There were four of us in the squad. The Compound is pretty self-sufficient. The women garden and bake, doing the things women are born to do. The livestock provides meat and milk and eggs. The forests of our 1,200 acres (more or less as the deed said) provided building materials and energy.
But we did need some things our land couldn't provide. A couple of times a year we would come to town, get what we needed, and be gone before anyone recognized that we had been there. We "visited" a new town each time. We didn't want to become creatures of habit.
This trip was for the necessities we could not produce. At the Kroger store, we got pretty much one of every spice. At Ace Hardware we got a dozen 100-foot lengths of high test rope. Stuff like that.
We hadn't really come for women, but when I saw her I knew I had to have her. In part, it was her snooty look that pissed me off. She wasn't bad looking, don't get me wrong, but I guessed her fancy platform sandals at $500 and her stupid "distressed" jeans at $250, minimum. Mostly, though, it was the stupid "Baby on Board" T-shirt drawn so tight across her hugely pregnant belly that her belly button showed where it protruded. Hell, you could even see the stretch marks across her belly.
I knew, at first glance, that this cow was joining our herd.
Billy and Tom and Jack and I hatched a quick plan. I mean, it's not like we hadn't done this before. So they pulled the van up the block and I walked down a hundred feet or so, and we waited.
She went in and paid for the gas she had pumped and when she came out and walked back to her fancy Lexus hatchback we moved. I started walking and the van started rolling. We had it timed right and the snatch went perfectly. Our van arrived just as she walked around the front of her hatchback, the door slid open, and Tom and Jack grabbed her, covering her mouth with a strong hand and clamping the "sleeper hold," like you've seen on television a zillion times, cutting off the blood to her brain and rendering her unconscious in just a few seconds. I grabbed the keys to the Lexus where she had dropped them, the door on the van slid shut and it started moving, I got in the Lexus and it started as I knew it would, and I drove off in the opposite direction.
The total elapsed time for the kidnapping was less than 10 seconds.
Oh, sure, the surveillance cameras would have a good picture, but our faces were covered and we didn't really care if they knew what happened. The only real danger had been if we had been unlucky and a passerby, or a bored clerk, had happened to be looking that way and made an immediate 911 call. The way we had positioned things, though, made even that unlikely. The Lexus had been between the action and the convenience store, and the van had been between the action and the street. Our van was absolutely nondescript, grey in color with license plates stolen months ago. They would be replaced before we went outside of the compound in it again.
Still, I was nervous, holding my speed at the posted limit plus 2 until we met at the housing development under construction we had noted on our way into this town. There wouldn't be bystanders or cameras here at night.
One more quick council and we set up the escape. The other three would take our new cow to the compound for her initiation into her new life. I would drive the Lexus to the quarry we had used before, sink it in about a hundred feet of water, and they would pick me up later.
The quarry was about 60 miles away, over state and then county roads. It was fun, actually. It was a fine car. Powerful and responsive, handling like my old Fiat 124 sports car rather than a yuppie people hauler. I would regret losing it, but these modern cars had so many gadgets it could be tracked in real-time and nobody at the Compound believed they could disable those systems reliably. The theory, and so far it had worked a half dozen times, was that the deep water would quickly short out even the most well-protected electronic components.
And so I did what we had planned. The lock on the gate had long since been replaced by one of ours. I opened it with the combination I knew, drove in, got out at the edge, put the car in drive, and watched it tumble over the edge to disappear into the water. I had left the lights on and I watched as they got dimmer and dimmer until all light was lost in the depths. Frank, our guy who knew something about computers and electronics, had suggested leaving the lights on to hasten draining the battery.
Then I walked back to the gate and waited.
Billy showed up in about twenty minutes in the van, and we laughed and chugged Coors on the way back to the compound. I wasn't actually drunk, but I was pretty damn well lit when we got back.
They had the new cow in the stocks - yes, stocks, something straight out of Puritan New England with the three holes, one for her head and two for her hands forcing her into an awkward bent-over posture that would have her back hurting within 10 minutes. I know because every man in the Compound had to try them to see what he was causing if he locked a cow in. She was naked, as were all of the women in the compound, and I have to say she looked damn good.
Her breasts were swollen, her nipples very dark, as her pre-term body got ready to feed the new arrival. Her belly hung, heavy and round, so big I would not have been surprised to see her water break and labor start right then. The tracery of stretch marks covering her belly and radiating around her hips and across her sculpted ass was very pale. I could picture her carefully rubbing Vitamin E, or whatever the stretch mark eliminator of the day was, carefully into her skin before getting onto the treadmill or elliptical machine or whatever it was she used to keep her ass so nicely shaped. I laughed softly at the silliness of that as well as the way her innate understanding of how the world worked had been so dramatically destroyed.
I walked over and patted her ass, chuckling a little at the way she still had the energy to flinch.
Between her legs, it was obvious the men had already been at her. Her labia were swollen, more of her body getting ready to deliver the baby, and she was leaking semen from her pussy and from her asshole.
I chuckled as I walked around, just looking, enjoying the ruination of this snooty bitch with her bought and paid-for tits and fancy car.
Charles, the Compound's leader, was sitting in his folding rocking chair, smiling at me. When he crooked his finger, beckoning, I went to him, grinning.
"Did you get rid of the car?" he asked.
"In the quarry," I said.
"I don't normally approve of freelance jobs," he said, "but this was pretty damn good."
"It was the stupid shirt that put me over the top," I said, grinning.
"Well, she's a good one," he said, "and I figure another week or so and she'll be fully broken."
I chuckled and said, "it looks like you have a pretty good start."