Felicity, now a convicted woman sentenced to death, is brought back to the Brampton jail to be held over a week until she is executed. The same guard takes her to her cell that would be her home until she is crucified. Casually he says “Well, you are not waiting to be tried. You are a condemned felon now and I can do what I want with you as long as you are in good shape when they put you to death. I must say, I never took a woman waiting to be crucified.”
He bound her to the bunk and ravaged her. Coldly he said “People watching you on the cross will not know what a fine fuck you are.”
After he came, he released Felicity from the bed but left her locked in the cell. He would take her often as she waited to be crucified. Felicity protested each time he took her but afterwards would please herself.
Felicity was no angel and her encounters with the guard were a better way to spend time than being left alone in the cell.
The guard wasn’t the only visitor Felicity had. A week before her crucifixion, Tree’s sister Joan came by the jail. Felicity was less than cordial to her growling “Your brother Tree arranged all this! Because of him, I am going to be put to death on a cross!”
“Felicity, I hate to point out you were quite unfaithful. You not only fucked the groundskeeper, but you had intimate relations with the maid!” Joan scowled. “Besides, Tree is a slave to a good fuck like you. I wrote the contract you signed. You really should have read it before you signed it.
“But that is water under the bridge. I must tell you, Madeline has been punished for her indiscretions. The court would have hanged you unless I showed them she could be crucified without harm.”
“You nailed Madeline to a cross” Felicity exclaimed in horrified disbelief.
“No, Felicity, she was only
tied to a cross” Joan scoffs as Felicity envisions Madeline hanging roped to the cross.
Joan cruelly added “Of course, since you are condemned to die on the cross, you will be nailed to yours.”
After Joan Tree left, Felicity imagined being nailed to the cross and hanging from it before the people of Brampton. She had seen plenty of women hanged for their ‘crimes’. All of them had been naked when they were brought to gallows and hanged that way.
Felicity had no reason to thing when they crucify her, the Brampton tradition of naked executions would not be used when she is crucified. She wonders what it will feel like hanging naked before the mere commoners of Brampton. What would her body feel like? What would her skin be like as she hangs from the cross?
It doesn’t cross her mind she will be unable to touch herself when she is nailed to the cross.
A few days later, Felicity has more visitors. She stands in the visitors’ cell and met by two well-dressed French women. The blond woman says “Just look at her, Judith! It would be a crime to put her to death on a cross made of local wood!”
Felicity does not recognize the women and asks “Are you from around here?”
“Oh,
non, we are from Anjou!” the light-haired woman declares.
“Arkansas?” Felicity asks.
“Arkansas? No, M’lady, France! I am Messaline and this is Judith. We got here just in time. They were going to crucify you on a cross made of local wood. We have stopped that” Messaline exclaims.
“They are not going to crucify me” Felicity asks.
“No, silly, they are not going to crucify you on a cheap cross! They are going to use one made of my premium French wood” Messaline proudly says.
Felicity is not comforted by the news.
Time lost meaning to Felicity. The hours alone seemed to drag but every minute that passed brought her closer to her execution. She wondered how she would look hanging naked nailed to the cross. Would the common trash of Brampton realize they are seeing a noble lady being put to death or would they just lust at her nude body displayed obscenely before them.
Sleep came but it was littered with horrible nightmares…