The Alley

By DX

Copyrighted 10/2001, 5/2024, all rights reserved.

White light flashed into her eyes, blinded her, and forced her to squint, but she dare not close them.  One of the men moved in the darkness around her, adjusting the light stands.  "How's that, Mr. Green?"

Mr. Green, a hulking figure hunched over a work bench, glanced over his shoulder.  "That's fine, Mr. White."  Mr. Green went back to shorting his tools.  "Mr. Black?  Would you bring that extension cord over here?"

Mr. White leaned over her, his face a blank shadow.  "She has very pretty eyes."

Mr. Green turned as his thick mammoth fingers wriggled into rubber gloves.  "For now she does."  His gloves snapped sharply.  "I want you to glove up.  This glue instantly and permanently bonds flesh.  If any gets on you, you'll be stuck forever.

Mr. White nodded and his shadow pulled away.

Mira could feel them moving around her, shifting in the shadow.  She struggled against the layers of tape that held her fast to the board.  She was propped up at an angle in the center of an echoing, abandoned warehouse.  She tried to twist her head to see what they were doing, but the thick straps of heavy tape across her forehead and neck that secured her head to the board kept her staring up into the blinding white light.  She could make out Mr. Green, his bulk setting up a tripod. Mr. Black stepped over and mounted something on top of it.  She didn't know who they were.  She'd never heard their voices before.  She didn't know why they abducted her.

Her eyes shifted over as Mr. White pulled up a stool and sat beside her.  As he shifted in and out of the light, she could see he was wearing a surgical mask.  They always did something to hide their faces.  

Mr. White donned a pair of plastic goggles.  He peered down at her as he peeled off a long section of heavy tape.  "Yeah, she's quite the looker.  What a loss."  He said sadly as he ran a tight silver stripe across her chin.  Mira's mouth was already packed with a fat rubber ball held in place by tape.

Mr. Green pulled up a stool.  His square head leaned over her.  His heavy fingers held tongs and with them was rolling a sponge in a container filled with an acrid goo.  He pulled the sponge, stretching strands of amber before plunging it back down and stirring it again.  "Once this stuff starts to dry, it'll expand.  It all happens in a few seconds.  If it bubbles up out of her mouth, let it."

Mr. White watched the mixing.  "How's it going to dry in her mouth, I mean with spit and all?"

Mr. Green kept with his mixing.  "She's afraid, her mouth will be very dry."  

Mira realized with horror, he was right.

The clear golden glue began to turn white.  "Get ready."  Mr. Green announced. 

Mira felt hands about her head as fingers pulled the tape away from her mouth.  She felt the ball pull free with a pop and she drew breath to scream but felt the slimy sponge pack into her mouth first.  Mr. White's hands were under her chin, pulling her jaw shut while Mr. Black clamped a cold, metal plate across her mouth.  Mira tried to spit out the foul thing but only felt it suddenly swell in her mouth.

"Hold it still."  Mr. Green said.  "Until I bolt down the corners."

Mira felt the glue in her mouth continue to swell, filling every inch of her mouth, her teeth.  She thought it would force its way down her throat and choke her, but as Mr. Green loomed over her, choking to death was the least of her worries.

"You're using wood screws?"  Mr. White asked.

Mr. Green fitted a long screw into a drill.  "It's a titanium sheet metal anchor.  Once they penetrate a hard barrier they open up like umbrellas so they cannot be unscrewed.  The government uses them to secure warheads onto missiles."

"Oh," Mr. White said softly.  "And where did you get those?"

Mr. Green leaned closer.  Mira could see her terrified eyes reflected in Mr. Green's glasses.  "You know better than to ask such things."  He said as Mira watched the screw aim at a pre-drilled hole in the plate that covered her mouth.  "You'll feel a big pinch."  Mr. Green told her.

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