In Hawk's car

Valerie tiredly opened her eyes. Her entire body ached.

She found herself in the passenger seat of a fast moving sports car. Her seat had been tilted back until she was lying down. Hawk was driving the car. currently not aware that she had woken up.

She looked down, and noticed she was still naked. That jolted her awake. Memories came flooding back - the events in the plane, then with Victor and then finally what had happened in the casino. She instinctively tried to cover herself but stopped, remembering that Hawk had ordered her to not do so.

She fumbled around until she found the lever. The seatbelt rubbed against her perky, unsupported boobs as she raised her seat.

"You're finally awake.", said Hawk.

"What happened?", she asked, her voice groggy.

"You passed out, so I carried you to my room. When I got there, I found that someone had been through my stuff."

Her stomach fell. She had indeed been too late. "What were they looking for?", she asked, curious.

"A chip that I had only recently acquired from a mission. It had critical intel that would have been very valuable to the org.", he replied. She could sense the disappointment in his voice.

"Where are we going?", she asked, trying to shift the subject.

"To HQ.", he said, his voice pensive. "Since I lost the chip, I have to report back immediately. I had to carry you out of the hotel, since I couldn't wait. Sorry."

Valerie imagined him carrying her limp, naked body on his shoulder as he left the hotel. She felt a rush of blood in her cheeks, even if the thought of being carried by him was very exciting. She bit her lip.

"I've been driving for a few hours. We're almost there, in fact.", he said, as he took a turn out of the highway.

Valerie felt a sudden surge of panic. "Hawk! Please, wait! Please don't take me to the HQ like this!", she pleaded. It was one thing to be stripped in front of unknown people, but now all her colleagues and superiors would see her naked. Her professional reputation would never recover.

"What do you mean? I'm perfectly entitled to do this. There's still about 14 hours to go - until then, you must do anything I say."

He was right, and yet, she knew that she would be ruined if she was paraded naked in the organization campus. She still hadn't fully lived down when it had happened once before, and she had barely been a graduate at that time. She was trying to show herself as capable in the field, especially after being captured. Being paraded nude in the HQ would ruin any hope she had of proving that.

If she wanted any chance of being respected as a field agent, she had to find a way out of this.