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TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL AND VIOLENT CONTENT.

It was another dreary morning in Seattle Washington. Elena awoke to the deafening sound of her alarm clock going off for the second time 5 minutes after she hit snooze. "Damn it", she grumbled. As she pulled back her floral bedding that looked like it hadn't been washed in weeks, because of her busy and chaotic life. "I should get that done today", she thought aloud. She slipped on her knock off Gucci slippers and slid out of bed.

She walked groggily to her small apartment kitchen and poured herself some coffee in her favorite mug that belonged to her since deceased mother five years ago last month in June. She finished her coffee and went to her computer and to check her emails, then got into her athletic gear to go work out in the apartment gym, then back up stairs to her apartment to get showered and dressed for work. This was her morning routine and on her way to her place of work she would stop for an everything bagelwith extra cream cheese and a another coffee with a shot of espresso

She approached her place of work which was the forensics building on police head quarters. She worked with evidence that would determine a criminals fate, whether he/she was quilty or innocent. It was alot like playing God to her and she got a sort of high off it.

"Your five minutes late", Jennings said "The boss won't be happy". Elena just shrugged off his comment like she always had and ignored him. "What you going to ignore me?" Jennings snipped at her, like a rattler. Again she just ignored his rude comments, seeing as they were the only two workers. Elena did all the work while Jennings just sat on his big fat ass and nothing to contribute.

He was trying to intimidate her, but she could see right through him like she always had. "Out of my way, I have important work to do", she snipped back at him. He did not like that. "What did you just say to me?", he said in a furious tone. "I have important work to do", she repeated. "Oh, I don't think I like the way that your talking to me", he said in low voice.

He started to back her into a corner of the room. Alarms were immediately going off in her head screaming DANGER. Fight or flight immediately kicked into gear, before forensics she went to the academy and she learned self defense. She looked around the room for any and all exits, scanned the room for anything that could be used as a weapon and since he had back into a corner she had no choice, but to fight. She put her fists up, it also helped that her father was a former boxer and coach. She sent a warning jab at him. And when he didn't back off that's when she went all Rambo on his ass. She wasn't very tall about to his abdomen. Since she was short, she opted for being nimble. She craftily pulled his shirt over his head, then slid out from under him giving his junk a good kick from the back before running to safety to HR to report him. She was out of breath when she reach HR. Elena went over what transpired between them, she brought up that they had security cameras in the lab, due to the had a break in the year before. So the head of HR brought up the feed of those cameras and only got five seconds of footage.

"Elena from what I see here it looks like a friendly conversation between two coworkers". "And you don't have any marks or bruises on you to insinuate sexual assault, I'm sorry but there's not much I could do". "You could take my word for it!", she said with fear and anger. "I'm sorry, but there is still nothing I can do my hands are tied". Elena left HR with anger and determination. She knew what happened and so did Jennings.

And she wanted to get him to confess to what he tried to do. And she knew exactly what she was going to do. The next morning she arrived at work and acted like nothing had happened. Jennings was doing what he has done, nothing. How could he do nothing and still get a paycheck? She had dug through her things last night and found an old portable tape recorder with a butt load of blank tapes.

She was going to to have a controled conversation to get him to confess. It would be bonus of he tried something again, because the night before after everyone went home she set up hidden cameras. Thank you mom for being a great detective. So this time it would be caught on camera. She came in early to start the camera's and then came in five minutes late with her coffee and bagel.

"Your five minutes late", he said like he always did. She didn't say anything. She let the cam corder and the hidden cameras do the work while she did actual work. After about an hour and a half. He came up behind her, which gave her the chills. She thought "this is it". He put a chubby hand on her shoulder and then another giving her a massage. It made her want to puke. He whispered in ear we didn't get a chance to finish what we started the other day. His words sent a chill that went straight to her bones.

He gropped her left breast, she resisted the urge to fight him. This is what she wanted, proof that he was a creep and pervert. Elena just went along even though all of her being wanted to fight him off. Another hand reached down towards her lower region, but that's where she drew the line. He did not like that, this was the reaction she'd be hoping for. She smacked his hand away, "fighsty today are we".

He said in a teasing voice. And again he reached further down and again she smacked his hand away. He yelled "BITCH!" and smacked across the face. He grabbed her by the hair and slammed her face into the tabletops leaving her with a broken orbital and a bloody nose. After he slammed her face onto the lab table she slumped to the floor.

A rather vulnerable position for a women to be beaten and on the floor. Somehow she managed to pick herself up of the floor and grab the evidence against him. She huffed and puffed her way to HR.

She opened the door "You said you wanted proof?" And as she stood there in the door way there were five officers and one detective. Elena stood frozen and confused. The detective introduced himself "Hello Elena, I worked with your mother."

"You must be confused and at the looks of it you must've been through something awful". "We know about your coworker Carl Jennings he is a wanted man for many assaults across many states". "We recovered the rest of the footage and I can't tell you how sorry I am for not believing you and not taking your case more seriously", the head of HR said with much sincerity. "Restassured that we will have him under arrest within the next five minutes". "WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE DAMN FIVE MINUTES!!", Elena screamed as she woke up.