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Piper finished reading Sons and Lovers by the time it was "lights out" for them. The darkened windows still bled light into the dorm that she was placed in. Apparently having separate species dorms in a mixed prison didn't make sense, so while she lay down, she could hear the other white women shuffling about. She knew Alex was four bunks away, but she refused to look in her direction. Piper wanted to give Alex some space to figure out what her play was, but she knew that she wasn't the naive twenty-something she was before. Today, she was in charge. More than anything, she knew she wasn't going to get answers till Alex healed. She wondered if she had any answers, because she seemed genuinely surprised to see her.
Alex rolled over in her tiny bunk, grimacing at the hardness of her so called mattress. She looked over to see Yoga Jones stretch and get started to salute the sun or whatever. She called it something, but Alex had forgotten. Alex had stopped saluting the sun 500 years ago and now only cursed its existence. She watched the woman do her positions, the slow and steady movements calming her. She evened her breathing and brought her body to a state of rest. It was noisy out with everyone who wasn't a vampyr getting ready for their day. She was counting down the hours till it was 4pm. Ten hours.
It was somewhere in the middle of the day that Alex opened her eyes with a start. It was quiet and dark-ish, but she knew something was lurking about. She slowly sat up, careful to not make any noise or alert anyone. There was some movement, but she didn't dare call out for Piper. She didn't know if it was indeed Piper or someone else. After Kubra's message, she was sure her life wasn't as safe as she'd like it. Turning Piper was the last straw. She remembered her trial, where she indicated that Kubra was involved. She had cut a deal with him saying that she wouldn't say anything if he left her and everyone she was involved with alone. That clearly meant Piper.
Yesterday, she had the shock of her life when Piper walked through those doors turned. She was a fucking vampyr, with a message from Kubra! What the hell was that supposed to mean? Kubra backed out or did he thing Piper was fair game cause she named her. Fuck that. She heard a swishing noise to indicating movement and looked alert, fangs elongated, willing to fight.
Suddenly, she was shoved back and she felt cold iron slicing through her hand. She looked at the vampyr in front of her. "Seraya" she whispered, before the vampyr was gone and Pornstache, the warlock, rushed to her bunk.
"What the fuck just happened?" He shouted, looking at Alex who was bleeding profusely and had tears in her eyes.
Alex was pissed as fuck. She almost died in a prison, in the hands of someone who wasn't even a prisoner and this bumbling asshole was yelling at her? Fuck that, fuck him and jeezus fuck that hurt. She felt tears prick her eyes at the sheer pain that iron caused. In her already weakened state, she was in a whole world of pain. She registered Nicky coming over and cursing; but most of all, she heard Piper's gasp before she blacked out. She came to immediately in the next minute when she was smacked across the face by Nicky.
"Fuck. Nicky, what the fuck!" Alex asked angrily, as she sat up again. Now, she had attracted a lot of attention and the shifter bear guard and Pornstache were in her cube. Nicky was standing close, assuming a semi protective stance, while Fischer, the human guard brought her half a bottle of rat's blood. Alex knew not to complain and took it gratefully. She swallowed it in three gulps and handed the bottle back. Her arm wound started healing slowly and she was yanked up by Pornstache to be taken to Caputo to explain what the hell happened.
She looked at Piper standing there with a grim face, and heard Nicky protest about being roughhoused. She was literally dragged to Caputo's office, with a thick blanket over her, to prevent the sun from burning her.
As she was dragged off, she heard Piper ask Nicky "Who the fuck was in here?"Nicky shrugged her shoulders. "Not a scent I recognise. Anyone you know?" She asked Piper. "I can't tell. Everyone I met from her fucked up world was when I was human. I can't tell if I know this scent or not." Piper answered, looking puzzled. She didn't like that Alex had a hit on her head and the fact that clearly, she wasn't protected around here. She felt mildly guilty for attacking Alex the previous night, knowing that she would have probably been able to fend off her attacker for a little while till help came if she wasn't that weak.
Wanda Bell made a note of the scent that was around, determined to figure out how the perpetrator had gotten in. The prison was pretty secure because of the supernatural beings and even had a ring of salt placed around it by Figueroa, the head witch. Caputo reported to her and prisoners were allowed inside the salt ring only when she allowed it. It made no sense how this thing got in here. Bell called for Bennett to put his wolf nose into it to figure this shit out. Once they were done scanning the place, the two left and Nicky made her way to Piper's bunk. The two of them didn't notice Sister Ingalls watching them with a quiet look before returning to her bunk.
"Hey. So you think sasquatch will be alright?" Nicky asked, after entering Piper's bunk and sitting next to her.
"I don't know. I need to understand what happened." Piper said, not willing to give Nicky even a hint that she was worried for her brunette ex.
"She was sliced. By a vamp with a fucking iron knife. After you played with her ovaries. Literally." Nicky said, with a droll expression.
"Fuck you Nicky. I know what happened to her. I want to know why. And who the fuck the vampyr was." Piper said, losing patience. She wanted to hurl something at the bushy haired woman, but she lay off knowing that she was asking questions because she cared about Alex and not because she was a two-bit gossip.
About an hour later, Nicky was in her bunk and Piper was re-reading Lord of the Rings when they dragged an almost unconscious Alex back and dumped her in her bunk. Fifteen minutes later, when the dorm was quiet, Piper went over and knelt down next to Alex's bunk. The older vampyr lay there, ashen, almost unconscious.
"Fuck Al. What have you gone and done." Piper whispered as she reached out to stroke Alex's hand. She took a deep breath as she finalized on her decision that she had been pondering about. She looked up to see that there was no-one watching and quickly bit her hand and shoved it into Alex's mouth. It had to be done quickly, and quietly, so that none of the other got a smell. She knew that smelling vampyr blood mixed with human would pretty much start a war in the dorm.
Alex sucked on the wrist greedily and moaned when it was wrenched out of her grip. Before she could turn to see what was going on, there was a whoosh and Piper had disappeared. She sat up in bed, feeling reenergized and stronger than ever. It was the best fix she had had in days and she knew she had Piper to thank for that.
Five minutes later, Piper sauntered back and walked into Alex's bunk and sat opposite the brunette.
"Um. Thanks." Alex said, looking intently at Piper. Piper shrugged her shoulders "Now I don't have to feel guilty. We're even on that score" she said, drawing random pictures on the bed.
"Pipes. Look at me." Alex said, urging the blonde to look up.
"What the fuck is going on Alex? Why was I turned, why is there a hit on your life? How did that thing get in here? Who was he or she? I need answers." Piper said, punctuating each question with a jab of her finger on the bed. She didn't want to touch Alex, because as much as she hated her at that moment, she knew deep down that she loved her more. And that made Piper want to hate Alex all the more.
"I don't know. But I will find out." Alex said, her eyes flashing red as she let the rage get past her resolve for a second. Piper guessed she would have to be satisfied for the moment with that.
"I still want to know everything that went down. From after I left, till you got caught and named me." Piper said, gritting her teeth in frustration.
"Meet me later. In the yard and we'll talk." Alex said, buying herself more time. She knew Piper would flip her shit when she found out the truth. If she had a temper when she was human, Alex didn't really feel like finding out what it was like now.
"Sure Al. Of course. Whatever the bitch says, right?" Piper said, snarkily. She was pissed off. She got up and went to her bunk, while Alex lay back down, forming her strategies. She needed Piper to like her first before she dumped the truth on the young vampyr, she needed to find out how the fuck Seraya had gotten in here and why she hadn't been killed. If Seraya wanted to end her life, Alex wouldn't he here thinking up strategies. Mostly, she wanted to know what the fuck that nun's role in all this was. She racked her brains to think if the nun was even a little familiar but came up blank. She tapped her fingers against her stomach as she stared up at the ceiling. There was no fucking way she was resting even for a bit.
A/N: Thank you guys for reading, following, favouriting and reviewing. The story is going more AU as I write it, but in the next chapter, we'll see the other characters also. Sorry if it has been very Piper/Alex centric so far, but I wanted to establish some groundwork.