Non-consensual force fantasy story with kidnapping and other dark deeds.
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Barney didn't mind that they were late. It was what an educated man might call appropriate or some such. He could wait as long as need be. A body learned behind bars how to pace out time without going stir crazy. Not that Barney had ever done hard time save for that one spell at that troubled teens camp his stepdaddy had sent him to as a kid. That had been a summer of pure unpleasantness until he'd shammed his way back into being a good boy eager to eat the sumbitch's shit. Not six months later his stepdaddy had gone missing while out deer hunting. Barney had learned how to walk quietly in the woods that time at the camp. His momma had kicked up a fuss making all sorts of accusations. A boy had to love his momma. But she'd always taken the sumbitch's side. So she went on a trip with no forwarding address. The cops had given him a hard time. But Barney just kept his mouth shut and listened to his court-appointed lawyer. Turned out that lawyer knew certain fine men who liked a careful young man who knew when to stay quiet.
They were the ones who owned this garage out in the boonies. Them or someone who owed them. It was out on the edge of the city hard by a train yard. The run-down factories and warehouses here were nasty enough that any homeless would much prefer a sewer grate in town rather than wander about here. State police passed through every so often on the main roads. Sometimes, there would be raids when the cops found out that a chop shop or meth lab had been set up. Otherwise, nobody bothered coming around in the dead of night unless they were suicidal. So Barney felt safe enough to have a fire going in a hobo stove made from an old coffee can. He warmed his hands over the blaze. A man needed flexible fingers for this sort of work. Gloves would slow you down. Make things awkward. Barney had once been slow on one of his first jobs of this sort. He still had a puckered dimple in his shoulder from that screw-up.
Light came through the windows. They flashed once. Barney snapped on beige rubber gloves--two nested inside each of the pair, less likely for prints to pass through--before hauling on the chain running to the garage bay door. Cold swirled in before a big, black SUV drove inside. There was some heavy bass thumping from a pricy sound system even through the thick tinted windows. The door rolled down behind it after Barney let go of the chain. He put his hands in the pockets of his coat. It was a puffy thing that wasn't his usual. But it did hide a certain bulge in the right pocket. Funky smoke escaped from the SUV when the front doors opened. What he decided to call Douchebag 1 and Douchebag 2 got out. Both were jacked-up guys barely out of their teens with dark hair. Russian "thief in law" tattoos were visible on their neck and hands. Neither had ever gotten closer to Russia than Schenectady. One of them had a god-damned Desert Eagle jammed down the front of his pants. Idjit.
Barney smiled goofily at the Douchebags. They smirked with mouths filled with gold caps. They saw what Barney wanted them to see: a hick from upstate in a cheap jacket and jeans and boots. They did step back a bit when he got up. Barney tended to loom. A face that might have been a Neanderthal's that had gotten whacked a few times with a shovel and jug ears didn't help him socially, either. But that stupid smile he slapped on his mug made sure they thought he was dumb muscle. He even added a stoop like he was nervous around them. They relaxed at that. Good. All he needed to do was get to within three feet of them. He could have done it from where he had been sitting. It was better to do it close. Almost there. Barney faked looking down like he was intimidated.
Close enough.
Barney froze when he heard drunken laughter from the back of the SUV. High heels clacked on stained concrete as two girls half-fell out of the rear passenger side door. Two girls in skintight, strapless black dresses that left little to the imagination top and bottom stumbled towards the Douchebags. He couldn't help his gaze lingering on firm tits with stiff nipples poking through spandex and toned legs going all the way up to hems that nearly showed panties. That is, if they were wearing any. Their faces were pretty rather than model-beautiful. There was just enough difference in their looks that they weren't identical. The one who wrapped her arms around Douchebag 1 had tousled golden-blonde hair. The other who leaned up against Douchebag 2 had dark-red hair. Neither couldn't have been older than eighteen. Barney gritted his teeth. Those two assholes had brought civilians to a meet. That made this a hundred times messier.
"Hey, who's this?" the blonde said in a sing song voice. "Is he joining your gang or something?"
"Bitch, I told you to stay in the fucking car." Douchebag 1 shoved her off him. "This is business. And you stay out of it."
"Hey, lay off." Douchebag 2 lifted up a vape pen to his lips. "They won't be telling anyone. Won't you?"
"Nmmm mmmm." The redhead faked twisting a key in front of her mouth. "We can keep secrets."
"I'm sure you can, ladies." Barney stepped back a bit. "But this here's what you might call a private meetin'."
"Ladies. Hah. You're great." The blonde grinned at him in a way that almost broke his heart. "Maybe we should have hooked up with--"
"You little whore, I let you into the club, drink on my tab--" Douchebag 1 seized her by the throat.