Chapter nine
"I demand to see Emma Winifred now!" Katt screamed at her cell door.
"You dying?" c.o. Patterson asked while Roy walked passed.
"No! But I demand to see her nowwwwwww!"
"not dying... no need." Patterson stated not caring. He smirked as Roy gave him thumbs up exiting the SHU.
"Lewis! Please serious!" Katt curled against herself onto her knees.
Patterson made sure no one was around, before his tone changed. "what is it Katt?" he asked.
"No; Lewis! Open this god damn door now!" Katt gritted her teeth.
"You know I'd have to call down someone from e-wing to open this door." he was kind of worried though.
Fernando and Lincoln were listening, confused at what the hell was going on.
"Lewis! Open the door!" Katt banged on it.
"Katt..." Lewis said getting the keys from his belt, he took out SHU key and started unlocking her cell door, he pulled it open.
"Oh sweet Jesus." he stated staring to the female inmate who was white, sweating, shaking and had blood down her uniform.
Lewis freaked out before radioing sic bay; he knew that this wasn't good as he looked to the other cells. "Benton needs emergency escorting to sick bay, repeat, escorting to sick bay now!" he glanced around the area, but A female CO was on the scene with two other woman with a gurney. Katt was placed on it, but her eyes looked around panicking, her throat was dry and her pounding hard, she felt like she was floating above everything before everything went dark.
When Katt come to, she felt the IV in her arm, her face was searching the office before her eyes meet Sara's. "Where's Emma?" she asked before rubbing her head, it was still sore, but she didn't care, her eyes rapidly looking around.
"She's not here; she's taking some personal time off…" Sara said bitter before getting to her feet, it was typical for Emma, Sara thought, in the end it didn't matter.
Katt tried to get up, "What you mean personal time!" Katt spat, it couldn't be true, could it?
Trying to get up she got dizzy again falling back onto the bed her head spun she saw triple.
"As in, time taken off, for personal reasons!" Sara yelled in her face.
Katt glare. "Well! I want to go back to the SHU if you're treating me!" Katt snapped.
"Look! I do not know what your problem is; and I do not! Know what your connection with Michael is but I don't like you! But I am a doctor! So my job is to treat you so fucking shut up!" Sara yelled going red.
"There are a lot of pointy objects in this room ginger junkie." Katt narrowed her eyes.
"Yeah? Try it. Seriously, the moment that IV comes out of your arm you're going to be doubled over because your body has a new born water level! I.e. you should be dead!"
"Should be ... "Katt sighed. "I should have waited a little longer."
'You're sick." Sara commented.
"Like a dog." Katt grinned.
Sara was started to think Katt belonged in the physic ward too, but then she wouldn't be fit to execute and more the first time... Sara couldn't wait to clock a time of death.
Katt kept still, she didn't want to talk anymore, but then her eyes would scan over the room trying to find something, anything to prove Sara was lying to her, but there was nothing, so Katt now closed her eyes to fall a sleep.
When Katt opened her eyes again the sun was gone, it was night time and her head felt better, Sara had gone, so she was with another nurse, it was Katie, plus Katt could semi stand her.
"Hey you're looking much better…" Katie smiled to Katt, but Katt sat up watching the room again, she could see she was now on the ward.
"Yeah, great, Katie, you can tell me what's wrong with Emma?"
"It's personal." Katie said.
"Please... I ... I need to know." Katt's head didn't hurt so bad anymore.
Katie sighed. "Listen. I know you care about Emma. But.. I can't go against a workers code here."
"If you don't tell me!" Katt didn't like not getting her way.
"Settle down. I can't... But she seemed a little ... Depressing."
Katt narrowed her eyes. Burrows! She was gonna kill him! She freaked out trying to sit up.
"Whoa! Whoa! You have to stay lying down!" Katie looked alarmed at her sudden movements.
"BADGEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Katt screamed. Lincoln Burrows is going to pay with his testicles in a box!
Katie held her hands in surrender, "Ok, you need to calm down, if you calm down stop yelling I'll let you what I know!"
Katt stopped yelling, her eyes wide looking up to Katie with a new hope. "Really, please, I need to talk to her, please…"
Katie sighed pinching the bridge of her nose, but then took out a cell phone. "Ok, but this never happened ok!"
Katt nodded, "nope, nothing…" she waited while Katie dialled Emma's number, it rang twice when Emma picked up.
"Hello…" Emma's voice was a dull tone, she was still in bed curled up with a teddy she's had since her Grandmother died.
"Hey, it's Katie, I know this is strange, but Katt needs to talk to you…" Katie held her breath, but Katt was watching her with intense eyes.
"Hand her the phone…" Emma finally said as Katt now snatched the phone from Katie placing it to her ear.
She listened. For a long moment she listened. "Wanna talk about it?" Katt said.
Emma stared to her wall clock, blank eyes. "No." She said after a second.
"Wanna talk about it?" Katt repeated.
"No." Emma repeated as well.
There was a long silence. Katt looked over to the bars of the infirmary window. Her fingers ran up the middle of her chest fingers wrapped around her half of the heart.
"Wanna talk about it?" She said again.
Emma stood up turning around she looked out her living room window. "He didn't say anything back..." Her voice was light.
"I heard..." Katt said softly.
"You did?" Emma looked up quickly.
"Drain pipe; not the point. Listen... You don't know what I heard after ... You left."
"Want to enlighten me?" Her eyes looked at the tempting bottle of pain killers.
Katt moved the phone from one side of her ear to the other, she took a deep breathe.
"He does, he couldn't say it cos some reason the Ass Hat loves you!" her voice rough, but she thought if he wasn't going to say it, someone needed to.
Emma now ran her fingers up and down the pain killer bottle, her eyes looked to the snow falling from her bedroom window with a sigh.
"It doesn't matter anyway, he didn't say it, and I was just an easy lay, again…" Emma spoke softly, her eyes glancing at her reflection.
Katt closed her eyes, her hand tighter on the locket, her eyes a blaze, "Emma, why do you do this to yourself, you lock everyone out, and when you let someone in, you throw in the towel so easy!"
"Doesn't that sound like someone we know?" Emma glared at the snow.
"Emma; seriously - Please." Katt pleaded for the first time in a long time.
Emma bowed her head she gripped the bottle of pain killers tightly. She felt the plastic caving under the pleasure she was putting on it. "I do not want to talk about this right now; I just want to have a cup of tea and relax." Emma stated.
"Answer me why." Katt glared getting cold.
"Because Katt; Just because - You answer me why!" Emma snapped.
"You know why Emma - You KNOW why. I'm not saying it again."
"Oh; oh yeah that's right. Daddy hit you, Momma ignored you - So you react like a lost puppy!"
"I wouldn't call it a puppy Emma." Katt said trying to keep calm.
"No; because puppies don't kill people, Psychopaths do."
"So... You're finally admitting you think I'm a psychopath?" Katt swung her feet.
Emma didn't respond. "I'm going to hang up now." Emma started taking from phone from her ear.
"Just remember I never hung up on you when you needed it." Katt let go of the half heart otherwise she knew she'd snap it.
"No - You just were never there." Emma put the phone back to her ear.
"Will I am kind of in Solitary confinement." Katt added.
"I'm not talking about now Katt; I'm talking about all the other times. When I needed you, but you never came did you? No you were off sniffing an ounce of coke off some STI infected forty year old cop." Emma wasn't herself. She wanted to hurt anything she could to make herself feel good even thought she knew she wouldn't.
"If only you knew." Katt's whole tone changed, even her posture on the bed, it was more, that is my pain; No one else's.
"I don't care." Emma coldly said.
"That's okay; I don't mind." She said cheerfully. It was so fake it sounded real.
Emma watched the snow fakes hitting the window.
"Look Katt, just do me one favour…" she said calmly, she reached over to a bottle of Jack sitting on her vanity table opening it with one hand, "Just remember July fourth…" she whispered before hanging up the phone.
Katt listen to the dial tone, she handed Katie back the phone feeling a sinking sensation run through her, and it was cold and scary.
Katie blinked, it was confusing but she heard the door to Sara's office open thrusting the phone back into her pocket.
"Katie, can you cover Emma's shift tomorrow, she's having a lot more free time off," Sara sighed rolling her eyes.
"What you mean Sara?" Katie asked while pretending to be seeing to Katt's IV, but Sara just shrugged.
"She quit…" Sara said bitter, "I found her letter of resignation on my desk!"
Katt froze her whole body tensed.
She need out of this prison NOW!
"I'm fine now. I feel great!" She said quickly.
"You need to stay here the night. Because you're dehydration could kill you." Katie explained before turning to Sara.
Sara waved Katie out of the room.
Katt started freaking out. She needs to be back on Death Row. She needed to be on P.I. she needed Pickle and she needed out NOW!
"Quit why?" Katie asked quickly looking to Sara.
"I ... She just said she needed personal time - Vacation, the right amount of time to get back on track." Sara held the letter up. His eyes found Katt. Who looked still - to still.
Katie sighed, "I'm gonna head off, I'm off the clock now…" Katie now gave Katt a, 'I'll get to the bottom of this' look, while Katt nodded.
Sara walked around the bed looking to Katt who still wasn't talking to her; it didn't bother her that much.
"In my opinion, I just think it's sad she has so much potential, but throws it all away…" Sara spoke more to herself than to Katt.
"Lucky your opinion means squat to me…" Katt snapped out while remembering that tone in Emma's voice, but Katt didn't understand, fourth of July, it was independents day, fourth of July, the day they meet, that was a happy time, why would that day mean so much to Emma.
Katt now looked to Sara placing an injection into her IV, "What the fuck!" Katt jumped trying to keep the fear in her voice hidden, Sara rolled her eyes.
"It's to help you sleep…"
Emma was drinking right from the bottle of her best friend in the whole world that never let her down and was always there for her. Jack Daniels. Hours had passed this was the second bottle. Her head was spinning and the radio was playing a whole lot of crap until a drum beat came up. Emma's head turned to the dial turning it up. "WE ALL SEE IT ON TV AND READ IT IN MAGAZINES! CELEBRITIES WHO WANT SYMPATHY!" Emma drunk-sang along to the song she loved so much. She looked to the bottle of half gone pain killers her head started to her heavy and swim as she took another swig of the Jack she stood up to dance but didn't make it off the couch. She fell on her face ... And didn't get up...