Chapter 12-2
The Life As A Prisoner
Part 2
It was nearly ten in the morning by the time Dotty had set the appointment to see the doctor, telling him we would be there within the hour. Hearing her hang up the phone as the doorbell rang, the moment I stood up to answer it, Dotty tells me, "If you even think about moving from that spot, I will tan that cute little butt of yours, young man."
She waited for me to make my move before she answered the door. Once I sat down, she said. "Now stay there." Dotty opened the door and invited the nurse in she quickly told them. "Good, you're here; I'll be needing your help today." She quickly explained that we had an appointment with the doctor in an hour, for both me and Jared. I saw the look on Jared's face as he looked at me, accusing me that this was all my fault.
Betty and Veronica, our two nurses, nodded as they looked at me and Jared. Betty opened her backpack that had everything she would need besides a bathing suit. Tisking at us as she pulled out two thermometers, one for me and one for Jared plus the blood pressure kit. Betty said. "It looks like you boys earned a trip to the doctor today," reading my one hundred and four, Jared was one hundred and two and slowly catching up to me.
Dotty said. "I can't reach their mother. She is out running errands, but their Dad said that he would meet us there and told me where I could find everything as he contacts Eric's caseworker. Hanks is on his way and should be here momentarily. If you could help me get these stubborn boys back into their wheelchairs, I would appreciate it."
I was about to say I could do it myself until Dotty made certain that wasn't going to happen. She told Betty to sit on me, if she had to, that she had never met such a stubborn boy in her entire life. She didn't say that as a compliment, as she made sure I did what I was told, having Veronica take our two dogs outside and chain them up while we were gone. And had Betty write a quick note to Mrs. Vincent and our mother telling her where we had gone too. Hank quickly came into the house while Dotty put our things together, including two videotapes and several documents that held all our information.
Hank had a large green station wagon waiting outside, which surprised me a little because I had thought Mr. Vincent had hired our own private bus, to take us anywhere we needed to go. Hank was built more like Dad in the muscle category but had Shane's height which had to be at least seven feet or more. I could see the resemblance between his two boys that I had met briefly in the boys' bathroom in church last Sunday.
They all had the same light blue eyes that showed like diamond-cut glass and straight noses that tapered at the bottom. Brown hair with slight graying on the sides and a strong square jawline compared to his boy's rounded jawline and their hair was more a lighter brown, almost blondish tent to it.
He smiled at me as if he was really glad to see me, even though I wasn't because he reminded me of what Gloria, his ex-wife had done to me and Jared. However, he helped me out of my wheelchair once. I had that strange feeling again and immediately was drawn to his eyes. Just for a brief second, they pulsed. Jared gasped, watching me and Hank. I watched Jared shake his head as if he had imagined something. He didn't say anything until we were both inside the car as our nurses placed a warm blanket over us. Having them sit on either side of us with us in the middle. While Hank put our wheelchairs in the back of the station wagon.
Jared leaned over and said as he whispered. "Please tell me I am crazy because the moment Hank touched you glowed. I felt this strange tingling sensation."
I whispered said. "You're not crazy. I saw the same thing when you touched Hank and Dotty. My question is why? And why now?" I didn't want to talk about Jeff or what had happened when we nearly died from the poison. Hell, I was doing everything I could just try to forget. I also knew this wasn't the time to ask those kinds of questions, but it concerned me that Jared was experiencing the aftereffects of what happened between this life and the next.
Dad was waiting for us at the doctor's office. The very place I really hated, well not as much as I hated hospitals, but it was close in comparison because they both had needles and they both like to inflict pain on people like me. Dad looked worried when he saw me telling me we both looked like death warmed over, but I looked and sounded worse than Jared.
I croaked and coughed. "Thanks, Dad. That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside." I did my best to keep my teeth from chattering, but only made it worse and my chin trembled instead. Dotty told him my last temperature was one hundred four and Jared's one hundred and two and was climbing. Dad shook his head and helped Hank put us in our wheelchairs.
Dad was just finishing the paperwork when my angry caseworker showed up. She took one look at me and frowned and then her eyes went to Dad and frowned, even more, seeing his black eye and a bruise on his wrists and arms.
She said. "Mr. Rothwell, I hope you have a damn good explanation as to why these boys look like death warmed over, and why they look like they have been chained up like prisoners."
Dotty says. "He does and isn't his fault."
Lori Holliman, my caseworker, was a mother of four boys ranging from nine to seventeen. She had given birth to a little over a year ago. Adding another boy to the four she already had. Like most women, they don't like their age known, but if I was to guess she was in her early thirties. She had long, blond hair and green eyes. When she smiled, it made you want to smile too. She was a small - framed woman with a big heart that stood almost four feet five inches.
She knew better than anyone and not just from my file. She had promised me and my mother I would never see another foster home. I would either be adopted by the Rothwells or be returned to her if they ever harmed me. The adoption was made official, mostly done on an agreement between the two parties. If my Mother or my father harmed me in any way.
The adoption would be final and would no longer be open for debate. And my mother would not only lose me. She would also lose Aaron and my two sisters. She and my father would be sent to prison for child abuse as well as child endangerment. My mother agreed and so did the Rothwell's opening adoption with special circumstances tied into it.
Dad knew, and I knew, that if my caseworker would make the final decision, one of the reasons she was here, was because of what had happened to bring me here to the doctor. I waited for the fireworks to start once she found out what Gloria had done to me and Jared. She took a seat after taking the file Dad had in his hand that contained sworn statements about what happened over the weekend. Including the evidence and the confession signed and dated by Gloria.
The videos were the things I was concerned about, mostly because I hadn't seen them. She opened the file, and her face grew angry as she read each page and then removed the blankets just enough to see our hands and wrists. She grew even angrier when she heard me coughing uncontrollably and watched and listened to my teeth chatter. She was about to say something when the nurse called our names.
Dad said. "I hope you have a bigger room for all of us, and we need something we could use to watch these." Dad showed her the videotapes, and she nodded, asking. "How many will be joining you besides your two sons Mr. Rothwell and yourself?"
My caseworker says. "All of us," She nodded, telling us to follow her.
She said. "It may be a little cramp, but it is the best we can do under the circumstances.
Dad said. "Thank you. This will be just fine."
The nurse says, "I'll send the doctor in, but it says you are asking for a complete physical for you and your two sons; if the ladies wouldn't mind staying here while the Doctor attends to you and your boys."
Dad said. "Why it's not like they haven't seen us naked before. Were nudists and these two young ladies are my boy's nurses."
My caseworker says. "It's not like I haven't seen these boys naked before, with five of my own and husband missy. If you would be so kind as to bring them a gown to change into."
Dotty told the nurse she was his second wife and that none of the women were leaving. Hank too decided he was staying, and no one argued the point. Considering it was his ex-wife that caused this in the first place.
The nurse paled as she looked at Dad and nodded. She closed the door. Dotty asked our nurses. "So which boy do you want?"
Dad told Dotty that she and the nurses could have their way with us. But he didn't need any help. As he blushed, he saw my caseworker. She said. "What? I have been looking for a chance to see you naked Mr. Rothwell for a very long time." She licked her lips as she watched him remove his shirt as if he was grade 'A' prime beef and she wanted to eat him. By the time the nurse came in, we were all naked, except for the blankets that were keeping me and Jared warm.
Dad, on the other hand, was the only guy in the room who had nothing to cover him besides Hank. I saw the smile on my caseworker's face, seeing him in all his glory. Dad blushed bright red as the nurse opened the door, handing him a gown. And taking her time to take it all in before he covered himself and closed the door behind her.
Dotty set our gowns aside, stating the blankets were doing just fine. It also exposed more of the damage to my caseworker when she noticed mine and Jared's ankles and the many cuts on my body, besides the whip wounds. Right now, all that was saving Dad was his own injuries and the file with the sworn statements and Gloria's confession.
I tell you I don't know which is worse, waiting in a doctor's office or laying in a hospital bed or a gurney completely naked freezing to death waiting for the Doctor. It seemed like hours before he came into the room. He didn't look pleased to see us. I wasn't sure if it was because of the injuries we had or if it was because of the woman in the room with three boys and a man, with no relation to either of them.
He, however, recognized me and my caseworker and he gave a heavy sigh and said. "I am afraid to even guess what happened. After our last visit, when you looked like you were through the meat grinder," and made his way over to me, telling me. "It better not be from another skateboard accident."
Stating he wants the truth, this time. I said. "It wasn't," as I coughed, and my teeth chattered.
Dad said. "It's worse, but it wasn't his or our fault … mostly." Dad handed the doctor the file and the videotapes. He didn't ask questions as he put them into the player. I cringed and so did Jared seeing everything that had taken place. Including the sex that I had been forced to have with Gloria.
The second tape showed our family being held prisoner and tied up and handcuffed, as well as Jared being stripped naked the same way I was with a knife, then manhandled by the two men who dragged me to stand behind Jared again. But this time I could see their faces and they weren't gagged as they were with me. Jeff was right. I never met them in person, but I had seen them in town and at church at the nudist colony.
The tape speeds up during the sex parts and only slows down when the actual physical abuse begins. And rewind it slowly so they could hear Gloria and me talking. The moment the tapes finished there was a long silence as Dotty and my caseworker looked at each other. My caseworker said, "I need a minute?" Placing her hand over her mouth, and opened the door, asking for the restroom.
Dotty plopped down in a chair and put her head in her hands and started to cry. No one said anything. Everything they just watched was worse than hearing it or reading about it.
The doctor was silent for a very long time before he said. "This woman, Gloria she is in jail?"
Dad said. "Yes, and so are those two men with her and others that were on the property at the time."
He nodded and said. "I am sorry Mr. Rothwell, but I need to check for certain." Dad nodded and said, "We're not going anywhere." The doctor nodded and opened the door, telling someone that he was canceling the rest of his appointments today.
It was soon after my caseworker came back into the room. She looked like death warmed over. She didn't say anything, just took a seat as we waited for the doctor to come back. It seems all we ever do is wait when we are suffering. In some ways that was a good thing because the woman in the room needed a minute to collect themselves. The nurse came back into the room with three thermometers and a Stats Kit, which was a standard routine. It was the needles that Jared and I were worried about. I had got over the fear of them … mostly.
Jared, on the other hand, wasn't anywhere close as it took Dad and Hank to hold him down. Dad told me to think about a beautiful naked woman, which wasn't all that hard seeing Betty open her blouse and freeing those nice, rounded breasts and cupping them. The nurse noticed my arousal and turned around to see Betty giving me a preview. Jared too stopped squirming.
Betty said. "What? Mr. Rothwell told you we were nudists. It's not like they haven't seen a beautiful naked woman before. And after watching those tapes the boys really need something to look at besides that thing that sexually and physically abused them."
The doctor and nurse gave Betty a hard stare. "Young lady these boys are not old enough even to see a naked woman such as you. So please cover yourself or leave the room."
The Doctor came in right at the right moment, hearing the nurse say that he said. "Nurse, if you have seen what I had just seen on those tapes or read their file. You would keep your opinion to yourself. I may not like the idea of young boys such as these boys here, seeing a naked woman or having sex at such a young age, but after what they have been through.
"I would rather have them see a naked woman a hundred times a day and let them lick every inch of their naked bodies, then relive that for the rest of their lives. In fact, when I get home, I am going to have wild hot sex with my wife just so I too can get that image out of my mind." She didn't say anything, just opened the door and left.
Betty apologized to the doctor. He shrugged his shoulders and said. "Apologize for what? It worked, didn't it? The last time Eric was in this office he wrecked the place and nearly ate one of our nurses as an appetizer. We have a standing order in his chart to tranquilize first to ask questions later. The nurse should have read the highlight before coming in here. It took us a week to clean up the mess after that."
Dad laughed. "That's my tiger," giving me a fist bump. The doctor told Dad to go first.
Dotty says "I think Eric and Jared should go first. They are sicker than their father."
I said Dad could and Jared agreed, not wanting to give up our nice warm blankets. Dad said. "Fine, but be gentle."
Dad got up on the table, and the Doctor gave Jared and me a silly grin. "Let's see the chart says a full exam, and after watching those videos today. I just don't see that happening. It may not be your fault, but I believe that this could have been avoided in the first place. According to the affidavits and Gloria West's confession, you knew what she was capable of the moment you introduced your boys to her. So, no, I am not going to be gentle, knowing also that you were the cause of that skateboard accident.
"It's payback time for every nightmare you just gave me. Because I do not like spending my day making house calls. So, I can make damn sure that everyone in that video is not as bad off as your two sons are. So, if you wouldn't mind if I don't ask permission to have my way with you."
I watched as the Doctor put on rubber gloves and as he snapped them at his wrist and told Dad to roll over on his stomach. Jared and I cringed, seeing the tool he was about to use. As he placed a large triangle-shaped pillow underneath him. The same pillow and tool they used on me and my Rothwell brothers when they were checking our rectum if we had been sexually abused.
He asked my nurses if they were so kind as to take us out of the room, so they didn't have to watch this. They nodded and wheeled us the hell out of there. The only ones that stayed were my caseworker and Dotty. Hank had no desire to watch, as he asked the nurse if they could use another room, while our Dad was being examined. Dad screamed, and I vomited right there in the hallway on the nurse's shoes. Jared did also after the second scream. By the fifth scream, our stomachs were just giving dry heaves.
Again, it seemed like forever before the Doctor found us, Dad was not in a very good mood. When Dad came into our new room, somewhere down another hallway so we wouldn't be in the way of cleaning up our mess in the hallway that we had left behind. Dotty placed our clothes in the corner out of the way, while Dad sat in a chair on a round pillow with a hole in the middle. Jared asked the Doctor if he was going to do the same thing, which I thought was a very good question.
He told us. "No, the only thing I am going to do is check with a little tiny camera so small you won't even feel it, I promise." He took out the tool he described and showed it to us.
Jared and I swallowed hard and knew I needed to go first because I was his big brother. Hank and the Doctor helped me to the table. My caseworker gasped when she saw all the injuries that covered just the front of my body. She took out a camera and documented them all.
Dotty said. "There are a couple more that you needed to see. Before you see the back of him." She asked me if it was alright to show her and the doctor. I nodded, knowing where they were that concerned her, and the only way to see them was to stimulate me.
She didn't apologize to me as she worked my penis into a very hard state. She didn't wear gloves as the doctor would have. I can guarantee that this happened five or six years ago. When I was only ten and going through a rough patch of modesty. They would of have had to tranquilize me to see these injuries. She showed them where Gloria cut me with the knife on my shaft, on my ball sack, and in between my legs. They were small nicks, but painful to the touch.
Once the Doctor and my caseworker made note of them taking pictures of the more serious ones. The Doctor looked even more, angrier at my Dad. The doctor was right as I shivered with fear and the cold. I didn't feel anything when he inserted a small camera inside of me and watched the TV where the camera was showing the inside of my butt. Once he was finished with me, it was Jared's turn.
Jared wasn't as bad off as I was, as they let us dress as the Doctor made out several prescriptions. He told my Dad and Dotty that I'd be lucky if I even went to school by Friday or even part of next week. He said because of the hypothermia I had suffered in the tub as Gloria tried to drown me and freeze me to death. I and developed pneumonia, and some of the wounds were infected. The poison that Gloria had given me, and Jared has compromised our immune system, making it even harder for us to get well faster.
Causing fever, dehydration, severe muscle weakness, tiredness, and nausea, and that we would be lucky if we didn't need the wheelchair for two possibly three weeks. That the symptoms were common to rat poisoning and could lead to death if left untreated, depending on the quantity and how it was ingested.
Hank said he had been giving us something to combat that, and the Doctor asked what he was giving us. I watched him roll his eyes and said. "I don't have a lot of faith in herbal remedies, but so far it has kept the boys alive, but barely. The blood test will show for sure if I am right, but if you wouldn't mind a different approach, that would be more efficient.
"I can give you a list of herbs and the quantity you need and with the combined treatment of Western medicine. We can fix what your ex-wife has done and just maybe we won't be putting these boys in hospital bed for several weeks, because that's where they will be by tomorrow, and Eric should be there alone already."
I gave him a hard tiger stare, coughing my lungs out. "Not going to happen, Doctor. I hate hospitals when I don't get the extra benefits that I so enjoy when it comes to stimulation and sex and awesome stimulating baths and massages by my very pretty nursemaids. I die first before I give in to that idea of nothing but pure boredom. You take that away. It is just not worth living anymore. I'd call Gloria ask her for the recipe she gave me and finish the job before I let you put me in that hospital bed."
The doctor nodded and said. "Then I will see you on Thursday, and if you still look like you boys got one foot in the grave. I will drive you over personally and handcuff you to the bed." I stuck out my hand, and we shook on the deal. I didn't break contact until he did.
Dotty said. "Make sure you dope that boy really good. He will say anything and do the opposite. Thinking he could clean the house and do my chores when he got death on his back?
Mrs. Vincent and I and his mother have nothing but trouble if you can't find a way to keep that boy of ours out of trouble. We put him to bed, and he gets up and thinks hey let's see if we can kill ourselves by doing the dishes and kills over onto the kitchen floor like he tried to do this morning."
I growled, and Dotty patted my cheeks and said. "That's our tiger. Promise me and your parents that you'll be a good boy, or I'll drive you and Jared to the hospital personally and make sure they bolt the sheets down to the bed. Trust me son … Jake and Billy learned you don't play around with old mama bear. Like you did at school yesterday and what you tried to pull this morning."
I shook her hand and said. "I'll be as good as gold, Mama Bear. I promise."