As Percy showered, Alice took a look around his home. She opened the wardrobe and found his Prison officer uniform clean and pressed immaculately. His shoes sat on the wardrobe floor underneath his uniform with an arm shine; she could see her face in them. Remembering his lined up toiletries and how neat he kept his hair it made her wonder why he was so obsessive.

Percy walked into his bedroom and frowned as he saw her pulling his uniform out of the wardrobe.
"What…what are you doing?" Percy asked.
"Getting your uniform ready…I informed Paul you'd be able to do tonight's night shift"
"What! I…Alice you can't, I'm not ready…I can't face them" Percy quickly said, panicking. He was too terrified at the prospect to think about putting on a brave, confident exterior for her.
"Percy it's now or never if you hesitate, you'll never get back to work" Alice explained softly.
"Alice…I, I can't what if they…" He began.
"That won't happen again Percy, me and Paul won't allow it" She said deadly serious. Percy sighed; he knew what Alice was saying made sense. If he didn't jump back into work his anxiety of going back would build, he would overhype the situation and make it worse in his mind then he'd never go back.

Even though he had taken the job at Briar Ridge he couldn't afford to be without a job until he could start work there.
"Are you on shift too?" He asked, God he felt so small and vulnerable asking that, feeling like he needed a woman around to protect him. Slowly Alice shook her head and his stomach filled with dread.
"I'm not needed tonight" She walked up to Percy and put a palm on his cheek "It'll be ok Percy, you can do this" Alice encouraged, stroking his cheek with her thumb.
"You…You think so?" He asked smiling, Alice nodded.
"Of course, I think you can achieve anything you put your mind too" She said now with both palms flat on his cheeks and gazing into his eyes. Percy's heart fluttered with happiness. Finally someone believed in him and thought he could achieve things, not everyone thought he was a waste of space and an inconvenience.
"Alright, but you owe me Doll" Percy grinned, Pulling himself together and putting back on his confident façade. Alice sighed and shook her head wondering if he would ever learn.
"Sure, I'll see you tomorrow after my morning shift" She had seen his vulnerable, emotional side when would he learn that people would still like him without the mask.

Percy wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not that all the staff carried on as normal like nothing had ever happened. Surely carrying on as normal meant that they didn't regret it? Three people had destroyed his life and what Alice thought of him and they were acting like it hadn't even happened. He was sure that Alice had thought he was a smartly dressed and confident man once but now he was sure she thought he was just some emotional wreck with not a hint of masculinity, he swore she looked at him with pity and it was all their fault he blamed all three of them. Percy had to force himself to be able to look them all in the eye, with him knowing they had seen him ass naked and they knew what Wild Bill had done to him.

As the men sat at the wooden table in the block drinking coffee, Percy's heart pounded as Howell told him to hand out all the prisoners their meals.
"Hay lover boy, got a bit of a John Wayne walk going on there, you hurtin' boy?" Wild Bill laughed, his face pressed close to the bars as Percy walked by. Percy kept his head high refusing to let his confident mask slip, he wouldn't show them he was bothered by it, but inside his stomach twisted in knots, yes he did hurt still, it stung and was sore but was it really that noticeable when he walked? Wild Bill laughed as Percy turned to get his food.
"Hahaha should have seen him lads, all whimpering and begging like a little bitch" Wild Bill tormented as he told the guards.

Percy clenched his jaw as he turned to Howell and Van Hay who were biting their bottom lips and smirking trying not to laugh. He turned his head to hide the embarrassment and shoved the food into Bill's cell and gave Bill a look to dare torment him further.
"Really enjoyed it he did…" Wild Bill laughed grinning at Percy, enjoying his humiliation. "He may whine and pretend he didn't like it, but the only time he whined was when he came over himself like a whore…think I can still smell your cum on my hands lover boy" Percy's face went red with embarrassment and shame, he pulled his gun out of his belt, aimed it at Bill's face and took off the safety.
"Percy hell, calm down" Dean said gently touching Percy's shoulder.

Percy flinched wildly at the touch, instantly thinking they were going to hurt him again.
"Get off me!" Percy panicked, turning round and hitting Dean square in the face with his gun. Dean fell to the floor with a thud, blood pouring from his nose. Howell and Van Hay instantly approached Percy to apprehend him and stop him from hurting Dean further. Howell grabbed Percy by the hands from behind and pulled his arms behind his back. He yelled in pain from Howell forcing his arms back, Howell grabbed the gun out of Percy's hand and threw it onto the ground.

Van Hay knelt beside Dean and handed him his handkerchief for his bleeding nose, then ran off to fetch something. Percy's eyes went with fear as he saw Van Hay return holding the straight jacket.
"No…No, not again please…you, you can't" He began to panic, his cheeks turning red losing his arrogance in front of the guards. Howell forced his arms into the straight jacket and secured it.
"Please you can't do this not again please" Percy begged.
"Don't worry we're not putting you in with Wharton" It partly calmed his panic, but if not Bill then what? Percy's legs flailed frantically trying to get free but Howell had lifted him firmly off the ground.
"NO! No you can't do this" He begged as they got to the padded cell.
"We can and we are" Van Hay said shoving a hanky into Percy's mouth and cello taping his mouth shut. Percy continued to beg them to let him go but all that could be heard was muffled noises through the gag.
"We're going to give you a few hours to…cool off and think about how you acted today" Howell explained "I won't have loose cannons on my block" He said shoving him into the padded room, Percy begged and begged, tears pricked his eyes as they shut the door and locked it behind them.

The next morning Alice came in to work early before the others to catch up on some paperwork, Paul was in his office but no one else the night shift staff had come home. As she filled in her paperwork she could have sworn she heard a bang. Startled she raised her head and looked around, she shook her head thinking she was hearing things and carried on with her paperwork. A minute later she heard a few more bangs, it sounded like someone hitting metal, Alice rose from her desk and decided to check on the inmates to make sure it wasn't them wanting something and trying to get her attention.
"Wharton, that you making all that noise?" She asked before she got to his cell.
"Not me ma'am, it's coming from the padded room" Alice frowned, she walked up the middle of the cells and counted the inmates, all were in their cells so what was making the banging in solitary?