Part 1: The aftermath of Abductions
Was this merely an attempted takeover by a rival cartel?
The bad guys had a profitable sex trade. They also somehow had an "in" with any data available to the local police. Being shielded by law enforcement was a strength that many hoped had to be turned into a weakness. Just as in a relationship that should have ended long before the time it has turned ugly, the local police knowing there was a bad apple, knowing there was corruption beyond a single person, might still fail in breaking that painful relationship. But was there an opportunity for law enforcement arising from a clash of cartels?
With the hospital housing their secret venue, these bad guys were perhaps the most successful of the many supply chain vendors engaged with the drug cartels. Was there a rivalry for their connections from different cartels?
There were no neat boundaries between running drugs or people. Increasingly, the bad guys seemed to know more, know sooner, and be immune from official or even vigilante efforts to shut them down.
When the police department had members closing in on them, the bad guys didn't try to lay lower than they already were, no, instead, the bad guys began targeting anyone daring to come after them. Big Mike wanted to totally discredit the force with his instructions to pick up random women officers, keep them drugged for longer durations than most other abducted victims, and, even hope their doing so would create more fright than motivation for the remaining officers. More than half the force consisted of women officers, so the targets were mostly easy pickings.
When Sara was one of the missing officers thought to have been abducted, and, coinciding with that, when Michelle, the equestrian officer assigned to the parklands, was informed that she was likely a target for such an abduction, Michelle began to take special notice of whom she thought might be those undercover in her work domain for her protection.
Although some abducted women seemed to have haunted the park, nobody had any inkling of where to begin to search for missing police women. It was not only police women being abducted, because that had become a special project for the bad guys. Their normal businesses of trafficking, extortion and dealing were uninterrupted except for the odd ghostly encounters that were reducing the effectiveness and even the numbers of the gang.
Another of the abducted but released women was now wondering the park. She looked young, under 20? She was in her soiled clothes. She had a pretty face but was unwashed. Dirty? Yes, smeared by many loads of sperm during her captivity. But, that had been washed away sufficiently to evade any useful evidence of her functioning as a cum dump. She had received cum. She had received drugs. Freedom from captivity had not rescued her, it had only been another step into a worse life than before. For whatever had brought her freedom the outcome also brought her a vagrant life. A life begging for food? Oh, she said she needed food but she had no cravings for food. Her cravings? Drugs.
During her capture, it was thought she would be sold for the sex trade. Her tan lines exposed she had worn thread-like micro thongs when baking her ass in the sunshine. Her ass had a curve, yes, but it was not the large rump that the guys most enjoyed. The curve of her ass was there, but barely. Her labia was long, an attraction for those with a fetish? Not long enough for that special appeal, no. Her legs were long, yes, but lacked the athleticism that delighted her captors when they enjoyed others they had taken captive. She was there, so her body was enjoyed by the gang members still coming to their lair. As the days went by, it became clear she would be released because she was crossing the point of costing too much to keep without prospects for bigger rewards from doing so. Coincidence for her not being marketable? Strange that the pipeline to staff a brothel can be too full? She was, perhaps luckily but perhaps unluckily, simply allowed to appear for the emergency room to process and then despite social services screening, she was rather quickly sent out the door, officially for release.
The emergency department did get a chance to be paid for some of the uninsured, unknown, and misunderstood people seeking admission. All medical records in the region were linked, so it was rare for someone to be tested during diagnostic steps who could not be identified, linked to the right patient coverage, and processed in the healthcare mazes.
Attending doctors, including Ein-Ji, did not have much time for processing possible patients. Especially those mysteriously appearing in their ward, with random expressions that did not give any real information, or with only impossibly impenetrable social voids.
This victim was no different from too many that Ein-Ji had to refer to the social care providers because there was insufficient medical necessity for her to qualify for admission. Somewhat addled, yes, and, showing test results that she had been drunk as well as on many recreational and dangerous drugs, she seemed someone for whom potentially there could still be a bright future. Doubtful? Yes. Sexual abuse evidence is short-lived. The bad guys had all the steps to avoid that being the reason their organization might be rolled up by law enforcement or by revenge-seeking family or loved ones.
She wondered the park, aimlessly most of the time, and of course was noticed by the vigilantes watching there. When the old man in the wheelchair saw her freeze, then obviously peeing in her own clothes as if unaware her body could urinate, his always trusting but verifying nature led to his offer for her relief from her personal difficulties. As he wheeled closer to her he noticed the dirt from sleeping on the ground and the open wounds, probably from sunburn, on her hands, forehead and her nose. She didn't move away as she blankly watched him approach. As he got closer he was aware of her stink from her going unwashed and having her own clothes as her toilet!
He could see she was pretty despite the recent hardships in her life. To his offer that she come with him for a meal, a shower and the laundering of her clothes she answered sweetly with a single question: "do you have dope?"
He shook his head no, he repeated his offer, then each retreated a different direction from the other.
Tragic? Absolutely, tragic. Reparable? Unlikely. He realized she was probably going to overdose if not fail from other causes of her suffering. Her suffering, at least at this point without knowing any of what led to this point, was from her choices. Sad for those like her in the park, unluckily without showering and laundering among opportunities to the homeless trying to survive near the park.
Wouldn't he act on this insight? Not yet. He had a more immediate goal: to frighten the drug dealers rather than those who were drugged. Bad guys abducting victims and changing them for addictions were his targets. For him, he had planned that the bad guys become frightened enough to make mistakes to enable law enforcement to make the park safe again.
What of others being abducted? Sold for sex work? Held for ransom? Set as bait in traps for law enforcement? Were the bad guys going to repeat their efforts to set traps directly for vigilantes?
Could that idea be flipped? What if the bait were to be put in front of the bad guys to bring the bad guys themselves to ruin?
Part 2: How bright can a hospitalist be without being undermined in the job?
Her clit was well hooded, though that would not protect it. Not now. Not from what was unfolding for her. The newest captured victim for sex trafficking had not been targeted in advance. No surveillance of her routines, acquaintances or possible risks to taking her were known to her abductors. She had been taken on a -- seemingly -- chance drive-by when the detestable bad guys took advantage of the opportunity for their robot vehicle to stop in a way that blocked her escape concurrent to obscuring her abduction from any witnessing persons, cameras or factors to enable a timeline of her abduction to include this data point.