I have no idea how I'm going to manage waiting another year for OITNB, which I obviously do not own. As such, I've decided to cope by, how else? Writing fanfiction. I have no idea where this is going to go, nor where it's coming from, and hopefully you all bear with me. Drop a review, let me know how you feel.
One
Piper Chapman felt nothing but triumph as she watched Stella walk – forcibly – down to processing, where she would be placed in Maximum Security. After telling Boo to spread the word of her ruthless business rules, she wandered camp wondering where Alex could have gone. Surely she couldn't still be in the greenhouse. Piper made her way through the crisp grass, elated in her victory but guilt beginning to chew at her gut. After all, wouldn't she be in the same position as Stella soon enough? Wasn't the only difference simply that Piper's family would house her? That Polly and Larry might feel so ashamed of their new relationship, that she would have friends upon release. Fake friends, she thought, but better than nothing.
It's too late to go back now, Piper thought to herself as she approached the greenhouse. Her ears pricked up all the sudden, her hand frozen on the door panel. There was sobbing and grunting and where were all the guards? Piper felt sick but crept into the greenhouse as quietly as possible. A guard, a very familiar guard, was hovering over one very battered up Alex Vause, pants dropped and face twisted into a gut-wrenching smile. Alex's hopeless, already bruising eyes had flickered to Piper and she kicked herself back suddenly, scuttling to the other end of the greenhouse.
Something clicked within Piper and suddenly she was screaming, swinging with something she hadn't even realized she'd snatched up from the floor. Aydin lay unmoving on the floor after a few swings of what Piper realized was quite a heavy shovel, but she continued to swing at him, eyes wide, throat burning until she was thrown onto her stomach and cuffed. She had been blindsided, she hadn't believed Alex, she might have killed someone – AGAIN. Piper knew she was being sent to the SHU, but as her eyes rested on Alex across the greenhouse, she swallowed thickly. She would be all right, so long as Alex was okay. What had she wanted to say to Alex? She couldn't even think straight as swarms of guards and inmates alike rushed into the greenhouse.
Alex was screaming, screaming to Bell and O'Neill about how Piper had saved her. Piper knew it was all for naught. She didn't care.
"I love you," Piper called with a shaky voice as she was lifted to her feet.
Alex called a desperate response through her tears, but Piper couldn't make it out. Piper took one last look at Aydin, bloody and battered and seemingly still alive. His breaths were shallow, there was blood everywhere and suddenly Piper was vomiting right at the greenhouse doors. She would be completely alone in the SHU, and Alex and her were no longer a thing. The prison was scared of her, and terrified inmates did not make for decent friends. Solitary was what she was entirely now, but she found herself to be calm, even after being gently ushered into a single cell by Bell. Maybe she had snapped. She should have been on guard, she might have been able to kill Aydin then.
Piper stopped her thoughts all the sudden. She wasn't a murderer but she couldn't let Aydin… she couldn't even finish the thought and she was suddenly retching in the toilet until she couldn't heave any longer. Then she sat down, buried her hands in her face and began to cry.