Apocalypse Slaves Pt. 16
By: AlexClayton/DieselJester
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Author's Notes: Model based off of "Val/Valerie" from the game Lust Epidemic.
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CHAPTER 1: The Last Lottery
Well... I guess that I've had a good life...
Val thought despondently as she looked at her name flashing on the screen from the results of the last lottery for the Seattle-Tacoma Hab. While whatever that was going on in the midwest had prompted the governor to suspend the lotteries in the future, this one had still been underway and it was impossible to stop once the Hab AI Computers started it. After 8 years of getting her degree at university and then 20 years of teaching secondary school after that, Val was retired and was eligible for the lottery for the first time as she had yet to find another role in which to contribute to society. She'd put in an application to start teaching at the Sea-Tac Hab University in the fall, but her application hadn't been fully reviewed yet. Now it would be ignored as she was going to be expelled from the Hab by the end of the week.
So, at the age of 46, Val would be heading out into the horrors of the wastes for the first time. It made her wonder how long she would last.
Depressed about what her immediate future now held, Val went into the bathroom and took off her clothes to drown her sorrows in a hot shower... probably one of the last she'd ever take again. Before she even got to that point, she rested her hands on the counter by the sink and hung her head for a moment. Then she looked at herself in the mirror. She had the face and body that anyone half her age would be the envy of; light, sun kissed skin, a face that still radiated youth and beauty, big green eyes, and an hourglass figure with hips and a bust that wouldn't quit defying gravity. The only thing that betrayed her middle age was her grey hair that she kept cut short. She stood up and rubbed her big, supple breasts... large DD Cups... with soft pink nipples that only had the slightest bit of sag to them, knowing that they'd be the target of raiders up and down the west coast. Val knew that she'd have to lay low and keep out of sight the moment she was out of the Hab if she wanted to remain free.
With a heavy sigh, she got into the shower, cranked the heat up as far as she could stand it, and lay down on the floor, letting the falling water wash away her worries for now. She could do this... she figured. She was an intelligent, educated woman who'd spent years studying and even more years teaching so that her students could have a better shot at life. Some had been victims of the lottery, being expelled from the Hab over the years, but most had made it and succeeded. And now they were the legacy that she'd be leaving behind. Despite having on again/off again lovers over the years, she never did settle down and have children of her own. Her students were her children and it pained her that she'd now be leaving them behind. But, on the other hand, now she'd be putting her education to the practical test and she hoped that she was ready for it.
After a while, she reached up to the shower's shelf and retrieved one of her dildos there. As she'd taught her students, especially the girls, one of the keys to survival out in the wastes was to get into the survival mindset, even if that meant preparing yourself for the total worst case scenario. In her case, that would be capture and being forced to breed. So she closed her eyes, spread her pussy open wide, and rubbed her slit with the dildo to warm herself up, all the while picturing that she was being taken by raiders. It's a fantasy that she'd role-played out before with a couple of her lovers... men who'd fancied themselves as tough guys or pretended like they were the mythical Caine or something.
Once she was wet, Val roughly plunged the dildo into herself. She shoved it in hard and deep as she figured a raider would do. At the same time she arched her back and cried out from the sudden wave of pleasure that shot up her body. Once she was spent, she let the dildo slip out of her as she just laid on the floor of the shower and let the water cascade down upon her. Then she rolled into a ball and cried, mourning the loss of everything around her and possibly the loss of her own life or freedom should she be caught by raiders out in the wastes. It wasn't fair. This last lottery shouldn't have even taken place but it is what it is. At least she'd go out knowing that no others would have to suffer her fate from the Hab again.
She just hoped that she'd survive long enough for whatever was happening out east would make life better for everyone. Maybe, just maybe, this was the dawn of something greater.
Val just didn't hold her breath that it'd come.
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CHAPTER 2: Expulsion and Capture
With all of her affairs in order, and her standard issued survival backpack strapped onto her back, Val slowly trudged forward in the line of the unlucky winners of the lottery. She took a deep breath as she passed through the gates of the Hab knowing that she'd never return.
Noticing that many of the exiles were forming groups and heading east or north, which led further inland, Val struck off by herself heading southeast towards Mount Rainier. There were lakes and streams on and around the mountain that she could settle down next to and maybe find an old cabin to fix up. What she didn't want to do was follow the crowd as they would draw the attention of the raider gangs in the area that inevitably showed up on Exile Day.
Val walked on alone for a couple of days, keeping off of the old roads and camping off of trails. If traders came along, she hid. If she found tracks that were recent, she went the other way. After three days, she made it to the base of the mountain and started looking for the old trails, maps, and visitor centers that might've survived the Flare. If there were any, they'd be on the eastern side of the mountain that would've shielded it when the deadly solar strike happened all those years ago.
Her heart sank on the fourth day when she found one such cabin. Smoke from the old, rustic chimney told her that the cabin was already occupied. She'd have to move on. Then she paused as she realized that there were a lot of tracks around the old building along with a lot of gear strewn about. That meant only one thing; raiders. She'd stumbled across a party that was obviously using this cabin as a base of operations. Val needed to leave quickly before she was spotted.
Moving slowly at first, she backed up while keeping the cabin in sight. There were a couple of raiders coming out in their shabby clothes and ramshackle armor made out of leather and scraps of metal. She backed right into a tripwire that shook a nearby tree and jingled a bunch of cans that were tethered together by a chain. The two raiders at the cabin looked her way, picked up their pipe rifles, and charged right for her.
Val turned and ran full out through the woods, knowing all too well what was going to happen if she was caught. Shouts of alarm erupted from behind her, alerting the others in the area to her presence. Val now tore through the underbrush, heedless of where she was going or what the branches and foliage was doing to her clothes.
When she broke into a clearing, she heard a loud metallic pop from her left. A second later a net wrapped around her body, ensnaring her arms and legs and knocking her to the ground. She immediately tried unwrapping herself from the netting but it was too late. It gave the raiders and all of their nearby patrols time to get to her and surround her. She was captured.
With a heavy sigh she realized that despite all of her knowledge and education, she lasted only four days on her own.
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CHAPTER 3: Claimed
Around her, the raiders cheered as they got her out of the net before dragging her to her feet and quickly bound her arms behind her back. The leader leered at her. "Got us a ripe one... even if she is a bit old," he commented as he reached up to twirl a dirty finger through her short grey hair. "What's your name, woman?"
"Valerie," she replied simply. Part of the law of survival for women was to do what you were told when you were told to do it. No more, no less."
"Oh my gawd! Miss Valerie?" one of the younger raiders asked incredulously, pushing his way to the front of the gathered crowd. "Is that really you?"
Val looked in the direction of the youthful voice and picked him out of the crowd. She knew all of her students and recognized him as Scott, one of her students from a few years ago who was unlucky enough to have been picked in the lottery before he could find a job in the hab. She let out a heavy sigh. "Oh... Scott..." she said with a tone of pity even though she was the one trussed up and helpless. "I had such high hopes for you when you graduated. I had hoped that you'd at least survive on your own and become a rancher or something... not fall in with these types."
Scott shrugged indifferently. "It was either become one of them or slowly starve," he said. "Or get tortured to death... or be forced to be a gladiator in their slave pits... or any number of things. I prefer being alive and fed, thank you, and YOU were the one who taught me to either beat up a raider, or become one for survival."
"Hey, Scotty," the leader said, looking at him and jerking his head Val's way. "You know this broad?"