This is a continuation of The Prisoner - Location Alpha. If you have not read that story, please do so before continuing, as the chaos will be difficult to understand otherwise. Hope you enjoy TJ and Michelle's continued cluster-fuck journey.
And thank you to my wonderful editor WAT456 for helping keep this story moving in the right direction and keeping my wandering mind on track...
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Location Alpha, Oklahoma (April 21, 2025)
Matti Harrington read the alarm panel she had just silenced. "Fuck!" she screamed at the monitor. "How did they find us?" she asked the system, almost expecting an answer. She watched the cameras as four unmarked vans approached.
Not knowing the full extent of the consequences of the actions she was about to take, Matti entered the code for emergency lockdown for the entire shelter. Had all of the doors been closed and secured, the approaching armed troops decked from head to toe in black with masks and body armor, would never have found the back room leading down to the shelter.
Instantly, with the lockdown activated, sleeping gas was released into Michelle's cell. All of the doors currently closed were secured by the lockdown procedure. Unfortunately for the women, Michelle's cell door was not one of the doors currently closed. TJ had programmed the system for the emergency lockdown to put her prisoner to sleep while any intrusion was dealt with.
Matti straightened herself up, ready to go wake TJ and let her know the location had been compromised and that she had activated the lockdown. She planned to inform TJ of the special ops team that was currently rushing out of the vans and into the barn house.
Thinking the lock down procedure would sufficiently stop the intruders, Matti paid no more attention to the monitors. If she had double-checked, she might have noticed the levels of sleeping gas rising in every one of the rooms in the shelter or she might have seen that most of the doors to the shelter had not yet secured themselves. Still flushed from her recent self-induced orgasm however, Matti was not thinking of any of that.
The sleeping gas that seeped into Michelle's room quickly permeated the rest of the shelter, because in fact, none of the doors had been closed. Even the doors leading all the way upstairs and to the garage had been left open. TJ, having rushed back earlier, seeking only answers for her past, had not even thought about securing any of the doors. She was not expecting to be found or even considered she might have been followed.
As soon as Matti opened the control room door, the sleeping gas took hold of her. Inhaling the gas, she collapsed head first into the door she was still holding. Matti's momentum falling forward pushed the door closed, securing itself and locking Matti and the control room away from the invading unit.
Michelle and TJ, already naked and in bed together heard the alarm sounds from their cuddled position. As they began to stir they were knocked unconscious from the sleeping gas. They became instantly unaware of the chaos occurring throughout the shelter and above.
As their bodies were subdued by the chemicals around them, their unconscious minds took over. TJ envisioned all of the toys she could picture herself wearing in bed with Michelle. While Michelle's subconscious took her imagination to all of the wild places TJ and herself would have their ways with each other.
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Cheyenne, Wyoming (April 28, 2025)
Michelle woke up in bed with a pounding headache. Memories flashed through her head as she regained full consciousness. Memories of TJ... Memories of places in Dallas... More memories of TJ and their time together... Pictures of places she was sure she had never been to in Texas...
Michelle reached across her bed, feeling for TJ. Her sheets were empty and cold. She slowly opened her eyes fully. After taking in her surroundings, she closed her eyes tightly again.
Michelle stayed laying in her bed with her eyes firmly shut trying to make sense of things. Her head was still pounding, making it hard to concentrate. She was in her room at her mom's house in Wyoming. It didn't make sense.
She was sure she never made it to Texas. TJ had kidnapped her... TJ was alive... TJ had come for her!! Her head was throbbing. Images of the airport in Dallas filled her mind... Impressions of a lesbian bar she had been planning to go to...
As Michelle thought about the images of Texas, her headache lessened. She thought of the prison TJ had held her in, which caused the headache to return worse. Pictures of the Dallas Arboretum, and her head began to clear again.
Michelle squinted with her eyes slightly open and stretched her arm across her bed to her nightstand, grabbing her phone. Looking at her phone, her confusion only increased. A week had passed without her knowing it. According to the date on her phone, she was getting married in a few days.
There was a soft knock on her door, and her mother, Natalie Wolferson, walked in.
"Hey there sleepyhead, I thought you were never going to wake up. Your trip to Dallas must have really taken a lot out of you." Her mother smiled at her sitting down at her vanity, looking at the mirror.
"I don't know, I never made it. Mother, where's TJ?" Michelle winced as her head split with saying the name. She wasn't able to finish her thought.
"Sweetheart, TJ died a long time ago, you already know that. You must have really drank too much in Texas. I told you it was too close to the wedding to go on a trip. You need to get up for the dress fitting today." The sweetness of her mother's voice was almost overwhelming.
"I never made it to Texas mother, I was somewhere else." Michelle was learning that if she didn't think about the person or the place, her head didn't hurt as much.
"Nonsense, Michelle! You certainly spent enough money, on my credit cards, to have been there. Do you even remember any of the things you wasted it all on?" Natalie's voice was merciless as she hissed her displeasure.
As Michelle thought about Texas, more images popped into her head. More than enough images of places she had wanted to go to, enough to fill the entire week she had been planning for her escape. She just couldn't remember actually doing any of the things that her mind was showing her pictures of.
Michelle sat up in her bed, even more confused. Had her other memories of TJ just been a dream? Had she really been kidnapped? If she had, where was TJ? Why did she have the images of Texas floating in her mind? How would she have gotten back to her house? What actually happened in the past week?
"Sweetheart, you sent pictures to me, from your trip, the entire time you were gone. Look through your phone, if you don't believe me." Natalie was watching her daughter through the mirror on the vanity, scrutinizing her every reaction.
The phone in Michelle's hands dinged, with a new notification, as her mother spoke. Michelle slowly flipped through her accounts, looking at the comments on all the pictures she didn't remember taking. She could see the images of the places in her mind but the memories to go with them were extremely foggy or nonexistent.
"I don't remember much of my trip, I guess." Michelle began to accept defeat, as she was still trying to comprehend all of this information. If the trip actually happened, then the other place was just a dream and her love... oh god... Was TJ really dead? Was it all just a dream or a hallucination? Thinking hallucination triggered a series of flashing pictures in her head like a strobe light of images in a flipbook of pictures to make it appear to be moving. The depiction showed a club in Dallas, of being handed some type of pill, the pill no longer in her hand, a drink in her other hand and then nothing but blackness.
"Mother, is TJ...is she really dead?" Michelle whispered. Tears streaming down her face, her eyes blurred trying to look at her mother, dreading her mother's response.
"Michelle, really? She has been dead for years. All that criminal activity is why I moved to Cheyenne and moved you back with me. You need to get ready, we are leaving in 30 minutes." With that, Natalie got up and walked out of her room.
Still lost in her confusion and heartache, Michelle got up planning to clean herself up while trying to puzzle out her thoughts. Had it all really just been a drug-induced hallucination?
MIchelle stumbled around her room attempting to pace across the floor, her emotions becoming overwhelming as she completely accepted her mother's version and the flashes in her head.
Trembling from grief she made her way to the shower, and began trying to wash away her painful emotions.
As her grief peaked, Michelle noticed her fiance's straight-blade razor sitting on the shelf. Without conscious thought Michelle's hand reached out grabbing the razor.
She slit lines straight up her forearms with the blade. Watching the blood mix with the water. Observing the crimson color stain the shower floor. Michelle slipped down the wall and blacked out.
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Location Alpha (April 21, 2025)
Matti's head was throbbing, maybe that's what woke her up. Comprehension finally connected in her brain and she jumped up from the floor. She immediately reached for the controls to the security system. She clicked through all the cameras. The entire special ops team was gone. Michelle's room looked ransacked. The entire shelter looked destroyed. All of the monitors and equipment from TJ's room appeared to be missing.
Camera after camera she flipped through and couldn't find TJ or Michelle anywhere. Matti saw a flashing light blinking up at her. The words reading 'C2HBrClF3 - levels safe' were on the bottom of the control screen.
A quick search for the chemical compound on her phone showed Matti the halothane sleeping gas TJ had set up in the ventilation system. 'FUCK!' she thought to herself, as she realized setting off the lockdown released the gas knocking everyone immobile. Bitter laughter building inside her at the genius that was TJ.
Matti rewound the footage and watched as the team breached the barn house. She saw them storm the house, cursing at them as they searched everywhere. Screaming at TJ and Michelle, through the monitors, to wake up as the team made their way to the cell room. Knowing that it was just a recording didn't matter, as she watched her friends being taken captive.