Divas Prison Ch10
About a month had gone by since the big fight between Paige and Sasha and, at least by the standards that had been set so far, it had been a fairly quiet one. Paige had no trouble from Sasha. In fact, she seemed to be taking as many steps as she could to keep away from her. Naomi had come back from the lock about a week ago, when she heard about what happened she went to take action as she was clearly going for Paige, but before anything happened Sasha called her back. Naomi had done as she was instructed, but the looks that Paige had been getting ever since showed that she wasn't happy about it. Both Paige and Becky knew that they were going to have to keep an eye on her in case she ever decided to take matters into her own hands.
Getting Sasha off her case had turned out to be only one of the good things that had happened to her since the fight. Becky, of course had won big from her bet on the fight since the odds on Paige were long as nearly everyone else had bet against her. She'd put some of her winnings into Paige's account so that she could finally get herself items from the commissary. Paige was really grateful and couldn't stop saying thank you, although that was met with a "it's ok, now you can stop borrowing all of mine right!" With it, Paige was finally able to get herself a decent set of toiletries and finally got a good, guilt free shower, feeling like herself for the first time in what felt like forever.
She may have had to pay out a huge return to Becky and a couple of others, but none of that stopped Lita from making the huge profit that she had hoped to make if Paige beat Sasha. She too was grateful that things had turned out that he way they did. She had enjoyed Sashas forced retreat more than anyone, except perhaps Paige. Sasha had been causing her trouble long before Paige's arrival, making waves, making noise and generally being a thorn in her side as she tried to usurp her power and become the alpha female of the block. Since the fight, she had barely heard a sound from her. Her intuition told her that things would never be completely over between the two of them and to away so keep her guard up, but this had been a nice change of pace, one that she hoped would last a long long time. She hadn't been withdrawn in showing her gratitude to Paige for what she had done either. Lita and Becky were both considered part of Lita's circle now. They didn't hang out as friends much, but they could talk to her freely and Chyna and Victoria gave them no trouble. On top of that, She too had given her a small taste of her winnings, setting Paige's account up for a while. This time she took the chance to get the one thing she wanted most out of what she could get. Coffee. Paige was able to get the hotplate than she thought she'd never be able to afford and now had access to one of the things she missed the mostly from the outside world.
Paige was sitting at a table alone drinking a cup of her new coffee when Natalya came to join her, carrying a pad and paper. "Mind if I join you?" There was no response. "Hello? Earth to Paige?" Waving her hands at her finally brought Paige back to the present. "Whaa... Oh, hey Nattie, you ok?"
"Well I was going to join you, but maybe you'd rather be alone with your thoughts?"
"No no, sit down, whatcha got there?"
Natalya put her items on the table, "nothing much, just going to write some letters home to my family." Paiges head fell at the last word. "Sorry, are you missing yours?"
Paige shook her head "Not really, we haven't spoken for a long time." I just happened to be thinking about something my Dad said to me once." Natalya looked interested so she carried on. "He told me to always count your blessings, no matter what. Even though I managed to land myself in here, I've managed to get into a place where I feel like I can actually survive this and get out the other side, thanks to you girls and you know, other things." Natalya smiled "Haha, OK champ, thanks for the kind word there, and that is good advice, I do the same thing from time to time. Do you want to write to him?" She pushed the pad towards her but Paige blocked it. "That's ok thanks, like I said, we haven't spoken in a long time, well before I came here, which means if they know I'm here, they don't care as they've made no contact, or they don't know I'm here and I want to keep it that way."
"Aha, you see you do care, or it wouldn't bother you if they knew you were in here or not. See, you should make contact. It's not easy to be the bigger person from the inside." Paige rejected Natalya's second attempt to pass the writing pad over. This time she got the message and started writing her own letter. "So you're close with your family?" Paige asked.
"Oh yeah, I've got quite a large extended family, all of us brought up together, all living in the same area, many of us working in the family business in one way or another."
"That's nice" Paige replied, "did you like it?"
"Of course I did, the family means everything to me, I'd do anything for them, as you can probably tell."
Paige wasn't completely sure what she meant by that. Before she got a chance to ask, Nattie subtly gestured towards the other end of the block. "Check it out."
Paige turned around and saw a girl she hadn't seen before. She was carrying all the same items Paige had when she first arrived, so she was obviously a new inmate. "Guess you're not the new girl anymore." Natalya said. Paige just nodded, not sure how she felt about that yet.
The new girl was quite tall, blonde, older than she was. Everyone was looking at her as she walked past them but she was doing everything in her power to not look anyone in the eye, focusing on following the guard. Paige tried to make contact as she walked past their table, failing to do so but both of them got a good look at her. The look on her face was one of fear.
"Oh, she looks absolutely terrified, I remember that feeling, let's go say hi." Paige said, getting up. Natalya didn't move. "Not right now, give her the chance to take it all in. She'll come back out in her own time, that's the point to talk to her." Paige agreed, but thought back to her arrival, Becky making her feel relived after she felt as scared as this new girl looked. Of course, she was locked into a cell with her as she arrived so late in the day. She felt the need to get a deciding vote so called Becky over. "Settle an argument, Nattie says to leave the new girl be for a bit, I want to go talk to her, the way you talked to me when I got here. You would have come to talk to me if we went locked down wouldn't you?"
"Oh hell no" was the response. "We all need time to get our heads around this place, it can take a long time, but you only got here a little while before lights out. And you were basically crying into your sheets. I wanted to be able to sleep that night so did what I had to do." Paige was a bit downheartened to hear that, both losing the argument to a now smirking Natalya, but wondering what may have happened if she had arrived at a normal time. Becky noticed her reaction. "Don't get me wrong sweetie, you're my best friend, but it would have been better for you to feel this place out for yourself at your own pace." Becky out her hand on Paige's shoulder and she patted it. Time to change the subject, she thought. "Hey, where's Emma got to?"
"Where do you think?, she'll be in the kitchens, getting lunch ready." Natalya replied.
"Exactly, where is she, it's lunchtime and I'm hungry!"
"Well it looks like your wish is granted!" Laughed Paige, as she spotted the arrival of food trolleys at the end of the hall. "Come on, let's eat."
All three of them lined up, got their food trays and sat down again. Conversation was deep before Natalya went quiet and looked up. "See what did I tell you Paige? Looks like the smell of food is drawing her out." The new girl had come out from her cell and was looking around, trying to find her way around and heading towards the lunch line at the same time. One of the guards went to her and pointed out the way for her to go.
"Wow, first time I've seen a guard actually be helpful to any of us, normally they push you or drag you where they want you to go." Paige remarked. "Ha, probably got a crush on her or something." Becky said, barely taking her eyes off of her food. Paige couldn't take her eyes away as the new girl got her food and sat down at a table by herself, starting to eat like she hadn't had a meal in days. "Geez, wherever she came here from didn't feed her. Then again, if the food there was as bad as I got in jail, I wouldn't...have...Paiges voice suddenly trailed off and stopped as she saw what was about those happen. Sasha and Naomi were heading over to the new girls table. Both of them sat down with her, looking like they were just eating together. Paige was doing everything in her power to hear what was going on but couldn't as they were to far away and there were several other conversations in between. She did however, see Naomi pick up the new arrivals pudding pot. That brought back the memories of how everything started for her and Paige couldn't let it go. She was off her chair heading for Sasha before either Becky or Natalya could do anything to stop her. "Oh no, should we go after her?" Becky whispered. "It'll just make things worse, you know she can take care of herself." Was the answer.
Paige reached the table where Sasha and Naomi were. The new girl was staring down at the floor, not wanting to look at any of them. "Hi, you ok?" She asked but got no response. Naomi got straight up when she realised who it was. Sasha then shot up and sat Naomi back down. "What do you want? We aren't bothering you so go sit down."
"No chance. You aren't going to start this again are you? It didn't end so well last time."
Sasha smirked. "I said I'd leave you be but if you're going to get in my business I can't be held responsible."
"Then let's just leave it here." Paige turned her attention to the girl still sitting. "If you like, you can come sit with me over there." The new girl nodded and stood up.
Suddenly several of the guards snapped into action and made their way over to them like they were on fire. "Step away, now!" was the order. Sasha and Naomi backed away and were grabbed by the arm by guards. "Lock em all down till morning" One guard said and the two were led away, not offering any struggle or argument. Paige felt a smirk of her own come on and she went to show the new girl over when she felt someone grab her arm. She looked around and saw there was a guard trying to take her away too. She pulled her arm out of his grip. "What are you doing? I didn't do anything to them, they were trying to bully her." The guard wasn't listening or didn't care as he took her arm again. She pulled it away again and another grand came over and they each grabbed an arm. Paige was getting angrier by the second and kept trying to free her arms and was kicking her legs. "I didn't do anything, ask her! I was trying to help her! Ask her!" The guards did not comply and the new girl was ushered away by another guard but in a completely different manner. Paige was held down on the table by the guards as she continued to plead her case. It continued to be ignored and Paige suddenly felt an unpleasantly familiar feeling as the guards put handcuffs on her. Now much less able to resist, Paige was dragged away from the tables and towards her cell. "What the hell are you doing? You can't do this, I did nothing wrong!" Paige continued to shout as they pushed her into her cell and slammed the door. Paige ran up and kicked the door. Not a smart move as it would later hurt like mad, but the anger had taken over. "You can't leave these things on me! Let me out!" The hatch on the door opened, "Place your cuffs on the hatch if you want them removed." The voice was Guard Rollins. Paige walked backwards to the door and moved,her hands through so the guard could unlock the handcuffs, which he did. "Now we better not hear one more word from you today, or it's the lock for a week. You got me?" There was no response. "Good". He walked away.
Paige sat on the bed, still mad as she had ever been but she had no desire to be sent to solitary when she finally had some conveniences in her cell. She didn't understand what had happened. She was trying to defend a new arrival who was being bullied and got locked down for her good deed. Was it backlash from the fight from the guards? Was it because it was Sasha she was arguing with. Or was it because she got involved with the new girl? Paige decided that she was going to find out what was going on, but couldn't do much more today.
A/N What was that all about? Why did the guards react like that? I imagine most of you have figured out who the new arrival is but none of the characters will find out for a couple of chapters yet.
Sorry this took a bit longer to release. First case of writers block. Hopefully won't be common!
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