Right at the bottom of the bag was a video with a post it note saying 'watch me'. Cienna looked around the room and saw the TV and video in the corner, well it wasn't like there was anything else to do and maybe the tape contained some answers. She went over and put the tape in.
It looked like a home movie, a home porn movie! The camera was above the bed and she could see a man on top of someone, Cienna guessed it was his partner. The man seemed strangly familiar. She turned the tape off, she didn't want to watch porn, maybe the tape was an answer, maybe that was what the man wanted! Well he'd better think again, no way was she going to sleep with him, she thought back to the hand cuffs maybe they shouldn't be kept so close to the bed. Her eyes kept going back to the TV, maybe the man in the mask was the man on the tape both were familiar so it was plausible, except the guy on the tape just seemed... fitter? Maybe it was just her imagination. She turned the tape back on and tried to ignore the couple on the bed. She realised the room on the TV wasn't the room she was in.... in fact it looked like her room, but that wasn't possible. Just then the man lay on his back and she got a full frontal view of Smithy! And she was his partner! Smithy laid back and smiled, had they done that? Yeah more than once and hopefully Cienna prayed they would again. But the realisation hit Cienna this man had been in her flat, he'd filmed her and Smithy together! Was this how he got his kicks? Why were they worrying about photos taken outside when there was a camera in their ceiling.
Cienna stared dumbfounded at the screen, how long had the camera been there? What else had they done in that bed? Were there any more cameras in the other rooms? Cienna yanked the cassette out of the machine and ripped the tape out of the cassette. What kind of person could do this and why?
Cienna had to get out of that room, was he going to rape her and send the tape to Smithy? Oh god Smithy, if he ever found out about that tape he'd kill the guy. Cienna kicked at the door but it wouldn't budge, then she tried the windows, nothing gave, and she collapsed to the floor in tears. This man was going to do whatever he wanted, she realized that now, Please she made a deal with god there and then, if she got out of here she'd never doubt Smithy again, she just wanted to see him again, in the flesh not on TV.
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Smithy had been going out of his mind ever since Manson had called and told him they had found his car outside Cienna's gym. She had been there and CCTV showed her leaving at about 8-30 but the car was out of the cameras range and no one knew what had happened when she left the cameras range.
Gina Gold was trying to brief the relief, there was no doubt that Cienna had been abducted, there were no leads and there was an angry Sergeant looking to tear someone apart.
'There must be something,' Gabriel said, 'someone must have seen something.'
'You would have thought so but no, there's nothing,' she took a breath and asked,
'Has anyone been asking about either her or Smithy lately?' But all Gina got was blank looks.
Gina gave them a description of what Cienna had been wearing when she was last seen, knowing it wouldn't really do much good but at least they could feel as if they were helping a little. Uniform had to carry on as normal and let CID do the investigation, but it was hard to take when it was one of your own who was missing.
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Cienna woke up as she heard a door close, she didn't remember lying on the bed. She didn't know what time it was, her watch was in her bag and the video wasn't displaying a time. There was a little light from outside she guessed it was day, had he been gone all night?
Cienna heard him coming up the stairs and prepared herself to run at the door the minute she heard the bolt slide. As the door swung open Cienna tried to run past the man but he'd been expecting it.
'l don't think so' he said as he grabbed her and forced her onto the bed.
She stared at his face as he looked back at her, she was in real trouble now.