Right, this is where it starts to get a bit dark. Please remember this is M rated and I'm sorry…

"Its not her blood," Dimitri said bursting into Harry's office without knocking. There was no point. "We've run it against her records and its not her blood. She must have fought hard when they took her."

"Of course she did," Harry said. "So find out whose blood it is. We might be able to track them down from that." He was speaking in a flat voice without emotion and Dimitri could see how much this was costing him.

"She'll be okay Harry," he told him. "She'll be fine."

"Will she?" Harry asked flatly. "I wish I had your confidence. At least I told her I loved her before I left her this morning," he said to himself. It was almost as if he's forgotten Dimitri was there. "At least I told her that."

"She's not dying," Dimitri said. "We will find her."

"What if we don't?" Harry asked. Before Dimitri could reply his phone rang. Harry picked it up silently. It was Malcolm.

"We've got access to another video," he said in a low voice. "I'm sending it through to you now but its bad."

"Okay," Harry replied looking at his computer terminal. The video started up and Harry was so horrified he actually dropped the phone. "Oh God," he said in a hollow voice as he saw them hitting her. "Oh my God."

"If we do not get what we want by 5pm, we will kill her because we will have no further use for her," was the haunting last words. Harry put his head in his hands, fighting for breath. This was hell. Dimitri had seen the whole thing over Harry's shoulder and he couldn't imagine what his boss was going through. This was awful. Harry switched his computer off. He wondered if those images of Ruth would ever burn themselves out of his mind and closed his eyes in total devastation. Dimitri left him to it and faced everyone else on the grid.

"He's starting to fall apart," Dimitri told them. "We need to give him good news." Malcolm could appreciate that. After all this time, for Harry to finally be with Ruth only to have it taken away from him in such a brutal fashion was unspeakable. Malcolm could not see this ending well and wondered whether this would be the thing that pushed Harry Pearce over the edge in a way nothing else ever had.

Ruth looked up as the door to her prison cell opened yet again. One man on his own came in. She couldn't get up because of the pain she was in but even if she had she knew she'd be no match for this muscled man. Her eyes flicked up when he leant down towards her with a plate of food which smelt heavenly. But she wasn't fool enough to eat it.

"Come on, you must be hungry," her captor said.

"You should think about that before punching me in the stomach," she replied. "I can't eat anything." That was a lie but her sixth sense told her that the food was drugged.

"Fine," he told her. He pulled a needle from his pocket and leant towards her.

"No!" she shouted scrambling away from him as far as she could in the confined space of the room which wasn't nearly far enough. She struggled as much as she could but she felt the sharp point digging into her arm. "No," she moaned as she felt the drugs slowing her wits almost instantly. This was the second time this had happened to her and that was twice too many. But this time her vision wasn't fading away. She was still conscious, she just couldn't move at all. It took a lot of effort for her to just twitch her finger or mumble the word no. And the smile on his face scared her more than anything in her life had before.

Pure fear filled her as he didn't leave. He came closer to her and it became clear what he was planning. "No," she said as loudly as she could. He kept coming nearer and it came into her mind what he was going to do. What she couldn't stop him from doing. He was going to rape her. She closed her eyes and tried to block out what was happening to her. She never thought she'd pray that Lucas's concoction would be used on her again, but at the moment, obliviousness seemed vastly preferable to total awareness when she couldn't move a muscle. "No," she mumbled again and again. He didn't take a blind bit of notice and she felt her skin crawl as he touched her. She knew he wasn't going to stop.

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