Wishing you were here
Kori's POV
It was dark and lonely in the cell I was in. I couldn't even tell how long I had been down there or seen the light of day. The only time I was let out was to be rapped and tortured for fun from my capturers. I could barely take it anymore I just want to die. Why won't they let me die already? What use am I anymore, I am not beautiful, I am sick and frail looking, or at least I assume I am, I have not looked in a mirror since I came here. My hair falls in tangles and knots, almost dreadlock appearance from not ever being washed. I smell horrendous from never bathing and have the smell of other men's and quite possible other women's cum all over me, in me, everywhere. For now I shall close my eyes until the pain is over, then maybe I can't get away from here if only for a little bit.
Normal POV
From the video camera tucked into the corner of Kori's cell was watching her every single move. The man looking at the computer screen was smirking. It was better when she was asleep, not as much moving around especially when he decided to have his "fun" with her. Maybe he and his "friends" should pay a little visit soon, it's been a bit. The man turned to the little notebook next to the computer and looked at his past notes about Kori or sex slave 001. She had been there for almost two years and man was she feisty at first. Kept shouting "Why am I here, what is this place, can you tell me what is going on please!?" Clawing and shoving guards away from her. They were very rough handling her and very touchy feely. The man smiled at the memory and smirked.
"How quickly she broke though." He said with a chuckle. As he was leaning back in the office chair, hands resting behind his head, the man was looking at the other screens showing other cells. The doors of the office busted open and the man jumped up in surprised. FBI agents tackled him to the ground.
"GET EVERY OTHER FUCKER IN THIS BUILDING THAT IS NOT A VICTIM OR ONE OF US AND BOOK THEM. THESE DISGUSTING FUCKS NEED TO LEARN THEIR PLACE AND ROT IN JAIL!" The commanding officer yelled. The remaining FBI officers ran out into the hall leaving the commanding officer and two other officers hand-cuffing the sick bastard behind the sex trade/slave operation.
"Lets get him out of here men. We have to rescue the victims and get them to safety."
Kori's POV
I heard noises in the hallway, yelling and stomping of many people right outside of my cell. I kept my eyes closed and curled into a tight ball, my chains scraping on the ground. The door to my cell was wrenched opened, and I didn't dare move. I knew what was coming, more torture and pain and rape. My innocence was long taken away and I could never get that back.
"Are you Kori Anders? I'm with the FBI I won't hurt you, you are safe now." The man's voice was soft but I didn't fall for it. I've listened to men like this for so long now, I don't trust them at all. The men that would come "have fun" with me as they put it, would trick us like this, thinking we were finally safe when we never were. Showing they would always have control over us. I could hear footsteps coming closer. I still did not move. I felt a hand on my bare shoulder and shivered slightly.
"Can you please uncurl for me Kori? Can you nod or blink that you understand me please." I slowly uncurled not wanting a whipping yet and knowing if I complied it would be somewhat easier on me. I stared at the man above me. He didn't look like the regulars but sometimes they would let guests in. I still stared at him, waiting for a command or for him to start dragging me out.
"Kori? I'm Detective Skully. I am actually with the FBI and I am here to help you and the other victims get out of here and somewhere safe. I brought you something warm, is it okay if I cover you with this blanket, that is all I am going to do, I won't touch you unless you okay it. Its over now, we booked the guy who kept you captive."
I finally blinked at him giving him the okay with the blanket. Once the detective put the thick blanket over me, he stood up and took a few steps away from me, giving me space. I finally took in his full appearance and notice he actually looked very official, especially the way he stood and held himself. This guy was the real deal; the "actors" were never this good. I sat up slowly and curled in the blanket. Hot tears suddenly flooded from my eyes. I started gasping and sobbing. Detective Skully jumped a bit, not expecting anything like this to come out of me. I sounded like a wounded animals, but I was happy, so incredibly happy that my nightmare was finally over. Once my crying died down a bit detective Skully spoke softly yet with authority.
"Kori are you okay enough to walk or let me carry you? I swear I will not touch you inappropriately. Raise your hand if you understand please."
I slowly raised my hand shakily, and shifted slightly to reveal the chains I am attached too. Detective Skully looked down when he heard the metal on stone sound and made a move to the door. I made a sharp high-pitched sound, and he immediately zoned in on me.
"I am going to get the key to get you out okay, I'll be right back."
I started shaking my head viciously back and forth, eyes wide in terror of being left alone again.
"Let me at least stick my head out and call for the keys, they should be making their way down here soon." Detective Skully stuck his head out and called out.
"Hey Mat! Can we get the keys down here soon please, I think this is the last cell!" A quiet yes sir could be heard. After a few minutes later Mat come into the room but stood by the door. I looked between Skully and "Mat". Mat was actually short for Matilda. Matilda was a tough as balls women who took shit from no one and proved she can do anything better then a man, even in heels.
"This is my friend Matilda, we call her Mat for short. She's my best friend and works with me in the FBI. You can trust her I promise." I nodded my head once and shifted to fully reveal the chains, not caring that I was exposing myself. Mat slowly made her way over to me.
"Hi Kori, I'm Detective Matilda, but you can call me Mat. I'm going to unlock the chains from you and we are going to get you out of here. Is it okay if I move the blanket a bit? Blink if you understand me please." I blinked my eyes and even nodded to Detective Mat. Mat moved the blanket to cover me more, and started unlocking the chains. The chains were quickly discarded and the blanket was re-arranged to cover me completely.
"Are you able to stand or walk? Blink once for yes, twice for no." Mat asked. I blinked twice knowing I barely had any strength left. Mat carefully picked me up, and took me over to where Detective Skully was. I was handed over to Detective Skully like a baby and we walked out towards my freedom.
"I have to give you a heads up here Kori. There is going to be a lot of rushing around and people asking a lot of questions. These will be medical people to check on you and heal you up. Blink if you understand." Detective Skully asked. I blinked in response. "Would you like me and Detective Mat to be there with you?" I blinked again yes because these were the only people I knew and trusted at this point. I still couldn't speak; my throat was so raw from crying so loudly and so long.
I hid my face when I saw the daylight, it was so bright and brought fresh tears to my eyes. Detective Skully placed me gently down on the soft gurney, and I could hear muffled voices everywhere. I slowly opened my eyes and squinted around. Once I noticed I was in the shade, I slowly opened my eyes more.
"Hello Kori, I'm Serena, and I am an EMT, would you be okay if I checked you out for injuries. It will only be me and Mat, how does that sound?" I looked to Detective Skully and Mat.
"Its okay Kori, they want to help you. I'll be right back but Mat is going to stay and make sure nothing bad happens to you. Stick with the blinking if they ask you a question. Look to Mat for help okay." Detective Skully gave me a warm smile and vanished into the crowd. I blinked once to Mat to give Serena the okay to check me. Mat stayed by my side and held my hand tightly. Serena was quick and constantly asking if I was okay, and if she could do this and that to check me out. I quickly gave up on blinking and just nodded my head. After a full check up they set me up in the gurney and took me to the hospital. Mat was texting Skully, updating him on my condition.
We arrived at the hospital and I was set up in a room with Mat right beside me waiting for a doctor to check on me. I was finally sleeping soundly when the doctor came in. Mat gently shook me away and I jolted up and away from her, curling into a ball, scared that I was back in hell.
"Kori, its okay, the doctor just wanted to talk with you and probably get some x-rays." Mat said gently. I uncurled and look toward my doctor.
"Hello Ms. Anders. I am Dr. Rushoff. I am going to be taking care of your injuries and this is my nurse, Miranda. The doctor looked to be a nice lady with curly red hair, and the nurse looked harmless, with blonde hair piled into a huge bun on her head. I nodded my head once, and both the nurse and doctor came to check me out just like Serena did.
"Okay Kori it looks like you need some x-rays and maybe a couple of surgeries depending on what we find in the x-rays. Miranda here is going to do a rape kit on you and see what all happened there. I'm going to come back after your x-rays to see when your surgeries are going to be and on what." Dr. Rushoff smiled and walked out of the room and I looked toward Mat with fear in my eye.
"It's going to be okay Kori, I'll be here the whole time." Miranda went about her nursing business and I grabbed Mat's hand. After Miranda was done, she wheeled me to the x-ray room and took x-rays of my whole body. Over all I had multiple healed fractures, and my right arm was a mess. It wasn't in the socket correctly and that was why I was having trouble moving it properly. My ulna wasn't healed properly after being broken and not set properly and since I had hardly any muscle, let alone fat on my body I would need to be put into physically therapy to regain my strength back. I was young though; they said it wouldn't take long for me to be back on my feet again. Dr. Rushoff met me again just like she said she would and took me directly to my shoulder and forearm surgery.
Mat's POV
I've been texting Skully constantly updating him on Kori's condition. I am so worried about this poor girl. She got the worst of it compared to the other boys and girls we found at the trade holding place. She is going to have scars for the rest of her life. Physically Kori will be fine after a while, her injuries will heal and some of the scars will fade with time. Mentally though is a completely different story. Intense therapy will definitely be needed and we still have to contact her family. I'll have to try and get myself or Skully assigned to check up on her periodically if she's put into foster care. Let's send Skully a text to see what's up with her family. They'll be relived to find their daughter alive. (A/N: Italics are thoughts).After texting Skully about looking up Kori's family, I walked around and got a cup of coffee, waiting for Kori to get out of surgery.
A few hours passed and Kori had gotten out of surgery and was resting in her room. I got a text from Skully about Kori's family. My heart broke even more after reading the text. "Kori's parents are in jail for drugs and child neglect. They went in sometime during the time Kori was missing. She has no other family to go to. Her older sister is nowhere to be found, and her younger brother died a few years ago. She has to be put into foster care, it's the only way she'll be safe and get the help she needs."-Skully I raised my head and squared my shoulders and walked to Kori's room. I had to break the news gently to her or else this could end very badly.
"Kori are you awake honey?" I poked my head in to see the doctor standing next to Kori's bed explaining what she has to do now.
"So Kori, I have everything written down for you and I'll give this Mat here to keep track of it for you. We're are going to need you back here in a few weeks to changed the cast and I want you to take this pain pills every 6 hours to help with the pain. I'll give those to Mat also. Now Mat can I talk with you for a moment please. Kori we will be right here where you can see us okay?" Dr. Rushoff and I took a step out the door to talk.
"Alright Mat does Kori have any family or friends she can stay with when she can be released from the hospital?" Dr. Rushoff asked, looking me in the eye.
"Sadly no. She has to be put into foster care but I am going to try and assign either myself, or my friend Detective Skully, who also helped rescue her and she knows, to check on regularly or periodically while she is in foster care." Dr. Rushoff sighed sadly and shook her head. She picked herself back up quickly and looked professional again.
"Then I need you to hold these pain pills for her until she goes into her foster home. She was drugged a lot in that ring and I'm afraid that Kori can get hooked on drugs easily. That girl has been through hell and back. She's a fighter though all right, she'll make it out alive and she'll live a full life. Please bring her back to me if anything else happens to her okay. Here's my card. I'll be back later to check on her vitals." Dr. Rushoff handed me her card and walked off to check on other patients. I walked back to Kori and sat down and took her hand. I have to tell her about her family. Let's hope this goes well.
"Kori are you able to talk or write down your thoughts if you don't want to speak." Kori nodded once and gestured for a pen and paper. Her handwriting was messy but still legible.
"What happened to my family, are they okay, alive?" Kori wrote.
"Kori I am so sorry to tell you this but your parents are in jail, your sister, Komi, is no where to be found and Ryan is no longer here with us. He is in a better place now. With this information, I have no choice but to put you in foster care." Kori was writing fiercely and quickly. When she was done she handed the pad to me.
"I knew this would happen at some point. My parents were always into drugs and drinking, so was my old sister Komi. I learned from watching not to get into that stuff and Ryan was too young to fully understand what was going on. I always tried to project him too from everything. I didn't want him to grow up like the rest of the family. How long are they in for? Is there any sign of Komi? What happened to Ryan? Is he buried somewhere where I can visit? What is going to happen to me now?"
"Kori your parents are in for 25 years without parole. They were selling and making their own drugs. Your sister left when she was 17 and is nowhere to be found. So there was no one to really look after Ryan. The file says he stayed a friends places when he could but was then pulled out of school suddenly. Apparently he was being abused, and treated like a dog pretty much. Giving him scraps to eat and making him fend for himself. That's all I'm going to tell you for now. I'm sorry if I overwhelmed you. I tried to summarize as best as I could. He is close by. We can visit when you're ready. Right now you need to work on getting better. I will take care of everything for you okay?" Kori nodded and set the writing pad close by.
"I am going to get some paperwork done and Skully will be here to watch over you okay. I will be back tomorrow to hopefully give some good news." Kori nodded and smiled slight, clearly worn out from the draining day. "Rest easy honey." Skully came in at the moment, and Kori fell asleep.
"You go home and get some rest, the paperwork can wait. I'll be here watching over her don't worry. You can copy some of my files if you want. I'm going to finish them here and look for real good foster homes that can actually help her." Skully gave Mat a smile.
"Thank you Skully, you're a real good partner. Here are the notes from Dr. Rushoff, the doctor looking after her, and here is Kori's pain medicine. One pill every six hours." I smiled at Skully. On that note, I walking out of Kori's room and left the hospital, heading back to my place.
After a few hours of searching online I think I finally found the perfect foster home for Kori. I sent the link to Skully, knowing full well that he'll be mad at me for still working when I should be resting. Too bad Skully I'm married to my work, I can't help myself. The foster home I found was a little bit away from the area she was originally from so not likely she would run into anyone from her past, but close enough to visit Ryan when accompanied. I finally decided to go to bed after getting an update from Skully that Kori was okay and still sleeping.
I went straight to my office the next morning to put a request in the foster home I found last night. As of this moment I was still a temporary guardian for Kori along side Skully and I am determining to extend the guardianship until Kori got more comfortable in the new foster home, Titans Home for Wayward Teens. I finished the paperwork reporting what happened during the rescue and updated Kori's status papers. I even put in a request for Kori to be put into Titans Home for Wayward Teens. Also I might of also pulled my "I'm an FBI officer, do as I say" card, but that's completely alright and legal, mostly. After puttering around the office for a while, working on some other case files, and checking to see what was going on with the other victims rescued from the place Kori was also at, I went to the hospital and visited Kori to tell her the good news.
"Kori I have some amazing news for you!" Kori popped her head up a bit from where she was zoning out.
"D-does it h-have to do s-something with m-my family?" Kori croaked out. I paused and stared at Kori. How can she still care for them, how the hell is she even talking now, I thought Dr. Rushoff said her vocal cords were really damaged?
"No I'm sorry honey, I still don't have any news on them. You should really rest your voice though; use the notepad for any questions. I do have news about where you are going to live once they release you from the hospital. Its called Titans Home for Wayward Teens. It's a little ways from here so you shouldn't run into anyone from your past, and its close enough to visit Ryan whenever you want, but you have to have someone with you. This place really helps teens like you who have been through some shit. They'll provided you with rides to physical and mental therapy, and there will be other teens there who are the same age as you and could maybe be your friends. It's a nice looking place in a good neighborhood and school district. You will be going back to public school unless your therapist says otherwise after you've healed up a bit more. It's a decent size school with a good reputation, so there shouldn't be any problems. If there are any problems call Skully or me. We're going to get you a phone soon so you can always contact us, its also a present to you from us to know you're finally safe, and we'll always protect you." Kori had tears in her eyes from what I had said.
"I-is it is o-okay if I-I hug you-u?" Kori asked, her voice shaking and arms struggling to move. I nodded yes and moved closer to hug her.
"We'll keep you safe baby girl, Skully and I have your back. I extended our guardianship for you. Technically we can't adopt you because are jobs are high-risk and we work so many unusual hours, but we can still look after you until you're 18 years old. This doesn't usually happen but this is a special case. You have no one left and you only trust us. It's completely understandable with all you've been through. I promise we'll help out however we can and come visit you when we can." Kori was crying softly into my shoulder and I hugged her back tightly without hurting her. I even whipped a tear from my own eye.
"Alright now I have to get going and make sure they have a place set up for you at the home. They should be releasing you here probably tomorrow. Skully should be here soon. You keep getting better Kori." I ruffled her hair a bit and walked out of the room. I texted Skully the good news and took my time driving to the foster home.
Kori's POV
I cannot believe the past few days, it has honestly been a blur. I finally got out of that hellhole, I am actually starting to feel a bit more like a person, and now I have a place to live. It's truly a miracle. I feel so blessed and incredibly happy, but a bit nervous because it has been so long since I have been around people my own age that aren't being sexually abused and that I can actually converse with. Back in the cells we got smacked for talking to each other. I can't go back to that life, I want to re-invent myself for I am broken now and I don't want to be broken no more. Thoughts of my previously life began to filter in. I remember hanging out with friends, laughing and being a normal teen, and it was an incredible feeling. I felt invincible and that nothing bad was going to happen to me. I bet everyone feels like that. Now, I just broken and lost inside. Nothing makes sense to me anymore. I don't know how to be a teenager anymore and that scares me more then anything now that I am out of that hellhole. I've now come to realize the world has continued on while I've been gone. I don't know the trends of today, how to act and what is normal. I feel like an alien on an unfamiliar planet. I wonder if I'll make any friends at this new home. Maybe they can show me what it is like to be a normal teenager.
