**Author's Note**
Hello and thank you to everyone who has taken the time to review my previous stories or send me emails gently prodding me to get writing again ;-) I'm still having fun with Sasha and Suzanne, although again this story is not meant to follow on or tie in with the original two Hunted stories in any way.
Please feel free to read, hopefully enjoy, and (fingers crossed) review if you can. But *please* heed the warning in the summary. As usual, this is not for kids or the faint of heart!
Please note: all characters are above 18 years of age; where Sasha says "little girl", it is just a nickname.
Suzanne's personal space was constricting into an increasingly claustrophobic bubble as the ring of soldiers advanced on her, faces leering and dirty fingers grabbing at her clothing menacingly. She wasn't sure why they had decided to pick on her, but she had been dragged into a small, bare outbuilding that was now gloomily lit by a bare bulb hanging from the neglected and peeling ceiling plaster.
She was panicking; didn't know where to look and kept turning around suddenly, trying to fight off the groping hands that would squeeze a thigh or slide under her skirt whenever she had her back turned for too long. She counted around fifteen or twenty of them, all dressed in varying degrees of what might pass as a soldier's uniform, and β in her current state of mind, at least β they all looked mean as hell.
They were expecting her not to put up much of a fight. They were the crowd, and she was alone. And she was terrified of what they were going to do, and of the fact that she had little chance of escape. However, she was not going to just give up without a fight.
One man stepped within the ring of soldiers to stand in front of her. He was smiling nastily, had every intention of grabbing at her clothes and revealing some skin. When he got within touching range, she rushed towards him and shoved a knuckle into each of his eyes before smacking the heel of her hand into his nose for good measure. He staggered backwards in pain, and was swallowed by the crowd again.
She backed away quickly, almost hyperventilating. The rest of the soldiers were simultaneously angered and amused by her efforts, but by no means were they discouraged. A second man stepped into the ring with her, ensuring that he kept his eyes on her hands as he advanced. Suzanne feigned surrender until the man was within a foot of her body, then grabbed him by the arms and used his own body for leverage as she brought her knee into his balls with enough force to hurt her own leg.
Suzanne knew that she had been lucky up until now. The soldiers hadn't expected any resistance, but now they knew what they were dealing with. The third soldier stepped into the ring, and paused as he muttered to her "English bitch. You're going to have cock in every one of your holes before we finish with you, little whore!"
The words chilled her to the bone. She had known the reason why they had dragged her into the little building, of course she did, but to actually have it spelled out to her in such a crude and brutal way made the reality of her situation hit home. She felt tears pricking at the corners of her eyes as she started to feel the first insidious tendrils of defeat slither through her veins.
This guy was a big, ugly, hulking man, but he moved a lot more quickly than Suzanne had first expected. He grabbed her by her coat collar and started tearing it from her body mercilessly. She didn't notice the jeering crowd go silent until the circle parted to allow another man through. The hulk grabbing her coat retreated to the outskirts of the circle quickly, taking the garment with him as he went.
If she had been scared before, it was nothing compared to this moment. The man who now joined her within the circle of soldiers was not as wide or as tall as the hulk who had just made a swift exit, although he was still over six feet in height. But what really made her afraid, was the fact that it was clear that the other soldiers both feared and respected this man. Nobody tried to get in the way of him, or even question his right to enter the circle when he had only just entered the building.
He was dressed in combat pants and the same sturdy boots that the soldiers were wearing; however the boots were the only part of a soldier's uniform that he seemed to bother with. His jacket was zipped up half way, showing a black t-shirt that he had on underneath, and he also wore black fingerless gloves to protect his hands from the rather harsh weather outside. Suzanne noticed that his short, dark brown hair was slightly matted down against his head, and he had a couple of scars through his eyebrows that she might have found quite fetching under different circumstances.
Then she noticed the rifle strapped to his back, which also had one of the scopes that snipers use attached to it. Although she had seen guns many times on film, it was a different thing entirely to see one up close. Her fear seemed to increase in severity with each passing second, and did not seem to ease in the slightest even when the man took the gun from his back and held it out to a soldier in the crowd for them to look after it for him. He did the same with a handgun that he took from a shoulder holster.