The Goddaughter Part 2 - " Melissa Shows who's Boss/Tony's Humiliating Return by femavenger - femavenger@hotmail.com Melissa expands her power as Family crime boss and imprisons her brother The entire underworld was stunned at the news that Melissa Gilberti had taken over the Gilberti Crime Family. Those that knew her remembered her as the sweet smiling daughter of the feared underworld boss Don Vincent Gilberti. In their world, women were subservient to men in every way. The idea of women being involved in such an aggressive criminal enterprise was unthinkable, and the thought that they would be taking orders from a woman young enough to be their daughter was something that just weeks before would be totally incomprehensible. However, Melissa had taken control with such swiftness and ease that her shell-shocked underlings, and rivals, had no choice but to accept it. In the first couple of months in power, she repelled all challenges to her Family. Several attempts were made to encroach upon the Gilberti turf, but the appearance of several dozen corpses attested to the failure of those attempts and the consequences of challenging the beautiful, young, tough and vicious woman. One loanshark who had worked for the Gilberti Family made the mistake of trying to switch his allegiance to the Fabrizi Family, Melissa's most powerful rivals, and soon found himself "sleeping with the fishes" by the docks that he once controlled. In consolidating her power, Melissa made use of her father's Consigliore, Dominic Palermo. The fat, jolly but vicious Palermo was desperately eager to please his new boss, who was also his Goddaughter. Melissa had found out that her "Uncle Dominic" had gone along with Tony's plan to kill Melissa, supposedly for being a danger to the security of the Family. But Melissa, who had been secretly bugging the office, first her grandfather's and then her father's, since she watenterhooksgirl, listened in on the conversation. Palermo had no idea how Melissa had found out, but once he got word of the massacre at the warehouse, he realized what a terrible mistake he had made. In order to save his life, and under the threat of Melissa having his own granddaughter killed (something that she would never actually do, though he didn't know it), he pledged his undying support for Donna Melissa. She loved keeping the old man on tenterhooks, ordering him around and enjoying his responses of "Yes, Goddaughter! As you wish, Goddaughter!" He was nearly three times as old as her, and Melissa got a kick out of knowing how difficult it must have been for him, while at the same time knowing that he had no choice but to obey her orders. Palermo was a proud man of the old school, and he was ashamed at how obsequious he had become to her. The idea of women having any kind of power in organized crime Families had been unheard of, and he still couldn't believe that not only was his Goddaughter now his boss, but that his life was in her hands! Because of this, he served her as faithfully as he had her father and grandfather before her. Palermo was grateful for every opportunity to show Melissa how loyal and helpful he could be, hoping that this would extend his life. However, Melissa had decided, even before taking power, that she would keep Palermo around only for as long as he was useful. As soon as she found a suitable replacement, she would have him eliminated. The press was fascinated with the idea of a female Mafia boss, especially one as photogenic and glamorous as Melissa. Women across America, especially professional women, were excited and intrigued by the prospect of a woman beating all those tough men at their own game. Even if they were totally law-abiding women themselves, they found themselves rooting for Melissa and got satisfaction when reading about her successes. Melissa could afford to be bold because of the political and legal protection that she had. This was what empowered her father and grandfather before her, and she seemed to have even better instincts than they did. She was a lawyer herself, and whenever she was asked about the Gilberti Crime Family she would just smile and explain that she was just a young attorney looking after her Family's enterprises. The Gilberti Family had built up plenty of legitimate businesses, some of which were used as fronts for their criminal activity and others that they simply owned to make money with. Melissa's family secretly owned controlling interests in a local bank, which made money laundering easy, as well as the area's local newspaper, along with many other enterprises. And in the intervening weeks since she took control of the Family, she met personally with dozens of judges, state legislators, congressmen and two Senators, all of whom were both awed and in fear of her. She astounded them with her detailed knowledge of their relationship with the Gilberti Family - including what the Family had done for them and in many instances what damaging information she had on them. These meetings all ended with the "powerful" man kissing Melissa's hand and pledging their continued loyalty and servitude to the Gilberti Family, and to her personally. In her first month after taking control of the Family, Melissa started frequenting clubs and restaurants. There were always paparazzi and television cameramen around and she never shrunk from them. Like anyone else, their knees buckled when she flashed her dazzling smile at them. The fact that she could be so bold and get away with it accelerated her mystique and the public's fascination with her. One night at the club, she was asked by a loudmouthed reporter how her brother Tony was doing.  "My poor brother is recovering from his accident and will be returning from the hospital soon.!" Melissa responded with flippant cheerfulness. "The doctor says that he'll never be the same man he once was, but I will see to it that the Family takes care of him. He won't have to worry about a thing the rest of his life!" In actuality, and everyone knew it, Tony's misfortune was no "accident" (read "The Goddaughter Part 1). Melissa herself had blown her big brother's legs off at the knee, and one of his arms at the elbow. Tony had expected to take over his father's Family, since he was male and 8 years older than Melissa. And when Melissa said that Tony would be "taken care of", it certainly wasn't to his advantage! Everyone knew this, but no one could, or would, stop her from punishing her brother to her heart's content.  At the moment that Melissa was partying in the clubs and boldly mocking her brother's misfortune, Tony was "recovering" after surgery in a private hospital room where he was attended to by Dr. Meredith Keaton, a tall, beautiful blonde, had been raped by Tony when they were teenagers. Don Vincent used his power to get his son off the hook, but Melissa befriended Meredith and earned her loyalty. Meredith had been present at the scene where Tony's henchmen, who were supposed to kill Melissa, were slaughtered, and she had sewn up Tony's legs and arm after Melissa had destroyed them. Meredith was now a well respected physician, and no one imagined that she would be using her medical skills to torture and even further disable her one-time rapist. However, although she was correctly regarded as a brilliant surgeon, what she had done to Tony was not exactly in conformity with the hippocratic oath. First, she had happily agreed to her role in Tony's partial dismemberment, and then she had asked Melissa if she could perform some "special surgery" on Tony to avenge the rape. Meredith declined to give any details, saying that she wanted to surprise Melissa, who happily agreed. There was nothing that her brother didn't deserve, and though she was smart enough not to trust too many people, she had excellent instincts and trusted Dr. Keaton implicitly.  Dr. Keaton calmly smoked a cigarette as she waited for Tony's anesthesia to wear off. She felt a rush of excitement as he started to stir awake. A beautiful, young, smoking doctor was just one of the anomalies that were part of Meredith's being. Her cheerful, smiling face concealed her mean streak. And though she used her talents to heal her other patients, she was using her medical knowledge to keep Tony in a constant state of misery and to insure his permanent disability. Tony's body ached all over. He even had "phantom pain", his mind being fooled as he "felt" pain in the legs and arm that he no longer had. But what worried Tony even more was the dull ache around his crotch area. In his daze, Tony tried to reposition himself on the bed so that he could figure out the source of the crotch discomfort when suddenly a sharp pain shot up his balls. Dr. Keaton, who had been watching her patient-victim with intensity and amusement, chuckled to herself. Tony may have been confused, but Meredith knew the cause of Tony's discomfort, as she had caused it with her surgery. Now wide awake from the pain, Tony sensed that his entire crotch area was covered. Indeed, it was thickly covered with bandages and tape, with a tube inserted in his urethra to take the urine out of his body. The bandages would stay taped on until Tony was returned back home to his sister. Dr. Keaton wanted the specifics of what she had done to remain a surprise for him until she could show Melissa her handiwork.  Tony had been a big, bullying, macho male his whole life. He had been 6'4" tall before his sister had blown off his legs, and he had always been a brutal fighter. Now he lay helpless before his former victim and current tormentress. With a gloating smile, Dr. Keaton showed Tony some newspaper articles, portraying her as a heroine, while she modestly answered that she was just doing what any doctor would do if they had been "fortuitous" enough to get lost in an industrial park just as a shooting was going on. Of course, Tony knew the real story, the one the newspapers didn't report.  "Everyone thinks that I'm a great hero for saving your life!" Dr. Keaton purred with an ironic giggle. "And it did take a skilled surgeon like me to have kept you alive. But the only reason that I want you alive is so that you will be able to suffer for a long time! And as your physician, I will take a leading part in this. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Your sister wants you back at the compound as soon as possible, so we will start your physical therapy tomorrow!" Meredith then showed Tony some more newspaper articles. With despair, he read about his sister's exploits as she solidified her hold over the Gilberti crime Family and dealt harshly with any other crime Family that tried to encroach upon Gilberti territory. The papers seemed to be amused at the thought of an organized crime "Donna" - the first female Don - and were mesmerized by her glamorous and sexy image. This as much as any other factor was helping her to establish herself as a fearsome figure to be reckoned with. His face got red as he realized the kid sister that had outfought him for control of the Family not only wasn't in any legal danger, she was being treated by the press as a folk hero!  In frustration, Tony looked up at the doctor and tried to push himself up with his left hand, on his only remaining intact limb. But he was so weakened by the shooting and the surgery that this simple act robbed him of so much energy that he fell back to the bed. Suddenly another pain shot up through his crotch. He let out a sharp cry that dissolved into a pathetic croak as mercifully he passed out, fading back into unconsciousness. The last thing he saw was the beautiful but menacing face of Dr. Meredith Keaton as she smiled down with satisfaction at him. "Yes, Tony, get your rest now while you can!" Dr. Keaton chuckled. "Tomorrow we start preparing you for the rest of your miserable life!" While the "Good Doctor" was putting Tony through his "therapy" sessions, Melissa was making plans for her brother's return to the compound. She had always been proud of her keen instinct for reading people. She had seen it in herself while listening to the tapes she had made of her father and grandfather as she was growing up, and she had used it well as she seized and asserted control of her Family. She knew that she was taking a chance, but she was confident in her judgment, so she asked her sister-in-law, Lisa, Tony's wife, to come to the office for a talk. Melissa had always liked Lisa, and adored Lisa's 14 year-old daughter Laurie. In fact it was with annoyance that Tony agreed to Lisa's request that Melissa become Laurie's godmother. Still, Lisa was nervous as she was ushered into Melissa's office for the meeting. She was concerned that the revenge Melissa was taking against her brother would spill over to the rest of the family. Lisa needn't have worried. The first thing Melissa did was assure Lisa that a share of the Family income would now be paid directly to her, and that she had set up a trust fund for Laurie's education. "After all, it's the least I can do for my goddaughter!" she proclaimed. Sensing relief on Lisa's face, Melissa gave her a reassuring hug. "Not only will you live prosperously," Melissa said, "but I think that we can all get lots of satisfaction and fun now that I control the Gilberti Family!"  Looking at Melissa with a quizzical smile, Lisa sat back down to hear what her husband's sister had in mind. "Now that Tony is no longer a danger to you, Lisa, you can tell me. Do you really love him? Is he a good father to Laurie?"  Melissa's question set off a flood of tears and, unfortunately, a predictable answer. As much of a bully as Tony had always been to his little sister, he had behaved even worse to his wife once he was the head of his own household. He lost his temper quickly and easily, and this almost always led to beatings. "It got to a point where I was hoping that all he would do was bitch-slap me and not punch me out! And it's not just me. He slaps around Laurie too! Imagine that, to his own daughter!" Melissa swelled with fury. "You are wrong about one thing, Lisa. You said he 'slaps' Laurie. "Slapped", in the past tense, is correct. I assure you that Tony will never slap you again, and if anything, you and Laurie will be doing the slapping from now on!" Lisa listened in astonishment to Melissa's plan. When asked if she thought Laurie would be interested in participating in the plan, Lisa's eyes lit up in a way that Melissa hadn't seen since she had married Tony. Only now did she realize the constant terror that her sister in law and niece had endured. "Oh, Yes Melissa, Laurie HATES Tony!" Lisa exclaimed. "She has been scared to death of him her whole life! She is just going to LOVE your idea!" After the meeting Melissa arranged for the work to be done to implement her plan. She was told that it could be finished in three weeks. "Three weeks!" chirped Melissa to Dr. Meredith Keaton. "That's when everything will be ready for him! Do you think that you will have him ready for his return by then?" Meredith chuckled. "Your brother is a slow learner, so I will probably have to continue his therapy even after he returns. With your help, of course! And Tony's wife and daughter too! But three weeks should be enough time to get him ambulatory enough to go home, and from what you tell me, his home life will be exactly what that monster deserves!"  During the next three weeks, Melissa had two cages built, one in Tony's basement and one in her own office. While they were at it, a thought occurred to Melissa. The basement of the main mansion had been used by her father and grandfather as a wine cellar. While picking out a bottle for dinner one night, the thought came to her that if anyone were locked down there, they would never be found. A rush of excitement filled Melissa's body as the idea came to her. She would have her workers build her a prison in the wine cellar! Her own personal prison, with six separate cells, with iron bars and sliding doors! Since her construction workers, provided free by a grateful union that the Gilbertis controlled, were already building similar single occupancy structures for Tony already, she just expanded on those plans for her wine cellar prison. In the years to come, that decision astonished the rest of the underworld and added to the Melissa Gilberti legend as one of the most ruthless mob bosses in the history of organized crime. But for now, Melissa couldn't wait for her brother's return to the compound, under far different circumstances than the last time he had been there, shortly before his kid sister blew his limbs off in her successful battle for control of the Family.  The day finally came, and Melissa watched with amusement on the big television screen in her office as Dr. Keaton pushed the stubby figure of her brother up the steps to her office. Donna Melissa had ordered closed circuit television cameras to be put up all over the compound, so she could keep an eye on all of her surroundings from the comfort of her own home and office. She stretched her long legs across her desk. She heard Meredith give him terse orders as they neared the office. The door opened and with a final shove, the doctor shoved her "patient" into the room. Tony crashed to the floor. "I told you he was a slow learner, Melissa!" crowed Meredith. "He still hasn't learned how to walk that well with his new circumstances! He's going to need lots more physical therapy, and I am looking forward to administering it!" Melissa lit a long, slim Cohiba, savoring the sight before her. Tony was a midget compared to before! Even though it had been her idea to blow off her brother's lower legs, she still got a surprising, jolting thrill when she saw him standing for the first time since the shooting. She had taken two and a half feet off of his height! He had once stood 6'4" tall. Now, thanks to Melissa and Meredith, he was now a mere 3'10"! She stood up and walked in front of him.  All of her life, Tony had towered over her. Now, at 5'11", the once "little sister" stood more than two feet taller than him! The former "big brother" now was now at eye level with her belly button!  "Welcome back home, Shorty!" purred Melissa. Tony's face went red with frustrated fury at what his formerly "little" sister had called him. But like it or not, it was to become her nickname for him.  "It's really fun running the Family, Shorty!" taunted Melissa. "I seem to have a natural instinct for it! I guess I inherited it from Dad and Grandpa. You thought that YOU were the natural successor just because you were the only male heir, but you're to stupid to have been a success! If you had taken over this Family it would have been a disaster. But don't worry, Shorty. I have taken over and set everything straight. The Family's enemies fear me more than they ever feared Dad and Grandpa! I have saved the Family's honor, and we are stronger than ever!" As Tony tried unsuccessfully to hold back his tears, Meredith reached down and hauled Tony up, throwing him into a chair facing his sister. She was eager to show Melissa her cruel medical handiwork.  Deftly, Dr. Keaton unbuckled Tony's short pants and pulled at his shoes. Melissa giggled at the popping sounds it made as they came off, and the pained groans that followed. "As you can see," Dr. Keaton proudly explained, "I bent his kneecaps around so that he could stand on them, since he is missing his feet and legs! Of course they are more sensitive to his feet, but that just makes it more fun for us! I certainly wasn't going to fit him with prosthetic legs, that would defeat the purpose of your blasting off his real ones! So I took molds of his newly configured legs and kneecaps, took molds, and got these shoes made. See, they snap right on and off. They're a perfect fit!" Meredith then demonstrated the procedure several times, causing Tony immense pain in the process. Meredith playfully banged Tony's lame arm, severed at the elbow, and was rewarded with another cry of pain. "What's left of his arm can be useful too! It's super-sensitive, and it's an easy target for all of you whenever you want to give him a little extra hurt!"  Tony wondered what Meredith meant by "all of you". Who else was going to be tormenting him? But before he could develop his thought, Tony was startled as Meredith stood him up on his bare kneecaps on the chair in which he had been sitting. "And now," said the doctor, "I will unveil my masterpiece - my special surgery!" Even though he was the victim of the surgery, Tony was in the dark as to the details of what Dr. Keaton had done to him. His feelings went from dull pain to sharper jolts whenever he moved to quickly, or the wrong way. But he and Melissa were about to find out together. When his pants had come off, Melissa noticed the large bandage around Tony's crotch area. When Meredith first got her friend's blessing to do the "special surgery", but wanted to keep the details a secret, Melissa figured that it had something to do with her brother's groin. After all, Tony had raped Meredith with his tool. But besides that, Tony's penis size was legendary, and he had always been proud of it. Over a foot long, and very thick. It would be the perfect target for Dr. Keaton's surgical skills. But even so, Melissa was unprepared for what she saw. Slowly, Meredith unwound the bandage. Melissa gasped at what she saw. Tony groaned in pain, humiliation and confusion at what he saw.  And Dr. Meredith Keaton, shit-eating grin on her gorgeous face, took it all in with great pride. Tony's balls were as big as before, fat and red. Emerging from under the testicles was his penis. For the first two inches it was as thick as it had been, nearly as thick as Melissa's wrist. But then it suddenly tapered and became a thin, fleshy ribbon for the final 13 inches of its length until it got to the head. The head was its original size, but now that it was at the end of his surgically altered penis, it looked like a portobello mushroom had blossomed from it!  "First," Dr. Keaton proudly explained, as if she were lecturing medical students, "I tightened up his scrotum a bit. You know how plastic surgeons do a 'tummy tuck'? Well, I did a 'testicle tuck'! See?" Meredith snapped her thumb against one of Tony's balls, and he yelped in sudden pain. "Tight as a drum!" That will keep them nice and sensitive, and in a constant swollen state! Of course it will loosen a bit with time, so as his physician, I recommend that I correct this with follow-up surgery every year! This will insure that he can't make any sudden moves, intentionally or unintentionally, without going into agony! He won't be able to sleep for more than an hour or two without the pain waking him up!" Tony looked in horror at Meredith's "handiwork" Melissa moved around the desk to get a better look. "Then," Meredith continued, "I performed a kind of 'liposuction' on his cock to thin it out a little - actually I thinned it out a lot!" she said with a giggle. I got it nice and soft! Then I transplanted the nerves from his severed arm down the length of his penis! Just to add to his pain! I kept his penis head nice and big. I think that you will find it a very convenient handle!"  "Wow, Meredith, this is awesome!" gasped Melissa. "It looks like he can't get an erection!" Meredith chuckled. "Right you are, dear!" she said. "His fucking days are over! The only purpose this thing will have, other than to cause him pain, is to carry his urine from his bladder! The doctor then lifted his soft penis at its midpoint with her finger, and it drooped down comically. "But aside from the tightening, even though he can't get an erection or ejaculate any more, he still has a powerful, though helpless set of balls! And there is no way for him to relieve himself, not even through masturbation! He will be in a state of permanent state of horny frustration for the rest of his life!" Melissa looked at Dr. Keaton with astonishment and admiration. Usually it was others that regarded her in this way, but it took an extraordinary person, such as Meredith, for her to be impressed. She realized that Meredith was more than just a good friend. She was an ally of Melissa's. She had helped Melissa take power, and in the future, Melissa decided, she would make further use of the Doctor's ingenious, diabolical medical skills.  Melissa studied her brother's altered genetalia clinically. "Is his penis head as sensitive as his balls?" she asked. The doctor winked at her. Without waiting for a response, Melissa put the hot coal of her cigar at the tip of the penis, right over the piss-hole. Tony let out a bloodcurdling scream and collapsed onto the chair. Melissa giggled. "Well, Doctor, I guess that answers my question!" she quipped. "I assure you, Melissa, that everything I did was with your brother's permanent agony in mind!" replied Meredith. That's why I decided to keep his testicles on him. First, having a fully functioning pair of testicles with no outlet will be soooo frustrating for him, and second, it will be easy target whenever any of you women feel like giving him a dose of unspeakable agony!" Tony sat sobbing in his chair, feeling awfully sorry for himself. And he was still confused. Again, Dr. Keaton had said "all of you women". Who else, wondered Tony, was in on his punishment?  Melissa realized how fortunate she was to have a friend and ally like Meredith. A brilliant doctor with evil intent, she was probably the only person on earth who hated her brother as much as she did, and had no compunction in using her training in ways not taught in medical school. At that moment, Melissa realized that Meredith was exactly the kind of person that she wanted in her inner circle. She broke the rules, and created her own rules for herself, just as Melissa was doing in her own line of work! But at the same time, she was fiercely loyal to Melissa, and would never be a "loose cannon". Meredith was a great physician who saved lives and healed bodies all the time, but she also had a darker side to satisfy. Poor Tony was the first human victim of this manifestation of her medical knowledge, but Melissa decided that he was only the first. The Family had other enemies, and soon Meredith would have more bodies at her disposal.  A flick of Melissa's thumb snapping against Tony's tight balls brought him more pain, and re-focused his attention on the women. Melissa pointed to the cage in the corner of the office. "You will be spending a great deal of time in there, Shorty, locked up, while you watch me run the organization that you have dreamed of running your entire life but never will! But that's only during office hours. We have made some changes in your home life too! It's time to take a walk to your house so that you can see the rest of your new living situation!"  As Melissa and Meredith roughly escorted Tony down the steps, out of the house and into the Family compound's courtyard, they passed several middle aged men. They had been loyal to his father and until recently he had every reason to expect that they would be loyal servants to him as well. But instead, they nearly bowed as they gave their greetings to "Donna Melissa", while they uneasily looked away from his deformed figure as the trio made their way to Tony's house at the other end of the mall. Tony was used to seeing his wife's eyes fill with apprehension whenever she looked at him. He had been brutal with Lisa since shortly after their marriage, and she had only stayed with him because she was pregnant with Laurie, and afterward in the hopes that Tony would grow up and become a better husband and father. Unfortunately he remained boorish and brutal, and could get away with it because he was the Don's son. Vincent Gilberti had a soft spot for his son, and this was one of his great misjudgments. He allowed Tony to avoid responsibility for his actions, so the women in his house had always been in awful fear of him.  Now, however, Lisa was looking at him differently. With a smile - a predatory, hungry, and extremely unfriendly smile. He was used to seeing fear in her eyes, but now they were glistening with excitement and anticipation. And - most staggeringly for Tony - his wife, at 5'9", once 7 inches shorter than him, now stood a full two feet taller than her husband! Lisa felt a jolt of exhilaration as she looked down at Tony. "Welcome home, Shorty!" she murmured, taking pleasure in the beet-red color that Tony's face was turning. "Although as you will see, there are going to be some major changes in your living arrangements here!" At that moment Tony heard footsteps coming down the stairs. It was Bruno, Melissa's loyal soldier and sometimes lover, and accomplice, along with Dr. Keaton, in crippling Tony and helping Melissa take over the Gilberti Family! Bruno wore a towel around his muscular torso, and nothing else, as he stepped behind Lisa, who sighed as Bruno gently massaged her neck. Obviously, Bruno had been upstairs in Tony's bedroom, with Tony's wife! Melissa pulled Tony's head up by his hair until he was looking up at her. "You know Bruno, don't you brother dear?" she asked with sarcasm. "You never liked him too much did you? You always made fun of him, and you never gave him a chance to rise in the Family. Well, now Tony is a very important person to the Gilberti Family! I have known what a fantastic lover he is since I was 16, so I just HAD to share him with your wife! Lisa had always been faithful to you, even though you treated her like shit!" "Y-You can't do this to me!" cried Tony. This is MY HOUSE!" Melissa chuckled. "Wrong again, brother dear!" As executrix of Daddy's will, I have already awarded ownership of the house to your wife! If you have a problem with that, go to a lawyer, or complain to the cops!" The women laughed at the helplessness in Tony's eyes. Meredith Keaton moved over to Bruno and caressed his bulging biceps. "Yes, Bruno, you have a great reputation, and I can't wait to get some myself! Have you ever been with three women at the same time?" "I'll bet he could handle it, not like my pathetic husband!" chortled Lisa. "Unfortunately Tony, even with his huge cock, still makes love like a little kid!"  Tony was aghast at being talked about like this by the women, but he didn't have much time to feel sorry for himself before Dr. Keaton strode over to him. "You should put it in the past tense, Lisa! He USED TO make love like a kid. Now he can't do it at all - at least not with that formerly monster cock!" With a flourish, as if she were unveiling a statue, she pulled down Tony's pants to reveal the grotesque result of Meredith's "special surgery" on his penis. Lisa was speechless, and listened in awe as Dr. Keaton described what she had done to Tony's manhood, after which the two women embraced.  "Anyhow", said Melissa. Let's get down to business! Us three girls have to thank Tony for being such a help to the Family!" Lisa looked at her watch. "It's 1:00 now. Laurie will be home from school by 3:30, so the four of us should finish up by 3:00. But what should we do with Shorty here? Put him in his cage?" she asked, gesturing towards her suddenly diminutive husband. "No," replied Melissa, "Let's wait for Laurie to get home and surprise her! In the meantime, we can keep him up here, and tie him up somewhere!" "I have a better idea!" drawled Meredith. She bent down and scooped up Tony under one arm, brought him into the bathroom and unceremoniously dumped him into the tub! She turned around and smiled at the other women. "He's too weak to make it out of the tub on his own power, especially considering that he has only one arm! He'll be harmless here, and he'll be able to hear us enjoying ourselves! Tony couldn't believe how low he had sunk. First his kid sister had beat him out for leadership of the family and disabled him for life. Then she made him a prisoner of the women in the Gilberti Family. But the humiliations were continuing. Bruno, of all people! He was always a little slow, and as Melissa said, he always made fun of Bruno and embarrassed him. But now, Bruno was being rewarded in ways that Tony could only dream of, and would never experience again in his life. Three women at once. His sister Melissa, his wife Lisa, and his one-time rape victim Meredith, all giving him pleasure for his part in destroying Tony and helping to make Melissa the Donna of the Gilberti Crime Family. And he had to listen from the bathtub where Meredith had put him, and from where, even without bars or being tied down, he was physically unable to escape.  After making Tony listen to nearly two hours of noisy pleasure, Dr. Keaton came into the bathroom, picked Tony up and threw him in the hallway, and the three woman and Bruno quickly showered in anticipation for Laurie's arrival. They took him downstairs to the living room to wait. Bruno, having fulfilled his purpose, was dismissed by Melissa to deal with security details in the compound. At about 3:30, Laurie came home, unsuspecting of the surprise that awaited her. At 14, she had become a lovely girl who was beginning to turn heads in school. She was amused that some of the boys were afraid of her because of her Family's crime exploits, but she, and her friends, thought that it was cool for her to be related to the first female Mafia crime lord. She walked in, on her way to the kitchen for a snack, saw Tony, took a few more steps and did a double-take. Her mouth agape, she dropped her books as she looked at him. Then, she looked at the smiling faces of Melissa, then Meredith. Still in shock, she looked questioningly at her mother. Lisa simply smiled and nodded her head.  After a few seconds, Laurie burst out in laughter and pointed her finger at her father. "HAHAHA!" she roared, unable to stop. She skipped over to him to take a closer look. She was already 5'7", and destined to grow much taller, considering that her mother was 5'9" and her father had been 6'4". But Tony was no longer 6'4" tall. He was 3'9. Laurie, who would have been nine inches shorter, was now one foot and ten inches taller than her father!  "This is SOOOOOOO COOL!" exclaimed Laurie, as she put her hand on Tony's head to show how much taller she now was. To Tony, this was the ultimate degradation. He once towered over Laurie, but now, the top of his head didn't even reach his daughter's budding breasts! And if he was expecting any sympathy from Laurie, he was sorely disappointed. She was enjoying her father's predicament immensely, and from the way the adult women were reacting, they were going to let Laurie participate in his torment!  "You know who you have to thank for this, don't you, Laurie Dear?" asked Lisa "Of course Mommy, sorry to be so rude, I was just so excited when I saw Daddy like this!" Laurie ran over to Melissa and gave her a big hug.. "Oh, thank you, Aunt Melissa, THANK YOU , THANK YOU , THANK YOU! You have no idea how Daddy treated us! And it looked like it wasn't going to stop! Especially after Grandpa died and it looked as though Daddy would be taking over the Family, like he always boasted that he would! I was so scared, I didn't want Daddy to run the Family because then he would have been meaner than ever! I was so happy when I heard that you had taken over! I was kinda hoping that you would have killed him, but this is even better!" Melissa hugged her niece. "You have nothing to worry about any more, Laurie dear. Your father will never touch you again. On the other hand, you will be touching him if you want. Your father is now a prisoner on the compound. My prisoner. your mother's prisoner. And now, you father will be your prisoner too!" Laurie looked to her mother for confirmation, and Lisa shook her head in confirmation. Laurie started jumping up and down, laughing in celebration.  "Now honey, we have the other part of our surprise for you!" said Lisa. Laurie looked inquisitively at her mother, who led the way towards the basement. Meredith roughly and painfully pushed Tony down the stairs while he tried to hang on to the railing for support. Melissa followed behind, taking in with pleasure the changes in the Family, both business and personal. Laurie shrieked when she saw the prison cell that had been built into the corner of the basement. "This is Daddy's new home? HAHAHA!" She pointed her finger at Tony's face as she continued to laugh. In frustration, he brushed her hand away. Without thinking, and angry Laurie slapped him in the face.  Suddenly, Laurie's eyes widened, She started dancing around her father as if they were in a boxing ring, and she started slapping his face at will! Tony was befuddled and tried to block her blows with his only hand but she had two arms and was young and athletic, compared to her slower, one-armed, legless father.  Laurie stopped slapping Tony and put a finger under his chin, raising his eyes up to meet hers. "Things are going to be a lot different around here, Daddy, now that Mommy and I, and of course Aunt Melissa, are your bosses now!"  This was too much for Tony, who turned to Lisa. "Lisa, please, Laurie is our daughter!" he whined in a wimpy voice that his wife had never heard come out of his mouth. "Please, it's not right for a girl to boss her father like this!" Lisa looked incredulously at Tony. "Are you kidding, Shorty?" she spat. "After the way you treated us all of these years? There is NOTHING that she could do to you that you wouldn't deserve! Besides, your sister is giving me more responsibilities in the Family business, and I will be spending time with Bruno too! Which means that I won't have too much time to watch over you!" Lisa then turned to her daughter. "Laurie, I know that I am asking a lot of you, but with my busy schedule, would you be a dear and take primary responsibility for overseeing your father? You would make sure that he does all of his work around the house and if he slacks off you can punish him! And when he's not being useful, you can keep him locked up!" Laurie smiled. Tony could see that his daughter was growing up, with that coquettish grin on her face, tossing her lush dark hair with a quick turn of her head. "You mean, like, I would be Daddy's warden?" Lisa grinned. "Yes, dear, and you would be his chief punishment enforcer too!" Opening her purse, she took out a key and handed it to Laurie! Again, Laurie jumped up and down, a combination of little girl and emerging woman, who had just been given immense power over her formerly abusive father. Meredith cleared her throat. "Sorry, I'd love to stick around, but I have to get to the hospital and make my rounds! She hugged Melissa, Lisa and Laurie, and then turned to Tony. "But I'll be back real soon, little guy!" she taunted, and then went upstairs to leave. Melissa spoke up. "Laurie, I have some things to discuss with your mother, regarding her increased Family responsibilities. We'll leave you down here with your father. Just give a holler if he gives you too much trouble, and when you're done, be sure to lock him up!"  "No problem, Aunt Melissa, thanks for everything!" Laurie exclaimed. "And don't worry about trouble. I'll be able to handle him!" She turned Tony around and kicked him, hard, in the ass. He fell to his belly, but Laurie kept kicking. "Get into the cage, Daddy! You and I are going to have a long talk about how it's going to be around here from now on!" "Laurie is turning into a fine young woman!" declared Melissa. "She has the kind of spunk that might make her a valuable member of the Family one day, if that's what she wants to do!" Lisa hugged Melissa as they went up the stairs, leaving Tony at the mercy of his vengeful daughter.  As Laurie was having her "long talk" with Tony, Melissa discussed her ideas to involve Lisa more closely in the Gilberti Family operations. Lisa was a college graduate, although Tony never let her take advantage of her skills. But now, Tony's opinions were of no consequence. Melissa's idea was to make Lisa the office manager of the Family's law firm, the one that Melissa had worked at through law school and afterwards. She was a partner in the firm and claimed to law enforcement authorities that this was the source of her wealth, along with the Gilberti's other legitimate enterprises. But as Donna of the Gilberti Crime Family, Melissa never actually spent any time at the firm any more. She needed someone that she could trust absolutely to be her eyes and ears at the firm. It would be a perfect vantage point from which to spot trouble, and to find new talent, particularly women. Melissa felt that Lisa would be perfect for the role and offered her the position, complete with high salary and absolute power in the office. Lisa happily agreed. After her conversation with Lisa, Melissa went back across the compound to her office. She was very satisfied with the events of the day, with her brother's return and with the way he was being properly treated by his wife and his daughter. And Melissa had a great deal to be satisfied about. She had strengthened her power, and she was in the process of making an example of her brother to anyone else that would ever try to challenge her. Now, Melissa decided, it was time for her next move.  She had proven to herself, and others, that she could run the Gilberti Family organization. She had repelled all encroachments on Gilberti turf. Now that she had shown that she could protect her own turf, she decided that she would expand the Gilberti empire. She would take other people's turf away from them, starting with the Fabrizi Family, and the coveted airport business that they controlled. Melissa would accomplish her goal with a series of swift moves centered around a monumental event in underworld history, an event that would come to be known, simply, as "The Funeral".   To Be Continued in Part 3:  "The Funeral"