Hi everyone! This is my first crossover story and my first involving Orange is the New Black. I know it might seem a little strange, but it was an idea that just wouldn't leave my head. This is obviously an extreme AU but Most of the characters will appear in one way or another.
It goes without saying that Orange is the New Black belongs to Piper Kerman, Jenji Kohan, Titled Productions, Lionsgate Television, and Netflix. And The Darkness belongs to Top Cow Productions, Starbreeze Studios, 2K Games, Marc Silvestri, Garth Ennis, and David Wohl. I own none of it.
Tonight was a night Piper Chapman would never forget, it was the night of her twenty-first birthday.
That was the first time she died…
Alex Vause's Apartment
Chinatown New York
It was about 8am, the morning light was drifting in through the bedroom window. Alex had gotten up two hours ago, she had planned the whole day out for the two of them and the first thing was to go to Pipers favorite bakery where she had ordered a birthday cake for her. Of course during the afternoon she would have to conduct some business for her uncle, but tonight she and Piper would have a lovely picnic dinner under the stars in Central Park. Alex's life had been a series of ups and downs. She had been born into the mob, her mother having married the brother of Kubra Balik the head of the Balik crime family. She grew up having almost anything she could want, until her father was killed in a drug deal gone bad and her mother suffered a nervous breakdown. At the age of twelve Alex wound up a ward of the state and was placed in a private orphanage run by a kind and rich woman named Celeste Chapman. It was a major adjustment for her but Alex adapted, she had always been smart and tough and quickly began hustling her way around the orphanage, buying and trading items from one kid to another in exchange for deserts and sometimes for money. She figured it was only a matter of time until either her mother was better or someone else from the family adopted her and took her away from here, then one day she met someone new. She had seen Miss Chapman's grandson around a few times helping the older woman out with the children or with maintenance, but one day he brought someone with her, his little sister eleven year old Piper. She would later realize that she fell in love with her right then and there, but at the time she was just drawn to her and Piper to her. Piper began to use every excuse she could to go visit her grandma just so she could spend time with Alex, but three years later she was adopted by her uncle and left the orphanage and Piper behind.
Alex would then spend the next five years of her life being groomed and molded by her Uncle to one day take over the family. Uncle Kubra had no children of his own, some whispered that he couldn't but never dared to say it out loud, and after clearing up the red tape with the state of New York got himself appointed as Alex's legal guardian, he set about teaching her the drug trade. And Alex soaked it up easily. In many ways it was surprising just how easily she took to drug dealing and negotiating and by the time she was twenty she had already made her uncle and the family quite a bit of money. It was like she had an innate ability to spot a possible drug mule, seduce her and set her up as a runner for the family in many ways it was her superpower. One evening she walked into a bar looking for a new mule when, much to her surprise, she stumbled upon a nineteen year old Piper Chapman applying for a waitress job at her favorite bar. After the initial shock and awkwardness wore off the two picked up right where they left off, Piper told Alex that she was attending NYU and was trying to augment her income without asking her parents for more money and Alex told her that she was working for her uncle, though she kept the details of that a secret for a while. They talked until closing time at the bar and then went back to Alex's place to keep catching up with each other until finally then one thing led to another. Ever since that first time she woke up with that blond hair in her face she would just lay there staring at Pipers sleeping form feeling happier then she ever had before. A few months into their relationship Alex came clean with Piper about what she did for her uncle. Piper was of course shocked to learn about it, but she loved Alex so much that she was willing to accept it and keep quiet about what Alex did for a living and Alex did everything she could to keep her work separate from Piper. It was very common for Piper to spend her weekends at Alex's apartment instead of the dorms and yet somehow despite Piper's school work and Alex's drug dealing they managed to spend a lot of time together. If Alex were pressed to admit it she would admit that she had neglected some of the work her uncle assigned her, but no one had made a big deal about it and the family still got its money. The two of them had agreed to spend the day together over the objections of Piper's mother Carol, who insisted Piper come home for her birthday which Piper thought was strange since her mother was the only one at home and all of her friends back home were out of town too.
She looked down at Pipers still sleeping form who was moving quite a bit in her sleep. Alex assumed she was having a very vivid dream right now, Alex kicked off her shoes and laid back down next to her. The ring box in her pocket making itself known as she laid down. She'd gotten it a week ago and was waiting till this day to pop the question, Alex wasn't sure if Piper would be up for a life as a mob wife but Alex knew for a fact that she didn't want to spend the rest of her life without Piper. She tucked a few strands of Piper's hair behind her ear as she tossed and turned in her sleep. Alex was pretty sure she was having a nightmare and hoped that a few words from her might ease Piper out of the nightmare.
"It's ok babe, I'm here. There's nothing to worry about, you're here with me."
Alex leaned forward and kissed her forehead.
"You are mine Piper Chapman."
"NO YOU ARE MINE!"
Suddenly Piper yelled and sat straight up in bed quickly looking around the room looking for the source of the strange gravelly voice. At first she had trouble even remembering where and who she was after being jolted out of her sleep, but then she began to calm down and her surroundings became more clear.
"I'm at Alex's." Piper realized.
"It's ok kid, that must've been a hell of a dream. Can you remember what it was?" Alex asked.
"It's all hazy, I can't really remember. All I know was that it was scary." Said Piper.
"It's ok your awake now and I'm here. Happy Birthday kiddo." Said Alex, then she leaned forward and gave her a kiss.
"Thanks Alex I love you." Said Piper after Alex pulled away from the kiss.
"I love you too." Said Alex.
"So how long till you have to go to work?" Piper asked
"This afternoon I got a meeting, but we are free for this evening. And I don't have anywhere to go right now so if you'd like?" Said Alex as she leaned towards Piper again.
"Ooh I like the sound of that." Said Piper as she grabbed the back of Alex's head.
"Let me just get out of this real quick." Said Alex.
"What a great way to wake up." Piper responded.
"SO SICKENING SWEET, DISGUSTING"
Piper snapped her head back and looked around the room for the source of that voice. The first time it was just a whisper when she was waking up but this time she was certain she heard something. But nobody was there but her and Alex.
"What is it babe?" Alex asked.
"Sorry I thought I heard something. Must've been someone talking outside." Piper said.
"Are you sure? You seem awfully tense." Alex asked.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine, could do with some food though." Piper responded with a smile on her face.
"Well, then coming right up." Alex replied kissing Piper on the nose.
Just as Piper was about to get out of bed her phone started to ring.
"Thats ok you get that I'll go get some breakfast started." Said Alex.
Piper picked up her phone and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Happy Birthday you bitch!" Came the voice from the other end.
"Hey Polly thanks how are things at Smith?" Said Piper
"Pretty good you should have come here." Polly responded.
"And you should have gone to NYU." Piper countered.
"Tell me do you have evening plans?" Polly asked.
"Yeah I do, why do you ask?" Piper asked.
"Well, I'm just about to hop on a train I should be in the city in a few hours I figured we could have lunch and then do a little shopping how's that sound?" Said Polly.
"That sounds great! Thanks Pol!" Said Piper.
"Ok I'll text you when the train gets in! This is going to be great!" Said Polly, who then hung up the phone.
Piper was just about to through the covers off her body when her phone rang again, Piper took a look at the caller idea and recognized her mothers number. Taking a deep breath Piper answered the phone.
"Hi mom."
"Hello honey Happy Birthday." Said Carol.
"Thanks mom, how are you?" Said Piper.
"Oh fine, fine. Listen Piper I really think you should come home for your birthday." Said Carol.
"Mom we've been over this I already have plans for tonight." Said Piper.
"With that woman?" Carol asked inquisitively.
"Her name is Alex and not that its any of your business, but yes I will be spending the evening with her." Said Piper defensively.
"I just don't trust her Piper one day she will hurt you. There are so many nice people back at home that I think you should meet." Said Carol.
"Mom for the last time I'm a lesbian." Piper said.
"I know that Piper, in fact I was thinking about that nice Poussey Washington, I heard she came out recently. You remember her she went to the same debutante ball as you when you were younger." Carol replied.
"Wait now you're trying to set me up with girls? Mom whats going on? Are you sick?" Piper asked becoming more and more suspicious of her mothers motives.
"No, I'm fine I just really want you to spend your birthday at home like old times." Said Carol.
"Mom there's nobody else there I know for a fact that Danny is still in California and Cal is visiting him. Dad is in Texas on business and none of my other friends are still in town. Look mom I appreciate that you want me to visit home, but I already have plans with Alex for tonight and Polly is on a train right now to spend the afternoon with me. I promise that I will come home during the semester break ok?" Said Piper.
"*huff* all right I understand Piper, I love you." Said Carol.
"I love you too mom." Said Piper surprised by this show of affection from her mom.
"Happy Birthday honey"
"Thanks mom bye"
"Bye"
And with that Piper hung up the phone. It was a very strange call, she felt that something was wrong but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
"Piper! Breakfast!" Alex called out from the other room.
With that Piper finally got up and out of bed to start the day.
Carol Chapman looked down at her cell phone, looking at the picture of her daughter. She finished her drink, picked up the car keys and walked to the garage.
Grand Central Station
Three hours later
Piper descended the stairs to grand central station, Polly's train had gotten in about five minutes ago and now Piper was searching the concourse for her. Since coming to New York City, Piper had come to find that she enjoyed going to the landmarks and watching the big crowds moving about. She enjoyed imagining what some of them were here to see, wondering what they're likes were. Were they here to meet someone? Were they reconnecting with someone? Just here on business? It could be any number of things that they were here for, but here most people were just picking someone up or meeting someone. Since it was Friday grand central station was especially pact with families and kids all over the place coming to or leaving the city, even as she was looking for Polly she couldn't help but think about how much she loved crowds.
"USELESS, DULL, POINTLESS MAGGOTS!"
There it was again, that voice. Piper had been hearing it occasionally all day. The first time she was just coming out of a dream and thought that it was what woke her up. Alex had asked about what the dream was at the table with breakfast and Piper insisted that she couldn't remember what it was about, but that wasn't true she remembered it vividly. There was no plot to it, like being trapped in a place you've never been to before or usual dream stuff. This nightmare was nothing but violent imagery and brutality. She saw her friends, family, even Alex as corpses in various states of decay and throughout it there was this crippling darkness that seemed to choke the life out of everything that Piper could see in front of her. It was the scariest nightmare that Piper could ever recall having, but now this voice of the nightmare was following her around while she was awake and Piper was starting to become concerned and paranoid. She felt like she was being watched everywhere she went. Piper thought long and hard and as best as she could recall there was no history of mental disorders in her family history, but the weight of evidence was beginning to stack up against her. She made a decision then and there to just try and get through the weekend and then go to the doctor on Monday to make sure there was nothing physically wrong with her and if nothing was then she would try and book time with a psychiatrist. Piper snapped out of her internal thoughts just in time to see Polly bounding up to her.
"Happy Birthday bitch!" Polly said as she though herself at Piper and gave her a big hug.
"Thanks Pol, it is so good to see you!" Said Piper.
"Yeah, let me see you. Looking good looking good, Supercunt been taking care of you?" Polly asked.
"Yes she has, not that you want the nitty gritty details. And would you please stop calling her that?" Piper asked.
"Ok ok I'll try, so know any good places for lunch?" Polly asked.
"Well, if you're ok hopping in a cab I know a place in the East Village that's pretty good." Piper replied.
"Well, lead the way!" Polly stated throwing her arm over Pipers shoulder as they made their way to the station exit.
7B Horseshoe Bar
East Village
"So what do you think?" Piper asked between bites.
"Eh not bad for a dive bar." Said Polly.
"I rather think of it as character." Said Piper.
"Right character, not the fact that it's cheap food for a broke college kid?" Said Polly trying to needle Piper.
"Shut up, anyway I've heard that some movies have been shot in this bar." Said Piper.
"Porno's maybe." Said Polly with a smirk.
"You are such a snob." Chuckled Piper.
"Oh you're one to talk little Ms upstate Connecticut." Polly replied.
"Bitch." Said Piper, somewhat playfully.
"So anyway what's the plan after college? Move back home?" Polly asked.
"Hell no, after college I want to travel, see other countries. But once that's done I'm coming back to New York." Piper stated confidently.
"Oh god, you say that now but do you really see yourself as a New York Girl?" Polly asked.
"And what is that supposed to mean?" Piper asked.
"It means fake ass Sex and the City bitches." Said Polly.
"Well, I'm sure as hell not going to become one of those." Said Piper.
"Seriously though, how long is this going to last?" Polly asked.
"What do you mean by that?" Piper responded.
"I mean with Super… Alex." Polly replied.
"Well, if you're referring to my dating her I don't know, I hope for quite a while. But if you're referring to my dating women well then that's never going to change cause I'm a lesbian." Said Piper.
"Ok ok, but you know I worry about you I mean she rubs me the wrong way and I really don't want you involved with mobsters and drug dealers." Said Polly.
"God I never should have told you about that." Said Piper.
"Oh don't worry I won't say anything about that. I just worry about you that's all." Said Polly with a look of concern on her face.
"I know and I do appreciate it Pol, but I am happy. I am so happy with Alex, and while I'm also worried about what she does for a living she tries very hard to keep her life with me separate from her life with her Family. In fact I've only met a few of them and they've never talked about anything incriminating in front of me, so if anything ever does go down I can plead ignorance." Piper said to her taking care to keep her voice down.
"Ok, well as long as you're happy and you're taking care of yourself. Just promise me you won't end up looking like the mob wives in Goodfellas." Said Polly.
"Well, fuck you very much." Piper responded and the two laughed again and began talking about other things.
"Listen I gotta go, be back in a few minutes." Said Polly standing up and moving away from the table.
"Ok I'll take care of the bill." Said Piper.
The waitress brought the check to the table. Piper was putting her signature on the receipt when she heard the door to the bar open. Piper glanced up to see some new people enter the bar, but it was something behind them that caught Piper's attention. There on the other end of the glass pane door, was a woman dressed in what looked like an old nurses uniform. A uniform stained with blood. She was just standing there on the sidewalk and no one seemed to notice her. But what got Piper's attention was the fact that the woman was staring directly at her.
"Piper"
"Piper"
"PIPER!"
Piper was so startled by the hand on her shoulder that she leaped out of her chair and landed on the floor.
"Oh my god! Piper I'm so sorry I didn't mean to sneak up on you like that!" Said Polly immediately getting down to make sure Piper was ok.
"It's ok, I'm fine I just didn't hear you." Said Piper.
"I tried to get your attention twice but you were just staring off into space. You were actually starting to scare me." Polly said.
"Sorry I didn't hear you, I guess I was staring off. There was someone out there and she was looking at me." Said Piper.
"Where is she?" Polly asked.
"She was right there on the other side of the door. I guess she's gone now." Said Piper.
"Yeah… right… look are you sure you're all right?" Polly asked.
"I'm fine really, just startled." Piper responded.
"Ok then well lets go for a walk check some stores." Said Polly.
Once Piper got up from the floor and dusted herself off, the two walked out of the bar and proceeded to walk around the East Village. Polly continued to tell Piper all about her classes and what she was doing in Massachusetts.
"So with help from some of the other girls in the dormitory I've started making my own scented soaps. But lately I've started thinking about maybe trying to make a business out of it." Said Polly.
"That's great Pol you should give it a shot." Piper replied.
"So what would you say to being partners in it? I'm pretty sure I can help you get started too." Polly said.
"I don't know, maybe I've still got at least two years left in college I'm not sure what…" Piper started to say, but then she trailed off as she began spinning around as if she had just heard something.
"Ok Piper that is it! What's going on? And don't you keep telling me everything is all right!" Polly said as she grabbed hold of Piper.
"I don't know. I don't know what's going on. All day long I've been hearing things, things that aren't there. They come and they go, but they're starting to scare me." Said Piper as she began leaning against one of the building sides with her head in her hands.
"You're scaring me too. What does it sound like?" Polly asked.
"Voices. This gravelly, deep voice. I can't make out what it's saying, but I'm afraid of it." Said Piper.
"Well, we should take you somewhere right now." Said Polly.
"No! No. Not yet, I know I can get through the rest of the day." Said Piper.
"But Pipes!" Polly started before being cutoff by Piper.
"Look I know it may seem stupid, but I know that Alex put a lot of planning into tonight and I don't want to ruin it for her. I promise that first thing tomorrow we'll go to a hospital and check in. Ok?"
"All right fine, but on one condition. You come back to your dorm room afterwards, I'll stay with you the rest of the weekend. You can just tell Alex that I insisted that you come back afterwards so we could stay up late and watch movies like we did when we were kids or some bullshit like that. Ok?" Said Polly.
"Got it." Piper replied as the two headed down the street to continue their day.
Central Park
That Evening
"C'mon we've been walking forever now can I take the blindfold off yet please?" Piper asked.
"Not yet we're almost there." Said Alex.
"You said that before." Piper replied.
"And we're still almost there." Said Alex.
"Well, I can clearly tell that we're outside cause I can feel the breeze." Said Piper.
"Quit trying to guess!" Alex replied.
The couple walked a few more feet until they finally reached their destination.
"Here we are." Alex announced.
There in a more wooded section of the park was an assortment of candles set around a picnic blanket with a basket and an ice bucket containing a bottle of champaign. With the whole inclosure being illuminated by both the candle light and the star light.
"Oh Alex, it's wonderful thank you so much." Said Piper hugging Alex tightly and kissing her.
"Happy birthday kiddo, now you can legally drink." Alex replied grinning ear to ear.
"Yes, it's quite a lovely little setup, you spent a lot of time on this Alex, too much time." Came a mysterious voice from the shadows.
Piper and Alex quickly untangled from each other to face the direction of the voice. Suddenly there was movement in the dark as seven men emerged from the shadows, and in the center of them was Alex's uncle Kubra. They began to spread out and surrounded them.
"Uncle Kubra, what are you doing here?" Alex asked.
"Putting an end to something thats been allowed to go on for too long." Said Kubra.
"I don't understand?" Alex replied.
"I took you in Alex, raised you like you were my own child. I taught you everything you needed to know about this business, about the life that we lead and how do you repay me? By ignoring your responsibilities and shacking up with this bitch? I thought I taught you that loyalty to the family was most important, what came first, but apparently you need a refresher lesson." Said Kubra, then with a wave of his hand a man came up from behind and yanked the two apart.
"Alex what's happening?" Piper asked clearly terrified.
"Ayden what are you doing? Uncle!" Alex yelled as hands grabbed her and held her still.
"I'm sorry Alex, but this is a lesson that must be learned. Shame though it does look like you had a nice dinner planned. But don't worry Alex there will be other women and next time you'll know not to get too attached." Said Kubra.
"Uncle! You don't need to do this I'm so sorry I haven't been giving the business my all, but I swear to god I won't ever do it again!" Said Alex struggling against the firm hands that held her.
"Alex whats going on?! What's happening?!" Yelled Piper trying to escape from Ayden's grasp.
"Well, young lady I'm afraid I have to teach my niece a lesson, it is a shame as you are very pretty, but there are plenty of pretty women on the planet. You'll learn that in time Alex." Said Kubra in a calm yet sadistic manner.
"I've learned my lesson I swear to you it will never happen again just don't do this!" Alex screamed.
"Alex look at me, look at me please." Said Piper with tears in her eyes, seemingly accepting her fate. As Ayden held a silenced gun to her head.
"Piper." Said Alex.
"I love you Alex, you are the best thing that ever happened to me. I'll always love you no matter what." Said Piper smiling at Alex.
"Pipes!"
Time seemed to grind to a halt as slowly the trigger of the gun was pulled and the next thing that Alex noticed was the flash and the recoil of the gun. Alex saw the arterial spray and gore splatter onto the picnic blanket as the bullet from the gun passed through Pipers head and out the other side. The whole time Piper never took her eyes off of Alex even as her limp body fell to the ground.
"No!" Yelled Alex, her voice partially muffled by a hand over her mouth.
"I am sorry Alex, but this needed to happen. Be thankful that you're my blood because if you weren't it would be you on the ground and not her. Fahri take Alex home and watch her." Said Kubra.
"Sure thing boss." Fahri replied.
"Piper." Alex sobbed.
"Let's go Alex." Said Fahri, moving Alex away from the dinner space.
"All right Ayden, bury the body and remove the evidence." Said Kubra.
"Got it boss. You, you, and you stay here." Said Ayden as Kubra and the remaining men began walking away.
The four men picked up the hidden shovels and began digging a hole.
One Hour Later
"Champaign's not bad."
"Hand that over here."
"Foods pretty good too."
"Hey, hey put that shit down we need to finish here."
"We're fine, we're on time and theres nobody around."
"Besides it's not like anybody else was ever going to enjoy this meal. Hehehehehe."
"Well, I want to get the fuck out of here so if we could get this over with."
"Hey Ayden, Where's the body?"
The laughing and chuckling came to a halt as the other three men turned their attention back to the hole in the ground. Before they started digging they wrapped the body in the blanket and moved it to the new spot, but now there was nothing but an empty sheet on the ground.
"Who fucking moved the body?" Said Ayden
"Not me." Came the chorus from the other three.
"Well, somebody had to move it." Said Ayden.
"Hey Ayden I think I got some foot prints here in the dir… Ahhhhhhh!" Yelled the henchman before being dragged into the bushes.
"Where the fuck did he go?" Shouted one of them as they raised their guns and flashlights trying to find a trace of him.
"Wahhhhh!" Came another shout.
Ayden and the other thug turned to the direction of the shouting, when they raised their flashlights in that direction they saw him up a tree. With one of his legs in the mouth of a bizarre looking snake figure.
"Get it off me! Get it off me!" Shouted the henchman.
He was quickly silenced forever when a second snake head burst out of his chest sending chunks of gore flying everywhere. The remaining two fired their silenced pistols at the strange creatures, but they quickly slinked away.
"Lets get the fuck out of here! Ahhhhh!"
Ayden looked at him when he saw that there was a small hunchbacked creature parked on his chest, biting at and slashing his face with its long claws before he stumbled backwards into the bushes.
Now all alone Ayden kept swiveling around trying to find anything that could explain what was happening. There was nothing there, nothing but the darkness until suddenly Ayden felt something bite down onto his arm, hard.
"AHHHHHH!"
With the flashlight in the other hand he held it up to look at what was on his arm, he saw that snake again. But from up close he could tell that this was no normal snake, it was bigger then most snakes with glowing red eyes and a full jaw of razor sharp teeth. Ayden moved the flashlight down the length of it, there wasn't much else he could do as his gun had been in the hand that now had a snake head clamped on it, until finally he found the end of the snake. What he saw next filled him with terror, more terror then he'd ever felt before. Standing at the end of the snake was the girl he had shot just an hour before, but she had changed. There was a swirling black aura that seemed to surround her whole body and it flowed around her like liquid. And the long snake creature was coming out of her back with another head on the other side, both coming out of her back from up and behind her shoulders. Below the two snake heads there were two tentacle things with what looked like spear tip points. Her face, her face seemed like it was surrounded by shadow even in the light of the flashlight, but he could see her glowing golden eyes and her hair seemed like it had gone black as the night. Then he noticed the wound, the one caused by his gun, began to close on its own. Suddenly the other head lunged forward and grabbed the other arm and pulled it straight and lifted him into the air with arms wide. A flash of lightning filled the night sky as he saw a smirk appear on the face of the strange creature, it had him at its mercy and it had somehow already killed everyone else so he tried to prepare for whatever pain was coming next. Then the bottom tentacles sprung to life and leaped forward into his gut, they pierced straight through sharper then any blade ever had, blood began to drip out from around the wounds as he was pushed high above the ground when suddenly the two pointed tentacles moved outward from the wounds cutting through the rest of the body till they ripped through both of his sides severing his torso from his legs. Ayden's upper half came crashing down to the ground as he began going into shock from the pain. The last thing he would ever see in this life would be the left head snap away from its position with unnatural speeds, crash through his ribcage and pull his heart out of his chest and swallow it.
Slowly consciousness began to seep back into the mind of the creature that had once been Piper Chapman. As the haze of shadows began to retreat the two heads looked at each other and then at her before slinking back inside of her.
"THROUGH YOU I WILL DISPLAY MY POWER"
"THROUGH YOU I AM BORN"
Now back in the world of the living Piper fell to her hands and knees trying to recover.
"YOU ARE NOTHING BUT MY PUPPET"
The rain began falling from the sky washing away the blood from Piper's body as she continued dry heaving onto the ground.
"What am I?" Piper asked out loud.
Piper finally managed to stand up taking in the full carnage around.
"I did this." Said Piper out loud.
Piper saw the body of the one thug that Piper hadn't killed.
"What was that?" Piper thought.
The rain began to pick up and started coming down even harder, she saw a leather trench coat sitting on a tree branch and grabbed it and put it on to try and stay dry. Then she saw a gun laying on the ground, the very gun that had been put to her head and picked it up. So Piper began trudging her way through the park hoping that she could catch a cab to Alex's place, she wasn't quite sure how she would or if she could even explain what had happened to her, but she just had to see her. After a few minutes Piper finally reached the road and began looking for a cab. But then Piper thought she saw movement out of the corner of her eye and there at the curb, under a broken street light was a car with its driver side door open. Piper wasn't sure but she thought she saw a hand motioning her to come to the car so she cautiously approached the car. There in the passengers seat, she saw a creature, the same one that had attacked one of the henchmen. It kind of looked like Gollum from those Lord of the Rings movies, but shorter with longer ears, clawed fingers and short double jointed legs. It was wearing tattered rags that looked like it had once been a dress and had a flat nose with golden eyes and a mouth full of sharp teeth.
"Hop in, I picked a nice one didn't I? Leather seats! Amazing!" Said the strange creature in a gravelly, yet distinctly feminine tone of voice.
"What are you?" Piper asked.
"Me? I'm a Darkling! And I am here to be of service, the cars all hot wired and ready!" Said the creature now identified as a Darkling.
"But that's illegal!" Said Piper out of habit before the realization of what she had done came back to her.
"Lady, based on what I saw back in that clearing you've already broken the law in about six different ways." Said the Darkling.
"That wasn't me! That was whatever this thing is inside of me is!" Said Piper
"I got news for you lady, while yes the Darkness does need to feed and it is now your duty to keep its hunger sated. The powers of the Darkness are yours to control and they will obey your wishes. So back there you wanted revenge on the people that killed you, and rightfully so, they killed you in front of your ladylove. As a matter of fact you wait here I'm gonna go take a dump on one of them." Said the Darkling.
"No! Wait that's not necessary I'm getting in the car. I need to go and check on Alex and see if she's all right." Said Piper stepping into the drivers seat of the car.
"Ahh and you don't think the whole seeing you take a bullet to the head, then waltz through the front door like it's just any other kind of night won't freak her out even more?" Said the Darkling.
"I don't care I have to see her." Said Piper.
"Ok, but you know all you did is eat the heart of the one who pulled the trigger. Don't you want to eat the heart of the one that ordered the trigger be pulled?" Asked the Darkling, Piper gripped the steering wheel tightly thinking about the question asked.
"Yes."
"Yes, you do, you want that revenge it's the only may to make sure that Alex is safe." Said the creature.
"But first I have to get to Alex's." Piper replied.
"Fine, put her there pal" Said the Darkling offering its hand to Piper.
"Piper Chapman." She said accepting the offered hand.
"Yeah I know, but since you offered a name then I will reciprocate, the names Nicky and I think we're gonna be best buds." Said the Darkling, now know as Nicky before descending into giggles as the car pulled out of the space and headed towards Chinatown.
Hey everyone author here. I've had this one the mind for quite a while now and I finally decided to write it down. I hope you all enjoy it. If you're not familiar with either The Darkness comic or the video game the images of the main character and Darkling's are all easy to find on an image search. The story is about Jackie Estacado, a mafia hitman who is cursed with a supernatural force, I don't want to give to much away because it's a pretty good story and some of you may like to learn more about it. I will be getting more into the background and explanation in the next chapter, so please feel free to comment or message me. See you next time.