Author's note: the author does not condone rape or any other form of abuse or sexual assault depicted in their work, in much the same way mystery writers do not condone murder. If rape is a trigger or makes you otherwise uncomfortable, please look elsewhere; there are plenty of amazing works on this site that will meet your needs.
This can be read as a continuation of "Her Favorite Band" or as a piece of its own; they (and the characters involved) are written ambiguously for a reason.
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It was late, the traffic of the city practically unrecognizable in its sparseness from when she first left. That wouldn't bother her so much if she were taking the bus, but with her phone and wallet both lost over the course of the evening, the rare sight of another person put her on edge even more than she already was.
She didn't have any choice in the matter. But, thankfully, her motel was within walking distance--if a
long
walk.
It didn't take her long to wish she had her headphones, even if only to have the comfort of a little more noise. Neither did it take her long to wish she'd put on a coat, the chilly autumn breeze amplified in much the same way as the sound of her every step by the monoliths of concrete and glass that stretched into infinity around her.
Shivers chased up and down her skin. The echoes of her footsteps began to fade into the background with the distant hum of the highway, and she kept her head down, hoping to avoid attention by avoiding doling out her own.
A wolf whistle is what yanked her out of her sullen introspection. It was sharp, cloying, and it made revulsion bubble in the pit of her stomach.
She did her best to ignore it. Did her best not to glance in his direction--because it undoubtedly came from a
he--
and move on with her life.
When the sneakers appeared just ahead of her on the sidewalk, she had to look up, if only to see where to get around him.
He was tall, wearing a sweatshirt that hid his face entirely in the shadow cast from the nearby streetlight. Even so, she could feel his eyes on her body, brushing it up and down, poking at every inch of skin exposed to the air.
And he just stood there. Watching.
She made to sidestep him. He moved with her. She tried again, a stone sinking in her chest, and he blocked her again.
She cleared her throat, preparing herself mentally to don the furious mask of a crazy woman--and cut herself off when she heard the scuff of another pair of shoes to her left.
Thank fuck, someone's here to help.
"Where you goin' this late at night, sweet thing?" the new person said, his own leer clear as day in his tone.
And she froze.
More footsteps. More
men.
"You gonna answer him?" a new voice asked, before spitting on the sidewalk and adding a muttered, "Bitch."
Do something,
she thought.
Move. Fight.
Anything.
Her eyes returned to the ground as tears burned at her eyes and a half dozen more sneakers appeared at the edge of her vision, surrounding her.
"Hey," the first man said. "Can you hear us, bitch?"
Fucking scream, you idiot,
she thought.
He waved a gloved hand in front of her as the tears began to fall.
"Damn," he muttered. Then, louder, "Stay this quiet and we'll all get along fine."
They didn't even wait for a confirmation. For a sign that she'd heard them, that she understood.
They just descended on her.
She was steered into a nearby alley and shoved to the ground. Her palms scraped against the asphalt, bringing another kind of tear to her eye as she felt her skirt rip under her knees as the men gathered 'round. And though she tried to propel her mind elsewhere, to dissolve into the numb cold of the wind and the grit under her fingers, the moment she felt the warmth of a pair of jean-clad legs straddling her behind the knees, she could think of nothing but the sensations that followed.
Her skirt flipped up. Her panties torn off. A zipper drawn. A hand grabbing her waist while another pair entirely grabbed her cheeks and stuffed her underwear into her mouth.
And the hot pressure of a cock swirling at her entrance, weeping precum dripping onto her clit as he withdrew just far enough to line up before ramming himself in to her core.
Of course, the first sound her throat would let her make was a grunt muffled in the cloth of her panties. Of course, the first motion she was allowed by her body was the shove of her palms against the ground, a useless flail to escape immediately thwarted by the force of the next thrust as the man seemed to drop his entire body weight onto her through his dick.
Her tears made her blind to detail, but not to the flashes of phone cameras as the gathered men muttered muffled appreciation as the assault began in earnest, pants tenting as a rhythm was found. Each
clap