The Rescue of a Prostitute

[alias x]

Mark's friend suggests a particular girl as being the best prostitute ever. "She doesn't doesn't just sell you lust, she sells you love. It makes the sex that much better. Makes being apart that much worse, though."

Mark finds the prostitute and her pimp, but suspects she is not actually willing. Still, the pimp is there and is big and scary so he pays. After Mark convinces her that he is not one of the pimp's friends testing her loyalty, the story then procedes with a somewhat short adventure wherein Mark helps the prostitute escape. Despite the constant rapes she had been exposed to, she still wants to fuck Mark, perhaps so that she can put them behind her or something. Fearing that Mark might get a disease from her previous clients, she refuses to have sex with him without a condom, despite his willingness to take the risk. Though the sex is great and Mark is starting to love her, she does not feel comfortable forming a relationship and the two separate.

The next day, Mark spots the prostitute and her pimp in the same place. The entire escape etc. was all fake.

This story is intended as something of a parody of the frequent stories wherein someone rescues someone from rape and the two fall in love and start fucking. The whole scenario is quite dramatic. But if a hooker faked such a scenario, perhaps a romantic would fall for it hook, line, and sinker. The cliched hand-to-hand fight even might occur, but the pimp would of course lose (on purpose) and run away. The protagonist's less-than-humble beliefs about himself and his rescue ability are revealed to be absurd in the end, since the whole thing is fake.

Possible hints to the reader about the story's ending:
The narrator is not noble enough to put any real effort into trying to get the prostitute to take money to get back on her feet.
The hooker insists on a condom when having sex with her rescuer.
The hooker refuses to kiss him (because that's a classic), claiming she is not ready for love yet).
The narrator completely wins the first fight, despite having no allies. Apparently the pimp sucks at fighting (in truth, he is so good that he can fake losing without real injury).

 

[only_more_so]

That's a great story idea. Although, the ending is going to be a little tricky to write without giving it away and without Mark looking like a total sucker (instead of just mostly a sucker). To rescue a whore from a pimp, you either have to kill the pimp, or get the hooker far out of town, since if she stays in town and he stays alive, he will find her. Somehow Mark has to think he accomplished one or the other.

 

[alias x]

That's a great story idea. Although, the ending is going to be a little tricky to write without giving it away and without Mark looking like a total sucker (instead of just mostly a sucker). To rescue a whore from a pimp, you either have to kill the pimp, or get the hooker far out of town, since if she stays in town and he stays alive, he will find her. Somehow Mark has to think he accomplished one or the other.

1. In terms of total sucker vs. mostly sucker, recall that Mark's friend recommended her (and KNEW the truth). He may be a sucker, but for a short period of time, he thought it was real and the sex was better for it. That's why she is considered such a great hooker.

2. You're right, making a good ending for it is tricky. However, I'm not sure it is important that he ever think he succeeded in saving her. It is perfectly OK for him to realize it was an act the very next day. Maybe she is gone in the morning (much to his initial distress) and he spots her soon after with the pimp. He still provided her with a rescue, he just never followed through on it (and when he looked for her so he could do so, he realized that following through was unnecessary).

When he spots her with the pimp again, he watches from a distance and realizes she isn't afraid of him at all. They seem to be good friends. It seems feasible that the "pimp" is working for her rather than the other way around.

 

[snooper]

... Somehow Mark has to think he accomplished one or the other.

Money - he buys her from the pimp.

 

[alias x]

Money - he buys her from the pimp.

I disagree with this solution. While accepting the initial money for sex is fine (she's a prostitute), accepting further money under the pretence of needing it to escape prostitution seems overly dishonest. If she did that, I think he would end up feeling too much like a sucker. The protagonist should be happier for his experience.