Earth's New Masters Part 46 Maybe Not Such A Bad Guy After All
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This chapter is from Gofer's point of view. It may seem redundant, but sometimes we need to see the same events through another set of eyes.
Earth's New Masters Part 46 Maybe Not Such A Bad Guy After All
I got up a little early to let Flame out and get him some kibble for breakfast. I let him come into the kitchen with me while I made breakfast. I decided to make Eggs Benedict, which I had looked up the other day. Master Woden and Master David had been talking about how much they had enjoyed it when they went on their fishing trip. While I didn't care if I pleased Master David, I did want to please Master Woden. Besides if they liked it the rest of the family probably would. Plus I wouldn't mind trying it myself.
I set up a big double boiler to make the Hollandaise Sauce. I also started a pan of water to poach the eggs in and put some chipped chopped ham into a pan and started to heat it up before I started to make the sauce. Just then Chef came sauntering in half asleep.
"Hey toast these English muffins." I told him. "And when you get done with that make some home fries."
He just grunted and nodded. At this point in time he was used to me ordering him around in the kitchen. He really didn't seem to mind since I did most of the difficult stuff.
I whisked together egg yolks, lemon juice, white pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and 1 tablespoon water in the double boiler. Then I whisked in some melted butter, adding a couple of tablespoons at a time while constantly whisking the mixture. It soon thickened to the desired consistency.
By that time I could hear the Masters starting to assemble in the dining area. I took the double boiler off the heat, but I left the Hollandaise sauce warming in the double boiler.
I cracked twenty eggs into the pan of boiling water and poached them while Chef set out ten plates with two buttered English muffins halves on each one. I used a slotted spoon to remove the eggs as soon as they were properly cooked and added an egg to each muffin half. From there I added some of the heated chipped chopped ham and then ladled the Hollandaise sauce over them.
I spooned out some home fries onto each plate and put 7 of the plates on the cart to take into the dining area for the Masters. Of course I started with Master Woden and then went in the opposite direction of Master David so he got his food last as I always did. I gave him a knowing sneer as I handed him his plate.
"Was it your idea or Chef's idea to make Eggs Benedict." Master Woden asked.
I panicked for a second. I didn't want to say that I ALWAYS decided what we would have for breakfast, because I was worried that he would figure out just how much of the cooking I did. Then I decided to be honest on just today's meal. "I heard Master Woden tell everyone how wonderful the Eggs Benedict was at the fishing lodge. So I looked up how to make it. I'm sure it's not as good as it was at the lodge, but that was the best I could do." I said humbly.
Master Woden cut off a piece and brought it to his muzzle. He chewed it carefully and swallowed it. "So you substituted chipped chopped ham for the Canadian Bacon?" He asked looking directly at me.
"I'm sorry Master. I thought it would taste better..." I said nervously.
"It does taste better! The chipped chopped ham has a much more intense ham flavor." Master said praising the breakfast. I turned bright red in embarrassment, but I was pleased on the inside. But the best part was yet to come.
After he had eaten one of the Eggs Benedict, my little Master said, "Daddy we get to be Beta Testers for the new video game that's coming out. Wigmar sent it to Uncle Loki so all of us pups can play it and let him know what we think of it."
"I didn't realize he was so close to finishing it, I didn't think it was anywhere near the Beta Testing phase yet. It's the first new video game that's been made in 30 years. His feral Alex came up with the concept for the game when he was coming down from effects." Master Woden replied.
Then Master David made a fool of himself and blurted out, "Do they call it Beta Testing because it's done by the Beta?"
They all burst out laughing. Grimald actually snorted orange juice out of his nose.
"Eeewwww!" Mistress Brunhild cried out when some of the juice landed on her paw.
"What's so funny?" Master David asked as his face turned a bright crimson from embarrassment.
"Beta Testing is a test for a computer product prior to commercial release. It's just the last stage of testing. It has nothing to do with Loki being the Beta." My Master said with a snicker.
The look I gave him made sure that there was no mistaking my disdain for his ignorance. Then I turned and went back into the kitchen. Flame immediately ran over to me and I picked him up and pulled him to my chest. He squirmed around until he could lick my nose.
The pups went over to Loki's place and Mistress Freyja went with them. While James drove them over to Loki's, Master Woden went to his office. It seemed that his whole cabinet was there to discuss something or another. I went into the kitchen and loaded the dishwasher with Flame following at my heels.
I went out into the yard, with Flame almost tripping me a couple of time as we walked to the back yard. There was a kennel run out in the back yard from when one of the former Presidents had a dog and I put Flame into the run. He was tired, but he still whined to be out with me. It tore at me to have to leave him, but I couldn't do my daily hoeing of the Horny Goat Weed Patch with him loose to pull the plants up by the roots.
I grabbed a hoe and quickly vanquished any of the weeds that had the audacity to try to take up residence in the garden. It only took me about 15 minutes to do the whole patch. Daily attention to detail meant that the soil was nice and loose while the weeds that just germinated had no way to get a foothold in Master's garden.
When I was done I put the hoe away and grabbed my fly rod out of the shed where I had been hiding it. I assembled it and strung the line through it. I tried to remember all the things Master David had been trying to teach my other Masters.
I false cast until I had about thirty feet out of the end of my line. I cast for a few minutes just getting limbered up and trying to get the rhythm of the cast just right. I wasn't doing too much worse than the man in the video, but I was nothing like Master David. He cast so effortlessly, yet he got so much distance and accuracy with his casts.
I was concentrating intensely and I muttered to myself what Master David had told the other Masters yesterday when I was watching, "Make sure the line's tight before the power stroke." As the backcast rolled out behind me I turned my head over my shoulder to see when the line was completely stretched out behind me so I could give the power stroke at just the right time.
My jaw dropped and I stopped in mid cast. Behind me watching me intently was Master David. I was soooo busted. The line lost it's momentum and fell to the ground. My mouth was agape as my panicked mind desperately tried to think of a way out of this predicament.
Before I came up with anything he said, "Not too bad for a beginner." I didn't say a word, my mouth was working but nothing was coming out. "If you like I can give you some pointers on that..."
"No Master David, I wouldn't want to impose on a Master..." I quickly countered going back into my stupid CBH mode to gain time.
"I'm your Master right?" He said.
"I know Master." I replied. It was bad enough that he was my Master without him rubbing my face in it.
"Well then I'm sure you're aware that Beau and I are starting a fly fishing school. Well I need practice so I'm ordering you to let me practice by teaching you." He said winking at me.
"If Master David orders it of course I'll do it. I can't disobey a Master." I said as it dawned on me that he was giving me an out. I could do what I really wanted without having to show my hand. This was one of the things that made hating Master David so difficult. As often as I had tried to fuck with him he was trying to teach me how to cast. Despite him insisting that he needed to practice teaching we both knew that he was teaching me for my sake not his.
He walked over to me and stretched his hand out to take the rod. He looked it over. I knew it was not the quality that he was used to using and I wondered if he was going to ridicule me for having an inferior rod. But there was no need to worry. He started casting with the rod and within a couple of false casts he had gotten the rhythm of the rod. While I was struggling to work thirty feet of line he shot sixty feet of line in a tight loop under an overhanging hedge. I couldn't believe he could do that at all, much less with a rod that he'd just picked up. It was just amazing.
"Not too bad huh?" He asked.
I just nodded. Just because he was giving me an out didn't mean that I wasn't going to take advantage of it for all that I was worth.
He handed the rod back to me. "You're doing really well for a beginner." He said. I couldn't help but smile, and realized it a split second too late. "Go ahead and cast and I'll tell you ways to improve." He added.
I started casting and I just couldn't get the rod to work the way he did. "I'm going to get behind you and guide your arm through the proper motion." He said as he put his left arm around my waist and put his right hand over mine. I was nervous about being touched by him and I tensed up. But he just continued to run my arm through the casting motion like it was nothing out of the ordinary. We made a series of false casts and it felt completely different than when I was doing it myself. Then I remembered how he'd explained to the other Masters about keeping all the motion in the same plane. I could feel the rod loading up and I could almost see the mathematical formula of the force vectors as the line unfurled. The light bulb came on in my head as it all came together.
"Can you tell how different it feels when you are casting in the right plane." He asked
"Yeah you can feel the force vectors all aligning to keep the momentum building in the same direction." Lost in my epiphany I didn't realize that I'd gone completely out of character. I had to suppress a gasp as I realized it.
"What did you say?" He asked.
I thought quickly and tried my best to do damage control. "I'm sorry I should have referred to you as Master." I said trying to distract him from what I had said. Boy was that fucking stupid.
"Look when I'm teaching you you don't have to call me Master. We don't have to be that formal. That's not what I was asking about anyway. What did you just say?"
"I'm not sure Master, I'm a CBH. Sometimes we say gibberish or repeat random stuff that we hear from our Masters..." It was the best I could come up with on such short notice, but from the look in his eyes I knew he took it for the lie that it was.
"I keep forgetting that you're a CBH..." He said pausing for a second then adding. "Lets try it again. This time I'm going to let you do it but I'll keep my arm on your arm so I can feel if you're doing it right." He still had his left arm around my waist but he slid it under my shirt and sensuously rubbed my belly. And subconsciously let myself melt into his gentle embrace. We started to cast again and as we did I could feel that he was sporting wood and it was rubbing against my ass with each back cast and again on each power stroke. I immediately started to chub in response. Subconsciously I wanted to submit to him right there, but another part of me was more than aware that he was the hated interloper. But it would be so nice to have someone love me and make me theirs.
After a minute or two of casting he let go of me and let me continue to cast on my own. It felt amazing. I was having no trouble keeping fifty feet of line in the air. I was no where near as good as Master David but I was casting better than the guy in the video.
He watched me for a few minutes and then said. "Okay that's enough for today. When you get time practice what I've taught you. Then when you get that down to where it's second nature I'll teach you something else. My guess is that it's just about time for you to get lunch ready, so you better go hide your fishing rod." He paused for a second "Where did you get it anyway."
I turned on him viciously thinking at first that he thought I'd stolen it or got it through nefarious means, "I bought it with my OWN money. Master Woden said I could spend it on ANYTHING I wanted. I saw that all the male Masters had fly rods and it looked like fun." This played to my forte of a CBH aping his Masters.
"I never suggested that you shouldn't have it. But I'll tell you what. I'm not going to say anything to Master. If you want him to know you can tell him. But that's up to you..."
"Thank you Master David." I replied quietly. He hadn't been accusing me and he was willing to keep my secrets. This gave me a lot to think about as I carried my rod back to the shed. Why did I have to hate Master David. It was obvious that he wanted to be my friend. He was the only one that seemed to know that I was much more than I let on.
I thought back to when he was holding me and his boner was riding my ass crack. What would it be like if he took me like he took Beau? If it was anybody else I would love to give myself to them. But this was my hated enemy. Or was he. Did he have to be?
There was a little bit of time before I needed to go and help Chef get lunch ready. Besides that fat ass could get things started without me. Especially since I did his work nearly all the time. He would never dare to turn me in for not helping. He'd be the one that would get exposed if he ever did.
So I went up to my room to do my favorite thing, masturbate. I went into my bathroom and grabbed a large bath towel, I took the bottle of "Gun Oil" out of my night stand. It was my favorite lube and since the time that Master Woden gave me my first tube of it I'd been buying it by the quart. I pumped some Gun Oil onto my hand and lay on my back on my towel. My cock was only semi hard from all the distraction. I gripped my cock in my hand and coated it liberally with the lube.
I had been thinking about what had gone on with Master David earlier. I was really confused. I hated him or at least I thought I hated him. But he made it so fucking hard to hate him. Since the casting lesson he'd been all I'd been able to think about. In my mind I could still feel him holding me firmly and possessively as he guided my arm through the motions of the cast. I'd been able to feel his boner up against my butt when he was teaching me.
I thought about how nice it could be if I didn't have to hate him. What would it be like to be friends with him like he claimed he wanted. I'd often fantasized about being taken by Master Woden but I'd never thought about being taken by Master David when I stroked.
I thought back to when he was holding me and we both got hard. What if things had gone differently...
I could feel Master David's rigid member rubbing up and down my ass crack as we whipped the line back and forth. All I could think about was how close his cock was to my asshole. Just the thought of it gave me a hard-on. His right arm was guiding my right arm through the casting motion. His left arm was wrapped around my waist, his hand resting on my belly.
But slowly his hand slid down my belly. He pulled my shirt out of my shorts and slid his hand under it. His hand traced it's way down my treasure trail until it met with the base of my cock. He rubbed his cheek affectionately against mine. Then his hand gripped my erection and ran from the base to the tip. I shuddered from the stimulation. It had been too long since someone else had stroked my cock. I stopped casting and reeled in the line before setting the rod on the ground.
"I think you're really sexy." He whispered in my ear as he guided me to an opening in some shrubs where we would have a little privacy. His hand was still around my boner. When we got there he used his right hand to pull my shirt up over my head. I lifted my arms over my head so he could remove it. He put his right arm across my chest and started to nibble on my earlobe. Soon his hand was lightly pinching my nipple as he seduced me. And I was more than willing.
He unbuttoned my shorts and they fell to the ground. He pulled my briefs over my hips and let them fall to the ground to form a heap on top of my shorts. Instinctively I stepped out of them.
Without being asked I reached behind me and unbuttoned his shorts and pushed them and his briefs down over his hips. As I was doing this David stuck his middle finger in his mouth to moisten it and then reached down and massaged my virgin pucker with his moistened finger. I moaned quietly as the tip of his finger penetrated me where nothing had ever been before, instinctively I clenched down to repel the invading digit.
"Just relax." He whispered in my ear as he circled my asshole with his fingertip. It felt so good as he continued to sensuously rub my chest and belly with his left hand. His mouth was still up by my ear and he started to nibble on my earlobe again. I pushed back against him as he brought the tip of his finger back to the center of my pucker.
He was a bit sweaty from the warm day and the exertion of casting. But it smelled manly and virile, fresh sweat not the stale foul odoriferous stench of day old BO. It made me even harder and even more determined to get fucked. I consciously opened up for him and the tip of his finger slipped into me. Slowly and gently he entered me the whole way. I could feel his manhood sliding up and down my ass crack while he fingered me. It was sliding easily as pre just oozed out of his piss slit, doing just what it was supposed to do.
He pulled his finger out. I didn't even think about it before I cried out in a choked whisper, "No! Don't stop!"
"Just relax. I know what you need." He replied. I realized he was coating his fingers in the copious pre that was smeared all over my crack. It only took a few seconds until his fingers were back at my asshole, but this time there were two invaders. He worked them into me until he found my prostate. My dick jumped as he worked it over.
He pulled me close to him with his left arm around my chest. I felt his fingers pull out of me. He bent his knees, grabbed his manhood and guided it to my still loose hole. I felt the tip slip in as he took my virginity. It hurt a little bit, but I knew from my sex education videos that it would hurt at first and then it would start to feel good. He paused for a minute then straightened his knees and his cock slowly slipped the rest of the way in. He kept his left arm around my chest and moved his right hand to caress my cock and to keep me close to him. He sucked the skin on my neck into his mouth to mark me as his conquest as he started to thrust in and out of me.
For the first time in my life someone was in me, making love to me. He was being gentle at first. But soon his thrusting became more and more urgent. The actions of a man trying to make me his boy. And I let him...
I could sense his urgency as he got closer and closer to the edge. He was jamming it into me deeper and deeper, grunting with each lusty thrust. He started to stroke my cock in time with his thrusting. His cock drove into me where no one had ever been and he held it there.
"Yes! How does it feel to be my boy?" He cried out as his cock swelled even more, then started pulsing as he shot his load deep in my virgin body.
"Aaarrgh!" I said as I came in real life all over my chest. Thick rope after thick rope of cum splashed over my body as I had one of the most intense orgasms of my life. I was gasping for breath when I finally came down from it.
As I lay there recovering from that mind blowing orgasm I contemplated what had just happened. I was so confused about what had just happened. I've known from the first time that I fooled around with Ralph that I wanted to give myself to somebody. Since the dog gods came down to save me it had always been them that I fantasized about. But it was looking more and more like I would never be considered worthy of being one of their pets. Maybe the stigma of being a CBH was just too great.
I also had ABSOLUTELY no interest in any of my classmates. The average CBH even freaked me out. None of them seemed to have any interest in sex anyway.
Which left the possibility of the ferals. All of them had Shep masters but they didn't seem to mind if their pets messed around with other humans. And I was often in close proximity with Mater David, and he was one of my Masters as I had been reminded often. I had chosen to hate him because he showed me how badly I'd fucked up, but did I really have to hate him?
He really seemed to want to be my friend, despite how shitty I'd treated him. I wondered what it would be like to actually have a friend. I'd never had a friend unless you count my imaginary friend. Part of me really wanted Master David to be my friend. But part of me could not forgive him for showing me how incredibly stupid I'd been.
But there wasn't much time to dwell on it and sort it out. There was still a little time before I needed to help Chef with lunch so I went down to the kennel to play with Flame for a little while before I had to help with lunch. I took him out of the kennel run and walked out into the yard, Flame running at my heels. He attacked my ankles as we walked, diving in to bite my socks and shake his head in mock viciousness. I walked to the shade of an old oak tree and lay on my back.
Of course Flame came over to my face and started licking it with gentle little puppy kisses. I picked him up and set him on my chest where he could still lick my face. He alternated between licking my face and biting my hair. I was rubbing his back as his tongue was going a hundred miles an hour, when I heard someone clear their throat. I arose in a panic, picking up Flame as I did. I was worried that playing with and showing affection to the puppy in front of Master Woden would arouse too much suspicion.
"Relax Gofer. We were just coming out to see Flame." Master Woden said.
"Gunnar said I should play with him Master. I was just doing what he told me to do." I replied defensively.
Master Woden and Master David shared a look at each other and both appeared to be suppressing a laugh. My anger was all directed at Master David for my discomfort and embarrassment. "Well if he told you to play with him I guess that's alright then." Master said with his bark-like laugh. "Maybe we should all play with him." He said taking the puppy from me.
He held it up to his nose and Flame nipped him playfully on the tip of the nose. He yelped in surprise and then turned him on his back and vigorously rubbed his belly. Flame kicked his leg in response. Master David laughed, but it must have been an inside joke because Master Woden replied with a reply of, "Don't even go there..."
We all played with the puppy, but it was obvious that he liked me more than either of them. We played with Flame until he decided he'd had enough and lay exhausted at my feet. "Master Woden I think he's tired out. Is it alright for me to put him back in his run so he can nap?" I asked.
"Sure. Besides it's almost time for you to go "help" Chef with lunch." Master said the emphasis on "help". My Master knew or guessed how much of the work I was doing. Maybe I wasn't hiding myself as well as I thought I was. Both Master Woden and Mistress Freyja seemed to realize or guess at how much of it I was actually doing.
Nothing interesting happened the rest of the day and when I went to bed I didn't even try to put Flame in his kennel for the night. I just let him up on the bed with me. He curled up next to my chest and we fell asleep together.
The next morning after breakfast everyone went about their business as I cleaned up. The pups and Mistress Freyja went back over to Loki's house to continue the Beta testing of the game. I knew from looking at Master Woden's calendar that he had meetings all morning. I had no idea what Master David was up to but I really didn't care. I was more interested in taking Flame out into the yard to play with him. I had tired him out and was putting him in the outside kennel run when my cell phone rang. I looked at the caller ID and to my surprise it was Master David. He hardly ever called me.
I clicked the button to pick up the call. "Grab your fly rod and meet me in the garage." Was all he said.
"Yes Master David." I replied assuming that he was going to give me another lesson.
I went out to the shed and grabbed my gear. I didn't even bother to put it together, I just hurried to the garage. "I'm here like you told me Master David." I tried to hide my eagerness when I addressed him.
"OK. Now I need you to get a cooler and a couple of bags of ice. I know you know where to get that."
"Yes Master David." I said. I got in a golf cart and drove it to the storage building that had the coolers and the ice maker. I grabbed a cooler and filled a few bags with ice. It only took me a few minutes until I was back at the garage.
As I was heading back James was just bringing the limo around. He backed it up to the garage and opened the trunk for Master David. He was putting all of our gear in as I drove up with the golf cart. When I got there Master David helped me put the ice chest into the trunk. I still had no idea of what he had planned
"Well Gofer you're coming fishing with me so I can practice teaching again." He informed me.
"But I can't leave! What if Master Woden or Mistress Freyja need me to get them anything." I cried out afraid that I would be disobeying my other Masters to please this one.
"I've already spoken to them. Master knows you're gonna be with me. He said it was OK." Master David replied. Then he ordered "Get in the limo." He pointed at the door that James was holding open. He directed me to the seat that was facing the rear and he got into the one that was directly across from me.
"So how's the puppy doing?" He asked.
"He's doing fine. He followed me all over the kitchen when I was making breakfast. He's out in the outside run like Gunnar said he should be." I rambled on excitedly until I realized what I was doing. But did I really need to be so guarded around Master David? I'd already let him see so much of what I hadn't shown my other Masters.
"How did you get him to be quiet overnight?" He asked with a knowing smirk.
"I had to take him out of the crate so he wouldn't keep the Masters up all night." I said glaring at him in defiance.
"How considerate. It wouldn't have kept me up after Master pumped me full of 'effects'." He said and immediately my hatred reappeared in full force. We rode in silence for a few minutes.
"So have you ever gone fishing before." He asked.
"No. Master Woden promised me that he would take me some day. But that was before you came to live here." Again my hatred flared for him reminding me of Master Woden's broken promise. And his role in me not getting to go.
"Well just think. When he gets the time to take you fishing you'll already know how." He said in an upbeat fashion, but I sat there sullenly looking out the window.
Well at least until we got to the lake and pulled onto the road that circled it. I immediately perked up. I'd seen pictures in books and videos of lakes but it was nothing like seeing the real thing. It was beautiful! There were birds, and reeds, cattails and lily pads. Maybe I'd even see a frog...
"Have you ever been to a lake before?" He asked.
"No Master." I said but couldn't pull my eyes away from the window to look at him "I spent my whole life inside the 'Collective School' and inside the grounds at Master's house. The only time I've been out was when Master Woden brought me home. And I didn't look out the windows much that time."
James parked the limo and I reached for the handle before I remembered that James was supposed to open the door for us. I was so excited that I hopped out of the door before Master David did, which was a breach of etiquette. A Master should exit first, but he just smiled and waved me out.
When we got the stuff out to the trunk Master David handed James a rod and said, "I brought this rod for you to use while we're here."
"Sir I'm supposed to be keeping an eye on you two. I'm on duty." James replied.
"There's no one else here. I think you can keep an eye on us while you fish. I promise we won't try to run away." He said with a bit of a laugh. "And I feel a bit uncomfortable having you call me Sir."
"I'm the driver slash body guard for Woden's entire family, and I am well aware that Woden considers you part of his family. You're technically one my employers. So the 'Sir' is appropriate. But thanks for letting me fish. It will make the time pass faster."
I wasn't paying too much attention to their interplay. I was busy putting my rod together eager to get out and try fishing. Master David gave me some leader material and I tied it on with a nail knot like Master David had done. Let him wonder how I knew how to tie one after watching it just one time. I'd actually learned how to tie it from the video.
He picked up his fly box, opened it and showed me what we would be using. "These are the popping bugs I tied last night." He handed me a black popper with chartreuse and white feathers and rubber legs. "Let me show you how to tie it on."
He was using the same knot, a uni knot like the guy on the video so I was tying it on nearly as fast as he was. We both grabbed our rods and walked down to the bank. As we neared the bank a big bullfrog jumped off the bank and dove into the water.
"THAT WAS A FROG!" I cried out in surprise and excitement. I was completely out of character and for a moment I didn't even care.
"Yeah that was a frog. There are tons of them in this lake. Can't you hear them?" He asked.
"I don't know what a frog sounds like. I've never heard one before." I said with a little embarrassment.
He made a sound. "That's what they sound like."
"They're all over the place." I cried out. I had no idea that there were so many frogs in the whole world. I mean I'd never seen one before. I'd seen toads around the grounds but they didn't seem as interesting as frogs.
"Yeah they aren't rare." he said as he waded out into the water.
"Do we have to go into the water." I asked nervously.
"Don't worry I 'm sure that it's shallow in this end of the lake. Besides I can swim well enough to save you if I need to." IU looked at him dubiously and wondered if he would really save me if I was drowning. Then I was a bit ashamed of myself for thinking that way. He had shown time and again that he didn't hate me.
"Watch this!" He said and effortlessly shot a cast out right beside a patch of lily pads. It sat there for a moment until the water was completely still. He twitched it gently and let it set again. On the second twitch the water exploded and I jumped involuntarily. He set the hook just like the guy on the video and reeled the gillie in. He took it off of the hook and put him into the fish basket.
"Why don't you try it now?" He asked.
"Okay Master." I replied. It took me several more false casts than it took Master David but I managed to get my fly fairly close to a lily pad. I worked the popper like he and the video had both taught me and on the third twitch a bluegill slammed into my popper. I reflexively jerked the rod and yelled out with unbridled excitement, "I'VE GOT HIM!" I reeled him in and grabbed it to take it off the hook only to get jabbed by one of the spines. "OWWW!" I cried letting go of the fish.
Master David grabbed the line that fortunately still had the fish on it and said, "If you grab them from the front and slide your hand down their back it locks the spines down so you don't get jabbed. Then you can use your hemostats to take the hook out." He said demonstrating it and then depositing the fish into the basket.
I didn't even ask if I could fish again I just cast out again and after half a dozen twitches I got another hit. This time I landed it and removed the hook without getting poked. I held it up in the light and took a close look at it. The colors were beautiful, the scales looked like little jewels covering the entire fish. Then I put it into the fish basket.
"Are you having fun?" He asked with a big grin on his face.
I was tempted to answer him in the typical CBH manner, but he deserved better than that for taking me fishing. "Yes Master." I said honestly.
He put his arm around my shoulder. "When we're doing things like this alone together you don't have to call me Master. We can pretend like we're just friends..."
I looked at him inquisitively but the reply stuck in my throat. He didn't want to pretend like we were friends, he wanted to be my friend. But that was too big of a leap for me to make right now.
When we had a hundred fish in the basket, Master David told me, "That's all we're allowed to keep today." I couldn't hide my disappointment. Then he grinned at me and put a finger to his lips signaling me to be quiet, and then signaled me to follow. He stopped and I finally realized what he had been stalking. A large bull frog was sitting right at the shore. He dangled his popping bug in front of it. All of a sudden the frog jumped and grabbed the bug. The hook went through the upper lip and he swung the struggling frog toward us. He grabbed it by the waist and took the hook out of him. Then he held it up for me to see.
"Wow. A real frog." I said completely forgetting to stay in character.
"Go ahead and touch it." He said.
I reached out uncertainly and touched it. It was cold and slippery. "Can we keep it?" I asked with longing.
"We'll take it home and set up a terrarium for it." He told me.
Then to my surprise David started showing me all the neat stuff that lived in the lake. The first thing he showed me was a tube of sticks that was crawling across the bottom. He picked it up and showed me that it was a worm-like creature called a caddis fly that had built a shelter around it by gluing sticks and stuff around it for protection. He showed me mayfly nymphs and even dragon fly nymphs. He showed me their strange mouth that was hinged and could shoot out and catch small fish. There were also snails and bluegill fry on the bottom too.
In the next cove he spotted a blue heron and we crept up on it. It was HUGE. "Watch how it fishes with it's sharp beak." He whispered in my ear as he put his arm over my shoulder. I watched as the heron stood completely still, watching the water. All of a sudden it's long neck uncoiled and it's head shot into the water, only to come up with a bluegill. It flipped it around in it's beak until it could swallow it head first.
But the most amazing thing we saw was when David pointed out a large dark brown bird with a white head and tail soaring above the lake. "That's a bald eagle." He said. It was huge and beautiful as it soared on motionless wings. It folded it's wings and dove toward the surface of the lake, it's talons extended in front of it as it neared the surface of the lake. It hit the water with just it's talons and snatched a fish out of the water before using those huge wings to power back up in the air. The fish was locked in a death grip as it flew back to it's nest. We could see three small chick heads in the nest.
I'd just about forgotten that James was here. But at that moment he came up to Master David and said, "It's about time we start heading back Sir. Woden said he wanted me back in about 4 hours."
"Okay James. We've already caught our limit." Master David said as we poured the fish in the cooler and poured the bags of ice over them. We took off our shoes and socks and put them in a plastic bag. Well all of them except one of Master David's. He took the frog out of the fish basket and shoved him head first into one of his socks and tied the end closed. He set it into the plastic bag with the rest of our muddy shoes and socks, but he left the bag open at the top so it could breath.
We wiped our legs down with a towel to get the last of the water and mud off of them. James then opened the door for us and we hopped into the back seats. James got back into the front and started the limo up. I said to Master David, "Thank you Master."
"You're welcome. I hope you enjoyed it." I said.
Why did this need to be so complicated and why did I have to be so conflicted. Living a lie really sucked, but at this point it was too late to turn back. But for some reason I felt a little less threatened by letting myself be seen by Master David than I did by my Dog God masters. "Yes Master. I've never done anything like that before."
He looked at me with a look that I had trouble reading at first, and then I realized it was pity for me. At first I felt angry that he was pitying me. But then I realized he wasn't thinking any less of me, he was just sad for all the bullshit I'd gone through at "The Collective School".
I had so much stuff I wanted to talk about, but I wasn't ready to give up all of my cover as an empty-headed CBH. And not just about what had happened today as far as the fishing and nature study went. I wished I could really talk to him about the whole mess that I was in. Maybe he'd be able to help me. But trust had never been one of my strong points, with good reason.
But to my surprise he crossed over to the seat beside me and put his arm around my shoulder. I tensed a little at first, not sure how much of my facade I needed to keep erected. But finally I said to myself, FUCK IT. I let it go with a sigh and leaned into him. He held me to him affectionately. Which was possibly better than any words could have been.
We got home too soon. It had felt good being held by him. There was something about human contact that was just so wonderful, but unfortunately for me much too rare. Master Woden was there waiting for us as we pulled up to the garage.
James opened the door and as we got out Master Woden asked, "Did you catch anything?"
James opened the trunk and David and I opened the ice chest showing the catch to Master Woden. Master David stated, "We're gonna clean them now and have them for lunch Master. Can James join us since he caught a third of them?"
"Of course he can. We should invite him to eat with us more often. Sometimes I feel bad about how boring your job must be. I don't really travel enough to keep a full time chauffeur busy." He nodded toward James.
"I'll teach Gofer how to filet the fish..." Master David started.
"Master David the little Masters already taught me how to clean bluegill when you were on your fishing trip..." I said, unsure if I should be interrupting a Master. "I can go get the table set up to clean them." I didn't wait for an answer, I just went and got things ready.
I didn't say much when we were cleaning the fish, but he started telling me all about the wildlife at the Firehole. About ten minutes into his monolog, I didn't say anything I was mesmerized by what he was saying, he tried to explain exactly where the Firehole was.
"I know where it is. I read a book about Yellowstone when I was with Ansulm. It was my favorite book." I said before I caught myself.
He continued talking about Yellowstone and all the fantastic beasts there. I hung on his every word. As we cleaned up he concluded with, "Maybe once you get more sure of yourself I can get Master to take us there on a vacation." I wished so much that it could happen, but I was sure that was just the talk of dreams not reality for a CBH.
I went and let Flame out of the kennel run. He barked excitedly as I came over to let him out. He scratched at my bare leg, I hadn't put on clean shoes and socks since the fishing. I picked him up and he licked my nose wiggling in delight in my arms. It felt good to be walking in my bare feet in the grass, with this little bundle of love in my arms. I finally set him down when he was done giving me doggy kisses.
He followed me to my room where I got a new set of clothes including shoes and socks. I got a quick shower and changed into the new clothes so I could start making lunch.
The filets were still in the ice chest when I got back up to the cleaning station. I got out the vacuum sealer and made packages with 10 filets in each of them before bringing them up to the walk in freezer at the house. I had labeled each of them with a sharpie with the date and what they were. I grabbed a dozen eggs, a cup of milk, a box of instant potato flakes and a ten pound bag of potatoes. Before I headed back out. I set the supplies on the picnic table and went and got the cooler that had the filets that I was going to use for lunch.
Chef came out and I told him all the plates bowls and utensils we would need and he walked up to the house to gather them all up.
I went into the shed and got the turkey fryer and got a big slab of lard out of the same freezer that we kept the ice. I put the fryer on one of the picnic tables. I usually just cooked with it on the ground, but with Flame running all over the place it would just be too dangerous for him. I put the lard in it and put the heat on medium. I cut five pounds of potatoes into French fries and put them into the melting lard.
Chef had just got back with all of the utensils. We could finally started to prepare the bluegills. Since there would be twelve of us eating I had kept out 120 filets for lunch. I was going to use the recipe I had seen in the bluegill video. I mixed up an egg wash with half a dozen eggs and split it between two bowls. I gave one to Chef and I kept one. We each got a tray full of instant potato flakes. We double breaded the filets and had done about ten each when Master David Showed up.
"Can you show me how you're cooking the bluegill?" Master David asked.
He'd shown me how to catch them so it was only fair that I taught him my way of cooking them. "Sure Master." I said. "We can use the same bowl, just sit across from me. Grab a filet and hold it by the tail. Dip it in the egg wash first. Make sure you do it on both sides. Then dip it in the potato flakes. Just repeat the process so it is 'double breaded'." I explained.
With the three of us it didn't take long to get all of the filets ready. By now the lard with the french fries in it was almost up to temperature and I removed the basket that had fries in it out of the fryer and set it on a metal platter. They weren't ready yet, they were cooked all the way through but they needed to be put back into the hot oil to get crispy on the outside. I put the thermometer in the lard and put the heat to high.
"Now we wait until the thermometer gets to 375°F." We waited and watched as the temperature rose. As it neared the target temperature I scaled back on the heat and got it to level out at 375° As we were doing this Chef set the table that we were eating at and then went up to the house and told the Masters that lunch would be ready soon. With fish you wanted to make sure everyone was ready when the fish was.
I grabbed the platter of breaded fish and started quickly dropping them one by one into the fryer. "Fish fry surprisingly quickly Master." I said as the filets floated to the top of the lard and turned a golden brown. I fished them out with a wire strainer and placed them on a platter that was covered with paper towels. It only took a couple of minutes for each batch.
When all of them were out I turned the heat up to high and put the fries back in to get them nice and crispy. Master David watched intently. At least I felt less beholden to him. I was giving him something back, which at least saved me a little of my pride.
Everyone started coming out to eat. After I had pulled out the French fries and put them on a second platter, Master David came over to me. He put his arm over my shoulder and said, "Thanks for teaching me how to cook bluegills that way. You're a really good cook. I should have told you long before this."
His arm on my shoulder felt so good. "You're welcome Master." I replied as my face turned red in embarrassment. But then he left to go sit beside Master Woden, and a bit of my jealousy returned...
Later after the evening movie I was in my room working on my Differential Equations module. I heard Master David talking to Master Woden.
"Master did you promise Gofer that you would take him bluegill fishing?" He asked. I moved to the wall and put my ear next to it.
There was a pause and then Master Woden replied, "I forgot all about that. Maybe we can all go early next week."
"I think it would be better if just the two of you went. I think if you spent some time with him that it would be helpful. I think it hurt his feelings that you forgot. You know how he worships you." Master David continued.
"I'm not sure if he has the emotions to feel let down." Master Woden said, which really hurt.
"Trust me I think he does. He's had a really rough life. Until today he'd never really been out of the Collective School or out of our house and yard. He was fascinated by the lake and all the creatures that I just take for granted. Including the frog we brought home. Maybe if you exposed him to more new stuff you might expand his horizons. He has more innate curiosity than you might think."
"Maybe you're right. And that's another thing I love about you. You care about those that can't do anything for you. If more people had been like that mankind might not have fallen so low. Now it's time to show you just how much I love you..."
They started making love in the room next to me and for the first time I didn't feel jealous that Master David was getting the attention, I was just sad that I wasn't the one getting it. He'd gone out of his way to take me fishing and had gone to bat for me with Master Woden when he didn't have to. He had nothing to gain by Master Woden spending time with me and he'd still pushed for it. Maybe he wasn't such a bad guy after all.
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Earth's New Masters https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/earths-new-masters/ In My Wildest Dreams https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/in-my-wildest-dreams/ Wild Horses https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bestiality/wild-horses Runt https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/runt/ Mutt https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/sf-fantasy/mutt Pittsburghese N'at https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/pittsburgese/ Craigslist Bull https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/sf-fantasy/craigslist-bull/ The Trophy Wife https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/sf-fantasy/the-trophy-wife The Initiate https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/the-initiate My Pet Lion https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/my-pet-lion Sasquatch In My Mind https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/sf-fantasy/sasquatch-in-my-mind Reverse Cowboy https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/sf-fantasy/reverse-cowboy Of Dogs And Young Men https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bestiality/of-dogs-and-young-men/ The Oracle https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/historical/the-oracle/ Royal Prerogative https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/historical/royal-prerogative Harry Potter and Firenze https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/celebrity/harry-potter-and-firenze The House Mouse https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/military/the-house-mouse The Jungle Book https://www.nifty.org/nifty/bisexual/celebrity/the-jungle-book In Gods We Thrust https://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/incest/in-gods-we-thrust
If you read any of the others please let me know what you think of them.