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Tick tick tick.

“Mmmpphh!”, Steve groaned through the tape that covered his mouth. This could not be happening! The ropes bit into his wrists as he fought against them for freedom. Bound had and foot he could only grunt and wiggle like a worm.

His shanghaier, Danny Snow, had already left Steve to his fate. Furious over Steve’s failure to keep him out of jail when Steve was Danny’s lawyer, Danny had tied Steve up and planted a device.

Damn these ropes were tight, Steve thought. Sweat was running down Steve’s face but that didn't’ seem to help give him any slack.

“Mmmm!!”, Steve grunted again in frustration and stamped his feet.

Wait a minute! He was a moron! His feet were tied as tight as his hands but Danny had forgotten to tie Steve to the chair. There was nothing stopping him from simply getting up and hopping away.

Steven had to be careful to maintain his balance. But he also did not have a lot of time. As quickly as he could he got to his feet. The fact that his knees were tied as well as his ankles actually made hopping much easier. Wasting no more time, he began to bunny hop to the door. He could only pray that Danny was not waiting outside in case Steve tried just this tactic. Though surely Danny would have ran far away by now. Danny would want to be far away from house when it blew.

Steve didn’t even look back to see how much time he had left. He bounced on his feet down the hallway and to the back door. It was closer and hopefully easier to open with Steven’s bound hands.

The door wasn’t quite as easily as Steve had hoped. The damn knob was hard to get a hold of and when he finally did manage ot turn it the door stuck.

“Mmmpph!” Steve didn’t have much time left. He knew it. He could hear the clock continue ticking even from the kitchen. With a desperate tug Steve got the door open. He then had to manoeuvre so he could open it enough to get out.

Steve was on the porch now and he calculated that he could probably jump down the stairs to the yard and then get away. But then his foot hit a loose board. With a painful thud Steve fell down.

“Mmmmm! Mmmmmppphhh!”, Steven tried to yell for help. Unfortunately Steve’s neighbourhood was spread out. His closest neighbour was probably too far away to hear his cries through the gag.

Steven could still hear that damn clock ticking even from outside. And it kept ticking. and ticking. And ticking.

Steven began to panic. He struggled like crazy to get free and failed as before. And the clock continued ot tick. It was then Steven calmed enough to think, Shouldn’t it have gone off by now?

Steve didn’t get untied until the next morning by the mail man. The bomb actually turned out to be just a clock attached to some wooden dowels painted red. Though furious, Danny apparently wasn’t quite as crazy as he had let on.

Steve asked the mail man to keep quiet. On the porch bound and gagged Steve had had time to think. If they caught Danny, it might come out just how little Steven had worked on his case. How Steven had pretty much not done any work on his client's behalf. And he did not need a competency hearing.

No, Steven decided. He would keep this quiet, buy a security system and make sure that he never screwed over a client again

The end

Steve played by Ryan

Photograhy by Caitiff

Date of Production: 10/12/2008