Who is the Victim Here
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Chapter Forty. Flashbacks
Sean opened the van door after he got the stroller out, Angie had unharnessed Spencer from his car seat and Spencer crawled out past Aaron to get out of the van. Aaron was not happy. He was harnessed in his car seat, his bottom was sore from having two spankings in four days; one from David and one just that morning from Sean. Sean unbuckled the harness and offered Aaron the ability to get out of the van by himself. Aaron looks at him angrily.
"Aaron, you can get out of the van as an adult and walk to the courtroom or I will lift you out and put you in the stroller and that is how you will go to the courtroom. Do you want to do it as an adult or a baby Aaron? What do you want the judge to see? It is a choice that you can make." Aaron with anger gets out of the car seat and stands tall on the floor of the garage. Angie put the diaper bags into the stroller and pushed it while Sean walked beside the boys into the courthouse and walked to the family courtroom three. Our group finds seats and sits while they listen to the witnesses and reports of Aaron for the past six months. While sitting there, Aaron thinks about what happened four days ago and then wonders what he should say about it.
Flashback
After Angie left Aaron to check on the boy calling for mommy, he stripped himself, including taking off his diaper and took a quick shower. When he got out David was still not back and Aaron knew that he wasn't supposed to put on his own diaper, but did so anyway. He dressed himself and put his coat on and went outside. He also sees the bar across the way and goes in. He doesn't see David even though David is there and sees him come in. He is about to call him over when Aaron goes to the bar and orders a drink, since he looks like an adult of age the bartender does not card him. If he had he would have noticed that the card says that this man was not to be served alcohol because of a court order forbidding it. David gets up from the table he was at and had been drinking a cola soda at. He was not drinking alcohol at this time himself. He goes over to Aaron and places his hand on his shoulder. Aaron feels this and puts the drink that was in his hand down. He gets up from the stool and leaves the bar with David walking behind. They head back to the motel and the room.
Aaron turns and says, "Now what, should I stand in the corner?"
"No, you can take your clothes off; I want to change your diaper."
"I don't think that I need to be changed right now."
"I disagree Aaron. Take off your clothes or I will assist you to do so. I am given you the chance to do so as an adult although I will say right now that is not how I view you."
"Oh, you don't see me as an adult capable of doing for myself."
"Not if you are the one who dressed yourself this afternoon."
"What's wrong with the way I dressed myself."
"You didn't fasten your diaper very well."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that your diaper leaked and your pants are wet." Aaron looked down and felt all around himself and realized what David said and that thought made him feel anguish at the thought that he isn't even capable of dressing himself. His knees gave out and he started to cry out of pity for himself. David gave him a minute to do so and then went and lifted the man up and put him on the changing dresser. Where he removed his wet clothes and diaper and then took him back to the bathroom to wash down.
Back in the room, David had Aaron sit on a moisture proof pad on the table while he got out a dry diaper and his sleeper. He turns and asks.
"Tell me what happened with Angie."
"She's mad at me and thinks you should punish me for my behavior the last few days since you are my keeper right now. I am so tired of having a keeper and not being able to do whatever I want. I am capable to doing so."
"I agree, you are capable but you need to finish out this court order. Right now, if I had to determine your capabilities by your actions and emotions for the past two days, I would say that you not ready to control your life. But the judge will have other reports and statements of the past six months not just the past two days to determine your actions and whether you are able to make the decisions for yourself. Today, you made some bad decisions. You should be punished for them." David walks to the man on the bed and sits down beside him. He has Aaron bend over his knee and placed his naked bottom on his lap ready to be spanked. Aaron stoically lies there and braced himself for the first smack. As David smacks the man, he will lecture him about listening to others around him and that a good leader also knows when to obey. When the first smack came SMACK, Aaron bucked but David kept him down over the knee. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. David gave Aaron a smack for each year of his chronological age to show that even though he was supposed to be an adult. His actions, attitude and behavior for the past days were not acceptable for an adult to do. By the end of the smacks, Aaron was crying from the pain. David has him go to the changing table and put lotion on his behind and diapered and dressed the man into a yellow sleeper.
A knock reveals Derek at the door asking David if he and Aaron wanted to go out to the bar for a drink. David says no, that Aaron was getting ready for bed and David didn't want to leave him alone. They were not going back tonight to Quantico but would head out early in the morning.
Derek asks, "David do you need some company."
"No Derek, go with the ladies. Why don't you ask Angie? She could use a night out."
"Thanks I will. Good night David. Good night Aaron."
Both men say good night. David orders in some food and the two men stay in and watch TV until Aaron falls asleep and then David goes to his own bed.
End Flashback
Back in the courtroom, our family sits there and continues to listen to what the witnesses are saying about Aaron. Spencer thinks about four days ago as well and wonders if he should tell mommy what really happened that night.
Flashback
Mommy goes to the door and Derek is there.
"Angie, the girls and I are going out for while to relax and enjoy ourselves. David suggested that I ask if you want to join us."
"I would love to go but I can't leave Spencer alone and I am not taking him out of the room tonight."
"Well, maybe we can get a babysitter for him."
"A babysitter? Well there is someone I could ask. Okay Derek, I'll see you in an hour in the lobby."
"Great, one hour then."
Spencer is just sitting on the bed reading and listening to this conversation and wonders 'babysitter'. Who does she know that would babysit? He says, "Mommy, I don't need a babysitter. I can take care of myself."
"Yes, we know how well you can take care of yourself. You wake up from a nap alone and go into the hall and scream for mommy. I will not leave you alone." She goes on the phone and calls room 308 to ask Janet if her daughter could babysit in an hour. Janet said that she would send her down. Spencer is listening to this and getting worried. He doesn't want a stranger to change him take care of him.
"Mommy, I don't want this mommy. Please don't leave me with a stranger."
"Spencer, I was enjoying some time for myself in D. C. and then I get a call about my son being in the hospital because he got lost in the woods. I had to come out here and release you from that hospital because they thought you were a disabled child who needed to be with their guardian and only your guardian could get you. You are lucky that you had a guardian otherwise you would now be in the hands of the social services agency handling disabled adults and probably admitted to a group home and it would be difficult for you to get out then because you would been declared incompetent. There would be no more BAU or anything else for you. I did not enjoy getting that phone call telling me to come out here. I had planned to attend a play tonight with some of the other students in my literature class. Am I there? There are times when mommies need time away from their babies. This was supposed to be my time. So if you don't like the fact of a babysitter, tough. I am going out and you will behave yourself for your babysitter. She will be allowed to feed, change and dress you. I don't want to hear any whining about it." Angie goes into the bathroom to freshen up and dress for her night out. Spencer just looked at her sad and feeling guilty about making her miss her play.
Less than an hour later, there is a knock on the door and Angie answers it to a girl of about nineteen.
"Hi, I'm Lisa and my mother sent me down saying that you needed a babysitter. She said that you had a big baby boy."
"Yes, I do need a babysitter for my big baby boy. Come in." She points to the bed. "This is my son Spencer. Spencer, say hello to Lisa."
"Hello Lisa." He says in a low and almost shamed voice.
Angie continues to talk to Lisa about the night. That she would be out about four hours and to let her know what her cell phone number is as well as the numbers of the other agent. She tells Lisa that Spencer would need to be changed soon but he won't tell her when so she will have to keep an eye out for his tell signs of fidgeting. When he begins to fidget is when he needs to be changed. She says that there is plenty of food for both of them to eat and that when Lisa wants to put Spencer to sleep, that a bottle and rocking would do just that. Spencer keeps looking at her telling this teenager to baby him.
"Lisa, did you bring the game I asked you to bring and you do play?"
"Yes ma'am I did and yes I do."
"Good." She goes to Spencer and kisses him. "I will be back in a few hours, have fun with Lisa. I love you sweetie." She walks out the door to go to the lobby.
Lisa looks at the big baby on the bed and thinks to herself what a sweet heart. He looks so cute and vulnerable sitting there in his bed in that adorable lilac and dark blue sleeper he is wearing. She smiles with what looked to Spencer like a wolf thinking how he was going to get into the chicken coop. She goes over to the table and gets out the game that she brought. Spencer looks at what she was doing and couldn't quite tell what game it was. She hides it from him in order to keep his curiosity up and get him off the bed to see what she was up to. She began to set the game up but he couldn't tell what it was unless he moved. His curiosity finally got the better of him and he got off the bed. He walked over to the table and sees that she has set up a chess game board. He squeals with delight and sits down at the table.
"Can I be black?"
"Yes baby you can be black." He smiles at her, not really hearing that she called him baby.
For a little over an hour they played, until he started to make some weird moves and to squirm in his chair. She notices and remembers what Angie said about his squirming being a sign of his needing to be changed. She gets up and goes to the changing dresser to get out his diapering needs and the lotion and rubber gloves that she brought with her. She goes back over to the table and moves his chair away from the table.
"Hey, I want to play, it's your turn."
"I will play my turn after we change your diaper."
"I don't need to be changed, I want to play."
"Spencer, your mommy wants me to check and change when I feel it needs to be done, not when you do. Come with me to the changing dresser."
"No."
"Spencer, do you want me to give your mommy a bad report about you that you did not do what I asked."
He hung his head and said, "No" again. He got up from the chair and went over to the dresser to be changed. She came over and unlocked his sleeper zipper to remove the sleeper and place him on the dresser. She took off his rubber pants and very wet cloth diaper. She washed his front genitals and then had him turn over where she washed his bottom. Then she put the rubber gloves on and put lotion on her hands and started to spread it on the two globes of his buttocks. She rubbed and rubbed and then spread his cheeks apart and put the tip of her index finger into his sweet hole and began to moisten it and stretch the muscles. He was shocked by this and bucked when she penetrated him with the entire finger and began to move up and down stretching the muscles. When all of a sudden she removes the finger and then takes two of her fingers and penetrates with the whole fingers. She moves them up and down as she stretched the muscles.
"Does this feel good baby, I used to do it to my older brother when I changed his diaper. He had muscular dystrophy and couldn't walk or be able to control his body functions. He always cried afterwards but I am sure he liked it, I know I do." As he listened to this, Spencer became more scared of this girl and his bottom was hurting very much as she did what she was doing to him. He started to quietly sob. She took her fingers out and then turned him over and put a thick heavy cloth diaper on him and put his rubber pants back on and then his sleeper. "Let's go finish our game now." He looked at her and followed her to the table where they resumed playing chess.
Two hours later, he began to fidget once more and tried very hard not to do so because he didn't want her to change his diaper again but he couldn't seem to stop fidgeting. She looks up and notices the fidgeting and smiles like a predatory animal. All of a sudden the door to the room opened and Angie came in. Spencer looked up and smiled and ran to her and grabbed her around the waist.
"Well, thank you for the welcome, did you have fun sweetheart?" He looked up at her face of hope that he did and that she did the right thing in leaving him with a stranger and going out to have fun.
He lied to her and said, "Yes I had fun." He did when they played chess but not when she changed him and he was glad mommy was home so that the girl couldn't change him again.
End Flashback
The gavel banged as the judge declared a two hour lunch break. Our little family gets up and head together to the food court. Sean chooses to leave the stroller in the courtroom but they do take the diaper bags with them since our boys will need to be changed. They eat in silence not sure of what to say to each other through the anger that is still emanating from Aaron and the bewilderment coming from Spencer while Angie is saddened by the actions of herself and Aaron and Sean is upset with Aaron. After eating they go to a blank room with a table so that they can change the boys. Sean does Aaron and Angie changes Spencer. After changing them they go back to the courtroom, Angie has Spencer lie in her arms and gives him a bottle while he goes to sleep for a nap. Sean and Aaron just sit there. Angie looks at her little boy and is thankful he is with her as she remembers two days ago at home when she, Aaron and Spencer after they got home from Wisconsin.
Flashback
"Sweetie, I think that tomorrow we should go see Dr. Pitt and make sure that everything is actually okay. I know David said that they had to sedate you and I want to make sure that the drugs they gave you didn't make your problem worse. Dr. Pitt can do that."
"No, I don't want to see anymore doctors and I don't want to go to the hospital." She and Aaron look at Spencer worrying.
"Why not baby? Did something bad happen at the hospital?"
"I woke up in the baby ward. I am not a baby, but David let them put me in the baby ward. When I woke up, I felt like I was in a cage. It was an all steel crib that they use for big babies. When I saw what I was in and there was nobody around, I called out and a nurse came in and put down the rails of the crib and started to change my diaper. I never had a stranger change my diaper before and I cried no and tried to get away. I asked for Uncle David and they said he wasn't there but they wanted to check my vitals and change my diaper. I said I wanted Uncle David and started to cry. They gave me drugs to sedate me and I said don't give me drugs, but they did anyway." Spencer was crying and Aaron grabbed him and took him in his arms to comfort the man. Angie got up to get a bottle which will calm down the man even more. Aaron begins to rock him and Spencer calmed down.
"Mommy, I heard the nurses talking about me when I was in my crib after they sedated me. While they changed my diaper and they brought in a bottle of baby formula for me, David had told them that a bottle would calm me down if I got upset and to not upset me if possible. They wondered why a mentally disabled person like me was out in the woods. I am not mentally disabled, my problem is physical not mental. I am not a baby." He snuggles more into Aaron's arms, who is rocking him while Spencer drinks his bottle. Mommy and daddy think of him as a baby but don't say a word to him about what they feel and see him acting him like. They know that he was in toddler mode at the hospital. Mommy found him that way and David saw him that way the next day. When Aaron and David went to pick him up, there was a problem because the boy came up on a register of disabled people who needs a guardian. The guardian must be the one who picks him up and a substitute would not be allowed. David was very upset by this news, if he known, he would never have let them put in the pediatric ward but putting him there placed him under being disabled and needing permanent guardianship. If he had placed him into a regular room, the man might have been able to prove that he was capable and be able to sign himself out. Because of the disability labeling, he is not allowed to sign himself out or be signed out by anyone other than his guardian. They would have the same problem with Aaron if he was put in the hospital for any reason.
Later that night, Spencer woke up crying because he had a bad dream about going to the hospital again and them never letting him out. Mommy comes and brings him out of his crib to hold him. Aaron sits in his crib watching her rock him in the nursery rocker.
After awhile she asked, "Are you feeling better now sweetheart?" Spencer nodded his head. "Do you want to talk about it?" He shook his head no. "You might feel better if you do."There is another shake of the head no. She continues to rock him and he soon falls back to sleep with his thumb in his mouth.
Aaron asks, "Do you think this will be a nightly thing?"
"It was for you for many months."
"Great."
End Flashback
"How are you feeling Aaron?"
"I am fine Sean."
"Are you sure about that?" Sean looks over at his brother sitting next to him on the bench.
"I know that you think I probably need a nap or something like that but I don't need to do that. I just want this day and whatever the outcome is to be over. I am sorry about being a brat this morning."
"That's okay. I'm not the one with the sore bottom because of it. Although I didn't expect that on the first day I'm back, I have to spank you to get you to do what you are supposed to being doing. I still don't understand though why you acted so young this morning. It actually felt like I was spanking a baby not an adult man. Can you explain that Aaron?"
Flashback
Early this morning, our little boy Spencer has another bad dream and wakes up the whole household. Sean comes in thinking its Aaron and is surprised that it is Spencer. He goes over and takes the boy out of his crib when he turns around carrying him, he sees Angie and she takes Spencer out of his arms and sits down in the rocker. Aaron is sitting up in his crib watching her take care of the boy. Sean goes over to his crib and asks, "What has happened Aaron?"
"We had a bad case and he wound up lost in the woods and we sent him to the hospital. He has told us a little about his hospital experience but it seems he is afraid of going back if he does that they will never let him out again. It is giving him bad dreams."
"How are your dreams?"
"Once in a while I have a bad dream, but I am doing better."
"Good, lay back down and go back to sleep now."
"I can't do that until Spencer…"
"Spencer is good in his momma's arms, you not getting your sleep isn't going to help him and you need your sleep tonight. You have a very long and busy day coming up and you want to be at your best."
"Sean, you haven't been here for two months and I don't need you to baby me."
"I'm not trying to baby you Aaron, just to make sure that you have a good day at the courts today. You are right, I'm not sure where you are right now and I can only go by what I do know, not what I don't. You need your rest."
"I want to stay up until Angie puts Spencer down okay Sean, please."
"It's against my better judgment to agree to that Aaron, so no. Lie back down now."
"Sean, why don't you get a bottle for Aaron, I think he needs his brother to rock him tonight. It might be help him sleep more deeply. "Aaron looks at her in disbelief. She smiles at him.
Sean takes her suggestion and gets a bottle, he takes Aaron out of his crib and goes to another rocker where the two brothers sit. Aaron lies down in Sean's arms and drinks the bottle offered him. He does not close his eyes because he does not intend to sleep until Spencer is back in his crib. The rocking motion and the suckling of the bottle soon calmed him down enough to fall asleep in his brother's arms.
A few hours later, Angie came in the nursery to get Spencer ready for the day at court. Sean came in a little while later to get Aaron. Angie has Spencer in the dining room with his bib on eating oatmeal before Aaron is even out of his crib. Aaron is still tired when Sean comes in to get him and that makes him extremely cranky and obstinate. Even though he knows that they have got to get to the courthouse fairly early, he still tired and isn't thinking clearly yet, Sean begins to dress him in his diaper, onesie and then an oxford shirt, black suit and tie. Once again, Aaron does not like the onesie, it always made him feel like a baby and he tried to convince Sean not to put it on him; so far though he has not been able to keep Sean or Angie from dressing him in one.
"Come on Sean please don't put this on me. We want to show that I am not a baby, don't we?"
"The judge is not going to see what you wear under your suit. Of course I don't have to dress you in a suit; I could dress you in a top with a pair of red overalls." Aaron looks at him in scared shock.
"You wouldn't."
"Stop complaining about the undershirt style onesie then. " Aaron jumped down from the changing table and goes to the dining room.
"I am hungry Angie." He goes to her and grabs her. He gives her an extremely deep kiss.
"Why aren't you dressed?"
"I am hungry."
"Clothes before food Aaron, that is the schedule, go back to the nursery and get dressed."
"I want to eat now." He sits down in his chair and waits for her to put food in front of him. She goes behind him.
"Clothes before food." He looks up at her as she stands above him and blows her a kiss.
"Hungry Angie, get me something to eat please."
"You need to get dressed first."
"NO. Food now, clothes later."
"Okay baby, I'll go get you something to eat." She looks at him with a worried look on her face as she goes into the kitchen. She doesn't see well through her cloudy vision but she sees enough to be worried. Sean also has been looking at his brother with concern. It is as if he wants to show the wrong face to the judge.
Angie brings in a bowl of oatmeal and places it in front of Aaron and then places his bib on. She kisses the top of his head. Aaron looks at the food in the bowl and makes a face.
"Yuck Angie, I want eggs and potatoes, not this stuff. Make me eggs over easy with hash browns and bacon." He looks up at her with expectation.
"This is not a café; you eat what you are given." She heads back to the other side of the table to take Spencer's dishes and take off his bib as he had finished his oatmeal. Aaron looks at her and then at Spencer as the boy looks at her and asks her if he could go play in the playroom until they leave. She gives permission and kisses the top of his head as he leaves the table. Aaron looks again at the oatmeal in front of him and smiles evilly as wicked little thoughts began to form in his head about how to get rid of the stuff. His tired mind was telling him to throw the stuff at Spencer as he leaves the room. He takes the spoon and flips a spoonful at the man and hits him squarely on the right cheek. He smiles smugly when Spencer jumps and then looks at him in wonder.
"Daddy, why did you do that?"
"It was funny."
"Mommy, Daddy threw food at me."
"Tattletale."
Sean had seen what Aaron did and got angry but is not sure what he should do about it because he doesn't want to treat his like a disobedient child but isn't that what he is right now? He goes over to Aaron and picks him from his dining chair and takes him to his bedroom to talk to his brother.
"What was that about?"
"I didn't want that stuff."
"You don't throw food at people."
"Spencer's not people, he is just one person, not people."
"What has gotten into you this morning? Do you really like being a baby because that is how you are acting? You are being a spoiled brat."
"Well, what are you going to do about it little brother?" Sean looks at him and decides that his big baby brother needed a good spanking for his behavior that morning. Maybe that will bring him to the adult that he needs to be today. Sean walks over to the man sitting on the bed and sits down next to him. He pulls him over his lap all the while Aaron is protesting going over his knee. Sean smacks him to calm him down to staying on his lap. Sean takes the wooden hairbrush that he had picked up at the dresser and began to smack Aaron on his diapered bottom hard and long. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. Aaron squirms and starts to cry from the humiliation of being spanked again. Sean smacks him for a good fifteen minutes and did not count how many smacks he gave to this disobedient and willful child on his lap. Eventually he stops smacking the man and starts to rub his back in order to comfort him for having this done. He sits him up and holds him while the man continues to cry and soon stops sniffling and moves to get up from his brother's lap. He looks at him and goes out the room.
Angie had cleaned Spencer up and he was in the play room on his rocking horse. Aaron came into the dining room and the bowl of oatmeal was gone with a bottle in its place. Aaron picks it up and began to drink as he goes to the nursery where Sean meets up with him and once again proceeds to dress Aaron in the black suit.
After Aaron is finally dressed, the family goes to the van. Aaron goes to the driver's side of the van as he is the one who has been driving since Sean was in Hong Kong. Sean had placed the stroller in the back of the van and Angie harnessed Spencer into his car seat and got into her seat. Sean had the keys and goes to take his brother to the back of the van to his car seat.
"Please give me the keys Sean, I want to drive."
"Get in your car seat Aaron. You are not driving today."
"I want to drive Sean."
"In your car seat now because next time I spank you it will be without your diaper on." Aaron is angry but gets in the car seat as his bottom was already sore and did not want to be spanked again so soon. Sean harnesses him in the bunting bag in the seat.
End Flashback
"You should nap Aaron until court comes back into session. You were very tired this morning and you still are. I am not asking you to be a baby. I am asking you to do what can help you be your best in front of the judge." Aaron looks at him and in consternation he agrees with Sean and lies down in his arms. Sean places a bottle in his mouth and the man is comforted enough to fall asleep quickly.
