SHIPS IN THE NIGHT

CHAPTER 3

By Willowluvyr


Copyright Disclaimers: Xena and Gabrielle are the property of MCA/Universal and Renaissance Pictures. The story is purely for entertainment purposes. The author does not benefit financially in any way from this story.

Violence Warning/Disclaimer: This story depicts scenes of violence and/or their aftermath. In particular are some very disturbing scenes of child abuse. I do not do these lightly they are integral to the story line and the series. I tried hard to keep within the boundaries necessary to the story. Readers who are disturbed by or sensitive to this type of depiction may wish to read something other than this story.

Sexual Violence Warning/Disclaimer: This story depicts scenes of sexual violence and/or their aftermath. Some of these scenes are graphic and disturbing, but are integral to the story line and do not any way attempt to arouse people or encourage rape. Some readers may be disturbed by this type of depiction and anyone who is sensitive to this particular issue may wish to read something other than this story.

Love Sex Warning/Disclaimer: There are blatant discussions, references and description of sexual relations between consenting adults. You must be over the age of 18 and it must not be a crime to read material of this nature at your present location. Some of the scenes depicted are explicit. If this bothers you, you should find other reading material.

Summary: Xena attempts to rescue a three year old Rickie from kidnappers.

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She gasped for breath as she realized she had only minutes to get out of the body bag she occupied. By controlling her breathing and her emotions, she calmed herself enough to find the zipper and rip it open. Air rushed into the thick plastic bag and the dark Immortal filled her lungs with it as she opened the bag completely.

She looked down at her nakedness and sighed to no one in particular, "Do they always have to strip me?"

The Immortal Warrior found a white lab coat and covered her powerful and naked body. Then, she went to parking lot and searched for a temporary vehicle to make her way back to her hotel.

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Joshua made his way back to the warehouse. He entered the warehouse to a chorus of tormented screams and thought, "What is that sick fuck up to?"

The young Immortal worked around a series of crates used to muffle the sound coming from the torture area. Several young women had been tormented by Richard and his sick whore, he thought it was just one more.

He took in the scene; the suffering redhead straining at her bonds as the corrupted blonde plunged a large dildo in and out the young woman's tender opening, while the debased Richard burned her flesh with dripping wax from a burning candle.

Then, he noticed it was the young cop that he had captured and who had been looking for the girl. Calmly he interrupted the twisted couple and asked, "I hate to interrupt, but what exactly do you think you're doing?"

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The young blonde laid curled in the air conditioning vent crying silently with her small hand desperately trying to block the tortured screams from her delicate ears. She prayed to anyone who was listening for the big lady to come and save her and her friend.

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'Damn,' thought Xena, 'I hated losing that coat. It was my favorite.'

The tall Warrior put on a black jump suit and a combat vest. Then, the blue-eyed woman put on her gun harness and her sword. Finally, the former Warlord put on a navy blue topcoat. Then she went up to the front desk and startled a stunned desk clerk as she asked, "Any messages?"

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The male Immortal calmly waited for a reaction from his preoccupied partners. The sadistic couple looked up simultaneously and the corrupted father said, "The girl is missing and this Bitch knows where the brat is."

The Immortal shook his head in false pity and asked, "And you think this is going to make her talk?"

The lustful blonde smiled and replied, "I don't care if she talks or not. I'm just enjoying making the stuck-up bitch scream. She's really digging this. She is so wet. I think she's cum twice already."

The younger Immortal sighed and said, "That's my point. If she's enjoying it, why will she talk?"

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Charlene O'Grady almost sighed out her disappointment. Why had this fuck shown up? The young cop had managed to redirect the couple's concentration from finding Rickie to their own perverted pleasure. She remembered vividly how she had done it.

She had been trying to drift out of her body, when she felt the huge dildo shoved into her inexperienced cavity. The depraved blonde had said as the young cop screamed, "Oh no you don't. You're not leaving us here alone are you?"

The green-eyed blonde knew that she couldn't hold out for long from the torture of her body was feeling. Then an inspiration hit. The deviant couple were getting excited by her torment. So, if she could make this about sex and not revealing what she knew, then maybe Xena would have enough time to get here.

So, the young detective arched her back to force the huge dildo deeper and she looked to the depraved father and moaned, "I need some meat to suck on."

The sick man smiled as he took off his pants and underwear. He climbed onto the table and straddled the young woman. The deviant put his penis to her lips and started to rub his fluids on her dry lips. With the contact, the redheaded cop parted her lips and felt a man enter her mouth for the first time.

She knew she had to control the action in order to give her plan a chance to succeed and the only way to control the action was to make the head in her mouth do Richard Gardner's thinking for him.

She felt nauseated at what she was doing, but it was their only chance so she formed a suction in around the evil man's cock and desperately tried to relax her throat so that his thrusts wouldn't choke her.

She could feel the plastic phallus being removed from her tortured opening. A warm tongue that started licking her inflamed opening replaced it. The young policewoman imagined a dark warrior woman's tongue teasing and taunting her nether lips. The young officer imagined her mouth accepting an offering from Xena. Soon the man shooting his essence into her mouth rewarded the redhead's actions.

With each shot of sperm, she knew that she had won. She knew that she controlled the action. She had to keep it up. So she swallowed and sucked the man until his tool shrank to its spent state. As best she could, she pushed her wet opening toward the woman's mouth. With the picture of the Dark Immortal firmly established in her mind, the young woman fantasized herself to an orgasm.

She continued to suck on the retreating penis, she needed it to come back to life, so her captor would not start thinking again. Frantically she sucked him to another erection. Suddenly, she pulled himself from her mouth and she could not help but sigh loudly. She heard him say, "Sadie, you have to try this mouth. It is quite fantastic."

The red-haired detective felt herself being turned over and her backside being propped into the air. Then she heard the aroused male say, "Before I make you take it up the ass, I'm going to warm it up a bit."

Suddenly pain laced through her rear as she felt a belt or a whip bite into her naked flesh. Whap, she felt another strike. They landed in rapid succession. The young policewoman blocked the pain by picturing the strikes were coming from Immortal Warrior. Soon, the pain was transformed to something else, desire.

She felt her head being lifted and opened her eyes to see a woman's pelvis being presented to her. It was covered with dark hair moist with the woman's juices. She was familiar with this kind of action and proceeded to milk the exposed opening to a couple of juicy orgasms. The detective was soon riding with each stroke of the leather that bit into her flesh. Suddenly, the strokes stopped, but she continued to administer pleasure to the wet opening before her. The young woman felt a gooey slippery substance being forced into her anal opening. It was a new sensation for her, so she concentrated on the sensation she knew as she worked harder to bring pleasure to her fantasy friend.

When he entered her she hadn't expected it and resisted at first. The pain was horrible. Then she began to relax and found that she bare up to the invasion. The lips in front of her were pulsating with lust as the woman before her orgasmed for the third time. Finally, she felt the last of the hard penis extend into her nether regions.

Slowly at first and then building momentum she felt the penis being stroked within her anal cavity. Finally, the man exploded and the woman could take no more. Here two captors were spent and decided to take a break. She was turned onto her back again. While waiting for their return, she fell asleep.

She was awakened by the sensation of hot wax being poured onto her breasts and then that dildo penetrating her again. A scream erupted from her throat. Her brain was working on a way to reseize the momentum, when she heard the strange voice ask a question.

Coming back to the reality of the present, she knew that she was no longer in control of the action.

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The stunned hotel clerk muttered, "You're dead."

The Dark Warrior compensated him with a half smile, as she said, "Not hardly. Now, do I have any mail?"

Though the young clerk was not satisfied with the answer, he handed her a message from a Joshua Marx. It read:

Xena,

If you're reading this message, then my plan failed. If you want to finish our earlier battle, come alone to the warehouse, where you found the van. We're close by.

Joshua.

'He hopes to trap me,' she thought, 'Well, the easiest traps to avoid are the ones we know about.'

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In her most seductive tone, the police detective tried to retake control of the action by saying to the newcomer, "Come join the fun. I really want to taste you."

The Immortal chuckled and said, "No thanks, been there, done that. I'm more interested in getting my share of a million dollars. Richard get your pants on and set up the drop, so we can get the money. Sadie start looking for the girl. I'm taking over the questioning of our cop toy."

'Oh God,' Charlene thought, 'Hurry, Xena, I'm in deep shit.'

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The young girl was nearly hysterical with fear. The screams were steady now and she had stopped trying to block them out. She was too terrified to cry or sob. The green-eyed youngster could only huddle on her knees and pray.

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She hung from chains. Her shoulders could no longer support her weight and had been dislocated in her attempts to get away from the blowtorch that had burned away the nipples of her breasts. The pain in her shoulders was excruciating. She couldn't even concentrate on a single thought any more.

She felt herself being lowered to the ground. When the weight was removed from her shoulder and as blood was allowed free flow, sharp pains radiated through her arms and back. The once pert blonde lay on the floor like a skin bag of broken bones. She tried to focus her remaining green eye; the other one had been removed early in the torture with a white hot rod.

Her body was covered with brands. Her breathing was labored. She had several broken ribs and maybe a pierced lung. Her pelvis was burning with the pain caused by the white-hot iron searching the delicate lips of her vagina. She also knew that there was no skin left on her back. He had peeled it off. All she wanted now was to die. She knew she couldn't take much more. The only thing that kept her talking now was that he had stopped asking her any questions.

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Xena scanned the neighborhood with her field glasses. The blue-eyed Warrior was trying to decide which place the kidnappers were using as a hiding place. The raven-haired Immortal had already spotted two lookouts and a possible third. When the experienced Warrior saw the silent acknowledgement of the second sentry by the third, she knew she had all the sentries spotted. Now, she was ready to make her move.

The tall woman silently moved into position to eliminate the first sentry. The dark woman knew their pattern and had seven minutes to take out all three sentries. This meant that she couldn't play any games. The Immortal Warrior would have to kill the first two sentries and then get the information she wanted from the third.

With the practiced moves of an ancient warrior, the dark Immortal reached the first sentry and snapped his neck. With a back flip and a silent dive to her right, the deadly Warrior emerged directly behind her second target. The tall Immortal broke a rib with a left-handed blow and then shoved the broken pieces into his heart with a right.

Methodically the experienced Warrior moved up behind the third sentry, Xena tapped the shocked sentry on the shoulder. With stunned surprise, the sentinel turned around and was slapped with a neck pinch before the dark woman asked, "Where are they?"

**************************************** The evil Immortal looked down at the once lovely detective and knew that it was no longer a human being. The only thing left was a bundle of flesh. He knew she would talk now, so he finally asked, "Where is the little bitch?"

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The one-time redhead started to talk, when she heard a familiar voice say, "She doesn't have to talk to you anymore."

Sadie Thompson turned to the voice just in time to see the bullet that exploded in her head. The startled Immortal forgot the detective and ran for cover. He dove behind some crate and crawled toward the exit. He had expected some warning from his sentries. He found out too late that he had underestimated his foe.

With just forty feet to go, the ex-bootlegger decided to make a dash for the door. He didn't even see the foot that tripped him. He feel forward hard, his nose was broken as he hit the floor. His momentum carried him into several crates that fell on him. He was pinned and couldn't move.

He looked up and saw a tall dark form standing over him with sword draw and looking quite menacing. The dark Immortal wanted to end this one's life badly, but didn't think that a quick death was the answer. She thought back to another enemy and remembered a fitting punishment for an evil Immortal.

He felt the sword plunge through his heart. He knew that he wouldn't wake up this time.

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Xena walked heavily back towards the broken police detective. The Immortal gently cradled the destroyed woman in her arms. The ancient woman still wasn't good at comforting a dying woman. This brought back very painful memories. The sacrifices by this woman reminded her of another strong and wonderful woman, who died in her arms.

Tears ran down the two-thousand-year-old Immortal's face. Tears that had not been shed in a very long time. She heard a rasping voice say, "Hey, what took you so long?"

The joke by the tortured woman stabbed the blue-eyed Immortal in her soul. This gentle soul was just like her Bard. The ancient Warrior wished she had gotten a chance to know this woman better. Xena had examined the wounds and knew that there was no helping the poor woman.

The young woman tried to smile, but could only manage a grimace as she said, "Listen, the girl is hiding. She's waiting for you to find her. Go to the room with the burned door and find the air conditioning vent. She's hiding in the ducts."

The dark Immortal stroked the broken woman's scarred head, where her hair had been burned away. Xena said, "Don't exert yourself. I can get you some help."

The mutilated woman sighed, "No you can't. If I live, I'll just be a crippled, scarred husk. I don't have any feeling in my legs. All I want is a kiss and to ask that you end it quickly."

Gently the blue-eyed warrior kissed the woman passionately on her bleeding lips while cradling her head. The ancient Immortal released the kiss and looked at the police detective, seeing her as she was when they first met. Xena shed a final tear that dried on her cheek as she snapped the woman's neck.

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The little girl didn't hear anymore screams. She wondered if she could start crying. She was still too scared they would hear her. What was she supposed to do? The green-eyed blonde decided to huddle her knees tighter and wait for the big lady.

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Xena searched the storage room for several minutes before she found the air conditioning vent. The Immortal Warrior moved the grill and looked inside. All the ancient Warrior could see was a distant light and darkness. The tall Immortal retrieved a flashlight from her combat kit and shined it to the right and looked in.

The blue-eyed Warrior noticed a small shadow that seemed to be moving. The raven-haired Immortal called out, "Little one are you there?"

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The small girl heard the call, but didn't recognize the voice. She held her knees closer and bit her lip so she wouldn't scream.

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The ancient Warrior realized the young girl was too scared to come out. 'She must be terrified. She heard all that screams and heaven knows what she saw,' thought the Dark Immortal, 'I must find a place where she can see me and maybe I can coax her out.'

The Immortal Warrior patient started down the ventilation system opening each vent and looking into it to see if she could catch the young girl's eyes. On her sixth attempt she found the huddled little blonde, who was trying desperately to blend into the ventilation shaft.

Speaking softly so as not to scare the young girl, Xena said, "Hi, I'm Xena. Who are you?"

The small child just ducked her head and tried to hide in her own arms. The Dark Immortal sighed and tried again, "Little one, Detective O'Grady sent me to find you, she couldn't come herself. She told me where to find you."

The young child looked up and asked, "How big are you?"

The Immortal woman laughed as she thought, 'So that's how Charlene describe me to the young girl.'

The dark Warrior replied to the young girl, "I'm pretty big."

Too scared to resist anymore, the young girl unwound her body and crawled toward the Immortal Warrior. Xena pulled out of the vent and held her arms out to the youngster. When the young child saw the tall Warrior she jumped into the ancient's arms and hugged her.

The action embarrassed the hardened Warrior for reasons she couldn't explain. She looked at the beautiful child and was moved. Xena had to protect this young girl and she didn't really know why. The tall Immortal rationalized it was for the sacrifices made by the young police detective, but that was only part of the reason and she knew it.

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The Dark Warrior put the body of the Immortal in the trunk of her car. She tied him temporarily until she could obtain something more permanent. The ancient Immortal had the little girl take a note into a local restaurant. The Immortal Warrior was supposed to be dead and didn't what to have to explain her resurrection to the cops.

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A scared and dirty little girl walked into the nearly vacate restaurant. She shyly made her way to a young waitress, who asked, "Hi, are you lost?"

The small child handed the woman the note. She read it and told the woman behind the counter, "Gloria call the police. This is the little girl that had been kidnapped from the park yesterday. Then bring a bowl soup and a Coke over here for her."

Then the kindly waitress held out her hand to the child, who cautiously took it. The young woman led the child to a booth and sat her there. Then, she told her, "Honey, I'm going to get something to clean you up and Gloria is going to bring something to eat. You sit right here and we will take care of you, okay."

The young girl felt safe for the first time in a long time. She felt safe enough to cry.

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Richard Gardner told the new FBI agent that he had received instructions to deliver the money to a dumpster on East Avenue E, but on route to the drop point, the new FBI agent received and phone call and smiled. He said into the phone, "That's great news."

The agent hung up the phone and said, "That was the locals; they have the girl. She's safe. Congratulations, Mr. Gardner. Your daughter is safe. We can return the money to your insurance company."

It took all the irate man's control to smile and not scream in frustration. All he could do was try to find out what happened. Then when he got the brat home, he would take a few frustrations out on her and her stupid cow of a mother.

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From a safe distance, the Immortal Warrior watched as the body of the brave police officer was loaded into an ambulance. She watched as the police escorted a strangely stoic father to his kidnapped daughter. Xena thought there was something odd about the man's reactions, but couldn't put her finger on what that was. Besides she had business to take care of.

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The younger Immortal felt life rush into his body once more. It was unexpected. He saw his dark adversary for a moment and felt a dagger pierce his heart once more.

The ancient Immortal closed the trunk with the chained Immortal in the trunk. The raven-haired warrior started her Mustang and started driving the car to Wyoming. Her plan was simple. She remembered what she had done to the Immortal Callisto and was going to repeat that action.

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Joshua Marx felt himself come alive again. He felt the rush of air fill his lungs once more. 'She hadn't taken his head,' he thought as he tried to get up, 'I'm tied down somehow.'

He struggled with bonds for a moment and then heard his enemy's voice say, "You won't get out of those chains. They're made out of stainless. They won't rust or corrode. "

He turned toward the voice and found a pair of cold blue eyes and asked, "Why do I still have my head?"

The smile he saw made him physically wince as the Dark Immortal replied, "You tortured her until she wasn't human anymore. You made her suffer a thousand deaths and a million agonies. Then, I was forced to end her torment. You are going experience what she experienced over and over and over again."

He struggled with the chains for a bit and spat, "You'll never take my head. You don't have the stones for it."

With an evil grin and raised eyebrow, the Immortal Warrior said, "I have no intention of taking your head that would be too easy. We are in a cave deep in the Wyoming Mountains. I doubt if a man has been back here for decades. When I leave here, I'm sealing the entrance and leaving you chained. Either you'll starve to death or suffocate. I don't care which, but you will die over and over and over again.

Each time you will wake up and know you will feel that death again and again and again. Who knows maybe in a thousand years or so those chains will weaken enough for you to get yourself free. Then after another thousand years or so you may be able to get out of here. Then I will take your head."

The young Immortal panicked and begged for his release. He begged for mercy. He was screaming in imagined agony. But Xena remembered the battered and tortured body of the brave policewoman, who had given everything she had to save a single child.

No, the asshole didn't deserve any mercy. She turned her back and walked away. Suddenly Xena realized she hadn't even known the child's name as she activated the remote on the C-4 that brought the side of a mountain down on a cave entrance.

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