"Well? Is that what happened?" Lisa asked, incredulously. "Did Kat really volunteer to be a slave and then confess her guilt to the ONE FUCKING WOMAN who could get the case reopened?"
"I'm sorry, Mom." Kat said quietly. "I was feeling guilty for how we, well, I treated Cheryl. I felt I deserved to be punished. I never intended it to go this far. I thought I'd be treated like a slave for a few weeks and then I wouldn't feel so guilty. Well that changed right away to a month. But ... uhh I don't know what to say. Maybe Lou can show you the videos they made to show how it all came down. But it was supposed to be ME getting punished not you. But when Ms Douglas saw me at a party naked with a metal collar on my neck she wanted to know why. Then she pressed hard for details. And I mean Hard! I had to tell the truth."
Lisa glared at her daughter, ignoring the others in the room. Everybody else but Clarice already knew the whole story. They had watched this chapter unfold. Clarice sat to one side and and silently watched this new drama. She suspected she would hear one interesting story.
"Of course I knew Ms Douglas would never let me stay in my position as your owner. She'd declare me incompetent. That was inevitable. I saw that in her eyes at my first meeting with her." Kat explained with tears in her eyes. " I knew Derek would wind up owning you... I just had no idea about the rest. It sort of just got away from me. Ms Douglas and that woman from the prosecutors office just took over when she heard about my meeting with Lou, Sarah and Derek that Friday." 'AND ME!," Cheryl offered from the side cheerfully. "They asked for details and questioned me and then asked for our phones. I could tell they were gonna push to enslave me for real, but I figured I'd get the same sentence as you,. Just four years. My main concern was whether I'd go on the block or if Derek would own me. I had no idea it would turn out like this!!"
"That is your problem." Lisa said, glaring at her daughter. "You DON'T think. Nobody told me shit about what happened while I was at slave camp. Rachael Dubois just came in and took me to court and the judge starts telling me all this stuff they found out about what I did and the new charges. I thought that Douglas woman had looked at you and said, 'Nope this girl can't handle a slave so how did all this go down?' I honestly figured she had a hard on for the case. That I got off too lightly and she wanted to really make me pay. So she went out of her way to go back over every little detail and nail me for anything else she could. I blamed her for being overzealous. Instead I find out you told every little thing that happened didn't you? I bet you answered questions, offered details and all until we were both screwed." Lisa shook her head. "Did you do it in writing or just on the video you mentioned? "
Kat's expression told her the answer. "Fuck! You did both. You could have just kept your mouth shut. Lou, can I read what she confessed to in writing or at least see the video? I know it won't change things. Yeah, we did it. We are guilty. We were cruel. I had no idea about the license stuff. But to add fourteen more years? That is so unfair!" Lou corrected her that the majority of that was the endangerment charge for shocking Cheryl from work and the neglect charge for not making sure she was okay after. "Yeah, which they determined after Kat spilled her guts and they examined our cell phones." Lisa added sourly.
"I see now I owe Cheryl an apology for a couple things" She turned to face Cheryl who sat with a smug look on her face. She was thoroughly enjoying Lisa's angst. "First is how I treated you Friday. Yeah, Wanda said you had to lick my pussy. But I honestly thought you were the reason I got nailed so bad in court. I figured that as a paralegal you put the bug in the prosecutor's ear to come after me. When you had to lick my pussy I wanted a little payback. I'm sorry I pissed in your mouth and threatened to hurt you to make you swallow it. I knew you had to do what you were told. That was just cruel. I'm sorry." Cheryl's expression turned from smugness to surprise this woman was actually apologizing.
"The next part is both an explanation and an apology." Lisa said. "When you caught Kat in bed with your husband, I would not have cared if you had beat the shit out of her. I would probably have praised what you did or even would have helped you. My EX, Kat's father cheated on me. I beat the woman's ass when I caught them. I mean I trounced the bitch into the ground. I not only beat her ass, I drug her into my bathroom and used my husband's beard trimmer to shave her head. She was the lowest person on Earth as far as I was concerned and I blamed her for ruining my life right along with my ex. Of course I kicked my husband out and divorced his ass. Kat knew full well how I feel about cheating. She knows how people suffer as a result.To have her be the cheating bitch this time seriously galled me. I really wanted to beat HER ass. And I would have whipped her butt raw if you had not poisoned her. You made her sick. I couldn't punish a sick person."
"I took it out on you for two reasons. You poisoned my daughter and made her sick. At first the doctors were not hopeful and said it might be a long term injury. I needed to punish you for that. Also, I so wanted to beat her ass for being a cheater but couldn't. She was sick. I took it all out on you. Were my thoughts fucked up? Yeah,undoubtedly." Lisa said, tears coursing down her face as she confessed. "Cheaters need to pay. I hate liars and cheaters. They deserve to be harshly punished."
"I heard you say I was always the bitch. Always needing to be in charge. You were talking about how I treated Kat when you two were roommates in college, right? I'm guessing you told everybody here how I was a domineering bitch." Lisa asked. Cheryl nodded, not sure what she could say. This whole conversation was already way beyond what she had thought possible.
"Well, let me tell you about Kat as she grew up. How I had to deal with her to keep her in line." Lisa said.
"NO, Mom! That is supposed to be private family business!" Kat wailed.
"You opened your mouth about family business and got me enslaved for life." Lisa said. "Yeah, I did it. All of it. I DIDN'T THINK IT SO BAD AT THE TIME, BITCH! I thought that you could treat a slave almost however you wanted as long as you did not kill him or her. You could have warned me right away. You could have told me to slow down. You didn't say a word at first." Lisa yelled at her daughter. "But you got me into this. You wanted transparency? Well they will know it ALL now so shut your trap."