Natalia jumped from the floor when her cell door was opened. Frank, Cyrus and Edmund stood in the doorway.
"Inmate Rivera, you have been charged with attempted escape," Winslow read off a small piece of paper in his hand, "this is punishable up to 30 days in the hole or 10 year added to yours sentence, yadda yadda yadda." He threw the piece of paper over his shoulder. "Or maybe this was all a mistake or a misunderstanding. Maybe you could work your days off right now." They smiled wickedly at the brunette.
Olivia had been listening through the vent. Her tempter exploded. "YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE. I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS." She banged on the concrete wall. "YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH HER."
"Oh I forgot she's your girlfriend." Edmund yelled loud enough for Olivia to hear. "Here's your chance, Rivera." They waited for an answer, but none came forward. "Well, I guess that's a no, Mrs. Rivera."
"That's a hell no. You wouldn't have a chance in hell if you were water." Natalia spit the words at them.
"Disparaging language towards a staff member. That's another 2 days in the hole."
Foley's face lit up as Winslow mocked her. "No Edmund. We shouldn't give her 2 more days. I think 10 days in the hole should do it. Don't you Natalia?"
"10?"
"10?" Winslow repeated Natalia. He was confused.
"Yes, 10. One of you. You hear that Olivia. You can get off easy only 10 days." Cyrus knocked on the wall.
Olivia didn't respond.
"Now we can make it 5 days if you agree to previous conditions and I think you know what I mean." Foley punched Frank on the shoulder, laughing. "Your only other choice is you or Olivia can get the 10 days of disciplinary and the other will be out by tomorrow night." Foley smiled as he offered her the deal.
Natalia stood frozen. There was catch somewhere she just could find it. I should take the disciplinary and Olivia can call Rafe and Ava and let them know what's happening.
Olivia didn't hear Natalia say anything. What is she thinking about? "Natalia, no. She doesn't want it, I'll take it. I'll take the 10 days." Olivia yelled through the vent.
"I'm going to take your silence as agreement." The guards stepped out of the room and closed the door.
Natalia could hear the three of them talking. The thick door muffled the sounds too much to make out their whispering.
The food trap opened Edmund stuck is face into the space. "This is day one." He shut it. "Cooper you have the honor of setting your friend here straight, it was you're ideal." Edmund watched Frank for any signs of hesitation.
Natalia crouched back to the vent. "Olivia?"
"I'm right here. It's okay." Natalia saw a tiny speck of light in the vent from Olivia's cell door being opened. "If it ain't Moe, Curly and Larry."
Natalia smiled. Always the sassy one.
"Natalia?" Edmund spoke through the vent. "Can you hear me?"
Natalia didn't answer. She had a sick feeling of what the catch was.
"Yea I think you can." Three sets of feet shuffled in the next cell. A loud whack came through the vent. The next sound was Olivia groaning.
"Oh come on Spencer this is just day one. You got 9 more days of this. Thanks to your girlfriend." Cooper boasted. "You should have listened to me."
Foley and Winslow stood at the door watching their partner work. Winslow sat bored, he didn't want to kill Olivia but it would have been much more exciting if Frank had a better swing.
"Olivia?" Natalia spoke into the vent.
"Olivia is not available at the moment please call back." Another whack.
Natalia could hear the struggle in the cell. She could hear what could only baton whistling through the air before coming in contact with skin.
Natalia slammed her hands against the wall. "Okay, okay. STOP, Winslow STOP!" She yelled until her voice was hoarse. Olivia's yelps of pain slowly faded until there was nothing but the occasional groan. She could hear the three guards laughing.
After a few minutes, Natalia heard the cell door close. Through the little window on the door she saw two of the three sadistic guards walk pass her door.
Natalia lay back on the floor "Olivia? Olivia, say something." She listened until she heard a groan. "God, Olivia, please say something."
"He still hits like a girl."
Rafe Ava and Emma crowded around the desktop computer trying to figure out the program.
"Ava let me see I can do it." Emma snatched the mouse from her sister. She hit a few button rewinding the media player. "I was recording my song."
The video started with Emma singing and making faces at the computer camera. She sang and bounced in the video. "Here it is." She pointed at the video as Rafe walked in the background opening the door. Patrick burst into the room and Emma slid out of camera view but Patrick and his confession were in full view.
As soon as the video ended Rafe and Ava stared at each other in disbelief. They both stood holding each other by the shoulders jumping and screaming. Emma squeezed between them jumping in mysterious excitement. She wasn't one to miss out on a screaming celebration.
Rafe picked the little girl hugging her too tight for comfort. "Fuck Emma you are my favorite sister." He stuck his tongue out at Ava.
"Why?" Emma questioned, she still didn't know why everyone was excited.
"Emma! We take this to the police and my Ma can come home." Rafe jumped up and down with Emma in his arms, another surge of excitement exploded in his chest.
"What happened?" David stood in the door way, his eye jumping for the three.
"David I need you to get a video off this computer." Rafe ran to their bed room hurdling over the obstacles of furniture and dirty clothes. He returned with his memory card. He shoved it in David's chest making him sit at the computer. "Do it."
Olivia walked around the small room trying to shake off the pain of being hit by7 the baton. Even though it wasn't hard as she thought Cooper could hit it still hurt.
"Olivia?" Natalia was still on the floor, wonder why things always came back to this, her being helpless at the hands of evil men.
"I'm fine Natalia you should get some sleep." Olivia sat on the toilet. The floor was torture on her sides.
"I'm sorry. I should have said something. I didn't know what he meant." Natalia wrapped herself in the small sheet wishing it were Olivia's arms. It was getting colder.
"Natalia, sleep. I made the decision not you, now go to sleep." Olivia flexed her fingers. They felt numb. The cold began to creep up her arm making her shiver. If there were more light she would have seen breathe floating through the confined space.
"I can't I'm too hungry."
"Yea well I don't' think they are going to feed us. Today or tomorrow."
"We'll starve. We can't not eat for 10 days." Natalia voice grew in hysteria. I can't not eat for 10 days. At least the first two week I was here I ate breakfast or something from Olivia. Olivia can't go 10 days without eating; she can't suffer for 10 days.
"Natalia! Calm down. When Lewis gets back he'll straighten all this out. I'll have their badges before the end of the week." Olivia tried to turn on the sink but nothing came out. Great no water either. Come on Josh I need you.
"I'm so sorry Olivia. It's my entirely fault."
"It's not Natalia. They would have come after me anyway." Olivia wrapped herself in the thin sheet and lay back down by the vent.
"No it is."
"Yes it is. I know I should have told you but I know you would have thought I was crazy."
"Wait, start from the beginning." Olivia waited for Natalia to start.
"The day before I was attacked I heard Foley and Winslow talking about a package that had been intercepted. Winslow said that Cooper had caught some drugs coming in and he though Cooper was against them. Foley said that if anyone had said anything it was big mouth Harley." Natalia took a breath trying to decipher everything she was thinking and everything she had heard. "It just came to me. I walked right up to them I had found out she was working behind their back with Cooper."
"Natalia!" Olivia interrupted the other woman mad and more frustrated that Natalia would put herself in such a position.
"I know, before I knew it I was talking and I couldn't go back. They didn't believe me at first then I told them about Harley's meeting with her girls. Everyone knew that Harley had been going to Rachel's room I think they really believed me. Later that day I told Lisa, the one with the long black hair the teardrop tattoos, you know she's in the bible study. I told her to tell Harley I heard Winslow was going to drop her and work with Rachel."
"Did she do it?" Olivia asked when Natalia took a breath like a child impatiently waiting for the climax of their favorite bedtime story.
"Yes, but the next day Kennedy and the other woman tried to kill me. Yesterday I had told Rachel if she got rid of Harley, I kind of hinted I would be with her." Natalia cringed sort of relieved they had been removed from the unit. She hadn't known what she would do if Rachel succeed. "I told Kennedy about it and she promised to help."
"Natalia this is crazy, what if they found out, you could be in so much danger."
"I know, I guess they did find out. I'm sorry I dragged you into this."
"Don't worry I have a feeling your plan isn't the reason we are in here."
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Kennedy sat at the doorway of her room throwing cards at the toilet. "This is too weird. No one is out."
"I know." Doris climbed on the floor taking the cards shuffling them. "You're the big bad gang girl, what's up?"
"How should I know, they kicked me out remember." Kennedy snatched the deck back. "You're doing it wrong."
"That's not what she said."
"What was up with Rivera and Spencer? Why they leave?" Kennedy asked, trying to get more info, passing two cards to Doris. She knew about Natalia's plan but that couldn't be the reason Winslow decided to take them. Only three maybe four people knew about it.
"Don't know."
"Rivera didn't happen to tell you about what she was doing?" Kennedy inquired picking up a card off the pile.
"I think everyone knows, Spencer."
"No I mean the plan." Kennedy twisted her hands in the air as if the plan would appear in thin air.
"What plan?" Blake ran around the corner stepping over the young girl.
Rachel Royal stood at her door way looking at the empty unit in anger. "I thought I gave everyone an order."
Her roommate rolled onto her back holding the magazine above her. "We had planned to attack, but then Winslow took Rivera and Spencer. They're scared. Don't worry we'll get them tomorrow."
"They better be. Tomorrow I'm going to personally shank every single one of them if something doesn't happen." Rachel stood seething. She looked down at the officer station. The officer there was one she hadn't seen before. He was young and hanging on every word of the opposing gang leader. I bet it was her who had Rivera moved. Her and that stupid Winslow.
Harley sat at the Officer station flirting with the young officer. She had no intention of doing anything; it was just fun to see how much power she still had over men. Even with her attention elsewhere she could herself being watch and she had a good idea who it was. Harley was not in the mood for a long standoff, she would get Winslow to end it, crack down on the royal family. A little bee had been buzzing in her ear as to why Kennedy hadn't gone through with the plan. The woman who had told her Winslow was trying to push her out had told her Rachel had set the whole thing up to fail. She was out to get Harley. Harley knew about the meeting and what was said. She wasn't scared of Rachel or her little soldiers. Winslow had shown to be trustworthy mostly and he had her back.
Harley was a little perplexed as to why no one had made a move on her life. The little soldiers seemed to be revolting against their Ruler. There was hardly anyone out of their cell. Maybe Spencer and Rivera's departure sacred everyone. I have to make sure to take credit for that, that'll make me that much more powerful. As for that bitch I know Winslow wouldn't work with her, she doesn't have a trustworthy bone in her body.