Merry - Chapter 68
Merry mothered and smothered him. Feeding him, cutting his food for him, sitting with him. Getting him any drinks he wanted. This went on for a couple days, while he regained a normal amount of strength and vitality back.
Merry took him to the hardware store, and Panic oversaw her buying a glut of two by fours and sheets of OSB. Screws and a peck sack of various metal clips. He already had her buy a used corded drill and a jigsaw at the secondhand store.
"Everyone wants cordless. Hard to sell these anymore..."
Merry wouldn't let him help her load and unload the haul of stuff. She posted him up in a camping chair, so he could watch.
"Look. Here's the basics. I'm pretty sure, you're gonna want a four poster bed, right? With... shelves, and a bunk, and everything."
Merry nodded. Already starting to sweat, working, hauling it all in.
"Your posts, are going to be 2x4s, screwed together to make four by fours. We're going to make... stud walls, short stud walls, along all four sides. We'll make a little deck on top, that's going to be the mattress deck."
He guided her every step of the way. How to make a flat cut on a two by four, using a clamped straight edge for a jig. Yielding a razor flat and straight cut with the little jigsaw with ease. How to make as many more as they wanted, so they were all the same. How to screw the little stud walls to the posts. How to run two by fours in a deck across the thing, and cut the excess off flush, again using a clamped jig.
Merry walked up on top of the bed deck, and yanked around at the posts.
"Pretty sturdy..."
"Now? Run 2x4's across the tops. It'll steady the posts more."
Merry did her steadiness test again, yanking on the posts forcefully.
"Ooh baby."
"Now? Go back and take these little L-clips. Put them in every corner. 2 screws each. Use them all up evenly."
Panic tossed her four lengths of her soft rope they hardly ever used. She tied them to the four corners, and yanked and pulled around to see how sturdy everything had become.
"Rock solid..."
"We can put a big set of shelves up above the headboard later on, and a deck for the cat bed. I figure a desk and more shelves above it on the back of the headboard. But... now? Go on, and put hardware anywhere you want it. Most people try to disguise it, but, do your thing. Hanging lights... hanging planters... whatever. You'll know what they're really for, cause you put them there."
Merry had fun putting stainless and galvanized hardware in a few locations. Then? She blew her forehead hair up and out the way. She swept off the bed frame, getting rid of all the sawdust. Dragged the mattress up, and got it more or less centered. Started kicking her shoes off, and taking her clothes off, smiling. She dragged him onto the bed, laid him down, and had herself a taste test. Panic, for his part, more or less just laid there. That was all she required of him.
"Now... this? Is a lot more of what I had in mind... thanks..."
"Now, how am I going to know when romantic rape night hits?"
"Be pretty hard to miss. When we get back? You'll see colored oil lamps and candles lit. Toys out... and? When I shove you down on the bed, and start using you? Well... won't take a genius to figure it out..."
"We're not setting a special night?"
"It's a rape, silly. You can't plan it. It... just happens..."
"Speaking of things that just happen, and can't be planned... when is everyone getting here?"
"That? Is tentatively scheduled for next weekend. Everyone should start coming in, oh, Thursday and Friday."
"Leaving us, some time."
"Yes. Speaking of which, I was thinking we should go get a bath. But... before we do that..."
"Yes?"
"Shh."
Merry picked up a chunk of leftover wood she had been playing with. She wrapped rope around one end, making a sort of handle on it. She smiled as she swung it a few times, against her hand. She continued to smile as she eyed him up, laying there helpless, enjoying her little taste test of her new fun bed.
"What's that for?"
"What's is look like it's for..."
And she swatted the edge of his upper leg, laughing.
"Hey, I got you to make hand prints on me. It's my turn. And remember, you should be practicing not telling me no... I want a hand print. I'm going to get one. So I can look at it, and enjoy it? When we go for a swim bath... now then... do you want it... gentle? Or... rough. Pick one."
Later on, she gave him a medium length slow, but she cheated copiously at the end,with her head and mouth.
"Come on. Let's get you out of here... we could both use a bath before dinner tonight."
While getting dressed, Merry swatted her "hand print"...
"Hey..."
"Ha. I got a nice little spot to smack your ass now. I think I like it...
