Fun and Games Part 1

"Hey guys, can I talk to you both for a minute?" AJ asked both Stephanie and Nikki as they were packing up their things to go home at the end of the work day. He had spoken quietly and taken them off to the side to talk, so Stephanie was suddenly pretty sure of what he was going to do, holding out her hand once they were in more privacy.

"Uh, what?" AJ asked.

"Oh sorry." Stephanie responded. "I thought you were about to return something to me. You know, something of ours?" She still got a blank stare. "Something of ours that your wife borrowed from us? At the end of her birthday party?"

"Oh god." Finally the penny dropped with their co-worker. "Don't make me revisit that moment. I want to wipe it from my mind."

"Hey, I could take offence at that. So if that's not it, then why are we being all hush-hush?" Stephanie asked.

"No offence meant. But, to be fair if that hadn't happened, I wouldn't be having to have this conversation now. But then again, none of it would have happened, and that would have been terrible. Anyway, I need to ask you something, but it's a bit embarrassing. Please keep this between us."

"AJ, what's going on?" Stephanie asked, more sternly.

"Look, after that happened, and you had left, we, well, we had the best sex of our marriage."

"You're welcome." Stephanie said, making her girlfriend laugh.

"Well in a way you were to thank for it, lending her the handcuffs. Since then, Charlotte hasn't wanted to have sex unless there was some kind of bondage theme. That's why we haven't given you your cuffs back, they've been getting used on a pretty regular basis."

"Not a mental image I need." Stephanie remarked, rolling her eyes. "But I can't exactly complain after what you saw."

"Well yes. I mean, it's not my favourite thing she's ever done, but things have been so good between us as long as I'm willing to tie her up and treat her like my prisoner or whatever when it comes to the bedroom, even if we don't make love, she still gets excited by it."

"AJ, I'm glad you can share, but what's this got to do with us, other than her birthday. Do you want tips?" Stephanie asked the question with a sarcastic tone, making a little fun of her co worker.

"No, I don't need tips thanks. We do very well. As I said, Charlotte has gotten very into the whole bondage element. She's bought a lot of stuff for me to put her in, more cuffs, shackles, ropes, chains, even blindfolds and gags. Plus this stupidly thick tape that could be used to patch a crack in the wall."

"Say what now?" Nikki asked, suddenly perking up and joining the conversation.

"Yeah, all that and she says she's ordered more. And, she's also ordered this board game. It's called 'Dominate.'"

"That's nice, but this tape, what's it called?" Nikki asked.

"Char was so happy when the game turned up last week, but she found out after reading the rules that we can't play it by ourselves, it's for couples."

"Aha, I think I know where this is going." Stephanie said.

"Yeah, me too, but this tape she got." Nikki tried again, but AJ carried on.

"Yeah, since we found out first hand you both like this too, she wanted me to ask if you'd be willing to come play it with us."

"I don't know if getting caught in the act, and playing a sex game with you both are quite the same thing." Stephanie mused, not dismissing the idea.

"I know, but I read the rules, there isn't any sex during the game, it's meant to be used as a prize, but I'm sure I can discuss that with her if it's a dealbreaker."

"This means a lot to her doesn't it?" Stephanie asked, knowing the answer before AJ could respond. "Unless you object babe, we'll do it." Stephane looked to Nikki, getting a smile of agreement. "But I want to know what this tape is she got."

"Oh, I don't actually know. You can ask Charlotte when you come round. How's Friday night?" AJ asked as he headed back to his desk, but his assumption nobody was still around was misguided.

"What's happening Friday night?" Seth, the fourth member of their team, asked like a shot.

"Uh, nothing."

"Yeah, nothing much."

"Nothing?" Seth clearly didn't believe what they heard. "You just said they should come to your place on Friday night. Doesn't sound like nothing to me."

The team had developed a close friendship that has spread to both Seth and Aj's significant others. They hung out a lot together outside of work, and when they did, it was always all together, excluding one of the three couples was something they just didn't do, so Seth naturally thought he would be a part of what was going on. Of course, nothing like this had ever been suggested before, and Seth and Paige had never caught their coworkers in the act either.

The silence lingered in the air for a moment. AJ broke it. "Uh, Seth, buddy, I don't think you're going to want any part of this."

"Any part of what?" Was the obvious reply.

"We're going to play this game, it's just for couples."

"Yeah, I do have a girlfriend, have done for a while, I think that qualifies."

"Seth." Stephanie spoke strongly. "Trust me on this, Paige will not want to do what we are doing this weekend. She would hate it."

Seth looked confused. "So what is it that she'd hate it?"

"It's, it's just that it's kinda X-rated." AJ blurted out.

"You think she'd hate doing something X-rated? She's an adult like the rest of us. Unless this is some kind of orgy, or swingers thing, which I doubt is even possible unless several of you have changed your outlook in the last week, I can't think what she'd object to."

They realised that they weren't going to dissuade him, and to a point they didn't want to.

Only Stephanie knew the reason why Paige might not want to play a bondage themed game, and on quick reflection, she wasn't sure it was a bad idea for them to get involved. "No, there will be no swinging, and of course you can join us, it's the way it should be." She said.

"And it will save Charlotte asking another of her friends to come along. We do need three couples." AJ relented.

"Great, thanks guys. And don't worry. She'll be ok with it I'm sure." Seth was happy at the result, but not as informed as the rest as to what awaited them that coming Friday.


"Welcome!" Charlotte said with a huge amount of enthusiasm when she opened the door to Nikki and Steph that Friday night, just after seven. Both of them kept their smirk to themselves as they thought about her new sexual appetites. "Listen." Charlotte said before they went too far into the house. "I want to thank you both. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have found these new experiences. I feel like a teenager again. Also for agreeing to play this game. I know we are all friends, but this could have been too awkward for you. We'd have understood."

"You kidding? This sounds like fun. Let's do it." Steph said with genuine excitement, which was enough for Charlotte, who showed them into the living room, which had been opened up into a sort of double room with the partition doors opened. Their dining table took centre stage in the room, which was covered in pairs of handcuffs, ankle cuffs, several lengths of rope and chains, ball gags, blindfolds, the game itself, which was obvious by its decoration, and two rolls of tape, which Nikki was straight over to inspect. There was no branding on it, but she could feel that it was strong stuff. She was praying to herself that she ended up in this stuff, or she was going to steal it at the end of the night. Charlotte owed them that much at least.

"Admiring our selection?" Charlotte asked, taking Nikki by surprise. She handed her a glass of champagne. "Here, have a drink while we can. Pizza should be here any minute."

"Thanks. You've got so much more stuff than I expected. What is this exactly?" She asked, holding the tape up.

"It's medical plaster. My sister is a nurse, and I asked her if she had anything really strong, didn't say why of course, she thinks I'm doing home repairs."

"Have you…tried it?" Nikki asked, feeling her temperature rising.

"No, not yet. The cuffs are my first choice still."

"Not even over your mouth?"

Nope, just that blue ball gag so far, but who knows after tonight." She winked at Nikki, who laughed.

"I've never seen this side of you. I like it."

"Thanks, it really is thanks to you two, I never thought seeing two women going at it, and then seeing how you were unable to move even a little when we caught you, would just do something to me. But it did, and it's been so good ever since."

"Good job AJ was into it." Nikki smirked, thinking how more awkward this conversation could have been.

"Oh I know, and I love him so much for it. He took time to warm up, but now he gets as much out of it as me. Well, not as much, that's impossible." The doorbell rang at this moment. "That's either the last arrivals, or the pizzas, excuse me." Charlotte left Nikki alone, so she took a chance to inspect this tape, pulling off a short length of it. It was thicker and stickier than what had been used on her in any of the countless times she had been tied up in her relationship with Stephanie, which was rapidly approaching the one year mark. Not that the time frame often occurred to Nikki, who was so sure she had found her soul mate, she was thinking about the years to come, not the one that had nearly passed. What she was specifically thinking at this time, was that she wasn't leaving Charlotte and AJ's house tomorrow without that tape.

Charlotte came back in carrying two pizza boxes and a bag of breadsticks. Seth then appeared behind her, carrying two more pizzas and two six packs of beer. All was sat down on a second table.

"Help yourself everyone. Wine in the kitchen for anyone who prefers that to beer. Glasses too. Please eat all you want, especially us ladies, we won't have the chance to grab an extra slice later."

"What does that mean?" Was the question from Paige, now entering the room. She then saw the table covered in restraints and froze. "What the hell is that?" She asked, loudly, getting everyone's attention

"That's the game we are going to play, and what we need for it. I know it looks daunting, but it'll be fun, I promise." Charlotte tried to reassure Paige.

"I'm sorry, but no, I can't do this. I can't." Paige left the room, grabbed her purse from the hallway, and was nearly out the door when Seth and Charlotte got in her way. The others came behind her.

"Babe, what's wrong? Why are you freaking out?" Seth asked.

"You didn't tell me this was what we were coming here for. I'm not doing it."

"I told you it was going to be X-rated. You didn't seem bothered by that."

"Yeah, which I thought meant telling stories and doing some dirty dares with each other. I didn't ever mind being told to bring some sexy underwear for it, but..."

Seth got a confused look on his face while Charlotte put her hand to hers. "I didn't tell you to bring sexy underwear." He interrupted his girlfriend.

"She did." Paige pointed to Charlotte, pulling out her phone. "Texted me and Nikki: Hi girls. Thanks for agreeing to come Saturday. I thought we should dress down a little for the game. What do you think, bring a sexy bra and panty set and change at my place?. Then Nikki responded that she was more than happy to. So I thought I should too. I was trying to be a good sport, but this is too much. I'm sorry."

Paige, if you leave we can't play. We need a minimum of three couples." Charlotte said, almost a crack in her voice at the prospect of her night going down the drain.

Stephanie had cast Nikki a look at the mention of this text. Getting confirmation that she had indeed brought something hot to wear for this party was taking hold of her, and she stepped through. She went to Paige and took her hand.

"Come with me." She said, pulling Paige away and into a spare bedroom.

"I can't do this. Just seeing that stuff was giving me flashbacks of jail. You gotta help me get out of this." Paige said the moment the door closed behind them.

"Calm down. I get that the link to your past is something that scares you, but it's just that, in the past."

"Not in here." Paige tapped her head. "In here sometimes it's like I'm back in there sometimes."

"You need to tell Seth, tell anyone, talk to someone, stop letting this one thing control your thoughts."

"No way."

"Does anyone other than me know about this?"

Paige shook her head. "Nobody this side off the country. I've kept it that way on purpose, I don't want anyone looking at me like I'm some kind of scum, like the guards used to."

"Do you really not trust anyone? This isn't a group of strangers, and it certainly is not your old guards. We are your friends. You can trust us. Have I blabbed what I know to anyone?" Stephanie asked with raised eyebrows."

"Well, no, but I thought you were using it to keep me quiet. After you sorta came out to me in the bathroom that time."

"Ah." Stephanie had forgotten that part. "I did, but that all worked out for me. I got the girl of my dreams, and I even came out to the world. I don't hide myself anymore. And on top of that, who were the first four people we told? You, Seth, AJ and Charlotte, because there's nobody we trust more. So why can't you?"

"I…but….Seth didn't exactly respond well last time." Paige was clutching at straws, and they both knew it.

"Yeah, but then he made a grovelling apology. I guarantee he's learned his lesson. Come on, this is all just a bit of fun, a bit of dirty fun that will probably get all of us laid tonight. Do you really want to be the one to ruin it?"

"No." Paige tried to think of something else, but nothing came. "Ok, ok, I'll do it."

"Good girl. Now we better get back before they start to wonder. I don't want to know what my Nikki is like with a jealous streak." Stephanie opened the door and gestured for Paige to go through first, which she did.

"You ok babe" Seth and Nikki both said at almost the same time, drawing a small laugh. Both were given nods of affirmation and an embrace for caring, then grabbed a slice of pizza each.

"Right." Charlotte spoke loudly, not a moment later, being more than keen to get things going. "If you'd gather round the table, this is Dominate, and this is how the game is played. We are split into our couples, with one Dominant, and one Submissive. The Doms are the guys and Stephanie, who made it clear to me once that she was better for that role." Nikki did her best not to turn red, trying to forget that encounter before realising it was likely to be old news compared to the next couple of hours. "The rest of us are the subs, and we will be getting changed into costumes for our roles in a moment, although that's no longer a surprise."

"Sorry." Paige looked away.

"The game is played with cards and a six sided die. Each couple has a token. AJ has taken the handcuffs for us, hosts prerogative, but please choose what is left for yourselves." Charlotte pointed at several other steel tokens in a variety of shapes appropriate to the game.

"I think we will have this one." Seth took one piece and held it up, and learnt was in the shape of a ball gag.

"Making a point?" Paige pouted, still clearly uncomfortable, but trying to get into the spirit.

"Never babe." Seth kissed his girl. "But it might be hot if you get to have one on." He whispered the last part to her only, and she could feel that the prospect of this game wasn't disagreeing with him exactly.

Stephanie looked for a roll of tape as a token, but was to be disappointed. All that remained was a rope token, a blindfold token, a gimp mask token, and what she hoped was meant to be a vibrator.

"We'll take this one then." She said, picking up the blindfold.

"Great." Charlotte clapped her hands gleefully. "Now the rules. You roll the dice, move round the board. If you land on an empty square, your turn ends, but if you land on an Item square or an Action square, you pick the appropriate card. The item cards relate to the items on the table, each one is covered, no more no less, it's why we got several of each. The action cards tell you to 'restrain' or 'gag' or 'blindfold'. When you have a combination of each that works, like you can't blindfold someone with a ball gag, then you play your cards and pick a card from the third pile, the Sub pile. That will have a name. You then will perform that action, with that item, on that person, assuming you can. It's completely random, the cards are all shuffled, but I will happily shuffle them again if anyone wants?" Charlotte opened the floor to objections, but receiving none she continued. "Great, if nobody has any more questions, we will go get changed." Charlotte ignored a voice and ushered Nikki and Paige out of the room.

Stephanie went to have a look at the game board on the floor. She considered for a second fixing the deck so Nikki's name came up early and often, but with the two guys also looking, she couldn't. She was then interrupted by a pair of arms wrapping around her. She turned around and was greeted by her lover in a bright red bra that looked like it made her breasts two sizes larger, to the point where Stephanie fought her urge to bury her face in them. She stepped back and admired the matching panties Nikki was wearing, taking in the whole ensemble.

"And I've got to have you tied up without being able to touch you for the whole evening? Maybe this was a mistake." She said jokingly, but she was fighting how badly turned on she was.

Nikki kissed her girl deeply. "Let that keep you going. And know I'm going to want you just as bad when this is over, it's going to be a fun night."

"For everyone." Steph added, as she saw that Paige had returned in a black lacy bra and thong, while Charlotte had gone with a blue satin bra and thong. They were receiving a lot of attention from their significant others and Stephanie had to admit both ladies looked stunning, but not to the point where straying even crossed her mind, she'd found the only one for her, she thought, it was just a matter of making it that little bit more official.

"Are we ready?" Charlotte asked.

"Before you all rushed out to strip off, I was going to ask one question." Seth spoke up. Charlotte gestured to him to continue. "You said how we play, but how do we win? First girl fully tied up wins? Or loses? Ow!" He exclaimed at the end as his girlfriend accidentally dug her nails into the arm she was holding tightly onto.

"Ah, yes. Every time you successfully play a set of a cards and apply an item to a sub, you score 25 points. First to 150 wins unless we run out of items, then the highest score wins. If there's a tie, the first to have reached the tied score wins. Ok?"

"And then it all gets taken off right?" Paige asked, looking for reassurance.

"Yeah, well as long as you don't lose." Charlotte answered, to a look of horror from one, and confusion from the rest. "Did I not…?" Charlotte looked behind her, then back. "I'm so stupid, sorry everyone, I'm just so eager to get started. She went to a blanket at the other end of the large room that was over some objects, which until now hadn't been worthy of attention. She pulled out a gift wrapped box and brought it nearer.

"This is the first place prize. It's a goody box of stuff from the game and other things beside that. I promise the winners will have just the best night. The runners up get nothing, but I expect will still won't get much sleep." She grinned as she went back to the blanket. "The loser however, won't get freed, apart from anything that is causing legit pain or will over the course of their night in here." She removed the blanket to reveal a pretty sturdy, but not all that big, metal cage.

None of her guests saw this coming. They all looked on in varying levels of shock. From a smirk on AJ's face to unsurprising terror on Paige's, who was internally looking for a way out of the country, let alone the house.

Charlotte wanted that reaction, and continued. "The losing sub will spend the entire night locked in here, and even worse, won't get their release, in any sense of the word. Neither will their partner who lost the game. But we all need to be in agreement. I have no intention of going in there. I'll bet Nikki and Paige feel the same. But at the end of the game, none of us will have much say in what happens to us. Two of us will get freed. One won't. No matter who it is, one of us gets put in that cage. Agreed?" Everyone murmured their consent, and Stephanie saw Paige whisper in her boyfriends ear. She was pretty sure that was a threat of anything from a breakup to castration if he lost the game. She was surprised that the black haired woman had stuck around after this last reveal.

Nikki waved her hand in front of her girls face. "Hello? You still there?"

Stephanie stole a quick kiss. "While I can." She said with a grin.

Nikki returned it. "Babe, I'm going to be honest with you, I'm already horny as hell. And you're about to tie me up more securely that ever, that's not exactly going to put the flames out. I can't wait to ravish you later. I guess what I'm saying is, well, I love you, but don't you dare lose this fucking game."

Steph smirked, Nikki only cursed when she was really really mad, which wasn't often, or really really turned on. "It's in the bag." She said, winking at her.

"Right, shall we begin?" Charlotte asked.

A.N: Thanks for reading.

A few surprises for almost everyone there. Steph and Nikki seem to have unleashed a monster in Charlotte just by lending her a set of handcuffs, now they are in this game and who knows how it will end up for any of them.

So, how's it going to play out? Who's going to win the goodie box? Who is going to spend the night in the cage? Will Paige be able to get through the game at all? And of course, will Nikki get her hands on that tape, or should I say, get that tape on her hands? I'd love to hear what you think.