Okay, I think just this chapter, maybe one more, and then we'll finally get into my stuff. And yes, I made an "Othello" reference, deal with it. Shakespeare owns the play. Thanks for reviewing, Bloodylilcorpse.

The next day, I could tell just by looking at Roxanne that if Mal had taken my advice, it hadn't gone well. She did tell us all about it, though. It was only lucky that today was the day Dawn had said she'd visit.

And as usual, that girl appeared out of nowhere (okay, I'd never seen her do that in real life, but she kept doing it in the show – seriously, she appeared and disappeared on the beach when Zoey was moping one time, only there long enough to reassure her that Mike was into her after she'd witnessed the whole Vito/Anne Maria thing) and just pulled up a chair while we explained the situation.

Dawn said that there wasn't much left to do, now that Mal was his own person. She added to Roxanne that she could tell that she wanted to be strong and brave for everyone else, but she didn't always have to be. But Roxanne's expression immediately told me that it was one of those awkward moments – you know, the ones when someone just doesn't filter their thoughts and says the first thing they're thinking, except with Dawn, we get everyone else's past or feelings, like Brick apparently having a need to be dominated and Dakota's dreams of fame being a cry for love.

Roxanne left when we got the word that Mal was on his way. She apologized to Dawn for running out on her, but she really didn't want to see Mal for the time being. We talked to Dawn for a bit longer, and then she added something. She said she saw something pink in Roxanne's aura. "It means she's in love."

I'm pretty sure Mal had been listening in on us for a while before he decided to make himself known, but at least we got confirmation from Dawn about what I'd already figured – Mal had jealousy in his aura. Beware the green-auraed monster that doth mock the girl it descends upon, I guess.

As it turned out, Dawn wasn't the only visitor. Just while she was leaving, Manitoba Smith also put in an appearance. We only saw him briefly, since he and Mal were the only ones who talked, but still. It was kind of a relief to see one of Mike's non-evil alters, for once.

But that day – make that up to when my last day of the week and the time I needed to keep my gender secret to stay in Duncan's room – was only going to get worse.

That morning, after Roxanne ran out, was the last time we'd see her for a while. She just seemed to have completely disappeared.

I worried about her all that first day. So did Duncan. But neither of us seemed half as on edge as Mal. He was pretty quiet most of the day, which was anxiety-inducing in itself. His silence usually meant he was planning something, but after everything I'd seen...I knew he was probably desperate to find Roxanne again. I actually tried texting her number, but she didn't answer.

Okay, I did hear that he confronted Steve and asked him if he knew where Roxanne was, but apparently he didn't get anything helpful out of him.

Mal's behaviour got even stranger the next day, when his temper became less dangerous, sort of quieter in a way. He did the same things again. Then he even threatened Duncan and I. As if we could have hidden her.

I was trying to tell him that. "If I knew where she was, I would say something." I insisted. "I'm telling you, she ran out just after we talked to Dawn and that was the last time I saw her."

"You better be right, doll face." Mal warned me, his eyes flickering to the side to make sure Duncan wasn't watching us. He wasn't, so Mal pulled me closer and whispered "Cause if I find out you're lying, you're coming back to my cell and I'm not letting you off easy like last time."

That night, at kitchen duty, Mal tried to question us again, and as it turned out, there was a reason Roxanne hadn't answered any of my calls – he'd broken her phone the other night.

Roxanne was found on the third day. One of Mal's guys, the one called Big Ed that got stuck on kitchen duty with us (lucky this was our last day doing that), came up to us and said Mal wanted us, and explained about Roxanne. Apparently although Mal had found her, she'd been acting distressed and terrified of him since.

It was true. When we got into the cell, Roxanne was sitting on the top bunk, curled up against the wall. She wouldn't move, even when I tried to get her to come down. At least, when I climbed up to her, she let me hug her, but her scared gaze never left Mal properly. Something had happened to make her more afraid of him, and none of us knew what.

Mal insisted that he hadn't done anything, and Big Ed backed him up, but could we believe that? I mean, what could have happened?

Oh, and another thing. Roxanne had a new friend with her – a cute squirrel. It didn't do anything to me when I climbed up to the bunk, but the minute Mal tried to pull Roxanne away from me and talk to her, the squirrel jumped at him. Probably for the best, since she started panicking and whimpering the second he got too close.

I spent the whole time concentrating on trying to calm my friend down. Not an easy task. She calmed down a little bit when the guys left for a moment (including Duncan – Mal wanted to talk to him for some reason), but she still didn't tell me what was wrong.

After that, Duncan came back in and whispered to me what was going on. Apparently, what Roxanne was scared of was something she saw from Mal's personal records and Steve's name was mentioned, but we didn't know anything else at this point.

Finally, what Mal wanted us to do was give Roxanne something and slip in some pills to knock her out. And although neither of us liked the idea, we agreed that she needed the rest. The bags under her eyes rivalled Mal's.

She had calmed down a bit by then. She was hungry, so we got her something from lunch before that, and that's when she explained things. While Duncan was getting the food, she told me that Manitoba had given her the squirrel (they'd talked just before she disappeared) and she had decided to call it Ben.

Then she told me what had made her so scared. It had been to do with Steve. As it turned out, he'd managed to get a bunch of Mal's personal records, and shown her the videos. The spa hotel scene from All-Stars was there, and that was bad enough. Knowing that she and a bunch of guys had been watching Mal holding me down...as if pretending to be male wasn't hard enough! What if one of them recognized me?

It got worse. Mal had been recording just about everything that went down in that place he kept me and Zoey in. Roxanne had been forced to watch multiple scenes of Mal playing his creepy sex games with Zoey, and that awkward night his treatment had forced us to masturbate each other. There was one more less disturbing video – the same one I'd hidden in the hotel, the one that had finally convinced Zoey that I was right. That would have been disturbing enough on its own, but paired with the others...Roxanne had known Mal was a sex offender, but that was the moment it became real to her.

I told Duncan what she'd told me when he came back.

"That explains a lot." he said quietly. "Not to mention why she was looking at Mal that way the entire time we were arguing amongst ourselves."

I nodded.

Mal was pretty annoyed that Roxanne still wasn't asleep when he got back, but he let us off, since it was all for her own good that she got something to eat before knocking her out. Then he let us go.

Okay, now that chapter's out of the way...the real story starts when Bailey leaves the showers.