Ericas Intrigue Ch 03

For some of my long-time fans I wrote two more parts to Erica's Awakening and Erica's Journey of Discovery, but forgot to publish them. My bad. I was going through my list of publications and realized that I forgot to publish. If you haven't read any of the Erica series it would help continuity if you read them first.

This is basically an erotic love story and of course all characters are over 21. It will definitely not start out as a love story, but it will get there. The Erica Series contains BDSM, bondage, exhibitionism, and lots of kinky sex. If you don't like these things then this story may not be for you. Please vote often (fives are most welcome) and of course please leave constructive comments.

PS - This is the third Part of the Erica Series and part four won't be far behind. If you have fantasies, ideas, etc for new stories please let me know, that includes twists on existing stories and I will see what I can do. Many of my stories have started out that way.

Erica's Intrigue

Chapter 3 - The Plot

"You left her? You idiots! You left her behind. I have somebody paying major bucks to have her delivered to him in a little more than 24 hours and you leave her for the cops. You guys have signed your own prison sentence, think of all the forensic evidence you left behind. Damn, damn." Jonathan swore as he paced back and forth, his head spinning with the absolute idiotic incompetence of the people that work for him.

As he paced back and forth you could almost see his anger as his face turned red and you could see his wheels turning trying to resurrect his multimillion-dollar payday. The bidding had stopped at over $14 million for Erica and he had negotiated another $6 million for the videos he created of her. Because of these idiots all of that was now in jeopardy. "Okay find out what hospital they took her to, what room number she's in and if they have any guards or visitors staying with her. Oh, and tell Sylvia to come in here, I may have a job for her as well."

Jonathan paced back and forth for a few minutes more and sat at his desk to make a few more phone calls. "Damn, damn." He kept repeating in between phone calls.

----

(Note: Mike was first introduced in "Erica's Awakening" and Jennifer got together with Mike in in "Dance of Seduction". Their story is a good one too.)

Mike arrived at the scene shortly after the ambulance did. He rushed in and saw Alan kneeling next to Erica and the EMTs working over her prone and shivering body. Anger rushed through him like a freight train as he saw her lying there and despite his overpowering love for his wife Jennifer, he still felt a connection with Erica. He vowed then and there that whoever did this would pay a high price.

He ran over to the EMTs and told them that based on what Alan said she had most likely been drugged and raped, to make sure to preserve as much evidence as they could. Immediately upon arrival at the hospital to run a rape kit, making sure to preserve all blood, urine and tissue samples under her nails.

Mike pulled his phone and made a call to get a forensic team over to the warehouse as quickly as possible. Then he walked over to Alan, lifting him away from Erica and held him by the shoulders. Mike remembered the devotion Alan had always shown to Erica and he knew that Alan loved her very much. He could see the pain and anguish in his face along with his worry about Erica and her condition.

Alan looked at her then back at Mike and said, "What did they give her that can do this to her, will she be all right."

"I don't know we will have to find out." Mike knew right then and there that Erica would be all right. Alan didn't show any disgust or betrayal that Erica had been touched by another man. That kind disgust or betrayal was something unfortunately common when a man finds out his wife has been raped. Instead, his only concern was Erica's well-being and Mike knew that most of her recovery would be because of the support around her.

Mike made a quick call home to talk to Jennifer and see if she might want to lend some comfort to Erica. If anyone knew what Erica was going through it was Jennifer, because she had to go through it all by herself. Mike had told her the story of Erica, so she knew who she was and how Mike knew her. Mike turned to Alan and asked him to go through the whole story.

While the EMTs worked on Erica, Alan told Mike most of what he knew and some of what he suspected. He couldn't believe that Playboy Enterprises knew what was going on here, but nonetheless some of this happened on their watch and on their property. Alan had finished most of his story when the EMTs started taking Erica out to the ambulance. Alan excused himself to go with her leaving Mike to handle the crime scene.

From what Alan and told Mike, his gut was telling him this was not a simple rape, it was to elaborate, there had to be something else going on. He started wandering around the studio looking at all the intricate sets and called his partner Steve who was still on the gang task force. He asked him to start doing searches for anything relating to Erica, playmate, Cyber-Girls and with all the photographic equipment around here he suggested that he search porn sites as well.

As Mike wandered through the studio, he noticed some syringes in the trash cans in the makeup area and he also noticed a group of water bottles separated from the rest. As he examined them, he noticed what looked like sediment in one of the bottles and a closer check around the neck revealed a puncture hole. He made sure that team got that one too. Just about then the forensic team showed up and Mike started detailing everything that he wanted done.

Mike showed them the water and syringes saying that these were the highest priority, because they needed to find out what drugs that been administered to the lady in the hospital. The lead tech actually gave them all to one of his other techs and had them taken to the lab for immediate testing. Of course, they had some suggestions as well and between Mike and the lead tech they covered just about everything. Then Mike left to go to the hospital.

When Mike arrived at the hospital and entered the emergency room Jennifer ran into his arms and held him tightly. Mike crushed her to his chest and his heart did flip-flops. Having her rush into his arms and holding her is something he will never get tired of. Just that one little thing, having her rush into his arms made the stress of the whole day go away. Mike realized just how much he loved and needed her in his life.

Jennifer looked at Mike with painful sympathy in her eyes and he could tell she was on the verge of crying, "Oh Mike they have done a real job on Erica. I heard the doctor talking to Alan and just quickly using blood type matching it looked like she'd been raped by multiple men ... at least four. They also found Ketamine in her urine."

Having Mike's arms around her seemed to settle Jennifer down and very shortly she became her loving self again. Jennifer looked up at him and teasingly said, "You told me she was beautiful, but even that is an understatement for her. Are you sure you want me instead of her?"

Mike leaned down and kissed her ferociously, "Oh God yes, I'm sure. You know how much I love you, and you my little vixen are just as beautiful as she is."

Jennifer looked up at him smiling broadly, "I know how much you love me and how much I love you, but sometimes a girl just likes to hear you say it." Then she got a serious look on her face, "Mike there is something else; I think they gave her the Barbie drug as well."

Mike looked at her confused, "Sorry, what's the Barbie drug?"

"It goes by lots of names Bremelanotide, PT-141 and the Barbie drug. It was first discovered to help people tan, but it had two major side effects, one was loss of appetite and the other was a huge increase in libido. Given enough of that stuff you'll turn into a nymphomaniac, and you'll fuck anything that moves. It even works on men too, giving them huge erections lasting for hours." Jennifer said.

"Honey, how do you know about this?" He asked.

"My ex-husband used to give me that to torture me. He would give me high dose and tie me up so I couldn't scratch the itch and it was worse than when he would beat me."

Mike pulled her to his chest and squeezed her tight, "I'm sorry baby."

She looked up at him with tears glistening in her eyes and said, "That's all over now, and now I have you." Suddenly an impish little smile came to her face, "I wonder what that would be like if I took the drug when you made love to me. Right now, you sent me into orbit when you make love to me, with that stuff I might go to Mars."

Mike was about to respond to Jennifer's sexual innuendos when he saw Alan come storming down the hall with blood in his eye. Mike knew that look; he had it recently when Jennifer's ex-husband tried to kill her. Mike quickly abandoned Jennifer's arms and intercepted Alan wrapping them in a bear hug, "Alan ... Alan I know what you're thinking, stop it, you will be no good to Erica in jail."

Alan struggled in Mike's arms, but he stood no chance since Mike outweighed him by 60 pounds of pure muscle. Alan looked at Mike and said, "You can't hold me forever, they are not going to get away with this."

"No, they're not; we are going to do this the right way. You know what they do to rapists in prison don't you? They reap what they sow!" Mike hissed menacingly.

Alan looked at Mike and said, "Do you promise me that they will pay dearly for this?"

Mike looked at Alan and said, "Yes I do!"

Alan stared at him trying to judge whether he meant it and he concluded that he did mean it. So, he quit struggling and said, "I'm going to hold you to it and if any of them ever gets out of prison they won't last a day."

Alan turned to go back to Erica's room and suddenly stopped and turned back to Mike and in a pained choking voice said, "They took her dream of being beautiful with the image of being a playmate, then used her for God knows what, raped her, tearing the purity and innocence from her body. No amount of retribution is enough, rotting in hell for eternity isn't even enough."

Alan turned and went back into Erica's room vowing to beg her forgiveness and promising to make the rest of her life a beautiful loving place.

Mike watched Alan go and turned to Jennifer to see tears streaming down her cheeks. She looked up from Alan's back into Mike's eyes and said, "He's right, no amount of retribution will make up for her suffering and what they did to her."

----

Alan sat next to Erica holding her hand, while keeping it pressed against his face. The doctors had given Erica a sedative that allowed her to sleep through the worst of the tremors. Occasionally she would have full body shivers and Alan would hold her during these times. A couple of times she came out of the sleep, Alan was always there to tell her that she would be okay, and he will never leave her again.

Later in the evening Mike came in and pulled Alan into a corner of the room and laid out what happened to Erica. First, he made Alan promise to let him handle the investigation and not to lose it and go kill someone.

He began, "The water has been spiked with a nasty cocktail of aphrodisiacs including Quaaludes, Ecstasy, X-Cite, Piperine, Catuba Bark, Ginkgo Biloba, Guarana, Gokshura and probably a few more items we couldn't find. Most of these are cumulative, so the more she drank the larger her dosage and all designed to turn on her libido. Then she had been given PT-141 or the Barbie drug that was injected subcutaneously around the belly and believe me Alan the stuff is like an atom bomb for the libido. Once you are injected with this stuff your body goes crazy with need."

Alan looked at Mike and suddenly realized that was what had happened the night before. Her crazed sexual need was the result of all the drugs they had been feeding her. The worse drug was this PT-141 stuff. If he had only known, he could have put a stop to this earlier. He hung his head in his hands thinking of what a fool he had been. Then he looked up, realizing Mike wasn't finished.

"Lastly, they gave her the Ketamine, which can be used as a date rape drug. While it does many things it mostly removes all inhibitions, kind of like your drunk, then blocks the memory of what was done. I'm sure all of this was done to give a better show, because we found a teaser of Erica's rape on the internet trying to sell the movies they apparently created."

Alan dropped his face in his hands trying to comprehend what his baby had to go through, all while he was oblivious to everything. Now on top of everything else, they were going to sell movies of her rape on the Internet ... this is just too much. Mike saw all the expected emotions flashover Alan's face, hurt and pain for what Erica had to go through, anger then fury at the man that had done this. He looked up at Mike and said, "When you find them can you walk away and give me five minutes with them ... please."

"I only wish I could." Mike said, truly feeling Alan's need to punish the man that had done this to Erica. Mike shook his head and said, "Believe me Alan I wish I could, as matter of fact I would be there helping you."

Mike continued, "I've got lots of evidence and if any of it surfaces, we've got him. This was to elaborate for just your run-of-the-mill rape. We know there must've been at least half a dozen people and probably more involved. Then to top it off they filmed, and they are trying to make money off the film. Just to let you know we've got a task force convening in the morning to work on this round-the-clock."

Mike wrapped Alan in a bear hug, trying to comfort him as much as he could. Soon after he left and gathered Jennifer in his arms. Never, more than now, did he need to feel her soft body in his arms and her gentle kisses on his lips.

The doctor came in after Mike left to talk to Alan, "We have never really seen anything as devious as this done to another human being before. With all the drugs in her system we can't treat one without impacting other areas. The beating they gave was not serious and was mostly bruises. So, our best course of action is to keep her sedated, feeding her water, with a saline solution drip to try and flush everything out of her system as quickly as we can."

Alan looked at the doctor with deep love and concern on his face as he said, "Is there nothing you can do that will speed up the process?"

The doctor looked fairly stoic as he answered, "A stomach pump or activated charcoal wouldn't really do any good. Most of the drugs are already in her body and we need to just replace her fluids as quickly as possible, flushing her system. Keeping her sedated will keep her from experiencing the effects of the drugs."

The doctor looked over at Erica, shaking his head with what she is having to go through. He looked back at Alan with sympathy in his eyes as he responded, "If complications arise, we will treat them as they crop up. Stay with her, talk to her, touch her and let her know that you are here. She's going to need you now more than she ever has."

Alan moved all wires and tubes out of the way and lay on the bed wrapping his arms around Erica as tightly as he could give the circumstances. For the next hour he would gently kiss her holding her in his arms and occasionally squeezing her tight, letting her know that she is adored and loved. Somewhere during the process Erica awoke long enough to feel him next to her and squirmed tighter into his embrace, needing to feel his arms tight around her protecting her from her horrible dreams.

Alan couldn't really sleep, and he stayed holding Erica most of the night. When her dreams came and she thrashed violently he held her tighter, kissed her and whispered in her ear that he was there, and he loved her. A variety of nurses would come in every few hours to check on her and change out the intravenous drips. A couple of times, he drifted off only to be awakened by the very attentive nurses.

Around 3am a nurse he hadn't seen before came in a said. "If you want to get some coffee and go to the bathroom, I can watch her for a little while."

Alan's bladder was about to burst so a couple of minutes for coffee and the bathroom sounded really good. He thanked the nurse and went to the bathroom in Erica's hospital room. While Alan was in the bathroom, the nurse quickly and efficiently unhooked Erica's IV's. When Alan came out of the bathroom, the nurse was quietly sitting next to Erica, and everything looked normal.

Alan walked out of Erica's room to walk down to the coffee vending machine and the minute he turned the corner the nurse pressed a buzzer in her pocket. She immediately began unhooking all the monitoring equipment. Within seconds, a large hulking man entered the room, picked Erica up as if she weighted nothing. He draped her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and left the room followed by Sylvia, the fake nurse. He quickly walked down several flights of steps through the emergency exit and Erica was immediately transferred into the back seat of a limo and driven away.

In less than two minutes Erica had been taken from her hospital room and was being driven away in the back of a limo. By the time Alan came back to Erica's room the limo was pulling away from the hospital. When Alan entered Erica's room, he felt like he must be having a heart attack, a stroke or just plain going crazy because Erica was gone. He screamed with the coffee falling to the floor and frantically searched the room and bathroom for Erica only to find she was gone. His screams of anguish brought several nurses running and when they saw that Erica was missing, they called security to lock down the hospital, but of course Erica was long gone by then.

Alan immediately called Mike, whom he roused out of a deep sleep, but when Mike heard that Erica had been kidnapped his head exploded. Why would somebody kidnap a rape victim? From the beginning, his gut told him this was something more than just a rape. When he requested protection for her, that had been denied and now the shit was going to hit the fan. Mike's head was scrambling, and he was trying to figure out an angle that he had missed.

Mike called the forensic team to see if they could get some fingerprints of whoever took Erica, then drove to the hospital. Mike knew Alan would be livid, and justifiably so; he had put his faith in Mike and the Police Department, now Erica was gone. Mike also knew that if he didn't act fast, she may be gone forever.

He was just pulling into the hospital when his cell phone rang again, this time it was Steve and he had some very bad and disturbing news. He had circulated Erica's information and picture to all the relevant departments in the city and county. He hoped that some of them might have a clue what was really going on and give them a lead on what happened to Erica. Then one group offered up a lead. The human trafficking task force is tracking a very high-profile sale of a woman advertised to be a Playboy playmate.

They didn't have a lot of information, but they did have part of the pre-sell video advertising the "merchandise". The picture that Steve circulated matched with the woman being sold. Steve apologized for not finding this information sooner, and said they needed to get Erica under protection to make sure she's not taken again. Mike beat on the dashboard and the steering wheel of his car in frustration and told Steve they were too late she'd already been taken.

By now, all the elaborate precautions seem to start making sense. The films and the doping of Erica were probably preselling information or possibly a whole another revenue stream. Either way the critical piece was to find her quickly because after 24 hours they would probably never find her again. Mike told Steve to find everything he could from the human trafficking task force and bring them in because they have a short time span to find Erica.