Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:34:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steam Train <steam_t2000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Alternative Deterrence Chapter 26

Alternative Deterrence.
By Steam Train    (steam_t2000@yahoo.com)


Chapter : 26 Father and son chat.

"Dad, umm I mean Master may I speak with you" Daniel
asked as he knocked on his fathers study door.

"You obviously think it's important to disturb me at
this time, so yes come in" Owen Green informed his
son.

"Dad there are a couple of things I need your advice
on if it's ok. I know I am supposed to go through Tom
if I want to talk with you but it's easier to explain
this face to face" Daniel explained nervously.

"Yes go on," Mr Green replied.

There were two things Daniel wanted to talk to his
father about. Gary Foster-Brown, the NEWDD from Piney
Hills, and the thing that had been gnawing at his
consciousness for the last few days, his requests for
relief from his brother Eric.

Daniel was very nervous and embarrassed about raising
his concern about relief but he had decided to raise
this issue first and get it over with before asking
his father for advice about Gary.

"Dad, the Juvenile Deterrence laws allow me to ask for
relief from free citizens. I am feeling guilty about
this so I wanted to run what I have been doing by
you".

Taking a deep breath, Daniel continued, "I have been
asking Eric to give he relief these last few nights. I
will stop it now if you don't approve. I don't want to
get into any more trouble and please it was me who
asked Eric. Don't blame him, blame me!"

Daniel felt like his stomach was going to puke up as
he awaited his father's reaction.

Owen Green looked across his study desk at his son and
slowly a broad grin appeared across his face.

As soon as he saw this, Daniel knew he was ok.

"I appreciate the fact that you came to me about this.
I already knew what you were up to, but the fact that
you confided in me, confirms just how much you have
grown up in the last week. I don't mind if Eric does
not mind".

Daniel felt a burst of pride at his father's
compliment. Now his dad had said it. Daniel realised
that he himself felt more mature these last few days.
Once he had gotten over the initial depression and
shock of being stripped and made to parade naked
around Eastbrook, he had begun to change in his
outlook.

He suffered the ridicule about his immature small
genitals but he soon realised, `so what'? He had built
up a real phobia about his small penile size. Yes he
was laughed at and ridiculed just like he expected but
through this, he had found people who thought nothing
of his physical appearance. They just appreciated his
personality. Todd Riddell and Marco fell into this
category. There were even some girls who ignored the
social taboos at school and spoke to him. In fact at
least two girls told him they found his shaved small
genitals a real turn on! So did Marco for that
matter!!!!

"Thanks dad," Daniel informed his dad with relief. "I
was real worried about asking Eric to help me out I
thought you might think it wrong for brothers to do
such things".

"No son, I think asking your brother is the best way
to gain relief. It keeps it in the family and that's
to be encouraged. I think back to when I was your age
and a bit older and my times with my brother Lionel.
They were some of the most cherished moments I have of
my teenage years and I certainly will not react like
my father did when he discovered some of the truth. I
have never forgiven him for that action and I have
always vowed to be different for you if the situation
ever arose. It now has and I am giving my approval,"
Mr Green replied.

Daniel was confused. His father mentioned a brother
but he only had an aunty on his dad's side, Aunt Sue?
His dad's mother and father had both died before he
was born and the only grandparents he had known where
his mother's.

"Dad you had a brother? I never knew, how ... what ...
Daniel stammered out, showing his surprise, perhaps
even shock at this latest revelation.

"I have never talked about it except to your mum and
Tom, but perhaps now is a good time to tell you. Maybe
it will add to your newfound maturity. Your Aunt Sue
is four years younger than me but between us there was
Lionel. He was one and a half years younger than me.
When I was fifteen I began to realise that I liked
guys as well as girls. Just like today, most guys
didn't come out with their sexual orientation if it
was gay. I kept my gay side secret from nearly
everyone, even my closest male friends in case I was
ridiculed. Lionel however was a good-looking guy at
nearly fourteen and we got on pretty well together.
Well, one thing lead to another. I made the move and
he was willing. We began experimenting. Pretty tame
stuff mostly, just a mutual jerk off to start with but
later we would crawl into bed together when we were
certain dad had gone to bed. Remember my mum died in
giving birth to Sue so there was only dad to worry
about. We did this in secret for nearly two years
until I was almost eighteen and Lionel was sixteen and
a half".

"I led Lionel into exploring his gay side and he soon
came to realise he was much more gay than I was. I
have always felt I was 60% hetro and 40% gay, as I
really liked girls too. When Lionel and I discussed
this he felt he was more like 80% gay and only 20%
hetro. Lionel began to seek out other teenage guys who
might be gay orientated and this was fraught with
danger. While doing this, he came in contact with a
much older gay orientated man. They built up a strong
friendship that eventually lead into a deeper
relationship. Lionel liked the maturity and compassion
this man offered him and Lionel was very willing. The
older guy, though he tried to hold off at first,
succumbed to my brother's willingness to please.

"Love makes you do strange things and unbeknown to me,
Lionel confronted my father with the revelation that
he was gay. I would have warned him if he had told me
he was coming out but I didn't know of his actions
until it was too late. My dad reacted violently to the
news his son was a `poof', as he put it. When I got
home that afternoon, dad had taken Lionel and had him
enslaved and put into training ready to be sold".

Daniel was sitting in his fathers study, mouth wide
open, aghast at the story unfolding.

"I never saw my brother again. When you are enslaved,
your identity is deliberately made difficult, if not
impossible to trace. The only record they keep of you
is a temporary slave number and when the new slave is
shipped out and arrives for training, he is issued
with another temporary number. When he is sold he is
renumbered, shipped again, and maybe sold again until
finally a master buys him permanently. They don't
record which slave gets which number, or how the
numbers change as you move through the system. As I
said, they make it almost impossible for anyone to
trace the slave. The result is the slave's complete
loss of his former life and identity. This helps the
slave adjust to his new situation the experts feel!

When I was older I tried to trace Lionel but I never
had much spare money and even if I did all the experts
say it's still almost impossible. Some times you're
lucky and you might cross paths, but in truth my
brother was probably sent interstate. My father never
would talk about what he had arranged. It was not
until he died and I found the enslavement papers that
I was able to read in the fine print of the contract
that my brother was to be sold interstate. It didn't
say which state so he could have been taken anywhere."

"My father tried to force out of Lionel, who he was
having sex with. I know from my father's derisive
comments that even under punishment he never let slip
that it was me who led him down that path or that he
was very friendly with a much older man. Lionel
protected his older lover and me and I still feel I
owe him for that all these years later. When I am with
Tom my thoughts always drift back to Lionel. His older
lover is now dead but I know he loved Lionel in a
special way until his death. He too realised that
Lionel sacrificed all to protect his identity.

Many years later when I was an adult, Lionel's lover
and I made contact. Lionel had confided in me who he
was seeing all those years before and we kept in
contact from time to time after that. He swore to me
he also did not know Lionel was planning on coming out
and confronting dad. Otherwise he too would have tried
to prevent his actions".

"So son, do I object to you getting to bond closer to
your brother? Absolutely not!"

"Now you know why I would not object. My father ruined
the best part of my life and I lost a brother out of
his bigoted actions. As long as it's consensual I have
no objections to your brother and you getting to know
each other better. However there are laws in place
while you are a NEWDD and I will be expecting you to
follow them precisely just like you have been doing.
After you serve your time, well then you and Eric can
work the issue through and I will be available if you
want to talk about it".

Daniel looked across the study at his father; his own
eyes were teary as were his dad's. It was obviously a
painful story to recite. "I'm so sorry dad. I truly
am. There are times that Eric is a real pain and I am
sure the same applies to me too but I love my brother
and I know now that you love us dearly. It must be
terrible to grow to hate your father when it should be
a loving relationship".

Owen Green looked at his son and replied, "Towards my
father at first it was pure hate and contempt and in
later years that was heavily tainted with pity and
derision as I came to understand fully, my dad's
embittered and bigoted mind. But Daniel, I never had
the courage of my brother to confront my father like
Lionel did at just sixteen. I wish now I had but I was
not the man my brother was. I have to live with that
fact. I feel in my heart I failed my brother".

"Dad!" Daniel stated with a depth of feeling his
father had seldom if ever heard from him before.

"Lets leave this topic here for now. It upsets me too
much to discuss it further, but I want to say to you
Daniel, I am impressed with you. You raised your
actions between Eric and yourself with me. That was
more than I was game to do with my father. It says
heaps about you and it also says to me that I have
succeeded in making a better job of my relationship
with my son than my dad managed with me".

"Thanks dad!" Daniel replied, blushing with modesty at
his father's unexpected praise. Daniel didn't know
just what to say next and the first thing that popped
into his head was about the best reply he could have
given his dad at that point in time. "I love you dad".

Owen Green smiled at his son then got up from his
chair and moved over and hugged Daniel who had risen
from the study chair. The feel of Daniels naked skin
against his hands as he hugged Daniel tight, sent
pleasurable feelings through Owen Green. The smell of
shoe polish subtly drifting off his son's body, added
a unique smell to the long embrace.

After a very long, silent embrace, Owen Green broke
the silence and the spell by asking, "You said you had
several things you wanted to discuss. What else is
troubling you?"

"Oh yeah, sorry dad. I kind of forgot for a moment,"
Daniel replied.

"There was a new NEWDD, Gary Foster-Brown, at the golf
course shining shoes with me today. We got talking as
we walked out of the course back to Piney Hills road.
Gary is a Piney Hills local. His school, `The Hills
Grammar,' made a disposition to the juvenile court
based on his alleged misbehaviour and thus he found
himself serving as a shoeshine boy at the very course
that he was previously an associate member.

Gary told me he had been framed by some of the other
students who disliked him because he was so popular at
school. He had tried to prove his innocence but all
the evidence pointed to him. This may be just a story
but he seemed genuine about it, but that is not the
real problem".

"Like all NEWDD's, Gary now feels totally humiliated.
His friends have shunned him. His parents are
disgusted and ashamed of him and he has been made to
sleep in the servant's quarters at his home. Nothing
new there either I guess, similar to my treatment in
some ways, but unlike Tom the servants at his
residence are taking great delight in humiliating him
as much as possible. They have told him to his face to
experience the real world, as it was not every day
that the master's son is reduced from his high and
mighty position in a wealthy household to the bottom
of the pile. They are making sure he does not forget
it."

"Now dad, I have to admit that to my eyes, Gary has a
body I would die for. To Gary however, having it
revealed to all his family, the servants and the
school when he had done nothing wrong was such an
added humiliation that he confessed to me that he was
finding it very hard to cope. I am really worried
about my conversation with Gary. He left me with this
lingering feeling that he was considering hurting
himself, maybe mutilation or even suicide. He seemed
very depressed about his treatment as a NEWDD. I feel
that maybe in a secret way, he was begging me to help
him. But dad, I don't know what to do or even if I
should be worrying about him, but I am".

"You did the right thing son to raise this with me.
You don't hear too much about the side effects of our
authoritarian society, but believe me the suicide rate
amongst the newly enslaved is very high compared to
the community average. Official figures are not
released because slaves are just items of property and
don't warrant legal recognition. Amongst NEWDD's, it
is not as high, but it is still significant. I know a
little about this as I have long had an interest in
slave emancipation and when I meet with friends who
are of a similar persuasion, this is a topic that is
often discussed".

"The general populace don't want to know about this.
They are happy that the roads are well kept, crime is
minimal and the buses run on time. When slavery does
finally effect them and they find themselves enslaved
and depressed, it is too late. They can do nothing
about it themselves except contemplate adding to the
statistic."

"I noticed the new NEWDD on the video coverage I
received on my computer this afternoon. I agree he is
a fine looking boy. I will contact Ben Woods and ask
his advice".

"You get video of me at the shoe shine stand?" Daniel
asked in disbelief.

`Yes, Mr Wood rang me before you went the first time
and offered the service as he knew I would be worried
about you. All I have to do is email him and he
streams the image from the security camera near the
shoe shine stand directly to my computer".

"Wow," was all the near speechless Daniel could manage
to exclaim.

"Right now son, you better get off and help Tom finish
prepare dinner. However before you go son I think you
have earned a reward for your mature behaviour. You
can have your room back provided you do not break the
NEWDD rules.
`
Daniels face instantly beamed bright with excitement
at the news but equally quickly faded into a look of
deep thought.

"Thanks dad. I really appreciate it but taking up that
offer would be unfair. I am a NEWDD, a slave, and if I
were to have my normal bedroom now after only such a
short stay down in the basement, then I would not be
considering Tom's feelings. He is stuck down there,
with no chance of release from his enslavement. The
least I can do is show some empathy and stay with him
and help him while I am a NEWDD. Thanks for the offer,
but no thanks dad".

"Really,... well ok. Then if that's your decision, I
can only admire your choice so I will offer you a
second privilege in place of your room. Tonight you
have permission to ring your friends and let them know
you're thinking of them before they are sentenced
tomorrow" Mr Green informed his son.

"Gee thanks dad. I would really like to do that.
You're the greatest" Daniel replied with obvious
enthusiasm.

"Dad, can I ask you a personal question?" the
emboldened Daniel asked, seizing what he perceived to
be an ideal opportunity.

"Yes Daniel," said Mr Green with a chuckle, "what else
do you want?"

Blushing because his dad had seen straight through
him, Daniel never the less persevered. "Could I have
Marco over on Friday, to do some study with me? It's
sort of like my only day off and it's study not
relaxation?" Daniel added hoping to get some quality
time with Marco out of public view.

"First time I have ever heard of a teenager wanting to
study on a Friday!" Mr Green responded then added, "I
also saw how you reacted last night to Marco every
time you were near him. You like him don't you?' Mr
Green bluntly but with compassion asked.

"I honestly do not know dad, but he likes me and I
would really like to try and work this through and
being a NEWDD means I'm out of it for four months
unless you allow me some time," Daniel pleaded.

"If I had come out like this to my dad, I would not be
still be standing. The fact you have, makes me proud
of you and again tells me I'm doing the right thing
with you. After what I said about my own brother and
me, I feel I have to cut you some slack son. But
Friday afternoon is a privilege for good behaviour. It
will be reviewed on a weekly basis based on your
punishment book. Bring it to me before bed time
tonight and if it has no major behaviour entries I
will allow Marco and you one and a half hours free
time to study this Friday" Mr Green informed Daniel.

"I will tell Tom it is ok and you can have some
privacy in the basement together, but Marco is a free
citizen and you are a NEWDD. I do not know his parents
very well or how they might react to your friendship
so be careful. I am not condoning sex here Daniel. Let
me make this quite clear. Just a close friendship if
that's what you two want. Anything more could be
devastating to you as a NEWDD and lead to a fate much
worse than just four months as a NEWDD.

Daniel gave his dad one last hug then excused himself
to go help Tom.

When Daniel had left, Owen Green sat back in his study
chair and contemplated his son. Daniel was a NEWDD but
Owen Green was never more proud of him than he was at
that moment. His refusal to move back into his room
and his reasons for not doing so had really impressed
him as had his openness about Marco.

After a while Mr Green realised he needed to ring Ben
Woods and bring Daniels concerns about Gary to his
attention. He hoped he would be able to put things in
action through official channels to assist Gary. Owen
was not all that confident that that would happen. It
was his firm belief that the authoritarian system that
they all lived under was more concerned in punishing
than helping and rehabilitating, but he had to try and
he had to hope. Certainly Ben Woods was a
compassionate man and as the overseer of the NEWDD's
at the Piney Hill golf course he was the person Owen
Green felt he had to channel his son's concerns back
through.


End Chapter 26.


Acknowledgements:

A Middle Class Slave Revisited by Steam Train