KAY

It took a minute to get calm after that little encounter, but I didn’t get much more than that before this broad in a slinky black dress shows up. I could tell from the legs she was Lilah, but what did I care that her dress cost more than my house? She still sweats from her armpits like everyone else...unless she’s not human or something. That seems to be going around lately.

No, focus, Howard...the worst thing you can do is let her catch you off guard. We eyefuck each other for a few minutes...one of my few adventures with girl-on-girl eyefucking. We should get some college guys in here...sell tickets. I worry that she’s made me, that she can spot I’m not Mistress Katrina but a flatfoot in whore’s clothing. Hell, for all I know, she was one of Katrina’s girls...sounds like she’s got the attitude for it. The smartest thing I can do is let her win the eyefuck, turn my face away so she can represent for all of her rich and evil friends. But I don’t have it in me...I’ve never backed off anything and I won’t now, not for this rich bitch and her beestung lips. I don’t get it anyways...she could buy and sell me fifty times(just about ten in my current position...there’s money in demon punishment.) Why is this little contest so important to her? And then, something amazing happens. I win.

“Well,” she says, looking away with a little sigh that makes me glad that neither Felton or the Munchkin are here right now...they don’t realize what a pose all that is...smart men like them should know better, huh? (Dressed like I am right now, I could get half these old freaks to worship me...it’s just another thing. Good Cop, Bad Cop, and The Girl Thing. I feel something spiny brush my ass. Ew, I think, keep your sucker to yourself.)

“Mr. Manners is ready to see you now,” Lilah says. “He anticipates your strictest chastisement...I personally think this doesn’t fit in with our corporate image or our mission statement, but he’s the one that gets paid to make the decisions.”

She laughs one of those fake social laughs, but I see something I wasn’t expecting. Fear.(I looked in her eyes before and I was surprised by how hard they were...not just tough, like me, but plain old don’t give a shit hard. Strip away the fancy stuff, she could be the most hard-core bitch on Fayette Street, as far as the eyes are concerned, but Mr. Manners is something else. If there is a Mr. Manners, I think, suddenly wishing Munch and his pervert glossary weren’t so far away. Because it could be a position or something...suddenly I feel like I’m echoing Stan Bolander.
“I’m just a simple girl from Rocky Point...I don’t know anything about this shit.”

(bouncebouncebouncebounce)

She's going to put the dom smackdown on Holland! WOOOOOT!

You know it...(I used to be a nice crippled girl from Glendale once...)

I used to be a nice crippled girl from Glendale once...

And now you're a dom-writing slasher like the rest of us! And we couldn't be happier.

erika! Beloved wife!

I knew Holland Manners was a sub. I just friggin' knew it.

I've read somewhere that a lot of outwardly powerful people are... don't know where, cause I was probably mostly thinking "Why do I read this stuff?"

The thing about Manners isn't that he's powerful - it was that he so obviously enjoys being used by what he perceives as a Higher Power.

Mister Elevator to Hell Guy for the Senior Partners, you know?

Well, yeah...he's gonna be honored to have Kay abuse him...and she is, of course, his superior in any respect you could name."because she's not like the rest of us...she's a hero." as Giles said about some young Slayer, back when.(Which makes me get pissed off at NBC PTB all over again...straight-up women heroes are rare, rare, on TV.) We've got Kay, Dana Scully, Buffy, Xena...wow, used up one whole hand...)

Hell, I'd have been happy with more than a double handful of women characters for mainstream TV who were drawn as complex human beings, without having the "I must have a baby!" shite grafted on. They screwed up Scully with that, wrecked Jamie Buchman on "Mad About You" by suddenly having her needing to reproduce, and the list goes on....

The desire never bothered me terribly with Scully, maybe because I came into the show late enough that "Scully would like to be a mother some day" felt to me like a basic part of her character.

The implementation, er, not so much. I particularly enjoyed the Stealth IVF and her letting random strangers stay in her apartment with her infant son despite knowing that said infant son was a target for Bad Guys. I mean, it takes work to be a more clueless parent than Angel, but I think she may have managed it.