Michael lifted his head and looked at me, ready to speak when Bellick entered the room.

"Infirmary. Now cons" he said and held out two sets of hand cuffs. Michael was the first to stand, he walked towards Bellick. I stood and followed getting the cuffs roughly wrapped around my wrist. "Move." Bellick said, so we did.

"we'll talk later Zoey." Michael said as he lead the way to the infirmary two steps ahead of me.

When we reached it Bellick uncuffed both of us and opened the door for us to walk in. Dr. Sara Tancredi was sitting there, her ginger hair lit up by the sun that was beaming through the infirmary window on this sunny day in Illinois. She turned around fast with a smile on her face, that seemed to falter when she looked from Michael to me, I didn't pay any attention and sat on the bed behind her, Michael following.

"So Doc, you gunna give me some birth control pills or something so I can get outta here?" I asked looking out of the window on my right before she had time to say anything to us.

"Um," she paused slightly, "yer, just give me a sec." she said and stood her eyes flickering towards Michael for a moment before she stood to walk to her cabinet of supplies. She took out a tub of pills, a glass of clear liquid and a needle. She then walked over to us. "Would you like a glass of water?" she said as she took one of the pills from the tub and handed it to me.

"Sure." I said simply. She walked over to a fountain in her office and filled a small cup with water. She walked back and handed it to me. She then filled the needle with the clear liquid as I took my pill.

She walked over to Michael with the needle and rolled up his sleeve. She pushed the needle into the crease of his elbow gently and pushed in the liquid. "There, all done for today, I guess I'll see you both tomorrow." she smiled at Michael and then looked to me with a straight face and gave me a small nod. I walked out of the room first to be greeted by a pair of handcuffs held by C.O Patterson.

We were walked back to our cells where we were uncuffed and let in. I lay on my bed thinking of what I could do for the rest of the day. Before I knew it, it was 'dinner'. I walked with the rest of the cons to cafeteria and got my 'food' and sat at an empty table. A man walked over and tried to sit with me. I looked at him with all the hate I could muster and told him to 'get the fuck away or I would have to use force' I think were my words.

After our meal was over we were let back into A-Wing for REC time, or as I like to call it, free roam. I was sitting in my cell, alone, again, just thinking, about everything, like the fact that I'm going to be in here for the rest of my life, and the only way I will get out is a black zip up body bag.

I slept that night thinking that I'm destined to die in a male prison.

The next morning I woke up to Bellick knocking on my cell, "Wake up con, I have something for you." he said, or yelled, in his loud gruff voice. Does the men not have an 'indoor' voice.

"Yer, whatever" I said and sat up in my bunk. I leaned over to the cell gate as Bellick held what looked like a card out to me. I took it and looked at it, it had my face from my mug shot on it with my name and the words 'Prison Industries' written on it.

I looked up to Bellick "What's this?"

"It's a prison industries card, it means you work in construction, Warden told me to give you one, keep you out of harms way, instead of having yard all of the time, you will mostly be on PI, it also keeps you out of the cell, stop you going insane you know. I mean," he said with a sick smirk, "you are a woman after all." and then walked off.

I looked down at the card again, PI, 19 cents an hour, sounds like cheap labour to me.

i was then taken to the infirmary for my pill.

I was lead into part of the prison which was getting refurbished by Bellick himself, I was then told to talk to John Abruzzi. I walked into the large room and saw John, I wandered over to him, not quite knowing what to say.

I stood behind him, reached up and tapped his shoulder, with a bit of force, I didn't want to look or seem scared, "hey, Abruzzi, I've been told to come see you" I said with courage in my voice.

"Yer, why?" he said as he turned around. He looked me up and down, from head to toe, honestly I felt a little small under his hard gaze.

"This." I said and handed him my PI card. He took it, took a quick look and handed it back. Before letting go he looked me dead in the eyes.

"Who gave you this?"

"Pope. Said I had to keep out of trouble." I looked at his eyes they where looking for anything that would tell him I was lying.

"You have any experience with construction?"

"Yer, I worked on with a building company for three years, on site jobs, don't worry I wasn't just sitting behind some desk somewhere, I know how to work."

"Right well, you'll find your suit over there," he pointed to the right, "paint over there," to the left, "and you will work over there." right behind me.

"Gotcha." I said and smiled at him, which he did not return.

I walked over to where he said I would find my uniform, it was through a door, locker rooms, now this reminds me of high school, except because this was a male locker room it smelled of sweat and man. I opened a door in the room that said JUMP SUITS and took out the smallest on they had, alas it was still too big, so I rolled up the sleeves and the lags like I do with my normal jump suit and walked out. I went over to a table where the was trays, paint pots, brushes and rollers, I picked up a tray and filled it with paint, grabbed a roller and a paint brush and walked to my station of duty.

I placed the brush in my pocket and put the tray on the floor, dipped the roller in the paint and started on my work.

About twenty minuets later I could feel eyes on me, I tried to ignore it but I couldn't I stopped what I was doing and turned around, I saw Lincoln's face his eyes boring holes into me, he was standing with Michael who looked to be talking to him. Linc noticed me staring and looked away, I turned back to my work, until I felt a hand on my shoulder that was gone as quickly as it was put there.

"Hey, Zoey." the voice was rough and sounded a little dry.

"Hey Linc" I turned to my right to look at him.

"How you been kiddo" he asked, in what I guess was his attempt to make light conversation.

"I've been better, you know, when I wasn't in a male prison, I'm going to guess your not at your best either though."

"And your guess would be correct, but that was kind of a stupid question wasn't it." he asked rhetorically.

"I guess, so, it's been a while Linc. Have you spoken to or seen LJ lately, I've missed that kid you know." I said with a light smile.

"Yer, I saw him a while back, I'm mentoring him, he got caught with weed." he said and looked at me and then to the floor.

"Oh, like what, it was for him, or?" I asked looking at the wall I was painting white.

"Selling it."

"Ah, hey Linc, look,he's a smart kid, he'll be fine, he'll turn it around. Hey next time you see him can you maybe ask him to come see me, if he gets the chance you know, I really do miss him." I said with a sad smile.

"Yer, I'll ask him, he'll be happy to know your asking about him, but I don't think he knows your in here, it's highly likely that he will be upset to find out that his dad, uncle and 'aunty' are all in prison, the same prison no doubt." he said with a small hint of a laugh, a dry laugh, but a laugh none the less.

"Yer, I guess, but he has the right to be upset, three of the four people he has looked up to all his life are gone."

"Four?" he asked.

"Well, you know and I know, and no doubt Mike knows that he didn't really take to Lisa's new boyfriend." I said with a grin.

"Yer. I see you still refuse to call him her husband."

"Well, if he was her husband that would mean that he was trying to take your place as LJ's dad, and that just aint right."

we spoke for the rest of PI while getting on with our work, I'll admit, it was fun, I hadn't seen Linc in a long time, but at least he had called, and LJ had called, so I wasn't angry at them like I was with Mike.