Going Up Part 3

If she landed the role, she'd be playing a transsexual whose "secret" gets out, leaving her boyfriend with the dilemma of whether to ignore her cock and balls in favor of her beautiful face, pert breasts, sleek, shapely legs, and womanly buttocks. Mr. Kurtz, Charlie, and the studio they represented were betting that the time for such bold fare had come. If they were right, Siren thought, a star might be about to be born, and that star, she hoped, might be she.

Charlie escorted her to the elevator. The car was available to them, since it had remained incapable of responding to summons from lower floors after he'd disabled it with his override key. Now, as the doors closed behind him and Siren, he smiled as he considered the key's other function. It not only prevented the car from responding to other calls, but it also activated a mechanism inside the doors, casing them to close much more rapidly than they would otherwise. This was how he'd caught Siren's tear-away gown in the doors as she'd stepped out of the car. As the studio's president, Charlie had made sure he was on hand, inside the elevator, to activate the mechanism whenever someone like Siren was getting off. Then, he'd become the damsel in distress' rescuing hero, her chivalrous knight in shining armor, inviting her upstairs, to his penthouse office suite, where, it just so happened, thanks to Kurtz, that he had a replacement tear-away gown on hand. Women-and shemales, in particular, it seemed to him-were generous creatures, and most insisted on repaying his kindness the same way that Siren had done. It was a good con, one which made the responsibilities of being the studio's president worthwhile.

The descending lift came to its characteristic abrupt, jolting stop, and Siren gave him a last kiss. "Thanks," she said, smiling, "for everything."

"It was my pleasure," he assured her. This time, the elevator hadn't stopped at the third sub-basement level, and he did not secretly activate the mechanism inside the elevator's doors as Siren exited the car.