The Games
Player - Seated
“I really
enjoyed the party, Mum,” Alice said as she looked at her mother behind the
wheel.
“I’m glad you
did - and you did not feel left out of anything?”
“Not really - I
got to take part in all the games,” Alice said with a smile. The ten-year-old
had her blonde hair in two pigtails, and was wearing a long-sleeved purple top
with a short denim skirt, purple striped tights and knee length brown leather
boots with straps.
“Well, the
other mothers and I had a good chat as well,” Lesley said with a smile. She was
wearing a cream-coloured jacket over a black dress with openings above her
chest, the knee length skirt covering the tops of her black leather boots. Her
long black hair was blowing in the breeze from the open window next to her as
she made her way along the road.
“So what are we
going to have for tea today?”
“I have some
fish fingers and chips - if you have any room left after that party lunch.”
“Oh I might be
able to manage it,” Alice said with a grin as Lesley turned into a driveway,
and brought their vehicle to a stop outside the large cottage. Putting the
brakes on, she turned the engine off and unlocked the mechanism holding her
wheelchair in place, as she said “Release yourself as well, while I open the
rear doors.”
Pressing a
button on the dashboard, she turned her head and watched as the rear doors of
the van opened and a ramp slowly lowered, as Alice unlocked the brakes on her
wheelchair and rolled herself out. Lesly followed her out, turning her own
wheelchair as she did so, before she wheeled herself out, waiting as the ramp
was slowly raised and retracted into the van before she closed and locked the
doors.
“Right, let’s
head in,” she said with a smile as she replaced the keys in her handbag, and
then wheeled herself to the front door, Alice following her as the wheels
crunched on the gravel driveway. She waited as her mother unlocked the front
door, and then opened the door as they both made their way in.
“I’ll go and
fetch us both a drink,” Lesley said as Alice mad her way into the front room,
and she closed the door behind herself before wheeling her way down to the
kitchen, pushing the door open and looking round.
“That’s funny,”
she whispered, “why is the back door open?”
“That might be
because I opened it.”
Lesley suddenly
turned her head to see a young woman standing there, her arms folded as she
smiled under the stocking that was pulled down over her head, pressing down her
light brown hair. She was wearing a brown jumper and leggings, the lower half
of which was tucked into brown suede boots, and brown gloves on her hands.
Lesley stared at her, before she said “whoever you are, you “
“I am going to
play a game with you and your daughter,” the masked woman said with a smile as
she sat in a chair, “a very special game.”
“A You’re one
of them aren’t you?”
“One of what,”
the woman said as she smiled.
“A Games
Player.”
“Well, I am not
going to deny it,” she replied, “and as such, you now know I am going to be
relieving you of your valuables. Ad you also know I have to make sure you and
your daughter cannot stop me.”
“You may have
noticed “
“I know,” the
Player said quietly, “and I understand, but I am going to do this the same as I
would anyone else. I feel that is only fair and right.”
Lesley looked
at her, before she said “I don’t know whether to scream for help or admire your
honesty. If we are going to do this, then I need to be able to take her a drink
first - with your permission?”
“Of course - I
would ask if you wanted help, but something tells me that would not be the
right thing to do.”
Lesley nodded
as she went and fetched two bottles of water from the fridge, and placed them
on her lap as the Player picked up a rucksack.
“Hey Mum - what
happened,” Alice said as she watched the door open, and then she saw the masked
woman follow her in. “Who is this?”
“This is an
actress,” Lesley said, “because I have organized an exciting treat for you,
Alice. We are going to play a game of hostages, and she is playing the part of
the woman who take sus hostage.”
“Really? Like
on the television?”
“That’s right,”
Lesley said, “now, that does mean she is going to make sure we can’t move or “
“MUM!”
“I meant can’t
move our arms,” Lesley said with a smile, “or talk, but we will be together,
and we can watch something on the television until she ells
us we can try and get free.”
“It sounds
exciting,” Alice said with a smile, “so what will she do first?”
“Well,” the
Player said as she put her rucksack down and opened the top, “for a start, you
and your mother can have the water she has brought in, while I use some rope to
tie your ankles and legs together.”
Alice laughed
as she said “She has seen the wheelchairs. Right Mum?”
“She has,”
Lesley said as she handed her daughter a bottle of water, “but he wants it to
be as realistic as possible, and a real kidnapper would tie our legs as well.”
“Fair point,”
Alice said as the Player knelt down and wrapped the rope round her ankles,
gently pulling them together as she wound the length around and between her
legs to secure them tightly together. She then took a second length of cord and
secured Alice’s legs together below her knees, taking the rope between her legs
there as well, before she stood up and said “there - if you could walk, do you
think you could get away now?”
“I don’t think
so,” Alice said quietly as she took a drink from her bottle, “so are you going
to do the same to Mum?”
“I am indeed,”
the player said as she fetched two more lengths of rope from her rucksack, and
knelt in front of Lesley, the young woman watching as she wrapped the rope
round her booted ankles and then bound them tightly together. She heard the
squeak as leather rubbed against leather while the Player folded back the hem
of her skirt, and secured her legs together below her knees, the binding
sitting on top of her boots.
“There,” Lesley
said as the hem of her skirt was folded back, “now we’re both the same, aren’t
we?”
“Yes we are,”
Lesley said as she finished her water, the Player taking the empty bottle from
her.
“Now, watch
what I do with Mummy,” she said as she looked at Alice, the young girl watching
as she first helped Lesley to remove her jacket and reveal her bare arms,
before she took Lesley’s wrists behind her back and started to bind them
tightly together with more rope. She then took a longer rope and wrapped it
round Lesley’s arms and body, forcing them against her sides as it was taken
round in two bands.
“It doesn’t
hurt, does it Mum,” Alice asked quietly.
“No, the rope is
actually quite soft,” Lesley said as she was lifted out of the wheelchair by
the Player, and then sat on one end of the couch. She twisted round, feeling
the ropes rub on her are arms, while the Player said to Alice “your turn -
ready?”
“Yeah - I’m
ready,” Alice said as she leaned forward, and put her hands behind her back,
smiling as her mother watched the player secure her daughter’s wrists together
behind her back, and then use the longer length to make sure she could not move
her arms at all.
“Yeah, it is
like being hugged,” Alice laughed as she was lifted out of the wheelchair, and
sat next to her mother.
“There - now
can I trust you both to be quiet while I take care of a few things, and watch
something on the television?”
We’ll be
quiet,” Lesley said, Alice nodding as the Player turned he television on, and
then said “Don’t move.”
“Funny,” Lesley
said as the masked woman left the room, and then she looked at her daughter.
“It is actually a fun game, isn’t it?”
“Yeah - but is
she really going to do something to stop us talking later?”
“I think she
will - but she hasn’t hurt us, has she? So I don’t think she will do anything
bad to us to stop us talking.”
Alice nodded as
she rested her head against her mother’s arm - and then they both looked to the
doorway as a woman said “Lesley, are you and Alice in the front room? She left
something at the party.”
“Let me talk to
her, tell her what is happening, all right,” Lesley said quietly, Alice nodding
as the door opened and a woman the same age as Lesley came in. She had long
brown hair, and was wearing a pink sweatshirt with a long black skirt that had
a red floral print on it, as well as black fabric ankle boots.
With her was a
ten-year-old girl, her long black hair falling over the shoulders of her black
sweatshirt. It had gold stars on it, and the word “SPARKLE” in gold letters
over the top at the front. Her pleated silk skirt was the same shade of pink as
the older woman’s sweatshirt, and she was wearing black laced shoes with white
spots on the leather.
“Ying Li “
“Wow,” the
young girl said quietly, “what’s happening Mum?”
“Lesley “
“We’re playing a
game of hostages, Li,” Alice said as she looked over, “come and have a look at
what the lady did to us.”
The young girl
came over and looked at Alice turned her body to how her the ropes holding her
wrists and arms in place, while her mother looked at Lesley.
“A game of
Hostages?”
“That’s right,”
Lesley said as she looked at the two girls. “I hired an actress to play the
part, and I told her to make it realistic. “
“She really
tied you both up?”
“I did - and
now you are here, I am going to ask you both to join in the game as well.”
“Can they,”
Alice said as Jin turned and looked at the masked woman.
“Oh they can -
in fact, if they join in, they can sit in your wheelchairs - once I have made
sure they cannot use their hands to try and escape.”
“Can we Mum,”
Li said, “I want to be like Alice.”
Yin looked at
Lesley, who nodded, before she said “All right - so we are your hostages. I
presume you want our phones and purses?”
“To prevent you
raising the alarm, yes,” the Player said as Yin handed her her
handbag, and Li took a phone out of the pouch on her sweatshirt before she
handed it over. “Thank you - now, both of you, put your hands behind your back.
I’m going to tie your wrists together, and then some rope round your arms to
keep you nice and snug.”
The two new
arrivals nodded as she went behind Li, and crossed her wrists behind her back,
before she used some rope to secure them tightly together. She then bound her
mother’s wrists together, Yin smiling as the longer rope was then passed round
her and pulled tight under her chest.
“So you want us
to sit in the wheelchairs while you finish binding us?”
“Indeed - less
likely for you to try and stand up and jump to raise the alarm,” the Player
said with a smile as she pule the rope tighter and famed Yin’s chest in the
same way as Lesley’s, before tying the ropes off behind her back.
“She things of
everything, doesn’t she Mum,” Alice said, Lesley nodding as Yin sat in her
wheelchair, and then the Player began to use another longer rope and wound it
round Li’s body to keep her arms fixed against her sides.
As she tied the
ropes off, Li smiled and walked over to Alice’s wheelchair, sitting herself in
it as she watched the masked woman kneel down and start to bind Yin’s ankles
tightly together. She then folded her skirt back and secured her legs together
below her knees, taking the rope between the woman’s legs to make it tighter
and tying the ropes off before she folded her skirt back, and stood up.
“Ready,” she
said as she took two more ropes from her rucksack and knelt in front of Li, the
young girls watching as the Player bound her ankles tightly together as well,
and then her legs below her knees under her skirt.
“Wow - this
does feel nice,” Li said as the masked woman stood up, Alice nodding as Yin and
Lesley exchanged a glance.
“Now, I have to
sort out ransom demands and collection,” the Player said as she looked in the
rucksack, and took out a length of white tape, “so I need to use this to make
you quiet. When I have done, I need you all to stay nice and still for one hour
and watch the television, and then you can start to try and get free. I will be
in the kitchen - the first person to get free gets a special prize.”
“And if we
can’t get free?”
“Then after
another hour, I have arranged for another actor to come and be the hero who
finds all of you. All right?”
The four
captives looked at each other and nodded, as the Player peeled a length of the
tape away from the roll, and then pressed it down over Lesley’s mouth with her
gloved hands. She nodded and then smiled at Alice, the shape of her kips
visible under the tape as her daughter was gagged in the same way.
Yin and Li then
both had tape pressed over their mouths as well, as the player checked all four
of them, and then said “Well, enjoy the program” as she left the room, taking
her rucksack with her.
Yin looked over
and said “hghhmhmhm?”
“Hgghmhphlhr,” Lesley mumbled as their daughters laughed
under the gags
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