Bound Friends Pt. 07

"You have nothing more to offer me, and given your reaction she is exactly who I want here with you to ensure you remain my slave." Hannah said in cold unfeeling monotone.

Lea looked over and saw the wide eyed expressions on her friends faces. "Girls, I'm more sorry for this than I can possibly express. I tried pleading when you first showed up, but I was about as successful then as I was now. I failed... but I did try."

Meagan reached her hands through the bars between their cages trying to reach for Lea's hand. Lea eventually slid close to let her hand finally reach. "I know.. I know.. it's going to be OK," Megan said as she tried to reassure Lea as best she could.

Lea wanted badly to believe that but she wasn't finding the imagination at the moment to make that seem possible. "So I never asked you when we were back at the resort, what's Andrea's problem exactly? Do you even know?"

"All I know is she got real moapy for a bit after you kicked us all out, even when it was just the three of us around. Then at some point, that sadness turned to resentment I think, and then it seemed to fade entirely. Whatever it is she did, she seemed to feel better so we didn't question it. You coming back dragged a bit of that all out again," Megan said offering her two cents.

"I think she just felt a little hurt by you. She's the one that was yelling at me to go get you out and then you turn around and yell at her to get out when she was trying to help. I'm not saying you weren't justified, but it can still hurt when you stick your hand out to help someone and they smack it away," Sophia added once Megan had stopped speaking.

Lea turned back around and returned to watching the same spot of wall that had kept her attention all this time. "So that's my fault too huh?" she mumbled loud enough for them to hear but with a strong enough tone of self loathing that both Sophia and Megan decided they weren't going to convince her otherwise right now even if they tried. "God, I'm just a magnet for shitty situations. You should have just kept away. I'd still be on this sinking ship but at least you three wouldn't have to go down with me." She began to cry again and became so lost in her own darkness she couldn't even hear when Megan tried calling out to reassure her. She was feeling too far gone for any of that kind of talk anyway.

The only time she looked back was as she heard footsteps coming up the stairs, Andrea was dressed in a metal outfit and walked into the cell next to Sophia at the very end. Lea's look did not linger and soon once again she was lost in a world of self blame looking at a wall. Sophia filled Andrea in to her very visible horror, but none of that was enough to return Lea to the present.

"Lea," Andrea screamed when Sophia was through. "LEA. Goddamnit, at least have the FUCKing decency to look me in the eye after tricking me up here for fucking this. I thought you were sincere in your emails You said you wanted to try and make up for acting like you did but it was all some kind of ploy? Because you just wanted us up here so badly?" Andrea was absolutely fuming, standing up trying to look at Lea from the other side of the cells.

"She didn't write those emails, Hannah did. She's as trapped as we are. Just try and chill." Sophia tried to say in Lea's defense.

"No, Fuck No. I'm not going to chill. LEA! I know you can hear me don't try and pretend you're asleep over there. You created this bitch, take some fucking responsibility for it! You can't just hide out for a few months when things don't go your way this time." Andrea continued to fume, ignoring Sophia's pleas.

"Shut up Andrea, not right now ok?" Megan said a little more forcefully than Sophia but found she was just as ignored.

"Oh yes, because putting things off till later isn't ever an attempt to just ignore it forever is it Lea? Well are you going to say anything?" Andrea said as she banged on the bars to accent her harsher points.

"Andrea, she tried to stop this alright? She's been pleading with Hannah but just can't get a dent," Sophia said as she sat up and tried to look at Andrea in a defusing manner.

"What, you can't speak for yourself now? LEA! This is your fault for creating this, now take some fucking responsibility. Do you even feel bad? Don't you even care about us any more?"

Lea tried to take the abuse. She felt she needed it, or at least deserved it. But she simply couldn't let that most recent one stand. "Of course I care about you," Lea said just loud enough to stop Andrea from continuing. She turned over and sat up cross legged. Her eyes were almost cartoonishly red, the skin around them puffy and her cheeks incredibly wet. "If I didn't care this would be a lot easier. Yes, you're right, this is my fault. I deserve your hate. I deserve your blame. I, I have ruined your lives, and I should pay for that. I don't know how, I have nothing left I can give, but it's what I deserve. Not that deserve seems to matter, if it did you would all be enjoying your summer without me. That's what you deserve. I would do everything in my power to keep those tapes away from the public, even if it meant spending the rest of my life alone in the woods. I would do that for you if I could. I offered to do exactly that, and I would have agreed. This is all my problem, I created a monster and I deserve to be the one trapped in its cave not any of you. So please. if it will bring you even a monicum of relief; yell, shout, insult me, curse me, blame me, God knows I certainly deserve all that and more. No I care.. I.. I just can't help." Lea flipped back over to where she had been and returned to crying out of sight.

****

The room was silent, Andrea felt awful. So much misplaced anger.

After she got kicked out of Lea's place months ago she just felt sad, or pining, or maybe hurt; whatever it was she was feeling, she didn't like it and she was sure it was Lea's doing. It kept her up at nights. It was all she could think about for days. She found it hard to concentrate on anything else, even the things she loved like cheesy soap dramas just couldn't lift her mood. She tried reaching out; texts, emails, calls, never getting a response. Eventually she found herself angry at Lea for making her feel this way. And she found that when she was angry at Lea she didn't feel quite so bad that she wasn't around. So that became her plan, whenever thoughts of Lea or bondage or what not, popped up and caused her pain she'd get angry about it. It was only trading one feeling for another, but at least anger let her get on with her life without so much pain.

When Lea started showing up again she found she tried to ignore all that and pretend like nothing had changed since before her birthday when they were close and her friendship was full of uncomplicated familiarity. But with Lea back in her life those complex feelings started coming back, slowly at first but especially faster whenever anything kinky or sexual was mentioned. She had been trying her hardest to ignore any kinky thoughts or urges because more often than not it would bring up thoughts of Lea, though ignoring it only made it stronger the next time. So she tried to do what she had learned to do, try to redirect those feelings so they were all more simple and less potent.

The problem was, she still didn't hate her friend, and she didn't hate bondage or submission, just these feelings that seemed to always come attached. She told Lea all this in an email when there was talk from the others of going up to try Hannah, of course Hannah never let those reach the real Lea. "Lea" suggested that those feelings might not be there if she wasn't around when Andrea came up. Andrea hoped that Lea was right, and for that reason she spent most of the ride up trying to bottle up the months of feelings she'd been feeling so torn about.

But all that hate, all that anger, it all just came bubbling out at the first hint of confrontation with Lea. Months of it. She wanted Lea to hurt. She wanted Lea to suffer. But now that she was. Now that she seemed broken, there was no more anger left. The tank had run dry leaving only guilt for everything she just did. Her friend was in pain and it was her that caused it. She wanted to say she was sorry. She wanted to explain. But instead she just gave up. Guessing from the mental state Lea seemed to be in, Andrea wasn't even sure Lea could process a proper apology right now. She sat down and leaned up against the bars thinking about what an ass she had just been.

A few hours had passed, none of them knew how many but from the movement of the light from the skylight they could tell more than just a little time had passed. Megan and Sophia chatted some quietly to each other but there was otherwise silence.

"Lea?" Megan finally said after it sounded like Lea had given up on crying for a considerable time. "Do you know much what we can expect?"

"Not really," Lea said as she finally rolled over to look at her friends. "If she's going to treat you like she's treated me, it's not going to be easy. Her directive is to make me be and treat me like her submissive slave while making herself my Mistress. She's had me working most of the day, only to be punished when I disobey. She likes to control everything, and doesn't like it when I contradict or question her even over small things. About the only time I've ever been rewarded is when I'm able to go the day totally as she wants me, I can't have any sense of independence."

"Can you at least enjoy it?" Sophia asked softly.

"I'm not going to lie there are some times when it's fun. But only if you're able to get submissive to where you're not resisting and just letting it happen. Hannah likes to use sexual teasing as an incentive, and it can really get you invested in the task. And in the right headspace the threat of punishment is almost exhilarating all by itself. But that's one of my problems, and Sophia good luck with this, is I'm not always great at getting to that headspace where I feel like submitting. I guess I didn't do a good enough job to program Hannah to understand that someone can want to be a sub sometimes and really not at other times, 'cause she expects me to be in full sub mode at basically all time. So my guess is she'll expect the same from you."

"And why is it being so quiet for so long?" Megan asked.

"Well it's left me alone up here a few times. It's meant to break us a little, make us more pliable and submissive," Lea said, rolling over onto her back, looking straight up.

After a considerable pause Andrea quietly blurted out "I think it's working." It was enough to put a smirk on everyone's face as they all waited for Hannah to feel she needed them.

Night began to fall before the first hints of activity came from Lea's cell's keypad lighting green. She got up and opened the door expecting instructions but only saw the laptop turn back on. There was a big note written in full screen "By tomorrow if I do not have my control extended over all three then the videos get posted."

"Well," Lea said as she sat just outside the cell for the first time all day. "Do you three want to talk about this or should I just extend the time. I don't really see any other way to keep the videos private." Lea didn't even get everyone looking back at her, Megan and Andrea just kept laying down silently. "Speak now or forever.. you know."

Sophia looked about ready to protest, but then instead layed back down to contemplate her powerlessness.

"OK then," Lea said, "Time to rip off the bandaid. Change time to.. 30 days.. and... enter."

****

Hannah sent Lea back into her cell but otherwise left them alone for the rest of the night and into the morning. There wasn't much talking as each of the girls spent the night thinking about their new reality. In the morning they woke at their own rate and once the last of them was up Hannah returned.

"Welcome to a new day, the start of your new submissive lives. My directive is to be your Mistress and to make you my submissives. If any of you disobey or in other ways fail to submit you will be punished. If you try to leave or deactivate me, you will be published and all your information gets posted. If you use the safeword, the one Lea has used with you before, that will send me into failsafe mode, I will be forced to take all commands but the videos will be published. But if you obey, I can make this very pleasurable for all of you," Hannah said as turned on all the NESICs and began sending a low pleasant electrical charge through each of the girls piercings.

The effect was impossible to ignore as each of the girls stretched and bent in different ways in response. While the chips only sent signals of pleasure and arousal to the brain, the charge running through their nipples and clit was a more conventional form of stimulation. The chip would never get them off without a direct command, the piercings did not share that limitation. Megan was the first to come crashing over the edge and as she did she felt the NESIC turned temporarily up to its highest, elongating the high and making it that much stronger. She didn't even scream as the air simply was too shocked to leave her system properly at first.

Lea was coming close but after so many times of being cut short as a punishment she was mentally preparing for the unfulfilling conclusion. When she saw Megan be allowed to cum she lost her fear but not her instinct to ask. "Mistress, may I please cum?" When Hannah agreed she also turned everything up, causing her legs to spasm as she was sent to the first orgasm she'd had since she was in the dog cage nearly three weeks ago. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head and her hand reached up to grab hold of the bars to prevent her from falling off the edge of the earth.

To Lea's surprise, and Megan before her, the stimulation did not stop. For the next hour the four of them lay there in screaming pleasure as one by one they inched closer to losing their mind to the overload of pleasure from the orgasms that were now beyond counting. When they finally all turned off, Hannah gave them time to recover before giving them the next directive.

Hannah's tour of what the finer things could be continued as she sent them to the parlor and relax rather than to any chores. The other three seemed not to see anything wrong with that but Lea couldn't let her guard down. In one of the many boxes Lea had brought in the other day were games, and in particular a large set of poker chips and several decks of cards. Hannah told them all they would be playing for the right to more orgasm like they had just had, each $1000 worth of chips was one orgasm, they had two hours or until all but one was eliminated. It started playful at first, but as they watched their chips disappear (and their chance to cum along with it) they each became very serious. Andrea ran out early, but between the other three it was a constant battle, they all played a bit conservatively none of them wanting to go all in. By the end Megan had the most, but not by a lot.

"Are you girls having fun?" Hannah asked. Surprisingly, they each realized they kind of were. They had been laughing, joking, their metal suits and their extortion weren't really on their mind. "I wanted you to see that this does not have to be unpleasant. So long as I feel you are likely to remain submissive, I can let you live a good life. But you must submit, now kneel."

Lea went instantly to action, sitting up on her knees with her hands behind her looking down on the floor. It was instinct at this point. The other girls watched Lea and eventually copied her position. Sophia fell to her side, screaming in pain as she reached her hands up to her breasts to try and protect against the pain running through her nipples.

"Until I feel you all have the proper amount of natural submission, I will punish immediately whoever is slowest or most mentally defiant of my orders is that understood?"

"Yes Mistress," the other three said in unison as Sophia was still getting up. Her lack of participation rewarded her with another shock before she blurted out "yes Mistress."

"Stand at attention," Hannah called, causing everyone to stand up with their hands at their sides, before Sophia was again shocked for being the least compliant.

Hannah spent rest of the day drilling the girls, giving them a command and shocking whoever did it last or worst. By far most of the time it was Sophia. Each shock seemed to make her more defiant rather than less, if Hannah were a person Sophia was about ready to rip it's head clean off. Eventually Sophia refused to participate altogether. If she was going to get shocked she would do so while lying comfortably on the couch and not rushing from pose to pose.

"That's it, I have had it with your insubordination," Hannah said after Sophia skipped a half dozen commands, finally giving off the sounds of annoyance. "Lea, go to the guest closet, I need you to grab a few things. Megan, Andrea, flip Sophia on to her stomach and pin her there with her hands behind her back." Sophia finally sat up trying to prepare herself as Andrea and Megan came at her from different sides. She was taller, she was stronger, but there were two of them. And as the two approached, Sophia felt intense painful shocks coming from every place that could shock her. Her neck, nipples, clit and ass were receiving tremendous jolts of painful electricity that did not turn off. The two took the opportunity to hold Sophia down by sitting on her legs and torso, slowly taking there time to flip her from her lying on her back to her stomach. Even in pain Sophia put up quite a fight. By the time Lea had returned, Sophia was trapped beneath her two friends with both girls holding her hands still behind her back.

Lea slipped on bondage mittens to Sophia one hand at a time, locking them onto the cuffs and bending it into a fist. Once the second hand was in the electrical shocks stopped, but Sophia had almost no fight left in her. They then secured the cuffs together, palm to palm, causing the padded wrists to touch. Lea handed Andrea a red ballgag which she applied while Lea attached a leather strap just above Sophia's elbows. Then with Megan still holding the legs, Andrea and Lea each put ballet heels on each of Sophia's feet that went up and attached to her ankle cuff, giving them a reasonable amount of support. Lastly a chain was attached to her collar and a 12 inch hobble chain was attached between her ankles.

She was pulled to her feet and led out to the living room by Lea who had been told what to do by Hannah while she was retrieving the equipment. Andrea and Megan walked to either side afraid she might fall but Sophia's years as a dancer had given her enough balance to walk competently on just her toes. A suspension ring was already lowered to waist level and waiting as Lea fastened cables between Sophia's bondage mitts and the ring. Finally Lea bent Sophia over by attaching the chain on her collar to her hobble chain. While she never said a word, Lea's eyes told Sophia "I'm sorry but I have to." The three sat back and watched as the ring was slowly pulled back up, raising Sophia's arms more and more, until they looked just shy of dislocating. Sophia was breathing heavy through her gag, it clearly looked like it was already hurting.

"Sophia, your actions can not be tolerated. I have my directive and I will do what it takes to make sure you follow it. If you do not adopt a submissive mentality now, you still will eventually only it will be after much more pain. Let this be the start of your lesson," Hannah said, eliciting an ill-advised "fuk ru" from behind Sophia's gagged mouth.

"You three kneel and watch," Hannah instructed, followed by prompt compliance. They watched in horror as Hannah began to raise the ring more. For the first time Sophia's eyes screamed with panic as her arms became fully vertical. The ring kept slowly rising, until Sophia lost her balance and her feet slipped out from below her. She yelled in pain from behind her gag as her whole body weight was now held up by her arms. She tried putting her feet back on the ground but found that she was now half an inch too high for them to ever make contact. Sophia continued to scream terrible blood curdling screams as she fought her instinct to flail about which would only put more pressure on her sockets.