Sweet_Denna
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London, 1862
While Victoria Ashbee was a fervent lover of Purcell, tonight she had trouble concentrating on the story that unfolded on the opera stage. Again and again, her gaze strayed, only to cling to nothing in particular, lost in thought. Her husband, sitting next to her, softly touched her hand – to hold it would not have been proper – and gave her an admiring smile. Too preoccupied with his happiness to call such a stunning woman his, he was unaware of her confusion and simply enjoyed this rare opportunity to spend an evening with his wife Victoria.
Her husband, Dr. Arthur Charles Ashbee, was a successful surgeon and, despite his youth, a renowned lecturer of medicine. His latest research had even gotten him attention from Her Majesty the Queen. Victoria truly was a lucky woman; all the things she could have ever wished for were indeed her own: a handsome, successful husband who loved and cherished her with all his heart, a comfortable home and, not unimportantly, both a sharp intellect and radiant beauty.
As they stepped into the foyer of the opera after the end of the performance, a young man approached them hastily: “Dr. Ashbee! Dr. Ashbee! What a lucky coincidence that I should meet you here, I bear amazing news, the serum we….” There was a short moment of embarrassed silence, before Victoria smiled and offered the intruder her hand to kiss. “It is quite alright, Mr. Butler.” Her husband squeezed her arm in gratitude, before his curiosity took over. “The serum, yes, I had wanted to see the…”
Victoria stood next to them, smiling politely, without being able to listen what the young man so feverishly explained. There was something on her mind that pulled her thoughts in a different direction and it was her husband’s soft touch on her arm that pulled her out of her musings. “….tonight. Is that alright, my dear Victoria?”
She looked up, confused. “Tonight?” Her husband smiled apologetically, he had not noticed her absent-mindedness at all. “It is a crucial stage of the experiment, my love. But I promise that I’ll be back in time to take the breakfast tea with you.” Victoria did not need to ask, she had gotten used to this. The blonde woman smiled and nodded, then gave her husband a chaste kiss on the cheek. “Of course you should go, Arthur. I can find my way home just fine, dear. I will see you in the morning.” His grateful expression confirmed her assumption, and without another word, she let him take her to the carriage waiting outside. “I love you, Victoria”, he whispered. His young wife blushed at this remark that he had uttered so outrageously in public. “Good luck, Arthur”, she replied.
Once inside the carriage, she took a deep breath. She did not mind the fact that he went, leaving her to spend the night by herself yet again. But Victoria was jealous. She was jealous that her husband had something in life that he was truly passionate about, that he could forget everything else over, even his lovely, obedient wife. With shaking fingers, she rummaged in her silken purse, and finally procured a small glass bottle, inside which a dark red liquid faintly glittered in the light of the lanterns.
Absent-mindedly, she looked at it: Of course, it did anger Victoria that the doors to academic knowledge were tightly closed for her. She knew that she could easily surpass most of her husband’s spoiled students in medicine, most of whom spent their monthly allowance on whores and ale. If she would have been given the chance, she knew she would excel. Arthur knew it, too, and gladly shared the progress of his research with her, relishing the fact that his stunningly beautiful wife easily matched the intellect of his colleagues.
But the most worrisome thought was not that she was not allowed to give in to selfish passions, that it was forbidden for her, as a woman, to let one desire overrule her rational behavior.
It was the fact that she did not know how.
Victoria Ashbee was always moderate, always perfectly composed. She abhorred the loss of control in any form, and had nothing but contempt for those that let their emotions rule their judgment. And yet. And yet…
And maybe this thought would have occurred to her and passed, had she not realized that underneath the surface lurked depths that made her shiver: There had been moments when her husband made love to her that she had wanted him to simply drop the rituals of love and courtship and use her like a common whore. That she had wanted to give in, to surrender to her lower instincts and be nothing but a body he enjoyed in the most obscene ways possible. That he abused, subdued, and used as he saw fit. Raw desire.
It had been this tiniest of cracks in her façade of homely perfection, this almost invisible fissure in her flawless presentation of a good wife and honorable woman that had driven her to muse on what dark urges she might be nursing without being fully aware of them. The thought that one day they might surface filled her with horror – what if they would spring up on her, and take control of her actions? Victoria knew about the deformities that could befall a human mind, in the hospital she had seen the most abhorrent and perverse mutations of what one could call ‘a person’.
That very day she had started her research. For days on end she had locked herself in Arthur’s laboratory, determined to find what it was that separated the civilized mind from the lowly urges of an animal. What would she find, with all these heavy layers of morality, norms and rules peeled away? What would remain? Her eyes caressed the crimson liquid that softly glowed inside the glass flacon. What would surface, if there were no restraints of conscience and shame that would hold her back?
While she had worked on the formula she had silently sworn so many times to interrupt her research - with every step that seemed to lead towards progress she had decided not to take the next. When she had been done, she had vowed to destroy everything, to pour the potion in the gutter, to burn all her notes, and to never waste another thought on them again. Yet here she sat, the polished glass cold and promising in her delicate hands, the answer to her musings contained in this small inconspicuous bottle.
She put it to her lips and drank, in one fast sip, as if the haste would wash away the feeling of guilt that tightened in around her chest. Arthur would not have approved. He would not have liked any of this. The potion tasted bitter, she coughed as it rolled down her throat, coating her stomach with stinging warmth that faintly reminded her of absinthe.
With a sigh, she sank back into the padding of the carriage. It was now time to bring her experiment to an enlightening conclusion.
“To Whitechapel”, she informed the driver.
***
Victoria’s heels clattered on the pavement, her steps, while without haste, were clearly with aim. She knew what she was looking for. This was an area of London she rarely ever frequented, and never frequented alone. Her expensive-looking crimson dress, her white silken gloves and the slim diamond needles that held her golden locks in place did not suit these streets at all: like an exotic bird that had by accident escaped her cage she hurried through the puddles of dirty yellow light that the lanterns threw on the sidewalk.
A young man stood against the corner of a run-down building, a cigarette loosely screwed between his lips. She stopped. Her ruby lips curled into a satisfied smile, her breathing quickened – but it was not shame or fear that urged her pulse to accelerate. With firm steps, she walked up to him, amused by his surprise. “You’re a lucky lad”, she whispered as her face was close enough to distinguish the colour of his eyes. “For you, there is no charge.” If he still had doubts about her purpose, they quickly dissipated when he felt her hand upon his crotch, her palm rubbing his cock through his trousers.
“I want you to fuck me.”
London, 1862
While Victoria Ashbee was a fervent lover of Purcell, tonight she had trouble concentrating on the story that unfolded on the opera stage. Again and again, her gaze strayed, only to cling to nothing in particular, lost in thought. Her husband, sitting next to her, softly touched her hand – to hold it would not have been proper – and gave her an admiring smile. Too preoccupied with his happiness to call such a stunning woman his, he was unaware of her confusion and simply enjoyed this rare opportunity to spend an evening with his wife Victoria.
Her husband, Dr. Arthur Charles Ashbee, was a successful surgeon and, despite his youth, a renowned lecturer of medicine. His latest research had even gotten him attention from Her Majesty the Queen. Victoria truly was a lucky woman; all the things she could have ever wished for were indeed her own: a handsome, successful husband who loved and cherished her with all his heart, a comfortable home and, not unimportantly, both a sharp intellect and radiant beauty.
As they stepped into the foyer of the opera after the end of the performance, a young man approached them hastily: “Dr. Ashbee! Dr. Ashbee! What a lucky coincidence that I should meet you here, I bear amazing news, the serum we….” There was a short moment of embarrassed silence, before Victoria smiled and offered the intruder her hand to kiss. “It is quite alright, Mr. Butler.” Her husband squeezed her arm in gratitude, before his curiosity took over. “The serum, yes, I had wanted to see the…”
Victoria stood next to them, smiling politely, without being able to listen what the young man so feverishly explained. There was something on her mind that pulled her thoughts in a different direction and it was her husband’s soft touch on her arm that pulled her out of her musings. “….tonight. Is that alright, my dear Victoria?”
She looked up, confused. “Tonight?” Her husband smiled apologetically, he had not noticed her absent-mindedness at all. “It is a crucial stage of the experiment, my love. But I promise that I’ll be back in time to take the breakfast tea with you.” Victoria did not need to ask, she had gotten used to this. The blonde woman smiled and nodded, then gave her husband a chaste kiss on the cheek. “Of course you should go, Arthur. I can find my way home just fine, dear. I will see you in the morning.” His grateful expression confirmed her assumption, and without another word, she let him take her to the carriage waiting outside. “I love you, Victoria”, he whispered. His young wife blushed at this remark that he had uttered so outrageously in public. “Good luck, Arthur”, she replied.
Once inside the carriage, she took a deep breath. She did not mind the fact that he went, leaving her to spend the night by herself yet again. But Victoria was jealous. She was jealous that her husband had something in life that he was truly passionate about, that he could forget everything else over, even his lovely, obedient wife. With shaking fingers, she rummaged in her silken purse, and finally procured a small glass bottle, inside which a dark red liquid faintly glittered in the light of the lanterns.
Absent-mindedly, she looked at it: Of course, it did anger Victoria that the doors to academic knowledge were tightly closed for her. She knew that she could easily surpass most of her husband’s spoiled students in medicine, most of whom spent their monthly allowance on whores and ale. If she would have been given the chance, she knew she would excel. Arthur knew it, too, and gladly shared the progress of his research with her, relishing the fact that his stunningly beautiful wife easily matched the intellect of his colleagues.
But the most worrisome thought was not that she was not allowed to give in to selfish passions, that it was forbidden for her, as a woman, to let one desire overrule her rational behavior.
It was the fact that she did not know how.
Victoria Ashbee was always moderate, always perfectly composed. She abhorred the loss of control in any form, and had nothing but contempt for those that let their emotions rule their judgment. And yet. And yet…
And maybe this thought would have occurred to her and passed, had she not realized that underneath the surface lurked depths that made her shiver: There had been moments when her husband made love to her that she had wanted him to simply drop the rituals of love and courtship and use her like a common whore. That she had wanted to give in, to surrender to her lower instincts and be nothing but a body he enjoyed in the most obscene ways possible. That he abused, subdued, and used as he saw fit. Raw desire.
It had been this tiniest of cracks in her façade of homely perfection, this almost invisible fissure in her flawless presentation of a good wife and honorable woman that had driven her to muse on what dark urges she might be nursing without being fully aware of them. The thought that one day they might surface filled her with horror – what if they would spring up on her, and take control of her actions? Victoria knew about the deformities that could befall a human mind, in the hospital she had seen the most abhorrent and perverse mutations of what one could call ‘a person’.
That very day she had started her research. For days on end she had locked herself in Arthur’s laboratory, determined to find what it was that separated the civilized mind from the lowly urges of an animal. What would she find, with all these heavy layers of morality, norms and rules peeled away? What would remain? Her eyes caressed the crimson liquid that softly glowed inside the glass flacon. What would surface, if there were no restraints of conscience and shame that would hold her back?
While she had worked on the formula she had silently sworn so many times to interrupt her research - with every step that seemed to lead towards progress she had decided not to take the next. When she had been done, she had vowed to destroy everything, to pour the potion in the gutter, to burn all her notes, and to never waste another thought on them again. Yet here she sat, the polished glass cold and promising in her delicate hands, the answer to her musings contained in this small inconspicuous bottle.
She put it to her lips and drank, in one fast sip, as if the haste would wash away the feeling of guilt that tightened in around her chest. Arthur would not have approved. He would not have liked any of this. The potion tasted bitter, she coughed as it rolled down her throat, coating her stomach with stinging warmth that faintly reminded her of absinthe.
With a sigh, she sank back into the padding of the carriage. It was now time to bring her experiment to an enlightening conclusion.
“To Whitechapel”, she informed the driver.
***
Victoria’s heels clattered on the pavement, her steps, while without haste, were clearly with aim. She knew what she was looking for. This was an area of London she rarely ever frequented, and never frequented alone. Her expensive-looking crimson dress, her white silken gloves and the slim diamond needles that held her golden locks in place did not suit these streets at all: like an exotic bird that had by accident escaped her cage she hurried through the puddles of dirty yellow light that the lanterns threw on the sidewalk.
A young man stood against the corner of a run-down building, a cigarette loosely screwed between his lips. She stopped. Her ruby lips curled into a satisfied smile, her breathing quickened – but it was not shame or fear that urged her pulse to accelerate. With firm steps, she walked up to him, amused by his surprise. “You’re a lucky lad”, she whispered as her face was close enough to distinguish the colour of his eyes. “For you, there is no charge.” If he still had doubts about her purpose, they quickly dissipated when he felt her hand upon his crotch, her palm rubbing his cock through his trousers.
“I want you to fuck me.”
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