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TK blinked slowly at the tall figure which was sauntering across the basement, a smile on his lightly-scruffed face. She growled low and dangerous in the back of her throat...the muzzle seeming to swallow most of the sound before it ever left her lips. She strained to remember...his face seeming familiar somehow...the drug-haze still making coherent thought difficult. And then the memory popped out of the soup with the suddenness and shock of a tree-lined curve coming up out of the darkness of an unfamiliar, fog-shrouded road. The water-delivery man! He was the guy who had brought her bottled-water delivery earlier that day...at least she hoped it was the same day... A day earlier than usual, and not one of the delivery persons she knew. But that company was always changing up their personnel...and TK hadn't really thought much of the new face at the time. Dimly, she wondered if he even worked for them at all; something she seriously doubted. Somewhat less dimly - though no less uselessly, perhaps - she wondered what he had slipped into that water...and how she could have been so foolish as to fall for something like that...

The furious, but captive, tiger-heroine glared and growled at him again as he hurried over and pulled a thick, dusty, black curtain across the small window...eliminating any possibility of anyone being able to see into the basement from outside... The man chuckled a chuckle that sounded genuinely amused, in a most condescending way. Before he finally walked over to stand above TK, looming down with crossed arms and smiling at her, as his eyes traveled her from head to toe and back again...making the young heroine feel like he was weighing, cataloging, and devouring every particle of her being. And then his dark eyes - glinting with the light of madness - settled on her own still-slightly-glazed emerald ones, and his grin widened. "Hello TK...I've been waiting so long for this..."

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On to Revelation and Realization...