<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;"><strong>Emily<br/>At home<br/>With Chrissie<br/></strong><br/></span><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">Emily smiled at the nervous young girl, who was looking a shadow of the girl she’d known on the boat and the carefree girl on the beach, with all her confidence taken away by that bastard: “Don’t be silly Chrissie of course I’m going to look after you, it’s nothing honestly.”</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">Emily took Chrissie’s laptop through to the kitchen while she rustled up an avocado salad and crisped a couple of brown rolls, then went back through, gave Chrissie the plate and took her  laptop over to the sofa. </span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">The guy was pretty swift; in only another ten minutes there was his reply: he was still chasing photos of Chrissie in a nightie, otherwise he was going to do his photoshopping.  </span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">Emily looked at the header for his IP address…there it was: 103.11.140.32</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">She put it into an IP tracer site: Singapore!  Oh, but it was a proxy server...</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">Hmm, well Emily didn't know how to get past that.  It put him out of physical reach, realistically speaking.  Plan B then; perhaps that was for the best really.</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">“Alright Chrissie, here it is: the man is using a thing called a proxy server, which hides his original IP address.  Anyway so he can’t be traced, by me right now anyway; unless maybe we hire a hacker or something.  Which I could do and I would but the first thing is just to call his bluff.”</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">Emily gave Chrissie her laptop back; the message wasn’t especially threatening and it was the launching point for Chrissie’s fightback.  It was important that she did it herself.</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">“So now you’re going to reply, but with my words, OK?  So you can see that the internet is all about words and that means you’re as big and strong as anyone. </span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">“What’s happened is that he’s used terror to stop you thinking clearly about it.  What he has is just some pictures of you in a bikini, OK?  Nothing rude or exposing, just what anyone on that beach would’ve seen.  Now he wants more.  More.  What he has isn’t enough because it needs a lot of work, and if he’s photoshopping he could just as easily use a model’s head to superimpose on a sex pic, and there are sites full of stock photos of models.</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">“OK?  So he doesn’t want beach pics he wants nude pics, that he can use as they are.  That’s what he’s going to ask for next, obviously, then who knows, camming, getting off, whatever.  He does NOT want to do a lot of work.  That’s just a threat.</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">“So you say ‘no’ and he’ll give it up.  If he doesn’t then, well, you can’t get the pictures back, so that’s it anyway, you can’t do anything about it now.  You can only make it worse by sending him anything.  You see that don’t you?  Anything more that you give him he’ll just use against you again to get something more out of you.  One step at a time.</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">“Alright?”</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">“So we bail now.  OK? Ready?  Type this:  ‘I am not Chrissie I am a friend of her family.  I have money and lawyers.  I can pressure the proxy server owners to give you up or pay a hacker to trace you.  Then with your name and home address my lawyers will advise the police that you are a sex criminal and there is probably child pornography on your computer.  Deleting it won’t save you from their forensics, your life will be destroyed: prosecutors will threaten you with 40 years and your lawyer will tell you to plea-bargain for 5 to 10.  That will happen if we hear from you again, or if any lewd picture appears that involves her in any way whatsoever.  Yes, if somebody else does what you have threatened, you are badly out of luck.”</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">“Alright Chrissie?  See the power you have after all?  Send it then.  OK?”</span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">Emily gave her a smile.</span><br/>