Girl, Taken (9)
Bergen City Hostel, 6:10 pm, Saturday 6th April 2024.
It is already well into the evening when the cab draws to a stop outside the City Hostel in downtown Bergen.
Agent Ashley Townsend looks dolefully out of the window, at the place she is staying, as the cab driver grows ever more impatient, keen not to loiter in this part of town any longer than is necessary.
“Really?” Ashley mutters to herself, recalling the conversation she had with Agent Moore and Major Underwood in the Café bar at the airport, where they had agreed the basis of her cover for the benefit of Barta and his gang.
A white-trash sex worker on the run from her pimps back in Louisiana, and now here in Norway looking for work. So, of course she had to be staying at the cheapest, seediest place imaginable, for authenticity, right?
“Yeah, while you stay at somewhere way comfier! Bitch.” She didn’t like Moore, but nonetheless, she had to buy into what the more Senior Agent said about her having one more chance to make this assignment work. And so here she was.
The taxi driver’s patience finally runs out and he snaps. "Come on, Lady. You gettin' out or what?" Everyone in Norway speaks great English, and so no translation was required.
Ashley looked up at him, his words not really registering, wanting for all the world to tell him to take her back, back home to her safe, comfortable Baton Rouge apartment on Southdowns.
This place is a hostel, just a doorway really, through which the hapless Agent can see stairs going up to another floor.
She has to admit to being scared, but weirdly excited also. And so, taking a deep breath she steps out of the cab, leaning into the front passenger window to pay the driver what she owes. Then, turning, she walks to the small doorway and mounts the stairs. It is a long climb to what passes for the hostel lobby, and hardly worth the effort.
It’s a small square room with nothing decorative about it. The bare wood floor is scuffed and splintered – a complete firetrap, she thinks to herself. Directly opposite the stairway entrance there is a small window in the wall. It is covered with very thick glass and bars over the glass; half way down the opening there is a pass thru slot.
Behind the glass a young, pimply-faced man is sitting, looking expectantly at her. Ashley bends down to speak into the tube, and as she does, his eyes drop down to stare openly at her breasts, cleavage exposed from the low-cut white lycra top under her faux leather jacket.
"I … erm … my name is Ash … erm … Eloise Ryder,” she stutters, remembering the cover name they agreed, “I believe you might have a reservation for me?”
For a long moment he says nothing, does nothing, except to continue to stare at her breasts. Then he tears himself away from the view and turns to the side, rummaging through some papers. It seems to take forever, but finally he turns back to the window.
"Yeah…Miss Ryder," he says, emphasizing the "Miss", "you got number Fifteen. Right down that hall over there." He stands up in his little cubicle and points the way.
He sits back down, picking up a magazine with a naked girl on the front. He seems to lose interest in Ashley immediately, as ‘Eloise’ turns to walk slowly down the dark hallway. She can smell the dirt around her; crumbling plaster, stale urine ... and the unmistakable aromas of cheap sex.
Number Fifteen is at the extreme end of the hall. The door is ajar, and as she pushes it open it becomes clear that there is no lock.
With a groan Ashley drops her bag and looks around. There is a bed, the head board against the wall to her right. Opposite the door is a window … no curtains … which looks out on another wing of the building with windows that can see straight into this room. To her left is a bare wall with a cheap unnumbered print of Don Quixote hanging from it at a jaunty angle, and a doorway leading to the bathroom. At least she has a bathroom, even if the smell from it pervades all around the small room.
Sharing the wall with the door through which she has entered is a small, heavily scratched dresser, with a chipped and cracked mirror. There is no rug or carpet, just bare floor boards. With a loud groan, and a tear or two forming in her eyes, Ashley steps further into the room and closes the unlocking door behind her.
Hotel Norge, Bergenhus, 5807 Bergen, Norway, 7:40 pm, Saturday 6th April 2024
“So, what did you think of the hostel?”
“Sleazy dump,” scoffed Ashley as she entered Jason’s and Barb’s hotel room, brushed past a grinning Jason and set herself wearily onto the foot of the bed occupied by Barb.
“In other words, suits our purpose perfectly,” quipped Jason.
“I suppose so …. Hey! Am I interrupting something here?”
“No, it’s fine,” Barb assured her, sitting up and hastily covering her nakedness with a loose bit of bedsheet.
“Yeah, we’re … uh … finished,” added Jason, hurriedly snatching up and stepping into his pants.
“Hey, take a look in the bag over there on the dresser. See what you think of the sexy outfit I went out and bought for you,” suggested Barb. “Barta and company will absolutely love it … quite convincing! Oh, and Jase darling, when you’re done dressing, see if you can find where the fuck my panties disappeared to.”
“I see that I definitely did interrupt something,” laughed Ashley.
“My bra too, while you’re at it, Jase.”
“Oh no! This won’t do. I can’t wear these tawdry things!” groaned Ashley from across the room, holding up the contents of a brilliant red plastic boutique shopping bag emblazoned with the logo: ‘Hot Stuff - Bryggestredet 14, Bergen’.
“If you’re to be convincing, you’ll have to wear them,” pronounced Barb unsympathetically. “You’re playing at being a white-trash hooker from Louisiana, remember?”
“I hope I won’t have to perform any … what do they call them? Tricks?”
“You may well have to do exactly that,” interjected Jase sternly. “Now listen carefully. Here’s the plan that Barb and I have worked out for you tonight. You’ll go back to the hostel as ‘Eloise Ryder’, wearing the get-up Barb has secured for you. Make sure you’re seen by the guy at reception. That’s a first step in word getting around. Then at around 10 pm or so you’ll make your way over to one of those sleazy night spots Bryggen is known for. Barb and I don’t care which one. Use your best judgement. Pick something suitably disreputable and risqué looking. Go in, and buy yourself a drink. Flaunt your outfit and your looks. Talk to anyone who’ll listen, using the line that you’re new in Bergen, on the run from trouble in America, and looking for action.”
“And where will you two be?”
“Hanging around, posing as a respectable tourist couple out for an evening of bar hopping. We’ll keep a close eye on you. Should Barta bite on the bait … and mind you … he’ll likely use someone else to bring you to him … Barb and I will tail you there.”
“And then what?”
“We’ll think of something … “, offered Barb, her voice trailing off.
“That’s what I was afraid of. Alright. Whatever. Too late to back out, so on with the show. If you’ll excuse me, I’ll go in the bathroom now and change into these dreadful things.”
“Modesty has no place in your assignment, Agent Townsend slash Eloise Ryder, “snapped Barb, striking a commandingly official tone. “You’ll do it right here in front of us!”
Madam Fell, Bar and Club, Bryggen 43 5003 Bergen Norway,
10:00 pm, Saturday 6th April 2024
Agent Townsend chose Madam Fells because according to TripAdvisor it was dark and atmospheric inside, with a touch of danger about it but yet came out highly rated enough to seem like it was moderately safe.
Kind of.
But then she had to begin somewhere and Bryggen was the place that Agent Moore had said she needed to be.
And so, wearing the shortest black skirt she, herself, ever seen Ashley walked in through the large doors into the gloomy surrounding inside Madam Fell’s, still feeling more than a little humiliated at having let Agent Moore and Major Underwood order her to undress and the redress as a slut right in front of them.
She was a bitch and, despite his current paternal suffering, he was a bastard. If you asked Ashley, they were well suited as lovers, and that wasn’t a complement.
The skirt wasn't tight, rather it was loose with a kind of knit lace around the bottom, with which she wore black, hold-up stockings and high heels. However, the skirt was so short and you could see the tops of Ashley’s stockings through the 3" band of black lace and more than a little of her smooth, creamy thighs.
The 4" heels completed the look! Ashley had never felt so conscious of how she looked, and as for bending over! If she even moved, you could see her tiny, black lace panties through the uppermost part of the skirt’s lacy fringe. On top, she wore a black bustier with blood-red piping, that pushed her breasts up and out, oh so, invitingly! And to ward off the April night chill, she had a tattered blue denim jacket on.
Every mouth in the bar watered. Every head thinking … I need to eat that pussy tonight!
A disused warehouse, East Side, Vågen, Bryggen, Bergen, Norway, 11:00 pm, Saturday 6th April 2024.
“Throw her back into her cage,” Barta said dismissively. They had each taken a turn at poor, Issy, raping her both vaginally and anally, and now he was bored of her.
“If her father doesn’t turn up soon, she will be disposed of.” He announced, just as Felix walked into the small room that Barta used as his personal relaxation space.
“Boss, there is a new girl out in Bryggen saying that she’s a sex worker on the run from her pimps in America, and is looking for work. Boss you should see her …”
Barta, less inclined to spontaneous sexual excitement than his subordinate, nodded.
“So do you think we should meet this girl?”
“I do yes boss.”
Now the man known as the boss, smiled. “Okay, I will go to the backroom at Bryggen Nightclub, where they will give me privacy. Go find the girl and bring her to me there. Let me see her.”
Felix smiled a huge grin, and headed back out.
TBC