Chapter 4
The new medical practice opened and Susan and Mary looked after a succession of patients who had been booked in with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia, severe depression, dipolar syndrome and dementia. They took on a housekeeper called Mrs Bowling who provided meals for them all and also another nurse called Julia, who looked after the day to day care of the patients, changing their bedding and in some severe cases their incontinence protection in the dementia cases particularly.
Tom had been very attentive to Susan over the coming weeks and they decided that they would marry at the register office, when Mary and Mrs Bowling came as witnesses. They did not want a grand wedding and Tom’s mother was quite estranged from her son anyway and declined to attend the ceremony. His father had run off with another woman years ago and his mother blamed Tom for driving him away with his brattish behaviour.
They stayed in London at the Ritz Hotel and went to Langan’s Brasserie for dinner. It was all reassuringly expensive but Tom drank too much and was unable to consummate his marriage that night. Susan was disappointed but for some reason she could not quite explain had a vision of Mary flash in to her mind, and most disturbingly she felt a surge of sexual passion. The next morning Tom fulfilled his function as a husband and with total lack of finesse or any semblance of care or passion had sex with his wife. Susan did not bother to feign any sort of fulfilment but let Tom hump away like a dog. The weekend was fun apart from the sex, they went to Hamley’s in Regent Street and Susan bought Tom a large fluffy teddy with a huge pink bow around its neck. They went to Dirty Bones in Carnaby Street and ate spare ribs, went to Mappin and Webb where Tom bought Susan a belated engagement ring to add to her wedding band. Finally, they settled in Chinatown and had a meal of Peking Duck with pancakes, sliced cuc-umber, spring onion and Hoi Sin sauce. They returned to the hotel and once again Tom’s performance in bed was at best rated mediocre.
Susan and Mary continued to improve the business and the team started to function really well. Mrs. Bowling was a gem and a treasure, who cooked beautiful meals for them all. Julia moved into one of the spare rooms most of the week so that she could be on call if any patients became disturbed or restless. They discovered that a combination of hypnosis and ECT could provide spectacular results in a number of conditions, especially where patients needed to be regressed back to a time when they did not have psychotic episodes in search of fundamental triggers to their conditions.
As the medical practice grew in success and profitability, Tom shrank in importance and his self-esteem dwindled as the law firm gave him less and less important tasks to fulfil. He became the conveyancing man; he was not entrusted with any cases that required him to show a profile in the business. He was the backroom boy doing the searches and handling the deeds to properties, the intermediate to building societies, banks and specialist loan companies. He and Sarah rekindled their clandestine relationship and all would have been well had they not be spied by Julia on her evening off, as Tom was supposed to be working late on an ‘urgent case’, but was sitting in a corner of a wine bar with his hand up Sarah’s skirt fiddling about in her pants as he prattled endlessly to her in baby talk. Julia who was treated well by Susan felt truly enraged and despite her urge to intervene instead took a video of them on her iPhone.
Chapter 5
The conversation between Julia and Susan was very difficult and it was not too long before Mary and Mrs Bowling were sharing the news. They formed a plan between them and decided that it would serve no purpose to delay putting it into action. They moved the cot from the secure room to the ECT room and put a series of harnesses onto the bed in the observation room. In the office Susan prepared a syringe with a powerful sedative, and another that would relax his muscles.
Tom came in at about midnight and no sooner had he switched on the hall light when the three women set about him to strip off his clothes and strap him into the bed in the observation room. Susan injected him with the pre-prepared syringes and Tom began to slump almost at once as the powerful sedative took hold of his body.
Mrs Bowling who was an expert with a sharp knife from years of cooking and preparing food, had his clothes cut off in minutes. They all sighed at the appearance of his underpants that were not only badly stained at the back but were really wet at the front caused by his incontinence caused by drinking too much alcohol and losing control. Once again it was Mrs Bowling who brandished the razor and began to shave off the hair around his groin. It took the four of them to man-handle his dead weight and turn him over to complete the shaving process. His shredded clothes were gathered up and stuffed in to a black bin bag ready for disposal.
Julia and Mary folded a large white terry nappy in to the traditional kite shape and lay it on the bed. Tom was rolled back over and laid on the nappy as the girls started the process of applying zinc and castor oil cream and baby powder over the rather pathetic and useless instrument of his manhood. A baby’s Harrington terry nappy was folded in half and laid over his front and the other large nappy pulled up between his legs and Mary with her nanny training took one of the open pins from her mouth and firmly pinned the two sides together, before tugging the other edge of the nappy and pinning it tightly with the second pin. Julia flapped open a large pair of translucent plastic pants and worked his feet through the leg openings. Between them they managed to work the pants up his legs and over the huge bulk of his fluffy soft nappies. They fussed about making sure that there was no towelling left uncovered by the plastic protection.
“What’s happening?” murmured Tom fighting the drugs that were rendering him incapable of making any physical interaction. “I cannot move my legs” he said, beginning to panic as his strength drained away.
“You are a louse Tom” retorted Susan “and you are going to pay the price for your infidelity”. She reached in to the pocket of her white coat and pulled out an adult sized pink dummy that she had found on sale in Ebay. It was a perfect replica of a baby’s dummy and the large teat was quickly slipped in to his mouth bringing a subdued silence, the face plate completely covered his mouth and made intelligible speech impossible.
“Nnnnnng” spluttered Tom trying to spit out the invading soother, but Susan had her hand firmly on the binky’s ring and made sure it remained firmly in place. Mary found some surgical bandage and tied it through the dummy and wrapped it around his head.
“It is one of the secret techniques I used with troublesome toddlers” she said with a grin “it worked far more efficiently than the naughty step!”
Tom was dragged up in to a sitting position and a t-shirt fitted over his head that was bright pink in colour and simply said “BABY” on the front. Julia shook open a bib that was made of white terry towelling, edged in pink gingham binding and extended from his neck to the plastic pants that protected his nappy. The colourful embroidery proclaimed “BABY” in multicolour silk thread.
“He is well-coordinated” she giggled “his bib matches his top beautifully”.
Susan had some pink woollen mittens which on the outside might have appeared all soft and fluffy, but on the inside had a stainless-steel pocket that prevented his fingers from bending and at the same time trapped his thumbs. His hands were effectively turned in to useless paddles that could at best wave to his captors.
Mary, in the meantime, was unwrapping a set of baby reins made of pink leather and had a breast plate that had four tinkling bells and a picture of a teddy wearing a nappy on the front. She slipped the straps over his shoulders and secured them tightly at his back. The previously fitted harness straps from the frame of the bed were clipped to the two d-rings on his baby harness making sure that Tom was completely restricted to his new bed.
Mrs Bowling had the honour of fitting a pair of soft knitted pink booties and secured them with pink ribbons to his feet. “These will keep him really cosy and snug” she reported.
The four of them laid him back on to the mattress which had been fitted with a flannelette sheet under which was a good old-fashioned sheet of red rubber to protect the mattress against any spillages or leaks. They looked at each other and then looked at Tom who was flat out and dead to the world all in pink apart from his fluffy white nappy showing through his translucent plastic pants. As they began to gather up the packaging and clear away the debris of their operation, they noticed that his dummy was slowly beginning to pulsate in Tom’s mouth as he used the instrument of pacification for its intended purpose. As the intensity of his nursing increased, so a thin line of drool ran from beneath his do-di and made its way to the absorbent bib around his neck.
Susan turned out the main light, leaving a small dimmed reading light beside the bed to provide a warm glow to the otherwise clinical room. “Now we have to complete the second part of the operation” she said “this may not be quite so easy”. The four of them high fived, and as they left Tom to his evening slumbers, Mary slipped her arm around Susan’s waist.
Susan thought to herself “that damned feeling again” as she felt a surge of sexuality tingle her sensuality.
The four of them decided to have a quick meeting in the office and went next door. Susan activated the electric switch to turn off the frosted effect in the glass and they could see Tom fast asleep. They made plans to meet up first thing in the morning to follow up on the strategy they had decided. They had no residents at the weekend, so there was nothing to get in the way or complicate what was going to be a difficult morning.
It never rains but it pours!