Chapter Nine

Visitors

In the morning outside the prison, Shadow Rouge and Angel were standing in a line waiting to go inside for visiting hours. As they waited, some guards were checking the visitors just in case they were smuggling anything inside.

Angel gurgled as Rouge handed him over to shadow so she could be checked, then Shadow handed Angel to her again as she was checked, as she was checked the police guard smiled at her "welcome back Rouge" he said remembering her from when she was in prison.

In the visiting room, Rouge and Shadow sat at a large table waiting for the murderesses, when Sylvia let the prisoners in, all the murderesses, Ellen and Jenny and Julie appeared. "Rouge!" they cried with joy "Shadow! Angel!" they all ran over almost knocking everything over in the room. Even Sylvia was pleased to see Rouge visit again with her family.

Rouge hugged each of them in turn and Angel gurgled happily when he saw his godmothers, "look Angel" said Rouge happily "it's your godmothers!" Angel gurgled happily and the murderesses began to coo and poke their fingers at Angel. "Awww hesa soo cute!" said Darlene, "awww what a pretty boy" said Julia.

One by one the murderesses, Jenny, Julie and Ellen took it in turns to hold angel, cuddle him and nuzzle him, "he's such a pretty little one eh?" said Jenny, "I'm so proud to be his godmother" "Yeah" said Julie "so proud" "and so are we" said the murderesses and Ellen together.

"Oh we also got presents!" said Rouge happily, Shadow placed a large bag on the table, "don't worry, we had these checked and the guards were ok about us bringing them in!" he said. The Murderesses looked excited, Rouge then picked out parcels for them all and began to hand them around.

"Wow cool!" said Ellen, Rouge smiled "don't open them till Christmas day though ladies" giggled Rouge, "we won't" said Kaliyah "not till Christmas Day" Chloe looked at her presents and smiled, "hey!" said Celia "looks like grumpy guts has cheered up!"

"Huh?" asked Rouge, "Chloe's been feeling pretty low recently" said Julia "yeah" said Verona, "she feels lonely and sad" "awww" said Rouge standing up and standing opposite Chloe "why so sad Butcher Girl?" Chloe shrugged "it's just that…Christmas has come, and I feel like the only one who is unloved…left out in the cold, since I came to prison, after my bloody crime, my father, my friends they said they never wanted to see me again, I'm dead as far as they're concerned"

"But Chloe" said Rouge "you've still got us!" "Yeah" said Kaliyah "and you're a godmother!" Chloe smiled softly, "yeah" she said as she reached across to stroke Angel's head. "And just think" said Rouge "one day you'll come and see us when you're out of this dump"

"Can't wait for that day" said Julie "yeah" said Jenny "it be wonderful" Rouge smiled and looked across to Angel who was gurgling and giggling as Darlene was holding him in her huge hands and bouncing him up and down. "You having fun Angel?" grinned Ellen.

"There's another thing" whispered Celia looking over her shoulder as she leaned close to Rouge, Sylvia was standing at the far end of the room and wasn't paying attention to what anyone was saying. "What?" whispered Rouge "Buxton" said Kaliyah also leaning in.

"I heard the whole thing on the news" said Rouge, "her body has been taken the morgue" Kaliyah and Celia nodded "she got what she deserved" said Rouge after what she did to us and the other prisoners" "not to mention those poor kids she abused" said Celia "the nonce"

"Don't worry ladies" said Rouge "don't let it worry you, Buxton's been decomposing in that trash dump for weeks, I doubt your DNA is still on her, her skin is all rotted away and you burnt her up too" "That's what I said" said Celia, she looked again over her shoulder to make sure Sylvia wasn't listening.

"Keep an eye on the news, see if you see or hear anything that might show we're the killers" said Kaliyah, Rouge nodded "I'll do my best" she said. She then looked up to see Julie holding Angel whilst Jenny was nuzzling her beak against Angel who was giggling and gurgling happily, he seemed to really enjoy the attention that was being given to him.

Just then Sylvia clapped her hands "all right you lot, visiting over" the murderesses sighed "trust old Sylvia" they sighed, "don't worry" said Rouge "we'll come back soon, we'll be over on Christmas Eve to wish you a Merry Christmas" "Nice!" said Ellen "Cool!" said Darlene.

Rouge then hugged them all and the murderesses, Ellen, Jenny and Julie kissed Angel, "can't wait to see you again Angel" said Julie shaking Angel's tiny hand. Shadow smiled, "I can't tell you ladies how grateful I am" he said "looking after Rouge and making her feel ok when I was trying to fight for her freedom"

The ladies blushed "we'd do anything for her" said Jenny, "yeah" said Julia "she's our friend!" Rouge blushed "well, it was lovely to see you all" she said "I'll see you soon" They were then escorted from the visiting room and Sylvia then herded everyone back to G-Wing.

As they walked back to G-Wing, Chloe walked with her head down, she was happy to see Shadow and Rouge and Angel, she was happy that Rouge had said those nice things, yet she still felt her hurt and sadness eating her up inside, there was also another feeling, something nasty, like someone was watching her, or something was telling her in her head that he couldn't relax, it was a horrible feeling, like something bad might happen, yet though it troubled her, she kept trying to push it away.

Awww, so Angel got to see his godmothers again! But what is this feeling Chloe's feeling? What could it be?