Wednesday September 25th
At PCA
"its been awhile Lucy, I really am sorry you couldn't trust me before, I should have seen through his lies, he's hurt so many people, after this year I'm resigning" says Dean Rivers
"I'm just here for my laptop, I know you still have it, it's not PCA property, I want it back and I want the remote learning software disks" says Lucy as Dean Rivers rummages through the laptops
"you know Lucy it's hard for me, finding out almost all of my female students were raped or sexually assaulted, I thought for sure I was running a safe campus" says Dean Rivers as he finds Lucy's laptop and pulls out the software disks
"Uhh get away from my laptop, unless you want to commit a crime you will let me install the software" says Lucy, in a deadly serious tone
"Dustin what's up with her, she didn't used to be like this" asks Dean Rivers
"some sort of medication problem but seriously, Logan set it up so that the moment she turned it on her pictures would transfer from his server to her laptop to make it seem like the relationship was consensual, the pictures load as open windows because of the function of the software, meaning if you'd turned her laptop on you'd have seen a video of her rape day" says Dustin
"her laptop has been off for some time, when Lucy stopped attending class Coco confiscated her laptop and its charger, honestly looking back it was probably a good idea, otherwise Logan could have gotten access to it, though I can't seem to find the charger" says Dean Rivers
"bumbling bafoon just give me my laptop and the disks, you'll get them back" says Lucy getting angry
"or she could be upset that her 'mom' is paying for this year at PCA, Hollywood Arts won't do remote learning" says Dustin
"Valerie isn't paying any substantial amount of money, she's only paying the amount of money that matches how long Lucy attended classes the last time, given the circumstances the board of directors is paying for the majority of her school attendance fee" says Dean Rivers signing out the disks to Lucy and handing over the laptop and the disks to her
"how much in dollars is she paying, I don't trust her" asks Lucy
"only a grand of the twenty grand attendance fee, she tried to pay more but I told her it was already paid for but she insisted on paying at least a grand" says Dean Rivers
"t-t-thank you" says Lucy feeling bad as Dustin nods and they leave for Alexander's vehicle
45 minutes later as they arrive back at the Harris home
"that was mighty strong of you Lucy" says Cat
"not as strong as you, I'll never be as strong as you momma" says Lucy running over to hug Cat
"what's with this 'momma' thing, you didn't give birth to her" asks Zoey
"but I did raise her from the time my parents died when she was just barely one years old to the time she was five years old, it wasn't until Auntie showed up that the full responsibility of raising her was lifted off my shoulders, now that Auntie isn't in the picture, at least legally she's back to feeling like I'm her mom, I don't mind, she's been doing a lot of memory sorting with Dustin's help, she's given a ton of information to Alexander's investigation, Lucy do you still have a Paci" says Cat
"no the care facility wouldn't let me keep it, they said 'with all due respect you have to be diagnosed as a little to keep one on you at your age', they did help me a lot but it was as if they didn't understand I already was diagnosed as a little" says Lucy cuddling Cat for comfort
"Andre would you mind going to get one, one with flowers on it if possible please, the store downtown called 'littles kingdom' should have a big supply" says Cat
"Cat, that's going to be embarrassing" says Andre jokingly
"you're dating me and I'm dating you and Paige, I thought you'd be used to embarrassing by now" jokes Cat
"ok so a flower paci, anything else" says Andre
"no, Lucy's trying to be careful about how much people spend on her, she doesn't want her aunt paying you guys back for anything" says Dustin
"I'm going to Littles Kingdom, I'm absolutely not going for just one thing, that actually would be embarrassing" says Andre
"Uhh would you mind getting me one Andre, and maybe a fluffy bed pillow, I have the money to pay you back now thanks to David filing that lawsuit against my mother and her gaggle of boyfriends" says Paige
"sure if anyone wants anything else while I'm out let me know" says Andre as he leaves
"Mr. Harris, starryrave, all one word" says Paige having glanced at the computer Alexander is working on
"sorry what, what are you talking about" asks Alexander
"the locked folder you're trying to get into, PHG, that's my initials, Paige Hannah Graham, the password is starryrave" says Paige
"wait so you were also a victim of Logan's" asks Alexander
"of a sort, he threatened to choke me if I didn't take pictures of Lucy, in return he forced me to let him take pictures of me, I wasn't his type, not in that sense but he loved to blackmail girls, he had a 'no clothes on in my room' rule, he'd take advantage of Lucy, sometimes he'd even drug her though not that often because he said it wasn't as fun as hearing her cry as he used her body, he would finger me but that's as far as he went with me, he hated that my great grandmother was African, he'd talk smack about how dumb Michael was and that all people who had African DNA were dumb as rocks" says Paige
"but your skin is white, almost as white as Jade's" says Alexander
"you can thank skin bleaching for that, he made me hate my natural dark skin, he made me feel like being white would make me smarter, as my skin got lighter he definitely treated me as being less stupid, he took less pictures and put more force behind me taking pictures of Lucy, even long after she'd lost consciousness, he would tell me he wanted to mold her into his very own slave, willing to do anything he asked without blackmail or force" says Paige
"that explains why in some of these pictures she doesn't move at all and would appear dead" says Alexander
"he would get rougher the closer she got to blacking out, saying the chemical he'd made Quinn make would slowly wipe Lucy of any free will, that he'd begin using it on Nicole after it had completed its work on Lucy" says Paige
"Logan is such a despicable human being, so hungry for power he didn't think about whether he should" says Alexander as Dustin nods
"but there was a point where I was fully under his control, Quinn broke me out, that's when I ran" says Lucy as Dustin pulls her into a cuddle
"and in my opinion running away from PCA was the best move you could make Lucy, though you should really be less cynical towards Dean Rivers, we opened this investigation to get justice for a known number of victims, the number of student abuse claims continues to rise as confidence rises in the female student base, every student is on remote learning, girls can mingle with girls and boys can mingle with boys but Dean Rivers has forbade any co-mingling of the two, it's a lot to deal with, he's making the best of the messy situation, he's lost almost half of his male students, if he loses any more he will have to call it an all girls school" says Alexander
"good, he deserves to suffer a little, let the big all powerful man sweat a little" says Lucy
"what is your issue with him exactly, he's not a totally unreasonable man, I mean he let me go there after all" says Nicole
"she first arrived in a hello kitty dress, he told her she couldn't wear that, that a girl that dressed like that can't be smart enough to attend PCA, he did later apologize but to Lucy first impressions really do mean everything, it's why she felt connected to Dustin, Zoey and Lola right away" says Cat
"I guess that's a fair point, I guess I wouldn't trust him either if he'd said that to me" says Nicole hugging Zoey
"I thought Andre had school today, how can he possibly have time to buy things" says Dustin
"LA closed down the schools today to make a point that not everyone can be fortunate enough to attend a school, stores are also closed to students today, aside from Littles Kingdom and grocery stores, everything that's important to kids our age is closed" says Cat
"so they're putting a spotlight on the homeless, like that doctor said your mom would do" asks Paige as Lucy starts bawling
"you had to bring our mother into this, yesterday was the anniversary of our families death Paige, both Lucy and I were very close to our dad but our brother Fred was always better at making Lucy smile, you just pulled a painful memory out of your back pocket" says Cat pulling Paige closer
"why are you rewarding me with your touch Catty, I made Lucy cry" asks Paige
"she'd locked away those memories, choosing to forget them, it may have been painful but she's tried to be so strong because she thought being soft was what makes her a target, in reality her being soft spoken and soft hearted is core to who she is,…. please tell me you're not dating her because of the sass she would give to teachers Dustin" says Cat
"me, date goosie because she was mean to teachers, if I wanted that I'd have stayed with Trisha, I had a crush on Lucy because she can be awkward, she can also be shy, when my date plan went wrong and Logan took her by force I thought she'd believe I was in on it, I was terrified, I felt betrayed, I felt lost, I thought that I'd never see her again or that if I did she'd have me arrested for setting her up, never in a million years did I expect to see her again let alone have her still have feelings for me and trust me" says Dustin as Lucy cuddles him even more closely
"Dustin your connection to Lucy is strong, even if you had been involved I doubt she'd have blamed you, don't ever take advantage of that, never assume her feelings for you will always be there but don't assume she will stop caring about you either" says Cat
"I would never assume one way or the other Catarina, when I'd heard Logan raped Lucy I wanted to kill him, I wanted to cut him to pieces, unfortunately I am neither strong enough nor would it have meant I'd be able to see Lucy again, the problem with this whole trial business is that I don't believe he will be held accountable, I've read about this kind of story before, the rich criminals always get away with their crime, I don't see a future where Lucy or any of you girls will be able to live your lives without being afraid or looking over your shoulders" says Dustin
"he has a point" says Nicole hugging Zoey even more closely
"we have Lucy's account and Trisha finally came forward with her story, I'm not sure which is worse to be honest, both are nightmare inducing" says Alexander
"what's Trisha's story, I thought it was just pictures" asks Nicole
"I can't share the story but based on the pictures she told me to look at Paige was also involved" says Alexander
"why can't you tell us" asks Lucy
"the prosecutor wants to make sure that no victim that was violated sexually can confuse their story with another" says Alexander
"but Zoey, Nicole, Cat and Lucy can all talk about their experiences" says Dustin
"Lucy is the only sexually violated victim in this house and Paige admits that her exposure was rather limited when it comes to sexualized behaviour" says Alexander
"you wouldn't want to know anyway Lucy, your nightmares are already bad enough, even if I could tell you I'd rather let you feel safe" says Paige
"so we can assume it was just as bad as Lucy's experience then" asks Zoey
"no, in a sense you could say it was worse, Lucy could remember her experience, it was just scrambled… Agent Harris, what AM I allowed to say" says Paige
"you're allowed to mention the process as long as you omit details of the experience" says Alexander
"ok… Tracy only remembers the picture and posing part, she didn't remember anything that happened in person with Logan, she had to be hypnotized to remember those parts" says Paige
"I don't believe hypnosis works, if it is real then she could have been forced to lie" says Nicole
"I was there, that's why I wasn't here the past two days, I could verify what she was saying, Trisha was not led on at any point, she was given a specific date to walk through based on my request, Trisha was asked to describe what she was doing on that day, it has to stand up in court meaning no leading questions were asked, Logan wasn't even mentioned, any time Trisha brought up Logan it was on Trisha, not the hypnotist, the only time Trisha had problems was with his shirt color" says Paige
"was she on the Quinn chemical salt thing, because that stuff messes with the eyes, for example I can remember what he was wearing when I entered but ask me what he was wearing when I was being raped while on it and I will jump from color to color, unable to figure it out, if you told me it was the same color he was wearing when I'd walked in I'd actually fight you on it" says Lucy
"interesting, Quinn didn't mention that" says Alexander as Andre returns
"its likely Quinn didn't know the exact symptoms because A. it was for Logan B. she probably didn't know what exactly Logan wanted to do with the stuff but if she did know she wouldn't want to fall victim herself and she never tests her experiments on herself, nothing she makes ever goes to plan anyway, if Trisha had as bad a time on that stuff as Lucy did, there is no way Trisha's testimony will be admissible, not the in person exploitation part" says Zoey as Quinn walks in
"I have a confession to make" says Quinn as Andre gives Lucy the pacifier, a big blanket and takes her and Dustin out to the pool
"does it have to do with why you created the chemical salt for Logan that makes Lucy and possibly Trisha's rape stories irrelevant" asks Cat clearly pissed off
"I didn't make it for Logan, I made it for me, people hated my constant science experiments, I wanted to turn myself into a different person, someone that Zoey or Nicole would love, someone who didn't make people hate me, I'd given it to Logan before I'd gotten the courage to try it myself, he said he wanted to become a better, more likable person, it didn't work, it seemed to make people hate me even more, I didn't understand how Logan was having success, when I found out what he was using it for I burned every last grain I had, anyway my parents found out the FBI sees me as a person of interest, they turned me I to the state police, I spent today selling what little working products I had, tomorrow I'm legally a felon, I guess this is goodbye" says Quinn as she leaves, tears rolling down her face, closing the front door behind her
"I-is that really how she thought people saw her" asks Nicole
"Mr. Harris, you can't seriously let the state police take her into custody" says Paige
"I certainly thought she was capable, give me one reason to intervene" says Alexander
"if she gets arrested your investigation might as well stop, people used to play a game called 'find as many ways as possible to call Quinn a freak in seven minutes', at the end of the week the person who had the highest number won a cash prize, I was often called psycho zero brain Paige, I understand why she would want to change the core fact of who she is, I often thought the same thing, the moment she gets booked for a crime she did not commit Logan can use the bogus defence of 'Quinn used the personality change salt on me, she made me do all the stuff I'm being accused of', I know Logan will use that defence because he was often the person winning the weekly call Quinn a freak money, by the way Logan ran that contest, he got to decide the winner" says Paige
"your chances of a successful trial were already slim, Quinn going to jail means Lucy can't testify and neither can Trisha, either you save her ass or you can cancel this investigation, which is it going to be Mr. Harris" says Cat as Alexander runs out the door to get Quinn as if he saw a ghost and saving Quinn was the only way to save him
"did anyone notice the blanket Andre gave to Lucy as he took them outside, that was so nice of him" asks Nicole
"Andre doesn't do blankets, he keeps me warm without them, he didn't buy that blanket but it definitely came from Littles Kingdom, I've seen it before, it's at least a hundred dollars before tax, probably more now" says Cat
"would Quinn have bought it" asks Zoey
"Lucy and Quinn were pretty close in the first half of Lucy's first year, as were Trisha and Quinn before I left, if I were in Quinn's position, expecting to be sent to jail for many years I'd buy my closest friends apology gifts" says Cat as Andre rushes in
"Robbie you're on speaker, Cat and Paige are in the room, explain what you found on Cat's phone" says Andre
"I found a video malware program, it turned her phone into a livestreaming webcam, Logan had access to both Cameras and one microphone, it phones home to a server" says Robbie
"yes we know, the one with our pictures on it" says Zoey
"no, not that server, the FBI would have arrested me already if it was that one as they have it, no its pinging a server that's still at PCA, I managed to hack into it, it's in Logan's dorm room, it has live video evidence of both Lucy's daily rape then Trisha's rape, the FBI is going to want to go pick it up, any doubt they had in either Lucy's testimony or Trisha's is blown away by this evidence, there is no denying he committed the crimes, in one live video he even talks about how he's going to set everyone up for it, even Dean Rivers" says Robbie
"that doesn't scan, he had me there basically every day taking blackmail rape pictures, I'd have heard it" says Paige
"he doesn't spend the whole feed talking about it, you say something like 'you're being too rough' he stops doing things to Lucy, pulls your braids, you hit the floor then you must run out, he doesn't say this until after the door slams shut" says Robbie
"anything else" asks Zoey
"yeah in that same clip, when he begins raping her again her whole body moves with force, as if her body won't resist any movement, almost as if she's dead, I couldn't watch any more footage" says Robbie as Quinn walks in cuffed by Alexander
"Dad, remove those cuffs" says Andre
"and do what, let her run off again, no not until Zoey and Nicole talk alone, in private downstairs" says Alexander handing the key to Andre
"oh sir, I'm glad you're back in the room, I just finished telling Cat what I found on her phone, sir both cameras and one microphone were constantly transmitting data to a server at PCA, I managed to back in, you're going to want to pick it up" says Robbie
"how important is this data, how much is there" asks Alexander
"very important, unfortunately only Cat's phone was deactivated, it's recording every action even right now" says Robbie urgently trying to get the message across as Zoey, Nicole and Paige all break their phones right then and there
"ok I'll send a unit to acquire it, did you tell Lola and Dana" says Alexander
"they're next, also Quinn's phone is being monitored the same way but he built in a shut down code, text her phone this code '8910229' it will shut down monitoring on Quinn's phone, why Quinn's phone had a disconnect function is beyond me, especially when the others do not" says Robbie as Cat texts Quinn's phone the code
"is Lucy or Trisha's phone being monitored" asks Cat
"Lucy's was cut off this morning when David was there, though the tracker is still active it's just not receiving any video or audio communications, Trisha's was cut off last night when I first broke in to that server, I informed David as quickly as possible, anyway I have to go stay safe girls" says Robbie as he hangs up and Alexander leaves again
"Quinn do you really have feelings for us" asks Nicole tilting her head in interest as Zoey does the same
"yes but you're Zoey's type and Zoey's yours, I don't fit into either one of those categories" says Quinn bowing her head in shame
"Quinn three years ago Zoey thought Chase was the one and I thought someone like Logan was the one for me, things change, Andre do you think your dad would be ok with Zoey and I dating Quinn" says Nicole not waiting for an answer as she walks right up to Quinn
"Paige was put as Cat's satellite in her and I's relationship because the federal judge saw no evidence that she would be treated fairly otherwise, again and again throughout Paige's life doctors showed they didn't care about her safety, even willing to put her in harms way if it meant they didn't have to deal with 'psycho Paige Sikowitz' this last hospital stay showed promise until it was found out that three people in that hospital, two with a criminal record and one fresh out of a psych ward themselves raped her and about fifty other teen girls in that psych ward, basically the deal is Cat gets to date Paige and me in return I make sure neither of them are left alone in a hospital setting, even if it means having federal agents keeping people out of their rooms, only one doctor is allowed to even treat either of them" says Andre
"so only one of us would get to spend time with Quinn, assuming we're allowed to at all" asks Nicole
"I never said that, my dad can get pretty crafty with his words, Paige, Cat and I are shielded from the bigamy laws because of the previous neglect by doctors, the judge made it permanent today, given Quinn's prior experience being bullied and how Logan manipulated her I could see the same federal judge but it might be a temporary shield until after Logan's trial" says Andre
"but polyamory technically isn't Illegal in California, we just couldn't get married" says Zoey
"that's where things would get tricky, according to the judge there seems to be an assumption men make when seeing three girls together or any mix of boys and girls, for example in our situation if I were to take Cat and Paige out on a date they'd assume I'm married to one but dating the other, all local police officers got an email saying that Cat, Paige and I are under a federal protection order by a federal judge, meaning any calls the LAPD gets about us being out and about as a couple with Paige as a satellite, the LAPD comes, asked us some questions and leaves" says Andre
"how do we go about getting one of those" asks Zoey walking towards Nicole and Quinn
"ask my dad to go before that federal judge, have him explain the whole phone recording thing, you will have to sit there, he might ask a few questions but it was pretty painless, Paige was even able to look the judge in the eyes without freaking out" says Andre
"yeah I haven't been able to do that in years" says Paige
"do we have to wait and see what the judge says or could we start dating right now" asks Nicole
"based on how my dad worded it he wants to see if it can work but don't promise anything long term until after the judge's ruling" says Andre
"ok" says Zoey as she winks at Nicole as Nicole leads Quinn to the basement
