Monsters - Chapter 34 – Extraction – Part 2 of 2

 Monsters

By Karen Singer

 

 Chapter 34 – Extraction – Part 2 of 2

 Xiang was anxious to see his new patient.  He had gotten a description of what had been done to her from Susan.  He had even seen the picture that Carol had taken.  But all that did was to spark his imagination.  For someone who lived to find new methods of cruelty, the opportunity to see someone else’s handiwork was a rare treat.  Never mind that it was a patient he would have to help.  He was still anxious to examine what had been done.

Since he spent a lot of time at the Wu’s compound in North Carolina, he knew Susan and her father very well.  He had met Janice on a few occasions, finding her work fascinating.  He had been asked to tutor Carol off and on for several years too.  Teaching her what things could hurt the human body more than others.  He also had to teach her quite a bit about first-aid and what to do in case she got hurt or shot.  Knowing what he did about Carol, he was amazed the girl was still alive.  But Carol too had a head for cruelty, and so working with her sometimes generated some interesting conversations.

After a long flight across the country, then another long trip to Janice’s house from the airport in Los Angeles, his body was tired, but his mind was excited and was totally focused on the problem ahead.  A problem he couldn’t wait to see. 

After a brief opportunity to freshen up inside the house, Susan and her father escorted him through the back door and out toward a large barn.  It wasn’t the sight of the barn though that caught his attention.  As they walked, his eyes fell on what he saw wandering around in the fenced in yard next to the barn.  There were a number of… “men”…wandering around, in the most ridiculous position, acting in the most curious manner possible.  Janice’s work, he had no doubt.  The woman was an absolute genius!

“Chickens,” Susan told him, offering no other information.

“Ahh,” Xiang replied.  “Most ingenious.”

“Don’t let Janice know if they’re a bit difficult to figure out,” Mr. Wu added.  “She seems a bit sensitive about it.”

“Of course not,” Xiang agreed.  “But now that you mention it, I have no difficulty seeing it at all.  I must study them more later.”

“I’m afraid they’ll have to wait until after we take care of Brandy.”

“Ah yes,” Xiang agreed.  “I can’t wait!  This sounds very interesting.”

Xiang was led into the large barn and into one of the rooms created from several of the horse stalls.  In the room, he saw Carol, but more importantly, his eyes went immediately to the large object sitting on the table that was draped with a blanket.  The only part of that object he could see was a head sticking out from the blanket, fastened by some kind of metal brace.

“Dr. Xiang!” Carol exclaimed, relieved that he had finally arrived.

“Miss Carol,” Xiang greeted her with a small bow.  But his eyes went immediately back to what was on the table and what dominated the room.  He took a moment to savor the sight before him, his eyes studying not just the blanked covered body, but the sight of the head sticking out from it.  Almost giddy with the anticipation, he asked, “can we remove the blanket now?” 

One of the group of workers who had entered the room with them pulled the blanket away and Xiang got his first real glimpse of what had been done to the woman.  It was exquisite!  Genius!  As his eyes appeared to study the cage and the woman’s predicament, Xiang’s mind was salivating over the horror of the situation.  Nobody else could see that though, even though Xiang had no doubt that Susan, her father, and possibly Carol, could probably guess the delicious emotions and thoughts running through him just then.

“We need to get her out!” Carol reminded him, trying to get Xiang to do something – sooner rather than later.

“Of course,” Xiang replied, barely acknowledging the remark as he continued to stare at the arrangement.

He moved closer.  His hands now running slowly over almost every part of the cage from the base of Brandy’s neck to the very back.  When he got behind her, he found another surprise he hadn’t seen before.  Someone had sewn the woman’s vagina shut with steel cable.  Very nice!  His fingers ran lightly over the threading then followed the catheter down to where it was draining out into a plastic container.

“She had a big bucket hanging from her breasts,” Carol told him.  “One of the whores we rescued told us they didn’t allow the bucket to be emptied until it was overflowing, and then they had to put it right back on again.  She was in constant pain.”

“Yes,” Xiang said softly, imagining just what had been done to the woman.

His continued his examination of the cage, going along the other side of it, heading very slowly back toward the front.  This time, he took more careful note of how the head was held so immobile.  Coming fully in front of her, he saw the way her mouth was open.  His fingers moved her lips aside so he could examine the ring gag better.

“I couldn’t pull it out,” Carol told him.  “It seems to be fastened to her gums somehow.”

“Yes,” Xiang breathed softly again, his mind continuing to imagine what the woman in that cage must have felt.

“I wanted to cut the covers off her hands,” Carol said next, but Susan was worried that the leather may have broken the bones in her hands. 

This time, Xiang nodded and moved his examination to her hands.  “Wise,” he said softly as he felt the leather.  “The leather has become hard.  As with everything else, we will have to be very cautious to remove them.”

Once again, he began a slow tour around Brandy, going slightly faster this time, but still examining everything closely.  When he got to the far side of her, he stopped to look under her at what had been done to her breasts.  The distention told the story of a lot of weight pulling at them for a very long time.  The woman would need surgery to make them look normal again.  In his opinion, believe it or not, her breasts might be the least of her problems.

“Doctor,” Carol said.  “Can we at least start undoing the welds now?”

In a way, the question irritated Xiang.  He could stare at the woman like that in the cage device forever.  Savoring it.  But he had been brought out here to remove the woman from the cage, not keep her in it.  Unfortunately.  He finally nodded and looked at Mr. Wu.  “They can start cutting the welds, but do not open any of it.  She will need to be removed very carefully.  Her body will be weak.  It will have to be supported as we go.”

Mr. Wu turned to one of the men in the room and nodded.  The man was there with his equipment just for that purpose.  Instead of cutting the welds with a torch as had been used to weld the cage shut, he would cut the metal with a special saw instead so the woman in the cage wouldn’t be injured.

As the man moved in to work on the cage, Xiang moved around to Brandy’s head to deal with the ring gag in her mouth.  “Can I get a chair?” he asked.  “This may take a bit.”  A chair was quickly found, and Xiang sat in front of Brandy and examined the gag more carefully. 

As the Chinese man in front of Brandy examined the gag in her mouth, loud noise and a strong vibration ran through her body.  It was irritating, but it was also the biggest sign of hope she had yet.  They were removing the cage.  They were really getting her out of it!

As Xiang stuck his fingers in Brandy’s mouth to help him see and feel the situation better, he noticed that her tongue seemed to be working overtime against his fingers.  Not trying to push them out, but licking them.  Interesting.  “Can you keep your tongue away my dear?” he asked Brandy.

Brandy was surprised.  She had been conditioned to use her tongue to the best of her ability the moment anything was put into her mouth.  It took a slight bit of effort, but she stopped licking his fingers and tried to keep her tongue out of the way.  With so much of his hand in her mouth so often, it was difficult.

Xiang studied the gag carefully, he now suspected that the tabs on the gag were hinged cleats of some sort, simply stuck into her gums on both the inside and outside of her teeth.  At any rate, the only way to remove them would be to yank them out.  “Can someone bring me my bag?” he said, referring to the medical bag he had arrived with. 

One of the workers brought it to him and he searched inside of it.  He pulled out a pair of latex gloves and put them on.  Next, he removed a long flat tool from his bag.  “I’m afraid this is going to hurt,” he said to Brandy.  Actually, it was only with certain clients that Xiang ever bothered to use anything to lessen the pain.  He lived to cause pain.  He could have given the woman a local anesthetic so that she wouldn’t feel any pain, but he didn’t bother to ask. 

Using the flat tool, he had to force it with some difficulty under the edge of the cleat, hurting Brandy more in the process.  He was finally able to pry the thing out.  It took some doing and there was quite a bit of blood.  He carefully looked closer at the tiny cleat.  It was barbed like a fishhook so that once it was in place, it couldn’t be removed.  No wonder there was so much bleeding.  Easy to get in, impossible to get out.  But there was no help for it.  Prying the things out was the only solution.  One by one, he popped all the cleats on the inside and outside of her gums.  After that, he still had to work hard to get Brandy’s mouth open far enough to extricate the thing.

“Finally!” Carol breathed from beside him.

Xiang grabbed some gauze and blotted it against each of the wounds.  The bleeding continued.  It would have to stop on its own, which he was sure would take a little while.  They could give the woman some water when he was done.

But now that the gag was out, Xiang noticed something else, Brandy’s mouth was still in the exact same open position.  “The ring is gone now,” he told Brandy.  Can you close your mouth?

Brandy’s mouth was in pain.  She tasted and swallowed a lot of blood.  The ring was gone.  She could feel it gone.  She tried to close her mouth, and couldn’t.  “Oooo,” she said, trying to say no.  She kept trying, but her jaw seemed to be stuck.

Xiang placed his hand under her jaw and gently pushed it up.  Brandy cried in pain, but slowly her jaw closed.  “Open,” he told her with his hand still on her jaw.  He gently pulled the jaw down and slowly her mouth opened, but Xiang could tell it was with some pain and difficulty.  “Close,” he said.  Again, he had to help her close her jaw.  “I’m afraid it’s going to take a bit for your muscles to loosen up again,” he told her.  “But I’m sure that your jaw will work just fine…given a little time.  He checked the bleeding in her mouth briefly.  It was already slowing down.  Good.

He looked up at Carol.  “Can we give her a bit of water so she can rinse her mouth?”

By the time a bottle of water was brought in, Xiang was surprised to see that Brandy’s mouth was open again in the same position it had been before.  He allowed Carol to move in and tilt the bottle and pour the water into Brandy’s mouth, but her mouth remained in the same open position.  “Can you swish some of that water around?” Xiang asked Brandy.

Brandy tried, but the only thing she could move well with her mouth, was her tongue.

Xiang nodded.  “It will come in time,” he told her softly.

He moved around behind her and with one practiced pull, removed the catheter that had been up inside her.  As expected, there was no more urine in her system to leak out.

As the man continued to saw away at the welds, Xiang moved to Brandy’s side where he knelt down and studied what had been done to her breasts.  Basically just piercings.  It took him a few minutes, but before long he pulled both the piercings from both of her breasts.  He left her like that and stood back while the man continued to cut the metal welds.

While they waited, Carol moved in front of Brandy again and gently pushed her mouth closed, she released it and it slowly went back to the same open position.  She hugged Brandy’s head.  “We’re getting there,” she whispered into her ear.  “Very soon now.”

The man cutting the welds finally looked up and nodded at the doctor.

“Very well,” Doctor Xiang said as he moved closer.  “Let’s see if we can figure out how to open this thing and get her out.  I believe we’re going to need to start with her head, but once we release it, she may not be able to support it.  Someone may have to hold her head up.”

“I’ve got it,” Carol told him quickly.

Xiang nodded, and with the help of one of the Wu workers, they unfastened the steel band that went all the way around Brandy’s head.

“Aaaahh!” Brandy grunted in pain as the pressure was released.  It felt like she had suddenly been gifted with a giant headache.  But nobody seemed to notice or care.  She felt Carol grabbing her head and holding it, and then she felt the device being removed completely from her head.

“I’ve got you Babe,” Carol whispered.

Brandy was glad.

With the neck piece gone, Xiang decided to attack the portion of the cage that went around her waist.  When it was removed, nothing at all seemed to happen with her position.  One by one, the parts of the cage were opened, exposing Brandy’s entire body, but she still didn’t move at all, but by now, Xiang didn’t expect her to.  She had been stuck in that position far too long.  While Carol continued to hold Brandy’s head, four men picked Brandy up out of the cage device and set her down on the floor – still in the same position.  Brandy’s body position didn’t change at all and Carol had to continue to hold her head.

Brandy was out!  To her, it was an amazing feeling.  She just couldn’t move anything in her body yet.  In fact, despite being out of that cage, she didn’t even try to move anything yet.

“Turn her onto her side please,” Xiang requested.

Brandy felt her body being slowly and carefully turned onto her side.  Carol let go of her head and laid it on the floor.  It was an amazing experience.  A new position.  She could now see a bit more than she could before.  But still, she kept her body tightly in the same folded shape.

“Now move her onto her back,” Xiang directed. 

Slowly, Brandy was turned, still in her folded position, onto her back.  Nothing on her moved from the shape it had been in for so long, not even her mouth that was still wide open. 

Xiang took Brandy’s right leg and gently but firmly pulled.  It took some tugging and Brandy cried out in pain, but he continued pulling until the leg was fully straight.  After a moment, he gently pushed it bent again, then pulled it out, trying to work the muscles a bit.  One by one, he pulled all of her limbs straight, working each one just slightly, until she was finally laying flat.  Seeing the difficulty he had experienced in doing it, he made a difficult decision.  “No more today,” he said.  “Let’s get her in the house if we can.  I recommend warm baths every few hours, then let her sleep.  Food and drink are going to be essential as well, but this is as far as I dare go with her today.  Tomorrow, I’ll take a look at her hands and what has been done to her vagina.”

Susan started giving orders.  “Wrap her in that blanket and carry her inside.  She turned to one of the female servants.  “Tell Natalia to run a bath for her.”

Brandy was free.  So why did it hurt so much?  Why was it so difficult for her to move her limbs?  She was stretched out, but being stretched out wasn’t comfortable.  She wanted to pull her legs and arms in and contort her body back into the shape she had been stuck in for so long. 

Her vagina was still sewn shut…not that she could feel it anymore, and she still had no hands at all…if she would ever have hands again.  But she was free.  She knew that now with a certainty and a relief she never thought she would feel. 

Carol had come for her.  Carol had rescued her.  Carol was here with her, doing everything she could to help her.  Carol hadn’t abandoned her at all.  It had just taken Carol a very long time to find her.  But Carol did still love her.  She held onto that one thought as her body was picked up and carried from…wherever she was.

Carol watched as Brandy was wrapped in the blanket and picked up.  She followed as she was carried into the house and all the way up to her room where she was laid on the bed until her bath was ready.  She sat down on the side of the bed next to Brandy, whose mouth was still wide open.  She leaned in close.  “I love you,” she said. 

Brandy, with difficulty, nodded her head.  “Uu oo too,” she managed to say, her mouth barely moving.   “Taks,” she added, trying to say thank you for getting her free.

Carol leaned over and kissed her cheek.

“Her bath is ready, Miss,” Natalia announced.

 

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Ralphie barely saw her.  He had stood with everyone else just outside of the room where they had worked on Brandy for what seemed like an eternity.  What was wrong with her?  He knew a doctor had been called in, but he had been told nothing else.

In the crowd of people watching the open door where Brandy was, Ralphie happened to look around.  His eyes stopped still and stared.  Brandy’s uncle Vinny and his friend Sammy were there.  He locked eyes with Vinny and felt fear going through him.  Vinny finally turned his eyes away to look back at the open doorway.

Things suddenly seemed to be happening.  Everyone was pushed back out of the way and he saw Brandy, wrapped in a blanket, being carried out of the room.  He followed with everyone else out of the barn, but like most people, he stopped just outside of it as Brandy was carried into the house…where he wasn’t allowed to go.

He felt a hand touch his shoulder and he turned, and almost passed out.  Sammy was there.  Sammy motioned with his head to the side, and Ralphie saw Vinny standing there, waiting.  Totally afraid, Ralphie went with Sammy to see what Vinny wanted.

“You’ve been Brandy’s toy for a long time,” Vinny started.  “As much as I don’t like it, or you, Brandy is fond of you.  After all she’s put you through, I was more than a bit surprised to hear that you were the one who found the way for the Wu’s to rescue her.  For that, I have to thank you.  For that, I owe you now.  But that’s all it is.  I owe you, even though it’s something I seriously doubt you’ll ever get the chance to collect.  Since Brandy owns you, you still belong to her.  As far as I’m concerned, nothing has changed.  Understand?  I just want you to know, that I’m grateful for what you did.”

Ralphie was amazed.  As he had been taught so strenuously to do since he had arrived back at the mansion, he automatically grabbed his skirt and dropped a small polite curtsey before speaking.  “Thank you,” he said gratefully.

Vinny nodded and walked off with Sammy toward the house.

Vinny owed him?  But as Vinny had said, it was a debt he would most likely never be able to collect.  But still, he felt very much relieved.  He didn’t need to be worried about Vinny being out to murder him anymore.

Brandy was back.  His life of hell would continue, like it or not.  But at least he now knew where he stood…and he knew he no longer had to worry about Brandy’s uncle.