Lucy sighed and tipped her chair back, in pure bordem. She was bewildered about the previous events that had occurred. She couldn't explain how much she missed Gru and the girls.
She leant back in her chair, her arms where aching from struggling so much and her mouth was as dry as the desert due to the tape across it.

She looked around the room for an object to use to escape and her eyes widened with relif when she saw her blue overcoat slung over a chair. She had to get it.

She begun by trying to get the tape off so she could bite through the ropes and free herself.
She looked around the room and saw a loose shelf with a pointy edge. She dragged her feet on the floor to move the chair towards the shelf.
The chair made an ear piercing screech as it dragged along the metal floor, making Lucy wince. She hoped that it hadn't alerted anyone.
She stopped and waited for someone to investigate, but thankfully no one came.

She continued her journey to the shelf and rubbed the side of the tape on the edge of the shelf. The side of the tape latched onto the shelf and pulled off.

Once her mouth was free, Lucy began to experiment with her bindings, biting down hard on the rope until she felt it go loose. She smiled in delight and wriggled until the rope fell to the floor.

"Yes!" She whispered.

She gasped when she saw the cuts and friction burns on her wrists. She hissed in pain as she tried to wipe them clean of blood, with her hands. She then drew attention to her cheek, still leaking blood. She wiped it clean with her scarf and then went to her overcoat.

She dug into the pockets of her coat and pulled out her I phone. She could easily call for help now!
She dialled Gru's number and waited for him to pick up.

"Come on honey bear..." she muttered, feeling her body go tight with tension.

"Hello?" Gru's voice came through clearly.

"Hi honey it's Lucy " Lucy whispered

"Lucy! I'm so happy to hear your voice again! Are you alright?" He asked

"Yeah I'm fine I'm trying to escape..."

Lucy paused, she heard a loud creaking noise behind her and turned to see Strider opening the door.

"Oh are you indeed?" He smirked.

"Lucy? Lucy? LUCY!" Gru shouted.

Strider walked towards Lucy and grabbed her by the wrist and squeezed so her phone came flying out of her hand.
He then twisted her arms behind her back and pulled her close to him. Lucy struggled in discomfort and tried to free herself but Strider's hold was firm.

Strider looked at Lucy's phone on the floor and stepped on it, causing it to smash. He then kicked it to the other side of the room.

"You really thought that you could escape me?" Mocked Strider beginning to drag her towards the door.

"Let go off me!" Lucy demanded, trying to pry Strider's fingers off her wrist.

Without a sound, Strider threw her into a tiny room with nothing in it, no chair, no bed, no window, nothing.

"Get comfy my dear because this is where you are going to spend the rest of you worthless life! (Gosh this guy really is the number one a hole!)

"Wait!" Lucy called after him.

"What?!" Shouted Strider back.

"For real, why are you doing all of this to me, what have I ever done to you?!" Lucy cried

"I told you it's for my enjoyment!" Snapped Strider

"Oh please! I'm a trained secret agent, I don't belive that for a second! What's the real reason?" Lucy asked

Strider took a deep breath and lent against the wall, he then raised his head to give Lucy a death state.

"It's beacuse I wanted revenge, on your parents. I figured that doing all this stuff to their precious daughter would be a way to pay them back for what they did to me before they died."

Lucy's mouth gaped and her eyes welled with tears.

"What...what did they do that was so bad that you had to punish their daughter, 16 years after their deaths?" Lucy yelled, fighting back tears.

"They betrayed me! That's what they did! We used to be a trio me, Charlie and beautiful Julie but as time went by they stopped hanging around with me and started hanging around with Silas Ramsbottom until eventually joining the AVL!" Strider bellowed "then they married and had Samuel, Isaac and then you.
They loved you so much as you where their first and only girl, they never invited me to meet you or even babysit you. So I thought that the best way to get back at them for abandoning me, was to hurt their pride and joy."

With that Strider left the room, leavig Lucy crying in the dark.