Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:55:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Steam Train <steam_t2000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Even the Modest Must Serve Chapter 16 CONCLUSION

Even the Modest Must Serve
By Steam Train   ( steam_t2000@yahoo.com )


Chapter 16: FBS. ~ CONCLUSION


Marcus continued to be my closest friend. We had built
a friendship and a relationship that would last past
school into our adult years. As we got older and study
and work commitments forced us apart we saw less of
each other for a while. His father finished his work
commitments in Eastbrook and returned to Canada when
Marcus was twenty-two, but Marcus decided he wanted to
stay in Eastbrook.

He remained always my true love. Marcus became a
lawyer and when he married at twenty six years of age
a fellow solicitor whom he had met at his work I was
heartbroken, however true to his negotiating skills he
made sure before he committed to marry her that she
knew all about our relationship and required that she
freely allowed me to maintain safe sexual contact with
Marcus.

As I write this recollection of my early life, Marcus
is sitting next to me, his teenage kids are watching
TV in the next room and we are a happy family. His
kids a re pretty well behaved and so far have managed
to avoid being NEWDD's or even too much naked exposure
at the hands of the Federal Governments latest
juvenile justice programme, `Taking Back Control'. I
come home to Piney Hills and Marcus every weekend if I
can manage it, but work commitments dictate that I
reside in the state capital during the week.

What happened to Marcus's wife?

Well not all stories have a happy ending, she found
some one else a few years back, I think I was the
cause of the marriages demise, she could no longer
bear the stress of sharing Marcus with someone else
and I think she also saw that his love for me was
deeper than his love for her. I was Marcus's great
comfort during that time of stress and depression as
his marriage broke up.

His children now spend the majority of their time with
their dad and call me Uncle Tom They have grown up in
a family with a healthy open-minded attitude to sex,
heterosexuality, bi sexuality and homosexuality so
that even when a nude punishment is inflicted upon
them under `Taking Back Control' they seem to take it
in their stride and better than most juveniles of
their age.

Mum and Mr Vanderbilt are happy together. He has lots
of wealth and they are constantly tripping around the
world enjoying the lifestyle that mum has always
enjoyed. She calls in occasionally to see me and we
get together for family birthdays etc but she does not
really approve of the fact that I am openly gay,
living my life with another man.

Ed went on to complete a Pharmacy degree and moved
overseas to Western Australia where he opened a
Pharmacy just south of Perth and built on this till he
owned a chain of stores around Perth. He is now a
wealthy man living a totally heterosexual lifestyle in
Western Australia. He married one of his staff that
came to work for him in his first store and they have
two boys and one daughter. He lost contact with
Samantha after they both left PHS. I saw her at her
father; Mr Riley's retirement dinner and we talked old
times. She asked about Ed. She has never married and
is now Principal of a Christian Girls School in
Boston.

Ed and I occasionally get together when he visits the
states and continue our gay relationship. When he is
over from Perth he also gets together with Marcus and
the three-way relationship we forged all those years
ago at PHS is still something all three of us enjoy
and look forward too.

Ed and I enjoy a unique and very special relationship.
I don't know if his wife suspects our sexual
relationship, I suspect not as two brothers carrying
on so, is still considered not proper or acceptable in
the eyes of the vast majority of the community.

Those eighteen months in servitude changed our
relationship forever and have forged a tight bond
between us both. Though we see each other only
occasionally due to the distances between Perth and
Eastbrook, there is never a week that goes by where we
do not talk on the phone and we email constantly.

Jim joined the Army after completing his studies at
PHS. He is now a Major in the Infantry and is
currently based in Dubai. I see him at family
functions when his postings allow but we never were as
close as Ed and I became. He is married with one son
and three daughters and now leads a totally
heterosexual life style.

When I reached adulthood and completed my degree in
Social Work majoring in Servant Behaviour, I joined
the Federal Bureau of Servitude as a Sub Inspector and
rose quickly through the ranks till today I am the
State Chief Superintendent, the youngest ever in the
Bureau's history. I am almost the only officer with
practical experience at being a servant. This has
helped me greatly in being successful in this career
and the prospects look good that I may go on in my
later career and reach one of the exalted Director
ranks, where I can begin to have great impact on the
entire culture of the FBS.

Through my job role in the FBS I was eventually able
to track down all my half brothers. Raymond was a
personal slave to a widow from a wealthy suburb in
Jackson, Mississippi. He was happy and well looked
after when I found him. He was glad to see me but the
passion had passed from our relationship and I was not
in a financial position to do anything about his
situation. He accepted this and thanked me for keeping
my promise to him those many years ago. I also
informed him about what I had learnt about his other
half brothers.

About five years ago he contacted me. His mistress had
passed away and in her will he was set free as was
possible for a born slave. He asked for my protection
as freed slaves were often caught up in complicated
legal protocol; and sometimes found themselves back
enslaved before they could support themselves with an
income as a free citizen.

I ensured this did not happen. I put him in contact
with his half brother Peter and found him a job. We
meet for drinks and talk regularly but sex is no
longer on our agenda.

Peter was a servant sex worker when I found him. He
had had a number of owners since we were both sold at
the same auction. The conditions he was working under
at the brothel were illegal and I got great
satisfaction in seeing the two brothel owners who had
abused him, convicted and sent into servitude for
twenty years. He went cheap at the subsequent auction
of their assets and I bought him and set him free. I
found him a job and have kept in touch with him. He is
now married and has given me two beautiful nieces and
a nephew.

Dean I found working in a servant labour gang which
was doing contract work. When I had financially
recovered from paying out for Peter I bought out Deans
contract and had him work for me whilst I was still
living with Mr Norris at PHS.

When I moved in with Marcus I set him free to join his
half brothers in the free world. He did not handle
being free well. In fact he was soon asking me to
place him in servitude again. He was born a servant
and knew nothing different. I refused to indenture him
again but he works for me still as a house servant and
leads the lifestyle of a servant very contentedly. The
only way you can tell, he is not a slave is that he no
longer wears a collar. We have become very close and
though Marcus gets a little jealous, Dean and I
sometimes have some sexual activity. His years'
working on labour gangs has made him very gay
orientated. He loves me for what I did for him and
tried to do for his brother Alex. He is totally
dedicated these days to satisfying my needs and those
of Marcus and his children.

When I obtained the records relating to Dean's brother
Alex I discovered he had succumbed to a disease about
three years before I had located him. The records
indicated that when he could no longer perform the
duties he had been performing as an indentured servant
his owner had sold him to the organ bank and his
healthy organs had been used to assist in saving the
life of about eight free citizens. His records were
terminated two weeks after he was admitted to the
organ bank. For a while I blamed myself for not
finding him earlier. It was not to be the last of my
disappointments.

Only when I became a Chief Superintendent two years
ago did I gain the security clearances necessary to
access data relating to my father. Dad's file had been
terminated when I was twenty-eight years old. The
records showed he had died in his sleep. He had been a
servant to a Mr And Mrs George Pleasance. I eventually
made contact with them on the pretence of checking
details on their current servants.

They never knew I was his son though I suspect they
guessed. I found them to be of a similar mould to Mr
Norris. Their servants were part of a loving family
and I learnt that dad had enjoyed a similar existence.
Mr Pleasance when questioned about my father freely
told me that Eddy as he called him had, had a tough
period settling in but after a few severe beatings
which Mr Pleasance informed me he hated doing but
which he felt were necessary to make, Eddy realise
that he could have a good life with them.

Mr Pleasance knew of Eddy's background and told me
that Eddy also soon realised that his life as a
servant at the Pleasance house was very stress free if
he did his duties properly. Mr Pleasance informed me
that Eddy had told him in later years that being a
servant to him and his wife were so much better than
being the Chief Executive of a large corporation. Eddy
had told Mr Pleasance that he deserved his
enslavement. Eddy had realised after a while as a
slave that he was not cut out to manage a large
company and had failed in his duty of care.

This shocked me a bit but I tried to hide my reaction.


When Eddy came to this realisation he apparently
became a first class slave. Mr Pleasance even showed
me Eddy's certificates from several years of State
Servants Review appraisals where he consistently
gained highly commended awards. Mr Pleasance said his
eldest son found Eddy one morning dead in his bed,
when the family wondered why he was not there in the
morning doing his usual early morning duties. The
medical report said he died of heart failure due to
natural causes.

I found it really hard to hold in my emotions when Mrs
Pleasance took me out the back of their property, to
her rose garden and showed me where they had spread
Eddy's ashes. There standing proud was a vigorous red
rose with a polished and well-kept metal plaque "Eddy"
proudly displayed before it.

I think this is when they guessed my true relationship
to Eddy. I struggled to hold in my emotions. I stood
there remembering the last time I ever saw my father
alive. It was when dad was taken from the courtroom
where he had just been sentenced, down to the cells
below and he glanced back at me as he descended the
steps. I remembered like it was yesterday our eyes
briefly meeting and I prayed again as I stood there at
his grave that he saw in my eyes, my love. I hope and
pray he did and that it gave him some strength to
endure his life of servitude.

I lived at PHS with Mr Norris right through my college
years, as did Ed and Jim. Mr Norris went on to succeed
Mr Riley as Headmaster when Mr Riley retired. When I
could, even after I started working for the FBS, I
would do as many of the servant's duties around the
house for Mr Norris as I could. There really wasn't
that much to be done as all the work was done by other
young servants who Mr Norris took under his wing and
pushed through school just like they had done with Ed
and I. Mr Norris replaced me after I finished at PHS
and he has continued this practise right up until the
present.

It was when Marcus was alone with his children in
their big house after his divorce and Mr Norris was
due to move into the Headmasters residence that I took
the opportunity to fully break from my slave past.

David Norris was and still is the dearest thing to me
apart from Marcus. After I finished at PHS the
relation ship between David and myself moved on and
into other realms.

What these realms were I care not to discuss here as
David is still the Headmaster at PHS and they would be
inappropriate to discuss openly whilst he still
teaches.

He now lives in the Headmasters residence at PHS,
which is not far from where I now live with Marcus. I
see him very regularly and he is very good to Marcus's
children all of whom attend PHS. He treats them as if
they are my children and thus his Grandchildren.

No one was more pleased that I choose to join the
Federal Bureau of Servitude than Mrs Blackmoore. She
was my mentor in my early years at the Bureau until
she retired as a Chief Inspector. She is enormously
proud that I have already surpassed that rank with
many years of my career remaining. We email
occasionally and I see her, I have to confess, not as
regularly as I should. She has retired to Sarasota in
Florida and the distance hinders much face-to-face
contact.

Jack Strauchan passed out of my life for a long time
after I left PHS. But even before that in my senior
years as a freeman again at the school, the mould had
been set. I hated him and he hated me. We kept a civil
distance after his NEWDD servitude. Our paths have
crossed again in recent years but that however is
another story and if, as Marcus is urging, I begin to
write the chronicles of my experiences as an officer
of the FBS then you may hear all about that meeting
and it's results some time in the future.

What do I think of slavery now?

For some it is the best thing that can happen to them.
The trouble with slavery is that some masters abuse
their powers and degenerate into immoral tyrants and
thugs and some slaves cheat and trick their masters
out of their rightful rewards and dues.

Even if I could I do not think I would abolish
slavery. However I am determined to follow David
Norris's example and try to make the best possible
existence for a slave to serve, even the most modest
of slaves.

End Chapter 16

THE END.


Look out for Thomas Carter when he appears in his mid
40's as a minor character my story `Chronicles of a
Neighbourhood Babysitter' and in the future there is
the possibility Thomas may be approached by the Mayor
to become the Chief of Police in Tallahatchie County!