The Taming of Soo-yin.

The rest of the day passes uneventfully and you are thankful for it. The events of the day had taken a lot out of you. Natali had turned in early and you spent some time snuggling with her. You weren't ready for sleep yet though. You got up wearing only your pajama bottoms. You were rummaging around in the kitchen looking for a snack when you heard a faint noise. You stand up and listen, not sure you had heard anything. There it was again. A little pop, like a distant firecracker. But it was definitely coming from within the house. You begin creeping through the house, homing in on the noise. You get closer and closer, occasionally hearing a voice or something call out.

It lead you down some stairs into the basement. A light was on in a room down the hall, the door was closed but the light streamed out the underside.

Crack!

It was a whip! You hear Caitlin wail. "I'm sorry! I don't know what you want! Please...I don't know how! I don't know...."

You approach the door and listen. You hear the sharp crack of the whip once more.

Crack!

Soo-yin's cold voice sends a shiver down your spine. "Take this. Stand up and take this in your hand. You will strike me."

"Noooo! I don't know how. I don't want to hurt you." You hear some motion. "Let me make you feel good, let's go back to the bedroom."

Crack!

"You are disobedient. I was going to wait until you were ready..."

"Oh no! Wait...please!" Caitlin pleads.

You feel you should do something. Were you ready for this? Caitlin had told you that if you wanted Soo-yin to stay permanently that you were going to have to make her. You were pretty sure the assassin would stick around long enough to see you out of the mob, but you felt strongly that you would like her to stay long term. Beneath that impenetrable exterior was a flesh and blood woman with all of the needs and frailties of anyone else. Her lifestyle and attitude would surely see her come to a bad end. It's time she found a safe place to be, it's time she found a family.

You steel yourself. After everything that happened earlier today you were feeling confident, you were sure of yourself, you felt like you could take on the world. There was no better time than now to deal with this. Also, by doing it now you'd have the element of surprise, you wouldn't allow Soo-yin to be ready for you. You really weren't sure what she had in mind, but you had an idea.

You hear Caitlin once more. "Please Soo-yin, stop this. Let's go back to bed. I'll do anything you want."

You open the door and boldly step through. "She's not ready Soo-yin!" You announce and slowly close the door behind you.

Looking around you saw that you were in a huge open storage room. All of the contents had been pushed to one wall. Soo-yin had the beginnings of a BDSM dungeon set up in the open space. A large 7 foot cube of steel piping stood in the center of the room, chains and straps attached to it in various places. An assortment of whips, canes, paddles and sex toys line one wall. There were other contraptions too, but none set up yet.

Both Soo-yin and Caitlin were nude, their clothes in a pile in the corner. Caitlin is on her hands and knees and very relieved to see you. "Oh, Mr Vincent!"

'Shit!' You think, 'Caitlin just saw me with my shirt off.' You couldn't think about that right now.

Soo-yin, who was holding a long black leather bullwhip, slowly turns to look at you with her shark like eyes. On her back you see more scarring than you had seen on the front that day at the farm. The bandages were off now. She was lean and muscled, the build of an athlete. Her butt was small, like her breasts, but wonderfully shaped. As she turns to face you she assumes a powerful pose, her long toned legs a bit more than shoulder width, one hand on her hip and the other holding the whip. She wasn't the slightest bit self conscious about her nudity. Her pale skin looked almost grey in the harsh lighting.

The assassin stares you down. You meet her gaze without flinching.

"I'm glad to see you're alive." She says. "I was worried that..."

You don't let her distract you, you were going to do this. "I SAID...she's not ready. You need to be her guide. You need to teach her." You take a firm and deliberate step toward her.

Her eyes narrow as she realized you were truly threatening her domain. "I don't have time to teach her. And I would step back if I were you."

"If you stay with us you will have all the time in the world. You could finally train someone properly." You say, not budging an inch.

You see a flash of something behind her usually placid expression. She realized what you were doing. "This isn't the time for this. I'm not ready..."

"I'M READY!" You shout. "The time is right fucking now!" You take another step forward.

It took all you had but you keep your gaze locked on hers. You hear the stiff leather of the handle creak as she grips the it tighter. Her eyes boring holes into you. "You don't want to do this. Step back Vincent." She hisses. "We'll talk later."

While you don't express it you were terrified. You were honestly afraid for your safety. You didn't know how far you could push her. This was a risk you had to take.

Continuing to stare her down you take a deep breath, allowing your chest to expand as you stood a bit taller. Like a male animal displaying his virility to his rivals you were showing her how much bigger you were than her. It was a show of pure primal superiority. Before this went further you needed to provide yourself a safety net.

You say in a low voice. "We do this now. No tricks, no joint locks or martial arts, just you and me. Just raw strength and power. I think it's time someone reminded you of who really is the stronger sex."

You hit something there! Those dark almond shaped eyes widen as something approaching rage shoots forth from them. She whirls the whip around and brings it down with a CRACK! on the floor. The tip flying dangerously close to your exposed torso as she does.

"Give...me...the whip!" You command her. She cracks it again, once again barely missing your flesh.

Crack!

You take another step forward and this time she steps forward to meet you! Stretching to her full height. She was a tall woman but still a bit shorter than you. You were only an arms length away now as you stared each other down. Electricity practically crackled from your stare-down. Caitlin simply cowered in the corner.

"I said...give me the whip!"

She raises her hand to crack it once more, you catch her arm. You both stand there locked in a struggle, her trying to pull her arm back and you trying to **** it downward. Straining against one another, your bodies shaking from the effort. Holy fuck she was strong! She was a master at using her impressive physique in ways that maximized her power, but here, in this simple straightforward test of raw strength, your larger muscles began to take over. You slowly and shakily **** her arm slowly downward, you see her jaw clench and eyes widen as she uses all her strength to resist you. Reaching across with your other hand you begin forcibly prying the whip from her grasp. Her muscles are shaking, her face contorts as she tries to hold on. You eventually wrench it from her grip. You let go of her and step back.

She brings her hands to her sides, clenched in fists. She quivers in pent up aggression. Her fury emanating off of her like heat from a fire. She still holds your gaze. She looked like she was right on the edge of ending this violently.

Taking another step back you deftly curl the whip and give it a flick in the air.

Crack!

Your kinky exgirlfriend had gone through a BDSM phase, even convincing you to take Dom classes at one point. You knew your way around a dungeon.

The Korean's eyes widen, not expecting the skillful display. They narrow once more, as if suddenly aware she might have a real challenge here. She paces back and forth, measuring you up, before finally coming to a stop and facing you once more.

"What are you going to do fool!" She hisses. "You weak pathetic man!"

Crack!

"Ah!" She lets out a cry. An angry pink welt appears across Soo-yin's midsection. She breaks eye contact just momentarily from the unexpected sting of the whip's caress. Caitlin sobs, her face buried in her hands. Soo-yin looks at you with wide excited eyes before she collects herself.

"The only words I want to hear you say is...I submit." You growl. You were going to take her loyalty with strong hand!

Her eyes are narrow slits once more as she looks back to you.

"HA! Submit to you?" She scoffs.

Crack!

She grimaces. "Look at you. Pretending to be someone you're not. Living in another man's house. Wearing his clothes. Eating his food. Fucking his wife!"

Crack!

Another welt appears just under her tiny right breast. "Ah!" She lets out a cry involuntarily, she takes a small step back from the pain. She lets out a shuddering breath.

"Who are you? Just some gullible fool with dreams of living the good life. Do you think you can get away with it? They'll find you out!" She bares her teeth like a wild cat.

Crack! Crack!

"Ahhh! Weak!" She says with a gasp. "Weak! You are weak. You needed me. With those hillbillies. You needed the protection of a woman!"

Crack! Crack!

"Uh!" She cries, her breath quickening. Fresh licks of the leather showing on her legs, stomach and breasts. Playing a hunch you decide to flip things around on her to throw her off guard. You weren't sure if it would work.

"Yes, I need the protection from a woman. And where were you today?" You ask.

"What?" She looks at you momentarily confused.

"Where were you today?"

Realization began to creep into her face. A look of almost terror in her eyes. "No! No don't...Don't you dare...You don't know what you are saying!"

You press on. "I was almost killed today. And where were you!? You couldn't protect me."

"...no...not this..." She suddenly had the voice of a child.

You see something cracking and crumbling inside her. You're tactic had paid off big time! Her usually emotionless face was moving and twitching, so many emotions trying to come out all at once. You had touched on something here.

"WHERE WERE YOU!?" You shout.

Crack!

"AHH! I...was...I can't protect you all the time!" She blurts. "I told you! I told you I couldn't!"

Crack!

"Ah!" Her knees buckle a bit, her voice is small...fragile. "Just stop...stop talking...please...just the whip..."

You say in a cold flat tone. "You failed. You failed me and I nearly died."

She lets out a sharp breath through her nose as the words land far harder and far sharper than any whip. You are not sure why but you had touched on something really deep within the assassin's psyche. Someone in her past she couldn't protect? This was sacred ground you were trampling on. You press forward, you had finally found a weakness you could exploit and you weren't going to let this advantage slip through your fingers.

Crack!

"No! No!" Her voice cracking. She whispers. "I told you...I can't protect you all the time! I can't..."

Crack!

"AHaa!" Her chin quivers, she was nearing a breaking point. "I failed! Please...No!" She shakes her head violently. "I must be punished...PUNISH ME!"

Crack!

"AH! Yes!"

You realize the pain of the lash is actually helping her at this point, taking her mind away from whatever memory she was tapping into. Or perhaps allowing her to tap into it more deeply.

Crack!

"Ahhhh!" She is trembling now. "I told you to stay! I TOLD YOU! Why did you go to save the woman! WHY!? WHY!?" She is screaming. "I COULD HAVE PROTECTED YOU! WHY DID YOU GO OUT THERE!"

Her dark eyes were wide open, her face **** and afraid and angry all at once. "...why did you...I couldn't..."

You give her a moment. You had no idea who she was talking about at this point. She was not altogether here right now. The power of what she was going through was shaking your resolve. You worried for her. But these were issues that you would talk with her about as friends months or years from now, today you had a different agenda. Today you needed her loyalty. Caitlin had been right though, Soo-yin was really messed up.

You say softly. "Turn around, grab onto the pole."

She stood there trembling but not moving, her body practically a zebra pattern of pink. Stepping forward you physically make her do what you want her to, she doesn't resist you at all as you do so. It was like moving a human sized doll around. You put her arms on the pole, her body bent over slightly. Her flesh is very warm to the touch. You head to the wall, drop the whip and take a cat-o-nine tails. You give it a test flick then head back to where Soo-yin waits.

"Soo-yin?" ...whap...a lash across her lovely yet scarred back "Soo-yin?" ...whap...

"Yes?" She gasps.

"It wasn't your fault." ...whap...

She is silent.

"It wasn't your fault." ...whap...

"You are special." ...whap... "I want you to stay." ...whap...this time across her firm little ass "I want your loyalty Soo-yin."

She says quietly. "Loyalty is..."

"...taken with a strong hand." You finish her sentence for her as you flog her once more, but harder. Whap! "I am taking it Soo-yin, do you hear me?" Whap! "I am taking your loyalty. Do you hear?"

She is silent. ... Whap! ... WHAP! "Ah! Yes. Yes I hear you."

Whap! ... Whap! ... WHAP! ... "I saved your life." You say. Her head dips down a bit, something had changed. Something almost imperceptible yet all important.

Whap! You take a step back from her and in a deep firm voice say. "Now say it!"

She grips the pole, shuddering, her back and butt streaked in pink. Her head down but not bowed. In a quiet voice, that eerie calm returning to it. "...I...submit..." Her body heaves with a barely contained sob.

You drop the whip. In a softer voice you say. "Good. I need you. I need you Soo-yin."

You go to Caitlin and help her up. She looks up at you with her big green eyes, overwhelmed by what she has just witnessed. "About what you heard here tonight Caitlin..."

"Don't worry, I won't say a word...Mr. Calabrese. I swear, not one word." She says. "You're a better man than he was."

"Go to her." You say as you direct her towards Soo-yin. The former maid rushes forward, Soo-yin turns to embrace the soft soothing flesh of her lover. Burying her face in Caitlin's welcoming shoulder. Caitlin hugs her tightly, actually rocking her a bit as she does so. She strokes Soo-yin's smooth black hair and rocks her. As you quietly leave the room you know this image of Caitlin and Soo-yin holding each other would stay in your memory for the rest of your life.