Her head hit the floor and the door slammed shut. She laid there for what seemed hours in complete darkness the hood provided. The kidnappers had grabbed her as she walked out of the grocery store and thrown her in the back of a van and driven for hours to this location. The room felt damp but she felt the warmth of sunlight and she pulled the cover from her head.

The walls were stone with one single window that allowed sunlight to flood the room. It was warm but the room felt damp. She saw a mattress laying on the floor and crawled over and curled up in the corner. _At least they gave me a mattress and blanket _she thought to herself, and wrapped herself to try and keep warm.

The day passed and she could here what she figured was her kidnappers outside of the door, and then a small window in the door opens and one of the men calls into her.

“Do you know why you are here?” He asked. Mary was almost to scared to answer but thought it was safer to say something instead of staying silent, try to build a rapport, “No I don’t. Can you please tell me?”. The man just laughed and said “You will find out soon enough.”.

After the man left Mary decided she needed to find a way out. There had to be a way out of this place, but where. A small door at the bottom opened and some food came through. The same man who had talked to her earlier told her to eat. She pulled the tray over to her and began to nibble on the bread and at the porridge on the tray. She knew she had to eat something to keep her strength up.

The rest of the night she tried to get some sleep and managed to get what she figured was at least a couple of hours, but none of it was restful. The next morning as the sun began shining through the window she heard some noise outside the door. There were now two men talking outside the door.

“We have to take it in there and do this.” One of the men said. “I don’t know I feel pretty shitty about this. Why don’t we just ask for some money, we can get out of here.”, “That’s not an option.” The other man said, and the door opened up.

Mary looked shocked at what they were rolling it was an old CRT television, one like her family had when she was a kid. In fact it looked very similar to the one they had, even the scratch that appeared on the side. The hooded man rolled the tv to the end of the mattress, plugged in the lone outlet in the room, and turned it on.

When the man left the room left the room he removed his hood and told his partner it was done, she was going to do whatever they wanted her to do. The television was a mind altering device, she would be the one to kill her husband for them. Both men laughed and watched her through a CCTV in another room.

Staring at the door after the man had left the room Mary looked back at the television. There was nothing but static on the screen, and with that she smiled. _I finally have a way out _she thought.

The two men little known to Mary were her husbands partner at work Jeffrey and Jack. They wanted to remove him and take his place at the CEO of the company and blame him for the embezzlement they had done. They had taken millions from the company and if they did this right her husband John would be blamed.

Watching Mary on the screen they saw as she reached her hands to the television and closed her eyes, “What the fuck is she doing?” Jack asked with a quizzical look on his face, “Isn’t that suppose to start the brainwashing?”. Both men continued to stare at the screen when all of the sudden everything in the room started to shake and their screen went blank.

Mary continued to chant and touch the screen, she had used her magic through the television and summoned her demon Michaelangelo. The door started to shake and flew open, she heard screams down the hall and large banging down the hall. She removed her hands from the screen and walked out the door and down the hall.

Entering the room where the two men had been the only thing that remained was pools of blood on the floor and pieces of the men on the wall. She smiled and walked over to one of the remains and picked up a cell phone. She looked around and found a finger to open the phone up and dialed her husbands number. “It’s done, the problem is eliminated.”