These characters belong to Janet I am just borrowing them for my amusement. Although I would love to keep Ranger and the merry men for myself!
This story does contain violence, and touches on dark subject matters. This story is not friendly to Morelli or Helen Plum so for Cupcake fans you have been warned.
Chapter 18: Training Pt4: Lester Fighting / Self Defense
SPOV
Getting on the elevator I once again gave a finger wave to the guys in the control room. I briefly wondered who would be watching me today. This could get really embarrassing for me in the gym since I am not a fighter and I know nothing about self defense.
I found myself hoping it was Hal or Cal who was going to be watching the monitors they wouldn't say anything and with them being there would prevent any other guys from making fun of me.
I walk into the gym and Lester is there waiting for me. He is standing in the middle of the ring practicing martial arts. I stood there frozen I am sure my mouth gapped open looking at Lester. I was mesmerized for a second.
Watching him punch, kick, block, turning to the different sides. He would block then kick or punch turn block kick or punch it was beautiful to watch. There was rhythm, there was flow, and there was something I didn't expect to see grace. Every movement while crisp to the point that I could hear his clothing snap at his movements they were graceful.
It sort of had a feel of watching a ballerina in her element watching Lester. This was his, Lester was in his element. Commanding attention, commanding awe which left me feeling inspired and hoping that one day I would be able to do what he is doing now.
I knew he knew I was there. Lester was always aware of his surroundings. He may be a jokester and the Rangeman clown but foremost I knew he was solider that was always aware of his surroundings. Once he finished he turned to me smiling.
"Hey Beautiful, how did your training with bossman go this morning? Did you all train any or did you two just fool around in the gun range?" He was smiling and wagging his eyebrows up and down at me as he finished the sentence. Sometimes I just had to laugh at him.
"Les, wouldn't you just love to know?" I teased him back. He shook his head mumbling something about no idea as he made his way over to me. I hugged him and kissed him on the cheek as he hugged me and kissed me on the cheek. Reaching in my bag I pull out my targets to show him.
"Training this morning went well. Ranger seemed impressed with how well I shot." The excitement rising in my voice as I pulled out paper targets from my bag. "Here I saved some of the paper targets. I wanted to show them to you and the guys." Handing them to him he opens them up.
He smiles big and I see pride in his eyes as he was looking over the targets. "Beautiful these are great. You are one heck of a shot." I beam at his comments I couldn't help it. "We may have to come up with a new nickname for you maybe sharp shooter." Then he just shook his head wrapping his arm around my head pulling my head under his arm he started rubbing his knuckles over the top of my head as he started walking us towards the ring. "Nah you will always be my beautiful." I could do anything but smile and giggle.
DougPOV
I have been sitting here watching her. I watched her finish her workout and I watched her go out to the elevator. When she got on she sent me a finger wave. I knew she could tell I was watching her. Hell I hadn't been able to take my eyes off of her.
I saw her get off at seven and go into the big boss man's apartment. Well I guess they are fucking each other my bubble busted just a little at the thought. When she came back out smiling and once again giving me a finger wave my hope to have her fucking me raised some.
I watched as she went back down to the gym. I watched as she walked in and watched her staring at Lester in the ring. I watched him walk over and hug and kiss her as she hugged and kissed him back. My hope for her being the office whore was exciting me. I knew Lester's reputation with women if he was paying her any attention then she more than likely was the office whore and would spread her legs for all of us.
I was just going to make sure I was one of the men she spread them for.
LPOV
I had been waiting for Beautiful for about thirty minutes in the gym when I decided to loosen myself up by practicing my Kata. I am a 5th degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and I am a 2nd degree black belt in Krav-Maga. Both are forms or martial arts Tae Kwon Do comes from Korea and Krav-Maga comes from Israel. Unlike Tae Kwon Do Krav-Maga has no rules, everything is game. It is street fighting at its ultimate.
Thinking about Beautiful's size I wanted to make sure she had several different forms of training when it came to fighting and self defense. I knew size would be a factor for her as she is small while she is tall she is small weighing in at about one ten one twenty tops.
I want her to be able to take Tank down when we are finished in order for her to be able to do that she will need to use her size to her benefit and she will need to learn to fight and keep fighting. These two forms I felt like were good choices for her. Size didn't matter with these two forms. You didn't have to be a big man it was about leverage, it was about thinking, and it was about attacking with enough force to incapacitate your attacker allowing you time to flee.
I saw her walk into the gym just before I was finished with my Kata. I continued allowing her to see some of the moves that she would learn in her training. The look on her face was adorable and it made my chest swell with pride that looking at me put that look on her face.
"Hey Beautiful, how did your training with bossman go this morning? Did you all train any or did you two just fool around in the gun range?" Wagging my eyebrows as I said that caused her to laugh.
"Les, wouldn't you just love to know?" She teased back. Shaking my head to clear the images that had been created, she had no idea. I gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek which she returned then she reached in her bag pulling out some rolled up paper.
"Training this morning went well. Ranger seemed impressed with how well I shot." I could hear the excitement rising in her voice. "Here I saved some of the paper targets. I wanted to show them to you and the guys." Handing them to me I couldn't wait to open them up.
I couldn't have prevented the smile on my face if I had wanted to. Seeing the paper targets and her shots I couldn't believe how good they were. I couldn't help feel a since of pride for her looking at them. "Beautiful these are great. You are one heck of a shot." She beamed at me.
"We may have to come up with a new nickname for you maybe sharp shooter." I told her but the more I thought about it I just had to shake my head wrapping my arm around her head pulling her into a chocker hold I started rubbing my knuckles over the top of her head as I started walking us towards the ring. "Nah you will always be my beautiful." She just started giggling.
Making it to the ring I first sat down and motioned for her to join me. I wanted to discuss a few things with her first so she would know what to expect.
"I want to take a moment to talk to you about what we are going to be doing and the test objectives before we get started with any training. What you will be learning is several different forms of martial arts. One is call Tae Kwon Do it originates in Korea and it means Hands, Feet, Mind as you will use all of those to defeat your attacker or opponent. The other is a form of street fighting that originated in Israel known as Krav-Maga. Krav-Maga there are no rules it is pure street fighting no holds barred full on dirty as it can get fighting."
I could see the initial shock of my explanation of what she would be learning flash across her face. Then I could see what appeared to be worry.
"Don't worry Beautiful we will teach you. Don't fear this training isn't going to make you into a killer. It isn't going to change you. The core of what I will teach you is to yes defend yourself, and be able to fight but at the core of all of it is the principle that you do as much harm as needed to incapacitate your attacker so that you can flee. It isn't so you can go in for the kill. I would never teach you that way."
She seemed a little more at ease after hearing that. "I am not going to lie to you. You will learn moves here that could end someone's life. You will learn a few moves that you will be able to severely wound if not kill your attacker if necessary but we will always hope that won't ever happen."
"Beautiful if it ever comes down to you or your attacker, please always and I mean always make sure it is your attacker and not you. Okay?" I couldn't help but say that. I can't ever imagine not having her in my life. She nodded.
"The test for the fighting/self defense consists of five objectives. The first objective is the ability to break out of basic holds. These holds consist of someone holding you from behind, in front, and by the throat. Most attackers attack their victims from behind. It gives them the advantage because of the element of surprise. We will work with you on that so that you are not taken by surprise." I look at her and see she is listening to every word I am saying.
"The second objective is takedown are you capable of taking someone down. Obviously you know in our line of business why this is important. You need to be able to takedown a skip, or someone attacking you. The third objective is handcuff an opponent again I shouldn't need to explain the importance of that one." I said smiling thinking of some of the 'fun' beautiful has had handcuffing her skips in the past. From the look on her face I can see she is thinking the same thing.
"Subdue an attacker is the fourth objective. This means to prevent the attacker from taking you, or further hurting you. To subdue an attacker doesn't mean kill him, or even knock him out it means to inflict enough harm that you can escape them. Finally the fifth objective is to perform basic knowledge of martial arts. Basic knowledge of a martial art is essential when fighting or defending yourself."
Standing up I offer my hand to her to help her up. "Okay Beautiful you ready to get started?" Nodding her head she says "Yeah Lester let's do this." I have to chuckle a little.
"First thing I want to talk you about is stance. When you are fighting your stance is very important you want to be centered equal weight on both feet but you want to be standing in such a way that you can shift weight from one foot to the other without any effort or really any tell to your body." I could tell she wasn't really following me.
"A tell is when your body gives away your moves before you do. Fighters learn how to read tells. That is why the great boxers and fighters know how to throw a fake punch because of the tell. Meaning they shift their weight one way so their opponent believes they are going to throw a certain punch from one arm only to at the last second change and throw a different punch or kick from the opposite arm or leg."
"If you watch boxers, martial art fighters you will see them shifting their weight from one foot to the next while they are sparring or fighting with their opponents. However you will notice that they are balanced the entire time. Balance is very important because you want to stay up off of the ground as much as possible. You don't want your attacker to be able to take you to the ground."
"You have the advantage because of your size but you also have the disadvantage because of your size. You are smaller there for you have less of a target area for an attacker and we can work with you to make your target area even smaller by the way you stand. However because of your size and depending upon your attacker if they get a hit in then they could do damage and they could knock you down with one blow if connected properly."
"Beautiful have her ever heard of Chi?" She nods "Chi is energy and energy is all around us. Everything has energy. In martial arts energy is a big deal. Not only will you use your energy within you but you will use your opponent's energy against them. For every time a punch or kick is spent without contact being made on an opponent twice as much energy is spent than if contact was made. Our goal is to have those punches and kicks miss or be blocked by you while your punches and kicks hit their intended target."
"The first things we are going to work on today are balance, punchd, kicks, and blocking. I want you to find a balanced stance. It should feel comfortable but one that you can hold sort of like at the range this morning when you found your shooting position. Typically feet shoulder width apart is a good place to start. Stand straight up your feet should be directly below your knees, your knees should be lined up with your hips your shoulders lined up with your hips you should not feel as though you are leaning either back or front." Watching her get in position she nodded.
"Okay you feel balanced equal weight on both feet. Make yourself strong. Don't lock your joints but engage your muscles feel them tighten keeping you in that spot." I could see her concentrating and trying to control her muscles.
"Now we are going to play a little game. I am going to attempt to get you to lose your balance by making you have to step back or forth to regain it. To do this we are going to play a little version of patty cake. Hold your hands up fingers spread in front of you hands about ten to twelve inches from your shoulders. Now for the final piece close your eyes." She put her hands up and closed her eyes no questions. She trusted me.
"Remember strong body but don't tense up don't lock your joints." I tap her hands pushing her away with a little bit of force. I could tell I sort of caught her off guard as she had to step back to keep from falling. "Remember hold your ground. You are strong you are balanced." I pushed again. This time she held her ground. I then placed my hands on the other side of her hands and pulled her towards me she stepped forward. "Be prepared for any direction keeping your balance means just that regardless of which direction you are pushed maintain your footing." We went several rounds until the point that I was really pushing and she wasn't budging the only way I was going to get her to budge would have to push hard enough to move her whole body at once. Of course I could but that wasn't the objective of this exercise.
"Very good, did you feel how that felt to hold your body like that? I could tell that in order for me to make you move I would have to push you hard enough to make your whole body move. That is a strong balanced body. That is the body that you want to use when facing an attacker or an opponent."
"To properly punch you first must make a proper fist. The proper fist is finger folded down to palm knuckles then curved back towards wrist and then place your thumb across your index and middle finger locking your fist in place." I showed her slow motion exactly how to form a proper fist with both hands. "Never put your thumb on the inside. With your thumb on the inside you could dislocate your thumb or break it when punching someone." She followed me fisting and un-fisting her hair several times.
"To deliver a proper kick you can use many areas of your foot. The ball of your foot, the side of your foot, the heel of your foot but the one area you never want to use is your toes. Typically you won't be barefoot when someone attacks but with you let's face it is possible. Regardless just kicking the punching back or sparring in the ring you want to make sure your toes are bent up and out of the way. If you kick with your toes you will end up jamming or breaking a toe." I demonstrated how to pull your toes back towards the top of your foot and delver I kick with the ball of my foot with a front kick, the side of my foot with a side kick and the heel of my foot with an ax kick.
"These are the three basic kicks we are going to do today." Moving to the punching bag that is on a base I adjust it for her height.
"The first kick is called Front Snap kick, with your hands in fists you will stand in what is called fighting position. Fighting position is where your shoulders are square to your opponent. Your feet are facing your opponent. Your fists are up in a blocking position one in front of your face the other in front of your chest. One foot is forward while the other foot is slightly behind." Demonstrating every aspect of the stance for her I show her both with my right and left foot being the forward foot.
"For right now whichever foot is the foot that is behind you is the foot you will use to kick with that isn't the case when it comes to sparring but for here we will let it be the case. The front Snap kick you will be in fighting stance you will then pull up the leg that is behind you bringing your thigh parallel with the floor once parallel you will then snap out our foot pulling your toes back and connect with the bag with the ball of your foot." Demonstrating as my foot made contacting pushing the bag back.
"Now your turn" She slowly got in position and followed thru with the kick. "Very good Beautiful now give me twenty on each leg." She briefly looked at me like she wanted me to be one of her paper targets but she started kicking the bag going thru the full motion with each kick.
"Good job. The second kick is known as the side kick it is an extremely powerful kick. This kick you will once again start in fighting position. This time you will raise your knee towards your body and shift your body at the same time ninety degrees either left or right depending on which foot your kick with. Once you are ninety degrees you will extend your leg making contact with the bag with the side of your foot." Once again I demonstrated slowly pointing to the various body parts and what they were doing.
"Your turn" She nodded got in position. She struggled getting the proper body alignment but eventually figured it out. "Good give me twenty both legs." I am not certain but I think I got the death glare at that one. I didn't explode so all was good. She did an awesome job. "Good Job Beautiful."
"The last basic kick we are going to work on today is the ax kick also known as a downward kick. This kick uses your whole leg and can deliver a blow capable of taking down the biggest of men. This kick can have the strength to break some ones collar bone or arm if properly connected. With the ax kick your leg extends up in the air above you as high as you can raise it and then you will bring it down with all the force you have connecting with your opponent with the heel of your foot." Once again I demonstrated coming down on the top of the bag in front of us with my heel.
"Your turn" she stepped in position and was successfully able to perform the kick and even get her leg to the top of the bag which was impressive considering she hadn't really been working out prior to yesterday. "Very good…again give me twenty each leg." I think she was expecting it this time as she just nodded.
"The two punches we are going to learn today are the jab and then just your standard punch. Like with the kicks there are many more but we are only going to focus on these two today. I want you to get in fighting position which ever leg is in front you will bring that arm up in front of you which ever leg is behind you, you will pull that arm back until your fist is tucked in at your side. Your fist should be turn so your palm is up on that hand. When you punch you will bring the arm forward as you do you will rotate the arm until the point when your fist connects with the bag your palm and fingers are down and your knuckles are up. By turning your arm you add additional energy or chi to your punch which translates to more force." I demonstrate slowly so she can see my arm turning snapping into place just before my fist makes contact with the bag.
"Now your turn" she demonstrates two punches for me I nod and she goes on and gives me twenty on each side without asking. I think I am impressed, did she just ESP me or was it out of pattern? "Good Job okay the Jab is the second one. This punch comes from the hand you have out front. Like your punch there is still a little rotation but not as much as your arm extends and makes contact." I demonstrate the jab and she follows thru with twenty on each side.
"Now Beautiful I am going to test you." Walking around behind the bag "I am going to call out different kicks and punches in random order and I want you to hit or kick he bag with each one as I call it. The key is I want you switch left and right with each call. To shift from fighting stance right and left you really only need to shift your legs and your arms why don't you practice that for twenty times before we begin." She nods and quickly changes position twenty times.
I started calling off various punches and kicks combinations. We did that for ten minutes nonstop her kicking and punching the bag I could see she was getting faster with her movements. "Good job Beautiful that was awesome." She smiled even though she was panting hard and sweating even harder.
"Blocking is the next thing we are going to work on. Blocks can be as effective as punches if executed properly. Not only do you block the punch or kick from your attacker but in blocking you can equally hurt your attacker."
Looking to see I still had her attention. I am not use to her being so quiet and not talking but I know it is because she is concentrating on what I am telling her and watching me the reason for her being so quiet. She is taking her training very seriously and for that I am happy.
"There are three blocks that we are going to work on today the first is an upper block, the second is a middle block, and finally the third is a down block." I demonstrate each of them. "Now get in fighting stance the first one I am going to walk you thru is the upper block. It can be done with either hand the move is your arm crosses your body then bring your arm comes up with it bent at the elbow so that when you raise it up over head your forearm is crossing your head you can see my arm twists slightly as I raise it. As you do this you will step forward towards your target one this gives you momentum second it lowers you and your center of gravity." She copied me a couple of times.
"Your arm should be above your head preventing an attacker from being able to strike you on the top of your head or shoulders. Remember the strong body exercise we did that is what you want a strong body so that when you block the hit or kick your arm doesn't just collapse down. That is true with every block you will want to keep a strong body."
She did a couple more of them "Okay now give me twenty upper blocks with both arms." She did them without any problems.
"The second block is the middle block with this block it is the same motion in that your arm will cross your body but this time your arm will rotate so that your elbow is down your forearm is parallel to your body with your palm and fingers of your fist facing you as you pull your arm across your body effectively blocking an attacker from kicking or hitting you midriff you rotate you arm so that your fist is then facing away from you in the end." I demonstrated them again and she followed me.
"Okay give me twenty of those with both arms." She did I was impressed her form was really looking good and I could see the concentration in her face. "Very good, Beautiful".
"The final block is the down block. Once again you will be moving into your attacker but your arm in this case starts at your shoulder and then extends down across your body effectively blocking any attack to your lower body." I demonstrate the movement and she copies me. She goes ahead and gives me twenty of them on both sides.
I smile at her "ready to have some fun?" I ask her. "I am going to in slow motion attempt to attack you I am going to do kicks and punches and you are to effectively block them with the appropriate block. If I make contact with you, you lose and I win. Ready?" She nodes her head and I can see concentration, determination in her eyes.
I start to deliver several punches and kicks just basic with no force behind it. If I were to make contact with her it wouldn't hurt her it would be no more than a touch. I was skilled at pulling punches and kicks I knew she was safe. I could tell she knew it as well as there was zero fear in her eyes only trust and determination that she was going to be the winner.
Sure enough she effectively blocked every single one of my punches and kicks. "Very good beautiful, now one more time only this time I am going to do it faster." We did this for a while me speeding up each round until finally I made contact. "Well I guess I won that game" I said pulling her chain laughing.
Looking at me she said "only because you cheated. You kept going getting faster and faster until you knew I wouldn't be able to block you. I won the first how many rounds?" Laughing at her "uh uh not how that game works. That game goes until you have a winner and I am clearly the winner" Squaring her shoulders at me and giving me a slight death glare "Lester it's so going to be on next time." I couldn't help but laugh.
"Okay this is a different game" we walk over to where the medicine balls are. I have her stand close to a wall behind her. "The name of this game is dodge ball. I am sure you played this as a kid, do you remember?" She nodded. "So I don't need to go over the rules. Basically you dodge the ball but this is slightly different in that you can use your hands or your blocks to knock the ball away from you. It is easier if you use your hands at first but try to remember move your hands across your body. Like I said before it gives you added momentum but it also adds energy to your block. Oh you can duck and lean from side to side to avoid the ball you can even take a step but nothing beyond that. The goal here is to avoid contact with the ball but remain engaged with me as if I was an attacker and the balls are my punches and kicks." With that I lightly tossed the medicine balls at her. A few of them hit but for the most part she did an excellent job in blocking them.
"Good Job Beautiful." She smiled. I put my arm around her shoulders pulled her in for a one arm hung and kissed the top of her head as we walked over and got a drink of water.
"The next thing we are going to work on are three basic holds. You will learn a whole lot more as your training continues but these three are the ones we are going to start with. The first one is someone grabbing you from behind." I grab her from behind and hold her body next time mine. I let go after a couple of seconds and circle her.
"The second is someone grabbing you from the front." I wrap my arms around her and pull into a bear hug. Again I let her go after a couple of seconds and a final squeeze.
"The third is a chock hold." I put my hands around her neck. Looking closely at her eyes I see no fear only trust.
"When someone grabs you from behind" I once again grab her from behind holding her against me "tell me how you think you can make me let go of my hold or better yet try to get away from me." She wiggles and struggles trying to turn her body but her force isn't near what it would need to be to break free not even from a normal man's size. "Don't hold back beautiful you aren't going to hurt me try to get away from me. Pretend I am one of the bad guys that have just grabbed you now try to get away." She struggles harder trying to wrench her body from mine but I can tell it is only going to end up with her hurting herself. "Nice try but let's talk about this for a minute."
Continuing to hold her from behind "okay think about where my arms are where my hands are where your arms are and hands are. Picture my body standing behind you. Keep the picture of my body in your mind. Now look at it as if you are looking for vulnerabilities where am I vulnerable? Once you figure out where I am vulnerable think about your body with the hold I have you in what are you capable of doing? Do you have enough motion in your arms to attack how about your legs? When it comes to self defense breaking out of a hold remember there are no rules. So walk me thru it tell me what you are thinking."
She shakes her head I can sense the uncertainty "Beautiful there are no wrong answers here don't worry about not knowing, that is why I am teaching you. I just want you to start thinking this way that way you can do it should someone ever grab you, you will have this thought process down and you will be able to act on it." I could tell that is what she needed to hear.
"I have a little movement of one of my arms. I have movement of my feet but you are so close I am not sure how effective they would be." "Good, what else. Picture my body where am I vulnerable. Where could you attack me that would give you the best ability to get me to break my hold of you even if I don't let go completely at first. The goal would be for me to break my grip so then you could continue your attack until I had let go completely and you would be able to successful escape."
"With your arms around my arms and you holding me to you, your ribs are exposed but since I don't have much motion of my arms I am not certain how that helps." Very good. "That's right my ribs are exposed. Regardless of how someone grabs you from behind unless they wrap their arms around you low on your waist which exposes other body parts to you like their head. They expose their ribs to you. Even with your limited motion you can deliver a powerful elbow to the ribs. Even if I didn't let go with the first hit it would force me to loosen my grip which would open me up for further attacks from you. Remember what I said when you attack you keep attacking until your attacker is in a position that he is unable to attack back and you are able to successfully flee."
"Beautiful when you defend yourself in an attack I said there are no rules and there are non whatever you need to do you do it. Poke them in the eye, stomp on their foot, scratch them hell bite them if you have to. Remember everything you have, everything you can reach, every part of you becomes a weapon against your attacker. When it comes to hits and kicks don't forget elbows and knees. You will find that you have more force behind a knee or an elbow blow than a kick or punch because your knee and elbow are closer to your core, your center. So don't forget to use them even with limited movement they can be powerful blows."
I let go of her. Then I drop down on my knees "I want you to grab me from behind. I am going to walk you thru the break." She grabbed me from behind I gently elbowed her in the ribs and she broke her hold. "Okay now my turn." Standing up I once again grabbed her "Be gentle Beautiful break out" she elbowed me to the ribs." I know from experience people starting out in martial arts do not know how to pull a punch or a kick and they will hurt you quicker than someone who has several degrees of black belts.
"Very good now remember one elbow typically isn't going to get anyone to completely let go so you continue elbowing. When the grip loosens you reevaluate the situation maybe you can then turn and deliver a punch or the heel of your hand, which you will learn later, to their nose. You keep evaluating your situation thinking what can I move, where are they vulnerable and what do I have to attack with and you keep attacking until you have subdued your attacker to the point that you can successfully get away."
"In some cases like the chocker hold you need to get them to break their grip faster. There are ways you can move that will use leverage that will force your attacker to release their hold because they couldn't continue to hold on if they tried." I grabbed her throat with both hands
"Now tell me what you think where is vulnerable and what do you have to attack with." I knew the answer the way I was holding her she couldn't hurt me. She couldn't force me to let her go. My arms were longer than hers so she couldn't reach me with a punch. She could kick but an attacker applying pressure to her throat would win out. Looking at me
"I could kick you, but I can't reach you with my arms." "Good. With a guy you already know kick to the family jewels is one way but when someone is applying pressure to your neck effectively cutting off your air supply sometimes you don't think about that. You need to get him to break his hold to do that this is what you can do." I let go of her neck and once again got down on my knees in front of her.
"Beautiful grab my neck with both hands" She did "now you can do two different things to force your attacker to break their hold. I will show you both of them. The first one, you can take both of your hands and come up between his arms and force them apart which will do either one of two things his hands will either break loose from your neck of he will be force to step closer. The faster you are at hitting his hands with as much force as possible and continuing the motion all the way down the more successful you will be at breaking out of the hold." I demonstrated showing her how she couldn't continue to hold on to me no matter how much she wanted to.
"Grab a hold again, The second way to make me break away is by taking your arm bringing up beside your head extended up and then bringing it down on top of mine forcing my hands down. When you do you grab my hands with the opposite hand and you can then deliver a powerful elbow to my face or whatever attack you are able to make." While on my knees I demonstrated how to break out.
Standing up I grabbed her neck and walked her thru both ways to break out of the hold. "Remember Beautiful always attack. When you block you then attack, when you break out you then attack. When someone attacks you, you attack back and you keep attacking even if you have to block, dodge, or break out of holds you keep attacking every chance you get until you are able to do what?" I wanted to drill this into her head. Looking at me funny like surprised I am quizzing her
"I keep attacking until my attacker is subdued and I am able successfully escape and flee." "That's right you keep attacking until you can safely get away."
I walk over to her and grab her in a bear hug holding her to me up off the ground. "Okay Beautiful tell me what you think." There are several parts of me exposed to her even though she has no use of her arms or hands. For one my head because I have her up off of the ground her head is close to my face. Second her legs are dangling while they won't have much force a knee to my crotch that would be very doable. Finally a kick to my shin would also be very doable and deliver a painful enough blow for me to loosen my hold on her.
"My arms are pinned beside me so I can't use them my legs are dangling." yeah nodding my head for her to go on. "I could kick you" "Good what else could you do?" I asked her "I could knee you." She was catching on nodding "But I am not certain how it would be effective enough to make you let me go." "Remember what I said beautiful there are no rules all is fair it isn't sometimes how hard as much as where. Now tell me again and keep going."
"I could knee you in …well…in your privates." I can't get enough of her sometimes she can cuss like a sailor hell out cuss a sailor I should know I knew plenty sailors but couldn't tell me she could knee me in the balls without blushing. "I could kick you in your leg." Nodding she was right. "That would be my shin and kicks to the shin hurt. Anything else remember everything you have is a weapon anything else you could use to attack me with?" I wanted her to think this thru I wanted her to come up with the answers. "The only other thing I have left is my head." Looking at me I couldn't help to smile. "That's right you have your head now what could you do with it to attack me?"
"I could head butt you." "That's right you could head butt me with where I have you right now I would say a nice head butt to the bridge of my nose would be pretty effective don't you think?" She smiled and nodded "or I could just do this" looking at her curious as to what that was
She leaned in and kissed the bridge of my nose laughing sitting her down on her feet "yeah Beautiful that is just as effective but don't try that on an attacker okay stick with the head butt. Okay?"
Laughing she nodded as we made our way back to the mats. "Beautiful to learn how to do something sometimes you just have to do it and keep doing it until you get good at it. That is the principle we are going to take when it comes to you fighting." Her eyes get about the size of saucers.
"Don't panic we will all pull punches and kicks just as I am going teach you to do when it comes to fighting with us. That is what we are going to work on now. I want you to punch at me but when you reach me you will pull it so that the movement is correct but when you make contact you only touch me instead of really punching me. You can do jabs and punches like I showed you earlier. Give me twenty." She did a good job with pulling them.
"Now your three kicks beautiful same thing proper movement only pull back at the last moment and only touch me twenty of each kick." She kicked me a few times hard but not hard enough to hurt me but eventually got the proper feel for it
"Very good. When we work with bags or the hand tethers you can punch and kick as hard as you want or can but when we spar we pull the punches. We are going to start this slow but I want you to remember block attack dodge attack. Whenever I come at you, you block or dodge and then you attack. My movements will be slow today but as your training progresses this will get faster and faster until the point that we are truly fighting each other as you would an attacker only pulling the punches and kicks." I wanted to keep reminding her to pull those punches and kicks. I didn't want to end up looking like a human punching bag it was bad enough having the bruises Ranger put on me already when he made an example out of me I didn't more.
SPOV
Wow fighting with Lester was sort of fun. I mean I know he was moving in slow motion but I could really see why the guys liked it so much. Of course when they fought in the ring it was fast and from what I saw they didn't really pull punches or kicks or if they were I didn't know if I wanted to fight with them. But so far this was fun.
"Very good Beautiful" I loved hearing that. I was doing well! I was blocking him and attacking just like he said. I was very proud of myself. By the time we were done I was pouring sweat and my muscles were screaming at me damn this was a workout.
Lester walks over to me with my bottle of water and my towel. I am covered in sweat my t-shirt is even wet with it and he is dry as a bone I mean what the hell. Don't these men ever sweat?
"Yeah beautiful we sweat." When I am ever going to learn to keep my thoughts to myself? Well at least it wasn't an embarrassing thought.
Lester smiling looking at me I saw a twinkle in his eye just before he said "You did good today" and then proceeded to dump the bottle of water over my head. Normally this would have pissed me off and part of me wanted to be pissed but the other part of me felt like I was Rocky or Maggie when after a round in the ring their coaches would douse them with water and then dry their faces off. I could just hear the rocky theme song blasting in my ears. I felt like a million dollars. I was a million dollar baby!
"Wow Lester you just made me feel like I was Rocky." Laughing he picked me up and I threw my arms up in the air like the champion I was.
DougPOV
I was watching her and Lester wondering what was the deal with this woman. It looked like he was training her but why? I mean she was probably a secretary or something why the hell would he be wasting his time training her? I needed to find out.
We hadn't been sitting there too long when a man walked into the control room. I didn't remember him before when I was worked here but I am not sure that meant anything. Looking at him I nodded then offered him my hand "Hi my name is Douglas but my friends call me Doug" he took my hand shaking it "Manny" Mike from beside me extended his hand saying "Hi I am Mike" Manny shock his hand.
Manny paused and look at the screen of Lester and the girl in the gym that I had been watching and then just smiled. I thought I would ask him some questions concerning the mystery girl.
"We are new here contract workers sent in to help out for a little while. We both have worked here before in the past but it has been a little while. I don't remember a woman being here the last time I was here. Do you know who she is?"
He looked at me and smiled and then nodded "yeah she is my wifey." She is his wife? Then why the hell was she up on the seventh floor in the bossman's apartment and why is she acting like the building's whore? "She is your wife?" I question.
He shook his head no, now I am really confused. "Not really, she said she was once when I got shot so she could see me at the hospital so I call her my wifey." Oh okay for a minute there I was thinking I wouldn't get my chance at her. Not that I would probably let her being married have stopped me after seeing how she acted with Lester.
I wondered if I could get any more information from him. "What are they doing?" "Lester is training her to fight and be able to defend herself." I could see that much asshole "yeah but why?" He shrugged his shoulders he wasn't going to tell me. But then went on "But I just got back here today. I have been working at the Rangeman Miami on a forensic case down there for the past several weeks."
He then walked out of the control room. He could have least told me her name but no he wasn't offering up any information other than he called her wifey. Just great I tell you.
MannyPOV
What the fuck is up with that guy. I am going to let Lester know that he was watching them. He had that screen up on the larger monitor so I know he was watching them.
He wanted to know too much about wifey for my comfort level. I knew that he was new here and I know that she is beautiful and hard to take your eyes off of. But something wasn't right I could feel it. He had a weird vibe about him.
Walking down the hall I ran into Cal oh just the man to ask. "Cal hey me amigo" "Hey man when did you get back? You have missed all the excitement around here." "I just got back this morning. I have been working the forensic case in Miami." He nodded. He knew I was the best forensic and crime scene investigator in all of Rangeman and hell most of the Police Departments.
"They called you back up here to work on Angel's apartment didn't they?" I looked at him questioning, I didn't know why they wanted me back. I haven't even talked to anyone other than hearing they wanted me to fly back home. "What's up with wifey's apartment?"
I could see the look on Cal's face like he had just stepped in it. "Man I can't tell you, they will though I know that is why they asked you to come home. Go see one of the core team they will fill you in and give you all the stuff we collected. We were careful to dot every I and cross every t when it came to collecting that evidence we all want that sick son of a bitch who left that shit for her found." Damn just what he told me told me all I really needed to know she had another stalker. No wonder Lester was working with her on self defense.
"Hey Cal got a minute?" He nodded as I made my way to his office with him. I didn't want the new guy to hear me say anything to Cal.
"What's up Manny?" call asked.
"Cal, how well do we know these two new guys, the contract workers?" "They worked here before I don't know them I couldn't even tell you their names I refer to them as Dumb Fucker number one and Dumb Fucker number two. One of the guys said his name was Mike but I don't know what the other guys name is, why?"
"The other guys name is Douglas or Doug does that ring any bells with you?" I could see him thinking "I just walked into the control room and he had the camera from the gym pulled up on the large monitor in front of him. He was watching wifey and Lester in the gym. He then asked me some questions trying to get information on her but I didn't tell him anything other than I called her wifey."
I went on "I don't know but something just feels off with him. Maybe I am putting too much into it I mean she is beautiful and what man in his right mind setting in front of a bunch of cameras looking at nothing wouldn't choose to look at her but I still get a feeling something was off with him."
Cal looking at me I could see the wheels turning "okay Manny thanks for telling me let's keep an eye on him to see if anything else seems off." I nod my head walking out of his office to find Ranger or Tank.
DougPOV
I continued to watch them in the gym. I watched as Lester held her in the different holds and imagined her body next to mine. I could feel myself harden with the thought.
I saw them fighting and he was moving slow so she would have time to block and plan her attack watching her body move was intoxicating and it had me so on edge. I wondered how these other men could work this close to her and not just have to have her to take her.
I mean women were here for one purpose and that was to please us men when and where we wanted.
When they were finished he held her up in his arms while she threw her arms up in the air over her head like she had won something. She hadn't won anything other than the ability to make me hard at the sight of her.
I watched as they hugged each other kissing each other again and then he fluffed her hair as they made their way out of the gym with their arms around each other. I quickly switched cameras so I could see them in the hall way walking towards the elevator.
When they got on I once again switched cameras so I could see the one in the elevator and they were laughing about something but I wasn't sure what, as I didn't hear what made them laugh to begin with.
He started massaging her arms and shoulders and I even heard her let out a moan which made me harden even more. The next thing I knew I heard the ding of the elevator on the floor. The doors opened.
When the doors opened Lester scooped her up like a bag of potatoes and threw her over his shoulder her fine ass pointing up for all to see. She was screaming in laughter and pounding her fists against his backside while he was pretending to smack her on her on her ass. Oh yeah she liked it a little rough.
She picked her head up to look in the control room and started to wave but when she realized she didn't know us she dropped her hand and gave a funny look our way like she was trying to figure out why we were here.
They were laughing and playing as they made their way down the hall to Ranger's office. They didn't even knocked they just walked in since when did he get that lax around here that you could just walk into his office without knocking and waiting for permission? I wondered if he had gone soft.
SPOV
Lester walked into Carlos' office with me thrown over his shoulder we were laughing and play hitting each other. I couldn't see anything but I imagined Carlos' looking up to see who had just walked in unannounced. I know anyone else do that and he would have their asses on the mats so fast it would make their head roll but me now me he allowed to walk into his office without knocking or in this case be carried into his office. Yeah I was feeling pretty good.
Carlos spoke first "Santos, am I going to have to call you to the mats for touching my woman's ass?" Lester just froze in place. I on the other hand just giggled. "Ranger I wasn't touching her ass I was spanking it." Lester countered thinking that would get him off the hook.
I couldn't stop giggling suspended on Lester's shoulder. I could hear amusement in his voice so I knew he wasn't really mad. I could see him wanting to smile but holding it back. "Santos if you don't put my woman down right now you won't have to worry about the mats you will have to worry that I don't select a box too small when I ship your ass to a third world country."
I could feel Lester gulp as well as hear him. He gradually lowered me back to the ground. I was laughing but when my feet touched the ground I gave him a hug letting him know that I enjoyed the little bit of fun we had.
"Hey Babe did my no good cousin behave himself? How was your training?" "It was good Lester showed me a lot and I think I did pretty good."
Lester butted in "Rangeman she did great. I even had her fighting at the end."
Ranger looked at me for confirmation "yeah but he was going in really slow motion so I could keep up."
Ranger and Lester both smiling made me smile even bigger. I was proud of my hard work for the past two days. I could tell by the look in their face they were proud too.
"Guys I hope that look on your face means you are proud of me because I have to say you two are probably the two most important people in my life. I mean I love the other guys here and they are my brothers but Carlos you are my lover and soon to be husband." I couldn't help smiling at that part and I can't keep from saying it. Every time I say it just sends shivers down my spine. " Lester you are my brother but you are also my best friend and it is important to me that I make both of you proud." I had tears in my eyes when I finished.
Carlos was beside me faster than I knew he could move with his arms around me. "Babe you have made me so proud of you. I know how hard you have worked I know how hard this is and you have done an amazing job. I am so proud of you."
Lester wasn't going to be left out "Beautiful you have done an amazing job both days. I heard from Bobby, Tank and saw your targets from your training with Ranger and having spent the last four hours with you training you I know how hard you are working how serious you are and I am so proud of you. I can't wait for you to join us here full time."
I hugged Lester. "That means a lot to me. It isn't easy but I have been giving it all I have to give and more. It means a lot that you two are proud of me."
Hearing someone clear their throat I looked up and found Bobby and Tank standing in the door way
Tank was the first to speak "Little Girl we are all proud of you. You have blown us away with how well you have done and how amazing you have been the past two days. We couldn't be more proud." I walked over to him and hugged him. "Thanks big guy" The tears were welling up even more.
Bobby then spoke up "Bomber I know how difficult the workout alone is and you have done it without complaint then add on the additional training on top I know your muscles have to be screaming at you to stop. I know you must be beyond tired after the second full day but you aren't complaining if anything I see you are glowing with excitement. You do make me and all of us very proud. Always know we will be here for you whenever you need us."
I hugged Bobby unable to say anything because if I did the whole dam would break and I would end up a sobbing blubbering mess of happy tears.
RPOV
I had missed lunch with Babe as I had to meet a client. When I got back to Rangeman she was already in the gym working with Lester. I pulled up the camera every now and then to check on my crazy cousin. I knew he would take her training seriously but those two together were like putting two class clowns together.
They are all the time playing, laughing, joking with each other but none of that was happening during their training. They were both serious and from what little I watched Stephanie was working her ass off.
We are all proud of her the past two days she has more than shown us she more than capable of being a full time Rangeman. I have always known she belonged here I have always known what an amazing asset she would bring to Rangeman. Now I hope she will begin to know it.
My men all support her, they all love her. The knowledge of that is like a double edge sword. On one hand I am thrilled they support and love her because she needs it. She has never had that and I can see she is thriving on it. I wouldn't take it or them away from her for nothing in the world. On the other hand though I knew that if I fucked up with her not only would there be someone in line, hell lots of some ones in line, to take my place but there would be even more ready and more than willing to kick my ass. While I know individually I can probably kick all of the guy's asses collectively I wouldn't stand a chance. I knew if I hurt her in any way I would be answering to a large group of very pissed off highly trained men that could easily kick my ass, kill me, and hide my body where no one would ever find me.
It's a sobering acknowledgement but I never intend to hurt her. I will live the rest of my life trying to make her happy and feel fully loved and supported. I came close to losing her and I never want to be without her again. I think it is time to break up this little party of five and make it a party of two upstairs. I had a surprise for my Babe.
"Babe I am sure Ella has our dinner ready. Why don't we head upstairs and get some dinner?" I knew food would get her attention. "Ranger that sounds great, I am starving." When is she not hungry? I chuckled. "I know Babe."
As we made our way out of my office she gave Lester, Bobby, and Tank a hug and a kiss telling them that she would see them tomorrow as we made our way to the elevator. I noticed her looking in the control room.
"Carlos' who are those men in the control room I haven't seen them here before." Fuck now I am going to have to tell her about the contract workers. I was hoping she wouldn't see them but by them being in the control room of course she would see them. Oh well so much for that thought.
"We brought in some contract workers. We have a big install for a client that is pulling a few of the guys from their normal posts and so we brought them in to fill in. You haven't been here when we have done it in the past but it is common practice. The contract that I signed this morning will require a few extra hands as well so I am sure they will be for a little while." Whew thankfully that contract went thru with the two large contracts we would have hired them anyway so technically I am not lying or fudging the truth in what I said.
She looked at me "you didn't have to hire them because of my training, my taking the guys time away from their jobs because they were suppose to volunteer their time outside of their Rangeman hours." I shook my head no. "No Babe like I told you it was because of the large contracts. We were pretty certain the one today was going to sign so I wanted to bring them in a little ahead of time so they will get a feel for working here before the guys are actually pulled away for the installs."
"Okay so long as they weren't brought here because of me. I don't want my training to cost Rangeman."
Whew disaster averted. I had asked Ella to setup a romantic dinner for two in the dining room. When we reached the apartment I guided her to the bathroom. "Why don't we get a shower before dinner?" She smiled. Walking into the bathroom I turned on the shower. I walked over to my Babe and gently raised her shirt removing it. She pulled my shirt out from pants and ran her hands up my chest as she pulled the shirt off of me.
I undid her pants and pushed them down her hips and thighs they puddle at her feet as she unhooked my belt and set my utility belt on the counter being careful with my gun and knife she then unhooked my pants and pushed them down allowing my erection to spring forward. She dropped to her knees and removed my ankle holster giving the head of my dick a tiny little kiss as she rose to put my holster and gun on the counter with my utility belt.
I quickly stepped out of my pants that were at my feet. She was standing in front of me with her wonder woman under ware on that had Rangeman stamped across her ass and her sports bra and I was so turned on. My dick was jumping with anticipation.
Grabbing her sports bra I pulled it over her head. Releasing her beautiful breast, I had to taste them. Dropping my head down to about an inch of her puckered nipple my tongue darted out tasting her. I heard her moan. My hands made their way to her panties and I pushed them down her long legs.
My fingers trailing her legs back up as they made their way to her center finding her already dripping wet for me made me growl with need. God what this woman does to me, my intentions were to wait until after dinner to make love to her but I couldn't wait. I would make love to her now and then again after dinner a lot after dinner because we had something we would need to celebrate tonight.
Picking her up I stepped into the warm shower with her legs wrapped around me and my hands holding her ass to me. It didn't get much better than this.