Chapter 1
Piper suddenly felt dizzy and was forced back to conciesnes. What's going on? She looked down, there was Pennsatucky completely lifeless. Piper knew she was just about too collapse, she put her hand to her stomach and felt something hot and sticky. It was the last Piper knew before she fainted.
2 days later:
Piper wakes up slowly, she hears a beeping sound at the right ear. What is this? Is it Claudette who's got a new ricemaker? Piper struggles to open her eyes, why won't they react? As she wakes up she begins to sense a different reality than prison. It hurts down her throat, Piper would say something, but can't get it out. She hears a familiar voice saying, Piper, Piper, try to remain calm, someone call for help.
After a few seconds Piper hears a door being opened, an unknown voice asks her to breathe out, and Piper feels something being dragged out of her throat. She coughs, and is given some water. It burns down through her throat.
Piper can finally open her eyes, the first thing she sees is a man in a white coat, he looks intently down at her. She hears a familiar voice and looks to the left, there is Larry, Larry how did he get here? She feels someone take her hand and see Polly standing there with tears in her eyes, and then hear a familiar voice say, "she's awake". Piper feels nauseous and dizzy, and scared. She hear the doctor begin to explain.
You came to us with major blood loss and internal injuries. We have kept you in a coma for 2 days so that your body could recover. We had to open you up to stop the bleeding caused by a razor blade, it was a successful operation. You also have a broken left hand, in two places, we have put on a temporary cast this must be on for 1 week before we put on a more permanent one.
Have you understood all these things I have just told you? Piper nodded gently. Conceded by blade, Piper feels she hardens from within outward. She was attacked by Pennsatucky and took back the way she had been told, what happened afterwards? She looks desperately onto Polly who just cries and cries. She looks at Larry who just stares back. She looks over at her mother, who says; you are in the hospital now sweetie. Piper thinking halfway in coma, typical mom to statuate what the obvious.
Piper feels completely numb, and just wants to cry, she has mostly been sleeping since waking up yesterday. She can not stay awake and take on what happened. She has asked for Pennsatucky, but received no proper answer. She can see in the faces surrounding her that she has fucked up properly, and done something terrible. Who am I?Piper asks herself.
She can not collect her thoughts, when she is awake, she tries to think about what has happened in the recent days, but it's too painful.
She has been told by Polly that Pennsatucky had hidden a weapon with a racerblade, and that she stabbed Piper in the guts with it. And that Piper had been found by a guard named Bennet, who had aired an inmate.
Piper thought about Alex and felt this hollow suction in her stomach. No, she would not let herself be drawn into Alex again, Alex would not have anything to do with her.
Larry visited Piper every day in the hospital, he had probably gotten a real shocker over what happened. Piper suspects him to feel some guilt over it, but none of them mentioned neither weddings, prison or Alex Vause.
Piper just feels so very sad and outside of herself. It did not seem as if anything could make it better. Not Larry, not Alex, not Polly and certainly not her mother.
As the days went by in the hospital and Piper began to perk up, she also began to get very nervous about what awaited her after her discharge from the hospital. She envisioned an infinite number of scenarios. Larry's father had been and talked to her a few times, and made it clear that they were going to claim self-defense. And he had already been in contact with the warden about Healy.
The camera outlooking the yard had captured the incident, and that it was a figure seen who went out and in, and did nothing with what was about to happen. Healy was currently at leave and Mendez was back in the prison.
