Jay at the Castle (MF/Ff)

[KP Presents]

Claudia Baine looked up the staircase from the hallway and called out “will you two please get a move on – we need to be on the train in the next thirty minutes or we are going to be late!”

“Relax Mum – we’ll be on our way before you know it,” a younger woman called down, “and out of grandma’s hair before you know it.”

Claudia shook her head as she looked at herself ibn the hallway mirror, adjusting the collar of the light blue blouse she was wearing under her dark blue pinstripe suit. She had shoulder length red-brown hair, and her outfit was completed by the three-inch soft leather heels she was wearing.

It was her fortieth birthday, and she was spending the weekend at her parent’s ‘home’ – but it was always in her mind that she was the daughter of Lord Simon and Lady Shauna Parker, one of the country’s best known couples, and the quiet life she very much preferred was very difficult to find.

Given her husband was with his secretary now, she wanted to treat herself and her daughters – and she smiled as sixteen-year-old Daria walked down the stairs. She had long blonde hair and was following her mother’s fashion sense – in her case a grey trouser suit with black heels and a blue blouse. She was followed by twelve-year-old Holly, wearing a grey jacket with a flower stitched onto the lapel, over a pale purple roll neck sweater, and black houndstooth pants with black ankle boots.

“We’re ready Mummy,” Holly said, “Can we go now?”

Claudia nodded as she checked her handbag, and then said, “All right then – let’s get in the car and drive to the station.” She opened the front door – and then stepped back as the group standing outside came in. They were identically dressed – blue boilersuits. Black boots and leather gloves, and black balaclava masks – one of them smiled as he said in a Geordie accent “hello Lady Claudia – I do hope you will forgive our intrusion.”

“Mummy, what’s going on? We’re going to the play and dinner, mister – please let us pass.”

“Ah – there I am afraid I have to inform you that trip is cancelled,” the man said as one of the group, a woman, closed the door. “You will be spending, the afternoon and indeed the rest of the day, here with us.”

“How dare you,” Claudia said angrily, “what makes you think you can order us around like that? Who are you?”

“Fair question – my name is Jay Edwards. Perhaps you have heard the name before?”

Daria and Holy looked at their mother as her face drained of colour, and she whispered “no- please, they’re just babies…”

“Ach dinnae worry,” the masked woman said in a Scottish accent as she came forward, “ah’ll tak real good care o them.”

“Mrs McPhee will make sure they are with you and secure for a while,” Jay said with a smile, “so don’t be afraid – because we do need to make sure you cannot raise the alarm for a while. With that in mind, I would ask you all to hand your purses and phones to my friend here, and then to put your hands behind your back.”

“Girls,” Claudia said as she handed her handbag to the masked man, “do as he says. I don’t think they will hurt us.”

Daria and Holly did the same before Mrs McPhee went behind Holly and took her hands behind her back, the young girl biting her lower lip as she felt the rope forcing her wrists together. It didn’t hurt, but it was tight – and as she glanced to the side she saw the way the masked woman wound the rope round and between her sister’s arms.

She then gasped as the ropes went round her arms and upper body, while both girls watched as Jay made sure their mother was bound in the same way, the jacket of her suit opening slightly under the tight bands. As the rope were tied off on all three, Jay smiled as he said “so, do you have a television room?”

“In the cellar – why?”

“I think you will all be most comfortable there for the time being.” He looked at another masked man and said “ensure the telephone and internet connections are disabled. Will you please lead the way, Claudia?”




“So, when we get to the castle, I need you two to head straight for the home office and start to work on those documents for the meeting tomorrow -understood?”

“Yes Lady Shauna,” Angela Grace said as she looked at her co-worker from the opposite side of the rear of the car. She was in her mid-twenties with short blond hair and was wearing a black jacket and long skirt with a blur blouse under the jacket, as well as black high heels. Brenda Brooks was also wearing a dark jacket and skirt, with a purple blouse and a black tie knotted round her neck, as well as dark hose and high heels.

Lady Shauna Parker was in her early sixties, her red-brown hair styled to frame her face, a pink camisole under her grey trouser suit.

Brenda looked at her phone and said, “Mrs Caulder and Miss Muskov are on their way to see you as well.”

“They wish to discuss the charity evening with me – when they arrive, show them to the front room and tell them I will join them as soon as I have finished making my calls upstairs.”

As Brenda nodded, the car turned onto the driveway and made its way to the front of the grey stone castle. The chauffeur got out and opened the back door, touching his cap as Shauna got out followed by her assistants.

“Thank you, Charles, – we will not need you again today.”

“Of course,” he said as he got back into the car and drove off, Lady Shoan unlocking the front door and walking in as the other two women followed her.

“I will make my calls upstairs,” Shauna said as she made her way up the stairs, Angela nodding as she headed for the downstairs office and Brenda checked the front room.

The knock on the front door made her smile as she went and answered the door, saying “Alison, Nina – come in.”

“Thank you,” Alison said as the two women came in. She was wearing a blue jacket over a white blouse, her blonde hair over the shoulders, as well as a knee length grey skirt and knee length black fabric boots.

Nina Muskov was also wearing a dark jacket and skirt, but she was wearing a pink blouse, and a longer jacket which covered her skirt as well. Her hair was brown, and she was wearing knee length black patent leather boots.

“Lady Parker is taking care of some personal correspondence,” Brenda said as she closed the door, “please wait in the main room, she will join you as soon as possible.”

“Any chance of a coffee Brenda,” Nina said with a smile.

“Of course – if you will wait inside,” Brenda said as the two women walked into the main room, their heels clicking on the floor before Brenda walked to the kitchen – and then stopped before she slowly raised her hands.


“Okay,” Angela said as she sat at her desk, and looked through the correspondence which was on the table, “a few that she needs to look at, but they can wait.”

She turned on her computer and waited as the login screen came on, then stopped as she heard the voice behind her say “hello – very quietly, put your hands behind your back.”



“I don’t think you are going to get that coffee Nina.”

“Now what gives you that idea Alison,” Nina said quietly as she looked at the masked man who had closed the door to the room and was looking at both of the ladies.

“Oh, I don’t know – the gun in his hands or the look in his eyes?”

“Yeah, that could be why,” Ninia said as both women slowly raised their hands.



“We’ll talk tomorrow,” Shauna said as she ended the telephone call, and then heard the knock on the door.

“Come in,” she said, and then she turned to see the man standing there, wearing a blue boiler suit and a black balaclava mask, smiling as he said, “forgive the intrusion Lady Parker – but you need to know I am in control of your home.”

Ahe looked at him, and said “and may I know who is so presumptuous as to make that statement?”

“My name is Jay Edwards – perhaps you have heard of me?”

Shauna raised an eyebrow, and then said “ah – and you can prove this how?”

“Well, my associates are currently with your assistants and the other two women – and my good friend Mrs McPhee is with your daughter and granddaughters. Perhaps if you were to come with me and join them, you would appreciate the situation – and what is about to happen.”

She continued to look at the masked man, and then said, “I do not have a choice, do I?”

“You always have a choice, Lady Parker – you could accept what I am saying, see everyone is indeed safe, or I could bind and gag you in this room, make sure you do not leave it, and you could worry about the others. Which would you prefer?”

Shauna nodded and said, “you make a valid point.”

“Good – kindly hand me your handbag and phone, and then walk in front of me…”



“Shauna, what is going on,” Alison said as she saw her friend walk in with her hands in the air. She and Nina were sat next to each other on a couch, their hands behind their back, while Shauna could see two more masked men were binding the wrists of her two assistants together behind their backs.

“I’m sorry Lady Shauna, they surprised us – who’s that with you?”

“The leader of this band,” Shauna said as she sat down, trying to move her own wrists as they were secured behind her back. “Have they hurt any of you?”

“Not really no,” Nina said, “so who is he?”

“Jay Edwards.”

Alison and Nina shared a look as Jay said, “Remain calm, and I will explain everything – when you are finished, would one of you go and bring Lady Claudia to the room?”

“Of course, Jay,” one of them said as he walked off.

“Be seated Lady Parker – we just need to wait for someone to arrive.”

He five women looked to the door as they saw the masked man return, Claudia shuffling along with him. They saw the rope round her ankles and her legs below her knees, as she said “Mum – I’m sorry, they got us when we were going to leave…”

“Are the girls all right?”

They are – the woman, Mrs McPhee, is letting them play a game,” Claudia said as two of them took longer ropes and passed them round the bodies of Alison and Nina, forcing their arms against their sides.

“Have a seat Claudia,” Jay said. Angela and Brenda felt the ropes forcing their arms against their sides as Jay said “so, as I said, we are in charge. We need to ask Lord Parker to conduct some business on our behalf at his firm, and to ensure he does what we ask, all of you will be under out tender care for the rest of the day and tonight.

“Do as I say, and nobody will be hurt – I hope you understand what that means?”

“My husband will be expecting me home later,” Alison said.

“You will call him later; explain you will be home late tonight – and you will make it convincing.”

Alison looked at Jay, unsure of why he sounded so reassuring, before she slowly nodded.

“Excellent - Will you two please take Brenda and Angela to where the girls are, and make them comfortable?”

“Yes, Jay,” the other two men said as they walked Shauna’s assistants out of the room, Jay smiling as he passed rope round Shauna, and the other two men ensured both Alison and Nina had their ankles and legs secured, the rope rubbing on their boots.

“So, we are going to be quiet, Claudia?”

“Oh yes…”



“Are you girls all right?”

Daria and Holly nodded as they saw Angela and Brenda come into the television room. They had white tape covering their mouths, and watched as the two older women were helped to sit on the couch across from them.

“Wehlcum,” Mrs McPhee said as the two men took more ropes, and knelt down to secure the ankles of the new arrivals together, “Yull be juhs fihn if ye sit nice ahn quiet like.”

“Your mother said you were playing a game,” Angela said.

“Uhwehehhn,” Holly said as she smiled under the tape, “swwhrrhghnnhwshhsfhlmnh.”

“Well, at least we will be distracted,” Brenda said as the two women felt the rope forcing their legs together below their knees, “so what happens when Lord Parker gets here?”

“Dinner, ahn then ah guid nicht’s sleep.”

The two women looked at each other before their mouths were covered in the white tape…



“Thank you,” Claudia said as Jay took the glass of water away, and then pressed the white tape down over her motu again as the others watched.

“Now then – what shall we watch…”



Lord Simon Parker turned onto the driveway of his home and drove up to see the building in the setting sunlight. He had been at the office all day and was wearing a white shirt with a light blue silk tie knotted round his collar, a dark suit and black shoes, his hair grey and short.

“I hate Saturday meetings,” he said as he stopped the car and got out, m, retrieving his suitcase before he closed the car door and locked it, then walked quickly into the house, opening the door and closing it behind himself.

“Good evening, Your Lordship – my name is Jay Edwards.”

The Geordie voice took Simon by surprise as he turned and saw the man standing there, a gun in his gloved hand and a smile on his face under the balaclava mask.

“Jay – Edwards? I see – I presume therefore that the reason I cannot hear anyone is that they cannot say anything?”

“Well, not very clearly – but they are all fine,” Jay said, “and will remain fine so long as you do what I tell you to do – exactly what I tell you to do.”

Simon nodded slowly as he said, “so what are you asking me to do?”

“For now,” Jay said as a second masked man came out of the room,” kindly hand to my friend here your briefcase and mobile phone, and then put your hands behind your back.”

“Where is everyone,” Simon said as he handed the case and phone over, and then felt the rope on his wrists as they were secured together behind his back.”

“Your daughters, and your wife’s assistants, are in the cellar,” Jay said as the masked man took more rope round Simon’s body, forcing his arms against his sides, “but the others are in here. Why don’t you come and join them?”

Simon nodded as he walked in, Shoan saying ”Hfhnhkghhduhhrrr.”

“Shauna – Ladies – are you all right?”

All four nodded as he sat in an armchair, watching as a masked man knelt and secured his ankles and legs, while Jay peeled a length of white tape from his rolls and pressed it down over his lips.

“Now, relax - you will alle at later and then we can explain what will happen next.”

“Chlldddhthghrhllss?”

“Dhnshthrsss,” Claudia mumbled as she twisted round, Jay smiling as he said “go and relieve Mrs McPhee – she needs to start considering some food for everyone…”





“I know Jonathan – but if Simon and Shauna insist, then what can I do?

“All right – I’ll see you when you wake up tomorrow. Sleep well,” Alison said before the mobile phone was taken from her, Jay turning it off as she shifted on the dining chair. All of them were sat around the large table, their legs still secured and ropes round their waists to hold them against the char backs, but their arms had been untied and the tape removed from their mouths.

“I know this has been a very different day,” Simon said as he looked at his granddaughters, “and IU will make it up to you at some point.”

“Thanks, granddad,” Holly said, “but it has been – exciting as well, hasn’t it Daria?”

“In a funny way, yes – I mean we were scared, but Mrs McPhee kept us calm even when Mum went, and Grandma’s assistants came in instead.”

“I do apologise that you have had to cancel your dates,” Jay said, “but I am sure we can find a way to keep you both amused and occupied here.”

“If you do what you normally do,” Angela said, “it’s a good thing we keep some nightclothes here in case we have to stay overnight.”

“What do they normally do,” Nina said as she looked at Alison.

“If the stories are true,” Alison said as Mrs McPhee and tow of the masked men started to carry in plates of finger food and place them on the table, “we’re going to be tied up, gagged and spend the night somewhere in ere.”

“Seriously?” Nina looked at Jay, who nodded as he said “I am sure Lady Parker will be in a position to provide you with something suitable. For now, eat up – I am sure you will appreciate the sustenance.”

“He is right,” Simon said, “let’s all just eat and talk – we can deal with later, later…”



“You understand what you have to do, Lord Parker?”

Simon nodded as she stood at the table. “Go with your man, do what he says, and they will be safe?”

“Indeed – call every hour,” Jay said, the masked man nodding as he took Simon by the arm and walked out. Turning to the table, he smiled as he said, “I think the girls should have a sleepover MRs McPhee – why don’t you take them upstairs to get ready, and then take them into the television room where they can watch nay film they want.”

“Can we, Mum?”

“On you go,” Claudia said as the two girls went with the masked woman. They walked up the stairs and into the bedroom, Mrs McPhee putting a bag down as she said, “Get changed, lassies, ahn then ah’ll get ye ready.”

The two girls removed their clothes and then put on white t-shirts, Daira putting on a pair of pink shorts and Holly pink bottoms with white polka dots. The two girls then looked at Mrs McPhee as she took some white ropes from the bag as well as a roll of white tape.

“Put yer hahns behind yehr backs, palm tae palm,” she said, the two girls looking at each other as they did so and then felt the ropes as their wrists were held together. They stood still as they heard the peeling sound, and the felt the tape on their hands as it was wound round the ropes, and then down so that their hands were held together in a white glove.

They then felt the ropes on their arms and chests as they were tightly secured, the bands framing their chests as they looked at each other.

“Does this feel funny to you Daria,” Holly said quietly.

“Yes, it does – but we’ll be fine together, all right?”

Holly nodded as the ropes were tied off, and then they saw Mrs McPhee folding a white cloth.

“Ye need tae be kept quiet,” she said as she looked at Daria, “so ah’ll pout this in yer moof, ahn then wrap tape round. Keep cahlm, ye’ll be fine.”

“Talk to you later kid,” Daria said as she looked at Holly, and then opened her mouth, waiting as the masked woman pushed the cloth in and then closing her lips before the white tape was wrapped round her head covering her lips and making sure she could not speak. Holly was then gagged in the same way, as the two girls looked at each other.

“There noo,” Mrs McPhees aid as she picked the bag up, “cum wi me.” The two girls nodded as they walked down the stairs, Claudia seeing them walk past as Jay smiled.

“Enjoy your evening girls,” he said as they went to the cellar and then he looked at two of the men.

“Where would you keep your clothes,” he said as he looked at Angela.

“A spare bedroom upstairs…”

He nodded as he looked at two of the men. “Take them up, get them ready.”



“Lay yerselfs ohn the couches,” Mrs McPhee said as they walked into the television room, Daria and Holly lying on a couch each and watching as she first crossed and secured their ankles together, and then tied their legs together below their knees.

As they twisted onto their sides with their heads on the armrests, Mrs McPhee turned the television on as she said, “any requests?”

The two girls looked at each other, before Holly said “Shhmfhfhshcchhrhh.”

“Are yeh sure?”

Both girls nodded as she found a film and started it, the two girls smiling under the tape gags as the movie started…




“What do you think they will watch,” Shauna said as she looked at her daughter.

“Given the choice, something funny and scary – we can find out in the morning. Where do you think your assistants will be kept?”

“In that room, I would imagine…”



Angela and Brenda looked at each other as they felt the rope holding their wrists together behind their back. They were wearing pyjamas – Angela was wearing a long sleeved pink top and white bottom with pink roses on them, while Brenda was wearing white pyjamas with pink teddy bears on them.

“If my boyfriend ever found out…”

“Oh, I don’t know – they look cute on you,” Angela said as the rope went round Brenda, pulled tight under her chest as the pyjama jacket was stretched over her chest. Angela then felt the ropes forcing her arms against her sides and framing her chest as well as they were tightly bound, ropes going under their arms and round the backs of their neck to make sure they were tighter still.

The two women then sat on the bed, watching as the masked man sat down and crossed their ankles before they were bound tightly together, the rope around and between their limbs. A second length was then used to secure their legs together below their knees, both women twisting round before they saw the compressed sponges in the gloved hand of their binder.

“Well, we’re not talking.”

“Doesn’t look like it,” Brenda said before the sponge was pushed into her mouth, expanding and pushing her cheeks out as the white tape was wound tightly round her head. She watched as Angela was gagged in the same way, before they were helped to lie facing each other on the bed, their ankles pulled back and secured to their chest ropes before the light was turned off, and the door closed.

“Swhhtdhdwhdhdnhhbhrhddhh?”

“Bhehddnh?”

Angels saw the eyes of her co-worker were closed, before she felt her own closing…




“All done?”

The man nodded as Jay said “All right then – I think it is time for your friends to be made comfortable, Lady Parker. Did you do as I asked?”

“I did,” Shoan said quietly, “there are two nightdresses in the bathroom.”

“Thanks Shauna – I need to go anyway,” Alison said as she and Nina stood up, one of the men going with Jay as the others looked at Shauna and Claudia.

“We should be terrified – why aren’t we terrified?”

“I don’t know,” Shauna said, “but somehow I trust them…”



“Better,” Nina said as she looked at Alison.

“Yeah – funnily enough,” Alison said as she stood in her peach short sleeved nightdress, “I am. You can go and get ready – looks like I am about to be secured.”

Nina nodded as she went into the bathroom, Alison holding her hands out and making fists as she gripped the half sponges she was handed, then watching as the white tape was wrapped round her wrists. She then turned and put her hands behind her back, feeling the rope on her arms as her wrists were bound tightly together. She then sighed as the rope forced her arms against the sides, seeing the bands framing her chest as her nightdress was stretched over her chest, and then the ropes under her arms and around the back of her neck as they were tightened still more.

As the man tied the ropes off, Nina came out, wearing a blue nightdress in the same style and saying “okay – we really are not going to be able to move, are we?”

“I guess not,” Alison said as she watched the man cover Nina’s hands and then start to bind her. “Hey – what do you think Jonathan would say if he saw me like this?”

“I don’t know – what do you think?”

“Might keep me awake,” Alison said with a laugh as she twisted round, and watched as her friend was bound in the same way. The two women were then escorted to a spare bedroom, both of them sitting on the end and watching as their ankles were secured together, and then their legs above their knees, the skirt of their nightdresses gathered round their legs as they were helped to lie back with their heads on the pillows.

A compressed sponge was then pushed into their mouths, and the white tape smoothed down over their mouths as their ankles were secured to the foot of the bed.

“Oh my god – are you going to be all right?”

Nina and Alison looked to the door as Shauna looked in.

“Whrrfhfnn,” Alison mumbled, Nina nodding as Jay appeared.

“Good – check them every fifteen minutes,” he said as he closed the door, Shauna watching as Claudia came out of a bedroom. Her daughter had changed into a red cap sleeved top with a pair of black pants that had a white chain fence pattern on them.

“Ye asked me tae cum up, Jay?”

“I did Mrs McPhee – Claudia wishes to be with her daughters. Would you take her to them please?”

“O course - they’re ahsleep, but ye can join them.” As she took Claudia down the stairs, Jay took Shauna into the master bedroom, watching as she went into the en suite bedroom, and then coming out in a knee length, short sleeved nightdress with a floral print.

“Thank you for treating us kindly,” she said as Jay gave her two sponges to hold, then turned her fists into white boxing gloves before he took her hands behind her back and bound her wrists tightly together. He then wrapped the rope round her arms and chest, making sure they were tightly secured to her sides before he gagged her with the sponge and tape.

“Pleas sit down,” he said, Shauna watching as he crossed and bound her ankles, and then folded back the skirt of her nightdress before securing her legs together. She then lay on her side as he hogtied her, before he turned the light off and she felt her eyelids close….






“Mhmmm?”

Claudia slowly opened her eyes and looked up from the floor to see Holly and Daira looking at her. Mrs McPhee had left her hogtied on her side on the floor, a blanket over her and her mouth covered with white tape as she watched her girls sleeping – and now they were looking at her as she said “hthhhttt. Hrruhbhfhlrhttt?”

“Shtthfhfbhtfhn,” Daira said “Ghrdhdnmh?”

“Hpshthhrershfhhnk. Chnnuhmhfff?”

The two girls nodded as they managed to slip off the couches they had slept on and wriggled over to be with her.

“Chttmhffhmhsth.”

“Hknnhnbhht – whthhhhh….”

She looked to the door as it opened, and a policeman looked in. “Three down here!”




“SHAUNA!”

As Shauna suddenly opened her eyes, she saw Simon kneeling down, peeling the tape from her mouth and then easing the sponge out as she coughed.

“Thank god – is it over?”

“It is – the police are freeing the others,” he said as Shauna began to cry…