Bait and Switch Ch. 03

Author’s note: This story consists of multiple chapters. Some chapters will contain subjects that some may find objectionable, such as incest. While this chapter doesn’t contain this, you are here forewarned not to get into this series if this subject bothers/offends you. All characters are over eighteen, as I can’t abide kiddy-porn. If all this is suitable to your tastes, please enjoy my series, Bait and Switch.
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Blue lights flashing across my closed eyes woke me immediately.

“He’s awake,” a harsh whisper sounded in my room, “quick, silence him!”

A thick hand covered my mouth, and it was only then that I decided to try making noises. More hands grabbed me, and held me down, as the one with the flashlight came closer to me, and turned the light so I could see his face.

It was Robbie.

“Looks like it’s payback time, nerd,” His eyes were cold in the beam coming off of his flashlight, and in a panic I reached for his switches. His fist was faster, as it connected with my jaw, and I saw stars.

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My jaw was the first thing I felt as I woke up. An odd moan sounded from somewhere, and it took me a few moments to realize it was me. My mouth didn’t feel right, and I soon realized there was a gag between my teeth. Keeping my eyes closed, I hoped to fool them into thinking I was still out, but my muffled moan had already given away the ruse.

“Looks like our little nerd has come back to us,” I heard Robbie’s taunting voice come closer to me at the same time I felt his switches approaching. “Looks like he needs a little encouragement to WAKE UP!” Robbie punctuated his words with a fist to my gut, a split second before I could move his switches. My eyes bulged, as all the air in me was forcefully expelled, and my stomach writhed in pain. With my eyes now open, I could see that I was in someone’s unfinished basement, tied to a support beam, my arms behind me. “Good. I’m glad to see you’re back with us,” Robbie’s voice had become menacingly cold. “We want to have a little talk with you.”

My eyes were still watering, and I was trying to gather enough wits together so I could start to weaken him, when his next blow hit the side of my ribs.

“Enough Robbie,” I heard a sweet familiar voice, but it only sent a chill down my spine. What was Gina doing here?

“Enough? Enough!?” Robbie blustered. “It will be ‘enough’ when he has paid for what he did to you.”

I used the distraction to focus my thoughts, and flipped his ‘bladder’ switch, and started pushing on his ‘weak’ switch. I had to get out of here.

Robbie turned his attention back to me, and there was no mistaking the malice in his eyes. “That won’t work this time, freak.” His punch this time struck the other side of my ribcage. Thankfully it was weaker, though it still hurt, and even brought an embarrassing sob out of me.

Had my switches failed me? I wondered through the pain that was wracking my body. No, I saw, I could still feel the switches, and they HAD moved. Looking through my pain filled eyes, I could see that his pants were still dry, but something seemed odd about them.

“Hit ‘im again, Robbie. Make the lil freak pay.” For the first time I realized that there were others around. John Malcom, Brent Ratner, Philip Carson, Tony Hansen, and Derek Peterson (the one who had just spoken), were also witnessing my humiliation; all of them on the football team, and all friends of Robbie.

“I want to hear him confess,” one of them said, and the others agreed.

Robbie yanked the gag out of my mouth, and I worked my mouth painfully, my jaw throbbing. “Tell everyone what you did to my girlfriend. Tell them how you raped her, and MAYBE I’ll go easy on you.”

Rape? I hadn’t RAPED her! I thought. Looking to Gina, I saw that she was looking at the floor, refusing to look at me. What had she told them? “I didn’t–“

Robbie’s right hook caught my jaw, but it was too weak to do my than move my head, though it still hurt where he’d struck me originally.

“Don’t lie to us, freak. Gina, come tell him what you told us.” Robbie looked to his girlfriend, but she just continued to look at the floor. “Gina?”

“Gina, tell them I didn’t do it!” I pleaded, and I felt a switch move as I spoke, but I couldn’t tell what or where. I remembered her switches and I started moving the ‘guilt’ and ‘concern’ switches I’d made that first night, and was relieved to feel them move in the opposite direction I’d done then.

“Come on, Gina. Confront your rapist. Spit in his face, and show him you’re not afraid of him.” Gina looked up at me then, but dropped her gaze back down again.

“I-I…” Gina trailed off.

Two hands grabbed my head from behind, and turned my face towards her. Their fingers dug into my cheeks and temples as the hands held my head firmly. For a moment I debated on using my switches to stop this whole farce, but stopped myself. I had to clear my name first. I was no rapist, not now, not ever!

“Look, Gina, the nerd is helpless. He can’t hurt you,” Derek’s voice said right behind me, as I pushed harder on Gina’s ‘guilt’ switch.

“I can’t,” she finally blurted.

“Man, you must’ve done a number on her, nerd,” Derek said. “That’s okay… We’ll do you even worse, I promise.”

“No!” Gina yelled, and every eye in the room turned to her. Robbie went over to console her, but she shook him off. “I lied,” she confessed, tears streaming down her face. “He didn’t rape me.” Her voice had gone tremulous, and she buried her face in her hands as she sobbed.

“What are you saying?” Robbie asked; confusion painted across his face.

Gina looked at him then, and I could see anger in her red rimmed, tear stained eyes. “I’m saying I fucked him, and enjoyed every minute of it.” Everybody’s jaws dropped but mine and Gina’s. Robbie just had a pained look on his face. “I seduced him, but felt guilty about it, so I lied to you. But I can’t… I can’t let you do this to him, when he’s innocent.”

“Like hell he’s innocent!” Surprisingly it was Derek who made the exclamation, and not Robbie. “He still screwed with your girlfriend, Robbie. I say we teach him a lesson, and make sure he never touches another man’s girl again.” I felt the man’s fist hit my right kidney hard a moment after he released my head, wracking my body with pain all over again. I’d like to say I took it like a man, but it HURT!

“No, Derek.” Robbie’s voice was barely a whisper, and I wasn’t sure if I’d heard him right, through my agony fogged brain. “Untie him.” He turned his back on Gina, and faced the rest of the room. “It’s one thing to beat up a rapist, but I won’t hurt a man whose only crime is being seduced by this slut.”

“Robbie, I…” Gina reached for Robbie’s shoulder, but he yanked it away from her.

The large man walked up to me, and stared me in the face. I could see that he hated me still, but I had to give him some respect for his actions. He helped untie me, and I turned to face the room. I knew it was wrong, but I felt like I needed to get revenge. I quickly made two new switches in each man, and Gina.

I flipped the first, and watched as their eyes grew large, and their bodies became completely paralyzed. I walked up to Derek first, and had to look up at him, as Gina was the only one in the room shorter than me. I reached up with my right hand, and pinched the base of his neck where it met with his should. Simultaneously, I flipped the second switch, and smiled as he fell asleep. To everyone else, it would look like I’d given him the Vulcan Nerve Pinch. A truly geeky revenge.

I looked to Robbie’s other four friends, and couldn’t bring myself to do anything to them. Sure they had helped kidnap me, but none of them had struck me, only watched. I released their ‘paralyze’ switch, and told them to go. To a man, they fled that small basement, beating each other out of their way, in their haste to get away from me.

Turning back to Robbie, I felt my anger flare up again, until I saw his eyes. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, and if that were true, Robbie was in hell. There was no fear in his eyes, only pain, and hurt, and betrayal. “Go,” I said quietly (I felt that phantom switch move again), before I could change my mind, and released him too. As he ran up the stairs after his friends, I noticed that his pants seemed a little bulky around the waist, and thought he must be wearing a diaper. No wonder his pants had stayed dry.

Finally it was just me, Gina, and a softly snoring Derek in the dim basement. I debated on giving Derek a few kicks, to pay him back for the kidney punch, but realized that the fight was out of me, after seeing how broken Robbie had become.

Turning to Gina, I released her, and watched as she crumpled to the floor, crying. “I’m so sorry,” she sobbed, her face once again buried in her hands. “I didn’t know they would take it this far.”

“Get up,” I demanded, my voice as cold as the storm had been earlier today. She looked up at me, and I felt my anger rising again. This woman had told them that I’d raped her. Sure I had used my switches to turn her on, and make her horny, but I couldn’t control her mind! I didn’t force her to do anything. And for that, I had been kidnapped, tied up, and beaten.