The Thief Marie has to beat up John to keep her loot Marie Andrews was getting dressed for work. At least that was the way she viewed it. Her occupation was unusual. Marie was a thief. Not just an ordinary, run of the mill burglar, but one who concentrated on wealthy people, mostly when they were staying in luxury hotels. Marie had gotten into this line of work almost by accident. While working as an assistant manager in one of the new Mariott Resort Hotels, she had followed a guest back to his room to return a Mont Blanc pen he had left at the desk. The door was unlocked and the guest was in the shower. Several hundred dollars and a Rolex watch were just laying on the dresser. Marie picked everything up and shoved it in her pocket. This took all of about 30 seconds. Marie left the room. She returned about twenty minutes later, knocked on the door, stating that she was there to return his pen. The guest thanked her and asked her to call the police to report a robbery. They came, found out that the door had been left unlocked by the chagrined guest, looked at each other, shrugged, and left. They told the guest that they would investigate but the chances of finding his possessions were not very good. Marie was standing there taking it all in. She saw how careless most guests were, and how easy this could be. She started looking for other opportunities in her hotel, and found that at least once per week some careless guest would provide her with an easy score for the week. She started looking for an outlet to unload the jewelry that she had stolen, and finally found Billy Jamison, a high class fence. Billy was impressed by the beginner's innate ability and began to teach her what to look for and what to ignore. They expanded their operation to include other hotels by paying off bellhops and cocktail waitresses to spot potential victims. Soon Marie was making more money than she had ever dreamed possible. She kept her job at the hotel to keep up appearances. As Marie continued to dress for her evening's work, she reflected on her new occupation. She felt she was uniquely qualified for this kind of work. She had been involved in gymnastics from the time she was four years old. Marie and her family had their collective hearts set on Marie becoming an Olympic gymnast, but she hit a growth spurt and became what the elite coaches felt was "Too big". However, she did earn a college scholarship for it, and received a free education. While in college, the gymnastics team also worked out in the weight room. Marie loved it. Her body responded quickly to the training, and her strength increased dramatically. After graduation, she continued to work out religiously. She also took great pains to retain the flexibility that had made her a good gymnast. Now at age 26, she had the body of a quick muscular athlete. Perfect for her new line of work, she thought as she looked at her body in the mirror. Playfully she flexed her bicep. A large, hard, peaked muscle sprang into sight. she smiled and finished dressing for her night's activity. Marie was dressed all in black. Black running shoes, black jeans, and black silk blouse. she covered her short, dark hair with a black baseball cap. Again she looked in the mirror. Her dark, tanned skin and prominent cheekbones, and green eyes looked more like a high fashion model than anything else if not for that body which definitely was not skinny enough for modeling. Marie pulled on a pair of skin-tight leather gloves and she was ready to go. Tonight, she was going to the Hyatt Hotel. Bobbie Lanson, the daughter of a wealthy shipping line owner, was staying there. The estimate of the jewelry she wore to charity function she was attending there was well over $400,000. Bobbie had a habit of changing after these functions and going to the spa for an hour or so before locking her valuables in the hotel safe for the night. Since she used the big hotel safe, she did not lock them in the small safe in her suite. It was too much trouble for just an hour. Marie tonight was going to go into Bobbie's suite while she was soaking in the spa. Marie parked her car two blocks from the hotel on a one way street, so traffic would not be a problem. Slipping through a side entrance, she took the stairs to the 15th floor, where Bobbie's suite was located. "Good thing I'm in shape," Marie thought as she reached the 15th floor. "That's a long climb." Marie pulled a master key from the Hyatt she had paid a great deal of money for from the black leather utility belt she wore. After checking the hallway, she quickly inserted the key and entered the suite. Rapidly she searched the room. The jewelry was in one of the clothing bags in the closet. "Not to clever. Should have used the safe." Marie removed the gems from their carrying case and laid them out on the dresser. "Wow!" she exclaimed. "These diamonds are perfect." Marie was so engrossed in her admiration and analysis of the diamonds, she lost track of time. Just as she started to replace the diamonds in the case, the door opened and Bobbie walked in. Bobbie instantly saw Marie and the jewelry case, and knew what was happening. Then she made a mistake. Bobbie had always fancied herself an athlete, and had actually had a couple of fights with other women, so she thought that instead of running out of the suite and calling security, that she could handle this herself. Bobbie charged across the room with arms outstretched preparing to grab Marie. After Marie recovered from her initial surprise at being caught, she was delighted to see Bobbie attack instead of running for help. As Bobbie closed in, Marie spun toward her and started a punch with her leather encased right fist toward Bobbie. In the darkened suite with Marie wearing the black clothes, Bobbie never saw it coming. Marie's fist, rising almost from the floor smashed into Bobbie's chin. Even with all the momentum that Bobbie had generated in her run at Marie, the unexpected and powerful punch stopped her dead in her tracks. Her head snapped back, and she slowly collapsed to the floor. Marie looked down at the unconscious Bobbie. "So that is what a perfect punch feels like." Marie realized that the crotch of her jeans was wet. "That was almost as good as sex." She took a quick look out the door and saw no one in the hallway. She returned to the dresser and carefully finished putting the diamonds back in the case. As she prepared to leave, Bobbie was starting to stir. " We can't have you calling the cops for a while" Marie said to the slowly moving Bobbie. "Let's put you to bed". Marie pulled the still very groggy Bobbie to her feet and dragged her to the suite's bedroom. Marie released Bobbie at the foot of the king sized bed. Bobbie weaved unsteadily on her feet. Marie reached out with her left hand and tilted Bobbie's face slightly and moved back one step. She cocked her strong right fist back as far as she could. Marie then uncoiled her whole body into the punch. As her fist accelerated toward Bobbie's jaw, she felt a sensation she never thought possible from any activity other than sex. Marie's leather covered fist crashed landed on Bobbie's jaw, and her follow-through almost caused her fist to touch the floor. Bobbie's head whipped around to her right and her body rotated a half turn as she flew through the air and landed on the bed. She bounced once and lay still face down on the bed. Marie's panties and jeans were sopping wet. She couldn't believe the sexual thrill she got from knocking out Bobbie. "This may be better than sex!" Marie thought. She looked at Bobbie on the bed not moving. She walked around to the head of the bed and checked out Bobbie. She seemed to be all right, except that her jaw on the left side of her face was very swollen and hung at a funny angle, indicating that it was probably broken. "That's the price you have to pay for trying to be a hero." Marie said to the unconscious Bobbie. Marie looked at her gloved fist. "These gloves are perfect. A little padding to protect my knuckles, but not enough to effect the punch." Marie got her emotions under control, picked up the jewelry case and walked to the door. "By the time she wakes up, I should be on my second glass of wine at dinner." Marie said to herself. She slowly opened the door and looked up and down the hall. When she saw nothing moving, she walked quickly to the stairs, down to the same side entrance through which she entered the hotel, and started walking to her car. As she passed an alley, a man holding a pistol stepped out and ordered her to stop. Her first thought was the police. However the man told her to step in to the alley. He said " You are working in my territory. I have been planning this heist for a long time and your interference won't be tolerated. Hand over that case and I might let you live!". He went on to explain his name was John Wilmington and he had been operating in these same hotels for years and he wondered who it was that had been beating him to the big scores lately. As he talked he forced Marie farther back in the alley. John then demanded that Marie hand over the case. Marie knew that her chances of leaving that alley alive were very slim unless she did something drastic. She tossed the case up in the air in John's direction. His eyes followed the case, and Marie saw her only chance. As John watched the jewelry case descend, Marie dived at him. He tried to refocus and line up the pistol for a shot, but she was on him. As they collided they slammed into the brick wall of the alley with John's back hitting it hard. Marie held his gun hand at the wrist and drove her knee into his groin. 1,2,3,4, times her knee drove into his balls. John was sick with the pain. Marie backed up and punted his head like a football. John collapsed to the asphalt. Marie checked him out for a split second and started to collect the diamonds which were scattered in the alley when the case hit the hard asphalt. As Marie left the alley, she saw one earring that she had missed. Just as she bent over to retrieve the earring, she heard a shot and felt the whiz of a bullet where her back had been just before she reached for the earring. She saw John on his knees trying to line up another shot. She dived to her left, causing him to miss again. As John tried to swing the pistol to bear on her Marie covered the last few feet between them. Her right foot shot out and made contact with the gun which sailed deeper into the alley. John cried out and grabbed his injured wrist. Marie smashed her leather clad fist straight to his chin. John slumped back against the wall. Marie was not going to make the same mistake twice. Hauling John to his feet, she buried her fist deep in his belly. John wanted to fall to the ground but Marie held him up. Again her fist smashed John's belly. He started to fold up and emptied the contents of his stomach on the ground. Marie felt that same sexual excitement that she had felt before when punching out Bobbie. As her climax kept building so did her ferocity. She pounded her fists mercilessly into John' s face. Time after time her hard fists landed and John's blood flowed. Finally a climax hit like Marie had never felt before. When it was over, she started to look for John. She had lost track of him due to the climax's intensity. John was on his hands and knees trying to crawl away from his destroyer. Marie strode slowly around in front of him. When he looked up and saw Marie standing there he started pleading for his life. Marie picked up his pistol. She stared at John for several seconds, the stuck the gun in the back of her jeans. "If I ever see you around here again, I will kill you!" Marie told him. With that she lifted him to his feet once more. She couldn't resist driving her fist deep into his battered stomach one more time. As he moaned and started to drop, she blasted that leather encased bludgeon that was her right fist to his chin one final time. John was lifted off his feet and banged into the alley wall where he slowly slid down to lay still at her feet. Marie picked up the jewelry case and slowly walked to her car. As she drove away, she reflected on the events of the evening. Still somewhat amazed at her sexual reaction to her fistic assaults on Bobbie and John, she vowed to make that a part of each caper, from now on. "It may be like a drug," she mused "If you do it once, it may be addictive because this feeling is something I definitely must have again."