Alice frantically searched through her big bunch of keys for the door to solitary, as she did so the banging on the door got more and more frantic. Alice threw the door open, gasped and covered her mouth with her hand.
"Oh my God Percy!" She gasped, looking down and seeing Percy sat on the floor tied in a straight jacket. He peered up at her, his eyes red and wide and dried tears stained his puffy red cheeks. He shouted at her to free him but all that could be heard was muffled noises.

She knelt on the floor in front of him, his big eyes full of tears but he refused to cry in front of her, he was full of embarrassment having Alice seeing him like this.
"I'm sorry but this is going to hurt" She apologised before reaching out and ripping off the cello tape that was over his mouth. Percy screwed his eyes shut and grunted in pain as she did so, then she gently took out the sodden hanky that was gagging him.
"Percy, what have they done to you?" she said sympathetically putting her palm on his hot damp cheek.
"Get me out of here! Untie me" Percy panicked, thrashing around trying to get out of the straight jacket. "Now, I want out of here now!" He ordered struggling.
"Ok, ok keep still, calm down" Alice soothed, walking round the back of him to undo the buckles. "Percy keep still I can't undo them with you wiggling around" Alice snapped struggling to undo the buckles with Percy thrashing around.
"How long have you been here?" She asked as she undid the buckles.
"Since meal time" Percy said bluntly it was impossible to keep track of time in that place.
"Put that was yesterday" Alice gasped; she couldn't believe he had been locked in here all this time.

Percy felt so ashamed; yet again it was up to Alice to save him. He was starting to feel completely worthless and pathetic as a prison guard. Percy sighed with relief as he felt the straight jacket get loose, he frantically pulled off the straight jacket and whizzed round to face her and wrapped his arms around her neck and pulled her close. Alice's heart broke she totally blamed herself, if she hadn't forced him to return back to work than this would never have happened.
"I'm sorry Percy, I'm so, so sorry" She whispered stroking his hair as they were knelt on the floor.
"I can't do this anymore" He whispered, she could hear his voice waver. "I'm a rubbish guard, you always have to get me out of trouble" Percy said ashamed his voice breaking.
"Shhh its ok" Alice soothed stroking his hair.
"I need to get out of here, this place is destroying me"
"You'll be moving to your new job soon" She reminded him, hoping to cheer him up.
"Yeah, hopefully I'm more useful there than I am here" Alice hated to see him this way; he was tired of being bullied and ashamed of having Alice helping him all the time.
"Come on let's get you home" she said rising to her feet and holding out her hand to help him get up.
"I…I've got to go to the bathroom" He said quickly as he shot off to the bathroom, it wasn't funny it was horrible what had happened to him but seeing him quickly scuttle to the bathroom made her want to giggle.

Alice's anger bubbled as she saw Percy emerge out of the bathroom, cheeks red with embarrassment his ego had taken a huge dent. She was furious about what they had done to him both mentally and physically.
"Let's get you home" She said smiling and taking his hand in hers. He looked at her surprised that she would still give him the time of day after seeing him in such a mess.
"Alice where are you going?" she heard Paul suddenly say as he was walking out of his office.
"I'm taking Percy home, I won't be working today"
"But you're scheduled in"
"I don't care, get someone to cover because I'm fixing all the shit that your staff have caused, they did it they can cover" Alice snapped angrily walking off, Paul looked at her shocked that she would speak to him in such a tone.

Percy shifted awkwardly in his seat as he sat in silence; he had been so relieved to see Alice… God knows how long they were going to leave him locked in there. But he also began to feel his anger build he had told her he wasn't ready to go back to work, he never wanted to go back but she had forced him, she hadn't listened to him and because of that yet again he was made to feel worthless. Although she had the best intentions it had been her that had caused him to be in the position he was in.
"It's alright Percy" She soothed putting her hand on his thigh, he flinched and pulled his leg away scowling at her.
"You've got every reason to be angry at me" Alice sighed blaming herself.
"I told you I didn't want to go back" Percy snapped.
"I know I was just trying to help" She said sadly parking up the car outside his house and getting out.
"Yeah and a lot of good that did" He said giving her a daggered look.
"Yes it was partly my fault, but I saved your sorry ungrateful ass I could have just left you there" Alice said gobsmacked at how ungrateful he was acting after everything she had done for him.
"You didn't have to get me out they would have let me out eventually, You caused me to be put in there; it was your duty to get me out"
"Don't you talk to me about duty!" Alice snapped angrily, raised voice pointing her finger at him "You've been ignoring your duty at work since the word go, EVERY rule and regulation you are supposed to follow you ignore because you're that ARROGANT you think you know better" Alice shouted across the roof of her car. "You! Put yourself in the position to be bullied, your actions made them pick on you, because you act like you think you're better than everyone else"
"I'm not like that, I didn't deserve this" Percy shouted back "I know people, big people they should have looked up to me"
"No? Sometimes I wonder if you've only got yourself to blame, they only know the person you've shown them, they would have looked up to you if you hadn't acted like such a damn asshole" Percy looked at her with a hurt expression on his face, was that what she thought of him? "So you know what, you've already said that you didn't need my help and I'm obviously not appreciated so from now on….You're on your own!" Alice said angrily getting into her car and slamming the car door then driving off leaving Percy in the middle of the road.