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Well people we've come to the epilogue of the First Act of what I'm hoping will be a very long-running saga. Just want to stress how much all of your support means to me. Your kind comments, words of encouragement and criticisms where they're needed have really helped me with the crafting of this story.!
I also just want to take another moment, to dedicate this story to my friend Cassie who passed away last year. She was a fellow lover of bondage, a passionate Gamer and artist and one of the kindest people I ever knew. I miss you gurl
Thanks to all of you again for your continued support and I'll hopefully have the first parts of Act 2 ready before you know it.
PREVIOUSLY: Caleb gave Jack and Ryan the bondage session of their lives, he tied them together naked and fucked them both repeatedly until everyone was exhausted, they now go to rejoin Kate, Danny, Cass and the throuple girls at the bar.
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Act One Epilogue: A Night to Remember
"Hey look at this! They've finally emerged!" Valerie cheered as she noticed Jack, Ryan and Caleb approaching the bar.
"Holy shit they look beat, how long were they gone?!" Kate wondered aloud, seeing how visibly exhausted the boys had become.
"I'd say an hour at least, maybe even two!" Danny shouted over the music to his girlfriend, a glass of Jack Daniels in hand.
Reuniting with their friends, Jack and Ryan all but limped to the bar, albeit with bright smiles on their faces as the two groups embraced each other.
"Busy night Caleb?" Cassandra asked her co-worker.
"Oh honey you have no idea haha!" The worn-out stud replied "How about you?"
"Oh yep, it's been... eventful!" The two doms laughed heartily as Caleb sat down on a barstool.
With only about an hour left until closing time, Club Intimate was starting to slowly empty itself of patrons, not many people were still doing bondage aside from the occasional truly dedicated couple. Liam and Jasmine, who had gotten real intimate themselves over the past several minutes, were also returning to the bar just so they could thank Cassandra properly for her lesson.
"Alright, I think it's time we proposed a toast! Hey you two as well come on don't be shy!" Katie ushered the high-school couple over to join them. She then asked Tommy to pour a series of tequila shots for everyone, which were quickly passed around among the now very large group of bondageers and bondagettes.
"Wait, you're old enough to drink, right?" Katie asked Liam and Jazz, a little tipsy.
"I reckon the bouncers wouldn't have let us in if we weren't!" Jasmine shouted back.
"Okay okay everybody! Let's make a toast..." Danny raised his shot glass.
Jack and Ryan, Liam and Jazz, Em Val and Beth, Cass Tommy and Caleb all joined the illustrious Club Owners in raising their glasses high.
"You guys, thank you all so much for coming tonight, it's been so much fun! We love you all like family and hope we'll see you back in Club Intimate again soon! Now let's all thank the awesome Doms who made tonight possible. To Caleb and Cass!"
"CALEB AND CASS!!" A mighty cheer erupted through the group before they all hocked down their tequila shots.
As usual, while there were some sour faces and coughing up of lungs, Jack was unfazed.
"Okay seriously HOW do you do that?!" Emma whined in amazement.
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(Later, in the Staff Changing Rooms)
Breathing a heavy sigh of relief after a night well spent, Cass slipped on a white puffer jacket over her blouse and skinny jeans, finally ready to go home to her little girl. Grabbing her gym bag which contained her Queen outfit and gear, she got up out of her changing room chair to leave out the back door of the Club.
"Alright Zoe I'll see you Tuesday night!" The pretty mother called to her strawberry blonde friend.
"See ya then Cass say hi to Sunny for me!" Zoe replied while wiping off her makeup.
"Will do!" Cassandra smiled.
She was about ten feet from the door when she heard a familiar voice call out her name.
"Cass! Hey Cassie wait up!"
Still in his white shirt-black vest combo with black dress pants, the club's Chief Bartender was hurrying over to catch the Asian beauty before she could leave.
"Tommy, hi! What's up I was just heading off?" Cass brushed her hair nervously from her face as the tall, dark, handsome Serbian-Aussie stopped in front of her panting softly, having ran to the Changing Rooms from the bar.
"Yeah I know... Sorry this won't take a sec." He smiled a bright wide smile that made butterflies scatter all throughout Cassandra's stomach.
"Okay... what is it?" She blushed.
"Alright... so...um... you know, I wanted to ask you something before..." Tommy stammered over his words, getting lost in the lovely mother's brown eyes.
"Yyyes?" Cass replied, she knew exactly what he wanted to say, but she still had trouble believing it was really happening.
"Well, before I ask I don't want you to feel like you HAVE to say yes... and uh I know it might be a little weird because we're workmates, but I thi-"
"Oh for fucks sake Tommy just ask her already hahaha!" Zoe chimed in from across the room.
Tommy went red with embarassment, while Cass turned red with anticipation.
Smacking his lips and biting the proverbial bullet. Tommy took Cassandra's hand.
"Cass, do you want to go out with me somet-"
"YES."
Clamping her free hand over her mouth, Cass giggled with embarassment, she'd answered so quickly, just blurting out her answer. God she'd been wanting to go out with Tommy since they'd started working together.
Correcting herself after Tommy and Zoe laughed along in amusement, Cass nodded to the hunk of a bartender.
"Yes Tommy I'd love to go out with you."
"Woah... wow... Th-th-that's great! Awesome!" The handsome Serb was ecstatically trying to hide his excitement. "Uhh, when are you free?"
"How about next Friday night? We could take a break from work, maybe grab some dinner?" Cass grinned like a giddy schoolgirl, her hand still tightly grasping Tommys.
"Ok, cool, so... I'll text you a time and place?" He brandished his Android phone.
"Ok... I guess it's a date!"
"Yeah, right!"
"Ok I uh, I better be going Tommy, I need to be up early to take Sunny to swimming lessons." Cass reluctantly let go of the hunk's hand and started to back towards the door.
"Yeah, no worries, I'll see you next Friday!"
"See you then!"
With that, Cassandra stepped out into the Alley that led to the rear carpark, and she giggled to herself like a love-struck teenager, smiling all the way back to her car.
Also, inside, Tommy practically danced his way back to the bar, giving an intense fist-pump to the air and even high-fiving Zoe as he went past, cracking the blonde beauty up with laughter.
"Hahaha! About bloody time you two!" Zoe remarked.
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(Meanwhile, outside the front entrance)
"Oh my god, that night was AMAZIIIING!" Valerie called out as she slumped her arms over her girlfriends' shoulders "Seriously why don't we come here every single weekend?!"
"Haha maybe we should, but I guarantee we couldn't drink every weekend like this or we'd be broke in a few days!" Beth replied, stumbling a little herself.
"Yeah but Kate and Danny would probably give us discounts or something, you know?" Emma yelled, her ears till throbbing from the persistent beat of the Clubs music.
The trio of beautiful girlfriends walked jovially onto the footpath, having thanked Jess on their way out of the lobby, then doing the same for the big Maori bouncers Neville and Barry.
"You have a good morning girls!" Nev called after them.
"You too Nev!" Beth called back.
"Is th'Uber close by Em?" Val slurred to her girlfriend, she'd clearly drank the most out of the three girls, unsurprisingly.
"Um hang on, I'll check." Emma reached into her handbag fiddling around to find her phone.
"Oh... oh shit!" Val started to retch, clearly she'd partied a little too wildly. Racing over to the gutter she grabbed onto the streetlight pole next to her and let it all out.
"Woaahhh okay hold up babe let me help!" Emma clopped over in her heels to pull Val's long red locks out of her face. "There we go..."
As Beth walked over to help too, The Italian beauty was suddenly tapped on the shoulder.
"Miss Bellucci?"
A strange man's gravelly, but somewhat jolly voice preceded Beth turning around to see just who had approached her: a middle-aged, balding man with greying black hair, a clean shaven face and dressed in a striking navy blue-and-white pinstripe suit. With a white shirt unbuttoned all the way down to his rather hairy chest, and a single gold chain hanging from down his neck. He was strangely wearing a pair of gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses in the darkness of 3 o'clock in the morning...
"Uh, yes, how can I help you Mr..." Beth politely smiled.
"Oh just call me Henry miss." The man smiled back warmly.
"Haha ok how can I help you Henry?" Beth shook the mans hand.
"Actually Bethany, I was thinking I could help you!"
"Oh?"
Emma, still holding Valerie's hair as the poor redhead recovered from emptying her stomach, listened intently, looking with suspicion at the mysterious stranger...
"You see I heard you sing tonight Miss Bellucci and, I swear up and down, you've got serious talent young lady! Far too much talent for a dump like this place!" Henry scoffed and chuckled at the establishment behind him.
"Well, I happen to like this place, Henry, I have loyal fans here and I'm very good friends with the owners Ms Jansen and Mr Garcia..." Beth clapped back.
"Of course of course I understand, and your loyalty to them is truly admirable. But honestly Bethany, the kind of talent you possess is wasted singing in a glorified sex dungeon. You should be singing in front of sold-out arenas, not just performing in the background while people tie each other up!"
"I mean... I guess, maybe...but..." Beth hesitated. "If you're from a record company I'm afraid I already have a contract with-"
"Valiant Records? Yes, I'm aware but trust me Bethany, we can pay you twice the royalties, and get you much bigger gigs than what Valiant has been providing you. Tell you what, here's my card, and if you wanna start making some real money, you give me a call, phones always on!" Henry slapped his business card into Beth's delicate hands.
"Unless you want to give me an answer now, that is?"
"Sir..."
Emma walked up attentively, stomping in her high heels, glaring at the sleazy-looking man.
"My girlfriend has made it clear to you she's not interested, now please kindly fuck off!" Emma stood firmly between Henry and Bethany, staring daggers into his eyes.
"EMMA!" Bethany gasped.
"Woah haha hey there's no call for bad language, Miss uh..."
"Miss None-Of-Your-Fucking-Business, now piss off!"
The petite country girl and shifty older man exchanged a hateful glance, before Henry turned and walked off down the street.
"Of course... so sorry to intrude... You ladies have a good night." He sneered.
Bethany pulled Emma by the hand back to Valerie so they could check on her.
"Babe what the hell was that?!" Beth asked in utter disbelief while patting Val on the back "You were so rude! What if I change my mind and he won't take me on because of this?!!"
Emma tightly grasped her grirlfriends hand. "Babe, listen to me, whatever happens you don't call that man, and if he comes near you again, you call the cops, call Danny, do whatever just don't go near him!"
"Em, you're scaring me..."
"Promise me Beth!"
Emma's eyes were full of genuine fear and concern.
"What was wrong though? He's just a record label guy..." Beth began.
"I don't care if he's Elvis Presley reborn sweetie, he didn't look right to me, not one bit. He wants something from you!" Emma explained.
"Oh come on how would yo-"
"Oh..."
Beth immediately bit her tongue, sadly if anyone would know how to spot a man with bad intentions, it was Emma.
"You're right babe I'm sorry, I won't contact him at all."
"Good, I'm only looking out for you sweetie."
The two girlfriends hugged and kissed, then Beth tossed the card straight into the gutter.
"Great... I feel amazing by the way girls!" Val finally chimed in.
The three girls laughed raucously as their Uber pulled up, ready to take them home.
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(Later, at Jack and Ryans apartment)
"Ahhhhhh fuck I'm worn out!" Jack yawned profusely as he climbed into bed with his boyfriend, the two of them wearing simple black briefs.
"Tell me about it, it's been a while since I've received rather than given if ya know what I mean..." Ryan adjusted his position on the bed to relieve his sore bottom.
"Haha, maybe I could dom you next time we head back?" Jack joked, feeling cheeky.
"Pffft in your dreams boi!" Ryan scoffed.
Now lying face to face, the two boyfriends took each others hands.
"I had a lot of fun tonight, you were incredible babe." Jack smiled.
"You too handsome." Ryan rubbed Jack's thigh with his other hand.
"Ok, we'll talk more in the morning?" Jack was about ready to fall asleep.
"Actually..."
Ryan piped up, something clearly on his mind.
"What is it hun?"
"I feel like we need to talk about that little... "Daddy" incident..."
Jack let go of Ryans hand.
"Oh babe come on! I told ya it wasn't a big deal, I just got a bit put off for a sec that's all."
"Nah Jack I saw the look in your eyes when you yelled at Caleb, you were fucking furious." Ry was concerned.
"Well why the fuck shouldn't I be?! Huh?!" Jack got up on one elbow, his voice raising. "That fucking prick told me to go fuck myself, Ry, basically denied I was his son and what's worse he fucking insulted you-"
"Babe calm down." Ryan interjected.
"Don't tell me to fucking calm down, I'm not indulging any bloody "Daddy" bullshit like it's something I should be into!"
"Caleb didn't know!"
"I'm not fucking mad at Caleb, I'm just sick of everyone acting like I should just forgive and forget my Dad after all the shit I put myself through because I was afraid of him!" Jack all but punched the pillow beneath him he was getting so angry.
"BABE!! Calm down, please..." Ryan snapped. "I understand, you know I do. But I feel like you're never gonna be completely happy until you resolve this."
Jack slumped back down onto the mattress, sighing heavily. "Ry, I don't think I could, even if he magically decided one day he wanted to try, I just don't think I could pretend suddenly that everything's hunky-dory."
"Well... funny you should say that..." Ry hesitated.
"What?"
"Your dad actually messaged me on Facebook two days ago... he said he wants to come to Melbourne and talk to you but he'd only come if you invite him."
"Wh-... What?!"
The room went silent for a good minute, Jack was incensed, aghast, he couldn't believe what was happening at all.
"Are you gonna call him?" Ryan broke the silence.
"Huhhhhhh...." Jack sighed. "Do you think I should?"
"I do, it's time you put all this to rest babe."
"Ok... I'll call him in the morning."
"Ok..."
Again, the room went silent for several minutes, the two young men staring at the dark ceiling, neither knowing quite what to say...
Until Jack turned to face his partner.
"Ryan?"
"Yes?"
"I'm sorry... I love you."
"I love you too."
Jack nestled himself under Ryan's tree trunk of a right arm, the muscular spunk holding his beloved boyfriend tightly as they eventually fell asleep.
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(Meanwhile)
"Mmmmmm.... Duhneh..." Katie mumbled into her pillow, she had no idea how long she'd been asleep, but it didn't feel like long, it was still dark after all.
She stretched out her hand, feeling for her gentle giant.
But yet again, her hand touched nothing but an empty mattress with the sheets thrown back.
Kate groaned with despair upon realising, it was happening again.
"Oh Danny... oh no..."
Sitting up in the bed, Kate quickly noticed the tall, dark silhouette of her Marine boyfriend.
He was just standing there in his underwear, motionless, staring out the window of their apartment at the lit-up city below, not making a sound.
"Danny?" Kate whispered loudly, getting up to slip on her silk nightie.
"Shhhh!" The huge tattooed man suddenly raised his hand "You trying to get us killed?!" He growled under his breath.
"Baby, please, nobody's trying to kill us, please come back to bed!" Kate pleaded with him, slowly walking over to him, until she stopped suddenly in her tracks when she noticed what he was holding in his hand...
"Danny??"
"Shhh!"
The poor, troubled Marine raised aloft the semi-automatic pistol he was gripping in his hands, like he was ready to use it any second. He scanned vigilantly for hostiles that weren't even there.
"Careful, they're watching us I know it..." Danny whispered as Kate edged closer.
"Who is?" The young blonde shivered in fear.
"The Tallies."
"Tallies?"
"The fuckin' Taliban! Who do you think?!" Danny snapped, his handgun still at the ready.
"Baby, it's me, Katie, your girlfriend, we're in Australia, there's no Taliban here. Nobody is going to hurt you here. Please I'm begging you put the gun down and come back to bed!" Kate's voice started to crack as tears filled her eyes. "Please Danny you're scaring me!"
"It's ok, I'll keep you safe!" Danny asserted.
"From who?! Danny there are no Taliban in Melbourne! There's no Al-Qaeda, no insurgents, no rebels, Danny you're not at war anymore please put the gun down!" Katie began to sob.
Danny stood still, staring intensely out the window, until Kate bravely edged as close as she could to him and laid her hands on his.
He turned his head away from the visions, from the desert, the lost brothers, and the bodies he still saw clearly to this day...
And he looked upon the crying, distraught face of the woman he loved.
"Kate?"
Gasping in horror as he finally came to his senses, Danny engaged the safety catch on his pistol and Kate tearfully pried it from his hands, tossing it onto the bed.
"Oh God!" Danny started to cry as well "Babe I'm sorry... I'm sorry I'm so so sorry!"
He wrapped the terrified young girl up in his big strong arms.
"I... I don't know what happened I..."
"Danny promise me you'll book the psychologist as soon as you can! I can't take this anymore!" Katie sobbed hysterically against his chest. "I was so scared you'd hurt yourself!"
"No no baby I'd never I, oh God I'm so sorry...I'll do it, first thing I'll do it, please forgive me sweetheart." The hulking Marine tried his best to maintain his composure but he too was an emotional mess.
The pain of his war years haunted him still, and it had wormed its way into his relationship with the one person he cherished above all...
"Please, come back to bed." Kate urged him, still clearly distressed.
"Ok, ok" Sniffed through his own tears.
It would be well into the daylight hours until the American couple finally fell asleep, they were both afraid of what might happen if they did.
Fortunately, when they woke up later that day, they were both okay, and with Katie holding his hand, Danny took the leap and called a military psychologist...
"Hello? Yes I uh..."
"I need help."
ACT ONE COMPLETE, TO BE CONTINUED IN ACT TWO