Caged - Day 11
Natasha's eleventh day in the cage started badly. First of all, her back was sore after the whipping she had received the day before. She was bleeding in several places where the tip of the whip had broken the skin and when she awoke, she found her shoulder blades sticking to the floor. This caused her to cry out softly the moment she tried to move, and though she did not think the sound was too loud it brought her captor straight to her side.
"Stop that," Gabriel said, glaring at her through the bars. She did not know what he meant, which made him even angrier it seemed. The next thing she knew, he was unlocking the cage and pulling her across the floor. Ignoring her shrieks of protest, he took her straight to the dreaded hole and lowered her roughly down. Sensing his rage, she went down quietly, but she could not resist looking up at him as he went to close the trap door.
"Please, Gabriel!" she begged, but he only scowled at her while slamming the trap door down.
It truly was a terrible start and it only got worse from there.
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Gabriel left Natasha in the hole for the better part of the day. He knew it was neither fair nor smart, for she had injuries that needed looking after, but he had to do it for sanity's sake. She was driving him wild, what with her soft sensuous moaning and the looks she gave him with those big innocent eyes. Just who did she think she was dealing with? Some ordinary man that she could seduce at will? The idea was preposterous, absolutely preposterous and above all insulting, he thought. Of the countless women that had tried to seduce him, not one had even come close and there was a good reason for that. They were all fakes, and he could tell... he could read them from a mile away. If Natasha thought she could succeed where others had failed, she had another thing coming. She might think she had him, but he would show her. Oh, he would show her, all right.
By the time the afternoon rolled around Gabriel had a whole new plan.
Natasha blinked painfully when he opened the trap door again. With her hair sticking wetly to her face she looked infinitely vulnerable as she gazed up at him from her prison, but he pretended not to notice. Pulling her up by her arms, he stared at her challenging her to speak. To complain. Anything to give him an excuse to punish her, but for a change she kept her mouth shut. Never mind. He still had his new plan and nothing she said or did would change that. First though he had to clean her up.
"Lie down on your front and don't move," he ordered, lowering her to the floor of the shower. As he washed and disinfected her wounds, he noted that she barely flinched. She was obeying his order to perfection, the clever little bitch. Yes well... Let us see how she handles the curve ball he was about to throw her. Gripping her shoulders, he lifted her up and into a kneeling position. While soaping her breasts, deliberately running his hands over her pierced nipples, he said,
"I have some good news for you Natasha... I've decided to take you up on your offer."
She looked confused, so he clarified it for her.
"You said you would sleep with whomever I say, if I granted you that silly favour you asked for," he said as he hosed her off. "Well, I've had a chance to think about it and I think it's a fair deal. So, you'll get your wish after all, now isn't that nice?"
He looked at her askance while waiting for a reply. As predicted, she was shocked by the news.
"W...when?" she stuttered, seeking his gaze.
"Soon," he told her, keen on prolonging the suspense. Then without another word he stood up and left, unable to look her in the eye.
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Caged - Days 12 to 16
Since Gabriel's unique shelter / dungeon was miles from civilisation, it was not easy to arrange a visit from friends in order to see his plan to fruition. In fact, a regular person might never have managed it, but luckily for Gabriel he was not a regular person, and neither were his special male friends. Within hours of sending the first email, the screen of Gabriel's laptop started to flash with incoming message alerts. The replies came swift and fast, and they went something like this,
Wolf12 to Wolf1: good to hear from you. Confirm availability 4 days from now. ETA 0600hrs at co-ordinates provided. You need us to bring anything?
It did not take him long to key in the answer,
Just yourselves.
And with a press of the enter key the deal was sealed.
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For four days after being told about the upcoming event featuring her as the star attraction, Natasha sweated in her cage, barely able to take her eyes off the entrance. She never doubted Gabriel's word, particularly when she saw how sparingly he treated her. Oh, he pulled her out and fucked her each day, but he did not electrocute or cut her or burn her. The whips and canes rested on the wall like some unusual party decorations, while the skin on her back healed to its healthy self. The only exception was the scar above her breast, but even this had settled and no longer burned. He helped the process by plying her with medicine and ointments and herbs. He wanted her to eat more too, but she just could not keep the food down. He did not force-feed her this time. He understood the source of her anxiety all too well.
She was thinking of asking him to call the whole thing off when on the fourth day he announced,
"I thought you might like to know... The boys will be here tomorrow."
He was standing over her cage as he said it, and she was glad for the small distance between them. Working desperately to still the tremor in her limbs, she was unable to speak for a while. At last, as he was turning to walk away, she called after him anxiously,
"There... there's more than one of them?"
Oh yes
, he thought.
Now you think to ask.
"Aha," he said without turning around. "Is there a problem?"
Please say yes
, he thought, hearing her sharp intake of breath. But though she trembled in her chains, Natasha refused to yield even now.
"No," she said and when he chanced a look around, he saw her hang her head, not unlike a bird whose wings had been cut.
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Caged - Day 17
At precisely 0600hrs the next day, Gabriel's team started arriving. Confident in their punctuality he had left the door open, and the stream of cool morning air brought goose bumps to Natasha's bare skin. She did not try to rub them off. She did not try to move at all, but sat as though paralysed, watching the men pile in.
He had called them boys, but there was nothing boyish about them.
To a man they were tall and broad-shouldered, with their hair cropped short like Gabriel's: aggressively so. They wore all black clothes, and their faces were painted to match. Despite their uniform appearance she could not see an insignia of any kind. Their eyes were the only things shining in their faces, until they saw Gabriel and flashed him a smile. There were six of them in total and they were all heavily armed.
"Welcome," Gabriel said, clapping each of them on the back. "Wolfgang... Dirk... Georg... Torsten... Henric... Bjorn... So glad you could come. Please, make yourselves at home."
The men came into the room with long strides. Unbuckling the straps of their backpacks, they set them down softly, before doing the same with their guns. Their movements were measured and graceful, their footsteps soft. They were power carefully controlled and they sent shivers down Natasha's spine.
"So, Gabriel," she heard one of them say. "Are you going to introduce us or what?"