Chapter 54: A Talk With Amy

Wednesday Evening August 20, 2008, 8:00 PM

The Mansion

After I got home from work I chatted with Amy. As she requested, we met by the pool, sharing a double-wide lounger where we could face each other.

For Amy, the whipping at Chronis was hard to recover from, especially with what she considered her recognizable face. She would have liked to be out, countering any gossip anybody heard about her, but she was more worried about Joe Pope seeing her and doing something crazy. Stoney helped her create an alternate story where she was elsewhere on a job during the Chronis night. So far that was holding up, but inside she worried that there were some pictures out there.

I was glad to give her all the time she wanted “hiding out” in my mansion. If she was on her own she would have been spotted in her usual places by Joe’s people. (He was crazy-mad so I knew he had people out.) During this period Amy was in contact with her sister and Stoney, using a burner phone, but the conversations were brief, basically saying she was staying with a friend while she got over Joe.

Between her arrival at my house on August 6 and my return from my “honeymoon in Peru” on August 20, Amy was out of my house only twice. Once was my wedding when she was disguised as a man wearing facial fair, with Irene as her date. During the wedding she stayed with my people, avoiding anyone associated with the law firm.

Vi and Joe Pope were at the wedding, but they arrived at the start of the ceremony and left right after it was over, skipping the reception line and especially avoiding the Sterns. They never came close to her.

Amy would have liked to talk to Mrs. Stern at the wedding, they had discovered they were distant relatives, but Mrs. Stern stayed with her husband and he was always with other lawyers, so Amy could not risk it.

The second time Amy got out was Monday afternoon August 18 (when we were whipping it up in the Colony) for a meeting with Stoney, her agent. He had an offer for her. It was a big change in direction, from TV crime dramas to a fantasy CGI big budget film trilogy, so the meeting took some time. The meeting itself was held in the Pablo, where both Stoney and Amy were uncomfortable. This was clearly gang territory. But I said that, unlike their favorite fashionable restaurant, where the right tip could put a recording device at your table, their privacy and safety was assured. Pope could not hire a spy to lay eyes on Amy in there.

In fact, Joe hired a trio of private investigators (PIs) including one to follow Stoney, a second to watch Amy’s sister, and a third to follow other leads.

Stoney was shadowed by a female PI hired by Joe, who figuring Stoney would lead him to Amy’s location. Instead, both Stoney and Amy witnessed the PI being intercepted a few blocks away from the Pablo.

About three days after the Chronis incident, when Joe Pope was at his angriest about Amy’s eluding him, Stoney’s partner hired a new gopher. The woman was actually an attractive hottie working undercover on Pope’s dime ($400 a day plus overtime and expenses). She followed Stoney every time he left the office for an “off-calendar” meeting. But my guys had a tail on Stoney and the PI’s solo tail was easy to spot. When she entered 49 territory two cars blocked her in. (It looked like a street with some street sellers - like Maxwell street - but was posted as private property.) The PI tried to bluff her way out, flashing a fake badge - which the guys following her told her was fake. That put her PI license at risk. My guys didn’t budge, on the contrary they called the fake badge incident into LAPD. The cops don’t like fake badges, so suddenly things got real deep for the PI.

Then a van pulled up and things went for bad to worse. With cops on the way the PI was offered a bag for her head instead of the inevitable night in county lockup. She would put it on and go for a ride, or worse things could happen before the cops arrived. She noticed guns and hypodermic needles, and saw a failed drug test in her future if the real cops got to her.

She was smart enough to say out loud that she wasn’t paid enough to party rough with gang-bangers, plus she had lost sight of Stoney, so the day was a bust. Then she saw the camera running so she breathed some relief and asked for a deal.

“What do you have to offer?” asked the guy holding the bag. “Talk or party...” he said looking at her in a way that made her think about being a party favor for two dozen guys.

She gave up Pope’s name on the spot. Right away things got mellow, guns and needles went away, and LAPD was called off. The name was all my guys needed to know. As a matter of form she handed over her car keys, climbed in the van, bagged herself, then spent about 8 hours in a house in Alhambra, playing cards with some of the girls and making friends she hoped she would never see again. We are not barbarians, when she asked they ordered a good take-out dinner (ribs and chicken) which she shared with the girls. They took a break to let her watch her favorite reality show. She took home the extra order of ribs when she was returned to her car at sundown.

In the interim my guys had washed the car, checked under the hood and filled the tank. One of my guys said, “Chica, with tires like that you shouldn’t be following nobody. You give this card to the guy at the service place a block over,” he pointed and she recalled the place, “they will give you new tires at cost.” The card was blank, but the color was unique, it said she was okay for a deal on tires.

That deal was worth a couple of hundred to a hard working PI who had to cut corners far too often to stay afloat.

The PI wrote the day up with some extra drama for the encounter, including a sighting of Amy, and billed Pope for overtime combat pay. We didn’t even make her quit the cushy job she had while getting paid by Stoney’s partner ($15 an hour) and Pope ($400 a day) at the same time. Eventually Pope kept her running the meter for 5 weeks before he gave up draining his bank account.

Stoney got a report of the encounter and started looking for somebody to turn it into a script for a TV show. He figured a female PI could have some appeal if it was done right, with a female that was gritty, attractive and believable. Well, two out of three was better, they wrote it for a D-cup.

Amy’s meeting with Stoney was while I was in Peru, but Amy and I had a talk on the Wednesday evening after I returned. We started with some drinks and some comfortable small talk at the indoor pool. As long as we were indoors in my house, Amy said she didn’t have any swimwear, so we both went with our birthday suits.

We were facing each other on a double-wide lounger, naked and very comfortable with each other. We both had our bedmates for tonight lined up, Cynthia was waiting for Amy’s body so they could chatter and play very nice with each other. Abril had my cock reserved, she was going to play “wife” for the night. As we talked those two were probably licking each other silly someplace.

We started with small talk and what was going on at my job, especially about Joe and the fact that he seemed so pissed-off at everybody he knew, to the point where Barnes and some others were getting tired of it. We also talked a little about the upcoming extended social weekend and the auction-orgy that was part of the program.

She read the email and was sure it was right up their tight, dirty alley for the Church girls. Vi would probably insist on an enema before and after their naughty girls’ night out. Amy thought it sounded like fun relative to the usual socials she had attended, but it also sounded like the auction would chew up a lot of fun time.

Amy would have done very well in the auction, but with two entries, she figured the trio of Church sluts would do better. “Still, from what you have described, they will split the bids. In any event I would wager on Abril topping the list. Beauty, charm, spice, the thrill of something new on her first exchange night soon after the wedding ... she has everything on her side ... This I know from experience.” We both shared a chuckle at that, both Abril and Cynthia had spent a lot of nights with Amy. It started as sympathy and company, but now they were making happiness doing things to each other that most men dreamed of watching.

Finally we got to the things that had brought Amy to this conversation. For starters, Amy had been in my house for two weeks and was concerned she was wearing out her welcome. I assured her that it was a big house and as long as the location was secure I was in no hurry to “expose her to anybody irrational.” Since we knew Joe was still actively looking for her, employing several PIs to drain his bank account, and I knew from work that he was still really bothered that she had evaded him and his punishment without leaving a trail he could use, the arrangement seemed the best option for her. Plus, from the wedding and from work I knew Vi was pissed at him, maybe more pissed with him than he was at Amy. That was probably getting worse. They both had to make nice so the Church girls stayed. The sluts sensed that they held some power, but like money they had no idea how to use it.

As a former military officer from Indonesia, Vi was not one to forget things. Also, she was more concerned about money than Joe was (and Joe was very concerned) so those PIs and their bills had to be like acid, eating Vi up inside.

Amy and I both knew that Vi and Joe loved each other when they married a decade ago. They still loved each other deep down inside. But they both also loved money and they each had great pride (Joe in his profession, Vi had a heightened sense of personal pride). We speculated that while their love was the highest priority when they married, perhaps recent events showed that greed and pride had surpassed that loving feeling.

Once all that was done Amy changed the subject, she wanted to talk to me about an film offer she was considering. It was a career change. I started by saying that, “I am not noted for my taste in films or my career advice.”

“I’m not sure about that,” Amy said. “The fact is, this is a huge change for me and I just need to talk in out. You make sense.”

Amy started by saying, “To put a perspective on this I need to talk about ‘Caligula’ with Dame Helen Mirren and ‘Beowulf’ with Angelina Jolie. Do you know the films?”

“Yes. I saw Beowulf in a theater on a date. I was impressed by the CGI which showed Angelina naked with a tail, the first shot of her was very realistic, it took some moments before I caught on.” I took Li and her mother to the show early on, Li wanted to test me. “I know that Caligula was hijacked from the director, very ‘S.O.B.’ -like. What he shot was pretty out there at the time, but then they added explicit scenes with Penthouse Pets to take a solid but simple movie about power and high office written by Gore Vidal after Nixon’s “Imperial Presidency” and make it appealing to a less sophisticated audience ... plus sell magazines. There were credit disputes and rating lawsuits all over. How do these tie in with you?”

“Well, I have been offered the second female lead in a sword and sorcery trilogy that will be shot with heavy CGI like Beowulf. My part is a sorceress, a sex-based sorceress. The movie will be 100% CGI, I won’t be naked on film but I will be on the green set. Then with the CGI magic it will be everything, with impossible close-ups of my magic private parts working plus penetration by some fantastic types. My lovers include a dragon and a tree. The things is, they have a good plot, and they want to be a hit in both worlds, so they will release a PG or R rated version without the explicit bits, or with them artfully blocked. Then, once the film makes a splash and gets played everywhere, they will do an expensive “unrated Directors Cut” to home video and XXX-venues. Sort of Caligula in reverse, so they can make a lot more money. It is a plum role for somebody of my age, they say I have the body and face for the role. Over the trilogy they will age me from 16 to 56, but they will have a different lead actress in each film. That will open some roles for me. The time commitment is a pain, but I can make it work considering I am not working now.”

“This seems kind of sudden, doesn’t casting take time?”

“Yeah, that is part of the wrinkle. I went through casting last year, lots of auditions and test shots. When all was said and done I was the second choice for the role, a 6 to 4 vote type of thing. I know the first choice took some overnight meetings for special auditions. But last week, when she saw the final storyboards, she suddenly backed out. I guess she doesn’t mind fucking for a role but the explicit stuff on screen scared her because of her kids and custody when she trades her B-list actor husband-sperm donor in for a director or producer. I mean, they will not just show sex, the CGI will show every fold of my entire crotch in close up during sex with men, women and beasts ... I am even getting watertight fucking a tree to get the forbidden fruit or seed, which I mix with some female tree fruit I have gathered. Production starts in a couple of weeks so suddenly work visas are a thing that really limits the producers. I have one for the Czech Republic because of some work I did last year. Prague is a great place. ‘Boxing Helena’ is a classic case where a last minute change in the female lead made them really tone down the graphic content but I agreed not to do that, they will pay me more to keep the adult script and storyboards intact.”