Divas Prison Ch32

"Paige honey, wake up." Becky got little more than a snort in reply. "Come on" she moaned, now starting to gently shake her. Paige tried to pull the blanket between them, then tried to push her arms away, but she had to face the truth that sleep wasn't an option anymore.

"Whaaat? Bex, I'm still sleepy. Either come here or go away." Paige held up an arm, expecting Becky to cuddle up to her, but when she felt nothing, finally opened her eyes and as surprised to see that the lights were on and Becky was standing by the door, looking out the very small window at the empty communal area. "Why are the lights on?"

"Because they always come on in the morning. It just didn't wake you up."

"Are you surprised? After what you did to me last night?" Paige smirked as Becky immediately started turning red, not able to now look her in the eye. Paige held her hand out and this time Becky walked over and took it, sitting down on the bunk, but with her back to Paige, who now reached out and pulled Becky's hair back off her face. "Ah, don't be embarrassed my baby, you were amazing." Paige moved herself round so she was now sitting up next her scarlet faced girlfriend, kissing her tenderly on the cheek. "I love you."

Becky put her head on Paige's shoulder. "Love you too, thought you were mad at me for waking you."

"I was, but for some reason I can't stay mad at you for very long. So what was so important you needed to wake me up?"

Becky went red again. "I um, I thought you might want some breakfast." Paige spotted her reaction, deciding to enjoy it. "Well I do seem to have quite an appetite this morning for some reason, but it's ok, I'd rather stay with you."

"No, I meant with me. Get breakfast with me."

Paige was surprised to hear that. "Are you sure Bex? After everything that's happened, even yesterday, you're ok going out there?"

"Well no, but it can be just you and me right? I'd rather be out there with you than be alone again. I don't want to be alone again."

"I told you, you've got me for good, you're not alone. It's ok, I'd love to go get breakfast with you, it's the least I should do for you. When we get out, I'll be cooking you breakfast for a night like that." Paige grinned as Becky reacted with embarrassment again. Paige took Becky down and started kissing her until the door released for breakfast.

Once they had their food, Paige selected a table for them in the corner. She sat down facing the room so Becky had her back to as many people as possible. This proved to be a good idea as Paige could see several other women glancing over at them, at Becky specifically. After Sasha's outburst, anyone who wasn't aware of Becky's incident did now and Paige hated the way they were looking at her. Since she couldn't take on the whole block, she had to try and ignore it.

She did this by focusing on Becky and making sure that she was coping through it all. Which she seemed to be doing quite well, especially once most had finished eating and had dispersed to do other things. Paige and Becky stayed sat at the table and just kept talking about the future. They didn't go undisturbed for all that long of course, as Charlotte came up to them.

"Hi, Becky how are you doing?" Charlotte sat down with them. Becky didn't respond, but nodded, looking around to see if anyone else was there. "I'm sorry if I upset you yesterday, I don't want there to be any more bad blood."

Becky looked at Charlotte for the first time. "No, I don't want that. I want my friends back, all of them."

"So you've thought about what I said yesterday Charlotte?" Paige asked. "I'm sorry I took my anger out on you and Nat, but Banks just pushed me too far."

"I can understand that, it was a horrible thing she did to you two. I do want to work it out with her, if she can understand that Brie is my friend too now. I'm don't expect them to ever be friends, but just stop the fighting. Brie said she's ok with that."

"Whatever it takes, I'm with Bex on this, but you and her, it's just friendship right, I heard something more is going on." Paige asked, but dismissing it with her tone.

"Yeah of course, who told you that?" Charlotte went a little red too at the insinuation.

"I overheard it, man I'm good at embarrassing people today." Paige laughed, getting a smack from Becky. "Sorry, it wasn't meant like that."

It's ok, but that's only one of the reasons that I came over. I've got a cellmate for the first time and she asked about you. Well I think it's you, you might not be the only Paige. You won't believe it, she's a former tv star!" Charlotte whispered the last part but Paige went wide eyed, knowing at once who it was.

"Summer?" Paige asked, noticing Becky's eyebrows raising.

"Yeah, she came in last night. She's acting like I felt on my first night, but she said she's been in months."

"She's struggling to adjust to this place. I met her on the block they sent me too. She's a nice girl, just not taking the change in the lifestyle very well. She got bullied a bit too. So where is she?"

"In my, well, our cell. Not really interested in coming, the it, maybe you could help with that?"

"Sure." Paige went to get up but Becky grabbed her wrist. "She's nice Bex, come with me and meet her?" Becky got up and went with them, but wrapped herself around Paige's arm.

When they reached the door, Paige, and by association, Becky, waited outside while Charlotte went inside. "Someone wants to talk to you." was heard before Charlotte came back out. Summer poked her head out slowly, looking around before making eye contact with Paige. She came out and gave Paige a hug, although Paige could only respond with one arm.

"It's really good to see you're ok." Summer said to Paige.

"Yeah, wish I could say the same." Paige replied, looking at the nasty, yet colourful bruise around Summer's eye.

"Oh yeah, I got into a bit of a fight with Alexa in the laundry room. She looks worse than I do." Summer tried not to smile, but couldn't stop the grin forming on her face, getting a laugh from Paige. "They told us in the medical block that one of us was being transferred out, and it turned out to be me."

"Well you've got friends here, I promise you that. You won't have to suffer anymore."

"I'm suffering everyday in here Paige, I still am trying to find a way to get released, but at least I'll be in better company till that happens." Summer gestured towards Becky "So is this who I think it is?"

"Probably, Bex, this is Summer, the only person I was able to talk to while I was in C block. Summer, meet Becky, the love of my life." Hearing that made Becky feel a lot better and she let go of Paige to shake Summers hand.

"It's good to meet you in person. Paige talked about you nearly all the time, especially after what happened, it's good to see you so well, she was scared stiff." Becky now didn't know how to react, eventually getting quite upset.

"You know about that? How do you know about that? Paige, did you tell her? Why would you do that? I don't want anyone else to know!"

"Calm down baby, ok?" Paige reached towards Becky, who didn't respond. "Remember I told you a guard was using it all to provoke me? Summer was there when it happened. That's how she knows, and she was there for me after I saw you in the hospital. She helped me ok, she's one of us." Becky did calm down from that, allowing Paige to hold her.

"I'm sorry Pai."

"It's alright, it's going to be a sensitive issue, nobody blames you."

"I love you Paige." Becky then moved out of Paiges grasp and turned to Summer,

"Sorry, I didn't mean to shout at you. Thanks for looking after her for me."

"It was my pleasure, she helped me too. You've got a great girl there."

"Thanks." Becky and Summer shared smiled at each other, with Becky not clinging onto Paige as tightly as she was.

"So what happened after I left? Did any of the guards get fired?" Paige asked Summer.

"I don't know, they didn't tell us anything, just got an introduction from one who said she was the new supervisor. I think she called herself Guard Phoenix, or something like that."

"Oh yeah, I thought she hadn't been around for a few days." Charlotte said. "I thought we were supposed to have a female guard at all times?"

"Well don't go telling anyone Char, they're usually the biggest nightmares of them all. Get Summer to tell you about the one we had in C block some time." Paige and Summer shared a look of horror as they recalled the nightmare they had to put up with.

There wasn't a chance to retell that story at that point, as everyone's attention was main doors to the block opened, then was slammed shut as the guards attention was focused in the prisoner who was trying to wrestle herself free, despite being handcuffed and a guard on each of her arms. She had bandages over parts of her face, making it difficult to see, but the red hair waving around in the struggle and the voice shouting out made the identification easy. It was Lita.

"Get the hell off me, you no good sons of bitches!" Lita shouted, not going easily as she continued to be dragged across the block. "When I get loose, there's going to be hell to pay! The bodies will pile up! I know you can hear me too! You're first! Make your peace and say your prayers! Dammit, let me go right now!"

The guards on each arm paid her no attention, although others helped out when necessary, while watching out to make sure that nobody else got involved, or tried to help Lita. Chyna and Victoria were hovering close, as well as others, some just watching, some seemingly interested in Lita's situation.

When they reached Lita's cell, she was pushed inside and the door was secured just quickly enough as she tried to beat them, crashing into the door with a loud bang, before several more that everyone knew was her trying to kick the door down. The hatch on the door was open, so her shouting could be heard by almost everyone, although by this point it has disintegrated into a mixture of random threats and swearing. The guards made no attempt to respond, although they all stayed around the door until finally, things went quiet and Lita resigned herself to the situation, obeying the instruction not to attempt anything hostile while the handcuffs were removed through the hatch, which was then locked. The guards then dispersed to other activities or posts. Victoria and Chyna attempted to approach the door to make contact, but were quickly ordered away. The others who took a keener interest than most stayed close and watched until the drama was all over. After that they talked amongst each other and walked away. What they said couldn't be heard, but there was laughter and their manner was way to joyful to go unnoticed.

"That was terrible, why would they laugh about that?" Summer asked the group as a whole.

"I don't know, but they probably had some kind of hand in it, or are looking to get something out of it. What actually happened Char? Who are those four?" Paige asked.

"I didn't actually see the attack on Lita, I was at my work. When word got out about it, everyone went crazy. People going in and out of offices, phones that won't stop ringing, arguments and raised voices was the standard conversation. Then in the yard, one of those four, the only one with dark hair, stood on the table Lita always sits at, tries to announce like a big shot how they are in charge now. Her and those other three. You can guess how well that went down. Chyna was ready to fight them all, even Sasha didn't take it very well."

"You're right, no big surprise. Maybe Sasha could fight them, I wouldn't care who loses." Paige smirked, but realised nobody else did. "So do they have names?"

"Mickie. Mickie James, that's the loudmouth one. I think one of the others is called Angel, didn't get the others, but they refer to themselves as 'Knockouts'"

"If these Knockouts want to run things, we better find out more. You know that means Nattie is our best bet right?" Charlotte nodded with resignation at Paige's comment.

"I know, I'm ready for it. If she starts arguing, I'll back off this time, but I still hope we can make it up."

"Me too" Becky said quietly, before grabbing Charlotte's hand and pulling her over to where Natalya was sat, writing.

"Becky, what are you doing?"

"Charlotte wants to bury the hatchet, can't you two just talk about this?"

"Fine, why would you stab me in the back after we accepted you, despite everything?" Natalya's harsh tone wasn't a surprise, but still made Charlotte take a step back, knocking into Paige, who caught her, and sat her down at the table.

"I've done nothing to you Nat, I've just made another friend who you don't like. It doesn't mean I think or care any less about you or anyone else."

"Can you blame me? You saw what happened and you did it anyway."

"Not to upset you. We just have similar mindsets, we clicked. I'm not asking you to get on with her, as much as I'd like that. I just don't want to have to choose. Can we just be friends again?"

"Come on Nattie" Paige interjected "It's not worth holding more grudges is it?"

"No it isn't. As long as you don't give me a reason not to trust you. The you will have to choose, we all will. I hope it doesn't come to that." Natalya stood up and offered a handshake, but an overly relieved Charlotte went around it and hugged her friend. As she did, she caught sight of Brie and Nikki across the room. Nikki was talking but Brie wasn't paying attention, instead keeping eye contact with Charlotte with a genuine smile on her face.

"About time, you two. I hope this is the last of the fighting amongst ourselves." Paige said as Charlotte let go and they all tried to sit around the table, Becky opting for her favourite place to sit. Paige handled the introduction between Summer and Natalya, who was also happy to hear of her support for Paige.

"So, what was all that with Lita earlier? I've never seen her like that before. So angry. And those four who were enjoying it. What did you call them, Knockouts?"

"Ugh, Mickie James. I hoped never to cross paths with her. She's been in and out of jail as long as I can remember. Before I got sent down, I gave her a wide berth. She was either bad luck or a bad criminal, the amount of times she got caught. This time she's brought three young kids down with her. They went out robbing banks, well for all of about four days before the cops got them anyway. Knowing her, she probably promised them masses of money, that they'd be famous criminals, people making movies about them."

"So that's why they named themselves Knockouts? Summer asked.

"Yeah, for the newspapers and tv and such. Her little followers call themselves Madison, Velvet and Angelina. I'll bet all of them are fake too."

"I'm surprised they put them all together in the same wing. All this could have been avoided if they did that, seems like something they'd do." Charlotte asked, worried that she'd be ignored.

"I know, but from what I've found out, she cut a deal with the cops and the DA. Their last robbery turned into a massive hostage situation. She knew they weren't getting out so got them a deal to let everyone go and surrender. Now she's got them believing they are going to run the prison instead."

"How has she got these girls so whipped? How have they not realised where they are? You'd think that they wanted to be here." Summer sounded both sickened and confused at the idea.

"One thing everyone has said about Mickie is she has a silver tongue. She's good at manipulating people, gaining blind trust and loyalty. It certainly looks true with those three."

"So what can we do about them? Surely we aren't just going to let them dictate our lives. There are too many people in uniform doing that already." Paige sounded ready for a fight, which upset Becky.

"Do you have to go looking for trouble? I only just got you back and already you're going to risk yourself."

"Becky's right Paige. Naive or not, those four are dangerous. Do not try and take them on, you saw the condition of Lita when they brought her in." Becky suddenly held onto Paige tight, everyone at the table knew she didn't like the idea of Paige getting beaten like Lita was.

"It's ok baby, I'm not that crazy." Paige rubbed Becky's back and she loosened her grip. "How did that happen to Lita anyway? Where was Trish, or one of her goons?"

"Trish was in the shower, I know because when she saw Lita down on the floor she ran across the block wet and half naked to help her, guards didn't do a lot to stop her either." The murmurs of disapproval went around.

"What about Chyna and Victoria?"

"Honestly, I'm not sure. They both appeared once they knew what happened. I didn't see where either of them came from. They had a pretty good argument afterwards about whose fault it was. Maybe it was a mistake. Whatever it was, Mickie and her clowns picked their moment well." Natalya sounded frustrated at the events she was recounting.

"So what do we do Nattie? You're the sensible one here." Charlotte didn't want to sound like she was sucking up to Natalya, but took the opportunity to try and help mend fences.

"Lita won't thank anyone who does something without her. If that's what she wanted, her group would have tried to use Mickie's head as a football by now. She's back on the block so she can do what she wants soon. Plus they'll be watching her. If she calls us, we might have to be ready. Nobody's going against her right?" Everybody showed their agreement with Natalya's position. Even Becky, even if it was a little reluctant.

"She won't be kept on lockdown for long. When she gets out, then we'll see."

Lita was kept confined for around 48 hours. Anyone slow to rise the morning after her return was treated to a repeat of her verbal barrage when guards refused to let her leave the cell, having to physically block her, which took more than one of them. Trish and Lita had clearly spent time overnight talking about things, as Victoria and Chyna spent the whole day with Trish, huddled around a table and deep in conference. Nobody dared to go anywhere near them at any point through the day, which was certainly a good idea. They involved no one else in the conversation. It left no doubt that something was going to happen when Lita did emerge. With every woman on the block making plans to either be ready, or to be as far as possible from the inevitable confrontation.

When everyone came out the following morning, there was an obvious increased guard presence. As Lita hadn't been forced back as she was the previous day, they knew why. The guards were there in case she acted on her threats. Surprisingly, the atmosphere around her was a lot calmer than anybody thought. There was no confrontation in the breakfast line and everything passed smoothly. Lita was at a table with her usual company. Mickie and her group sat on the other side of the room and everyone ate in peace. Paige was sat with Becky, Summer and Charlotte when Natalya joined them. Becky got up to give her a seat, moving to Paige's knee without warning.

"Ooof! Little warning next time!" Becky just grinned. "Yeah alright. You know I'm not complaining. Quiet morning, huh Nat?"

"Yeah, that's not a surprise though. Lita may be angry as all evil, but she's not going to go at Mickie as soon as they let her out, not when even this lot" she gestured at the guards "were expecting it."

"She must have calmed down a little then, she looked ready to rip off the guards keeping her in yesterday." Charlotte said.

"Well we've all felt that way at some point in our lives. It's why some of us are here, and control is why she, or any of us aren't in solitary. You might remember what happened when I lost control, Charlotte?" Natalya wasn't hiding her dig at Charlotte's 'friendship' with Brie Bella.

"Come on Nattie, you said you'd try." Becky wasn't happy with the comment at all. Natalya saw the look on her face, one not of anger, but sadness and disappointment.

"Sorry, that was out of line a little, but I stand by my point. I got dragged to The Lock for what felt like forever because I lost control, so I can't see Lita doing that too."

"Ok ok, what happens happens. We better keep an eye out, but can we just try and relax a little. Let's get a card game going, I haven't wiped the floor with you lot for a while." Paige said, intentionally sounding cocky to get the competitive spirits going with a lot of success. The game continued until an ominous shadow loomed over the table.

"Ms Hart, Lita requests you join us at our table over here, will you please come with me?" Chyna only spoke like that when directed to, which didn't go unnoticed.

"I'm surprised she's being so nice. I didn't think anyone got a choice." Summer stated, not knowing anyone's full story at this point. Summer also wished she hadn't spoken when she saw the look Chyna gave her as a result.

"Lita and I have a mutual respect. I'm sure someone will fill you in at some point, but not right now. I'll be right over. You don't need to wait." Nattie said.

"My instructions are to ensure your safety. I will wait." Chyna stated, it was clear nothing was going to change her plans.

"Ok then. I better go. See you all later." Nattie joined Lita at her table. She was over there for a lot longer than anyone expected. Gone several hours, having their lunch brought to them by Victoria as they talked and talked. It wasn't until just after lunch that Natalya stood up, shook hands with Lita and returned to the others.

"Well? What's going on?" Paige barely let her take a seat before jumping straight in.

"Calm down, that's not helping anyone, ok Paige?"

"Ok, but you were over there ages, something must have happened."

"Lita wanted my counsel about the best way to handle this, that's all. She's aware of the extra guards, and doesn't want to risk any extra punishments. It's a good move on her part, she needs to be here if she wants to keep her place on this block. If she goes away for any amount of time that might not be the case and it's what I told her."

"So she's letting that assault go? Didn't see that coming."

"Yeah, that was my advice, for now anyway, but she wasn't going for it. She knows Mickie too well, apparently they were in the County Jail together at one stage, and isn't letting her think she's got the upper hand." She's going to let her little elves, that's me cleaning up her words by the way, make their own choice, but they become targets of they choose wrong. She's going to confront Mickie in the yard today."

"Not wasting time then? What about the guards?" Charlotte said what they were all thinking."

"I wanted her to take her time, but Victoria wasn't happy letting things carry on, she convinced Lita not to wait."

"Right, so are you playing a part in this? Or shall we stay as far indoors as possible?" Charlottes showed an interest in Natalya's well being that didn't go unnoticed.

"Thank you for caring, but I'm going to stay nearby in case. I want this to go down with as few issues as possible. It's in all our interests that this gets put down without incident."

"Nattie, do you really think this will happen 'without incident'?" Paige asked. The look Natalya gave Paige answered that question clearly. "Well we have your back if you need us, you're not going out there alone." Charlotte and Becky didn't object to that, but the whole table fell silent, thinking about what could happen.

The call for the start of yard time didn't hold the small tinge of joy for the inmates that it usually did. Those who knew what was happening were nervous and those who didn't were nearly as on edge, waiting for what they knew was coming in one way or another.

Many gave Lita's bench a wider berth than usual as she sat down with Trish, Victoria and Chyna as always. Natalya sat at another bench, close to Lita but not too close. Paige and Becky joined her. Emma and Charlotte were not far behind, the latter having stopped for a quick word with the Bellas. Emma and Paige hadn't really spoken since Paige's return so quickly started chatting, forgetting about what was happening for a moment before getting a quick reminder.

"Oh god, here we go." Becky said, having spotted four women approaching Lita's table without a care what they were doing. Chyna and Victoria were up and blocking them as soon as they realised, but Lita moved in front of them, ushering them back a few steps. Lita then stood in front, as the one non blonde of the others stepped right up to Lita. She was a little shorter, but looked up at Lita without a single sign of fear, or even a care.

"I'm impressed Mickie, I didn't think you'd have the guts to look me in the face."

"I'm surprised Lita, I didn't think you'd come back from the beating my Knockouts gave you."

"Surprised? You underestimate me. Never a good idea. You should have figured out by now that this, all this, belongs to me and I was never going to hand it over to anyone, least of all you." Lita gave Mickie a shove at the end, with her backup ready to react before Mickie held up a hand to stop them. Victoria and Chyna both got their feet in preparation.

"You could hand it over, it'd be smarter. Save yourself another trip to hospital, which I promise will become your new home as long as you get in my way."

"You and your lapdogs over there got lucky once. Just once, and I promise you it'll never happen again. Do us all a favour and disappear. I don't want to hear a word out of any of you in my prison, unless I speak to you first, or you have my expressed permission. Understood?" Lita's intimidating presence gave Mickie no choice but to take a step back at this moment, which she was visibly upset about. Lita couldn't avoid having a grin come across her face, feeling that she'd got one over on her new rival. Mickie turned away from Lita for a second to compose herself. When she faced her again, she had a smile of her own, which was unexpected.

"I'm not as strong as you, I know that, but I'm so much smarter. You really think that was lucky? It wasn't. I didn't need luck, I just needed loyalty. Right?" Mickie cocked her head slightly as she said that, almost as though she was looking past Lita.

Natalya, Paige and the others couldn't hear the conversation, but everybody heard what happened next. Victoria took her cue perfectly and in one fluid motion, delivered a devastating boot to Chyna's leg, breaking it with a crack so loud there was no doubt it was broken. Chyna dropped to the floor screaming in pain. None of them had ever heard Chyna scream like that before, it brought them all to a standstill.

"What are you doing?" Lita yelled at Victoria, ready to approach her when Mickie hit her in the back of the head, causing her to stumble forward, then get knocked on her back when Victoria hit her hard in the face. The other three were waved over and all of them were taking shots at Lita's probe body for several seconds before Mickie called them all off before they attracted attention.

"Oh my god, we've got to help them." Natalya said. There was quick agreement from the others as they tried to help Chyna and Lita as best they could. Guards came over eventually, . Natalya still tried to stay with Lita to help her but was ordered away. She wasn't listening, but was pulled away by Paige and Becky before she got into trouble as well.

Yard time was immediately ended and the block was locked down while they treated the two injured women and tried to investigate. Nobody was going to cooperate at this point. Not many even saw, but to those who did, it seemed as though Lita had been defeated, and if Mickie and her knockouts were taking over, especially with Victoria now onside, nobody was going to risk getting on her bad side and end up in the hospital next to her.

A/N: Thanks to you all for reading.

Hope the surprise inclusion of a few TNA stars has gone well. The idea came from MistressDaisy94, another great writer I'd recommend for great stories and for being a friend to me on here.

Again, I have to apologise for the time it's taking. I'm now in the middle of moving house, which I didn't know was going to have to happen until recently as has to be done pretty quick so it could delay the next chapter but I'll do my very best to not let that happen. You guys are the reason I write.