Chapter Three - Do You Have Anything Besides 'Cheap American Hooker' In
Your Wardrobe?
"And that's everything." Poppy drained the last of her scotch and put
the glass on the coffee table.
Elliot remained silent and she wondered if she had put him to sleep with
her story.
She looked up at him and saw the tears rolling down his cheeks.
After telling Elliot her story she was jonesing for a cigarette.
Poppy had not had a cigarette since she arrived at the safe house,
Elliot expressly forbade her from smoking indoors which meant her only
opportunity to smoke was either before or after her morning run and PT
which seemed contradictory.
She looked up at Elliot and reached up to touch his cheek to wipe away
his tears.
"What's wrong?" She sat up and looked at him concernedly; she didn't
understand his reaction.
"What's wrong?" Elliot was shocked by her story.
"What you have lived through, the way you have been treated, how you
have had to make a living... and what did I do? I threw you in the tank
to be molested by lowlifes and then I beat you." Elliot was still
whimpering.
"I can't believe the sacrifices you made for the sake of your brother."
He shook his head in disbelief.
"Look Elliot. I chose the life I live. I could have run away from
Margaret and Ray-Ray. It's not like I'm not used to being treated the
way you treated me. You can't imagine how many times I've been violated
against my will, how many times I've been beaten, how many times I've
been treated like I'm worthless. I'm hardened to it. What you said and
did to me is nothing." Poppy stood and went to the kitchen to pour
herself another scotch.
"Your perception has only changed because you know I'm caring for my
brother. Nothing has changed. I am what I am." She took a long pull
on her drink.
Elliot leapt off the couch and strode to the kitchen and took the glass
out of Poppy's hand. He took her by the shoulder and looked into her
eyes.
"What you are is beautiful and I was stupid and prejudiced. I can't
forgive myself for the way I've treated you," he said, his voice
trembling.
"But I can Elliot. I forgive you." Poppy returned his gaze.
Elliot brushed the hair out of her eyes and lowered his face to hers and
kissed her.
She let him but she was passive. He broke the kiss and studied her
face. It remained impassive.
"What?" Elliot looked confused.
"I don't want your pity Elliot. I don't want what I told you to skew
whatever it is you feel for me. Do you even know what it is that you
feel for me?" Poppy tried to pick up her drink and Elliot put his hand
on her wrist and stopped her.
"I don't know exactly what I feel for you Poppy. I'm confused. I can
set aside how you live because you have to do what you have to survive
and to care for Robert, that's not the problem." Elliot sighed.
"I know what the problem and so do you. Say it. Say it's because I'm
transgender." Poppy toyed with the glass.
"It's because you're transgender." Elliot breathed.
"There you've said it. Because I'm transgender we have no future, we
have no... whatever this is." Poppy felt broken-hearted inside but she
was an expert at concealing her emotions.
She put down the glass and walked back into the lounge. Elliot followed
her and spun her around to face him.
"No it's not that. You have it all wrong. I have deep affection for
you. I want to get to know you better. It sounds stupid but I don't
want our situation to change; I want us stay like this... living
together. I want to make love to you... I just don't know how." Elliot
wrapped his arms around Poppy and kissed her before she could respond.
This time, she wasn't passive. She put her arms around him and glued
her body to his and kissed him passionately. She felt him become
tumescent against her and she smiled when he gasped into her mouth when
she sought his erection with her fingers. She stroked him though his
shorts.
"I so want to make love to you; I just don't know how," Elliot repeated
himself.
"Then let me show you... if you're sure." She smiled up him and his
heart soared.
She looked up at him coyly.
"There are preparations I need to make and I want to make myself
beautiful for you. I want you to remember our first time together as
something special. Go to your bedroom and wait for me. I guarantee it
will be worth the wait." Her coy smile changed to a lascivious grin and
she squeezed his penis through his shorts and let him go.
Elliot watched Poppy walk away. Even in her flowing dress and flat
shoes she exuded femininity and sexuality. She disappeared into the
bathroom and closed the door and Elliot went to his bedroom, lay on the
bed and tried to imagine what was to come.
Poppy did the things a trans woman needs to do prior to having sex and
took another shower then put on a robe and went to her bedroom to dress.
Elliot caught a glimpse of her as she walked past his open door on the
way to her bedroom. He beckoned to her. He was naked, lying on the
bed, his erect penis standing proud. Poppy smiled at him and shook her
head. She would make him wait; build the anticipation. She closed the
door on him.
She sat at her vanity and put on her makeup; not quite street-walker
heavy but exotic and erotic: dark eyeliner and mascara to emphasise her
emerald green eyes, rouge to highlight her cheekbones and red lipstick.
She teased out her blonde hair. Her dark roots were showing and the
colourful streaks were fading because she hadn't dyed her hair since she
had been in protective custody. She doused herself in perfume and
pondered how she would dress.
Elliot heard the doorknob rattle and he turned towards the door in
expectation.
Poppy entered the room and Elliot was both shocked and surprised. She
was wearing matching black satin and lace panties and bra, a black satin
and red lace suspender belt fastened to vintage, long, black, fully-
fashioned stockings with backseams, reinforced heels and toes, and gauzy
welts. Poppy had deliberately chosen the six-inch black high-heeled
sandals to show off the dark toes and Cuban heels of her nylons. She
was wearing silver drop earrings, a silver choker necklace with matching
bracelets and rings on her fingers. They were knockoffs of course but
they glittered in the lamplight. She even wore a silver ankle bracelet.
The package was wrapped in a gauzy black see-through negligee tied
loosely at the front. A miasma of exotic perfume preceded her.
"You're beautiful," Elliot gasped as Poppy approached the bed.
Poppy had been with hundreds, possibly thousands of men, but she felt
like a young girl about to lose her virginity. The truth was that Poppy
had never truly made love to a man. She had been fucked and fondled by
her customers and abusers but this was the first time that she was going
to bed with a man because she wanted to make love to him, not because
she had been paid to, because she wanted to manipulate him or because
she was forced to.
Poppy and Elliot were as nervous as each other.
"Scoot over." Poppy shoed him with her hands.
She sat on the edge of the bed, took off her negligee and began to
unbuckle her heels which she had worn for effect during her entrance.
"Will you get mad if I ask you to leave them on?" Elliot whispered
sheepishly.
She saw his cheeky grin and she couldn't help but smile.
She climbed on the bed and crawled towards him on her hands and knees.
She leaned over him and kissed him, deliberately not touching his body,
making him wait, teasing him. Their kiss was passionate, her red
lipstick transferred to his lips and he tasted it. It tasted exotic,
like Poppy. Elliot yearned for her and tried to pull her to him but she
resisted.
He pulled harder and she giggled which became a shriek of laughter when
he dragged her to him and lifted her on top of him. She clung to his
hard body, one leg curled so that his cock was rubbing on her gossamer-
sheathed thigh as she kissed him. Her nipples were engorged and she was
uncomfortably erect. She had tucked and taped, not wanting to disgust
Elliot.
His hands were everywhere, caressing her shoulders, stroking her
breasts, tweaking her nipples, pawing her thighs. She was a wonderland
of pleasure for Elliot to explore. Poppy kissed his mouth, she bit his
lip, nuzzled his neck and nibbled her shoulder; she rubbed her stockings
seductively on his tender flesh and was delighted when he moaned.
Elliot suddenly rolled Poppy onto her back and she squealed like a
schoolgirl. Elliot fell on her and kissed her, grinding his cock
against her belly. He knelt over her and began to explore her body with
his mouth. He kissed and nibbled her earlobes and then her neck and
shoulders. He worked his way down to her breasts and spent some time
there using his hands and mouth on her tender flesh and engorged
nipples. Poppy entangled her fingers in his thick glossy hair and
writhed beneath him, pleasure radiating from her aching breasts.
When he had Poppy gasping, squirming and moaning like a slattern he
moved on. He investigated her flat belly and probed her bellybutton
with his tongue. Poppy still had her fingers entwined in his hair and
she tried to guide his face back to her breasts but he fought her and
continued to move his mouth down to her pubis.
Poppy tugged and ripped at his hair, trying to get him to move away from
there, even as his tongue licked the bare flesh above her panties.
"No!" she screamed, yanking madly at his hair.
Elliot looked up at her, his face hovering over the V of her pubis.
"Why?" He smiled up at her.
Her mascara was running and he was not sure if was because of the wicked
pleasure he had illicited from her body or because she was sacred and
ashamed of what she had hidden inside her panties.
"How do you do that?" he asked her matter-of-factly.
Poppy was caught off guard by the question.
"How do I do what?" She wasn't sure what Elliot was talking about.
"How do you get this delectable V in your panties and tights like that."
Elliot stroked the front of her panties softly.
"It doesn't matter Elliot. There's nothing there for you," she
whispered, imploring him with her eyes to leave that part of her body
alone.
"Oops... too late... your secret is out." Elliot grinned, pulling aside
the gusset of her panties.
Poppy covered her face with her hands. She had never felt so ashamed.
Elliot knew that it was best to rip off a band aid rather than pull it
off slowly and that was exactly what he did with the surgical tape
holding Poppy's penis along her perineum.
She gasped but not from pain. Poppy was completely shaved down there,
freshly shaved, and Elliot was transfixed by what he saw.
Poppy's penis sprung out from between her legs and Elliot let go of her
panties so that it was straining against the satin and lace, the glans
peeking up above the waistband.
"You don't have to... of god!" Poppy wriggled like a slattern when the
tip of Elliot's tongue touched her glans.
"Please Elliot." She tried to force his face away from her body again
but he resisted.
He stroked her shaft through the satin panty material and Poppy
shuddered and gasped.
"Please!" she implored him and Elliot's mouth began the journey back up
her body, stopping briefly at her belly, onto her breasts and finally he
kissed her again.
She wrapped her arms and legs around him and drove her tongue into his
mouth, his penis pressed against hers, rubbing against the silky fabric
of her panties.
"I tried to hide it. I didn't want to disgust you." Poppy buried her
face in his shoulder.
"You promised me that you would show me how to make love to you. When I
make love to a woman I want... I need her to enjoy it as much as I do.
Show me how to pleasure you," he whispered in her ear and then nibbled
her earlobe and pressed his cock harder against her rampant member.
Poppy nodded and squirreled her hand between their bodies. Elliot
realised what she was doing and he eased his belly away from hers so she
could take him in her hand. She locked her legs behind him and lifted
her buttocks.
"It will work better if you put a pillow under me," she whispered, a
little embarrassed.
Elliot reached across and a little impatiently he snatched a pillow and
shoved it under the small of Poppy's back.
Poppy slid Elliot's penis inside the gusset of her panties, she was
still too embarrassed to take them off. She nestled his glans in her
puckered bud which she had heavily lubricated as part of her
preparation. She was well aware of the length and girth of Elliot's
cock and men were often impatient, especially the first time they had
anal sex.
"Are you ready?" She smiled up at him.
"Are you?" He smiled down at her.
Poppy nodded.
Elliot lowered his face to Poppy's and kissed her gently then he kept
his eyes on her face so he could see her expression as he slowly pushed
himself inside her. When she winced he stopped.
"Don't stop." Her voice was husky with lust.
He didn't. He pushed his cock slowly inside Poppy's anus until he was
fully inside her, her face a mask of passion and desire.
She moved her legs so that her ankles were on Elliot's shoulders. He
turned his face and kissed the little wrinkles in her nylons and licked
the ankle-strap of her sandal and Poppy wriggled her buttocks
invitingly.
"You little minx." Elliot smiled at her.
She put her hands around his neck and wriggled her buttocks again.
"Make love to me Elliot." Her eyes were filled with tears but they were
tears of joy.
Elliot put his lips on hers and drove his tongue into her mouth
mimicking the movements of his hips as he fucked her, slowly at first.
She felt his cock quivering inside her and she knew that he was close.
Poppy didn't mind, she was close herself. Her cock was pulsing in her
panties and every time that Elliot thrust his cock into her, his hard
belly pressed against her penis adding to her excitement.
Elliot's whole body shook and his breathing became uncontrollably ragged
as he orgasmed. Poppy felt his cock throb and shudder inside her and
the scalding heat of his semen as it filled her anus. She clung to him,
grinding her buttocks into him as her own cock exploded, filling her
panties and spattering Elliot's belly with her emission.
The lovers clung to each other, kissing and grinding their bodies
against each other, eking out every scintilla of pleasure from each
other. Poppy raked her nails along his back and her heels grazed his
flanks. Elliot bit her lip in his excitement and they tasted the
saltiness of her blood which incited them both to an orgasmic high.
Poppy was shaking uncontrollably, whimpering like a small animal
underneath him whilst Elliot rode her, pounding his cock in and out of
her as another climax wracked him.
They lay on the bed exhausted, Elliot trying to keep his full weight off
her but Poppy wouldn't let go of him.
"That was wonderful," she whispered shakily, finally able to speak.
"It was amazing," Elliot panted in her ear.
"Are you ok?" Poppy asked.
She was aware of the sticky mess she had made on Elliot's midriff, her
slowly deflating penis pressed against him, the redolence of her semen.
"I'm in heaven I think." Elliot smiled down at her.
He tried to roll off her and Poppy held onto him, preventing him.
"Can you hold me, stay inside me and comfort me?" she pleaded with him.
Elliot realised that the men who used Poppy climbed off her as soon as
they had finished. She just wanted to feel wanted, needed, cherished
and Elliot felt all those things for her.
She lowered her legs and wrapped them around his waist and locked her
arms around his muscled torso. Elliot covered her face in kisses and
nestled against her body, feeling her adoration, feelings he
reciprocated.
They fell asleep in each other's arms, the weight of his body on hers
was comforting. At some stage Elliot slid off her and lay beside her,
snuggled up, their bodies a tangle of intertwined limbs.
They awoke around noon and made love again, quickly this time, knowing
their time in bed was limited, ADA Brett Mendelsohn was due to visit
later that afternoon. They showered together, Poppy at first
embarrassed at showing Elliot her naked body but he soon put an end to
her embarrassment and before they had finished showering Elliot had
taken her from behind as she leaned against the glass shower wall. He
soaped up her penis and brought her off with his hand while he fucked
her.
Any trepidation Poppy had that Elliot was repulsed by her body had been
put to rest. She was also amazed by his virility; he was insatiable.
Poppy emerged from her bedroom wearing her streetwalker hotpants, tank-
top, L'eggs pantyhose and fuck-me-heels with her hair frizzed out and
her makeup heavy.
Elliot had dressed in a suit in anticipation of the ADA's arrival.
"Why are you dressed like that?" Elliot asked.
"You're the detective. How long do you think it will take Brett
Mendelsohn to figure out something is going on between us if I suddenly
start dressing like a housewife and treating you nice." Poppy
straightened Elliot's tie.
"You need to be mean to me while he's here. You can make it up to me
later." She leaned in and kissed him and then rubbed her lipstick off
his cheek with her thumb.
She skittered away from him when he reached for her.
"Behave!" she gave him a serious look as the ADA pulled up outside in a
nondescript white van instead of his usual Crown Vic.
Brett Mendelsohn was all business when he arrived. He struggled, trying
to juggle two pelican cases and a tripod as well as his briefcase, he
glared at Elliot who took the hint and gave him a hand with the
equipment.
"The judge has set a trial date and advised the Napolitano Family
lawyers that there will be no more delays. The heat will be turned up
by them to find the material witness." Brett looked around the room,
setting one of the pelican cases on a table.
"I'm going to swear you in and record your testimony Miss Evesham. It's
only a precaution but you can never be too careful." He busied himself
setting up the equipment he had brought.
Poppy looked expectantly at Elliot.
"They're recording your evidence just in case the Napolitano Family rub
you out," Elliot said, trying to sound pragmatic.
"But we're safe here right?" Poppy looked genuinely concerned.
"Look doll, if they try to take you out here it means they will try to
take me out with you. Your ass might not be worth much, except as
witness, but I have a family and roots in the community so you can bet
your skanky ass that I'll put up a fight," Elliot snapped at her.
"Can you get her dressed in something other than 'cheap American
hooker'? I want the jury to believe her testimony," Brett said,
fiddling with the camera.
"Well toots, do you have anything besides 'cheap American hooker' in
your wardrobe?" Elliot asked, knowing full well that she did.
Poppy flounced off to her bedroom to tone down her makeup and get
changed.
"Do you have to make her scared like that?" Elliot growled at Brett
Mendelsohn.
"What the fuck do you care? Fuck that whore! The Napolitanos killed
the other witnesses. Robert Farragut and the concierge Stanley Britton
both took two to the head so I'm not joking when I say they're going to
turn up the heat and come looking hard for the tranny cooze," Mendelsohn
snapped back.
He set up the Sony u-matic video recorder on the table and Elliot went
over to look at the 30 by 24 by 12 inch box with its myriad knobs and
dials. It was state of the art and recorded video on ? inch magnetic
tape. Elliot was fascinated and watched captivated as Brett mounted the
camera on the tripod and plugged it into the recording device.
But both Elliot's and Brett's attention was diverted when Poppy entered
the room dressed in her navy blue business suit, white cotton blouse,
black patent leather heels and sheer flesh-toned L'eggs nylons. Her
makeup was toned down and her hair was pulled back in a sleek ponytail
the remainder tucked behind her ears.
It was not the first time Elliot had seen her dressed this way but he
was still astounded by how professional she looked.
"First time I've seen you out of a cooch cooler honey, you don't look
half bad." Brett pointed to the chair he had set up in front of the
camera.
Poppy sat on the chair and demurely pulled down the hem of her tight
pencil skirt whilst the ADA explained to her what he was going to do.
Brett started filming and had Elliot hold the bible while he swore her
in. He gave a preamble to the camera, stating the case number, the
charges against Luca Tattaglia and the reason he was recording the
testimony.
"You are legally known as Paul Evesham but you identify as Penelope
Evesham is that correct?" Brett asked.
Brett had warned her that her gender identity and her occupation would
be difficult for the jury to deal with and challenged by the Napolitano
lawyers so his strategy was to get it out front and deal with it.
"That's correct, I was born male but identify as female." Poppy kept
her head up and Elliot was proud of her.
"And you were on the second floor of the Metropole Hotel on the night in
question?" Brett was allowed some latitude with the recorded testimony
and in any event there was no one there to object that he was leading
the witness.
Poppy answered in the affirmative.
"What were you doing there Miss Evesham?" Brett got straight to the
point.
"I was there with a customer. A man later identified as Robert
Farragut," Poppy replied.
"What were you and Mr Farragut doing at the Metropole hotel?" Brett
nodded at Poppy to answer frankly.
"We were having sex. More specifically he was paying me for sex," Poppy
answered but she couldn't help blushing.
"So let's get it out there Miss Evesham... you are a transsexual
prostitute, is that correct?" Brett said gravely.
"That is correct Mr Mendelsohn," Poppy replied and couldn't help cast a
guilty look at Elliot.
Elliot nodded at her and smiled, letting her know that she was doing
well and that he understood her embarrassment.
Brett Mendelsohn then led Poppy through her testimony including having
her positively identify Luca Tattaglia in a photograph as the man who
had shot and killed Pussy Raggio and George Basso.
After her testimony Poppy was craving for a cigarette and she cadged one
from Brett Mendelsohn.
"You can smoke that shit in the laundry," Elliot scowled.
"The cooze cleans up pretty good. If she didn't have a pistol in her
panties I'd give her one. You ever tempted?" Brett said to Elliot who
was glad that Brett was busy packing up his gear and couldn't see the
guilty look on Elliot's face.
"Never mind about the cooze, shouldn't we be ramping up security now
that we know that the Napolitanos are going to come after her hard?"
Elliot asked.
"If I bring in backup they're more likely to sell you out to the mob
than to protect you, you know how corrupt things are down at Police
Plaza and City Hall. Anyway, I have her testimony now so if they come
for her, just duck or use her as a shield," Brett joked.
Elliot was not amused but he followed the ADA outside and helped him
load the equipment in the van.
"Look the cooze ain't all that bad. She's got a kid brother she's
putting through boarding school, that's the only reason she's hooking."
Elliot felt the need to defend Poppy.
Brett stopped what he was doing and gave Elliot a serious look.
"You're not sweet on her are you Elliot? You know that would be dumb.
Look, you got her all to yourself out here, she's pretty and she's got
killer legs, a fine ass and great tits, if you want to give her one up
the wazoo or get some head go crazy, but don't let that thing get under
your skin. When the trial is over we'll toss her back on the street and
she'll be dead before she sucks her first cock," Brett said dourly,
shrugging his shoulders.
Elliot was barely able to contain his anger but he put on his poker
face.
"I never wanted this assignment anyway. As soon as you've finished with
her I can throw her under the bus and get back to doing some real
detective work," Elliot snickered.
"That's the spirit. You're only gonna have to bird-dog the tranny slit
for another couple of weeks. The trial date is set. Just keep your
head down if the Napolitanos come looking for her." Brett winked at him
and slammed the doors closed on the van.
Elliot decided that he hated Brett more than he thought he did.
He went back inside, locked the place up and set the alarm. Poppy was
just coming out of the laundry when Elliot grabbed her and pulled her
into his arms. Even the reek of her recently smoked cigarette didn't
spoil the pleasure he took from kissing her.
"Well that was a pleasant surprise." Poppy smiled up at him.
"Is this suit better than the cheap American hooker look I was wearing
before?" Poppy teased him.
"Can I watch you take it off?" Elliot teased her back.
"Sure you can, come this way." Poppy took his hand and led him to her
bedroom.
She just managed to get out of the skirt before Elliot pounced on her.
*****
For appearances sake Elliot and Poppy kept their separate bedrooms but
Poppy slept in Elliot's bed every night. Elliot became more comfortable
with Poppy's gender and less sheepish about touching her genitals. He
joked about her inability to fake an orgasm like a cisgender woman
could. That joke cost him an evening in the doghouse but they were
mostly inseparable.
And it wasn't just the sex. Elliot became more infatuated with Poppy's
character, individuality, intelligence and warmth and Poppy came to
realised that under his hard cool exterior Elliot was in fact a
considerate and thoughtful man. Neither of them raised the question as
to what would happen to their relationship after the trial. For the
moment they were content to live together just like any other couple.
Elliot helped Poppy study for her law degree and they settled into a
pleasant routine. Elliot traced the scars on her body with his
fingertips but he never asked her how she had come by them. She would
tell him when she was ready. The raised burn scars forming the letter R
on her shoulder was particularly repulsive and Elliot thought that he
would like some time alone with Ray-Ray.
It was visiting day and Poppy changed into her business suit to visit
her brother at The Grosvenor School having to continually slap away
Elliot's hands. She loved that he couldn't keep his hands off her but
it annoyed her when she was busy doing things that she needed to do.
They chatted amiably during the drive to the school unlike the stony
silence the last time they had visited. Poppy had to keep reminding
Elliot to keep his eyes on the road not on her thighs as her pencil
skirt kept riding up. Elliot reminded Poppy what he was going to do to
her when he got her home and for the first time in a long time she
actually blushed.
They parked in the same car park but this time Robert didn't come
bounding across the lawn to hug his big sister. A Lincoln Continental
town car screeched into the car park parking diagonally behind Elliot,
effectively blocking in his car. Elliot reached under his jacket for
his weapon but it was too late. The doors of the Town Car were open
before it had even stopped and two large men stood on either side of
driver and passenger doors of Elliot's car with their pistols drawn.
One of the men made a motion to indicate that they should roll down
their windows and before Elliot could stop Poppy from doing so, she
complied. The man reached across Poppy and aimed his gun at Elliot.
"Roll down the window and drop your weapon on the ground. Don't do
anything stupid or the bitch gets it." The man moved his weapon and
pointed it point blank at Poppy's head.
Elliot carefully engaged the safety on his semi-automatic and then held
it in two fingers and tossed it out the window. Poppy stared straight
ahead; all she could think about was where was Robert?
Elliot's police training kicked in. The first thing he thought of was
that they were not going to kill him unless they really had to. The Mob
had a strict rule that law enforcement officers were not to be harmed
under any circumstances without permission from the Commission and then
permission was usually only granted if the police officer concerned was
corrupt.
He felt guilty about thinking about his own skin but secondly and more
importantly to him was the realisation that they hadn't killed Poppy.
It would be a simple thing for these men to shoot her dead and then
simply drive away. Something else was going on here.
"Come on toots, we're going for a ride." The man standing next to
Poppy's door opened it and waved his pistol at her.
The man standing next to Elliot's door put his pistol to Elliot's head.
"Don't do anything stupid. The tranny cooze ain't worth it." The man
pressed the muzzle into Elliot's temple.
The other man dragged Poppy from the car. She wasn't really resisting,
she was just unable to move because she was so scared.
"Don't fuck me around toots. Look over at the car." The gangster
pointed his pistol at the Lincoln
Robert's terrified face was framed in the rear near side window. Poppy
yelped and bolted towards the Lincoln but the gangster held her by her
arm.
"Take it easy, lets behave in a nice orderly fashion." The man
holstered his weapon and led Poppy towards the Lincoln, holding her by
her upper arm.
"Keys." The other gangster took the pistol from Elliot's temple but
kept it trained on his head.
Elliot removed the keys from the ignition and handed them to the
gangster.
"Drop them and keep your hands inside the car." The gangster was having
Elliot's hands nowhere near him.
Elliot did as he was told and the gangster bobbed down quickly and
picked up the keys.
"This is a simple transaction. We're going to talk to the tranny cooze
for a while. So long as she plays along the kid will be safe and so
will the cooze. She does anything stupid and she watches the kid die
and you don't wanna know what we're going to do to her before we take
her out," the gangster explained.
"You tell anyone or do anything that upsets our little plan, we take out
the kid and we do it hard. Then we take out the cooze and we do it
hard. We'll send you some pictures so you can see what they got."
"You go back to your little beach house and wait and we'll bring you
back your little boy-toy in one piece. You know that we're gonna know
if you fuck this up. We found you, the cooze and the kid, so we got our
resources. You gonna play along? Just say yes or no." The man waggled
his gun at Elliot.
"Yes," Elliot hissed through gritted teeth.
The gangster tossed Elliot's car keys into a copse of thick bushes
across from the car park and slowly backed away from the car, keeping
the gun on Elliot. The other man opened the back door of the Lincoln
and Poppy scrambled into the car and hugged her brother, kissing the top
of his head and repeatedly asked him if he had been hurt.
The gangster pushed her across the seat and got in beside her while the
other man who had his gun trained on Elliot backed into the front
passenger seat. As soon as he was inside the car the driver sped off,
spraying gravel across the car park.
"Put this on bitch!" the man in the back seat gave Poppy a blindfold
which she dutifully put on.
She wondered why they hadn't made Robert put on a blindfold but there
were too many thoughts spinning around in her brain for her to
concentrate on one in particular.
Elliot got out of his car and picked up his pistol. His hand was
shaking, not with fear but with rage. While he searched for his car
keys his thoughts were running in circles. He knew that he needed to
get control of his emotions and think this through rationally. He found
his keys and went back to his car and sat in the driver's seat, he put
his hands on the wheel and forced himself to take a series of deep
breaths.
He asked himself a number of questions: How did they know about Robert
and where to find him? How did they know about Poppy's recorded
testimony? How did they know about the safe house?
Poppy's testimony had only been recorded last week so the mob didn't
know where she was until then otherwise they would have tried to take
her out before the recording could be made. That also meant that
whoever had leaked the information to the Mob had only done so recently.
The ADA would have had to file a copy of the transcript of Poppy's
testimony with the court so the leak had likely come from someone in the
judicial system rather than the police, but that couldn't be ruled out
either. Everyone talked.
Elliot looked around and saw that everyone in his field of view seemed
to be going around conducting business as usual. Although it had seemed
to take for ever Poppy's abduction it had taken less than a minute.
He started the car and put it in reverse. He would have plenty of time
during the return journey to contemplate how the Napolitano Family had
got their information but all he could think about was that they had
Poppy. He smashed his fist against the steering wheel in anger and
drove off.
The three gangsters said very little during the drive. Robert clung to
Poppy. He told her that the man beside her had approached him while he
was sitting on the bench waiting for her. Robert knew not to talk to
strangers but he was inside the school grounds and he figured the nice
man in the suit was either visiting his kid or was a school official.
It was only when the man had put his big hand over Robert's mouth and
carried him away that Robert realised that he was being abducted. The
man had told him to behave and he would soon see his sister so Robert
had sat in the back of the car and behaved.
The man sitting beside Poppy was uncomfortably close and she scooted
over as close as she could to Robert who was pressed against the car
door. The driver had activated the door locks so even if they wanted to
they couldn't jump out of moving vehicle.
The man followed her across the seat and pressed against her.
"You look pretty good for a hooker. Is it true you got something
special under that skirt? You look like a real woman to me," the man
whispered in her ear.
He put his hand under her skirt and pawed her thighs. Poppy squirmed
but she kept Robert shielded so that he couldn't see what the man was
doing to his sister. The gangster's fingernails laddered her L'eggs and
then he found her panties and fumbled around.
"I can't feel a braciole in those cooch-covers but I can't feel no
bernarda neither." The man fumbled at the front of her panties.
"Leave the travestita alone. We got plenty of time to play with her
when we get to the place." The driver was watching them in the rear
vision mirror.
The goon reluctantly withdrew his hand from under Poppy's skirt.
Poppy held Robert close and comforted him, telling him that everything
was going to be ok. The car left the highway and turned onto a
secondary road and finally turned onto a road that was little more than
track that wound through the forest and ended at a small cabin.
The man sitting beside Poppy pulled his gun and pointed it at her when
the driver popped the door locks. He took off her blindfold and
indicated for Poppy and Robert to get out, which they did, Robert
clinging to his sister. Poppy stumbled on the gravel path in her high-
heels as she made her way to the cabin.
The driver led the way and unlocked the door to the cabin and held it
open while Poppy and Robert went inside followed by the other two
mobsters.
"Take the kid into the room," the driver told the man who had sat in the
front passenger seat.
"No! No! No!" Robert clung to Poppy and refused to move, even when the
man pulled on his arm.
"Fuck this. Do what you're told kid or your sister gets it." The other
man put his pistol to Poppy's head.
Robert wasn't mature enough to understand that the men could have killed
Poppy any time they wanted but he certainly knew they could hurt her so
he let go and complied. He was taken to another room and locked inside
leaving Poppy alone with the three men.
"Sit!" the driver pulled a wooden chair out from a wooden kitchen table.
The main room of the small cabin was a combined kitchen, diner and
family room. The place wasn't connected to the power grid but it seemed
to be well maintained.
Poppy sat in the chair, primly pulling down the hem of her skirt, the
three men circled her menacingly.
"You can imagine what we can do to your brother. We're keeping him
until after the trial; he's our insurance. We know about the recorded
testimony, you're lucky the ADA did that toots otherwise you'd be dead
now but we need you to recant your testimony," the driver explained.
"Let Robert go. I'll tell the police and the ADA that I didn't see the
man who did the shooting. I'll say the police coerced me and made me
say it was him, that they threatened me. I'll say anything you want,
just let Robert go," Poppy beseeched them.
"Do you know what guys will say to save their asses? I've had guys
offer me money, their wives, their daughters, anything to spare them.
It doesn't matter, we've heard it all before," the man said matter-of-
factly.
"So we're keeping the kid until the charges against Luca Tattaglia are
dismissed with prejudice or he's found not guilty. You're going to
retract all of your testimony and if they put you on the stand you're
going to recant... get it?" The man pulled out a chair and put his foot
on it.
Poppy nodded her head.
"Don't hurt him," Poppy begged.
"He'll be fine. He'll be well looked after and after all this has gone
away we will release him. He and you will be of no further interest to
us." The man wiped his hands figuratively.
"I'll do it! I'll do anything," Poppy cried.
"Well that's that then. Easy peasey Japanesey." The man grinned evilly
at her.
"We'll take you back to your safe house and you tell your bodyguard that
you are going to take back your testimony. Tell him that you'll refuse
to testify and if they use the recorded testimony that you will take the
stand and say it's all lies." The gangster put his foot back down on
the floor.
"Of course we're all going to fuck you first," he said clinically.
Poppy paled.
"Oh come on honey, you're a hooker for god's sake, this shouldn't be
something you haven't done before," the big guy who had sat next to her
in the car said.
Poppy started to tear up.
"Cut that shit. We can do this two ways. You either take us on
willingly or we bring out the kid to watch his sister being fucked
against her will. What's it going to be?"
Poppy just shook her head, composed herself and prepared to do what she
needed to do.
She stood up and unbuttoned her jacket and hung it over the chair.
"What are you doing?" the big guy asked.
"I'm getting undressed," Poppy replied, beginning to unbutton her
blouse.
"Fuck that! We ain't got the time." He slapped her hands away from her
blouse and pulled her to him.
His breath tasted of garlic and cigarettes but Poppy didn't complain.
As soon as he started to kiss her she opened her mouth and returned the
kiss, her little brother's life was at stake. She tried to put her arms
around the big man but he was just too big so she clung to his shoulders
as he kissed her and pawed at her blouse, ripping off the buttons.
The big man continued to kiss her whilst he pulled down the cups of her
brassiere and groped her breasts. She felt one of the other men move in
behind her and hike up her skirt, his hands squeezed her buttocks
cruelly then he yanked at her panties and pulled them down to her
ankles. Poppy obligingly kicked them away.
"Hey Frankie, let me get at her ass," the man behind her whined.
Frankie, the big man, broke the kiss and pushed down on her back,
forcing Poppy to bend over. He pushed her face into his crotch while he
fumbled with his flies.
The man standing behind put his finger in the runner of her pantyhose
crotch and enlarged the hole a little. She heard him spit and then felt
his penis probing her sphincter. Poppy was experienced enough to relax
her sphincter and as she did the man forced his cock inside her anus.
Poppy attempted to cry out but Frankie pushed his cock into her mouth.
It was warm and pungent, tasting of piss and smegma. Poppy filled her
mouth with spit so she could swallow the fetid substance and wash his
penis with her tongue. This was not her first rodeo by any means. She
had been defiled before by several men at the same time, often for the
amusement of Ray-Ray, and she knew that being helpless as she was, the
easiest and quickest way to get through the ordeal was to take the path
of least resistance.
That meant pleasuring the men and getting them to cum as quickly as
possible. To most women it would be unthinkable but for Poppy it had
often been the status quo.
The man standing behind her gripped her hips and began to slowly fuck
her. Poppy wriggled her buttocks to encourage him and encourage the
flow of pre-ejaculate so that it would better lubricate her anus. She
was rewarded almost immediately when she felt the man's cock begin to
slide in and out of her tight hole with ease.
"The pretty puttana has a tight ass and she knows how to use it." The
man behind her groaned as he fucked her.
"She knows how to use her mouth too." Frankie held her head and fucked
her mouth.
Poppy didn't like it when men did that but she was in no position to
complain. She used her lips and tongue to good effect, sucking
Frankie's penis which wasn't as repulsive now that it was clean. She
lifted her hand and put her fingers around the base of his thick pole
and worked her mouth on it. Frankie obligingly let go of her head and
let Poppy do what she was trained to do.
The man standing behind her knew how to fuck and he was in no rush, he
was enjoying fucking Poppy's snug rectum and Poppy would never admit it
but he was stimulating her quite effectively. She was glad that she was
heavily taped.
Frankie was close and she could sense his need as he put his hands back
on her head. She could feel his cock begin to pulse and suddenly her
mouth was filled with his creamy load. She swallowed it and he gave her
more which she also swallowed.
Finished with her, and probably feeling a little sheepish about having
sex with a transvestite, Frankie ripped his cock from her mouth and
stuffed it back into his pants. He was quickly replaced by the driver
who offered Poppy his long thick cock which she dutifully took into her
mouth. This penis was immaculately clean and the man was gentle with
her. Instead of holding her head and fucking her mouth, he caressed her
cheeks and stroked her hair.
The man standing behind her was getting close too. He thrust his cock
deep into Poppy's anus and ejaculated. Poppy was ashamed that the feel
of his throbbing cock against her prostate and the tight ring of her
sphincter was evoking waves of pleasure. Her cock was so hard that the
tape holding it to her body was coming loose.
The man fucking her stabbed her repeatedly in the rectum with his fleshy
sword as the last of his spend filled her back package and began to
dribble down her thighs. Then he suddenly stopped and ripped his
dripping weapon from her puckered bud.
He joined Frankie in the kitchenette leaving Poppy alone with the
driver.
"Ok doll; that's enough." He extracted his cock from Poppy's mouth and
helped her stand erect.
He pulled her to him and kissed her and she clung to him feeling hot cum
dribble out of her anus, run down her thighs and soak into her
pantyhose. The driver lowered his face to her breasts and used his lips
and his hands to stimulate her sensitive bosom. Her nipples hardened
and she gasped with delight when he gently nibbled her nipples.
"Come on Salvatore. Finish up with the puttana, we gotta get going,"
Frankie called from the kitchen but Salvatore, the driver, ignored him.
He kissed Poppy again and she responded by kissing him back and wrapping
her arms around him, she raised her leg and rubbed her calf against him
seductively. She told herself that she was only encouraging him so that
the ordeal would soon be over but her body had betrayed her.
Salvatore turned Poppy so that her back was to the dining table and then
lifted Poppy up and planted her derriere on the edge of the table, her
skirt hiked up and her buttocks exposed. He hooked her knees under his
elbows and lifted her legs so that he could place his cock on her
sphincter.
He pushed it in slowly, his compatriot's semen greasing the way. Poppy
clung to him, sitting on the edge of the table with her legs splayed,
moaning like a slattern. Her cock had burst loose of the tape and was
standing up proud, tenting her pantyhose, aching for release.
Salvatore leaned forward so that he could kiss Poppy while he fucked her
and she drove her tongue into his mouth and wrapped her legs around his
waist so that his cock stayed deep inside her. Salvatore fucked her
hard and fast which was what she wanted, not only because she wanted the
ordeal over with but because she was aching for release and she flooded
the front of her pantyhose at the same instant that Salvatore flooded
her anus.
Poppy quivered with delight as her guilty orgasm erupted. It wasn't the
first time she had climaxed whilst she was being used against her will
but the shame of it never went away.
When he was finished coming Salvatore unwrapped her legs from around his
waist and pushed her down so that she was lying flat on her back on the
table panting, trying to control her breathing.
She squealed with surprise and repulsion when the man who had fucked her
before Salvatore sprayed her face with his scalding semen. He had been
watching Salvatore fuck Poppy and become aroused again and had been
masturbating.
Salvatore returned from the kitchen with a roll of hand towel which he
dropped in her lap.
"Clean yourself up. We gotta go," he grunted.
Poppy rolled onto her side putting her back to the men while she wiped
the semen off her face, from between her legs and from her thighs. She
closed her blouse and dropped to her feet, bending down to pick up her
discarded panties. She pushed her penis between her legs using her
ripped pantyhose and panties to hold it in place then she pulled down
and straightened her skirt.
Her handbag was still in Elliot?s car so she had no tissues, makeup or
hairbrush to properly fix herself up so she did the best she could.
"Come on toots we gotta go," Frankie mumbled around a mouthful of bread
from a loaf he had taken from the kitchen.
"Can I see Robert before I go?" Poppy asked as she put on her jacket.
"Honey, you do not want your brother seeing you like this," Frankie
replied and Poppy could only imagine what she looked like.
Frankie dragged her over to the door where they had Robert locked away.
"Talk to him. Reassure him," he grunted.
"Robert honey. I have to go but you have to stay here and be a good boy
and these men will look after you. This will all be over soon and we
will be together again," Poppy called through the closed door.
"Poppy... don?t go... don?t go," her brother cried and Poppy sobbed but
Frankie pulled her viciously away from the door and frog marched her to
the car.
He put her in the back seat and climbed in after her and Salvatore got
into the driver?s seat. The third guy was obviously going to remain in
the cabin to look after Robert. Salvatore locked the car doors and
Frankie blindfolded her again and the car took off.
They were on the road for about an hour before Frankie took Poppy?s
blindfold off. Any consolation she might have found evaporated when she
saw that he had his cock out and he grabbed Poppy by the neck and pushed
her face down into his groin.
She did what was required of her.
They threw Poppy out of the car at the beachfront park and sped off.
She had to do the walk of shame along the walking track back to the safe
house. Fortunately by then it was dark.
As soon as she approached the house her presence activated the security
lighting, illuminating the surrounds of the house with harsh light.
This was the last thing Poppy wanted because she knew that she looked a
mess. Elliot came running down the path to greet her and came to a
sudden halt when he saw the state of her.
It was only for a split second but Poppy saw the look of disgust and
revulsion pass over his face. It was obvious that she had been sexually
abused. Her hair was a mess, her makeup ruined, her blouse unbuttoned,
runners in her pantyhose and the tell-tale silvery stains on her skirt.
"Poppy, where did they take you, what did they do to you, what did they
want?" Elliot ran to her with his arms open.
"Don?t!" Poppy pushed past Elliot and strode to the front door.
"I can?t talk to you like this. Leave me alone until I?m ready to face
you." She ran to her bedroom and slammed the door.
The first thing that she noticed was that Elliot had put her handbag on
her bed. She ripped off her clothes and threw them in the corner. If
she could she could burn them she would. She put on a robe and went to
the bathroom and stood under the scalding water until her skin was red.
She douched repeatedly then climbed back into the shower, taking her
toothbrush and mouthwash with her.
When she was thoroughly clean she went back to her room, pushing past
Elliot who was waiting for her outside the bathroom.
"Now that you are safe I have to call the ADA and Chief of Detectives
and tell them what happened," Elliot pleaded with her.
Poppy spun around and stepped up to Elliot her anger flaring.
"They have Robert, Elliot! You don?t do anything yet! I?ll talk to you
when I?m ready. Give me some space," Poppy barked at him.
"Ok... ok... ok... is there anything I can do?" he asked, his face full
of concern.
"Make me a drink. Make me a big drink. I?ll be out soon." Poppy
closed the bedroom door on him.
Poppy came out of her bedroom about half an hour later. She was dressed
in jeans and a long-sleeved t-shirt, her hair was pulled back in a
ponytail, she was barefoot and her makeup was lighter than Elliot had
ever seen it. He had never seen her dressed down this much before. She
looked younger, vulnerable.
Elliot knew better than to try to engage with her; Poppy had made it
clear that she would talk when she was ready. He brought a double
scotch on ice over to where she was sitting on the couch with her feet
tucked under her. He wanted to take her in his arms and comfort her, he
wanted to hold her and tell that everything was going to be ok. But she
was radiating hostility and bitterness and he knew that trying to touch
her was probably the worst thing he could do.
He had seen what she looked like when she came home and wished he could
unsee it. He felt pity for her and he felt that he was useless. Men
used her, men abused her, men treated her like shit and he believed it
was his job to protect her from all that and he had failed.
Poppy gulped the drink down in a few swallows and waved the glass at
Elliot who dutifully went to the kitchen to refill it. He returned with
the bottle figuring he would save himself having to keep going back.
Poppy took her cigarettes out of her purse and put a Newport in her
mouth and glared at Elliot, challenging him to stop her lighting it but
he said nothing. Instead he fetched a saucer from the kitchen and put
it on the table so she could use it as an ashtray.
"Quite the lapdog tonight aren?t you Elliot?" Poppy quipped and
immediately regretted saying it.
Taking out her anger on Elliot would solve nothing.
Elliot remained stoic. He couldn?t imagine what the men had done to her
but then again he could. He hated himself for thinking about it but he
wondered if he could touch her again knowing that those mobsters had
been in the places that he considered his. He knew it was selfish, he
knew it was unforgivable, he knew it was hateful but he couldn?t help
feeling what he felt.
"I?m sorry. I shouldn?t take my anger out on you but they have Robert
and that?s all I can think about." Poppy took another slug of liquor.
"Ok." Elliot decided that acceding to her wish to tell him what
happened only when she was ready was the only way to deal with the
situation.
"They took us to a cabin, a cottage, whatever the fuck. It was
somewhere in a forest, I have no idea where, I was blindfolded," Poppy
began.
She told Elliot everything... everything except the sex. There was no
need to; he knew that they had taken turns with her just by looking at
her. In some ways her omission made it worse because Elliot could only
imagine it: Poppy lying on the bed resplendent in her lingerie
beckoning the men to join her one after the other, Poppy being held down
and brutally taken while she screamed, and all the permutations in
between.
"I have no choice Elliot; I have to recant my testimony. They have my
brother, the only thing in the world I care about." She didn?t cry, she
was all cried out.
Elliot took it like a shot to the heart when Poppy said that Robert was
the only thing in the world that she cared about. He didn?t know
exactly what they had between them but he knew that she had become
precious to him. She was an enigma, she was impenetrable but she was
also vulnerable, she was beautiful, sophisticated and intelligent but
she was whorish, street-smart and offensive. He had seen all sides of
her and he thought he knew which parts of her were real.
Her sexuality and gender were a metaphor for her life, she was no longer
a man but she was not fully a woman but whatever she was he cared for
her.
"I?m duty bound to report the abduction Poppy. They?ll probably take my
badge from me for not telling them immediately but I can use the excuse
that they promised to release you and if I reported it they would
torture and kill you both," Elliot murmured, his head in his hands.
"But now that you?re back I have to report it to the Chief of Police who
will bring in the FBI because it?s a kidnapping," Elliot explained.
"It?s not going to change anything Elliot. I?m going to renounce my
recorded testimony and if necessary I?ll take the stand and tell the
court that I lied, that I never saw the man who committed the murders.
I?ll say anything. I?ll say I did it hoping for a payoff, that I did it
just to get off the streets." Poppy lit another cigarette.
"The prosecutor will say that your testimony is coerced because the
Napolitano family are holding your brother. He?ll say that the recorded
testimony is the true version and that you are lying to save Robert,"
Elliot explained.
"He can treat you like a hostile witness," Elliot sighed.
"I will still have done what was demanded of me by those hoods. I?ll
have played my part, they?ll let Robert go," Poppy whispered.
"Will they?" Elliot reached for her hand but she snatched it away.
"Can you at least sleep on it? Can you wait until tomorrow?" Poppy
stubbed out her cigarette.
"I?m just so tired. I need to sleep." Poppy got up off the couch and
padded down to her bedroom and closed and locked the door.
Elliot went to bed but he couldn?t sleep. He lay awake staring at the
ceiling in the dark.
When the door opened he didn?t reach for his gun, he could tell by her
scent that it was Poppy. She slid under the sheets. She was naked
except for her panties, no sexy lingerie tonight. She snuggled up to
him and Elliot held her close.
"It?s ok. We don?t have to do anything. Let?s just hold each other,"
Elliot whispered when her fingers sought him out.
"I need it Elliot. I want it. I want you to make love to me so that I
know that someone cares." Poppy began to softly stroke him.
"Make love to me Elliot. Don?t fuck me, don?t bang me, don?t hump me...
make love to me like you care," Poppy whispered.
That?s exactly what Elliot did. They took their time, they knew exactly
how to pleasure each other and they did it, but they did it slowly,
tenderly, intimately.
They fell asleep in each other?s arms and when Elliot awoke he had made
his decision.
"I?ll get Brett Mendelsohn down here first thing and tell him that you
are going to disavow your testimony. He?s going to hit the roof and I?m
going to have to play along. I?m going to have to treat you pretty
rough," Elliot explained to her.
"Well you?ve done that before... oh I?m sorry Elliot; I shouldn?t have
said that." Poppy snuggled up to him on the couch.
Elliot was wearing just his boxers and a t-shirt and Poppy had put on
her negligee.
"You?ll need an excuse; a reason that you?ve changed your mind," Elliot
said.
"I?ll use a half-truth. I?ll say that I?m scared that as soon as the
trial is over and I?m no longer in protective custody that the
Napolitanos will kill me for revenge," Poppy replied.
"I?ll call Mendelsohn. Go and get dressed." Elliot stood up and went
to the phone.
Poppy followed him and gave him a hug.
"Thank you." She kissed his cheek then walked away.
Elliot watched her walk to the bedroom. It wasn?t just lust he felt for
her; it was something else but he didn?t know what it was. He was too
scared to even think about what it might be. He took the receiver out
of the cradle and made the call.
To be continued