Chapter 5

Randy was only on tap to pickup Rico and Luis -- which he did from Lucky's. Louise took Fred to Carpenter's -- and she didn't bother hiding where they were going, because he was going to know where the place was, afterward, anyway. Neither of them could find much to say, so the trip was mostly silent; there would no doubt be talk afterward, and CERTAINLY during...

Since this was a command performance from an audio and video point of view, Toby was obliged to be present, like it or not. After some discussion, Amy came, too -- which was probably a good thing, since Louise had a few touchy moments with Luis Garza...

Louise took Fred downstairs into the playroom and on into the bathroom to deliver a thoroughly enjoyable (for her, not for Fred) enema, before leading him into the curtained area. "So how ugly is this gonna be?" Fred rumbled, still feeling echoes of the pains the enema had caused in his gut.

Louise's lips quirked. "It's a little late for that, don't you think? Take your stuff off, climb up on the exam table and go with the flow. You've seen this kind of thing before -- from both sides..." She headed out into the main room, then upstairs, looking for Toby.

Toby and Amy were in the living room; Toby was hooked into the remote controls in the upstairs entertainment center. He was plenty close enough to control webcams via the wi-fi link. Louise eyed Amy but said nothing about her presence, moving on to, "How does it look, Baby?"

Toby poked a button on the laptop and video from the screen replicated itself on the big TV, showing a side view of Fred throwing his pants on the massage table and climbing naked onto the exam table. "Feet in the stirrups, I guess," he rumbled to himself. The audio came across clearly.

"So what do I not want to do?" Louise asked.

"You probably don't want to obscure this camera," Toby replied. "You can approach the table from the other side without getting in the way. I came in and spotted four cameras..." He flicked through a view from above the table at the foot end that caught Fred idly scratching his balls, then trying to extend the padded leaf at the head end of the table with his hands so his neck had support, then flicked to a floor-level view more or less centered on Fred's testicles, then last to a view from above and beyond Fred's head that also covered his crotch. "We should be able to get the penetrations, no problem." Amy said nothing; she'd been on the table thirty minutes before while Toby mounted cameras and wandered around with the laptop, making sure the views were the best that could be done from stationary positions. "All four are constant feeds, and I can zoom in if I see something that seems to beg for it. If you want to collect something special -- or just humiliate him more, I guess -- you can use this..." He pointed to a video camera on the coffee table.

Louise picked it up. "Can you talk me through this, Baby?" Toby gave a short refresher. A horn honked outside and Louise gathered up the camera. "We're on, I guess." She headed outside.

Opening the van doors, she climbed inside to deliver last-minute instructions, "Okay, I want to be clear on what we're up to, here... Fred is downstairs on an exam table, naked. I'm going to blindfold him so you guys can arrive anonymously and get plugged in, then..."

"Then I fuck him in the ass!" Luis crowed, "Then I tell EVERYBODY he takes it up the ass! This is so..."

"No, Baby, no!" Louise cut him off, "You miss the point, here! Outing Fred might cash YOUR check, but we're looking at more than just you here! This is about blackmail; it's about me having a handle on the bastard to ensure that he does right by me and my boys, as well as the immediate revenge aspect! If you out him, he slips free and it's all over -- but if you don't, but you know his secret, that's a check that can be cashed more than once -- and by more than one of us! Understand, Baby?"

"But..."

"You think about it for a minute, Baby. I'm getting this little party on video -- which means that it isn't just your word against Fred's. That little video is going to be dynamite -- and unless you blow the lid off the thing, it means you have an ongoing handle on ol' Fred and can twist the thumbscrews more than once, if you don't abuse things too much..."

Luis thought about it and his eyes glowed; Rico looked mildly disgusted. Louise caught it. "Second thoughts?"

"I made my choice," Rico muttered, "but I don't have to like it." Rico's dealings with Fred hadn't always been mutually satisfactory, which had led to Rico signing on with Louise -- well, that and Louise's bedroom skills -- but this wasn't the proper manner in which to repay Fred for the current sweet deal...

"You just feed his face, Baby, and be the strong, silent type -- I'll make your case for you," Louise assured him. "This is Fred's fault, anyway -- remember that. He probably expects you, too." She turned her attention to Luis, "Baby, remember this is on video, and we want Fred embarrassed. If you jam his ass you'll hurt him, and that'll probably be all well and good for you, but tearing him a new asshole with your dick is gonna be painful for YOU, too! I want you to think on this: What's worse -- more embarrassing -- a video of him howling while you tear up his ass, or a video of him getting a nut with you pumping away in him? What's the better video from the perspective of making him look like a butt-boy? If you're tearing up his ass and he's screaming and yelling, who is a viewer going to have sympathy for?"

Luis frowned. "So how do I get MY enjoyment from this?"

"Humiliate him. Taunt him. Say nasty things about what you're doing -- and how he's handling it. It'll actually be more effective than just hurting him. Call him a butt slut while you make him like it. Gloat. I'm sure you can think of something, Baby..." Louise eyed Luis sidelong. "Then, when he shoots jizz all over himself with your cock up his ass..."

Luis nodded. "Yessss... Are you sure he will get off?"

"He will if you give him reason to," Louise assured him. "If I have to, I'll jack him or blow him -- we want him to cum. All right?"

"Yes." Luis nodded.

"Okay, let's go. Wait at the bottom of the stairs while I blindfold him, then get naked and come on in when I call," Louise directed. "Get plugged in and going, then I'll pull off the blindfold and you can start giving him shit, all right?" She waved and exited the truck, the men following.

At the bottom of the stairs, she picked up a blindfold and waved for the men to undress, then went behind the curtain to Fred. Playing to the cameras, she smiled and said, "Okay, Baby, I've got your surprise all organized so I'm going to blindfold you now while everybody gets set up." She wrapped the blindfold around Fred's head and tied it off. "This will only be a minute or two..." Going back outside the curtain, she got nude, too, and pulled on some rubber gloves, then collected a bottle of lube. "I'm gonna grease his ass," she whispered. "Luis, why don't you feed him some dick while I do it so you're nice and stiff when it comes time to do his ass? Rico can take over when he's ready for you..." Both men nodded and followed her behind the curtain. "Okay, Baby," she told Fred brightly, "I'm going to push that leaf back in so you can drop your head and give up some face -- then I'm going to lube you, okay?" Not waiting for a response, she circled and pushed in the leaf; Fred merely sighed and tried to get comfortable. Luis went around and pressed his half-hard erection against Fred's lips and Fred opened up while Louise circled the table on the far side from the cameras and drizzled lube on her gloved fingers. "There you go! Open up -- on both ends... That's it..." Fred grunted softly as she penetrated him with a finger, but he was clearly working hard to be receptive. Louise drizzled more lube along the crack of his ass and started going for depth.

Luis wasn't gay by any stretch, so he started up lank, but there was the whole revenge thing going in his head and Fred's lips, objectively, felt good, so he stiffened up fairly quickly, the flanged head of his sinewy cock expanding to its full size. 'I've never had this one,' Fred realized. It was different from Rico's, definitely. 'Shit.' There was someone else involved, and Fred figured he had a nasty surprise coming, obviously. Thankful that whoever it was didn't try to jam his cock down his throat, Fred wondered vaguely when the worm was going to turn; right now, Louise was busy pretending that he wasn't here under duress... Louise introduced a second finger into his ass, then reached through and applied her other gooey hand to Fred's erection, surprising him. 'This is all too easy...' Fred thought. 'Oh, SHIT! She wants me to get a nut!' Memories of how they'd played Fernando flickered through his brain. 'Okay, there are gonna be head games. Fuck...' The last couple of times, Fred had been on the delivery end; now he was going to have to take it... His cock didn't care; the rubber glove wasn't the perfect working surface for a hand job, even lubed, but it was adequate to get it started.

Luis, watching Fred's cock firm up, forgot himself and let out a chuckle. Louise was right; making Fred enjoy things physically would add to his humiliation -- and humiliating him would be extremely pleasurable, even without the feel of Fred's lips or ass on his cock.

Louise gave Luis a look, but it was time. "You ready, Baby? Come on over here and get you some man pussy..."

Luis unplugged from Fred's mouth and circled around between the stirrups, passing Louise as she shifted to the side of the table away from the camera. Rico stepped up and rubbed his erection against Fred's lips and Fred opened up to take him in. "Aaahhhh..." Rico groaned. Fred knew what he was doing; his mouth was hot and wet and his thick lips gripped his shaft softly as Rico worked it in and out.

"Okay, this is probably Rico," Fred guessed, just before his attention shifted to the flanged glans battering the door of his colon, using the lubrication and pressure to defeat the weakened defenses and expand Fred's sphincter. Blind, Fred didn't see Louise strip off her gloves and lay a hand on Luis' forearm, urging him to control himself and not jam his cock root deep in one powerful thrust. Luis was cooperative, however; the tight grip of Fred's sphincter was reward in itself for his patience in the penetration as it squeezed his glans. Luis popped through and stopped there, the tight ring of Fred's asshole clenched around his shaft at the base of the head -- the most sensitive area of his throbbing poker. Rather than push back and forth, Luis rocked from side to side, twisting, rubbing his enervated shaft against Fred's inner lining, working against its clutch to extract his pleasure.

Louise gathered the eyes of her two co-conspirators, nodded, and reached down to undo the blindfold, "Surprise!" She gave a little wave and Rico backed off so Fred could raise his head and see his tormentors.

Fred blinked a couple of times then muttered, "Rico." There was resignation there, but little surprise, if any. Luis gave Fred's ass a little bump and he raised his head. Fred's eyes widened, "Luis!" He turned to Louise, "Holy shit!"

"Surprised?" she crowed. "I knew you would be. When I discovered Luis, I knew there was no way he would want to miss THIS party!"

Luis took the opportunity to snap his hips, driving himself deeper into Fred's ass; fortunately for Fred, both his ass and Luis' shaft were well lubed. "This is a little different, eh?" he taunted Fred. "I don't do this, but since the ass is yours..." He started working back and forth, moving deeper into Fred's colon. "Or, maybe, I should say since the pussy is yours..." Puffing, he worked himself into Fred until he was balls deep. "Mmmm, yes. It's pussy, right? Man pussy? From a pussy man?" He took a few strokes, then went on, "Speaking of pussy, your old lady, she's pretty good, you know? Too bad you don't appreciate her. I appreciate her -- I LOVE to fuck her! You know why? Because when I fuck her, we're BOTH fucking YOU -- just like this... What do you think of that, eh?"

Fred groaned. Louise had outdone herself; Luis was probably Fred's worst enemy! Luis had threatened Fred on a couple of occasions, angered over that silly bitch Juanita... In the end, they'd stayed away from one another, in order not to come to blows -- and now, the little Puerto Rican fucker had his dick up Fred's ass!

Louise greased up her hands and started giving Fred a hand job to keep him erect; Luis' flanged cock head running over Fred's prostate was additive, as far as pleasure was concerned. Luis grinned nastily, "I hope you are enjoying this, Fred -- because I'm LOVING it! I may want to do this seven, eight times! How many times did you fuck Juanita after you convinced her that I was a diseased little pervert, eh? A dozen? Of course, I'm gonna fuck your old lady a bunch more times, too..." Luis pumped away a few times before adding thoughtfully, "You remember all of those nasty diseases you told Juanita I had? Maybe I have them, now. Maybe I'm gonna make a present of them to YOU now -- shoot them up your ass! Wouldn't THAT be a bitch? Maybe..." Luis threw a significant glance at Louise... Louise looked back, poker-faced. "Maybe you ought to suck Rico now, so I can concentrate on enjoying my pussy, eh?"

"Shit," Fred grunted, "Shit, shit, shit..." He dropped his head back to accept Rico's cock.

"You better not, Pussy, because if my cock stinks when it comes out of you, you're gonna lick it off..." Luis snarled.

Fred just sucked Rico in; it wasn't worth adding to his misery to try to talk about it. Louise was getting her revenge -- in spades!

Jacking Fred's familiar cock and rolling his balls in her hand, Louise said, "Rico is kind of embarrassed to be here, but you know, you haven't always been that loyal to HIM, either. When you fuck people over, Fred, it comes home to roost, eventually. I like Rico -- you may have to get used to him, because I don't plan to give him up any time soon..."

Rico ran his hand through his hair and rolled his eyes; if THAT didn't put an end to any friendship he had with Fred, nothing would...

"Hey, Frederica, you getting' kinda loose, there, Honey," Luis puffed.

"Give him a little swat on the ass -- he'll tighten up," Louise prompted. "It doesn't take much..." The addition was to remind Luis that they were looking to pleasure Fred physically to add to his humiliation.

Luis delivered a mild swat, "Come on, Mamacita, move that ass, make my cojones happy..."

Louise's hands knew his cock too well; Fred realized that he was going to spew pretty soon. It was so humiliating... He sucked on Rico's pistoning cock for comfort, like a child sucks his thumb, closing his mind to the ugly reality of what was being done to him. The results were pretty good from Rico's perspective, and since he no longer had anything to lose, he started working more seriously to obtain his own pleasure.

Fred's cock was reaching the explosive stage, so Louise snatched up the video camera off a nearby stool and focused it one-handed. When it started to pulse, she let go, removing her hand from the frame to video it while it lurched and spat onto Fred's chest and belly, apparently without any physical contact. "Was that good, Baby? I hope it was as good as that nut says it was, because any time in the near future you even smell MY pussy, you'll be doing stuff like this to earn it..." Louise taunted. "Finish yourself off..." Fred reached down to jack himself and wring what pleasure he could get from the orgasm, whimpering around Rico's cock. Louise had fucked him good; maybe he should have walked, but it was too late now. If Rico and Luis lit him up, he would have to leave town -- and he couldn't see Luis keeping his mouth shut...

"Come on, Frederica, give me a nut! I guess I'm your old man now..." Luis puffed. He was close -- and surprised over it -- but this WAS his first nut in a few days... He applied gentle swats to Fred's ass in time to his rhythm to keep Fred's ass clutching his cock. "Yeah... Good... I'm gonna blow now, Frederica! I hope... you can't... get pregnant... YAAAAAHHH!!!!" Luis' cock let go; first he buried it, then he pulled it back to where his glans wedged in Fred's sphincter. "FUCK! Take it, you whore!" Luis was mildly embarrassed at the volume of spend he fired into Fred's clutching ass and the pleasure he took from it -- was he a little queer after all? Surely not...

Rico's balls were crawling up, too; Luis was working Fred hard and Fred was sucking like there was no tomorrow and whining around his cock -- and it was just too good... "Gonna shoot!" he gasped, then rammed his cock deep -- right past the opening of Fred's throat -- and spewed three shots there before pulling back and dribbling the rest into Fred's mouth. It wasn't deliberate -- instinct just took over -- but Fred handled it, anyway. "Hey, sorry," Rico grunted. Fred just waved, listlessly.

It was over, it seemed like; Fred lay there for a bit, then sat up. "Are we done?"

"I don' think so," Luis drawled. "Maybe you check to see how my cock tastes now, eh? Maybe you get a little of the shit end of the dick?"

Fred gave Louise a look; it was poker-faced, but the undertone was clear -- "How far do you plan to go?" Louise looked back and nodded at Luis; Fred sighed, "How...?"

"Kneeling, I think. Yes. Kneel and suck my cock," Luis taunted. "Come on, you like it..."

Fred did as he was told. Fortunately, he'd cleaned himself out; things weren't perfect, but there weren't large deposits anywhere to be dealt with. He sucked and licked until Luis tasted clean.

Of course, that made Luis hard again. "Hey, I think I can go again!" he announced. "Maybe your old lady and I fuck you now, eh?" he addressed Fred.

Rico made a face. "I'm not up for this," he announced, and headed for the stairs.

"Rico, hold on," Louise called. "Luis, I'll be back in a minute, okay, Baby?"

"Yeah, okay," Luis agreed. "Keep sucking," he directed Fred.

Louise caught Rico on the inside stairs. "What's up?"

"Luis has rabies," Rico replied. "He's gonna be a bitch to control. I'm not gonna be sticking my dick in Fred all the time -- even he doesn't deserve THAT."

Louise led him into the living room during this outburst. "Luis will settle down," she argued. "It'll be all right."

Toby, seeing where things were going, picked up Louise's similar worries. His hand in Amy's, he passed them and asked her, <How bad is it?>

<Rico is right. How about if I implant a delayed-action attack of conscience?> Amy offered.

<Don't go wild -- Louise may want to use him again,> Toby advised, <But slow him down some.>

<Okay.>

"Worst case," Toby offered for Rico and Louise's consumption, "the video can be tailored to make Luis look bad, despite the gentle approach." Both Rico and Louise looked relieved.

"How far do you intend to go?" Rico asked Louise.

"Honestly, I don't know, Baby," Louise replied. "He's been behaving himself; I might limit things to tonight -- but I need the ongoing threat. I want to stay married until the boys get their feet on the ground, at least -- I've got a lot of time invested in Fred. On the other hand, I'm pretty mad at him; even if he behaves himself, I don't know if I'm ready to forgive and forget. Right now, I need you in case Luis gets too stupid to deal with rationally -- but there is more to it than that. I like you, Rico. Any way you slice it, I'm not going to be monogamous, going forward. Fred wasn't and he isn't, and he won't be, so he's got no bitch coming. I'm gonna want some of that fine dick of yours, pretty regular, even if Fred and I kiss and make up."

"I don't want to spend my time rubbing his nose in it," Rico complained.

"Baby, he's seen me with someone else's dick in me before," Louise replied. "It won't burn him near as bad as Luis thinks it will. Besides, you KNOW it'll be mutual! I promised him he could fuck club pussy again after tonight, and you can bet he'll be looking for a piece -- and after this, having me standing there while he does it will be on the agenda."

"Yeah, well, there's the other thing..."

Louise looked amused. "That's what Fred calls it -- 'the other thing.' If you want to make a separate peace with him over it, you might find out he LIKES sucking your dick!"

"Well, uh..." Rico didn't know what to say to THAT one. "What do you want?"

"Hang out here with the kids, Baby. If Luis goes apeshit, I might need you. There's no way I'm going to the house tonight -- Fred's gonna smart some under this. I want to drop him off at home, then we can send Luis off -- but I want to go home and cuddle with you. That okay?"

"Yeah, okay."

"Look, Baby, if you can, I'd consider it a personal favor if you'd come back downstairs and watch from there. It'll probably put a brake on both of them."

Rico thought about it. "All right."

"No more demands," Louise placated. "Nothing Fred doesn't want."

"Fine." Rico allowed himself to be led back downstairs.

"I was beginning to worry that Frederica, here, would drain my balls again before you got back!" Luis crowed. "She's a fine little cocksucker..." He grinned down at Fred.

"Well, we're back, Baby," Louise replied, "and I'll take that dick! How about the massage table?"

"Climb up!" Luis backed out of Fred's mouth. "See if you can feel this, asshole!" Louise scooted back onto the table and lay down and Luis wasted no time crawling between her legs. "Come here -- I want you to watch, motherfucker!"

"I wish he'd make up his fucking mind," Fred mumbled as he walked over to the table. "Am I fucking male or female?"

"You're a bitch with a dick," Luis snarled. "A fucking transvestite! And you lie about it!" He rubbed his fat glans along Louise's split. "You watching this?"

"Yeah, go ahead..."

Triumphantly, Luis made the insertion and pressed home in Louise's pussy. Fred grimaced, but made no comment until he picked up Rico, off-side out of Luis' sight, waving. Fred got it; if this didn't bother him, then Luis would go looking for something else... "You fucker!" he grated, "I hope you enjoy yourself! I hope you BOTH do!" He stalked off, leaving Luis grinning as he pumped away in Louise's pussy.

Rico waved him over, but couldn't think of anything to say. Louise didn't exaggerate things either way, but she allowed herself to enjoy Luis' efforts, and got characteristically vocal about it. After a while, Fred muttered, "Shit. I COULD have stuck to home..."

Rico nodded. "Yeah."

"You fuck her?"

Rico hesitated, then admitted it, "Uh huh."

"Forget it." Fred waved it off. "She tell you we used to swing?"

"Yeah."

"Been a while -- but strange is strange. It shouldn't mean anything. Of course, it's Luis, and of course, I've been fucking up. Still, I've been fitted for horns before -- and so has she."

"Yeah," Rico agreed. "But Luis doesn't know that."

"Yeah. Thanks." Fred pitched his voice louder. "Hurry up, dammit! Yell when you want me to watch the cum shot, you motherfuckers!" Rico chuckled quietly.

Things were quiet between Fred and Rico for a minute or two. Louise got an orgasm and settled back down some -- but continued to have fun, clearly.

Fred, hangdog, flicked a glance at Rico. "You've been in both ends."

"I know. I didn't then, but I do now."

"Sooo..."

"It didn't kill either of us. It wasn't the first time a guy sucked me off," Rico admitted, "but it was the first piece of ass I ever got from one."

"I guess it's pretty sorry-assed..." Fred muttered.

"Nah, it's fine. I'm not one of those jackasses you usually hang out with. Besides, I've been a suckee."

Fred eyed him. "Think they haven't? I bet a couple of them hang out near gay bars, catch drunken twinks comin' out, make 'em blow them, then beat the fuck out of them!" 'In fact, I KNOW they do!' Fred added to himself. It was somewhere he'd drawn a line, but he knew about it.

Across the room, Louise declared her pleasure as Luis pushed her through another orgasm, "OH BABY!!! FUCK, BABY, FUCK!"

"Awriiiight!" Luis huffed, "You come over here now! Watch me breed your ol' lady!" Fred sighed and headed over. "Get down... behind us... so you can... see it!" Luis directed in gasps, clearly close to his completion. Fred squatted, assuming a position that afforded a fine view of Luis' cock pumping in and out of Louise's pussy. "I'm gonna... do it... YAAAHHHH!!" Luis roared as he jammed himself deep in Louise, his balls jumping as they discharged. Luis held himself deep, then pumped back and forth slowly, enjoying his orgasm; a ring of white foam appeared at the juncture. "I do a good job, eh?" Luis puffed.

"Yeah, you know how, I guess," Fred replied, sounding somewhat deflated. It wasn't hard -- or even acting, actually. This particular sex act wasn't as significant as Luis thought it was, but it still pointed up the fact that Fred had managed to alienate a woman who had once loved him and was the mother of his children -- and that was the point, wasn't it?

"Now you clean me up!" Luis announced, backing down off the table, "and suck my seed out of your ol' lady!"

"Luis..." Louise sat bolt upright on the table. Enough was enough...

"Let him have his fun," Fred said resignedly, waving it off. "He's got a lot of shit built up..." Fred remembered Juanita; he'd fucked Luis over, then he'd fucked Juanita over. Of course, she'd invited it, more or less, by being a stupid, submissive slip, but... Telling Luis that his approach to her had been all wrong would be a waste of breath, anyway. 'It isn't as if I hadn't ever sucked a dick,' Fred mused to himself, 'even THIS dick...' He did the clean up -- even allowing Luis to manhandle his head some while he did it -- then turned to the table. "Bring it closer to the edge, Woman."

"Fred..." Louise began.

Fred waved it off. "You might as well go whole hawg." Yeah, this was humiliating -- but it was supposed to be, wasn't it? Fred stuck his tongue in the gooey mess. They'd never be able to turn his head around like they did that fat Mexican fucker, but the point was made, for DAMN sure! Besides, if things went a little too far, Louise would be more likely to let up... Fred did a good job -- good enough that Louise reached down and clutched his head to her leaking twat, gasping and groaning from the pleasure. She didn't get off, but that was more from having just gotten several orgasms from Luis than any lack of effort on Fred's part. She pushed him away, unable to take the sensations, and said, "Okay, let's pack this up."

Upstairs, Toby sent Amy after Randy, who had been goofing off out by the pool. "They're finished," she told him. "They should be out soon." Randy nodded and got up; he was pretty subdued over the Miriam thing.

Downstairs, the foursome dressed. "I'm going with them," Louise announced. "I won't be home tonight -- it's probably smarter if I'm not. The woman upstairs wants to talk to you -- not about pussy, but..." she shrugged. Louise was full up for the night, at least; if Fred could talk Candace out of pussy, more power to him... "Let's go, Boys." She waved Rico and Luis up the stairs.

Once in the van and moving, Louise turned on Luis, "Okay, you had your party! You got your licks in, but I'm not seeing a whole lot of control, here! If you fuck around and out Fred and leave me with nothing to hold him with, I'm going to be pissed, BIG TIME!"

Luis glared. "I will be careful," he rasped, clearly angry at being dressed down by a woman. "But we're not done, right?"

"No, we're not," Louise agreed, "but I don't want you going hog wild on him and making it impossible for him to live with what's going on, either -- or getting careless and pushing him in public! THINK before you go off on him -- and think about more than YOUR revenge while you do it! There are other considerations, here -- and you got a pretty good-sized piece of him tonight!"

"As you wish!" Luis turned away, angry -- but he realized that Louise was right. Fred was not without resources; how much shit he would take before retaliating was an open question. People had been killed for less than what Luis had visited upon Fred that evening... "I have no protection in this..."

A light went on in Louise's brain. "You have MY protection -- which is why you'll do things MY way! I'll make sure Fred understands that -- but you're going to throttle back, anyway!"

Luis waved an angry assent; a few moments later, they arrived at the bar. Luis went inside; Louise and Rico got in Rico's car and went home to Rico's.