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CHAPTER 4

PiperPOV

After I called Polly, the day seemed to drag on, I was desperate to be able to call her again. I was working on a lamp in eletrical when Caputo came in.

"Chapman. Let's go." Shit. Fuck. What did I do?

"What's going on?" I asked, as innocently as I could.

"Nothing. Let's go." He replied, practically dragging me out of the room. As soon as the door shut behind us he said, "Sorry about that Chapman, I didn't want to subject you to a whole bunch of questions by your fellow inmates."

I looked at him questioningly.

"I'm taking you to your appointment with your lawyer that you requested. Don't you remember?"

"Oh, shit, yeah." I paused. "I mean yeah of course you are." I could feel my cheeks reddening. I should have been preparing for this. I needed to make sure I got everything right for Alex and I.

Caputo just chuckled as he led me down to a room past the regular visitation rooms.

I walked through that Caputo held open for me and was greeted with the smell of grease, lovely, amazing, artery clogging grease. Mr. Davis was sitting at the table with a variety of food from some fast food joint. He stood and smiled at me, gesturing for me to join him. "I figured that we'd be here for a while so I brought lunch. I hope you don't mind."

I smiled, my first real smile in a while. "Best lawyer ever." We began eating, each of us making small talk; which was him mostly filling me in on everything that's going on in the world. Finally we were finished and I began to explain to him why I wanted to meet with him.

"I want to pay for a lawyer for Alex Vause. She was severely beaten by one of the guards here. She's at the hospital now, they've had her in a coma for a month. Isn't that grounds for something? Compassionate release or something?"

He nodded, writing down everything I was saying. "I'll see what I can do. I need to see all her charges and then go from there." He took a little more information from me before asking, "While I'm here though, I reviewed your case. I think the lawyer you had before didn't really do you justice. We can definitely get your sentence lowered."

"As long as Alex has to stay in here, I want to be in here. I'm not leaving her."

He seemed thoughtful for a second. "Is this the Alex that you travelled the world with?" I blushed. "Your grandmother spoke of you two often. She said that you had been lucky to find true love at such a young age. I used to get some what jealous at all the stories she'd tell me." He cleared his throat. "Anyways, I'll see what I can do. You're in good hands, Piper. We'll take care of you now. And Alex too."

And with that he had me sign some papers then we wrapped up our meeting. Caputo was waiting to escort me back to my bunk, but I asked if I could make a phone call first. He agreed, leading me to the phones before turning around to go back to his office. I always liked Caputo. He seemed like he genuinely cared, and he didn't treat us like the other guards do.

I wasn't sure if Polly had had a chance to call and check on Alex, but I'm going to call and bug her anyways.

AlexPOV

Polly had stuck around for a while, and I had ended up telling her stories about Piper and I's travels. She seemed genuinely intrigued by some of the stuff we did. A physical therapy nurse came in while she was still there and we talked about working on getting full movement back in my leg. Apparently Arryn had not only broken my leg but torn most of my muscles in the process; it was going to be a long road of therapy before I'm back to normal.

Polly was just about to leave when her phone rang. I assumed it was probably Larry by the way she smiled when she saw who it was, but when she handed it to me I was dumbfounded.

"Polly? Hello? Are you there?" I heard Piper asking. I looked up to Polly surprised but she just smirked at me.

"Hey, Kid." I said, as cocky as I could manage.

"Oh my god." I could hear her break down into sobs.

"Hey, shh. It'll be alright. I'm okay." The sobs continued. "Pipes?"

"Yeah, Al?"

"I love you, kid. You got me through this. I'll be okay."

"Oh, God. I love you too, I'm so sorry, I should have never let the stupid fucking panty thing get to my head and then I just let you slip away and I then I saw you in that building and I thought I was going to die. Al, I need you."

I could feel tears falling down my face, I knew she was upset I just didn't realize that she was this upset. "You've got me, babe. You're stuck with me. I'm your girlfriend, remember?" I could practically hear her smiling through the phone.

"I miss you. Are you okay? Are you in pain?" She asked after a moment.

"A little, but they gave me some good shit." I laughed. "I miss you too."

She was silent for a moment and I could picture her leaning against the phone. "I've got to go, there's a line now. I'll talk to you soon?" The last bit came out as a question.

I looked over at Polly, who looked like she was trying really hard not to eavesdrop, but she was nodding her head. "Yeah, I will. I love you, Pipes. Stay safe."

"I love you too. So much. Tell Polly I said thank you." And with that she hung up. I handed the phone back to Polly.

"Thank you," I said. "Really. You have no idea how much that meant to me."

She just nodded her head and walked out the door, leaving me to my thoughts once again.