Author's note: I get a lot of grief for my stories. For the subject matter. Because people think they are too dark. Because they don't think they are dark enough. This series especially has been a lightning rod for whatever reason. Lately the feedback has made me think that I should probablly stick to posting my stories elsewhere honestly. I welcome constructive criticism. I know my writing isn't perfect and that I have a long way to go as a writer, but I'm really tired of being told how sick I am for writing about these things, so if you don't like stories about nonconsentual sex, breeding, coercion, and kidnapping, please just read someone else's story and leave me alone.
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She didn't know what she expected when she finally came back to her senses. To be murdered? To be dragged back to the cabin by her hair and locked in her owner's basement?. Maybe he would beat her within an inch of her life while she begged for mercy. Instead after they both finished panting from the intense fuck they'd shared on the cold leafy ground he unlocked the chain on her ankle, and leaving it on the ground he picked her up. They walked the last few dozen feet toward the camp. This didn't make sense to her, but she was exhausted and past caring just now. She couldn't stop him from doing whatever he wanted anyway. That much had been proven once again by the day's events.
He carried her into the tent gently, then helped her crawl into a large two person sleeping bag. Once she was situated he stripped and slid in behind her, spooning next to her cold, sore body from behind. It was as warm and safe as she had felt in a long time. It wasn't even sexual, though their naked bodies were pressed together like this. It was just natural.
"Why are we sleeping in here," she asked, as something nagged at the back of her mind while she drifted off to sleep.
"Because it's too late to dig a hole," was her tormentor's nonsensical response.
She shrugged mentally before, turning over to snuggle against his hairy chest and drifting off to sleep. He would explain whatever the next game was tomorrow. Until then she would just enjoy the moment.
Sarah's dreams were conflicted. She was being chased, not by her rapist, but by her boyfriend, her teachers, and her parents - a whole mob of everyone important to her, and all she could do was run, looking for her monster in the deepest part of the forest. It was surreal and strangely terrifying, and when she woke up with a start to the morning light, she reached for her tormentor, but she was alone in the tent. She sat up and looked around, feeling suddenly vulnerable, and felt as much as smelled the cooking of breakfast outside as her stomach growled ferociously; God she was hungry. Her escape attempt had cost her another day's worth of meals. Was this how pet's felt when their owners neglected them, she wondered?
She got out of the sleeping bag shivering in the morning chill, and noticed a long coat and a pair of shoes in her size sitting by the door to the tent. She put them on, feeling the wool coat scratch against her naked body uncomfortably as she moved, but it was still better than the freezing temperatures. Then she stepped outside. Her kidnapper was sitting on a stump by a low fire cooking up scrambled eggs, sausage, and peppers on a cast iron skillet while bread was toasting on skewers at the fire's edge.
"Mmmm, that smells delicious," she said with undisguised hunger, coming up to kiss him on the top of his head before sitting down beside him and snuggling next to his arm. "May I have some master?'' she asked, without hesitation or sarcasm. Maybe in a couple days she would have the strength to fight him again, but today she just wanted to feel better - to be full and warm and happy. Freedom didn't rate high on her list of needs when she was slumming around the base of Maslow's Hierarchy.
"You know you can have my sausage any time you want, slut" he said, smiling as he stirred the dish. He handed her a thermos of hot coffee, and she poured herself a cup, using it more for a hand warmer than for drink for the next few minutes. It occurred to her only after she handed it back to him that the large steel vacuum insulated bottle would have made a good club to crack him across the back of the head yet, but what would have been the point? Even if she could have hurt him, which wasn't very likely, she probably couldn't find her way back to his cabin from here.
A couple minutes later, he was serving her with an enameled steel camp plate and spork. It wasn't exactly fine cuisine, but she devoured every scrap that he gave her and asked for seconds. Running for your life worked up quite an appetite. They ate in silence for a time until she finally askes, "What did you mean last night? About the hole?"
"It doesn't matter now," he said after only a short delay, "I've decided to keep you after all. I think we both know you're mine at this point. Even if you managed to get away and get me locked up you'd be miserable without me."
She looked at her empty plate for a long moment before finally nodding. "I do," she said, barely above a whisper horrified to find that what he was saying was true. "I do need you," she said, a little louder this time as she set her dishes down by the fire and hugged him tightly as the intense conflicting emotions overwhelmed her. This monster had carved his mark into her soul; he'd defaced her permanently, and now she could never be happy with a normal decent man.
"I do need you master," she whined, sobbing into his shoulder, "Please don't throw me away."
He put his arm around her then, gently. "I won't do that Sarah," he said soothingly, "It would be a waste of a perfectly good set of holes." The combination of sweetness and profane was intoxicating, and it made her tingle just to hear. "I just need you to do one more thing for me."
"Anything," she said, looking up into his eyes and meeting his gaze for a second before demurely lowering them again. "Anything for you master."
He nodded, "Do you see that thing leaning on the tree over there? Bring it to me."
That was easy enough, she thought, getting up and walking over to pick it up. It was a short heavy wrought iron rod that looked like a fireplace poker. She held it lightly, turning it in her hand for ten seconds, and then brought it back.
"What is it," she asked, trying to hand it to him, but he didn't hold out his hand to take it.
"Branding iron," he said casually, meeting her eyes and smiling, as he pointed. "Put that end in the fire."
Sarah's blood froze as the pieces fell into place. He was going to BRAND her? But strangely that realization barely slowed her hands as she did as she was instructed.
She could have done anything in the moment. She could have struck out at him. She could have thrown the thing away into the underbrush. She could have argued or run or anything... but with only a slight tremor, she put the tip into the embers, leaving the handle well outside the fire.
"Good girl," he said. "Now go take off your jacket and lean against that tree there, and I'll be with you in a minute."
In a complete surprise to her, she unbuttoned her coat and walked over to where she had been instructed, feeling the chill attack her almost immediately now that she had lost both the fire and the jacket defending her against it. What was she thinking? It was one thing to go along with him for a day or two while she recovered her strength to come up with a new plan for escape. But what was the point in ever getting away if he was about to brand a permanent reminder of his ownership of her for the rest of her life? This internal monolog didn't stop her though. She just leaned against the tree, making peace with what was about to happen as she shivered.
"You should know," he said as he heard her stand up, "That you never had a chance to escape. I planted the knife in your bed. I let you walk out. I even started this campfire to give you something to run to."
She heard him pick up the brand out of the fire. "I set this all up... just to see what you would do, and you did better than I thought honestly. I didn't think you would stay in your room, but I certainly didn't think you would make it as far as you did. I was a little impressed."
Sarah felt herself blushing at the backhanded compliment, even as she heard him walking toward her. "But even if I had to drag you out here by your hair it was always going to come to this moment, slut. A shallow grave or a submission. A shovel or a branding iron. You understand that, don't you?"
"Y-Yes..." she hesitated, trying to keep the fear out of her voice, "Yes sir."
"And this is the future you want? To be my pet? My toy? My personal rapedoll?" He asked again.
Sarah opened her mouth up to answer, but never got the chance as he lashed out with the glowing brand, embedding it in her left ass cheek.
"I'm just kidding, cunt." he said, pressing the source of agony against her tender flesh.
"We both know that what you want stopped mattering a week ago. You're mine now, and you'll learn to love what I love."