This is work of fiction. No harm is intended, and anyone who cannot separate fiction from reality should try consulting a doctor. The majority of crime novelist donât kill people, and so the majority of erotic-fiction authors donât violate people. And, to make it clear...I donât do any harm myself.
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The Second Rape
It had been a year ago. A year had passed since her life as she had known it, had ended. Three hundred and sixty five days...well, maybe one or two or three days more than that.
One year in a lifetime that, under normal circumstances would not make any change at all. One...one day that had crushed her life, had crushed her soul, her very existence. That day when she had arrived from abroad, when she had decided to stroll the mall, to do some power shopping.
That one day, when she had been locked away in the office-section of that mall. One hour, one minute...when he had taken her. That moment, that hour when he had beaten her, when he had pushed her to the ground, her head hanging over the edge of the floor, only covered by the outward curved windows from the cold night winds of New York City. And then he had raped her.
Stephanie closed her eyes for one moment, tried to stay calm while she had stopped the car at a red light.
Remember the therapy...remember that it is in the past. It will never happen again. Never...
She fought the tears, fought the fear in her body. The fear that one day, in the middle of the night he would come to her. He would stand over her bed, he would push away the sheets, would fuck her...fuck her...fuck her...fuck her....
Hot tears started running down her face and Stephanie started weeping.
It took her one moment to realize that some people behind her were pumping there horns, wanted her to step on it.
Itâs over...
Stephanie pushed the pedal and her old, light green Oldsmobile started moving again. It had been a really hard time for the young woman, but now she had a job to do. A job, a focus in her life. And this one goal, this focus had become the only reason for her not to commit suicide. Her job was to find that creature.
Though, afraid as she was, though as much as she wanted to be home, on another continent... she knew that she had to face her darkest fears. She had to find him; she had to make sure he would never do that to any other woman in his lifetime again.
Her breathing became faster when she took the route towards that part of town where he was supposed to be. That dark part, that poor part...where nobody would care if she died on the streets, or if the man would rape her again.
âOh God...please stop this. I canât do this with that kind of thinking.â
No, she couldnât. No.
Involuntarily Stephanie glanced over to the other seat where the gun lay, covered by an old peace of cloth.
Yes, that one was her life insurance.
She crossed the bridge and took the second exit into the darkest part of town. When she turned right onto one broad street, she could instantly make out burning trashcans and a lot of younger people standing around those cans. Stephanieâs guts were turned into one big knot and her heart kept on racing. She knew she had to go on. She had come this far and wouldnât be stopped by her own fears.
He will rape you...
âNo!â
The young woman, dressed in an expensive blouse and sand colored pants, hit the wheel with her right hand, her face distorted into one grim mask.
âNo, he will not. Stop thinking that!â
Alright, baby, concentrate on your goal. Find that damned street, find the house.
A glance onto the map, also laying on the other seat, told her that she was almost there. Only minutes later she turned the car into one side street and turned right again at the next light. Now the only thing left for her to do was to find number 1123...piece of cake.
âYes!â
There it was...number 1123, one really run down place, with only a hint of color on old stonewalls, now covered by graffiti. Stephanie pulled the car over and stopped right in front of number 1123. There she turned the key and the engine died.
It was quiet for one endless moment; one moment in which the young woman closed her eyes and felt her chest moving hard. She knew she was close now, so close, so close to him.
Oh God, give me strength...
She opened up the drivers door and stepped onto the otherwise deserted street, then locked the door and took one long look at the old building.
âHotel NY,â it said....
Hotel Hell
It took her all her courage to move any closer to the entrance. Her fears, that inner voice that constantly told her that she was about to get raped again, drained her strength, but she kept her pace, kept her will to end this. And the pressure of the gun, underneath that old piece of cloth in her right hand was the reassuring voice of hope. And when she walked up the steps to the Hotel door, Stephanie felt a little better.
âExcuse me, sir.â
A young woman, fragile looking, in an expensive silk blouse and sand colored pants stood at the counter and tried to pick up the clerkâs attention.
âYes?â
He was an old man with a very white beard, and his uniform seemed to be as old as the Hotel.
âI am looking for one Michael Morgan. Somebody told me, Mister Morgan has a room in your Hotel.â
The man glanced over to a group of equally old man, sitting around one table and playing cards. The men waved at him and they began laughing.
âWell, young lady, Mister Morgan is not in his room right now. If I were you, I would get back where I came from. Mister Morgan is not a very friendly person.â
Stephanie gulped some saliva and felt the knot in her guts tightening.
âI know, but I have to find him. It is very important.â
And there, the old man seemed to recognize the gun underneath that old piece of cloth. But the man did not say anything.
âWell, in that case...,â he scratched the back of his head, âgo to the old Waybill Building in second street. There, in that dark and cold cellar you will find that man. I donât know what he is doing in that cellar, and I donât want to know. But if I were you....â
âYou would go where you came from, right?!â
He simply nodded.
âLady, you must have one hell of a good reason to go there and find that Michael Morgan.â
Stephanieâs face had become one mask of insecurity, and the color from her delegate features had left her face entirely. She was so afraid...
He will fuck you...he will massage your tits, he will stick his fat, big cock right into your pussy....again. He will rape you, darling...again
When Stephanie shook her head, the old man behind the counter just shook his head too.
âGood luck, young lady.â
Then he turned away to watch one baseball game that had been going on for the entire conversation.
Stephanie turned on one heel and left the Hotel. Her heart was pounding when she stepped onto the street again. Second street, he had said. As far as she knew, this street was only one block away, and so she did not take the car but wandered down the street, always looking for any possible danger that might await her in this dark part of town.
Against all her fears, Stephanie reached the deserted building without any incidents. With a heavy heart and a hard moving chest she stood in front of the house, shaking and realizing that the moment of truth had finally come. Now or never...all the sessions with her psychiatrist, all the long nights with her friend had lead her to this one final moment of truth. It was now or never...now...or...never.
She sighed and the grip around the gun became stronger while a cold wind came up the stairs from the dark reality of the cellar. Goosebumps appeared all over her skin, but the young woman bit on her lower lip and stepped into the house of destiny.
Drops of stale water kept on hitting the puddle underneath the stairway while her short hair was moved constantly by some sort of wind from down this house. What wind it was that war created within one building, Stephanie couldnât say. She felt dizzy, felt unable to form a straight thought, only kept on hanging to the gun she held in a firm grip.
The young woman was shivering while she reached the end of the stairs, now faced with a long corridor, only partly illuminated by the light that felt in through one very small and widely cracked window at the end of that corridor.
Shades were moving across the light grey concrete and somewhere in the unknown distance indefinable noise was being created while a terrified young woman kept on walking down the path of her destiny. Stephanie knew oh so much that she had to find that creature. She knew her own fears had to be overcome; she knew she had to face her fears.
This man, this creature would never in his time do violence to another human being. She would kill him, if necessary. She would commit murder, would face consequences that would arise through her own actions.
No one was around, no one would watch her, would stop her from fulfilling her destiny. And the young woman in her expensive silk blouse, in her beige pants... one woman nobody would ever suspect to spend her time in this shabby part of town... suddenly felt weak.
How was she supposed to go through with this complete nonsense? This was madness... a young woman armed with a gun, in the worst part of town was after a violent drug addict. This man, who still had more strength then she ever would posses, would ... would...
There was one sound somewhere in the cellar. One sound that was being made by some other human being...followed by what told her that it was indeed a human being who had made that sound to begin with.... a cough.
Stephanie jumped, her heart started drumming in her chest and sweat was running down each side of her face.
âAnyone there...,â she whispered into the darkness.
Silent cries...muffled...