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</div></div><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--2"/><br/>First thoughts upon waking:<i> how am I so exhausted before I even get out of bed</i>? Second:<i>wow it's been such a long time since I slept in a bed. It's so nice—</i>wait a minute<i>—why am I tied to it?</i>Twelve hours later and the poor girl couldn't even remember her own name never mind whose bed it was. Or why she was tied to it. She also draws a blank on every question she asks herself after that. Things like her age, her parents, her anything.<i>Her everything</i>.<br/><br/><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(171, 219, 227)">Who was she?</span></i></span></span><br/><br/>12 hours was a long time to think about it.<br/><br/><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">12</span> </span>hours pulling, testing, resisting her binds until she was raw, bruised and exhausted.<span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">720</span> </span>minutes panicking, crying, screaming until she went hoarse.<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 18px">43,200</span></span>seconds waiting, fearing—<i>dreading</i>—that man coming back to finish whatever he started when he tucked her away like this.<i>Saving for later</i>. Only animals do that.<b> And men were animals</b>. Only someone as disgusting, despicable and deplorable as a man would undress and leave her like this.<i>This </i>being the first time she slept in a bed in a long time, she knew somehow.<i>This </i>being the first person she had seen in an even longer time.<i>This </i>being the first time her life truly depended on someone coming back for her.<i><b><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(209, 72, 65)">He promised he would.</span> </b></i>And as much as she hated, despised, absolutely without a shadow of a doubt<i>refused</i>that sick, deranged man...<i>Was it worse if he came back or if he didn't?</i><br/><br/>The answer<div class="bbImageWrapper bbImageAligned--right lazyload js-lbImage" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-single-image="1" data-src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/68/21/3f/68213f9de37c2c32703d8396602bc4e5.gif" title="68213f9de37c2c32703d8396602bc4e5.gif">
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</div>confused her.<br/><br/>For as frightened as she was, there was still this desperate urgency to see him again. To hear him again. To feel him even if though it hurt. To just know another human being was there, and she wasn't alone anymore... It felt like coming home. Whatever that was. At the same time, there was also a sense of relief in being caught, too. It was over. She didn't,<i>couldn't</i>, run from whatever *<i>it*</i>was anymore. This was her life now, and perhaps that's why everything before it disappeared.<i>That life was over. </i>And as traumatizing as it was to be dragged off into a cabin and tied to a bed for hours on end, that man was now the only thing she had. The only thing she knew. The only thing she could count on to survive, as helpless and humiliating as it was.<i>So long as he came back...</i><br/><br/>She could trust him.<br/><br/>It took twelve hours to learn two new things about herself.<span class="bbCodeInlineSpoiler" data-class="bbCodeInlineSpoiler" data-xf-click="toggle-class" role="button" tabindex="0"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(171, 219, 227)"><b>She is lonely. She respects people who keep their word</b>.</span></span> </span><br/><br/>There were more things to learn on the other side of the door, too. Things which hadn't yet earned her respect or trust yet. For them she was prepared to fight for her life all over again when that door opened. After the best sleep of her life, no less.<i>She was ready</i>. And while the birthday boy would behold her with wonder and excitement, she would look past him to see<i> someone else</i>instead. Someone who made her stop thrashing long enough to remember that she, in fact<span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(171, 219, 227)">, <i>could not remember the last time she had seen another woman</i>.</span>Someone who would know what<i>this</i>was like and could stop the men's foolishness once and for all.<i>Right? </i>Right!?<br/><br/>The man barks. That's what dogs do, after all.<br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(171, 219, 227)">"I'm ... I'm.... Whoever I need to be."</span>Blue eyes answer to Hook.