Divas Prison Ch52
Ronda headed after Mickie at a fast stride, looking determined, but Paige tried to slow her down by putting a hand on her shoulder, managing to stop her.
"Ronda, you don't have to do this."
The look Ronda gave immediately stopped her from saying anymore for a moment. "I'm not backing down from anyone."
"But they'll have you back in The Lock for fighting. I don't want that to happen."
"Yeah, and when I get into fights, I get more counselling sessions. I'll trade a few days in solitary for more time with Dan, you know I can handle it, I've been on my own long enough, but I'm not letting them think I'm a coward. Are you with me or not."
"Yes we are." Becky interjected herself, before focusing on Paige, who looked nervous. "Pai, I know you don't like the idea of solitary again after what you've been through. But this time it's for a good reason, and you know what to expect. Just remember, nothing that happens there is real, they won't keep you there for long, and I'll be waiting for you at the other end, no matter what. Remember I will never stop loving you."
"Same here, but I really don't want to be apart from you again." Paige said.
Becky took her face in her hands and kissed her hard, ignoring the shout from a guard. "You never are, not really. You and me are forever, this is just a moment, but one we need to do, don't we?"
"We do, nobody puts their hands on you like that. You're the best thing that ever happened to me and I'm nothing if I don't stand up for you."
"Right, so can we go now?" Ronda said with a hint of impatience.
"Yeah, lets see what happens." Paige said and the three of them went into the shower area.
Mickie stood at the far end of the shower area, with Victoria and the three Knockouts stood in front of her, clearly being a protective line.
"Don't be a coward Mickie. This is the end of your bullying." Ronda said, not aggressively, but more as though she was stating fact.
"I don't need to be a coward. You've bitten off so much more than you chew, especially once we knock your teeth out. Vic?"
"Yeah Mick?" Victoria's grin was as sadistic as ever.
"Take care of her."
Suddenly the grin wasn't there anymore.
"What do you mean, take care of her?" Victoria whispered back.
"You know what I mean. I've had enough of her. Put her down for good."
"Mick, you know what I said, I can't..."
Mickie was quick to interrupt "I don't want to hear can't, nobody can touch you, now you do what I tell you."
"Victoria turned back to Ronda, not letting her concern show. She stepped towards her and Ronda responded in kind. Paige and Becky stepped with her but Ronda raised her hand to them, gesturing them to stop, with both women complying with her request.
Ronda and Victoria stood face to face and stared each other down. "Take your best shot." Ronda said with a smile. Victoria shook her head and exhaled in a way that sounded like laughter, before throwing two punches, connecting one into Rondas stomach and another to the side of her head, staggering her backwards as other inmates started to show interest in what was going on.
"You're nothing. All hype, no show. Victoria said in surprise as she hit Ronda in the face again, dropping her to a knee. "This won't even take a minute."
She stood above Ronda, measuring her next blow when Ronda took her chance. She flipped Victoria over as she bent down, leaving the black haired woman staring up. Victoria let out a cry of anger as she got up and threw more punches, but these ones missed their mark, as did the next ones as Victoria got more and more mad. Waiting for the right moment, Ronda dodged another punch and drove her knee into Victoria's middle, making her bend over with a lot less choice in the matter. Ronda held her in this position by holding the back of her head with both hands and she brought her knees up, one at a time, into Victoria's face. She did this several times before letting go. Victoria stood up, just able to keep her balance, the repeated impact showing on her face. Ronda threw and few punches on their own, dropping Victoria to a knee this time. Not giving her adversary the same chance she received. Ronda grabbed Victoria by her waistband and hair and drove her head first into the tiled wall of the shower. Victoria went straight down to the floor as tile shards fell around and on top of her as she laid on the ground, out cold.
Ronda saw that Victoria wasn't a threat anymore, and turned back to Mickie, who was struck silent as she looked at her fallen enforcer. Noticing Ronda's stare, Mickie returned it, trying not to look as worried as she was getting. Realising her other options, she snapped her fingers in the direction of her other three followers, but got no response.
"Hey!" Mickie yelled at them. "All of you, make her suffer for what she did to Vic."
"Are you serious?" Velvet responded, wanting nothing more than to find a way out of there.
"There's three of you, one of her. Don't be so pathetic. Now you do what I tell you. All of you, right now!" Mickie pointed at Ronda as she yelled.
Angelina stepped forward, keeping her look on Ronda. Madison followed suit but found herself compelled to keep a step behind Angelina as they did so. The two of them only got a few steps forward before their route was blocked by Velvet getting in Angelina's way, holding her arms as she talked, her voice in a grip of panic.
"Angel, please, don't do this. If we keep following her orders we are all going to get hurt, and badly, look at Victoria. Look at what it's done for us so far. We have been her bitches for too long. She gets all the power, and what has it gotten us? A long time in prison, where all we get to do is her bidding and being looked at as a joke. You must hear what they say about us. We shouldn't have gone along with the idea in the first place, then we wouldn't even be in here. Come on, walk out with me now. It can be just you and me, looking out for each other."
"Wait, what?" Madison interjected. "Just you and me? I thought we were all friends, and a team. You're now throwing me under the bus because you have a crush?"
"Shut the hell up!" Velvet shouted back. "This isn't about you. Not right now. Angel please don't listen to her, listen to me. Let's just walk away."
"I'm not a coward Velvet, and neither are you. We can take her."
"Hey, I'm sick of always being on the outside with you two. Listen to me!" Madison didn't get either of her friends to even look at her. "Ah screw the both of you, screw all of you." Madison threw her hands in the air and walked out, not hearing Mickie call her name.
Paige and Becky had come up behind the pair at this moment and grabbed them by their collars, dragging them off to the side and throwing them into the wall. Velvet looked to get away from Becky, remembering what she had done to them in the past. Paige also knew what the knockouts had tried to do to her, and was throwing hands into Angelina. This forced Velvet into a U-turn, unable to see her friend in peril. She did her best to shoulder tackle Paige, knocking her off enough to put her body in between the two.
Paige went to continue her assault, but Becky stopped her. "Leave them babe." She said as the two watched Velvet help her beaten friend out of the door to the shower area. Guard Zayn saw her supporting Angelina's walking and went over. He then saw the situation, but did not go it, knowing that a lot more support. If one guard went in to try and stop a fight that had so many involved, even if so many just seemed to be watching, it was unlikely that it would end well for him. Instead he stepped back and talked into his radio.
Ronda had not taken her eyes off Mickie while the others had taken their short lived fight off to the side. Ronda was waiting for Mickie to make a move, but she was yet to do so, but when Paige and Becky stood beside her again, Ronda couldn't help but smirk.
"Right, nowhere to hide, nowhere to run. There's nothing else to say so let's just put this to bed." Ronda took a step forward but Mickie dropped to her knees, holding her hands out to get her to stop, and at that moment it did. Mickie breathed a sigh of relief, but all the time she was looking at Ronda, she was really looking past her, to Victoria on the far side, who was starting to stir and was trying to push herself off of the floor.
"Stop, just stop. This is all so unnecessary. I've never had any problem with you. I wanted to work with you, in fact we still can. Just shake my hand, we can forget it all ever happened." Mickie spoke as slowly as she could. Trying to sound more scared than she really was, to make the conversation last long enough for Victoria to get up, but she had barely reached her knees.
"You all really underestimate her." Paige said before Ronda could talk. "She's not some kind of robot you can program to go around doing your bidding. Nobody sees past that. All you see is what she could do for you. Just like your blonde squad, and that worked out really well didn't it."
"They're cowards. All about the money, but not ready to do what's necessary to get it. If they had more guts, we'd never have gotten put away and I wouldn't have had to rely on them in here at all. You though, you have a lot more than I gave you credit for. Maybe we could work something out too." Mickie had no intention of following her offer up, but her stalling was working as Victoria began to pull herself to her feet.
"You can't be serious. I fight when I have to, but you're a killer. Naomi was nearly as much a problem as you are, or were, but she didn't deserve to die. I want nothing to do with you, and now, we won't have to."
Mickie smirked, a look that had those facing her nearly hesitant. "Fine, I've given you every chance. That woman deserved what she got. If I had the chance, I'd stick that shank in her neck again. If those ungrateful blondes want it this way, they can be next."
Becky couldn't keep quiet after that. "That's the way you talk about them? Sounds like you all sucked as a gang. More surprising we didn't get saddled with you all sooner. After the crap you've pulled, I just want to see you, and her, no, look out!" Becky turned to indicate Victoria but saw her closing in on them. Her call was too late and the others had no time to turn around to defend themselves from her charge.
Victoria was inches from knocking Ronda flying, her speed, although reduced, would have done the job had one other person not been focused on her, knowing her toughness better than nearly anyone else. That person was Lita and she cut off Victoria's charge with one of her own, the two both crashing back to the floor from their collision. Victoria was still recovering from her earlier punishment, which gave Lita the opportunity to get a small amount of revenge that she'd been longing for since Mickie and Victoria sent her and Chyna to the hospital. She knelt over Victoria and threw punch after punch, leaving her former associate bloody and unconscious once more.
As Lita stood up, Mickie started to back up a step, now on the wrong end of the numbers game, staring at four women who wanted her head. The expressions she was faced with were not ones anyone would want to be faced with.
"Wait a minute, no, hang on, please. Look, I know you don't like me, but does it have to resort to such unnecessary violence? I'm sure we can find some way to get along. Right?" This time the fear in her voice was much more real.
The four stood their ground for a moment. Lita was the first to respond. "You put my friend in hospital, she's still there, her leg will take a long time to heal. You beat the hell out of me and turned my friends into enemies. We are all supposed to be united against the Bulls and the establishment. You are poisonous. I don't see why you shouldn't share Naomi's fate."
"No no no no." Mickie spoke quickly, seeing how serious Lita was. "Look, that woman was a casualty of war, but that war can end right now. You don't want to be looking over your shoulders for me any more do you? There can be peace if you want it."
"There will be peace. Because I will never hear another word out of your mouth again. You're done. You are a nobody, a nothing. If you do anything to try and change that, you're finished, you'll join Chyna in the hospital, and she will finish the job for sure, bad leg or not. Got it."
Mickie tried to look humble, but failed. "You don't get it, you stupid bitch, this is my block. We will regroup and you'll regret not taking my offer." Lita looked around at the others, which changed Mickie back to her usual attitude. She stepped towards Lita, but Ronda, who had waited for such a chance, grabbed her arm as she swung it, pulling her to the floor locking the arm in a position it wasn't supposed to be in. Mickie screamed as Lita leaned over her and the others watched. Lita never got the chance to say anything as a voice they all recognised rang out.
"Everybody freeze!" Was the command from the prisons Head Guard. The room feel silent except for the screams of Mickie as Ronda kept her arm locked. Several guards came into the shower area and the prisoners watching started to file out as they were roughly pushed towards the door. Lita, Paige and Becky were pulled away as Ronda and Mickie were surrounded by guards.
"Let her go, right now!" Sting commanded. Ronda immediately complied, releasing Mickie's arm and laying back with her arms in the air. Mickie rolled off of Ronda, allowing the guards to pull Ronda onto her front and quickly handcuff her behind her back. She made no attempt to resist them.
"Don't move!" Ronda was told, not that she could now. Sting focused on the others as Mickie picked herself up. "All of you don't move either." Sting looked for one of his guards. "Sami, come here and point out the one responsible."
All of them looked concerned, except Mickie, who still was in pain as the guard walked over.
"All of them, they attacked me, they attacked my friends. I want them all charged with assault. I want to press charges right now!" Mickie screamed through her pain. Paige started to feel scared of what might be about to happen.
Sting stayed silent as Guard Zayn joined him. He walked to Mickie and pointed to her. "This one sir." Sting beckoned to his team and they grabbed Mickie by the arms, quickly having her restrained before she could fight back.
"What are you doing, get the hell off of me!" Mickie screamed as she forced them to hold her against the nearest wall.
"Bit late for protesting, inmate, your mouth has already got you into trouble." Sting said, holding his bat close to Mickie as a threat, but one that was not heeded.
"I didn't do anything! They attacked us! Look at Victoria, at Angelina, they did it all, not me, so let me go!"
"You think we are stupid? We saw it all, we heard it all, including where you confessed to the murder of another inmate. You should consider yourself under arrest right now, and especially your right to remain silent. You should also get used to the idea that you won't ever spend a day outside of a correctional facility ever again. When you come back, you'll be serving a life sentence, assuming you come back to this prison, which isn't likely, and certainly not this block. Your life is over inmate. We will make sure of it." Stings voice got colder and colder as he spoke, installing the fear in Mickie that he wanted to.
"No!" Mickie screamed as the two guards dragged her out of the shower area and out of the block, where she was taken to solitary until law enforcement could come down to deal with the murder charges she was now facing. As everyone else was silent, Mickie's screams for help, for Victoria, for anything, could be heard until she left the block.
"Take her to The Lock too" Sting ordered, pointing at Ronda. His orders were quickly obeyed and Ronda was stood up and ushered out. Paige saw a small smirk on her face as she went past.
"And as for the rest of you!" Sting raised his voice so he could be heard by everyone as he pointed his bat. It was pointed directly at Paige, who was silently panicking, sure she was about to share the fate of the other two, scared about going back into solitary as she was still recovering from the nightmares of last time. It was taking all her strength not to give the guards the reaction they wanted. In that moment, she was as frightened as she was on the bus ride to her first day in prison. Becky, stood next to her, felt her begin to shake gently and, knowing why, subtly rubbed her back to try and calm her down.
Although it felt like minutes, Stings pause was only a few seconds. "Anybody not inside their cell in five minutes will join them. Move!"
Becky felt Paige begin to collapse so quickly held her back up and walked her to the door, blending in with the crowd as all of the field put through the doors to the shower area. When they got to a seat Paige had to sit down but Becky wasn't keen to hang around.
"Come on lass, don't give them a reason to do something."
"I thought I was a goner Bex. I can't believe we didn't go with Ronda." Paige got out through panicked breaths as Charlotte and Summer came up to them.
"You better get moving, they aren't going to give us five minutes, not really." Summer said, all of them knowing it was true.
"She's right, come on love" Becky said, pulling Paige back to her feet and towards their cell. Charlotte and Summer were doing the same but as Summer walked, Charlotte found she could not. Her arm was being held. She turned around to see why and felt her whole body go numb.
The reason the guards hadn't broken up the fight so soon, was that many of them had been focused on another task. That task was the secure re-orientation and safe return of two prisoners who being returned to the cell block they escaped from.
Charlotte was face to face with Brie Bella.
Charlotte found herself unable to speak, her breathing got faster as she tried to co troll the many conflicting emotions going through her mind and body.
"Charlotte, it's...it me. I don't know what your thinking, but I need to talk to you. We got back here just now, and I had to come straight to see you. I know it might sound weird, but I've missed you, I've missed you terribly, even when we were on the outside. Now we've come back, I need to tell you some things. You see, I realised things about me, and about you when we were apart, and I need to tell you. Charlotte, I, I'm..."
Brie never got a chance to finish her sentence as Charlotte struck her with an almighty slap. The impact was so loud that everyone heard it and many turned round, realising who it was that got hit and that the twins were back in prison. There was shocked silence to many.
The guards were smiling to themselves. They weren't about to stand up for two of the women who made them look incompetent and foolish by successfully breaking out.
Natalya has a big grin at the slap and as she spotted her twin as well, had to resist the urge to laugh as she and Emma headed inside their cell. Her day couldn't have been much better.
Becky and Paige looked to see what Charlotte did next, for her not to really move after slapping Brie, before they too were ushered back inside their small living space, the door closed and locked behind them as soon as they were in.
Brie held her cheek where it had been struck, trying to take the sting out of it. She looked back at Charlotte, her face a picture of devastation, tears in her eyes as she saw the anger in the eyes of the woman who she was unable to tell just how important she was to her.
Nikki came up behind Brie and pulled her away with her free hand, as Charlotte saw that she had her arm in a sling, not that she cared about that. "Brie come on, get away from her. Do you see now? All this over her? Really? Now we're stuck in here. Locked away from everything for all these years to come. I hope you're proud of yourself, go on, get in." Nikki pushed Brie through the door when they reached it, causing her to fall, not that anyone would help, even if they could. Brie curled up in her bunk and tried to think of a way to make it all better.
Charlotte was left standing alone, except for several guards, but she had no idea they were there as she tried to contemplate the last few moments and her actions. Just avoiding violent encouragement from a guard by a heartbeat, she covered her mouth and all but ran past Summer and into her cell, trying to pull her own door closed as Summer quickly joined her, the last woman to comply with the order.
The block fell nearly silent, the thick doors and walls drowning out the conversations that were taking place in every cell, nearly all of them would be on the same subject.
A/N: Thanks you very much for reading. Sorry it's taken a while to get this done, work is kicking my ass. 16 hour days are not helpful for writing!
I'm in two minds as to what to do for the next chapter, whether to follow on from what happened in this chapter, or to step outside the walls, and see what happens to Sasha when she finally catches up with Creed. If you have a preference, please let me know in a review, a PM or any other method if one exists.
Finally, a quick shout out to Emma and Summer Rae. Horrible to see them, and anyone lose their jobs like this and I wish them every success and happiness as they start the next chapter of their careers.
