Step Sister - Chapter 1

Shirley sat alone in her room she had just turned 18 a few weeks ago, she was looking at her laptop looking at her relatively short CV on the screen, she wore a small pair of light pink panties and a tank top. She was quite well endowed but being so young didn’t really need to wear a bra all the time she was cuddled up into a ball on the bed. She sighed deeply her employment options in this town were almost zero. There was a clicking noise behind her a high heel on wood Shirley span round she had not noticed the door open or the person enter the room, now there was someone behind her!

She breathed a sign of relief when she saw who it was, "I have a surprise for you Honey", said Shirley’s step sister Mary. Mary was dressed in a tight nurse’s uniform, her step sister had a tremendous set of curves that put Shirley to shame. The shapely Nurse filled out her tight uniform with curves it could barely contain. She smiled at Shirley. "Really?" Shirley said, "Did you arrange the intern position or the junior admin position like we discussed?" Mary smiled "Sort of, but you have to start with me almost immediately and stay with me all weekend", she continued  to smile there was something hidden in her eyes.

Shirley was a little taken back; her step sister was a Nurse at the State Mental institution for the criminally insane one of the few local companies hiring. "There is no way I could spend the week-end at the Hospital on such short notice." Mary smiled  "You know when I first told you about the possible internship at the hospital, you wanted a job. You get to see it how it operated, all of the old closed down parts, and the therapies they use on the patients, you said you would love to see it and experience the history the atmosphere, well now you can! Just not quite like you thought, you just have to come with me for the week-end."

"It’s such short notice what exactly do you want to sign me up for?” Mary reassured her “don’t worry you will find out”. Shirley looked desperate. "I want something on my résumé, how long is the position going to be open?" Mary laughed. "Only up till the week end if you’re silly, you will lose this opportunity for work. Due to security I have to check you in really soon for the security records, this opportunity will disappear very shortly unless you step up." Mary continued "I was having drinks with some of my friends from work and we started talking, if we don’t sign you up for the hospital. Then one of there relatives gets the opportunity, I stood up for you I said you would love to volunteer for it, to see the inside of the hospital. I know you read up about the hospital."

She considered her options for a second "Ok  I will probably do it” Shirley said. Mary smiled "Good you will soon see the hospital systems meet all my friends and colleagues it will be fun. You will get to see some of the treatments on people and see how they react you will be very close to the action."

Shirley looked at Mary and then nodded She really needed some work experience and the hospital was one of the biggest local employers. Mary smiled "I knew you were going to say yes!" Immediately Mary dived into a bag and pulled out a form for Shirley to sign, some sort of legal disclaimer it was long and complicated. Shirley couldn’t understand it but she quickly signed it in several places. Mary hurried her along she had a schedule to keep to. She reassured Shirley that one of her friends would be around near Shirley’s at all time in the hospital. Mary’s friends included other, nurses, orderlies and a Doctor, also they were all women so it would just be the girls.

Mary told Shirley she would have the paperwork checked and filed her position in the hospital was almost going to be guaranteed.  “You’re going to be in a room by yourself, it comes with the position, you are going to see the whole hospital. Trust me, you will have a great time."

Shirley knew that the state hospital was about a 10 minutes journey away she had to get her things. Shirley started to panic she needed to put a bra on get dressed brush her teeth. She grabbed a pack and started to stuff it with some clothes. She started searching around she had a tooth brush somewhere. Mary patted her on the shoulder, she told Shirley “you wouldn’t need clothes and things, because the state would be taking care of all her needs for the rest of the week-end.” Shirley considered it a bit ominous.

Shirley was going to question that statement but before she could react Shirley felt the needle jabbed in her bottom. “What was that I don’t need any shots?” she turned to her sister the world seemed to be made of molasses a cold feeling was spreading through her body. She was suddenly very drowsy. Before she could resist Mary had her wrists behind her back she had a wide thick white zip tie in place and quickly pulled it tight around Shirley’s wrists. “Mary what are you doing let me go” Shirley protested. Mary easily pushed her down on the bed she grabbed a hold of her panties and pulled them down her legs. “what are you doing please let me mmpph” Mary easily overpowered Shirley stuffing the panties in her mouth to act as a gag. Two more pairs of Shirley’s panties from the laundry basket followed then a zip tie was pulled around her face and closed shut keeping the bundle in her mouth. Mary wasn’t finished yet she easily pulled Shirley’s elbows together behind her back and used a third zip tie to make sure that Shirley was going nowhere locking her elbows together. Shirley pulled weakly at her bonds as Mary felt between Shirley’s legs with one hand while cupping her breast with the other “you are as weak as a kitten don’t worry soon I will get you somewhere where I can keep you nice and tightly restrained for your own good.” mmpph was all that Shirley could say in response. 

Both there parents were on a cruise for a month so no one would be around to help Shirley. Mary took her to the bathroom, Mary quickly cut her tank top away then forced her into the shower cubical. After drenching her Mary pulled Shirley out and dried the weeping woman off with a towel. She cut Shirley’s hair off with a pair of scissors then used a hair trimmer to reduce what was left to stubble. The frightened and drugged Shirley hardly resisted as Mary forced her legs apart and shaved her crotch bare carefully using a razor shaving off her bush. Mary put on a mask and gloves she put swimming goggles over Shirley’s eyes and a mask over the gag. Mary took a jar out of her bag she carefully worked a thick jell into Shirley’s scalp into her sheaved pussy under her arms and over her legs. Shirley felt a stinging sensation then a burning sensation then she was gently pushed back into the shower. Mary washed Shirley down removing every single trace of hair from her body except her eye lashes. Shirley’s hair would take a very long time to grow back it had been destroyed at the roots. 

Mary removed the goggles she put the gloves mask and jar into a bin. Shirley looked at herself in the mirror she did look strange, not only the gag but having her arms pulled back and her hair removed she looked like a different person. She felt like a different person, a tear trailed down her cheek she finished up with another shower. After drying her Mary said "You will be a good little mental patient."

"Well Alice", Mary said, "time to go down the rabbit hole." She showed Shirley her new yellow jump suit. "This is the uniform that we transport patients in you see yellow is for crazy’s." As she said that she turned the jump suit around and right there on the back it said STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL PATIENT TO BE RESTRAINED COMPLETELY AT ALL TIMES. The jumpsuit looked to be very small and was done up at the back by several fastenings. The sleeves seemed to end in closed ends so that it made sure a patient couldn’t use there hands. Mary forced Shirley to step into the tight garment and pulled it up to her waist. She cut the zip ties and easily forced Shirley’s arms into the jumpsuit it was quickly closed at the back the sleeves were long and narrow the ends sealed folded and stitched over. As soon as the jump suit was zipped up Mary added zip ties back onto Shirley’s arms at wrist and elbow she was going nowhere that Mary didn’t want her to go.

Mary used a computer and some photos she had taken earlier to create an electronic document which she would email to the hospital. Patting Shirley on the head she showed her the screen “your patient record”. Mary turned from the computer and with an enchanting smile on her face "Well you have been a very bad girl, in and out of mental hospitals all of your life and of course it is so sad that you are just plain crazy.”

"You need more supervision in the hospital, which means I can stay closer to you and have more fun with you this way." Mary lit up in a big smile and turned back to the computer. In a minute she was done. She had cut out and pasted the pictures into the patient record then sent it of. Mary walked the drugged restrained Shirley over to her car, Shirley struggled then was pushed into Mary’s car a seatbelt locked in place and Mary drove off into the night.

Shirley saw the Hospital, built on top of the hill, cold and foreboding with two or three thousand acres of land around it. Mary chatted to the gagged woman "This was the way they built them long ago, far away from the sane people." They passed the main gate they turned off the main road on an old ranch road that skirts the hospital grounds. After a mile or so they pulled off and on to a dirt road that had a big sign stating “no trespassing State Hospital property, trespassers will be detained indefinitely” on a big steel gate. Mary stopped the car and opened the gate with her pass key, they drove on then stopped in a very dark and wooded area. 

It was about 10:30 when Shirley saw lights coming. A large white van with state insignias on the doors and no rear windows stopped in front of them. Mary dragged Shirley out of the car they walked over and greeted the two female officers that got out of the van. Both were nice looking in there thirties. 

Mary said to the two officers’ "Package her up for transport." Before she could process what that meant an officer reached around from behind and bucked a leather belt around her waist. It had one D ring at the rear. It was a restraint belt used for transporting mental patients. The officer cut away the zip tie from her wrists but didn’t touch the one around her elbows. Before Shirley knew it she was wearing a pair of handcuffs that lead through the D ring in the belt she could not move my hands away from her waist. 

As this was going on the other Officer Salazar had placed her legs in leg irons and was now attaching a chain from the middle of the leg irons and to her hand cuffs and locking them in place. The officers used some sort of key to release the ends of the jumpsuit sleeves. Shirley was told to stick her hands out and the officers both push tight fitting mitts onto her hands she was forced to ball her hands up tightly. Shirley heard locks go click. She realized that she could not open her hands. One of the officers grabbed her elbow finally cutting away the zip tie. There was a click as a steel cuff was applied above the bend of her elbow her other arm was tugged back and there was another click. Shirley found her arms completely immobilised by the addition of the cuffs above her elbows dragging her shoulders back it was an upgrade.

Mary walked up to her with hypo in her hand. She grinned "Just a little booster to get you in the door a drug that will calm you down a bit. Besides it will give you that wild eye look all of our patients have" she said with a giggle. Mary continued to smile “Now I just need to give you one more injection I want to make it easier. That’s why I need to give you this shot, in and around your mouth and tongue. You won’t be able to speak for about 24 hours." One officer cut the zip tie and extracted the wad of wet underwear from Shirley’s mouth the second officer held her jaw open the needle disappeared into her jaw numbness spread out. Soon Shirley didn’t feel a thing in her mouth or tongue. Mary looked at the pair of them and grinned “go on have a bit of fun.”

The two officers pulled Shirley into the van and onto the floor of the main compartment. She was on her back pinned to the ground suddenly Shirley found one officers skirt raised and her panties around her ankles the next second Shirley was trapped between the woman’s thighs with a little encouragement she was forced to pleasure the officer drooling all over her crotch. After ten minutes the officers changed position when they were finished they pulled her back to her feet.

"One last item to put on you and then we can get you into the van" said one officer. She pulled out a large ball of cloth she used it to wipe the juices and saliva from around Shirley’s mouth. The officer also produced a transport hood, she wrapped two of the pairs of panties that made up the original gag in with the cloth then jammed the bundle of fabric between Shirley’s teeth. Then she placed the hood over Shirley’s head. The hood was made of mesh netting from the top of her head to her eyes, and then it turned into a white thick padding going down to her neck. A thick strap was pulled tight over the hood the thick mass of fabric was tightly jammed between her jaws. It was to keep her from biting or spitting on someone. Shirley’s mind was reeling trying to taken all that happen in the last ten minutes, but then they opened the back compartment of the van,. There was a cage door which opened to reveal a chair. The chair look a little like an electric chair. The officers grabbed Shirley and walked her over to it, between the drugs and the chains she was having a little trouble walking. Before she knew it Shirley was placed in the chair and they started strapping her in. 

One strap across the lap, two over the shoulders, and one on the lower legs. One thing was for sure, She was not going anywhere, additionally also all the belts locked with a key. The Officer said "Head back" as she pushed Shirley’s head against the head rest and pulled a Velcro strap around her head, pinning it to the head rest. 

Mary said "Well Shirley it’s time for you to go where you belong. The mental institution for the criminally insane, I hope you enjoy it, I know we will", and with that Mary shut the door and told the officers to deliver the patient. The outside door slid shut.

The next minute the van was speeding on its way to the hospital’s main gate. Just as Mary had said, Shirley was going into the mental institution, right through the front gate she should have asked about which position she would have in the hospital. Shirley was dressed up and trussed up to make her entrance. The van pulled through the massive gates and followed the road up the hill passing by the main entrance.

The van pulled around the building and up to what looked like a very large garage door. One Officer called on the radio to the hospital dispatch and requested the door to be open. There was the sound of a motor starting up then inch by inch the heavy door started moving slow up. Shirley could see through the windshield. The area was large and empty except for three nurses. 

Shirley sat in the van till the door was completely closed. The women jumped out and came to the side door and opened it. The three other Women walked up and one of the nurses asked what she was being admitted for. One Officer had Shirley’s file in her hand and said “involuntary committal it seems", The Officer Salazar continued "This patient is a danger a spiter and a biter a real fighter, the local hospital couldn’t control her so the Doctor had her placed here with us she needs to be treated disciplined and broken."

The Nurse said "Well she looks pretty calm right now." The officer shook her head "Well they shot her up with a lot of sedatives even so we have to be careful. Let’s get her out of the van and into reception and get the admitting Doctor to give her a check-in physical."

Shirley was hustled out of the van and through a set of double doors into a waiting room of sorts. She was placed on a bench that was bolted to the wall. They bucked her in with a locking seat belt, but they did not remove any of her other restraints. The nurse walked over to Shirley to check on her. One of the other nurses said "Don’t get to close to her." The nurse turned and said "I really think Shirley is very safe right now, please call Dr Amanda Smith, she’s on call for admissions."

Shirley started to come out of the drugs a little now she was scared, the two people who knew she was not really a patient were leaving though that might be a good thing considering what they had already put her though. Shirley was feeling very alone, and what the hell was Mary doing? The nurse walked up to Shirley. One of the nurses hands crept behind Shirley the other began to cup her right breast. Shirley tried to pull away. Suddenly there was a click the link between Shirley’s elbows got tighter. The nurse had her hand on some sort of leaver. There was another click and Shirley’s arms became even more uncomfortable. The nurse let go of her breast her hands grabbed the strap around the gag and jerked it tighter. Shirley tried to protest but of course no sound came out between the gag and the fact her tongue and mouth were all anesthetized.

The nurse spoke sternly "You wouldn’t hurt anyone I will make sure of that. My name is Nurse Sally, I will be helping the Doctor give you a check up, ok?" Shirley couldn’t respond. A call came to the reception desk that the Doctor would be there in two hours and for them to put Shirley in a tight room. Nurse Sally told the two other nurses to take Shirley to holding cell C-1, she would grab a punishment jacket kit and would meet them there. The two nurses unlocked the belt holding Shirley to the bench, and jerked her up to her feet. They proceeded to march Shirley down a long hall that looked like something out of the 1950’s. 

Shirley almost had to laugh. Its funny the same people that would  put you in hand cuffs, leg irons and chains then get mad at you because you are not walking fast enough! The irony was thick. Very soon she was standing in the middle of a small room with padded walls. A padded cell! Wow she was in trouble was all she could think, she mumbled something undecipherable.  The Nurses held Shirley by the shoulders one on each side of her in the centre of the room, which looked to be about 8 foot by 8 foot. Nurse Sally walked in the door dropped a pile of things on the floor and closed the door behind her. 

"Ok Shirley the Doctor will not be able to look at you for a few hours and you had a long day. We are going to make you little more uncomfortable Ok?" The nurses took the chain off between Shirley’s handcuffs and her leg irons. Next they removed the elbow cuffs. One nurse was standing behind Shirley as the other nurse removed her cuffs and the transport belt, the nurse behind her put a choke hold on Shirley before she made a move. The nurse sally walked up and started unzipping Shirley’s jump suit, and stopped at her waist. She next pulled the top part of her jump suit down to Shirley’s waist. Sally walked over and picked up the Thick black leather thing on the floor and held it up and towards her. Oh my god Shirley thought it was a strait jacket.

The nurse said "Don’t worry we are not going to hurt you much", the nurse behind her held Shirley more tightly. They pushed both of her arms into the long black sleeves. The nurse sally held Shirley’s arms out in front of her as the other nurse started tighten down the straps in the back of the jacket until all eight were quite tight. After she was cinched up, one at a time Shirley’s arms were guided through the tight front loop anchored to the jacket that holds down the arms. Then the nurse pulled her arms around towards her back through side loops and buckled them down tight behind her back. This was insane Shirley thought to her self I am in a maximum security mental institution being placed in a real strait jacket. After they got her into the jacket, Sally started to pull down her jump suit, Shirley jumped a little. The Nurses tightened there hold on her. The nurse sally looked at Shirley and said that she was going to remove her jump suit and place a rubber diaper on Shirley. 

The diaper was made of thick black rubber built into it was a thick black plug , Shirley could see a little pump hanging down from behind the plug. Shirley tried to struggle, but she was not in position to control what was happening to her. The leg ions came off one ankle then the jump suit came down. Shirley bit down on the gag as the plug was forced tightly between her round cheeks. Her bottom wiggled as the plug was inflated and she started to cry with the cruel diaper firmly in place. 

The next step was for the nurse to remove her remaining leg irons. She had to lift Shirley’s jump suit which was locked on by the leg irons.  After the leg irons were remove the nurse had Shirley step back off of her jump suit.  Sally moved them away, the nurse placed two leather ankle restraints around Shirley’s ankles. Sally said "Almost done", then grabbed two straps that hung off the bottom front of Shirley’s jacket and handed them under her crotch to the other nurse.  Shirley had not noticed them before, but the nurse pulled on both of then to tighten the jacket Shirley started to cry out in distress. The nurse had done that on purpose, she didn’t slacken the straps she even readjusted the straps and the pain increased. 

The nurse locked Shirley’s ankle restraints together so she could not walk.  Sally told Shirley to kneel down on her knees.  As she did that the three of them pounced, Shirley felt her legs bent back further and further and further. Then a strap linked her ankles to the back of her jacket it seemed to be connected to her arms pulling them tighter.  The nurse kneeled next to her and patted Shirley on her side and said "Ok Shirley I want you to try and rest, get some sleep if you can. I’ll be checking on you to make sure your ok."

Shirley was scared, people were hurting her.  "Its ok I will not let anyone hurt you Shirley."  Sally said mockingly she stood up the nurse handed her a leather hood.  She said "This little old hood will help you to be a good little patient", and with that they forced the hood over Shirley’s head. It was laced shut then there were zips and straps. When Shirley was in complete darkness they all filed out of the room.  The door shut with the eerie sound of tomb door closing. Followed by the dull heavy clicks of several locks. It was very quiet. Shirley lay there on the floor totally immobilised. She tried to struggle but soon realized that she could not move her arms or legs at all.  During all of this she wondered, where was Mary? Eventually Shirley decided she would try and to sleep, till the next stage of the process started.  She laid there every part of her body cramped but she could not sleep.

Doctor Amanda walked into patient reception area. She was in her white lab, she had blond hair pulled back in a pony tail.  "Sally what do we have lined up for tonight?" she asked. "Well" Sally said as she picked up my file, "We have a woman, violent, heavily restrained.  At this time she is resting peacefully."

"Wow what a mess" the Doctor said as she took the file from Sally and started reading it.  The other staff on duty barely looked up as Amanda read some of Shirley’s case history out loud, they must have heard a hundred ones just as bad.  "Ok, before we start call another nurse to help us with this woman, just in case."

Sally said "I’ll call Mary she’s on duty tonight."

Shirley was shocked by the sound of the padded cell door opening. The Doctor walked up to Shirley and kneeled down next to her. Her hands tested the tightness of the hogtie She said "Shirley my name is Doctor Amanda, I will be your admitting doctor tonight." The doctor squeezed the bulb on the butt plug Shirley moaned into her gag as it expanded. The doctor looked at her, She said "That’s ok after the frontal-lobotomy you’ll feel fine."

Shirley jerked back and started struggling painfully against her bonds. Her mouth tried to work, to say you can’t do that, and other more colourful things. At this point Dr. Amanda stood up and started laughing, and Mary stepped in the room with a big smile. "We won’t do that just Yet", and they both laughed. Dr. Amanda said "Ok, well we have to put you through a little physical examination to admit you to the hospital."
Dr Amanda stroked her bottom and gave the bulb another squeeze "After the check up we can get you bedded down for the night."

Amanda said "Oh don’t worry we can take care of that", and they both laughed.
Mary said "back in to character." Amanda said "You know Mary that was a very good ideal about the shots in her mouth, it’s hard if not imposable for Shirley to be out of character." Mary said "Ok Shirley we are going to unlock your legs and help you up on your feet." Released from the cruel hog tie Shirley could barley stand. The next thing she knew she was back down the hall and in the examination room. 

The nurse Sally joined them and together they helped Shirley get up on the exam table. Mary then relocked her ankles back together. Mary and Sally started removing the strait jacket from Shirley and the leather hood. As soon as she was out of the jacket they had her slide up on the table and lay down.  Mary and Sally, one on each side placed leather restraint cuffs on her arms, and locked her to the exam table.  Shirley knew they were in control and were doing things as they always do.  Dr Smith checked her heart and ran an EKG, removed the gag using a jaw spreader looked down her throat kissing her then re-gagged her tighter than before they took blood.  They really gave Shirley a good check up.  They also ran a mobile x-ray machine over her whole body.  

Amanda walked up to her side and told Shirley because of “her condition” she would be spending a lot of time in very heavy restraints and she wanted to clean out Shirley’s system with an enema.  She looked at the Dr and then looked at Mary.  Mary said "It’s ok, it will make it easier on you, that way you won't be going to the bathroom in your diapers. They unlocked Shirley and lead her to the wet room as they called it.  It had an open shower area and a little side room with a metal chair with a toilet seat on it and a drain on the floor.  She was not looking forward to this part of her treatment. 

They removed her rubber diaper and set her down on the chair, locking her arms and legs down to it.  Next the doctor told Shirley that Mary would place the enema probe in her behind.  They all laughed. Mary told her that this would be slow and painful.  "The probe has a single inlet hose, so the hot water goes in and stays there until we release it then all the dirty water goes out the hose into the drain in the floor, then we repeat until it stops being funny."  Mary put on the gloves and lubed the probe and Shirley with KY jelly.  Mary positioned the enema probe, it was worse than Shirley had feared. 

After a good cleaning out and several painful enemas, Shirley was told that she needs to be fitted with a catheter. Shirley had read about catheters and it sounded like it would be painful. Mary put on a new set of gloves and started by lubing up the catheter tube, it was as bad as she had read about.  Mary was slow and took forever inflating the balloon on the end of the catheter, she looked up at shirley and said "See that way we wont remove it until you check out of the hospital which wont be any time soon."  Mary strapped a plastic bag on Shirley’s leg and hooked up the hose to the catheter.  Mary said "Now you don’t have worry about wetting the bed" and smiled.

Shirley was forced back into the rubber diaper leather straight jacket and hood. The doctor asked Sally to go get a wheel chair to move Shirley to her room.  A few minutes later the nurse came back with a wheel chair, "It is a special wheel chair for people with special needs" Shirley was told by Amanda.  Shirley was told to stand up, 
Mary smiled and said “This is for your protection Shirley. We don’t want you hurting yourself, do we?"  They quickly moved her to the wheelchair, it reminded her of the chair in the van, because she was strapped down from head to toe, again. Kelly asked mockingly "Shirley are you comfortable?"

Sally started pushing Shirley with Kelly and Amanda by her side.  Kelly said that they were going to take her to the locked ward and they would be taking her through the heart of the mental institution. She looked at Shirley and smiled "Shirley you keep the gag and hood, because you’re completely insane. We don’t want you boring people telling someone you do not really belong here."  Then the three of them laughed.

The locked wards were out in the older parts of the hospital. They passed some more halls and Mary said that they lead off to the hydrotherapy rooms and the morgue.  She said Shirley would be spending time in both places before she got released if she got released.  

They rolled down a long dark hall with doors on both sides, big heavy doors with one very small window. They stopped in front a the door marked isolation room I-13, Mary pulled out a key that was 5 inches long and looked like an old jail house key from an old movie.  They rolled Shirley in the room and with great speed had her out of the wheelchair and into the bed.  Before her head hit the pillow they flipped her over Mary had started pulling Shirley’s legs back again into the merciless hogtie. Sally and Amanda helped forcing Shirley’s body into a tighter arch locking the strap firmly in place. Then another strap was connected to the hog tie. There was a wiring sound slowly Shirley was lifted of the bed by the cable hooked on the strap. Her body was forced into an agonising suspension hog tie hanging an inch above the bed.  The nurse’s hands began to wonder all over Shirley’s body. Mary checked her work and saw it was very secure. 
Amanda said "Well Shirley you are now officially a State Hospital Mental Patient, how do you feel?" Shirley said "Very restrained." and they laughed. 

At this point the Doctor pulled out a hypo and said that they where going to have big day tomorrow. This shot would help keep Shirley awake, as she pushed the needle into the Shirley’s thigh.  Amanda said "We will be running you though a lot of evaluations tomorrow, and by the way we are going to leave now to get some sleep. I will leave orders for the night staff to call me if your condition changes. Shirley would like some water?" Shirley tried to shake her head. Mary wheeled over a large stand, a cistern of soapy water was suspended from it. Mary gave the pump a few more squeezes then connected a feed from the cistern to the butt plug. Shirley squirmed against her bonds as she began to fill up. "We have given you all of the meds you need tonight so the only thing that the night nurse will do is refill the cistern bag.  Any question Shirley? “We will let you rest." They left the door closed like a door on a tomb.  Shirley could hear Mary turning the big key and the locks dead bolt siding into place with a thud she was locked in alright.  She hung there (what else could she do?) and went over in my mind how her life had changed in just the last few hours. She realized she was just a crazy patient in a mental institution, and wished for sleep.