They are coming!

"They heard us," Paige whispers. "They must have... we can't stay here!"

With her lust momentarily satisfied, Jade feels the returning panic at the thought of what the men will do with her if they catch her. I just gave the producers their hot lesbian show, as promised, she thought, but that's no guarantee they won't want to follow it up with a gangbang! It might even boost their ratings, some of their audience would probably love to see a couple of dykes get hammered by a bunch of cocks!

"Goddammit, why did you have to come up here?" Paige continues, pushing Jade away. "I had a good thing going here, I could have stayed put for another three hours! Then you had to come along and... oh, just forget it!" Paige snatches up her pack and kicks the ladder down over the side.

"Wait," Jade says.

"Wait? WAIT?? Why, so you can get off watching them fuck me blue? They'll do me, first, you know. I'm the pretty one and I have bigger tits."

Jade ignores the pathetic insult. "Listen, I have a plan and it WILL work, but it's going to take both of us. If you hit the ground and start running, you know they'll catch you. If we run in opposite directons, one of us might get away, but you've got no guarantee it'll be you - and like you said, you're the one with the tits!"

Paige stops. "So, what then?"

"Okay - first of all, it's not like the whole island would have heard us," Jade says, trying to put more confidence into her voice than she feels. "By now, everyone's fairly scattered. There are maybe a half a dozen guys tops who were close enough to hear that and know what direction it came from. They'll be here in a few minutes, but after that, probably no one else."

"So, what, you think we can fight them off? Fat chance of that! I don't know if you've really seen these guys up close, but they're ripped. They didn't send 98-pound weaklings out here to chase us!"

"It's not impossible, we just have to use our heads," Jade insists. "They're horny and they're not thinking straight. And if we face off against them up here, they lose a lot of their advantage. They have to be careful we don't fall over the side; they want us conscious and basically unhurt. We don't have to worry about that."

"Yeah, but if they come up here, we're trapped! That's a fifteen-foot drop. Maybe jumping from high places gets you off, but I'd rather not break my legs!"

"Listen to me," Jade begs. "Give me half a minute to explain, and if you don't like my plan, I swear I'll distract them while you run. Look," Jade says, taking Paige by the shoulders. "We just... we shared something just now. Something intimate and even special. That means something to me; it gives us a bond. We're practically strangers otherwise, we might never see each other again after this, but I'm not going to make love to you and then leave you to a rape mob. If you don't believe me... then I guess you should run."

"This had better work," Paige says for the fifth time.

"Quiet!" Jade whispers. "They're coming!"

Jade feeks Paige's back tense against her. The two girls stand precariously on a tiny ledge, opposite the post which holds up the platform. There had been a risk there, aside from falling; if the men had come from the wrong direction, the girls would have been spotted easily. But their luck seems to hold at least that far.

The sounds of footsteps against the forest floor come closer. Jade feels a lump rise in her throat, and suddenly her plan seems like a stupid and ludicrous idea. But it's too late to back out now. She can hear Paige's breathing quicken, and knows the other girl iss afraid too.

"Hey, over here!" a man's voice calls. "There's some kind of deck up in that tree."

"It's got a ladder," says another voice.

"Come on, guys, we took too long getting here. They've run for it by now. We should forget this and look for pussy in the daylight."

"Fine then. Up there is as good a place to sleep as any, and maybe one of them will come to us!"

"Three of them," Jade whispers, just loud enough for Paige to hear. "Wait for all three of them to come up here, or it won't work." She feels the other girl's head nod.

The rope ladder creaks as one of the men ascends, and then Jade hears his footsteps on the wooden platform. "Well, it ain't much," the man says, "but it's better than the ground, I guess. You'd think they could have put a mattress up here or somethin'."

"It's down here on the ground! Unh! Fuck, it's heavy!"

"Just like the one in that cabin," says a man climbing the ladder. "They don't want the girls taking the mattresses with them, I guess, so they weigh them down."

"Damn. I'd sleep here but it's on a slope... ah, forget it, I'm coming up!" The ladder creaks again as the third man climbs.

Jade feels Paige tense further. Not yet, she thinks, not daring to even whisper at this point. Not yet, don't blow it...

"Whaddya think?" a voice asks, dangerously close to them.

"I think it's a good spot," another man says. "When the Sun comes up, we'll be able to see a long way around us, get our bearings and see if there's any cunts out there we can snag a piece of."

Steady... steady... Jade tightens her grip on her end of the hammock, then nods her head firmly - it's the signal.

Together, the two girls leap out from behind the post and onto the platform. The hammock, which they had held tightly against the post, spreads out between them as they run forward with it, catching the men up in it. The three of them cry out, startled, but none of them have time to act.

At the edge of the platform, Jade jumps off, only able to hope that Paige doesn't lose her nerve at the last minute; if she does, then that mattress probably won't spare Jade a couple of broken legs -

The hammock jerks her arms upward as it pulls tightly around the men's bodies, dragging them off the edge as well but not before checking the girls' fall - they swing into each other hard, but Jade had prepared for that and so doesn't lose her grip. Both of them land feet-first on the mattress, crouch and roll, dodging out of the way just before the three men come crashing down after them in a heap.

Jade scrambles to her feet, looks over at Paige. The other girl seems amazed that they've landed unhurt - which is more than can be said for the men, all three of whom are shouting in pain and confusion.

"RUN!" Jade screams, and bolts off toward the trees, snatching up her pack from where she'd tossed it down in advance. She gets about three steps further when a stick comes flying low across the path in front of her, tangling up her legs and sending her sprawling onto the ground. She quickly tries to scramble to her feet, but a kick to the back flattens her, and she's down.

Lying in front of her is the stick which tripped her... and the fear clenches in her gut as she recognizes it, and remembers where she left it.

"Hello, Ginger," says the familiar voice of the man who stands over her with his foot pressed into her back. "You remember me, don't you? It's your old friend, Enrico. I've been hoping to run into you again."