The next day, Ava and Rafe skidded to a halt at the front desk on the police station.
Rafe hadn't slept in almost two days. He was too excited to sleep last night. The thought of Natalia coming home made his want to quit school and glue his self to her. Not that she would protest his whole life it had been him and her. She never missed a game a recital or a parent teacher meeting. She always seemed to be around a corner whether he needed her to be or not. Her presence wasn't missed until she was taken away. The reason he agreed to go to Texas was to get some space from her. Now he wished he had been more thoughtful and valued their time together.
Rafe began to get nervous he had been at the night before and it wasn't a pleasant memory.
They rode the elevator up to the fourth floor. Ava had been there before when she visited Lewis. It wasn't like he had a desk there but it the only place she remember people meeting him personally. The Lewis told her if she was going to be in Texas this was the best place to reach him. She had called earlier and confirmed the meeting.
"Maybe I should wait down stairs." Rafe looked around spotting the cold room he had been in for 8 hour being interrogated.
"Don't be silly once we get Lewis this video you're Ma will be home in no time." Ava looked around for a familiar face.
Rafe followed her through the maze of desk trying to look inconspicuous. He ran into the back of Ava in front of a messy desk.
"Here we'll wait for him." Ava sat in the chair beside the desk.
"Is this his?"
"No." Ava shrugged sinking into the chair. She wasn't used to getting less than 9 hours of sleep and being up all night was wearing on her.
Rafe stood bouncing on his toes. Where is this asshole? My Ma's freedom is on the line here. "Fuck." Rafe whispered dropping to his knees and hiding under the desk.
"What?" Ava sat up looking around, she tried to wave to Lewis but Rafe caught her wrist holding it down.
"That's one of the assholes who tackled and arrested me." Rafe scooted further under the desk.
"Rafe you have to be mistaken." Ava wrenched her arm loose.
"Ava I wouldn't forget his face. He said he would make sure I got the death penalty." Rafe shook it head trying to remain in control of his emotion. He felt like crying then it turned to anger. "It's a conspiracy. They're all working against us." Rafe pulled Ava to the floor. "Come on we have to get out of here."
She followed him as they crawled to the elevators. "Rafe are you sure?" Ava dusted off her jeans.
"Yes, I'm sure I wouldn't forget his face. I should have known this wasn't going to be easy." Rafe leaned heavily on the wall trying not to cry at his bad luck.
"Don't worry I'll figure something out." Ava squeezed Rafe's shoulder. I'll figure something out.
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No one ate but there were a group of girl outside gathered around a picnic table, not one was out inside except Megan who stood in the middle of the unit confused. She looked at the empty room that Olivia and Natalia had lived. She missed the older woman already. Natalia had become sort of a mother to her, telling her about the different stages of the baby's development. Before she didn't care, she would never get the chance to take care of the child anyway. But Natalia had made it seem so desirable to watch your own off spring grow. Natalia had even contacted a lawyer who was busy trying to get her a lesser sentence. He boyfriend, Robby, had even sent her a letter saying he would testify on her behave and how much he loved her. She walked outside to the group, a group of women stood cramped at the table.
"Hey!"
One of the women standing on the outside of the group hushed her.
"What's going on?"
"We're going to break Spencer and Rivera out."
Megan's mouth opened in shock. She pressed her way into the circle where Kennedy, Blake, and Doris were.
"Look this is the plan. We create a distraction and take hostages." Kennedy was busy talking a drawing a map of the unit on the table.
"I got just the perfect distraction." Doris raised her finger popping it up like a light bulb idea. "Blake you and I will get busy on the officer station."
"Would you shut up, for once?" Blake pinched her own lips signaling for Wolfe to follow suit.
"Oh come Mahler everyone already know you two are knocking boots!" Someone whispered out of the crowd.
"That is not true." Blake raised her voice a little too loud. "Me and that woman have never, ever done anything. Tell them." Blake slapped Doris's shoulder.
Doris shrugged her shoulder rocking her head side to side. "There was that one time-"
"No Mahler, she has something." Kennedy tried to regain everyone's attention.
"I swear it was nothing…"
Kennedy's face screwed in confusion and unwanted mental pictures. "No I wasn't…ewe…talking about that. I mean were dealing with men here so we hit them in their soft spot."
The woman awed in agreement.
"I got it." Doris took the map of the unit. "This is what we'll do."
"Hey look who's here."
Doris and Kennedy pushed their way through the pack walking to the entrance of the unit.
"It's Lewis, where the hell has he been?" Wolfe's face lit up. "Ohhh, when he finds out Winslow put Olivia in the hole he is going to be mad."
"He don't look mad to me." Kennedy said elbowing the person behind her with their elbow in her back. "I say we move this plan up to lunch."
Harley practically ran down the steps of the unit when Lewis walked in. He had both surprised and angered her at his appearance. "Winslow, what the hell is he doing here?"
"Fuck off Davidson." Edmund tried to ignore the inmate while he stood with his back to Cooper and Lewis.
"What are you talking about? Lewis is back, you said he would be back for days. What if he tries to save Spencer" Harley huffed tired of being ignored and treated like every other inmate. She was Harley Davidson, the leader of the Angel. "Damn it Winslow I'm tired of not listening to me."
Frank and Josh looked up from their heated conversation.
Winslow turned to them embarrassed to say the least. He had known for some time they were beginning to see him as weak. It was father from the truth. Although lately he had taken an inmate in a show of his power he was far from change or weak.
Winslow looked across the unit to the door looking at the women with their heads stuck inside to watch the show. Yea it is definitely time to reassert myself as Alpha male. He took a deep breath, always keeping his cool. "I said fuck off." He said without looking at Harley. He walked towards the stairway knowing Harley would follow.
"Is this about what Rivera said? You know I have no intentions of working with Cooper." Harley followed his footsteps. She hasn't told him about Natalia telling her of his plan to work with Royal. She wanted to make sure there wasn't a slice of truth in the statement. If Natalia had planted any doubt in Winslow's mind about her loyalty she might have to revert to the other guards for protection from him. From what she had heard from the other women Winslow had the ability to be sadistic in his pursuit of an inmate. She also knew she was dangerously toeing the line, she had never gotten anywhere by playing it safe. So far she had pampered him with girl, willing and unwilling, but it was part of their deal, he got girls and she got whatever she wanted.
"How do I know?" Winslow turned to Harley, speaking loudly. "You're just like the rest of them. You don't own me, I own you. And I think it is time you felt it." Winslow grabbed Harley's arm squeezing it till the inmate's knees buckled. "Today is the last time you will speak without my permission." He didn't flinch as Harley scratched at his hand, drawing blood. "And later you will serve me and who ever I say. Make no mistake Bitch, you're reign here is over."
The tears formed in Harley's eyes the pain in her arm increased.
"Winslow!" Lewis called out to the other office remaining beside Frank. It wasn't a surprise to him Winslow was discarding Harley. He didn't have a loyal bone in his body. He looked out for himself and himself only.
Winslow pushed her away. "Now leave before you if yourself in a single cell with me."
Harley slowly climbed the stairs, rubbing her bruised arm. The whole scene had caught her off guard.
The women in the unit looked at each other in despair and humor. Most of them knew the old Winslow and it seemed like Harley had just brought him back and no one was safe.
Rachel stood in the door of her room laughing. She pulled a razor out of her mouth flashing it to Harley. 'Dead' She mouthed to a still shocked Harley.
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Natalia laid on the floor beside the vent listening to Olivia's movements. She could hear the officer passing out trays and she knew not to expect anything. She had been trying to keep track of the time, between her dosing off and waking up multiple time to talk to Olivia it was almost impossible. It felt like days had passed, she knew it hadn't been, Cooper and his goons hadn't been back
Olivia alternated between pacing the dark cell, blindly groping for the wall and laying by the vent listening to Natalia breathe. She wished she was still the person she had been before Natalia. If she were still that person she could sleep through these days. That was before she got used to sleeping with someone beside her.
"Olivia?"
"I'm right here." Olivia laid back down wrapping herself in the sheet.
"You never told me about your time here before me."
"There is really nothing to tell. I came in and when to a unit. It's kind of like this but with more lights and activity time. That is where I met Winslow." Olivia laughed remembering how they bumped head in the first five minutes of her entering the unit. "He told me I had to have a roommate, when I protested; he gave me a room to myself and then refused to feed me until I accepted a roommate."
"How long did you hold out?"
"About a week and a half, I got other inmates to give me things."
"That must have made him made."
"That's an understatement." Olivia snorted.
"What did he do?"
"He used to open the trap and spray mace in my room."
"That must have hurt." Natalia grimaced at the thought of being stuck in a small room full of pepper spray.
"Yea well we all have to pay our dues." Olivia stood up stretching her limbs, the floor was too cold to stay on she didn't know how Natalia could stand it. "At least you'll be out by tonight."
"I don't want to go without you."
"That's not up for discussion." Olivia snapped back.
"It is and I'm not leaving and if I do I'm just coming right back." Natalia stood up walking to her bed. She wished Olivia could see the defiance in her face and determination set in her shoulders.
"Natalia"
"No I have made my decision, and just like you tried to protect me, I'm going to stay with you. You can get as mad as you want, you can't touch me." Natalia wiggled her body in a goofy gesture. At the moment she felt a little playful.
Olivia narrowly held in a laugh. She could hear the giddiness on Natalia's voice, almost childish. "You better be glad we aren't in the same room."
"Oh yea." Natalia laughed, challenging Olivia.
"I hope you're rested because when I get my hand on you…" Olivia left the rest up to Natalia's imagination.
Ava and Rafe sat in his dorm room.
"What are we going to do now?" Rafe stood up swinging his bat at invisible bad guys.
"Don't worry I got one more contact at the prison." Ava finished sending her email.
"Wait how do you have all these contacts and how come I never heard about all this?" Rafe peeked over Ava's shoulder trying to read the email address. "I'm serious." Rafe turned the swivel chair Ava sat in. "I want to know now. If this could affect our moms I feel I deserve that much."
Ava blew out a frustrated breath in his face. "You're so god damn nosy." She began to tell him about Olivia's undercover work.
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Natalia shield her eyes from the burn light coming through the newly open food trap. For a second she thought they were going to be given dinner.
"It's day two ladies. I hope you're ready." Winslow stuck his face through the opening.
"Screw you Winslow." Natalia lay back on the floor covering her ears.
"Now don't give me any ideal."
"Bring it on Winslow." Olivia got up from the floor, stretching her limbs.
"Ah, Spencer you just don't know went to quit. So let me give you a hint." Winslow went to open her food trap too.
"Hey back off."
Olivia crawled to the door recognizing the voice right away. "Josh, thank god you're here you have to let us out of here. We didn't do anything."
Natalia crawled to her trying to adjust her eyes to the light. She saw Winslow, Lewis and Foley standing just a few feet away. She too was thankful for the man's appearance that is until Winslow began to laugh. Something about the Lewis had changed.
The way he stood, the way his shoulders we stiffen almost boisterous. Something is not right. Natalia no longer trusted the man with the salt and pepper goatee. His eye didn't shine of generosity or mercy. They shined of evil and malice.
Josh flashed a look at Natalia looking through the food trap. His eyes were filled with hate.
Olivia began to talk again making sure she wasn't going crazy. "Josh you there. You have to help us."
"Olivia." Natalia said trying to warn Olivia about the feeling she had, the changes that had appeared in the once helpful man.
"No Olivia. I can't help you now, because you chose not to help me." Josh's voice was cold as he talked to Olivia staring at Natalia's food trap.
"Lewis, what are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about you picking this woman over me, over yourself and over the assignment." His eyes never left Natalia's door. He almost smiled when Natalia eyes shifted from worry to anger.
"Josh, what are you doing?" Olivia questioned the man. Surely he won't blow their cover. If anyone would it would be Cooper.
"Olivia what is he talking about, what assignment?" Natalia left the food trap crawling closer to the vent.
Olivia stayed silent. Natalia wouldn't understand, she wanted to tell her face to face when both of them were free.
"Come on Spencer don't fall mute now." Winslow taunted Olivia, laughing. He wanted to stay to hear everything Lewis had to say. So far all he knew was that Olivia had been snitching on him and Harley.
"Why don't you two go see about you're unit. Cooper can't run it by himself." Josh ordered the two. He watched as they both hesitantly left. They knew only what he wanted them to know. He could blow Olivia's cover but not his. As far as they knew he was a jealous lover and Olivia was a snitch for the warden to get any time she could scratched off.
"You see Mrs. Rivera, Olivia has been working with me to put that deadbeat son of yours behind bars for what he did. And you'll be happy to know we have succeeded."
"That's not true Natalia. You know I would never do anything to hurt you or Rafe." Olivia shouted through in her cell.
Josh pull out a picture out of his pocket showing it to Natalia through the trap.
Natalia crawled back to the trap; it was Rafe's mug shot. Her son wore a red torn shirt, the one she had bought him two Christmas's ago; his eyes were almost the same color. She could tell he had been crying. "Please I need to use the phone. I have to talk to him."
"No. He's where he belongs." Josh snatched the picture away.
"He didn't do it!" Natalia broke down behind the door. The tears came hot and fast.
Olivia could hear the woman crying through the wall. She slid onto the concrete, trying to figure out how this could happen. Josh was supposed to be on her side. "Why are you doing this?" There had only been a three times in Olivia's life when she felt defeated. When her mother put her out, when her first girlfriend cheated and now.
"Because Olivia. That little thug can't get away with murder."
"He didn't do it." Olivia retorted wishing she were dreaming or possibly gone crazy from isolation.
"Yes he did. And I'm going to make sure he gets the death penalty even if I have to transfer to his prison and kill him myself." Josh sneered.
"Please leave him alone. He's just a child."
"If you were a better mother we wouldn't be here. Now I have a boat to catch. That kid off your ain't going to put himself in prison."
Lewis shut the trap and walked out of the unit leaving the two women in the dark.
"Natalia." Olivia spoke up after a minute or so of listening to Natalia cry.
"Don't talk to me…GUARD, GUARD"
"What?" The young officer came over to her door.
"I need to use the phone my son is in trouble please."
"He got himself in trouble, he can get himself out." The officer walked away from Natalia's door.
"Natalia, listen to me. He's lying."
"About what Olivia, you and him working together or about Rafe. Because Rafe is in jail so tell me, what is he lying about?"
"I swear I never meant for this to happen. I was trying to help you and Rafe."
Before Olivia could answer the building alert system sounded. The horns outside blared.
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They had worked and reworked their plan since breakfast. Harley nor Rachel had been seen all day.
Megan stood with a group of girl who were anxiously excited at the plan. They had told her to stay in her room encase they turn violent. Though she had protested she knew it was for the best. "Can I ask you a question?"Megan turned to the woman beside her covered in tattoos. "Why are you doing this? I mean unless you have life you have a lot to lose."
The woman turned to her standing at her full height.
It was then Megan realized it was they woman who was second in command of the Royal Family.
"Because I have nothing else to do and that asshole Winslow hurt my ex."
Megan backed away for the murderous looking woman. She walked to the table were the three architects of the plan sat.
"I'm just saying we should move while Cooper is the only one here. Winslow is bound to show up and bring the whole swat team with them." Blake sat on the table talking then frowning at Megan. "I thought we told you to go in your room."
Megan shrugged, struggling to mirror Blake position.
"And all I'm saying is that if you would just try it. One night is all I'm asking for." Wolfe reached across the table but Blake slapped her hand away.
"Please would you two just shut up for one second?" Kennedy almost yelled. "The reason we wait is because they could come and stop us. But is they are already here we could take them to. They guards that are on shift are tired shift change is in about an hour. The guards who live on the island and who are coming on shift are still groggy just waking up. They'll be too slow if we are fast. By the time anyone gets suited up we'll be out of this unit and running the place."
"You seemed like you've done this before." Megan said impressed. When her boyfriend had panned the bank robbery he hadn't planned on anything, not guards with gun, customers who wanted to be heroes, or the bullet proof glass the tellers were behind. The whole thing was a disaster for the start.
"Once in Juvie." Kennedy said one last pray, knowing this was probably the end of the road for her. If no one killed her she would be behind bars for the rest of her life. But that was nothing compared to the guilt she still felt for agreeing to crap she had done. I knew hanging around Rivera and Wolfe would do this. "OK so let's go. I think I see Winslow."
Megan ran to her room hiding under the blanket.
Kennedy cursed not planning on Foley following Winslow around. "This doesn't change anything. Lets go."
Blake opened her suit revealing her chest. "Here goes nothing."
"Oh god!" Doris gulped trying to stay focused
Blake sashayed up to Frank tossing her hair back. "Officer Cooper I was wondering if you could help me." Blake talked in the sexiest voice she could muster.
Frank licked his lips. He had been watch Blake seen he arrived. All day he had been having a funny feeling. I knew she wanted me. Women can't resist this. "Anything."
"Anything?" Blake leaned over the desk.
Winslow was already occupied with his decoy following her to the showers.
Frank followed Blake to her room putting up the curtain.
"We have to do something with Foley." Kennedy's mind was in full tilt. She could for the life of her come up with anything. Everyone already had a job.
"No worries leave it to me." Doris passed a group headed to the showers to take care of Winslow while another waited for the signal to take Cooper.
Doris ran into Megan's room. "We need you after all."
"Really!" Megan jumped off her bed ready for action.
"All you have to do is act." Doris turned around spotting the cup of red kool-aid someone had sat down. "Perfect."
"Act like what?" Megan bounces on her toes ready for orders.
"Like you're in labor." Doris threw the cups content in Megan lap. "Foley!"
Foley ran to the room and instant been over gagging.
"Help her!"
Megan snapped out of her surprise bending over in feigned pain."It's coming."
"Fuck no that's nasty." Foley held his hand over his mouth afraid if he saw anything he would vomit. "Make it stop!"
Doris looked out the door watch Kennedy run behind the officer station; she slowly circled Foley standing between him and the door. She eyes the spray and radio on his waist.
"What the fuck!" Winslow shouted.
Kennedy grimace she knew they won't wait to kick his ass but they had jeopardized the plan. She found the light switches and hit them.
Foley took the radio out of its holder and the lights went off. He turned just in time to see the fist connect with his nose. Doris hopped around shaking her fist. "Ow,ow,ow."
The group ran into Blake room hitting Copper with whatever they could lift.
Winslow made it out of the showers only to taken down by another small group kicking him.
Harley lay in her room shaking with fear. Her gang had abandoned her and she knew if Winslow and Copper came to her room she would their fro the taking. She hadn't been this scared since her first night in a detention center at the age of 13. She held the blade close to her body.
Harley heard the yell. She jumped up running to the rail. She could barely make out Winslow's form as the women surrounded him. She looked up as someone yelled at her.
"You're dead Davidson."
Even in the dim light the blade in Royal's hand shined. Harley made a dash for the stairs, Royal following down the opposite side. Harley ran looking for open space, but there was nowhere to go. The women ran wildly around the unit most heading up front. Harley ran outside knowing it was the end of the road.
"What happen to fearless Barbie? You look sacred." Royal stalked Harley through the yard. She didn't bother running there was nowhere for Harley to go, she would have to fight. I'm going to be the last one standing.