Winning at Any Cost FFFF/F (story request by Ducttapelover93)
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2018 5:32 am
(Disclaimer: This is a purely fictional story. The universities named here are completely made up, as are the characters, and any resemblance to any real universities or athletes are purely coincidental.)
Dani Ledger stretched. She was the star of the University of West Rutledge volleyball team, and thus spent a good deal of extra time putting in work to stay in the top spot. So it was often that she was the last one to leave the gym, and that happened to be the case on this fateful night.
Her team was good, but it was clear they were reliant on her skills to be in the position they were in at the moment. A tournament was coming up to determine the top playoff seeding for their conference, and West Rutledge and Wilkerson State were the heavy favorites for the top 2 spots, and it was widely held that whoever came out on top of this tournament would be playing for the national title when it was all said and done. With a team that lived and died by her contributions, Dani was determined not to let her team down.
After finishing her stretching, Dani took a moment to look in the full length mirror that was next to her locker at the end of the locker room. Pretty and athletic, she had big blue eyes and had her brunette hair tied back in a ponytail. Her athletic figure featured a toned body, her black and orange underarmour long sleeve t-shirt accentuating her B-cup breasts, displaying the outline of her sports bra, and her short and tight black spandex shorts accentuating her curves. Not normally a vain person, she amused herself, striking a couple poses and feeling confident that she looked as good as she felt.
Stepping back to her locker, she glanced up, surprised to hear the outer door opening. It was not completely unheard of for her to see others in the locker room at this hour, but it was unusual. Even more unusual, Dani vaguely recognized the girls that walked in, but was sure they didn't attend West Rutledge. Still, she offered a cursory smile towards them and prepared to go back to her business of changing and heading home. She was tired, had homework to do, and desperately needed an hour or so of R and R before she started it.
She had just managed to untie a shoe when she noticed the four girls were coming towards her. This was very unusual, her locker was at the far end of the locker room, near the showers, and she knew everyone whose locker was in the same area. She stopped and looked up as they approached, and something about the expression on their faces gave her a sense of alarm. She straightened up and faced them.
"Hey, can I help you?" she asked, trying to appear confident and friendly even as a sense of foreboding washed over her.
The girl that stood closest to her addressed her first. "You're Dani Ledger, right?"
Dani nodded. "Yeah, do I know you? I know I have seen at least a couple of you before somewhere." Her confidence was shaken but she still tried to remain stoic, trying to discern their intentions.
The girl gave her a wicked smile. "We play for Wilkerson, you have seen us on the other side of the net. Usually flailing, trying to stop you from racking up kill after kill."
The light went off in her head and Dani recognized all four of them now from facing them on the court. She only knew the names of the one that was in the lead, Lindsay Grace, and one of the others, Cassidy Nagle. But that just made their presence here and now more alarming to her. She stiffened a little, unconsciously taking a step backwards.
"Oh, right, now I recognize you. Um ... is there something I can do for you? Why are you here?"
The lead girl smiled, and made a barely noticeable gesture, and with a little more alarm, Dani looked back and forth as the other three girls fanned out, staying a little distance away, but surrounding her nonetheless. She figured out she was in trouble now and her eyes glanced to her locker and her cell phone on the top shelf. She quickly tried to determine if she could get to it and somehow get away from them long enough to hit the emergency call button before they could overwhelm her.
Lindsay finally broke the uncomfortable silence, still smiling. "We need to talk, Dani. We need you not to play in the tournament. We need this win way more than you do. It's time you shared some of the success West Rutledge has enjoyed for too long.
Dani's worst fears confirmed, she tensed up even more. She had determined a lunge to her locker would get the phone in her hand before any of them could get to her, but she wouldn't have time to do anything before they were on her. So she glanced around again, seeing Cassidy and one of the other girls positioned behind her and on either side, about 5 feet back, and Lindsay standing about 6 feet in front of her, with the other girl at Lindsay's side. She hesitated before she spoke, her voice wavering a little, and she cursed herself for it.
"So I am guessing you all know I am not just going to abandon my team, so what is your plan here? Are you going to try to injure me or something? I am just going to tell you right now that you are all on camera and if you just get the hell out of here right now, I will forget you ever came in." Her words came out weaker sounding then she wanted to, and she was hoping they wouldn't call her bluff. There were no cameras in the girls locker room, of course.
Lindsay grinned. "That's cute, nice try, Dani, but there are no cameras here, and even if there were, no university could ever admit to having cameras in the girls locker room. Do you realize the implicatons that would carry?"
She paused and Dani pursed her lips, staring at Lindsay while still trying to keep the girls behind her in her peripheral vision. Lindsay continued on.
"And to answer your question, honestly, this is not personal, so we really have no desire to hurt you. That is basically up to you, if you are cooperative, it won't come to that. If you get hurt, it will be because you forced our hand."
Dani was scared, but was losing patience and also getting angry. While Lindsay was talking, she was formulating a plan of escape. She figured if she was fast enough, and moved suddenly enough to take them by surprise, she might be able to push past Lindsay and the other girl in front of her and bolt for the door.
"All right, so you don't want to hurt me, what are you going to do then?" she asked, an edge of irritation in her voice, tensing up a little more as she tried to gauge the best time to make her move.
"You're going to be our new best friend, Dani. For the length of the tournament, you get to hang out with us. We'll keep an eye on you and we won't hurt you at all, but you will be staying with us until the tournament is over. Then you can go on with your life as you see fit." Lindsay took a small step forward, and Dani could sense the girls behind her doing the same thing.
"And what if I refuse?" she asked, tensing as she prepared to try to make her break for it. The other girls noticed her body language as her knees bent a little and she was clearly about to do something. They waited for the cue from Lindsay.
"You don't understand, Dani, this is an easy way or hard way situation for you. If you come without a fuss, then we will literally hang out like old friends. We might even get to like each other. But if you put your team first and act all holier than thou about this and try to fight us, then we are going to take you by force. Your choice."
With that, Lindsay nodded slightly, and before Dani could react, Cassidy and the other girl were on her, each grabbing ahold of an arm and holding tight. Dani grunted as they grabbed her, trying to yank her arms free, but each girl had a strong grip on her. Her breathing became heavy as she glared at Lindsay, anger beginning to overwhelm her fear.
"You can't do this!" she snarled. "This is kidnapping, get your fucking hands off me!" She renewed her struggles, but the girls held her fast, and Lindsay stepped up to her, grabbing her face in one hand and squeezing her cheeks as the other girl began to go through her bag and her locker. Dani made a mental note that she didn't seem to see her phone on the top shelf.
"I am going to give you one more chance to calm the fuck down. It doesn't have to be this way." Lindsay was still calm, and let go of Dani's face, gently slapping her left cheek a couple times, more to mock her than to hurt her. She stepped back. "So what's it going to be, hot-shot? Are you going to be our friend or our victim?"
Dani could feel the girls grip on her arms tighten. She swallowed hard, breathing heavily, and again, tried to bluff. "F ... friend ... now please let me go, ok? I will cooperate." She tried her best to sound defeated, but figured if she could gain their trust, she might be able to slip away.
Lindsay looked at her suspiciously, then nodded her head at her friends and they let go of Dani's arms, although they stayed right behind her.
"I don't know if I should be disappointed or not, you looked like you can get pretty feisty, it would have been fun to humble the great Dani Ledger a little bit. Ok, so introductions are in order. Your new temporary roomies are myself, Lindsay, and my teammates and besties Naomi (the girl to the left of Lindsay nodded), Cassidy and Kate. Now get your shit together, we have to get going."
Cassidy and Kate stayed close to Dani, but Lindsay and Naomi stepped aside as she gathered her stuff together, trying to act as cooperative as possible. She tried to make it look as casual as possible as she reached up and grabbed her phone, but was startled when Lindsay snapped "STOP!"
Dani straightened up and faced her, and Lindsay had her hand held out. "Give me your phone. As a show of good faith. I won't do anything to it, I will turn it off for the duration of your stay with us. But to prove you are going to be a good girl, hand it over. Now."
Noticing the mocking tone Lindsay had, Dani tensed, feeling like she was being teased. She hesitated as she knew handing over her phone would be equivalent to watching her plan going up in smoke. She tried to stall.
"Look, I have to at least tell my real roomies where I am, or make something up, so nobody gets worried or goes looking for me, right?" As she spoke, she locked eyes with Lindsay, trying to draw her attention away while she tries to unlock her phone by feel.
"I don't trust her," Naomi said, eyeing her suspiciously.
"She has a good point, though," responded Lindsay. "So we'll do this, Dani dear. Give me your phone, and tell me who your contacts are you need to get ahold of, and we will all dictate a message to text them when we get home to explain your absence. Between the five of us, we can come up with something convincing, I am sure." Her hand reached out closer.
Dani glanced down and back up quickly, seeing she had her thumb about a half-inch from the emergency call spot. "Wouldn't it just be easier and quicker for me to call someone?" She tried to sound as if she were being helpful while edging her thumb to the spot.
"BITCH!" Kate yelled suddenly as she smacked Dani's hand from behind, sending her phone flying. "She's trying to call 911!"
Dani made her move. She saw Naomi watch where the phone landed, and seeing her distracted, lunged into her, shoving her into the lockers and sprinting past Lindsay. She thought she made it, her hand was on the handle of the door, when she felt her head jerked backwards by her ponytail and she was flung against the wall. She grunted hard as she hit the wall, it took her breath away, but she still stumbled away from it, just to feel the now familiar grip of Cassidy and Kate grabbing her arms and pulling her backwards, holding tightly.
Dani struggled ferociously, kicking her legs out and desperately trying to yank her arms free, screaming "LET ME GO! SOMEONE HELP ME!" at the top of her lungs, hoping maybe a custodian or security guard would be somewhere nearby. "PLEASMMMMPPPHH!" she attempted, but found Cassidy's hand tightly clamped over her mouth. She fought their grip, but they held her tightly, Cassidy pulling her head back by her mouth. Lindsay stepped near, and Dani's right leg shot out, trying to connect and hurt her, but Lindsay caught it and held it tightly with both hands, stepping right up to Dani's face. Dani continued her muffled yelling under Cassidy's hand, trying to get her leg free, but Lindsay had it gripped tightly. It kept Dani off balance.
"We tried to be nice and do this the nice way, you entitled bitch, but you want to do it the hard way. Fine. Naomi? Do you have some jewelry to give our new friend as a welcome to our group gift?"
Naomi smiled and came over, and reached into her back pocket and dangled a set of steel handcuffs in front of Dani's face. "You like bracelets, don't you sweetie?"
Dani's eyes widened and her struggles renewed with greater vigor, and she screamed a muffled "NO" into Cassidy's palm, but the girls just laughed at her.
"Let's see if they fit, shall we?" Naomi mocked and Lindsay let go of Dani's leg as Cassidy and Kate turned her around so she was pushed face first against the lockers, pulling her arms close together behind her. Dani fought hard, but she soon felt a cuff circle her left wrist and heard the ratcheting sound as it closed securely around it, followed a moment later by her right wrist. Cassidy and Kate loosened their grips on her arms, but still held her, and turned her around. Cassidy kept her hand clamped tightly over Dani's mouth.
"We need to shut her up, I can't hold her like this forever," said Cassidy.
Naomi lit up. "I saw just the thing. Hang on." She went back to Dani's locker and bag and began to fish through her stuff.
TO BE CONTINUED
Dani Ledger stretched. She was the star of the University of West Rutledge volleyball team, and thus spent a good deal of extra time putting in work to stay in the top spot. So it was often that she was the last one to leave the gym, and that happened to be the case on this fateful night.
Her team was good, but it was clear they were reliant on her skills to be in the position they were in at the moment. A tournament was coming up to determine the top playoff seeding for their conference, and West Rutledge and Wilkerson State were the heavy favorites for the top 2 spots, and it was widely held that whoever came out on top of this tournament would be playing for the national title when it was all said and done. With a team that lived and died by her contributions, Dani was determined not to let her team down.
After finishing her stretching, Dani took a moment to look in the full length mirror that was next to her locker at the end of the locker room. Pretty and athletic, she had big blue eyes and had her brunette hair tied back in a ponytail. Her athletic figure featured a toned body, her black and orange underarmour long sleeve t-shirt accentuating her B-cup breasts, displaying the outline of her sports bra, and her short and tight black spandex shorts accentuating her curves. Not normally a vain person, she amused herself, striking a couple poses and feeling confident that she looked as good as she felt.
Stepping back to her locker, she glanced up, surprised to hear the outer door opening. It was not completely unheard of for her to see others in the locker room at this hour, but it was unusual. Even more unusual, Dani vaguely recognized the girls that walked in, but was sure they didn't attend West Rutledge. Still, she offered a cursory smile towards them and prepared to go back to her business of changing and heading home. She was tired, had homework to do, and desperately needed an hour or so of R and R before she started it.
She had just managed to untie a shoe when she noticed the four girls were coming towards her. This was very unusual, her locker was at the far end of the locker room, near the showers, and she knew everyone whose locker was in the same area. She stopped and looked up as they approached, and something about the expression on their faces gave her a sense of alarm. She straightened up and faced them.
"Hey, can I help you?" she asked, trying to appear confident and friendly even as a sense of foreboding washed over her.
The girl that stood closest to her addressed her first. "You're Dani Ledger, right?"
Dani nodded. "Yeah, do I know you? I know I have seen at least a couple of you before somewhere." Her confidence was shaken but she still tried to remain stoic, trying to discern their intentions.
The girl gave her a wicked smile. "We play for Wilkerson, you have seen us on the other side of the net. Usually flailing, trying to stop you from racking up kill after kill."
The light went off in her head and Dani recognized all four of them now from facing them on the court. She only knew the names of the one that was in the lead, Lindsay Grace, and one of the others, Cassidy Nagle. But that just made their presence here and now more alarming to her. She stiffened a little, unconsciously taking a step backwards.
"Oh, right, now I recognize you. Um ... is there something I can do for you? Why are you here?"
The lead girl smiled, and made a barely noticeable gesture, and with a little more alarm, Dani looked back and forth as the other three girls fanned out, staying a little distance away, but surrounding her nonetheless. She figured out she was in trouble now and her eyes glanced to her locker and her cell phone on the top shelf. She quickly tried to determine if she could get to it and somehow get away from them long enough to hit the emergency call button before they could overwhelm her.
Lindsay finally broke the uncomfortable silence, still smiling. "We need to talk, Dani. We need you not to play in the tournament. We need this win way more than you do. It's time you shared some of the success West Rutledge has enjoyed for too long.
Dani's worst fears confirmed, she tensed up even more. She had determined a lunge to her locker would get the phone in her hand before any of them could get to her, but she wouldn't have time to do anything before they were on her. So she glanced around again, seeing Cassidy and one of the other girls positioned behind her and on either side, about 5 feet back, and Lindsay standing about 6 feet in front of her, with the other girl at Lindsay's side. She hesitated before she spoke, her voice wavering a little, and she cursed herself for it.
"So I am guessing you all know I am not just going to abandon my team, so what is your plan here? Are you going to try to injure me or something? I am just going to tell you right now that you are all on camera and if you just get the hell out of here right now, I will forget you ever came in." Her words came out weaker sounding then she wanted to, and she was hoping they wouldn't call her bluff. There were no cameras in the girls locker room, of course.
Lindsay grinned. "That's cute, nice try, Dani, but there are no cameras here, and even if there were, no university could ever admit to having cameras in the girls locker room. Do you realize the implicatons that would carry?"
She paused and Dani pursed her lips, staring at Lindsay while still trying to keep the girls behind her in her peripheral vision. Lindsay continued on.
"And to answer your question, honestly, this is not personal, so we really have no desire to hurt you. That is basically up to you, if you are cooperative, it won't come to that. If you get hurt, it will be because you forced our hand."
Dani was scared, but was losing patience and also getting angry. While Lindsay was talking, she was formulating a plan of escape. She figured if she was fast enough, and moved suddenly enough to take them by surprise, she might be able to push past Lindsay and the other girl in front of her and bolt for the door.
"All right, so you don't want to hurt me, what are you going to do then?" she asked, an edge of irritation in her voice, tensing up a little more as she tried to gauge the best time to make her move.
"You're going to be our new best friend, Dani. For the length of the tournament, you get to hang out with us. We'll keep an eye on you and we won't hurt you at all, but you will be staying with us until the tournament is over. Then you can go on with your life as you see fit." Lindsay took a small step forward, and Dani could sense the girls behind her doing the same thing.
"And what if I refuse?" she asked, tensing as she prepared to try to make her break for it. The other girls noticed her body language as her knees bent a little and she was clearly about to do something. They waited for the cue from Lindsay.
"You don't understand, Dani, this is an easy way or hard way situation for you. If you come without a fuss, then we will literally hang out like old friends. We might even get to like each other. But if you put your team first and act all holier than thou about this and try to fight us, then we are going to take you by force. Your choice."
With that, Lindsay nodded slightly, and before Dani could react, Cassidy and the other girl were on her, each grabbing ahold of an arm and holding tight. Dani grunted as they grabbed her, trying to yank her arms free, but each girl had a strong grip on her. Her breathing became heavy as she glared at Lindsay, anger beginning to overwhelm her fear.
"You can't do this!" she snarled. "This is kidnapping, get your fucking hands off me!" She renewed her struggles, but the girls held her fast, and Lindsay stepped up to her, grabbing her face in one hand and squeezing her cheeks as the other girl began to go through her bag and her locker. Dani made a mental note that she didn't seem to see her phone on the top shelf.
"I am going to give you one more chance to calm the fuck down. It doesn't have to be this way." Lindsay was still calm, and let go of Dani's face, gently slapping her left cheek a couple times, more to mock her than to hurt her. She stepped back. "So what's it going to be, hot-shot? Are you going to be our friend or our victim?"
Dani could feel the girls grip on her arms tighten. She swallowed hard, breathing heavily, and again, tried to bluff. "F ... friend ... now please let me go, ok? I will cooperate." She tried her best to sound defeated, but figured if she could gain their trust, she might be able to slip away.
Lindsay looked at her suspiciously, then nodded her head at her friends and they let go of Dani's arms, although they stayed right behind her.
"I don't know if I should be disappointed or not, you looked like you can get pretty feisty, it would have been fun to humble the great Dani Ledger a little bit. Ok, so introductions are in order. Your new temporary roomies are myself, Lindsay, and my teammates and besties Naomi (the girl to the left of Lindsay nodded), Cassidy and Kate. Now get your shit together, we have to get going."
Cassidy and Kate stayed close to Dani, but Lindsay and Naomi stepped aside as she gathered her stuff together, trying to act as cooperative as possible. She tried to make it look as casual as possible as she reached up and grabbed her phone, but was startled when Lindsay snapped "STOP!"
Dani straightened up and faced her, and Lindsay had her hand held out. "Give me your phone. As a show of good faith. I won't do anything to it, I will turn it off for the duration of your stay with us. But to prove you are going to be a good girl, hand it over. Now."
Noticing the mocking tone Lindsay had, Dani tensed, feeling like she was being teased. She hesitated as she knew handing over her phone would be equivalent to watching her plan going up in smoke. She tried to stall.
"Look, I have to at least tell my real roomies where I am, or make something up, so nobody gets worried or goes looking for me, right?" As she spoke, she locked eyes with Lindsay, trying to draw her attention away while she tries to unlock her phone by feel.
"I don't trust her," Naomi said, eyeing her suspiciously.
"She has a good point, though," responded Lindsay. "So we'll do this, Dani dear. Give me your phone, and tell me who your contacts are you need to get ahold of, and we will all dictate a message to text them when we get home to explain your absence. Between the five of us, we can come up with something convincing, I am sure." Her hand reached out closer.
Dani glanced down and back up quickly, seeing she had her thumb about a half-inch from the emergency call spot. "Wouldn't it just be easier and quicker for me to call someone?" She tried to sound as if she were being helpful while edging her thumb to the spot.
"BITCH!" Kate yelled suddenly as she smacked Dani's hand from behind, sending her phone flying. "She's trying to call 911!"
Dani made her move. She saw Naomi watch where the phone landed, and seeing her distracted, lunged into her, shoving her into the lockers and sprinting past Lindsay. She thought she made it, her hand was on the handle of the door, when she felt her head jerked backwards by her ponytail and she was flung against the wall. She grunted hard as she hit the wall, it took her breath away, but she still stumbled away from it, just to feel the now familiar grip of Cassidy and Kate grabbing her arms and pulling her backwards, holding tightly.
Dani struggled ferociously, kicking her legs out and desperately trying to yank her arms free, screaming "LET ME GO! SOMEONE HELP ME!" at the top of her lungs, hoping maybe a custodian or security guard would be somewhere nearby. "PLEASMMMMPPPHH!" she attempted, but found Cassidy's hand tightly clamped over her mouth. She fought their grip, but they held her tightly, Cassidy pulling her head back by her mouth. Lindsay stepped near, and Dani's right leg shot out, trying to connect and hurt her, but Lindsay caught it and held it tightly with both hands, stepping right up to Dani's face. Dani continued her muffled yelling under Cassidy's hand, trying to get her leg free, but Lindsay had it gripped tightly. It kept Dani off balance.
"We tried to be nice and do this the nice way, you entitled bitch, but you want to do it the hard way. Fine. Naomi? Do you have some jewelry to give our new friend as a welcome to our group gift?"
Naomi smiled and came over, and reached into her back pocket and dangled a set of steel handcuffs in front of Dani's face. "You like bracelets, don't you sweetie?"
Dani's eyes widened and her struggles renewed with greater vigor, and she screamed a muffled "NO" into Cassidy's palm, but the girls just laughed at her.
"Let's see if they fit, shall we?" Naomi mocked and Lindsay let go of Dani's leg as Cassidy and Kate turned her around so she was pushed face first against the lockers, pulling her arms close together behind her. Dani fought hard, but she soon felt a cuff circle her left wrist and heard the ratcheting sound as it closed securely around it, followed a moment later by her right wrist. Cassidy and Kate loosened their grips on her arms, but still held her, and turned her around. Cassidy kept her hand clamped tightly over Dani's mouth.
"We need to shut her up, I can't hold her like this forever," said Cassidy.
Naomi lit up. "I saw just the thing. Hang on." She went back to Dani's locker and bag and began to fish through her stuff.
TO BE CONTINUED