The Games Player: Boys will be Boys (M/Fmf)

[KP Presents]

I recently spent a Saturday afternoon visiting the country residence of the Maycombe family, making sure two families spent an afternoon playing Hostage – and that our personal reserves were replenished to overflowing.

You may have heard of Terry Maycombe – financier, television guru to millions, all round good guy – took the fortune he inherited from his parents and made it even larger. But he supports local charities and gives generously – so I did feel a little tinge of guilt when Janna and I were discussing the plans for my visit.

Only a little pang…

The house itself was an old manor house, in several acres of parkland, which meant I would have to drive there and back. I “borrowed” a car for the occasion – not something I would normally do, but necessary in this case, and it also allowed me to take some additional supplies. I knew that Terry Maycombe himself was in the city, so that left his wife Elaine and his two sons, thirteen-year-old Tommy and eight-year-old Shaun. The wrinkle is that most weekends her sister-in-law and her family would also come for a visit – so I had to be ready for the possibility there would be a few more people playing the game.

So, as I drove to the house, I had in the bag two bags of supplies, while I myself was wearing a dark suit, with a white shirt and tie, as well as highly polished shoes – and the leather gloves on my hands as I held the driving wheel. Janna had taken our daughter into town to see a show, so I knew they were otherwise occupied.

As for myself, I was singing along to the Pick of the Pops as I turned through a gap in a wall and made my way up the driveway to the Maycombe home. As I approached the house, I saw the Land Rover Discovery parked outside, but went to the side of the house and pulled in, turning off the ignition and getting out of the car. Looking round, I reached into the pocket of my jacket and pulled out one extra item, which I pulled down over my head before I took one of the bags from the back of the car and made my way to the front door.

I tried the handle – and was quietly pleased when the door swung open, and I let myself in. I could hear music playing in the front room, and as I looked round the doorway, I saw Elaine sitting in a leather armchair. She was wearing a black V-necked top and blue jean, the legs tucked into knee high red leather boots, and was reading a book while humming along to the music.

So, when I turned the volume down on the player, she looked up and saw me, with the stocking pulled down over my head, as I smiled and said, “hello Elaine – it’s time for you and the family to play a game.”

“A… A game… A game of what…”

“Well, if I am being honest, you will tell your sons they are playing a game of hostages – but I am going to relieve you of some of your valuables and leave you all nicely secure, quiet and trying to escape.”

“You’re… Hell…”

“No, juts a pleasant quiet afternoon,” I said with a smile, “but we are getting ahead of ourselves. Where are your sons?”

“In… In the cellar, watching a film…”

I smiled under the covering on my face and said “well, please, stand up and walk in in front of me, show me the way – you need to tell them what is going to happen…”




Elaine let me to a door and opened it, the sound coming up as we slowly walked down a set of stairs into a large cellar a large television screen hanging on one wall. One of the latest Marvel films was playing on it, as I saw the two boys sitting on a couch. Both were smartly dressed – Tommy was wearing a grey sweater with a black and red diamond pattern on the front, over a red t-shirt, jeans and black and white trainers, while Shaun was wearing a black vest pullover with a red and white diamond pattern over a long sleeved red shirt, as well as jeans and the same style of trainers as his brother.

They both looked over and turned their heads back - and then slowly turned their heads as they saw me with my hand on their mother’s shoulder.

“Mum? Who is he,” Shaun eventually said.

“This – is a man that your dad and I have hired to play a game with all of us,” Elaine eventually said. “You know he has talked to us about what might happen if someone tried to rob us – Jay Edwards, someone like that?”

Both boys nodded as Elaine smiled and said “well, we’re going to all be as if someone was robbing us this afternoon - it’s not a real robbery, but he is going to leave us as if it was, for a little while.”

“So, it’s like a test run,” Tommy said as he looked at me. “Can we still watch our films?”

“Of course,” I said with a smile, “but I need to make sure that you both stay here. I’ll then take your mother and have a talk to her, and then she will join you in exactly the same way, all right?”

The two boys nodded as I said to Elaine “now, I am going to use some rope to make sure your hands stay behind your back and your arms by your sides, but I need to make sure you are both comfortable together – so Shaun, your mother is going to do to you what I do to your brother, so you are the same at the same time, all right?”

“You want me to tie Shaun up?”

“That’s right,” I said as I put my bag down, opened it and took out two lengths of white rope, “So you stand in front of me, Tommy, and Shaun stands in front of his mother – and then you both put your hands behind your back.”

“All right,” Shaun said, Tommy looking at me as he turned with his back to me, and I handed Elaine a length of rope. “Double it over,” I said, “and then cross his wrists behind his back, then do what I do.” Elaine watched me as I crossed Tommy’s wrists, and the wrapped the rope round them, putting the ends through the loop and pulling it back so that they were held together.

She slowly did the same to Shaun as the two boys looked at each other, then copied me as I wrapped the rope round a few times, then tucked it under the top band and separated the ends. Elaine did the same, before we both took the ends between their wrists and tightening the binding, then securing the ends together on top of the bands, out foreach of their fingers.

“That’s tight,” Tommy said quietly as he tried to move his hands, but then his eyes widened as I took two longer lengths of rope from my bag and gave one to their mother.

“What are we going to do with this,” Elaine said quietly,

“Double it over, then pass it round Shaun’s stomach and pulled it tight, Elaine doing the same to Tommy and then copying me as I took it round his stomach and his upper arms, making two bands before I secured them together at their backs.

As Elaine tied the ropes off behind Shaun’s back, he twisted round and then nodded as I said, “all right boys – sit back down on the couch, and then your mother and I are going to make it difficult for both of you to get up and jump round.”

“How,” Tommy asked as he sat down. I took four lengths of rope from the bag, handed two to Elaine and knelt by her older son’s feet before crossing his ankles.

“Tie them the same way as his wrists,” I said as I wrapped the rope around Tommy’s ankles, Elaine doing the same to Shaun as the boys watched us securing their ankles together. The bands sat above the cuffs of their jeans, as I then wrapped my second rope round Tommy’s legs below his knees and told Elaine to do the same for Shaun.

Once we had taken the rope between their legs and tied it off behind the bands, we both stood up as Elaine said, “are you boys all right?”

“I’m fine Mum,” Tommy said, as Shaun twisted his legs round. “And he is going to do the same to you?”

“Yes, he is,” Elaine said with a smile, “but first he needs to…”

The sound of the doorbell made us all jump for a moment, as I took a roll of white tape from my bag, tearing strips off and pressing them down over the lips of the two boys as their mother said “just sit quietly – we’ll see who it is, IT’s part of the game, all right?”

They both nodded as I took Elaine up the stairs, saying “who is it?”

“Probably Dee and her… OH god, they are going to have to play as well, a aren’t they?”

“Yes, they are,” I said quietly as we got to the front door, and she opened it. “Hey Elaine,” a female voice said as I stood behind the door, “in the cellar with the boys.”

“Yes – come on in, I’ve got a surprise for all of you.”

I watched as a blonde-haired woman walked in, a nine-year-old girl holding her hand. The woman was wearing a white lace top over a camisole, and glue jeans with the legs tucked into old brown flat soled leather boots, while the girl was wearing a long-sleeved blue dress with a blue lace skirt that had white polka dots, and high brown Frye style boots. She also had a hair band.

With her were two older boys. One looked to be about seventeen, wearing a blue jumper over a checked shirt, jeans and brown shoes, while the younger boy looked to be about eleven. He was wearing a black and cream checked lumberjack shirt and jeans, with brown trainers.

“So, what’s the surprise, Elaine,” the woman said as I closed the door, and all four looked at me.

“Hello,” I said quietly. “Welcome to the game Elaine and Terry have arranged for their family – a mock robbery. You must be Dee – please, tell me the names of your children.”

Dee looked at me, and said “A mock robbery? Elaine…”

“I’ll explain later,” Elaine said quietly, “but the boys are in the cellar, and this actor is playing the part of someone who has broken in. They’re already captive – and to make this realistic, I need you all to play the games as well.”

“A game…” Dee looked at me and said “oh – a game. Right.”

“Mummy, why does he have that over his head? What’s going on?”


Dee looked at me and swallowed as she said “well, Dora, you know your uncle Terry is a very wealthy man? He has told Aunt Elaine and your cousins what to do when someone tries to rob them – and it looks as if they are doing a practice of that. I think we need to help them out – so this man is going to do something to all of us…”

“MUM!”

“Simon, Peter,” Dee said as she looked at the two boys. “Please – this is a game, and we are all going to play, especially Dora. Do you understand?”

The two boys looked at each other, before the older boy said, “are you sure Mum?”

“I am Simon – so where are you going to keep us?”

“Why don’t we go and join your cousins,” I said with a smile as Elaine squatted down and looked at Dora.

“Don’t worry when you see them – they are fine, and we’ll be fine as well. All right?”

The little girl nodded as we walked to the door and down the stairs, Peter saying “what the…” as he looked at his cousins.

“Htthuhghss,” Shaun said as he wriggled round, Dee’s eyes wide open as she gripped Dora’s hand more tightly.

“You’re going to make us like them,” Simon said as he glared at me.

“I am – or rather, you and Elaine are going to help me.”

“Help you?”

I nodded as I went to the bag and took out three lengths of rope. Handing one to Simon, I said “you are going to secure Peter’s wrists behind his back, your mother will have her wrists tied together by your aunt, and I will take care of young Dora here. Elaine already knows what to do – copy her.”

“Just do what I do, Simon,” Elaine said as she doubled the rope over, the young man doing the same as Peter put his hands behind him. Dee said, “we’ll do this together all right?” Dora nodded as I guided her hands behind her back, and Elaine bound her sister in law’s wrists tightly together as she had done with Tommy.

“There – does that hurt,” I said a is tied the ends off above Dora’s wrists. The young girl twisted her wrists and then shook her head as I said “Now, we’re going to use some more rope to hold your arms against your sides.”

I took the longer ropes and handed two to Simon and Elaine, watching as they looked at me pass it round Dora’s stomach and pulled it tight, and then the two of them doing the same to Peter and Dee.

“Have you any idea how this feels,” Dee whispered to Elaine as she took the ropes round her upper arms.

“I can guess – but it is part of the game,” Elaine said as I made sure the two bands held Dora’s arms to her sides. I then looked at Dee as Is aid “I want you to sit on that smaller couch, and Dee will sit next to you. Peter, you sit with the other two boys.”

“Come with me Dora,” Dee said as they walked over and Peter sat with Tommy and Shaun, watching as I handed two lengths of rope to Simon and said, “Cross and bind his ankles together, and then tie his legs together below his knees.”

“Why is he asking Simon to do that to Peter Mummy,” Dora asked as she looked up at her mother. Dee smiled as she said, “to stop him running away – I’m sure he will do the same to us in a little while.”

As Peter stood up, I said ”actually, Dora, I am going to ask your Aunt Elaine to make sure your ankles and legs stray together. Peter, it’s time to make you secure – put your hands behind your back.”

As I guided his wrists together, he turned his head and whispered, “this isn’t a game, is it?”

“Treat it as such, young man” I whispered back as I took the rope round and between his wrists, “that way, your younger siblings and cousins don’t panic, and your mother can relax in her situation” I watched as Elaine folded back Dora’s skirt and secured her legs together, below her knees and above her boots, before folding the skirt back and then crossing her sister-in-law’s ankles.

“It makes a funny sound,” Dora giggled as she tried to move her legs, Dee nodding as Elaine secured her ankles and legs in the same way. I then tied the ropes round Simon’s arms to hold them firmly against his sides, before he sat at the far end of the couch with the other boys, watching as I crossed and bound his ankles together, and then secured his legs together below his knees as well.

“Now then,” I said as one by one I stuck strips of white tape over their mouths, “I am going to take Elaine for a walk round the house. I need all of you to stay in here, nice and quiet, and watch the film. I’ll bring Elaine back before we start the next part of the game, all right?”

“Hllrhhtt,” Dee said as she rubbed her cheek on Dora’s head, Simon looking at the other three boys before I took Elaine by the arm and walked her out of the room.

“So, what happens now,” she said as I closed the door.

“Now, we walk to my car, and I fetch a second bag – and then you show me where the safe is, and where your valuables are…”




When we came back in, Tommy and Shaun looked over and said “mhmhmm?”

“It’s all right boys – he made sure I was bound before we came back in,” she said as they saw the tight bands of rope framing her chest. Simon was staring at her as well as she sat next to Dee, both her and Dora watching as I knelt down and crossed her ankles before binding them tightly together, as well as he legs below her knees.

I then looked over to the four boys, and walked across the room, fetching four large cushions and placing them on the floor. I then helped Shaun to kneel and lie on his stomach, his head resting on a cushion before I pulled his ankles back and tied them to the ropes round his chest.

“What are you doing,” Elaine said as I then helped Peter to do the same thing.

“Making it more difficult for any of you to escape from this room – part of the game,” I said as I made sure the two older boys were hogtied as well, Simon turning his head and glaring at me as I tied the ropes off. All four of them raised their heads and tried to talk, their lips moving under the tape, before I carried Dee over to the couch they had been sitting on, rolled he rover and hogtied her, and then helped her to roll onto her side before I carried Dora over and laid her down next to her. I heard her muffled giggle as she rubbed against her mother’s chest, Elaine raising an eyebrow as I took the roll of white tape and walked over to her.

“My turn?”

“Your turn,” I said as I pressed the white tape down over her mouth, silencing her as I helped her to lie down and rollover before I hogtied her as well. She rolled over and said “Thmmththrhndhschp?”

“Wait thirty minutes,” I said as I started another film, “and then you can begin. I will be waiting upstairs.”

Elaine and dee nodded as I walked up the stairs, closed the door, and then made my way back to the car…

[Detective-Gag]

Another good addition. Big fan of the white tape gags.

Funny that he had to hurry up and gag the first two…no warning, no preamble. Bet that surprised them.

[Smythdean]

Great story

[Snozzberry]

Four immobilized boys at once you hit a Perfect Trifecta + 1. You should have taken Peter and Tommy for little ride and exploration for 2 weeks to make sure mommy and auntie kept quiet and if they didn't keep quiet come back an borrow Shaun and Simon to join them for 6 more weeks of fun and festivities.