'Beauty', I can call in a recovery team andwe can cure you of whatever the Hell has happened. If you don't thinkyou can, then I can kill you now, and ...end this fear," Marshall offered. "Help me. I'd give anything for my life and body...no! This is mybody! Perfection is mine. Fuck me! No! I'll help. Make the call quick,"Bagman said, his mind flowing between Bagman and the "Beauty". Marshallpulled out his cell, concentrating hard on keeping the panicking, angrything within Bagman at bay. "Henning,. Still, Laura supposed, it might have some connection. Over the next two hours she found out what the connection was. The film was OK at best for plot and acting, but there seemed to be a lot of skin and sex involved. Even a scene where two girls in bikinis were grabbed off the beach by the bad guys and tied up in an old warehouse. Of course there wasn't anything really explicit, but sex seemed to permeate the whole story line. It didn't help cool her off that John kept running his hand up and. Only thenwas I to offer repeated apologies and promises not to repeat my misdeeds. Allthe while, she held the crop across her lap, an unspoken threat of furtherpunishment if I screwed up. It was easy for me to be totally sincere, withmy ass still burning from the whipping I had just received. I didn't want toget on her wrong side again any time soon. Of course, I didn't know it thenbut, as I learned later, I didn't have to misbehave to merit a beating. Dianewould punish or torment me whenever. No one came creeping up to me offering to share any of their pearls of wisdom or seemed likely to do so. That's ok; Tim was hinting that he had a lot of good news to offer at our next big conference call with him on Saturday. Some of my other hooks in the water were also starting to catch fish, some of them nice big ones.Actually the fun began late Friday evening when my cell phone went off during dinner. It was Tim reporting that a "mysterious virus" was suddenly hitting most of the computers.