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Slaves and Discipline
(Author Unknown)

Chapter 1



Charles de Montford and his family were seated in the Discipline Room in the slave quarters that now occupied most of the basement area of their lovely old house.  He was not happy and neither were they.  He had at first informed his wife and daughter that their presence would not be necessary for the punishment about to be inflicted on Toby, his body slave, which is the term now used when a man's valet is a slave.

     Emily de Montford felt that she ought to be present in order to apprise the other slaves that she had the stomach to watch them punished when it was necessary and her daughter, Elizabeth, backed her up although all four of them, including Charles' and Emily's son, James, all very much regretted the necessity for this most serious punishment on the so handsome Toby.

     Toby was just twenty-one years old and to this point had been an exemplary servant, keeping his master's clothes and his suite of rooms in perfect condition and always with a ready smile on his so handsome face.

     But then he had committed the most serious crime any slave can perpetrate on his master or family: he had tried to kiss and to make love to Elizabeth whom he adored.  To his credit, he had thought she reciprocated his feelings when in fact all she was doing was being as nice to a slave as is permitted by law.

     Their whole family from Charles down had always treated their slaves well although they well knew that some of their neighbours and Charles' business associates were sadistically cruel in the way they treated them.

     The crime had occurred when Charles had asked his slave to go to his daughter's room and request her to come to his.  Of course she had admitted him to her little suite but then mistaking her smile as an invitation, he had moved his handsome and athletic body up to her and embraced her, bending down to kiss her lips.

     She had pushed him away in horror and screamed and as the door to her suite was still open, the rest of the family and the butler and housekeeper heard it and were there in seconds.

     Elizabeth had retreated to the window overlooking the garden while Toby had stood there in shock and horror at his error in believing the so beautiful eighteen year old had wanted him.

     Emily went straight to her daughter and took her in her arms and nodded to her husband to get everyone and especially Toby out of the room.  That he did swiftly, while ordering Hobson to take hold of the slave and bring him to his study.

     James accompanied his father there also.

     Charles felt the anger, nay rage, surging up in him but he slammed it down again, now staring at his so handsome body slave across the polished surface of his desk.  He said but two words: "Why, boy?"

     His personal slave looked at him in terror.  In every other respect, he was a perfect slave: handsome, with a fine, athletic body and always had a smile on his face to add to the efficiency with which he carried out his duties.

     He hung his head but then looked down at his seated master across the desk.  "I thought she loved me, Master..."

     Charles stared at him incredulously.  "You can't be serious, boy?  You know very well that a free woman is absolutely inviolate to a slave unless she directly orders him in no uncertain terms to pleasure her.  Did my daughter request you to make love to her?"

     "No, Master, but I thought she wanted me..."

     Charles snorted in anger and his face was still suffused with blood.  "You know I have to punish you, boy?  And that the punishment must be commensurate with the crime.  What you did is so far beyond the pale as to warrant my recommending to the minister that you be terminated."

     He paused for a moment looking up and down the magnificent physique of his personal slave.  He was not gay or even bisexual but he could still admire a good body in a male slave.  And he had always enjoyed looking at his naked slave and talking to him about all manner of things as he went about his work in his suite.

     But he knew that was all over now.  The boy would have to be punished and after that Charles would sell him off and acquire a new body slave.

     You might be wondering that he thought of Toby as a 'boy'.  That term is used for any male slave of any age and when used in that context has no relationship to his age in years.  Of course when it is used for a free young male, the old context of a male up to his late teens still applies.

     Inasmuch as he was not going to recommend that the slave be terminated, which would be carried out by hanging, in the State Slave Centre (SSC) but witnessed by the slave's owner, he now cogitated on the punishment to be administered in lieu of his death.

     "You are going to be flogged, boy, and it is going to be to the point you will be wishing that I had decided to recommend your termination."

     "Yes, Master," he whispered, his face still turned down but registering a strange resignation at his coming fate.

     Hobson had stood to one side and behind the slave as his master pronounced the sentence and he now looked at his employer with his eyebrows raised.  "Right now, sir?"

     "Yes, Hobson.  Might as well get it over and done with..."

     The butler spun the slave around and headed him out of the room and down to the slave quarters while Charles and James rose from their seats, their faces both registering sorrow at what had to be done but of course also outraged that this boy had had the temerity to assume that their daughter or sister could possibly have wanted him in the way he suggested.

     In this magnificent old house, the basement level that had once housed the many servants necessary to keep it running smoothly had now been largely converted into slave quarters, the bedrooms having been stripped of their comfortable furniture which had been replaced with plain wooden double bunks with nothing on them but a single army blanket.

     The communal bathrooms, one for male and one for female staff had also had the dividing walls between the shower recesses removed and the hot water supply to them turned off.  Male and female slaves were housed in separate slave-rooms and of course as by law they were required to be naked and nude from their eyes down, they had no need of wardrobes or any other items of equipment except a comb dangling on a chain in front of the four small mirrors affixed to the wall of that room.

     They also had no need of a separate kitchen or dining room as slaves were universally fed Slave Chow, a pelletised food based on chook pellets but with ingredients to suit human beings.  A double handful night and morning followed by as much water as they could take in is a perfect diet for a slave and of course obviates the necessity to buy in food and cook it and then provide a place for them to eat it.  They swallowed the pellets on the run and then fill their bellies at water spigots ??" and that was it.

     The Discipline Room had been installed by Charles' father when the institution of criminal slavery had replaced prisons right round the world.  As you well know, it had been a rousing success everywhere and everyone often wondered that it had not been invented generations ago.

     In this case as money was no object to the de Montfords, no expense had been spared to make this room one of the best in the country.  It was situated near the front entry to the basement floor so that any of Charles' friends or other visitors would not have to pass through the rather stark other parts of the slave quarters.

     In its centre was a small round stage with a motorised turntable in the centre on which would be placed the item to be used for the punishment on this occasion.  Surrounding it were rows of very comfortable theatre-like seats in three tiers so that everyone derived a perfect view of the proceedings.  The seats each had a small table and were separated from one another allowing people to move around and chat to other members of the audience.  It also enabled them to be provided with refreshments if the occasion demanded it.

     It certainly would not be offered this time as the punishment was going to be salutary to a fault and indeed, might even induce nausea.

     The floors were carpeted in a deep-pile Axminster and the walls panelled in a beautiful timber to the two metre mark and above it, original landscape paintings, each with its own tasteful lighting giving a nice ambience to the room for all the horror of its purpose and function.

     Charles had already indicated to Hobson the method of punishment he wished to apply on this occasion and the butler had sent word down to have the appropriate frame inserted in the slots designed for it on the turntable.  The slots also included electrodes that powered certain motors built into the frame.

     In essence, it was designed to suspend a slave either upright or upside down for the infliction of various disciplines including flogging, caning, paddling or other types of punishment such as electro-genital discipline.

     Charles knew he had to send a strong message not only to Toby but also to the other household and garden slaves who had been summoned to witness this punishment.  They weren't always brought here for this purpose but on this occasion they very definitely were.

     Even laying on of hands by a slave to a free person is one of the most serious offences a slave can commit and when it is fuelled by sexual desire, as in this case, it is most reprehensible of all.

     There were a dozen such slaves including those who worked under their head-gardener's direction and they now knelt around the outside of the circular stage, watching in fear as Toby was brought in by Hudson and up onto the stage.

     Charles had whispered his intentions to his head servant who had nodded and then issued appropriate instructions himself.  He now led the visibly terrified young slave up to the frame which resembled a gibbet in that it had a pair of stainless steel poles fitted into the receptacles designed for them and then a cross piece, also designed to be slotted into the top of the uprights was clicked into place.

     At the top of each pole, a small stainless steel hook was visible poking out of the slot and over a pulley wheel.  A similar hook could also be seen near the base of each pole.

     Hudson ordered the slave down onto the floor of the turntable on his belly and then he and a slave wrapped a Velcro buckle around each ankle, drew down the top hooks and slipped them through the eyelet.

     Charles now operated the tiny electric winches contained inside the poles by means of a portable controller.  The motors ground to life and began to draw in the wires with their hooks on the end.

     While he watched as the slave's feet and then legs were drawn up and out towards the top of the poles, Hudson and the slave now wrapped more Velcro buckles around Toby's wrists and drew out the two lower hooks and of course attached them to the wrist manacles.

     Charles watched as Toby's body was gradually raised to the vertical, upside down and then tweaked other buttons on his controller that drew in the lower wires until the slave was secured upside down with his feet drawn wide apart and his arms in a similar position giving his whole body the appearance of a large, living 'X', now awaiting his punishment.

     They had no houseguests at this time and so there was just the four members of the family, the watching, kneeling slaves and the two Hobsons to observe the punishment.

     Hobson had instructed the slave he had sent down here to install this frame to also provide a small table and to lay upon it a number of items that told Toby that he might be lucky to survive the punishment to come.

     There was a cat-o'-nine-tails, a long, heavy-duty rattan cane, a leather paddle and a signal whip..

     Charles now placed the controller on the little table and took up the cane.  He then moved over to a position behind the slave, raised the cane and delivered his first stroke fair across the centre line of his two muscular buttock cheeks.  Toby's body arched forward a little but he kept his mouth shut although even upside down, it was very clear that he was already suffering.

     Although there were only the five free witnesses, the slaves kneeling on the floor between them and the stage stretched halfway around the turntable and so Charles had switched on the turntable so that it revolved slowly round and round giving every single member of the audience a good view of Toby's punishment.

     Charles now delivered two more strokes above and below the first one, and then, to exacerbate the pain, gave him a pair of diagonal strokes forming a large X to the three horizontal strokes and where they intersected, the pain would be agonising.

     But even at the last stroke, Toby kept quiet although every visible muscle in his body was straining at the bonds holding him up on the frame.

     Charles now moved back to the table and exchanged the cane for the cat-o'-nine-tails with which he now proceeded to flog the slave's back and chest, administering something around fifty strokes but spread over all those regions of his naked body.

     The marks all over him were violent reds and blues and greens and blacks and testified to the agony that was now pervading every part of his body.

     But the worst of his punishment was still to come.