Author's note:
I should probably have put this disclaimer up before, but here we go:
If this is the first chapter of this story you're reading you might feel lost about what's going on. There's quite a bit of story and world development in the prior chapters, and I tend to write each chapter as an immediate sequel to the previous one instead of having a nice, episodic break between them.
To everyone, I hope you enjoy this installment of the story.
A few minutes after Thomas had arrived in the control room, red-faced 207 bursted in.
"2077, that was officially the hottest thing I have seen in my entire life. Will you become my sole provider of masturbation material?"
"Uh, sorry, come again?"
"I can come as many times as you want," she said with no hint of humor.
"I mean, what do you mean by what you said?"
"I mean I want you to keep doing these kinds of favors to me. How did you know that was precisely my fantasy? A man pleasuring me while I'm sleeping, saying sweet things to me, then letting me give him release? I know you're a professional but if I didn't know better I would never have thought you didn't have real feelings for her. It felt more than an act for her healing."
Thomas didn't say anything. Color was draining from his face. Would she investigate it further and find out he was an agent?
"I am going to send you a recording of me pleasuring myself by watching you. I hope you like it. And please think of my suggestion. I will be able to make things better for you and it's not like we're doing anything wrong. You are still doing your duties and the only difference is that you also get to empty your balls and your very substantial dick. Then, on top of that, you get favors from me."
"Okay, I'll think about it. How about the code?"
"Yes, as promised after my thorough satisfaction. I will only say it once, so focus. The code to the warehouse is 0000."
"That's it? Four zeroes?"
"Yes, that's it. Please, please consider my proposal. I really need more of that. Even now my pussy aches for more. Let me show how ..." she pleaded and started to unzip her suit, but Thomas cut her off.
"I'm sorry, I would be very happy to take a look but I really must go. This is time-sensitive."
He ran out while she was left in the control room, zipper half-open.
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Thomas walked for a fair distance across unfamiliar corridors to the warehouse. It wasn't a literal warehouse, more like a locked section with plenty of individual rooms, each of which was full of human-sized drawers, like in a morgue. They were organized by topic or profession, and since the first door he came across was "collegial athletics" he couldn't resist. It would only take a minute.
The wall had sections for different teams and their functions. He opened one of the drawers for Potatohead cheerleaders at random, not knowing any of their names. Her head came out first, and Thomas saw she was wearing the trance band. As he opened the drawer fully he saw she was fully naked in there. It was a pretty, short blonde he thought he might have remembered. She was fit, tanned and had a shaved pussy. Thomas closed the closet and for a second thought about finding the President. She was the youngest person ever elected the POTUS and was quite pretty even if she was somewhat out of Thomas's age range. Still, not many could claim to have seen her naked.
Nobody would believe him even if he bragged about it, and taking photos of her in what looked like a morgue would probably bring all kinds of trouble, so he reminded himself that he was in a rush and went to look for miscellaneous foreigners. It took him a while before he realized there was a catalog search function in the warehouse terminal that allowed him to filter by various properties. He set nationality as Bulgarian and first name as Ivan.
The list consisted of only two men, and both were shown to be deployed. Both had faces that he'd associate with criminal bodyguard types, so perhaps one of them was the boss-Ivan and the other was an underling-Ivan. In fact, when he opened the profiles the older Ivan was said to speak English and Bulgarian while the younger one only spoke the latter.
The terminal said both of them were deployed but regardless, Thomas went to their drawer addresses and pulled them open, finding them empty. At least now he had the full names for both, which would let him track their locations.
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On Saturday morning Thomas got up in his room, barked a good morning to his roommate, and left to get his gear. He'd stalked Ivan and the other Bulgarians he could find from the control room and learned the layout of the mansion through their patrols. The entertainment, meaning the unsuspecting girls, would start to arrive soon, and the guests a bit later.
Thomas had two objectives. First, prevent these poor girls from getting assaulted. He wasn't sure how to do that given that there was one of him and a lot of Ivan's colleagues. Second, he would have to find who were the shareholders, the organizers behind Bergenstein and the other crooked professors. They might be connected to the earlier rapes and if so, Thomas wanted to bring them to justice. He wasn't sure how to do that, but he'd try to find a way. After the girls were safe.
Watching the security set-up carefully had saved his skin. The guards had set up what looked like an airport metal detector, but it was more than that. One of the guards had donned a hazmat suit, virtually identical to what Thomas wore on the job. He could see the suit via the camera, but from the other guards in the room it was clear he had disappeared from their view. However, as soon as the guard walked through the detector, an alarm went off and a fence fell from both sides of the detector, blocking the guard in. He opened the suit, making him visible to his colleagues, and they laughed a bit about before letting him out. Either way, going in with a suit seemed to be a bad idea.
At least his gear bag was significantly lighter without the suit. He hiked to a forest behind the mansion, changed into his planned attire, took out what he needed, and hid the bag under a tree. From there he waited until he started hearing limousines arrive, and skirted along the edge of the forest until a large crowd of pretty college women had been dropped off from the limousines. Then, as the doors opened and the crowd started filing in, he ran from the bushes to join them.
He went in last, behind a tall brunette in a cocktail dress.
"You. Only for girls," a scarfaced man, Ivan the boss, said to him as he got to the door.
"I got an invite," Thomas said, holding up an invite. He had copied the one Genevieve had gotten and changed the relevant parts. "Last minute. Something about a soccer scout from Ohio wanting to meet me in private?"
Ivan looked him up and down. He'd dressed in entirely too tight sweatpants and a body-hugging white tank top. He wasn't that muscular but his body fat was low enough that he could pass as a boytoy.
"Fine," Ivan grunted. "Follow the girls. There's an introduction for you."
The crowd was ushered into a large hall, and Thomas noted the door was locked behind them. There were over twenty of them. In front of them, behind a podium, stood Bergenheist. Thomas stayed in the back row to avoid being recognized by him.
"Welcome, everyone. Some of you may be wondering why you are here."
"Yeah, why are we here? I was told this was a one on one meeting?" a black girl clad in business casual shouted near Thomas. Nia from the sorority, Thomas realized. The one that had been eaten out masterfully by the pledge. The memory stirred Thomas's meat.
"Patience, patience. You will have your arranged, individual program. However, you will also have the option to partake in an additional event. See, you have all been gathered here for a reason. You are the best of the best this town has to offer and as such, you have been chosen from different areas to mingle amongst each other, and our guests. Networking can be a difference between making it and not making it. That being said, you are of course free to leave if you so desire but that will mean we will have to inform whoever you were supposed to meet that you ditched them."
Nobody made any indication of wanting to leave.
"Perfect!" Bergenheist continued. "The guests will arrive shortly. We will start with some cocktails before the break-out sessions. Please follow my associate, Mr. Ivan, through the door to your right."
After a moment of confusion the crowd formed into a line and started passing through a doorway into a corridor. The line moved slowly and another Bulgarian was letting only one person in at a time. Finally it was Thomas's turn. He entered the corridor by himself and walked to a dimly lit room at the end. As he entered the room he passed through the hazmat suit detector he'd seen earlier. Nothing happened.
In the room Ivan handed Thomas a glass of something brightly colored, and puffed a perfume directly to his face while he was focused on the drink.
"Whoa, what was that?"
"Is perfume. Now you better company."
But it wasn't perfume. As it happened Thomas knew the smell well. It was the same pheromone mixture he had used on Lara. So they were planning to make the entertainment horny with chemicals. Not a bad plan, but it meant Thomas had to be careful. Hopefully none of the guests was actually looking for a young man. His willpower to resist would go down, fast.
After exiting through another door Thomas joined the girls in a lounge room where they were sipping their cocktails on couches and divans. He picked Genevieve from the crowd. She was dressed casually in tight jeans and a sweater. Genevieve was chatting with a very beautiful Asian woman in a long dress. Thomas sat such that she wouldn't see his face, but he could see if she moved somewhere.
"Interesting that you're the only guy here," the tall brunette he'd seen before said.
"Yeah, I agree," Thomas replied.