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Rory shuffled, she was very uncomfortable, her hands were tied between her legs and her legs were tied together also, her arms had gone dead a while ago and with a bag over her head she could feel the sweat from her face and neck and it was becoming quite itchy. Richard has once told her that families such as theirs were prone to attempted kidnappings as they had the money to pay the ransom, he hadn't meant to scare her, the piece of advice that he said that day rang in her head,

"Stay calm and try not to anger your kidnappers"

Rory felt the car she was in stop and the a faint light shined through the cloth bag that surrounded her vision, two sets of large hands picked her up and she stayed still, allowing them to untie her and sit her on what felt like a bed, she didn't struggle and fight, she needed to do anything to stay alive, she needed to get back to her daughter.

"Qué hacemos ahora?" (What do we do now?) she heard a voice, a gruff male voice, from what she could tell of the voice he was possibly around the age of Luke, Rory couldn't place the accent and her brain in its confused state was struggling to compare the languages she knew to the one she had just heard,

"Esperamos , la mujer se pondrá en contacto con nosotros , entonces nosotros hacemos como que ella dice y se les paga" (We wait, the woman will contact us, then we do as she says and get paid) Rory listened more, the accent was the same but the voice sounded younger, scared, she picked up the words woman and paid, she hypothesised in her head that they were possibly speaking spanish, it could have been a regional dialect or they could be mumbling, either way she decided she would try and speak to them.

"por qué estoy aquí?" (why am i here?) Rory spoke clearly and hoped that this wouldn't be seen as resistance from her captors,

"We speak English Rory, you are here because somebody wants you to disappear and she has paid us a lot of money to take this job, before we have even completed it." the older voice sounded arrogant, his tone cocky, she knew he was moving around the room from the change in volume of his voice, the younger one had stayed still from what she could tell, she wasn't sure as she hadn't heard multiple footsteps and he hadn't spoke.

"Can we remove this hood now please" Rory asked politely in the hopes that the men would begin to be enamoured to her if she was the sweetest and kindest she could be. The light assaulted her eyes and brain like needles poking into her flesh when her arms and legs had been tied, rubbing her eyes gently she opened them slowly and found herself in a very warm looking wooden house, it was small and open planned, the kitchen at the far end of the structure with a sofa between the bed and the man leaning on the kitchen counter, the bed she was on was a single, she had her leg tied to the end of the metal bedframe, the man she could see was more of a boy, clearly only a teenager, Rory thought maybe only 16 possibly 18 but he looked scared and nervous.

"Hi" she smiled at him and he smiled back, suddenly a large thump startled her and she tore her eyes away from the friendly face, the man with his back to her had now turned and she instantly recognised him, his face had a twisted burn on the underside of the left side of his jaw, the eye on that side melted almost shut as another burn scar trailed along the bridge of his nose, across his forehead. The scar shiny as if a Rout of Snails had made their way across his face, as she continued to take in every inch of his face that she could, she realised a horrible truth which wracked her body with sobs, these men had allowed her to see their faces for a reason, she wasn't going to make it out of this alive, not if they could help it.

Hey Guys - Have you pieced together what is going on yet, these men were speaking Spanish, if there are any mistakes please complain at Google Translate lol xx