This is a story written mostly to fulfill a request made by W3sker96 which I've linked to below for reference, which should give you a bit of an idea on at least some of the action that will take place in the story. A young woman named Natalie is the main character in this story.
It's not finished yet. With any luck I should have it finished in the next week or so, but I wouldn't count on it.
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Part 1
3:24 p.m.
Natalie sat on the bed in her apartment, trying to think of what to do. She was off work today and though there was a chance of storms in the evening, the weather was great at the moment. She thought about taking a book down to the park to read.
But at that moment, she heard a knock at the door. A knock which would dramatically change her plans for the day.
Natalie went to the door to see who was knocking. "Who is it?" she said.
"I have a package for you" came a male voice from the other side of the door.
Natalie looked through the peephole and saw a man standing there with a box in his hand. She opened the door enough to see out but left the chain on so it would open only a few inches. "I'm not expecting..." she started to say, but another man standing beside the door, out of view, had a pair of bolt cutters and used them to snap the chain off. Before Natalie could do anything to stop them they had forced their way inside. The second man grabbed her and pinned her arms to her sides with one arm and used his other hand to cover her mouth before she could scream. The other man stepped inside and shut the door quickly.
Natalie struggled in the man's grip, but he was stronger than she was. He tightened his grip. "Don't fight or make a sound" he said, "and we won't hurt you."
Natalie's heart pounded as the man with the box opened it. He had a bag inside, a few cloths, some plastic ties, and a roll of duct tape. He picked up one of the pieces of cloth and the duct tape and approached Natalie.
"Now we're going to make sure you stay quiet" the man with the tape said. The man holding Natalie took his hand off her mouth and held her arms with both hands. She wanted to scream and fight but now that he could use both arms to hold her still she knew she didn't stand a chance.
"Open your mouth" the man with the cloth and duct tape said.
"No, please..." Natalie started to say, but as she was speaking the man stuffed the cloth in her mouth. He pulled some tape off the roll and pressed it over her mouth, keeping her from spitting the cloth out. Natalie tried to pull her arms free but the man holding her from behind had a very tight grip and had her arms pinned tightly.
The man with the tape wrapped it around Natalie's head 3 or 4 times, being nice enough to go under her long brown hair. He tore it off once he was finished and smoothed it down. The cloth filled Natalie's mouth pretty well and was a little uncomfortable. Natalie's arms were still pinned tight by the man behind her, making her helpless to resist.
"All right now let's see what you have of value here" the man with the duct tape said. He went back to his box and took the bag out of it.
The men forced Natalie to point out where she had her jewelry and some money in the apartment, which they put in the bag. With her mouth stuffed with the cloth and taped shut Natalie couldn't scream. She wanted to fight but the man who'd held her arms always kept a grip on her in some way.
Once the men got what they wanted they turned their attention back to Natalie. "Okay honey we're going to need to tie you up so you don't alert anyone about us too soon."
Natalie mumbled into her gag and frantically shook her head no, not wanting to be left bound and gagged alone in the apartment. But she was helpless to do much about it. One of the men pulled her arms behind her back as the other used one of the plastic ties to fasten her wrists together. The plastic bit into her skin a little bit as it was pulled tight and she grunted into the gag. The men then sat her in her computer chair which they pulled out from the computer desk into the open part of the room. Her ankles were bound with a plastic tie under the hem of her long skirt, then pulled up under the chair where they were fastened to the base of the chair with another plastic tie. The men then wrapped duct tape around her torso and upper arms and the chair below her breasts. More tape wrapped around her legs and the seat of the chair further fastened her to the chair. Finally the men used the duct tape to tape the wheels of the chair down to the floor, preventing it from moving, and preventing Natalie from rolling the chair to anything that she could use to cut her loose.
The men stepped back and looked at her. "I don't think she's going anywhere anytime soon" one of them said.
"We'll be long gone by the time she gets off that chair" the other one said.
Natalie's eyes were wide with fright. "Don't worry honey" one of the men said. "Surely somebody will notice you haven't been seen and come to find you in a few days."
Natalie whimpered into the gag at the sound of that. A few days? She definitely didn't want to be stuck in the chair that long. She mumbled into the gag at them, pleading with them not to leave her bound to the chair, even though she knew they couldn't understand her and wouldn't do anything if they could.
The robbers decided to leave through the window rather than risk being spotted going back out the door. They climbed out Natalie's window, careful to close the shades so no one could look in and spot Natalie bound to the chair too quickly and also turned off the lights to make it appear as if no one was home. With that Natalie was left alone, bound, gagged, and completely helpless.
3:53 p.m.
Once Natalie had enough time to get control of her fear and start assessing her situation, she started to calm down and began to think of the best way to free herself. She tested her bonds but there didn't seem to be much hope of getting out of any of them. The plastic ties dug into her wrists and ankles if she fought them very much, and the duct tape was going to be next to impossible to break out of. She tried to move the chair but the tape kept the wheels firmly fastened to the floor, leaving her an island in the middle of the room with nothing to cut herself free nearly close enough to reach. Natalie did little but work up a sweat.
4:12 p.m.
Natalie grunted into her gag, frustrated at how she couldn't seem to move much of anything. She was currently trying each of her bonds one by one, looking for a weak spot in them, but couldn't find anything that felt like it might give.
Just then Natalie heard a knock on her door. "Natalie, are you in there?" It was the voice of Sara, one of Natalie's next-door neighbors and one Natalie's friends.
Natalie saw a possible chance to get free here, if she could get Sara's attention. Even if Sara couldn't get into the apartment, she could get help from somebody who could. Natalie tried to make as much noise as possible, screaming into the gag, hoping the sound could be heard through the door.
Sara knocked on the door again. "Natalie?"
"I don't think she's home." This voice belonged to Allison, Sara's roommate. At this time Natalie wished she had a roommate of her own to come and find her.
"I thought she had the afternoon off" Sara said. Her voice was faint through the door but Natalie could make out the words. "Natalie are you not in there? We're going to have a few friends over. Kevin's coming over." Kevin was a guy Sara and Allison knew fairly well but Natalie only knew a little. She had a bit of a crush on him. She had been single for a while. Sara knew of the crush.
"Her light's off" Allison said. "If she's home she must be taking a nap and doesn't want to be disturbed."
Natalie screamed even louder into the gag, as loud as she could. If she could only get their attention she could be freed. She rocked the chair as much as possible, hoping it would squeak or make some kind of noise. But her mumbles were muffled too well by the gag. "Hmmmmm mmmmm!" was all she could make when she tried to yell "help me!"
"All right, we'll come back in a little while" Sara said. She heard faint footsteps of the two walking away.
Natalie's head slumped forward. She was so close to being freed, if she could only have gotten her friends' attention. She grunted in frustration behind the gag. So close, if she could simply get someone's attention.