Tags: MC, MF, MD, GR
Synopsis: A lonely tech is surprised when a young woman tries to hide in his shop, then is further surprised by what he learns about her.
Note: 'My Erotic Fiction', which means you cannot use or repost it without my permission; it may be illegal or immoral for you to read—If so, don't; and none of it is real.
Note 2: This is set in the periphery of the 'Secret Sexlabs Inc.' universe. The SSI does not play a large role in it, however.
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BANG BANG BANG!
I jerked up to look at the doors of my small electronics repair shop and saw a young woman pounding on the glass with a desperate look in her eyes. It was late at night, far past my usual hours, but I often hung around the shop even when there were no projects since there was no real reason to go to my small apartment and I had better internet in the shop. (I even had a small bathroom with shower, and a pretty comfy cot in the back room.) The work lamp I was using must have lit the place up enough for her to see me.
Strangers at night are rarely good news, but she looked more like she was in trouble than someone trying to score a few bucks 'for my sick child' or the other scams most of my late-night visitors have tried. Besides, it was a cold, rainy night.
As I approached the door, I noticed she was wearing jade scrubs under a soaked thin robe-like thing and soggy slippers—like a hospital patient might wear. For a moment the thought that she might be an escaped convict or mental patient flittered through my mind but the city jail was miles away and the mental health hospital in the area had closed years ago.
I opened the door and she stumbled in, dripping and shivering. I led her to the corner of the shop I use as a sort of lounge or waiting area and had her sit on a towel, tossing a warm throw over her shoulders and another towel on her lap. I asked if she wanted some hot tea (apologizing for the lack of coffee), and she shivered her way through a nod. I turned on the hot pot and gathered a make-shift tea service.
Once she stopped shivering, she began to babble a bit, begging me to hide her, to keep her safe, that they were looking for her and more. I urged her to calm down and tell me what was going on.
"There isn't any time, they'll be looking for me soon!" Asking her who was looking for her only made her more afraid. Since she did not seem to be a danger to me, I decided to let her hide in the parts room for the time being.
No sooner had I cleaned up from the tea then someone else was banging on the door. This time, it was two men in suits—a really big guy and a normal sized guy. I went to the front and they asked, firmly but politely, that I open the door. I cracked it a bit and the smaller guy introduced him as a part of the security team from the building next door. He showed me a flyer with the girl's face on it and asked if I had seen her. I said she might have been the one who pounded on my door about fifteen minutes ago, but otherwise no.
He sighed and looked around. He handed me a copy of the flyer and told me that there was a reward for any information about her. When I asked what was going on, he told me she was a part of a drug trial and had left without warning, and that she may be paranoid and confused because of the experiment. They just wanted her back safely. If I saw her, please call them at the number on the flyer. I asked about calling the police or an ambulance. He said to go ahead and call 911 if she appeared to be in trouble, but they would prefer to protect her dignity and privacy so to call the number on the flyer first if possible.
It was very believable, and I was thinking about telling them she was here when the big guy's radio came on. I missed most of what was said, but heard 'the bitch' and 'drag her' before he got the earpiece in. I decided to continue playing dumb (not hard for me, according to a couple old girlfriends) and told them I would call if I saw her.
I went to the back room only to discover that she wasn't there! After a moment of frantic searching, I found her hidden deep inside a smallish cabinet and told her to sit tight for a bit in case the men came back around. I went out and worked some more. Sure enough a couple minutes later, I noticed activity at the front door and saw the men looking in. I waved at them and got up to walk towards them, but they left—apparently satisfied I was alone. I had a bad moment when I saw puddles on the carpet I would have a hard time explaining, but then realized that the old, worn carpet hid them nicely unless you knew they were there.
I opened the door for the back room, and adjusted my monitor and chair so I could stay in place and talk to her without anyone at the door seeing my lips move or anything. I had her sit down just inside the back room and started to ask her about what was going on so I could figure out if I was going to call them or the cops, or what.
The story she gave me flabbergasted me! Her name was Karina (and I introduced myself as Jeff) and she was basically a 'Russian mail order bride slave'. More specifically, she was recruited by an agency in her native country when she was sixteen and given a chance at a 'new life in the United States'. She lept at the chance to escape poverty and a dead-end future.
Fast-forwarding through a lot of really sad stuff, she found herself in a locked apartment complex and saddled with a huge debt to her agency and limited ways to pay it back.
Her prettier co-captives were already working as 'escorts', web-cam girls, and worse. Her more experienced co-captives worked as waitresses or in other jobs that paid a decent wage that allowed them to pay their inflated 'room and board' and pay on their debt a little. Karina and several others were on various work crews, like office cleaning, that barely paid the room and board even when working more than 15 hours a day.
When a man showed up at the apartments looking for people for experimental trials, Karina jumped at the chance—better money, some health care, and even the opportunity to move out of the oppressive apartments! She soon learned she just traded one hell for another. She was locked in a small hospital-like room with just hospital-like things to wear, and then subjected to painful exams, made to take lots of pills and shots, forced to endure weird programs on the always-on TV, and deal with scary things blaring over the speakers all day and night.
She only left her room to go to the small gym or shower, the small roof garden, or the dreaded 'clinic' where they always did something to her that made her hurt. She came to realize that the place was part of a single floor in a larger building filled with businesses, and they only let her out of her room when everything else was closed.
Then, a couple hours ago, she saw a clipboard in the clinic with her name on it. While the doctor was out of the room, she was able to read some of it and what she read terrified her! She was part of an experiment to use a variety of advanced techniques that would change her body and mind to make her an ideal sex slave for a paying customer!
She was further horrified to learn that the process was nearing completion, and just needed 'triggering' with the thing that looked like a car remote hanging from the clipboard. She panicked and ran out the clinic door, found the elevator, and got out of the building with no real plan until she saw the feeble light in my shop in an otherwise dark building.
I asked a lot of questions, including why the clinic was not locked. She figured it was a lucky fluke—she knows it usually was, but not always since there were usually guards in the outer hallway. Most of the guards were brainwashed in some way as far as she could tell, and the guard for the night was a strong but very attractive woman who appeared to be in another room with the doctor and moaning a lot.
I asked about the remote and she showed me a small black box with a single green button on it, and a keychain hanging off a corner, Her name was hand-engraved on the face, along with a series of numbers. I stuck it in my pocket for safe-keeping and we talked for a while longer.
Finally, I decided to take her home and call the FBI in the morning since I figured they would be interested in a case like this. We made an exit plan—I brought the car around, she jumped in, and we took off with no one seeming to notice anything—probably because it was nearly 3 AM at this point.
She fell asleep in the car, and I half-carried her to my apartment, clicking the car locked over my shoulder as I struggled with her. I tucked her into my bed, made up the couch, and fell asleep thankful that I did not need to open the shop until 10AM.
My phone alarm went off at 7AM as programmed, and I struggled to not just turn it off or hit snooze. When I managed to work out enough kinks to allow myself to sit up, I noticed Karina sitting quietly in the chair across from me. She had taken a shower and was wearing my robe.
She was also holding a travel cup of something steaming.