Kevin's wrists are now firmly gripping onto Alex's, making her incapable of breaking loose. Alex can see sweat dribbling down Kevin's forehead as he moves his face sickeningly close to Alex's.
"I'm sorry." Kevin whispers into Alex's partially opened mouth. She is pinned to the wall by her wrists and is trying not to panic.
"What are you doing?" Alex says while her breathing is heavy and her heartbeat increases as Kevin squeezes her wrists tighter.
Kevin's eyes look directly into Alex's vindictively.
"I'm doing what I'm here to do." Kevin releases one of Alex's wrists and grips tight of her hair from the root and pulls it with a powerful force, yanking Alex into the kitchen counter that is located to her left.
With Alex leaning onto the kitchen counter, Kevin comes up behind her and holds her body in one arm. Alex can hear him rustling with something in his other hand. Once it hits her face she knows exactly what it is. She can feel the cold metal send chills down her body as Kevin caresses her neck with it. She can't help thinking this is such an absurd way for Kevin to be trying to kill her. She needs to think of how to get out of this situation before it's too late. She tilts her head to the side and can now see the gun in full view. It's familiarity is sickening. She has seen it before. All it contours and all it's power staring back at her once again.
With Alex's right hand loose, she waits for Kevin to have the gun as close to her face as he will get. It takes a few seconds, but once it reaches the prime location, Alex twists her arms back over her head and snatches it surprisingly easily. She would have thought Kevin would be holding onto it tighter, but she is glad that he wasn't. In a fluid flow and motion, Alex turns around to face Kevin with the gun grasped in her hands.
"GET UP ON THE FUCKING WALL." Alex screams at Kevin before he obeys her orders. Alex grabs a plate that is lying directly beside her and hits Kevin over the head, shattering it into a collaboration of pieces on the floor.
"WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE? WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU TRYING TO DO THIS?" Alex has the gun now resting on Kevin's forehead as he squirms with fear and stays locked onto the wall in silence.
"ARE YOU DEAF? ANSWER ME YOU PIECE OF SHIT. I SAID WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO DO THIS?" Alex cocks the gun and aims it in the middle of Kevin's forehead.
"ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT. JUST DON'T SHOOT. PLEASE DON'T SHOOT." Kevin's visible fear has now placed him in an even more vulnerable position.
"Hurry the fuck up before I shoot your ass dead." Alex slowly takes the gun away from Kevin's head as she steps back. Although this is the case, she keeps the gun pointed at him.
"Kubra, Kubra sent me. He gave me money. I'm sorry, I really am. This job doesn't pay a lot and i have four kids that I can't provide for. I needed it. I'm not that bad of a guy Alex. I promise." Kevin is sweating and crying viciously as he maintains eye contact with Alex.
"YOU'RE NOT THAT BAD OF A GUY? ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW? YOU WERE GOING TO KILL ME. YOU'RE A PROBATION OFFICER. YOU ARE MEANT TO BE THE GOOD GUY." Alex feels nauseous as she realises Kubra knew where she was the whole time. She thought she was safe here and she was actually looking forward to a new chapter in her life, even if it meant getting regular job. This battle with Kubra was not worth the time lost on her sentence.
Alex looks down at the cold gun that she holds tightly in her hands and feels ill when she thinks about how this same gun nearly killed her once before. It was the gun Aiden had been holding when he entered the prison. It has a distinct grip that Alex had never seen before. It terrifies Alex to a point beyond belief.
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE BEFORE I KILL YOU. DON'T YOU DARE COME BACK HERE. YOU'RE A WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT. I HOPE YOUR KIDS ARE FUCKING PROUD OF THEIR FATHER." Alex sarcastically chuckles and thinks about how her own father disappointed her. Before she met her father, she thought he was a hero that would teach her so many things and tell her so many stories. Disappointment was the elephant in the room when she finally did meet him. I guess Kevin's children will feel the same way if they ever find out what he was going to do to Alex.
"I can't go back home Alex. Kubra is going to kill me. I didn't do what I was told..." Before Kevin finishes his sentence, Alex buts in with more aggression than before
"GET OUT OF HERE. YOU JUST TRIED TO KILL ME, DO I CARE ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS?" With the echoing yells of Alex, Kevin continues to cry and wail as he lets himself out of the apartment. Once he closes the door behind him, Alex is numb.
She slides down the wall behind her and begins to shake with the thoughts of what Kubra is going to do to her next. She isn't safe anywhere. There is only two ways this is going to end: Alex getting killed, or Kubra getting killed. Although Alex is not innocent when it comes to the world, running an international drug cartel is extremely different to being a murderer and Alex does not want to participate in those kind of antics. Minimum security prison was bad enough, but being locked away for potentially the rest of her life in max is a whole different level.
Alex contemplates traveling up to Litchfield tomorrow to see Piper and tell her what had occurred, but she doesn't want Piper to worry. Alex knows how prison can amplify worry and stress and that is the last thing she wants to do to Piper.
Alex jolts back to life when she hears a knock at the door.
"Fuck." Alex scrambles with the cocked gun trying to figure out where to hide it. She settles for the bottom kitchen draw and tries to calm herself as she walks towards the front door. As she is halfway from her original position and the door, the door is kicked off it's hinges and an entire squad of police enter her apartment.
A line of guns face her and the array of yells seem to come to one conclusion "PUT YOUR HANDS UP."
Alex panics but does what is being asked of her.
"Turn around and face the wall." A female officer pushes Alex's face against the wall with a hard thud and a moment later, she is handcuffed.
"Alex Vause, you are under arrest for attempted murder. Anything you do or say may be used against you in the court of law."
"WHAT THE FUCK, HE WAS TRYING TO KILL ME. ARREST KEVIN, KEVIN MILANO. THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING."
"Oh it's happening honey. You'll be going back to prison in no time." The female officer gives Alex a smirk which makes Alex infuriated. The rest of the officers work through her apartment searching and a few moments later, they find the gun.
"That's not mine. It was Kevin's, I swear." Alex is usually not one to have to justify herself and her actions to other people, but being falsely accused for attempted murder makes her uneasy. She should know the system of law well enough to know that keeping your mouth shut is the best option, especially when it comes to throwing people under the bus, but she doesn't.
Alex is hauled down the narrow corridor of her apartment complex as people stare at her. It was a big commotion and everyone seems to be out to take a look. It is humiliating and embarrassing but soon after, Alex enters the back of the ice cold police van. A place she never would have thought she would be in again. With a powerful force, a police officer slams the van doors and Alex watches her freedom get blown up into a thousand pieces.
Here's to the familiarity of restriction.
Author notes:
Short chapter, but definitely not sweet. Once again, Alex was placed in a position of vulnerability and is now faced with a horrific predicament. I wanted to solely focus on Alex in this chapter but the next will shed light onto some unanswered questions referring to other characters. A big question mark surrounds Piper and if she will find out what happened to Alex, or more how she will take it if she does find out. Stay tuned & know that I always appreciate your following.
