Chapter 23: Number 6.
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Numb, dizzy and nauseous, Tammy finds her arms, waist and ankles tied to a chair in just her underwear. The room was dark except for the light that shone over her but she can tell by the shadows that she was not alone.
"Why were you trespassing on a government facility!", a male who's voice she barely remembers as Jean yells out. She tries to get the strength to answer but finds none as the sounds from her mouth was just a garbled growl of nonsense.
"Enough Jean. She's not out of it yet.", another male tells her.
"I Want Answers!", Jean yells out.
"And you will have to wait for them. Now leave.", the male orders him. In a few seconds there is the sound of a door slamming. A few chairs are heard sliding around her and things sound like things were dropped in front of her. "You were warned not to come here. Why are you here?", the male says to her much closer than before.
"Bink...", Tammy answers.
"Your sister is not here.", a female voice of the chipmunk she remembers answers.
"I... followed her... here.", Tammy replies.
The room was silent for a moment before the door is heard closing a few seconds later. Outside there was a discussion.
"When did this security breach happened!", the male voice is held back from yelling.
"We don't know, chief. At least a few weeks ago, when she arrived here.", the female chipmunk tells her.
"And why wasn't I alerted?!", the male voice is held back from yelling.
"We did not think she was a security risk, sir.", the female chipmunk replies.
"Think? Well now we have a problem. Don't we?", the male voice tells her.
"She's not a security risk. She is only looking for her sister and she found Bink here. I think we all would do the same thing if it were any of us.", the female squirrel comments.
The male scowls at her. "You deal with her as you see fit.", the male tells them before walking away.
The women stand there until the male was gone.
"We fucked up.", the female chipmunk says out loud to herself.
"We did not fuck up. We would have done the same thing if it were us.", the female squirrel says, adding, "Especially with her training as a Rescue Ranger."
"Thanks for the encouragement. But we still have a problem to deal with.", the female chipmunk says.
"I know Jean wrecked the house. Send a team to fix things up and bring her there with me. I will deal with it.", the female squirrel replies.
"What are you going to do?", the female chipmunk asks.
"I am going to have a talk with her and send her on her way home.", the female squirrel answers.
"We'll need 48 hours to fix the place. Especially how Jean tends to break things, you know.", the female chipmunk says.
"Then put her in one of the solitary cells in the basement until then.", the female squirrel says.
"Olga?", the female chipmunk asks.
"I'll git a weelchair for her." the rabbit says with a thick Russian accent.
In a few minutes, Tammy was put into a dimly lit room with padded walls with a toilet and a sink in a corner. A roll of toilet paper was on the edge of the sink. The door had a shelf with a sliding door. Chains against a hinge on the wall supported a fold up bed with a think blanket and a flat pillow. Tammy laid on it in a fetal position. At the corner by the ceiling was a camera on a loudspeaker box.
In the days that followed, food was sent through the sliding door by the shelf. She tried to open it but it was locked on the outside. On the third day a robe and towel were sent through the slot and door opens once she puts them on.