A/N: I'm sorry if this is a weird idea. It just came to me out of the blue and I wrote it down. I'd like to thank Freaxxforever for your support, you're the nicest!
Sorry in advance, for mistakes/things that doesn't make sense. Also, I'm kinda looking if this could work. thank you.
Lonesome Wolf
This has got to be the worst day in the life of the young Piper Chapman.
You see, she's the kind of person that has never in her entire life suffered or struggled to get what she wanted. And we are talking either economically or not. Since she was a little girl, all she had to do was pout and watch her parents with big doe eyes and none of them could never resist her.
And… the little detail that they actually didn't give a single fuck about any of their children. They were never around to watch their sons and daughter, not a single homework done with them, no taking them to school, no hanging out and acting like a family. That's why Mr. and Mrs. Chapman would practically bribe their three children. Presents, cash, cars, anything material they wanted.
The oldest son, Danny was 19 years old, and still in high school, and he was one of the most fucked up kids you'd know. Always hanging out with the outcasts. Heavy drinking, ditching school almost every single day. Smoking joints in the middle of the fucking school. Vandalizing city properties at night with their friends (They would always narrowly escape the police on Danny's car). He was never home because he was always trying to escape his reality: that his family was shit and he was not loved.
Piper was the middle child, at age 16, and she was in the same high school as his brother. She was the exact opposite of her brother, she cared about school, her brothers, her friends, the environment, the government, politics, just causes, animals, you name it. Because this was her way of escaping. She knew her parents loved her, and that they cared, but she also was certain that some human beings are never supposed to have children (that was the case of her parents).
Cal, on the other hand, was the youngest and he was smoking weed at the age of 12 years old, with an alarming fixation on fire and blowing up things. No one never knew what he was talking about because he always has the strangest ideas.
Anyway, they all had their own routines, Mr. Chapman was a liar and a cheater, with shady last minute meetings at "work", never a theme in common to talk about with him, and no one could question him, because they knew he would beat the living shit out of you if you dared to confront him on anything, and so much for the protection they needed from "mom" (it even felt weird to call her that).
Mrs. Chapman was a really sour woman, who spent all her day at the country club… or the spa, the mall, equitation classes… anything but her house. She had learnt a while ago that her husband was always with another woman, and at first this killed her, she couldn't even eat or sleep, but managed to keep it a secret. Until she figured that she might as well enjoy life too.
Except that she took it the wrong way because instead of going home to take care of her children and make sure they grew up to be decent human beings, she was totally oblivious to them. And she went and look for other men to be with, hell, even woman. And of course, no one ever helped her feel right.
Reckess abandon.
So, as to why this was the worst day in the life of Piper, well…
It was a Saturday morning, specifically November 18, 12:34 p.m., Danny was rolling up a j in his own fricking bedroom, Cal was climbing trees in his backyard, trying to put the cat in the tallest branch, Piper was naturally studying for a very important exam she had, and obviously, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman where nowhere to be found.
The knocks on the front door were too loud, Piper stood up from her desk and went to the window to see who it was.
Out on the street, there were two men and a woman, waiting by a car. Piper didn't think anything particular about this and went to get the door, jumping downstairs, and two steps at a time, finally reaching the front door.
What was about to happen, would change their lives forever. And it is not an overstatement.
"Good afternoon, little girl" Said the plump woman, who was dressed in red.
"Good afternoon, what can I do for you?" asked Piper, a little nervous.
"Are your parents home?" she asked with an overly sweet voice.
"Uhm… no, they are not here, do you want me to call them? I mean… is it something urgent?" Piper asked, question after question without pausing to let them answer.
"No, don't worry sweetie. Are your brothers home?" she said.
How does she know about my brothers? Who are they? I should call my parents. Piper thought.
"Uhm… sorry, who are you?" Shit! Why do I always have this foot-in-mouth disease!
"Sorry, sweetheart, it was rude of me. I am Anita DiMarco" she said extending her arm to Piper, as a way of greeting. "And this is John Bennet, and Sean O'Neill" both men nodded, "And we're from the Department of Child Safety Services".
Piper took both her hands to her mouth in an attempt to cover the expression of shock she had. The woman kept talking, but she had stopped listening, she felt dizzy and couldn't make out what she was saying, except for little words: " your parents are careless… home abandon… solitary children… forced to take you with us… neighbor put the complaint… legal order….".
She would go on and on, but Piper wasn't listening, she felt how her world had just collapsed beneath her feet, she wanted to scream, to cry or to run away, but her feet seemed to be rooted to the spot.
Without a warning, the two men entered the house, searching for the little kid (Danny was allowed to stay), and Piper then found her voice:
"Where…where are you taking us?" it came only above a whisper, her voice quivering, about to cry.
"Don't worry little girl, you're going to be in good hands. We're placing you on Litchfield's Foster Home, it is divided in sections, boys and girls live separately, but you'll get to visit your brother and vice versa." She finished: "Maybe you'd like to pack a few things, dear".
So she went upstairs, to her room. She entered and collapsed on the door, sobbing uncontrollably. What am I supposed to do? My life is over now, I won't have parents, or a house… she was thinking. And after what felt like hours, she heard a soft knock on her door.
She was startled and quickly pull herself up and motioned to open the door, but remembered that she hadn't packed anything and yelled: "Wait a second, please, I'll be right out"
She instantly started packing her most important belongings: instead of packing loads of clothes, she just took a couple of jeans and t shirts, along with underwear and started to pack her favorite books. If she was to stay at a place where she knew no one, at least her books would be with her.
After packing, Miss Anita was still waiting outside her door, so when she opened it, she said: "Are you ready sweetie?"
NO! Of course I'm not ready! Are you kidding me? "Yes, where's my brother, Cal?" won't bother asking for Danny.
"He's all packed and ready, waiting for you on the car. Hey, you're parents have been notified by now, and there is a whole case against them, perhaps in the next days there will be people asking you a lot of things about them." She studied Piper's expression "You should be completely honest with them, ok?" and offered a sweet smile.
Piper was about to start crying again, so she decided against speaking and just nodded curtly. And although she hated her parents, she thought that all of this was unfair on them.
She grabbed her bag and walked alongside Mrs. Anita, downstairs, out of the house.
Out of this world, of this life.
She hopped up in the car, and glanced at Cal who looked pretty excited.
"Cal?" she spoke softly
"Hey, sis, why the long face?" he said cheerfully.
"OMG, how can you be so happy! They're taking us away from home! We may never be able to see Danny again! Or our parents!" She said, feeling her heart breaking a little as she spoke.
"That's great! Can't you see it? We're gonna be surrounded by other kids, we can make friends! And no angry father to yell at us, or beat us! We won't be alone again!" he said gleefully.
When did he started thinking like an adult! Not even I…
"Okay, you may be right, but what about grandma? And the holidays? Vacations? Things!?" she had to stop speaking because this was just too much to bear for now. So both remained in silence the whole trip to the foster home.
She felt asleep, out of fear. Defense mechanism. And when she woke up, their car was traveling on a narrow pathway, surrounded on both sides by tall trees.
A few turns later they saw it. On the far left of their path stood four long buildings, brick color, with black, tall fences, and the aspect of a prison. They entered through the principal gates and through a little track that led them to a fountain in the middle of the tall buildings. Then, the car stopped and the three people started climbing out of the car, followed by Cal and Piper.
When they were out of the car, Mrs. Anita motion for Piper to follow her, but stopped abruptly and said: "You can say good bye to your brother, we'll give you a few minutes." Piper nodded.
"Don't worry, you'll get to see him soon" she added after she saw the look on Piper's face.
The two siblings stared at each other and just hugged each other like there is no tomorrow. They remained that way for several minutes, without uttering a single word.
Eventually they had to separate their own ways, and Cal followed John and Sean to the boys' part of Litchfield's Foster Home, winking and waving to Piper.
"Let's get you settled dear." Anita said.
Piper followed her, and after several minutes of paperwork, she was finally climbing a set of stairs to her new "bedroom". Mrs. Anita explained to her that she would be sharing a room with three other girls.
A feeling of absolute dread starting running down Piper's body. She had never shared a room with anyone, let alone three cruel, strange girls.
This was going to be a horrible experience.
They arrived at a door marked with number 8, on the 4th floor and Mrs. Anita said: "Well, here you go, this is your new room. All the girls are out in a field trip, so you can stay here, you'll be alone so you can begin to process everything that has happened, and start to acclimatize".
"You'll be okay, dear. Dinner starts at 5p.m., and don't worry, I'll tell the principal to make your roomates to teach you everything around here, as soon as they get back." She offered and started to walk away.
Piper took a deep breath and started bracing herself to enter through that door when suddenly the door burst open and she bumped into a slightly taller, raven-hair girl, who wore glasses and had milky skin.
"Hey! Watch it!" the taller one said.
"So…sorry… I didn't mean to… I'm really sorry… it was supposed to be empty…. And I was…" Piper kept rambling.
The other girl had a quirked brow and was staring at Piper unamused, arms crossed at her chest.
"Well, you better be careful" she said, visibly irritated, and Piper couldn't stop her eyes that started filling with tears.
Don't be stupid Piper, don't cry!
"Jesus! What a softie." The raven haired girl said, the tiniest of the smirks appearing in her face.
Piper shook her head, unsure of what she was supposed to say or do. Who was she supposed to be?
A/N: So... what do you think?