Divas Prison Ch35

"For crying out loud Becky, how many times do we have to have the same argument?" Paige was exasperated, for two days straight she hadn't shared a word with her girlfriend that wasn't hostile. "There is nothing either of us can do to stop this from happening. It's all set and it's going down very soon. If you still really don't want to have any part of it, then I understand, but I have a chance to help make life better for all of us, and I've got to take it. Can't you see how I'm doing this for you too, for us?"

"There's is no us here Paige. There is just you. You're doing this because you want to, you want to fight, you want to get revenge, you can't let anything go. Your temper has gotten you into trouble before, I've nearly lost you twice, I can't go through that again. Why do you think I asked you to promise me you wouldn't get into fights anymore? You're breaking your promise, and it's breaking my heart." Paige was hurt to hear that, she tried to put an arm over Becky as she laid in her bunk, but it was pushed away."

"Please Becky, I'm sorry that this is happening, but it's the last time, ever. Once this is over, Mickie will be gone, Lita will be back on top, life can go back to as close to normal as we will get in here." Becky was more upset than Paige had seen her. She was refusing to even look her in the eye. "I need you to trust me baby, just this one time. I don't want to go into this with you angry at me. It's all going to be alright, you'll see. Please understand there isn't anything I wouldn't do to make your life, our life better."

Becky responded without moving or looking at Paige, neither aware that Natalya and Emma had arrived in the doorway. "Then you should keep your promises. You asked me to trust you be cause I loved you. Now I can't trust you. If I can't trust you, how can I love you? The two visitors kept quiet, more out of shock than anything, while Paige felt like she'd been shot.

"Paige, we've got to go, it's time." Natalya broke the silence that lasted an lifetime to Paige, who ignored her at that moment.

"Becky, what are you saying?"

"You know what I'm saying Paige, now you heard them, go. Go risk your life for no reason."

Paige looked at her friends, who didn't know what to do for the best, she ushered them away and held up a finger, mouthing 'one minute' to them as they stepped back. Paige went as close to Becky as she dared to speak softly into her ear.

"I can't force you to love me, but I'm never going to stop loving you. I waited a long time to meet you. I feel like getting sent here was fate. We belong together. All I want is to make your life better, and that's why I have to try and stop this misery we are being put through. I know it's a risk, but it's worth it, I'd die for you if it kept you safe. I'll wait an eternity for you to forgive me, to love me again. Until that happens, just remember that you are my world, you are my dream, you are my everything." Paige kissed Becky on the back of her head before leaving.

Natalya put an arm around Paige as she dried her eyes. "You ok?" Paige nodded unconvincingly.

"I have to be, I'm doing this for her, I just hope she can understand one day."

"She will, she loves you, no matter what she says right now. Just focus on getting all our lives back on track." They all took a seat and waited.


"You always run off on me so quickly. You don't have to be ashamed of me you know." Brie said from her bunk, watching Charlotte get dressed in a hurry, not answering till she had finished and checked she had everything.

"I'm not ashamed of you, I just don't want to get caught in the act."

"That's not much better you know, it's nothing to be ashamed of."

"Well you never told anyone either, not even your sister, so what's the problem?"

Brie frowned. "That's what you wanted. Not me. You're the one who think those friends of yours will disapprove, especially Natalya Hart. I've told you, I'm not making you choose between us. If she, if any of them are truly your friends, they won't care who you spend time with, or what you do with that time."

Charlotte was stopped in her tracks, she'd never heard Brie get emotional about their secrecy before. But she couldn't let her father find out what she was doing. She knew his old school ideals wouldn't accept any aspect of what she was doing, and she wanted to keep any interaction with him she could. But she was afraid to let anyone else learn the truth about his link to her. "They might not, but it's not their business what we do. Please Brie, I need you to understand. I don't want them to know, that means nobody knows." Charlotte took Brie's hand to try and be comforting, but got no physical response.

"So, despite all of this, you just don't care. It's still just sex to you?" Brie saying that brought confusion and intrigue rushing through Charlotte's head.

"What do you mean? I thought that was what you wanted. Sex, no feelings. Are you saying you want more?" Neither of them noticed that Charlotte held her breath while waiting for the answer.

"What? Um, no. No no, of course not, no." Brie didn't sound convincing, but it was enough to make Charlotte's head fall for a second before trying to regain her composure.

"Right, well, um, good. Exactly, I mean, we're friends, we have already had to deal with people not liking it. I don't want either of us to have to deal with more than that."

Brie nodded. "I'm glad you stuck with me, despite all of that. Thank you." Charlotte smiled and headed out of the cell, but was called back. "Charlotte?" She put her head back inside.

"You ok?"

"Yeah, just, when all of this goes down later, please, stay close to me?"

"Of course. I've got your back, you know that. You don't have to ask."

Thanks, I'm no fighter and who knows what could happen."

Charlotte took Bries hand. "Nothing will happen to you. I'll see you a little later, OK?" Brie squeezed Charlotte's hand and the two parted, each with their minds going a mile a minute, but both knowing there was something much more pressing that they had to be ready for later.


Charlotte joined Paige, Emma and Natalya to eat dinner. There was a lot less conversation than usual, everyone's thoughts fully occupied. The near silence continued until they had all finished eating, because that meant that things were ready to start at any moment. The guard presence seemed to be exactly what they expected, which was helping with whatever nerves anyone was feeling.

"Emma, you ready? You know what you have to do?" Natalya asked at a little above a whisper.

"Yes Nat. I've been over it time and time again. As long as they do their part, I've got no trouble with mine. In fact, that's the bit I can't wait for. Everything after that is impossible to plan. Anything could happen. Everyone still ok with that? Paige? Char? If you're not sure, you should get out of here now. Both shook their heads.

"I've come too far now. Becky will understand afterwards, I need to do this for her." Paige said.

"I need to be here. I've got to be, I don't want things to go too far, for me, for us, or for, you know, him."

"Charlotte, I know you care, but there's nothing you can do to help 'him'." Natalya Said, knowing Charlotte referred to her father, the Warden. "To everyone else, he's the symbol of everything they hate about prison, they'll be out to make him look bad. You have to pick the right side, you are one of us."

"Wow, thanks Nattie, means a lot that you said that."

"You're welcome, just don't let us down."

"No way, I've got your back, all of you." Charlotte said, and she meant it, but she was now more concerned than ever, with no idea how she could be there for everyone in the chaos that was almost certain. Before she could figure out any kind of answer, Sasha Banks stood up and started shouting, holding up her food tray.

"Hey, hey you! What the hell do you call this...this filth? I wouldn't feed this to a rat!" Emma knew she was being talked to, and wasn't prepared to hear a word against the kitchen.

"Nobody cares what you think! We bust ourselves to make your food, so shut up or don't eat it!" Sasha jumped over her table and got in Emma's face.

"I'm not expecting French food here, just something edible. Right now the only thing I want to do is empty this tray over your lazy head!"

"Hey, enough! Both of you walk away!" They had caught the guard attention, but didn't stop.

"You try that Banks, and you won't have to worry about eating my food again, it's not easy without teeth." The threat was clear now and two guards approached the arguing pair, one from each side. Emma and Sasha were eye to eye, but they weren't looking at each other, they were looking past each other. With split second timing, Sasha raised and eyebrow, and Emma turned suddenly, her tray connecting perfectly and fiercely with the head of the guard. Sasha turned and took aim at the one coming up behind her, connecting just as well with vicious force.

If the sound of the trays was loud, the collective gasps, exclamations and above all, cheers were louder. Those who were aware we're up in seconds, ready to put the plan into action. Those who weren't were also not going to pass up the chance that had been presented to them, except for a select few who retreated to their cells or just headed away from what was getting out of control very quickly.

The guard running the central console moved to activate the blocks alarm system, alerting all areas of the prison to the emergency. He almost got there, which would have ended things quickly, had it not been for the Bellas. Each acting to their strengths, Nikki charged the guard, driving him away from the alarm and hard into the wall, she then drove repeated forearms and elbows to his head until he dropped to the ground, conscious but physically incapacitated. Nikki removed his pepper spray and baton to leave him helpless, but also used his own handcuffs on him to ensure he'd be unable to mount any resistance. Nikki couldn't help but smile as she put a foot on his face. For the first time since getting arrested, she felt like herself again.

Brie on the other hand, was getting to work on the console, as the brains of the pair, she got to work on deactivating the security cameras. For someone who had never used it before, she tackled it like a pro, quickly turning off all video surveillance around the block. This was always going to alert the control centre to an issue. They knew it and had planned for it. The call came through almost immediately.

"A Control, this is Central Control. We have a failure on your surveillance, please respond."

Nikki pulled the handcuffed guard up by the chin, putting a lot of pain and pressure on him. "Tell them everything's ok, it's just broken. Anything else, and we will break your neck." Brie pulled the transmitter to his mouth.

"This is A control, we have a minor fault with our console. Repairs underway and we do not expect to be out long. All else is normal."

"Understood A Control, central out."

The bound guard was rewarded for his cooperation with a boot to the face, knocking him completely out. By this point, all the guards on the block had been over powered. Some were handcuffed, some were unconscious, some were both. They were all dragged over to one corner. "Right, time to have us a screw barbecue." One woman, a large Samoan looking woman said, as she pulled a lighter of of one of their pockets, with others following her lead. Charlotte, who had been watching out near the console for the Bellas, saw this. She knew some of the guards personally from her life before prison, and was not about to allow people who used to be friends of hers and still were friends of her family to be burnt alive, no matter what her relationship was with hem now. She ran over, despite hearing someone call her back, and tackled the Samoan, landing punches in quick succession. That momentum only lasted a short time though, as Charlotte was out matched in size and fighting ability. She was knocked off of her bigger adversary and found herself the one on the floor. It only took a couple of hard hits to put Charlotte into a dazed state. The Samoan had no interest in stretching things out and she went to finish this with one blow as she grabbed Charlotte from behind and looked to deliver a big impact with her head. Luckily for Charlotte, as what looked to her like a giant skull coming towards her was nearly making contact, it was blocked by a kick that snapped her opponents head back like she'd been hit by a train coming the other way. The big Samoan fell backwards and was clearly out of it. Charlotte looked to see where the kick had come from and saw Natalya staring at the Samoan in pure anger. It was a way she'd been looked at herself once, when they were first at each over her friendship with Brie. Natalya grabbed Charlotte by the arm and hoisted her to her feet. "You ok?" Natalya asked her.

"Yeah, bit dizzy I think. Thanks for showing up when you did. I couldn't have taken her alone."

"Yeah, me neither, we'd better get away from her, If she wakes up anytime soon, we are both in big trouble."

"You're right there, are the others ok."

"Emma's ok, she's backing up Lita for now. They're looking for Mickie. I haven't seen Paige for a while though, I hope she's ok." Looking around, the two spotted something that left the pair of them in complete shock. "Holy shit!" They both exclaimed before they realised what had happened, Charlotte was stuck dumb, unlike Natalya, who screamed "Noooo!" as they ran over.


When everything began to go down, Paige had only one thing that she wanted to accomplish for herself. She wanted to help take Mickie down, but first she wanted one shot, just one shot, at the guard who was in her head. She reasoned that this would help her, and it would help Becky. They could be free from her manipulation as well. Some young girl got in her way. "Think taking Banks makes you a big shot, huh? I'll show you!" One punch from Paige sent her backwards, falling over one of the chairs attached to a table. While she struggled to get up, Paige walked on, continuing her search. It didn't take long but Paige wasn't happy when she saw her target. Lana was already down, with Sasha Banks standing over her prone body. Paige wasn't sure if she was more angry that she didn't get her shot or that Sasha was the one to get there first. Attacking her when she was down wasn't her style.

Paige instead chose to refocus on the main reason for everything breaking down, to take care of Mickie and her crew. Looking around, Paige could see none of them. Figuring that she was keeping a low profile for her own safety, Paige started checking cells. She didn't get very far into that before instead of finding any of them, they found her first. Without warning, Paige was hit by a huge kick to the back, dropping her to her knees, immediately followed by another to the face. As she tried to get back to her feet, knowing that couldn't have been the same person, she was faced, not by two different people, but three: Velvet, Madison and Angelina, the latter rocking Paige with a strong uppercut.

"This is one of them." The tall blonde stated.

"But where is the other one? With the orange hair?" Madison asked.

"No idea, haven't seen her. We'll finish her off like Mickie said, then find her. One at a time will make it easier on us anyway." Hearing that they will be after Becky if she doesn't stop them lit a fire under Paige and she went for Angelina head on. She took the blonde down to the floor and kept hitting her. The other two went to pick her off but in her anger Paige was able to deliver an elbow to each, one to the face, one to the throat. She repeated her attack on Angelina until the other two regrouped and hammered on Paige's head at the same time. That was enough for Angelina to be able to escape from underneath and strike a blow of her own, knocking Paige to the floor. The numbers game came back into play from this point, as the Knockouts weren't interested in a fair fight, as were anyone in the several different battles going on around the block. With Paige on the ground the three of them let loose with kicks to the body and some to the head. This kept on and got more and more vicious until Paige wasn't moving, lying in a bruised and bloody mess.

"That's enough, we need to go find the other one now." Velvet said, knowing Paige wasn't going to be a problem to them anymore. Angelina, nursing her own cuts, gave her a look.

"What? We aren't done yet. Mickie said to make sure they can't be a problem to us. You know what that means." Angelina pulled a blade from her sock. Velvet looked uncomfortable as Madison tried to move Paige.

"Is it necessary, look at her she's done. Even if she recovers, she won't dare come near us."

"I'm not risking it. Do you really want to explain it to Mickie if she comes back at us?"

"No, but"

"Me neither, I don't like it either, but it has to be done. Now hold her, it'll take only a second."

Velvet helped Madison move Paige so they held an arm each with their battered captive sat up. Angelina moved in close and took the blade to Paige's throat.

Paige was dazed and barely conscious, but realised she was in trouble. Her mind was going at a high speed, but her body was unresponsive. She had thoughts of her family, of friends she hadn't seen since childhood. Thoughts of the day she walked away and lost her family, thoughts of the day she got arrested and lost her freedom. The last thing she saw was Becky's glowing orange hair blowing in the wind, beautiful as it had ever looked.

Then everything went black.

A/N: Thank you to each and every person who reads this. I'm truly grateful. I hope you enjoyed it. I know it ends on a dark note, but the story isn't over.

Got to congratulate Becky for winning the title she deserved a long time to go. She seemed genuinely overjoyed and grateful. She earned it.

Paige. I don't know what to say about her almost. This was planned to be part of the story before any of this happened with her. However it turns out. In WWE or not, I will be her fan for life and I wish her happiness. Of course I hope she's able to make a comeback.

As always, thank you to those who have followed, favourited or reviewed. It means so much.