Author's note: Thank you to all the kind commentors on the previous chapter. It received a number of comments about how this isn't dark enough to truly be Stockholm syndrome. I don't disagree. To be truly dark enough I would have to write dozens of chapters where terrible awful things happen to the main character as she is broken down to nothing. That would depress me to no end. This might surprise some of my readers, but I actually have trouble writing the saddest parts of my stories. I find it physically affecting, so I could never write that much darkness, nor should I have to.
In the same way that Just One Drink is my worst nightmare (and all too real considering it was based on what could have happened when I was drugged my freshman year) Abducted is my biggest fantasy. To that end, there will be terrible things in it, but they are the terrible things I crave, not the terrible things that make me cry. Comment on the quality of the writing or the character development, by all means, but the subject matter? Please do us both a favor and read something else.
This is a story filled with Non-consent and dark themes, just like part 1 was and part 3 will be. I won't apologize for adding some light to something so dark.
Chapter 2 - Day 14 - Play Date
Sarah wasn't sure if her owner was simply toying with her, or if he'd had a bad day at work, but that night, according to him, nothing she did was right. She didn't greet him with enough enthusiasm. She didn't thank him for the meal he graciously provided for her, and worst of all, at no point in the two hours he'd been home did she beg him to fuck her.
She could see how the last one was at least a minor sin, but the rest, well, she had trouble taking them seriously, at least until that showed in her attitude. They were only part way through the pork loin they were having for dinner when suddenly he'd decided he'd had enough, and slammed down his silverware. His face wasn't angry exactly either. It was a very cold expression he gave her as he stood. That was the worst part.
"Alright," he said. "Get up. I've clearly been taking it too easy on you, and it's time for another lesson."
Sarah did as she was told, but was a couple seconds too late as she struggled to understand the changing dynamic. She was rewarded by her owner grabbing a handful of her shoulder-length blonde hair and twisting her neck painfully to pull her ear to his mouth. "You spend a few nights up here, and suddenly you think you're a person again?" he growled.
"No," she gasped, "It's not that. I--"
"Maybe it's time I remind you that you're nothing but my property," he interrupted, dragging her from the room. At first, she thought he was taking her to the bedroom, and her perky breasts tingled under the t-shirt he'd let her wear, becoming almost immediately visible. It was worse than that, though, when he dragged her past that door and towards the basement stairs.
Her breath caught in her throat as he opened that door. Literally anything could happen down there, and right now she found her owner impossible to read. She had literally no idea what he was in the mood for. Was he going to shame her? Fuck her? Beat her? All she really ached for was to not be put back in that tiny little punishment cell again. She never wanted that.
"Please - I'm sorry," she whimpered. It was impossible to stop whatever he'd planned next, but at least she could soften the blow. As he forced her passed the doorway, and she began to descend the dark stairs.
Once they were in the cold basement, he began to unlock the playroom, as he called it. It was an often threatened, but rarely visited place inside the cabin. "Maybe if you'd been sorry an hour ago, you would have gotten to finish dinner," he muttered as he undid the padlock.
While he opened the door, Sarah stood there with a feeling of overwhelming panic as her body took the measure of his tone. Part of her was begging for her to try to run away, even if she knew that was impossible. She couldn't run, it was much too late for that, but that didn't mean she had to look forward to what was going to happen next.
As the fluorescent lights blinked, as the playroom slowly appeared one flicker at a time, she saw the familiar site. The monitors. The cameras. The toys. Everything. She couldn't even look at the padded bench towards the center of the room without remembering what he'd done to her there a little over a week ago, and she turned away from it. Fortunately, this time he was more interested in the manacles that hung from the ceiling. Maybe that meant she was just due for a paddling, Sarah thought, hopefully. She could live with that, she thought as a shiver of relief ran through her, and when he called her and forced her to strip, she did so without hesitation.
She didn't struggle either when he attached the padded cuffs to her wrists and then took enough tension on the rope that she was forced to stand on the balls of her feet to keep the pressure off of her wrists.
She regretted the obedience as soon as she saw him reach for a remote control instead of a flog or a paddle, though. This wasn't going to be just physical pain, but he clearly wanted to hurt her mind too. At least this time though, when the first monitor clicked on it wasn't a video of her parents, she thought with relief. It was just a real time feed of her standing there.
"You seem to have forgotten your place, slut," her master said, as he pointed the remote to the second monitor and then flicked it on too. "You've come a long way in a short time. And you've been rewarded for it too, but you seem to think that when your ass heals you can go back to being the bitch I kidnapped from the parking lot."
"You can't," he whispered, leaning close.
While he talked, Sarah watched a supercut of the first two days of her captivity here playing out on screen with tears in her eyes. Every moment of weakness where she begged or cried was captured for posterity, and was being played back in the most humiliating way possible.
"The Sarah on that screen is gone, and she's not coming back," he said coldly as his hands began to wander her body. Sarah shivered, torn between the terrible things she was watching and the authoritative way he was treating her. He'd barely started touching her, and already the sadness that had gripped her throat was stolen away by whimpers of pleasure. "You might look like her. You might even moan like her, but that's all you're ever going to have in common with her, you got that cunt?"
"Of course master..." Sarah purred, swept away by the idea that she wasn't that person anymore. It was quixotic and paradoxical, but still true enough. The Sarah on that screen never would have meekly let a man bind her, and she certainly wouldn't have trembled under his touch while her pussy began to moisten at the idea of what was coming next.
Then, just as suddenly as his torments had started, her owner suddenly walked away from her, leaving her to gasp in frustration. She watched him on the monitor, looking over several implements of pain, before he finally selected a long flog and walked back over to her. He didn't say anything. He didn't chastise her or give her a chance to beg. He just suddenly swung it at practically full strength at her back. The strips of leather landed hard, and Sarah hissed in pain as the unexpected jolt passed through her.
He stood there in silence for a long moment before he picked up the remote and changed the camera view to the one behind her. Now not only could she not see when he was swinging, but she could see the red welts already rising on her pale skin.
"Well slut, are you ready to apologize," he asked, still sounding displeased.
"Of course. I'm so-- Aaaahhhhh!" caught off guard mid-sentence, she cried out as the flog landed a second time. Crisscrossing the first welts on her back and instantly turning those lines into X's.
"No you're not," he spat. "You can't possibly be sorry yet. Look at you. You barely have a mark on you."
"You're right!" she shouted, pleased to see it had stayed the lash, even for a few seconds. "Please. Please make me sorry, master. I deserve it and need to regret my dec-- Fhhhhhh" The flog landed again and this time she inhaled sharply instead of crying out, but almost before she'd recovered from it a second one landed, and then a third.