A fallen oracle
Dr Harper can't accept the reality of her condition.
Final Fight
“I’m stronger AND hotter than you. You can’t compete.”
Poison, win pose line from Street Fighter
CJ’s dealer was late and she was pissed.
Now there were three droogs picking on a trans girl right in front of her. The Lioness hadn’t had a fight or a fuck in a while, and cracked her neck and bore her teeth. CJ needed to let off some steam.
“I think you better leave Poison alone there fellas? You ok doll?”
“Oh, I am ok, obrigadinha (cute female thank you in Brazilian Portuguese).”
“Ha, doll. This one is packing bigger than me you little goth bitch.”
The lead guy leaned in and grabbed the lady’s crotch. She was obviously uncomfortable and looked around nervously, today’s compensated date had not gone to plan. The other two guys laughed.
“Oh I am so fucking glad you said that. Oh really I am. I’ve been having problems at home, with the girlfriend, you know how it is fellas, and oh wow, I am a happy girl today, you made my day. Fighting is almost as fun as fucking.”
“Hey, hey, don’t I know you?”
One of the background droogs was playing with his phone.
“Oh ha! It’s “The Lioness” the one that got totalled by that Russian chick.”
“This one here is more chick than that Russian monster ha!”
CJ stepped forward, snarled and sized up the first guy, scanning him, echo() ran - her and Kate’s new project - and picked an optimal attack path, she paused for a second and then literally pounced on him.
“What the fuck!”
The dancer landed, grabbed on and span around him, an around the world rockabilly spin, turned into a throw, pulling him down to the floor hard and landing on top. Full mount. She started to rain down punches, his hands came up, echo() flagged it and she shifted to elbows. One went through and cut his face wide open, his guard dropped in shock as he felt flesh separate. The next one went straight to the skull which she battered down hard to the pavement. He was done.
“Meu Deus!”
“Ok well fuck this! Ummm yeah, so shes a pro fighter and I am fucking out of here guys.”
Both the other guys turned and walked off.
She stood up slowly and walked over to the trans lady.
“I hope you don’t mind me crashing your date doll?”
“Oh, oh is ok. Babaca pau pequeno (He was a small dicked jerk). No fun anyway.”
“You need a walk back home doll?”
“Sure ok, Adorei seu estilo. Você é muito forte!” (I love your style. You are very strong!”)
She made a front double biceps pose and smiled at CJ sweetly.
“Oh doll, compliments will get you everywhere. I can show you where I get my hair done if you like?”
“Que legal! (Oh cool!)”
CJ smiled and sent the recording back to Kate. Along with a message.
“Test run of echo(), all good! I hope you are ok today babe. Text me yeah? I miss you, I miss us. XXX”
She sighed and linked arms with her new galpal.
Reddit hole
“majority of men are probably paedophiles and hebephiles” and “paedophilic interest is normal and natural in human males”.
Philip Tromovitch, presentation on the “prevalence of paedophilia”, a pro paedophile researcher based in Japan, just one of many to attend a UK based pro paedophile conference in Cambridge. Including Tom O’Carroll, the former head of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and a convicted sex offender. He wrote on his blog after: “It was a rare few days when I could feel relatively popular!”
[This is real and disgusting, the Lioness needs a suitably awful target.]
She had helped Kate get into University today to teach her classes and would go to pick her up later. They had barely said three sentences to each other on the way in. There was that weird creepy professor there to greet Kate again, he made my skin crawl that guy. CJ had been around enough bad shit to get the ick vibes, the creepy dude at a kink event, the guy who took things too far and men with genuinely evil tastes, The Lionesses hair was up.
Kate didn’t see it, but she’s like locked in her own world these days. The only thing I can get her talking about is her book, which admittedly, is pretty cool, her big brain is so fucking sexy.
She sighed and flicked over to another Reddit page, oh more drama from the ladies enhanced games, she opened the video. Let’s take a look shall we…
“Look, the cybers get their tricks and hacks, the “ladies” get to blast as much gear as they want, it’s only fair that us furry fighters get to use our natural weapons too! That’s what all the fans want to see! Transgenomic rights!!! My team will be appealing this decision. The Iron Wolf will return!”
Luna - beautiful black and steel grey fur styled perfectly - howled at the camera and grinned showing off her fangs. Her Onlyfans and Insta were blowing up with all the attention, the Iron Wolf might not be back in the ring, she had other projects.
“Ohhh tough break for Luna “Iron Wolf” a mid ranked female furry fighter who has been banned again for biting, six month suspension this time.”
“I mean a black belt in BJJ already, you wouldn’t think she would need to tear open her opponent’s throat with her submission skills. She is out of control.”
“Our analysts are saying it’s almost impossible for them to resist in the heat of the moment Amy, the instincts take over. Like having a knife in your pocket the whole fight and not being able to use it. Especially when the other lady started headbutting her in the clinch.”
“The butting did happen first and Evandra “The Dealbreaker” Jackson was warned twice and had a point deducted. I disagree, it’s the same as any other illegal move, yeah she has a few wolf and dog genes but she’s a human fighter the same as any other girl out there, they cant bite or do small joint manipulation or throw downwards elbows on the ground, it’s basic safety stuff here Mike.”
“You make a good point Amy, we want to open up the sport to more styles and greater human performance, of all kinds, but we also want to keep athletes safe.”
“Exactly Mike, biting the throat is not a PR stunt for views! That’s a lethal move. Luna needs to muzzle herself before she gets back in the ring.”
“Whoa Amy, ummm, anyway, the views of our commentators do not reflect those of the Enhanced Games which remains a proud LBGTQF+ ally.”
The feed went dead and CJ scanned over to another Reddit page. She took a long slow hit on a joint. It was one of the milder strains with more CBD, her Reddit and chill blend.
CJ was “working from home” today, which meant she had already cum three times so far, the big black toy was right next to her, ready to go. She had guys texting her, she had one she hadn’t deleted, she should do it, just left archived, only a blink away at any point.
She deleted the text.
Kate wasn’t pulling her up on the drugs either, they barely talked now. She thought about popping something, or more porn, then sighed and closed the tabs down. What are you doing CJ? What’s the solution to this? She won’t talk to you about it. What can you do girl?
She opened up some more Reddit pages, conspiracy stuff, CJ loved a good theory.
A new species of supercolonial ant is destroying the rainforest, yawn. The Technological Democratic Republic of China is secretly ruled by evil AI’s, yeah? Sounds legit. America is on the brink of a new civil war, ummm that’s not even a conspiracy, the truckers riots have entered their third week, Google is sending in drones to support the army. Eat it cyberphobic bigots. Earthquakes at the Pacific Point of Inaccessibility are caused by a massive kaiju, ha! Sweet! Oh they have Google satellite images of it? Hmmmm, pretty fuzzy. Next…
Oh there are funding links from the Epstein files that haven’t been traced yet, the endless rabbit hole, back to NYU, the physics department, noooo. She started digging, there was more, lots more. Then an image came up.
It was him, the creepy professor, at a conference on what?! “Danger and difference: the stakes of hebephilia” [That was a real talk done at Cambridge], no way that’s a real thing, is that allowed? What?!
Hes a physics professor, its not research on victims or anything, this is a fucking academic pedophile ring! Shit!
She got up and was about to text Kate.
No. No. Sober up first. Then read it again. Then text her.
She will just get mad and say you are fucking high and paranoid…again.
CJ sat back down, paused for two seconds then started reading it all again and took another hit.
Ahhhh I’ve got to text her…
Porcelain Doll
“I am a kaleidoscope of hope and dreams and wonder in the shape of a girl. I am not a porcelain doll. I am not empty. I am worthy. I am enough.”
Ashley Poston
Kate struggled up from her desk. She was thirsty and overdue for her meds. She had another fight with CJ, she shouldn’t be so mad at her all the time. Its the meds maybe, they made her thirsty all the time and it’s not like they really did anything anyway. When CJ wasn’t here she often didn’t get up all day. It was painful. Painful to do and painful to think about.
CJ had left the crutches and the stick out by her desk. Retrieved from the bin again, left with a fresh smiley post-it note and new rainbow flag stickers.
Kate ignored them and shuffled on, it was bad today. She needed to get a fresh cup of water. Then on to the bathroom for more of the endless tablets.
She had already finished a bottle of water and a thermos of two blended green teas with honey, lemon and ginger, home made CJ ice tea. They had all been finished with morning rounds. It was sweet. She was showing she cared, doing little jobs around the house and looking after her still. But it wasn’t working.
They hadn’t fucked in three weeks. Kate froze up when she touched her, she hated it, why? Why?! Anything but this! CJ was everything she wanted, she is being so sweet and understanding too, why this?! Now she was ashamed to even cuddle her. When her warrior angel went to touch her legs she flinched now.
It’s not you CJ it’s me, I am no good anymore. I am broken.
She could hear CJ playing with herself; at night, in the shower, on the sofa, all the damn time, with the toys, and the porn. She strips the beds and cleans up, her body language is different, mechanical, she doesn’t want me to see. She had seen. The porn. It was disgusting. There were two men. She doesn’t want you anymore Kate.
Kate reached up to the cupboard and took out a mug. She wobbled and one leg partly gave out. She grabbed the counter top and steadied herself. Deep breath.
She turned.
And fell.
Crack. Smash.
Dr Harper lay on the floor, a trickle of blood forming a small pool.
Japanese tea mug, the ones that warm your hands up when you cuddle them, smashed to pieces around and over her.
She twitched once and didn’t get up.
Mr Creampuff came in, meowed once and carefully stepped over the smashed porcelain and curled up on Kate’s legs. He started to purr.
CJ pushed through the door, she was a bit buzzed, rolled a small one as she left the office, then a few after work drinks, plus had swiped two of Kate’s pain pills earlier, dropped those too, that new boy had been flirting with her again, the good looking rich HK boy, a good boy who wanted his baddie waifu, not likely buddy. Then had picked up some ket too from her dealer, for the weekend, great for a big solo play session. Based on how things were going with Kate, CJ’s solution was mong out and don’t think about it, at least for now.
“Hey babe I’m back! After work drinks went a bit long.”
No answer.
“Babe?! You didn’t pick up my calls or texts? You ok?”
There was a meow from the kitchen.
“Kate?! KATE!!!!”
Chapter links
Characters and connections
This story is a sequel to Batgirl Begins, and Manic Pixie Dream Days, Metal Mistress Nights, We have the technology, we can rebuild her? and The Library of Heaven’s Path (天唐图书馆), Relationship malware and Fighting rings and broken things which explains how Kate and CJ first met and how their relationship started to develop and some of their problems.
CJ is one of the central characters in The Three Moons Mythos 🌙🌙🌙.
Her main story is Connection.
She shows up to check in on her friend Amanda in a couple of her stories; Sapphire, The woman in the red dress and makes a little cameo tearing up the dance floor in Bliss.
Dr Kate Harper also appears in a short story where she gives a talk at conference on Quantum AGI.
Both CJ and Kate feature in my debut novel; “A queen of light and shadow”.
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