Sharonâs recollection of her rape and that of Sweetness by the Buggery soldiers was confused and painful. She had never known that sex could be so horrible, and she was sure sheâd known horrible sex before. Even non-consensual, when the bloke in the car park who sheâd been avoiding all night had fucked her in that brutal way. But that was almost fun compared to the horrors of the brutal and seemingly never-ending rape sheâd endured on the Buggery battlefield. She knew that her arse and cunt were being violated repeatedly, but it was only pain and humiliation and fear that she was fully aware of. Surely by now theyâd had enough, sheâd thought as once again her dry and unwilling cunt was penetrated by which prick she didnât know. She could see through the tears that clouded her eyes and the blackness that threatened her consciousness, that Sweetness was being treated no less brutally than herself. How could sex be so bad? Sheâd always associated it with pleasure, and now all she could do was hope and pray that it would be over soon. But no chance! Yet another of those peculiarly permanently stiff penises pushed through the bruised and ripped lips of her cunt and pushed into her far deeper than she was properly able to take it. And the violence wasnât just restricted to just her arse and cunt. She was forcibly held down and her arms stung from the force of the soldierâs grip while she her mouth and nose burrowed into the dry earth. Every time she stirred in any way that could be interpreted as resistance, and resisting was what she couldnât help doing, she was punched or kicked.
She barely registered the world around her. Was it day or was it night? Sweetness was screaming in misery and distress. âJoy! Joy!â she gasped as another manâs khaki-coloured buttocks fell on top of her and thrust brutally in and out of her. It was with an extra degree of disgust that she noticed that the soldierâs sexual attentions were not limited to the two girls. They would grasp each otherâs balls, suck each otherâs dicks, and she was sure she saw two soldiers fucking each other. In fact, she was fucking certain, as one soldierâs buttocks descended onto the buttocks of the soldier fucking Sweetness, pushing his prick in with far less resistance than heâd have found in Sharonâs cunt and pushed backwards and forwards in a manic fashion gasping orgasmically in the same rhythm as Sweetnessâ cries of pain.
And then, she didnât recall how, they were dragged along, their knees bleeding from when they staggered and fell, just as did their orifices from their punishment, away from the smoking ruins of the bombed factory for how long Sharon didnât know. But each step was an agony. Each stumble, and its attendant kicks and blows from the soldiers, another even greater agony. She could barely see where they were: the tears in her eyes clouded everything despite the bright sun. She repeated Traceyâs name again and again without knowing why, punctuated by every fucking shitting bastard swear word in her vocabulary. Loud enough she was sure to be heard by anyone with an ear to her cut lip, but not to the soldiers. Occasionally, a drop of blood, from her nose or from her cheek, she didnât know, would trail into her mouth and cause her to cough despite the pain this gave to her bruised ribs.
And then, at last, no more walking. Sweetness and she were in a dark tent where only the patches of sun through the black tarpaulin allowed sufficient illumination for her to see where she was. She collapsed from pain and exhaustion, pleased only that the worst agonies were over; and then the darkness that had bubbled in the recesses of her mind overwhelmed her and that was the last she could remember.
When she awoke, she didnât know when, she was able to examine the tent where they had been left. There was very little to it. There were some wooden boxes and crates, and the bare uneven ground on which the tent had been erected. Behind her was a metal post pushed into the ground, and from that came a metal chain which was attached to her left ankle and restricted her to less than a yard in which she could crawl, and was not long enough to permit her to stand. She wasnât alone in the tent. She could see the shadowy figure of Sweetness, similarly chained to a metal post, just outside her reach, and she could hear an incoherent sobbing.
Not wholly incoherent. Occasionally, Sharon could distinguish the name âJoyâ, but otherwise there was nothing that made sense. Despite her own pain and misery, Sharon felt an overwhelming emotion of pity for the girl. Being blind, her shock and horror must have been compounded by her helplessness and by her ignorance as to exactly what horrors had been meted on her. Sweetness raised her face and looked in her direction, her eyes registering nothing, a black bruise swelling on her right cheek and eyes, and dried blood and snot on her upper lip. âJoy! Joy! Where are you?â she moaned, and then buried her face into the palms of her hands.
Here they were, somewhere. Alive at least. With nothing. This hadnât worried Sharon before. Her very life had been her chief concern. But now she was sure. Her blouse was removed, thrown aside no doubt in the rape. Her sandals that sheâd bought in the high street when she and Tracey were happily planning the holiday: gone forever, trampled into the dusty fields outside. And her bag, with her passport, money and possessions, gone also. Never to be seen again. Along with her last hopes of ever leaving Buggery by the normal process of border control. Would she ever see home again? Would she even survive to see the world beyond the tent? What would become of her?
Or of Sweetness? Did she even know that Joy had been blown to pieces? Or that the factory where sheâd lived was now nothing but rubble and smoke? She gazed at the young girl sadly. So thin. So helpless. And she must have led such a sad life. Fucking for a living. And a living that had been a dank hole in the ground, in a Kingdom where her very blindness was as good as a death sentence. Whose situation was worse? Sharon whoâd had at least some good times in the smoky night-clubs and damp car parks of home? And even had the best fucks of her life not so many days ago? Or Sweetness whoâd known nothing but misery and despair ever since her sightless emergence into the world? Strangely, contemplating Sweetnessâ dire straits made her own seem the more bearable and in a curious way a source of some guilty comfort.
Sharon pulled her naked bruised body over the earth and leaned out a hand in Sweetnessâ direction. She couldnât quite reach the girl, but Sweetness heard her movements. Her face lit up and her sightless eyes looked in her direction with a disconcerting vacuousness. âJoy! Is that you?â she gasped.
âItâs me. Sharon.â
âSharon? The tourist. Whereâs Joy?â
âJoyâs dead. Thereâs no more Joy.â