It went longer than I thought, part 3 coming shortly :)


Part 2- the Raid


Lily was woken by shouting and banging. Her blood froze for a moment, thinking that her father had come to her closet to beat her. Then as her brain started to wake, she realized that it was multiple voices, as least one female. Then there was a crash, it sounded like the door had been broken down. She heard a shocked noise from her father, then a thump and grunt, then a woman again. “Gabriel Everett, you have been found guilty thousands of counts each of child abuse, torture, assault and battery, child neglect, rape of a child and endangerment of a child, and you have been sentenced to death. May you burn in Hell”. There was an odd pop. It wasn’t gunfire, Lily had heard gunfire, Gabe had actually shot her on more than one occasion, but it was the closest to the sound. Lily didn’t know if she should investigate or run, she settled for holding Mommy more tightly and she waited, hearing the woman giving orders downstairs.


Lily clung tightly to the doll for what seemed like both a long time and almost none at all, until there were footsteps outside of her closet. The door opened, and two uniformed SWAT team members stared in at the small, trembling child clinging to what looked like a crude sex doll. One called into the hall “ Ma’am, we found her”. The voice Lily had heard speaking to Gabe responded “Good work, go wait outside” and the woman stepped into view. She bore a strong resemblance to Gina Carano from Deadpool, although the tag on her vest said Jody Swan. She had more scars, she was in tactical gear, and she had the eyes of someone who had seen and done awful things, but when she looked at Lily, those eyes softened and filled with warmth, and Lily thought she might be an angel.


Jody looked at Lily, cataloging every scrape and bruise, her experienced eye getting a pretty good guess even at the injuries she couldn’t physically see. Each one broke her heart, and increased her rage, she wished she could kill Gabe again. But even as she thought that, something must have showed on her face, because the girl shrank back, with fear in her eyes, and whispered “Please don’t beat me” and that upset Jody more than any of the rest, the kid had psychological scars deeper than anything physical.


Jody got down on her knees and held out a hand “Oh honey, I’m not going to beat you. I’m the government, one of the good guys.” She touched the eagle pin on her jacket, showing Lily, seeing hope and awe. Jody had no way of knowing that the government meant less than nothing to Jody, that she just saw the eagle pin and thought of her book, sure that they had been summoned by her prayer. But the girl seemed to trust her a bit more, that was all that mattered. Jody nodded, putting her tiny, misshapen hand in Jody’s large, strong hand. A hand that had taken down child abusers of every stripe. They had different orders with Lily, but those hands had killed dozens of abusers and been the salvation of over 100 children. Jody knew The Hobbit, and she would have loved the thoughts Lily had. Saving kids and raining fire and brimstone on their predators was more than a job to Jody, it was her calling.


Lily looked at her with big, uncertain eyes “Does this mean I’m safe now? Are the beatings over?” and Jody nodded “Lily, I promise you, nobody in this world is EVER going to hit you again, ever” the girl had a look of hope in her eyes “No more rape?” If Jody could have raised Gabe from the dead and skinned him slowly, she would have. Her heart and mind were briefly a mushroom cloud of hatred, but she didn’t let it show, Lily needed to see kindness and love “No more rape honey. The people who do that are monsters. Me and my team? We go after the monsters”. The next thing Jody knew, Lily was hugging her, latched right on. Jody hugged her back, and for a moment, Lily was not in pain, she was not scared, she was not the little girl who wondered each day if this was the day Gabe would kick her to death. She was a vulnerable little kid who was safe for the first time, and deciding that hugging this real woman was MUCH better than her doll. Jody felt the change in body language and made a snap call. She pulled herself from the hug for a moment, much to the distress of the kid, then pulled her vest off, leaving only a white tank top and sports bra, which followed her vest to the ground exposing her torso completely before hugging Lily again.


Neither was wearing a shirt, Lily felt Jody’s large breasts against her own flat chest, those strong arms around her. All her barriers came down, all the years of survival instincts melted, and her emotions burst forth. She cried, expressing feelings that she had been too afraid of retribution to ever let out before. She wept, tears running down her cheeks, clinging to Jody. Her powerful protector stroked Lily’s hair and just let it happen. Eventually Lily made herself stop, mostly because her ribs and lungs burned so badly, and just hugged.


After a while, Jody whispered “Lily, do you want to come with me?” Lily nodded. She was drained in every possible way, she was confused and fragile and she didn’t have a clue what she wanted out of the future, but if Jody was going somewhere, it would take an act of God to keep Lily from going as well. They stood, Lily asked “Should I get my shirt?” Jody smirked “ I’m not going to” and that suited Lily just fine. She never went topless around the house, worried that it might increase the chance of rape, but with Gina, she wasn’t even a little afraid.


They went outside, passing the dead body that had been Gabe. That made this whole thing more real for Lily. She had tried to kill him once, come at him with a kitchen knife. He had taken it, beaten her senseless, starved her for a week, and raped her every day for a month for that stunt. And there he was, dead in the kitchen, with an odd hole in his skull. Lily had come to love Jody almost immediately, but seeing this proof that they had fought and destroyed her demon, it was a religious moment. the Eagles had come, and everything was going to be okay.


They walked out the front door, Jody standing on the side where Lily could see her out of her one working eye, holding her hand. The rest of the team was just out front. None of them reacted to the toplessness of the two, Jody had walked into fire more than once for her team, they would never question an odd choice by her, not for a moment. Not noticed by Lily, Jody nodded to her second in command. As they stepped outside, he took three quick steps, coming up on her blind side. He produced a bolt gun, and before Lily had any idea that something was wrong, he put it to her head and pulled the trigger, creating the same odd pop that Lily had heard kill Gabe.