Chapter 22: Days Go By.
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Tammy lays low for several days well into the month of April, knowing that Bink is so nearby she could taste it. In her bike rides, she keeps her distance from areas where she had found Bink and that adult male mouse. She buys a Nikkon D70 SLR digital camera with a 250MM telephoto lens and starts to take pictures. As her bravery grows over the days, she follows them to the SWA Building, keeping her distance and taking photos as she does. She manages to pictures of the Porsche Bink often gets in as it stops at the gate. Strangely she finds Bink enter a Pizza van, which also enters the compound but does not exit the facility.
A Google map of the area confirms it to be fenced off. In the rear of the area, she finds an area that looks like a junkyard. There were a couple of trailer boxes close to the fence. But the rear of the complex is in a private park like area. There were no roads, no sidewalks, just a lot of trees and over grown vegetation. Lucky for her it was easily accessible from the street.
Her first trip there she climbs up a tree close to the fence. Moments before she heard guns being fired in the area but it's now empty. There she looks about the area, finding the junkyard area but it was not junkyard area. It was an outdoor shooting gallery. She takes pictures of the area though there was no one there. She did manage to take pictures of the shooter's booth and the targets. There were a couple of buildings in the area she took pictures off. One large building in the background looked like it had medical personal in their lab coats enter and leave it. Because of the lay out of the fence, she could not see the building where the main building was according to Google maps. After a few hours she leaves for home.
She downloads the pictures into her computer and onto a photobucket account. After a few days of doing this, she tries for a nighttime mission and get into the trailers just on the other side of the fence. She figures that if she was arrested, that they would have to answer to the pictures she had collected on her camera. She was very naïve in that the power of governments can do to her if she was caught.
She takes a few nights of practice to get to the complex and to the tree she climbs. She did not know that every time she would enter the area, hidden cameras in the area were monitoring her. In fact she was followed home ever since that first day she walked through their doors.
She finds her tree by the fence with ease in the darkness. But as she rode to her spy point, her house is broken into and her things searched through, gathered and confiscated. The rest of the house was ransacked as she climbs the branches of the tree. Looking around she finds the place quiet and empty. She tries to climb to the end of the branch and manages to get to the fence by jumping off. She holds on and crawls her way to the trailers by jumping on one of them with a loud "thud!" She freezes in place and checks if she set off any alarms.
After several seconds of silence, she gets up and walks to the edge of the top of the trailer. She looks down and sees that its stack onto three other trailers under it. Thinking about the situation, she walks to the corner and grasps the edge of the trailer and letting her body down. Grabbing the sides of the corrugated corner she lets herself down slowly to the floor.
Looking about, she slowly walks around with her back to the fence, trying to stay out of lit areas. But she has no choice in order to get to the buildings; she has to cross the lit areas and cemented pathways. She finds a short building that looks like an apartment building, out of place with the other buildings. She picks up her camera to take a picture of it. Looking through the eyepiece, she finds the image to be that of a distorted kaleidoscope. She turns the camera to look at the lens and finds it cracked. She curses herself out for breaking it during her climbing around not careful enough to protect it.
A cold piece of steel being pressed to the back of her neck makes her freeze in place as a small hand reaches for the camera. In slow motion it is removed off her, her arms taken behind her and handcuffed by another set of small hands. She is led to the main building, finding the halls dark and taken to a room. Then there was a hard piercing pinching sensation on the side of her upper arm and her muscles go limp and reality clouds over on her.