"Partners on the Job" by Aboneart ( commission by AngrySoup)

[esercito sconfitto]

Commission: Partners On The Job


by Abonear
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Anna took a last look at her mirror image, let her hand glide through her light red hair. She still wasn't quite sure if she looked convincing in her role as a business woman. Wearing an expensive skirt suit, jewellery, pantyhose and high heels wasn't exactly her usual style. But she had to make it work today. And there was no way she'd give up now.

She turned towards the woman sitting in a chair inside the hotel room, wearing nothing but her purple lace lingerie. Her angry glare made Anna smile. "Don't worry, Christine. I left a message at the reception, telling them to check on this room by tomorrow. So you'll be here for a while, but hey, I need some time pretending to be you and then some more to be long gone before they know what hit them. I'm sure you understand."

While the woman probably did understand she didn't look like she approved. Neither did she seem appreciative of the zip-ties around her wrists and ankles, the generous amount of rope binding her from neck to toe or the socks inside her mouth, held in by tape.

Anna checked her outfit one last time. Christine wouldn't remain her last victim for today, that much was certain. She waved the bound and gagged woman goodbye before leaving the hotel room and hanging the 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door outside.


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The corporate building wasn't just large, it was gigantic. Thirty-eight floors. But not only did this not intimidate Anna, it encouraged her. The more space there was to monitor, the less likely she was to attract attention.

The friendly smile of the secretary on the ground-floor did not distract Anna from the tight security. Cameras, armed guards, an elevator only possible to open with a special key card. Anna handed the secretary her id. All went smoothly.

"Welcome, Miss Christine Tasia. Your meeting is scheduled on the nineteenth floor, room 237. You are just in time."

"Thank you", Anna replied with a fake smile. As the elevator was opened for her she took a deep breath. This was the point of no return. It was time to meet someone. A woman she didn't trust, she didn't even know. A woman who despite that would be her partner for this operation.

Room 237 was supposed to be the meeting location for two business women today. One of them was Christine and the other one most definitely was finding herself in a similar predicament to her. So instead it was two criminals arriving at the meeting.

Anna carefully eyed the woman she was forced to work with, her blue uniform, her skirt and her nylon knee-highs. Her name was Kathrine, though that was obviously not her real one. Anna wasn't Anna's real name either. "Pleased to meet you", Anna said once the door was closed, a smile on her lips

That on Kathrine's was just as contrived. "Likewise. I already found a way inside."

"Good, good."

Despite being rather certain that no one was listening to them they still made sure to not explicitly say what they meant. But of course Anna understood. The building had a database, always keeping track of who was inside. Anna and Kathrine entered under their fake identities, but didn't plan on leaving before the middle of the night. So they needed to hack the system and delete their identities from the database, making it look like their checked out.

"Already found the two?", Anna asked.

"One of them. Have a couple of ideas where the other one might be."

The documents they needed were locked away inside a safe. Not just any safe, not one that could be cracked open with anything less than a small bomb. The only way to access its contents was by inserting two electric keys into their respective keyholes at the same time. The problem was that those were at opposite ends of the building, an additional securitey measure, and the reason two people were needed for this job.

"Fantastic", Anna said. "I am impressed. Doing business with you clearly was a good choice."

Kathrine raised an eyebrow. "Thank you. I hope the same will be true of you."

"Don't worry, dear. I'm a professional. So, I suggest we stay in here a while longer, then get on to find the second key before nightfall."

Kathrine agreed and went on to make herself some coffee.

Anna let a finger slide over her the back of her hand. The documents they were about to steal were worth a truly significant amount of money. And she did not intend to share it with Kathrine.


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As the day approached its end more and more people were leaving the building, happy, or in some more rare cases sad, their work day was over. By 9 p.m. only cleaning staff, janitors, security guards and some true workaholics remained present. And of course two intruders who by now knew exactly where the second key was located. Of course they were officially not supposed to be here anymore. And as large as the building was, as fewer and fewer people remained in it the more likely did it get that the security observing the cameras might get suspicious of the two. For that very reason their first target was clear: Whoever was observing the cameras had to go first. The only problem was that person's ability to see them coming. So a disguise was needed first. And one had been found just a couple of minutes ago.

Kathrin was already in position inside the building's only camera-free place: The bathroom. Anna was waiting outside, eyeing the security guard about to approach her: Olive skin, dark hair, but more importantly wearing a blue-black skirted uniform with a cap.

"Miss, I think I need your help", Anna said in a deceivingly sweet tone.

"Who are you and why are you still around here at this time?", the security guard answered immediately.

"Oh, I'd like to be gone!" Anna held an arm above her forehead and closed her eyes campily. "But I can't! Please help me, good Miss!"

"That's difficult if I don't know what the problem is."

"Oh, see for yourself, good Miss, see for yourself." Anna pointed towards the bathroom door.

The security guard was visibly annoyed, but also didn't seem like she was in the mood to hassle with Anna any further, so she rolled her eyes and entered the bathroom.

Anna couldn't help but be impressed by the quick work Kathrin made of the security guard. One arm pinned around the guard's neck, her hand covering her mouth, the other one taking hold of her elbows, locking them in place. The security guard was no slouch herself and put up as much of a fight as she could muster, but Kathrin left her no chance and soon the lack of air got the better of her, letting her slide into unconsciousness. Kathrin handed Anna a roll of tape. "What are you waiting for? Want me to do all the work?"

"Hey, I'll be the one wearing her outfit and putting myself at risk", Anna said while she started to undress the guard.

"Oh yeah, it's not like this entire operation is a risk or something", Kathrin replied snappily.

Not long after, the guard was left with nothing but her old fashioned blue underwear. Her pantyhose had been torn in half, with one serving as a stuffing inside her mouth, before a generous amount of tape went around it and most of the rest of her body, pinning her arms in front of her bosom and her legs together, with more tape holding her on top of the toilet seat inside one of the stalls. Anna on the other hand was now sporting the uniform, which fit her surprisingly well.

"Good to go?", Kathrin asked.

"Yup." Anna grabbed the other half of the guard's pantyhose laying on the floor. "This'll come in handy."

"Don't mess this up."

"Oh thanks, I was planning on messing it up, but thanks to your brilliant advice I now no longer will."

"Always glad to be of service."

Anna pulled her hair up to hide it under the cap, then pulled the latter further down in order for it to cover her face. "Let's hope the camera bimbos didn't notice their colleague entering this bathroom. But either way I'm going to take them out now. Shouldn't take longer than ten." With a last look at the real security guard who was just now starting to wake up she left the bathroom and went on her way.

She walked through the corridors are fast as she could without it being all too suspicious. The guard's belt had a stun gun and a pair of handcuffs attached to it. Those would come in rather handy. More than handy, mandatory rather, was the keycard which allowed access to some of the building's locked off areas. Upon entering the first of these areas it didn't take long for Anna's blood to freeze.

Right when she was in the middle of another here was another guard approaching her, walking right towards her. There were no doors Anna could walk through and turning around was so suspicious she might as well scream 'I'm an intruder!' There was no choice but to walk past the guard. But if he'd get alerted there was no way other than to fight him and in that case those observing the cameras would raise the alarm. As much as Anna was getting nervous, she was upset to notice that she had to think about Kathrin. The sassy way in which she just responded to her partner would come back to bite her quite badly, should she actually mess this up.

"Are you new?"

The guard's words hit Anna like a slap. But only for a second. Then they got her to relax. "Oh, yeah, quite new I'm afraid." She gave him a coy smile, while revealing as little of her face as possible.

"I'm glad they're hiring women as beautiful as you", he said.

"And I'm glad you noticed", Anna replied, knowing she had the situation fully under control now. "Hey, would you like to have a coffee some time? Maybe tomorrow?"

He was visibly surprised, this clearly wasn't the reaction he was typically getting. But quickly his confidence returned, stronger than ever. "Of course! Give me your number and..."

"I'll talk to you tomorrow about it then. Now we definitely should keep securing the building."

"Pah." He crossed his arms. "There's no way anyone could ever infiltrate this place, not with competent guards like you and me around. But you're probably right, we should keep going. Otherwise Lily will see it in her camera room and you know how much of a bitch she can be."

I'm about to find out, I guess, Anna thought as she waved him goodbye.

About five minutes later her keycard opened the door leading to the surveillance room. It contained a whole bunch of monitors and buttons. There was no doubt that during daytime more people would be watching this place. But for now it was merely two of them, turning around in their chairs, surprised to see Anna enter the room, one asian woman and a tall blonde one, both of them beauties.

"Hey there", Anna said coldly, her stun gun already pointing at them.

They reacted quickly. But not quickly enough. The blonde woman was hit by the stun gun and the asian woman thrown of her chair and forced to the ground before she could reach the alarm button under the right end of the desk. She was screaming loudly while Anna was slapping the handcuffs onto her wrists, so the pantyhose Anna had taken with her quickly found its way into her mouth, as did her belt around her head. With the one woman secured for now Anna looked over to the second one who was still unable to regain the control over her body the stun gun had taken from her. Anna found another pair of cuffs on the women's belts and it inspired her.

Shortly after, the two women were lying on the floor, their hands cuffed behind their backs, their uniforms torn off, cut to pieces and repurposed to bind their bodies to one another. The blonde woman's socks made for solid gag in her mouth. The two of them were squirming, desperately trying to move in order to reach the alarm button just a couple of steps away from them.

"Nope, you won't get there", Anna mocked them. "But just to disorient you even more..." She kneeled down, took off the asian woman's shoes as well, then her green socks.

Neither of the women seemed happy about being blindfolded with socks, but it wasn't like they could do much about it.

"Good luck, you two. Don't worry too much, you won't be harmed any further. Though I guess being discovered like this by tomorrow will be pretty embarrassing for you. And have some dire implications for your careers. But hey, that's not my problem, is it? Bye!"


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Kathrin was leaning against the wall right next to the bathroom. Anna was rather surprised to see that she was also wearing a guard uniform by now. "Where'd you get that?"

The dark haired woman looked rather happy with herself. "You didn't think I'd just sit still and wait, did you? Found another guard, got her secured in there with her colleague."

"Right, after all you need a key card as well. But the camera..."

"You were just taking the camera guys out, weren't you? I trusted you to do your job well and you did. Now let's get those damn electric keys, insert them, then take the documents and get out of here."

Anna nodded. "Right. It's not like much can go wrong past this point." But her thoughts went: Except for you it can, my dear. As soon as I have those documents it can indeed.


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Eventually they stood in front of the safe containing the documents. Without having to worry about the camera and while having two security guards out of the picture, stealing and using the two keys at the exact time they had determined previously had been a slice of cake. Though the locks had a fifteen minute delay, just to be sure no one could steal the documents immediately, should it somehow be opened on accident. And so the two of them stood there, mostly silently, somewhat awkwardly, waiting for the safe to open. All the while Anna was carefully trying to position herself behind Kathrin, yet somehow the redhead followed her small steps backwards, not allowing for it. Anna knew she had to distract her somehow. Perhaps through a conversation.

"So. That all went pretty well, huh?"

Kathrin eyed her from the side. "Sure did."

"Actually couldn't have gone much better."

"We could've been a bit faster, maybe."

"Yeah, yeah. Always room for improvement. But we made for a good team, didn't we?"

"Definitely better than my last team-up job."

"What do you mean?"

Kathrin stroked her black hair. "We didn't split up on the best terms."

Anna's open question was interrupted by the safe opening. She still hadn't managed to position herself behind her soon to be ex-partner. But more than that it was the safe's content that garnered her attention right now.

"What the fuck?"

"They... They were supposed to be in here!"

"I know that! That's why I said what the fuck!"

Anna couldn't believe it. "So, then where are they?"

Kathrin's head turned slightly red in anger. "How would I know? Where did you get your information for this?"

"I won't tell you." Anna kneeled down and looked into the safe. Totally empty.

After a short break Kathrin began talking again, now noticeable calmer. "Perhaps it will give you comfort to know that the documents not being there doesn't change anything for you. I was going to this either way."

Anna immediately spun around, her hand on her stun gun. But Kathrin's was already pointing at her. And Anna fell to the floor, her body shaken by electricity.

"You didn't think I'd share with you, did you?", Kathrin cooed as she came closer. "I know there's nothing to share here, so perhaps I don't even need to do this, but the fact that this operation was all for nothing, just because of your information being wrong upset me quite a big. Oh, and of course there's also the fact that you planned to do the same to me anyways. As if I wouldn't notice. Now let's get you prepped up, you bitch."

Anna was completely helpless as Kathrin stripped her of her uniform, leaving her in her white lace lingerie and pantyhose.

"You know, I walked past a storeroom earlier. I bet there I'll find what I need. Just stay here for a while longer." She shot Anna with the stun gun again and ran off.

Quickly after, she returned, carrying a bunch of rope, some zip-ties and tape. Another shot from the stun gun. "You know what, I'm not even going to leave you this." She took off the last pieces of clothing on Anna's body as well, leaving her completely naked. "You sure look fit, you whore. You think that'll make it less embarrassing for you to be found like this?

Anna was feeling burning rage by now, only accentuated by her helplessness.

Kathrin roughly turned her around and pulled her arms onto her back.

Anna was feeling the strength in her body returning, but her wrists and ankles were already cuffed with zip-ties. While Kathrin grabbed the rope Anna finally regained control of her voice. "You... you will pay for this."

"Well, if we would've found the documents I might actually have the money to."

"Fuck you! Let me go right now!"

Kathrin didn't even respond, continuing to wrap Anna's arms and upper body into an unforgiving, tight rope harness, then moving on to her legs.

"Is this what you did to your last partner as well?"

The dark haired woman laughed. "Oh, of course. Hey, maybe you'll meet her in prison? You can make plans to get your revenge on me, just don't expect them to come to fruition any time soon. You'll be out of the picture for a very long time."

"Fuck you, cunt!"

"Oho, I think it's about time that mouth of yours gets dealt with." She grabbed Anna's panties.

"No way!", Anna shouted before cramming her lips shut.

Another stun gun shot and the panties found their way into her mouth. Then her pantyhose was wound around her head and relentlessly knotted, only to then be surrounded by loads of tape.

Once Anna had control of her voice again all her attempts to shout insults at Kathrin had been reduced to a pathetic, barely audible whimper.

To finish her work off Kathrin wrapped more tape around Anna's hands, then connected some rope from her ankles to the harness around her arms, efficiently hogtying her and for good measure wrapped the last bit of tape around her furious eyes, blindfolding her as well. "There you go, ginger-bitch. Now you can wait here for a couple of hours, nice and snug, until they find you. Me on the other hand, I'll go ahead and delete all camera recordings with my face on it, then be gone. Enjoy your time, thanks for wasting mine and fuck off."

Anna would have liked to respond in a lot of ways, both verbal and physical. But she couldn't. She could just lie there and drown in her anger, both at Kathrin and at herself.


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This morning had undoubtetly been the weirdest in Madeline's life as a police woman so far. First a call at 4 a.m. There had been a break-in at a large corporate building. While on her way the news that nothing had actually been stolen. Then the news that the thief was somehow already caught and still inside the building. Then it was only one of two thieves. When she had arrived at the crime scene there had been some of her colleagues carrying a thoroughly trussed up, fuming and rather embarrassed woman into their car, with a security guard from the building calling after her: "This doesn't mean our date today is cancelled, is it?" Then some half dressed women leaving the building, trying to get the the bound woman in the car, knocking at the window and hurling taunts and insults at her. Just at that moment Madeline had gotten a call, telling her there was another crime scene at a hotel, not far away. After going there she had found another stripped, bound and gagged woman, this time apparently an innocent victim.

"I am so confused", Madeline had thought. The weirdest morning of her career for sure. But perhaps also the most interesting one.