Say Something

Chapter Eleven ~ the story

For weeks and weeks Caitlin and Tommo had people surrounding them, doctors, nurses, CSIs, police. A psychologist named Lance Sweets, who came from the FBI in America, was a frequent visitor. He worked closely with a group of forensic anthropologists, who had found a body that could possibly be linked to the case of the two girls who showed up, one beaten, one stabbed, in a locked room in the house of an Irishman and his nephew.

Caitlin was very reluctant to tell me what had happened to her and what she was so scared of, but Sweets convinced her and Tommo to tell me. The two girls had been kidnapped by a man who Caitlin described as tall and strong, with a head of pale brown hair and bright blue eyes. He was a handsome lad, and he had become friends with Tommo over the year before. Caitlin had always warned her to be careful, that he would be trouble, that something wasn't quite right with him. One day, he had showed up to their flat with two big burly Irish men and they had broken down the door and grabbed them. They tried to fight back but even between the two of them the strength of the men overpowered them and they were dragged downstairs and thrown into the back of a van.

They had held each other close in the van, scared and not really knowing what to do. Once they had reached their destination, they were dragged out and separated, and then tied up and taken to different rooms from each other. Neither of them knew what was about to happen to them, and both were scared for each other. Caitlin was silent the whole time, too scared to say a word, but Tommo was a different story. She had fought back, struggling to break herself free from the rope that held her tight, screaming "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US?!" and fighting hard to free herself. Caitlin had listened, listened quietly, as one of the big burly men watched her, she was tied tightly to a chair, as she feared for her life.

Eventually they locked all the doors to the room where Caitlin was tied up and untied her ropes, allowing her to freely move around. "She's ready" the big man had whispered creepily to the man with the pale brown hair. Ready for what? she had thought what are they going to do to me?

The next thing Caitlin knew, she was knocked unconcious. She doesn't know what happened during that time, but Tommo continued to fight hard to beat the horrible men. She told me that the brown haired man was called James, and that before that day she had thought him to be a completely normal nice guy.

James had vanished for about a day and a half, and Tommo had no idea where he had gone or what he had done or was about to do to her best friend. It wasn't until midnight the day after they had been kidnapped that he reappeared and tried to knock Tommo unconcious in the same way as he had Caitlin. But Tommo fought back, kicked him on the shin hard so that he stopped and grabbed his leg in pain, and she had taken this opportunity to slip out of the ropes binding her to the chair, which she had been slowly loosening since she had been tied up. She got free and began to try to escape from the room.

"Grab her!" James had yelled to the two big strong men, and they did as they were told. "Throw her back into the van and I'll be there in five minutes"

Tommo struggled hard to escape from the grasp of the men, but they would not let her get away and she was thrown into the back of the van. She had sat there, planning her next move, until the van began to move. As soon as I get out of here, I'm kicking James in the balls she had thought to herself.

As soon as the van had dome to a stop, Tommo stood up and braced herself for attack. By the time the door was opened, she was poised and ready to kick James in the balls. But it wasn't James who she saw when the door was opened, it was the two men, and they grabbed her forcefully and placed duct tape over her mouth and dragging her towards the house, my house. Tommo had recognised it as the house where I lived with Theo, and she knew exactly what the room she was to be taken to used to be.

She was led into the very same room where I had found Caitlin that morning the day before, and here she was beaten up, just like Caitlin had obviously been while unconcious. During this time, she had ripped the duct tape off of her mouth and begun to fight back. But as soon as she had lifted her wrist, James had pulled a knife from his pocket and stabbed her right in the chest and she had screamed, and he ran off.

But that's not quite the end of the story of Caitlin and Tommo. Why? Because another girl's body had been found, beaten and stabbed and very much dead, in a swimming pool in LA. A swimming pool that just so happened to be in the backyard of the house of one of my best friends, Harry. And that body was believed to be linked to the case of the two girls, both beaten, one stabbed and back from the dead, in the room with the missing key in my house in Ireland.