Missing girl

Hours had passed since Tee had been snatched and the Dumping ground residents woke up the next morning to discover that the girl was missing. Johnny was found by Mike earlier that morning still unconcious from the attack and was rushed to hospital. Gina had got Cam and Tracy to watch all the kids while they went to the Hospital with johnny

"Now who in their right minds would break into somewhere, knock out a young boy and then make off with a little girl?" Gina wondered.

"I have no idea" Mike replied "but what bothers me is why the intruder only took Tee but not Johnny aswell." Gina shrugged and pointed out that she didn't have the foggiest idea.

"Do you think it could be something to do with that Child smuggling ring?" Mike wondered "what if someone from that gang broke into Elm tree house, attacked Johnny and made off with Tee to sell her on a black market in a foreign country somewhere." A few minutes later, a doctor came into the waiting room to inform them about Johnny's condition.

"How is he?" Gina asked.

"Well, he's managed to come round and he keeps asking for someone called Tee" the doctor explained.

"Oh, Tee is Johnny's nine year old sister, we believe she was taken after Johnny was attacked" Mike explained. The Doctor then took the pair in to see Johnny. The boy was lying in a hospital bed and had his head bandaged.

"Where's Tee?" he asked as soon as he saw Mike and Gina "is she ok, did she come here with you guys?"

"Tee is missing Johnny" Mike told the boy in a gentle tone "we believe that she could have been snatched by that Child smuggling ring that we told you about the other day." Johnny was shocked and couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"So, they took my sister to sell her on a black market and you're both sitting here doing nothing?" he asked.

"We are doing everything we can Johnny" Mike reassured him "and the police are out there right now searching."

"What if they hurt her" Johnny said, his eyes beginging to fill with tears "what if the police find her and she's dead?" Mike and Gina both looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Back at the dumping ground, all the kids where really worried about Tee and wondered if she was ok.

"Why did someone come here and take Tee away?" Harry asked.

"Because there's some very nasty people in the world who do stuff like that" Sapphire told him.

"I wonder how Johnny is?" Liam thought.

"Do you think the person who took Tee attacked johnny so he wouldn't tell Gina or Mike?" asked Carmen.

"Who knows" Lily replied "maybe Johnny went downstairs for a drink, saw the intruder so the intruder knocked him out, Tee must have witnessed it so the intruder made off with her so she wouldn't tell anybody."

"Wait, what if it's something to do with that gang of child smugglers that Gina was telling us about on saturday. She could have been taken by them so they can sell her in a different country" Toby pointed out. Tracy and cam had entered the room and asked how everybody was doing.

"We think Tee might have been taken by that child smuggling ring that they were talking about on the news the other day" Lily said.

"It could be possible" Tracy replied "I mean, they have stolen at least twenty kids in the past two weeks and none of those had been seen or heard from since."

"Wondered what happened to the rest?" Liam wondered.

"I've been doing some research on the interent and It says that child smugglers kidnap kids to sell into slavery or sell them to perverts" Elektra told them.

"That's sick" Sapphire said " Tee's a nine year old girl and she could be getting sold to some pervert in a whole other country."

"Well, let's hope the police catch these people then" Liam replied "who knows, maybe Tee managed to escape and is on her way back right now."

Back at the Child smuggler's hideout, the group of men where all sat in a room discussing something.

"So what do we propose we do with the girl?" Melvin asked.

"I told you yesterday" the leader snapped "we are going to sell her in China as a slave. People over there would pay good money for a english slave girl and it would make us rich."

"How much do you think she would be worth selling?" another member asked.

"Well, she's what, nine, ten years old. So I say about nine, ten thousand pounds" the leader suggested then turned to Melvin "Melvin, go and check on the girl will you." Melvin got up and walked over to a room. In the room was Tee, unconcious, bound and gagged, lying on an old mattress. Melvin walked over to her and put two fingers on her neck, checking for a pulse. Satisfied, he left the room and shut the door behind him.

"How is the girl?" thr leader asked.

"The chloroform hasn't worn off yet" Melvin informed "she's unconcious but she's still alive."

"Good, we need to keep the girl alive. No one would pay nine thousand for a dead girl who can't do anything" the leader said.

Mike and Gina had come back from the hospital without Johnny. The Doctor's said that he needed to stay in until his injuries had healed.

"How is he?" Cam asked, her voice full of concern.

"He came round a couple of hours ago but he was very upset when he heard about what had happened to Tee" Mike replied.

"I just can't believe it" Tracy said in a hushed voice "poor Tee." Meanwhile, back at the Child smuggler's hide out, Tee was begining to come round. She felt really groggy and her vision seemed blurry. When everything came into focus, Tee found herself, tied up, gagged and lying on an old matress in what looked like a damp room. She tried to remember what had happened the night before and then she remember going downstairs with Johnny, seeing a dark figure hitting johnny over the head with a baseball bat then the dark figure coming to her and placing a funny tasting cloth over her mouth and then realized what had happened. She had been drugged and kidnapped. Just then, the door opened and a large man stepped in, he looked at Tee and smiled.

"Oh good, you're awake" he said as he walked over to Tee with a camera "smile for the camera kid." He took a photo of her before turning to leave the room. Tee was confused, why had that man come in here, taken a picture of herand why had she been kidnapped. She tried to scream but the gag in her mouth prevented her from doing that. However, one of her kidnappers heard her muffled screams because a different man walked intot he room and slapped her hard across the face.

"Shut up brat" he hissed "I'd do you in right now but the boss says that we are to keep you alive." He pulled the gag out of her mouth and she began gasping for breath.

"Why did you take me and why are you keeping me alive?" she asked. The man smiled and told her that there was a family in China who were interested in buying an English girl to use as a slave and she was the one they had chosen. Tee went to protest but the man shoved the gag back in her mouth.

"Say what you like kid" he sneered "you would bring us alot of money." He then left the room, leaving Tee feeling scared and realising that she had been taken by the Child smuggling ring.