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- The Atlantic Express – Olympus Heights Station -

"Gwen! Look at all the fish!"

Gwen smiled, the entire wall of the undersea railway station was a vast window looking out onto the reef and it took her breath away. Looking beyond where Mary had fogged the glass with her breath she looked out excitedly to the vastness of the ocean, at the schools of brightly coloured fish dancing this way and that and the slow moving shadows of sharks, and there! Was that the tail of a whale! Like her cousin she just wanted to press her nose up against the window, but years of lessons on how to be a 'respectable young woman' held her back. It really was an incredible view...

The two girls were so absorbed by the view out of the great window that neither of them noticed as the station emptied, nor did they see the two men eyeing them from a corner cast into shadow.

"Tha' 'er?" One asked his fellow, his voice low, a distinct East London twang to his words, his breath whistling through a gap where he'd lost a tooth. He looked lewdly over at the older of the two girls, poking his tongue through the empty socket in his upper jaw and licking his lips.

The other squinted down at a small black and white photograph, before nodding sharply. "'t's the one."

Gwen was so entranced by the view out of the window she barely recognized that Mary had danced off to look at something else, equally enchanting. She didn't even hear the two men as they advanced on the girls, their flat caps pulled low over their brows, collars of their long oil skin jackets turned up.

What she did hear was Mary's shriek.

She span on her heel. One man had Mary by the wrists, the other was grabbing for her ankles while she kicked out and squirmed.

For just a moment Gwen was paralyzed, her brain unable to comprehend what was happening right before her eyes. It was when Mary screamed again that she was able to shake herself out of her shocked paralysis.

She charged at the man who was snatching to restrain the girl's legs, she hadn't really planned what she was going to do, but she ploughed into him shoulder first, and he fell away, Gwen falling along with him.

Gwen attempted to scramble back up onto her feet, while above her Mary was kicking and spitting and writhing like a wild thing. She heard the man grunt and saw him crumple, clutching at the apex of his legs, she felt herself smile knowing at least one of Mary's frenzied blows had hit a target.

As the man's grip loosened, Mary hit the ground running, her Mary Jane's eating up the ground beneath them. But she skidded to a halt mere feet from the stations exit, torn between abandoning her cousin and the desire to flee for safety.

Gwen shifted to go after her, but was caught short by a vice like grip on her ankle. "Gi' bac' 'ere!" The man she had knocked down growled.

"Run!" She screamed at the girl as more hands grabbed at her, pulling her back, pinning her where she was.

Mary didn't need to be told twice. She ran as though the devil himself were at her heels.

Gwen fought, kicking out blindly at her captors, one of her blows catching the man hard in the face, Gwen felt his nose crunch sickeningly under her foot, he reeled back in pain, blood gushing from his nose. Gwen's stomach clenched when she saw the look he gave her, foul, yellowed teeth bared, blood pumping down over his lips and along the line of his jaw. "Lil' bitch!" He growled, voice dangerous. Behind her the second man had seized her wrists twisting them so painfully up her back that she cried out and made tears sting at the corners of her eyes. "Damn hell-cat!" The second man snarled as she continued to writhe, despite the pain.

The man behind her uncapped a hypodermic needle with his teeth, Gwen saw a flash from the glass of the needle, her eyes went wide, a rush of panic making her redouble her fight against the pair. The man swore vehemently as her kicks landed hard repeatedly upon his head and shoulders. "Pu' 'er down!" His accomplice reached down jabbing the syringe hard into the layer of muscle in her neck, a scream died on her lips as he drove down the plunger, her limbs went heavy and sluggish, she couldn't quite form coherent thoughts, and she blinked repeatedly trying to combat the sleepiness that had overtaken her. But she was quickly overwhelmed by the lethargy and her world slipped into darkness.