Adventures of Black Cat.

Part 4: Detention

After Cassidy binds Felicia and locks up the store, Felicia sleeps in fatigue for about 2 hours and then spends the next 2 hours fidgeting in her ball tie in an attempt to gain better wrist position while fighting the remnant pain of where she was tased. The time, as seen on the cheap analog clock looking down at her, is now 3:00 am and Felicia is hoping that Cassidy is sleeping so that she is no longer under surveillance through the camera in the corner of the ceiling.

Initially, Felicia thinks she is in a dilemma as the camera is coercing her to stay put while the ropes restrain her, but after a few more looks she realizes that the camera doesn’t seem to have any video relay capabilities that connect to ones mobile phone. She thinks to herself:

Felicia: Come on! You think the panopticon effect will work on me, blondie? You might have been the first one to tie me up after I gave you my complacency, but you can’t trick me here. That camera is closed circuit and is limited to the monitors in the store. There is no way a TikTok yoga girl like you re-engineered it to watch me while you are scrolling in bed.

As the pain in her butt and waist begins to wear off, she squirms with a bit more thrust. Cassidy may have disarmed her of her gauntlets and belt, but she forgot to remove her gloves because she thought that the claws come from the gauntlet and not the gloves themselves. Felicia begins to claw at her box-tied wrists knowing that she will have enough upper body strength to slip out of the harness. After an hour and a half of light rope sawing and a gradual loosening due to more fibers coming apart, Felicia is able to slide the wrist bindings off at a frustratingly slow pace. She then slips off the harness and slashes at the ropes on her lower body to complete her escape.

Felicia then turns her attention to the camera in the corner and notices a darkly lit rectangular outline-it is a door that was obscured by the dimness of the place. Instead of tearing the camera off, a feat of strength she can accomplish without her grappling hooks, she decides to go and the delete the footage of her escape from the monitors so that Cassidy does not know how she escaped and to delete record of her identity. She approaches the door and flings it open but, before she can react, she is a startled by a sudden noise.

Security guard: Jolts up out of her chair after being woken up and says ” Eta! Nossa! Eu não esperava isso!”

She then, out of shock involuntary pulls the trigger on her handgun taser and tases Felicia around the waist and butt area. Felicia freezes in pain and slumps up against the monitor desk.

The security guard who tased her is a recent immigrant from Brazil who speaks accented English-not fluent enough to read a textbook but good enough to communicate on a colloquial level. Her name tag reads “Ana Santos” on a dark blue buttoned up uniform with matching dress pants and boots. Near her name tag we see the letters “Paladin security” which is small outfit of a company that services the area. Cassidy paid her to watch over Felicia because security guards secure instead of police as policing entails jail, and jail is where Felicia knows how to escape. On the desk where Felicia now slumps, there is a lined paper notebook that, in Portuguese, reads: “1. Prisoner in catsuit is asleep. 2. Check her for any injuries that would require medical attention and search her as well. 3. Make sure prisoner is hydrated. 4. Check on her every two hours. 5. Only put in her in a more comfortable tie once the suit has been cut-off. 6. I tried cutting the suit off while she slept, but the fabric felt way too tough. I will resume trying once I have back-up”.

Ana is both in a shock that Felicia escaped and feels a bit apologetic that she had tased her as she could have coerced her without resorting to sheer force. Despite this, she nevertheless guides Felicia onto her stomach, pulls the probes out, pulls her hands behind her back, and places her in 3 pairs of zip-tie handcuffs on her crossed wrists and then one pair for her ankles as that is all she had left.

Ana then drags her to the pipe she was formerly attached to and ties a loop around her waist before wrapping her around the pipe using the rope Felicia had cut to escape.

Once secure, Ana takes a deep breath to try and compose herself from the shock. She also feels conflicted because she is just a security guard who is being paid to do a job that is well outside the scope of her job description. Should she call the police? Abandon the job Cassidy paid her to do to save her career? How will Cassidy react to this change in Felicia’s position?