Episode 17: Meanwhiles and Elsewheres (Explicit Content Again. Rated R)

There is a series of insanely coincidental, insanely improbable, and insanely true events that led to the excitement at the end of the last episode, and we intend to recount them for you. Now, however, we will be returning to some other characters, ones who we haven’t seen for at least four episodes. Specifically, we return now to the hospital.
If you will recall, we last left Judy and Mario outside of the hospital. She was devoid of all emotion, and had just raped him. He was frightened and confused; he had made himself into a subordinate because it was just easier. Had he been in complete control of his faculties, he would have felt emasculated. Instead, however, he felt just confused.
He followed Judy a quarter around the hospital. This was a very long way for him, considering that he didn’t like the rain so much and his pelvic-region hurt a little. He stopped walking for a moment a couple times, but each time Judy had stopped and pointed the gun backwards, square at him. This drove him back to the terror and confusion that had kept him in check thus far.
After what seemed hours to Mario, Judy finally stopped. She looked up the side of the building, and stared for a minute.
Mario began to regain his senses again, loosened up a little bit (meaning that he slumped a bit, and allowed the pain in his pelvis to wash over his body and take its course for a moment), and almost snuck away. But, again, Judy pointed the gun at him.
"Alright, buddy, you get to climb first." Her voice was still void of emotion, and that scared him more than the gun.
"C… Climb it how?"
"There’re little nooks. Right there. Now, get over here, and climb."
He shook for a brief moment, and then advanced. She didn’t even glance at him until he was directly in front of her, but the gun followed him flawlessly the whole time.
"Climb," she commanded. He hesitated for a moment, but she prodded him with the gun and he began to climb.
After a couple minutes, he had only climbed about a story. He heard her climbing behind him, and knew instinctively that the gun was still pointed at him. His hands were becoming raw, and had started to ooze blood. The nooks were too small, and he could barely get a good grip on them, and he kept losing the grip because the rain had made the wall slick.
He reached a windowsill, and shimmied onto it. He glanced in; it was pitch black, so he couldn’t see anything.
"Tired of climbing, lover?" Judy had come up next to him; she was smiling coyly, but her eyes were blank. She lifted herself up onto the windowsill, and stroked a finger down his chest. "I had a good time down there." She crawled forward, hovering over him, hunger everywhere in her face except her eyes. "This sill is a little small, but…" She leaned, pressing her chest against his.
"Ah… Ah… We should get inside…" He shuddered, wishing he could push her off but fearing the gun.
She pouted-but her eyes remained the same. "Fine. But, once we’re in… We’re gonna do it again." She smiled the same way, and smashed the gun through the glass of the window. Just as quickly, she pulled it out and pointed it at Mario.
"Now there’s an opening; so get in there, and take off your pants."
He grimaced and hesitated again, but quickly decided to push his way through the window. She followed, and pointed the gun at him more forcefully.
"Take yours off, then take mine off. And then, I want you to get on your knees, and…" He shut his eyes as he began following her orders. She started panting a few minutes later, and he began to cry silently.

"What was that?" Nurse Lotus cried out at the sound of the shattering.
"I don’t know…" Doctor Mabus muttered intensely, "But it can’t have been good."
"Gworkin, Cherry, the two of you investigate!" Camron ordered. Cherry stood up from her place in Gworkin’s lap, and he slowly stood up, covering himself to avoid shame. Desiree and Amy snickered quietly to each other. Gworkin and Cherry saluted, and began to walk off.
"Hold on!" Mabus called. The two of them stopped and turned. "If you open any doors to the outside, for any reason, so help me you will die."
"You’re not in charge of us," Nole growled, standing and marching over to the doctor. Joseph cocked his gun and pointed it at Nole.
"You don’t want to start something in here," Joseph grunted.
Camron pointed his gun at Joseph. "No one threatens my friends."
Joseph turned the gun and pointed it at Camron. Everyone from Camron’s group lifted their weapons and pointed them at Joseph. The ones with close-range weapons began to advance.
"Gworkin, Cherry, get up there and find out what’s happening." Gworkin lowered his crossbow and Cherry lowered her mace. They nodded and began to advance. Camron kept his handgun pointed at Joseph, Camron’s "army" kept their weapons aimed at Joseph, and Joseph kept his rifle pointed at Camron. Nole was still staring down Doctor Mabus, and Mabus wasn’t giving up any ground. Dinah began to cry out of fear, and Nurse Lotus ran over to comfort her.
A person floated by, trapped outside of space and time, and noted that he had seen the scene once before in a different universe. He couldn’t hear anything, and so wouldn’t have realized that it only looked identical if it weren’t for the presence of Joseph and Dinah, who had not been present the last time, their places occupied by a different two people. And then he was on, and saw that strange house that seemed trapped similarly to him again, and then moved on to stranger things.
A soft moaning erupted from above them. They held their positions and their gazes. No one noticed that there were eight less of them than there had been after Gworkin and Cherry had left, except for Andy. But he didn’t care. He didn’t believe any of this was happening. Besides which, he was too tired to care.

The moaning startled Gworkin, who raised his crossbow. "That sounds like…"
"Yeah," Cherry whispered into his ear, brushing it with her lips. "It sounds like what we should be doing right now."
"Oh… Oh, I wish we could…" Gworkin shuddered with joy. "But, Camron gave us orders…"
"Shame," Cherry said with real disappointment disguised as mock disappointment. "We could have had a very nice time."
"Oh… OH….." he moaned quietly at the thought of it. "M-m-maybe after we find out what’s happening…"
The pleasured moaning grew louder.
Gworkin shut his eyes and swallowed. "We ha… have to find out who th-they are and h-how they g… got in." His breathing was becoming halted, and it took all he had to not just… No, even thinking about it was making it worse.
"They’re in here," Cherry whispered, walking up to a door, as the moaning became an eldritch scream of pleasure.
Gworkin nodded, and advanced on the door. The both of them were suddenly focused on the job at hand. The screaming slowed to a laugh, and they heard a low thud. "Now, go in," the laughing voice said. Cherry narrowed her eyes, and began to turn the handle. "I said go in!" The voice yelled, with a barely audible click masking another barely audible click. Cherry slowly pushed the door open.
"Alright then," the voice growled, "I’ll have to take you in, cry-baby."
Cherry shoved the door all the way open, and Gworkin pointed the gun in. There was a bang and a click, then a thud, then another thud. Then a series of low smacking sounds. Cherry was shocked entirely, and stood there for a minute. It wasn’t until then that she turned her head and saw Gworkin lying on the ground, a puddle of crimson forming around his stomach. He twitched a little and smiled up into her eyes. And then he stopped moving. A second bang sounded.

He had refused to come close and put himself into her. She wouldn’t take that, and began to advance on him, pointing the gun. She was pressed against him, about to knock him to the ground, when the door had burst open.
She spun and shot, and before she really understood what was happening, there was a sharp pain in her shoulder, and she was on the ground, Mario on top of her. He punched her face, and she felt something growing against the outside of her thigh. The gun had skittered away when he had tackled her. She grinned up at his angered face.
"So, you have to-ng-hit a girl-ng-to get it up?" She laughed and reached down, grabbing what was near her thigh. She began to massage it, and the punches slowed and became weaker. She made barely a sound when he hit.
He stood up and managed to escape her grip. "No… No no no!" he screamed. He ran over to the gun and picked it up, and pointed it at her smiling, empty face.
"Come on," she laughed, "You take my virginity then you shoot m…" And he did.

Cherry dropped a couple of tears on Gworkin’s body, but quickly stood up and advanced into the room. She looked first at Judy, lying on the ground in only her bra, face twisted in a horrible smile, with an arrow in her shoulder and a hole right between her eyes. Then she looked up at the nude, still… prepared… Mario. She smiled weakly at him.
"I see we’ve both lost our special friends. What say we get acquainted?"
She grabbed the zipper at the neck of her one-piece, red jumpsuit and began to pull. She had it down to the middle of her stomach, when Mario screamed "No! No no no!" He fired twice into her chest. Her eyes spread wide as she fell to the ground.
"Wh… What?" she whispered. Mario shook, grabbed his pants and slid into them clumsily, and ran into the darkness of the hospital, carrying the gun.
The bodies lay there for a few minutes, alone.

"Jesus, did you hear all that?" Amy asked, looking up.
"I think we should stop this bickering now Camron," Doctor Mabus called out, still looking into Nole’s eyes, "And figure out how the hell we’re going to make it through this."
Camron nodded. "Lower your weapons. Everyone!" Everyone, including Joseph and Camron, did.
"Nole, back off from the doctor," Camron ordered. Nole nodded and backed off.
Everyone looked around, except Nole whose eyes were still focused on the doctor.
"There were ten more of us ten minutes ago," Fiona said.
"Damn. This is not good." Mabus said. Dinah began to cry again. Lotus cradled her in her arms. Andy shut his eyes and wished he could sleep.




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