Alex's Cell
Miles and Sonny were let in. They saw Alex and noticed how he looked as beaten up as he did the night he ran away.
"Where's Nat?" Alex asked aggressively.
Miles and Sonny shrugged trying to work out how to say it.
"SEE! I TOLD YOU! IT DOESN'T MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD TO HAVE ME AS A BROTHER!" Alex yelled causing a guard to come have a look until he was waved away.
"Alex your brother is not in here because you don't make him feel welcome" Miles said, he dislike older brothers.
"CAUSE HE DOESN'T MAKE ME FEEL WELCOME!" Alex yelled again, agitating the guards more.
Interrogation Room
Nat walked down the corridor until he came to an Interrogation Room with the name he was looking for written on the board by the door. An officer stood guard outside.
"Can I talk to the guy in here?" Nat asked awkwardly.
"No" the guard said simply.
"Why not? I really need to talk with him" Nat insisted.
"Maybe once they have struck a deal," The officer said unmoving.
"I can help, I think I've got a win, win, win offer." Nat insisted further.
"Why should I believe you?" The officer asked.
"I'm Nat Wolff" Nat said simply.
The officer shrugged and let Nat in. There were 5 people in the room, 3 on one side of the table all in suits, and two on the other, the one he was looking for, was looking quite beat up.
"What are you doing in here?" one of the men in the suits asked.
"I have a solution… I just need to speak to…" Nat said gesturing to Sam.
"We don't have…" another suit started before being cut off.
"I want to hear this" Sam said rasing his left arm which was bandaged and splinted.
Nat walked over whispered urgently to Sam.
"I need you to help Alex" he whispered urgently, "They are going to send him to Juivie for a month or so, and I need someone to keep him in line"
Sam thought about it and he new negotiations were going badly.
"I think they want to expel me from the programme and send me back to New Zealand. Unless you can convince them that expelling me would be a bad thing, I'm about as much use as a peanut." Sam whispered back.
Nat thought about what he needed to say.
"What are you planning on doing?" Nat asked.
The Prosecutors on the other side of the table shifted uncomfortably, they weren't used to being talked to like that from a 12 year old.
"Expel and deport" one of them said indifferently.
Nat looked at Sam who just smiled weakly.
"I don't think it's a good idea" Nat said.
"Why not?" the guy asked wearily.
"Well… Uh… First of nobody wins" Nat said uncomfortably.
"Yeah we do… we get rid of a troublemaker" one of the prosecutors said smartly.
Nat seemed to lose his line of thought.
"At what cost? In case you haven't noticed the young people of the city and elsewhere have been on edge the last couple of weeks" Sam replied.
"Your saying you can get the Naked Brothers Band back together?" the same suit replied sceptically.
"Not directly, no. But I can stop things getting worse" Sam said honestly.
"What are you talking about?" the guy asked, making a mental note that this New Zealand was a nut.
"Well, I know Nat's brother Alex, is up the hall. And I know that you are going to lock him up…" Sam explained.
"How do you know that?" one of the men asked suspiciously.
"I know everything" Sam said arrogantly, "Anyway, Alex will get locked up, and he will learn from those he is locked up with and after he is released he will end up right back here."
"He is going away, you are not changing that," the same man replied.
"Well put him away with Alex" Nat said urgently.
Sam was shocked to here it so simply, but he had known that it would most likely come down to this, and nodded weakly.
"Lovely gesture and all, but we can't. The State Department gave him immunity as part of the programme." Another prosecutor said.
"I need you in there… To keep Alex in check… and to find what Alex is hiding" Nat whispered to Sam urgently, he knew this guy was the best option in the short term.
If Sam hadn't noted Nat's urgency before he did now.
"I'll waive it, in this case" Sam said taking a deep breath 'what am I getting myself into?' he thought to himself.
"For what? You sound like the loser in this deal. We look good because, we get to take you and Alex Wolff down, your friend gets an inside man, you get nothing" one of the men said incredulously.
"I learnt from my mum… sometimes it's not about me" Sam said trying to smile, but it looked as though he had a tooth ache.
"Indeed… well if that is your choice…" the prosecutor said, 'this guy is weird' he thought to himself.
"Then we are done" Sam said looking reassuringly at Nat.
"One month, that is the sentence handed down to Alex Wolff, former drummer for the Naked Brothers Band. The sentence was also handed down to New Zealander Sam Hannagan, who surprised many people when he waived protection rights last night. Both were sentenced under the new streamlined Youth Justice System and will serve out their sentences at Staunton Juvenile Detention Centre."
