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The author of this story has read and accepted the rules for posting stories. They guarantee that the following story depicts none of the themes listed in the Forbidden Content section of the rules.
The following story is a work of fiction meant for entertainment purposes only. It depicts nonconsensual sexual acts between adults. It is in no way meant to be understood as an endorsement of nonconsensual sex in real life. Any similarities of the characters in the story to real people are purely coincidental.
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Index:
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
Title: Record Chaser
Author: @Claire
My stories: Claire's Cesspool of Sin
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Record Chaser is the first story I ever posted and the first longer piece of fiction in general I ever wrote. I remember well how nervous I was before I published the first chapter back then. Hopefully, I will be finally able to finish the story here.
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Record Chaser
Chapter 1 - A Rapist for the Coming Day
She felt more dazed than normal when she woke up. She was by no means a morning person. Just having opened her eyes and then immediately jumping out of bed was out of the question for her on a normal day. But what she felt on this particular day was more like waking up after being sedated. Her mind seemed to be trapped in a foggy space where she was not able to fully perceive her surroundings. It felt like she was observing her own consciousness trying to claw its way back to the surface of her mind.
Where was she? It was hard for her to keep her eyes open. So whatever she was able to deduce about her current location she had to infer from blurry glances through half open eyes. She was inside some room that was dimly lit, maybe by a desk lamp or a bedside lamp on a nightstand. There also seemed to be some small green light coming from somewhere close to her. It was not her bedroom in her apartment, that much was clear to her. Other than her own bedroom, she sometimes slept at Emily’s or Jason’s place or in her old bedroom at her parent’s house which her parents had turned into a guest room since she moved out for college 3 years ago. But she was pretty sure that she was at neither of those familiar places either. What made her think that she had to be in a bedroom in the first place?
As she gave in to the temptation to close her heavy eyes again, she started to pay attention to her other senses. She did not hear anything. But she felt a little warm, not uncomfortably so, but enough to be noticeable. The temperature in the room was high enough that she didn’t need the warm embrace that her blanket provided her. On her back, she felt the support of a mattress and the blanket covered the entirety of the front side of her body. She could feel its subtle weight, its softness and its warmth from her feet over her legs, her hips, her stomach, her breasts up to her neck. It took a moment, but then that seemingly trivial realization confused her. Was she naked? She usually went to sleep wearing shorts and a cozy shirt, so she would not normally feel the direct contact of the blanket with most of her torso. She considered looking at her body to check but she was just so tired… it could wait a few more minutes.
She was about to doze off again when she heard a sound. The sound of a door opening. Her eyes flickered open and she saw a figure entering the room. She focused her dazed mind and her slowly improving vision on this person. She identified the figure as a man dressed in… white? A doctor maybe? She tried to speak.
“Am I… in a hospital?”
Her words were incomprehensible to the man, but they caught his attention nevertheless. He started talking while closing the door behind him.
“Oh, thank god, you’re finally awake! Man, I was starting to worry. I was expecting you to wake up much sooner. I’ve been waiting for an hour. Of course you have to wake up exactly when I step out of the room for a pee break. Just my luck.”
He seemed genuinely happy to see her awake. She had no idea who he was, but assuming that he was her doctor and how concerned he seemed for her well being, she felt a little guilty that she made him worry. Of course, it was not her fault that she didn’t wake up sooner,… or was it? She tried for a moment to recall her last memory before waking up here but quickly gave up. Anyway, she simply did not want others to worry for her unnecessarily.
“...sorry…”
She tried to apologize, but she only managed to mumble a dejected sounding sorry. This time, the man understood what she was trying to say. He walked past her as he kept talking to her.
“Don’t be. It’s not your fault. If anything, it’s my fault. It was probably an overdose for a petite girl like yourself. Let me get you something to drink, you must be thirsty.”
An overdose? Now things started to make sense. She must have been in an accident or something like that and the anesthesiologist must have gone a little overboard with the sedatives. She didn’t like being called a petite girl, she was a grown woman after all. But she couldn’t deny that she was literally a bit of a lightweight and that it probably did not take a high dose of whatever they gave her to knock her out. Also, he was right that she was thirsty. She had not paid it any attention so far, but now that he mentioned it, her throat was very dry. She heard the sound of water being poured into a glass, a moment later he returned into her field of vision holding the glass.
“Here.”
He spoke the single word in a comforting tone. Holding the glass in his right hand, he bent himself slightly over her body. He put his left hand gently behind her head, supported her as he slowly pushed her head into an upright position and then moved the glass to her lips.
“Just small and slow sips for now. You’re still pretty hazy. We don’t want you to choke because the water went down the wrong pipe.”
He was patient as he helped her drink. Feeling the water in her dry mouth, she realized how much she needed that. She was slowly becoming more and more conscious anyway, but the water had an invigorating effect on her mind. With her mind getting clearer she started to think that the way he held her head was weirdly intimate for a doctor.
“Thanks.”
She said in a soft voice after she finished drinking. He simply nodded as he moved a few steps away to put the glass on a nearby table. Now that she felt more awake and her presumed doctor had come closer she took another, more inquisitive look at him. She wasn’t immediately scared by the oddity that she perceived. Irritated, confused or maybe bewildered described her initial feeling. Yes, he was dressed in white and a few minutes or so ago her dazed mind and blurry vision had let her to the conclusion that what she saw must have been a doctor’s white coat. But now she saw clearly that what he was wearing was a white bath robe. That… didn’t make any sense. She was about to say something when he started to talk.
“Oh, by the way. I turned up the temperature in this room a little above what I’m usually comfortable with. From my experience, women get cold easier than men and I didn’t want you to feel cold when you woke up. But now that you’re awake, would you mind if we turned down the temperature a little?”
There it was again. That genuine sounding concern. At first, it had made her trust him but now it started to unnerve her.
“Where am I? And… and who are you?”
Her voice was now louder, stronger in a sense. It was noticeable to herself and the man in the room that she was now close to fully awake. But the quiver in her voice also betrayed her nervousness. In that sense, her voice was weaker than before.
Despite her growing nervousness, her body, for whatever reason, chose this moment of impending panic to send her the signal that… her nose was itching. She paid the sensation little mind and, left handed as she was, she intuitively moved her left hand to her face to scratch her nose. She never would have become conscious of this trivial everyday motion if it didn’t turn out to be impossible. She was barely able to move her left hand, or the right for that matter, before her wrists struggled against the cuffs that held her arms in place. The unease she had started to feel after realizing that the man was wearing a bath robe and not a white doctor’s coat now turned into a full blown panic. She mustered all her strength to fight against the cuffs chaining down her wrists. Soon she realized that her ankles were bound in a similar fashion, essentially forcing her to lie down on the bed with her legs spread without being able to move any of her limbs. The cuffs allowed her to sit upright on the bed and as she started to desperately move around the blanket, that had covered most of her body, now slipped down to her waist revealing her bare breasts. She was indeed naked underneath the blanket, at least the upper half of her body. She was in shock. Rapidly moving her gaze back and forth from her naked body, the cuffs chaining her to the bed and the man calmly observing her outburst.
“Look at me.”
It wasn’t a loud yell nor a quiet command that the man uttered. It was the offer to give her something to focus on so that she might calm down. To her own surprise, it worked. She was still breathing rapidly with her mouth slightly open. Her heavy breathing was a sight to behold with her bare chest on full display. But in this moment, neither did she care nor did the man avert his eyes from her face. Whatever fatigue still lingered in her body was now washed away by adrenaline.
“I get that you are confused and frightened. I can’t promise you that you’ll be less frightened in a moment, but I think we can do something about your confusion. Should I start with the questions that you just asked?”
His calm and patient demeanor was irritating and reassuring at the same time. Irritating because it seemed so out of place and reassuring because it made her believe in the possibility that she might be able to reason with him. She calmed down a bit. All her senses were still on high alert but she felt her breathing slow down and registered the pain that her own nails had inflicted on her hands when she unconsciously clenched her hands into tight fists digging her nails into her palms. As she relaxed her body, she became aware of her exposed chest. But this wasn’t the time to care about nudity. This was a matter of life and death. Who was this man? A serial killer? A slave trader? Did he kidnap her for ransom? Would she survive this encounter? She couldn’t figure this out by herself. She met his gaze, then gave him a quiet nod signaling that she wanted the answers he offered. He nodded back at her.
“Okay, good. Let me start with the easier of your two questions. Where are you? You are in a bedroom in the basement of a building. Frankly, you don’t need to know more than that. I rented this place under a false name and I’ll most likely never come back here after tomorrow. So knowing the exact address won’t help you or the police find me if that is what you’re thinking about. However, you’re not that far from your apartment. So once we’re done here, you can walk home. Your phone is in the drawer over there and I’ll return it to you in the end. If you’re not familiar with this particular part of the city, you can then use Google maps or the navigation app of your choice to find your way home. And if your phone needs recharging, just let me know.”
He sounded so casual and considerate when he explained these things to her. Like they were friends and he just described to her how to find her way to his new address after he had moved to a new place. It was surreal. But she also felt a wave of relief calm her anxious mind. He had said: ‘So once we’re done here, you can walk home’. The implication being, first, that she would survive, and second, that she would be in a state where she was able to walk. Assuming that he was telling the truth, these were good news all things considered.
Now that she was fully awake, her analytical mind was working again. Of course, she had no good reason to believe this man but without any hope to cling to she was sure that she would lose her mind. And without being able to think clearly she would never find a way to get out of this situation. Take him by his word, try not to offend him and see whether there is a way to reason with him. She didn’t have a lot of time to think about her situation, but for now, that appeared to be her best course of action. Whether he had any idea of what she was thinking about or not, he proceeded to the next question.
“Now, your second question, that one is a bit trickier. Who am I? In most cases people are asking for your name when asking that question, but I guess that is not what you’re interested in. However, if my name is what you want to know, then for obvious reasons, I can’t reveal my full name to you. But I think we can do this on a first name basis. But to get back your original question... Hmm, you’re into philosophy, aren’t you? I like that...”
Oh god, she started to think that she knows his type. The kind of guy that likes to hear himself talk. She just hoped that he would not go on forever musing about the intricate complexities of the question ‘Who are you?’ Anyway, she wasn’t going to interrupt him. Despite his composed demeanor, she still feared what would happen if she in any way angered him. Her mind wandered for a moment, but she focused on his babbling again.
“...So you see, there’s a million different answers to the question who I am, most of them completely irrelevant to your current predicament. I’m not someone you know if that is what your trying to figure out. For all I know, we’ve never interacted before today. But if I go with what’s relevant for you, the best answer to the question, I guess, is…”
He appeared to be deep in thought as he paused for a moment, his gaze wandering to the ceiling, his arms folded before his body. Seeing him think made her anxious. Then, he looked at her again and for a brief moment, as he seemed to have an epiphany, a joyous smile adorned his face.
“Well, let me put it like this. I know you’re name is Claire. It’s very nice to finally meet you and be able to talk to you like this. As I said before, I can’t tell you my full name but I hope my first name is enough for you. And as for who I am…”
Sheepishly scratching his head while he made a short pause before finishing the sentence made him almost look like a shy boy about to confess to a girl he likes. He then looked directly into her eyes.
“I am Mark and… I am your rapist for the coming day.”
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Well, what do you think? The first time I posted this, people liked the dialogue in particular. Admittedly, they usually referred to more than just chapter 1 in their feedback. But I was surprised by that. While I in general like other aspects of the story more than the dialogue, I am still very happy with that final line. I still think it is a great cliff hanger.