Chapter 3: Ana Floats
Ana floated in heat, and darkness, and violent sensation. Floated and waited. There was nothing else Ana could do.
Whatever the terrible men had injected her with had worked quickly, and by the time they finished probing her and discussing her body like she were some fancy new gadget they'd just acquired, she couldn't even hold her head up.
She'd felt a small sliver of relief when the younger one had told her she could "take a rest," while the invaders unloaded their luggage. If there were no escape for her, if she couldn't move or even think, at least she could rest.
When the younger one had carried her off, some small part of Ana had held onto the certainty that he was an impulsive young man without the means to keep her imprisoned. That soon, he'd forget a lock or leave loose a strap and she'd escape. Or else, he'd mistake her submission for acceptance long enough for her to turn the tables and end this.
He'd toyed with her as she'd drifted in and out of consciousness, teasing her body for his own amusement, grinding against her until she almost wished he'd fuck her just to relieve the terrible tension. And every time her mind would slide up from the depths, she'd try to respond to him as a dominant lover, not a captor. She couldn't fight while bound, drugged, and barely able to remember where she was or what was happening to her. But she could submit, and wait for the young man to get bored with his game, when he learned how easily he could win.
The older one, the father, the one with the voice she'd found so bizarrely soothing had been awful. But the worst thing wasn't how he talked about her, or the vile way he squeezed and fingered her like she were produce. It was what he'd told her sincerely.
"For your sake, I hope he keeps you. I know some exclusive clubs that would pay through the nose just for holes like these. Not to mention the tits. You're lucky my boy is so sentimental."
She wasn't a young man's temporary amusement, or even an his obsession. To these people, she was simply one of many things they collected and prepared for sale, and that the young man's apparent infatuation which she'd hoped to wait out might be the one thing protecting her from much, much worse.
And she realized that she'd lied to herself at every stage of her capture. She'd been unable to process that she was even being attacked, until her captors had her completely bound and helpless. She'd comforted herself, imagining they were really taking her home, where she'd be safe again. And she'd convinced herself that they'd taken on a whim, that this couldn't last, that she could beat them by giving in and waiting them out. It was as if her own mind were on the side of her kidnappers, feeding her calming lies to help them lull her into complete submission.
And she really had been enjoying it, hadn't she -- At least alone with the younger one in the hot tub? As soon as the father took her, she'd desperately wanted to be returned to the arms of the son. He was everything she'd normally hate. Arrogant, cruel, presumptuous beyond words. Not even a misogynist, but simply someone who took her because he knew she was desirable, and he could get away with turning her into a commodity. Who might even grow to love her as one might grow to love a rescued mutt: through the process of domestication and obedience training, the effort of turning her into an adoring pet who embraces her place. And it was already working! she'd missed his teasing fingers and the playfulness of his cruelty as soon as he'd submitted her to his father's inspection. Here alone, part of her still did.
Waiting for the son to return would have been a nightmare, but something had broken open in her when the father penetrated her with his fingers. And suddenly, there'd been no pain, no fear as he'd held her up by the ring on the top of the heavy, sweaty helmet. She'd seen clearly that she would be handled as the men saw fit. She would live the pain and pleasure they gave her until she became what they made her. An ecstatic certainty she was too weak and exhausted to fight against flowed out from his fingers in that moment. She had become a thing.
And so she'd daydreamed as she'd waited for the son to come back, imagining she was a figurine mounted on a base that slotted into her: two fingers in her pussy and a thumb up her ass. His other hand was the end of an armature that kept her from toppling over, grasping the ring built into the top of her latex head.
And when he'd chatted to her about how she might be sent to a brothel, she hadn't pictured being raped, but being displayed on a stand in the lobby, where men might admire her as they chatted with the whores. And, limp and sedated, she'd drifted off to his grainy baritone, vaguely pleased that her holes and her tits were so valuable.
"You're a lucky girl," he had said. "Your owner is preparing a special surprise for you. I expect you will show appropriate gratitude."
Her holes had clamped down on his fingers, and she'd moaned the way a thing would moan, the sound made by her flesh body, but shaped by all her new parts: the rubber gag, the tubes up her nose, the fingers in her slots and the voice giving her commands. Drowsily, she'd tried to work out which part owned her. The old man's thumb? The cuffs the adolescent had put on her? The cock he'd used to tease her?
She wasn't even sure she could feel gratitude as a thing. But the thing tried to anyway, moaning for him as he described her future as a sexual appliance, and again when he called her a good girl and bounced her on his hand.
All along, something had been happening in the tub. The two men talked and the younger one came and went, and placed things in the water. But she didn't listen. Her owner was preparing a special surprise for her. She needed to show gratitude.
The pain had returned again when the younger one picked her up, sliding her off the older one's fingers. She'd wanted again. Wanted what he'd done to her, how he'd hurt and humiliated, and teased, and desired her. Wanted the little traces of humanity he seemed to perceive in her. Even wanted to be molested and bound, to be his victim until she could catch him off guard and kill him. Or if not, to be tamed and treasured. Wanted to be a human, even if it meant being defeated as a human.
And then both pairs of hands were working at once and she remembered again, she was a thing whose owner had prepared a surprise for her. Her limp leg brushed a wide, thick piece of metal underneath the water, like the round, weighted base of a microphone stand. And then something else slotting into her, not fingers, but a bulbous, metallic thing, and they'd moved her, and spread her lips, and raised it up inside of her.
The details of the rig had eluded her. She'd dreamed through most of the setup, but had heard scissors and the sound of tape being ripped and applied. The cutting sound had conjured an image in her mind of the pool noodles her parents had bought for some craft project years ago, which had sat in the little storage closet built into the edge of the deck ever since.
Oh. I'm an object in my own house,
she thought for the first time, and wondered why she'd never considered how she went with the decor.
There'd been something a little lumpy and uneven strapped around her waist, and she'd floated upwards, slowly drifting off the prod. They'd tinkered more, extending the shaft up into her, attaching something elastic to her legs, then pulling her up and letting her slide slowly back down it as some kind of test.
At some point, they'd removed the helmet. She couldn't remember it, but did remember the feeling of cold air blowing past the matted hair plastered to her face by sweat and drool and chlorinated water. And a sudden force of daylight through her eyelids. How long that had lasted, she didn't know, because she hadn't opened them. The men had worked plugs into her ears and some sort of harness over her face, then blindfolded her eyes. It was cooler, lighter, and now the men could enjoy her human hair and parts of her pretty face as well.
And then the younger one had deflated the gag, removed it, and poured water slowly into her mouth. The drugs has left even her jaw limp, and he'd held it closed and tilted her head to help her swallow. Then he'd kissed her lips and she'd felt something violent again in her chest, something she might feel one day as a statue, watching the men pick their whores. He'd told her what would happen if she made noise, and gave her a smaller gag that didn't hurt her jaw so much. Then tightened straps to close her jaw into place.
As soon as he'd released her, the violent feeling was gone like a dream. She could feel them watching her turn back into a thing, a sensation that tightened her slot around her mounting rod. She hadn't really been a miniature or a statue at all, she realized, but a part of a machine the two men had been tinkering with. And now they must be around her, watching it move. As she breathed, she realized she was a kind of floating cylinder, buoyed by the foam they'd fastened around her. Her breath was the engine, pulling her gently up and down the fixed piston, the little elastic bands burying the dildo at the proper depth in her cunt, and keeping her stable.