hello all! double upload once again! im on fire today! enjoy the chapter!
Piper felt her world stop. It really was over. She fell to her knees, and did what she was told, putting her hands on her head. She gazed sadly up at Stella.
"Oh don't give me that look, Chapman… you had to know this was coming…"
"You won't get away with this. You're gonna go away for a very long time."
"Actually, I will… Kubra is arranging for me to be on a boat to anywhere I want with enough heroin to put me into a coma for a week, sooo… yeah. I will."
"You really think he's gonna keep his word?" Piper snorted, shaking her head. "Stella the minute you kill me, he's gonna come for you."
"You don't know shit so keep your mouth shut." she snapped.
"Oh really? I don't know shit?" feeling bold, Piper began to stand up. "He was Alex's boss for most of our lives, Stella. There is no reasoning with him… I have seen first hand all of the fucked up shit he's done… he is a kingpin. Do you understand what that means?"
"It doesn't matter, so get the fuck back down!" she yelled. Piper moved closer.
"It means that he will do whatever it takes to prove a point. He wants you to kill me to get to Alex, and then he'll kill you. You're an inmate in prison who he happened to pick. You're not special to him, and he was never planning on getting you out. He's using the fact that you're desperate against you, dont you get it?"
Stella was quiet for a long time. She felt stupid. She had a suspicion that the reward was never coming, but everything Piper said put it into focus. The blonde obviously knew him better than she did, and from what she said, this wasn't good news. She felt her mind reeling. In a fit of rage, she slammed the gun into Piper's face, and sent the taller woman to the floor.
"Shut the fuck up!" Piper groaned in pain, holding her head. Blood gushed from a cut above her eye. She rolled onto her side, drawing in a sharp breath, but continuing.
"You know I'm right, Stella… come on…" Stella walked to the doorway, holding her own head.
"It doesn't matter… I'm still putting a bullet in your head…" she suddenly marched over, and pressed the gun to Piper's forehead. "I'll do that, and i'll escape… i'll go from there."
Despite the gravity of the situation, Piper began to laugh.
"Really? You'll escape? There's no such thing with him, Stella… Alex and I have been running for years… we're in prison… surrounded by guards and fences and guns, and we're not safe… Alex could change her name, fake her death, and disappear off the face of the fucking earth and it still wouldn't be over… and she worked for him! he actually kind of liked her! what makes you think you'll get out of this so easy?"
Stella's eyes glazed over, and she took a few steps back.
"There has to be something I can do!"
"There isn't!" Piper snapped. "You should have never answered his calls or his letters or his attempt to reach you! You just opened a can of worms you won't ever close, believe that. Kill me if you want, but your nightmare is just beginning."
Stella put the gun into her waistband, and sat down in a chair, watching Piper, defeated. Piper rolled into a sitting position, trying to get some blood out of her eye.
"Im fucked…" Stella spoke out loud. "Im royally fucking fucked…"
"Yeah, you are." Piper stated, smirking. Stella glared at her. "Or youre not."
Stella looked up at once.
"Excuse me?"
"Oh, nothing."
Stella moved in closer.
"What were you going to do before the rec room?" she grabbed the front of Piper's jumpsuit. "Tell me. Now."
"Well… promise not to kill me first."
"No."
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Then I'm not talking."
"Then i'll shoot you in the head."
"Then you'll die too and have no plan."
"Ugh! Fine!" Stella let her shirt go, stepping back. "Good lord how does Vause deal with you? You're so annoying!"
"I've been told. Anyway, I was gonna find a way to call Caputo… Alex told me that he and Red have been speaking. He knows the situation with Kubra, and he's gonna set something up to catch him red-handed…"
"Okay, so we get Kubra, then what? He can just get us somehow anyway."
"I honestly think if we catch Kubra, one of the most powerful drug lords in the world, they'll give you some pretty nice perks… years off your sentence, an early release… the possibilities are endless."
Stella narrowed her eyes.
"How am I supposed to trust you? Last time I even made an agreement with you, you ruined my life…" she growled, taking the gun out again. Piper got to her feet quickly, and Stella began to back her against the wall, cold muzzle pressed to her chest. "You sent me down to max to rot… and you got to stay with everyone and be happy in your own fucked up little world…"
Piper swallowed hard and held her hands up again. Stella pressed the gun to her chest harder.
"You really don't think I paid for my mistakes?" she slowly rolled down her sleeve, showing Stella the grotesque window that had been burned into her flesh. "I had to go through this twice…. I lost sleep, I barely ate… I was paranoid for weeks. I lost everyone. I suffered alone. Stella for what it's worth I am so sorry for what I did…."
"Sorry doesn't get me out of this shithole…"
"No, but this plan could… I mean I cant trust you either, but do I have a choice?" she looked into her eyes. "You could get an early release for this… you could be done with this place. I promise you i'm not that fucked up person you met a while back… and if I get offered any time off my sentence, or a release… i'm gonna turn it down." Stella froze.
"Yeah right… you're full of shit."
"Swear on my mother's life." she held her hand out. "No matter how good the deal is, ill say no, and give it to you instead. I need to pay for what I did, and serve my time. I only wish I could give Ruiz something, too." Stella watched her for a few seconds before letting out a sigh, and shaking her hand.
"Okay… I suppose we can't really do anything else." she lowered the gun, tucking it back into her waistband. "So what the hell are we supposed to do? If he's got us on all sides, how good can this plan possibly be?"
"I don't know… I have to get to a phone to talk to Caputo. We weren't expecting you to change sides…"
"Yeah, well… I kind of like this whole being alive thing…"
"Kubra is relentless, but if there's one thing he's all about, it's proving a point." Piper began. She sat down, thinking. "Are you able to call him?"
"Only in case of good news…" Stella said, rolling her eyes. Piper smiled.
"Well, I think we have some… I need you to call him as soon as you can while I talk to Caputo."
Red, Nicky, Alex, and Freida sat in a secret meeting place, staring at each other. Since Alex had begged to be told the plan, Red finally decided to take her out of the dark.
"So I'm going to be frank here. The idea is we're setting a trap for Kubra and we're going to be using Piper as bait."
"Wait, what?" Alex asked angrily. "No the fuck we're not."
"Caputo thought of everything, Vause… she won't be in harm's way."
"You just said she's bait."
"He isn't gonna bite the bait, dummy." Freida said.
"What do you mean he?"
"We're trying to get Kubra himself into the prison."
Alex nearly fell off her seat.
"No fucking way! No!" Freida looked at her angrily.
"Do you want him caught or not?"
"You are not putting that fucking psycho in the same prison as my fiancee when I already have no way of knowing what's going on with her. No way in hell!"
"Would you keep your voice down!?" Red snapped. "You're going to ruin it before it starts!"
"Oh, I intend to… I'm gonna tell whatever guard I can about this. This shit isn't gonna fly…" she rose to her feet before she was suddenly chest to chest with Frieda.
"You walk out that door and you'll have a knife in your back, sweetheart…."
"Are you serious? Move over."
"I mean it, Vause…" she suddenly pulled a shiv from her bra. Alex's eyes went wide and she started to back off. "This ain't your mess anymore. If you say something, me, Red, and Nicky go down too… and I don't like you enough to allow that…"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Nicky yelled, getting between them. "There ain't a need for this shit! Come on!" she glared at Freida. "Put that thing away, Chucky… jesus christ…"
Red stood up too. "Freida, now." She groaned, and tucked it away before sinking down.
"I don't like rats."
"She's scared. I don't blame her. How do we know this is gonna work?" Nicky asked.
"We don't…" Red murmured. "But we don't have any other options. Time is running out." Alex shook her head, but sat back down.
"Okay… by some miracle you get him into the prison without getting Piper slaughtered… then what?"
"He's going to want to watch Stella do the job." Freida spoke again. "That, or do it himself. Caputo has guards stick to them like glue, let it go on long enough to catch them in the act, and then we have him."
"What if those guards are too late? What if one of them is in on it?" Alex asked anxiously.
"We have to take the chance. It's all we have." Red answered.
"I don't like this… I don't like this at all…" she took a sip of water Red had placed out.
"Me either, but it's happening tomorrow either way, so we just have to favor the odds…"
Alex spit the water in her mouth out all over Nicky, who cursed and tried to wipe herself off.
"I'm sorry, what!?"
Piper sat under a guard's desk with the lights off, and popped up to grab the phone. She looked over at Stella.
"Are we clear?" Stella opened the door slowly, and looked out in both directions, nodding before closing it quietly.
"For now, but we have at most fifteen minutes before tubby comes back… hurry it up." Piper nodded, dialing the number Alex had given her. It rang a few times before a familiar voice answered.
"Caputo."
"Mister Caputo? It's Piper Chapman…."
"Piper!?" he sounded like he jumped from his desk. She heard a door slam shut and his voice lower. "Are you alright? I've been talking to Red… she and I have the plan all set… where's the girl that's after you?"
Piper laughed a little. "That's what i'm calling to tell you, actually. She's right here with me… she uh… changed sides."
"You're kidding… that's amazing… are you sure you can trust her?"
"No, but Kubra isn't exactly waiting for her with a reward, soooo… she's with us. For now. I have an idea to add to whatever plan you guys were going with."
"Let's hear it. I have a few detectives with me on this case… if we really nail this guy, it means good news for everyone… hes wanted everywhere, for everything."
"About that…" piper murmured. "I want to ask you for something." she heard Caputo sigh.
"That is?"
"I don't want an early release, or any time taken off my sentence. All I want is to be where Alex is."
"What? You'd go to max?"
"As long as I have her mister Caputo, you could put me in the SHU for the rest of my life. I want to get out the same time she does. Until then, I go wherever she goes."
"Well that part will happen. Everyone from the pool is getting an extended sentence… I supposed I can pull some strings. You two will be together soon."
"Thank you…." she nodded. "Now about my idea. Stella has contact with Kubra all the time. She can call him whenever. What if we had her play it up so Chicago was a joke and he could come see me killed himself? We get the guards to approve whatever fake name he makes, whatever profile he creates… and he'll be in custody before he knows it."
"That's a pretty bold move, Chapman… but you realize you'll have to put on quite a show for him to believe you… you might even have to get a little hurt."
"If it means putting him away forever, for Alex to finally be safe, i'll do it."
"Okay Chapman… if you say so… i'm going to have one of the guards there approve your phone use. You are to call me and only me until this thing blows over, do you understand?" Piper nodded.
"Yes… Stella is gonna call him right after you, get him all riled up and hopefully he'll be here soon. Tomorrow probably."
"We have eyes on him everywhere. Keep us updated and we'll do the same for you."
"Thank you, Mister Caputo…"
"No, thank you… you're doing the right thing by cooperating, and you're putting yourself in great danger. It wont go in vain, I promise you." Piper ended the call, and looked up at Stella.
"Call Kubra. Now." Stella moved to the chair and Piper kept watch. She dialed his number and he answered right away.
"Speak."
"Hey boss, it's me."
"Oh? I suppose you have good news for me. We had a pretty good understanding with our last conversation if I remember correctly."
"That I do… I have her tied up in the basement… I was about to do it, but then I thought of a great idea."
"The plan was to kill her quickly, but go ahead."
"You could sneak in here like that one other guy did and watch. Take pictures, somehow send them to Alex… I could tape them up in her bunk… make it really sink in, y'know?"
"Are you out of your fucking mind? I'm really gonna come there in person? No way."
"You own the place, don't you?" she looked at Piper with worry. "You could be in and out. Hell, you could even do it yourself… record the whole thing for Alex to see… to be honest with you, I don't think it should be my honor…"
"I'll think on it. I must say, you're one sick little fuck. I might have plans for you yet once you're out."
"Can you let me know by tonight? If not I'm just gonna do it and make it look like a gross accident or some shit."
"Yeah, yeah… call me back around nine. I'll have my verdict by then. Good job."
"Thanks boss… talk later." She hung up, and looked over at Piper. "I really think he's gonna do it… but I have one more trick up my sleeve." she got up, grabbing Piper's hand. "Come on, lets go…"
Before I wrote the last section I figured something like Kubra going into the prison was fucking ridiculous and stupid and would never happen in canon. Then I remembered after I read a fan-fic for post season three where everyone helped Alex cut up Aydin and hide the body and thought "yeah, like that would EVER happen in the show..." and it did. lmfao... so yeah. Most ideas to me aren't way out in space anymore. It'll be written well! we're headed for the end, guys! buckle up!
