It's late and you're locking up the theatre building. Weekends are always busy, but tonight you barely feel like you've had a second to think. Your calves ache from rushing around. Between your lips you've already got the French cigarette you're looking forward to smoking on the way home.
You turn the key in the lock to activate the alarm.
All you want to do is go home and sink into a hot bath…
You punch in the code and the alarm starts to beep.
Sinking deep down into the bubbles….
"Turn it off."
You jump: the voice is right behind you and you start to turn round expecting it to be a workmate playing a prank.
A hand firmly grabs the back of your neck and forces you to face the wall. Adrenalin takes over as you realise you're in trouble. This isn't a prank, and you're alone in the theatre.
You begin to shake as you fumble the key into the lock. As the beeping stops, you're suddenly aware of your own breathing. It seems to echo round the empty building.
You're still trying to look over your shoulder, but the hand on your neck stiffens, and instead a large, gleaming knife appears at your cheek. You're barely breathing now.
The hand on your neck is gone, and you feel it running up the inside of your right thigh. Your rib cage feels frozen.
Suddenly the knife and the hand are gone. Just as you think about fleeing, something is thrown over your eyes and knotted at the back of your head. Everything is black behind the blindfold, and you're aware of your breathing again.
Still with the knife at your cheek, the hand pushes you round, back into the building. Even though you know the place inside out, you still tread warily.
You're heading for Theatre One.
You're walking through the theatre's heavy, soundproof doors. They must have been opened, although you could have sworn you locked them. The hand pushes you forward to the stage area.
It's a flat stage, with audience seating tiered in front of it. You figure you must be centre stage when the hand pulls you up with a jerk.
Your arms are pulled up, and the jumper and vest-top you're wearing are pulled off. As he moves round to your back, you get a smell of the man's shampoo, and recognize it from somewhere. For second you think of that hot bath, before the clasp of your bra is snapped off and you feel your skin flood with gooseflesh.
Clumsily, you still have your arms in the air, and as he pulls the bra off, your hands fall to your sides where they shake uncontrollably.
Your trousers are pulled down, and the hand that guides your legs out of them is small, the skin dry and rough. You wait for him to remove your knickers.
Instead he's behind you again, quicker than you believe possible. You arms are pulled behind your back, and tied with what feels like leather shoelaces.
By this time you've regained your senses enough to realise that, until the other staff turn up tomorrow morning at ten, there's no way anyone can know you're here. The theatre is blacked out and soundproofed. He can do what he wants to you.
The hand on your neck again. This time it's pushing your head down. A foot kicks your feet further apart. Your head is still being pushed down and is now level with your waist.
Your forehead makes contact with a solid surface, and you immediately recognise the smell of white spirit. It's a bench you were getting ready to paint for the next show. At the moment its familiarity is all the comfort you have, and you lower you body onto it gladly, lying face down with your legs hanging down either side.
The same shoelace ties are around your ankles now. He's rigged it so your legs are pulled apart. You find yourself wondering how. Then your feel the knife on the back of your thigh.
You're aware of your body tensing against the bench as the knife makes its way up towards your ass, then in between your knickers and your hip.
With a sudden motion, the knife cuts through the fabric. The same is done on the other side. Gently, the knickers are peeled off your backside, and pulled through from between your legs.
You're close to sobbing now, and you're on the point of crying out. Then some kind of cold liquid hits you between the legs, making you gasp. Gradually the cold turns to warmth: a deep, glowing warmth. A hand starts to massage the fluid around your thighs, across your ass and deep into your crotch.
The hand feels smoother than before, perhaps because of the fluid, which is now almost hot. You're writhing against it, trying to stop the hand but you're just guiding it further towards your pussy.
You stop moving, and from nowhere a slap whips across your buttocks. You flinch, and before you know it you're gliding round against the hand again, feeling one finger snaking towards your hole.
You're trying to tense up to keep the finger from slipping inside, but the heat from the fluid is stopping your muscles working. Instead you can only try to pull your hips along the bench as you feel the finger sink deep inside you, immediately finding your G-spot.
Then it stops. The finger doesn't move, it just sits there and once again the building's silence makes itself heard. It's almost as if the finger's owner was waiting for something, counting to ten, or twenty, or thirty…