Chapter 2
It starts with a young newbie that Juice has picked. Lisa. Bea sees Juice and the boys surrounding her at the canteen, and at the yard. The girl looks terrified. Liz is concerned.
“Aren’t you going to do something love?” she asks Bea over tea.
“That’s Kaz’s job” Bea feels guilty, and tries hard at letting it go.
Kaz seems to be watching, but does nothing. Juice just gets bolder. She grabs Lisa’s breast at the line for breakfast. Lisa shrieks and drops her tray.
Juice smirks. “oops” she removes her hand.
Allie gets up and walks to Lisa. She gently puts her hand over Lisa’s back and brings her to their table. She gets Lisa another tray. Lisa is shaking. Liz puts her hand on Lisa’s. Sonia gets Boomer to get Lisa a cup of tea. “Don’t worry love” Liz says, in her gentle way. “This is Bea. Bea will look after you”
Bea sits back and looks at Liz. Liz meets her look. “I can’t believe you will let Juice do that” she says to Bea with all her gentleness. Boomer places the cup in front of Lisa. Allie comes back another tray for Lisa. She rubs Lisa’s back gently. “You are safe here” she says. She looks at Bea as she says that. Bea takes a deep breath and looks back at Juice, who still stands near the food counter. Juice walks back to her table dropping her tray hard.
Lisa is still shaking. Allie rubs her back again. “You are safe love” Liz smiles at Bea and then back at Lisa. Bea takes a bite of her toast. “For now.” she looks at Kaz.
Juice pushes her tray away.
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Bea starts to train again. That afternoon Allie helps her with weights. “I used to watch you do that.” Allie smiles, “when you worked out with Maxine. I thought that was hot”.
Bea smiles “Oh yeah?”
Allie runs a finger down Bea’s arm “oh yeah. You have no idea”
“Maybe later you can show me?”
“Oh yes” Allie breathes her promise.
Lisa sits in between Liz and Sonia at the yard. She looks at Juice and her boys and seems to start to shake again. Liz puts her arm on her shoulder and calms her down. “Bea takes care of her girls.” Sonia smiles. “You are safe”
“Yes love. That you are. Boomer here, she will go with you to the showers”
That makes Lisa start to cry.
Liz and Sonia try to calm her down.
Bea watches them for a moment before she starts another set.
Kaz walks up. “Are you trying to challenge me?” she asks Bea.
Allie snorts. “She wouldn’t have to do that if you did your job”
“No challenge” Bea says pausing between sets. “Just do your job”
“I think Liz will do well taking care of Lisa.” Bea pauses to watch Lisa and Liz. “Now that Doreen has gone..”
Kaz seems angry, “Move her then” she says, “Go talk to Bennet. Isn’t that what you do?”
Allie snorts again, and shakes her head “You are just palming off responsibility to Bea”
Bea starts her sets again. “The drugs are back” she says, “Juice getting pissed is what you don’t need”
Kaz looks at Bea and then back at Juice. Kim Chang is talking to one of the boys. Bea moves her head towards the duo. “I would keep an eye”
“I know what to do” Kaz walks away, and Allie feels her anger.
Bea shakes her head and picks up her towel. Allie watches the transaction between Kim and one of Juice’s crew. “Should we be worried?”
Bea raises her eyebrows. She sees Allie’s look of concern. She shrugs. “Don’t send Lisa alone to the showers.” Allie nods. “And you are not going alone to the showers either”
Allie seems to want to say something to lighten the mood but sees Bea’s eyes. She nods.
“Told you I am dangerous”
“Yes. And I still don’t care”
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Lisa is moved to H1. She takes Doreen’s old cell. She watches Bea with awe as Bea comes in after her meeting with Bennet. Juice sits next to Boomer on the couch. Bea raises her eyebrows.
“Just visiting”, Juice laughs. She looks at Lisa and licks her lips. Lisa looks away. Allie comes out of her cell.
“oh, get out” Bea rolls her eyes at Juice and moves closer to the table where Liz and Lisa are sitting. Juice seems to struggle with something. “Bea? The other day? At the yard?”
“Yeah?”
Juice looks at Lisa with something like regret “my offer still stands.” She walks up to the table and Lisa twitches. Liz puts her arm around her again. But Bea stands in front of Juice. They nod at each other. Juice walks out and Liz beams at Lisa. “There. It’s all taken care of.” Lisa looks at Bea again with awe.
Allie smiles at Bea, walks up and slips her arms around Bea’s neck. “That was hot”
Bea laughs and kisses Allie. Lisa seems shocked but looks away. She takes in the block. Sonia and Boomer are on the couch and Liz seems to take that kiss in the stride. Later, after count, Lisa watches Bea enter Allie’s cell and close the door. Sonia looks at her “You should go to bed.” Lisa seems undecided.
“yeah” Boomer laughs, “sometimes they get noisy”
Lisa gets up and goes into her cell and closes the door.
Bea still doesn’t take any chances. She insists that both Lisa and Allie will not shower alone. Boomer nods. H1 goes in pairs to shower. Boomer and Lisa. Liz and Sonia. Allie and Bea.
In the end its not Juice’s crew that attacks. Its Tina’s.
The fight seems staged to Bea. It’s done close enough to where they will be found by the screws before any real damage is done. Later, as she lies down staring at the camera in her slot, Bea wonders what the real motive was. Kim Chang, in the slot next to her is not talking.
Vera Bennet also wonders the reason why someone would want Bea removed for a few days too.
“I have no idea” Bea informs her sitting down in her office. “That fight was staged. They knew to provoke me with Allie”
Vera nods. “I can’t play favourites. You will have to stay in the slot for the next few days.”
Bea nods. She moves to get up. Vera holds her palm up. “You lack people on your team?”
Bea gives a small laugh. “Maxine was my right hand. Without her..”
Vera looks steadily at her. “Perhaps some change? I am thinking of moving some inmates from J block?”
Bea shrugs. “need a fighter”
“I will make sure you get one”
Vera nods her dismissal of Bea.
Liz and Allie are on edge following Bea’s slot. They watch carefully, but Juice and her boys seem to have picked someone else who seems more than happy to welcome their attention.
Tina seems to be busy with her drugs.
Allie wonders why Bea was attacked.
Tina and Kaz huddle in the yard the day after. Sonia catches something being exchanged. She looks at Allie. “Looks like your old crew had something to do with Bea being in the slot”
Allie looks up at that. She later confronts Kaz.
Kaz shrugs. “Just to show her that I run things around here”
Allie snorts. “So, you had her attacked and slotted? Because she stood up to Juice? When you couldn’t?”
Kaz shrugs. “I would have handled Juice”
Allie snorts again. “When? After Lisa is raped?”
Kaz turns back eyes flashing. “I don’t believe that one woman will do that to another”
Allie snorts again. “Right.” She turns away and then turns back again, “You are a coward Kaz.”
The next day while Bea is still in the slot, Ruby Mitchel takes Maxine’s old cell.