Chapter Six: The Meeting
Ashley dials Eddie's phone number and requests that she checks in every two hours because she is having fun with her friends and it's a hassle to call every thirty minutes. Eddie complies. Call at 9:30 he reminds. Her phone rings, it's Lecter.
"Meet me inside the changing rooms." Lecter says hanging up before Ashley can ask any questions.
Ashley nervously walks down the grandstand stairs her legs threatening to go out from under her. She cautiously approaches the changing room, she notices that since she talked to Lecter the light outside the changing room doors is out, she can't see at all and will have to trust Lecter. The thought of trusting a dangerous serial killer makes her shudder. Ashley feels out the door and starts to push it open. She starts to scream as she feels a cloth over her mouth and an arm around her waist. She fights for a breath inhaling the sweet tasting halothane. Her body suddenly falls limp.
Dr. Lecter carries the body into the changing room. Turning on a flashlight the doctor inspects the young girl. At the very least, she's who he'd been communicating with. Lecter wondered if the FBI had recruited Starling's daughter because Clarice herself wouldn't come in to capture him. Lecter wondered it, but he doubted it, Clarice wouldn't let her daughter get involved. Although the FBI did have a hold on poor little Clarice.
Lecter picks up the bag young Starling had been holding before he had nabbed her. He unzips the book bag. Inside there is; a flashlight, matches, a wallet sized picture of her mother, which he stares at for a moment, a picture of himself, an address book and her cell phone. Nothing to indicate she was FBI. He checks his watch. Lecter moves the young girls body against a metal pole and locks handcuffs around behind her. Minutes later she begins to wake up.