I heard a mumbling from somewhere as I began to wake up from the most uncomfartable sleep I'd ever had, and I'd slept on a park bench!
I stood up to have a stretch and almost toppled over because my legs were totally numb and couldn't take my weight.
Vince must've slept on my lap all night.
Speaking of Vince, where was he?
I heard a wimper in a corner that confirmed my question. There he was, hair all over the place, eyes wide and afraid, clutching to his silk dressing gown like his life depended on it!
"Vince!".
I quickly crawled over to him and wrapped my arms around him.
He was shaking like a naked drunk in the snow!
"Vince, are you alright?".
"Where are we?", he whispered, "Where's that cockney disappeard to?".
"It's alright, babes", I shushed, "We're okay".
I saw him look up at me with his big blue eyes and put his hands on my face, "Are you okay though? Did he do anything to you cos if he did - ".
"Whow there Mowgli!", I laughed, "You seriously think I'd let him anywhere near me!".
He smiled and I knew he believed me.
He knotted his fingers through mine and lent against the cell's damp wall, "Got any idea where we are then?".
"Not a danny!"
"So what we gunna do?".
I shook my head. What else could you do except wait for someone to find out that you and your boyfriend had been kidnapped by a green hitchhiker with a polo for an eye and that you needed saving.
God, it sounded like a type of tv series they would show on BBC3!
All of a sudden the sound of a bird caught my attention.
I looked skywards to see a robin stood on a barred window a few feet above us, and a sudden idea hit me like a brick.
"Vince! You can talk to animals!".
He frowned, "Yeah, well done Sherlock but hows that gunna help us?".
And as if on cue, the little bird fluttered down and landed infront of us.
"Ask him if he could send a message to the gang!".
"The gang? That makes us sound as if were askin' Scooby Doo and the Mystery Machine to come to our rescue!".
"Just do it!", I demanded and nudged him towards, what would hopefully be our feathery life saver.
I watched as man and beast communicated in a series of hand gestures and quietly said words before the bird nodded and flew out the window.
"What did he say?".
Vince grinned, "He said no problem!".
I grabbed him and pulled him into a kiss. God I loved this man!
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2 weeks we waited. Each day our hopes of rescue deminished.
We were fed scraps not even fit for a dog, water that was muddy and given nothing to keep us warm!
I was so ill that I couldn't move anywhere and throwing up whatever my stomach had left. Vince was keeping me was warm as possible by keeping me wrapped up in his now filthy and shreadded dressing gown and cuddling up to me at night, sharing what little body heat we had.
"This is pointless", I murmered as I lay on the moss covered floor of our prison.
"Come on Alice", Vince said as he paced up and down, "Don't give up".
I heartlessly laughed, "Don't give up?! Vince, it's been two weeks!".
"Maybe they got lost, maybe their making a plan...", he replied, his voice still full of what hope was left inside him.
"Oh, for fuck sake!", I shouted but immediatly regretted it as I felt a wave of dizzyness wash over me.
He was next to me straight away as I swayed a bit.
I could feel tears rolling down my face now, "Look at us! You seriously think that we're gunna get saved now? It's over Vince!".
I felt my heart break as that final spark of hope in his eyes burnt out.
"Babes - ",
"Your right, this is stupid!", he sighed and stood up.
I grabbed his wrist but he easily shook it off and walked to the cell door. I flinched as he hit his head off the metal bars and screamed at the top of his voice.
"Vince, please!", I begged but found myself suddenly screaming as the wall next to me collapsed outwards.
I coughed and skwinted into the dust cloud.
The shiloettes became sharper as the cloud cleared and I cried out with joy as Naboo, Bollo, Howard, Becky, Terry, Claire, Lauren and Jeff walked out of the mist and into the cell.
"Ready to be saved?", Naboo grinned.
Vince walked over to him and shook his hand, "What took you so long?!".
"Couldn't understand what the bird was sayin' so we had to invent a machine to translate animals".
I kissed Howard on the cheek as he picked me up and carried me round the corner where I saw the hand-painted camper van waiting like a white stallion to take me away to paradise, my prince standing beside me.
I looked past Howard to make sure everyone else was okay. They looked like M:I 5, moving with stealth and making sure the plan was going to plan.
Once everyone was in the van we screeched off to the safety of London and the Nabootique, me sleeping on Vince's lap, his hands running through my hair.
No-one saw the figure watching us from the surrounding forest...
A/N - They think it's all over...well it's not! Muhahaha!