Part 2
There was a ringing sound, where was that coming from somewhere. I looked at the clock in my room. Must have come back and fallen asleep every and then slept through the night, must be getting old. Realising that the ringing was my mobile I answer it. “Is that Jake?” Still a bit sleepy, I recognise the voice but it takes me a minute to put the pieces together. “Jake, are you there?”
“Hello Jess. How are you doing?” Everything clicks into place.
“Actually, is Gail with you?” Instinctively I look around to check.
“No, why?” I ask, getting up out of bed.
“Slightly worried actually Jake,” Jess said. I could tell that she was worried. “Gail didn’t come back to the hotel last night and I am worried about her.”
“And you thought that she was with me,” I say slightly surprised. “A chance would be a fine thing,” I mumble under my breath.
“What did you say?” Jess asked.
“Nothing, nothing,” I reply. “Suppose you tried her phone?”
“Six times, left messages, text, no reply.” I could tell that the young woman was worried.
“Okay, just wait there and I will come to you.” I said. “Text me your hotel details and I will come to you.”
“Thanks,” Jess said and hung up. I was slightly concerned myself but knew that Gail could take care of herself. I stripped off and headed for a quick shower.
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After the shower I quickly get dressed and headed out. Jess had sent the text with the location of the hotel where she and Gail were staying, and I was currently following the directions on my mobile and only occasionally paying attention to where I was walking. Looking at the phone I stopped and turned to follow the directions and head down a side street, the map application was telling me that was the quickest way. I was texting Jess back to say that I would be arriving in about five minutes when suddenly something hit me square in the stomach, hard and I gasped and dropped to my knees. “uurr,” I moaned. I was looking straight at the knees of someone. It was one of the women that I passed on the way to the bar yesterday, I recognised the large down coat. Before I could react, a cloth was forced into my mouth from behind and I felt my arms being grabbed, pulled behind me and held tightly in place.
“MMUURRPPHH,” I screamed but the cloth muffled most of the sound.
“Nice to see you again,” a female voice said, it was a voice that I recognised. As I looked up. I saw the face framed by the hood of the coat. I also noted that her hands held a bottle and a large pad of cotton wool. Then the hand came toward me and the cotton wool was placed over my nose and mouth. “You should recognise the smell.”
“uupphhmm,” I moaned as the sweet-smelling scent of chloroform assaulted my senses. The cotton added to the cloth in my mouth now totally muffling any sound that I attempted to make.
“We aren’t actually here for you Jake,” Penelope said as she held the cotton ball over my nose and mouth, “but we can’t have you running around the place and interfering in our plans.” I struggled but the person behind me, if I was guessing Pandora rather than Erin, had hooked her arms around mine and a knee in my back to keep my off balance. I had nowhere to go and I was being forced to inhale the fumes from the cotton held fats over my nose and mouth. It was already starting to have an effect; I could feel my strength draining and my vision start to blur. “Sorry we had to go straight to chloroform but you know that we don’t use guns.” The struggles were getting weaker, not because I didn’t want to fight but because the chloroform was sapping my strength and ability. Not long Pandora let go of my arms and they felt that heavy that they dropped lifelessly to my side and I could hardly keep my balance on my knees, I was going out and there was nothing I could do about it. Penelope recognised this and knelt down on one knee. “Good boy Jake, just go to sleep. I promise to take good care of you.” With one last moan I slumped forward into Penelope who took most of my weight but skilfully kept the cotton in place making sure that I continued to inhale the fumes. Taking one final breathe my eyes closed and I slipped into unconsciousness.
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As my head cleared a little, I was able to take in my surroundings and make a quick assessment of my position. I was in some kind of large open room, probably a warehouse as I noticed a loading dock and a large shutter directly down from where I was sitting. There was a load of crates piled on either side of a clear aisle down the centre of the warehouse. I heard movement to my right and turned my head, causing a bolt of pain of shoot through the back of my head, and noted that Jess and Gail were sitting bound and heavily gagged on chairs. It was now obvious that Gail had been snatched the previous day and they must have grabbed Jess sometime after we had spoken on the phone. They were both conscious and looking straight ahead. Looking down from my position bound on the chair there were three sleeping bags laid out in a row in front of each chair. “MMOOOO, UURRMMPPHH,” I moaned. The nearest bag was black, was relatively thin, maybe a three-season effort. The next bag in the line was light blue and puffier than the previous one, that was followed by the last one in line was a red one that even at this distance looked massive. My mind made the connection to the conversation that I had overheard at the bar the previous evening. I think that I had just solved the theft at the sporting goods store. Now, all I needed was a police officer to report it to.
“uummpphh, mmuurrhh,” I turned again and saw that both Gail and Jess had noted that I was now awake and were trying to get my attention.
“mmuupphh,” I mumbled by way of reply and raised my eyebrows. I mean, what else were they expecting me to do at this point? I looked down and noted the thin black ropes had been coiled around my ankles and thighs keeping them tightly bound together, also noting that my shoes had been removed, no doubt in preparation for encasement in the bags. I wriggled my sock covered toes, they had also removed my heavy, down jacket. There was also wraps of the same rope around my stomach and chest, pining me to the chair. I could tell that my wrists had been bound tightly and although I could not see them assumed that it had been with the same black rope. The cotton taste and dryness in my mouth told me that it was stuffed with something and a quick probe with my tongue confirmed that point. I could also fell fabric between my teeth and pressure being applied by something soft over my mouth and assumed that I had been heavily gagged in the same way as my previous abduction by the same women, a knotted cloth cleaved in my mouth, some kind of pad over my mouth kept in place with a folded silk scarf. I glanced back at Jess and Gail and noted that they were tied in identical fashion. At least Penelope and the rest of the crew were consistent. The last thing I noticed was the bulky feeling around my groin, then I noted the feeling as if I was sitting on something padded. I moaned when I realised that I was wearing a nappy. Then I heard footsteps and Penelope appeared in front of me.
“Lover boy is awake,” Penelope said and winked at me and patted my knee.
“Good, I can start then,” said a voice from behind me. I craned my neck around to find Sophia Bianchi standing with her hands on her hips. “Now, two of you we have met before, but we have a new guest. By way of introduction my name is Sophia, and I will be in charge of your confinement for the duration.” While talking Sophia walked around so that she was now standing in front of her three bound and gagged captives on chairs, Jess was at the centre with me on the right and Gail on the left, that’s if you were looking at us from front on.
“meht mmuupphh uurrgghh,” Jess spat at Sophia.
“I do like it when they are spunky in addition to being beautiful,” Sophia said and walked across to stand in front of Jess. “Please do not take this personally, we are not hear for you. You had the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. See we have come across Gail and Jake before and they know who we are and what we do for a living. We have a job to do and can’t take the chance of Gail and Jake running around, getting in our way or telling the police about us.”
“uuhhmmpp,” Gail moaned.
“Pick better holiday locations,” Sophia replied raising her hands. “Now, I can’t tell you specifically what that job is but given that we are professional abductors then it doesn’t take a genius to work out what it is.” The woman was now walking up and down in front of us as she talked. “The job is still at the planning stage so we are still in the process of gaining information on the target, in fact that is when we bumped into you so to speak….” The woman trailed off. “Anyway, we shouldn’t have to told you for long. How long to do think Penelope?”
“Around five days, six at the most,” Penelope said. When she said that Penelope looked straight at me at licked her lips.
“MMUUHH,” all three of us mumbled un unison. Six days! They were going to keep us for six days.
“We still have a couple of days of preparation to do so we need to keep you out of the way. Don’t worry you will be released unharmed at the end of that period,” Sophia paused. “Assuming you all behave. Well, I must be off and leave you in the capable hands of my colleagues Pandora, Erin and Penelope. Oh, and just for the avoidance of doubt it isn’t what one fits you best. It’s all three sleeping bags.” Sophia said with a flourish, it seems that she was enjoying the role of playing the villain with a touch of Alan Rickman as Sheriff of Nottingham.
“How should we go about this boss?” Erin asked.
“Ladies first,” Penelope suggested and Sophia nodded.
“Let me know when you are finished,” Sophia called over her shoulder as she walked away.
“I remember that this one was feisty” Erin said as both she and Penelope stood in front of Gail. I had been watching Sophia walk away but now turned my head to focus on Gail who had a defiant look on her face. Both Penelope and Erin wore the large down coats but have them open to reveal down gilets.
“Yes, she was,” Penelope agreed nodding her head. “Perhaps we should give her something to help her remain calm.” At the same time as saying this Penelope slipped her hand into the pocket of her long down jacket and came out with a small glass bottle and a large, soft and thick cotton ball. Slowly Penelope unscrewed the lid of the bottle before pressing the cotton ball over the top of the bottle and turning it upside down saturating the cotton ball with the sedative. When Penelope was happy with the amount of liquid on the she removed the cotton ball, handed it to Erin and screwed the lid back on the bottle, making a show of screwing up her nose at the smell. Penelope seemed to be deliberately taking her time as if she wanted to drag out the build-up. Then Penelope glanced over and saw me staring intently and what was going on and walked over, stood in front of me and leaned in. “You really like her? Don’t you?” Penelope whispered into me ear. Penelope must have noticed the way that I was looking at Gail, I would have made a terrible poker player. I nodded my head. “Well, let’s give her something to think about.” Penelope sat down on my lap before swinging around so that her legs were now straddling me. She then removed my gag. “Shall we pick up from last time.” Before I could reply Penelope kissed me deeply, her tongue exploring my mouth. I don’t know why, but I began to reciprocate the movements of her lips and tongue. Pulling away Penelope winked. “We can pick this up later if you want.” Before I could say anything, Penelope stuffed the cloth back into my mouth and quickly reapplied the rest of my gag. Walking back over to Gail Penelope asked. “Where were we?” Taking the cotton ball back from Erin she made her move. As the cotton ball made its way menacingly toward her nose Gail moaned and shook her head, Penelope nodded her head as she pressed the cotton ball over Gail’s nose. “Don’t worry, I won’t put you all the way out. Just enough to make you drowsy and easy to manage.”
“mmmooohhh,” Gail moaned shaking her head.
“Don’t fight this Gail. There is little point,” Penelope said as she placed the thick, cotton ball firmly over Gail’s nose. Instantly Gail thrashed her head from side to side. “What did I say about fighting Gail?” Penelope sounded almost disappointed. I couldn’t take my eyes off what was going on as Gail fought in vain to resist the chloroform’s vapours. I saw the look on Jess’s face change from defiance, to intrigue, to trepidation and then fear. If I could have spoken with Jess, I would have told her not to worry that much, it wasn’t as bad as it looked. Which at this point wasn’t probably much help as Gail moaned into her gag as the chloroform-soaked cotton ball was held over her nose. Gail’s movements became sluggish and then her head lolled back, and her eyes were rolling. That’s when Penelope removed the cotton ball and then quicky Erin untied Gail from the chair, retied her hands in front and then carried her down and place her gently into the first sleeping bag and zipped it up. Then they placed her inside the second bag, zipped that up and pulled over the large third sleeping bag. It took them a bit of time but they eventually completed the task and stood up. They both wiped their brows at the effort. Having finished with Gail they turned their attention to Jess. “So, are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way?” Penelope asked Jess.
“MMMUUURRRPPHH, MMMUUUNNN,” Jess mumbled and started to thrash against her bindings.
“Look like it’s the hard way,” Erin said. “Well, for her anyway.” Penelope once again pulled the bottle and a fresh cotton ball from her jacket pocket. “I’ve got a nice fresh cotton ball for you.” A look of trepidation flashed across Jess’s face as the chloroform-soaked cotton ball moved toward the lower part of her face. Penelope placed one hand behind Jess’s head and then pressed the ball over the young woman’s nose and mouth. There was the initial shock as the fumes assaulted her senses and then Jess tried to resist, it was an automatic reaction, then as Jess inhaled more and more of the fumes and her protests and thrashing became less intense until her eyes rolled and closed over. Erin and Penelope worked quickly to release and then rebind Jess before starting the process of putting her inside the three sleeping bags. My mind drifted off elsewhere before suddenly I looked up to find Erin and Penelope standing in front of me. They had obviously finished with Jess. I peeked between them and saw the large down cocoon containing Jess. “I assume we aren’t going to have to get the chloroform out for you?” I shook my head, having no desire to be forced to inhale the sweet-smelling sedative again if I could avoid it so I shook my head. “Wise move.” Erin had moved behind me and untied the rope holding my wrists and handed it to Penelope. “Hands out babe.” I held out my hands in front of me and allowed Penelope to bind them securely with the rope. Erin worked on the ropes around my torso that held me to the chair whilst Penelope freed my legs and then helped me onto my feet for the short walk across to the first sleeping bag. “Lie down.” Penelope instructed. Now, with my hands bound and the bulk of a nappy, that wasn’t easy but I managed it. “Be a good lad and just lie still with your legs together.” I put my legs as close together as I could with the nappy on and Penelope used lengths of rope to binds my ankles together before moving up to secure my legs just below the knees and they just around the thighs.
“mmuupphh,” I mumbled at the discomfort of having my thighs pulled together with the nappy in place.
“Sorry cute stuff,” Penelope said with a smile. “Can’t have you running away.” Penelope winked as she said made that comment. I would have laughed at the suggestion that I would be running anywhere with my legs tied, never mind being about to be put inside three sleeping bags. “Lie down will you.” I did and requested and I lay perfectly still as Penelope flipped over the top of the sleeping bag, zipped it up and then used a small padlock to lock the twin zips together. Penelope’s face appeared looming over me. “Don’t you go anywhere now.” She said before disappearing again. I heard the rustle of nylon as the second bag was pulled across and into position and then I heard the second bag being opened and then I felt myself being lifted up and moved the sort distance before being dropped down onto the second bag. The top of that bag was soon flipped over and that to was secured in place with a small lock. I shimmed around in the down cocoon to get myself a bit more comfortable. I contracted my stomach muscles and managed to lift my head as Erin grabbed the last bag, the massive red bag, I looked and my eyes widened at how puffy it was, as it moved closer it got bigger and bigger. The bag was so laughably, monstrously inflated with down that when laid on the floor next to me it was already as big as the two sleeping bags that already cocooned in. The air was filed with the swish of nylon and my extremely muffled groaned. However, the thickness of the gag insured that anything I said was far to unintelligible to understand. “Don’t worry, you will be nice and comfy,” Penelope commented. “Again,” she laughed at her own comment. Penelope seemed to be enjoying this part of the process far too much. I heard a zip and then the swishing of nylon fabric as the monstrous third bag was fully opened. This one had a centre zip so the two women would have to work a bit to get my inside it. Working together the two women managed to shimmy across my current down cocoon and began to work me into the third sleeping bag, which considering how thick my down cocoon of bondage already was not going to be easy. Starting at my feet and slipping it up, like putting on a sock, it took then almost five minutes to get me and my down cocoon inside the final bag and zip it up. Penelope patted the down cocoon. “Just you wait there.” With that comment they let us to it.
About five minutes later the unmistakable sound of footsteps on the concrete floor got louder and louder. “Get them into the truck.” I heard Pandora say.
“Nice of the boss to leave just before the heavy lifting starts,” Penelope commented. There was the sound of doors being opened and preparations being made before now safely encased within our down cocoons one by one Penelope and Pandora picked up Gail, Jess and myself and carried us to a truck that was waiting in the loading bay. After depositing us in the back they left us with a cheery, “Don’t you be going anywhere.” I stifled a response; Jess was still unconscious from the chloroform and Gail was woozy and moaning.
“We will be back soon,” Erin said. “Just have some stuff to pick up.”
“Clean the scene,” Penelope said. She did seem to be in a very good mood I thought. About half an hour later Gail had fully regained her senses and was rolling about.
“uummpphh,” Gail mumbled after catching my eye.
“nnuummpp,” I replied, not sure what she was trying to achieve. Then we both heard the sound of footsteps, stopped what we were doing and focus on those. The footsteps got louder until I heard the sound of doors opening and closing before the engine kicked into life. The rear of the truck opened and Penelope stepped inside with a couple of bags and took a seat on the bench that ran along the side of the truck. “I volunteered to ride in back with you guys.” I felt the truck pull away and Penelope zipped up her coat. “Alright for you, all wrapped up snug in those sleeping bags. I have to make do with just this jacket” Penelope smiled, flipped up the hood of her huge down coat and leaned back to enjoy the journey.