When Erica awoke it took her a moment to remember where she was, in a room in David's Orpheus clinic. That orderly who had caught her in the corridor must have given her something to make her sleep.

Erica tried to sit up but was horrified to realise she was restrained. They had strapped her to her bed. Erica struggled against the leather cuffs around her wrists and ankles but they wouldn't budge.

"You can't do this to me." She shouted to the empty room. "Do you have any idea who I am!"

She knew they were probably monitoring her all the time on hidden cameras, that was how they had caught her so quickly when she had left her room. Well she was going to give then a piece of her mind.

"I demand you let me out of these restraints." she yelled, wriggling fiercely against them.

She knew why they felt the need to stop her wandering. The patient in the other room, the young woman, was clearly someone she wasn't meant to see. But they could have done that by just locking her door. This felt more like a punishment. She wondered how much David had to do with it.

Erica snarled in frustration and twisted violently against her bonds.

The door to Erica's room opened and a familiar figure walked in.

"You need to stop doing that." said Ben, Erica's former kidnapper, "Or Derek will only come in and sedate you again."

Erica could only stare at the young man in confusion, conflicting emotion running through her. Although she was glad to see a familiar face, she was also drawn back into the harrowing memories of her not too distant kidnapping ordeal.

Ben didn't seem to notice her uncertain expression. He simply moved to check the drip leading into her arm.

"So you are a nurse?" asked Erica. Despite his kindness to her this man had still held her prisoner for months; he was still holding her prisoner .

"In a way." said the young man.

"Can you untie me?" asked Erica, "Please."

Ben gave a sigh but even as he spoke he began to unfasten the straps holding her down.

"You didn't really give us much of a choice." he explained. "You are not meant to leave your bed. This was for your own sake. You need to remember you are still on quite powerful pain medication; you could pull stitches from you surgery and not even feel it… May I?"

He lifted Erica's robe enough to check the dressing's on her abdomen. There was a little blood seeping through the crisp white bandage. Erica couldn't feel a thing.

"Just as I feared." said the young man scolding her slightly. "You pulled some stitches thrashing around like that."

Erica watched as Ben with great care began to work on changing her dressings. Once more she struggled to understand why such a gentle man could have been a part in her abduction.

"I knew David had more to do with my kidnapping." said Erica, thinking out loud. "Seeing you here it all makes sense now. You kept me here – I did hear Dixie banging on the pipes."

Ben shook his head.

"David knew nothing about it." he explained, "I was already working here when Jane came up with the plan. This place is huge, more like a rabbit warren than a medical lab. We just converted some rooms on the far side of the facility; your room is still there in fact, still intact. No one even suspected, certainly not Dr Hayward. This facility was practically empty, most of the labs are shut down and there were very few patients. Besides you, there's only one other patient left now."

"That young woman." said Erica remembering the pale hand she glimpsed through the doorway across the hall. "Who is she?"

Ben didn't answer her, he just concentrated on fastening the last of Erica's bandages.

"I don't believe you about David not knowing about my kidnap. Not when you've just told me he still has a young woman held prisoner."

Ben tidied Erica's hospital gown and then pulled the bedcovers over her. He turned back to Erica when he reached the door.

"Don't judge David so harshly." he begged. "I think it's a very noble thing he has done. He has created a miracle of medicine, you are living proof of that Erica; and despite all his years of research he still cannot find a way to save his daughter."

As the door closed behind him Erica gasped.

His daughter?

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