I developed this story from an idea sent me by "ledatwo" back on 23 August 2005. I hope it will prove worth the wait. WHAT GOES AROUND.... by C. Lakewood Valery Lewton hummed a tune as she gathered up her purse and headed for her front door. A glance in the mirror reassured her that, though she appeared very casual -- even slightly scruffy -- it was an attractive look on her (and made her seem considerably younger than her 34 years). Vassar sweatshirt, faded jeans, worn sneakers...comfortable and so very practical for rooting through flea markets, "junque" shops, and thrift stores -- to which she planned on devoting most of the day, after she finished with that damned corporate physical her new job -- VP of Marketing -- required. She was fairly itching to spend more of that large increase in salary that she was about to receive. On her way out to her car, a sleek new BMW, Val glanced at her watch. "More than enough time to get there. It's godawful to have to be out and about this early on a day off, but I WILL have the rest of the day for more interesting things," she said to herself. She beamed at her lovely car, then frowned as she remembered that it was somewhat less than lovely now, since some goddamn maniac had dinged her door panel, twice, yesterday. The outrage she had felt at this hooliganism came rushing back. The day was definitely beginning badly...and it went downhill fast, as she slid behind the wheel only to find that the battery was dead. (In her fury, yesterday, she had apparently neglected to turn off her lights.) When she phoned AAA, her call was answered by what must have been Mortimer Snerd's stupider brother, and, after finishing with him, she was absolutely livid. But she was in an even fouler frame of mind by the time the serviceman FINALLY showed up, did his thing, and left. When she finally arrived at the corporate offices, she found that a reserved parking space had not yet been assigned to her and that she had to park among the ordinary worker bees, further endangering the condition of her car. Of course, she was much too late for her original appointment, but the lead nurse, Dorothy Denton, promised to try to accommodate her. That didn't do much to mollify her, however, and she fumed at the further delay as she filled out the usual medical history questionnaire. When she turned in the form, the nurse asked her if she would prefer to wait -- as a sort of standby -- or if she would rather come back the following day. "Neither!" she replied, her accustomed arrogance rising. "My appointment is for today, and I expect to be seen today...AND in a timely manner. I simply will not hang around this...'place,' waiting for a handout." "Alright," Nurse Denton said, evenly. "I'll go ask Doctor." As she walked away, she glanced at the form Val had completed. "'Marketing,' I might have known," she thought. "Those people have no real skills, so they rely on kissing up to those above them and bullying those below. Like what my daddy always said about the French: 'They're either on their knees or at your throat....'" Tapping her foot impatiently, Val looked about her with some distaste. "The Graceland school of interior decoration," she thought, disdainfully. Then her eye fell upon the doctor's framed diploma hanging on the wall...made out to "Franklyn Stein." She snorted, a bit surprised that it had been issued by Rutgers, not the University of Visaria. She rolled her eyes and vowed silently to send a memo to HR about this pit. "I'm sorry," the nurse said on her return. "Doctor's much too busy the rest of the day to see you. But, since it's a standard exam, I could handle it, if you don't mind." "Are you competent?" "Oh, I've done it hundreds of times." "That isn't what I asked," Val rasped. "Then...yes, I AM competent to handle it." The nurse mentally gritted her teeth. "Oh? And where did you go to college?" "I didn't.... I went to the Jeaudeau School of Nursing." "Indeed?" Val put a monumental sneer into that single word. She shrugged. "Oh, very well," she sighed, theatrically. "Anything, I suppose, to get it over with...and get out of...here." Dorothy somehow managed to hold her institutional smile. "Room 3, down the hall. I'll be with you in a moment." Though Dorothy Denton may have looked innocent enough, in a pretty, blonde, girl-next-door sort of way, she had a clever, salacious, and vindictive mind and the willingness to use it. She didn't pursue a vendetta often, but, when she did, she gave no quarter. When her patient had truculently marched down the hallway and disappeared into Room 3, Nurse Denton turned to her two subordinates, Stella (a lanky brunette LPN, aged 40) and Georgie (a petite 23-year-old with a dark pixie-cut and an impish grin). "What a bitch!" Dorothy growled. "Well, I'm just not going to stand for that crap. Georgie, remember that mock questionnaire we all worked up for the April Fool's party? Print me out a copy, ASAP." Stella pursed her lips. "Are you sure...?" "Absolutely!" Stella shrugged. "Just checking." She giggled. "Should be fun." Georgie was already bent over the PC. ****************************** A few minutes later, Dorothy walked into Room 3, a clipboard in her hand and a supercilious look on her face, to find Val waiting with obvious irritation at the delay. "Oh? Still dressed?" Dorothy said. "Please disrobe." "Where is the gown...the dressing room?" "There is no dressing room available, I'm afraid, and we've run out of gowns. Please don't dilly-dally further." Seething, Val self-consciously stripped down to bra and panties. "Everything," Dorothy prompted. "You need to be naked." Val did it, but she certainly wasn't happy about it. "These petty little tyrants, lording it over their inconsequential fiefdoms," she thought. "They need to be taught a few lessons -- and I'm just the one to do it...starting with this arrogant bitch here. Well, I'll play her goddamn game, NOW, because I don't want to prolong it by arguing. But, afterward, HR is going to hear all about how I'm being treated...." The cold tile under her bare feet made her toes curl. Dorothy looked her up and down, noncommittally. "First, we need to get your height and weight, Ms. Lewton. Unfortunately, this scale here is defective; we'll have to use the one in the reception area." Before Val could mount a protest, the nurse had hustled her out into the public area of the office. Much to Val's relief, there were no patients in the waiting room. Still, that could change at any moment, and she was acutely aware of her nakedness and her exposed position as she stepped up onto the hospital scale. "Hmmm," Dorothy said. "You seem to be 5'7" and 147 pounds. Georgie, would you come here and verify that, please?" Grinning, the girl sauntered over and confirmed the numbers. Dorothy grimaced. "You really could stand to lose some weight -- 15 pounds or so," she said to Val. "Do you ever exercise?" Val was flabbergasted, but Dorothy treated it as a rhetorical question and moved on. Still standing in the tacky little waiting room, she efficiently took Val's blood pressure and checked her eyes, ears, and throat, while Georgie and Stella looked on with poorly concealed amusement. Twice, Val cleared her throat as if to speak, but stayed silent. Being naked, more or less in public, was having an inhibiting effect on her. But that was only the start. Not only was she naked, but she was being ordered about by people clothed in professional uniforms and acting within their field of expertise...their particular bailiwick. Despite -- or maybe partly because of -- her authoritarian personality, Val couldn't help responding submissively, even though mentally she continued to be resentful. She was, however, thankful when she was finally led back to Room 3. Dorothy picked up her clipboard. "Okay. There are some additional questions we need answered. And we might as well get that done now, to speed things up. Right?" "Fine. Just get to it." Val was beginning to regain some of her former spirit. "Anything to expedite this exam." Dorothy put on a serious expression. "I must warn you that you will be expected to answer truthfully and completely and to attest that you have done so. Declining to answer or responding with even the slightest untruthfulness could result in your dismissal." "Yes, yes. I understand." ("Dismissal! Shit!" Val said to herself.) "Very well. Are you sexually active?" "What in.... What can that possibly have to do with my exam...or with my job, for that matter?" "Please, Ms. Lewton, I'm just asking the questions and recording your answers. They're standard questions that everyone at your corporate level is required to answer." "Well.... I'm not a virgin." Val squirmed, wishing she could sit down...wishing she weren't naked...wishing the bitch hadn't mentioned "dismissal"; she just couldn't afford to lose this job -- so much of her salary had been committed -- even spent -- already.... "'Not a virgin....' Not a virgin...anywhere?" "Oh! Well, my...um...bottom...it's virgin." "Unh-huh. And have you been sexually active recently?" "Um...no, not really." "How recently?" "I don't...some months, I guess...." "With a man?" "Of course!" "Did you orgasm?" "Yes." "And, since then, have you masturbated?" "Yes...occasionally." "When was the last time?" "Um...." "Did you understand the question?" "Yes, of course I did. It-it was...y-yesterday." "Yesterday. And before that? "Day before yesterday." "Maybe we should define 'occasionally.' On average, how often do you masturbate in a week?" "I-I d-don't really...." "Guess...as nearly as possible." "Um...f-five or six, perhaps...." "Or seven -- or more?" "Yes, sometimes." "Sometimes?" "Often...usually, I suppose...." "Several times a day, sometimes?" "Y-yes." "Frequently?" "Yes." "Always to orgasm?" "Yes." Val's anger was being drowned by her rising humiliation. The nurse paused and shuffled the forms on the clipboard. "You know that we also have a medical research subsidiary, for which we gather data. Currently, we are compiling information on, among other things, sexual arousal. Based on your previous answers, you appear to be an ideal subject. Alright? Val guessed that refusing was not an option. She nodded. "F-fine." "O-kay. Onto the exam table now, please. Sit." Val climbed awkwardly onto the table, the stiff paper liner crinkling under her. As she was wriggling about into position, the door opened. She looked up and squealed. Two black men in white lab coats had walked in. "Get them out of here!" Val screeched. "Sorry, Ms. Lewton. LeRoy Johnson and Antwan Elam are research associates and are expected to monitor the rest of your exam." "But...." "No 'buts,' ma'am. That's just the way things are. Now shake hands with them and let us proceed." Val did so, even though she found herself blushing at the extremely unprofessional way that LeRoy and Antwan were looking at her. They pulled chairs up close to the exam table, ring-side seats, as it were, and tried to remember the hurried instructions they'd been given: keep silent, appear serious, and try not to drool. These directions were simple enough, but then they had to be -- LeRoy and Antwan were janitors, after all, and both had dropped out of school a long time ago. Dorothy carried on with some more routine medical exam things -- like drawing a blood sample and using a stethoscope to listen to Val's breathing. Meanwhile, she was cherry-picking her memories of the countless medical-themed porn stories she had read on the 'Net. She succeeded (barely) in keeping a straight face while she kept exposing Val to the lecherous gaze of LeRoy and Antwan, who were managing to play their parts just well enough. (Of course, Val WAS distracted by what she was being put through and didn't have the chance to really critique their performance objectively.) Val was sweating and breathing hard and blushing deeply -- all over -- even before Dorothy got to the "really good stuff." "Please lie back, now, and put your feet in the stirrups, ma'am. Good. Now, this next part is a bit...delicate...so I've got to make sure you don't move around." "But...." But Dorothy simply ignored her, tied her down with rubber tubing, and then drew a pan of warm water. Despite Val's feeble protests, she trimmed Val's pubic hair, washed it, lathered it, and shaved it off with a straight razor...offering only the comment that it was so thick that it was hampering accurate observation. All the while, anger was competing with fear for dominance of Val's psyche. And fear won. (Dorothy never knew how devastating the threat of dismissal had been to Val, who, being new to the company, felt so vulnerable without her usual network of allies and useful toadies, her stock of cashable favors, and her encyclopedic knowledge of just whose closets held skeletons (and exactly how much this information was worth). And, in fear's wake, came humiliation, both to weigh more and more heavily upon her, until she was practically incapable of rational thought. Dorothy used calipers to measure Val's nipples, both before and after stimulation. Ditto her clitoris. The amount of vaginal lubrication Val produced in a given time period was putatively measured (and, to Val's chagrin, it was copious). Her temperature was continuously monitored by means of a rectal thermometer that was inserted and removed repeatedly. LeRoy and Antwan took voluminous, but largely incomprehensible notes -- for "research purposes" -- throughout this process, in addition to assisting in carrying out various of the stimulation tests. From time to time, Dorothy would assume an official tone and admonish Val. "Please try not to twitch," she'd say. "I know it's difficult, since you're so highly aroused, but DO try. Oh, my -- you are SO wet...." She adjusted the rectal thermometer yet again, corkscrewing it until she was (for the moment) satisfied with its placement. Val squirmed, earning another rebuke. "Despite your writhing about," Dorothy noted, "we have collected some interesting data. Your nipple extention is rather above average, while the enlargement of your clitoris is truly phenomenal. Congratulations." She removed the thermometer, did one last reading, and put it aside. Almost done now...but we must do a digital comparison of your non-virginal vagina and your virginal rectum." "Please, noooo!" "It IS true that you've never had anal intercourse, right?" "Y-yes...ne-ver...." Dorothy plunged a latex-gloved fore finger deep into Val's pussy and wiggled it around a bit, while diddling the distended clit with her thumb. Val gasped and involuntarily clamped down on the invading finger. There was little she could do to resist the assault, spread and secured as she was. Val told herself that it would do no good to protest further. She told herself, too, that she really HATED what that bitch nurse was doing to her.... Then Dorothy moved on to Val's asshole. ****************************** By the time Dorothy had completed her "digital comparison," Val had gasped and twitched her way through three orgasms. LeRoy and Antwan were ecstatic (though they did manage, with difficulty, to resist high-fiving each other every time Val climaxed). When she was finally released from the stirrups, she had to stand against the wall on wobbly legs while Dorothy took a series of "posture pictures" with her digital camera, "for the record." Val was sweaty, sagging, played out...and obeyed without a whimper. As Dorothy put her camera away, she said, cheerfully, "Okay, only one thing left to do. We need a urine sample." She had considered putting Val through an enema, as well, but decided against it, primarily because she could see that Val was near the end of her tether. And, besides, her thirst for vengeance was pretty well satisfied. She handed Val a sample cup. Val looked at the cup and then at LeRoy and Antwan. "C-can I do this in...private?" she asked, wearily, but already knew the answer. She squatted awkwardly over the cup, but could produce nothing. She pushed her stringy hair from her eyes and looked up at Dorothy helplessly. She seemed on the verge of tears. "There's bottled water in the 'fridge there. Drink as much as you need to overcome your inhibitions. Let me know when you're done; I'll be at my desk outside." Dorothy gave her a not unkindly smile and left the room. She was actually beginning to feel a bit sorry for this kid, despite her airs, her snotty college, and her insufferable attitude. ****************************** Dorothy was taking care of some paperwork when the portly Dr. Stein emerged from his office and stopped by her desk. "How's Ms. Lewton?" he asked. "Just finishing up now. Bashful kidney." "She give you any trouble?" "Not...really...." "Good. Most of those marketing people are know-nothings, and VPs can be pretty overbearing, so a marketing veep, well...." "Vice president?" Dorothy croaked. (Not just an insolent, entry-level drone?) "Yeah, a new hire. Well, I'm glad she didn't turn out to be a witch...." The doctor went on to say something about taking an early lunch, but Dorothy barely heard him. Her brain had gone into over-drive, the wheels spinning so furiously that she almost stripped her gears. Dr. Stein, his mind already fully occupied with thoughts of lunch, was fortunately oblivious. As he was leaving the office, Dorothy was making a flying visit to a locked cabinet, where she funneled some green capsules into an unlabeled pill bottle. Fortunately, that mechanical action didn't require much thought, for her mind was racing on ahead.... (Need a way to locate the bitch's car.... Aha! Yuppie AND a VP had to have a fancy car -- with an alarm....) She pocketed the bottle, re-locked the cabinet, and scurried off to Room 3. She was lucky. Val Lewton was still concentrating on trying to piss, and the two blacks were of course concentrating on Val. Unnoticed, Dorothy shoved the pill bottle deep into Val's large purse, filched her alarm remote, muttered something innocuous, and exited again. Moments later, she was on the phone to her sister, a local policewoman. The conversation was lively but brief. Then she paused in her whirlwind progress. She needed something...something like a hammer or a ball bat... Her eye fell on the heavy flashlight they kept for emergencies. ("Good enough," she thought. "And it IS an emergency.") She snatched up the flashlight -- and a towel to protect it -- and dashed from the office. She was back shortly, in plenty of time to return Val's remote surreptitiously. She sighed, collected the urine sample, and told Val that she was finished and could dress and leave. ****************************** Val flung herself into her car and sat there for a few minutes, trembling. Her fear had gone, and, as the humiliation began to ebb, her rage came bubbling up until she was perilously near to erupting. Under the circumstances, it was not surprising that she didn't notice the shattered tail-light, nor, as she pulled out of the parking lot, that she didn't react to the approaching police siren....