Darlene’s Terror [MM/F]
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2026 9:04 pm
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This story takes place long after the crime and is presented in several parts. I have written a story about the solution of the crime that I could add at the end.
Darlene’s Terror
Most of the story is a narration by the principal participant Darlene, from memory.
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I paused on the front porch of Roger’s house. Was I sure what I was getting myself into? My friend Reg should be here as well – as a safety as well as an assailant.
But I need to do this for the victim.
Should I? Dare I? I decided on a random trigger. If the next car along the street was going up the hill, I would go in. Otherwise I might just turn around.
Four cars in a row came along Roger’s street. All going up hill. A good omen.
I pressed the doorbell.
Roger opened the door and let me in; Reg standing in the background.
I hung up my coat in the closet and removed my shoes and added them to the collection on the floor.
I handed Roger two keys. He nodded.
I saw the strips of duct tape on the edge of the shelf; I took the longer one and pasted it across my lips. First big step. I pulled the handcuffs out of the pocket of my coat, then reached for one of the remaining strips of duct tape and placed it over my (closed) left eye. Repeated for the right eye.
Nearly committed.
I fastened one of the cuffs over my left wrist and reached my arms around my back. I opened the other cuff in my left hand, placed my right wrist in the open cuff and paused. Last step before committal.
I am a policewoman who investigated a particularly horrific crime, which Roger helped me to successfully solve. I am to provide my statement in the trial of the main perp in a couple of weeks. I want to experience what I could of the poor woman’s capture and suffering. Hence this exercise. But my heart was pounding over the next step.
My omen cars had gone up hill. Resolutely I closed the cuff over my right hand. Committed, as Roger had the keys.
I think it was Roger who led me into the hall, turning me right into his living room that I had visited before.
“Kneel down,” I was instructed, onto a soft pad.
I knelt with his hand as a support and stayed upright.
I felt a rope pass around my ankles a couple of times and then was secured. The ends of the rope were pulled up and through my cuffs but not tied.
A hand gave my back a strong push, and I tumbled forward.
PANIC TIME as I visualized my nose impacting the wood floor in front of me. My heart rate skyrocketed and adrenaline and other hormones flushed through my arteries and veins. My inners wanted to void.
FRIGHT.
TBC
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