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A woman, carrying a small tub with water, entered a cage, big enough to store a dozen people. She walked to the center of it, where Deb was hanging, her hands tied above her head. She was still unconscious, but just to be sure she wouldn’t wake up too soon, the woman injected her with something.
“Can’t believe I’m the one who has to do this” the woman muttered, irritated, while she started stripping off Deb’s clothes. She, then, bowed and put her hands in the ice cold water, and took out a washing cloth.
She washed Debra, rubbing hard on the skin, causing the Caucasian to turn into red.
“Careful, Agnes” a male voice, from out of the shadows, said.
Agnes gagged, and then continued her work, while Dale walked away. When she was at Deb’s most intimate spot, she first hesitated, but then, she lifted her knee and kicked her between her legs.
“That’s for not dying, when Joe Carroll put you under the ground, where vermin like you belongs” she hissed, like a snake.
“Everything okay in here?”
Any other would’ve started, had someone snuck up on them, like that. But Agnes didn’t even blink. She turned around, and shielded Deb’s naked body from Ross’ preying eyes.
“Do you have it?” she asked, insistently.
Ross waved with a white, silk dress. “Step aside, I have to get her dressed”
“Oh, no, you’re not getting anywhere near her” Agnes replied. “The only man that gets to see her like this, is Dale”
“Come on, just a peek. Dale never needs to know” Ross insisted, while trying to walk around Agnes, to at least catch a glimpse of Deb’s behind.
“The answer is still no” Agnes said sharply. “Now, go, I have to get our princess dressed”
“You probably mean our queen” Ross mocked, and he made a bow. Agnes threw the washing cloth at him, but he dodged it. He threw the dress at Agnes, which she caught with one hand, and then he left.
Agnes turned the tub upside down-the water covered the entire floor-and stood on it, so she could reach Deb’s hands and untie them. When Deb was loose, Agnes let her fall on the ground, praying she would break her skull or neck.
She got off the tub and kneeled beside Deb. She pulled the dress over her head, her arms through the sleeves.
Then she tied Deb’s hands again, but this time she made the rope tighter.
“Ross! Get in here, you filthy pervert” Agnes yelled, and Ross made his presence known. He smiled guilty, and entered the cage. “I need you to lift her, so I can tie her hands on the upper side of the cage”
Ross, gladly, walked to Deb, and picked her up. He put her in standing position, and Agnes grabbed the rope, stepped on the tub again, and tied Deb’s hands tightly on the cage.
She wiped her hands on her shirt, as if she had touched something contagious, and then got off the tub again. “There, our work is done for now” she said.
She and Ross left.
Twenty minutes later, Deb slowly opened her eyes. She blinked a few times, but the darkness wouldn’t go away.
When her eyes had adjusted to the darkness, she recognized bars, ahead. She turned her head left, right, and up. She, then, noticed how her arms were tied above her head. That explained the soreness.
Deb shook her head heavy. This was a dream. She was dreaming. It had to be a dream. But then she remembered the accident. Ross, killing Tony. Him and Beth, leaving her to die. Ross, trying to put the blame on Deb. And finally, Beth drugging her.
This was real. All of it. The cage was real, the stupid dress was real, …and the man, peaking at her , from out of the shadows…was definitely real…
The next morning someone knocked softly on the door of the storage room. Deb slowly opened her eyes and sat up.
“Come in” she said sleepy.
The door opened and a girl entered the room.
“Mom says you have to get up” she said sweet. She was blond, too, but hers was a darker, a warmer shade.
Debra nodded and got out of bed. She turned to the bed and made it up. That was one of the house rules.
She walked to the door where the girl took her hand. She was a little surprised with the gesture, but smiled gratefully.
“My name is Lana” the girl introduced herself. “You’re Debra, right?...
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Deb sadly watched Mike drive away in her car. She knew she had hurt him terribly with her suspicion and she wished she had the courage to confide in him, but she simply knew he wouldn’t understand.
“Are you coming?” Beth asked with a voice sweet as honey. Deb slowly turned around and nodded. She followed her sister inside and the latter closed the door.
Deb looked around indifferent. “Are you sure there’s room for two?” she asked careless.
“Yeah, sure” Beth assured Deb. “You can sleep in the bed, and I’ll sleep on the couch”
“I’m not sleeping in your bed” Deb protested....
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Agnes stood in front of Wayne and Abigail’s house, her hand pressed against her mouth and tears rolling down her cheeks.
“I can’t believe this is happening” she sobbed, while shaking her head as if denying it would change anything.
“We’ll find her” a female cop assured her. “So, you say you found him like this?”
Agnes nodded. “The hospital told me these people took my cousin with them. So, I went here to ask them to give her back to me, so I could bring her back to her family, where she belongs”
She paused to blow her nose with the handkerchief the cop had offered her....
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“What have you done?” Abigail shrieked as she stormed inside the room. Debra didn’t bother turning around; she just gazed at Abigail’s reflection.
Abigail touched Deb’s head and when she withdrew them, hair and blood stuck on her fingers, she stared at the them in horror. Shocked she grabbed for the hairbrush, determined to fix Deb’s hair. But truth was there was no fixing it.
Defeated Abigail shook her head. “Clean up your mess” she ordered sad. “Don’t come downstairs. I’ll bring you your food”
As if in slow motion Deb stood up and bent through her knees to pick up her...
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One week later.
Dale was sitting at the table in his room. He held a picture of Deb in his hand. A single teardrop fell on it. “Oh, Debra” he sobbed. “Why did you have to leave? We could’ve had such a beautiful life together”
Beth walked inside from outside the kitchen.
“I made you some tea” she said careful and she put the platter down. Not waiting for his reaction or even a sign of gratitude, she poured him a cup.
“I mean, your sister’s worth nothing” Dale mumbled disgusted, apparently completely unaware of the fact that Beth was standing right beside him and if he did, he...
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Simon had no sense of time, but if he could trust his stomach it was long past lunch time. It had been painfully rattling for the last couple of hours, but he knew that if he’d complain Agnes would return and not to feed him.
He had been tossing and turning all night, unable to find a comfortable position to sleep. He probably wasn’t the only one, he imagined. Now that Debra was gone someone had to fulfill Dale’s sexual needs.
Poor Beth, Simon thought, she must feel so abandoned and betrayed.
Though he didn’t hear the door open, he did see how a dim light spread itself throughout the basement....
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“You ready?” Simon asked when he closed the door behind Debra.
Debra nodded, grateful that he couldn’t hear her heart pounding. She let him take her hand and pull her towards the elevator. Once there he hesitated.
“On second thought,” he said as the elevator opened, “we might want to take the stairs. It’s safer” he decided, alluding on Deb’s fear of small, dark places. He could only imagine that fear had been highly increased due to the recent events.
He pulled her towards the stairs and they walked down it. At the bottom Simon checked left and right to make sure no one would...
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In the months that followed Debra spent most of her time in the library. She loved to read, as long as it wasn’t anything religious.
During the nights she slept in the park, underneath a willow. That was until the park ranger busted her and chased her away. From that moment on she slept in an alley, next to a food container. Whenever she got hungry she would dig in the grave and fish something out. Most of it had already passed the expiration date, but Debra didn’t care. Food was food and she was starving.
One night, she was only in her seventh month, she started having cramps in her stomach....
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Hours later Debra was back in her room. Her little sister Beth was fast asleep in the double bed, but Debra was wide awake.
During dinner Dale had been staring at her. She had felt his eyes prying on her. The thought of what he was going to do to her on the night of her birthday, made her sick.
She looked over her shoulder at her sleeping sister. She didn’t want to leave her here, knowing the kind of man that lived here. But she had no choice. Beth wouldn’t want to leave her parents. She wouldn’t understand.
Debra leaned towards Beth and gave her a soft kiss on the cheek. Then she stood...
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“Damn it, Deb, pick up” Mike said agitated.
Debra’s phone was lying on the washing table, buzzing, but the streaming water in the shower drowned the sound. Debra wasn’t planning on getting ready any time soon. She swore she could still feel the earth on her skin.
“She’s not picking up” Mike said nervous. “I’m going to go there”
“To do what?” Ryan protested. “Emma and Joe are shot. They need medical attention. They know they won’t get that from Parker”
Debra stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around her hair. A second one she wrapped around her body....
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An instant later Emma appeared. When she saw Joe lying on the floor, appearing to be dead, she accelerated her steps, while repeatedly mumbling ‘no’ She knelt and turned Joe on his back.
“Joe, wake up. Please, wake up” she begged. “Don’t leave me here”
Joe groaned and opened his eyes. “Dear God, that hurt” he moaned. “What are you doing here? I told you not to come until I called you”
“I followed Ryan. It would’ve been two against one. It wouldn’t have been a fair fight. I had to come and help you” Emma explained loyal.
“That’s very thoughtful...
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The helicopter landed on an open field in the woods. As soon as it hit the ground, Mike opened the door and jumped right out. He ran to the spot Ryan had given him the coordinates of. There were no shovels or anything else that could be useful for that matter.
So he dropped on his knees and started digging.
“Debra!” he shouted while he removed the earth. “Hold on, I’m right here! Just hang on a little bit longer”
After a few more minutes of digging his hands touched something solid. Agitated he wiped the earth from the box that came in view and along with Turner he opened the coffin....
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“Any last words?” Alex asked with a voice of which the malicious pleasure just dripped of. Debra looked up at him, her eyes wide in terror.
“You don’t have to do this” she begged.
“I know I don’t ” Alex replied careless. “Take small breaths” he advised before getting up. As Debra cried and screamed for help he and his partner closed the coffin and buried it underneath the ground.
Everything went quiet. The only sound heard were Debra’s sobs and cries and heavy breaths. She desperately hoped the FBI would find her. Well, they would find her. Just not in time.
“Okay”...
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Before Deb could go, she had to return to prison to get her clothes and other artefacts back, like the tree necklace she’d had ever since she was a child. She hadn’t worn it in years, but she couldn’t quite throw it away. It was the only thing that connected her to her family, and as crappy as her family was, it was still her family.
After she got her stuff back, she went to her cell, where Susan was waiting for her. Susan stood, and walked to Deb. She embraced her tightly.
“I’m so happy for you” Susan sobbed. Her arms still around Deb, she gave her a hard kiss. “You’ll do great...
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With Rob out of the picture, and one of Rob’s girls in the witness stand, Deb dared to hope for the first time in a long time.
“Miss Connor, according to your statement you were acquainted with Robert Lively. Is that correct?” James Hyland asked. Tess nodded. “Please, answer with yes or no” James said.
“Yes” Tess answered firmly.
“Where did you meet him?” James asked.
“I was a patient in the clinic he worked at” Tess replied. “I had some family issues and I needed psychiatric help. Rob was my therapist”
“That means you know my client as well” James motioned at Debra,...
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When she opened her eyes, Deb lay in a hospital bed. Rob was sitting beside her, and for a moment Deb thought she was back in the institution.
“What happened?” she asked hoarse.
“You don’t remember?” Rob frowned. Deb shook her head. “What do you remember?” Rob asked cautiously.
“The last thing I know, is that you picked me up from the clinic” Deb replied.
Rob sighed and shook his head. “I can’t believe I have to be the one to tell you this” he mumbled.
Deb’s eyes widened in fear. “Tell me what?” she asked, with a small voice. She wasn’t sure she actually wanted to...
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During the rest of the day Deb was shown around. Christina explained her how to take orders, and where she had to put the dishes.
Soon enough, evening came, and it was time to change her clothes. When Deb was dressed in her waitress costume, the door of the kitchen opened, and Rob appeared in the doorway.
He whistled admiring at the sight of her. “Do me a favor, and don’t change after your shift” he said, winking, making Deb blush.
In general the evening went quite well, aside the few broken glasses, and the wine Deb spilled on someone’s white shirt.
Finally, when Deb brought an order to...
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Rob parker his car in front of a fancy looking club. He pointed at the big letters under the roof, spelling ‘The Dahlia Dancers’ “They light up in the dark” he informed Deb, and he laughed as he saw Deb’s eyes widen with childlike enthusiasm. “It’s called neon”
“Neon” Deb repeated to herself. “Things that light up in the dark” she added, mentally writing it down.
“Come on, let’s have you take a look inside” Rob suggested, and he got out of the car. Ever the gentleman, he walked around, and got the door for Deb, and helped her out.
She looked around, and inhaled the...
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Deb quickly put on some casual clothes Miranda had given her, and then stormed out of her room, down the stairs, and outside. She braked, and gasped, when she saw a light grey car parked in front of the clinic. It was sort of wrapped with a white ribbon.
“Do you like it?”
Deb’s heart skipped a beat, and she quickly turned around. Rob was leaning against the wall, his arms crossed, a smirk across his face. In all her eagerness to get out, she hadn’t even noticed him.
She ran towards him, and wrapped her arms around his neck. “I’ve missed you so much” she nearly cried.
“I missed you...
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In the week that passed Debra didn’t say a word to Annabel, or to anyone else for that matter. Annabel realized she had gone too far with her accusations, but it wasn’t fair of Deb, either, to just simply assume Annabel’s life had been all rainbows and unicorns.
Sure, she had clothes, a bed to sleep in, and food. But she didn’t really have anyone. Before she had learned the truth about her parents, Annabel had made up this picture perfect in her head. Her father was in the army, and her mother was a teacher.
But now that she knew the truth, it was difficult to forget it. “Why did you...
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