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THE CASE girls don’t guess chose

From sandman@bitsmart.com Sat Jan 03 02:02:01 1998

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Subject: {ASS} STORY: The Case (Sci-fi)(M/F)(M/M)(V-violence)

From: sandman@bitsmart.com

Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 08:02:01 GMT

Content Warning: The following work of fiction deals with sexual

situations between men and women and men and men. The subject deals

with a serial killer investigation and the darker side of sex is

touched upon. If this bothers you or it is illegal to possess such

material in your locality please hit the delete button now. This is a

work of fiction and any similarities between any person(s) living or

dead is pure coincidence. Under no circumstances should this material

be deemed suitable for minors.

Subject: In the near future a PI must uncover a serial killer in an

under sea pleasure dome where the inhabitants practice free sex.

Author’s note: There is very little graphic sex in this story. The

plot tended to override everything else and there was no strong

character interaction that I find necessary to write excruciatingly

graphic scenes. Still as a short science fiction story with a few

noticeably kind nods to BladeRunner I feel the story merits

publishing. Just don’t go in expecting to find a lot of life changing

orgasms.

Subject Matter: (Sci-fi)(M/F)(M/M)(V-violence)

Rating: (X) Not suitable for minors. May be illegal in some areas.

Author: The SandMan

Copyright: 1998 sandman@bitsmart.com

Distribution Rights: May be distributed freely WITHOUT MODIFICATION on

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articles. All other rights are specifically reserved by the author.

Creation Date: 1/2/98

Distribution Date: 1/3/98

The Case (By Sandman)

It was raining again It always rains hard this time of year. Even

when it doesn’t rain, the sky’s a murky gray all the time. The people

outside are all huddled over, scurrying from one place to another. If

you meet them they try not to let it show the weather’s gotten to

them, but it always has. It’s like people have their lives on hold

for a while, waiting for the sun to appear. The scientists had it

wrong, global warming didn’t melt the ice caps, it just rained more.

The cook brought me my order, a mishmash of Mexican, Chinese, and

Italian fare not all in distinct servings, sometimes the great melting

pot melted to much. But it was lunch. People milled around behind me

as I ate, some going somewhere, some going nowhere, some hawking goods

of one kind or another, probably stolen. Several bumped into me as

they passed. The streets were crowded, they always were.

I finished the meal and dropped two new dollars on the bar, it was an

expensive meal for sidewalk fare, but the cheaper alternatives would

probably have one in the hospital before the day was out. The chef

chattered at me in Spanish, he was yelling at me for not giving him

enough of a tip. I ignored him, if he wanted a tip the meal would

have to have been better and he would have to talk in English. I’m no

language bigot, I talk English to Anglos and Spanish to Hispanics, I

expect the same courtesy in return.

My office was empty of course. I only need a few cases a year to meet

expenses. Some years are better than others. The name on the door

says it all, Steve Whiley P.I., ex COP, ex FBI, ex CIA. Feds took me

from the Cops, CIA took me from the Feds, and I took myself from the

Spooks, they scared me. There’s not much call for a PI these days, a

few missing people now and again, usually dead, a few recovery of

stolen items that sort of thing. But the stock in trade was always

the spouse hunting, either to prove or disprove an affair. It wasn’t

much of one but it was a living. I pulled my hat down, leaned back in

my chair and put my feet up. It wasn’t much of a meal, but enough of

one that the nap came easy.

I looked up when the door opened. I’m a light sleeper, always have

been, and it’s saved my life quite a few times. The guy was a

corporate type. Short, conservative back suit, black shiny wing tips,

silver glasses, short black hair, mousy accountant look, black

briefcase. I took my feet off the desk and sat up.

"Mr. Whiley I presume?" He said as he took a seat across from my

desk.

"The same. What can I do for you?" I replied.

He sat the briefcase on my desk and opened it. He pulled out a folder

and handed it to me. I opened it, there was picture after picture of

mutilated men and women. All naked, all very, very dead. My lunch

suddenly showed disturbing signs of life and I closed the folder.

"Not pretty." I said.

"Not at all. BioCorp wants you to find who did this.", he said.

"It’s a job for the cops." I replied. My ex-brothers-in-arms

protected their turf.

"There are no cops in Xanadu, we’ve never needed them before." The

man replied.

I lifted my eyebrow in surprise. Xanadu was one of the undersea

society domes built by the big multinationals. Rich people paid a

fortune for citizenship in the dome and lived by whatever societal

rules went on there. Most coddled religious fanatics, a few had a

utopian bent. Xanadu was the newest and largest, mostly devoted to

free love, or free sex. The domes were nations unto themselves, what

went on there beyond what you could see in the commercials or

brochures was anybody’s guess.

"What has BioCorp uncovered so far?" I asked.

He rifled through his briefcase and pushed forward a two page

document. I read it carefully, it was a standard non-disclosure

agreement, a bit more thorough than most but basically said I

couldn’t reveal what I discovered to any third party without

permission from BioCorp. It was acceptable, I signed.

"The murders have been sexual ritual slayings. There’s a lot of

variation but the sex organs have always been mutilated. The

perpetrator has a DNA scrambler, so we’ve been unable to construct a

physical profile. The psyc profile is that of a serial killer, the

usual stuff, I’ll make the report available to you if you take the

case. My company is very concerned that this may be more than just a

serial killer, it might be corporate espionage meant to drive

potential customers away from Xanadu and to their own domes. There’s

a 1 million new dollar bonus if you can prove that conclusively and

find the company that’s doing it. We’ll recoup our costs in court.

If you just find the serial killer we’ll pay you 100,000 new dollars.

If you don’t catch him within 60 days we’ll pay your expenses and

10,000 new dollars and decide weather or not to give you more time."

I flipped through the folder again while I considered the offer. It

was attractive even if I failed. BioCorp was ensuring I’d keep quiet

win or loose. It had been a while since I hunted a killer, and the

Cop in me was ready to jump on the case.

"How’d you draw me from the hat?" I asked.

"Our contacts at the FBI said you were the best. You’ve hunted serial

killers before.", he answered.

I nodded. The multinationals always had their contacts. The Feds

took a dim view on freelancing, even for political favors. Serial

killers were not so common that your average cop on the beat had any

experience in the area either. For the ten years I was with the FBI

it was all I did. BioCorp had done it’s homework. "What’s the

catch?" I asked. I didn’t really expect an answer, but it never hurt
to ask. He surprised me.

"The catch is that you’ll go in undercover as a new citizen. Xanadu

offers it’s older immigrants like yourself rejuvenation therapy.

You’ll spend a week in our labs and when you come out you’ll look and

feel 20 again. The process is irreversible save by age itself.

You’re 55 now, the optimum age for rejuvenation is 70. You can only

have it once you know, at least until we learn how to undo replication

errors. The process could conceivably cut 15 years off your potential

life by having it this early. And you will not look the same when you

finish the case and return here."

That wasn’t much of a catch. At fifty five you yearn for the care

free days of your twenties, and I wasn’t so flush that I could afford

rejuvenation any time soon if ever. "I’ll take the case." I

answered.

He just nodded. There was never really any doubt. Like I say they

had done their homework well. After I read and signed another

agreement that basically covered all the bases he touched on earlier,

he pushed over another folder with travel arrangements, a credit card

with my name on it, and the details of my new identity. I was still

leafing through it when he left.

I boarded the hypersonic as Robert Jordan, a wealthy businessman who

had lost and finally made several fortunes playing the global stock

markets. I stayed strapped in on the one hour flight from New York to

Auckland New Zealand. Most of the trip was sub-orbital and though a

few passengers frolicked in the zero G, the ever present sense of

falling was more than a little discomforting to me. A modified cruise

ship took me to the small platform out in the middle of the pacific.

It looked nothing more than countless off sea oil platforms, but there

was no oil here, only an elevator that took me three thousand feet

down to Xanadu.

The dome had been built ten years ago by BioCorp, citizenship cost

10,000,000 new dollars. It’s customers where usually wealthy

businessmen and women who had decided to retire and spend their second

lives having fun. Xanadu was built like a giant pleasure resort and

in fact made quite a bit of tourist income on the side. Under the ten

square mile dome, there where tropical beaches (complete with

artificial surf), golf courses, health spas, VR rooms, even a ski

slope. All the fun modern science could provide.

The dome was run by the latest model androids, almost

indistinguishable from humans these days save they all tended to look

alike. If you saw a gorgeous woman and an identical twin nearby, she

was probably an android. If you were still unsure, all you had to do

was ask. Androids had to say yes, and it was considered a compliment

by most people to be asked the question. There were no ugly androids.

Visitors and immigrants where screened for and vaccinated against

diseases. The only real rule in the dome was to have fun and be

adventurous.

The effects of rejuvenation where well documented. A retrovirus was

injected which helped repair damaged DNA, a second retrovirus was

injected which reactivated the genes which controlled puberty. It was

like having the worst case of flu you ever had in your life, but when

it was all over (about a week later), you walked out with a body of a

twenty year old and all the raging hormones that went with it. The

sex drive returned to normal after a year or so, but in the first

year, the new patient was insatiable. Many didn’t really consider

this a bad side effect to have at all. The residents of Xanadu

celebrated it.

After a bit of cosmetic surgery and fat removal, I walked out of the

hospital a changed man, literally. I had stared at myself for an hour

in the mirror on the eighth day, unable to believe the changes. The

wrinkles and flabbiness of middle age had turned to smooth taunt skin.

My hair had been dyed blond (my natural color) to hide the gray but I

wouldn’t have gray hair for another thirty years. There was even some

new growth indicating my receding hairline was no longer receding.

In the clinic I ate enough to satisfy 10 men and I was still hungry.

The drugs used the resources of the body to repair the ravages of age

and that took energy and energy took food, lots of it. I was told to

eat whatever and whenever I wanted for at least a month, overly long

periods of hunger could be fatal during this time. My sex drive which

had for years been a very managable part of me, grew into an enormous
over powering need, and as often as I ate, I availed myself of the

Janet model android nurse at my bedside.

The bungalow I had been assigned was large and very spacious with

several android servants that saw to all my needs, mostly eating and

sex for my second week. I really was little more than an animal
during that time. I ate, slept, and had sex with the androids. When

the third week began I reported in for work, trying to ignore the ever

present erection in my pants.

I reported to Mr. Squires the colony administrator, who looked to be

nothing more than the carbon copy of the man who had visited me in the

office. He wasn’t an android, but there was little difference between

androids and corporate career men anyway.

"I didn’t expect you for another week Mr. Whiley", he said after we

had shaken hands and sat down. "It takes at least four weeks to

really get back to normal after rejuvenation."

I shrugged. "I’m here to do a job, the sooner I do it, the happier

everyone will be."

He nodded and briefed me. "Since you were hired there’s been another

murder. They seem to be spaced at three week intervals." He handed

me a map of the dome with several X’s marked on it. "There’s no

pattern to the time or place, just the time between murders. We

haven’t been able to determine any link between the victims either.

The killer is deliberate in his or her randomness."

"I’ll need to avail myself of your clinic again." I said. "There is

one link you might have noticed." When his puzzled face said he

hadn’t noticed I explained. "The female victims all had large

breasts, the males larger than average penises."

"And you’ll want an enlargement?", he asked.

"I’ll be looking for our perp, but if he or she finds me, so much the

better.", I replied.

"Put it on your credit card, I’ll bump up the limit to make sure there

will be no problems.", he replied. "Keep me briefed at least once a

week on your findings or lack thereof."

I nodded. The next two days I was back in the clinic for the

relatively simple operation. I was normally stood around 5", but the

male victims averaged 7" and the largest 9", I settled for 8" in the

end since anything larger tended to drag the organ down under it’s own

weight. The upshot of the surgery was that the pain controlled my sex

drive enough for me to land on my feet and get to work.

I spent the week exploring Xanadu and talking with it’s residents

discretely. BioCorp wasn’t making the murders publicly known, so only

the friends of the deceased really knew anything was amiss. Generally

I found what I expected to find, a couple of thousand people all hell

bent on having fun. When I had finally healed after a few days, with

only a small tiny scar to indicate anything out of the ordinary, I

started visiting the public beaches and pleasure rooms where nudity

was the norm. I had no problems finding people who’d talk with me.

The general dialog went like this.

"Hi!" said the person approaching me. I’d return the greeting. "You

must be a Juvie." Juvies tended to walk around with erections all the

time so it was a safe bet. "Would you like to have some fun?"

I politely declined the advances from other Juvies. My perp had been

here a while, he wouldn’t be so obvious. It was harder to tell the

women Juvies from the men, but eventually I caught on to the erect

nipples. I also declined the offers from anyone without a citizenship

band. My perp wasn’t a visitor, a review of the records indicated at

least that much.

Despite my filtering, I had more than enough offers to satisfy my

surging hormones. For the first couple of days I stuck mostly to the

women. I knew my perp was probably a man, but I’ve never really

leaned in that direction myself. The male victims had all been

bisexual to greater or lesser degrees. As I interviewed the

deceased’s friends I decided the perp was probably a handsome man. A

few of the women where straight as an arrow, while all of the men
where bisexual. A few of the men where predominately heterosexual but

would have an occasional fling with a handsome man.

After I had arrived at Xanadu I had prepared for the eventuality with

tools and exercises designed to enlarge and relax the anus. Though I

didn’t practice it, I didn’t have any qualms about homosexuality there

simply wasn’t the social stigma there had been in the old days. The

world was to big, to crowded, for anyone to really care what went on

behind closed doors. Entertainment also portrayed the act frequently

and in a positive light. When I was younger it wasn’t so common or

so favorably cast so it was never a part of my world, and at 55 I

might have been to set in my ways, but as a new 20 year old with

raging hormones it wasn’t such a big deal that I would let it

interfere with my investigation.

My first encounter was just oral sex on the public beach. He was a

handsome man with black hair and a cock almost as large as my new one.

He propositioned me, I accepted and he sucked me off and then I

returned the favor. It definitely ranked near the top of my oral

experiences, the man was good. I don’t know how well I ranked with

him, but he got off well enough. My first anal sex went about like

I expected it to, there was a little pain for me, although thanks to

the exercises I lived through it. I had anal sex with a few women in

my time and this wasn’t all that much different.

I was surprised that I developed an exotic tastes for threesomes. I

had the most intense experience of my life with a woman below me and a

man behind me. My perp probably a loner, but I didn’t turn down a

threesome when it was offered.

Despite the casual attitude about sex, most of the fare was pretty

standard stuff. A few exotic positions maybe, a tendency for group

sex, but there wasn’t all that much s/m, bondage and other games going

on. And the more I studied my prey the more I decided that’s what he

liked. This guy liked control, and the pinnacle of control was having

a person’s life in your hands.

I got my first suspect at Alph, the sacred bar where liquor ran free.

A startling handsome man was eyeing me from across the room. He was

tall at about 6’5", and as he was wearing only a pair of shorts and

sandals it wasn’t hard to miss his broad shoulders or chiseled

features. He either worked out or used drugs to get that physique.

For the rest of the night I noticed him watching me as he talked.

As the evening drew long and I turned down numerous passes, he finally

came over.

"I’m Jim Jackson." He said offering his hand.

"Robert Jordan." I replied using my cover name as we shook.

"You’re quite a popular guy." He said.

I laughed. "Everyone’s popular here."

"But a discriminating popular guy isn’t." He said pointedly.

"Haven’t got an offer you couldn’t refuse yet?"

"Not tonight anyway." I said.

"I know where we can find a party. The people tend to like their sex

rough.", he said casually.

"Rough has it’s appeals." I replied taking the bait.

He smiled. "Lets go then. It ought to be in high gear by now."

The ride in the electric car was quiet. Jim didn’t say much, neither

did I. The bungalow we entered was much like mine in layout, but was

decorated like a dungeon, complete with torches on the wall. Several

androids hung in chains on the wall, moaning. The host who met us at

the door was a striking woman with jet black hair accented with a

small lock of silver. She was dressed in a black gown which showed

off her ample bosom in a very attractive way then trailed all the way

down to the floor and drug a foot along the floor behind her. Stylish

morbid.

"Jim!" She exclaimed kissing him on the cheek. "I haven’t seen you

in weeks. And who is your friend?"

He returned the kiss and introduced us. "Robert Jordan. I met him at

Alph’s a few minutes ago. He looked fun. Robert this is Fanisha."

She shook my hand, and I finished by bringing up her hand and kissing

it gallantly. "Ohh!" She exclaimed girlishly, "A gentleman.

Welcome to my home Robert."

"Rob." I insisted.

"Rob then." She agreed. "Are you a master or a slave?"

I thought quick. "Slave, but a new one. Since my rejuvenation I’m

more inclined to experiment."

"Aren’t we all" She winked. She turned to Jim and said, "Go join the

party, I’ll get him ready."

She drug me off to a small room and disrobed me, pausing to admire my

perennially erect cock. "You’re going to be a popular one all right."

She bubbled as she put a leather studded collar around my neck,

complete with a leash. "There’s not much to learn for this part.

Just do what you’re told. If it’s really objectionable to you, say

so, but be very open minded, what may seem objectionable may really

take you places that are far more pleasurable than you’ve ever been

before. Keep that in mind."

Wearing only the collar she led me by the leash into the main room.

There was a small orgy going on but everyone paused when she clapped.

"We have a new slave. He’s not broken in yet and will need suitable

training!"

And so my training began as I was passed back and forth between the

partygoers. Aside from the sex being a little rougher than normal (a

few claw marks on my back and buttocks), and a few unusual positions,

it was pretty much what I was used to by now. The only hard part was

that being a slave my pleasure was secondary, subservient to my master

of the moment and more than a few times I was in physical discomfort

awaiting my release. Several times I noticed Jim looking on. He had

not come near me since Fanisha had released me.

One woman led me to a back room and tied me to a bed. For two hours

she kept me on the painful verge or orgasm, holding me back by

occasionally drawing a knife across my skin to draw blood. It wasn’t

something I’d like to do every day, but the orgasm when it came was

unbelievable in it’s intensity and duration. Still bleeding in

places I decided it call it a night. Jim met me at the door.

"I see you’ve met Trish.", he said with a smile. "We call her the

butcher around here.."

I smiled weakly. "A good name."

Jim drove me back to my bungalow, tired though I was I invited him

in, but he declined. "Maybe later, I think we’ve both had a busy

night."

The next day I paid Fanisha a call in daylight hours. She was groggy

but ever the good host she invited me in. Over some delicious well

made coffee I showed her some photos. They were all victims of the

killer, but these were not the autopsy photos. She knew a surprising

number of them, almost a full two thirds. They had all been visitors

at one time or another, two of them were even regulars. She didn’t

think it odd that they had stopped showing up, people tended to drift

in and out of places like this. Only a few were really hard core

fanatics like Fanicia.

"Why do you want to know about them?" She asked finally.

My non-disclosure agreement allowed me a certain latitude in my

investigation in Xanadu itself and she was a good source of

information. She frowned deeply on learning they were all dead and I

was investigating their murders. But the disclosure had the desired

effect, she was very forthcoming with the information I needed. She

wasn’t to familiar with dates, but she supplied me with a list of

names of people who had just started visiting before the murders had

begun. Jim’s name was on the list. She was also the best source of

information I had on the victims. And my profile began to sharpen

both of the killer and what he wanted in his victims. I had chosen

right by being a submissive, but I don’t think I fit the profile of

what the killer was looking for. If it was Jim, I was close enough to

get invited here, maybe close enough to have sex with, but I think he

had probably mentally ruled me out even if he didn’t know it or not.

When I left I checked into the office and made my report. Mr. Squires

was very pleased. It was the first break in the case. Even the

company security men hadn’t made as much headway. And so I settled

down and started stalking my prey. I went through the list Fanicia

had given me and in the end, Jim was my only suspect and I staked him

out.

Using the net and some good contacts I reconstructed his past. A

prominent and wealthy business man, graduate of Yale, no police

record, nothing to make him really stand out. But what really zeroed

me in on him as a suspect was the fact that in his twenties there were

a number of unsolved serial murders in the area he lived in, all

female though, and all disturbingly similar to the victims in Xanadu.

It was only circumstantial. Circumstantial evidence isn’t very valid

in the courts, but every good policeman uses it to zero in on the

prey.

According to his records he had immigrated three years ago, undergoing

rejuvenation on his arrival. He had been sixty five. The sex-drive

returns to normal after a year, but Jim’s normal was practically

indistinguishable from rejuvenation. In the first day of the stake

out, he paired off with six different women and in the evening,

brought two home to his apartment.

I used "The Snooper" to pry into his life. It was a small, illegal

device which used a quirk of quantum physics to gather the few photons

that escaped through walls, no matter how dense, and used

sophisticated real time image enhancement routines to piece together a

picture as good and sharply defined as if a video camera had been

planted in the house. The device was so good I could even select

from different angles and magnification. The built in laser targeted

the window and reconstructed sound from the molecular level vibrations

in the glass. The Snooper was one of the toys I had from the CIA.

They probably knew I still had it, most people would be surprised at

how much the CIA actually did know, but as long as I was discrete

they offered some latitude to their ex agents.

As I sat there watching the screen showing a very well endowed man
royally fucking a gorgeous and very active red-haired woman doggie

style while another woman stood behind him running her hands across

his chest waiting her turn, I realized how hard a job this was. The

demands of rejuvenation are hard to ignore, and it took every shred of

will power not to run off and find a willing partner or android to

meet those demands. A solitary hand job was a poor substitute but it

allowed me to keep focused on the job.

Over a week, I began to wonder if I had the wrong man. So far he had

brought home only women, and the perp had also targeted men. There

was a pattern to the killings as well in the gender selections, two

women were killed then a male. If the killer remained true, the next

victim would be a male. But it wasn’t uncommon for a killer to vary

his style every now and again to try and be less predictable.

I sat up and stared hard at the screen. The woman Jim had brought

home this evening was a knockout, and a Juvie from the looks of her.

She had gone all to willingly to his bed, and they had a good fuck

missionary style but she had resisted when he brought out the

handcuffs. This was the first I’d seen him try the dominance games,

but this was the first time I’d seen him with a partner who fitted a

victim’s profile as well.

He slapped her across the face, hard. And she cried as he handcuffed

her to the bed. Then using pieces of rope he tied her legs to the

bedpost until he had her spread eagle on the bed. Juvie or not, the

woman didn’t care for this at all and I could clearly see she showed

absolutely no signs of sexual arousal.

"Prissy little bitch!" He hissed and slapped her again leaving an

angry red welt on the side of her face. "Bossing men around like a

queen because of these." He reached down, pinching and twisting her

nipples until she cried out in pain. I hesitated, I should call in

security now before this went any further but then I’d have to explain

The Snooper, and the best we could get him on would be rape. He

slapped his hand over her pussy and dug in, pulling so that her waist

was lifted from the bed. "Well who’s the boss now Bitch?"

When she just continued to scream and cry he hissed, "Say it! Who’s

the boss now!" and she whimpered "You are, you’re the boss."

"Damn right." He said as he let her recover a moment. I could see

him staring at her, it was the face of a man thinking, considering.

Finally he removed the cuffs and the ropes and helped her dry her

tears. "I’m sorry Sara." He said. "Some girls like these games,

some girls don’t. I guess I chose wrong this time."

It was like watching two different men. One moment he had been a

towering bastion of dominion, the next a strong compassionate, caring

man. Sara was as puzzled as I was, but she accepted the apology and

left. As I pondered what had happened I managed to puzzle it out.

Whatever needs Jim had, came to the forefront tonight. If he had

continued Sara would have been another victim and the killer was to

careful to piss in his own cave.

The next day Jim had settled back into his normal routine. Being

handsome he was often approached by men as often as women, but he had

always declined politely. But today he accepted the advances of an

average looking man of around 30, well muscled and since they were at

the beach, obviously well endowed. A tingle went up my spine as I

realized the prey was near.

They went back to the man’s house with me following well behind. My

equipment had let me know their intentions well before hand and it

wasn’t hard to trace the man’s address down once I had a name.

They where disrobing when I finally got my equipment set up. The man,

David was his name and a brief study of public information revealed he

was probably completely homosexual, came over and started to suck on

Jim;s cock. Jim let him until he was fully erect. Jim then lifted the

man almost forcefully and pushed him over to a nearby table and bent

the man over.

"Ohhh a rough one!" David exclaimed excitedly. "Do it Stud, use me,

I’m yours."

Jim hesitated. It obviously wasn’t what he expected. I knew it too.

I had the killers number now and Jim’s as well. The killer wanted

dominance but that dominance had to be earned over a strong willed

victim. This man caved in to early. Jim plunged in roughly and dug

his fingernails into the man’s back until I could see blood flow.

David gasped in surprise and pain. "You’re hurting me." David

protested.

"Shut up faggot." Jim hissed as he raked his fingernails across the

man’s back drawing even more blood. All the while pummeling the man’s

ass. "You’re a worm, a low, crawling faggot of a worm."

As David howled in pain between sobs, Jim finished quickly. He didn’t

look back as he put on his cloths and left. I followed Jim back to

his house where he spent a solitary night. I was sure Jim was my man,

and I was sure it wouldn’t be long before I snared him. It had been

three weeks since the last murder. The killer was ready to kill

again, and when he tried it would be his last.

Over the next few days, Jim focused almost exclusively on men,

accepting many offers and politely declining the women. Almost always

Jim struck a dominant pose and most fell to submissive, a few left

before anything could really begin. Then the hairs on the back of my

neck pricked when I watched him being picked up by a large muscular

man. They went back to Jim’s house and was followed quickly by some

pretty rough sex. Jim posed dominant but the other man didn’t really

fall for it and maintained some pretty good control. It might not

have been what the man had expected but he apparently had enough fun

to accept a date the next evening at the waterfall.

I knew the spot, it was a small garden like setting with many private

places. One of the many romantic destinations in the dome. I also

cursed, it would be hard to track someone there, at least without

drawing attention. The next morning I made a show of bumping into Jim

we chatted a while, mostly about my absence at Fanicia’s but he seemed

to take it in stride when I told him it really wasn’t my ball of wax.

When we shook hands, what he might have mistaken for sweaty palms was

really an invisible water proof radioactive ink that would let one of

my devices track him.

As I watched him get ready for his date I knew I had the man I wanted

when he removed two devices from a hidden panel. A muffler that

damped sound, and a DNA scrambler. The first was legal, the second

was not. Under dome law, I had enough of a case to send Jim through

the nearest air lock without a pressure suit. But that would have to

wait a while, my ex employers might have accepted the fact that a

snooper had been broken and lost in a river on an assignment, but if I

didn’t remain discrete I’d have spooks all over me to get it back, and

maybe a few unwanted charges as well.

I followed him to the waterfall and watched them disappear into the

forested gardens. It was late so there weren’t to many people here.

Jim had chosen well, the chances of anyone stumbling on him while he

worked where small. After a few minutes, I followed them.

I was almost to late. Jim had bashed his dates head with a rock. The

rock with blood dripping from it was still in Jim’s hand. Jim’s date

was a collapsed bloody mass on the clearing floor. Jim quickly set up

the muffler, and started binding his victim with rope, tying him to

stakes that had been driven into the ground. The stakes where long,

the man would have to be stronger than he already looked to pull free.

I flipped open my cell phone and called security, there was no need

for silence, the muffler kept sound out as well as in. "Robert here.

Send an armed squad to the waterfall, take the main trail to the first

path to the left, take the second path to the right, our killer is in

a clearing and we’ve got him red handed."

I stuck around long enough to make sure no serious harm happened

before security arrived. There wasn’t much security in Xanadu, a

small force of about 5 men, but they were all well trained and did

their job well. There would be no Victim number 9.

I met Mr. Squires the next day and he was beaming if a corporate man
can beam. "Well done Mr. Whiley. Security tells me that Mr. Jackson

has made a full and complete confession and that he acted alone."

I nodded. I had suspected as much. 1 million new dollars would have

been a nice bonus, but when I had found out about the previous murders

before Jim had immigrated I figured it was just another serial killer,

no corporate sabotage.

"I’d like you to stay on. As a full citizen of course. There’s almost

no crime to speak of here, but it won’t hurt to protect our investment

by having a professional investigator available should the need

arise."

"Citizenship plus 100,000 new dollars a year." I said. "I like to

travel."

"As long as you are available if needed when you do." Mr. Squires

countered.

"And I don’t work for security. I’ve done my time as a cop. I’m free

lance all the way." I said.

"As you say." Mr. Squires replied.

"Then you’ve got yourself a detective." I said as I stretched out my

hand. There was no such thing as a gentlemen’s handshake agreement

with multinationals, I’d use a bit of my 100,000 new dollars to hire a

lawyer and hammer out a respectable contract, in the end it was the

only deals these guy’s understood.

As I stepped outside the administration building I looked up at the

giant dome overhead, shying my eyes away from the giant fusion driven

light at the very top. Xanadu was a great place to live, and the

perfect place for an old PI just recouping from rejuvenation. Smiling

I walked up to an attractive blond nearby and wrapped my arm around

her waist. I whispered a few sweet nothings into her ear and she

smiled and walked beside me to my bungalow. It was great to be 20

again!

-Sandman

I spied a lass a walkin’

as pretty as could be

soon we started talkin’

as she sat upon my knee

We laughed, we cried

and by the fire did we abide

The hour grew late

The ale grew strong

Until she looked at me and sighed

We played the game of lovers

under those silken covers

where beads of sweat

where as beads of pearls

And women turned into mothers

At dawn I kissed her softly

as she slumbered in dreamy sleep

And I slipped out with great caution

Lest she catch me as a thief

I greeted the sun with a smile that day

made ready my horse and was on my way

and as I rode along the trail

I spied a lass a walkin’