Okay, I made a few minor changes, words I didn't like, minor typos, stuff like that. Please post this version. I can't believe I'm allowing this to be distributed. Oh well, no guts, no fun. Maybe people will enjoy it. Le Chevalier Captif a different kind of Gwen story by Jennifer Greenbury Lackey Nicholas woke to find himself chained to his bed. Quite solidly chained, too - I had ordered the chains especially for this purpose. You see, after we had made love, Nicholas had fallen asleep in the age-old way that has irritated women for centuries. I, however, was not irritated, but delighted, for this was exactly my plan. I got up quietly and retrieved a bag filled with various toys I had brought with this in mind. I slipped on a skin tight minidress and a pair of high leather boots. Checking myself in the mirror, I looked every inch the dominatrix. I laughed quietly to myself. Wouldn't Nicholas be surprised? And he was. After chaining him carefully so as not to wake him and seeing that he was securely fastened, I took a stiletto knife out of my bad and studied my captive, trying to decide where to begin. Wake him first, I decided. I put the knife to his throat, exerting just enough pressure to wake him. "Wake up, Nicholas," I whispered in what I hoped was a threatening tone. He started reflexively at the knife at his throat, and found his limbs chained. "Don't bother to test them," I said. "I've made certain they are strong enough to hold you. You've been a very naughty boy, Nicholas. Very naughty indeed. Now you're going to pay for your sins." "Gwen," he began. "Silence!" I hissed at him, cutting his cheek in a flash, very shallowly. The cut sealed itself almost immediately, but I could see by the shock on his face that it had its desired effect. "You will address me as Mistress, do you understand?" He was apparently stunned into inarticulation. "Do you?" I repeated, running the knife over his bare chest, making another shallow cut, this time very slowly. "Yes, Mistress," he finally managed. He was trembling, and his erection was enormous. I thought my masochistic chevalier might enjoy this. I certainly would. I continued making shallow cuts on his chest, licking the droplets of blood away as the cuts closed. He moaned and writhed beneath my tongue. I looked up at him; his face was luminous with ecstasy. "So," I whispered, "I'm no longer your sweet courtly lady, am I?" "No," he whispered back. "You are my harsh mistress, the avenging angel come to punish me for my sins." The talk had aroused him even more. "And you sins are terrible aren't they, Nicholas? Centuries of horrible sins," I whispered into his neck. He shivered and moaned, "Oh, yes. Sins blacker than the night itself." I reached up to the tender inside of his arm, and cut deeply, pressing my lips to the wound and drinking. He gasped at the cold knife, and then at the pleasure of my taking his blood. I took only a bit, not wanting to deplete his strength too quickly. His blood tasted vaguely of cinnamon, and was aswim with visions of his guilt. And visions of how I would make him pay. I took one of these images as the template for my next activity. I set the knife down, and picked up a cat o'nine tails. I stood over him, letting the tension build for a moment and enjoying the sight of this handsome man, completely helpless and at my mercy. I smiled coldly at him, and swung the whip, raising welts on his chest which quickly disappeared to be replaced anew as I lashed him again. With each lash, he moaned and writhed, obviously trying not to cry out. "Oh you'll be screaming soon enough, my pet," I whispered in my most menacing purr. "You'll beg for mercy before I'm finished with you. But I'm feeling a little short of mercy tonight." I whipped him harder, and a tiny scream escaped him. I let the whip connect twice more, and then set it aside. Let him rest for a moment, I thought. I was thirsty and I had brought my own provisions, knowing that I'd find only cow blood at the loft. I went downstairs and found a glass, and returned. Nicholas' erection had softened a bit in the interim, as I had hoped. I found what they refer to as a cock ring in my bag, and slipped it onto him before he realized what had happened. Then I opened a bottle and poured the glass full, standing close so he would be certain to smell the distinctive scent of human blood. I drank the glass down, and poured myself another. He was becoming aroused again, as I had anticipated. I took another drink from the glass, then dipped my finger in it, and ran it over his lips. He knew all my bottled blood was bought from blood banks under pretense, rather than taken from kills, but he had sworn off human blood regardless of its origin, and I knew this was a cruel torture. I could see him fighting the urge to lick his lips. I leaned down and kissed the blood away, licking the corner of his mouth where a drop had run. "I am a cruel Mistress, am I not, Chevalier?" I whispered over his lips. "Oh, yes Mistress. Have mercy on me, though I do not deserve it," he moaned in reply, to which I laughed cruelly. "Mercy? For you? No, my beautiful chevalier, you will find no mercy at my hands tonight." I ran my hands lightly over his body, working my way down to the inside of his thighs. He was quite hard now, and the ring was biting in painfully. I leaned down and bit the inside of his right leg viciously, and took a long drink. He screamed in pleasure and pain. I was becoming quite aroused, and decided I would take my pleasure of him. I straddled him, hiking my short skirt up to expose my bare cunt, and lowered myself onto his hard member. He gasped as I moved up and down on him, but he was unable to come because of the ring. I moved faster, the ring adding extra stimulation. I felt myself nearing the point of orgasm and I stopped moving for a moment, listening to the ragged sound of Nicholas' breath. "Shall I allow you to come, Chevalier?" I whispered. "Please, Mistress. I beg you, give me release." He was truly begging now, but he didn't sound desperate enough, not yet. "No, I don't think so. You don't deserve it, and you certainly aren't contrite." With that, I began moving again, and he began to moan loudly, almost shouting. I thrust myself harder and harder onto him, my own moans beginning to harmonize with his. After a while, I halted again, touching his face and looking into his eyes. "Well, Chevalier?" He could barely speak, he was so overcome with the need for release. "Please, Mistress. I am well and truly sorry. I beg you, take pity on me." I smiled at him. "Oh, my dear, you can certainly do better than that." I lifted myself off of him, and then thrust downward, as he arched his back and gasped. I moved faster, my own orgasm drawing very close, and then I stopped yet again. By now he was weeping with frustration, as he begged, "Please, Mistress, please. Take it off me, I beg you. Anything else, any other torture, but if I can't find release soon I'll surely explode. Mistress, please be merciful." I laughed, lifted myself up, and ripped the ring off him, as he howled in pain. Then I thrust myself back onto him, hard and very fast, until we both came, he shouting in French, and I probably in Irish, I don't recall. I lay on top of him for a few minutes, and then unlocked the chains. I rolled over beside him, and he turned and kissed me, holding me tight to him. "You're full of surprises," he said. "Perhaps it will be your turn next." I kissed him passionately, and laughed. "It will take a bit more than those baubles to hold me for true. But I just might happen to have something that could suffice." "I'll bet," he said. "Oh, by the way, you've called in sick to work today." I grinned at him. "Oh, I have, have I?" he chuckled. "Yes, the criminals of Toronto will have to do without you. There's someone more important who needs incarceration." I licked his neck, and then sunk in my fangs, drinking deeply as he opened a vein in my wrist and sucked. We drank our fill and then were quiet for a moment as we waited for the room to stop spinning around us. "Gwen?" he asked. "Yes, beloved?" "What else do you have in that bag of yours?" "Ah ... Take a look for yourself and see." I giggled, as he rummaged around. I was sure that he would take his revenge for the little trick with the blood. I could hardly wait. lackeyj@indiana.edu "Just watching the dark" - Richard Thompson Any resemblance between graduate students and the living dead is purely coincidental ******************************************************************