The sound of her own stomach growling was what finally Kelly back up. She groaned lightly, her head feeling heavy as she slowly opened her eyes. She could barely see anything it was so dark. The only light in the room was from a single flickering light bulb on the other side of the room. She shivered and hugged herself tightly. She had her clothes on thankfully but considering that she wasn't exactly dressed for warmth in the first place, they didn't do her a whole lot of good. The cold didn't bother her nearly as much as the hunger though. There was a rumbling in her stomach unlike anything she had really felt before. All she could think about was eating. She tried to push it to the back of her mind so she could focus on figuring out where she was. She couldn't though. The hunger was too much. She tried to move so she could attempt to find something, anything to eat and discovered she was chained to the wall. Her eyes widened and she wrapped her hands around the chain, trying to pull it out of the wall it was attached to. It didn't so much as budge. She whimpered and tried again. It still didn't budge. "Help!" she screamed, banging the chain against the wall as hard as she could. "Help please HELP!"

The door at the top of the staircase opened and the light from upstairs streamed into the room, right in her face. She squeaked and turned away from the light, blinking several times to try to adjust to it and get the little dots that she was now seeing to disappear. By the time she managed that, she turned back to see that Ted was kneeling down in front of her with a plastic grocery bag in his hand. "Hey there Kel. How you doin?" The way he asked that was as emotionless as it could get. He clearly didn't care how she was doing and why he was even bother faking it was beyond her.

"P-p-please," she whimpered, trying to scoot away from him even though she really didn't have anywhere to go. "Ted p-p-please let me go." Why hadn't she run away the moment she saw him? He had been confirmed dead yet she had stuck around thinking some kind of miracle had happened and he was back. So stupid of her.

He shook his head and gently brushed a piece of her hair behind her ear. She flinched at his touch but he either didn't notice or didn't care. "I can't. You have to stay with me."

"Why?" The question was drowned out by a very loud growl from her stomach and he shook his head and reached into his bag.

"You need to eat. This is all I could get my hands on at the moment. Once we move and get closer to the others I'll get you something better." He pulled out a huge chunk of raw hamburger meat and held it out to her. "Come on. Eat up."

Kelly's eyes widened as she stared at the meat. She knew what she should do. She should be absolutely disgusted. She should reject the mere thought of eating it and keep begging to leave. But something inside her wouldn't let her. The sight of the meat alone made her mouth water. It shouldn't have but it did. Everything in her was rejecting what she should be thinking and screaming for her to eat. She wanted it. She needed it. There were little voices in her brain telling her to take it. Hundreds of them. Maybe even more. They wanted her to take it. Needed her to do it. Needed her to eat. Feed them. They were the ones that were starving. Needed meat. Needed flesh. Couldn't have flesh so she had to take the meat.

"That's it," Ted cooed as Kelly took the meant from his hand and began devouring it. "Thaaat's it." He reached back into the bag and pulled out more for her, which she happily consumed. "That's a good girl. Thaaat's a good girl…"

…

"Sooo are you SURE Kelly is missing?" Vince asked Eve. It was the next afternoon and when Kelly hadn't shown up to the arena for the house show that was supposed to take place in a few hours Eve had gone straight to Hunter, who had taken her to Vince and Stephanie who had both come to the show. Normally they didn't bother with house shows but it was in Connecticut so they were in the area anyway.

Eve nodded. "She took off last night and I couldn't find her anywhere. And she's not here. We've all been looking and nobody's seen her. Security says she hasn't even arrived yet and I called the hotel and they said she never checked out of her room."

"Oh fuck," Stephanie muttered. She pinched the bridge of her nose while Hunter sighed heavily. "First Ted and not Kelly-"

"There's NO proof that these incidents are connected," Vince snapped suddenly.

Stephanie blinked, taken aback by that response even though she shouldn't have been. He had been on edge since Ted's death and nothing was making it better because they hadn't heard anything about the autopsy report yet. Nobody even knew when the funeral was supposed to be. Nobody had been able to get a hold of his family and find out yet. "I didn't say that," she said, trying to keep her voice calm so she wouldn't come off as attacking him back. It was hard though. Her instincts wanted her to get defensive. "But still, this isn't good. One employee dies and another goes missing-"

"We don't know if she's really missing."

Eve, Hunter and Stephanie all stared at him incredulously. "Nobody's seen or heard from her last night," Hunter said slowly. "And I know I don't know her that well but that's not really like her."

"He's right," Eve chimed in. "Not at all."

"Dad this isn't like Jeff who would go missing and turn up to be just flaking out on us." Stephanie wasn't about to let up either. "This is Kelly. She's missing and we HAVE to take this seriously. What if something happened to her and it gets out you didn't want to do anything about it right away?"

"I didn't SAY that," Vince said sharply. "What I was trying to say was, she's not a child. Generally speaking, they won't let anyone file a missing persons report or start looking into it until a full twenty four hours has gone by."

"Well we HAVE to do something," Stephanie said impatiently. "We can't just-" Vince's phone ringing cut her off and he answered it while holding up a hand at her.

"Hello? Dusty? Wh-" He suddenly froze, his jaw dropping and his eyes growing wide. "WHAT?" He grabbed Hunter by his shirt and pulled him out of the room, leaving Stephanie and Eve alone and confused together in the room.

"What was that all about?" Eve asked hesitantly. She didn't exactly feel comfortable being caught up in this McMahon situation. It wasn't like the old days where they were always around and the intimidation factor wore off for the most part. Shane and Linda were gone from the company, Stephanie was rarely backstage, leaving Hunter as the one everyone really dealt with.

Stephanie shook her head. "I have no idea." She ran a hand through her long brown hair and took a step towards the door. She didn't like the feeling she had in her gut right now. The look that had come over her father's face spelled nothing good at all.

After a few minutes of awkward silence the door opened and Hunter came back in, a dumbfounded look written across his face. "What?" Stephanie immediately asked. "What is it?"

Hunter could only shake his head. "I don't think you'll believe me even if I tell you."

"Tell me anyway," Stephanie said impatiently. "Believe me, I've heard strange shit before there's nothing-"

"Ted's family is dead and his body went missing from the morgue."

"…WHAT?"