The Tape!!!


By Sylvia


Growl, grumble "This is ridiculous. I've heard of punishment in section but this has *got* to be Housekeeping's job."

Operations asked, "Well Sylvia, you didn't have to be in on that raid. You could have used your good sense and declined to participate."

"Yeah right and then what kind of a comrade would that make me?"

"Well, what's more important to you, being a pal or acting like the operative you're supposed to be?"

"Guess."

"That's what I thought so get to work."

Sylvia went into the tower with her hands full of cleaning supplies and trash bags. She pauses and looks around and thinks, "ummm, this isn'tso bad. I'll just start with the window." After looking around for the control panel and finding it, she presses the button to make it dark. As she is cleaning the window, it becomes apparent that the cleaning solution is making the dark ability of the window disappear. She thinks, "how can this be, it's electronic?"

Sylvia started to panic when the window's dark ability disappeared. "Oh no, now what am I going to do? Well, I'll just have to finish up in here and then try to figure out what to do about it."

She got the trash bags out and went around and picked up the junk laying around. "Oh ho, what's this?" She bent over and picked up what looked like a very small PDA. "ummmmm," she thought, "I wonder what's on this." She put down the trash bag and walked over to the panel and inserted the miniature PDA in the smallest slot. Just as she was about to see what was on it, her cell phone rang. "Sylvia here."

"Hi there, how are you doing in there and how long do you think it will take you to finish up?" It was Madeline and she actually sounded cheerful.

"I don't know, maybe an hour, why?"

"I want to talk to you so come to come to my office as soon as you're finished in there."

"Oh alright."

"Good, don't dawdle."

They hung up and Sylvia looked around and decided that it was a good thing this was not too messy. She hustled and got it all done with about 20 minutes to spare. So she went back to the panel and looked at the intel on the PDA. "Choke, what the" She couldn't believe her eyes, the things she was seeing totally shocked her. "Whoa, I better get out of here and go see what Madeline wants." She took the little PDA with her stuffing it in her waist band.

"Alright Madeline here I am what do you want?"

"I've been thinking about upgrading you to op level 4. You've been showing some very good numbers for the last few months and I think it's time. What do think, are you ready?"

"Ready? Is an over ripe banana ready to make banana bread? I've been ready Madeline and have been wondering why you haven't done this a long time ago."

"Good. Then consider yourself level 4. That means of course that you will have to bring certain things to my attention you may have felt in the past that were not necessarily important. You won't be able to take part in these little, ummm what shall I call them, practical jokes."

"You mean that's the only stipulation?"

"For now. Maybe you had better go on and check in with Operations and tell him you've finished cleaning the tower."

"Yeah, right, I will."

Sylvia headed out of Madeline's office and went to Operations office. "Hello, Operations. I'm through in the tower. Can I go now?"

"In a minute Sylvia, just wait right there will you." With a sigh she settled into a comfortable stance and waited. After 6 or 7 minutes he finally looked up and asked her "Did you find anything in the tower that should be turned in?"

"Turned in, like what?"

"Well sometimes I get forgetful about what I've been doing and leave things laying around that shouldn't be left in the open."

"Oh sure, like I believe that you would actually do that!"

"So you didn't find anything?"

"No."

"Okay, you can go."

With a big feeling of relief she left Operations office and headed for the door. "I just don't know what I'm going to do with this PDA." she thought. Outside she felt someone else's presence and turned to see who it was.

It was Walter, "Hi Sylvia, how ya doin'?"

"I'm doing fine now that I'm out of the tower. Oh by the way Walter, when I washed the window in the tower, it erased the dark ability. Can that be fixed?"

"Oh no, don't tell me you used window cleaner on it?"

"Well yeah, what does that mean?"

"I'll have to go and demagnetize it again. This happened with the last house keeper and it was a real pain."

"Geeez Walter, I'm sorry, I didn't know."

"Yeah, I figured that, it's okay pumpkin I'll take care of it."

"Thanks Walter."

She headed home thinking, about seeing Birkoff in the tower with Madeline doing things that, well, she didn't think Birkoff knew about. Madeline was handcuffed to the bed and Birkoff had a whip and was lashing it out at her just missing her by the tiniest margin while Operations sat comfortably in a chair and watched. Who would have ever thought that Madeline would be that kinky and with Birkoff. "Okay, now what should I do with this? I think I will just hang onto it for now in case I need to protect myself somehow."

This story ©copyright Sylvia, 1999


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