Crazier

She had been given a new lawyer.

Her mother had insisted that Larry's father not be her lawyer because of everything that had gone on between the two of them. It was the first sign in a long time that her mother actually cared and took her side. It was the first time that she understood the ramifications of what was going on. Even if she started calling Alex "Super Cunt.".

Piper would have found it funny if it wasn't so damn scary. She had been charged with manslaughter. She had actually killed Pennsatucky. The newspapers had a field day.

Both Pennsatucky and she had been big stories themselves and together they were huge. The lesbian WASP with a male fiance who murdered a hillbilly meth head Jesus freak in a minimum security prison. News at 10. The prison tried to keep it quiet but when a video of Healy walking away from the altercation hit the internet the shit hit the fan.

It did however also convict PIper. It was kind of hard to dispute the footage of her hitting Pennsatucky over and over and over again once she had hit the ground and was most definitely incapacitated.

Five years she ended up getting added to her sentence. It was better than 10...better then 20. Her lawyer was able to persuade the judge not to send her to Psyche or to Max. So she was headed back to Litchfield. He had convinced the judge that sending her back to her original prison was the best option for everyone involved. Her lawyer was a convincing son a bitch. He had told a convincing little diddy about how she should never have been in prison in the first place and that her former almost father in law had given her bad legal advice by telling her to take the plea. God, how she loved her new lawyer. She told her mother to keep him on retainer.

Just in case.

Her mother had looked at her funny but nodded.

Just in case.

This time there would be no self surrendering. She would be heading from court straight to jail to start her shiny new sentence. She didn't tell her family that she would be spending the first six weeks in SHU. She didn't want to worry them. Polly was the only one she told. Then again Polly was the only one who had always known the truth of her; or enough of the truth. Just enough.

"I had my lawyer set up the papers for the business, I signed it over to you. You own it all now Polly."

"No, Pipes. I don't want it." Polly cried as she watched the police hand cuff Piper, "It was ours. It was supposed to be ours."

"Then sign it back to me in five years, eight months and three days." Piper said as she was walked out of the room and then whispered to herself, "Give or take."

Piper wanted to see Alex again but knew that wasn't going to happen at least not until her time in SHU was over. Time passed excruciating slowly. She wondered why people didn't go crazy; and then realized that people actually did go crazy. That was the point. The guards let her out once a week to shower; handcuffed and under guard but that was it. Other than that she spent the whole time in a small windowless room with no one to talk to, with only herself for company.

If Piper believed in Hell this would be her description of it.

Forget Hellfire and brimstone.

Sitting in silence with nothing but your own thoughts to keep you company. Nothing but your own regrets.

Silence.

That was Hell.

And the food sucked.

Piper laughed when she thought about her first days at Litchfield and how Red had tried to starve her out. She now wished for some of Red's food. She wondered if Red got her kitchen back. She liked the other lady's cooking but it was too spicy for her. Red's cooking was better.

Maybe she would tell her that when she got out. That would make Red smile.

There were so many things she wanted to tell so many people.

So many regrets.

Piper had time though. Five years to fix things.

Five years seven months and...