Chapter Twenty Two - One on one.
The waters of Pawa looked so calm at this time of night, the glass surface bouncing the moonlight into the dark sky and the ripples making a moving masterpiece on the top. Serenity can be deceiving though.
Mandy had stopped the car about five miles away from the camp on the banks of the large lake, and now sat in silence for over an hour. Alison was sitting in the passenger side, the weapon still trained on the woman next to her, seemingly unable to decide what to do next while the cold steel seemed to tremble in her hand.
Mandy looked down at her left arm, and watched a large blotch of red that was staining the fabric of a old teeshirt that she had wrapped just above the elbow, get bigger. Alison had proven to not have as good of control with the gun she had. Alison had shot her in the arm when they were getting into the car... the bullet thankfully ended up just grazing the outer part of Mandy’s arm and the bullet had shot past her into the night.
Shooting her seemed to have been perhaps unintentional on the part of Alison when it had happened, but for Mandy that still did not matter... she here not by her choice other than by way of the gun. It was so crazy, her ex-lover doing all of this.
The pain Mandy was feeling from the gunshot was so intense, feeling almost like if someone had stuck a hot poker deep under her flesh, but the young injured woman seemed to be more focused on the girl in the glasses, and the weapon she still was pointing at her. Her focus was being fueled by a gathering seething anger and her total dismay with the woman’s erratic and abnormal actions of the past few weeks.
Alison had fallen silent for all the time that they had been driving, watching Alison out of the corner of her eye. The pretty bookworm seemed to have completely lost her mind, the obvious wildness that was held in her eyes told of a mind teetering on the very brink of a breakdown. She could see how shaky the woman was, as that weapon trembled while she leveled it at her... that alone was scary in itself.
The girl with the gun looked over at Mandy, her eyes still holding this vacant stare that was all too unnerving. She regarded the woman’s profile, almost as if she was prying into Mandy’s thoughts.
“ You figure where we are going to go now.. we have to get far away from here...” Alison barked out, the look in her face was almost one of being totally disengaged from everything.
“ You have the gun there... decide for yourself.” Said Mandy, now overflowing with the fear charged anger that she had for Alison right then.
Alison shot a look right at Mandy, her face showing shock with the long haired girl’s very strong voice. She lifted her hand and pointed the weapon right at Mandy’s head with such a cold stare, but her hand still was shaking.
“ I have the gun here... you’ll do what I say.” She said so coldly, adding the last part almost as an afterthought. “ I can make you do whatever I want, whenever I want...”
“ You have the gun, you are the one who is wanted bu the police and everything else... and you ask me about where we are suppose to go?” Mandy said so frankly. “ You’re the one that has robbed a house, been a part of a rape... ending up going as far as committing murder and everything... now your adding kidnaping and shooting me... then asking what the fuck to do now?”
“ Shut up...” The girl spat, seemingly very uneasy with the way she was bing spoken to. “ I don’t need this crap!”
“ You’re the cause of all of your problems.... not me!” Shouted Mandy “ Why should I help you.
Alison’s face turned white, as if she could not believe what she had just heard.
“ But you loved me... I know you did... You said that you would help me.” She said in a whisper, almost sounding child-like.
“ I did not agree to help you...” Said Mandy, trying not to cry with all of the emotions this was bringing up. “ With all of the crappy things you have done to me, Goddammit... I still care about you for some reason... but do I love you any more? No!” She shook her head and gave a grunt. “ You went cheated on me, got pregnant from that and then all of this crap as well... No, I don’t love you...”
Alison seemed to stop talking and think on what the girl had been saying. She looked right into the woman’s eyes, then that crazy hardness came back into her eyes... chilling Mandy’s soul. Alison clearly was not the girl she knew in any way now... this was a beast, and the beast could take her life at any time.
“ Just shut up and do what I say!!” Alison said, her eyes now were wild and showed just how unstable she was. “ I see...You never loved me then, never ever did... an’ neither did Allen...”
“ I did love you... once...” Said Mandy, looking down the barrel of the gun. “ I really did at one time.”
“ You did?” Said Alison, a little surprised.
“Yes... and you should have known that...” Said Mandy back. “ But you turned your back on me, went off and did all of this shit... and left me wondering what it was that I done for you to cheat like that... but, no more!”
The woman seemed to be trying to comprehend what Mandy had said to her. That look was fleeting, and in it’s place flashed a look that was chilling
“ I know what I have done... but you gotta know that I still love you. Why can’t you see that? “ She said, griping the gun as it was now only inches away from Mandy’s head.. “ If that is the case then... fuck it all!! The only thing I have left is this baby, and if I end up going to jail, this baby will be taken from me when it is born and I will have nothing... I will not be letting that happen...”
“ I don’t know what you are expecting me to do about all of this...” Gasped Mandy, her eyes locked onto the vacant stares of the woman she once loved... and saw that the person was not who she had been. “ You’re the one that has fucked up here... it is not me!”
Mandy saw the change in the girl’s demeanor again, this time it was like evil had invaded her.
“ Shut up... I can make you do what I want you to do...” Said Alison, seemingly trying to gain control of both the situation and her own mind. “ Right now, I am in control here... you will love me, because I know you love me... and that is the fact.”
“ Then what is it you want me to do?” Said Mandy, seeing the gun come even closer to her head, her life now was hanging in the balance if she did not play along with the woman.
The young intellectual seemed to think on Mandy’s words, her cold eyes seem to burrow right into the other woman’s soul. Mandy now wished that she hadn’t talked to her captor like she had been earlier... as that woman was clearly not the Alison she had known for all of this time. Alison seemed to be so unstable at this point, she really did not know what she was capable of doing now.
The young lady then seemed to smile, a sort of smile that told of a deviousness at work deep within her. She eyed Mandy for a moment, her now very lifeless eyes locked on to the woman next to her.
“ Take off your clothes!” Alison finally said.
Mandy was shocked at the barked order she had gotten. She looked right at the bookworm, shocked with her request.
“ You want me to take off my clothes?” Mandy said, actually now feeling fear as the wildness that was now captured in Alison’s eyes turned her blood cold.
“ Take them right off... take off every fuckin’ stitch you have on!” She said, her eyes now so deep and lifeless, her finger now firmly squeezing the trigger.
With the gun pointed right at her head, Mandy knew that she had no options other than to comply with this woman’s orders. The reason of Alison was wanting her to strip was not the issue now, the large gun that was in her had was the only answer. Mandy knew that Alison was in full control, her only option right now was to comply.
“ I am waiting for a little stripping to start...” Hissed Alison, a evil smirk was now painting her face.
Sitting behind the steering wheel still, Mandy complied and started to do what she was told, pulling down her shorts as the woman watched. In just the space of a few seconds, she was sitting naked except for the makeshift bandage on her arm, while the woman that held her hostage seemed to be reveling in watching her, eyeing slightly tanned bared skin that was now uncovered on Mandy.
Alison looked at her and actually gave a very evil sort of smile. The woman then simply tossed Mandy’s clothes into the back seat like if they were of no use any longer, and continued to look at the long haired young woman.
“ You always were so beautiful... your skin is so smooth and inviting...” She commented, a flash of softness coming over her, while she stroked Mandy’s now very bare breast with her free hand. “ Your breasts are so wonderfully amazing...”
“ What are you doing...” Gasped Mandy, as the bookworm began to fondle her breast.
“ Come on... You loved me once, you told me that....I know that you can end up loving me again. Just think, the two of us can simply vanish... Go an hide somewhere far from here, the both of us... Then we could both bring up my baby right together.. and be just like a real family should be.”
Instinctually, Mandy shied away from Alison’s hand on her breast, feeling such a overwhelming sense of revulsion quickly flood her. The woman’s intentions were perfectly clear to her now, and that made her skin literally crawl and her stomach knot.
Mandy pulling away from her, made the bookworm’s eyes flash red, the softness that had been there vanish. Angered, the woman jabbed the gun downward into Mandy’s lap, the barrel suddenly shoved into the treasure of the girl at the wheel. Mandy froze, as she felt the gun was tightly up against her private area, and tightly painful.
“ You’ll see... you’ll come to love me again... and also you will come to love this baby of mine as well...” She whispered so flatly, flicking Mandy’s ear with her tongue. “ Let me make love to you like we use to do, and that will show you my sincerity... convincing you that all of this can work out, only if you just let yourself love me all over again...”
Alison finally lifted the gun from Mandy’s crotch, until it was pointed right at Mandy’s chest, the barrel ending up nestled between the now trembling mounds of flesh she had been fondling. The bookworm leaned over a little more and slid her free hand in between the girl’s legs, forcing her fingers quickly inside the scared young woman’s treasure. Mandy tried to pull away from the woman’s actions but she could not move because she was being pinned against the seat and the locked door of the car.
The young councilor woman wanted nothing more than to get that door open and run for her life at this point, but knew what the deadly consequences would be. With Alison’s gun where it was, she would be dead in seconds if she even tried to get herself away. She turned her head slightly, and allowed her legs to part widely and let those invading fingers to be pushed all the way in.
Alison seemed to take Mandy’s action with great pleasure, beginning to pump her fingers wildly in and out with ragged strokes.
“ You’ll see... this will be the beginning of perfection for the two of us...” Alison panted with satisfaction, while inserting a second finger into the woman’s channel. “ I knew that you would come around... you do love me still... you will see, our future is so bright living as one big family!”
Mandy felt the pain as those fingers were being so violently jabbed in to herself, and she forced herself not to show the pain that shot through her private area. Her mind reeled into a darkened vortex of agony and total confusion, her inner self screaming out in shock and horror of the situation. Here she was, being raped at gunpoint by someone that she once had truly and genuinely had loved and trusted at one time... now she was being violated more than just in the physical sense of the word.
She had felt the sting of betrayal many times before in her life... but what Alison was doing to her right then, was way past that level. It was as if while the woman continued to force herself on to her, it was beginning to crush her very soul! She kept her face turned, not wanting to show the tear that was forming in her eye.
The passenger side door suddenly flung open as Alison leaned on Mandy. A hand came inside and forcefully pulled the very surprised bookworm right out of the car. Alison was caught so off-guard that she lost the hold of the gun, which ended up sending the weapon clattering to the floorboards. Mandy screamed as all of this was going on, not knowing what was going on as she was wedging herself against the door.
Olivia was the one that had the depraved woman by the back of the shirt, and had dragged her out like a large sack of laundry. She slammed the smaller woman up against the side of the car , eyes flaring with the fire of anger. With a force that belayed the middle aged woman’s frame, she let fly two heavy punches straight into Alison’s face, splitting both of the woman’s lips with the very first blow
“ Fucking Crazy Bitch!” Shouted Olivia at the top of her lungs, through her tightly clenched teeth.
A reeling Alison hit the side of the vehicle with her fill weight, Olivia’s punches had propelled her backwards. She felt her legs were buckling, and she slid down with a muffled groan. She could now hear that Mandy was shouting from inside the car, calling out to Olivia with almost a calmed tone
“ Olivia? That is you??” Mandy cried out, her voice seemingly relived.
“ It is... and I got this bitch of a slut, Mandy!” Called back Olivia, standing over the crumpled form.
Quickly, the now weaponless woman on the ground fought to get up and get away, but Olivia’s knee connected solidly on the girl’s jaw, almost as if she had turned into Bruce Lee or something. Spinning in air with the blow, Alison let out a low grunt, as she was now flat on her back on the dirt beside the wheels of the car, and was quick to notice that the woman’s knee planted in the center of her chest.
“ Don’t fucking move an inch more, bitch... Or I will fuck you up more if you move!!” Shouted a very incensed Olivia, who had somehow gotten the gun out of the car and had it right against the prone woman’s forehead.
“ I won’t...” Alison shouted, her eyes could not move away from the gun that was now trained on her. “ See..I give up... just don’t hurt me!”
“ Better fucking not move...” Hissed Olivia, as she could not ignore the officers that were racing over. “ Just be glad that the cops are here to deal with you.. instead of just me one on one... you would be dead by now!”
Officer Livingstone hurried over, seeing the middle aged woman who straddled the smaller gal’s body and had a weapon trained on Alison... ready to fire.
“ It’s over now, Olivia... relax and give me the gun..” She pleaded, as her fellow officers encircled the scene.
“ She was trying to rape Mandy... She fucking shot her too...” Said Olivia, still having the gun squarely on Alison’s forehead, finger tightening on the trigger. “ She has to damn well pay for her shit!”
“ I promise... she will end up paying for everything she has done up to now..” The officer said in a soothing tone, trying to calm down the very angered woman. “ Let us be the ones who deal with her... it would not solve anything if you end up killing her... you would be just like her.”
Olivia looked at the taller woman and paused, then took a final glance down at Alison. She got off of the woman on the ground and handed the weapon over, her face still a mask of pure rage.
“ You make sure that this bitch does pay for this...” She said, giving a sigh as she let her body relax.
“ With everything that she will end up being charged with... I’d say she will be put away for a very long time” Said Dana, now having the weapon in her hands.
Olivia nodded and swallowed hard, knowing that the officer was right. She looked down at Alison, while three other officers had her at the end of their drawn guns. The older councilor smiled and felt as light as a feather on the inside, as it was now really over.
A still very naked Mandy suddenly ran into the woman’s arms as she stood there, throwing her arms right around her tightly. Olivia found herself smiling broader than she ever had, as she embraced the woman that she had came to love. Olivia then found a way to smile down the now captured Alison, as Mandy tightly held her.
“ I hope that you are going to rot away in jail, you bitch.” Was all she said, leaving the justice to the professionals.
Olivia gently draped a blanket that she had been just handed by one of the officers around the pretty woman next to her, being careful of the injury that seemed not really to bother Mandy at all. She smiled and looked deeply into Mandy’s face, as her mood had softened from the anger fueled woman a few minutes ago..
“ Come on here... Let’s get your wound checked out... then go back to the camp...” She said, fixing how the blanket hung around the young woman’s body. “ It won’t be light out for awhile longer.”
“ Can I go get my clothes out of the car first?” Mandy asked with a effortless smile, her face showing no signs of the fear she had been having.
“ Nahhh...” Winked the woman, as they stood there, embracing again. “ You look cute as all hell, dressed only in that blanket.... It’s quite a fashion statement as well, I might add...”
“ Being somewhat heroic makes you a little perky?” Smiled Mandy, poking fun at the woman.
“ Shhh... who told you my secret?” Joked back Olivia with a chuckle, squeezing the pretty lady against herself a little tighter. “ Enough of all this adulation and shit there, woman... Shut up and just hug me like you mean it, dammit!”
Even after all that had happened to her, that little humorous comment from the woman that she now looked on, made Mandy laugh as she did hug the woman back. Olivia leaned in and give her a kiss, oblivious of anyone else being around them. Mandy smiled, as that was worth all the money in the world to her.
Alison still layed on the ground, tasting her own blood in her mouth while listening to the people around her talking. She took in a deep breath, as she had came to her reality very quickly. Her fleeing days were now over.... along with all of her hopes and dreams she may have had at one time. She had given everything up and for what... to her, it was a realization that hurt like hell.
The woman kept staring up from where she lay, and saw Olivia and the blanket clad Mandy now were embracing one another so softly, while two large officer’s were slapping the handcuffs on her. Alison forced her eyes closed and began to weep. for herself. This was the end point of everything as she watched Mandy go off with Olivia. As she was pulled up to her feet, she could feel the heavy sense of loss she had never felt before, now was there... and the loss was walking away with another.
Alison pushed her face into her chest to avert her eyes for a second, seemingly resigning herself to her fate that she had made. While she was being led off to a awaiting Police car, things were in full perspective now. She had let so much go for so little... and now she was going to lose so much more.