Chapter 7 is entitled "The Marks for her Nails," in which Ellie, now abandoned by her lawyer Alice, is hustled out of the courtroom, struggling all the way to cover herself with the small blanket they gave her. That doesn't work out well, (I didn't want it to) and by the time she reaches the prison van outside, some parts of her she tried to hide are exposed. She endures some abuse from the guards on the way to the prison where she meets her executioner, a woodworker who will carve her sedile to fit, and a doctor who marks the locations where the nails will go when she is crucified. Ellie is unhappy about all this and heaps verbal abuse on everyone. Now, naked and strapped down with her legs spread, she waits for the men to begin probing and measuring her for her Class 3 gender-specific sedile that will go on her cross.
Chapter 7: The Marks for her Nails
Ellie whimpered and sobbed as the bailiff and female officer pulled her toward the doors of the courtroom. She did her best to hold onto her blanket and hold it closed, but with her ankles chained her hobbling gait made her curvy parts jiggle and pull at the blanket’s edges. She stumbled and lost one of her cardboard slippers.
The people in the crowded hallway made way for them, all of them gawking, videoing, and snapping pictures of her. Ellie shrieked when the blanket slipped off one shoulder, exposing a bare breast. Her two guards wouldn’t let her stop to fix it. She tried to reach one shackled hand up to pull it back while being forced to continue walking, then squealed in horror when she realized that left the lower part of her blanket gapping open, exposing her triangle of red hair. Frantically trying to shrug back into it almost made it slip off the other shoulder as well. With a moan of frustration, she gave up and just tried to keep one breast covered and keep the blanket closed below. Somewhere along the way she lost the other cardboard slipper and was barefoot.
She hung her head in humiliation and misery. It was all she could do to hold on tightly to the little blanket and try to keep the token bit of modesty she still had as her guards hustled her through the doors, outside, hopping all the way down the long, wide steps of the Jack Brooks Federal Building toward the street, breasts bouncing and jiggling with every step.
All of the bouncing caused the bottom edge of the blanket stretched over her buttocks in back to steadily work its way up, bunching a little more with every jiggling step until it reached a critical point where it suddenly slid up above the curve of her bare ass, much to the delight of the crowd. Ellie felt it come up, felt the sudden draftiness but couldn’t fix it without throwing open her blanket in front.
The bailiff and female officer led her out to the prison van where they lifted her in, strapped her into one of the rear seats with a five-point harness and closed the door. A male officer got in next to her and grinned. She squealed yet again when he casually reached over and tweaked her exposed reddish-pink nipple, drawing laughter from the two officers in the front seat.
Ellie realized she was truly at their mercy. She was in chains and she was strapped into her seat. No one was going to help her. As the van pulled away, the officer next to her reached over, cupped her bare breast and gave it a squeeze. She gripped the edges of her blanket more tightly and looked out the window as they moved through the streets of Beaumont.
“Now that’s a damn nice tit,” the officer said.
“Sure is,” the one in the front passenger seat said. “That blanket looks kind of lumpy there, think we might need to search her?”
“Why, I do believe you’re right!” The officer in back said. “I reckon we better open this little blanket up and do a thorough search to be sure she ain’t hidin’ any weapons.”
Ellie whimpered and pulled the blanket tighter, saying, “No, please…” But she realized that it was useless. She felt the blanket slip out of her fingers, and then the officer was spreading it open under the seatbelt straps.
“Whoowee! Look at that! She’s a real firecrotch all right!” The officer in front said. “Look at that pussy, lips red as those nipples!”
The officer driving grinned as he looked at Ellie in the mirror. They had to stop at a traffic light for a moment and he swung around to have a good look. “Man, bet she could wrap those pussy lips around your cock and squeeze, jerk the cum out of you in about ten seconds!” He said.
Are they going to rape me? Ellie wondered. Stop off somewhere out of sight, take me out and force themselves on me, all three of these bastards? There’s nothing I can do to stop them.
The van was moving again. “Too bad we’re on a schedule and tracked all the time, sure would like to try me some of that one!” The driver said. After a few minutes the others settled down for the ride, but they left Ellie naked for the rest of the thirty-minute trip.
Her mind returned to anticipation of what awaited her. She would sob, try to get hold of herself, try to breathe, then terror would overcome her again and she’d scream and struggle uselessly in her restraints and the guards would laugh at her. The horror of what was happening was overwhelming.
On Saturday they will CRUCIFY me! CRUCIFY me! I have what’s left of today, then two days, and then the horror begins. I’ll only START to die on Saturday morning, then maybe I’ll die sometime the next Friday or Saturday – if I’m lucky. It could be even longer than that.
Ellie sobbed. How could dying be lucky? The answer came to her: When living means unbearable agony.
When they arrived at the U.S. Penitentiary near Nederland, they unstrapped her, lifted her down, draped the blanket over her shoulders again and turned her over to two more guards, who hustled her straight into the prison hospital. A medic gave her a tranquilizer shot to calm her down, while avoiding sedating her. They needed her awake a little longer at least. She felt her anxiety begin to dull almost immediately. They marched her to X-ray, took her shackles off so they could take a series of images of her wrists and feet. The medic got her height, weight and vitals, then the guards put her shackles back on.
This prison housed death row but did not house women in its general population. Women condemned to death by lethal injection were still transported here from the nearby women’s prison immediately prior to their execution. But women like Ellie, sentenced to crucifixion and no longer entitled to any human rights, were not deemed worthy of any modesty or privacy considerations.
Three men waited for her in the exam room: David Wooster, the woodworker who would carve her sedile, her executioner, who said he answered to John - not his real name, and the prison doctor.
The executioner wore a black ski mask. He had apologized to the other men for that earlier. “In this job you can’t afford to be recognized!” They had already reviewed among themselves the measurements required for Ellie’s execution. The executioner needed joint-to-joint lengths of arms and legs, shoulder-to-hip length, height and weight. Wooster needed detailed measurements and pictures between her legs. The doctor was there mainly to assist the others. He already had Ellie’s electronic X-rays up on the display screen, checking them and finding nothing remarkable.
“Ok, guys, you know the drill,” the executioner said to the two male guards, Larry and Marvin. “We need her naked on the exam table, hands shackled above her head and feet in the stirrups. We’ll need her ankles chains off so we can spread her legs, waist chain too.”
Ellie tried to hold onto the blanket as Marvin pulled it away, leaving her naked. She was a little woozy, but not so much that she didn’t understand this was some kind of preparation for her execution. She was terrified of the executioner in his black mask, couldn’t take her eyes off him.
“What are you doing to me?!” Ellie screamed in panic when she felt their hands on her. “No! No!” She screamed, struggling in her chains, but the guards knew their work.
Larry lifted her by her shoulders and Marvin reached down and grabbed her legs and together they set her bare butt in the middle of the cold steel exam table, swung her flailing legs around and carefully laid her back, taking care not to bang her head or allow her to injure herself in any way.
“AAHHHHH!! You sons of bitches! You… you… I bet you’ve got balls the size of raisins! Only thing smaller are your brains! Let me go…” She writhed and twisted “…and I’ll damn sure fuck you pussies up! OWWWW!”
“Did that tranquilizer you gave her to quiet her down make her brave, too? She must be a real mean drunk!” Wooster laughed.
The guards ignored her angry screams and insults as they held her down and dragged her into position with her buttocks at the end of the table between the stirrups, legs flailing. Larry held her upper body down while Marvin managed to buckle a webbing strap across her hips to stop her trying to roll over. He cinched it down tight with one hand while blocking her legs with the other. Then Marvin unfastened the chain of her handcuffs from her waist chain and handed it to Larry as she tried to jerk it free. Larry used it to pull her arms up above her head while Marvin took his turn holding her writhing body down, being careful to avoid her teeth. Larry clipped her handcuffs to the end of a chain and winched it up until her arms were extended.
With her still kicking and arching her back, Marvin removed her waist chain, secured the webbing strap above her breasts and another across her waist. He pinched a pink nipple and grinned at Ellie.
“Aaaaaaaaaaarrhh!!” She snarled in rage through gritted teeth, straining to reach him, face livid, glaring furiously, her shackled hands fisted.
“She does have a temper!” Marvin laughed and the others joined in.
The stirrups pivoted on rigid arms that could be moved horizontally and vertically as needed. Each stirrup had its own ankle shackle and each of the arms had straps to secure her legs at the thigh and knee.
Marvin pinned Ellie’s kicking legs while Larry removed her ankle chains and locked each of her feet into a stirrup. Then each of them finished securing a leg with the straps and she was finally immobilized. They swung the stirrups out to the sides and locked them in place, fully exposing her hairy pussy.
“Unh!” Ellie grunted as Marvin cinched the strap down tighter across her hips to ensure she could do no more than squirm while she was being probed and measured between her legs.
“All yours, guys!” Larry said.
“Mean as she is, you better check she don’t have teeth in her pussy like some of these redheads! You don’t want to go and lose a finger!” Marvin laughed, “That is a pretty feisty little bitch!”
“Sound advice!” John replied.
“Gonna go for coffee. Y’all want us to bring you some?” Larry asked.
“Just black for me,” Wooster said. The other two shook their heads.
“Back in a few minutes. Call if you need us sooner,” Larry said as they walked out the door.
“Like they’d fucking need you dickless cocksuckers for anything!” Ellie raged at them, “Maybe to wipe their fucking asses!”
“No more than I’d expect from someone sentenced to crucifixion,” Wooster grinned, shook his head while pulling on his blue nitrile gloves.
“Look,” the doctor said to Ellie, “we’re not going to hurt you. We’re only taking some measurements today. Might be a little uncomfortable but we’ll try to make it as easy as possible. If you settle down, things will go better for you.”
“F-fuck you!” Ellie screamed, straining against her restraints. She was being humiliated again, so helpless and so very vulnerable. They were looking at her bottom, talking about her, touching her down there as if they had every right to do so. And there was nothing at all she could do about it. She could barely squirm under all of the restraints.
“Fuck all of you!” Ellie said, “I suppose now you limp-dick bastards are going to rape me!”
All three of the men broke out laughing at that.
“No, little lady, you can relax!” John the executioner said, patting the inner side of one of her thighs, “Somebody might, but it won’t be us! We’re not here to rape you, we’re just here to measure you for your cross so I can slowly torture you to death! Nothing personal!”
Ellie gaped at him for a moment, then launched into a string of insults.
“Ok, she’s hysterical,” the doctor said, probing the wrist bones in the heel of one hand with a fingertip and looking at the X-rays. “She might or might not come to terms with it over the next two days. Even if she does, she’s likely to explode any time.” He located the spot and marked an “X” there with a felt-tipped pen.
“You want to gag her?” John the executioner asked.
“No need. Doesn’t bother me anyway.” He marked the other wrist and moved toward her feet. “All these women on their way to the cross do that, gives them some practice for after they’re crucified, cursing and spitting at everyone,” the doctor replied. All three of them chuckled at that.
The doctor quickly probed Ellie’s feet and marked them, then peered at her bottom.