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"They set the world on fire. It wasn't a war anymore; it was a remaking.
Some losses are inevitable. Some... unthinkable. Now they've built a new world.
Armies of steel and thunder. They're rewriting history."
In 1946, the world teetered on the brink of total domination by the Nazi Empire. The Allies had been rendered to their knees, and perished 'neath the malevolence of the Schutzstaffel's continued advancement in technological research. Europe lay in ruin, dominated by industry and fueled by its prisoners of war, and it didn't take long for the Empire to cast its eye upon the United States -- the capital of the world. By 1953, the old world surrendered, and offered its neck to the bloodied red banner and its ideas of a new age of mankind.
The war-afflicted USA painted itself as the ideal; a colored landscape, a revival of the roaring twenties. It remained headed by an American spokesperson, though it served only as a facade, for Nazi influence had long injected itself into the Whitehouse and corrupted the very foundations of its power. Civilians were heavily regulated and were made to abide by listed zones and curfews, and the poor and war-torn populace were allocated rations and aid when their need was dire. Laws were pressed by martial standards; the SS patrolled the streets in frightening numbers, and the Gestapo raided suspect residences freely and without consequence.
Most had submitted to the New World Order, and had slowly settled into a sense of normalcy and routine. But there were few who still donned their duties and anger, manifesting in form of rebel movements across the globe. In 1955, the population held its breath at the assassination of General Heinrich Engel, former leader of the Nazi scientific movement and tyrant of the American Embassy. The victory was short-lived, however, for the death of one monster gave rise to many others. The incident provoked a mass shooting of civilians deemed suspicious of rebel involvement, the bodies of which hung upon the walls of the embassy 'til the crows began to claim them.
The concept of survival proved simple, albeit difficult to swallow. Silence, and obedience.
Obey, or die.
Clear skies, clean air; each graced her senses and was met with deep gratitude. Lena's chin had lifted towards the clouds, having once forgotten what they had looked like, and she stepped from the boat ramp in vacant and bewildered thought. Her mind cast back to home, and she pictured the crumbling ruins of Warsaw, the barbed fences of its many work camps, and the thick grey fog which lingered eternally above them. Like the rest of Europe, Poland had been torn down by the war. Lena had admired the Americas on old stamps and postcards, and for the first time she was able to finally behold them in person. Normalcy became apparent to her, presented in vast crowds and neon signs which glowed even in the blue of the midday sky. Yet, there was a certain, uneasy weight to the air, and amidst the poster girls and bright billboards it didn't take long for her to notice the red banners which lined the harbor. Swastikas glared like the eyes of the beast. And beneath them, the grey demons themselves; devout members of the Schutstaffel, mingled among the harbor crowd.
Lena had long practiced the art of caution, and knew well to avoid attention when none was needed. But as she approached the gates to the feigned free world, a lump formed in her throat. Though she was still some fifty meters away from the gated checkpoint, the on-duty officer had already set an eye upon her, peering from beneath his peaked grey cap. She swallowed, and lifted her chin as to at least wear the mask of confidence. She had nothing to hide. Nothing to hide. Nothing to hide.
She was, perhaps, a peculiar sight; short-haired, as was the rule in her former station, and oddly clothed. Her lithe figure bore a plain white blouse and pleated navy skirt, falling a short ways past her knees in an elegant format. Atop this otherwise normal attire, however, was an olive-colored coat which seemed a few sizes too large. A coat intended for men, it seemed, with its padded shoulders and large breast pockets. Most strikingly was the presence of rouge lipstick on an otherwise pale and naked face; no doubt the marking of a poor girl who had been given her first cosmetic gift. She carried a cheap black purse over her shoulder, and hugged a dossier of type-written documents to her torso.
"Frulein."
The man stood from his station as Lena approached, his arms folding loosely behind his pack. She peered up at him with a small nod in greeting, and from the dark look in his gaze, she knew he was already looking for a reason.
"Do you speak English?"
"Yes, sir." Lena's voice was small, bearing the subtle and almost-absent grace of her home accent. She held out her dossier, which the officer took, and his eyes lingered down upon her for a moment before dropping to her documents. The front-most page, headed by a read triangle stamped with the letter 'P,' covered her identity, and of course, her former address.
"... Aslau Stammlager. Gross-Rosen." His gaze lifted, and her lips parted. He was making her needlessly nervous.
"Yes, sir, I was granted amnesty from the Gross-Rosen camps only this February passed. The documentation is all in there."
Again, he read on. Gloved fingertips peeled the pages apart, and he ran his vision down the many given references in support of her release. His brow raised, and though his expression remained firm, she could tell he was amusing himself.
"Service and good behaviour." He exhaled sharply through his nose, his own accent thick with hints of his homeland. "What service would that be, might I ask?"
Her lip quivered. It was known that amnesty was scarcely given to those charged to live among comfort women, and so she did not know why he scrutinized her so. It took conscious effort to prevent herself from frowning in his direction, and the corners of her lips quivered in agitation.
"I was stationed in comms, sir," she began, withdrawing her breath, "I translated speeches and radio communications for intelligence and new arrivals." A deep scowl presented upon the officer's already rugged features, and her fingertips tingled in sudden nervousness.
"An interpreter. You speak German?" His tone was bitter as he returned to his native language. She nodded. "You might've told me this to begin with and spared me the effort. Show me your arm."
Her breath hitched in her throat. "Sir, with respect, I have done this on the ferry already --"
The officer clicked his tongue. She exhaled, reaching to lift her sleeve, but the material was stiff and would not bundle tightly enough for her to show him what he wanted. Her eyes glanced in either direction, conscious of on-lookers, and she resorted to shrugging off her coat completely. She dropped it along with her bag to the dry floor, and unbuttoned the cuff of her blouse sleeve. The cotton was rolled to her elbow and she held out her forearm. A numbered tattoo was present on the flesh; 3087980A. The officer gripped her arm, running a gloved thumb firmly across the ink to check that it was permanent before pulling away. She grimaced at the sensation, and was quick to return her coat to her shoulders.
Indeed, Nazi officers stationed in the Americas knew well to be wary of those claiming to hail from labour camps. Whilst many had been given the privilege to rejoin society in recent days, most prisoners - particularly those held in Europe - had no property nor funds registered to their name, and were thus forced to stay within the camps regardless. Lena, however, had been granted the will of her great uncle; a former cobbler, whose shoe-making aspirations had led him to purchase a small home in New England. That home now resided under the name of Lena Zielinski, a former Polish prisoner of war, whose home was reclaimed four years ago at the age of sixteen.
"Keep these on your person, and present them when asked." The officer spoke, still uneasy of her entry as he lifted the iron latch and allowed to gate to slide partways across. He handed back her dossier, allowing access to a new land. "Welcome to New England, Frulein."
It had been easier than expected, no doubt, but she could still feel the weight of the Nazi's glare against the back of her skull as she departed from the ports. She preferred the authority of her homeland, somehow, for the threats there were blatant and easily recognized. Here, they were subtle, but frightfully potent -- like a pit of snakes, hidden 'neath a thin veil of attractive silk.
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Easier than expected?
"There she is. Right on schedule." In the sea of refugees and steel hatted soldiers stood a group of German officers. Leather clad with trench coats that pooled around their ankles and Luger pistols strapped to their waists, the men quickly locked their gazes upon their target, watching as she passed through the nearby security checkpoint. For many weeks, the Gestapo had been on the hunt for a Polish girl from the Gross-Rosen camps, who carried in her bag a set of top secret documents passed between a long line of traitors and commandos. It was believed that American partisan groups were eagerly hunting this information, having forged documents allowing for the prisoner's release and even managing to arrange her transportation to German-occupied America.
"Ausgezeichnet. Wait for the signal." The men watched as the border officer turned towards the group. The soldier had been given orders to light his cigarette if the numbered tattoo was a match to the woman who had escaped the camp. Indeed, just a few moments later the soldier had placed a cigarette between his cold lips and brought the small flame towards his portrait. It was time to move.
The six men dispersed, moving in different directions like they had rehearsed many times before. The first soldier moved down the nearby alleyway to cut her off while two more followed several paces behind her. The rest maintained a safer distance, silver submachine guns clasped in their hands just in case things turned unexpectedly violent. It wasn't long until the entire group was in position to make their move, the first soldier emerging from the alleyway in front of the woman. He pretended not to notice her, appearing so suddenly that she would not be able to change course before unceremoniously colliding into him. "Ah. Entschuldigung, Frulein." A faux smile creased the man's lips, who seemed eerily unsurprised by the sudden impact. "Are you alright?" He remarked, this time in thickly accented English.
The girl would be given hardly enough time to respond as the two officers behind her closed the gap between them. "Don't move." Another voice ordered from behind, the pointed barrel of what could only be a pistol placed up against the back of her oversized peacoat. It was only a moment later that the second man threw a dark bag over her face, obscuring her vision as the three men forcefully grabbed her and dragged her into the adjacent alleyway. The three soldiers quickly managed to pin the lithe Polish girl up against the dirty wall, any attempts to struggle under their grip futile in the face of overwhelming odds. "We've got her. Go fetch up the Wagen." In the absence of sight, the woman would be able to hear the sound of jackboots running away.
"Good morning, my sweet, little spy." The officer let loose a chuckle. Clearly the officer took great amusement in his horrifying profession. "Do you have the documents we're looking for?"
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"Who knew PTSD smelled like cigarettes and whiskey?"
0900 HOURS
New England
Perched on the top level of an abandoned apartment complex sat two, rather broad silhouettes. They had been there since the night before, waiting for their target to finally arrive aboard one of the ships that came into the harbor. "Tell me again why we're looking for this girl?" A gruff voice sliced through the morning fog, the unsettling aroma of trapped cigarette smoke congregating in the room. Even between the artillery and gunfire, Commander Richard Winters had always hated the silence the most. The long periods of serenity that betrayed his survival instincts. Even when overlooking the beautiful waters below, Winters could hear the lamentations of the dead echoing through his mind.
"It's on a need to know basis. She's got something that we need." Sitting beside the commander was another man sent from Resistance Intelligence. He was slightly smaller in stature, wearing a dark sports coat and sunglasses that hid his pupils from the light... and wandering eyes. Held up to his face was a pair of binoculars, pointed towards a ship that was just docking at the harbor underneath.
"I know a dozen girls that got something I need..." The Commander retorted, "...Never tried this, though." He leaned back in his seat, propping his leather jackboots up against the open windowsill. Winters was a larger man with broad shoulders and possessing a chin sharp enough to kill Nazis. Most notably, however, the man sported a rather iconic leather eye patch over his right eye... a trophy of sorts that he earned during the war. It seemed like it was only yesterday that he was a stupid, young boy with grandeur dreams of heroism. It wasn't until he made his first jump into hell that he realized that war was nothing like he had expected.
"It doesn't look like she's on this boat, either." The man sighed, before suddenly straightening himself. "Wait. I think that's her."
Winters dropped his feet from the windowsill, picking up his own pair of binoculars and peering through the optic with his left eye. "Which one?"
"Brown hair, olive coat."
"They all have brown hair and olive coats."
"Younger... uh, probably in her twenties. She's carrying a black purse, I think."
"The one at the checkpoint?" The Commander whistled, "She's a cute one. Damn, you sure know how to pick them out." The two men watched as the woman made it through the checkpoint, though it didn't take them long to immediately notice that something was amiss. "Uh oh. Looks like our rabbit has some wolves on her tail." Winters watched as the group of Gestapo officers dispersed, one man running into the alleyway before the others made off in the other direction.
"Shit! Shit!" The man hopped from his seat, picking up his rifle before rushing towards the door. "Let's go!"
"Uh, where do you think you're going? You gonna shoot up an entire German checkpoint by yourself?"
The man paused, "We need those documents! If they fall back into German hands..."
"They're the Gestapo. They'll just take her to the same place they always do. Then we'll infiltrate, get the documents and the girl. Piece of cake." He scooped up his equipment bag as he spoke, slinging it over his shoulder before moving towards the door. "Just get the safe house and the escape vehicle ready. I'll do everything else."
"Wait."
The Commander opened the door, stopping in the open doorway.
"We don't need the girl. Our orders are to kill her to avoid anything from leaking."
"If you say so." With that, the Commander disappeared.
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The harbor crowd was parted by the light click of oxford heels as Lena stepped away from the gates, merging into the streets beyond and moving with a certain degree of haste as her hands fumbled through her pockets. After some effort, she produced a silver watch from her coat and held it level with her gaze. The engraving had faded and the finish was dull, but it worked well enough.
She muttered something beneath her breath, and her brows dipped into a light frown. She was late by a few minutes, and she hoped the arranged car would wait a little while longer.
A brief moment spent upon the tips of her toes allowed her a small glimpse of what appeared to be her cab in the distance. Her pace quickened at the sight of it, though it was short lived; in her nervous haste, she was unable to veer around the officer who intercepted her path. She walked flatly into him, gasping sharply as the air was knocked from her lungs and panicking briefly as the watch flew from her grip. She stumbled back, and then forward again; her knees buckled as she hurried to catch the silver timepiece before it rolled further away.
She dusted it off, and green eyes lifted to behold the man before her. Nie.
"Excuse me..." She dipped her head, apologizing quietly and moving quickly. But another man blocked her way, and then another.
Nie. She had been promised safe passage.
The press of gunmetal against her spine caused her to hold her breath, and her gaze flickered among passersby; each paid no heed, out of fear for their own lives. There was barely a moment to negotiate before her vision fell to black, and she was pulled into what she could only assume to be a back alley. Her taste of freedom had been terribly brief.
"Don't touch me." Her voice quivered, and her form leaned back as to maintain her balance against the wall. Her fingertips pressed into the brickwork, and her head tilted downwards, listening intently for all her lack of vision. Of course, weak words weighed little, and she felt a hand clasp around her forearm. She flinched hard, and suddenly spat venom.
"Fass mich nicht an," her voice was clearer now as she spoke in a tongue they would better understand, and she wrenched away from his grip, almost falling sideways as she did so. "Gestapo-Hunde. I have nothing for you."
She should have known better than to throw insults at men such as these. Lena had long learned how to behave around Nazi underlings, but she was frightened, and so lashed out like a cornered animal. The sound of guttural laughter did little to help her uneven breathing, and she held stiff as her bag was ripped from her person.
Lena could hear its contents being emptied on the floor; loose coins, a single key, and the dossier of papers she had used at the checkpoint. She could hear documents being shifted and flipped, and the low muttering of officers who could not find what they were looking for.
One of them tutted after a moment, and she let out a sharp yelp as she was seized by the collar. She was lifted partly upright, and her heels dug into the ground; the man who held her pulled her pea coat apart and pushed his hand into the large inner pocket; another binding of documents was pulled from it, and she was released back against the wall.
More rustling. This time, she did her best to silence her breathing as to listen, and heard the falling of silence as they examined the paper.
Parts of it were in German. Other excerpts had been rewritten in Polish. Most alarmingly, much of it had been replaced with some form of cipher; there was no decoding document, and presumably, Lena held such knowledge in her memory. Her lip quivered at the sound of a humored chuckle.
"Clever." One muttered, shifting his bootheels against the concrete. "Very clever, Frulein."
A lump gave rise in her throat, and she pulled hard against their grip as she was once again dragged away. She presumed the worst; a nest of Gestapo, and an empty room. Lena had seen it before, and knew of the methods used to deal with suspected spies. She had failed, and so bid her blessed daylight farewell.
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There was a smug aura of satisfaction that lingered between the Gestapo officers as they finally found the documents they had been searching for, which had been hidden cleverly between the pockets of the girl's jacket. Though the documents were obfuscated by some level of unintelligible code, keeping the information out of the hands of the hands of American terrorists was far more important than understanding the intelligence themselves. Hope would soon give way to terror... and It wouldn't be long now until Lena's most vivid nightmares would find themselves basked in reality.
"Get her in the car." The sound of squeaky brakes reverberated across eardrums as the Gestapo officers opened the door. The Germans then lifted the defenseless Polish girl from her feet, dragging her back out of the alley before unceremoniously tossing her into the backseat of the car. They took extra care to not let their little spy escape by handcuffing her hands around the inside of the door, the blindfold that hung over her face still clouding her vision. Once she had been properly secured into place, the door was slammed shut and the car began to move. The nightmare had begun.
The car ride was brief, ten... perhaps fifteen minutes maximum. Without her vision, it would be impossible to know what sort of direction she was going, but even without the blindfold, the foreign Polish girl would probably have some difficulties making sense of the New World around her. Two German officers occupied the front seats of the car, while several more Volkswagens tailed them closely to prevent any sort of escape. It wouldn't be until the engine's whirring had ceased and the sound of opening doors that Lena would be signaled of their arrival. The men grabbed her, unhooking her from the door before taking her into some sort of building.
"We looked through everything. There's no decoder." One of the men muttered as they walked through the mysterious building. As they descended several flights of stairs, the air got remarkably colder... and there lingered the faint stench of death that one would never forget from residing at the concentration camps. "and it's not any Allied code I've seen."
"Interesting. Perhaps the Frulein will know more about it." As they walked down a long, straight corridor, a loud sound suddenly blasted through the hallway. A single gunshot, a scream, then silence. "Don't be afraid, my little spy. Your death will be much slower than that, I assure you." Eventually, Lena would be forced to take a sharp right, through what she could only guess was a doorway before finding herself in another room. It was then that the door was shut, the officer reaching over to pluck the blindfold from her face before discarding it to the side. "Welcome home, Frulein." The officer cackled as Lena's vision returned.
The small room was dreadful, a sterile room shrouded in almost complete darkness. A single, decaying light hung from the short ceiling above, even the smallest vibration would cause the lightbulb to temporarily short out. But worse than the furnishings was the smell, the strong odor of bleach rising from the floor. No doubt the previous occupant had been murdered, the blood hastily scrubbed off of the floor before the arrival of their next victim. With Lena were now only two of the officers that had abducted her moments ago.
"Have a seat." The officer pulled a chair from underneath the metal table, the only furniture that existed in the torture room. He gave Lena no time to register his words before another Officer smacked her across the face, pushing her into the chair violently. "I'm going to give you one chance to do the right thing, Frulein" The first explained to her, placing a paper and pen down onto the tabletop. They then placed one page from the documents that had been hidden in her jacket in front of her, the coded message that only she could interpret. "Decode this." He commanded, knowing full well that their newest prisoner wouldn't be so willing to cooperate easily.
The officer placed his hand underneath Lena's chin, strong fingers forcing her to look up towards him. "I suggest you choose you next actions very carefully."
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Lena's pace was staggered and unsteady, shaken by her nerves, failing to trust her unwelcome escorts as they pulled her blindly through unknown corridors. The gunshot almost sent her reeling backwards, and she maintained her balance only through the tight grip of the Gestapo who held her upright. She breathed a silent whimper, counting her quivering breaths, and muttered something to herself. The smell of bleach was nauseating, and the sudden sound of the door clicking shut behind her signaled the true beginning of beginning of her nightmare.
She almost wished they had left the blindfold in place. She scoured her eyes over every corner of the room, searching immediately for an opportunity, and she found none. She was seated briskly, and pressured instantly. She stared at the pen she was handed. Was she strong enough to use it as a weapon? Perhaps, if only as a means of making them shoot her as an early exit. Her hands curled tightly into the fabric of her skirt, and she gazed vacantly at the entourage of symbols before her. She had been complacent ever since she was first taken from her home in Warsaw. She did as she was told, and survived through the continuous transcribing and translation of documents at the request of Nazi communications. But this time was different. The had broken years of trust, tempted by a man who had promised her freedom in the Americas in exchange for a small favor;o encode and courier documents, far beyond her understanding. There would be no forgiveness for this -- she would die, no matter her choice of action within that room.
"Nie --" The concept was frightening, so when she was taken by the chin, only a moment passed before she pulled herself away so harshly that she came clean off of her seat. She fell to the ground and pushed herself towards the wall, her palms pressed against the bleached floor.
Then, she laughed; a quiet, nervous laugh, provoked by hopeless fear. Her head held low and so her hair obscured her vision, and she spoke softly.
"Idioci. Do you truly believe that I am the decoder, as well as the courier?" Her lip trembled beneath her quiet lies. "You Gestapo... aren't selected for your brains, are you?"
Indeed, she had resorted to stalling, in the vain hope that some flavor of opening would arise in the meantime. A miracle, by all guesses.
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"Ah. I find it odd you would mention that." The man crossed his arms against his chest, a muted chuckle echoing between the corners of the compact prison cell. If the little hummingbird was suggesting that the Gestapo officers were dull, then what was she for making such a remark? "If you are not the decoder, then I suppose that we have no further use for you, do we?" The man shrugged, before turning towards his subordinate. "Scharfhrer." Leather jackboots clicked together as the man snapped to immediate attention. "Kindly put a bullet through the good Frulein's head." The Officer displayed no interest in questioning the little spy any further, even though he could easily see through her thinly veiled lies. "If she cannot decode them, then we should dispose of her."
"Jawohl." The soldier stepped forward, his strong hands grabbing the Polish girl by her brunette head. He pulled her away from the wall and towards the center of the room, forcing her down upon her knees in front of them. "Guess we're not the only ones without any brains, hm?" The man drew out his sidearm, the barrel pushing through her bangs so that the cold steel pressed firmly against her forehead. She would have no choice but to watch as his finger slowly made its way to the trigger, ominously stroking the curved piece. It was the end of the road for the little spy who thought she could escape the grasp of the Iron Fatherland. As if time moved slowly, she would be forced to watch as the trigger inched backwards, waiting for the inevitable descent into darkness.
Click.
The sound would be louder than any gunshot she would ever hear, the soft click of the empty handgun reverberating throughout the cell. The men tried their best to stifle their laughter, before both erupted into a chorus of unabashed laughter. To mercilessly execute a degenerate enemy of the Fatherland was perhaps the greatest thrill a sick Gestapo officer could ever bask upon, but to watch their victim tremble, cry and plead for their life before their last moments was a joy unparalleled. Like had been promised as they were walking through the halls just moments before, death would not be so easy of an escape for the traitor.
"Aha! Look at how the poor Frulein trembles." The Gestapo officer pushed past his subordinate, glaring down at the frightened woman beneath his feet. "Yes! That is the face that I want to see!" The grotesque, insane laughter that escaped the clearly unhinged officer's lips would have been enough to fill any nightmare. "Oh, you are so much prettier this way, my little spy." He opened his palm, striking her across the face without any mercy. His hand then found her throat, pushing her back up against the wall as his fingers dug violently into her nape. "I'm going to make you squeal for me. Yes! Mmhm. You're going to show me so many beautiful emotions before I snuff the life from your eyes. We are going to have... so... much... fun." He held her throat until he could feel her struggling for air, her pupils slowly beginning to roll backwards before he would finally release her.
"Ah, but I am late for lunch. Not to mention that Oberkommand will want a report on our successful capture." He turned towards the door, adjusting the collar on his jacket. He gave two knocks on the door, signalling the guards on the outside to open the cell door. "Scharfhrer." The officer turned towards the other soldier as the door slowly slid open. "Do what you will in the meantime. So long as you keep her in one piece. If she decides to talk, notify us." With that, the Gestapo officer disappeared from the room, leaving the captured spy alone with his dog.
"So, it's just the two of us, now." The man remarked as the door came to a close. He placed the empty handgun on the table, his hands eerily reaching towards his belt. "Let's have a little fun, shall we?"
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She recoiled as she was approached, and grit her teeth as she was pulled strongly by her hair. Her hands raised instinctively to balance herself upon her weak knees, which threatened to buckle beneath her, and in her shaken state she uttered near-silent words with the last of her breath.
" -- even now resignedly and willingly, I accept at thy hand, with all its anxieties, pains, and sufferings, whatever kind of death it shall please thee to be mine."
Even Lena still turned to her lost God after her years spent in subjugation. Tears welled behind closed eyes, and her lip trembled at the cold press of steel against her forehead. The seconds felt like hours, and she jolted sharply at the hellish click of an empty round.
Her eyes opened in sickly realization, and the tears she had held back began to fall. Her hands dropped beneath her line of vision, and she closed her quivering fingers together, digging her fingernails into her palms as to stifle her sobbing. Their laughter made everything infinitely worse; she stared up at them, wide-eyed and humiliated, tear-stained with an incomprehensible cocktail of fear and hatred.
The strike to her face leveled her back to the full reality of her situation, and she gasped sharply as her teeth cut into her inner cheek. Her tongue rolled at the metallic taste of blood in her mouth, and she could not stand to resist the man's hand in time as she was seized and pushed heavily against the wall. Dark crimson pooled at the corner of her lip, blending seamlessly with her rouge, and her hands gripped tightly as his own as her throat was squeezed. Only when weakness demanded that she drop them did he release her, and she fell to the floor, holding her bruised neck as she gasped for air.
Words of torment fell upon deaf ears. She wondered how many times she'd be deprived of death, before she'd start begging for it.
Oddly, when the superior took his sudden leave of the room, she felt more in danger than she had before. From her unseemly position on the floor, she stared up at the other; an underling, no doubt, who took great pleasure in his position regardless. She watched his hands, heeded his words, and pressed herself further back against the wall. She wished she could sink into it.
"Nie, please," she shook her head, reviling herself for pleading with him, and pulled her coat tightly around herself. "Do not deprive me of my dignity, if I am to die."
Alas, appealing to a Gestapo's good nature was scarcely successful, if at ever all.
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Indeed, asking the Gestapo for mercy would prove to be a woefully futile effort, for she would have a better chance of success prying steel with her bare hands. The German Officer simply laughed at her, for she had not been the first to implore him for mercy. After all, these were the tactics they used to create their aura of terror, to ensure that any person who dared to rise up against the Fatherland would understand the consequences of their actions. No, there would be no mercy for the defenseless Polish girl this day.
"Dignity?" The German Officer curled his hand into a fist before ruthlessly swinging towards Lena's face. The punch crashed against the flesh of her soft cheek, violently knocking her face to the side as the man let loose another grizzly cackle. "A Polish whore like you has no dignity to lose." He spat, taking a moment to revel in the damage he had caused. "You're going to learn the price of betraying the Fatherland. Then you will die." His words sprung forth like venom, the man navigating back over towards the table. A nearby drawer slid free, unveiling a leather pouch from its depths. What was inside of it, surely no person would want to know.
"I'm going to make you sing, Frulein." The man revealed a strange, metal contraption, an object that looked like two wires affixed to a leather band. While Lena was left to contemplate what he was planning on doing with such a device, the soldier was already looming above her. With nowhere for the poor girl to flee, he quickly grabbed his victim by her short hair, moving the strange object towards her face. It went without saying that the man had done this many times before... and despite Lena's inevitable struggle it wasn't long until he had forced the metal wires between her teeth, the leather band locked firmly behind the back of her head. It was some sort of dental device, used to keep a victim's mouth pried open and to prevent them from biting down.
"That look suits you, spy." He taunted her, placing his hand underneath her chin as his other unclasped his belt. He pulled the leather belt free from his waistband before wrapping it around Lena's throat, tightening it until the leather bit into her flesh. "Are you ready for your punishment?" He growled, pulling down the band of his pants to reveal his grotesque, throbbing erection. As horrifying as it was, rape was perhaps the most efficient tool in the interrogator's repertoire. A female spy stood almost no chance once they found themselves at the hands of their merciless foe.
He grabbed her brunette locks once more and pulled her face closer towards his waist, the tip of his manhood pressing up against the spy's already parted lips. "We know you can decode those messages. I'm going to give you one more chance to do the right thing." His eyes watched Lena's terrified expressions, though even if she chose to acquiesce to her captor's demands, she would be unable to vocalize a response given her current situation. "Ah. I can't understand what you're trying to say." He taunted her, "Oh well, at least I gave you the chance." Without hesitating a moment longer, the man forced himself between Lena's parted lips, his invasive length pushing forward and immediately to the back of the Polish spy's throat.
It seemed that Lena's nightmare had begun.
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The taste of iron pooled on her tongue, her cheek throbbed, and she slumped 'neath the shadow of the officer. All notion of reason had left her, and she pulled against the grip in her hair. Her palms pushed hard against his legs, and the soles of her feet scraped against the floor in a desperate and flailing effort to drag herself away from him. Lena was entirely unnerved by the small bit of apparatus he wielded, and she tried to bite down, to no avail. She pinned it as some form of dental equipment, or horse bit. She was utterly humiliated. She scowled pertinently at his taunts, and her form both tensed and trembled in fear and anger.
Her eyes became wide with horror at the reveal of his erection, and ultimate intention. She whined and resisted, turning her head against his assault only to be greeted by the pain of his grip and the sting of the belt against her flesh. His arousal basked in her terror, and there was nothing she could do. Nothing she could say. Vain attempts to verbalize came out as meek whimpers, tasked by both the metal apparatus and the pressure on her windpipes, and all physical efforts to escape had been met with little other than pain. She should've stayed in Poland.
The invasion of his length was relentless, and straining. Her hands pushed against his thighs and her fingernails dug into the fabric of his trousers. Almost uncontrollably so, her mouth had begun to salivate against him and the metalwork, and dribble formed at her lower lip. Her eyes burned with dried tears, and she swallowed reflexively, pressing her tongue against the underside of his shaft. She could still draw breath, though only barely -- the obstruction of her assailant and the belt around her neck inhibited her air intake and caused her to hum and whine against him with every exhalation. Lena was becoming increasingly dizzy; a faintness owed to the sudden waning of oxygen in her system.
She teetered on passing out. She wished she would.
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The German Officer growled as he relentlessly ravaged Lena's mouth, taking an incredible, perverse enjoyment in the nature of his profession. He pinned her hair back against the wall, ignoring the hands that attempted to claw and push him away as he violently thrust his waist against her frightened portrait. He groaned upon feeling his victim's tongue press up against the underside of his length, the sight of saliva uncontrollably dribbling from the edges of her lips only encouraging the man to violate her more mercilessly. The Gestapo were most efficient when it came to torturing their victims, knowing many, grotesque techniques to make their victims squeal. As soon as the officer noticed Lena's pupils begin to dilate, he immediately removed his invasive length from her mouth.
"Oh, Frulein, you cannot sleep just yet." His words were followed by a smack across the Polish spy's face. He then reached down, his fingers claiming Lena's chin as he turned her face up towards him. "Your mouth is quite pleasing, my little spy. Maybe instead of killing you, we could yet find other uses for you." He chuckled, before retaking his former position. Sparing Lena no quarter, the man once again violated her mouth, his hardened length pressing deeper inside of her throat as she was forced to face the violent piston once more. Tightly gripping her hair, he thrust into her face with staggering ferocity, the back of Lena's head unable to move from the wall from the sheer force of each thrust. "Yes, instead of killing you, I'll make sure that a thousand men get to rape you." He laughed, "Then only after your holes have been used by a thousand men, will you be allowed to die."
While feeling a tongue helplessly lap across his shaft was a good feeling indeed, nothing rivaled the amount of pleasure he received watching an enemy of the state face their most dreaded moments. To watch as the Polish girl's eyes begged for mercy, while her body trembled in unequivocal fear was indeed the greatest pleasure any Gestapo officer could ever experience. The Gestapo cared little for whether or not their victims eventually talked... for it was more about the method... the example. It was their duty to make sure that anyone who dare raise a hand against the Fatherland would understand the consequences of their actions.
It wasn't long until Lena's pupils were dilating once again, the Officer pulling away at the last moment before his subject could slip into the safe veil of unconsciousness. He gave her the opportunity to breathe, waiting for her to come back to her senses before repeating the process once again. He did this several times, until the defenseless Polish spy would no longer be able to discern just how long he had raped her mouth for. Eventually, the German Officer would release a groan as he drive himself deep into Lena's throat a final time, his pulsating member releasing a thick, bitter substance into her mouth as he finally climaxed inside of her.
Hell had ended, for now.
The Officer pulled away, pulling up his pants and redoing his belt. "We'll be visiting soon. The next time, we won't be using just your mouth." He chuckled. "Welcome to America, Frulein,"
Several hours later...
"I hadn't been informed that the SS would be coming."
Within the Gestapo headquarters, a single man stood in the entryway, a rather imposing figure wearing the all black uniform of a Schutzstaffel Colonel. "Guten Tag, Ich bin Standartenfhrer Staufen." He spoke in a clean, however slightly accented German. Across his face he bore an eyepatch, a not uncommon sight for men that had fought during the war. "I'm here to see the prisoner." He explained, reaching upwards to remove the dark, officer's cap that sat atop a mess of dirty blonde hair. The Gestapo officers that greeted him looked at one another, before turning back towards the Officer.
"She is still in processing. We cannot release her without the proper paperwork. Even then, you will need to wait until the interrogation has been completed so we can give our full report."
The Colonel shook his head, "I just need to ask her a few questions." A small smirk formed across the man's lips. "Don't worry, I'll be quick."
The Gestapo Officers conversed with one another for a few moments before turning back towards the Colonel. "I am sorry, Standartenfhrer, you must wait until the interro-"
"Do you have a phone? I would like to call the Reichsfhrer. I would like him to know that his orders are being held up by his own men." He explained, indeed, the leader of the SS was also the head of the German police.
"Scharfhrer. Take the Colonel to see the prisoner." The Officers relented. "He will be in the room with you for your questioning. I am sure that this is acceptable?"
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Minutes bled into imaginary hours as Lena's consciousness swayed to and fro, her eyes beginning to roll back against the assault. The strength in her arms waned, and eventually dropped to her sides. The last bit of effort was paid into restraining her reflexes as she felt her stomach muscles begin to tighten. Her moments of numbness were cut short each time by the officer's careful timing of short breathing periods, to which her body would instinctively draw deep breaths as if they were her last.
His release into her throat was sudden, and bitter, and her eyes widened as the feeling dragged her back into full daylight. The taste was foreign, and she was forced to swallow, her eyes watering at the shock of it and her body keeling forward the moment she was released. She coughed, trembled, and coughed some more; her fingertips scraped against the floor as she acknowledged his threats and she was rendered worldless. His sardony and taunting words only worsened the strange taste in her mouth, and his departure from the room left her humiliated, disgusted, and unfathomably angry.
As soon as the door clicked shut, her hands lifted to claw at the device on her face. She dragged the leather past her skull, and it clattered to the floor.
"Szumowiny." She hissed, kicking it across the room for good measure. She then paced, attempting to shake off her light-headedness, and ran her hands through her tousled hair. She was a mess; her eyes were raw, and her coat hung loosely from her elbows. Her face... She wiped the saliva from her jaw, taking off her smudged rouge completely as she did so, and leaned her palms against the desk to steady her swimming mind. She swelled on his words. "Pieprzy ci..."
Her teeth grit, and she glanced carefully around the room. No windows, no vents, no open doors. Nothing but cold tiles and minimal furniture. She thought about wrenching a leg from the desk. Ridiculous. Alas, her eyes cast down to the pen which had been left behind, resting atop the single page encoded print. She drew a long, quiet breath, and picked it up.
Metal. How careless. Lena tested her ideas by jabbing it lightly at the back of her hand. It hurt, and she imagined even she might be able to use it as a shiv with a little effort. But gestapo attire was well-woven and sturdy, and wouldn't allow for such an attack against the chest. Regardless, she held it tightly in her hand, and moved towards the doorway. Red-faced and still livid, she slid down the wall beside it, positioning herself directly against the opening side so that the door would hide her as they entered.
Her eyes closed in thought. Not the chest, not the back, but... She'd stab them in the back of the knee. Or at the very least, she'd try to. It'd allow her enough time to break into a sprint, though she was unsure what would follow besides almost certain death. She did not know the building she was in, nor did she know where she was within it. Regardless, she was unfazed as she assumed her seated position by the door, and did her best to steady the incessant shaking of her hands.
The first man to walk through that door would be in for an unpleasant surprise, if she succeeded. And then... Whether through the front door or via a bullet through the brain, she was leaving this place, free from the threatened actions of the man she could still taste at the back of her throat.
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Through the halls of the Gestapo Headquarters, two figures moved down the narrow corridors, the soles of leather jackboots echoing off of the desolate walls. It had been many years since the Commander had seen the inside of such a place, the harrowing halls triggering images that the disturbed veteran would have preferred to have forgotten. The Gestapo Officers eventually led him towards a room at the far end of the hallway, standing at the entrance. "Here we are." The Gestapo officer remarked, signalling the guard to open the doorway for them. As the door came open, the officer beckoned for the Schutzstaffel Officer to enter.
"Danke." Richard stepped through the doorway, immediately noticing that no woman was in his immediate visage. It was then that the man fell under the spy's hastily arranged ambush. From the corner of his eye he noticed a sudden movement, one that immediately appealed to his sense of danger. It was the girl, striking from the corner of the room and aiming for what seemed to be his legs with a shiny object in her hand. A knife? He didn't hesitate, moving forward and pivoting as the little spy attempted to stab at the back of his legs.
"Entschuldigung," he remarked casually, reaching down to hastily pluck the woman by the wrist. The Commander was much larger than the lithe, Polish spy, his strong hands firmly controlling her wrist so that he may better see the weapon clasped in her hands. "A pen. Clever." He mused to himself, a single sapphire glancing over towards the woman in front of him. She was noticeably younger than him, with tear stricken eyes and a head of short, disheveled brunette. Yet, despite her modest, unkempt appearance, the Commander found the flame that burned in her eyes rather alluring... for those gorgeous, little gemstones seemed to convey so many emotions: Fear, anger, desperation, sadness, hatred.
"I actually forgot mine at home. May I?" Richard squeezed the woman's wrist, until the pain would eventually force her to drop the pen upon the ground. He then moved towards the table, placing his leather briefcase upon it. "Has she deciphered any of the code yet?" He opened the locks on his briefcase, sliding a box from its contents.
The Gestapo Officer that had violated Lena just a few hours ago followed behind the Commander, immediately striking her across the face before pushing her towards the ground. "You stupid, Polish whore!" He growled, before turning towards Richard. "No, She has refused to talk so far." His glare found its way back down towards the defenseless woman at his feet. "But I have ways of making her talk, just you watch." His hands made their way back to his belt, undoing the buckle as he prepared to ravage Lena once more.
Behind the Gestapo Officer, Richard unveiled what appeared to be two pieces of a tire iron, a cylindrical, metal rod and a rubber handle. While the man was distracted, Richard pressed the two objects together in a clandestine fashion, the unassuming objects clicking together without much effort. In only a few moments, the two pieces of metal had been put together to form a fully functional, Welrod pistol. By the time he had finished, the Gestapo Officer was pushing Lena backwards against the wall, his pants lowered down to his ankles as he attempted to defile her.
The Welrod pistol was silent, no louder than a leather boot stomping down against the ground. Neither Lena nor the Gestapo Officer would realize what had just happened as the Officer suddenly noticed he was having difficulties breathing. Blood began to trail from the gaping hole that ran across his neck, the man desperately reaching for his throat as he could feel himself gurgling upon his own blood. His first instinct was to scream, but only the grotesque sounds of choking bubbled to the surface. The man fell to his knees as blood trailed down his neck and began spilling over his black uniform. "Mfghhhh!" His frightened eyes looked up at Lena as he desperately held onto his neck, clinging onto his last moments of life before finally collapsing onto the ground.
"Hm. I was trying to shoot him in the head." The Commander now spoke in English for the first time, his hand traveling to the back of his silent, bolt action pistol. He pulled the breaching block back, chambering another round. "What's your name, girl?"
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Lena had played the scenario through her head over and over. Imagined it to every last detail. So why, why did it not work? Her heart had nigh stopped when the door finally opened, and she moved exactly how she had rehearsed in her mind despite this. But now she stood awkwardly, her wrist seized by her target, grimacing as her resistance was met only with pain. She dropped the pen, and it clattered to the floor. Wide, burning eyes glared at the newcomer, and her stomach dropped. She recognized the black attire of the SS immediately, and it was not a welcome sight. The Gestapo were vile and wild, yet predictable in this manner, whereas the Schuzstaffel were a high-rise of sinister and conniving intentions. They had managed every aspect of her former residence, and had long hammered a instinctual sense of fear into the back of Lena's subconscious.
The strike to her face had knocked her cleanly out of her entrancement, and her attention drew towards the man from before. She wished he had walked through the door first; she might have succeeded in her intentions, had it been so. "Get away from me --!" No amount of gifted wit would subside the officer's brute strength, and she was shoved up against the wall with an iron grip. Her hands clawed and her legs kicked, and she could feel her flesh bruise beneath his hands. She whined through gritted teeth as her skirt was pulled upwards and her legs were pushed apart; she made every effort to make it as difficult as possible for him, and in her desperation she failed to catch on to the subtle movements of the other officer, whose calm demeanor showed no signs of change.
Her entire form jolted at a low, sharp sound; a hollow thump, and the whistle of air. Her face felt warm, and she could see blurred spatters of crimson upon her nose. The weight against her form had wavered, but she remained frozen, regardless. There was a gurgling -- and a heavy thud as the Gestapo dropped to his knees before her. Her eyes tracked his own, wide in shock, and she watched as he fell back against the tiles. A dark pool of blood swelled around him. Lena held her breath, until she couldn't.
"-- Oh Christ." She choked as she finally exhaled, edging across the wall as a means to get away from the body, stepping over his legs in the process. But she couldn't stop looking. She felt sick. Blood had been sprayed upon her face and chest, and stained the crisp white of her blouse; she wiped at her face with her fingertips, and whimpered when it the blood did little more than smear. She gazed up at the SS Officer, and studied his features, seeking an semblance that might give her an indication as to why.
Then he spoke, and her tenseness lapsed in a veil of realization. Her legs quaked, and she leaned into the wall for support. A short breath exhaled into laughter; a morbid, nervous laughter, quiet and suppressed beneath her lowered gaze. "You're no Schutzstaffel," she began, her voice faint with exhaustion, "the SS would not move for a Polski nikt." One hand was used to pull the collar of her coat back up and above her shoulders, her head raised once more to watch the man's movements as he chambered another round. A grim smile pulled slightly at her lips, for she knew well that a weapon like that would make for a poor choice in escaping. It was just him, and her. She was glad that she didn't trick herself into the hope of being rescued.
"My name is Lena, and I'm one of two individuals able to quickly decode the documents you seek." The back of her skull leaned against the tiles. "The other is in Warsaw. He hates Americans." Her eyes never left him as she prattled. Blonde, fair; he would have suited the SS. The thought almost amused her, and she sighed. "Though I suppose the American resistance has the time and resources to decode it on their own. And I suppose that bullet is for me."
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The Commander watched with stoic interest as the hummingbird retreated backwards, melting into the wall as nervous laughter mixed with the Gestapo officer's gurgling throes. She was correct to surmise that he was not actually with the SS, though such an obvious statement made the edges of his lips crease upwards into a grin. "Maybe I am. Does it matter anymore?" He paused, hearing the name of the woman he was about to kill. "Lena. That's a lovely name." He replied, turning towards the desk to find the documents that the Resistance had sent him searching for. As he began to stuff his briefcase with the documents, he continued to listen to listen to Lena speak. It wasn't long until she had caught on to her fate. "Call me Winters."
"You'd be correct." His words were softly spoken, the slight hint of hesitation noticeable in his voice. That hesitation was the only difference that existed between him and the monsters that he fought, for the Schutzstaffel killed and tortured happily. His single-eyed gaze turned back towards the Polish spy, "My orders are to take the documents and terminate you." Indeed, the Resistance would not need her to decode the information as they had been the ones to come up with the system themselves. Once the documents had been properly secured into the briefcase, the Commander pointed the Welrod pistol in Lena's direction.
"Tell me, hummingbird. Do you want to live?" He whispered, waiting for Lena to make peace with this world before being sent into the next. He waited... he listened... his finger slowly reaching towards the trigger. The anticipation fell to an anti-climactic halt as the Commander finally lowered the pistol, the weight of his conscience overwhelming his ability to shoot. He bit his lip, his brows furrowing in mild frustration before he suddenly burst out into an unceremonious laughter. "Sorry, kid. Bullets are getting pretty expensive nowadays. I hope you understand." Taking the briefcase, he moved over towards the door, beckoning for the spy to follow. Command was certainly going to raise hell over this.
"But I'll tell you what... if you come with me, I'll buy you a drink instead." He knocked on the metal entryway, signalling the officer on the other side to open the door. As the door swung open, the Commander reached out with his pistol, the suppressed crack of his pistol echoing throughout the hallway as another monster fell to the ground, lifeless. It wasn't everyday that Winters got to shoot up a Gestapo headquarters... this was going to be fun. "Make yourself useful." He tossed the briefcase over to Lena, watching as it soared through the air and into her embrace. "If you want to live, I suggest you not fall behind me."
As soon as his hands were free, he holstered his pistol, reaching down to claim the submachine gun that was slung over the dead Gestapo officer's shoulder. As he pilfered the corpse for survival equipment, he managed to obtain several magazines and more importantly, a fresh carton of cigarettes. "Thanks, bud." He patted the dead officer's shoulder before turning towards the way that they had came. Yet, before they could make their escape, several black-suited men appeared from around the corner. The guards immediately noticed Winters standing over the dead body, running towards them with their guns pointed.
With Lena still hidden inside of the cell, the Commander came up with quite the bright idea. "She escaped! Sie ging diesen Weg!" The Commander turned around, pointing down the opposite hallway. Without even questioning him, the German soldiers ran past him with their weapons drawn. Once they had run past and were moving in the opposite direction, Richard raised the submachine gun, the deafening sound of automatic fire blaring as the Commander cut both of the men down with a single burst of fire.
Looks like things were about to get interesting...
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My orders are to take the documents and terminate you.
Lena's eyes closed beneath a light frown, and she raised a hand to her face, rubbing her temple and eye socket. Her head hurt. Everything hurt. The corners of her lips quivered as she stifled her upset, though his next question threw her off kilter, and she exhaled a sharp and quiet breath of morbid laughter.
"Do you ask all of your targets that question? Of course I want to live." Her tone was grim and sardonic, and her gaze fell to the floor in what could be perceived as acceptance. She held herself still, expecting a gunshot which never came; rather, after a series of strangely long seconds, she was instead met with hefty laughter. She startled, and her eyes opened wide, hesitating a moment before looking up towards the American. Her brow was knitted, her expression almost... offended. She had faced the prospect of being shot so many times in one day that it seemed to be something of a joke now.
Lena was thusly rendered dumbfounded, her breathing fast-paced and her hands curling into fists as she recollected her disarrayed thoughts. The following events were quick, and beyond her current hindered perception; she stared blankly as the guarding officer entered, and fell. Only the sight of the briefcase hurtling towards her pulled her out of her trance, and she gasped, pressing back into the wall as she fumbled with her grip, cradling the case against her chest. What was he doing? Shouting. He was summoning them, she assumed, unaware of the attention he had already garnered in the hallway.
"Idiota, what are you doing -- ?" She hissed, suddenly far more alert than before. She stepped towards the door, almost tripping over the gestapo's body as she did so, though quickly halted at the sight of the small posse of officers sprinting past the American, and nigh falling backwards at the ear-ringing sound of the confiscated sub-machine gun. A lump formed in her throat, and Lena approached the door with a little more caution, slowly edging into the corridor with the briefcase held tightly to her person. She looked down at the first corpse, and then upward, towards the group of dead and dying men and the sprays of crimson which now painted the walls. She was no stranger to cruelties, but she had never been quite so close to a butchering such as this.
"Here I was, thinking you were a covert man. I..." She could hear the distant sounds of German exclamations and the approaching beat of boot heels against tile. Every bone in her body begged for her to run, but she knew nothing of the building she was in, and could nigh sense that Winters had other ideas. She looked around her for signs of an exit; a stairwell, perhaps, or a window... Turning at the thought, her short heels clicked as she paced quickly towards a high window in the corridor. It was perhaps too short and too high up the wall to climb through, but would serve as a good enough looking point nonetheless. She tucked the briefcase beneath her arm and reached for its sill, levering herself upward by standing on pipework on the skirting and straining to look out of the glass. They were a few floors upward, at least; she could not see the floor from her position. She dropped, catching her breath, subduing her sense of panic as best she could. "If you get us out of this, I think I'll buy you a drink. As many rounds as you like. What are you going to do, Mr Winters?"
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"If you get us out of this, I think I'll buy you a drink. As many rounds as you like. What are you going to do, Mr Winters?"
Now there was an interesting proposal. "Heh, I guess I made the right choice keeping you alive." The Commander mused between quiet breaths. "Not sure, I don't usually plan that far ahead." He ejected the half-empty magazine from his submachine gun, allowing the metal box to clatter between his boots as he locked a new one in its place. "I suppose I'll just do what I do best." Richard shot Lena a passing glance, watching as she managed to jump up and look down from the window. By accomplishing such a feat, she only learned what the Commander could have already told her from walking through the front entrance; that they were a few levels above the entrance.
"There's probably a dozen Gestapo between us and the exit. It will take about three minutes before their reinforcements arrive." He explained, checking his gear a final time before they would make their move. "Stay close and do as I say if you want to make it out alive." With that, the Commander began to run down the hallway, opening the door at the far end that led to the access stairwell. Sweeping the barrel of the machine gun across, he made sure to check his blind spots for any threats before motioning for Lena to follow. "Let's go, hummingbird." The Commander didn't wait for Lena before beginning his descent down the stairs, gun still clasped between his masculine digits. With only a few officers left in the building, they were all most likely holed up in the lobby waiting for them. The plan made sense, after all, there was only one way in and one way out... with time being on the Gestapo's side.
The pair descended down several flights of stairs before finally reaching the door to the lobby. As soon as Winters stepped off of the stairs, he held out his palm, signalling for Lena to stop in her tracks. "Stay there." His gruff voice was soon followed by a tense silence. Slowly, one hand reached into his jacket, while the other cautiously made its way towards the doorknob. He knew that as soon as he opened that door, that all hell would break loose. The Commander could feel his heart freeze as a bead of sweat cascaded down the silhouette of his face.
Three... two... one.
The Commander opened the door, backing away as a hail of gunfire began to pour through the entryway. Clouds of smoke and debris began to fill the small access stairwell as the sound of bullets greeted the pair. Without even waiting for the gunfire to stop, Winters revealed the object in his hand... an American hand grenade that he had stuffed into his coat pocket before entering the building. Pulling the pin, he tossed the grenade into the room, listening for the ear-numbing sound of gunfire to give way to panicked curses in the German vernacular. The building shook violently as an explosion sent more dust and debris through the doorway. While any sensible person would have waited for the smoke to settle, the Commander knew that this was his opportunity.
Charging inside, the Commander found the surviving Gestapo officers confused and in disarray. Without even a moment's hesitation, he began to unleash a torrent of gunfire upon them, killing the ones still holding their weapons first. Among the fallen officers, one of the men was clinging to his wounded arm, laying on top of a collapsed desk. "Nein! Don't shoot! I surr-" Even before the man could finish his sentence, Winters placed the barrel of the submachine gun against the man's head.
"You can come in, now." The Commander waited for Lena to step inside, the man underneath him was the one that had ordered Lena to be shot a few hours earlier.
"Please! Let me-" Before he could finish his sentence, Winters pulled the trigger, an audible click signalling an empty gun.
"Oops. One second." The Commander once again ejected the empty magazine, the metal box this time falling into the Gestapo officer's lap. He loaded a fresh magazine in, placed the barrel against the man's head once again, this time receiving the satisfying bang that he had been searching for.
Now that the room was silent, Richard spent a moment staring down upon the man he had just killed before turning towards the door. "Let's go. I'm tired of this place." He pressed through the door, leaving the Gestapo headquarters and back onto the street. He would take an immediate right, leading Lena into a nearby alleyway before unceremoniously discarding the submachine gun into the adjacent dumpster. "You probably think I'm not so different from them." Richard spoke as he removed his black, Schutzstaffel jacket, which was now covered in blood and grime. He tossed the jacket and his necktie into the dumpster before turning towards Lena.
"Go on, say it. I'm a monster, aren't I?"
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He had told her to stay close, and so she did. She was no soldier; no weapon of war. Her skills lay within words and weedling -- not gunfights and extractions. She tread upon his shadow as they descended the stairwell, her arms wrapped tightly around the briefcase as if it were her very life's work. She stopped midway through the last flight as he raised his hand to halt her, and her brows dipped, her fingertips tingling with nervous adrenaline as Winters himself seemed apprehensive of whatever might be behind the stairwell door. The intensity of the silence was smothering, and she grit her teeth, unsettled by the absolute lack of movement within the building. Both sides knew where each other were; they merely waited for either one to make a mistake. Lena became fidgety, and she scarcely processed the production of a fragmentation grenade in time.
The explosion provoked a sharp cry, and the tremors which followed knocked her balance and caused her to stagger back against the staircase. She released one of her arms from the briefcase and reached to steady herself on the handrail, though not before cutting her knee on the metal edge of the stair she perched upon. Her ears rang painfully, and she hissed through her teeth at the stinging of her grazed flesh. Amidst the gunfire and screams, she used the briefcase as a childish shield from both the cacophonous noise and the loose debris which fell from the ceiling. Even when the guns fell silent, and she was given the all-clear by Winters, she hesitated, her teeth chewing at her inner cheek as a means of pulling her attention away from her nigh insurmountable stress.
She did move, in time, inching around the doorway quietly, digging her fingernails into her palms. The massacre was grisly, and she tried to keep her eyes averted, holding her breath as she approached Winters while carefully maneuvering around the blood which pooled at the floor. He had snuffed the life out of the building so easily -- as if it were as mere an action as blowing out a candle.
Lena's eyes soon fell upon him, however, and her expression fell into a state of sudden indifference, standing a short ways back as the Nazi begged for his life, taunted cruelly by the click of an empty barrel. She scarcely flinched even as his life was finally ended, a feat she quickly scolded herself for. Indeed, it was a grimly satisfying sense of deja-vu, though she said nothing on the matter.
"Skurwysyn." She hissed under her breath, resisting the urge to kick and spit at the man's body as she passed by it. I told you I had nothing for you.
The sky outside had darkened, and her breath hitched. How long had she been in there? Would they still give chase, even having fled so far? Though still on edge, her adrenaline had settled, and everything began to hurt as they dipped into the alleyway. The cut on her knee, the graze on her cheek from the Nazi's palm, and she could even still taste the bitterness of --
"Go on, say it. I'm a monster, aren't I?"
Lena's eyes flicked upwards from the floor, her attention drawn suddenly to Winters and away from herself. She watched as he discarded the SS uniform, as bloody and grimy as it was, and was suddenly conscious of her own attire. Her white blouse had been spattered with another's blood, and clung disgustingly to her own torso. She drew in a breath, pulling her coat around herself to hide it. The question played at her mind, and she found herself almost apologetic towards him. She knew monsters, better than most in fact; she could not see it in the man before her, though.
Oddly enough, she managed to muster a small smile, as sincerely as she could, given the circumstances. "Don't give yourself so much credit." Her bantering was dry. The briefcase held loosely in the nooks of her fingers, and she was admittedly unnerved by his sudden change in demeanor. "Men do monstrous things, it is true. But you are a war dog. One who is tired of war, albeit."
"The gestapo are vermin. Dogs kill vermin, all the time. In my eyes, that does not make you a monster." Her smile faded, and her gaze averted to the ground again. "And I'm alive because of it. It is true they did not intend to kill me so quickly, but..." her words trailed, wary as to not disturb herself by the mere thought of it. Instead, her arm raised, holding out the case by its handle. "You were not the named recipient, but it was aimed for the Resistance, nonetheless. Nothing really went to plan today."
Her lip quivered, her raised hand trembled, and her stoic facade started to quietly crumble. The day's gnarly events began to dawn on her, seemingly all at once. She wanted to just leave and forget, but things would not be so simple, given what she knew.
"Is it safe to assume that you won't just turn me loose?" She laughed nervously, stifling a sob by briefly covering her mouth with her sleeve. "Then... I suppose I did promise you a drink, didn't I?"
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The Commander listened as he gave his little spy the opportunity to speak, who seemed more than willing to offer him some sort of justification for his gruesome actions. Yet, as his ears attentively processed Lena's words, it was clear that his single-eyed gaze was wandering to both ends of the alleyway. It was a habit that Winters seldom realized he was participating in, but one that was born out of a long lifetime of necessity. A survival instinct, carefully bred and nurtured until it had become second nature. "Tired?" His lips creased upwards into an inquisitive grin, "That's a lot of assumptions for someone you've only known for a few minutes."
Before Winters could fashion more words, he noticed the girl hold out his briefcase by its handle, offering it towards him. "Plans are just like people," the Commander pressed his hand against the extended briefcase, pushing it back towards Lena's chest; for this was her burden to bear, "...if you follow them blindly, you're bound to get disappointed more often than not." After hearing the words spoken from his own voice, Winters could have sworn that his tidbit of wisdom sounded much cooler in his own head. "Anyways, your job isn't quite finished yet. You'll be taking this to the Resistance with me." After being captured by the Gestapo, Lena was a liability now. If she were to be captured again, then all of their intelligence could have been gathered for nothing.
"Then... I suppose I did promise you a drink, didn't I?"
"'As many rounds as you'd like,' were your exact words, if I remembered correctly." His gaze turned back towards the direction they had came, the commotion from the pair's escape quickly rising in severity. A large crowd of people began forming at the entrance as more Gestapo officers were beginning to make sense of the gruesome scene they had found. "Let's go. I know a bar not too far from here." Winters turned towards the opposite end of the alleyway, beckoning for Lena to follow before the military would expand their search to the surrounding city blocks. While the Commander managed to look less conspicuous by ditching his bloodied uniform, a quick look at Lena's disheveled appearance would probably surrender her identity rather quickly.
As the pair began to exit the alleyway, Winters immediately noticed a group of German soldiers running in their direction, automatic weapons in tow as they pierced through the crowded streets in search for anything out of the ordinary. Caught off guard and with only a moment to react, the Commander hastily spun about, grabbing his little spy by the collar of her bloodied shirt before pushing her back against the alley wall. The hummingbird was as light as her nickname implied, her small wrists captured by strapping hands before they joined her back against the wall; locked in place just above her messy, brunette head. It wasn't long until Lena would find herself pinned between the wall and the bulwark that was the Commander's chest, a single, sapphire eye foreshadowing the action that was about to come.
With little hesitation, the Commander cocked his head slightly to the side before forcing his face against Lena's own, lips crashing against one another as he locked her into an unexpected kiss. Winters growled deeply, the vibrations passing between lips as he delivered a rough, bruising kiss upon the little spy's mouth. The German soldiers gave disinterested, passing looks at the couple, Lena's slender form mostly covered by the Commander's larger size. Yet, even as the threat subsided, Winters persisted, his hands still gripping Lena's wrists in a surprising display of passion and dominance, giving her no choice but to obediently lay between his chest and the wall. His tongue invaded between her lips, teasingly lapping and prodding the inside of the spy's mouth as more soft growls emanated from his own throat, the strong reverberations echoing off of their joined tongues.
Once he was satisfied, the Commander pulled away, finally giving the ambushed spy a moment of air. "You alright?" His whispered softly, releasing his grip upon Lena's wrists before taking a step back. He almost acted as if nothing had happened, his cold gaze watching Lena carefully before turning away. "We should get moving. They're going to be looking for us now."
Perhaps he wasn't much better than the vermin after all...
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"Disappointed?" Lena stifled grim laughter, drawing in a long breath as she briefly recalled her abduction. "That's one way of putting it."
Her arm fell back to her side as the briefcase was pushed back into her, and this time she did feel an air of disappointment. She didn't want it. She'd had enough. The Nazis had trusted her with far too much; the memory banks of the multilingual woman held tomes of grisly knowledge, garnered from her years of service as little more than privileged prisoner. But with the aid of the document's author and an inkling of luck, she was on the run as a fugitive -- a traitor of the Fatherland, as if it ever held her allegiance in the first place. She was a loose end, and in the shadow of an American, no less. She knew well that the previous ordeal had been a mere taste of what would happen, if she dared to be caught again.
"Mhmm, let's go." She mumbled, following in Winters' shadow as he lead her down the alleyway. She smiled briefly upon being reminded of her earlier offer, and glanced briefly over her shoulder. "Well, as many rounds as the change in my pockets can afford." In her folly, she had not thought to retrieve her purse. Her personal documents within, forged as they were, held her name and her previous belonging. The thought of it made her grossly uneasy, though she did not comment on the matter.
Lena's eyes had remained upon the floor upon their exit into the streets, though she had barely set a foot outward when she was seized by her collar. She gasped sharply, wincing as he pushed her flatly against the brickwork. His seizing of her wrists caused her fingers to loosen and the briefcase clattered to the concrete, leaving them both in a silence broken only by the approaching sound of footsteps beyond the alley.
"Ow, what are you --" Her words hitched when her gaze lifted, and she met the intensity of his single-eyed glare. She drew a breath at his closeness, smelled the subtleties of leather and gunmetal, and shivered slightly at his direct change in demeanor. She pulled at her arms slightly, quickly understanding that they would not budge, and opened her mouth as if to protest.
No words spilled however as his face pressed to her own, her lips quickly sealed by a startling kiss. She hummed gently in surprise, emitting a soft whimper as her stomach flipped and her chest fluttered. She could hear the patrolling officers proceed down the street some ways, so why wasn't he stopping? Her eyes had shut, squeezing tight against the invasion of his tongue, and her muscles quivered involuntarily as her body reacted to the rawness of his assault.
His release was abrupt, and she was left aghast against the wall, her lips still parted slightly as he pulled himself away from her. The moments which followed saw her expression devolve into a frown, and she retrieved the briefcase from the floor, comprehending her thoughts as best she could. She was frustrated at his nonchalance, though she found it difficult to be mad, given Winters' previous sparing of her life. Fingers ran through her hair and pulled at her collar, fully aware of the flustered heat at her cheeks. Despite everything, Lena had certainly never been kissed like that.
"You..." She mumbled, quickly moving to catch up to him. "You can have that one for free."
The streets were deathly quiet, emptied by the commotion of gunfire which had ensued at their former location. The air was becoming cold with time, and Lena hugged her coat around her with herself free arm. Her mind struggled to digress from Winters' recent overstepping, but she found it in her to speak, nonetheless. "Say, this bar... Do they usually cater to folk who look this disgusting? I need a bath." She'd been dragged through trouble, and looked like Hell. It would have perhaps been more acceptable, if the blood had been her own.
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"Say, this bar... Do they usually cater to folk who look this disgusting? I need a bath."
The Commander stepped forth from the alleyway, waiting for a moment until his spy would follow suit. "If they didn't, then it wouldn't be a bar worth going to." With that, Richard buried a hand into his pocket, unveiling the white carton of cigarettes he had stolen from one of the Gestapo men he had killed. He produced a cigarette from the misappropriated box, placing the butt between the lips that had forced themselves upon the Polish spy just a moment earlier. "Don't worry. We'll get you cleaned up." He remarked finally, flicking the top of his lighter open as he cradled the weak ember underneath his palm.
The remainder of their trip was rather uneventful, the Commander keeping a watchful gaze for any wandering German patrols as they made their way through the labyrinth of alleyways and surface streets that connected the city. They moved at a brisk pace, until the dense crowds of the downtown city streets dissipated and silence had prevailed. The longer they walked, the more derelict the urban landscape would become, the homeless hiding away at the entrances of abandoned buildings and between dirty alleyways. At the very least, Lena would no longer look so out of place anymore.
Eventually, the pair arrived at a large, multi-leveled building that looked like it had seen better days. Upon first glance, one might think the building abandoned as well, if not for the single, neon sign that marked the establishment as open. "Here we are." Winters gave Lena no time to consider her options before he pushed through the door and disappeared into the building.
The inside of the establishment was a remarkable contrast to its exterior, the homely and derelict outward appearance betrayed by a high-class interior. The lighting was dim, produced by several glass chandeliers that dangled over the high ceiling. Inside, many groups of ostentatiously dressed people sat as well-crafted tables. Even in the corner of the bar, one would be quick to spot the black uniforms of SS officers hiding among the bar's patrons.
But the presence of German soldiers didn't seem to bother Richard in the slightest, who moved over towards the surprisingly vacant bar. Before Richard could take a seat, the well-dressed bartender leaned forward, pointing towards the Commander. "How many times do I have to tell you? No smoking in here." The man groaned, his hand moving towards the black necktie to loosen the knot. He was a younger man, with dark hair and a pair of thick rimmed glasses that sat upon his face. It was quite obvious by his initial reaction that he had a long history with the Commander.
Winters removed the cigarette from his lips, flicking it over the counter and into the wastebasket by the bartender's feet. Clearly, he was becoming quite skilled at such a feat. "Look, can you just tell the airheads that I've got their delivery?" The Commander motioned over towards Lena,.
"Every time they let you loose, you make a mess." The man turned towards Lena, a stoic expression taking hold of his face. "Your orders were to terminate her, were they not?" He spoke of Lena as if she was just some thing, not a person with a life to be valued. "You know you're going to get in trouble for not following orders again."
Without vocalizing a witty retort, the Commander drew out his Welrod pistol, throwing it onto the bar table in front of the man. "There she is. Do me a favor and shoot her for me." The gun was unloaded, but it didn't matter. Winters knew the man wasn't willing to get his own hands dirty.
The man glared at the Commander, then at the pistol that was in front of him. "Command ordered you to do it. This isn't my job."
"And I outrank you. I'm ordering you to shoot her."
There was a tense silence as the man looked at Lena, then at the Commander. "I'm going to go tell them upstairs that you're here." With that, the man disappeared through the door behind the bar and left the pair alone.
"Hm, well that was anti-climactic." Richard grinned, reaching over the bar to grab a pair of empty glasses and a bottle of scotch. "Drinks are on the house tonight~"
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Lena shadowed Winters closely; the heavy presence of the surrounding SS uniforms made her dreadfully uneasy, ingrained with a nigh lifelong fear of their insignia. However, the more she stared from the corner of her eye, the more... peculiar they seemed. The entire establishment felt strangely fake, and her pondering of it was enough to partly distract her from the dry bantering between Winters and the barkeep. Ah. It was a base. She recalled a bar being mentioned by her contact; she hadn't imagined it to be hidden beneath such a classy veil, however.
"Can you stop juggling my life around?" She muttered, watching carefully as the other man turned and dismissed himself from view. She wondered what had happened between the two, though the thought was suppressed by her visible irritation at his detached acknowledgment of her. "I'd rather not be terminated by anyone. Not here, at least." Her expression bore a deep frown as she seated herself at the bar, her eyes settling upon the backs of her hands as she rest them on her lap. The tinkering of glasses drew her attention briefly, and she found herself mildly anxious. Alcohol, being prohibited in working camps, was almost completely foreign to her. The feeling was brief, however, as she felt someone's gaze fall upon her from across the room.
Lena glanced to the side, holding her breath as she met the deep blue stare of a raven-haired woman from across the room. She sat quietly at one of the tables by the far wall, swirling a shallow glass of whiskey in a light grip, and she was staring. She wore a flattering red tea dress, and her eyes were cat-like. A wry smirk was playing at her painted lips. Lena looked away, redirecting her attention to Winters with the hopes of distracting herself away with some flavor of conversation. But her gaze dropped unwittingly to his mouth, and she almost burned red at the sudden reminder of his earlier transgression in the alleyway. Her fingers dug into the fabric of her skirt, and again she turned, this time to face the woman from earlier, who was now positioned less than a foot away from Lena's own face.
She gasped sharply, catching herself with a flat hand against the bar as to not fall from the stool in her surprise. Her startling was met with a soft, troublesome giggle, as the woman from before had moved to seat herself next to her. Lena gazed with wide eyes; she was blindingly attractive, as if she had been plucked straight from a propaganda poster.
"Excuse me, Miss, is everything --"
"Alice." The woman spoke, her voice soft as she propped herself on the bar with her elbow. Her eyes never strayed from the spy, and she seemed to be blatantly ignoring Winters. "And you are Lena Zielinski, our little courier. Still very much alive, though."
She was a troublemaker -- Lena could tell that much. Alice, despite her good intentions, amassed dreadful worry with her continual eavesdropping and weedling into plans. She was of no military value, but alas, few dared scold the General's daughter. She was coddled, sheltered, and clearly bored as a result.
"Your face -- what happened?" A slim hand reached to brush against Lena's grazed cheek, who remained stunned at the apparent lack of boundaries. "Keep it clean, you don't want that to scar. You're very sweet."
"I've had worse." Lena spoke bluntly, her nervousness beginning to show. Alice laughed quietly, her eyes briefly drifting to the empty whiskey glass aimed for Lena.
"I'm sure. Here, drink this instead. It'll taste less like dirt." Alice slid her own glass in front of Lena, which contained less than a lick of mildly scented whiskey.
A moment's hesitation preceded a small sip, and the alcohol prickled at the back of her throat, burning her tongue in a manner which made her raise her wrist to her mouth and almost choke on the stuff. Her brows knitted, unable to quickly fathom why whiskey would ever be anyone's first choice.
"Pft, do you not drink?" Alice giggled, dreadfully amused by the girl's disgusted expression, "where have you been all this --" her words trailed as her eyes caught a glimpse of Lena's arm. The sleeve of her coat had been slightly raised by her ordeal, and a few small numbers peeked out from beneath it. In all her prying, she hadn't learned of the courier's... background. Lena caught onto Alice's attention quickly, and tugged her sleeve back down.
"Well, don't allow these brutes to let you linger like that all day." Her smirk sharpened, and though she paid no heed to Winters, it seemed to be a less-than-subtle dig sent his way. "I'll bring you a change of clothes a little later." With that, Alice stood, returning to her original seat to collect her bag before disappearing through a windowless side door. Lena was left dumbfounded, and she leaned into the bar, her fingers running slowly through her hair.
"Niebiosa powyej," she breathed, "I'm not usually so precious over personal space, Mr Winters, but... Is everyone like that?"
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The Commander flashed his little, Polish spy an almost patronizing smile. "The gun was empty," he explained, reaching over to playfully ruffle Lena's already disheveled head, "I went through so much trouble bringing you home. Which means I'm the only one allowed to hurt you." He poured himself a glass of scotch, leaving Lena to ascertain whether or not his words were a threat or merely spoken in jest. Almost as soon as he had poured himself a glass of scotch, Richard noticed a figure in the corner of his eye. He didn't even need to look up from his glass to smell the hint of perfume strike his nose. It had to be Alice.
Richard kept silent as the General's daughter spoke. Indeed, she was a pretty face to look at, but she had always been more trouble than she was worth. The Commander had certainly built up a reputation for being an infamous womanizer, but even he was smart enough to steer well away from Alice whenever possible. He simply waited, enjoying his drink as he listened into their conversation. For some reason, there was a distinct annoyance brewing inside of the Commander as she flirted with Lena, becoming even more fervent when he noticed the nervousness in Lena's voice... her posture.
By the time Alice had departed, the Commander had already finished his first drink and was pouring himself a second round. "Does it bother you?" He asked softly, an almost selfish tone taking his voice. Perhaps there lingered the small hint of jealousy, or perhaps Alice's presence simply annoyed him. "Not everyone, though I suppose Alice and I are similar in that regard." He remarked, practically admitting to his rather... touchy tendencies. His eye visibly hovered down to Lena's lips, a noticeable yet still subtle smirk forming upon his own. Without warning, his face began to hover closer to Lena's own, a motion and demeanor that mirrored his questionable action not so long ago. His lips edged closer, his cold gaze watching for hesitation in her movement, any sign of recoil.
Yet, before he could complete the deed once again, the bartender returned, carrying a manila folder in his hands. Winters pulled away immediately, straightening his posture as he downed his second glass unceremoniously. "Alright," the man dropped the folder upon the bar top, "The command staff are willing to work with you on this." He turned towards Lena, before back towards the Commander, "They want the entire document deciphered in two days. In return, we'll keep you sheltered, at least until we can arrange a new identity for you." The man placed a set of brass keys down in front of the Polish spy. "You're upstairs in Room 203. You're not allowed to leave your room until we say so, do you understand?"
"Hm, we're just like the Gestapo, aren't we?" The Commander retorted, mostly in jest, though there was some oddities about practically arresting their own spy.
"The information is sensitive. We have no idea how much she gave up to the Germans. We can't be risking any more mistakes. It won't be permanent. Only until we can get the information safely decoded."
Winters glanced towards Lena, "Why don't you go and take that bath you wanted?" He motioned towards the stairwell, "I'll come check up on you in a bit."
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"Not everyone, though I suppose Alice and I are similar in that regard."
Lena's breath hitched silently, thrown aside by Winters' passive demeanor as his face approached her own once more. It was abundantly clear that Lena's primary reaction to fear and nervousness was to freeze; her eyes grew wide, stunned by his offhandedness and disregarding of their surroundings. The bartender's interruption was perfectly timed, and she exhaled a gentle, quivering breath. The whiskey shot still clawed at her throat, and served as a slight distraction.
Her attention was pulled by the bartender's words. New identity. Two days. Her hands curled into loose fists upon her lap, and a knitted brow seemed to indicate slight offense at the implication that she may have squealed.
"I didn't tell them anything." She muttered under her breath, her eyes averting briefly across the room before flickering back to the keys which tinkered in front of her. The barkeeper was deathly frank, though it was perhaps preferred, though the thought of confinement still jabbed at her like pin pricks. She sighed, her posture beginning to relax slightly in acceptance. "I understand, sir."
Nodding once in acknowledgement of Winters' suggestion, Lena stepped from her perch at the bar and headed towards the stairwell, with the accursed case hugged to her person. It was a slow walk, and she counted the doors as she turned each corridor. She passed several of what she could only assume to be members of the resistance along the way, and she kept her gaze low, ignoring the weight of their eyes on the back of her head.
Room 203 bore modest furnishing, more than well-suited for its current purpose of housing a disheveled spy. The door clicked behind her quietly, and the emptiness of the space felt immediately heavy. She felt secure, yet still eerily unsafe, estranged by the amenities set before her. How long had it been since she'd set foot in such a place? She held the briefcase in her hands, her fingers trembling against the tightness of her grip. Seemingly sickened by its presence, she dropped it to the floor, and kicked it under the bed and out of sight. Two days. Two days, or what? Discarding her coat, she headed immediately for the bathroom.
Her sodden, stained blouse peeled away from her pale flesh as she pulled it from her shoulders, casting it along with the rest of her attire to the floor. Green eyes beheld her own form in the mirror; she looked terrible. Her face cried exhaustion, and her form had been lightly peppered with bruises and grazes, most of which she could not explain. A very faint red band encircled her neck, afflicted by the Gestapo's belt leather only a few hours before. Though her handling at the hands of the Gestapo had been far from gentle, she hadn't been the one to blitz her way out of the building, and so she found herself dumbfounded at how she'd managed to get quite so beaten up. A bath was, without doubt, the only cure she needed for the time being.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Alice stopped midway up the stairwell, turning over her shoulder to gaze down at the man who had addressed her. Her expression was perturbed. Inconvenienced.
"The girl. Which room is she in? I have a change of clothes for her."
The man sighed, not moving an inch from his position against the doorway. "I can't tell you that."
"Tsk, is she being kept in quarantine, now?"
"Only from you." The man spoke bluntly. "The General wouldn't want you speaking to her."
Alice's brows furrowed deeply, her eyes sharp with an alarmingly sudden and deep-set sense of irritation. The man did not flinch, and rather refused to meet her glare, unwilling to make the mistake of tangling with her and causing far more trouble than what the situation was worth. Seconds passed, and she sighed sharply, descending down the steps and shoving a small pile of folded clothes into the man's chest.
"You take them to her then, Lieutenant." Her tone was laced with venom. "Though I expect she won't be decent, so don't walk in."
The man drew in a long breath, and his brows raised after she departed. "Yes, ma'am."
Unwilling to seek any help on the matter, cotton sheets had proven to be a good source of dressing for the wound below Lena's knee. She'd become well acquainted with the treatment of her own ailments, given that the Nazi doctors within Poland were dubious, unpredictable and best avoided. At present, she merely hoped that they wouldn't notice the absence of intact spare sheets in the drawers. She had washed her wounds with watered-down whiskey and settled into the feeling of overall cleanliness, unsure of just how long she had actually spent in the water. The fatigue in her eyes no longer seemed so intense, her aches had partly subsided, and the dirt and blood had long disappeared from her form. She did, however, ponder the absence of clean clothes, and wrapped herself in a towel.
The air was sickly quiet. She toyed with the idea of making a start on the documents, but her mind was still frayed, and she found herself slowly pacing the open floor. Her eyes eventually settled on the door, and she reached idly for the handle, though her hand stopped and hovered for a moment before she could touch it.
"You're not allowed to leave your room until we say so, do you understand?"
She hesitated. What was she thinking, anyhow? She was hardly in any state of appearance to be wandering the halls in a towel. Just a glance, perhaps.
The door creaked painfully as it opened a small ways, and she leaned her head out of the frame to glance both ways down the empty corridor. She could hear the gentle reverberations of music and muttering beneath the floor, and her gaze dropped downward, her expression quickly perplexed by the folded clothes outside of her door. Lena knelt, wincing at the pain in her knee, and brought the clothing to her grip. The fabric was soft, and carried with it the faint scent of a newly familiar perfume. Ah. The door clasped shut again.
The woman from before seemed to have given her articles of clothing similar to Lena's own, having given her a high-waisted skirt and blouse to dress herself in for the time being. Though the collar dipped a little lower than she might've liked, she was in no position to complain, and she quietly appreciated the gesture nonetheless. She had perched herself upon the edge of the bed, a little downhearted that the elbow-length sleeves did not cover the tattoo on her forearm, and she soon fell backwards atop the sheets.
Had Lena not been so deathly exhausted, she might've chosen not to sleep, even within the assured safety of the surrounding walls. But, lured by her body's encroaching weakness, her eyes soon closed, and her vision faded to black.
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Captain Amelie Cornette
Free French Forces
29 / F / 5'10"
A Captain in the exiled Free French Forces, she had been ten years old when her homeland fell to the German invaders. Her mother was killed in a desperate attempt to flee the Nazi occupation and Amelie would later be taken by her estranged father, a pilot in the now Vichy French Airforce. As she grew up in occupied France, the future Captain began harboring an intense hatred for the Germans for what they had done to her mother... her homeland. Though her father attempted to quell her rebellious tendencies, it wasn't long until Amelie was listening to the banned broadcasts of Charles de Gaulle, hoping for an end to the Nazi regime. When she was sixteen, she would flee with a group of French deserters to Algeria, then onto a British ship to be taken back to the United Kingdom. Since then, she has been involved in a variety of spy operations across the European theater, eventually moving with the European exiled governments to America, where she now serves as an analyst for the Resistance.
Across the hallway of the second floor moved a single silhouette: slender, with ashen hair and unforgettable pools of azure. She was dressed in the distinct, leather garments of a Luftwaffe Officer's uniform, though, like all German soldiers residing in the barkeep, there was no question where her true loyalties lie. As the faux German Officer strode through the usually quiet halls of the Resistance headquarters, she noticed the commotion that wasn't unusual for their little hideaway: an American lieutenant and Alice, the General's daughter. Their terse exchange echoed down the empty corridor, but by the time Amelie had reached the pair, only Alice remained.
"Coucou." The French analyst greeted Alice rather informally, with an almost irritated look stretched upon her face., "Causing trouble again, I see?" Her words were muddled underneath a thick, French accent, English having been her third and most recent language. She looked over towards the Lieutenant, before her wolf-like gaze locked back upon the General's daughter. She waited for the Lieutenant to disappear from view before crossing her arms against her chest, her lips poised to prepare a deft lecture for the sheltered heiress. But before she could begin her tirade, Amelie remembered quickly that words seldom had an effect on Alice. After all, it hadn't been the first time someone had tried to put her in her place before.
But perhaps if words were not effective, actions would be.
Without warning, the French Captain reached outwards, her feminine, yet surprisingly strong hands capturing Alice by the throat before pushing her backwards. In a flash, the General's daughter found herself pinned against the wall, a cold glare watching her like a wolf carefully surveying its prey. "Shhh," she cooed, her free hand placing a finger upon Alice's surprised lips. "Oh l l, the General's pretty, little daughter... always asking too many questions." The Captain shifted her leg forward, pressing more of her weight forward as her leg slid in between Alice's own. "Just because you're the General's daughter doesn't change anything. You're but a lamb in a den of wolves, mon chri."
A grin creased her lips.
"But, I suppose one cannot blame you. It must be rather boring, living in this place with nothing to do." The Captain's lips edged closer, the angle of her neck rotating until her mouth hovered dangerously close to Alice's ear. "Perhaps, if I show you a fun time, the little lamb will learn how to behave." She whispered into Alice's ear, her teeth nipping teasingly at her earlobes.
The Commander had stood outside the door for some time, his single eye staring upon the number that hung off of the door. Room 203. A single hand reached upwards, before a knock reverberated off of the door. In the silence that followed, he buried his hands into his pockets, waiting for the door to open. Several moments of silence passed, leaving Winters to ponder whether the door would open at all. He wouldn't blame "It's me." The Commander chimed, "I brought you a little something to eat." There was still no response... and he deduced that Lena had no interest in seeing him. He was prepared to leave when he heard the lock on the door click open, Lena's portrait peering through the crack.
"You look nice." He mused, a weak smile taking the edge of his lips. It went without saying that the Commander seldom smiled, perhaps one would say that it was a look that didn't suit him very well. "May I come in?" He waited for the door to open further before stepping inside, turning to the table that was just adjacent the door. He placed down a bag of groceries, basic items that would keep Lena going for the next few days. "An upgrade from a Gestapo prison cell, I hope?" He looked over towards Lena, his gaze immediately catching the tattoo on her forearm. He moved closer, eyes still fixated upon the mark.
"Don't be ashamed of it." Winters slowly placed his hand upon Lena's forearm, fingers gently moving across the digits that had cursed her flesh. "We all have our scars."
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Clicking footsteps stopped, and she glared for a while. Even Alice's stubborn temper could not block out the defined voice of Amelie; a figure she would often see at a distance, poised and well-respected and distinctly foreign. Alice's scowl remained, intensified even, and she tutted through her teeth as she resumed her manner and tried to simply walk past the French Captain.
"Don't speak to me." Her words were a bitter whisper. She'd find something else to occupy herself with. She had, however, not anticipated Amelie's own intentions, and was struck dumb as she was pinned to the wall by her throat. The woman's strength was surprising, and nothing availed from Alice's writhing beneath the weight of her grip. She stilled as she hushed her, raising her hands to hold the wrist which seized her throat. Amelie's words were taunting, infuriating; Alice's anger painted itself as a deep scowl which suited her feminine features surprisingly well. She was seething, offended, yet... one might notice the slightest shred of fear which lay beneath it.
"You'll lose everything for this." She breathed, ever naively confident in her father's influence. Her fall-back was perhaps misplaced, however, as the General, like the rest of the resistance, was little more than a war criminal in the new world. The man had previously been decorated as Second Lieutenant; a title which was shed in favor of General by election of his peers after their numbers began to dwindle. They respected him, but his daughter had been a burden, along with his paranoia that she might stray too far out and into the spider's web. Sheltering and lectures on inconspicuousness only bolstered her promiscuity and rebellious desire.
"Get --" Her breath hitched, a cold shiver running down her spine at the peculiar feeling of Amelie's breathy words by her ear. Her reaction was so sharp that her knees threatened to buckle, her balance supported by the Frenchwoman's leg between her own. Her face flustered in embarrassment at her unwitting reaction to such a thing. It was unlike Alice to be out of control, and her eyes averted in uncertainty, her frown beginning to waiver. "... Get off me. I swear to God, Captain."
The knock at the door roused her into stirring, and Lena awakened slowly, weighed down by the day's exhaustion. She propped herself upward, still settled atop the sheets, and her blurred vision surveyed her surroundings as she recalled where she had ended up. She soon stood, and ran her fingers through her hair, tidying her collar as she paced slowly towards the door. She debated opening it; a small sense of anxiousness pulled at her in not knowing who it was, and she seemed to settle in the thought that if they needed her, they'd let themselves in. Her decision was swayed in time by a familiar voice, and she brushed herself down, at the very least trying to conceal the fact that she had blacked out for a good hour or so beforehand.
The door creaked, and she peered up through the gap to make sure it was him before allowing the door to swing open fully. Her arms folded, perhaps a little wary of the small bit of skin that showed beneath her open collar.
"It is." She glanced around the room briefly, her eyes falling upon the darkening window and then on the paper bag Winters had brought in, acknowledging her own lack of appetite. "But it still feels like a cell, nonetheless."
The gentle touch on her forearm brought her attention reeling back, her head lifting upwards so that her eyes might meet the Commander's own, single eyed gaze. A lump formed in her throat, and her brow dipped into a light frown, rendered momentarily silent by his words. She was absolutely ashamed of it. She was ashamed of it, and the things she had done beneath its influence.
"Is it right for me to assume that you lost your eye on the front line, somewhere?" She asked, pulling her arm away and taking a few steps back until her knees touched the bed, allowing her to perch at its edge. "They gave me this, after my estate surrendered." She gripped her arm tightly with her other hand, watching as the flesh beneath her fingers turned white. "I've never fought for anything. I've only ever complied. I took one step out of line and look where it got me, right here in --" she caught herself in a tangent, holding her breath as a means of staving off her muttering temper and exhaling a long, lulling breath.
"Thank you, Mr Winters." She finally looked up from where she sat, unable to recall the last time she had sincerely thanked someone. "For getting me out of there, and not... Not killing me, I suppose."
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"You'll lose everything for this."
The French Captain stifled a chuckle, oh, how naive this girl was. "Then it is good that I have nothing to lose~" she purred, the vibrations from her lips tickling the heiress' lovely ear. Indeed, Amelie had lost friends... her family... her homeland. For what was life without these things? Fearlessly, her lips fluttered closer, before planting a kiss upon Alice's cheek. Her words demanded the French Captain to cease immediately, but the spy noticed well her flustered face... the shaking in her legs. "Mm... I think not," she remarked defiantly, the fingers clasped around her throat tightening instead. She hardened her grip, until the heiress' resentment fell into the incoherent melody of gagging. "You've caused enough trouble." Amelie smiled, her breathy whispers singeing into Alice's smooth portrait.
The next moments happened so quickly... her fingers leaving Alice's throat and grabbing hard upon the neatly groomed, brunette head. She controlled the heiress with ease, after all, this hadn't been the first time she had kidnapped someone. Before Alice could regain her senses, the French Captain was unlocking the door to her room with a single hand, pushing through the entryway before throwing Alice inside. She tossed Alice down onto her floor, the white carpet underneath softening the blow. The door was closed. Locked. Azure pools turning back towards General Weaver's daughter. "Scream if you'd like, mon chri. You know that all of the walls are soundproofed." She raised her hand, before bringing the open palm across Alice's face. "There's much I want to teach you, little lamb. I suggest you pay attention." Anticipating a witty response, another hand struck Alice across the face.
She then moved to a nearby desk, pulling out a chair and swinging it in Alice's direction. "Sit." She ordered, waiting for Alice to comply. Yet, before the Heiress could even choose whether she wanted to, the French Captain reached down, plucking her head once more by the hair and pulling her aggressively into her seat. She was certainly much, much stronger than she appeared. In the world that she was from, strength was necessary in order to survive. "The world is a very scary place. You are fortunate to live here. Protected... sheltered. " Amelie revealed a roll of duct tape from her desk, holding Alice's arm down against the armrest as she began to wrap the tape around it. "Many of us die protecting you, keeping you safe... and yet... here you are: causing trouble." As she spoke, she proceeded to tape her arms against both armrests, then her ankles to the chair.
With Alice's legs forced apart, Amelie's hand brushed up the bottom of the heiress' dress, her coarse fingers moving up her thigh. "I think it's time for you to show your appreciation, little lamb." A malevolent grin found her lips, her hand moving dangerously close to the sensitive region between her legs. Her fingers prodded at the spot for several moments... teasing... playing, until suddenly the fingers hooked themselves just underneath the cloth, pulling until the sound of ripping fabric could be heard. It wasn't long until Amelie had pulled Alice's tattered undergarment from between her legs, holding them at head level for the heiress.
"Hold these for me, Princess." With that, the Captain forced the torn fabric into Alice's mouth, gagging her. "If you drop it, I'll use tape."
"Is it right for me to assume that you lost your eye on the front line, somewhere?"
The Commander pointed to his eye, "Oh this? No. I fell down the stairs." He lied, a vain attempt to lighten the atmosphere. Unsuccessfully, though the attempt was made. He kept silent as Lena pulled herself away from his grip, settling down upon the side of her bed. He listened as she spoke, her compliance the true tattoo of dishonor. "Your survival is how you fight. That little step out of line... it could potentially be worth far more than anything I've ever done." He knew his words would have little effect on Lena's conscience, "I'm not unlike the Nazis. All I know is how to kill. How to hurt." He bit his lip as he removed his cigarette pack from his pocket. "That's not something to be proud of." He subconsciously decided against the cigarette, closing the top before burying it back into his pocket.
"Thank you, Mr Winters."
The Commander had been staring at the ground, lost in thought when the words brought his attention back to reality... back to Lena. "Don't." He retorted, stepping closer towards her and once again invading her personal space. He moved until his larger form was all that she could see. "I didn't do it for free." His large hand found Lena's chest, pushing her backwards onto the bed as he followed suit, hovering over her as she fell backwards. As her head hit the soft embrace of her comforter, the Commander leaned just above her, hands just adjacent to her portrait. "You're mine now. Whether you like it or not." He growled, his eye glaring down upon her, "I don't care if you hate me. You belong to me, now. I'll never let anyone touch you again... hurt you again. Not the Germans... not the Resistance."
The Commander leaned inwards, his lips pressing themselves upon Lena's neck, his breathy words whispering into her ear. She was his. She was his. She was his. Ever since he had gazed upon her, he wanted her for himself. He was a killer, a man that did not deserve to be love or be loved. Yet, he wanted it anyways, regardless of the cost. He wanted someone to hold, a person who would see the man that was deep inside of him, clawing helplessly to the surface. Perhaps Lena was the last hope for Winters to find what humanity he had left. Or perhaps all he wanted was to rape her, like the monster he truly was.
After all, he was no different than the monsters, the Germans who raped and killed for the things that they wanted.
For he, too, wanted.
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Alice seethed, her power complex stunted at her inability to do anything. She could not speak against the grip on her throat, nor could she move against Amelie's surprising strength. She wished that someone would appear, that someone would notice them, before being dragged away into privacy. It was an undoubtedly humiliating ordeal, and she resented every command she was given, for who would dare issue orders to one such as herself? She glared up from the floor with insurmountable anger -- there was, oddly enough, no sense of peril whatsoever in her features.
The woman had hit her. She had never once been struck, and her gaze grew wide, her cheek warm from the impact.
"You --" She hissed through her teeth, "I knew they shouldn't have brought you in." She gasped sharply as she was met with another strike, and her own hand reached to press against her now-tender flesh. Her other hand curled into a tight ball, and trembled in a cocktail of nerves and anger.
"Sit."
No. Her defiance was silent, and her eyes remained on the floor, unwilling to entertain any order which came her way. Even as she was forcefully seated, and bound to the chair, there would be only a slight give in her stoic demeanor. Small hints of anxiousness began to well to the surface, though perhaps under the naive fear that Amelie merely intended to torture her by conventional means. Only at the touch of the Captain's fingertips did her walls begin to truly crumble; goosebumps prickled at her flesh, and her thighs quivered against her feathery touch. She grit her teeth, trying to push her knees together against her restraints.
"Get off me, what do you think y--" Her words cut into a wavering whimper, her head turning to break eye contact as Amelie's fingers pressed between her legs. "Fuck you." She cursed quietly, inhaling sharply as her underwear was torn from her person. Her cheeks were reddened, and she no longer maintained eye contact. Despite her promiscuity, despite her flirtations -- she was perhaps a little more innocent than she made herself out to be.
Princess. Her anger seemed to come back in full flow, her teeth sinking tightly into the fabric after it was forced into her mouth.
She was furious, and... it suited her portrait well.
"I didn't do it for free."
In a moment, Lena was a deer in headlights. Wide eyes gazed up at Winters' imposing figure in brief silence, and she exhaled only as his hand pushed the breath out of her chest. Her back hit the sheets and her arms fell above her, staring up at the shadow he cast over her.
"What are you saying?" She murmured, shaken by the suddenness of the change of atmosphere, and how quickly his demeanor had altered.
"I don't care if you hate me. You belong to me, now. I'll never let anyone touch you again... hurt you again. Not the Germans... not the Resistance."
Her vision flickered across his features, trying to comprehend his actions. Her lips parted as she uttered voiceless words, wary of his intent, which soon came crashing down as he pressed his mouth to her neck.
"No -- wait!" She stammered, writhing beneath him in unruly panic. Why? Her hands reached and pushed hard against his chest and her knees rose to try and assist in the effort, though he did not budge. He was much larger than she, and she herself was weakened by exhaustion; though she had broken out of her frozen stance, there was little to be achieved. Lena whined softly at his contact, and in a final effort at freeing herself, she turned. She twisted her form in a way which might allow herself to crawl out from beneath him, and clawed hastily to pull herself away. In her blindsided effort, however, she tumbled from the bed and hit the floor in an unceremonious manner.
The floor hurt, as expected, and she had knocked a small vase from the end table as she fell. It shattered horribly, but the commotion would likely go unheard, deafened by the Resistance's affinity for security.
From her position on the floor, she looked towards the door, and then the window -- neither of which she would reach in time even if she tried.
"Please, Sir --" She swallowed, pushing her form up against the wall. "If I've offended you, somehow I -- I'm sorry."
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The Commander didn't struggle as Lena squirmed underneath his strong grip, watching as the the girl managed to somehow turn herself around and writhe free from his embrace. She was scared... and she had every right to be. The man in her presence was not a savior... not a hero... but just another wolf laying claim to his prey. He watched with a frown as Lena panicked, stumbling over herself and falling upon the ground. He didn't flinch as the vase shattered, only stood, watching the frightened girl with an insatiable, primal gaze. "Sir?" He spoke plainly, as if pondering her words. He had been called that many times before, but the way that Lena said it... there was something about it that sounded endearing. "I quite like the sound of that." He mused, stepping closer towards Lena.
The Polish spy was indeed pretty. Even in her panicked, frightened state there existed a rather youthful innocence in her emerald gaze. Her eyes were kind, as if they were always searching for the good within someone... even when there was none. Her hair was attractively disheveled, a short head of brunette that complemented her soft portrait well. Most striking, the lips that pleaded for him to stop, that searched for some reason in his madness. He remembered how they felt against his own lips, soft and gentle... the way she whimpered and hummed in surprise. He wanted to feel it once again.
"If I've offended you, somehow I -- I'm sorry."
He moved closer, watching as the little spy attempted to merge with the wall behind her. It was the same look she had given him when they first met, when she thought that she was going to die. Once he was within arm's reach, his hand moved downwards, his strong fingers capturing Lena's soft chin. His thumb teased her lips, parting them slightly as he turned her face up towards him. "I should be the one apologizing." He swallowed, the small vestiges of humanity still left within him screaming at him to cease, to stop the horrible thing that he was about to do. But it was far too late to save Lena... to save himself. His finger played among her lips for a few moments longer, before his hand moved slowly downwards. He grasped her by the neck, pulling the defenseless spy from the floor and upright. He moved his hand upwards until she was standing on the very tip of her toes, unable to settle her feet flatly under the command of his strong hand.
"I'm going to hurt you... -- rape you... -- fuck you." The Commander whispered softly, "You're mine now... do you understand?" He pulled her towards the nearest horizontal surface - a desk that once held the now shattered vase. He threw her against it, pressing her down face first against the hard wood with a single hand as his other reached for the buckle of his belt. The belt came off quickly - and it wasn't long until he had pulled down the waistband of his pants to reveal his hot length. A moment longer and his hand forced her legs apart... and another he was positioned behind her.
"I'm sorry." His words were not without truth, as strange as they may have seemed given his sins. She didn't need to forgive him. Perhaps she shouldn't.
His large hand gripped her short brunette locks tightly, his hand pushing aside Lena's undergarments to make room for his sizable length. Without affording Lena a gentle entrance, he slammed into her -- roughly... most of his length invading her tight womanhood. He pulled her hair backwards, forcing the defenseless Polish girl to arch in painful synchronization at the mercy of his hand. Again he thrust, this time his hot, throbbing length penetrating deeper inside of her. The Commander growled, the feeling of Lena's tight walls pressing against him only encouraging the man further. He was larger than her, giving Lena no choice but to stand on the tips of her toes to meet his waist as he drove himself painfully inside of her.
"Fuck." A string of unintelligible curses emanated from his lips, mixed between his low growls.
He was just beginning.
"Fuck you."
The French Captain grinned once again, eyes watching the angered heiress quite attentively. "That... is the plan," she retorted with a low purr, a single eye delivering a coy wink as her hand slunk back down between Alice's parted legs. Her strong, blue gaze stayed locked upon Alice's own as her fingers slowly dissipated underneath the bottom of her dress once again. The fear in Alice's face had subsided, instead replaced with one of anger... of embarrassment. "Ah, did you not like that one?" Her hand extended out, grabbing Alice once more by the neck as she pressed her throat back against the chair. Holding her down so that she could not strike her with her forehead, Amelie's face hovered teasingly closer, "Princess." She repeated once more, watching as Alice's brows furrowed in anger at the word, as if she was flipping a switch on and off.
With glares embracing one another, perhaps Alice had forgotten about the hand that carefully massaged her thigh. Her feminine digits decided it was time to remind her, slowly moving between her legs to teasingly touch as her exposed womanhood. "Mm. Seems like you're enjoying this much more than you're letting on." Amelie raised her hand up from between Alice's legs, the visual drippings of her arousal webbed between Amelie's fingers. She held her hand up between them for Alice to see, before parting her lips. Slowly, she licked the small trail of wetness that hovered between her fingers. It was a sweet, almost intoxicating taste. She had been with many women before, but none tasted quite as sweet as her little princess.
"Mmm. You taste better than I thought you would." Amelie stepped back reaching into her pocket to reveal a small object - a switchblade. With a single flick, she brandished the blade from its hidden holster. "Oh calm down, sweet. I'm not going to hurt you." She rolled her eyes, bringing the knife closer to her new playmate. "But these are definitely in the way," her malevolent grin found her lips once again, the blade of the knife cutting into the fabric of her chest. Once the initial incision had been made, she closed the knife, tossing it onto her bedside before grabbing the fabric with both hands. For a woman of her stature, she was surprisingly strong, the sound of tearing fabric signalling the deed. "That's better, no?"
Amelie seductively fell to her knees, eyes still looking up at Alice as she positioned herself between her legs. Her hands placed themselves upon each thigh of her bound legs, her head hovering closer between them. She wanted to taste more of the spoiled princess.
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"I should be the one apologizing."
Lena's lip trembled beneath his touch, her head initially turning to one side, only to be redirected by the clasping of her chin. She was forced to look at him, and still she failed to comprehend his intentions. She was usually good at picking up on ill hints, at avoiding the wolves -- but he had offered her no such sign.
"I'm going to hurt you... -- rape you... -- fuck you."
Each word was met by a slight flinch, with Lena unable to find her own voice against the grip on her throat. Her chest rose and fell with every labored breath, and hands clambered at Winters' arm as a means of maintaining what little balance she was left with. Her face tilted up with a pleading gaze -- eyes looking for any reason why.
Dread truly fell awash upon his moving of her towards the desk. She hit the surface with a dull thud, her cheek pressed firmly against the woodwork and her palms laying flat at either side. She choked, whimpered, and tried to push herself upward with her hands. She could feel his form linger behind her, and her hands shook as her thighs were pulled apart. She could feel the air hit her bare flesh, with her skirt now bunched to her waist.
"No, no -- please." Her words were muddled and desperate, sent into disarray by the foreboding sound of a belt buckle and the feeling of her undergarments being pushed aside. "Sir, I'm begging you, I --"
His forceful entry was met with the brief seizing of Lena's entire form; her eyes grew wide and filled with water, and her teeth clenched and grit together tightly. It hurt. The invasion was met by the immediate tightening of her muscles, a reaction which made her feel as though she had been split in two. Her breath held, even as she was lifted upward by her hair, and even as she struggled to maintain her balance with broken shards beneath her raised feet.
He moved. Her body convulsed, and her legs briefly gave way, held up for a moment only by the tight grip on her head. Lena's hand slammed over her own mouth, suppressing her held breath as it exhaled in the form of a now muffled, pitched whine. She had poised the fingertips of her other hand upon the desk, supporting a little of her own weight against the Commander's assault, and every movement was met by a stifled, painful cry into her palm. She wanted to speak, to beg him to take it out, but no words managed to surface amidst her body's turmoil.
She had avoided such a thing for so long, by means of compliance and small manipulations. She had been threatened with rape more times than she could count, but there had always been an alternative -- a goal the Nazis had desired in exchange for her well-being. But Winters' had no such detectable motive; she sensed no punishment in his actions, nor any ulterior directive, only the desire for... this. There was nothing she could possibly barter with.
She had fooled herself into trust, having not beheld a friendly faction for many years. Of all the new world's joyless inhabitants, she had not expected to be pushed to the sheets by an ally. Her body shook with hurt. Everything hurt.
Anger and embarrassment was a volatile cocktail, especially for one such as Alice. She watched with a wavering glare as Amelie toyed with the wetness of her unwitting arousal; the result of her body's inward anticipation. Her fingertips curled in frustration, her nails digging into the chair arms.
The drawn switchblade had been met with the slightest waver of panic, her breath briefly hastening even when she was offered the comfort of knowing that it wouldn't be used against flesh, but rather fabric. A muffled whimper emanated against her gag; a blunt reaction to the sharp sound of her dress being torn from her figure. Her flesh prickled with goosebumps as it met the open air, her tapered figure almost completely bare, save for only the black lace of her bra.
The urge to spit her gag was overwhelming, but she did not wish for tape. If anything, the fabric in her mouth gave her something to sink her teeth into -- a bit to stifle her temper amidst her torment. Her eyes had averted, fully aware of her current presentation. She was bound naked, and for a woman, no less -- the blush on her face painted anger. Humiliation. Unwillful excitement. A strange knot of anticipation curled in her abdomen.
Her eyes followed Amelie as she lowered to her knees, and her thighs quivered at the gentle feeling of the Captain's breath against her womanhood. Blue eyes flickered briefly to the doorway as she could hear the muffled footsteps and utterances of passersby, beautifully unaware of the scene on the other side.
Perhaps, in time, Alice would be thankful for the gag, and the way it quietened her soft moans from those who passed by close enough to hear them.
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"Sir, I'm begging you, I --"
Her pleading was met without mercy, the Commander forcefully thrusting against Lena from behind like a beast ravaging its prey. The hymn of silent sobs were beset behind the Commander's deep growls, his masculine hand clawing deeper into Lena's scalp as his invasive, hot length plunged further into her from behind. Ignorant of her chastity, his length conquered Lena's tight maidenhood inch by painful inch. When it seemed that his erection would travel no further, he retreated, only to thrust with greater vigor and proving her wrong. There was a part of him deep down that wanted to stop, to hold Lena and apologize for the horrible things he was doing to her. But his conscience had surrendered completely to his insatiable, lustful desire to hurt her. He wanted her... and he would have her.
It wasn't long until the violent piston had begun, the echo of his pelvis striking her rear echoing off the walls of Lena's new prison. The time between each thrust hastened - and it felt as if each one was increasingly harder than the last. The desk rumbled underneath the pressure, shaking violently underneath Lena as the Commander drove himself into her. "You're mine, now," he whispered into Lena's ear between heavier grunts, the feeling of her tightened walls against his hot shaft only encouraging the man to thrust more violently. With a final thrust, the Commander would remove himself from between Lena's legs, pulling her upright and spinning her easily in place.
"Mine." He growled once more, giving Lena no chance to collect herself. His hand found her throat once more, his other striking her across the cheek - reddening her soft features. He struck her again, this time harder, before moving his hand beneath her. With little effort, he lifted her onto the table, pushing the back of her head against the wall behind her. The desk was quite small, giving Lena very little space to occupy as the Commander positioned himself between her legs once more. The limited space forced Lena to arch her back upwards slightly, forcing her to watch what her once savior was doing to her.
His hand still placed upon her neck, he tightened his grip as he thrust into her once again, repeating the same process that had just taken place just moments before. The initial thrust was without mercy, though this time, the sounds of sex intermingled with a grotesque symphony of gagging and choking. He ravaged her once again, his manhood thrusting violently into her as he leaned closer, so that his eye could watch the horror that was in hers. "I'm going to cum inside of you." He loosened his grip just enough so that Lena could breathe, so that she could more accurately process the words that had just left his lips. He knew that she would plead against it, but there was nothing she could do to stave off the inevitable.
His pace quickened, his words foreshadowing his cruel intentions. He bit his lip as he pounded against her, his throbbing member threatening to burst inside of her at any moment. He ignored he shrieks... her crying... her pleading. Instead his hands found their way to her waist, his nails clawing at the skin between her skirt and her top so that she would be unable to writhe free from his grip. As Winters rapidly approached the point of no return, he leaned inwards, locking his lips forcefully against Lena in the same way he had back in the alleyway, when she thought better of him. With his tongue pressing deep into her mouth, the Commander thrust a final time inside of her, his erection filling her aching, violated hole with his hot seed. He growled into her mouth at his release, his pent up sexual frustrations finally unleashed upon his victim.
She was his now. Completely and utterly.
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Time had begun to blur for Lena, though her conscious was struck frequently by Winters' cruel methods of distancing his thrusts. She counted the seconds, though she made many mistakes in doing so, and bore little control over her silent sobbing and the way in which her eyes threatened to roll back into her head. The muscles in her abdomen tightened and her insides swelled against his assault, and if he had continued with his nigh predatory rhythm, she might've succumbed to numbness as a method of coping. But he withdrew suddenly, and she was dragged back to her full-feeling self, her thighs trembling at the removal of his length. Was it over? Of course not. She removed her hand to breathe properly just as she was turned around, and a wide, watery gaze bore upwards at her assailant.
"Mine."
Her lips parted, though her air was restrained quickly, barely mustering a whimper as his palm met her cheek not once -- but twice. Her re-positioning was rough, and she winced at the manhandling of her already sore form. Though she knew what was coming, the Commander's re-entry was again met with a stifled whine, his harsh initial thrust pushing hard against her already bruised walls. Held in place by the grip on her throat, she was offered little choice other than to meet the stare of his single eye, still somehow searching for some semblance of humanity within it. Her mouth held open slightly, her head beginning to spin at the deprivation of air, until he dictated otherwise. She reached for something, anything -- he was closer to her, now, and she gripped at his shirt with both hands, clawing into the fabric so tightly that her own nails began to dig at her palms.
"I'm going to cum inside of you."
It took a short moment for Lena to process his words in the time she was allowed to breath. Her head shook a little, and her voice finally emerged as a weak and inaudible whimper, beaten and broken down. "N-no... You can't." The words that could form were barely audible, shaken by his quickening pace, unable to do anything beyond silently wish everything away. Her body tensed, and her back arced slightly against the tight hold on her hips. Sore eyes closed tight as his mouth slammed against her own, her lips proving too weak a barrier against the assault of his tongue. She hummed, and shook, and sobbed at the heat of his release, which spilled against her ravaged insides.
She was a hot, panting mess; her face was reddened, her hair tousled, and her chest rose and fell deeply with every breath. Between her legs pooled the eventual leaking of his seed and her own wetness, along with the subtle crimson hint of her own stolen womanhood. She hurt terribly, and was wordless and dry-throated from the assault. Strangely, however, she had not let go of Winters' shirt; rather, her trembling form moved forwards, her head leaning inward so that her forehead rest against the front of his chest. Perhaps she was clinging to some form of comfort, or perhaps she merely wished to hide her face. Nevertheless, she was defeated; a sticky, trembling creature, betrayed by an ally.
Why, why did it have to be him?
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The silence was unsettling.
The Commander could slowly feel his primal lust subsiding, the overwhelming feeling of guilt slowly bubbling to the surface. He attempted to say something... anything, but instead remained silent between labored breaths. It was then that her feminine hands reached outwards, grabbing him by his shirt as she trembled beneath him. He had expected her to push him away, to try to return some of the pain that he had caused her. But instead of attacking him, she leaned solemnly into his chest. What had he done? He was no better than the Germans, who murdered and raped. "I...--" His lips parted, wanting to apologize to her, but he knew well that he was undeserving of her forgiveness. He embraced her, wrapping one arm behind her timid form as the other gently stroked the top of her head.
"I didn't mean for this..." His words carried guilt, the realization of his deplorable sin chilling his very bones. He had saved Lena from wolves, but had never realized that he was one himself. "Not-- not like this." He tightened his grip around Lena, fearful of what would happen should he let go. The Commander did not cry, for he had shed his last tears during the war. He had lost so much, not realizing how maddened he had become. Even so, Winters had no excuse for his actions... no salvation for the horrible thing he had done.
Now he was the one who desperately wanted to disappear.
"I didn't want to hurt you..." his words probably felt like lies, more deception to the woman that he had betrayed. Even the Commander himself was unsure whether or not to believe them, whether or not he could trust himself any longer. He continued to stroke Lena's head, holding her as close as possible to his beating heart. "Lena... I-- I'm..."
His words were interrupted by a loud thud, the sound echoing across the room and from the doorway. The Commander felt his heartbeat cease, for it was a sound that could spell out his doom. "Is everything alright, Ma'am? We just wanted to check up on you," a voice bellowed from beyond the door. All Lena had to do was scream - and the Commander's life would be over as he knew it. Perhaps he deserved it - no, he certainly did. The Resistance was not kind to deserters and would be even less kind to Winters for what he had done. There were many things he could have done to save his own life. He could have threatened Lena, or answered the door himself. But perhaps... just this once, he could do the right thing.
He took a step backwards from the desk, lowering himself so that his head was leveled with hers. He knew what he had to do. There would be no running, no lies, no more disguises. He would allow Lena to tell the truth... and if he was lucky, the Resistance would allow him to leave with his life. "You better answer that," his hand reached outwards, catching Lena by the flank of her cheek. "Don't worry. I don't expect you to lie." He leaned inwards, lips gently pressing themselves against his victim's forehead. With that, he released her, waiting for her to move off of the desk and towards the door. Perhaps, in another life, things could have been different for them... perhaps he could have been the hero that he she longed for...
Perhaps...
but she could never be his.
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Lena's mind had become so trodden by conflicting emotions that she was rendered momentarily vacant, hollowed against the gnawing of hurt and anger. Her grip tightened, her hands trembling with the urge to hit him, to shove him away. But she didn't. Instead, she sunk further into his form, allowing him to touch her, seeking solace in the same man who had forced himself upon her. He was, perhaps, the only source of warmth within reach. She had fallen into him like a moth to flame.
"I didn't want to hurt you..."
Her teeth grit, slowly settling into the understanding that she had been used as an outlet. A release for his madness. His personality switch was frightening, yet she wanted to hold on to this side of him. She was sore, shaken, and startled sharply at the sudden knock at the door.
"Is everything alright, Ma'am? We just wanted to check up on you,"
It took her a moment to let go of Winters, doing so only as he pulled himself away from her. She made willing eye contact with him, finally, and followed his gaze with a tear-stung, tired expression. He was gentle, now; she pondered his movements for a while, again silently pleading to know why he had committed to what he had done. There was another, impatient knock at the door. She might've called out to them, had she found the voice to do so, but rather she moved slowly, grimacing as her aching legs slid from the edge of the desk and barely allowed her to stand. Her skirt fell back in place, and she pushed her blouse back into the waistband in a vain effort to tidy herself up a little. Fingers ran through her tousled hair, and she sniffled at the warm feeling of liquid trickling down her inner thigh. She awkwardly adjusted her underwear through her skirt to stave off the leaking, and walked quietly through towards the door.
What was she going to do? One hand rest gently upon the doorknob, the other lay flat against the door frame. She looked over her shoulders, briefly, her hesitant eyes glancing towards Winters by the desk, and then back again. What would they think, if she told them? Would they care? They had originally scheduled her death, after all. How many American deaths had she caused? A heavy lump formed in her throat. She turned the handle, and the door creaked open, just by a slither. She could've cried, pleaded, told them everything, but --
"Sorry, I'd fallen asleep." Her voice was dry from the assault, but could've passed for plain exhaustion. "I'm -- I'm doing just fine, thank you. I'll... have some pages ready for you by morning, Sir."
Lena's form cast a shadow in the narrow opening which shrouded both the desk and the shattered vase from immediate vision. The exchange through the doorway was brief, a small check-up on their pseudo-prisoner. The door clicked shut again and she lingered there for a while, her head leaning into the woodwork for a while, unable to fathom even her own actions. She turned in time, her arms folded across her aching abdomen and her tired eyes falling to the ceramic shards which scattered across the floor.
"Are you leaving?" She asked simply, wondering if he planned to slip away in the quiet. Would he ever regard her again, after this? Somehow, the thought bothered her, and the fact she was bothered left a vile feeling at the back of her throat. Every part of her current state despised him, but...
In the last few moments, he had held her in a way no one had ever done before. Her stomach twisted in resentment, nauseated by her own innermost thoughts. He had her completely overpowered.
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The Commander said nothing as Lena answered the door. He listened, but was shocked to find that the Polish spy did not seek retribution for the crime he had committed. The exchange was brief, but the silence that would linger after she had shut the door felt like an eternity. It took some time for Lena to speak, but when she did, her words were not ones of anger. Instead, her first words to him were softly melancholic -- lonely, even. He dared not respond for a moment, for it was a question that even he naught knew the answer to.
"Do you want me to?" He remarked, finally, his words characteristically devoid of emotion. Yet, despite his stoic exterior, he was very much afraid of what Lena would have to say. Did she hate him? If so, why did she not say anything to the man at the door? In the silence, Winters searched for something to occupy himself. He knelt down, his leather gloves picking at the many shards that lay strewn at his feet as he waited for her to speak, discarding each fragment into the adjacent wastebasket. By the time he had cleared the floor of the shattered vase, Lena was still there, staring at him with conflicted eyes.
Winters stood, staring upon Lena with a cautious gaze. "I can disappear if you would like. You would never have to see me again." He moved slowly towards Lena, his single eye watching the frightened woman with great curiosity. "But you don't want that, do you?" He cooed softly beneath his breath, opening his arms as he approached her. When she was within reach, the Commander moved kindly, his arms slowly wrapping themselves around her form and pulling her into an intimate embrace. "I hurt you, yet you want me to stay." Indeed, the little spy was completely overpowered, dominated by the Commander... her guardian, a monstrous protector.
He allowed her to rest her head against his chest, once again stroking the top of her disheveled hair. "It's because you fear being alone... you fear it more than what I can do to you." His words were manipulative -- but he knew they were true, otherwise Lena would have outed him, casting him away to the fate of justice.
She stayed silent because she feared being alone... a fact that the cruel Commander was eager to exploit to his benefit.
He removed his arms from Lena, taking a step backwards so that he could gaze into her eyes once again. His hand reached cautiously forward, cupping the side of Lena's cheek between his palm. "This is a scary world we live in. You don't want to be alone... do you?" His words were once again filled with madness... or perhaps, this was simply his truest form. His hand navigated downwards, underneath the crook of her slender chin. "Do you really think the Resistance will let you go once they're done with you? If they don't kill you, then the Gestapo will find you... and they will remember what I did to their friends." He explained, knowing full well the fate that waited for Lena within these next few days.
"But I can protect you... I can make it so nobody will ever hurt you again. Except for me."
What choice did the poor Polish spy have? Indeed, if he had been a better person, he could have offered to protect her with no catch... no strings attached.
But he was not that man.
"I suggest you get down on your knees, sweetheart."
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"Do you want me to?"
She felt sick at her own indecision. Her eyes lifted beneath a tight frown, frozen in the path of his approach as he cooed point-blank observations in her direction. Lena could not find the will to argue, for the day had whittled her inward vigor to dust, and her lips only parted slightly in her failure to respond. She was deathly still even as he embraced her; amidst the gentle warmth of his hold, her body still quivered from her ordeal, and she stood nigh paralyzed by his sudden switch of demeanor.
But she had thrown away her first chance at escaping him, and had instead invited the beast to stay. Her hands reached upward, laying close to his sides and tugging at the fabric of his shirt. Her grip was tight, and her knuckles turned pale with tension, leaning her form into his own in a conflicted display of both anger and insecurity. The mention of the ever-looming threat of the resistance's true intentions rendered her blood cold, ultimately soaked up by Winters' costly promise of protection. She did not want to die, and so faced a choice between monsters -- pillars which would varyingly delay the Gestapo's hunt.
She had felt an uneasy chill when he stepped away from her, and leaned ever so slightly into his palm even as she was made to look directly at him. Her pallid, tear-stained expression was distant, though her eyes would often flicker, still searching for some semblance of reason within his expression. Purpose. Lena could at the very least perceive his veiled madness; it was not unlike the Schutzstaffel, though not quite the same, either.
"I suggest you get down on your knees, sweetheart."
Her mind was dragged back into the present, and she blinked hard, her breath wavering as she swallowed the lump which had raised in her throat.
"... What?" She breathed, her hands lifting to grip at the arm which held her by the chin. "N-no. No." She declined his suggestion with a strangely firm stutter, and her head shook as she turned away from his grip. Still, Lena's gaze pleaded with unwillingness, clinging desperately to the slightest bit of resistance she could muster. "Please, Mr Winters -- sir. I've had enough. You've already taken everything I have."
She had been bruised, inside and out, within the walls of what she could only perceive as a glamorized prison cell. What more could he demand at that moment? Her strength had been sapped, and everything hurt. Humiliatingly, she could still feel the evidence of his assault drip down her inner thighs. Lena was in little state to refuse a given order, but she could still reduce herself to begging.
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The Commander was indeed mad, for once again he had cast what little humanity remained to the wind, his singular eye watching Lena with a renewed hunger. She was so small compared to him... so pretty and at the same time, so vulnerable. Just watching the helpless fear swell within her innocent irises was enough to bring out the worst in Winters. In his twisted mind, he had already claimed her as his, regardless of the disapproval that would inevitably leave the poor girl's lips. Yet, even as the Commander towered over her, even after he had already violated her, she still pleaded to his humanity.
"Please, Mr Winters -- sir. I've had enough. You've already taken everything I have."
"Not everything." A grimace took hold of the Commander's lips before his hand reached outwards with surprising aggression. Before Lena could muster up any resistance or find any words to say, his hands had claimed her brunette head, fingers digging into her tousled locks and giving the poor girl nowhere to run. "Be a good girl for me and I won't hurt you, sweetheart." His hands were rough, but his words were gentle... endearing, even. On the outside, he acted no different from the cruel Schutzstaffel that Lena had been freed from and yet, Lena might be able to see the genuine care that crept behind his soft words and that permeated his lust-filled gaze.
Without much effort, he pulled Lena along, moving towards her bed before settling himself down upon the edge. He pulled Lena down as he did so, spreading his legs and bringing her between them. Between the Commander's legs, Lena was faced with his hot length, which had once again grown erect once more. The throbbing length towered against her face, the Commander pulling her face closer until her nose brushed against the center of the shaft, the tip reaching upwards to eye level. How Lena managed to fit such a large mass inside of her was nothing short of surprising to the Commander; and now he planned to force it down her throat as well.
"Open your mouth." His words were gentle, but he would be sure to teach Lena the price of defiance. Several moments passed as he waited, the strong aroma of fresh sex emanating from his still wet length. When the little spy's mouth didn't comply with his request, the Commander dragged her hair backwards, arching his body and neck forwards until his forehead was mere inches away from hers. "Don't make me ask again," his eye glared into Lena's, it was the cold gaze of a man who had taken the lives of many men; the gaze of a man who had seen things no person should ever have to see. They were staring at her now, devoid of pity or mercy.
Wandering thoughts would be interrupted with a resounding smack, the Commander's palm leaving a reddened mark upon his victim's face. "Would you rather I ravage your other hole instead?" He cooed softly, his hand reaching past her back and downwards ever more, until his hand would reach the waistband of her skirt. He hiked the pleated skirt upwards, unexpectedly, another crack filled the room as his hand delivered a sudden strike to her rear. "I can assure you that would be much less comfortable for you." He smacked her again, this time his hand reddening her other cheek before his fingers trailed down the center, digits plunging against her puckered hole through the fabric of her undergarments.
Winters leaned backwards, his face and hand moving away from Lena as he resumed his original position. His hand maintained its grip upon Lena's hair still, bringing her lips back up against his manly length. "Open."
He did not like asking twice.
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"Be a good girl for me and I won't hurt you, sweetheart."
But he was hurting her. Lena's breaths were dry and frantic as she was pulled away from the door, and she stumbled down to her knees as Winters seated himself before her. Her hands grasped at his wrist and she frantically tried to pull away from his grip, her legs pushing outward in her fruitless struggle. His grip on her hair was strong and painful, and her position between his legs allowed for little movement. Lena froze, faced with the sight and scent of his erection, and his frightening demand that she open her mouth.
She tried to turn away from it, her jaw clenched tight in panicked defiance. Her closed lips mumbled a low whine, refusing to open her mouth to even utter the word 'no,' and she tried to push her weight away from him. His physical retort was sudden, and she cried out as he pulled her backward, her neck craning as his portrait loomed mere inches from hers. She held her breath, exhaling only as he struck her face, her voice escaping as a startled cry.
The assault on her rear caused Lena's hands to fall against Winters' lap to better support herself, her legs trembling against the weight on her knees. Her back arched in response to the invasion of his hand, her eyes widening at his threat, immediately terrified of whatever consequence he had in mind. The thought of it was quick to break her resilience down, and she no longer seemed to clench her teeth. Her eyes peered into his own, cold gaze, and her face flushed red. And, in desperation, she quietly resorted to pleading for his initial intent.
"N-no. No." She shook her head, her lower lip quivering as she soon understood her situation. "Please, I'm sorry -- I'll be good." Her own words left a sour taste in her mouth, her fingers gripping into the fabric of his pants as she was pushed back towards his length.
Why didn't she cry for help?
Moments passed, and Lena hoped to open her mouth all while stifling sobbing breaths. Her lips parted, slowly, hesitantly, as her watery gaze lifted upward to meet his own. Her compliance left her defiled, dirty, and each second felt like an eternity. Still, she hoped to find some semblance of sanity in his gaze.