Gotta Pay the Piper

I decided to stop to see Lenore on the way home. As I got out of the car, I met up with Lou Player who was returning from lunch. "How is your hunt going on your rapist search?" she asked bluntly. With a single raised eyebrow she teased, "It's been over twelve hours since you called me to ask for advice. I'd have figured you'd be at the police station by now. Have you been slacking off?"

I laughed and said I'd identified all but a couple individuals. I might need to get a warrant to get into a government data base but I'd been working a slightly different angle this morning. "You're slipping. I'd have thought you'd have a work around by now and found them all," she said with a grin. "But get your duckies in a row and see Kathy Bishop." I told her I might be a little late to the Hacienda for my hog hunt this evening. She frowned at me. "Bas, you need to get your priorities straight. Catching those bastards is more important than shooting pigs." I shook my head and told her, I made a commitment. "Are you sure you and Derek are not related?" Lou laughed.

"Well, you have my number, I'll expect to you to call me when you are ready. Do you want me to go with you on your first trip to see Kathy?" I asked her if I thought that necessary. "Not at all. Not with Kathy. But it will sure alleviate my curiosity. I want to hear details and be part of it. As your attorney, I can be privy to the whole thing. I'm not going represent everybody unless I get paid, but I'll take care of you." I laughed and told her when I was ready, I'd call her.

I walked into the office of Waddsworth accounting to be met by Wanda and Lenore. Wanda had a huge grin on her face. Lenore was obviously pleased. "I see my mother's future son-in-law and father of her first grandkid has stopped by to visit," Lenore greeted me. I was taken aback momentarily before I caught on. Wanda chortled and announced Paige paid them a vist this morning.

"What else did Paige say?" I asked, hoping she did not divulge any of the questions I'd asked her.

"Nothing." Lenore stated. "She just made that statement and said she didn't care which of those two things I did first but to get off my ass and get it done. And that she fully approved of both." Wanda laughed louder at what I assume was my expression of complete bewilderment, before giving me a quick hug and walking away.

I told Lenore I had called Paige to ask her for information and it turned into a little teasing. "Oh? The subject of us being married or you getting me pregnant is a subject for your teasing?" I was getting confused and a little flustered when Lenore chuckled. "I got the picture, but when Mom stopped by she really rocked me back. I think if she'd had time to organize it, she'd have had Dee and Marge with her to really make a show of it."

She grinned and said quietly, "Now, I don't feel a bit bad about getting you to expose your cock for that blowjob this morning. Every one of those girls has seen and touched it already except Geri and Marianne. Their eyes got big as saucers when you opened your pants. I'd told Richard to get out to avoid embarrassment for either of you." I nodded and said he'd told me.

"Well, did you stop by to get me pregnant, propose, or tell me where you've been this morning? I saw you were out of town." Lenore said. I told her I was going to give her an update and she reminded me she had not even been informed of anything new as of early the previous evening.

"That WAS NOT my fault." I said. "In my defense, you sort of distracted me when I got to the room." She giggled and said she'd see me at home and told me she'd already checked with Charlotte to see if she was coming for dinner and alerted Sonya we'd have a guest.

We always had plenty of food on the table so an extra couple of guests was never a problem. Leftovers became a side-dish at the next meal.

I went home, happy to escape Lenore and Wanda's teasing. Before I made it out the office door, Sherrie waved at me, grinned, and made bobbing gestures at her fist, pantomiming sucking a cock. I know my face was red as the door closed behind me.

The house was quiet when I plugged the SD disk into my adaptor. Sure enough only one file appeared. I decided to watch it. I felt sorry for the girl on the screen as I watched her totally humiliated and abused. Laura might have been close to nineteen by this time, but I knew her only sexual experience up to this point had been when she was drugged and unaware or at least rendered where she could not recall the events. She was mortified having to strip and submit her body and dignity to the slightly older Lana. Her apologies were barely coherent as she made them tearfully into Lana's bare crotch. I watched until the end when Lana handed her the bottle of water.

The only way to really delete a file would be to reformat or destroy the disk. Lana had done neither so within a short time, I had restored the missing file. I made a copy to my own working file and sat back to watch.

Lana left her camera running to show Laura as she got woozy fairly quickly and passed out. Lana made a call and within a minute, Tamala Edwards knocked on the motel room door. "Damn! I wondered if you would ever call!" she complained. But she giggled when she saw Laura lying limp on the floor. "Fuck! You only gave the half dose of X I gave you, right? Nothing extra?" Lana said of course as she reminded Tamala she'd mixed it herself so if it was too much, it was on her.

"The bitch must be a complete lightweight!" Tamala said. "I gave her much less than I did when we raped the cunt, but she is totally out of it. I guess the difference is her adrenaline surge kept her alert for a while that other time. I wanted her aware she was getting her ass marked but unable to fight back and then make her eat me after I was finished. I wanted her zoned enough she'd never be able to identify me. Oh well. Let's get the cunt done."

"Wait, you aren't gonna make another video, are you? Your last one was cool. I loved the action. But there aren't many tattoo artists around the area and even having my hands filmed is risky." Tamala said. Lana assured her it was for her enjoyment only. "You said you were going to give her a copy of her submitting her cunt to you. Make sure this is not part of that. Delete the file showing me."

Tamala set to work and within a half hour a very bold outline of the tattoo was finished. "This type tat is pretty easy to lay down compared to a pretty picture." Edwards said. "Her butt is gonna be damn sore as it is. Do you still want me to fill it in now or do it later?"

"I want the cunt to feel every bit of pain I can. Do the whole thing. She is not a paying customer so you don't have to be gentle!" Lana said and both women laughed. Another half hour later showed the tattoo complete. The skin around the image already was turning red and inflamed. It was a stark contrast to Laura's smooth white skin.

"She's gonna hurt sitting down on this for a while. Are we gonna wait to do the other cheek?" Tamala asked.

"Oh yeah. I want the bitch to have to submit to that one fully aware of every step. She needs to think she has no choice but submit. I want her to have to lay down on your table thinking you have no idea she is being pressured to get tattooed. She will be totally humiliated you think she is just a submissive slut allowing herself to get marked for her superior. If she changes her mind and balks, we'll drug her and then really nail the cunt. I'll even let you pierce her a few times."

"Okay, while I copy this whole file for myself and delete the one showing you from the camera card, you work her pussy hard with this dildo. Wear it out. I want her so sore, she'll wonder if she got gangraped again. When you get finished, I'm gonna put this disk up her snatch and pack it in tight. After that, you can ream her butthole since you missed out on her tongue," Lana said. The video ended.

It was only a little after noon. I really wanted to call Kathy Bishop. I also wanted to fulfill my obligation to Derek and the rest, not excluding Charlotte's boys by shooting another hog or two for the weekend butchering. I shook my head. All obligations are not the same. Sure, Laura's issues had laid dormant for thirteen years but now they had surfaced, they needed to take precedence.

I called Kathy Bishop. "Damn! It looks like my day just got more complicated." she said as she answered. "Why do I get the feeling you are not calling to invite me to a crab or crawfish boil?" she laughed. "How is my favorite instigator of trouble, doing today? Do I need to come to you or are you coming to me? Or is this really a social call?"

I said, 'Sorry Kathy, but this is not a social call. But I will invite you to our boil the weekend after next. I need to see you. Can I come by your office?"

"Send me the date and time of that boil and I'll be there. You can meet my husband. He wants to meet you after hearing some of my stories. I'm not particularly busy right now but it's best if you come to my office. I'll leave word out front. Hell, as often as you come, I might just issue you a damn badge so you can scan yourself in and come straight back!" I called Lou to tell her I was on my way to Kathy's office to show her what I'd found.

Twenty minutes later, I was walking through the door of the investigative office. Two cops recognized me and gave me a wave and a smile. One pointed towards Kathy's office to let me know where she was.

I'd just begun to give Kathy a rundown of the case when Lou walked in. "Just here to make sure my client has not stepped off the diving board and into the deep end with his investigation." After ten minutes, Kathy stopped me before I got to the names of the perpetrators.

"I can see this is going to be a mess. We have a twenty year old gangrape. It crosses into at least two jurisdictions. And we are not the primary. You have identified most but not all of the perpetrators but not revealed them to me. Nor have you explained fully how you got involved. Jeezus! You bring me some shit!" Kathy said, shaking her head. Then she grinned. "Not only is it my job, but this is the type thing that got me into the business of being a cop."

"My only problem is you are the one bringing it to me. You are a fucking retired computer guy and you are better at finding and solving crimes than some of my guys." I told her only if it comes to searches online. "Yeah, but finding the details out there and putting them together is our job," she groused as she picked up the phone.

"Busy? Our friendly neighborhood computer sleuth just brought me a case for us to look into. It is complicated and multi-jurisdictional. And sounds like a fucking big case." Kathy began laughing. "I didn't let him get that far. I have no idea why he needs our help before he drops it all on us tied up in a neat little bow for me to bless and you to proscecute. Okay, we'll be over in a few." To me she said, "Helen says bring you and your shit right over."

"You almost make me feel unwanted," I quipped, feigning hurt. Lou was enjoying herself.

"I had dinner plans, and this looks like it could turn into a long day," Kathy laughed. I told her I did, too, plus I wanted to be in a blind about dusk to shoot a hog. We were walking to Helen LeBlanc's office. Lou said she'd call Derek to tell him I was not going to make it tonight.

"I love every case you bring me. Each one results in a conviction which is a feather in my cap." Kathy said. "I just wish instead of you bringing cases to me, it was my office coming to you for help. It'd make it look like we were doing our job better and just seeking special assistance."

"Now that sounds great!" I said. "I happen to have a couple expert computer people now. They are both also experienced hackers which happens to be how I came to own them. Call us any time!" Lou loudly cleared her voice in warning.

Kathy stopped me short. "Please don't tell me any of this is the result of hacking. You know we need the evidence untainted."

I grinned. "Not a bit is the result of hacking. My girls just happen to have that expertise. We made sure to document every step of this investigation in detail. I gay-run-tee!" I said. Kathy laughed.

Ten minutes after beginning the story, Helen stopped me. "You have a case. I also notice you have avoided names. Why? And why did you not take this directly to Baton Rouge PD?"

I was honest. "To tell the truth, I did not think they would listen to me if I just called them. I can get the victim up here any time. I talked with her husband earlier today. But I need help getting every body on the same sheet of music. Plus some of the key players live here in town and are well connected."

"I am almost afraid to ask but who are these key players?" Helen asked. "Please don't tell me the mayor."

"Nope, but you might not like it much more." I began to grin. "The main one is Lana Perkins who you know has been enslaved for a different offense and I own. The other two who planned and orchestrated the rape is Alecia Carnaby and Candace Bowers, Lana's best friends for many years and cohorts in crime since high school." Helen, Lou, and Kathy all stared at me, no longer even halfway joking.

They asked me to go back and start from the beginning. How I came to know about the rape in the first place. I began all over telling them about Alice Cruise in high school that Lana had mentioned in her attack on Charlotte. When I finished, they sat back and stared at one another. Kathy said, "Son of a bitch! Those three have been at it for over two decades. Lana has been getting her revenge. I wonder how many others beside the supposed woman Lana kept at her fish camp."

I shook my head. "I'm not so sure they'd all crossed Lana. Alice did not say who she crossed originally, but Lana was the only one available for her retaliation. The same with the unknown fish camp woman. She might have not come forward because the woman she had problems with was either Alecia or Candace and still afraid of them. I know Laura was the one who conflicted with Lana. And of course there was Charlotte.

"I'm thinking they are not serial abusers. It is just they stick together to help one another get revenge and abuse anyone any of them conflict with. The other day they said, 'together forever.' " I said.

"I'll liaison with a guy I know in Baton Rouge." Kathy said. "First step will be to make sure the rape is still on the books as an open case. Otherwise they will have to open a new one. I also wanted to see if the DNA evidence is still there. Unfortunately, shit like that gets lost after twenty years."

"Can you get the victim to come up and talk, Bas?" Helen asked. I said I could. I'd talked with her husband and she is on board.

"There is one problem, though." I said. They looked at me like I was about to piss in their breakfast cereal. I began to explain why Lana got so upset and wanted revenge in the first place. Helen had to laugh.

'Sorry, but it is funny. Knowing Lana, threatening to cut her hair would get her to do anything." Helen said. "Yeah, she threatened a minor assault and that lead to Lana submitting to a bit of sexual abuse. But one could argue Lana started that abuse by her continuous taunts and sexual innuendos. I'd bet at worst, Laura, IF after confessing, might get a few hours of community service for making the threat. More likely, it all gets dropped. After all, Lana had her abducted, drugged, and gangraped."

"Where do we go from here?" I asked. I was told to go home.

"So I am back out in the cold while you officials work your case?" I asked, getting a bit incensed.

Kathy and Helen laughed. "Damn boy!" Kathy laughed. "Relax! I meant go home, and enjoy your night. I'm gonna call my friend over in Baton Rouge to start the ball rolling. Helen will call their DA's office. We will let you know when we have a bit of news. You are crucial to the case. You not only have the evidence but you have to show each step of how you got it. Okay?"

"Okay, sorry." I said. "One thing. I only identified eight of the ten. You might get those other two if the others turn them in but if you can get me just a few minutes' access to some government data bases like the DMV, I could have all ten locked down."

"We will call you, Bas." Helen stated. As I walked out the door, she patted me on the back. "You do better work than many of the state investigators. We need to talk about that." I felt a bit better by the time we left Helen's office.

In front of Kathy, Lou said, "Bas, you will not be able to listen to the any of the rapists give their statements or any part of their interrogations. BUT you will with Lana since you own her. You might be able to tell what the others have said by how the investigators question Lana. Pay attention to little hints, okay?"

Lou looked straight at me, but I could tell she was addressing Kathy when she said. "Everybody knows you are crucial to this investigation and wants to keep you happy and informed as much as is legal." I grinned when Kathy nodded and shrugged.

Lori and Kat got home and were excited to be updated on the case. "We both have one class to attend to proctor an exam. That will be early morning. Can we go along?" Kat asked. When I nodded and told them to have their independent logs up to date, Lori said they already did, hoping to be called today.

I let them watch the video of Edwards tattooing Laura's buttock. They were both angry. "I knew she was a cruel bitch. Totally an opportunistic sadist!" Lori declared. I relayed the story Laura told of how she was not only taunted when she had to go to the parlor to get tattooed a second time, she was physically assaulted with Lana's encouragement." That just confirms what I said before." Lori said. "Laura was not even allowed to just pull her pants down enough to just uncover the target area, she had to half strip and endure ridicule for the first tat not knowing Edwards did that to her too and abused her with a dildo."

Kathy Bishop called and asked me if I could be in her office by ten in the morning to go over the case with her friend from Baton Rouge. I told her I would be there as soon as my two associates were out of class and explained they were procturing a midterm. Both Lori and Kat said the time suited them and they would be ready to go.

Charlotte arrived with Lana and we all sat down to eat. The college girls announced proudly they'd gotten A's on their exams so far. "So our butts are safe!" Angie proclaimed. Sonya grinned back.

"Charlotte, I have a meeting mid-morning that will interfere with my driving Lana to your store in the morning. Can you do me a favor and take her home with you tonight and then to work in the morning? Just have her stay in your bedroom and away from Bobby and Tony."

Lana began to protest she could either stay home for the day or drive herself. "We lack enough cars," I pointed out. She suggested Lori and Kat could ride with the others and I shook my head. "Not enough room. I'm looking for another vehicle or two." I could tell the woman absolutely hated my idea which was the point.

Charlotte agreed on the spot but later asked me what was going on. I told her I would reveal all when I could. I just had some commitments. A few minutes later, I told her and Lenore to have fun, but I was going to go kill a pig and I left leaving both women behind.

"Charlotte was a little put out with you leaving so abruptly tonight to go hunting. She was hoping for a little sex. We played a little before she left with Lana," Lenore said when I returned home after shooting a nice sow. I told her I also needed to talk briefly with Lou. I explained about the meeting in the morning. "I thought so. We'll have to bring Charlotte on board as soon as we can. She deserves it."

I was already in Kathy's office when we received word that 'two slave girls were at the front desk to see Lt. Bishop'. Kathy asked for them to be escorted back. When I asked them if they had any trouble finding a parking place, Kat laughed.