Order Only: Ugliness at Maidstone

[alt_bill]

As I'd reported the day I--well, the day Mulciber became hacked off with me, I turned in a tip to my source at MLE about the camp administrator at Maidstone. The bloke came across as a dodgy liar when I met with him to inform him of Mulciber's starve-the-muggles project.

Tonight, I touched base with my source. She was grateful enough for for my tip (since it led to a huge bust) that she was unexpectedly free with information in return.

Once my source received my information, she descended on the camp that night and started tearing through their records. There was a huge discrepancy in the census about muggle teenage girls in particular. Once she found a hidden cache of the records, she started piecing the story together.

Warning, this won't make for pleasant reading. What they were doing was truly ugly, but we've managed to stop it.

For now, anyway.

In the last few years, over three hundred muggle girls between 14 and 18 years old were transferred from Maidstone to an unregistered work assignment. A little over two hundred are now BACK in the records, marked as "deceased," but according to the records they'd died in camp (killed for insubordination).

Yeah, right, that was a lot of insubordination.

But by talking to prisoners, she was able to determine that wasn't it at all. Those girls hadn't actually died in camp; they'd simply disappeared to 'the place teenage girls go.' That they never (almost never) come back from.

She ferreted out from one of the assistant camp admins, the one who selected girls, where they were going.

It was a brothel. One which offered extra perks to customers with, ah, special tastes.

See, there are places where people go to enjoy the sport of muggle hunting. For a fee, of course. There's a fee, too, if a muggle is killed on a work assignment, but this way, with this tidy arrangement, there's no need for the fee to be collected, since the girls died 'in camp.' So much cheaper for everyone, you know, and then the money gets to be split between the various sick fu bastards who dreamed this up. Plus, since the records for the deaths were hidden, I imagine Garth Spillett had extra rations, since they continued to deliver supplies for the full camp census. Profits all around. My source plans to trace what was done to cover tracks about THAT next week.

Anyway, it's stopped now.

I'm sick and furious, and so terribly sorry that we couldn't save them.

But I am so glad I passed on that information to my source.

Comments

Private message to Alice Longbottom

[alt_bill]

Yes, I exchanged personal messages with her and met with her tonight. Yes, I know did promise to avoid seeking out her company, but I was following up on the tip I had given her earlier, hoping she would be grateful enough to exchange information in return. We ate take out curry by the river, discussed the rape and murder of muggle girls, and kept our clothes on the entire time.

I hope you are satisfied with the decision I made here. This proves that it's important for me to keep exchanging information with her. It did work, and no more muggle girls will die at that place in the coming week.

I said to the Order as a whole that my tip stopped this, and sickened as I am about the whole thing, I am proud of that. But she warned me that it may not be stopped permanently. The brothel's owners may simply decided to bring the operation above-board and pay the fucking fines, just eat that cost of doing business since it's sooooo profitable.

If that's so, then we'll have to find a way to shut it down ourselves.

Re: Private message to Alice Longbottom

[alt_alice]

Well done, Bill.

You made a good call, and your contact paid off.

Thank you.

Re: Private message to Alice Longbottom

[alt_alice]

And agreed -- we've got to be better at catching this sort of activity, and if they try for it again, I'm prepared to do what has to be done to stop them.

Re: Private message to Charlie Weasley

[alt_bill]

It makes me feel for the first time that what's done to me and even what I have to do might actually be worth it. If it gives me more chances to stop horrifying shite like this.

Not that I like being cruciated, needless to say, and I'll still fight like hell to avoid doing it myself.

But I think, for this weekend at least, I'm not going to be brooding endlessly about the hope of quitting my job. Which is a tiny improvement.

Re: Private message to Charlie Weasley

[alt_charlie]

Yeah. It is.

I'm glad you managed to stop it. And ... it's not that what you're going through is worth it, really, more like ... it's a fitting sacrifice in order to be able to do things like this as well. Does that make any sense? It probably doesn't.

But yeah. Good on you.

Re: Private message to Charlie Weasley

[alt_bill]

It does make sense. To me, at least. Makes me feel differently about it.

Makes it more bearable, anyway.

[alt_luna]

Our age....

[alt_evelyn]

What happened to the other hundred? The ones who weren't marked as deceased?

[alt_bill]

My source says the intention is to have them obliviated and then brought back to Maidstone. They will be reunited with their families and friends. Very quietly, as we don't want to draw them to Mulciber's attention.

He might, uh, have other ideas about what to do with them.

[alt_evelyn]

Good.

That's good.

Private Message to Luna

[alt_evelyn]

Our problems can seem so incredibly petty sometimes.

I don't think I deserve to ever complain about anything ever again.

We should get a list. Of their names. I don't know if it'd make me feel worse or not, but I hate that they were just sent away and forgotten.

I hate all of it.

So very much.

Re: Private Message to Luna

[alt_luna]

I know just what you mean.

I didn't sleep very well last night. I mean, I'm very glad we're with the Order. But knowing such terrible things can be so hard.

Re: Private Message to Luna

[alt_evelyn]

Yes it can.

Talking to Mr Snape helped, though. In case you feel like talking, I mean.