Title: Just Another Body
A/N: Warning, au (unexpected), female!Watson, references to violence and rape. Response to #20 Slave.
Six months was a long time when you were a sex slave, Watson mused as she removed stitches from one of her fellow slaves, an Irish woman barely out of her girlhood. New to the cruel life of a sex slave, she had tried to rebel against her master and had been brutally raped and beaten for her troubles.
Watson had treated many of her fellow slaves for this reason in the six months since she had been taken from her flat while Mary was out with a client.
The lady doctor counted her blessings that she had been bought by a man more interested in her medical training than in her abilities in the bedroom.
"Doctor?" a voice called.
"What is it, Magnolia?" Watson replied, turning to face her patient's twin sister.
"Will Maple live?" Magnolia asked.
"For the time being, yes," Watson replied.
Magnolia beamed, a sight Watson had never before seen--at least not the genuine article, anyways.
"Thank yew, Doctor," the girl said as she embraced Watson.
She quickly stepped away from the lady doctor at the sound of approaching footsteps.
Their lord and master had returned from the slave auction, and it sounded like he'd brought home at least one, possibly more.
The door to the rundown slave quarters opened and the master's latest purchase was roughly thrown inside.
Then the master was gone again.
Maple, the other two female slaves (Rose and Loblolly), and the two male slaves (John and Mark) cautiously approached the new arrival, who had freed himself from the ropes that had left him defenseless against the master's rough treatment.
"Are yew alright?" Maple asked him.
He answered the question with a distracted affirmation of his good health, more interested in plumbing the depths of the poorly lit rooms.