**Caution: Viewer Discretion is advised. Scenes of sexual harassment and assault are included in this chapter. Read at your own risk.**
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The door swung open and we both turned our heads to face the man who stood standing still. Erik walked through the doorway, with Keeneth following soon after.
"Laura-- we have your first assignment."
Erik reaches over to me to hand me a piece of paper with a large legible title that I could read it saying "Assignment 1: Elite."
"In that document, it has all of the information and required elements you will need to both study as well as memorize. Your task will be that of a con artist. Knowing how you work, we've come to know that you are especially good at acting as well as figuring things out on the fly. We need this kind of work ethic from you. If you look down at the bottom of the page-- the last paragraph, it explains the terms of which you will stand once the mission is complete."
I read it over in front of Keeneth, Kira, and Erik, but I just wasn't ready for such a decision quite yet.
"Give me 12 hours to sort this out. I'll have a final answer by then."
"Good."
After that, all of them left. Even Kira who was in the middle of talking with me, turned around and headed for the door to leave with Keeneth and Erik.
I decided to spend some time to read it over-- the full enclosure document form. After I headed back to my room, I saw Lucas laying down in his rack.
"I got an assignment."
"Tell me more."
At this point, Lucas had rolled over slightly, resting his head on his palm while laying on his side. I sighed and flopped down on my rack, doing the same.
"Assignment 1: Elite.
To: SSA-0003 // Laura Bherman
Objective: Secure the silver watch from the Elite LeRoe. This is not a drill, and must be handled with care.
Person(s) to Report to: Erik Copwin
Function of Process: Seduce subordinates of LeRoe, and get close with LeRoe.
Estimated Time of Completion: 6 Months.
Under these terms, you will comply with the company standards at all times. You will under no circumstances mention the Rebellion, Erik Copwin, nor any of the business officials of this jurisdiction. You will maintain your duty to uphold until the mission is completed. You will attempt to gather the item(s) (or) person(s) necessary as listed in the above Objective to the best of your abilities. The official training time will proceed from the signing date of this document forwards to 3 weeks time, and your ship date is to be decided. You are allowed to take one person with you for an undercover backup, under a reasonable circumstance. Any other and all other statements/ questions must be made to the Head of Domains-- Erik Copwin.
By signing this document you agree to all of these terms and conditions as well as to do your part in the Rebellion. Good Luck."
"Wow. Sounds like you'll be going away faster than you barged in here."
He sounded really disappointed, so at that moment, I thought of an idea. I headed down to Master Erik's office and handed him the document, while signing it.
"I agree to it all, on the one condition that you let me bring Lucas with me. He can live with me in the same room as my 'biological brother' and I can make the statement that he had some head trauma in the past that is the cause of his white hair."
Erik sighed and leaned back into his large office chair.
"That sounds like it might work, but I'll still need you to review all of the materials."
He signals over to a large pile of papers and documents on a metal trolley.
"Take those to your room, and study those. I expect you to get through them all within the next 2 weeks. After you finish that, we will go over what you went over in the folders and documents in the very last week and rehearse what you will do exactly. Do you understand, Laura? This is a large assignment. We trust you."
I nodded and began walking over to the metal trolley. I felt my heart racing in my chest, and it seemed as if I was having a sensory overload. I could feel the soft carpet I was walking on through the soles of my shoes, the air smelt different-- heck, I could even hear the whirring of the lights. The elevator ride up to my room with the trolley was weird, being that it felt different. Somehow-- knowing that I now held a huge responsibility in my own hands made me feel like I was worth something more. It felt good to be given this much power-- this much responsibility. As soon as I walked into my dorm, I noticed Lucas completely passed out in his rack. After setting down all of my materials on my shelves, I went over to his bed and sat down at the foot.
"Hey— Lucas…"
I nudged him by his shoulders, trying to stir him from his sleep. Nothing was working though. After futile attempts to wake him, I rested myself besides him and sighed.
"What are you doing here, Laura—"[
He rolled over to face me, and we lay there together in bed just staring at each other.
"I was gonna tell you… I got an assignment from Erik."
He shot up, hearing this.
"What?! You aren't supposed to be getting anything let alone an assignment for the first 5 years of your time here!"
I looked at his panicked face and placed my hand on his left shoulder.
"You're coming with me. I made it clear that in order for me to do this, you'd be coming with me. To be honest—"
I leaned in close to his right ear to whisper.
"Something's not right here. I need to go on this assignment because I have a personal matter that I want answers on."
He looked at me and sighed,
"Okay-- just tell me what you are doing with this assignment."
I rolled over and off the rack and collected all of the materials that Erik had handed me on the trolley. Showing him the objective folder, he nodded.
"My objective is to secure this silver watch from Elite LeRoe. In order to do that, I will be seducing his subordinates and getting close with him."
As I said this, I watched as his jaw slowly dropped in surprise and shock.
"Your objective is to SEDUCE LeRoe?! The ELITE?!?"
His hands began waving into my face, making me flinch a bit.
"Y-yes… You'll be coming with me as my brother-- we'll be in the same dorm together for 6 months."
He paused, now looking worried.
"6 months? Really? Then that would be the longest mission in rookie history that's been here for less than a year. Most of the time, you'd expect to get something like a loyalty assignment. Where you'd go out and do something bad with the Royals, and then repent and make up for it. Most people don't even have the gall to do something to them, let alone speak with them."
I nodded in agreement. What I was going off to do with Lucas was a mission that would probably be remembered-- either if it failed or succeeded, I'd be getting credibility.
"So let's study--"
I flung myself to grab another stack of papers and then shot over to sit on Lucas's bed again. His face was serious after I had told him about the mission, and we began to work hard on studying the memorization parts.
-KNOCK KNOCK-
We both were so entranced by working with each other that we hadn't noticed how much time had passed since. The door creaked open with Clark standing with another person next to him, her face unfamiliar and covered with a mask.
"What are you guys talking about in here?"
Me and Lucas both shot each other suspicious looks and then went back to staring down Clark and his masked friend.
"We are going out on an assignment together in 3 weeks. We've got to study."
Clark scoffed, and then looked at me.
"Want to join me and Sarah? We were just going to go browse for some stuff in the throw bin down in the basement."
I looked at Lucas, who was now looking down at the folders getting back to studying.
"I kind of have to keep working. I'm the main person for this assignment, and I can't screw this one up."
Clark looked at Lucas with a stink eye, and then back to me with a smile.
"Come on… I know you can always do it later. I mean, don't you have like 4 weeks to work on it? That should be plenty of time. Let's go-- you've been spending all of your time with Lucas anyways."
I finally sighed, patted Lucas on the shoulder, and began walking towards Clark.
"See you in a bit, Lucas."
After turning around to face Clark, I walked out with him and Sarah who was still wearing the ski mask. Only then did I notice that Sarah's hands were bound together with rope after walking behind them.
"What's with the rope, Clark?"
He turned his head half around and smirked.
���Ah, just having a little bit of bondage fun with my friends."
I stared at him with demeanor-- it was like he owned this place. There were so many rules that I was given when I arrived at the Rebellion, but this Clark kid just strode around like there were no rules at all. Never once did I see him follow curfew, and I wasn't thinking that it was his only time skipping it either. After walking with Clark for about 3 minutes, we came to the storage room, and a small blue bin filled with unfamiliar items lay in front of me.
"What's all this?"'
He began to grab a piece of rope from his trousers and proceeded to tie my hands behind my back.
"Clark-- what the hell are you doing…"
He rested his chin on my left shoulder and breathed into my ear.
"We were just gonna have some fun, you see…"
I could feel his smirk from behind me as he proceeded to lace the rest of my arms and torso with rope. Looking around, I found Sarah smiling as she watched Clark handle the rope around me.
"Sarah, what do you even do here?"
"We do everything against the rules here. We have no limits."
After hearing her words, I began to struggle a bit more. I finally had caught on to what Clark was intending to do, and it wouldn't be pretty for either of us. Just before I went to scream for help, I could feel his warm hand slide in front of my lips.
"Shut up, whore."
I could feel his body pressed up against mine, and I hated every second of it. The belt, the slapping; he was so aggressive. After finishing inside me, he ripped off the tape from my mouth, which was now moist from the sweat and tears that were pouring down my face. All that time, Sarah just stood there and did nothing but smile. I wanted her to help me, I wanted her to save me-- someone to save me, but no one came.
-BANG!-
Suddenly, the door burst open with Erik standing next to Lucas. Clark was just about to force himself on me again-- this time anally, but thank god they came in time.
"Clark. What are you doing to Laura?"
He looked at me, and then at Erik with furious intent and a flame in his eye.
"You don't have any control over me, Erik. You know that. Stop this whole facade-- OPEN UP YOUR EARS AND EYES FOR ONCE."
Erik didn't even flinch from having Clark yell at him.
"Clark. If you actually opened your eyes and ears, maybe you'd notice that as of right now, you are raping one of my objects. And you know what happens to those that disobey me?"
Erik grabbed a baseball bat from the corner of the room and proceeded to crack his knuckles as he walked to me and Clark slowly.
"We beat the shit out of them. Hey Lucas, go get Kira and Keeneth for me."
Lucas looked at me worryingly, and then scattered off to find the two people Erik had asked for. Clark scoffed, and finally let me go.
"I don't care about this bitch. She's just like the rest of them. Fragile, weak…"
He looked at me and spat.
"Disgusting."
Rage and fury built up inside of me. It was almost like a swell of emotions, but all being centered into anger. I broke through the ropes, my adrenaline pumping fast and my heart practically beating out of my chest.
"Clark. You better be lucky you even got the chance to lay your filthy eyes on me. You're nothing without Erik. You're despicable-- just like the rest of them."
With that said, I raised my fist and slammed it down to his chest, and then did the same thing with my other hand, making a connection to his face. Erik looked at Clark, now laying on the floor and threw me a towel.
"Sorry you had to go through that. But hey-- at least you won't need to do that 'reproductive training' before the assignment, he did that for you."
I looked at Erik, and smiled.
"Thank you."
Right as I started to walk back to the dorm, I saw Lucas running towards me at full sprint. He collided with me, and embraced me in a hug that I wished could last forever.
"Hey Laura?"
"Mmn?"
He cuddled his face on mine from behind and rested his head on my shoulder.
"We should stick with studying for now on."
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