Jess drags herself into work next week after a weekend spent in hospital, still with the knee brace. It's not broken, but still really fucked up. Now she has a hospital bill to pay off as this is one not being footed by Maggie. Last time was a rare gesture from a millionaire and she'll never get that lucky again.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAMZN1EYAt
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"Seriously? Do you have no life outside work? You could have stayed at home, you didn't have to come in." Bella says, standing right at the sign in booths.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvDcmrB9ei5
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"Nope. And I have to, rent and medical bills."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1nYF0yxKh
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"Okay... Anyway, Maggie and Anna wants to see you before shift start in that case. Main floor out here is still setting up the androids, toddler play zone, go karts, etc."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwa2H1TLjnt
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As they walk past heading to the elevator to the security office, she looks over at the medical tent. Just Brianna is present, she's setting up alone. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGsgkHpXyI
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"Where's Adam?" She whispers to Bella. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGasfvh06r
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"He quit that afrernoon we sent you to the hospital. His going back to work for emergency services out on the street."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILF62ncNu4
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"Wait, is Brianna a private paramdeic too?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNc93PG1XZ
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"She is. Following in mothers footsteps and all that, that last part being fairly loose though, give or take."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZdCYqbwpK
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"Who was her mother?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60s98cuPoZ
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And Bella stops, turning to look at Jess. "Forget I said anything, I'm sorry."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr6pIJQ0PHF
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And then they continue on. Her co-workers have secrets like she does. They arrive upstsirs, seeing Maggie talking to people, Anna not present. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡySNOHB7LWz
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"Maggie-" Bella begins, Jess cutting her off. "First of all, I just want to say I am not shooting up drugs. I have never touched drugs and if you want to fire me, go ahead. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡssAXjLoHNG
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Heck, I'll quit right now myself. I'm problematic, dragging drama to work with me. I sware I'm not doing it on purpose and I actually have no real intention of getting to know any of my co-workers. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09NU8cqm0b
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I'm only here because I need a job to eat and pay my bills and that's it."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoeqTlevXx1
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Maggie stops talking mid setence hearing what was just said. "Oh..." Bella whispers, looking to the side, her hair falling and covering her face.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4o1RpJcSeZ
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Maggie turns around and takes a seat, leaning on one of the desks. "Jesse-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ky1kOBAAg
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"I prefer Jess."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYrL9FBMEj
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"You're right, I'm sorry. I don't know you all that well. Jess, when my now dead and ex-husband murdered my children, 1 girl and four boys it tore me apart, I was an emotional wreck for years. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqODvKgSeoR
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I met him in University and dropped out as we fell pregnant, we married and I got pregnant several times after that. I stayed home living the home house wife life, he graduated and was also the bread winner, we we're rich, had a mansion and then he killed them and himself. He had been a tad abusive to me, but I never thought he was capable of murder.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloqxCUAunW
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Fast forward a few years, I'm slowly picking myself up after grieving, I now run this place, it's not what I want to do forever, but there was alot of fines and debts that need paying, and I could only ignore them so long, I'm also in the position where I'm fucking loaded from the insurance payouts and that this fun centre is actually profitable, I sold the mansion and don't live there. It wasn't in complete disrepair, well, it kind of was. Give or take that, I still sold the plot of land it was on which was hundreds of acres.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCPzsECd69
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I fix this place up fully, pay off every fine and debt, have a full rotating roster for every department and I'm going to sell this bussiness to somebody else on the condition of they can't fire anybody in the first 12 months, they will sign a legally binding contract, I have a team of lawyers.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBuIgxIlRXD
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Every employee here is fully aware of that fact, I just not had told you yet and I'm sorry. Then I am packing my bags and jet setting for France, I will be leaving the country."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yM4iPnrwo
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"Okay? So, how does-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zAPzH6nRS
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"What I'm trying to tell you is what kind of boss am I let alone a human being if I am having no fucking empathy, compassion, understanding what so ever for other people? You aren't going to be fired by me unless you do something as bad as the ones who locked you in the android warehouse first shift, that's an immediate dissmial. And the county for this area fined me for that, laying out heating was a regulation in warehouses overnight even if they are not made for humans as accidents like yours happen.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLFgoDYujks
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I could have accidentally killed you, Jess. The county keeps a very close eyes on this place, there is constant reviews and other sectors sticking their nose in."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmga47SoQsg
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"Sectors?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFv4qFTPVWC
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"Like the Android Regulation & Human Safety Board."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspjkLq7dnQ
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"... I know that one."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfM91zbInlg
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"I'm sorry?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBSBmBC6lQ
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"Maggie, before I bought a one way ticket here... where I came from, it was a city without automation. Well, it wasn't without automation, it didn't reject innovation, but androids we're banned... "144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQD0aBSlN63
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"Wait, this is your first time seeing androids?" Maggie starts laughing. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEemhatn5JO
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"Yeah! Well, I saw them online... but never up close till now." Jess cries a little. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpfAQeZGZU4
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"Damn, so what do you really think of them?!"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6hGzRPllE
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"Really lifelike! I can barely tell the diffrence between them and a person! Well, except when they say, "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand the question and/or this topic/phrase.""144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwafhsPxU3e
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"I know right?! It was so stressful when I first took over, I was not to used to them. I didn't interfere with my ex-husbands bussiness at all beforehand."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSR7bzki5V
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"So, what is your dream? Because it's not this place."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjcthiKiUP
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"Fashion designer." And Maggie holds a magazine out to Jess. Maggie's on the cover wearing a goregous sparkly jumpsuit.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvtsW9GNSC1
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"Is that yours? Did you design it?" Just a few months ago, she could have afforded that jumpsuit there, hefty price-tag not mattering.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxTJvtojRz8
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"Yes, I did. I dabble in it, but most of my time is eaten up by this place. Looking forward to when I can offically leave it all behind and pursue what I want to really do."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvJH3WDPg6b
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"Where do you live now if it's not... your mansion..."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9rrTMs5vy3
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"I rent a two bedroom apartment in a high rise overlooking the beach. It's still in the swanky part of the city. Get this, my neighbor is a Doctor as well. She co-developed the treatment for Hanahaki Disease. She moved in just last month. Crazy, I'm surrounded by bloody doctors." Maggie laughs.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡID0etGrT1K
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"Who else is a Doctor around you? And what is Hanahaki?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLg3HipAS6D
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"Me. I'm a Psychatrist, but I'm still a Doctor, Jesse." Says an unknown voice, turning around to see it's Anna. "And if you're lucky, you will never find out what Hanahaki is. It's brutual, but you could search it up later online I guess..."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIfHipGAzZ
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"But not on company time." Maggie laughs. "I'm sorry, Jess. But I need to be actually running, I'm supposed to be in a group call soon. Uh, so, please don't quit... Bella will give you your tasks for today, you're on office duty, I can't have you on the floor with your leg still injured... Now, I have to run." And Maggie leaves.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRUWXmYOGU
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"Jesse, so you know, I'm not here to make the employees of Maggie's lives worse or snitch on you all. I'm here to help, but it's not just you all. It's Maggie too... She has never been the greatest at dealing with people and that's where I come in."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXXO2lklcz
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"But you we're at-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2AVoS23QPC
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"The Hospital. And I'm still checking in on patients there and outpatient, but I have signed on for a few months here during the day. I'm just removing the working nights aspect at the hospital, they can employee somebody else for that.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyJZuquplm
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I'd like to offer you one appointment a week so we can talk."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9OeerRypSk
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"...... Bella, what are my tasks for today?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3JWufGXEBa
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"That's okay, you can take some time to come around to the idea. You're not under any community based treatment order. I have an office near Maggie's if you want to talk." And Anna leaves. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPSJCd7sYrV
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"She does not seem like an annoying corporate-" Jess begins. 'No, she does not." Bella responds. Anyway, let me get you set up at a computer. Also, we reviewed the security footage, saw what Ren did. She has been discplined, but we have also talked to Jamie. Though I think it when in one ear and out the other for Jamie, she doesn't want to go to school, would prefer to hang out here and bring... her baby sister with it. There has to be something going on with her parents if her baby sister's not in childcare arrangement and at school for Jamie."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBb5sVzYp5w
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"And why can't we dob her into police?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrF9yrHJfxz
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"The law doesn't allow us. If a Truancy Officer wishes to check the funpark, turning up on their own accord, we have to let them in. Jamie and even her friends will get caught eventually anyway so let's just try and ignore her for now, she is paying money ontop of her season pass every single day... It helps pay our wages."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7xaw6iUS2
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"Where is a 15 year old getting that much money?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFrh34XKio
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"I don't know. As I said parental problems, maybe? Distant and maybe loaded?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzXoAStfF8S
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"She doesn't dress it."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4QtnCgsQw
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"That's how teenagers dress, Jess. It's called Scene."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxVwz7kFewX
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Jess looks at her like she's crazy. "What did you wear?" Bella asks her. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvACEg7YIXD
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"Pink stripes and pink polka dots and lots of bows and sparkles..."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrM9qQt4AvW
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"Farm wear, and hand me downs."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeU6zjrrsz9
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And both girls laugh a little. "We're horrible." Jess says. "I know!" Bella laugh cries.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalv2pqWBf6
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The day passes pretty uneventfully, has to stop during the day to take some pain meds and soon enough the day draws to a close. Just like clockworse, a text is recieved, Douglas.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCn11co5tm9
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Douglas: Come outside, corner of the building, don't be noticed by Bella, enter the blind spot.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8hS815PxI
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Jess: I have a leg brace on, my knee is still really fucked up from running from you. If you're going to grab me or whatever, just take it easy on my knee, please.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIPsglZaFr
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Douglas: Fucking get your ass outside, or Bailey is coming in in the next five minutes and dragging you out.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MvIl98571
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Jess: He wouldn't infront of everyone else.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Shh795LZd
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Douglas: Distracting Maggie is not that hard. I can have Green call her phone and waste her time. Everyone else? They won't overly give a shit about you. You have five minutes.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10QjHP6pfb
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She puts her phone down, sighing, collects her stuff and signs out. Bella has nothing to debrief anyone on. Heading out to around the side of the building, she sees Douglas classic green car waiting right in the back in the shadows. She can see some damage down down the side, but for the most part it looks cosmetic and they buffed most of it out. Douglas is hanging out in the drivers seat, but Bailey and Green are waiting outside. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHiOobEX1c
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"Seems it wasn't written off then." 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZUDxseQwd
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They all look at her. "Thanks to you, the airbags don't work now and I'm going to have to look into a 3rd party work around option." Douglas moans, not getting out of the car. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwUgvT1Hrc
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"Come on, girly. Bag." Bailey says, holding his hand out gesturing for Jess bag which she hands over, him throwing it to Douglas through the window. He then takes her arm, Green taking her other and they force her into the backseat, mindful of her injured leg. Bailey does her seatbelt, but they don't let go of her arms the whole drive, taking back roads and other places.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapdgUBS9aL
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"Where are we going?" She asks, which earns no reply. "Are you going to kill me?" Which finally elicts a response. "No, I'm not going to kill you. You're more my informer on the inside. Make to much trouble though, and I will kill you then and find someone else.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiIAxfu7ESL
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If you care about your friend, Bella-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7lgQ1g7Li6
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"She's not my friend!"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZYbbZhjdl
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"I don't believe you." Douglas snaps back, Jess getting a little heated and tries to pull her arms to no resistence. "You do that again, and I will sedate you." Bailey finally speaks.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2lGHi01Bb
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"Where the hell did you even meet these two, Douglas?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJI7iC6LU2b
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"The previous street racing party I attended. It wasn't the one you we're briefly at. I seriously can't fucking believe you pulled that stunt last time, you little bitch. We almost didn't get out of there, I know that detective followed up on you, tracking you down to your workplace."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyeMSXhkqx
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"I didn't tell her anything!" 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZSc2hGbZ6s
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"And you better keep it that way. You do not want to see me angry. And I mean really angry."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjLUG4iiHJ
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She gulps. "You killed your kids..."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrcutEXxjgo
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"That's right."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZYGtDCVn6M
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"Dude, what the fuck?!" Green calls out, looking to Bailey. "Green, shut up." Bailey tells him. "Mr Douglas here is a paying client."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzaJGLtC2n
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"But-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJ5XhBqkCy
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"Green!"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0XKJD7eSIV
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"I fucking change my mind, sedate me." She whispers. "Me too, Jess. But I need to drive the car." Douglas whispers back a little, a small smile and trying not to laugh.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzTKJuCMs0B
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They pull up to what looks like an abandoned building and the definition of sketch. "Is this where you took me the first time you-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCI4qroc64E
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"No, that actually was the secret bunker under my home. I've enlisted the services of others from now on, and I think this will be more fitting."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYq5bxkyw8
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And Jess is helped out the car, dragged inside. Douglas stands to the side as Bailey puts in a pin on the keypad, pushing open then door, walking in and Green carries Jess in by the waist, lifting her feet off the ground, Douglas following behind and closing the door.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCaOOQ6yy5
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Seems bitch work is now below him. She sees a kitchen off to the side and someone else is present. "Hey. You guys want Coffee?" And they come out into the open. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUV15MFEMb
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"Brianna?" She says out loud, but then realizes it isn't her. This woman is much older and sighs. "You gotta be kidding, come on! No, that's my daughter. I'm her mother not that she calls me that. The state took her into care when she was little and I never really got her back. She hates me. Now, who wants Coffee?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCutTNCelDM
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"All of us, Bon Bon. We'll be in the other room." Bailey says, gesturing for Green with her to follow, Douglas trailing after them. They enter a room off to the side down a corridor, it's a small bedroom with only a double bed and a built in wardrobe 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSSqEA0M0xh
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She sees on the bed, ropes already attached to the headboard and base. "No! No, no!" She yells, struggling and Green only takes her closer, Bailey assisting. They throw her against the mattress, tying up her arms and then her feet and one across her waist for good measure. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXoVikBi5F
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"Douglas! Douglas!" She yells, but he turns away and ignores her, walking out. Bailey and Green get off her and walk out as well, switching off the light and it all goes dark, hearing the door click, someone locking it. She's trapped in this room in the dark as it's boarded up, and tied to the bed for the next few hours. She can yell and scream as much as she wants, but they all ignore her, no one coming in. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBOX7aFaKD
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She nods in and out of sleep, unaware how long it's been and barely registering someone unlocking the door and coming in, closing it behind them. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrtPzOJFhnd
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"Jesse, Jess, wake up." They call, applying pressure to her shoulder, giving it a little shake. She opens her eyes and they take a seat beside her on the bed. "Here's how it's going to be. You're going to pull your act together and start really doing what I want or I am going to make your life a living hell and you can expect this room to be the last thing you see. You've got the weekend to make your choice, no one will be looking for you. I texted Bella from your phone and that your leg was killing you and you now no longer have a shift. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxyaHhetQB
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See you later, I have to go home now."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrfFz4UPQ9
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"But you can't leave! I still need food and-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqAas0QsPE1
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"You won't be alone, the others are still here. Be good, see you Monday." And he walks out, locking the door again. She screams, straining after he leaves and her limbs start to burn, causing her to stop.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1l7b9xi0R
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Time passes and when she next wakes up, she doesn't know what day it is. Is it still today or is that yesterday now. She then realizes she's not alone.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jRuG8Yuq0
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Three are present. "You hungry?" Asks the women. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMhxD3B84rB
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"Are you really Brianna's Mum?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3b9JWchO0e
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"I am, and we have no relationship. She resents me understandably."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6i2dQVsjTE
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"My friend told me she was following in her Mum's footsteps. Are you are a paramdeic?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiXIRIc4Pd
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"No, I'm a Surgeon actually. But give or take that, my daughter still chose a similar proffesion. She's doing it because she wants to show she's a good person and better at helping people compared to me."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GdeUWIIRz
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"What's your name?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7shrFq80XQ
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"Maeve. It used to be Bonnie, why Bailey here called me Bon Bon when you first walked in."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TcHwzWNQ4
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"We can drop the last names charade now, I think Jesse. We're the ones in charge here, Douglas hired us for a reason." Bailey speaks up. "And I'm Johnthan. Behind me, Bobby. The cop you ran into used to be his fiance actually."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNkrr4gIOJ
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"She's a detective, and don't call me, Jesse! It's Jess."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7fHDhge1B
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"Whatever." Bobby snaps.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi4kSIeBrr6
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"You hungry, Jess?" Maeve asks. She shakes her head no. "Who are you guys?" She asks.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vuTghOCOx
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"We belonged to a former human trafficking ring. It was dismantled, but there is still a few of us so I suggest you don't push us. I'm in charge now. Douglas has given permission for us to hurt you if needed. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvdZQaeub45
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We still take contracts on from people like him." Johnthan tells her.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcjnTzwk8U
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She doesn't know what to say, this is serious. She sinks into the bed, wanting this hell to be over. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojQF6MSctn
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"Seems like you're learning your lesson as we speak." He adds on, leaving and gestures the others to follow. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttIzkSiWY1
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Hours pass and she lays in the dark, awake unable to fall back to sleep and her limbs are aching from being tied in the same position for hours on end when she hears her door open, someone coming in. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsjONqQmVP
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It's Bobby and he closes the door behind him, taking a seat beside her on the bed, inching closer.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsmURxPP4oT
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"You awake, Jesse?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6caDEL6yXe
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She ignores him and he peers over, looking at her face. "Yeah, you're awake. You hungry now?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwfd4iJ6MF
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She shakes her head no, not giving him any of her voice. He doesn't deserve it. "Uh, okay then. Well, don't starve yourself too long or Johnthan will have Maeve insert a feeding tube. Bringing you here was to make you obey Douglas, you dying isn't the plan here really...144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5cfmrbZELE
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So, uh, what do you think of Clara? She used to be my girlfriend, I was going to marry her... but uh, my life has really gone to shit since then. That was a long time ago now. Everyone around me ended up having kids and they are all grown up now, most of them are your colleagues suprisingly.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkt1DcWz6EH
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"Are their parents still-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEVjsfzmZl
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"Not all of them are apart of us anymore. We either went to jail, a mental hospital, deported and jailed I heard and then they either got out and lived normal lives, got married, had kids, worked legal jobs... or they ended up like me. Alone, and went back to a life of crime. This is the only life I know, I was in university before, but got kicked out and no one would employee me."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCHKC318IF
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"Johnthan said you all we're in-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ADSD2CqQ5
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"A human trafficking company, we we're called Ring. I still have my ring actually." And he shows it off, a snake biting it's tail in a circle around his finger.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiouxVwj2tU
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"Very symbolic..."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGxYPkp3wr
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"Thank you." He smiles. "Uh, so my ex, Clara. Do you like her?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiP7tNFJhtv
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"Not really, I don't want to see her again. Somehow I have a feeling she isn't going to leave me alone. They're onto me now the police.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlq8kHwMkZV
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A few weeks back... the Hospital called me after my discharge. Said my blood results indicated I had Merge in my system, they had to expand the testing range as it they weren't looking for it at first as it's a black market drug.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AyeZh6Diw
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It's an offense to carry here, but not if it's in your system. It still gets reported to the police though, but there was nothing they could do. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxEaH2G1r7o
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They already know who I am and some stuff about me and when I was running from you all, and Clara hit me minorly, she inspected my neck. I was unconsciousness for a minute. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8eANjySwu
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People who shoot up, do it in their arms, not their neck. She would have reported that and later discovered my drug report from the hospital. When she came to check up on me supposedly work, I think she already knew about the Merge."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtoDIPBr87
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"Okay. Well, try and her dismiss her as much as you can, okay? She'll come back, she is a very determined person. She never took no for an answer. She used to be a police officer before, we lived in Canada.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsgfCaUAdSD
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I'm suprised she's a detective now, I didn't know. But hey, as long as she's happy I guess..."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQ2Es56opg
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She nods slowly. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNvOdZlwLm
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"Jesse-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMOvglFNa9
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"I prefer Jess."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4mdmFYDmF0
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"Sorry. Umm, about what I said before. The... sex thing. I was drunk that night and being a douche. I should have never said it.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUb4u4HeYFS
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Just... you are really pretty though. Any guy would be lucky to have you, and how Douglas described your personality. Resourceful-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BrEIWU9bL
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"Shut up, I don't know want to hear about my attributes."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBX1johfkj2
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"Why?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKYCEvWOhF
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"Because I and my life is meaningless."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjw4Fb7UwwZ
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"Why do you think that? Did someone tell you that?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoVr5U2TBW
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She doesn't say anything. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadKMZsILss
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"Okay. Well, what I said is true though."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmG1y5QdhXq
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"I like females, not just men."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVHnPFPoSi
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"Sorry again. Anybody would be lucky to have you."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrne2K7QLQa
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"Can you leave?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSdEy4d53y
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"Uh, sure. I just thought you would have wanted the company. Lying here tied to the bed is very boring."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6qjT4pvmQV
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"And how would you know, I might like the silence."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOKBmJP4ZR
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"Because it's the equvillent of waiting in an interrogation room handcuffed to the table for six hours before someone gets to you."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMPR8AQCl5S
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It is boring, and you're lying to me."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSo25oJK8k
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"Please leave."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0dKldDzr0k
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"Jess, you're not listening to me. I'm trying to ask..."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36yKJVQ9HZ
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"Ask me what?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnoK2GCJu8s
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"I haven't been with another women in a long time."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLyMgBdB2F
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"You want me to be your girlfriend is that it?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKO6SLPDQYv
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"No! Well, no. Relationships happen later."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nMPsDwTOQ
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"So you want sex, Mr Drunk."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9orSDdDqqj
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"No-" And he slaps his hand to his face, embarassed.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiW1YgYghyw
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"I'm not stupid, Bobby. I had an ex-boyfriend before moving here. Douglas knows my base story. My ex was my fiance to and his sex drive was high. If you want to have sex with me, just come out and say it. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2QCFdguboQ
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But I won't be your girlfriend. Not at this point."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHjSqzG2tKC
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His quiet and looks at her. "Bobby?" She says, calling his name. He crawls ontop of her slowly, feeling his hand trailing up her stomach towards under shirt and his other hand creeps down to just below her pants, resting right underneath where it lays.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpeE6clQoE
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She squirms, pushing her legs together trying to push his hand away and his lips touch hers, tongue inserted, feeling his hand on her chest give a good squeeze and then a good rub. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2eOqOHAb3
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His fingers rubbing just on the outside below to stimulate. "Mmm! Stmp!" She tries, but can't say anything with his tongue in her mouth. He pulls her pants down, shoving three fingers in. She bites his tongue and lips, him screaming in pain and jumps back. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkXILMvv2t
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"Johnthan! Maeve!" She yells him, quickly covering her mouth with his hand. "Stop! No!" He says. She squirms, not able to say anything. Bobby stays quiet, listening and no one comes. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZ90q48fID
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He looks relieved and picks himself up and helps her dress, keeping a hand on her mouth. "You say anything to them, I will make you wish you hadn't. I know where you live, I know who you friends are and I can easily acess Johnthan's supply of drugs." and he removes his hand, leaving the room quickly.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWeH7Jq3Al
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For days after that, she doesn't see or hear anyone really. Maeve visits briefly, able to persuade Jess to take a few bites of food, but that's it till the door opens and Douglas walks in. It must be Monday...144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAB3GBY5nw
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"Morning, Jess. Works tomorrow for you. You made up your mind? Are you going to start getting me what I want? You we're great at the start, but then went fairly aloof."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6U3RCL7fgz
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"Douglas, I have psychosis." She tells him quickly. He looks caught off guard quickly and sinks to her level, confused.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2KrxVmm8F
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"When I was gone for a while, I was stuck in the psych ward because of your Maggie. I had my first break at work and-"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpDgxPaQRK
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He doesn't let her finish, him quickily pulling on the rope restraining her and it all comes loose. "Shit, I'm so sorry." He says putting his head in his hands. She sits up a little. "Jess, if I had known- You shoulda told me the truth. Damn it. No wonder the Psychatrist is hanging around the centre, it all makes sense now"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvYtmmI1NJ
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"Anna?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5LDP9RbPSA
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"Yes. She was Maggie's dorm room mate back in University. They hated eachother at first. My ex was never good at dealing with people, and I did isolate her from others... when we we're married... no wonder she called Anna. She isn't coping at running the centre alone. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdaf573Lkh
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Jess, if you ever get sick or something again, just tell me. You we're sick, not deliberatly avoiding me. I'm sorry I scared you last time we met and I gave you Merge, that would have made your problems worse and now your knee is injured because of me. Did you recieve a formal diagnosis or anything?"144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEVHc3lYHSk
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"Not yet."144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4S8s5PKrvV
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"Okay, listen, I know Anna. You need to comply. She will send you back to hospital if you have more symptoms and don't engage in treatment, and I would have to find someone else at your workplace. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwddXhLWdV
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Can you see Anna for me? Just play along, send me what can you about the center and I'll never give you Merge again if we can help it." And his holding his hand out for her to shake it. She slowly does, "Thank you." He tells her, pushing her to lie down. 144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbZlEnvuU3
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She goes stiff. "I'm not going to tie you up again. Just get some rest, work is tomorrow." And he tucks the blanket around her. "They told me you said they we're allowed to hurt me." She speaks up. "Bailey? I- Yes, I did say that. If you we're difficult, they could. But nowhere noticeable, I'm sorry." Then he leaves, taking the rope with him. She does hear the door lock, guess it was almost too good to be true.144Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnXqTH8NnO
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