Author's Note: Thanks again to Gamblnluck for allowing me to play in his Slave Camp universe. Also, thanks for Gamblnluck, Harga and Sigmanfraud for their feedback.
Particular thanks to OGShadowravyn for his comments, which helped improve this chapter.
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Chapter 28 - Aftermath
As I woke, I felt like I was in déjà vu. I could hear the machines beeping around me. When I opened my eyes, the lights blinded me. I tried to sit up, but a hand gently patted my arm, which made me relax, and I settled back down.
I looked around, and Annick was beside me with a concerned look. François was sitting beside her. I frantically started to look around, "Where is Lisa?"
François calmly said, "She is getting something to eat. She will be back in a few minutes."
I asked, "What happened?"
Annick glanced at François. She said, "Actually, that is what everyone wants to know, including the police. All we know is that there was some accident, and you got major cuts on your arms, and you passed out from the loss of blood and a heart attack."
I was stunned, "I had a heart attack?"
She continued, "It is something they call stress cardiomyopathy. Basically, a heart attack caused by extreme stress."
I thought, "And I know the cause of that stress."
I found the bed remote and moved the bed to a sitting position.
I didn't want to ask, but I needed to know, "Jennifer, Susanne, and Patty?"
They glanced at each other. "Patty is at our place. Lisa threw Jennifer and Susanne out of the house on Friday. They are with their parents now."
I asked, "Wait, Friday. What day is it?"
Lisa, at that point, walked into the room. "It is Monday, sleepy head. You have been coming in and out of consciousness the last few days."
She came over, kissed my forehead, and hugged me.
I was wondering how she was. She held my hand and with one of her fingers, tapped three times. I took a deep breath and relaxed. That had become our secret signal last week to show each other that we were OK.
Annick asked. "It was that bad?" I glanced at Lisa. Annick was referring to the previous week when we were under the indenture contract with Jennifer and Susanne.
I looked down and said, "Worse."
There was a heaviness in the air. Annick knew how to read us very well. She said, "It sounds like you two need to figure things out."
They stood. François said, "It looks like you need some time alone to talk. We will get something to eat."
They each kissed me on the forehead. I thanked them for being there for me again.
Once they left, I asked, "First, are you OK?"
Lisa frowned. "I wasn't. Between what happened and you being here in the hospital, I was almost lost. I couldn't tell Annick anything, but that woman saved me. She kept me from drowning."
I opened my arms, and she came forward. I gave her a hug. I said, "Well, I love you, and we can talk and figure things out. OK?"
Lisa smiled, "OK."
I then got serious. "So, what happened? The last I remember was putting you on the bed."
Lisa sighed. "Well, after you broke the chair that they had tied you to, you picked me up and laid me down on the bed. You then started to scream at them. I, at that point, saw the blood streaming down your arms. You took a step. I saw you raise one hand to your chest, and then you collapsed. Jennifer screamed at that point, and I jumped out of bed to check on you. I then yelled at Patty to call 911. You were breathing very shallowly, so I panicked, thinking that you might stop breathing, and started to give you mouth-to-mouth. I also yelled at Susanne and Jennifer to get something to help stop the bleeding. They grabbed the sheets off the bed and started to apply pressure to the cuts on your arms."
She paused. "Eventually, the paramedics arrived. They assessed you and put on proper pressure bandages to slow the bleeding. They then put you on oxygen and took you to the hospital. Jennifer and Susanne were useless messes, so I quickly grabbed some clothes and was allowed to jump into the ambulance with you. On my way through to the front door, I noticed my phone was on the wireless charger, so I grabbed it on the way out. I called Annick, and she met me at the hospital."
I asked, "What do they know?"
Lisa said, "Nothing. A lot of people were asking, but I have been telling them that your health was the first priority and have been pushing the questions off. I think that the police think that someone needs to be charged with something."
I said, "Fuck, That's the last we need lots of questions."
Lisa smiled, "I agree, but we will sort out our stories later."
I held onto her hand, "Are we good?"
She smiled, "We will always be good."
Reassured, I lay back and fell back to sleep.
When I woke, it was dark. I saw Lisa asleep on a cot. I started to replay all the shit that had happened.
When we signed the indenture contract for our one week of being their slaves, we thought we could trust them. We thought they would order us around, use us, tie us up, and punish us. Things that we had done to them over the years. We never thought that they would give control of us to others and that that loss of control would put Lisa in jeopardy and result in a guy fucking her, even for the briefest moment.
I still wondered how they thought that this would end in a good way when the contract was over. Didn't they think we would be pissed and resentful? In all the years we owned them, we never lent them or shared them with anyone.
Jennifer and Susanne did it so they could borrow the male slaves so that they could get fucked in all three holes at the same time.
Did they throw it all away for just that fantasy?
I woke again in the morning. Lisa was stretching on the cot, and a nurse was taking my vitals.
The Doctor came by and said, "We are going to run some tests today. I want you to stay here one more night, and then we will send you home. With this kind of condition, the key is to stay away from the stressors that might have caused it. There should be no long-term health effects."
I thanked him, and he made his way to the next patient.
David dropped by. He was all smiles to see me. He jokingly said, "We have to stop meeting like this." I asked him how things were at work. He said it was all good. There were some adjustments since I wasn't there, but there was nothing to worry about.
I joked that he didn't really need me then. That was an old joke between us, dating back to a college project we worked on together. He hesitantly asked about Jennifer.
I told him, "That boat may have sailed, but until I am out of the hospital, I'm not thinking about her."
He said he understood. Then he asked me to contact him if I needed anything.
I thanked him, and he left to go back to the office. At least I knew that work wasn't going to be a stressor with him there.
The other thing the nurses did was to change the bandages covering the stitches on my arms. I really didn't have an appreciation of how badly I had hurt myself. There were twelve stitches in one arm and ten in the other. I needed surgery as I cut an artery in my left arm.
Lisa had talked about our story to the police. We decided to keep it somewhat similar to what actually happened, but with some lead-up details missing. We were having some kinky fun. I was tied to a chair. When Lisa fainted. Susanne, Jennifer, and Patty were so busy tending to her that I decided to try to help myself out of the chair. I broke it to get untied and ended up with all these cuts.
Basically, that is what happened. The police came by, but evidently, Jennifer had already told a different story. Whatever she said, they wanted to know if I wanted to place charges against her.
I said no. I needed to be away from her. Not to own her again.
The next day, Wednesday, I was released, and we went home. Nurses would come by to check on my arms and change the bandages as needed.
Lisa had only been in the house briefly since she rode with me to the hospital. She wanted to stay at my side.
When we got home, we found six things on the dining room table: the ripped-up indenture contract, a letter to each of us apologizing, Susanne's letter of resignation from working for Lisa, and their two engagement rings.
Lisa kept the resignation letter to take to work. We shredded the contract and the apology letters. I shredded them without reading them. The engagement rings? I threw them in a drawer. I will deal with them later.
The next few days involved Lisa and me having many deep conversations. Trying to process what we had experienced that week.
We then did something we hadn't done in years. We brought out the old photo albums and reconnected with the memories from before owning slaves was ever a thought. We knew that those conversations and the healing between us were going to help us mentally rebuild and move forward.
Since our parents died, it has been Lisa and I against the world. We weren't just brother and sister, but best friends who could count on each other, no matter what was happening.
The days passed into the weekend. I decided to work from home until the stitches had healed enough--probably another week. Lisa needed to get into the office, so we decided that, as I might need help at home while Lisa was at work, we needed to deal with another piece of the puzzle, Patty.
Annick brought Patty home on Sunday morning. We still hadn't told Annick much, and she knew not to push.