped them to the floor. My cock bulged
- against the restraint of my shorts. They quickly went the way
- of my pants. I slid her back a bit on the table and got up on
- it, kneeling between her legs. She wrapped them around me. I
- grabbed one of her wrists in each of my hands and leaned
- forward until my full weight was pressing down on her and her
- arms were pressed to the table, back behind her head.
- "Stick it in me! I know you want to... God, fuck me...
- Please fuck me!"
- She wasn't pretending now. I slid into her. It was like
- sliding into velvet. It was as near heaven as this sorry soul
- would ever likely get. I moved forward and back, not sliding
- much out of her but using a rocking motion, grinding hard against
- her clit and her hips. She moved with me, not a passive observer
- but a willing participant. Her breasts, nipples hard, pushed
- against my chest.
- "Oh yes... Oh God... Oh yes... Oh godddddddd"
- I silenced her with my mouth, my tongue searching out
- hers. We sparred, tongues fighting one another. I bit her lip,
- not too hard, but I bit it and held it between my teeth. I
- began to slide part way out of her and then slam back in. As
- I did that I slowly chewed her lip.
- "Mmmmmmm.... Oooooooo...."
- The way her back was arching, by the look in her eyes,
- I knew she'd cum soon. I wasn't ready to cum yet but I had
- another plan. I drew back from her face, letting her lip go,
- because I wanted to see her eyes when she came. I wanted to
- see that look.
- "Ohh, Ohh, Ohh... Ohhhhhhh Yessss."
- She shuddered as she came, pushing against me, clasping
- me hard with her legs. I released her wrists and sat up, sliding
- out of her and moving back off the table. She lay there, contented.
- "I'm not finished with you. Turn over."
- She looked startled.
- "Wha... What?"
- I grabbed her ankles and turned her over. I pulled her
- back until her hips were even with the table edge. I slopped
- up some of the pussy juice that had pooled on the table and
- wiped it on her asshole. I slipped a finger inside her ass.
- "No, I don't want it like that. I've never had it back
- there. Please don't!"
- I chuckled. She'd come this far. Surely she didn't
- think I would stop until I was finished. I removed my tie
- and used it to fasten one of her ankles to a chair. I tied the
- other using the remains of her ripped shirt.
- "It won't hurt. Trust me. You said 'anything', remember?"
- Seeing her tied like that gave me an idea. I took my
- pants and tied one pant leg around her wrists, behind her
- back, and the other pant leg over the light fixture. She was
- slightly suspended off the table.
- My cock was still slick with her juices. I pushed the
- head of it gently against her ass. She was tensing up. I got
- nowhere.
- "Relax or I will hurt you. Ease up, get used to it."
- To get her in the mood again I started rubbing her
- clit. I slipped a couple of fingers in her pussy. After
- she started moaning again I pulled out the fingers and slipped
- them in her ass, pushing in and pulling out. When I judged she
- was ready, I positioned myself again.
- I slid the head of my cock into her ass. Slowly, inch
- by inch, the remainder of it went into her. She groaned, she
- twisted in her bonds. I stopped playing with her clit and slid
- those fingers into her cunt. With one hand on her hip steadying
- her, I thrust in and out, in and out.
- Her ass was tight. Her pussy had been velvet, this was
- steel. With each thrust I could almost feel myself getting harder.
- With each thrust she let out a gasp. With each thrust I pumped
- my fingers into her pussy.
- I could feel my orgasm building. I could feel the cum
- boiling in my balls, the pressure threatening to make them
- burst. With a yell I let loose inside of her, hot torrents of
- cum flooding her insides.
- Totally spent, I slipped out of her and sat down, my
- head in my hands, trying to recover some composure. I got
- up and untied her. I put my clothes back on and motioned for
- her to do the same.
- "But my shirt is ruined! Somebody'll see me!"
- She couldn't be modest, not after fucking me like
- that, someone she didn't know at all.
- "Wear my suit jacket over your jacket. That'll cover you.
- You still haven't told me what I brought you here to tell me."
- I tapped a signal into the wall terminal for a cleaning
- droid to come clean up our mess. I took the tape recorder out
- of my trenchcoat pocket and turned it on.
- * * *
-
- Part II
-
- The dredge whirred and slowly moved forward, water and
- fine muck shooting out the back. They usually put a tube on it
- to carry the stuff away, but we didn't need that now.
- Meter after meter it crept along, searching for that
- body. It had to be there. Any moment now and it would be found.
- The dredge operator stopped his equipment's movement
- and signalled that something had gotten trapped up against the
- machine's screen.
- * * *
- "The body was dumped into the channel that runs behind
- Bringham street. Two men I saw before backed their van down
- the boat launch there and dumped it in. It was weighted down."
- She wasn't looking too happy. I put a hand on her
- back and used my other one to brush some hair out of her eyes.
- She smiled.
- "Tell me who was doing the dumping, and who the stiff
- was."
- She reluctantly started speaking again.
- "Two local guys, Johnny Smoke and Carter Evans, did it.
- I barely saw the face on the body. It looked like our ward boss."
- I wondered who had hired them to do it. Had they
- participated in the actual killing? Was he dead before hitting
- the water? One thing was certain, if not, then he was dead
- quite soon after.
- I brought up the room's terminal and punched in data
- requests for any records on those two men. Where I had met her
- was near the channel. That was Ward Fifteen. I punched in
- a request for information on the ward boss.
- "For the record I need you to give me your name."
- We'd fucked and I didn't even know her name. This was
- as good a way as any to find it out. She got scared and clammed
- up.
- "I can't do anything about this unless I have a record
- of clear evidence. That record needs to be substantiated by
- your name. I've said I'll protect you and that this is all
- confidential."
- The printouts I had asked for started coming up. I
- tore them from the slot and took a look.
- "My name... My name is Chelsea Brown."
- I turned off the tape recorder and put it away. The
- two men had minor criminal records, they were simple thugs.
- The name of the ward boss was Eschiatos Abel. He had recently
- squelched rumors of scandal and misappropriation of funds.
- I looked at the face that now had a name. I looked at
- Chelsea Brown. I held her in my arms. I kissed her cheek.
- "Everything will be alright now. I'll find the body
- and have those two guys picked up for questioning. Let me
- take you to my apartment."
- She got up out of her chair. I folded up the printouts
- and put them in the pocket with the tape recorder. I went and
- opened the door. She followed me out. We went to my desk where
- I keyed out of the conference room. I began to think about
- the situation; about the potential involvements of other political
- figures. I decided to pursue things semi-privately until I had
- something solid.
- We walked to the elevator and took it down to the
- parking facility and got into my car. I started it up and
- drove us out into the smog induced perpetual twilight.
- * * *
- The harbor authority man signaled to the dredge
- operator to close up the dredge and rotate the screen assembly
- to face upwards. As it did so I thought about Chelsea. Why
- was I thinking about her? She wasn't in front of me. 'Out of
- sight, out of mind' failed with her. Why?
- The screen portion of the dredge was facing up. Both
- of us walked over to the side of the channel for a look. It
- was there. In all its glory it was there. The naked body of
- Eschiatos Abel saw the sun once more. Eaten away in places
- by chemical waste, at least it was fairly intact. It was
- intact enough to stand as proof of criminal action. I got out
- my portable phone and called the Agency to file an on-site
- report and request a forensics team.
- * * *
- My apartment was in a pretty good part of town. I'd
- taken over the lease from my parents when they'd retired. The
- owners of the building had recently renovated it and raised
- rents. They wanted a better class of clientele. It was pitched
- as a haven for upwardly mobile, young, single types. I surprised
- them by being able to keep paying. In their eyes I was scum. At
- the very least, I was single scum.
- I parked and got out of the car, then let her out. I
- walked us around to the back entrance. I didn't want much
- attention. We took the stairs. I was only on the fourteenth floor
- and everyone else usually used one of the elevators.
- I looked back at her as she climbed. She was starting
- to sweat. I guess she didn't do a lot of stair climbing. She
- took off my suit jacket and unbuttoned hers. This gave me a
- view of her cleavage as sweat slowly trickled down it. I
- stopped and turned around.
- "Why did you stop? We're not at the next floor yet."
- I went down a step, the one just above hers, and put
- my hands on her shoulders, grasping her jacket.
- "We still have seven floors to go."
- I lifted the jacket up and back, revealing her breasts.
- I put my hands on them. My thumbs worked her nipples, my fingers
- kneeded her breasts.
- "Not here... Ohh... What... What if someone sees us?"
- I sat down on the step and pulled her into my lap,
- replacing my hands with my mouth. I licked a nipple, then spoke.
- "I don't fucking care if someone sees us. I want to
- fuck you, so I'm going to."
- I had my hands on her hips. I told her to stand up.
- She did and I removed her pants, pulling them down and off
- as she lifted each foot. With my hands back on her hips I
- kissed her pussy. I used my lips like teeth to pull on her
- clit. I licked my tongue deep into her.
- "Ohhhhhhh... I don't think I can keep standing!"
- I put an arm around behind her and leaned her back,
- most of her weight now resting on it. My other hand I brought
- around to help with her cunt. As I sucked and blew on her
- clit I put three fingers in her and moved them around, not
- in and out, but a circular motion. She started to shake.
- "Ohhh... Mmmmm... Gonna... Gonna cum... Yeah..."
- She did cum, gushing. I sucked up every drop I could,
- some dripping down and off my chin. I kept supporting her
- as I pulled off my pants and shorts with one hand.
- "Sit down, take me into your pussy."
- I helped her down and guided myself into her. Again
- I felt peace as her moist velvet surrounded me. I put
- both hands under her shoulders to help her move up and down.
- My mouth worked her breasts, alternately sucking and nibbling
- one nipple, then the other.
- "When... When you're in me I... I feel so safe"
- I wasn't one to fall for comments like that. Other's
- actions influence me, not words. But I didn't fault her for
- it.
- I slowly stood up. She wrapped her legs around me
- and moved back and forth. I put her against the wall, partly
- resting on the railing, and drove in and out of her. I
- covered her mouth with mine and sought her tongue with mine.
- She eagerly answered, meeting me in her mouth. Her small
- hands grasped the folds of my coat.
- I moved a hand down to cup her ass. I slid a
- finger into the crack there and into her asshole. She exploded.
- She bucked and shuddered and came. I kept thrusting, pulling
- back and thrusting. Her head pulled back from mine and
- she gasped for breath, eyes closed.
- "Ohh yeah, fuck me, fuck me hard... Ohhh... Yes"
- I was close to cumming, but I didn't want to yet.
- I slowed and stopped. She opened her eyes. I gazed directly
- into them. I brushed her hair back from her sweaty brow
- and kissed her there. I pulled out of her and lowered her
- to her knees.
- "I want to cum in your mouth. I want you to suck on
- me and swallow my cum."
- She took the base of my cock in one hand, cupping my
- balls with the other. She started by kissing the head of me,
- then slipping it into her mouth, giving it a bath in her
- saliva, using her tongue.
- "That's right. That's good."
- Then she took more of me in, bobbing her head back
- and forth, giving me short pulls on my cock with her hand while
- gently tugging my scrotum. She'd done this before. I could
- tell. I was going to cum. She slowed down, stopped playing
- with my balls, and stopped pulling me. She was going to
- prolong this.
- She slipped me out of her mouth and kissed her way
- down me, still holding on with one hand. She took my balls
- into her mouth and slowly sucked on them. She soon let them
- go and kissed and bit the ridge of flesh behind my scrotum.
- She pulled her head back and again confronted my prick. With
- one gulp she took almost all of me into her mouth as she
- slid a finger up my ass. That was it. I couldn't take it any
- more. I was done. It was over. I came.
- As my cum flowed into her mouth she pumped me with
- her hand and sucked, drawing out every drop, swallowing every
- mouthfull. I felt drained and leaned against the railing.
- "That was so good, Chelsea. I'm going to enjoy protecting
- you very much."
- I stepped back and pulled up my pants, picked hers up,
- and threw them to her.
- "Let's go. Seven more flights of stairs left."
- * * *
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