The Prologue.

Holly loved her job!

Only two years out of Uni she had already landed a great job and was building quite a name for herself as a formidable reporter.

She enjoyed working for the Broadcasting Company in central London and especially working with and learning from Mary, who was the leader of their four strong unit.

The way the company worked was that in the broadcasting department there were several teams of four, Mary was the producer, about 35 years old  and she was the senior member of the team, then there was Steve the cameraman and Polly the sound recordist.

Holly loved working with Mary, she was her boss but also a friend, however things had never really been that comfortable with Steve ever since she had rebuffed his drunken advances at the office party and then, almost it seemed as a sort of revenge, he started dated Polly, a small waspish young woman with long mousy brown hair.

By contrast, Holly was beautiful, she was blonde, tall, toned and tanned, many of the attributes that would help her to the top of her chosen profession, her wavy blonde hair, sparkling blue eyes, button nose and full red lips reminded some of Marilyn Monroe but at five foot nine she was a great deal taller than the late Hollywood star.

Their top floor office at Corporation House was open plan and with floor to ceiling glass windows it was flooded with light and had fantastic views across the city and one wall was made up entirely of massive video screens relaying real time news events from around the globe, 24/7 news data streaming along the bottom.

The corporation was a good employer, privately owned by billionaire Stan Smith it provided the staff with many perks, on site gym and swimming pool and membership to a prestigious tennis club close by, Holly made the most of all these perks and kept in top shape whilst enjoying the competitive element as well, she was popular, not because of her looks but because she was a genuinely nice, caring person who had helped many of her colleagues along the way.

Each member of staff was issued with their own laptop and phone, and also a ‘digi-watch’ which not only told the time it also monitored your heart rate, checked your temperature, it even told you how many steps you’d taken that day and what your weight was.

Some of the staff felt it was a bit ‘Big Brother’ but Holly liked it and found it a useful piece of kit, though her had been playing up and she was pleasantly pleased when Steve offered to fix it, which he did in no time before returning it, maybe he was moving on, she hoped so as it would make life so much easier.

Holly was currently working on a number of stories but she was also keeping an eye on what seemed like a growing story about a new strain of flu like virus that had emerged in the sub-continent, it wasn’t a huge story and was obviously a long way away but she’d keep an eye on it anyway.

She glanced up from her screen and was little disconcerted to see Mary looking at her, she looked slightly worried and continued talking animatedly into her phone and turning away when she saw Holly watching.

“Holly, where was it you went a couple of months ago on that trip?”

“I was down in Asia, it was fantastic, truly the holiday of a lifetime, so many experiences, so may people, I can’t wait to go back, maybe next Summer”

Holly could see that whoever she was talking to was getting quite animated and Mary was trying to keep her voice down but Holly could hear little snippets.

“I know, yes I understand but it was a while ago….no other symptoms.. healthy…yes…ok…big issue..”

There were always problems, they were a news agency after all and every day someone somewhere would do something newsworthy and their job was to cover that but looking cross at Mary, Holly could tell that something was troubling her friend.

Mary scooted her chair around the desk to where Holly was sitting, Holly was getting a little worried that something really was wrong, she hadn’t seen Mary like this before, she was normally so confident, so full of life but she seemed really nervous and unsure quite what to say, suddenly Holly was worried for her job.

“Hi Holly, how’re you feeling, you feeling ok?”

Holly smiled back at her with relief.

“Never better, a great swim this morning , then tennis later with Chloe, why?”

“Umm, it’s really tricky, that was Stan on the phone and he’s giving me a hard time about something and I just wanted to check you’re Ok?

“Mary, I promise you I’m absolutely fine, do I look ill in any way?”

Mary seemed to relax a little and scooted back around the desk, like everyone in the office she had a headset with a mouthpiece and her blue light lit up, she pulled a face and rolled her eyes mouthing ‘Stan’ as she took the call.

Holly grew more concerned as she turned her chair away and continued the call, they were obviously arguing and when Stan was involved there was usually only one winner, she swung her chair back around and glanced at Holly, she looked worried and embarrassed, something Holly had never seen in her friend, then she ended the call and came back round to where Holly was seated.

“Oh God Holly, I really don’t know how to say this b-bu”

“it’s Ok Mary, I can guess, I know things are tough but why me?”

Holly was confused as her friend sat down beside her and took her hand.

“No, god no, you’re one of the best reporters we have you silly thing, there’s no way on earth I’d let them get rid of you” she laughed nervously.

Holly visibly relaxed, she had been terrified that is what was happening, she really needed this job and she was damn good at it. She had a mortgage and bills like everyone else, unlike some she had to work hard for everything she had.

Mary seemed to steel herself, let out a deep breath of air and looked Holly in the eye.

“it has been reported that your temperature has been fluctuating wildly for the last week, head office compiles the data from our ‘digi-watches’ it’s nothing sinister, it’s for our health and i’m afraid Stan, or to be truthful Suzy, has got it into her head that this coupled with your recent trip to Asia means you may be carrying the virus”

Holly laughed with relief.

“But as you can see, I’m absolutely fine, there’s obviously been some mistake, you remember my watch wasn’t right and Steve fixed it for me, maybe it’s playing up again”

“I’m sorry Holly, bloody Suzy has obviously seen some documentary and has convinced her Father that you definitely could be  a carrier and they have told me to conduct a code red as per the company manual concerning chemical attacks”

Like most of the staff Holly had never read all the staff manual, she certainly had no idea what a code red was, surely it can’t be that bad!?

“Don’t worry Mary just let me know what’s involved and I’ll comply if it keeps them happy, bloody Suzy is a pain, ever since Uni and her idiot of a boyfriend hitting on me she’s been on my case and being the spoiled daughter of our boss makes me dislike her even more”

Again Mary’s phone lit up.

“Ok Ok I’m on it but you know there’s no turning back from this, once its called matters are out of our hands so your daughter better be right” and then Mary pulled her headphones off and slammed them onto the desk, she then rose to her feet and cleared her throat.

“Hello everyone, I have an announcement to make, but before I do I want everyone to promise to be calm, I want everyone hear, with the exception of my team to move to the rear half of the room please, there is absolutely nothing to worry about, just a misunderstanding from head office”

There was a great deal of murmuring and worried faces but everyone did as they had been told, they picked up their personal belongings and shifted along the room, immediately a glass screen began lowering from the ceiling, no one had ever noticed it before, they stood and watched as it slid down, effectively cutting the room in two.

Steve, Mary, Polly and Holly were the only four left in their half of the room, they looked at each other, surprised at the sudden turn of events, the only person who seemed to know what was happening was Mary, who looked straight at Holly.

“Ok, I really cant believe this is actually happening, but it is and you can thank bloody Suzy but I’m afraid Holly sweetheart I’m going to have to ask you to remove your clothes, this is a code red and they believe you are the source of the contamination and for the safety of every other single person we need get you and your clothes thoroughly examined, I’m so so sorry Holly but please stand up.

Holly was numb with shock, only half an hour ago she was having a great day and was looking forward to her game of tennis and probably a quick drink with her friend Chloe, who would now be watching from the other side of the glass and now she was being asked to remove her clothes, meanwhile out of the corner of her eye she could see Steve and Polly setting up there recording equipment.

“I’m sorry but Stan has insisted we record this, it could be a massive story” Mary said, her face flushed with embarrassment but she had no choice, Stan was a good boss in many ways but let his daughter run circles around him.

Numbly, Holly stood up, shaken and confused, surely Mary was joking but the look on her face said otherwise.

“Can you move back from the table so we can get a better shot please” grinned Steve, her own bloody colleague and he seemed to think this was hilarious, but Holly did as he asked and stepped back.

Mary reached under her desk and pulled out what looked like a first aid kit, she pulled on some gloves and shook out a large, clear plastic bag.

“Ok Holly, we’ll keep this very straightforward and make it as simple as possible, can you remove your sneakers first”

As she did most days Holly was swearing her trademark pink sneakers, a tight pair of blue jeans with a crisp cotton white shirt, she could wear almost anything and look great but the fact it was so simple just seemed to enhance her beauty.

Mary seemed as nervous as Holly so Holly put on a brave face and stepped out of the shoes and passed them to Mary who placed them in the bag.

“Thank you, and now your shirt please Holly”

Trying to put on a brave face she unbuttoned the five buttons, she tried to imagine she was changing in the swimming pool locker rooms but this felt different, because it was different, that was by choice and there were no men and obviously no cameras.

She steeled herself, took a deep breath and removed her shirt and passed it to Mary, her tanned shoulders and tummy in contrast to the bright white fabric of her bra, at least it was quite new she thought to herself, trying to remain calm.

Holly was proud of her body, but her large firm breasts were almost pushing out of the stretched material and looking up she could see on the screen wall an image of herself, knowing all her colleagues were watching.

Mary was clearly not enjoying this one bit, she nervously then asked Holly to remove her jeans.

This was getting serious, Holly wanted to show how calm she was, she knew she wasn’t ill, she had read up the symptoms form the new virus and knew one was temperature but even if she did have a high temperature she had no other symptoms whatsoever, with a sigh she unbuttoned her jeans and rolled them down the long tanned thighs before stepping out of them and passing them to Mary.

Mary looked mortified, poor Holly was standing there in just her white bra and panties, her tanned skin in contrast with the snow white material, looking over her friends bare shoulder Mary gasped,

Opposite their office was a similar glass and steel high rise and the floor of bankers had obviously noticed, or received a tip off and were all standing in the window, waving, a whole load of suited and booted bankers, men and women clearly enjoying the show at her friends expense, at least Holly hadn’t seen them.

“Ok Holly, I really hate this, but I’m going to have to now ask you to remove your bra”

All the while she was talking Mary still had her headset on, Stan or Suzy was still on the line, almost checking up on her, making she sure she was following procedure.

With a sigh of exasperation, not at her friend but at her predicament Holly reached around and unclipped her bra and removed it, immediately trying to cover her breasts with one arm while she handed the garment to Mary, her milky white breasts bulging out underneath as she tried in vain to shield them from view.

Steve was moving around her, trying to get a better angle, a weird lopsided grin on his face, the creep was enjoying every minute of this thought Holly.

“Oh God Holly, I’m so so sorry to be putting you through this but one last item to go, your panties please, we need to send all your clothes off for examination.

Knowing she had no choice in the matter Holly hooked her thumbs in the waistband of her briefs, closed her eyes, took a deep breath and in one fluid movement pulled them down and stepped out of them before hastily passing the flimsy garment to Mary and then desperately trying to cover herself, trying to retain one last shred of dignity.

Steve made sure everyone got a good view of Hollys newly exposed pussy, a neat triangle of golden curls doing little to hide the pale pink skin below, she really was a true English rose.

Mary’s heart went out to her as she attempted to cover both her breasts and her pussy, totally unaware of the cheering crowd from across the road who were enjoying a perfect view of Holly’s perfectly rounded pale white bottom cheeks, loads of them pointing phones and recording every moment.

Holly couldn’t see that but she could see something worse, her own ordeal was being recorded in high definition by her own film crew, up on the massive screen, all the colleagues behind the glass screen were facing away, for a moment she had thought it was solidarity with her awful plight, but they were just watching on the big screen.

Poor Holly was now stark naked in the middle of her office, this morning she had dressed normally, come to work normally and enjoyed the morning but now only a few hours later she was standing there stark naked, absolutely no idea what was going to happen next!

Mary was a little unsure what to do, she had done as asked and now her poor friend was standing in the middle of the brightly lit office without a stich of clothing on, desperately wriggling and trying to retain a shred of dignity, then Mary’s phone went.

“Ok Mary thank you, you’re doing well, I know this isn’t easy as Holly is your colleague and friend but we’ve got to do this by the book, am I right in thinking she is questioning that her watch may be faulty?”

“Yes she is, and she may well have a point, it’s a hell of an ordeal to put someone through without double checking”

“That’s what Suzy thinks too” said Stan

Mary raised an eyebrow and made sure Holly could hear the conversation.

“Yes to be fair to Holly she feels we should at least get a second reading, if you look in the first aid kit there should be a thermometer, kindly use that and we’ll get a second reading, please just follow the instructions and leave the line open, I can see we’re getting good footage”

Mary looked into the first aid kit, thinking at least this might help, then her heart sank.

She opened the line, “You’ve got to be kidding” she whispered, “we cant do that”.

“Mary, please just follow my Fathers instructions and do exactly what it says, this is an extremely important matter with potentially massive consequences for the company and possibly the wider community so I’m asking, or actually I’m ordering you to do as I ask” said Suzy, her voice rising as she got more assertive’

Holly had heard most of the conversation and wanted just to get it over with, maybe a second reading would make them realise their mistake, she was naked now, it couldn’t get any worse!

Mary reached into the kit and brought out a little kit and started opening it, it all looked pretty harmless, then Holly spotted the word ‘rectal’, oh god, they must be kidding.

She looked imploringly at Mary, who looked absolutely shocked as the implications of what they were asking her to do sunk in.

With trembling hands she unfolded the instructions and with growing dread began to read them.

“Oh Holly, please forgive me but hopefully you understand I have no choice and maybe, just maybe it might help one way or another”

Holly wasn’t sure what her friend was saying, but she looked up to her and trusted her and meekly nodded and said.

“Mary, lets just get this over with and do what you have to do, the sooner we show them there is absolutely nothing wrong with mw the sooner we can move on from this nightmare and I can get some clothes on” said Holly, trying to remain calm.

“Ok Holly what I need you to do is come forward and bend over your desk for me”

“Oh god, please say you’re kidding me, is that what I think it is”

“I’m so sorry Holly, for some reason this is what they’ve given me, I can only assume there’s a reason for that, let’s get it over with”

Sensing her friend was as nervous and appalled in equal measures like herself Holly knew that yet again she had no choice but to comply, in trepidation she walked a couple of paces towards her desk and with her heart in her mouth bent over .

The sensation of her breasts pressing on to the cold white material of her office desk was surreal, as was the knowledge that she was completely naked in her office with her bottom sticking out.

Holly just squeezed her eyes shut and waited for the indignity as she heard a tearing sound as Mary must have unwrapped the plastic wrapper from the thermometer.

She jumped when she felt Marys shaking hand touch the bare skin of her bottom and the experienced the strangest sensation when her boss and colleague gently prized her buttocks apart, then she flinched as some cold gel was dabbed around the exposed entrance and without warning Holly gasped as the cold hard glass tube was slowly but firmly inserted up inside her most private place.

She could only lie there helpless and embarrassed as Mary gently let her buttocks close back together.

“Oh for goodness sake Steve do you really have to film everything” exclaimed Mary crossly as Holly suddenly felt the heat of the bright camera light on her skin, she forgot how hot they were and cringed with shame when she realised what they would be seeing on the big screen.

After what felt like an age Holly then experienced the very strange sensation of the long glass tube being slowly slid out from between her bottom cheeks, then the even worse sensation of Mary taking a tissue and wiping the excess gel form around her bottom before disposing it in the bin.

At least it was over thought Holly, only to see the look on Marys face a she checked the temperature.

“Oh my god Holly, you really do have a high temperature, I’m so terribly sorry but maybe Suzy’s right after all”

Suzy’s voice came back on the line.

“I told you, I told you Mary that this was potentially very serious, and you just thought I was wrong, I think this proves the opposite, don’t you?”

Mary reddened, Holly had rarely seen her friend so cross as the twenty-year-old berated her in front of her Father and her colleagues.

At 35 Mary was a beautiful, more mature woman, she was married and had a serious career and yet somehow just because Suzy was the boss’s daughter she thought she could speak down to her.

“Stan, no offence but your daughter knows nothing, two raised temperatures does not conclusively prove a damn thing and poor Holly has been humiliated beyond belief so can we just stop this now, I’ll send her to the doctor and we can take it from there but she appears absolutely fine and in good health to me”

The phone was silent for a good twenty seconds then Stan’s voice came on.

“Mary, I respect you as a person and as a journalist, but please don’t ever take that tone with me or my family again, I applaud your loyalty to your team but feat it may be mis-guided in this instance,

“Suzy has learned a great deal about this virus and to control it after watching the documentary so I am putting her in charge, you will answer to her directly and we’ll speak about this and your future with the corporation next time I’m in town,, in the meantime here’s Suzy”

Holly was stunned, as was Mary, they had never heard Stan talk like that but then blood is thicker than water, poor Mary looked like she wanted to cry.

Suzy’s voice came over the phone, you could feel the spite in her voice.

“Polly, I believe you and Steve have the camera and sound systems set up so I need you to do something for me”

Polly was all ears, she had always been resentful of Holly and Mary’s close relationship and had always felt like the outsider so anything to curry favour with the owners would be great.

“I’m afraid that as we now feel we have a confirmed case as ‘the rectal thermometer does not lie’ she joked,”

“And I noticed earlier that when Mary was being oh so considerate to her friend Holly that she touched her on the hand and in so doing possibly picked up the virus spores, well I hate to say it but we’re now going to have to waste even more time and put Mary through the same process”

Everyone could tell by the tone that she did not ‘hate’ to say it all, infact it was the opposite, she now had the chance to take the beautiful, successful Mary down a peg or two as well.

“if you check in the kit Polly, there is another pair of gloves and a bag for her possessions, if you get the bag ready I will issue instructions over the phone, well Mary Jones are you ready to begin?”

Mary was now stunned, her eyes wide with shock as the full enormity sunk in, she just stared at Holly, looking at he stark naked friend, still standing there without a stitch on to cover her modesty, still trying and failing to cover herself with her hands.

“Ok Mary, time is marching on and we’re all busy people, my father is losing money every minute this goes on so if you want to still have a job in half an hour I strongly advise we get on with it, now go and stand next to Holly, Steve get the camera ready and just cover it like you did with Holly.

Numb with shock Mary did as she was told and shuffled over to where Holly was standing, she froze when she looked across the road, even more of the bankers seemed to be crowded around the window, had someone told them the show wasn’t over!?

Being Older and senior Mary was wearing a very smart designer trouser suit with designer shoes.

“Ok, lets start with those lovely red shoes Mary”

It hadn’t really dawned on Mary or Holly that Suzy could actually see them as well as hear them, looking across at the massive screen the penny dropped, she was watching on line as the images were streamed around the company intranet, Holly was mortified, they had all seen her stark naked and still could, what was worse was that they must also all have seen the thermometer and where it went, she shuddered as she remembered the heat from Steve’s lights, she wanted the world to swallow her up!

Mary, realising she was trapped, removed her shoes, she was ten years older and a couple of inches shorter than Holly and dark where Holly was blonde but she had a great figure and exuded sophistication, beginning to blush as she was ordered to remove her black silk suit jacket and place it into the bag being held open by the grinning Polly.

She had a beautifully cut cream silk shirt, every inch the sophisticated older successful women.

“I think that lovely shirt needs to come off next please Mary” giggled Suzy, clearly loving every minute of this.

“And now those very well tailored trousers”

“Well well well” chuckled the young woman “well who would of thought that our beautiful, clever, ever professional team leader would have such a dark secret, Daddy come and take a look”

Mary stood there whilst Steve, with the biggest grin on his face zoomed in on the camera, not only was Mary wearing some extremely expensive looking red French lingerie she also had a tattoo on her upper inner thigh, a small snake appearing to slide down from her knickers.

“Daddy you are obviously paying he far too much, I know how expensive those are, pure silk and from Paris, and as for the tattoo, who knew??”

Mary was scarlet with embarrassment, it was their 5th wedding anniversary and she and Mark were staying over in town, hotel booked and a table at one of the city’s best new restaurants yet now here she was being laughed at and ogled as she stood in just her underwear being forced to undress by a spoilt kid!

The tattoo was from her student days, a wild weekend in Paris with her then boyfriend but now everyone in her office new about it, and it got worse!?

“Bra now please you naughty girl” teased Suzy, enjoying the humiliation written all over Mary’s face.

Mary hated every moment of it, not only being stripped over the phone and humiliated, but being called a ‘naughty girl’ by someone ten years her junior just made it worse.

She was absolutely mortified, her firm breasts were smaller than Holly’s, pale brown skin with hard little brown nipples compared to Holly’s pale skin and pink nipples, they were both beautiful in their own way but yet so different.

“And now Ms Jones, do I really have to say it, but let’s get those extremely fancy knickers off you and in the bag”

Closing her eyes and giving in to the inevitable Mary, like Holly before her hooked her thumbs into the waistband and slid the garment down he smooth thighs and quickly thrust them into the bag held open by Polly.

She heard Steve chuckle and then even through the thick glass she could here the cheers of approval from the bankers opposite, even through the thick glass partition in her own office and then with a sinking feeling she knew why.

As a special treat for Mark she had been to the salon only yesterday for  a Brazilian wax and as a little surprise she had asked Tracey to leave a little heart shaped section unshaved just above her slit, but worse was that the tattoo of the snake had been done to look as though it was emerging from that little bush and sliding across her pussy and down her thigh, right now she could strangle Pierre for giving her the idea, but now this seemed to be the funniest thing in the world, she wanted to die.

“Oh my god this just gets better, Mary you are a dark horse giggled Suzy, Daddy come and look what you’re quiet, sophisticated, professional production manager hides under those designer clothes the little minx”

Now stark naked, like Holly, Mary just stood there trying to cover herself whilst life around them continued.

“Polly, I hate to ask but I think given the severity of the situation we really do need to check Mary’s temperature also, could you do the honours, there’s another pair of gloves but only the one thermometer, but it’ll be fine”

Polly was a diminutive little creature, possibly around five foot three with spectacles long mousy hair and dungarees, she knew Steve fancied Holly and even Mary more than her so this felt like revenge.

“With pleasure, Mary over here please, you know the drill”

Mary was absolutely stunned at this turn of events, half and hour ago she was having to conduct the same thing on poor Holly but at least she had her clothes on, now she was stark naked and the whole world seem to have seen her tattoo and could now see her totally stark naked.

Hesitantly she shuffled towards the desk, Holly’s heart went out to her, Polly ordered her to assume the same degrading position she had recently had to adopt, she looked on as her friend had the same indignity of bending over, her breasts squashed on the cold white desk, she watched as she too was told to part her buttock cheeks and smart slightly as Polly applied the same cold gel.

Holly could now see what everyone else had seen previously she briefly saw Mary’s tight puckered little hole, the glistening gel and then the cold glass thermometer being slowly inserted, her heart went out to her friend.

Holly then watched, unable to look away as Steve moved closer with the camera, the harsh glare of the hot lights only inches away from the naked cruelly exposed skin and then slowly Polly sliding it out, Holly blushing deeply as she saw Mary’ tight little rose bud contract as the glass slid out, exactly the same as she had done, unable to fight her bodies natural reflex, then the final indignity, the camera still only inches away as Polly wiped her boss’s bottom clean of the gel and then unnecessarily patting her bottom as she straightened up as if she were an errant child…….to be continued

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