by Snidely
Illustrated by Tarsus
Originally Published in Bondage Life No. 31, February 1988
Transcribed and Scanned by guardian46w, Monday, July 23, 2018Story Codes: F/ff, bdsm, bondage, rope, chains, cuffs, shackles, gags, rivals, spies, n/con, captive, enslave, X
CHAPTER TWO
Annnd... They're Off!!!
OR
So Close, Yet So Far?
“Isn’t it exhilarating to do that?” Allison shouted to the girls as she reined her horse down to a trot, with Thunder and Cyclone instantly responding to the change of pace of Allison’s gray mount. Mariko nodded weakly in response, but Courtney didn’t respond at all because she was too busy screaming and struggling to hear the question. Under the circumstances Allison didn’t seem to mind.
Allison seemed to have opinions on everything, even things she knew nothing about, and she always loved a good argument, so long as she won. She found that the best way to always come out on top was to be sure that her opponent was just like Mariko or Courtney; intelligent, witty, confident, informed and securely gagged and bound. It understandably took some of the challenge out, but Allison preferred the sure thing, winning at any cost was more her style.
Courtney motioned at Allison’s back with her eyes, then scowled at her and rolled her eyes in Mariko’s direction. Mariko was relieved that her friend had not gone off the deep end, as she had feared. Mariko tried to smile to her friend in return, but the bit gag was to tight, she couldn’t do much more than change the grimace on her face slightly. Courtney nodded in return, and she grimaced too, then rolled her eyes again about the futility of it all.
The Ben-Wa balls were sending tingles of eroticism that began to blend with Mariko’s discomfort, in a foreign, but not entirely displeasing way. As a result of her exertion, while they had endured their gallop, the balls had slid down enough so that one was exposed to the rubber of the pants; and every time Mariko would miss a beat on the motion of the horse she would hit the saddle hard, sending quivers from one ball to the other and then, of course, to her. She found it very distracting.
But soon she had had more than enough of the wool, as the horse continued along the trail. Upward, then downward went the horse, upward and downward she went. Her nipples began to get VERY sensitive as the sweater seemed to get coarser and coarser. Upward, downward. Soon it became almost unbearable. Mariko tried every position she could think of to move her breasts away from the clingy sweater, but none helped.
The equestrians eventually reached the top of a hill, where Allison stopped her monologue, and all three horses. From this vantage point the three girls could look down to a small, sheltered pond, surrounded by rocky outcroppings and moderately thick woods. Mariko and Courtney were just grateful to stop and relieve the rubbing of their tingling tits, and they were not very interested in admiring the view. Allison broke the silence.
She prodded her mount down the trail towards the lake and stopped at a small grassy clearing that was among the trees surrounding the lake. From horseback it was possible to see the lake about 100 yards away but standing on the ground it was unlikely that they would get that view. Allison moved the horses under the limbs of a huge tree. Then, standing up in her saddle, she produced the end of a rope that looped over a pulley that was attached to a tree limb in a secure notch. Allison backed her hose up next to Mariko and tied the end of the rope to the clip on her back.
“Get ready.” Allison called to Mariko as she resumed pulling slowly on the rope. Mariko braced herself as well as she could, for what, she was not quite sure. Allison tied the rope off and hurried over to move Thunder. Now Mariko dangled about six feet in the air, turning slowly. Her eyes were clamped tight shut and she barely noticed Allison’s returning to put the hobble back between her feet. Finally, Allison lowered her slowly to the ground. She untied the rope from the clip and escorted Mariko over to a grassy patch by another tree. She tightened the bobble to two inches and left her standing.
She then went over to her horse, leaving the girls standing under the tree, and returned with a checkered tablecloth and two picnic baskets. She spread the cloth on the ground at the girls’ feet and sat down. rummaging about in one of the baskets, she pulled out a bottle of wine and a glass. Using a corkscrew, she opened the bottle, poured herself a glass of the wine, and took a long sip.
Then Allison tied their ankles together. They were now ready for a three-legged race, almost. Allison tied a cord around their elbows where they touched, then added another cord from one outside elbow to the other, across both of their chests, pulling them together. She then knelt and loosened the hobbles out to ten inches or so.
“So, you're disobedient too!” she said. Both girls tried to apologize at once, but all they managed was a little blubbering through their gags.
Mariko and Courtney could feel the color drain from their faces as Allison produced a wicked-looking riding crop and strutted slowly around behind them. It looked like this was going to be an awfully one-sided discussion… SNAP!
Mariko and Courtney were still tied exactly the same way they had been for their “discussion”, except that now their hobbles were tightened as well. Allison had spent about fifteen walking around the girls, alternately snapping them with the crop, and scolding them on their behavior during their trip there. Then, after a flurry of whacks on their derrieres, Allison had suddenly, cheerfully said, “Let’s have some lunch.” And started preparing the meal.
“Please, anything, something!” Mariko thought as she could feel Courtney leaning forward a little, hoping to get at least a sniff of the delicious food. Out popped a tiny tin of caviar and some crab meat. “Grab meat! Oh, that’s my favorite!” Mariko moaned to herself. She could hardly control herself. Allison didn’t seem to notice though, as she took a chicken leg and daintily took a bite.
Allison was on her third glass of wine when she finished her meal. She slid across the blanket to where Mariko and Courtney knelt, and fumbled with the keys pinned to heir neckties. She removed one of the keys from each girl and then went around behind them.
Allison watched this with amusement for a moment, then began feeding her little slaves the sandwiches. Both girls knew better than to look a gift horse in the mouth, so they accepted the food gratefully; and it did make them feel better. After a drink of water for both of them, Allison sat back, poured herself another glass of wine, and began, “You two don’t know how good you have it.”
“Allison, please, I’m really having some trouble with this tie, I can’t breathe very well and… and, couldn’t you just loosen it a little bit. Please?” Mariko asked haltingly.
“Well, I just thought I’d ask,” replied Mariko, relieved that at least for now, Allison hadn’t overreacted.
Mariko briefly considered confessing to the entire espionage, but Allison’s demeanor didn’t do a very good job of convincing Mariko of her compassion. The loyalty she felt for Ivan Rasovitz was part of the reason she had to hold out. He must have discovered her disappearance by now and would be coming to save her very soon. She only felt bad because Courtney, and innocent bystander, had gotten caught up in this.
“Okay, fine, you two don’t have anything to say now?” Both girls looked at each other and then back at Allison.
“That’s all right, but I’ll remind you that I have plenty of time. PLENTY OF TIME. I’ll ask you about this again next week sometime. Just remember, Ve ’ave vays uf makik yu talk!” Allison yawned and stood up. “I think I’ll take that little swim now. You girls can take a nap while I’m gone if you want.” She took the knife from the blanket and cut the cords binding Mariko and Courtney together.
“You don’t need that.” Mariko started, but Allison would have none of it. Quick as a wink Allison pounced on her and pressed the ball against her teeth. Mariko fought valiantly to defend the inner reaches of her mouth from the relentless intruder but, in the end, it was to no avail. As soon as the first bit of the foam passed between her teeth she was caught.
Her cheeks bulged above it, and her jaw was distended under it, and she could barely make a peep. Courtney fought like a tiger and Allison had a much harder time installing her gag then she had had with Mariko’s. But installed it was, and the two mute girls looked at their captor, who sat back to finish her fourth glass of wine. Allison picked up everything except the blanket and put it in the basket, which she then tied to her horse.
“Well, I’ll be back in a while. You two take it easy,” she said, as she untied the horses and led them down to the lake so they could drink.
Mariko waited until Allison had gone out of sight, then she sat up and began squealing frantically to Courtney, “Td ubbob orgnt td kne! Td uboob orgnt td kne!” it didn’t take Courtney long to understand. The boob had forgotten the key. The handcuff keys were still pinned to their ties! Here was the chance they had been waiting for!
Mariko realized that she would have to do this entirely by feel, because if she turned her head much at all, her shoulders would follow, thus moving her hands away from the keys. Courtney had wiggled close to Mariko and leaned. Her balance was precarious to begin with and when she lost it, both girls tumbled; Mariko onto her side and Courtney onto her stomach.
Instantaneously the key slipped from Mariko’s fingers and Courtney was in imminent danger of toppling over backwards. She managed to prevent this, but she over-compensated and crashed into Mariko, and they both toppled to the ground again. Another try resulted in the same consequences, and still no key.
Mariko was becoming used to the gloves, a little, and could even make out the pin’s position between her fingers. She got the pin between her first and second fingers and squeezed. The sharp end of the pin moved a little inside it’s sheath and Mariko felt a wave of optimism come over her. Then the pin shifted in her grasp and she lost it, but his could work. They tried six more times, each time ending with the pin shifting in Mariko’s grasp and re-closing.
Mariko moved back and looked at the keys pooled on the blanket. Luckily the handcuff key was distinctive, so she used her nose to push the other two away from it. She then laid down on her back and felt around for the key. It took a few minutes in this awkward position before she managed to find the key and get hold of it.
By pushing her hands as far out to the side as they would go, and by turning her head as far as it could go, ignoring the pull of the tape on her skin, she was able to make out the key and keyhole at the same time. Unfortunately, the closer the key got to the hole the more difficult it was for her to see it. For the last six inches she had to go by best guess, and it took many misses and several drops before she guessed right.
Mariko pushed these thoughts to the back of her mind as she turned her concentration to turning the key. She got the key between her first and second fingers and turned. She could see the cuff begin to release and then, joyously, when Courtney twisted her wrist, it popped open. Free at long last! At that very instant, a slender hand reached in past Mariko’s head and pressed the cuff closed again before Courtney could even pull her hand out. Allison plucked the key out of the lock, easily avoiding Mariko’s desperate efforts to stop her.
Mariko couldn’t take it anymore. She had told herself that she would never cry in front of Allison, but this was too much. Courtney tore at her bonds in frustrated anger, but for Mariko the tears were her only release. As the two girls handled this setback in their own way, Allison was calmly fumbling in the pack she had with her.
She returned and dragged Courtney, who was calling Allison every name she could think of, over to the other blanket and dropped her on it. Even with the tight gag anyone could understand what Courtney was attempting to say.
Allison calmly pushed Courtney down on the blanket and rolled her onto her stomach. Courtney could guess what was coming next, but there was little she could do about it. Allison ran the rope end through the clip holding her hands, then down between her feet, catching the shortened hobble that pinned her feet together, and pulled back. Courtney looked like a pretzel as her feet were pulled up within inches of her bound hands. Allison tied the end of the cord off where Courtney couldn’t possibly reach, then walked over to the blanket where Mariko sat, still sobbing softly. Allison knelt down and collected up the scattered keys, then looked at Mariko.
Allison returned to Courtney and re-pinned the keys to her tie, then pulled the free end of the rope taut and tied it off. Thus, Courtney was doomed to remain in the tight hogtie, with only her belly resting on the ground, for the time being. Allison returned to Mariko and embellished her bondage with identical results.
Mariko awoke to the sound of a horse whinnying. She was still bound as tightly as she had been when Allison had left her. She looked around to see Allison busily moving a horse into position to accept a reluctant rider again. Courtney stood on her tip-toes, trying to relieve the strain on her shoulders from the hoist rope.
“Did sweetie pie have a nice nappy?” Allison asked teasingly. Mariko chose not to respond. “C’mon. Get up. I lost track of the time, and we have to get back for dinner. Let’s go!” She dragged Mariko over to the spot where Courtney had, until recently, stood. She tied the hoist to Mariko’s clip and plunked the riding derby back on her head. There was no time for formalities as ten minutes later the three riders were on their way back to the house. Upwards, then downwards. Upwards, then downwards. It was a very subdued pair of captives that at last plodded up the familiar drive, down which they had galloped so early that morning.
“C’mon you two, I don’t have time for your dawdling!” she said as she motioned to the door with her head. Courtney went first and Mariko despondently followed, and they followed Allison outside. Parked right outside the door was a Rolls Royce silver shadow convertible. Allison opened the door but prevented the two exhausted girls from entering.
Allison looked at the gaping door, then a Mariko and Courtney, and then at the rear of the car. She propped Courtney back against the fender, then reached into the car and pressed a small button on the dashboard. Immediately the trunk popped open, and both girls moaned simultaneously as they realized exactly how they would be riding.

