Hello all new to the board so I thought I would share the following is a short TUG based story out my mind hope you enjoy.
The Prisoner
Kathy came home from a long day at school and just wanted nothing more than to plop down in front of the TV and homework be damned. She had three tests today and about two hours of extra circular activity on top of it and she was tired.
Tossed off her shoes and didn’t even bother to change out of her school uniform before lounging on the couch and turning on the TV. She flipped lazily through the channels before coming to rest on a show she liked and normally watched at this time anyway. She hadn’t noticed how late it actually was, that last club must have run late or something. Thank god it was Friday and she had the whole weekend to herself.
She curled her long legs up and reached down to roll the knee-high socks down to her ankles. Kathy was a teenager and was quite striking if she did say so herself. Long brown hair and deep hazel eyes and shapely face and body to match. But no matter how good she looked in the school uniform she hated to wear it. Especially the blasted socks. She started to rub and gently scratch her legs as she watched the show and was just beginning to relax. Just then the phone rang making her almost jump out of her skin. She resisted the urge to answer it and waited for the machine to get it first. It was a rule that she had with her parents if they weren’t home she wasn’t supposed to answer the phone.
But the phone didn’t ring again. She wrinkled her forehead at the phone and waited. And sure enough it rang again this time twice and then nothing.
“Oh please don’t ring again,” She said wearily. But her wish wouldn’t be granted this day. The phone rang again and this time three times and then nothing. Now she had a decision to make. She knew who that was, or better put they were. Her friends had started playing tie up games the past summer and they hadn't out grown the phase by the start of the school year. She had gone along with it at first but she wasn’t as gun ho about it as the rest. She didn’t mind playing; they rotated which one was going to get captured and which one got to do the capturing. But she feared this time she was going to be the one getting captured since it had been a while since the last time. It was kinda of fun from time to time but tonight she was just way too tired to play. She sighed and started to pick up the phone when someone stepped into the archway of the living room brandishing a gun.
It was a play gun of course with the orange cap on the barrel. It was Kirby, or at least she thought it was. The person was dressed all in black from the ski mask to the black shoes. He was a little taller than her and didn’t look half-bad when you could see him. He was also a year younger than herself, and she loved to use that to her advantage.
“That wasn’t much time to call you off you know,” Kathy said giving him a look. Kirby just smiled back at her and went into his act.
“You’re coming with me lady,” He said in low scratchy voice.
“And what if I said I didn’t want to this time?” Kathy asked only partially hoping that Kirby would let her off the hook.
“I would say that you don’t have much of a choice in the matter,” He said waving his gun at her.
“Ok let me change,” She sighed and got up off the couch. But she got interrupted as she went past him.
His hand shot out with practiced skill and snared one of her wrists. And before she could even utter a word on handcuff was snapped snug around that wrist.
“Hey! Watch it!” Kathy protested. “I have to change I can’t play in these clothes.” She tried to pull away but Kirby was a little stronger than she was. Though she did put up a fight with the other arm.
“Sorry lady I don’t have time to wait,” He grunted as he got her other arm secured behind her back. The cuffs were not real; they were the toy kind with safety catches on the side. She could get out of them at any moment but that would ruin the game and make them all mad at her for a bit. Not too mention they had a tendency to invoke revenge for such things. So unless she wanted it to be worse next time around she would have to play this one out.
“Come on. My mom will kill you and me if this uniform gets dirty or something,” Kathy pouted.
“Don’t worry I’ll be careful,” Kirby said in his real voice.
“Ok,” Kathy sighed and then dropped into her character. “Please don’t hurt me just take what you want,”
“Oh I am lady. I am taking you.” Kirby said back in character. “We are going for a little walk and don’t you yell or anything. Otherwise I will have to kill you.” He said gently poking her in the ribs with gun.
“Yes sir. I won’t do anything stupid I promise,” Kathy said laying the sarcasm on thick. Kirby gently kicked her in the butt for the comment and started to usher her out the back door.
They emerged out into the early spring evening. The sun was still up but would be down in a couple of hours or so. She chuckled and glanced back at her ‘captor’
“You better remove the ski mask. It isn’t winter and you might draw suspicion.” Kathy advised.
“Oh yeah,” Kirby said turning around and pulling off the ski mask and then slipping on some sunglasses. It was more so their game didn’t get interrupted as it was helping the captor. One time before a concerned neighbor had called police about someone being abducted. It took a lot of explaining to the cops and even more to all of their parents. It was amazing that they weren’t grounded for the rest of their lives. But now most knew of their games but just in case they tried to remember not to walk around in a robber getup outside where everyone could see. Though no one minded that there was a tied up girl usually being ushered through the alley from time to time.
“Oh that was a nice move. Now I will never know who you are. I guess you are just to smart for little ole me,” Kathy said teasing him.
“Move it smart ass,’ Kirby said poking her in the back with the gun. They had about twelve backyards to pass six on each side, to get to where the hideout was. At this time most were at dinner or just inside. But as it happens they always seemed to run into at least one person.
This time it was an elderly woman who was taking out the trash. Both Kirby and Kathy stopped as they all three saw each other. The old woman stopped and smiled at both of them.
“Hello KK.” She said in greeting. She called them ‘KK’ for short whenever both of them were there at the same time. Kirby waved to her and so did Kathy out of reflex although she had wave from behind her back.
“You kids playing again?” The elderly woman asked shaking her head.
“Yes Ms. Malcavich. It would appear that I am being kidnapped this time around. How are you?” Kathy said with a smile.
“Oh I am just fine. And you?” Ms. Malcavich said chuckling about the whole thing.
“I’m a little tied up at the moment but other than that I am fine,” Kathy said grinning about the whole innocent conversation thing.
“Uh with all do respect, if you two are done?” Kirby said rolling his eyes.
“Oh yes I won’t ‘hold you up’ any longer,” The old lady said laughing merrily at her pun. “You kids be careful.”
“We will,” Kathy said smiling and almost laughing at the pun. She started off with Kirby following close behind.
She got to the hideout a little ahead of Kirby who went to a trot to catch up.
“Hey! Who is leading who to the hideout?”
“Well, I told I didn’t want to play very much so I am going to hurry this up a little. Besides I had to wait for you to open the door any way.” Kathy said blowing some hair out of her face.
Kirby opened the door to the sound of several chairs scooting away from a table and scramble for guns.
“Jeez Kirby we thought you were the cops!” Jenny exclaimed lowering her gun.
“Yeah what took so long?” David asked looking at Kathy.
Jenny was the youngest of the group at fourteen, but she was the most enthusiastic of the group. She was a short 5 foot 5 with short blonde hair and pale blue eyes. It didn’t matter to her what she did for these games. Henchman, damsel in distress, main bad guy, she would just throw herself at the part.
David was a heavyset youth of sixteen. Tall at almost 6 foot but kind as kind could get. His hair was an auburn red and long, eyes green. David’s parents have been forever trying to get him to cut his hair but he denies doing it every time. His parents are ok with it, they just wish he would look normal once.
“Well she didn’t come quietly. And we ran into Ms. M. and they got into a conversation,"” Kirby said pushing Kathy into the hideout.
The hideout itself in another life was a tool shed. But now it had been converted into a clubhouse of sorts. A table against the wall with a few chairs and old abused couch against another wall completed the furnishings. It was pretty spacious unless you tried to cram a lot of people in it at once.
“See I told you she wouldn’t want to play after that hellish day at school. And why is she still in her uniform?” Jenny asked taking in Kathy’s appearance.
“Well she didn’t call,” Kirby said defending his actions.
“Like you gave me time,” Kathy retorted.
“Do you want to play?” David asked sighing and looking at Kirby like he wanted to smack him or something.
“I can. Since I have come this far might as well finish it,” Kathy said walking over to a chair and looking at it first to make sure it wasn’t too dusty and sat down.
“What do you think you got on the Science test?” Jenny asked eagerly. They all went to the same school but at different grade levels. But the private school found that having tests for all grades at the same time incited the older students studying with the younger and vises versa.
“I think I aced it to tell the truth,” Kathy said.
“Excuse me?” Kirby said raising his voice to get everyone’s attention. “Can we get back to the task at hand?”
“Oh yeah we do have a game going on don’t we?” Jenny said giggling. Kirby just sighed and went a small box in the corner to retrieve the supplies he wanted.
He came back to the chair that Kathy had chosen and started to tie her feet together at the ankles.
“I really wish you would have let me change,” Kathy said. Now she felt a little exposed not being able to cross her legs like a proper woman.
“Don’t worry about it,” Kirby said moving to tie her knees together. ‘Well that is a little better’ Kathy thought to herself.
“Has anyone called in the ransom yet?” David asked.
“Oops I forgot,” Jenny said quickly getting up and running out the door and heading into her house. David rolled his eyes and laughed a little.
“I swear she can such a scatter brain sometimes,” David said getting up and helping Kirby with the securing of their catch.
Kirby was tying a third band of rope around her legs at the moment, as David came over. She was not going anywhere unless of course she was going to be hopping around.
“Oh please just let me go I will pay anything you want,” Kathy said trying to get back in touch with her damsel in distress.
“You are going to pay that is for certain,” David said as he started to tie her wrists together. Half way through that he removed the handcuffs and cinched her wrists together.
“Is that to tight?” He asked. Kathy shook her head no as Jenny came back in.
“I told them to bring it here and no cops this time,” Jenny said laughing. Knowing full well there was going to be a rescue attempt if not the ‘cops’ showing up.
“Who else is playing?” Kathy wanted to know as she shifted in the chair and the ropes. The boys sure knew what they were doing. The first times they all played the damsels kept getting free before the Calvary arrived. Now it seemed practice has made perfect…she was not getting free without help.
“Just Sandy and Carla,” Jenny said. Kathy smiled; the girls outnumbered the boys this time. It wouldn’t surprise her if Jenny turned on her cohorts in crime and the captors became the captives. It should be interesting once the rescue was put into action.
“When will they be here?” David asked picking up the roll of duct tape from the table.
“Soon they said,” Jenny said. Kathy saw what David intended to with the tape and started to shake her head.
“Oh no you don’t. You are not going to put that on my face. That stuff hurts to take off you know,” She protested.
“It doesn’t hurt that much,” He said as he started to tear off multiple pieces. He knew it would take a few to shut Kathy up properly.
“So says you. You are not the one who will be wearing it,” Kathy said.
“Well my dear,” He said going back into character. “I don’t think you have much say in the matter.”
“Yes I do I mphmmm,” Kathy was cut off in mid sentence as David applied the sticky tape to her mouth. Four others completely sealing her mouth shut quickly followed the first strip; she could only make muffled sounds no words or screams at all. Though she didn’t need to make words, her eyes were staring darts through David at the moment. Oh she would get revenge for this little deed.
“Oh she is mad at you,” Jenny said laughing at Kathy’s predicament. Though she did feel for Kathy, she hated the tape as well.
Just then they all heard something outside of the hideout. Kathy tried to make sounds but feared that they wouldn’t be heard outside. David and the gang got out the dart guns and loaded them up. They all had one shot guns, Kathy knew for a fact that Sandy had a fancy multi-shot gun. She tried to stand and hop to a safer place but Kirby grabbed her shoulder and pushed her back down into the chair and hid behind her. Kathy squealed and called him a coward through her gag.
Just then all hell broke loose. The door to the hideout came flying open as a small girl came rolling into the room. It was Sandy, whom was into gymnastics; she came up on the move and firing. Two darts flew by her missing. David and Jenny reloaded as quickly as they could. But Jenny got hit first and started to die. She was going into a death scene the Oscar judges would appreciate. But since there were none of those around all the scene got was a bunch of groans.
“Shoot her again so she dies,” David said from behind the couch. Jenny was swaying back and forth with a hand to the wound grasping it like it was painful and bleeding. Sandy shot her again and she fell down. And then she got hit herself from David. Sandy looked like she was about to protest and then just fell down. The next dart came from the doorway as Carla hit David square in the forehead. The dart even stuck as David pouted a little and then played dead.
Carla knowing she had one more target in the room, dived for the cover of the couch as a dart just barely missed. Carla peeked over the top of the couch looking for her target.
“Give it up, you know I am a better shoot than you,” Carla said.
“Ha! Maybe if we were shooting at a barn you might hit your target,” Kirby said laughing. Kathy on the other hand was just making noises into her gag and trying to get out the line of fire. Being used as a human shield wasn’t her idea of fun, even if they were just plastic darts. Kirby held her down with one hand and kept the gun trained on Carla waiting for a shoot.
Carla wanted a better shot. She dived and rolled out from behind the couch in a daring attempt to get the upper hand. And just as she hoped would happen Kirby hurried the shot and missed. Carla came up out of the roll and took a couple of steps toward Kirby’s position intent on taking a quick and close shot.
She would get one of those options. She wasn’t as close as she would have liked and the angle was bad. But Kirby had reloaded a lot faster than she thought he could. He came up from behind Kathy and started to take aim. Kathy screamed into her gag, and Carla took aim and fired.
The shot hit Kirby in the head and he fell back to the floor, his shot going up to the ceiling and falling harmlessly to the floor. Carla blew the ‘smoke’ off the end of her gun and walked over to Kathy.
“Do you want to take that off yourself?” She asked tapping the tape on her mouth, Kathy nodded her head. “Ok let me get you untied then.”
Carla started to untie her friend and in quick order had her free. Kathy started to peel off the tape and had it off with a minimal amount of pain.
“Well what do we do with the losers?” Carla asked.
“Tape his mouth shut real good,” Kathy said pointing to David on the floor. He just smiled a little. Carla looked over her options and went about getting out all the supplies they had.
“Here help me,” Carla said tossing Kathy some rope and scarves. “You get Sandy and Kirby. I will get the other two.
“Hey I was on your team,” Sandy exclaimed.
“For dead people they sure are lively,” Kathy said grabbing Sandy’s wrists while she protested.
“Well you shouldn’t have got shot,” Carla said as she started on David.
“It was your idea to come in here like that,” Sandy said still protesting. Kathy finished tying her hands with rope and started in on her ankles. Carla was already done with David and started in on Jenny, completely ignoring Sandy.
“Oh no you don’t, don’t flex your wrists,” Kathy said to Kirby having finished with Sandy. That was a trick that Kirby had picked up and it worked if the person doing the tying wasn’t paying attention.
They got all four of the losers upright and setting in chairs. Kathy got the revenge she wanted on David as she plastered his face with what seemed half of the roll of tape. Carla was merrily gagging the rest of the group with simple cleave gags. Then giving Jenny a small pocketknife the two girls left them to get out.
They would leave but if they didn’t get a call in fifteen minutes then they would come back and check on them all.
“Want to come over to my house and wait?” Kathy asked as they walked down the alley looking at their watches to check the time.
“Sure why not…you still have to change anyway,” Carla said reaching over and brushing off some dust that had found it’s way to her uniform.
“Don’t remind me. I kinda hope we have to go back. I want to get some more revenge,” Kathy said.
“I don’t think David is going to be able to get all that tape off his face,”
“Well he deserved it,” Kathy said laughing as Carla joined in as the head toward the house.