"No one is ever all right."
A day later Dick received news that his oldest son had been murdered; apparently beaten to death. He didn't take the news well and took an immediate leave of absence from work to sort things out. He had to figure out what the hell was going on. His wife took the news in a bad way and busied herself with arrangements for the funeral service. His other son, Bradley, on the police force, made promises that they would "get the bastard who did this". A detective by the name of Alfred Smith came around to ask him some questions but Dick didn't have anything of significance to report. He and his son had a decent relationship, but they were not close and didn't speak much. The detective assured him that the police were doing everything they could.
Smith eventually made his way to Todd's place of work and interviewed all the employees. Of course, he noted a problem with Tammy straight away, who was struggling to act normal. Johnson had told her not to change anything about her routine, so as to avoid attention, but she was a horrible actress, and very frightened. It was also significant that other employees reported to Smith incidences of Tammy giving Todd oral sex on the job. Todd had become infatuated with her beautiful body and couldn't resist the excitement of touching her at work, especially since she was so easily manipulated. Her boyfriend had come around a couple of times and Todd noticed that the guy seemed to be extremely jealous of her talking to one of the other male employees. He also noticed the age difference and the jewelry, which he knew she could not afford on her salary, and guessed that it was an abusive relationship. It only took some mild threats that he would tell her boyfriend false stories about how she was cheating on him, to coerce her into a sexual relationship. Tammy knew that even if the report was false Johnson wouldn't believe her and she would be cut off.
Smith arrested her the next day, after confirming some of his suspicions, and took her downtown for further questioning. He was a good cop and did his job through the proper channels. He really hated when criminals escaped through legal technicalities caused by poorly handled police work. In fact, he once kneed a young cop in the nuts for disturbing a crime scene, which led to the release of a particularly nasty rapist. He arrested Tammy quietly as she was doing some shopping, (all paid for by Johnson) just a few hours before she was due to go to work. She was wearing a pink spaghetti strap top with frills, no bra, and a short blue, tight fitting skirt. Her pert tits poked through the thin material and caused stares in every shop she visited. Tammy had dressed provocatively in the past, as she knew she had a hot body and enjoyed the stares of so many men, just as long as none of them actually tried to talk to her. However, Johnson forbid her from wearing a bra, even at work. She found it to be exciting and humiliating at the same time, depending on the circumstances. This particular circumstance was one of the embarrassing ones. She ended up sitting in the police station facing serious charges, wearing a shirt that was designed to show off her tits.
It only took an hour to get the whole story from her as she broke down in tears, confessing everything about what happened the day that Johnson beat Todd to death when he found them together. Johnson was making a small fortune pimping his cute little black slut out to his country club buddies, (not to mention the video sales from all that action), and didn't want anyone else touching his property. Smith warned her that she was in serious trouble for trying to hide Johnson's crime and left her to wait in the interrogation room while he sorted out the arrest of Johnson. Smith had called in Bradley, who was standing on the other side of the one way mirror, to witness the questioning. Ordinarily, he tried to keep officers with a personal involvement in the case at hand away from the proceedings, to avoid legal technicalities. However he liked Bradley and wanted him to find some closure to his brother's death by witnessing the guilty parties being tried fairly by the law. After Smith had raced off to secure a warrant for Johnson's arrest, based on Tammy's testimony, Bradley immediately called a friend of his from upstairs to come down and help him with a plan for revenge. An intense hatred had developed in his heart since he first heard about how his big brother had died. He would personally deal with Johnson later, but for now he wanted to do something about this distraught little black girl sitting all by herself.
Bradley and his friend, Gerald, entered the room looking straight at Tammy. She immediately sat up again with a look of fear in her eyes. Bradley introduced himself and Gerald, and then wasted no time, explaining that she was in a lot of trouble but he understood that she wasn't the guilty one here. He used a smooth voice, trying to sound like a friend. His story was that he felt bad that she was a beautiful young girl caught with the wrong guy, at the wrong time, at the wrong place. On the one hand she was looking at many years in jail for accomplice to murder. Based on her confession, she was guaranteed to do that time. However, he was willing to help her out of this situation. He and Gerald could talk to the prosecutor about her case, and use their contacts in the court system to make it so that she would only get a small fine and a couple years probation; just a slap on the wrist, really. However, that could only happen if he could be persuaded to make it happen. He said this as he reached out a hand to put on her shoulder, moving it slowly down to brush against her tits, rubbing slightly against the clearly visible bulge caused by her nipple. Tammy began to softly cry, feeling like the whole world was crashing down on her. She didn't want to go to jail but she knew that she was in big trouble. She had fucked plenty of guys since meeting Johnson and could handle two more for the sake of avoiding jail. It's not that she was a slut, she reasoned, but that circumstances had left her no choice. She slowly nodded when Bradley asked her again if she wanted his help.