"It's not paranoia if it's real," said a voice behind her but as Lauren stood up to bolt for the slider door strong arms already had her. A broad and hard hand covered her mouth, and an arm circled her vice like around her chest, so hard she could barely breathe, even as he pulled her backwards along the room. She screamed through his hand, pulling ineffectually at the arm encircling her torso. Fear...blinding fear...they had found her...she was going to die. She kicked at him as he lifted her of her feet, but her bare feet didn't seem to do much more than annoy him. She heard him speak again "Gotcha, songbird." Tears began to fill her eyes as she realized the desperation of her situation, the mob had found her...oh why didn't she go to Mexico, or Canada, who had ratted her out?<br/><br/>Lauren struggled until she felt dizzy with lack of air but the only thing that moved was her boobs and feeling how one was beginning to slip out of the bra and the aforementioned lack of air she relaxed long enough to hear his words. ...<i>have a gun...back with me to Chicago, ...hard time...regret...</i><br/><br/>She looked up at him, eyes blinking away her tears and screamed in fury before saying "You limey bastard!" except it sounded more like "Yumrm irrmm grrmmm!" For some reason he found that amusing, and she saw him grinning down on her. Damn bastard was a foot taller than her, she couldn't even use her head butting - nose breaking maneuver which she had perfected as a disagreeable child.<br/><br/><i>Play possum,</i>an inner voice said,<i> pretend you're passed out and go limp, and then hit him in the kisser and kick his balls!</i><br/><br/>Lauren, whimpered, tried to look helpless, unfocused her eyes and went limp.<br/><br/>Her inner voice, chided,<i> too fast! You're a terrible actress, no one goes faint like that!</i><br/><br/>She responded to her inner voice by thinking...<i>we'll I'm sorreeee..... it's not like I've had a lot of practice at this.</i>But she remained limp like a cooked noodle hoping the guy was an idiot and would fall for it.