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MELODY - LOST FROM HOME [ part 2 ] I parked my van in its normal place, I opened the side door and the house door, I checked on my guest, she was fast asleep still, which was good, I estimated that she’d be out of it for at least 2 more hours. Plenty of time to get her placed into her room. I took the unconscious form into my arms and carried her into the house and down the stairs; I placed her on the mattress, closed the door and walked out of the basement, when I returned upstairs I switched on the computer. The monitor screen showed the sleeping form of the girl, I checked on the scripts for the ‘others’ to follow, it was a pretty straight forward script, she would be frightened by the chief, Mr. Blue and Mr. Red. And only Mr. Purple would be her friend, I smiled at that, she’d never guess what type of friend Mr. Purple would be. I went to bed, tomorrow, or rather later today, I was going to be busy. ---- When I woke up I could hear the crying of the young girl coming from the speaker, Melody was awake, and obviously confused, I’d left the lights out in the basement, apart from a small bulb, not able to illuminate the whole room, but just enough to show her the cell she was now living in. “Showtime!” I said softly and clicked on the speech button for the Chief to be heard. “PURPLE!” shouted the voice, “The brat’s awake, it’s your turn to deal with it, see what it wants and then come back, don’t take all day or I’ll send Red after you!” “Yes chief!” I replied and opened up the door to the basement, turning on the stair light as I went, I placed a ski-mask on my face as I went down, I didn’t want her to see my face just yet, that was planned for later. As I entered the basement I said, “Mind your eyes, I’m turning on the lights”, I gave her a few seconds and then flicked the switch. Melody Jones was kneeling on the mattress blinking in the sudden bright lights, they were brighter than normal bulbs and most were directed onto the cell, I walked to the bars and spoke softly. “Hello Melody, don’t be frightened, you’ll only be with us until your uncle pays the ransom, with any luck it’ll only be a couple of days.” She squinted at me, she didn’t have her glasses on, I had left them just outside the cage on a table, I turned to the table and picked them up, I handed them through the bars to her. She accepted them, she was able to see short distances and my hand was close enough for her to make out her glasses, she took them and put them on. “Th. Thank you” she said, and then she looked at my masked face and drew back. “Don’t worry,” I said, “We’ve got to keep these on so that you can’t recognise us, I mean when you’re back home they going to be asking you a lot of questions, the least you know about us the better. My name’s Purple. I’m sorry you’re here Miss Jones, but it’ll soon be over, don’t worry.” She looked at me and then asked, “But what if my uncle doesn’t pay?” I turned my head slightly away from her, “Now don’t think like that, you’ll only upset yourself. Just remember that your family loves you and will get you out as quickly as possible.” I looked at my watch, “Sorry Melody, I’ve got to go before the chief sends either Blue or Red down, I’m afraid they’re animals.” I was trying to make her dependant on me, but I’d have to work my way up to that. I walked to the door, I stopped by the stairs, “I’m going to have to turn the lights out, so make sure you know where you are.” I wasn’t going to but I didn’t want her to know that, kids that age are normally frighten of the simple things. Sure enough, “Please don’t, I. I’m scare of the dark!” I turned round in the doorway, so that she could see me, I rubbed my head. “Well, I don’t know, the chief said that we shouldn’t waste the electric while we were here, but since we’re going to get so much for you, I don’t see why not! But you’d better keep quiet; I wouldn’t like Mr. Blue to have to come down here.” I noticed that she was holding onto the collar of her pyjamas, she knew about the bugs, I’d have to stop her from thinking about that. “Oh, erm, I’m afraid we found the electrical stuff in your clothing, and I mean ALL of them,” Her hand went to her waist, I added, “don’t worry, I took the one from your panties, Mr. Red wanted to strip you completely, but I said you needed something to wear! Now I think you’d better try to relax, some of those drugs need time to work out of your systems.” And I left the room and climbed the stairs. ---- And now for the second phase! Once I got upstairs I left the basement door open so that she’d be able to hear ‘our’ conversation. I started the ‘chief’ talking, “Is the kid okay down there!” “Yeah chief, she fine just a bit scared about being here, that’s all” I said. “Well if it had been me down there I’d be showing her what she’d have to be really scared of!” ‘Mr. Blue’ said “Not if I got my hands onto her or something else preferably.” Said ‘Mr. Red’ “Now hold on guys!” I said, “We don’t touch her, once the cash is paid we drop her off and split, job done, isn’t that right chief!” “Weell; she’ll be okay as long as they pay for her!” The chief drawled. “Okay we keep to the plan, if they don’t pay after 3 days then we start with the photographs, if they still don’t pay, then Blue and Red gets to show her a few things. She’s got six days before we work her over!” “But chief, she only a young girl,” I said starting to close the door, “You know what they did to that 25 year old, she couldn’t even walk when they” The door was closed; it was soundproofed so she wouldn’t be able to hear anymore (the mouse-hole above the door was also closed). I looked at the monitor, she was looking at the doorway, tears streaming down her face, but she was keeping quiet. I think she was hoping that her uncle would pay the ransom for her – little did she know! (But then little did I know!!) Over the next few days she overheard Blue and Red talking about their little piece of tail downstairs and taking bets on who would plug her first, and then the chief talking to another person, not Purple, oh no, he was downstairs trying to keep Melody happy. The Chief’s discussion went something like this; “Look I don’t care what excuses he’s making, we’re only asking for 5, we could have taken him to the cleaners . . . What, WHAT no! What does he think we are a cut-price store! Look, tell him that if he doesn’t pay, he might see his niece! We’ll be having a picture show, and she’s the star! She’ll also be seeing what’s in store for her if he doesn’t pay! Got that? Well go on and tell him!” At that point I closed the bottom door, I looked at Melody; she was starting to cry again. “Don’t cry honey,” I said, “Your uncle will pay, and you know that! It’s just that the chief has to make things sound bad. Now we going to have to take some pictures to show them that you’re okay.” She looked scared at that, she couldn’t see my face beneath the ski mask, so I couldn’t smile at her to relax her, “I’ll be here to make sure that nothing happens, I’ll tell you what. I’ll make sure that I’m the one who takes the photographs, will that be better.” She gave a weak smile, “Thank you Mr. Purple, I’d like that, I don’t like the way Mr. Blue and Mr. Red talk about me, I think they want to do things to me, like uncle tried to do!” This interested me, the man obviously had ideas from somewhere. So he’s been sampling the wares has he? But what had he done? “Oh yes, Blue and Red are bad men,” I said, “and I don’t want to tell you about what they do to girls that they take, you’re lucky I’m her to stop them! But what has your uncle done to make you so scared of him?” “Nothing much,” she said, “I’ve found him watching me, especially when I have a bath, he’s always by the door,” she looked around to make sure we were alone, “and the other day I found a video camera hidden in the bathroom, it wasn’t there the day before.” This was intriguing me, “So you’ve been looking for bugs, why?” I asked. “I don’t really like him,” she said shuddering, “He keeps saying things like he’s glad I missed the trip with my parents, and how I’ll be happy looking after him when I’m older, and his eyes, his eyes are always on me, I feel like he’s trying to look inside my clothes, I’ll be glad when I’m away at boarding school, because he won’t be there!” Alarm bells were starting to ring in my mind. “Why didn’t you go with your parents?” I asked. She started to cry with the memory, “I’d was ill, and the doctors said I had to stay in bed, so mu.. mummy and daddy went ahead and said I’d be following them later when I was better, but they had their accident instead, and I was sent to stay with my uncle. He didn’t seem happy to see me at first, but he’s been okay anyway.” “How did they die,” I asked, but she started crying away, I wanted to go into the cage to comfort her… I unlocked the door and entered the cell; I sat beside her on the mattress and held her, rocking her back and forth, not saying anything, just murmuring away. I was getting a bit concerned about this job, part of me was screaming to just take her back and refund the money, I didn’t need this added family history. And then I decided it was time to start preparing her. I had a remote control in my pocket, by pressing combination of buttons I could make the computer ‘order’ me to do things. For example: This, this and this meant that; “Hey Purple!” Blue’s voice came from the top of the stairs, “The chief want the photographs started today since you’re so wrapped up with Miss Rich Bitch there you’re going to do them – unless you want me to take them, I know you could do with the rest!” the last was said with a leer. I felt the young girl stiffen beside me, her head shaking. “NO. That’s okay Blue, I’m sure Melody will be fine with me!” She grabbed my arm, I looked at her she nodded. “Please,” she said softly, “Don’t let him near me!” she was scared of the ‘man’ “I won’t,” I told her, “You realise that these pictures won’t just be of you,” she looked at me puzzled, I continued, “We’ll need to prove to your uncle that you’re unharmed, so you’ll have to be,” I paused for a moment before continuing, “to be undressed.” She was thoughtful for a moment, “but what if I don’t want to have my photograph taken? Then what?” she looked at my eyes as she said this. I made an audible swallow, “Then Mr. Blue and Mr. Red will take over. Melody I don’t want to force you, I want you to be happy while you’re here! So please let me take the pictures.” She considered my words, she didn’t want Mr. Blue and Red undressing her, they sounded really mean, Mr. Purple had been nice, and hadn’t tried to do anything to her! She made up her mind. “Please don’t let them see the pictures! And I want you to take them.” She said with a slight tremble in her voice. “Okay Melody, don’t worry. I’ll get the camera; it’s a digital camera so I’ll ensure that only the chief will see the pictures.” At her quick intake of breath I added, “I’m sorry but he has to know what he’s sending.” “O. Okay.” She said tears in her eyes, I handed her a handkerchief, she dabbed at her eyes while I went to get the camera from upstairs, making sure that I’d closed the doors as I went, I’d left the cage door open, I wanted to see what Melody would do with her apparent freedom. The monitor screen showed the girl still sitting on the mattress, wiping her eyes, she was glancing around the cell, taking in the open door, and then glancing at the basement door, the lack of cover in the basement, she got up, looked again, and then sat down again. She then made up her mind, she stood up and walked to the door of the cage, she then closed the door! |