PURGATORY

CHAPTER TWO

~ Processing ~

"I ain't got no T'Soni here"

"Are you kidding me Bowman?" snapped Miranda trying to look over at Kate Bowman's screen which was now turned so the superintendent could see. "Christ Bowman! I can't send her back, the shuttle's gone." The dark hair beauty and Vasir shared an annoyed glare.

"Miss Lawson, I'm sorry to ask again, but please don't use the lord's name around me." The dirty blonde seemed to struggle with her words. "You know that I am deeply religious and…"

Miranda immediately cut her off, "I don't give a GD, find T'Soni's file." The irritated superintendent looked at her prisoner with disgust of her officer.

Slamming her fist down in defeat the administrator cursed, I should have listened to my brother and stayed in school. Scrolling down the screen and pressing every button she could think of Kate sniveled, I could have been an engineer by now.

Further frustrating and embarrassing the young officer, Miss Lawson rapped her fingers impatiently on the glass. "Do I need to make a call?"

To the blue woman's surprise, who was watching the scene unfold before her like a bad play, her head suddenly cocked to the side at Bowman's reaction when Lawson mentioned a call. Internally she wondered who could have struck such fear in the corrections officer.

After checking a third terminal, Bowman jubilated, "I found it." She was smiling from ear to ear and had started explaining what the problem was. "You see sometimes with these special cases they get caught up because of their security level III."

Smacking an open hand against the glass, Vasir barked, "Look I don't have all day to listen this. Just accept the prisoner so I can process her alright?" A stern frown was wasted on the senior officer as she knew her super shared the asari's sentiment.

After another few stale moments, the junior officer exclaimed, "Got it. She's done."

"Good." Headed towards the prisoner, the Deputy Warden, spun around when Officer Bowman called her again, "Miss Lawson" God how she hated when Bowman said her name. The mousy girl, from hicktown USA had never been one of the superintendent's favorites. "I just received an unmarked urgent message."

Confused, Miranda asked, "A what?"

"I'm not sure. It just says when we process this prisoner, that you must be informed." Shrugging her shoulders the dirty blonde finished, "Its labeled Code 38 Delta." Looking at Vasir, Kate said, "I don't even know what that is."

Making her brightly colored facial tattoos wrinkle, Officer Vasir grimaced. "It might be from the Eclipse Sisters directly."

"Oh wait. Here's another email." Informed the administrator. "It says that Miss Lawson is to personally supervise T'Soni's intake process." Befuddled, Bowman said, "That's weird. I've never heard of that."

Vasir rolled her eyes at the junior officer, not giving her the satisfaction of her opinion. Miranda had moved off to the side reading her Code 38 Delta message. Suddenly catching all three women off guard, Miss Lawson started giving orders in a very calm and authoritive manner.

"Vasir when you are done processing T'Soni, don't put her in the general public yet." The Deputy Warden was busy sending an outgoing message as she continued, "That is to wait until morning." There was no other instruction as Miranda finished using her omni-tool and headed down the hall to the main hall. Her pace was quick and short.

Sensing that the Deputy Warden was now in a hurry, the senior officer questioned, "Where the hell am I supposed to put her until then?"

A distant shout echoed off the hall as the distance grew between them, "In a broom closest for all I care!"

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Liara laid on the hard bed, hoping the tears would fall down her cheeks any minute now. However after the last couple of days, the asari had cried more than she had ever before. In her mind she knew that she was coming here even before the panel of distinguished advisors instated her punishment. Slowly tapping her crest against the cold steel wall, the asari prayed for tears after what she had just experienced. The prisoner intake process was supposed to be a daunting task by anyone's standards but Purgatory had a reputation that was in a league all its own.

The baby blue asari had chosen a spot on the floor to focus on when Vasir told her to remove all her clothes and place them on the bench in front of her. She knew the guard's eyes were floating over her body like a predator which didn't make it any easier when the officer ordered her to bend over and spread her cheeks. It was humiliating at the least. Bare skinned, Liara thought for sure the woman with the tattoo face could have easily used her eyes to see that she wasn't hiding anything she wasn't born with. But after Vasir thoroughly groped her ass, breasts and her ass again, that wasn't the case.

At one point the senior officer was so displeased with T'Soni's lack of disgust, she pinned her against the wall using her biotics. Without struggling against the very strong biotics, the maiden simply turned her head away from Vasir, which only angered her more.

Defiantly gritting her teeth, the matron inched so close to her face that Liara was able to figure out what the guard had for dinner that evening.

Oh Goddess, Tuna, grumbled the asari.

Ripping the maiden from her thoughts, Vasir spat, "You know what I can do to you in here little girl?" The guard's breathe was hot against her cheek and was strong smelling. "You've never meet a badass like me before little girl." And just like the senior officer had done to her junior officer earlier that night, Liara didn't give Vasir the satisfaction of an answer.

Mentally giving up, the baby blue asari closed her eyes and prayed, Goddess kill me now.

Unbeknownst to the younger asari, Vasir dropped her biotics and sternly warned the maiden one more time, "Watch yourself prisoner. I will be keeping an eye on you."

After that everything else was a blank. The young T'Soni had been able to successfully block out the shower scene and Vasir's final nude inspection. She briefly remembers the senior officer making a joke about you never know where a person can hide a bar of soap. The blue eyed beauty then vaguely remembered using a body wash dispenser that was attached to the wall after the matron's comment.

But now in her temporary cell, all was quite and very still. It was a lot quieter then it had been for the maiden in weeks since the verdict. Liara thought she would enjoy a night without sobbing like a baby or people whispering in the halls outside her bedroom, but that wasn't the case. Feeling a part of her was about to die at any second, all the asari could do was gently tap her head against the cold steel. Oh Goddess how did I end up in here?