A tattoo on the rib cage really hurt. She thought about Stella as she breathed through the pain. Piper refused to feel bad about her. She was a fucking thief and she couldn't afford to be seen as weak. She had to think about Cal as well. If she was busted, then he was too. Piper had to be in charge enough that everyone feared her. Piper stashed the gun in the hole in the wall and then set off to show Alex. No one was around when she emerged. She didn't see any guards or prisoners as she exited out the back. It was strange and it freaked her out.

She headed towards the gardening shed and saw that girl Lolly heading in that way. She wasn't sure what was going on but she followed her to the shed. She had just noticed no one was in the yard when she heard Lolly yell, " CIA!"

Piper started to run into the shed, thinking that Lolly had lost her shit and attacked Alex. She burst in on a confusing scene. Lolly was rolling around on the floor with a guard and Alex was slumped up against the far wall holding her head. Piper ran to her, not sure what to do but so afraid for her.

Alex was trying to get to her feet and looked up at Piper. Her lip was busted and Piper could see red marks around her throat. Alex was trying to talk, she pointed at the guard who was getting the upper hand on Lolly and croaked out. "Aydin."

It took Piper a moment to realize what she was saying. Aydin was Fahri and Kubra's lackey. He was always around, driving them here and there. Piper had never liked him really. He was starting to choke Lolly so Piper looked around and took a heavy bag of mulch in hand. She lifted it up and dropped it down on his head. He fell forward with a sickening sound. Lolly scrambled out from under him as Piper helped Alex to stand.

"Are you alright? Al?"

"He was trying to kill her...he must be NSA!" Lolly shouted. Piper told her to quieten down. She had just attacked a guard and didn't need anyone's attention.

"Fuck, is he dead?" Alex croaked out. Piper went over to him and as she knelt down she saw he was breathing but she put her fingers on his pulse to be sure.

"No, he's breathing...I just knocked him out," Piper answered. She heard a crash of glass and looked up to see Lolly picking up some glass. Alex made a croaking sound as Lolly raised the glass up high over her head and started to come down towards Piper. She moved back but really didn't need to as Lolly stabbed him in the chest. She did it three times, each time more violently. Alex scrambled over and grabbed her hand, then pulled Piper out of the dark shed and into the afternoon light. She pulled her over to the fence and Piper wrapped her up in her arms.

She had never seen anyone die before. She just kept thinking that it could have been Alex and the last conversation they would have had was about her stupid ass panty business. She pressed her forehead to hers and stood there a moment trying not to sob or freak out.

"I love you. I'm a fuck up...a manipulative cunt, just like you said but I fucking love you Alex Vause. I should have been watching out for you. Fuck...baby, let me see your throat," Piper rambled. Alex wanted them to move further away from the shed but Piper didn't see anyone around. She lifted up her throat and it was covered in bruises now. She could tell he had come very close to killing her.

"What are you going to do?" Alex managed. Lolly came out of the shed with a cloth wrapped around her hand..and she had blood all over her pants. She didn't seem to see them at first then she looked up with clear eyes.

"We need to bury him. Guards have left...only a few news ones seem to be around. We can bury him under the prisoner garden...we just turned the soil today where the corn was... If we dig deep enough, no one will find him. I need your help, you going to give it?" Lolly asked them in a clear voice.

"You saved her life. I'll help you but she can't...she is hurt and I'm afraid she will-"

"Fuck that," Alex managed to say. She moved towards the shed and Piper followed with a frown. Apparently murder had cleared up Lolly's misconceptions. She seemed very lucid and perfectly able to cover up the assault. While they were out, she had severed his hands and head. Piper promptly got sick in the corner and Alex was right behind her.

"I know it's gross but we gotta put these in different places so if he is found they can't identify him right away. I put them in a sack..not sure what to do with the rest of him though," Lolly said as if it was just contemplating the Sunday crossword.

They wrapped the rest of him in the stuff you line flower bed with and they had to go to Red's greenhouse to find a shovel as all of the ones in the grounds shed were locked up. They heard splashing and laughter so Piper went around the edge of the greenhouse to check it out. Almost all of the prison was through these massive holes in the fence, playing in the lake. None of the guards were down there yet and it was a Godsend.

She returned and told them. Lolly seemed disappointed she couldn't go swimming and blamed the corpse for keeping her away from the fun. Piper took over shoveling from Alex and made her go stand watch when she started to sway. They dug down at least six feet and pushed him into the grave. Alex helped shovel the dirt on top and Piper just looked at the sack thinking. Lolly and Alex made it look just like upturned soil and she couldn't tell the difference.

"I'm not carrying that...but if you take it to the boiler room, there is a furnace...it isn't lit in the summer but you can put it in the back. I know they don't inspect the insides so, once the heat kicks on in the fall, it will be destroyed," Piper offered. Alex looked at Lolly and they all nodded in agreement. She led the way to the room. It wasn't locked because Luschek lost the key and broke the lock to let them down there to check the generator fuel during the flood last year. Piper knew he didn't replace it because that would mean he'd have to give a shit. Lolly put the bag deep inside the furnace and to the right. Someone would have to really shine a light to find it.

"It's almost time for count...how are you going to explain your hands?" Piper asked her. Lolly looked down and then shrugged.

"I'll tell them I fell through the glass in the shed. I did it before so I may be a shot but...I should go change. I'll need to steal another uniform," Lolly looked up at Alex. She nodded to say she'd help and then they all walked out. As they emerged, Piper saw Caputo had rounded up some officers and was trying to get all the girls back in the yard.

"It won't be long now-" the alarm sounded. Alex started to get down but Piper shook her head. "It's lock down...we heard it when Vee and Miss Rosa escaped. We have to head back to the dorm. You change pants and head to the infirmary, okay Lolly?" Piper asked her. She nodded and kept on walking. She was a loose cannon but now they all had a secret to keep.

Piper walked Alex to her cube. They were surprised to see that Alex now had the bottom bunk. Piper would have been more upset at the sudden onslaught of new prisoners if she wasn't so worried about Alex. She ran her hands over Alex's body. Not one single guard was in the dorm, but prisoners that weren't outside in the lake all made their way back to their cubes. No one would say a word if she touched her. Piper had to see she was alright. Alex lifted her shirt and Piper saw all these bruises. He must have punched her over and over. She started to shake but didn't speak really. She knelt down and ran her hand up her legs. Her ass was bruised and there was a nasty scrape on her left leg. She looked up and Alex shrugged. She didn't know how that happened. Piper realized she must have caused it while trying to fight him off of her. Alex got in her bed clothes, though it wasn't even dinner time. Piper knew she'd skip it tonight. She was really worried that her throat would close.

"Listen...if you can't breathe, go to the clinic and tell them we got into a fight," Piper explained.

She looked at Piper like she was crazy and whispered, "Fuck no, Piper. I'll get help...if I have to but will not tell them who did it." Piper nodded some and then tucked her into her bed. Lolly wasn't back yet and Piper didn't want to leave Alex.

"Scoot over and be my little spoon," Piper murmured to her. Alex scooted and Piper curled up behind her. They bunks were just as narrow but it felt nice to have her close. She put her arm around Alex and kissed the back of her neck. "I'll stay here until I have to go back for count. You rest baby...I'm here and everything will be okay." She didn't know that for sure but it seemed like the thing to say. Alex took Piper by the hand as they cuddled. She vowed to never let go this time.

***Okay. I loved OrangeCon and meeting the actors. However, I didn't like season three. I felt the stories were disjointed, the character growth for Piper was idiotic, Stella was a useless character that was thrown in to lesbian bait-Bennett and Nicky were written out in pussy-ass ways- oh there is more. I did love the drama class scene and I think the rough sex was dead on what they'd do in that situation. I loved some of the back stories. I loved some of the interactions but overall it didn't flow well. Most of all, I fucking hate what they did to vauseman AND the Suzanne as a fic writer story was kinda insulting to me. I felt like she was supposed to represent fic writers. They established she had the emotional maturity of a six year old and they had her writing hard core erotica...they made one comment about the person that continues writing her story as "fanfiction"...and the comment wasn't bad. I just think it shows how they see our writing is just sex with fucked up plots. Hell, maybe it is...but those writers keep people interested in that show during a fucking year hiatus. More than that...this ENTIRE SHOW IS FANFICTION- FICTION BASED ON AND ADAPTED FROM A MEMOIR! Share you thoughts on the fic thing please as it really has me perplexed. I really don't know if this will be more than one chapter. Fae***