Authors note: - This is a follow on to the previous episode of Becca XXX. Spring Tide. Please read it before reading this or you will not understand the plot or characters
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Becca XXX. Spring Tide. Ch 11.
Sploosh.
A slap of freezing cold water in the face brought me back to reality. For a moment I thought I was out surfing at Sennen Cove, but I soon realised that wasn't the case. At least it washed the pepper spray out of my eyes and sinuses.
I had no idea how long I'd been unconscious, but it must have been a while. My Kevlar body armour and weapons had been removed along with the rest of my clothes. I was now hanging from a hook by my hands with my feet barely touching the floor. The base of my skull was throbbing and I had a banging headache from being hit with the rifle-but.
At least the passage of time had allowed my vision and breathing to return to normal.
"Wakey wakey, Sooka," said a familiar Russian voice. "It's time we had some fun, no?"
It was Dimitri and he had a few friends with him. One of them had an empty bucket which had contained the water I'd just been soaked with. I scanned the room to take in as much information as I could and evaluate my situation.
My main concern was where Natalie was, but I soon spotted her hanging next to me in the same predicament. She was just as wet as I was, dripping in water from head to toe. Her face was red and puffy, especially around the eyes and nose from the horrific pepper spray attack. I kicked myself for not seeing it coming, but it was now in the past and there was nothing I could do to change it. All I could do was concentrate on the here and now.
"You're not so tough now, huh bitches?" laughed Dimitri. "No guns and no clothes and you're nothing more than a couple of whores again, dah?"
His friends laughed along with him, looking us both up and down like pieces of hung meat.
Our hands were tied above our heads by zip-ties and we were attached to a couple of crane hooks suspended from the gantry. Our ankles were also tied and we were up on tip toes to take some of the pressure off our shoulders. This was a stress position to keep us immobilised and wear us down. Things weren't looking good for us.
I scanned the room for our clothes and found the majority of my garments on the kitchen worktop next to Saskia's bra. Yuri was among the men surrounding us, holding two pairs of panties in his hands. One pair was mine and the other was Nat's. I imagined they'd been passing them around between them, sniffing our sexy smells from the fabric.
Apart from him and Dimitri, there were six other men present, crowding around us in a loose circle. Two of the guys had our MP7's slung over their shoulders while the rest seemed to be sporting Glocks and MAC-10's. They looked like a rag-tag bunch of low-level criminals who thought they were tough because of whom they associated themselves with.
"You need to let us go," I ordered. "We're just here for the girl."
There was an eruption of raucous laughter from the eight of them. Dimitri encouraged them and he now seemed to be the one in charge.
"You're in no position to be making demands," he snorted. "In fact, the only position you're in is one where you're about to get fucked."
The men sniggered and leered at us, but I just glared at them. I wasn't about to back down even though I was tied up and outnumbered. My brain was working at light speed to get myself out of this situation as quickly as possible. We were up against amateurs after all.
"These are the two sluts I told you about," Dimitri addressed his men. "They suck and fuck like a couple of high-class hookers. You should have seen them at the gloryhole."
"And Valentin's party," added Yuri. "They took more cum than a sperm bank, yes?"
"And how did that work out for your fat cunt of a boss!" spat Natalie. "Karma's a bitch, isn't it?"
"Yeah, he threw a good barbecue," I laughed. "It's a shame he was the main course."
Smack.
Dimitri swung the back of his hand straight across my left cheek to silence me. I immediately felt the sting of it and my eye began to swell.
"He was a true patriot for the motherland," he shouted. "His demise is unfortunate, but not the end of the cause."
"What cause?" hissed Natalie. "Drugging and raping young girls? How fucking manly of you."
Smack.
She got the same treatment as me. He slapped her hard across the face and I watched her head snap sideways under the heavy blow.
"It is the cause that will put Russia back in the driving seat as a super power. The western regime of tyranny and capitalism is over. The only question I have, is who the fuck are you? You're certainly not just a pair of slutty school girls."
"At least you've got something right," I smirked. "You don't think we're here alone, do you? We're part of a much bigger team, so, let us go, give us the girl and we'll walk away."
"There is no one else here, you're alone," said Yuri. "We watched you arrive after you tripped the silent alarm on your way in. Our lookout in one of the conveyor towers spotted you park your camper van and we tracked you on the hidden cameras from there on in. We knew someone would come for the girl after Valentin was killed, but we had no idea it would be two whores."
At least that explained how they spotted us. I was still kicking myself for not being cautious enough, but we were where we were.
"We're not whores. Although we are paid to fuck people," Natalie gave it a double meaning with venom in her voice. "The type of fucking you receive is up to you. You should listen to my friend here and let us go."
"And you should understand who you're dealing with, yes?" snapped Dimitri, moving closer and grabbing Natalie by her chin.
He pushed his nose against hers and snarled at her. He then turned his head slowly and menacingly to glare at me.
"Valentin is dead thanks to you two bitches, but I have taken over," Dimitri declared. "Killing him hasn't changed a thing. The plan will still be executed and a mighty blow will be dealt in the war with Ukraine."
"We know all about it and so do our superiors," I said it like it was nothing. "We know all about Victor and his three teams and what his plans are. We also know about the rest of your Russian assholes planning the same thing in America. It's fucking over."
He let go of Natalie and moved over to me. He grabbed a fistful of hair and yanked my head back to expose my ear. Moving so close that I could smell his breath, he spoke into my ear.
"If you know so much, why are you here? Getting the girl back does nothing for you unless Nikolai has promised you information in return for her being released," he growled. "You're full of shit."
"Am I?" I hissed back. "What about the drones?"
His snarl dropped and he pulled my hair harder, staring into my eyes to try and read me. I glared back, unflinching with a smug grin on my face. I was getting to him and that was my plan. Even if I could cast the slightest doubt in his mind about how close we were to ending their plan, it would buy us some time to get out of here.
"The western cowards and their remote drones," he spat on the floor next to me in disgust. "Your armies can't even fight like men anymore. They must hide thousands of miles away like little bitches dropping bombs on our comrades. You cannot even fight on the front lines like us Soviets. Fight a real war without your technologies and we will see who wins."
"A real war like the one your country is fighting you mean?" I scowled. "Murdering and raping innocent unarmed Ukrainians? Yeah, that sounds so brave. You mother fuckers are all the same."
"If they do not bow down to us, they get what they deserve," he snapped. "Just like you."
Getting him angry had made him make a mistake. He had just practically admitted that the drones were their targets, just like we had thought. It was also interesting that he'd referred to his fellow country men as 'Soviets' rather than 'Russians'. The Soviet Union had collapsed over thirty years ago and yet he was still referring to them as Soviets. It was just like Charles Hamilton had predicted. Russia wanted its old member states back and Ukraine was only the beginning. If Ukraine fell, the rest could quickly follow.
"And you think Victor and his men are capable of taking out the drone bases?" I laughed. "Our people are all over them, we've been tracking them for weeks. It's fucking over, dumbass."
A smile crept over his face and he slowly moved away from me. He let go of my hair and quickly slapped me across the other cheek. This blow was much harder and I saw starbursts for an instant before I shook it off and stared at him in defiance.
"Drone bases?" he laughed, giving the word 'bases' an extra emphasis. "That just proves that you don't know shit. He's not looking at drone bases - that would be much too difficult. Your complacent government have no idea how wide open you are to attack; he doesn't need to hit the drone bases to take those flying toys out of the sky."
My look of confusion must have been obvious. Was he telling the truth or was he trying to throw me off the scent?