Postby KP Presents » Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:37 am
“I mean it,” he said as he grabbed me and turned me round, holding me against him with his gloved hand over my mouth - nobody moves, or this little one gets hurt.” He pulled me back out of the door, and closed the door to the sound of Cassie saying to Rachel “It’s all right - I want you to take deep breaths, I’m sure Patty isn’t going to be hurt...”
Well, when he took me out into the corridor he turned me round, squatted in front of me and said “Patty? Don’t tell me you live here?”
“Of course I do, Bil... Mister James. What are you doing here?”
I could see him staring at me, with a funny look that reminded me a bit of when mummy told me about daddy, and then he said “your mum asked me to come and surprise you today - play a game with you. She told me you like to play girl detectives - is that right?”
I nodded and said “I love to - are you going to play that game with all of us?”
“A game like that.” Billy said quietly, “but you have to play along, and you have to pretend that you don’t know me. Can you do that?”
“You know I can - I always like it when you help me.”
“That’s good Patty,” he said as he stroked my hair back, “so you don’t know me, and you mustn’t mention my name, all right?”
I nodded as he hand gagged me again, opened the door and carried me back in. I could see Patty and Suzie were sitting wither side of Rachel, who was looking at us, while Alicia and Jenny were standing by the fireplace. IT was Angela, eyes blazing as she looked at Billy, who said “What the hell do you think you’re playing at, bursting in and threatening us with a gun?”
“Are you in charge here,” he said as he pushed me over to the other three, and I knelt in front of Rachel. “It’s all right,” I said to her with a smile on my face, “We’re just going to play a game, that’s all?”
Cassie looked at me, then at Billy, and I could see that look in her eyes I see sometimes in Mummy when I ask her for something she doesn’t think I need. She then looked at Suzie, who nodded and said “all right - as this is a game, let’s all play along. We can play this together, Rachel, all right?”
“All.... All right,” she said as she tried to smile. I looked at Angela, who was still looking at Billy with thunder in her eyes.
That’s a phrase Mummy used to say of Daddy when he was upset - he had thunder in his eyes.
“Look,” Billy finally said, “all I want to do is take the money and valuables in this house. I want you all to sit here and keep quiet - give me your mobile phones.”
“Why,” Alicia said as she looked at him, “are you afraid we might be texting?”
“No, I don’t want you calling the police,” Billy said as he waved the gun at them, “now just give me your phones - all of you!”
Angela stared at him, then took her phone out of her pocket and threw it on the chair. “Just do as he says, girls,” she said as she looked at us, “then he can get out of here quicker.” I watched as Jenny, Alicia and Suzie tossed their phones over as well, before Billy picked them up and put them in his pocket.
“Right,” he said as he pointed the gun at all of us, “You lot just sit in here, nice and quiet, and don’t move while I search the house.”
“Don’t worry,” Jenny said as she looked at us, “We’ll do what you say, right?”
“Yes, I will,” Rachel said quietly, and Suzie gave her a big hug. She was playing along so well - it seemed as if she was getting into the spirit of it already!
“Good, good,” Billy said as he looked at me. “Now, remember, don’t move...”
“We won’t be able to move if you tie us up - after all....”
“PATTY!!!” I had expected it to be Alicia or Angela that said something, but it was Suzie and Cassie as they looked at me.
“What - if we’re girl detectives, like when we were on holiday, don’t the bad guys have to tie us up to stop us raising the alarm?”
“I’m not going to do that,” Billy stammered, “I’ll take you upstairs and lock you in a room instead. That way you can’t raise the alarm, and I can be out of here quickly. Come on - you first little one.”
He took my arm and made me stand up, walking me to the door, but as I got there I hissed “Do you want me to tell them why you’re doing this, sir?”
“I don’t...”
“If we’re playing girl detectives you have to do what the bad guys do - unless you want me to call you by your name...”
He looked at me, and his eyes were wide open, as if he was scared I was going to tell them he was a demon.
“We can call from the window if you lock us in a room - you did that, didn’t you Cassie?”
Cassie was sitting with Rachel, holding her hand as she looked at me. “Patty, just let him lock us in a room, this one time. Please?”
“If you won’t I will, so I think you need to tie us all up - there’s rope in the hall cupboard.”
I looked at the others, a big smile on my face, but I could see they were all playing along, Suzie whispering to Rachel as Alicia and Jenny stood with Angela. Billy looked at them and said “All right - you,” he said pointing at Jenny, “go and find this rope, and the rest of you - sit down and put your hands on your head.”
“I hope you know what you’re doing,” Jenny mumbled to me as she walked past, and returned a few minutes later with some lengths of skipping rope, putting them on the table before she sat between Cassie and Alicia.
I heard her say “I don’t think she really knows,” as Billy put the gun down on the table, picked up one length of rope, then looked at Angela before saying “Oldest first - put your hands out in front of you.”
I watched with eager eyes, but as he tied Angela’s wrists together in front of her, I could see he was doing a really, really bad job of it! He only wrapped the rope around them and tied it off where she could reach it with her fingers, never mind her teeth, then did the same to her ankles. She wriggled them round a little, then nodded to Alicia as he started to do the same to her.
Jenny looked at me as he tied her up, as if daring me to say something, but I kept quiet as he made his way down. Rachel was still sobbing a little as he pulled her hands together, so he said “Look, this is a game, it’ll be over soon.”
It may be a game, but as he tied my wrists and ankles I lifted my hands up and looked at them. “There,” he finally said as he stood up and looked at us, “now stay there.”
“Don’t worry,” Angela said, “We’re not going anywhere, are we?” She looked at us, and we all shook our heads, but I was still disappointed.
“You know we can get out of this in two seconds,” I said to Cassie as we wriggled round.
“I know,” Cassie said as she looked at me, wriggling her wrists as well, “but this is a game, Patty, so play along.”
“Yeah - but the man tied us up tighter that night, and he tied you up tighter as well, didn’t he Rachel?”
Rachel nodded as she looked down, before saying “But there are more of us here, I don’t want to get us in trouble...”
Billy had gone to another room, but when I saw him coming back I called out “Hey Mister!”
“What is it now,” he said as he came back into the front room.
“This is rubbish,” I said as I pulled my wrist apart, and the rope fell off. “My cousin Cassie can tie better than you - she should teach you what to do to keep us really quiet and out of the way.”
“I just want you to stay there, lass - please don’t...”
“Hey, you’re the one robbing us,” I said as I untied Cassie, who was staring at me open mouthed, “you should at least do a good job of keeping us out of the way.”
“Tell me I’m not seeing or hearing this,” Alicia said to Jenny as I untied my ankles, then freed Cassie before saying “Get the box - let’s teach the robber how to do it properly.”
“This - sounds sickeningly familiar,” Jenny said as Cassie looked at me, then said “I promise I won’t call for help - I just need to get some more rope and things.”
“I’ll take you - the rest of you stay here,” Billy said as he took Cassie by the arm, leading her out of the room. As they went up the stairs, Angela looked at me and said “Patty, I think the game may be going a little too far. Let’s just let him play and then go...”
“Oh come on - don’t you want the game to be played properly? Rachel - would you like to play?”
Rachel looked at Suzie, who said “I tell you what - if we’re going to do this, you take care of Rachel, and Cassie can take care of me. You’re not going to hurt her, are you?”
I shook my head and beamed as Cassie brought the box down, Billy following her wide eyed as she opened it and took out silver tape and two pairs of socks.
“All right,” Suzie said, “Cassie, you untie me and Patty will untie Rachel - then we do the works.”
“The works? What’s that?”
She looked at Billy, shaking her head as if to say “Why am I doing this,” before actually saying “We’re going to show you how other robbers have made sure we can’t move or speak. Rachel, Patty will take care of you - be brave now.”
“I’ll be brave if the rest of you are,” she said as she looked at me and Cassie. “All right then,” Cassie said, “I want you two to make fists in front of you.”
As Suzie did so, Cassie took the silver tape and wrapped it round her hands, then handed it to me as she picked up a pair of socks. “We first need to make sure we can’t use our hands,” she said in a loud teacher voice, so as I taped Rachel’s hands into silver balls, she looked wide eyed at Cassie, who was pulling a pair of socks over Suzie’s hands.
“Can you give me the tape back for a moment, Patty,” Cassie said as she looked at me. I handed her the tape, and pulled a pair of socks over Rachel’s hands as she taped the top of the socks to Suzie’s arms. I did the same for Rachel, and then said “There - think you can use your hands for anything now?”
“I don’t think she can,” Angela said as she watched us at work. I thought there was a little bit of approval in her voice, but it was difficult to tell as we helped the other two to shuffle forward.
“Now,” Cassie said to my friend as he watched, we can secure their wrists behind their back, so that they cannot move them.” She gently pulled Suzie’s wrists behind her, crossing them before taking a length of rope and tying them tightly together.
I did the same, and as I cinched the rope between Rachel’s arms I said “This is exciting isn’t it?”
“I’m scared as well as excited,” Rachel whispered as I passed some rope around her waist, and tied it between her body and arms to lock her wrists in place. “Doing this stops us moving our wrists,” Cassie said out loud.
“You sound like your Aunt Cassie,” Suzie giggled as she tried to move her arms. “How does it feel to you, Rachel,” she then said as she looked at my friend.
“Like when the man tied up my mum and me,” she said as she tried to move them. “Is this all they do?”
“Nope,” I said as I took more rope, “Let’s do this right.”
Rachel stared ahead, wide eyed as Cassie and I tied her and Suzie’s arms to their bodies, with bands of rope around their tummies and their shoulders. “I really can’t move now,” she said eventually, “and you’re really good at this.”
“Must be all the practice,” Cassie mumbled as she tied off the last knot, and Billy stared at both of them.
“Yeah - that’s really tight. No way you’re using a phone now. So can I get on with robbing the place?”
“Oh dear me no,” I said with a smile, “First you have to tie the legs, but before you do that I think we need to stop them calling out for help.”
“Patty,” Suzie said as she looked at me, “I don’t think Rachel will...”
“No, it’s all right,” Rachel said with a little smile, “if the robber has to do it, he has to do it right. I’ll be good, I promise.”
“See,” I beamed at everyone, “Rachel wants it, so let’s do it - do it all.”
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