The subdued light in the stone walled dungeon cast stark shadows in the deep recesses of the old buildings foundations. The toy112 could just make out the thick pillar bases positioned at regular intervals around the large cavernous room.
The old fashioned iron cage that held her was set back in the east wall, three of its sides along with its floor and ceiling incased by solid stone with only the front hinged section accessible to her custodian. The cold hard stone beneath her naked aching body felt like glacier ice against her silk smooth skin.
A stainless steel dog feeding bowl had been left filled with water at the rear of the cage for her to hydrate herself from, but it was the only luxury given to her in her dark confines. The faint hum of an overhead light was the only sound other than her own breathing that she could hear as she tried to guess at just how long she had been held in the baron cell.
There were no windows or time pieces in the large room with which she could even begin to tell the time of day. She hadn't slept since her incarceration, and she guessed that she had been here for several hours, although she knew that it could very well have been all night. When she considered how time seems to blur into itself when there is nothing to occupy the mind she realised that she could be here for days like this, and not have a clue what the time was or even what day of the week it was. The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end and her already goose pimpled flesh tightened as she remembered how she came to be in her current situation.
She had left the bank at 13.00 after a busy morning of administration and scheduling work. She was frustrated and wanted nothing more than to get home, open a bottle of wine, have a long relaxing soak in a hot bath, and prepare for her visit to Master where she was due at 19.00. It had been a humid but grey skied July afternoon when she emerged onto the high street from the banks main doors. The busy pavements full of families, couples and groups of greasy skinned teenagers only served to prolong her already infuriatingly slow progress to her car in the town centres main multi story car park. It had taken her almost a full fifteen minutes to battle through the busy Saturday crowds, a walk that would ordinarily only take her five.
She had finally reached her car to find that a plain white Ford Transit van had been parked across the front of her space so she was unable to move her vehicle. This had been the last straw and she felt her frustration boiling up to a fury that made her want to smash every window of the van with her bare hands. She stormed up to it and as she drew closer realised that she could hear its radio quietly through the open drivers window playing some main stream chart drivel, so she walked around its rear and headed for the drivers door. As she reached it she saw a slim shaven headed man of around thirty five sitting at the wheel, she wrapped hard on the door panel and snapped sharply at him, "please move this thing out of my way so I can actually get out of my space." What happened next came so fast and brutal that she still couldn't quite get her head around it.
The man looked at her and grinned an uneven grin as his hands shot up from outside her view with something black gripped tightly in them. He twisted and lurched forwards so quickly that she didn't have enough time to react properly before the black thing was forced over her head. She finally came to her senses and her animal instinct kicked in as she desperately tried to pull away from her attacker. she put her hands on the door panel and pushed to propel herself away, but the mans hands were at her throat, strong and vice like. She grabbed at them and tried to claw them away but suddenly a heavily muscled arm circled her waist and a hard muscular body pressed up against her from behind. First her right then her left arm was wrenched behind her back and efficiently cable tied together at the wrists, then she felt a draw string being pulled around her neck to close off any light that penetrated the hood that she now wore. The strong arm around her gripped her even tighter as she was hauled up onto the unseen mans shoulder and moved to the back of the van.
She wriggled and kicked out trying to escape from her captor, then she heard the rear door creek open and with a rush of panic redoubled her efforts and finally found her voice. Her muffled scream was cut short as she landed hard on her right side on the vans grooved floor. It took her a few seconds to catch her breath again before she attempted a second more desperate scream as she kicked at the man climbing into the space with her. The van roared to life and she felt the throb of the diesel engine through the vehicles chassis as it pulled away. The mans large calloused hands gripped her head and she felt something being forced into her mouth through the hood wedging her jaw wide open so she was barely able to even breathe. A moment later thick heavy tape was wrapped around her head a full two or three times then it was dropped leaving her sprawled helplessly. Sweat trickled down her back and between her breasts, and the stifling heat inside the hood made her feel slightly faint as a million thoughts raced through her mind, where was she being taken? Who were these people? What was going to happen to her? Was she going to die? Suddenly her legs were yanked upwards by the ankles and she felt yet more cable ties being fastened tightly around them, she twisted and bucked but to no avail, her head throbbed, and her muffled pathetic screams were lost in the noise of the now rapidly moving van.
Utterly helpless and feeling faint from the heat and stress of the situation she tried with only limited success to lay as flat as she could on her belly so she did not get thrown around the vans empty interior any more than she already had been.
Neither man spoke as the van drove at what to her felt like break neck speed through the busy town streets. The drone of the engine loud in her ears and the background noise of the god awful pop music that filtered from the cab were her only companions as she sweated, gasped for breath, and prayed to any god that would listen that she wouldn't die a horrible painful death. After what she guessed was around fifteen minutes the journey became smoother with far less cornering and reductions in speed. Her heart pounded and her stomach lurched as she realised that they were on either a dual carriage way, or worse, a motorway. Her mind raced as sheer panic flooded her, where the hell were they taking her? They had been driving for at least half an hour which meant she could be anywhere within a thirty mile radius of her home town. She began to wriggle and fight against her restraints, although she didn't have the first clue of what she would do if she got free, she just knew she had to get out of this van and as far away from these men as possible.
A heavy Scottish accent mocked her as she struggled, "no use struggling lass, you got nowhere to run. We're nearly there now, and the Boss is eager to see you." The man snorted a chuckle as she vainly pulled harder on the cables holding her, but all she managed to do was tighten them further so that they bit deep into her rapidly swelling wrists and ankles. She felt the van slow and turn left, she assumed that they were turning off a junction and this was confirmed as it stopped and then a few short moments later pulled away at a slower pace and turned off of one of the exits of a large roundabout. Another five minutes or so passed with the van travelling sedately and making the occasional turning. Eventually they came to a halt and the throbbing of the engine ceased just before the awful music died as the driver took the keys out of the ignition. For several long minutes all three of the vans inhabitants waited, the men for their Boss, as the burly man had called him, and the snivelling terrified toy112 for her fate.
She lay trembling with terror waiting, listening, but nobody spoke, nobody moved, and she felt like her whole world was falling apart around her. "Here He comes." Stated the almost jolly sounding Yorkshireman from the vans cab. "Wait here." He said as he opened the van door and then extricated himself.
She heard his footsteps fade as he obviously went to meet whoever the new comer was. Still the brutish man that had remained in the van with her said nothing, all she could hear was her own breathing, the thumping of her heart, and the ticking of the vans engine as it cooled. She heard two sets of footsteps moving to the rear of the van and she jumped in alarm as two loud bangs rang against the rear doors. Again she heard the creek of the double doors as the man guarding her pushed and they swung open on battered hinges and let humid fresh air into the space. "Here she is Boss." Said the Yorkshireman, "she put up a bit of a fight, but nothing Jim couldn't deal with."
She felt a strong hand grip her ankle before the Scotsman asked, "in the usual place Boss?" She never heard a reply, but suddenly she was manhandled onto her back and before she could even begin to struggle was lifted as if she were a doll up onto the big mans shoulder and carried away.