She gets arrested for indecent exposure.

Then, coming around the corner, she sees it coming. A police car.

She continues to to what she's been doing for the past half hour or so - stand there, arms cramping, body bared to whoever may happen upon it. The police parked two or three car-lengths away, then quickly got out, pointing towards her. She could do nothing but stare as they, seemingly in slow motion, walked towards her.

There where two of them, both men. One went behind her, uncuffing and then redundantly re-cuffing her, keeping a tight grip on her upper arm. Then, she realized, the other cop was speaking to her. She saw his lips move, but was having a difficult time taking his words in. Mackenzie heard the words "arrested" and "indecent" and "exposure." She felt disassociated from her body, yet hyper-aware of physical sensation.

She felt every pebble on the pavement on the walk to the car. Dimly, she realized her mouth was still duct taped, and wondered if they would take it off of her. Would they peel it slowly, or would they rip it off? Would they bother taking it off at all? She shuddered, overcome by her powerlessness.

She was pushed into the backseat of the cruiser, and one of the men reached across her body to buckle her in. She leaned back at the sudden invasion of her personal space, her mind spinning at the smell of deodorant and spearmint gum. It was a stark, unavoidable reminder that another person was seeing her naked. She quickly closed her legs, which she just realized had fallen open during her rough handling. The man finished buckling her, hand grazing her hip as he stood up.

The car pulled off the curb, and the two men started talking amongst themselves, ignoring her. Her chest heaving, legs pressed tightly together, and hands still cuffed behind her back, she stared straight ahead.

They hadn't given her anything to cover up with. _How could they not do that? _They hadn't even taken off the duct tape, which honestly Mackenzie hadn't even seriously considered as a possibility. She was starting to panic, though outwardly, she remained frozen.