Big Mouth by SoftTouch
23 photos; 8:43 video
“Don't you know who I am? You can't do this to me!”
“Yea Geordi, we know who you are, and thanks to your big mouth we who your friends are, and all of the big deals you've been involved in lately, and so does everybody else. That’s why you're here,” an exasperated Red told him.
The man called Geordi had been yelling and screaming ever since Red and Logan had picked him up from the junkyard where he worked. Now Red and Logan each had a whole list of unkind things that they wanted to do to Geordi, but the Boss didn't want the low-level enforcer hurt—yet.
“You guys are going to be in so much trouble! You just wait until I get my hands on you! You know what I do for a living?” Geordi continued to rant while he pulled and struggled against the ropes holding him in the chair.
Finally Red had enough. He grabbed a big old rag from the rag pile and moved toward Geordi.
“What are you going to do with that? You'd better stay away from me!”
Red grabbed a handful of Geordi’s thinning hair and yanked his head back. Then he used three fingers of his other hand to stuff the thickest part of the rag deep into the squirming Geordi’s mouth. Then he tied the two ends of the rag as tight as he could behind Geordi’s neck.
Geordi didn't like that at all so he began tossing his head like a mad dog and tried to push the rag out of his mouth with his tongue.
Logan, who was just as fed up with Geordi’s antics as Red was, slapped Geordi hard across the head, stunning the big man.
“Don't you get the picture Geordi?” Logan asked as he pulled a wide strip of duct tape loose on the roll. “We don't want to hear it any more!” Then he wrapped the big roll of duct tape around and around Geordi’s head and over his rag-stuffed mouth again and again until poor Geordi was starting to turn red. Then he sealed the end of the tape to Geordi’s face and slapped him again. “Now be quiet!”
Geordi stopped talking, but he was still huffing and puffing through his nose while his beady eyes looked up at Logan and Red and threatened the two men as much as he could.
But Logan and Red ignored those beady eyes as they went into a huddle together.
Geordi kept huffing and puffing while he watched the two men and tried to guess what they were going to do next.
Then the huddle broke up and Red and Logan approached Geordi with more ropes.
Geordi looked at the ropes coming toward him and his eyes got really big and he started shaking his head from side to side and began making begging noises behind the big mouthful of rag. He didn't want to be tied up any more.
Red and Logan smiled. They had finally found something Geordi didn't like. So they each delighted in tying their portion of the ropes tighter and tighter around Geordi’s helpless body until Red saw tears coming into Geordi’s eyes.
“Okay Geordi, we got to make a phone call. You stay put and try not to get yourself in any more trouble,” Red told him.
Geordi watched until Red and Logan had gone out of the house to use the pay phone across the street. Then fear became his driver as he twisted and struggled in the chair. He had to get out of here! He knew who Red and Logan were. They were the guys the Boss called when he wanted a problem to go away, and Geordi didn't want to go away.
So he huffed, and he puffed, and he twisted, and he strained, but the tightly-tied ropes still held him bound to the hard chair. He had to calm down. He had to use his head. So he tried to ignore the way the old rag was swelling up bigger and bigger inside his mouth while he stretched his fingers to work on just one knot.
Just one knot; that was the way to do it. First one knot, and then another knot, and then he would be able to get out of here.
But long before Geordi could work the first knot loose, he heard the sound of laughter coming toward him, and then he looked up to see Red and Logan coming into the room.
“We've got really good news for you Geordi!” Red smiled.
“Yea, the Boss decided that he didn't want you put into a big block of cement or drowned in the river.”
“No he’s such a good-hearted guy that he is going to let you participate in our foreign exchange program. Isn't that good news?”
Geordi sighed with relief. He knew that the Boss really liked him.
“Yea, you see,” Red said real confidentially. “What we do is to put you into one of those old cars, and then we sell you to some gusy overseas .”
“And then,” Logan laughed. “We get to trade you for two tons of nice molasses.”
“You should be honored Geordi, the price of molasses is really high these days. ”
Geordi felt sick to his stomach.
“Should we untie his first?” Logan asked.
“Nah,” Red decided. “Let’s just take him chair and all. Those old cars have pretty big trunks. He should only be in there a week or two anyway.”
THE END
Geordi played by Todd
Photography by Caitiff