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Kia walked back in to the prison to find it quite and serene. She immediately noticed what was different. It wasn't just the atmosphere but that Layla was standing in line at the canteen alone. Her tray pressed close to her chest as her eyes scanned the girls around her.
Plenty of them were looking back, each sending her an evil stare which the young English girl was trying to ignore. Kia walked the isle she spotted John lurking the other side of the room but chose for now to ignore him. This time she was headed over to Beth and Mickie for information.
Pausing near Eve Torrez who was having a gossip with a small Asian girl called Gail Kim, Kia stopped only because she heard her own name.
"Yes Kim, you had something to say." Kia said silencing the girl almost immediately. Gail looked up at Kia with wide eyes, they held a look that only constant drug abusers could have. That distant stare that almost looks beyond you, with slightly dilated pupils and hollow lids.
"No Ma'am, just saying that it was your day off yesterday." Gail said her voice small as she lowered her eyes. Kia thought it was a nice save, considering the girl probably had few brain cells to work with now.
"Luckily for you I am back today then isn't it." Kia said letting the girl off with just a stern look as she continued down the hallway.
"James, Phoenix I need to speak with you." Kia said from a good few feet away so that everyone else thought they were about to get a telling off.
Beth and Mickie just looked at one another confused. Having finished their breakfast they had no reason to protest. So putting away their trays both women turned and followed Kia back to cell fifteen.
Almost as soon as they arrived Kia sat then down and lent against the sink.
"Well what went on, I know something happened. Randy left early. Dave is up in Mark's office and John looks quite for once." Kia said trying to keep the excitement out of her voice and failing.
"Oh ma'am you missed a treat." Mickie said catching on to Kia's excitement as Beth shook her head in amusement.
"Well are you trying to annoy me or is it something you can do without trying. Spit it out girl." Kia teased as Mickie grinned wide.
"In a nut shell. Me and Beth got cornered by Michelle and Layla. We though Beth was a goner Michelle had her cornered with a hockey stick when who should come crashing through the doors." Mickie said pausing as if waiting for Kia to actually guess who it was. Met with only a scowl Mickie continued.
"John Cena, the man himself. He pulled Michelle off Beth, I went and got Mr Orton and Mr Copland while Mr Cena saved Beth's life. I mean it was great. Then Mr Callaway threw Michelle in the hole for ten days, ten, can you believe it. ten whole days of freedom." Mickie continued as Beth placed a hand over her still rambling mouth.
"Mickie rambling." Beth said smiling at the prison guard who was looking somewhat amused at Mickie as she pushed herself upright.
"Sounds like quite a day. Thank you ladies, I guess I can get the rest from Mr Cena, I don't think he will be ashamed to tell me this story." Kia said leaving the girls to themselves before it was time for work.
"You know I am actually starting to like her." Mickie said as the large woman left their cell and Beth stood up and watched her walk down the hallway.
"You know me to."
Mark had not dared go to Michelle that first night. He knew to do so would only incur her wrath. He would leave her a day or so to calm down, and realise that he had no choice to do what he did.
Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes now and watching from the upper balcony as Kia led Mickie and Beth back to their cell, just what was going on there.
Mark knew Kia was as hard as they came, but she was also straight when it came to getting the prisoners things. She never made deals with cons, nor did she speak to them in private unless it was to give them a hiding.
This seemed different though. the girls were fine when Kia came out not five minutes later. Mark could see Beth leaning against the bars as Mickie joined her and said something to make the blonde laugh. Mark tightened his fists on the railing as the women came back up the stairway. They chatted and giggled and Mark was not in the mood for all this noise right now.
"Quite ladies, unless you want to feel the back of my hand. This is prison, not a night club." He yelled as the women silenced and continued on their way. Mark briefly watched as Layla dashed back to her cell and stayed in there as all the other women began to file back out on to the landing.
Mark proceeded down the stairs and kept his eyes on the cell as the woman did not appear. He had decided to rescind his cellular confinement punishment in favour of making the English girl do toilet duty. It was less costly for them and helped out with a highly unwanted job. Now the woman was hiding in her cell and refusing to come out. As the rest of the women filled passed him Mark headed for cell seven to get and answer.
Layla was lying on her bunk hoping that Cena or Steven's would came in a see what was wrong. Layla had every intention of pulling a sticky. That was until she saw the person she least wanted to see turn up at her door.
"El get up, its time for work." Mark said and Layla cringed at the sound of his voice but did not move.
"I said up, don't make me come over there." Mark said keeping his voice low so no one else would here it.
"I'm sick sir." Layla said and she heard the man scoff.
"Sick my arse, you were in breakfast, if your gob can work so can the rest of you." Mark said marching the few steps it took to get to Layla. Swinging his hand down to clamp it around Layla's arm Mark hauled her out of bed and on to the stone floor.
"Up now." Mark said to the slightly shaking woman as she looked up at him with big brown eyes.
"Sir they are going to kill me." Layla said finally hoping to appeal to his good side like Michelle did.
"Sorry love you seem to be operating under the impression that I give a shit." Mark said pulling her up now to a standing position and Layla had no choice but to exit the cell. Turning and stopping Layla knew she would have to play her ace card if she was going to survive the next ten days.
"You do realise that if something happens to me. Michelle will blame you and tell the film crew what has been happening between you and her. You know her Mark she will do it." Layla said using his first name to drive over her pint.
Marks expression changed slightly before he pushed Layla in to the hallway.
"Work El now, but I will see what I can do." Mark said, having to admit the English girl had him by the short and curly's there.
The rest of the day passed slowly and uneventfully for Kia. She managed to get in a quick word with John at lunch and he had seemed to change. His eyes no longer wondered along the row of women, staring at them like a bowel of water in the desert. He actually concentrated on the conversation he was having with Kia and even managed to make some valuable points.
"You know Layla is going to get it sooner or later. We can't have eyes on her twenty four seven." John said watching as Layla made her way across the dining room and back to her cell. Her meal barely touched.
"Maybe we should see if we can get a couple of the other girls to protect her." John said the cogs in his mind working as he spotted Kelly and Eve walking up to return their trays.
"How do you propose that will work. None of them like those two. No one is going to put their life on the line for one of those girls." Kia said as her eyes fell on Beth and Mickie who were currently chatting to Gail.
"Maybe they will if we offer them something for it." John said with a smile on his face as Kia turned to him and folded her arms.
"Oh no Cena I am not taking part in one of your deals. They never turn out well, as you recently discovered." Kia said but John was shaking his head.
"Nothing like that. I mean we get them better jobs, maybe more visiting hours and a note in their file for good behaviour." John said and Kia had to admit. When the man had a good idea. He had a damm good idea.
"Now all we need to do is pick the perfect candidates." John said as his eyes tracked in the same direction as Kia's.
Mickie and Beth sat outside in the Texan sunshine and watched the clouds drift passed. Not really wanting to play anything today they watched as the other girls threw the basket ball around.
"You know we haven't really spoken about what we are going to do about Michelle." Mickie said turning to Beth who was still looking at the sky.
"I know and I was hoping to keep it that way, for let me think, the next nine and a half days." Beth said not a hint of humour on her voice and Mickie shook her head.
"You know we have to come up with something that woman is going to be mad, and you can bet she is thinking of a plan down in the hole." Mickie replied as Beth swung towards her on the bench and looked Mickie in the eyes.
"I know she is. I mean you do nothing but think down their, and what her mind can come up with. It frightens me Mickie to tell you the truth." Beth said as she spotted Kong out of the corner of her eye. The guard seemed to be coming towards them. She was moving slowly though so Beth couldn't be sure.
"That girl frightens me too. I was thinking we could use Layla in some way, I haven't figured out how yet though. perhaps in a trap." Mickie said thinking out loud as Cena coughed and made both women jump.
"Ladies we have a proposition for you." He said and Beth and Mickie turned to see Kia smiling back at them and they got the term we pretty quickly.
"Sir whatever your selling I can pretty much guaranteed we don't want it." Mickie said giving him the evil eye. She still hadn't forgiven him completely for what he did to Beth, but she was getting there.
"Sir maybe you should take this somewhere else, I think I have been in enough trouble for one day." Beth said thinking back on her short time here. Finding that she barely had any day here without some kind of drama. That was baring her time in the hole of course.
"I think you should here what he has to offer before you turn him down girls." Kia said placing her hand on Beth's shoulder. Giving the blonde no choice but to sit and listen.
The prison was silent, Adam and John sat in the guards office, the women were asleep and a lone figure crept along the service corridor.
No one knew Mark was still here, he had parked his car around the back entrance today so that when the night shift arrived he would not be noticed.
Now he took a corridor never used at night. It was used for meal times only and now it was deserted and far darker than Mark remembered it.
Pushing open the door at the end with a loud squeak Mark cringed at the noise. Waiting still and silent no one came to investigate the strange squeaking. Figuring that he was just too far away from the office for them to here it. Mark chose to leave the door open to minimize his chances of getting herd on the way back as he headed down the next hallway.
All the way down to the end cell he headed. He did not stop he did not hesitate, he knew he had to get this done quickly. If he got found here there would be no excuse, he would have no where to run.
"Michelle" He whispered, even though no one else was on the isolation block at the minute, Mark's ever present fear of being caught prevented him to speak at normal volume.
"Mark?" A soft quite reply came as Mark crouched down outside Michelle's cell and opened the hatch.
"it's me, look I am going to have to make this quick. I put you down here I had no choice. No one was falling for your story, and with your record it would look suspicious if I let you off. "Michelle went to interrupt but Mark silence her with his finger.
"Also you attacked one of my guards. All I can do is get you off here faster, for good behaviour, maybe I can have you out in three days. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut." Mark said as he caressed his finger to Michelle's lips and the blonde kissed the digit.
"I can do that sir." Michelle said and her voice sounded sickly sweet. Mark was too late, he realised that Michelle had planned her revenge and she was now going to get it. As her teeth clamped down on his index finger Mark stifled a scream. He couldn't not make any noise in case anyone came running.
Desperately pulling his finger out of Michelle's clamped jaws Mark examined the bleeding finger. He could almost make out the individual teeth marks as her pulled out a cloth from his pocket and wrapped it around the wound.
"Sorry sir, I was just very hungry and you looked so tasty." Michelle said. It was the first time Mark had ever been truly scared of her.
"You know what you can rot down here bitch, and if you tell any one about or liaisons I will deny it and tell them you made it up out of spite because I put you down here." Mark said getting up and backing away down the corridor.
"Callaway, you will live to regret this, I promise you that." Michelle hissed at him as he snuck back through the service door and closed it.
"I don't think so Michelle." He said under his breath as he made his escape before anyone spotted him.
Mickie and Beth were sitting on their bunks. Lights out had been hours ago but they both could not sleep. Not wanting to discuss what Kong and Cena had offered them when little ears were listening both girls had decided to keep quite until lights out.
Now that moment had come neither of them knew what to say.
"It's a good deal." Beth said logically. Mickie humphed below her.
"Yeah its also a death sentence, how many girls want a crack at Layla and we have to stop them. We will be the second most hated people on G block." Mickie said sitting up now but keeping her voice low.
"Ok maybe but not if we offer the girls something too. Like we share out our extra visits. I don't need them anyway." Beth said as Mickie poked her head over the top of Beth's bed.
"Maybe we could convince them to give us huge bars of chocolate we can share out." Mickie said and Beth could see the white row of Mickie's teeth.
"Yeah and you know what Kong said about looking into my case for me, getting good notes in our files. We could be out in a few years Mickie, no dream this time." Beth said and Mickie could here the excitement in her friends voice.
"Ok but I suggest we talk it over with Layla tomorrow, I mean she might not be happy about this. There is every possibility she will stab us in the back soon as look at us." Mickie said as she settled back down on to the mattress.
"Then I guess we wait until the morning and ask her." The blonde said as she settled back down into the not so comfy blanket and closed her eyes.
Beth knew if Kong was looking into her case there might be a chance of a retrial and appeal. Beth wanted her life back more than anything. That and to be free from all the bars that currently defined her life.
There is the next update I know not a lot happens but you got to set up the action sometimes. Can't all be go. Let me know what you think, will Layla like the protection scheme or will she betray Mickie and Beth. Has Michelle finally lost it down in that dark cell or does she know something no one else does. To find out review and I will update soon. Thanks for reading. XxX