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I'm so glad you decided to post this :)

The story is chilling, and the characterization of both Spy and Engineer rings true. So far I'm really loving it.

The second-person POV doesn't bother me, and personally I think it works better than first-person, but it's just a stylistic choice (my own preference is third-person :P) so to each their own.

I like how you thought of a way to keep Spy from contacting the Administrator. So many fics where a character is assaulted completely skip the possibility that the character might try and get help from his employer (the Administrator might be evil, but she doesn't seem like the type who would tolerate her employees breaking contract); here the possibility is considered but ultimately discarded because the assaulter has got blackmail material. It makes sense.

The fact that it has only been a week since the first abduction made me raise an eyebrow. Just one week was long enough for Spy to develop a noticeable immunity to a powerful anesthetic, for Engineer to create a new mixture, and for Spy to notice a pattern where Engineer would only use the new mixture in certain nights? Even if we assume that Engineer kidnapped Spy every single night, 7 days seems a little too few.

On the other hand, it makes a lot of sense that it has only been a very short time since the first abduction. I have no military nor espionage training whatsoever, and I can still think off the top of my head of several ways for Spy to at least attempt to get out of the situation (bribing or blackmailing one of Engineer's teammates to get in their base after ceasefire, using the clock-and-dagger to get with the enemy team past their gate after the battle ends, knocking out the Engineer during battle instead of killing him and hiding the unconscious body somewhere until ceasefire to kill him without respawn, using the cloak-and-dagger all night to ambush Engineers when he comes to abduct Spy, finding out when and where Engineer goes on vacation and follow him there to kill with without respawn, etc etc).

It if had been a long time since the first abduction, it would strain credibility that Spy still has made no progress whatsoever in his attempts to fight back. So, ok, one week seems like a good compromise between "long enough for the immunity and pattern" and "short enough for the lack of progress." Again, it makes sense.

So in the end my only criticism is that the timeline seems a bit confusing. You go back and forth several times with the recollection, the order of events is not entirely clear.

...Also, I'm hoping against hope that it really was an accidental act of negligence that let Engineer get inside Spy's base after ceasefire. It's pretty depressing to think that one of Spy's own teammates sold him out to a crazed torturer and rapist. Betrayal would be really adding insult to injury.