Warmth and darkness. As you rise from the depth of sleep, you feel these. Darkness pervades as you struggle to stay asleep. Warmth envelopes you, comforting, soothing warmth.
Mmmmmmm, you roll over, the softness of the linen against your bare skin is a delight. You sigh and smile...
You open your eyes, relinquishing the fight to remain asleep. You realize you are not in your own bed. It all comes flooding back to you, the SUV, the rape, the man, the Sybian. You sit up and realize that there are manacles attached to your wrists. You try to remove them, but integral locks prevent you. Something bothers you...you reach to your neck and there is a collar there. It too is locked on.
You look around the room. Light flows in from small rectangular windows at the top of one wall that seem to open into another room. The light provided is not bright, but it is sufficient. There is a small bathroom on one wall and the door. You rush from bed and try to open the door. Locked. Of course.
You go back and sit on the bed, wrapping yourself in the blanket.
You look up as, almost soundlessly, the door opens. He is standing there, still masked. "I thought I heard you moving around. Sleep well, Heather?"
You don't respond. His intense eyes, boring into you, force you to look down. You realize that you have just unintentionally signaled your submission. He walks over to you. Your eyes remain downcast. From the pocket of his jacket, he produces a leash which he clips to your collar. He turns and walks, tugging on your collar. You resist, pulling back against it.
"Now, Heather, do I need to punish you again?" You don't speak, you just pull against the leash, knowing that if you let yourself be degraded, you will continue that way for the rest of your life...even if it secretly thrills you in some bizarre way you can't identify.
He stops. Turning and fixing you with a stern gaze, "I suppose I must punish you then. You will learn to obey. You will learn that all sensation is pain. And you will grow to need it." Swiftly, he reaches up and grabs your collar at the back, as one would grab a misbehaving puppy. Quickly, you are pushed along, losing your feet, yet not falling as he maintains a grip on the collar.
You find yourself back in the garage, cast on the mats on the floor. Before you can get up, he has one wrist cuff attached to something. The other one follows. You see that it is the same affair that you were locked into when you were forced onto the Sybian.
Click. Whirrrrrrrrr.