The God That Never Came
Court
I was released just a little while ago from the hospital and I was informed by Matt's laywer that I would have to appear in court tomorrow. That surely didn't take long but I'm not looking forward to seeing those 2 again and what makes it worse...I have to tell my story. It was hard enough to tell Matt and Sabrina who I really am and it got worse telling the police. Now I have to tell 7 complete strangers. All the guys were over at the house helping me out and trying to prepare me before hand of what will be happening but I just couldn't focus. I finally just told them that I was too tired to even comprehend what they were even saying. I left the kitchen and went straight up to my room and changed my clothes and laid underneath the warm covers. It didn't take long before I was sound asleep.
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I awoke to someone gently shaking my shoulder. I opened my eyes to see Matt smiling down at me.
"Morning sweetheart."
"Morning. Time to get up and get ready for court?" I asked smiling.
"Yes." He leaned down and kissed me and helped me to my feet.
"I'm nervous." I said looking down. I felt Matt pull my chin up with his fingers and he kissed me again.
"You're going to do just fine."
"I hope so." I said wrapping my arms around him and burying my face in his chest. I felt his fingers glide softly through my hair.
"I got to get in the shower. I'll be down in a minute." I said smiling up at him.
"Alright." He kissed me once more before leaving my room. I grabbed some clothes from the closet and went into the bathroom and began my shower. Well it really wasn't much of a shower. It was more like a Whore's Shower.
I finished wiping off and then I washed my hair and dressed into some clothes. I really didn't have anything fancy but I did have something that was semi dressy. I left the bathroom and did my hair before putting on some shoes and leaving my room. I hobbled into the kitchen and sat down beside Matt as Sabrina was cooking.
"You look beautiful."
"Thanks." I said smiling and Matt held my hand under the table. Sabrina started putting plates down on the table but she looked at me funny.
"What?" I asked confused.
"Where are your crutches?" I shook my head.
"I'll go get them." Matt let go of my hand and went out of the kitchen but returned seconds later with my damn sticks. He propped them up beside me and gently grasped my hand. Sabrina laid the food on the table and we all began to eat.
The food was really good this morning but I couldn't help but think what was going to happen in that courtroom. When we finished, Sabrina put our plates in the sink and I grabbed my crutches and Matt helped me into his car. The whole way to the court house was silent but only my thoughts clouded my mind. I don't want to have to see them. I felt the car stop and I seen the building in front of us. I took a deep breath before getting out and going into the large building. We met up with our laywer before going into the courtroom. I was so fucking nervous. I looked back at Matt and he smiled at me reassuringly as they brought in Nancy and Earl. They both glared at me with hate.
"All rise! The honorable Judge Summers prociding." I stood to my feet as best as I could as the judge came into the room and sat down.
"You may be seated." He said looking down at something on the large pedistal he sat at. I sat down with my crutches beside me as my laywer made his opening statement and then those monster's laywer made his. My laywer stood to his feet and walked to the middle.
"I'd like to call a Ms. Sullivan to the stand at this time." I watched as Sabrina walked up and sat in a seat with a microphone in front of her.
"Ms. Sullivan, you're the one who noticed something was wrong?"
"Yes sir. I told her I would call when I was getting off from work." she said looking at the laywer.
"Why is that Ms. Sullivan?"
"Butayne had the car. She was going out for her birthday." she said honestly. My laywer asked her a few more questions before letting the other laywer stand. He asked her some questions and my laywer would every now and then object and he would withdrawl.
"Now I'd like to call Butayne Vicarlous to the stand." My laywer came over and helped me to my feet before I hobbled over to the seat Sabrina had got up from moments earlier. I sat down putting my crutches beside me.
"Now Miss Vicarlous, do you see the people who ran you off the road in this courtroom today?"
"Yes sir. They're sitting right over there." I said pointing to them.
"Why would they want to kill you?"
"Obection! Speculation." the other laywer said.
"Sustained."
"Alright. Butayne, why don't you tell us why you came to California." I looked down and took a deep breath.
"When I was 12 my parents died in a horrific car accident. I was sent to Nancy and Earl for foster care." I explained.
"How was foster care?"
"Objection. Foster Care has nothing to do with about the allegations against my clients." the monster laywer said standing to his feet.
"Your honor I'm just trying to know the reason who she would leave foster care in the first place."
"Objection overruled. Please answer the question Butayne." The judge said looking down at me.
"Foster home life wasn't what...what most kids would prefer. I was beat senseless everyday for no reason at by them. I still have the scars to prove it." I said looking down.
"What were your injuries?"
"I never went to ay hospital but I know I've had several cracked ribs, countless knife marks, and burns." I said and I pointed to the places where the knife wounds and burn marks were placed.
"Thank you Butayne. No more questions at this time." He sat back down and the other laywer came over to me.
"So Butayne...how did you get a fake identity?"
"A friend of mine made me one at my request." I stated.
"Did you ever tell this friend about what my clients supposively did to you?"
"Yes I did." I said.
"If you were getting beat every day like you say you were, then why didn't he tell someone."
"I asked him not too. I told him it would be easier if I just disappeared." I said in more like a statement.
"Alright. You're new identity, you went by Octayne Viscar. Is that correct?"
"Yes." I said emotionless.
"You had a new social security card and birth certificate correct?"
"Yes." I said looking down.
"So when you got your new identity, did you leave the house that day?"
"Yes I did. I just got beaten that day. I wasn't going to stay any..." I said and I was cut off by their laywer.
"No more questions." He said back down and my laywer got back up.
"You said you just got beaten am I right?"
"Yes sir." I said watching him as he walked around the small space.
"How did they beat you?"
"Nancy came up to my room and pulled my down the stairs by my hair and she threw me to the ground which made my face bounce off the floor. Then Earl spat in my face and told me that I was nothing but a worthless peice of shit. I watched him grab something from the stove and I tried to back away but Nancy had caught me and held me down as Earl raked the red hot fork along my stomach repeatedly before kicking my in the ribs and making me cough up blood." I explained looking down periodically.
"Then what did you do?"
"I got up to my feet as fast as I could and I went up to my room locking the door. I had made sure again that I had everything because I wasn't going to come back for something. I sent a message to my friend and told him that I was walking over to his house so he could take me to the airport." I explained again. I could see their glances of hatred everytime I spoke.
"After he took you to the airport and you landed in Los Angeles, what happened?"
"I walked all the way to Huntington Beach where I went into a diner where Sabrina works. She gave me something to drink and some food. We got to talking and she offered me a place to stay. I didn't want to live with her at first because I thought I would be intruding but she insisted." I said looking up at my lawyer and occasionally at Matt who would smile.
"How was your life when you moved in with Sabrina?"
"It was great. It was like living with my mom and dad before they died. She helped me get into school. Helped me get a job at the diner where she works and get my license." I said happily.
"So pretty much it was better than living with your foster parents."
"Yes sir." I said smiling.
"Alright moving on. How did you know it was Nancy and Earl in the car that night?"
"I looked directly at them. I tried to stop the car but the brakes weren't working and neither was my steering. They had the evilest look on their faces." I said looking over at them.
"What happened next?"
"I remember them ramming into the car and sending my over an embankment and I hit my head on the window. The next thing I knew I was waking up in a hospital bed 2 weeks later." I explained remembering that awful day.
"What were the injuries due to this horrific crash?"
"I had surgery on my spleen, kidneys, and had a portion of my liver fixed. I have 2 broken legs and ankles, my left knee was shattered, my facial bone under my right eye was broken, and my neck was broken in 2 places. I had several cuts and bruises plus a gas that went from my forehead and goes down to my jaw. The doctor said where I hit chest first on the ground when I was ejected from the car, I had a collasped lung." I said explaining my injuries to the jury as my laywer passed around pictures to the jury members. Their faces shown horror.
"You're very lucky to be alive. Now after you're somewhat recovered, what happened?"
"A few days later, I was sitting at home, after the police had told me about this investigation, just watching TV because I really couldn't do much of anything with 2 broken legs and ankles. Next thing I know I have this rag over my face and I blacked out. When I woke up I was tied to a chair. Earl was standing over me and when I told him to let me go, he squeezed my throat hard. He then proceeded to cut my face when I told them that someone would help me. He yelled in my face that no one would ever come to my rescue. He had this look on his face. The same look he's giving me now. He yelled for Nancy and she pulled my head back and dug her nails into my neck and Earl said let's have some fun. He ripped open my shirt and started slicing away the skin. I screamed but he punched me hard in the gut." I explained with tears flowing down my face.
"No further questions." he sat back down and the judge looked over at me.
"You may step down." I nodded and grabbed my crutches and went back over to my laywer and sat down.
"We'll now do some closing statements. The Defendant's laywer may proceed." I watched as he got up and started speaking some of the stupid things I've ever heard come out of anyone's mouth. He was a real idiot thinking that I was lying through this whole thing. The laywer sat back down and mine stood to his feet and walked around a minute before speaking.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury, you've heard what happened to Butayne and seen by the pictures of what happened to her after that horrific accident. Let me ask you this. If we are to let these people go, how do we know they won't try to do it again? How do we know that they won't harm someone else? Ladies and Gentlemen...Butayne changed everything about her just to get away from them. I know if she would have stayed and took more beatings from those monsters, she would be dead. Do we want 2 people who are capible of killing one child, turn around and do that to another one under their care? I say no...Thank you." He came back over and sit down.
"We'll be taking a short recess while the Jury comes to a verdict. When the jury has their decision I will decide what happens on the parts of their sentencing. This court is now in recess." He banged the gavel down and stood up and left the court room and so did the Jurers. I got up and held onto Matt for dear life.
"I hope they find them guitly." I said looking up at him.
"I'm sure they will. You gave a fantastic testimony and Jake here gave awesome opening statements, questions, and a closing statement."
"I know and I am grateful for you helping me." I said smiling.
"You're my girl. It's my job to see that you are protected." I hugged him tighter than I ever have before until Jake, my laywer, told me to sit back down. I looked and seen the judge and jury were all back. That was very quick.
"Will the Defendants please rise." the judge said and I watched as they did.
"Has the jury reached a verdict?" A man stood up with a paper in his hand and a balif handed it to the judge. He looked over it and then handed back to the balif who handed it back to the jurer.
"How do you find the Defendants?"
"We find the Defendants, Earl and Nancy Bassett, on the count of 2nd degree murder of a police officer guitly. On the count of kidnapping, we find the Defendants guitly. And on the 2 counts of Attempted murder, we find the Defendants guilty." I was so relieved to hear that man read off each charge and find them guilty as charged. It was like a weight being completely lifted from my shoulders.
"Earl and Nancy Bassett, you've been found guilty on all charges that were brought against you. I sentence both of you to life in a maxium prison facility with no possibilities of Parole. Take them from my court room." I watched as 4 officers grabbed them and took them across the room. Earl glared at me with death in his eyes.
"You stupid little bitch! This isn't over! I'll fucking kill you!" The police officers pushed them out the door and we exited the courtroom. Matt just couldn't help but smile in happiness just like me as we walked back into the house. I still need to get that project done. It's due in a week. The rest of the night was full of celebration. I was so happy that I will never be seeing them again.
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I awoke to someone gently shaking my shoulder. I opened my eyes to see Matt smiling down at me.
"Morning sweetheart."
"Morning. Time to get up and get ready for court?" I asked smiling.
"Yes." He leaned down and kissed me and helped me to my feet.
"I'm nervous." I said looking down. I felt Matt pull my chin up with his fingers and he kissed me again.
"You're going to do just fine."
"I hope so." I said wrapping my arms around him and burying my face in his chest. I felt his fingers glide softly through my hair.
"I got to get in the shower. I'll be down in a minute." I said smiling up at him.
"Alright." He kissed me once more before leaving my room. I grabbed some clothes from the closet and went into the bathroom and began my shower. Well it really wasn't much of a shower. It was more like a Whore's Shower.
I finished wiping off and then I washed my hair and dressed into some clothes. I really didn't have anything fancy but I did have something that was semi dressy. I left the bathroom and did my hair before putting on some shoes and leaving my room. I hobbled into the kitchen and sat down beside Matt as Sabrina was cooking.
"You look beautiful."
"Thanks." I said smiling and Matt held my hand under the table. Sabrina started putting plates down on the table but she looked at me funny.
"What?" I asked confused.
"Where are your crutches?" I shook my head.
"I'll go get them." Matt let go of my hand and went out of the kitchen but returned seconds later with my damn sticks. He propped them up beside me and gently grasped my hand. Sabrina laid the food on the table and we all began to eat.
The food was really good this morning but I couldn't help but think what was going to happen in that courtroom. When we finished, Sabrina put our plates in the sink and I grabbed my crutches and Matt helped me into his car. The whole way to the court house was silent but only my thoughts clouded my mind. I don't want to have to see them. I felt the car stop and I seen the building in front of us. I took a deep breath before getting out and going into the large building. We met up with our laywer before going into the courtroom. I was so fucking nervous. I looked back at Matt and he smiled at me reassuringly as they brought in Nancy and Earl. They both glared at me with hate.
"All rise! The honorable Judge Summers prociding." I stood to my feet as best as I could as the judge came into the room and sat down.
"You may be seated." He said looking down at something on the large pedistal he sat at. I sat down with my crutches beside me as my laywer made his opening statement and then those monster's laywer made his. My laywer stood to his feet and walked to the middle.
"I'd like to call a Ms. Sullivan to the stand at this time." I watched as Sabrina walked up and sat in a seat with a microphone in front of her.
"Ms. Sullivan, you're the one who noticed something was wrong?"
"Yes sir. I told her I would call when I was getting off from work." she said looking at the laywer.
"Why is that Ms. Sullivan?"
"Butayne had the car. She was going out for her birthday." she said honestly. My laywer asked her a few more questions before letting the other laywer stand. He asked her some questions and my laywer would every now and then object and he would withdrawl.
"Now I'd like to call Butayne Vicarlous to the stand." My laywer came over and helped me to my feet before I hobbled over to the seat Sabrina had got up from moments earlier. I sat down putting my crutches beside me.
"Now Miss Vicarlous, do you see the people who ran you off the road in this courtroom today?"
"Yes sir. They're sitting right over there." I said pointing to them.
"Why would they want to kill you?"
"Obection! Speculation." the other laywer said.
"Sustained."
"Alright. Butayne, why don't you tell us why you came to California." I looked down and took a deep breath.
"When I was 12 my parents died in a horrific car accident. I was sent to Nancy and Earl for foster care." I explained.
"How was foster care?"
"Objection. Foster Care has nothing to do with about the allegations against my clients." the monster laywer said standing to his feet.
"Your honor I'm just trying to know the reason who she would leave foster care in the first place."
"Objection overruled. Please answer the question Butayne." The judge said looking down at me.
"Foster home life wasn't what...what most kids would prefer. I was beat senseless everyday for no reason at by them. I still have the scars to prove it." I said looking down.
"What were your injuries?"
"I never went to ay hospital but I know I've had several cracked ribs, countless knife marks, and burns." I said and I pointed to the places where the knife wounds and burn marks were placed.
"Thank you Butayne. No more questions at this time." He sat back down and the other laywer came over to me.
"So Butayne...how did you get a fake identity?"
"A friend of mine made me one at my request." I stated.
"Did you ever tell this friend about what my clients supposively did to you?"
"Yes I did." I said.
"If you were getting beat every day like you say you were, then why didn't he tell someone."
"I asked him not too. I told him it would be easier if I just disappeared." I said in more like a statement.
"Alright. You're new identity, you went by Octayne Viscar. Is that correct?"
"Yes." I said emotionless.
"You had a new social security card and birth certificate correct?"
"Yes." I said looking down.
"So when you got your new identity, did you leave the house that day?"
"Yes I did. I just got beaten that day. I wasn't going to stay any..." I said and I was cut off by their laywer.
"No more questions." He said back down and my laywer got back up.
"You said you just got beaten am I right?"
"Yes sir." I said watching him as he walked around the small space.
"How did they beat you?"
"Nancy came up to my room and pulled my down the stairs by my hair and she threw me to the ground which made my face bounce off the floor. Then Earl spat in my face and told me that I was nothing but a worthless peice of shit. I watched him grab something from the stove and I tried to back away but Nancy had caught me and held me down as Earl raked the red hot fork along my stomach repeatedly before kicking my in the ribs and making me cough up blood." I explained looking down periodically.
"Then what did you do?"
"I got up to my feet as fast as I could and I went up to my room locking the door. I had made sure again that I had everything because I wasn't going to come back for something. I sent a message to my friend and told him that I was walking over to his house so he could take me to the airport." I explained again. I could see their glances of hatred everytime I spoke.
"After he took you to the airport and you landed in Los Angeles, what happened?"
"I walked all the way to Huntington Beach where I went into a diner where Sabrina works. She gave me something to drink and some food. We got to talking and she offered me a place to stay. I didn't want to live with her at first because I thought I would be intruding but she insisted." I said looking up at my lawyer and occasionally at Matt who would smile.
"How was your life when you moved in with Sabrina?"
"It was great. It was like living with my mom and dad before they died. She helped me get into school. Helped me get a job at the diner where she works and get my license." I said happily.
"So pretty much it was better than living with your foster parents."
"Yes sir." I said smiling.
"Alright moving on. How did you know it was Nancy and Earl in the car that night?"
"I looked directly at them. I tried to stop the car but the brakes weren't working and neither was my steering. They had the evilest look on their faces." I said looking over at them.
"What happened next?"
"I remember them ramming into the car and sending my over an embankment and I hit my head on the window. The next thing I knew I was waking up in a hospital bed 2 weeks later." I explained remembering that awful day.
"What were the injuries due to this horrific crash?"
"I had surgery on my spleen, kidneys, and had a portion of my liver fixed. I have 2 broken legs and ankles, my left knee was shattered, my facial bone under my right eye was broken, and my neck was broken in 2 places. I had several cuts and bruises plus a gas that went from my forehead and goes down to my jaw. The doctor said where I hit chest first on the ground when I was ejected from the car, I had a collasped lung." I said explaining my injuries to the jury as my laywer passed around pictures to the jury members. Their faces shown horror.
"You're very lucky to be alive. Now after you're somewhat recovered, what happened?"
"A few days later, I was sitting at home, after the police had told me about this investigation, just watching TV because I really couldn't do much of anything with 2 broken legs and ankles. Next thing I know I have this rag over my face and I blacked out. When I woke up I was tied to a chair. Earl was standing over me and when I told him to let me go, he squeezed my throat hard. He then proceeded to cut my face when I told them that someone would help me. He yelled in my face that no one would ever come to my rescue. He had this look on his face. The same look he's giving me now. He yelled for Nancy and she pulled my head back and dug her nails into my neck and Earl said let's have some fun. He ripped open my shirt and started slicing away the skin. I screamed but he punched me hard in the gut." I explained with tears flowing down my face.
"No further questions." he sat back down and the judge looked over at me.
"You may step down." I nodded and grabbed my crutches and went back over to my laywer and sat down.
"We'll now do some closing statements. The Defendant's laywer may proceed." I watched as he got up and started speaking some of the stupid things I've ever heard come out of anyone's mouth. He was a real idiot thinking that I was lying through this whole thing. The laywer sat back down and mine stood to his feet and walked around a minute before speaking.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury, you've heard what happened to Butayne and seen by the pictures of what happened to her after that horrific accident. Let me ask you this. If we are to let these people go, how do we know they won't try to do it again? How do we know that they won't harm someone else? Ladies and Gentlemen...Butayne changed everything about her just to get away from them. I know if she would have stayed and took more beatings from those monsters, she would be dead. Do we want 2 people who are capible of killing one child, turn around and do that to another one under their care? I say no...Thank you." He came back over and sit down.
"We'll be taking a short recess while the Jury comes to a verdict. When the jury has their decision I will decide what happens on the parts of their sentencing. This court is now in recess." He banged the gavel down and stood up and left the court room and so did the Jurers. I got up and held onto Matt for dear life.
"I hope they find them guitly." I said looking up at him.
"I'm sure they will. You gave a fantastic testimony and Jake here gave awesome opening statements, questions, and a closing statement."
"I know and I am grateful for you helping me." I said smiling.
"You're my girl. It's my job to see that you are protected." I hugged him tighter than I ever have before until Jake, my laywer, told me to sit back down. I looked and seen the judge and jury were all back. That was very quick.
"Will the Defendants please rise." the judge said and I watched as they did.
"Has the jury reached a verdict?" A man stood up with a paper in his hand and a balif handed it to the judge. He looked over it and then handed back to the balif who handed it back to the jurer.
"How do you find the Defendants?"
"We find the Defendants, Earl and Nancy Bassett, on the count of 2nd degree murder of a police officer guitly. On the count of kidnapping, we find the Defendants guitly. And on the 2 counts of Attempted murder, we find the Defendants guilty." I was so relieved to hear that man read off each charge and find them guilty as charged. It was like a weight being completely lifted from my shoulders.
"Earl and Nancy Bassett, you've been found guilty on all charges that were brought against you. I sentence both of you to life in a maxium prison facility with no possibilities of Parole. Take them from my court room." I watched as 4 officers grabbed them and took them across the room. Earl glared at me with death in his eyes.
"You stupid little bitch! This isn't over! I'll fucking kill you!" The police officers pushed them out the door and we exited the courtroom. Matt just couldn't help but smile in happiness just like me as we walked back into the house. I still need to get that project done. It's due in a week. The rest of the night was full of celebration. I was so happy that I will never be seeing them again.
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