Welcome dear reader to a new story in Enaya's ark. In this first part, you will discover a new character, and follow the adventure he, Enaya, Tom, and many other characters will live in Broadchurch. For those of you who would be impatient to go back to this wonderful series, the journey will start on chapter 7

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E.

With a firm step, Enaya entered the room. The man she had managed to convince was sitting there, smoking a cigarette, which smoke he was spitting on his victim's face. The victim, a man, was kneeling. His hands and feet were tied in his back, and a bag was covering his face. To his heavy breath, she guessed he had been gagged. To the movement of his chest, she knew his panic. If everything had gone like it should have, he must have been here for a day.

The whole story had started a week earlier, when she had received a letter that threatened one of her protégés. On the very same day, as she was watching the news, she had learned about British actor Benedict Cumberbatch's kidnapping. His wife, recently mother, was begging whoever did that to let him go, and the whole British nation had been moved. Enaya had then contacted her protégé, a friend of the actor, and asked him to arrange a meeting between her and the young mother. He was not to assist the meeting, she had added. She had then exposed her plan to the woman, and then repeated some of it to her protégé, and they had both accepted.

It hadn't been too hard to find the actor. She had quickly found out he had been kidnapped by a group of terrorists who intended to pressure the British government. She then had managed to find one of the terrorists, and convince him with a fake plan and a promise of wonder once the plan was successful. To show him what she was talking about, she had given him a kiss. "More of those are to come" she had added. So the man accepted to gain the actor's trust, get him out, and then take him to a small house in the middle of the desert. It was in this improbable little house that she had just come in.

At the moment she entered, she noticed something that shouldn't have been there. In a corner of the room, sitting on the floor, there was a terrified young girl. Enaya gave an interrogative look to the man.

"He said he wouldn't go without her." He said, shrugging his shoulders.

He got up and opened his arms, calling for another kiss, which she lecherously gave him. He lowered his hands down to her hips, expecting for more than a kiss, but she stopped him.

"We've got work to do."

She got away from him, came face to the actor, put a camera in front of him and turned it on, without making it roll. She headed to him, and took out the bag that was covering his faced. She frowned. His eyebrow was broken, and his nose was bleeding significantly. She looked at him more carefully, and discovered cigarette burns on his bare arms. She gave a reproachful look to her accomplice.

"I said I wanted him untouched."

"He was already like that when I got him out."

She turned to the actor.

"Is that true?"

He stared at her with his big terrorized eyes, unable to move. She gently took out the collar he had on his mouth. His lip was also split.

"Who did that to you?"

"I... I don't know..."

"You can tell me the truth, I'm not gonna hurt you."

He didn't answer, to scared to speak. But she needed to know. She focused on him, and slightly frowned.

"Tell me the truth" she insisted gently. "Was that him?"

He opened wide eyes, and then slowly nodded, as if he didn't want to. She gave a furious look to the man. She got up, get to the next room, and came back with a bucket filled with water, in which a wash cloth was floating. She put it in front of Benedict, then searched in her bag, and took a small bottle out of it. She opened the bottle, then took a knife out of her pocket and opened it. He flinched. But instead of attacking him, she knelt in front of him, turned the blade to her own hand, and made a cut in her palm. With the other hand, she then took the bottle and put a drop of the liquid within it on her wound, which closed instantly. She put a cap on the bottle, changing it into a nose spray. He nodded. She looked at him, cleaned her knife on the leg of her jeans, got up, and headed to the girl. She got her on her feet, dragged her to the actor, and cut her bounds, and put the knife back in her pocket. She took the gun she had on her belt.

"You do it." she said.

She loaded the gun, and pointed it on the girl's head.

"Try anything funny and you'll get one."

" Please..." she heard Benedict say. "Please..."

"Shut up" she said. "And, you, get on it!"

The girl got on her knees, took the wash cloth, and started cleaning the actor's face, saying "sorry" every time he quailed. Enaya then gave her the spray, which she took after a short moment of hesitation. Enaya put the actor's nose back to place, and held it that way. With a look, she ordered the girl to proceed. Benedict screamed and tried to make her go.

"Stop fighting!" she ordered sharply.

Then she softened her voice and added.

"It won't be long."

So Benedict stopped moving, and let the girl do what she was supposed to do. He cried out in pain when the potion cauterized his wounds. The girl, with her hands shaking and tears dripping from her eyes, proceeded again on the other side of the nose, pulling another scream and tears of pain out of Benedict. Enaya put her gun down, and talked to the girl.

"Good." she said. "Now, go."

The girl looked at her, got up, and then turned to Benedict. He bravely nodded, tears dripping on his cheeks. She ran away. Enaya waited for her to be gone, and then turned to the actor. He was catching his breath, and was trying to calm himself down. She gave him a moment, knelt before him, and then asked.

"How about you tell me what happened to you?"

"Please... please don't hurt me anymore..."

"Be a good boy, answer the question."

"I... I don't know..."

And he bent his head, as if he was scared she would hit him. Her heart tightened when she saw that, and she lifted his face with her finger.

"What do you remember?" She insisted gently.

"I... I was in New York. Someone drugged me, and I woke up out there. And then, he told me he was gonna help me. He told me he would help me escape, but then he took me here, and... please, what are you gonna do to me?"

She placed her gun on his temple. He closed his eyes, terrified.