Once We Hit the 24-Hour Mark, We May Never Be Seen Again is a High School Musical: The Musical: The Series fic by Ariesgirl112
All it takes to get kidnapped is to ignore your gut feeling, then you may never be seen again.
When Ashlyn and Big Red are taken mysteriously after the BATB opening night, it is up to E.J, Ricky, Gina and Seb to take action and discover a world that isn't something they'd never expect.
Racing against the clock, will they ever see the duo again?
The fic’s Archive of Our Own can be found here. The fic’s Wattpad release can be found here.
Once We Hit the 24-Hour Mark, We May Never Be Seen Again contains examples of:
- Big Damn Heroes: While the entire rescue team could be classified as this, Big Red is a prime example. He show up at to the rescue mission, fresh out the hospital, stole a gun, and was the one who shot Luke.
- Break the Cutie: Ashlyn. She was kidnapped, raped three times, thought her boyfriend was killed because of her.
- Damsel in Distress & Dude in Distress: Ashlyn and Big Red fit these tropes.
- In the sequel, Seb.
- Dark Fic: the show is about high school drama students dealing with normal teen issues while putting on musicals. This fic is about human trafficking.
- Human Trafficking: The people who kidnap Big Red and Ashlyn are human traffickers.
- Post-Rape Taunt: Luke taunts the rescue team about how he raped Ashlyn twice.
- Rape and Revenge: the other wild cats aren’t happy when they learn of what happened to Ashlyn.
- Rape as Backstory: Big Red reveals he was raped in an alleyway a few years before the fic began.
