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A Psychopath and His Toys, Chapter 10
Alocer Loki 2001
The Story codes are: (M/fg, teen, pedo, tort, rape, sad, nc,)

Disclaimer
  	This story is not for everyone and will contain some quite
  	graphical depictions of girls, and more specifically children
  	in extreme sexual situations, these include, but are not limited
  	to, rape, and sexual torture.
  
  	If any of these things offend you then don't read it. I, the author
  	do not condone any of the actions depicted herein.
  
  	If you got past that I am going to assume that, like me, you are a
  	sick fuck who gets off on the rape and torture of preteens. If not
  	what the fuck are you doing reading this?
  
  Thanks enjoy the story
  Alocer Loki

Chapter 10

The alarm clock buzzed a single time and fell silent as Paul smacked the button. 
He sat up and yawned, rubbed his eyes, and looked down at the child whose hands 
were chained to the bedpost. Paul threw off the covers to get a better look at 
her.

Hanna stirred for a moment but stayed asleep, her battered, bruised, cut and 
scared body made an appealing sight. The small child's legs were spread 
displaying her gorgeous little hairless cunt. Paul reached down and gently 
stroked the little slit. Hanna moaned her eyes opened a crack and her body 
started to move back and forth as if she was trying to stimulate herself. Which 
she was of course. Paul took his hand away and Hanna groaned, her big blue eyes 
opened and she looked at him, "Please sir," she said.

Paul smiled put his hand back and pushed a finger inside her little hole. Again, 
Hanna started to rock, Paul sniggered at the child trying to hump his hand. "You 
like being fucked don't you?" he asked.

"By little things," said the girl.

"What about my cock?" asked Paul.

The child shook her head, "By little things," she repeated, "Your cock hurts my 
cunt."

Paul grinned he loved the way this child used foul language. Paul leant forwards 
and placed his mouth over Hanna's. The obedient child opened it up for him and 
Paul pushed his tongue inside. Paul started to work his finger in and out of her 
cunt with increasing speed. Hanna groaned around his tongue, her hips readjusted 
their rhythm until her own thrusts were in sync with Paul's finger.

Paul took his tongue from her mouth and sat up to watch the child use his finger 
to fuck herself. After a few more moments he pulled it out. Hanna groaned and 
Paul wiped his finger clean across the child's lips. Hanna ran her tongue over 
her lips licking off her own cunt slime, she looked up at Paul with pleading 
eyes. "I am going to put my cock inside you though," he said.

Hanna started to cry, "Oh please sir don't," she said, "My cunt hurts,"

Paul smiled and leant over to kiss the child on the chest. He sucked on her 
little nipples, biting them just hard enough to get little moan's from Hanna, 
"And after I've done that, I'm going to put it in your bum."

"No!" whined Hanna.

"Yes," said Paul, "But first I'm going to hurt you a little. Isn't that nice."

"NO!" cried Hanna.

Paul grinned and clasped his hand over the child's mouth. Not that he was afraid 
anyone would hear her, it was five in the morning and nobody would be around for 
miles. With his free hand he smacked his fist into the centre of the child's 
stomach. The slut bucked upwards and she sucked in breath through her nose. Paul 
clasped hold of her nose cutting off her air.

The girl started to buck and struggle. Her body thrashed around on the bed but 
Paul kept hold of her. He leant over and started to kiss and suck on the 
suffocating child's face. "I'm going to hit you and kick you all over," he said 
leaning in close, "Then I'm going to clip your little nipples so hard it makes 
them bleed and hang big weights from them so it stretches them right out. Then 
I'm going to make you sit on the bedpost so it goes right in your little baby 
cunt."

The LED display clicked up a minute and Paul let go of Hanna's face. The child 
sucked in air and screamed it out. Paul lent over and slapped her hard. He hit 
the child across the face several times getting a long constant scream from her 
lips. He then reached down and took both of her nipples in his finger's and 
twisted them. Hanna squirmed still screaming. Paul couldn't help but grin wildly 
at her. "I know you hate this little slut. That's what makes it so fucking fun," 
he laughed.

He punched her in the stomach again, and her body again bucked up under the 
blow. Paul lent over and took Hanna's left nipple between his teeth and bit into 
it. The blood quickly seeped into his mouth and Paul greedily milked the child's 
tit of the red fluid.

Paul let go and sat up smiling at the small pool of blood and spit left on her 
chest, Hanna kept screaming. Paul leant over and started to kiss and suck on her 
face, pushing his tongue inside her mouth. The child started to choke as she 
sucked in her own and Paul's spit down instead of air.

Paul sat back up and smiled at her. He started to rub his stiff cock against the 
child's legs. "Do you want to suck my cock first?"

"NO!" screamed the child.

"Suit yourself it's less painful if you do," said Paul, he straddled the tiny 
body started to rub the head against her slit.

"I do!" cried the child.

"Tough," said Paul and he started to push in.

The going was hard, despite having only fucked the cunt a few hours before. She 
was still small and very tight. Paul slowly pushed inside he wanted to get it 
all inside again, and started to make quick inward thrusts causing the child to 
scream even louder. Finally Paul felt her cervix give way and he plunged in. 
Slowly he started to pull back. He started to fuck the little six-year-old with 
as much force as he could muster.

The little body screaming and squirming beneath him, excited Paul beyond 
control, he reached down for the little slut's hair and pulled on it as he 
pumped the tiny cunt. 

After about ten minutes of hard fucking Hanna's screams subsided until the 
little girl merely grunted as Paul thrust in. Paul wasn't even sure whether the 
look on her face was pain. Though he imagined her cunt was still too small for 
to take much joy from a hard fucking. Paul took his cock from the little girls 
cunt then shuffled up her body until he straddled her chest. Taking hold of her 
hair he pressed his cock to her face.

Hanna knew what he wanted and she opened her mouth wide. Paul pushed his cock 
into the back of her throat. Hanna gagged around the shaft, but the good little 
slut started to suck on it. Paul groaned and stroked the child's hair, "Oh you 
are such a good little cock sucker," he moaned, took hold of her head and pushed 
his cock in even further before pumping load after load into the child's throat.

The six-year-old girl choked on his sperm. Paul sat back and smiled at her. 
"Right little slut, what was it I promised you. Oh yes that's right nipple 
clamps weights and a post are you ready?"

"No," coughed Hanna.

"Too bad," said Paul. He reached across to the table picked up his keys and 
unchained Hanna's hands, he took a firm hold on his little toys hair and dragged 
her from the bed.

"Please stop," moaned Hanna.

"Shut Up!" shouted Paul.

Hanna fell into a quiet sob and Paul yanked on her hair to pull her from his 
room. Once outside his room he banged on the door opposite, and then pushed it 
open, "Becky," he called.

"Yes!" croaked the teen. Lifting her head from the pillow.

"Get up I need your help," he said.

"But its not even six," she groaned.

"Becky do you like your tits?" called back Paul.

Becky sat up and rubbed her eyes, she yawned loudly and pushed her arms into the 
air, "My tits?" she said, "I guess so, yes sir."

"If you want to keep them, you will get up now," he said, "Do you understand?"

"Yes sir," mumbled Becky, she climbed from the bed and stretched before 
approaching Paul. 

Paul took quick strides along the hallway and down the stairs, giving random 
tugs on Hanna's hair as she dragged her along behind him. He pulled the tiny 
girl down into the cellars and finally into a small room, with nothing but a 
single long stick six inches around and rising as tall as Hanna in the centre of 
the room.

Hanna's eyes went wide, "No don't put that in me," she cried, "There isn't 
enough room."

Paul smiled, and hit the switch on the wall, the stick slowly contracted down 
into the floor until it rose only as high as Hanna's waist. 

"Still please don't put it inside me," she tried again.

Paul grabbed Hanna by the waist, and picked her up, "Come on now baby slut," he 
said, "It's not that bad."

"It'll hurt," whined Hanna.

"Of course it'll fucking hurt but I've got an even thicker one next door. You 
can go on this one or that one?"

Hanna sobbed and pressed her head against Paul's arm, "Why do you have to hurt 
me," she cried.

Paul chuckled and carried her over to the stick, he slowly lowered her over it 
using his hand to push it into her already raped cunt, Hanna cried loudly as it 
inserted four inches inside her. He reached across and squeezed her ass cheeks, 
"Don't worry pet," he said, "now stay still."

Not that she could have gone anywhere even if she had wanted Paul went back to 
the wall and hit the button and watched the stick start to rise from the ground. 
Hanna screamed as she realised what was happening. She rose to the tips of her 
toes. Paul let the stick keep rising until Hanna rose right to the very tips of 
her toes. She'd stretch out soon enough anyway. Paul smiled and went back to her 
and leant over to kiss her mouth again. He stroked her hair gently and said, 
"Now wasn't it clamps and weights."

"No," begged Hanna.

"And a gag I think," said Paul and he left her there and walked down to the 
store cupboard to collect what he wanted.

When he returned the sobbing child moaned, "My feet are hurting please let me 
get off."

Paul took the gag, he pushed the ball inside her mouth and tied it around the 
back of her head, then used a pair of handcuffs to lock her hands behind her 
back. Next he took the nipple clamps, he loosened the first one and placed the 
sharp jaw over Hanna's already damaged nipple. The girl started to scream again 
as the teeth bit down into her nipple. Paul tightened it until fresh blood 
dripped down her chest. Paul smiled to himself and put the second clamp on her. 
The child's body tried to thrash about but impaled as it was she didn't get very 
far. 

Paul let both of the clamps hang and picked up the two weights from the floor, 
he slipped the hook of the first through the hole in the clamp and let it fall. 
Hanna screamed loudly as her nipple was stretched out. Paul did the same to the 
other nipple generating a similar scream. 

"There done," he said, "Now that wasn't so bad was it."

Hanna screamed her body lowered a little further on the stick as her feet gave 
way, her agonised scream was loud even behind the gag.

"But wait a second," he said, "I promised you bum sex. I can't leave you with 
out that."

Hanna's head started to thrash from side to side. 

Paul grinned at her moved back to the wall and turned the switch into the 
middle, Hanna gasped, and her eyes widened in pain, but slowly her feet lowered 
flat on the floor.

 "I know it hurts honey," said Paul, "But I need to do this so that I can pick 
you up without taking the stick out of you."

Paul moved behind the little child, put his hands around her waist and lifted 
her up. The stick raised with her, Paul knew that there would be a constant 
pressing against her gut. The stick wanted to move all the way up but wouldn't, 
had this child weighed much less it would have supported her weight. "Becky, I 
want you to put my cock into her ass okay."

"Yes master," said Becky and she knelt down beside them, "Do you want me to suck 
your cock first, or lick her hole?"

"Yeah you'd better," said Paul, "But be quick about it."

Paul groaned as Becky lapped at his shaft, she did it only for a few seconds 
making sure it was wet with spit before she pulled Hanna's ass cheeks apart so 
that she could get to the child's asshole. She sucked and tongued it for a few 
more seconds then pulled her tongue out and took hold of Paul's cock and pressed 
the head against Hanna's hole. Hanna squirmed in Paul's arms. Paul grinned and 
pushed forward. The muscle resisted only for a moment before the head popped 
inside. Paul started to push back and forth into the child's rectum.

Paul fucked the child's ass for a long time, before he finally felt the familiar 
feeling. Paul grunted and filled the child's ass with his cum. He sighed and let 
her go where she slowly lowered to the floor, pulling Paul's cock out in her 
decent. 

Becky straight away took Paul's cock into her mouth and started to suck him 
clean. Paul let her suck until his cock was stiff again then said, "Look the cum 
is dripping from her ass, I hope you don't intend to let that go to waste?"

Becky needed no other hint and turned her attention to the child's gaping 
asshole. Paul watched her as she sucked his cum from the child's ass. "Once your 
finished here, you can go get ready for school," he said and turned to leave the 
room. Before going he turned the switch again and raised the child back to the 
tips of her toes and locked it in place. "Are you just going to leave her here?" 
asked Becky with a hint of concern in her voice.

"Yep," said Paul, and left.

He quickly headed down the corridors, all there was to do now was make a quick 
check on Alice, to make sure she was still breathing, then it was off to work.

Paul headed for the door to his 'Play Room'; he turned the key in the lock and 
walked in. All was silent, as Paul expected it would be, if Alice was still 
alive it was highly likely that she was unconscious. He walked over to the tube, 
and unlocked the small door and pulled it open. Alice fell out as the door 
opened and landed on her back against the floor with a thud. She groaned and 
opened her eyes a crack, and coughed for a second. 

Paul smiled, she was in great condition. He walked the rack to collect the 
bottle of antibiotics Anne had given him and went back to the teen. "You're 
lucky," he said as he crouched down beside her, he opened the bottle and pushed 
two of the pills into her mouth, "I've been known to completely forget that I've 
put somebody in there and not find them for weeks. Swallow."

Alice made swallowing motions and croaked, "Drink."

Paul shrugged, "I need a piss anyway," he took put the head of his cock against 
her lips.

Alice looked at him for a moment and then opened her mouth to take her owners 
cock inside, Paul sighed and let his piss stream into her mouth. Alice was too 
weak to swallow it quickly enough so most of it flooded from her mouth and 
drooled down the sides of her face, "If I didn't have to go to work that would 
cost you," he said, "But considering I've got lots planned for you tonight I 
think I'll let that one drop."

Alice finished swallowing what piss was left in her mouth and croaked a little 
stronger, "Thank...you... sir."

"Don't mention it," said Paul, "Right back inside I've got work."

Alice tried to roll herself upright but just didn't have the strength. Paul 
sighed and took hold of her by her arms and pulled her upright. Alice moaned 
loudly as she was pulled upright, probably her broken ribs playing her up. Paul 
pushed her back inside the tube "I suggest you try and get some sleep," he said 
and closed it on her.

Paul stretched, fucking kids in the morning was one way to take it out of a man. 
He yawned, still it was nothing a strong cup of coffee and a full English 
wouldn't cure. "Where is Becky," he mumbled to himself and walked from the room.



*****

Becky had been all over Paul from the moment he had picked her up from school. 
Not that Paul cared, the pretty teenager could flirt all she wanted, but Becky 
hated Paul, and it was so unlike her to show any sort of enthusiasm towards him. 
The second he pulled off his crash helmet he could feel her lips pressing 
against the back of his neck. "What the hell do you want?" he asked.

"It doesn't matter," said Becky, "I asked you already." 

But she continued to suck on his neck, Paul sighed, "I told you before I am not 
going to go easy on Alice. Jesus I didn't realise you fancied her so much."

Becky chuckled, "Are you kidding, she is the most beautiful and strange creature 
I have ever seen," said Becky, "I-I..."

"Don't understand why I want to kill her?" asked Paul.

"Yes," said Becky, "She is so eager to please you. What's the point?"

"I'm board of her," said Paul, "She's enjoying it too much. Beside Hanna is by 
FAR prettier than her sister."

Becky didn't answer, she just stayed silent and placed her head against Paul's 
back. Paul climbed from the motorcycle, Becky stood up with him. Paul turned 
around to face the teen, "You had some fun with Hanna in the bath last night, 
don't deny it I heard it that kid couldn't cum quietly if she tried."

Becky blushed, Paul laughed, "What the fuck are you embarrassed for?"

"I abused her," murmured Becky.

Paul shook his head, "She asked if you would eat her and you did. Hardly abuse 
in my book, no Becky I abuse the little slut," he said, "I don't understand 
people like you. You give the kid something she want's and you call it abuse. 
You should be happy, you gave the little slut one of the few moments of pleasure 
she's going to have in her life."

Becky was silent she leaned forwards and put her head on his chest.

"Fuck me girl what the are you taking?" Paul asked.

Becky blushed a little redder but stayed quiet.

"Your kidding me," said Paul, "you ARE drugged up. Haha, I wonder what Anne will 
make of that."

"Oh no master please don't tell her," moaned Becky her hand moved towards his 
cock that was already beginning to get stiff in his jeans.

Paul smiled, whatever the bitch was on it was certainly an improvement, "Look at 
me slut," he said.

The girl looked up at him with her cutest 'fuck me' smile, "Please sir," she 
moaned, "Mistress will go mad if she knew I was popping pills in school."

"Yeah, I bet she would as well," said Paul, "I'll make a deal with you. You be a 
really good slave slut, and I'll not tell her."

Becky grinned "Okay, so master what do you want your good little slave slut to 
do?" the girl broke of with a giggle.

Paul reached into his pocket and took out his keys. "Go get Alice, make sure 
she's awake and knows where she is, feed her as much of the stimulants, and 
antibiotics you like. Take her to the shower, make sure you clean her up 
properly, don't touch the skewers in her tits, they won't budge unless you tear 
them out. And I want to see that. Just make sure it's all clean. Once you've 
done that, have some fun with her. I'll give you a little while."

"Sir?" said Becky.

"Yes," sighed Paul.

"Why are you being nice?" 

"I'm not," said Paul, "Just being nice to you because you are being good. For a 
change. I'm in a good mood, you've got all of a few hours to find out why."

Paul followed Becky down into the cellars but carried on down as the teen locked 
up. He quickly make his way to where Hanna was. To his surprise the little girl 
was still awake when he walked in, there were no tears but her face was screwed 
up with pain and her body shook with sobs. The tiny girl was completely coated 
in sweat. Paul smiled and flicked the switch. The poll detracted back into the 
floor and Hanna collapsed. The child curled up into a tiny ball. 

Paul smiled and walked over to the child, he knelt down next to her and stroked 
her hair, "Yeah I bet that hurt your legs a lot," he said, "Come on now Cum 
sucker I need to take those things of your little nipples."

Paul had to pull the child over and uncurl her himself, she didn't have the 
strength to resist him, nor the will to help him. Paul removed the gag then 
reached down and unfastened the clips from the child's nipples. The small pink 
buds stayed in the shape they had been pressed into all day. Hanna gave a loud 
rasping moan as the pain returned to her chest. "Please stop," she said, it was 
less than a whisper. 

Paul ignored her and pinched her nipples back into shape, bringing quiet moans 
from Hanna, Paul doubted that she could have screamed even if she wanted to. 
"Now, my gorgeous little Fuck Toy," he said, "Do you want a drink?"

"As long as it's not wee," whispered Hanna.

Paul smiled, he liked this child, she was pretty smart, he picked up his bag and 
took out a can of Coke which he sat down beside Hanna. Slowly the child sat up 
and looked up at Paul, "Is that mine?" she asked, still in her low whispering 
voice.

"Yes," he said, "If your throat isn't too sore to drink it."

The child immediately grabbed the can and pulled on the ring. The can opened 
with a hiss and the child started to gulp down the dark liquid. A lot of it 
flowed out of her mouth and down her small smooth body, Andy frowned, that would 
make her sticky. Andy reached back into his bag and took out a chocolate bar. 
The child saw it immediately and put down the can of coke, "Can I have some of 
that sir?" she asked, "Please."

Paul smiled, "Well I don't know. You keep telling me that you don't like me 
fucking you," he said.

Hanna whined, "But it hurts," she said, sounding a little healthier, "It's okay 
with smaller things but your cock hurts." 

"It didn't hurt your cunt very much this morning did it?" he asked.

Hanna shook her head, "No not really," she admitted, "Not as much," she then 
added.

"Done then I'm going to fuck you," said Paul.

"Oh no," moaned Hanna.

The child tried to squirm away but Paul grabbed onto her arm and pulled her to 
him, he held onto her tightly, "I was only joking honey," he laughed, and pulled 
to girl onto his lap to give her a hug, "What I really want to do is to stick 
pins into you."

Hanna tried to scream, but all that left her mouth was a high pitched squeak. 
Paul stood up picking the weak struggling girl with him. "Now be good or I'll 
have to hit you as well." 

That seemed to work, and the six-year-old girl stopped moving in his arms, she 
pressed her face against his shoulder and sobbed. Paul reached down and squeezed 
the child's ass cheeks, "Oh yes, I think I'm going to push hundreds of pins all 
over your beautiful body," he said, "it will be fun."

That of course did nothing to help Hanna, and the child carried on crying into 
his shoulder. Paul carried the child into the room where he'd first raped her, 
and was rather amused to find her dress still in the corner. These rooms didn't 
get cleared up very much while the cellars were occupied. Paul sat her on the 
table. Hanna glanced about the room and shook her head. Her memory as to what 
had happened in here would probably be patchy at best. "Lay down," he told her.

Hanna did as she was told. 

Paul quickly tied her down to the table, the child started to moan, "Oh please 
sir," she whimpered, "I've done nothing wrong."

"Yeah but I think I've still got a bunch of punishments left over from yesterday 
to give you," said Paul.

"Noooo," moaned Hanna.

"Yes," said Paul, "Now be quiet or I'll have to gag you again."

Hanna closed her mouth.

"God what is it today. Every one is being good and doing what they are told."

"You'll hit me if I am bad," moaned Hanna.

"Yes that's right, now do you want to suck on my cock?" he asked.

"Oh," moaned Hanna, "Okay."

"It must be my after shave or something," laughed Paul, "Unless Becky's been 
handing out her happy pills to everyone."

Paul unzipped the front of his jeans and pulled out his cock. Paul started to 
rub the head of his cock over the small child' face, "In fact Hanna, remind me 
if Alice is happy when I go to see her, I've got to kill Becky. Okay."

Hanna opened her mouth to speak but Paul pushed his cock inside the girl moaned 
around Paul's gland. Paul reached down and stroked her hair, "Come on now doll 
suck on it like a good Fuck Toy."

Hanna responded instantly and started to suck. Paul sighed; she was a natural at 
this. Paul noticed the way the child stared at him. Paul smiled; she knew 
exactly what was coming next. Paul smiled at her, and reached down for the 
child's blond hair. He took it in his hands and heard as Hanna made whining 
sound around his cock. Paul grinned and shoved his cock to the back of her 
throat.

The child gagged and choked around his cock. Paul laughed. Nothing could beat 
the feeling of a child's throat around a cock. Shifting his grip on her Paul 
started to fuck at the child's already sore and damaged throat. Hanna screamed 
around his cock. Paul started to laugh. The squirming, screaming and choking of 
the little girl was beginning to drive Paul over the edge, he wanted to pump his 
cum straight into the little whores stomach. The man started to force his cock 
further and further down the child's throat. He knew that there as little chance 
of him getting it all down her tiny throat but he was going to have one good 
try. 

It was Paul's balls that let out first. They started to fire his cum deep down 
Hanna's throat. Paul snorted and pulled his cock out and laughed as he watched 
the little girl choke on his cum.

Paul moved around the bench and placed his hand on the stomach of the tiny child 
fighting for a breath. He moved his fingers around the bruises that he had 
brought up during the darling child's stay. The marks of that morning's abuse 
were clearly visible as large purple splotches. Paul curled his hand into a 
fist. He raised it a foot from the child and once again smacked it down into the 
centre of her stomach. 

The small girl's body jolted with the blow. Paul grinned, "Don't worry honey," 
he said, "I'll be back in a second."

Paul punched the child again in the stomach and giggled as he turned around 
leaving the child screaming.


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