Alex was down in Lukas' basement. The chair Lina sat on had been put into the center of the room and a group of men was transporting everything in it out of the basement, not out of the house, just into a different room.
Another group of men was painting the walls, a dark and extremely absorbent red. Over it they were smearing teddy faces in black paint with their hands, not using any type of tools. Behind Lina was a large TV and Alex was setting it up to be in a good position for anyone entering the basement.
"The LEDs?" Someone asked him.
"Replace the lightbulbs with weak red bulbs and put the LED stripes at every edge of the room, everywhere the walls meet each other or with the ceiling and floor." He told the man who called in a few others with boxes of LED stripes.
Lina was not unconscious, but pretended to be. Her heart was racing, scared.
Alex moved towards her: "Open your eyes. I am going to untie you now, but don't think about running away, all the men you see down here are armed and told to hurt you if you leave the basement." He pulled out the gag from her mouth and gave her a snap against the forehead to scare her, "Understood?"
She did not reply verbally, but nodded understandingly.
"Good," He started loosening the ropes, "you these buckets? They're filled with honey, smear your whole body with. And with 'whole' I mean every fold and crevice there is. Lukas wants to pretend he is a killer with a sweet tooth, don't know why though." He pointed to the containers of honey next to Lina's chair as she stood up and stretched her arms. He rolled back a few steps. "Once you're finished, sit back down, I will tie you back up."
"What?" She asked scared, "You're not killing me, are you?"
"No! No… We want the police to find you down here like this." He told her, "You should make up some kind of heroic story, that paints you as the hero of the story between Lukas, Tim and yourself." He took out his phone and rested his chin on his left arm, starting to scroll through videos on the internet.
Lina looked around the room, nobody in the basement was looking at her. While it made her feel better, knowing that nobody would hurt her and she would soon be free, she was hurt that nobody thought of her body as attractive.
She crouched down and opened the first container of honey, dumbing her hand in it. A whole handful was lifted out and slowly dripped down from her hand as she smelled it, then licked it.
"Smear the chair first, you won't be able to reach your back, that will take care of it." Alex told her, not looking up.
And she listened, with her other hand as well filled with honey, Lina started to drench the chair in honey and her own body as well. First her arms and legs, then between her legs and below the folds of fat on her body, afterwards she tried reaching as much of her back as possible and smeared her torso and chest.
Moving slowly because it felt weird, she sat back down into the chair.
"Don't forget your neck, head and face. You can leave your hair dry if you want, but face and neck are important."
"Okay…" She whispered, standing up again. She quickly did as she was told and was tied to the chair by a man with rubber gloves.
Within an hour they had finished decorating and cleaning out the basement and left. Alex as well left, but before he did so, he turned on the TV behind Lina, it was displaying the storage unit Lukas had rented and it was filled with men in similar clothes to the ones who had decorated the basement.
Alex used the wheelchair elevator and dialed the number of the police. He put it to his ear and started speaking: "Hello? I kidnapped a girl and am about to murder a boy. My name is Lukas and I live at… well, you are probably tracking me, just get here before she dies. I am highly armed and my house is filled with traps. Fuck you. CRIPPLE POWER!" He turned off his phone.