Brie didn't often take the Skytrain home after work. It was typically filthy and full of sweaty Vancouverites, rude and pushy at the end of their work day. However, it was now after rush hour, and most of her ride buddies had left the office already. Grabbing a cab would cost her too much if she wanted to have a good time this weekend, so the skytrain was the better of the available evils. She sighed in resignation, grabbed her purse off her desk and walked to the elevator. 'Ground floor then horrible ride home, good times.'
At the standard ding, she left the elevator, and made her way through the lobby. At the reception desk Rodney, the night security guard, was snoring. Shaking her head, Brie smiled, and crossed the lobby; her heavy purse swinging at her side and slowly pulling her skirt up as it caught on her nylon stockings. Either Rodney was truly sleeping, or he simply pretended to everyday when she came downstairs just so he could surreptitiously ogle her legs when this happened. Brie was never sure, but she felt his eyes on her backside with each step, and couldn't help but hope that it was just paranoia making her feel that way.
Carefully, Brie smoothed out her skirt, and then opened the exterior door of the office. Immediately, she groaned in frustration as her knee caught a rough edge of the metal door. Pain shot up her leg and she muffled her swear before it could ring through the empty street. 'Great. What next?' Brie could feel a trickle of blood seeping through her nylons, and there was a significant tear where they had caught on the edge of the door. Sweeping her gaze up the street, she saw no one, and knowing the heavy lobby door that had closed behind her as she limped outside was now locked, she opted for a quick strip in the curtain of shadow close to the building's edge. 'Please don't let anyone come around the corner! Just two seconds and I'm done. Just give me two seconds!' She hurriedly pulled off her heels and set them aside. Unable to see back into the recesses of the alley, she felt the tendrils of fear tug at her as she peered into the darkness. Hearing nothing, and hoping no one was hiding back there she pulled off her stockings.
When each leg was revealed, she felt the cool night air stir on her skin, and with the chill, she shivered. Bunching the stockings, she wiped the trickle of blood away and pressed the material against her throbbing knee. Finally, after several moments in the tingling darkness, she figured the blood was manageable, and shoved the nylons into her bag. She slipped her feet back into her heels, and peered around the corner, checking for passersby. Seeing no one, she rounded the corner, and swiftly walked down the street to the skytrain station. With perfect timing, she purchased her ticket, and thankfully boarded a nearly empty car.
At the first stop everyone in the car except for Brie exited, and no one got on. 'Perfect! Finally, some peace for a second!' Brie's thoughts turned to an activity to stave off boredom for the remainder of the 20 minute ride home, and determined this was the perfect opportunity for her to check her email. There were only 3 stops before hers, and she was grateful to live no farther away. Once before, when she had just moved to the neighborhood, she had missed her stop, and the next stop was more than 15 minutes further. She had lost over half an hour just getting back to the right station, and endured endless ribbing from her friends when she told them why she was late meeting up with them later. Pulling out her iPhone, she accessed her email, and diligently focused on reading and responding to them. She was so engrossed that at the second stop, she didn't notice when two men quietly entered the car, and then sat down at the far end of it. Minutes passed by before she looked up, and when she did, it was only because the car came to a sudden and shuddering halt. Hastily, she looked out the window, and noticed onlookers on the street below pointing up at the sky train track with their eyes wide in distress.
"Jumper, maybe." The man's deep voice startled Brie as she realized suddenly that she wasn't in the car alone. As she made eye contact with the man, he locked her gaze and held it. Breathless, Brie turned away. Pulling out her iPhone, she dialed the police.
"911, what is your emergency?"
"Hi, I'm on the Skytrain just before the Braid Station exit, and we've just ground to a halt. I didn't know if this was something that needed to be reported. I mean, are we in any danger?"
"You're inside the Skytrain, Ma'am?"
"Yes."
"Wait one moment please." The line stayed open as the dispatcher made her report, and Brie could hear a response come back to her,
"Ma'am, there has been an accident on the tracks. Emergency crews are on their way. Please advise any additional passengers that it may be sometime before you can get off the train safely, but remain calm."
"Ok, thank you. I will, but..." Brie's phone went dead. 'Arrg! I should have paid attention to the battery level!'
She placed her phone in her bag and set it on the floor in front of her. Looking at the two strangers, she said, "The police say there's been an accident. We're going to be here for awhile." Both men looked at each other momentarily, and then expressed their understanding. They stood up, walked to the opposite side of the car and began watching the congregating crowd below. Brie half heartedly listened to their speculations about what may have happened, while she straightened her skirt once more.
"Hey, look at that!" The man who had locked eyes with Brie motioned her over. Standing and taking the few steps to the side of the car the men were looking out of, she placed a knee on a seat and leaned forward, attempting to find what he was drawing her attention to. The movement pulled her skirt tight against her ass, revealing even more leg below it's short hem.
"What?" Brie asked, scanning the crowd below.
"That TV crew just showed up, look, right over there." The man took a quick step behind her and pointed down to the right, his hand next to Brie's shoulder.
"Oh, I see them now. Yeah. Something big must have happened." Brie went to move away from the window, but the man was standing directly behind her. Once again she looked up, and her eyes met his. Once again, she felt a fluttery warning signal in her stomach that left her breathless.
"Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me." She went to move past him, but he leaned in closer. He smelled nice, like leather and citrus, and though he didn't put a hand on her, she felt like her whole body was being touched by him as he kept his gaze locked with hers.
"Stay there." He said. Not threatening, not cruelly. Just a statement. Brie's heart was racing and she laughed nervously.
"No, I want to go back to my seat now." From her peripheral vision she saw the other man moving closer to her as well. Oh my God! This can't be happening! This time when she went to push by the man, she moved forcefully, pushing against him. Like a rock, he didn't move. This time, he caught her around the waist, and held her close to him.
"Baby, you're not going anywhere, nobody is, not for a long while yet. So let's enjoy ourselves, shall we?" The man holding her slid one hand up to her chest, firmly caressing her breast through her shirt. "Sorry, Honey, but I'm going to need this." In a swift movement, he ripped his hand down the front of her blouse, popping off all the buttons. Still tightly holding her by the waist, he turned her around to face him. Her arms now free, Brie frantically attempted to push him off, but it was a split second before the other man hand her wrists in each of his hands, and then grasped them tightly behind her. The man holding her squeezed one of her breasts through her bra, her gasps making her other large globe quiver and heave. Deliberately, he slipped first one breast out of the cup and then the other, taking his time as she heaved and squirmed, loudly voicing her protest. Once both breasts were out of her bra, her nipples hardened in the cool air, and pausing a moment, the man looked over his shoulder at his accomplice. "I need a moment here, Jake." The other man, Jake, answered,
"You bet you do. Fine. We'll settle later." With a chuckle, both men went silent as the man in front of her grasped each breast in his hands.
"You have some hot breasts, girl." He lowered his voice to a whisper, "What's your name?" Brie stared at him defiantly, tears in her eyes. She wasn't going to answer him!