Eight Hours Later
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Hands touched her. Touched skin. Hands against her chest. Hands against her bare skin.
…
I hurt.
I know.
Hands on her face. Her mouth being forced open. She tried to push out a scream, but nothing came from her throat. A gag was pulled tight, silencing the screams that wouldn’t come.
Hands on her chest again.
She opened her eyes. Heavy, heavy eyelids. Each had to be a tonne.
The gag was still in her mouth.
She blinked and tried to reach for the gag.
Her hand didn’t move.
She fought a wave of nausea and pulled on her hand again. It moved a little, but then stopped. She twisted her head awkwardly, and looked up at her hand. There was a loop of fabric – silk, it felt like silk – cinched around her wrist and then looped around the bed post. Three more awkward movements of her head, three more limbs secured to the bed.
Tears came, a flood running down her cheeks and into her ears.
She slowly took stock of herself. She fingers and toes still moved, whoever had tied her down had been nice enough to ensure the blood flow hadn’t been cut off.
Every inch of her hurt, and there was wetness between her legs.
Oh gods. Oh gods. Oh gods. Oh gods. Oh gods. Oh gods. Oh gods. Oh gods. Oh gods. Oh gods. Oh gods. Oh gods.
Spyder-
She screamed against the gag.
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
It’s not ok, but you can’t do anything about it. Can you move your hands?
I’m too tired to do anything.
If you don’t’ get free-
She tugged on the bonds. I’m not getting free.
Why do you do such horrible things to our poor little hacker girl?
…I’m a horrible, horrible person?
bloody hell i’m confused 🙁
…become clear at some point in the relatively near future.
Ahm I missin’ sumthin?
This doesn’t seem quite like where we left off…
Why????
Poor Stef.
“And she woke up, and it was all a dream…” – I hope, I hope, I hope!
Because she’s messed up enough to sabotage herself like that, right?
…I left out a time notation – all of the chapters with the morse code titles are flashforwards from the gala.
There’s… theoretically a chance the wetness isn’t the obvious… which would make this a little bit less horrible… but I’m don’t really have much hope of that. 🙁
…
I think, for my peace of mind, I’ll try to stop thinking about it for now, and just hope she’s currently glitching instead of actually being in the situation we’re seeing.
…
But… wasn’t there a no-bold-voice limitation on the glitches? gaah…
…to your theory, things are bad, but the may not be quite as they appear.
… Is this some strange little sex fantasy? I mean, I like it, but are we sure Stef is ready for this?! LOL
I didn’t expect anyone to be LOLing at the HELP chapters. . .
All I can say otherwise, be patient, bear with us.
This is going to be one hell of a ride *evil grin*
I am full of the unexpected!
…safe to say it isn’t a fantasy.
…Now that just makes me sad face.
…does that mean your previous lol is officially retracted? 😛
..now i feels bad for my lolz
I feel like this has something to do with jonesy again…
I get to try the cryptic comment thing!
It is safe to say that Jonesy has other problems on his mind right now.
*evil grin*
>_>
<_< *innocent look*
I suppose he does…
…wouldn’t need to use restraints. He’s a mad scientist, remember…well, actually the problem is that he’s entirely sane scientist, with the greater good in mind.
Point remains – he wouldn’t need to use restraints, he can mess with minds enough so that they’d never be necessary.
…must be really pissed that she kicked him from her party…
…consider him an unintentional red herring, I wanted Stef to have her own equivalent of Curt’s “Get the fuck away from her” moment.
I know Agents don’t normally go to the bathroom, but do they wet themselves when they’ve been drugged? Cause that’d be super keen.
…need to use the bathroom if they’re not in a system area.
That’s great! Now I have a totally plausible alternative, slightly less terrible, explanation for the worst of her current situation I can desperately cling to until you inevitably crush my silly hopes and dreams. Yay!
Also, man, I could totally see most Agents not ever wanting to leave system areas for any reason. Dem perks.