Chapter 6: The Session
George Huang rounded the corner about to see Livia for another session. He hated having to do these evaluations because it was so hard. She had a rare form of brain damage where she was raped and beaten so many times that her 38 year old brain pretty much shut down, and wen’t to that of an age where there was no worry or stress in their life. Now normally in these patients the brain doesn’t jump back that far only usually too ages 12 to 15, but in Livia’s case since she was violently abused by her mother the brain couldn’t find a time where there was any peace so it jumped all the way back to when she was 7 or 8. Huang rounded the corner and saw Livia sitting in her bench as normal, he walked over to her and saw that she had just been crying
“Livia are you all right.”
“Yah I’m all right now, I guess.”
“ Well thats good do you know where Elliot is he said something about wanting Casey to watch so I should probably check with him before we start, so how about you go check to see if there are any interview rooms open.”
“Okeee dokey.” and Livia skipped off down the hall.
“Now Livia I want you to tell me about the place where these men trained you alright.”
“No.... I don’t want to talk about that awful place where they did those offal things to me.” Livia said burying her hands in her head.
“ Livia we go through this every time all right, I know a lot of this stuff is very uncomfortable for you to talk about but in order for you to get better you have to tell me what they did to you in that room.”
“ Fine.” Livia said wiping the tears from her eyes “There were only two rooms that I ever saw my cell and the classroom.”
“ What did they do to you in the classroom.”
“That’s were they trained me so that I could be a pet it was awful they would drag me in and chain me to the chair and desk then they would beat with belts until I did what they wanted, I was so scared, I didn’t know anything else but that room.”
“Can you tell me what you remember after you were first kidnapped?”
“I remember waking up tied up in a cell, I still felt like Olivia still though strong minded, stubborn, but it was harder now to be brave not knowing were you were or if you were ever going to be rescued, If there was even a world beyond this room ”
“ Can you tell me about the first day they brought you to the classroom.”
“They brought me there and tied me up and I had never had to be punished yet so I was being very bad and saying bad words and I even spit in one of their faces. The men didn’t say anything just threw a bag over my head and threw me on the ground and raped me over and over and over and over,” tears were falling down Livia’s face “When they were all finally done they took the bag off my head and took turns spitting in my face and the leader, he would go on to be my main trainer muttered ‘this one’ll be fun to break.’”
“This main trainer Livia what was he like?”
“He was the scariest man ever, he had this weird dragon tattoo on his face and only had two teeth and always smelled like alcohol and smoke. He would drag me into the classroom for 4 hours at a time almost everyday and rape me or beat me or mess with my head in someway, he... he would make me kiss his...his” Livia let out a gasp no longer able to keep the tears back. “His feet, I didn’t want to I swear but I was so hungry,and tired, they were so awful they stripped me of every piece of dignity that I had...”
“but Livia Jocelyn she treated you like a pet too she made you eat on the floor and made you wear that collar what makes her different than the traffickers?”
“She loved me. She always asked if I was okay and happy, she would spoil me with gifs and clothes and always made sure I was taken care of. Those other men they almost killed me. thats the difference ”
“Were there any other girls where you were with the traffickers?”
“ Well there must have been more, I mean we were in a huge warehouse, but they always kept me blindfolded when taking me from my cell to the classroom or to take customers, but I could here screams and lot and crying it was scary and hard at first but you kind of get used to it. Except when the tongue taker would punish a girl that never got any less terrifying.
“ The tongue... taker?”
“Yah when girls were bad or weren’t nice to clients he would come in and punish them by cutting out their tongues so they couldn’t talk back anymore.”
“ You said that you talked back at first how come they didn’t cut your tongue out?
“ Because I was one of the special girls I serviced all the really important clients you know the senators and the CEO’s and they like their girls flawless, sometimes they would spend a whole day getting me and Emily ready.”
“ Emily, she was the little girl that you shared your cell with.”
“ Yeah Emily,” an odd detached eeriness entered Livia’s face.
“If possible she got it even worse than me. they would always rent us out to together ‘Little Livia and her Little sister’ she couldn’t have been more than 5 or 6. Those sick bastards I hate them for what they did to her,” Livia was now yelling. “ Those disgusting old men would just come in and fuck us and leave like we were pieces off trash, but me I’m the real monster I would just sit there on the bed listening to her cry and scream for help just sit there waiting for my turn..... I’m sick.” Livia melted to the floor taking in deep agitated breaths through the tears.
“ It’s not your fault Livia its how you were programed to act, you were scared and who knows they might have killed you if had tried to stop it.”
“ Oh my god this is sick, I’m sorry now I understand that she really is mentally sick. Ugh what those men did to her I wan’t to throw them into a hole to rot!.” Casey said very agitated. She had been a lawyer for 11 years she had listened to 1000s of pedophiles tell their disgusting stories in that room of what they did to little girls, but nothing disgusted her more than what she had just heard. “ Oh Alex will you please forgive me you truly do care and I swear I didn’t know”
“It’s alright Casey your reaction is normal, you voiced your views a little bit more than most people but thats okay, but heres how you are going to make it up to us” Alex gave Elliot an uneasy glance.
“What is it that you want me to do?”
“Well...” Elliot said stepping in “ Right after we rescued Livia from Jocelyn, she filed a lawsuit saying that she wanted custody over Livia because since legally she’s mentally impaired she needs an assigned guardian, then luckily though at the end of the lawsuit Alex got full custody except for one weekend every month. It’s sorta like a divorced family you know who share the kids. And well Alex’s has an important meeting this weekend which is also Livia’s one weekend a month that she gets to see Jocelyn, and for the weekend there needs to be a lawyer present and ....”
“ It’s fine I’ll do it.”
“ Oh really wow that’s great.”
“ But let me just warn you, you think that I’m bad wait till you meet this lady.” Alex said.
“ I can handle it I mean how bad can it be.”
Just then the door opened and Livia and Huang came walking out.
“ Hey Miss. Novak how are you doing.” Livia said
“ Good how are you” Elliot and Alex took this opportunity to go talk with Huang in private
“So how do you think that she’s doing?” Alex asked.
“ Good, every time I talk to her she opens up a little more but just keep treating her the way your treating her and we’ll continue to keep making baby steps.”
“All right that sounds good, see you next Monday.”
