"This court sentences you to five years of penal slavery. As much restitution as possible will be made from your former assets. Once your term has been completed, full citizenship and the rights that go with it will be restored to you."
The judge looked soberly at the petite, trim, attractive dark-haired housewife. The woman had trouble meeting his gaze.
"It is hoped that you will have learned the errors of your ways, young woman, and that this shall be your last appearance in the dock. Bailiff, remand the prisoner. Case dismissed!"
The judge slammed his gavel smartly on the bench, breaking the silence of the room.
Lizzie Walker exchanged hugs with her attorney. Brenda had really earned her pay. Originally the prosecutor was arguing for a fifteen-year sentence. Lizzie's attorney had talked them down to a third of the time. Still, it meant the life the twenty-six-year-old housewife had known was at an end.
What awaited her, was a vast sea of unknowns and fears. The bailf gently separated the attorney and client and led Lizzie off to the processing wing. Lizzie wiped the tears from her eyes as she strode down the tiled floor. The trek ended at a large white door with the words, "Slave Processing" in large red letters upon frosted glass. The bailiff used his key card and the door swung open. Lizzie's ID badge was passed to the bored-looking clerk just beyond the doorway and Lizzie entered the slave processing center proper. A hefty woman who clearly enjoyed her job and wore a starched blue uniform eyed Lizzie head to toe and barked, "Strip! Everything, including hair extensions and fake nails."
Lizzie stood in a daze for a moment.
"Get to it, slave!" barked the woman as she menaced Lizzie with her billy club.
Lizzie hastened to remove the expensive business suit she had bought specifically for this court appearance. She placed it, her underwear, and her shoes in a little wheeled caddy which transported everything out of view. Vaguely, Lizzie recalled that all confiscated slave property was auctioned off. Next came her jewelry, her earrings, the necklace of a heart which opened to reveal pictures of her husband and daughter. Though Ted would no longer be her husband at midnight. Upon that hour, Mrs. Lizzie Walker's marriage would be officially severed by the state as would her parental rights as she became simply a numbered slave owned by the state for the next five years and sold to the highest bidder to attempt to recoup financially what she had embezzled from her employer. Lastly, and with tears in her eyes, she twisted off her wedding band and engagement ring. She could have left them with Ted, but the state would have claimed them from him when they impounded her possessions, car, jewelry, family heirlooms, and anything else of value. For that reason, Lizzie chose to hold on to her marital jewelry until the last possible moment.
Ted would be forced to give the state half the value of the house that was in both their names and could retain only what the courts and the state agreed was his property alone and what he had brought into the marriage. Lizzie really did begin crying when she considered the financial hurt she had placed on Ted. With luck, he would be able to retain the house and make a fresh start. Lizzie understood that she would probably not see Ted for five long years. By then, he would, no doubt, be remarried, and her daughter, Jeannie, would see her as a half-forgotten stranger!
For perhaps the ten-thousandth time since her arrest, Lizzie cursed her gambling addiction. Her hunger for the slots and high-stakes games of chance had led her to start diverting her employer's operating funds. She had been caught, but not before she had done almost irreparable harm to the corporation. And for what? She had literally nothing to show for her chicanery. Not a bigger house, nicer car, pool, or real estate. No, every farthing had found its way into the coffers of her city's casinos. She'd lied to her employer, lied to her husband and family, lied to the accountants, lied to the police. In the end, she ran out of people to lie to.
Feeling more naked than ever before, she squatted, coughed, spread her cheeks, lifted her feet, opened her mouth, was probed fore and aft, and allowed the matron to run her fingers through her long ebony hair. Then, it was off to the final station where her slave ID number, her only identity from this point on, was inscribed upon the back of her left hand in special ink by a skilled tattooist. From there, it was off to the showers and a delousing before being escorted to a cell. Since slaves were auctioned off buck naked, the state had little incentive to provide them uniforms. Lizzie threw herself onto her cot, gazed in disbelief at her tattoo, and burst into tears anew. By some miracle, she eventually stumbled into slumber.
Guards, both male and female awoke Lizzie and her fellow slaves very early the next AM by pounding on the bars, pipes, and walls with their billy clubs.
"All right, dirtbags! Form a line in the center aisle and march towards the black door. Today is the first day of the rest of your life or the rest of your sentence whichever comes first!" barked a huge guard who looked like he just stepped off a Marine Corps recruiting poster. He eyed Lizzie lustfully as she fell in line. She was very much worth looking at. No more than five-foot-two, she was trim and toned everywhere, with a cascade of ebony locks that marvelously complemented her flawless ivory skin, carmine lips, and crystal blue eyes. Her legs were quite shapely and seemed quite long despite her short stature. The huge guard loomed over Lizzie,
"Holy shit! Ain't you one first-class piece of ass? Wish I could get you alone for an hour or so. What a great fuck toy you are going to make."
Lizzie teared up. She realized that if he wanted to, this giant could do anything he wished to her without repercussions. Lizzie was a thing now in the eyes of the law, and when did things ever have rights?
"Jenkins! Screamed a guard with a gold fringe on her uniform, "Knock it off! Leave the intimidation to her future owner!"
The huge man donned a sheepish expression, "Sorry chief."
"Don't let it happen again, Jenkins."
The trip past the next door opened to a large room where Lizzie's hair was brushed and combed, salve was placed under her eyes to take away the bags that had developed from stress, lack of sleep, and crying. Drops were placed in her eyes to eliminate the redness. Lastly, she was given an injection which left her feeling mellow and made her much more manageable
The next several hours fr Lizzie passed, as planned, in a blur. The long wait, the injection of the nanobots which would end her cycle and keep her infertile, the trip through the underground tunnel to emerge on the selling floor of the auditorium, being strapped to the human-sized frame under the spotlight and rotated 360 degrees. It was only when she was led to her final holding cell, waiting to be claimed by her "owner" (God, how Lizzie hated that word!) that the effects of the drug began to fade. Then, all at once, Lizzie returned to herself and the events of the past few hours fell upon her like a collapsing wall.
A guard approached her cell with someone in tow. Lizzie was so frightened that her eyes remained focused a few inches above the floor.
"Here she is, sir" came the voice of the guard followed by, "Assume the position, slave."
Lizzie understood what was expected of her. She fell to her knees. A pair of civilian trousers appeared in her view. Lizzie realized that this was a view she would become very familiar with over the next five years. She gazed up to the beltline. After a pause for a deep breath, her fingers went to the fly f the trousers and fished out the erect penis behind the boxers. It was larger than average and quite girthy. Lizzie gave it a tentative lick. She performed a very respectable session of fellatio, given the circumstances, but Lizzie had always enjoyed sucking cock and seldom did a bad job at it. The owner of the penis grunted as he came and Lizzie dutifully swallowed every drop. Lizzie restored the penis to the trousers.
"Rise, slave," came an eerily familiar voice. Lizzie stood up. Standing before her was her former boss, Mr. Douglas Hamilton! Pervy Mr. Hamilton. The man who always tried t peer down Lizzie's blouses and up her skirts. The creepy boss who made inappropriate and sexist jokes. The cad who came to the company Christmas party wearing a belt that dangled mistletoe above his junk and thought it was a first-rate gag. The creep HR could do nothing about since he owned nearly all the company stock. The man Lizzie had felt no qualms about stealing blind because he was such a perv. THAT Douglas Hamilton!
Lizzie gasped. She felt like retching.
"I am SO going to enjoy this, slave!" said her old boss before breaking into a hearty chuckle.
"Mr. Hamilton!" Lizzie managed to gasp at last.
"You will address me as''SIR `` or''MASTER `` is that clear?"
"Yes, Sir!" replied Lizzie as she swallowed hard.
"Come!" barked the middle-aged, balding man. He extended his hand and grabbed one of Lizzie's.
The new slave was at sea as her former boss led her out a door and into a parking lot and into the back of a limousine.
"I know what you are thinking," stated the older man as the limo rolled away from the curb. "How can I afford to buy a slave or own a chauffer-driven limo, when you drove me to the point of bankruptcy?"
He had anticipated Lizzie's questions.