Jenna in Tonya Part 2 By Avida Dolor Jenna's life in the all-woman prison continues Warning: This work of fiction contains frank language and explicit sex and violence. No one under 18 permitted to read without the express consent of parent or guardian. JENNA IN TONYA Part 2 Copyright 1997 Avida Dolor (avidadolor@aol.com) My pee party with the Pissies Paula and Missy is a smash. I mentioned to Bon, Lee Ann and Tiff that I was invited, and I asked them if they wanted to join me, but they all declined. I don't know what their problem is, it's not like these girls are shiteaters or something. Anyway, I had to go alone. Knocking on the Pissies' door, I haven't been so nervous since the state heavyweight championships, when I had to pin a succession of foul- smelling fatties. Will my pee smell OK? I had nothing to drink all day but fucking Evian, which is as pricey as vodka in here. But they're real sweet about the whole thing. They've got mood- enhancing naked red and blue bulbs hanging from the corners, and strawberry incense burning, they're playing Bjork, one of my absolute faves--when the Martians finally invade us I guarantee they'll all look like and sound like Bjork and they'll love us to death. So I said to them, "Hey, girls, do you have Handel's Water Music?" I got this kind of blank stare. The Pissies are not a comedy team, but they do have a ton of Tecate on hand, a tasty Mex import, in a cooler on ice. It must've cost them a pretty penny. In fact, they got it from Pretty Penny, a tall, thin blonde looker of a guard who specializes in booze supply and tongue fucking musclegirls. So we start guzzling beers and we all get naked, talking about Paula getting out and poor Missy staying in, and we start this delicious three-way grope in the big plastic kiddie pool they have in the middle of the room--did I mention the kiddie pool? Since they haven't got their own bathroom, and it would be difficult to have their fun in the communal showers, and rubber sheets are too, like, juvenile, they had a Fisher-Price kiddie pool brought in, and that's where they do their peeing. Then when they're done they dump all the pee into a bucket, dispose of it in the bathroom, then take the pool into the showers and hose it down. It's cute. Anyway, we're all in the kiddie pool, it's a tight fit, Paula and I being so big, and we're all embracing each other, and suddenly Paula lets go, she's sort of straddling my hip at the time while sucking on one of Missy's hard little tits, and she lets go with this stream of warm pee that's running all over my belly and it just feels divine, like total freedom, like we're undiapered babies, and I let a stream go all over Missy's thighs, and Paula is fingering me expertly, and then Missy is peeing on the both of us, standing up in the pool in a muscular squat, and I'm coming, I've got my hands on Paula's big pecs, they're jerking and swelling under my fingers, we're bathed in all this warm pee, and- -. God, this is so fucking frivolous. Mary could be dead. Bon can't smile anymore. Brooke is probably planning to kill me. My Ace bandage is pee soaked. Never mind, cut to the following week when Paula is released. The plan is for the big bladder-busting beauty to live in town with a former girlfriend of mine, Karla (we had a very steamy affair in ninth grade and we're still good friends), and start working out at the Chucho girl's weight room--Warden Marlow has made special arrangements with Mrs. Becker of high school security to give Paula a pass, ostensibly to see if she can find out anything about the disappearance of Hairy Mary. We didn't tell Mrs. Becker that Paula intends to break Brooke's legs, it might rub up against her policing instincts. Anyway, we figure just having Paula working out at the school in skimpy gym duds will give her a great in with Brooke, who should be wowed out of her mind at the sight of this buffed babe and her trophy rack, just like I was. We're in daily phone contact with Paula, and things go exactly according to plan. Brooke shows up, eyes Paula, they get to talking, they make a date, they go out, they make out, they make another date. In the meantime, here on the inside, Pissy Missy is now under my personal protection--I've shed the cane and the Ace bandage and am ready to kick ass with either foot--and I pass plenty of time and water with her now that Big Bon has gone into some sort of emotional seclusion. She's quit sex and just about all other pleasures until she finds out what happened to her beloved Hairy Mary. And Def Stef is out of solitary, just in the nick of time now that Bon is too preoccupied with her personal grief to run the Hards. Stef, in fact, moves in with Bon and I move in with Missy. This is quite an irony in light of the three girls who were beaten up vying for the chance to room with me, but it's better all around 'cause Bon needs Stef's firm guidance to get her through this emotional crisis. And firm guidance it must be, 'cause Stef is way firm. Her Polaroids didn't do her justice. She's 5-10, 180, with arms bigger than Paula's, she's a natural blonde, faintly freckled, country girl next door cute and strong enough to lift me off the ground (I'm running 165 these days) with her hands under my ass and hold me like that while she just about succeeds in sucking one of my whole tits into her mouth (yeah, Stef and I had a private session while Bon was in the gym. At least the sorry sad sack is still lifting). Then fuck it if we didn't lose contact with Paula. I call Karla. Paula goes on a date with Brooke, she doesn't come home. She's fucking disappeared just like Mary. Three days pass, we don't know what the hell to do, we've got Karla scouring the city for Paula, then the weirdest thing happens. I get a videotape in the mail, from Toosmart, with a typed note attached: "Hi, hon, knee all better? I bet you have plenty of time on your hands, so I thought you might like to see this really cool fight I shot. Do keep in touch." Fortunately, I go to the mail room alone to pick this up. I don't tell Bon about this, I don't tell Missy. I tell Stef, and she and Lee Ann and Tiff and I go to the lounge to watch it when Bon and Missy aren't around. We have to throw a couple Nancies out of the room, but that's standard. So we screen the tape behind a locked door and we cover the window in the door with newspaper. I'm expecting to see Brooke beating the shit out of Paula. She has her tied up or something, and she's punching the crap out of her. Of course, that would implicate Brooke, if she was recognizable on camera . . . then the tape starts. Holy shit! It's an amateur video of a fight, all right, seemingly shot in someone's finished basement, with a "ring" made out of mats, no ropes, and who are the fighters but Paula and this big hairy brunette! "Is that hairy Mary?" I go. "She sure is hairy," says Lee Ann. "And she sure is big," says Tiff. "I had a feeling that knife in the jacuzzi story was so much shit," I say. "We have no way of knowing if that's Hairy Mary, only Bon can identify her," says the wise and stunning Stef. "But let's watch the whole tape before we think about calling Bon. We don't know what's gonna happen yet." The girls are circling each other warily. They're stark naked, no gloves, no protection, nothing. The Hairy Mary suspect is hairy as all hell, in all the right places, as Bonnie said, and really sexy, big tits, built to the sixty-nines. She looks healthy, no knife wound up the belly, just a line of black hair, and she looks sort of crazed. The light on the tape isn't great, but she seems to have a funny cast to her eye like she's deranged. Paula looks saner and kind of scared but resigned to fight. Neither of them looks at the camera, which is sort of fixed, as if it might be behind a barrier. Maybe they don't know they're being taped. They come together with the smash of sumo wrestlers, there's some furious hand grappling for advantage, then the hairy girl goes low on Paula, locks onto her legs and, with a huge back-swelling effort takes her down, pounces on top of her and starts pummeling her face. Paula keeps her defensive wits about her; she has her hands up and she's blocking shots with her palms and her forearms, but the big girl suddenly leans on her throat with a meaty fist and hammers her in the kisser with a series of shattering rights. Paula is stunned and defenseless, there's blood bubbling on her lips. Then the hairy girl gets up, effortlessly lifts Paula up under the armpits, then bends under her back and hoists her onto her shoulders and goddamned if she doesn't slowly but surely press Paula's 175 pounds over her head with a long triumphant grunt, taking baby steps to keep the weight steady, holding her aloft with arms locked out for a few seconds. Then she drops Paula onto the mat on her back and the poor cutie pie lands so hard it seems like the whole room shakes. She's not done yet. She pulls Paula back to her feet by her neck, grabs her in a side headlock and punches her face a half dozen times, slow, methodical carefully aimed, full force punches and I see things falling out of Paula's mouth--a replay shows they're teeth. I'm wincing like a motherfucker. She drops our girl on the mat again, and Paula seems unconscious, nothing's moving but her heaving chest. The hairy girl walks out of the frame, and the camera just lingers there on a medium shot of Paula's prostrate form. I'm starting to feel really like, fucking totally apprehensive, like a cow being herded through the slaughterhouse chute. Hairy comes back about 30 seconds later, props Paula up in a sitting position, starts waving what I guess are smelling salts under her nose. Paula comes to, more or less, she's obviously grogged out, but she's conscious. "Oh, fuck," says Stef, "now she's gonna get another beating." But it's way worse than that. The big girl slips a thick, hairy forearm under her neck and starts to strangle her, standing up and pulling way back so Paula's feet are barely touching the mat. The hairy girl, who looks to be Mary's 6-1, 210, since I know Paula's numbers, must be stronger than a yak, 'cause Paula is doomed. We watch in a sort of horror-stricken fascination as the camera zooms in a little and Paula is seemingly strangled to death, eventually pounding futilely at the big forearm, her legs twitching, her chest and belly heaving, she's making all kinds of awful death rattle noises, while the big girl grunts like an animal, and finally Paula pees an arc across the mats, her body gone spastic, her etched stomach muscles fluttering, and then she shits, we see some things fall between the girls' legs, we had to rewind two times before we figured out what the hell was going on, and then she dies. No cuts, it's all one take, and we timed the strangle part, it lasted an agonizing three minutes, an eternity, enough time to really kill someone, not like those convenient 10-second strangles you see in the movies. The hairy girl drops the corpse at long last, the body falls on the shit, and she starts to flex out her arms, working the thick fingers and rubbing the massive forearms, still grunting like an animal, she's panting and heaving from all the effort, there's actually spittle running down her chin like she's getting rabid, then she *pees* on the fallen girl, as the camera zooms in a bit more and shakily cranes down a little, she douses the face-up body with what seems like a few gallons of hot urine, she works it up and down the motionless form like she was putting out a fire, then she turns her broad back to the camera, squats over Paula's chest, the heavy muscles in her big ass twitching, and fucking *shits* on her, a big steaming dark brown crap that had us all groaning in revulsion, it snakes out of her ass like stinking molten lava. In this closest shot yet, Paula looks authentically dead; her eyes are bugged, staring into some abyss, her swollen tongue is protruding from her smashed and fattened lips, her whole face seems puffy, she looks like a fucking total stiff. The tape abruptly ends on a shot of the hairy girl smiling, looking more or less at the camera and squeezing up a big double biceps, sweaty pits a poppin', while she bellows like a wild boar. We all stand there, gathered close around the TV, in a stunned silence. "Well, I guess we can't show this to Missy," I finally go. I know that's a dumb remark, but hey, I live with the girl now, she's on my mind a lot, not to mention my face. "That could have been faked," says Lee Ann. "The death part, at least. We have no guarantee Paula's dead unless her body shows up somewhere." "It didn't look fake," says Tiff. "Shit, I need a joint." "So we can figure that was Brooke behind the camera, I guess," I go. "We've got to show this to Bon," says Stef. "We're all assuming that's Hairy Mary, but we need her verification. No one else here has ever seen her." "Well, she'll be overjoyed to know that Mary is still alive. Even if Paula is dead." "But she won't be too thrilled to learn that Mary is a shitting and pissing homicidal lunatic," says Lee Ann. "Brooke must have drugged her or something. That could be PCP mixed with some other stuff, some kind of methlike aggro-enhancer." "All right," says Stef, "I'm gonna get Bon and we'll show her the tape, get the confirmation. Then we'll have to plan our next step, see if Paula's body turns up. We'll have to keep Missy in the dark in the meantime, and we'll have to guard this tape real carefully, 'cause if Paula's really dead, this tape will put this Mary character away for life." So Bon watches the tape. We all watch it again in the same stunned silence, it's mesmerizing. Yeah, it's Mary, all right, and Bon is just thrilled to see her, but she's kinda disturbed by Mary's behavior. "I can't believe she crapped on that girl!" Bon exclaims. "She must be drugged out of her fucking mind. She sure looks it." Nevertheless, she's feeling much better than I am. I had a kind of a thing for Paula, and now I have to go back and share a room with Missy and not let on I just watched her girlfriend take her very last piss. That night we have a Hards war council in Stef's room. Stef has taken control of the situation, which is a real relief, because I don't really give a shit about all this anymore, unless Brooke is still trying to put a hit on me in here. It's Bonnie's battle, she's the one who wants to "free" Mary. That's what she calls it, she's convinced Mary is under the evil control of Brooke, probably imprisoned somewhere in that basement that's on the tape. Well, she could indeed be, but that's hardly the kind of thing we can deal with in here. But Bonnie has a plan. She's been in phone contact with some of Mary's friends and there are two girls who are prepared to kidnap Brooke and beat the truth out of her, break her legs or even kill her and liberate Mary. The girls are Wet Wilma and Picky Nicki, and Bon gives us the stories on their names. Wet Wilma lactates continuously--she's 20, she's been lactating since she was 13, and she hires herself out as a wet nurse when she can find a dumb mother who doesn't care about all the drugs in her milk. Picky Nicki is not a nose picker; she killed two girls three years ago with an ice pick when she was 14, was never charged with the crime, carries an ice pick all the time now, it's part of her rep. Maybe she can put an ice pick in Brooke's spine while Brooke is suckling Wilma. Anyway, we arrange to have the girls come up for a face to face the following day. This is not a problem, visiting hours are all day, and we can all meet in a conference room with no barriers, we can talk freely as long as we keep our voices down. My problem is Missy, who has to be kept in the dark about all this. I lied to her outright and said the reason she can't talk to Paula on the phone is Paula is "undercover" on this sensitive mission, but everything's going fine. And she can't sit in on the meeting with Wilma and Nicki since she's not an official Hard. She wanted to know what the meeting is for and I made up a story that Brooke has accomplices on the outside in another town and we were dispatching these girls to take them out. I don't think she believed a word I said, but what can I do. I can't show her the tape unless I know for sure that Paula is dead. I'm not even sure I can show it to her then; Missy is kind of the sentimental type. So we meet with Wilma and Nicki. It's Stef, Bon, Lee Ann, Tiff and me, we arrange with Warden Marlow to get a small conference room to ourselves, no guards present. Wilma and Nicki were thoroughly frisked, of course, and Nicki had to leave her ice pick at the front desk. "I feel naked without it," she giggles nervously. Nicki is a tall thin Hispanic looker, 6 feet and only 140 pounds, but wiry and strong. Wilma is a dark-skinned black girl, 5-7, 205, thickset and plumpish but with a big foundation of muscle, she was an all-state powerlifter in high school, and she swears she's got a black belt in jiu jitsu. In fact, she gets up and starts high kicking to show us she can do it, and I have to admit she gets her foot up pretty high for a stubby 205 pounder. She's big-boobed and braless and she's leaving milk stains all over her gray Property of Santa Cleena Women's Weightlifting Team t-shirt, and I'm trying to imagine what nursing at her tit would be like, when Stef launches into a grim explanation of just what's going on here. We can't show them the tape, but Stef gives a blow by blow description of it and the girls are horrified to learn that Mary has apparently become a loose-boweled Frankenstein's monster or something. "Shit, I hope we don't have to fight her," says Nicki. "Don't fight her no matter what," says Bon. "You want to nab Brooke when Mary's not around." "Yeah, but may still have to, like, pacify Mary when we find her," says Wilma. "I mean, if she's fuckin' out of her mind, she may just attack us. We'll take Mace and handcuffs." "That's a good idea," says Stef, "but get Brooke first, then call us for further instructions. When you have Brooke under control we can figure out how to deal with Mary." So the girls go off on their mission. They're gonna tail Brooke and take her right off the street and into their car at gunpoint-- Wanda's got a starter's pistol--take her to a safe house, some squat in a bad neighborhood in Santa Rocho, and torture her or whatever. Just like Paula, they're supposed to phone in twice a day. So life goes on in Tonya. Missy has pulled a Bon and curled into an emotional ball. She knows something's up with Paula and she hates me for not telling her what it is. I don't worry about this, since I spend all my time in Stef's or Lee Ann's room, and sometimes I don't even come back to Missy to sleep. Wilma and Nicki call in dutifully twice a day for three days, and though they do successfully tail Brooke a few times, they can't get her in the right setup for the grab. Then they call in to say they're going to try a push-in at Brooke's front door. The deal, according to Karla, is Brooke has her big house all to herself now, her parents are in Europe for a few months, so it's possible that was her basement on the tape, and she's got the perfect arrangement for holding someone captive. I'm picturing a foaming Mary in a big pit like that beefy girl was kept in in Silence of the Lambs. Shit, if Brooke made a bodysuit out of Mary it would be a fur coat. Anyway, damn fuck it all to hell if that's not the last we hear from Wet Wilma and Picky Nicky. Four days go by, I've got Karla scouring the streets again, we're working the phones, Wilma and Nicky are not in their usual haunts, no one's seen 'em, it's the same shit all over again. And then the tape comes in the mail. Uh-fucking-oh. The note from Toosmart: "Hi, queen of the mat. I've got a little mat action of my own I thought you might like to see. Make plenty of popcorn, this one's a real doozy. Actually, you need this tape like you need a hole in your head, but it's really quite a mind blower. And do keep in touch." I convene the Hard command council, Bon included, in the locked lounge, and when some scrawny whiner of a Nancy complains as she's thrown out, I personally punch her in the mouth. I'm in a bad mood. I'm dreading watching this tape, I think I know just what's gonna be on it, but at the same time I can't wait to see it 'cause I know it's gonna be riveting. All the girls feel the same way, we feel like a bunch of sick fucks but we can't help ourselves, we're standing in a crowd close around the TV as I hit Play. Same basement, same shot, same mats, brighter lighting, no one's in the frame. Then Wilma stumbles into the shot as if she was thrown. She's stark naked, big boobs a bouncin', and she looks insane. Her glassy yellowish eyes are bugged, she's panting, she's sweating, and then naked Nicki is seemingly hurled onto the mat. She stumbles to her knees, gets to her feet and is squaring off with Wilma. "Oh, fuck," says Bonnie, "Brooke pitted them against each other somehow." "I hope Nicki has her ice pick," I go, which is kind of a really fucking dumb remark, but I can't help rooting for Nicky, she's beautiful, long, strong, lean and tanned like a beach volleyball goddess, but she hasn't got her ice pick and I don't see how can she beat big, thick-limbed Wilma. I can't tell how fucked up Nicki is, she's not facing the camera as the two of them circle, then Wilma charges in and lissome Nicki foolishly locks horns with her. They struggle for no more than three seconds when Wilma grips Nicki by the right wrist, steps across her body, blocking her off with a big hip, gets Nicki in an arm bar and brings a series of vicious elbow smashes down on the arm where it doesn't bend, and Nicki's long, lean arm is cracking with really sick crunching sounds, like someone is stomping on a bundle of dry twigs. She howls like a broken siren and Wilma backs away, flexing her heavy torso as Nicki turns face-on to the camera, her arm hanging all funny and bleeding, she has some kind of a horrible compound fracture. The shot zooms in a bit, she's screaming and she sort of looks demented but it's hard to tell since she's now insane with pain, and as she stands there like that, panting and damaged, tears streaming down her face, she says to Wilma, quite unconvincingly, "I'm gonna kill you!" which seems real weird. Why not, "Stop, Wilma, no more!"? I don't get it. But there's no time to ponder the situation. Wilma moves back in and puts a wicked spinning back kick on Nicki's head that flattens her, and Wilma pounces on her, straddles her chest and starts punching her face. We can't see the blows, Wilma's back is to the camera, but after eight wicked shots, Wilma gets up, does some more flexing and grunting, then pulls Nicki up off the mat by her good arm. Nicki is not really unconscious, but she's out of it, her head bobbing around dimly, and she's bleeding bad from her nose and mouth. A big hairy forearm pops into the frame--it's gotta belong to Mary--and hands Wilma an ice pick. Nicki's fucking ice pick. Then handle looks to be wrapped in adhesive tape, it's hard to tell. "Oh, fuck a duck," says Bon. "She's not really gonna kill her, is she?" We all remain silent, our eyes locked on the screen, we're on some sort of death clock that runs till Nicki punches out. Wilma takes the pick, faces Nicki to the camera, she's got her in a forearm choke with her left arm, her right hand is gripping the pick, she lowers Nicki down to about her chest level, Nicki's legs are floppy, she's making faint moaning noises, the only other sound is the machine hum of what must be an air conditioner, it's always on the tape, and Wilma drives the ice pick down into the top of Nicki's skull, right in the middle like she was ramming a carving knife into a jack o' lantern, and she leaves it in there. She takes her hand away and just holds Nicki like that, grinning idiotically at the camera, just the white handle of the pick is sticking out of the top of Nicki's head, I don't see any blood. Then she lets Nicki slump to the mat, Nicki's not dead, her fingers are moving, clenching and unclenching the air, but the light in her eyes seems to be fading. "Oh, my fucking God," says an appalled Tiff, "it's a fucking brain salad surgery." "Now she's gonna shit and piss on her," sighs Stef. But she doesn't. Mary walks into the frame, she's naked, looking bigger and stronger than ever, she must be all pumped up, she's glistening all over with sweat, or maybe she's been oiled, her lats are flared wide and her pecs are jumping. She bends over and cleans and jerks Nicki with ease, locks her out overhead and holds her like that like she's waiting for three green lights from the judges, and now there's a trickle of blood coming off Nicki's head, she looks absolutely grotesque with the ice pick handle sticking out like some kind of antenna. Wilma stands there and looks on, still grinning, as Mary drops Nicki onto her raised knee, driving it into the small of her back, then grabs Nicki around the neck before she hits the mat and starts throttling her with both hands. Mary is standing behind Nicki strangling her with those vicious meathooks, her back is to the camera, this incredible fucking back is wider than a van door, thick humps of trap stand up on her shoulders and the erectors run down her spine like titanium inlay. Then she turns around so Nicki faces the camera, and the poor honey's face is about to explode, her tongue is sticking straight out of her mouth like it had a hardon, her eyes look like those kids from the velvet paintings, her fingers are still wriggling wildly. She doesn't make a sound. Mary's big hands have her throat shut tight like a sealed airlock, and Nicki eventually starts to jerk her limbs like a spastic, she's in her death throes, and she starts pissing, as Wilma, who's been watching all this with a couple of fingers working up her pussy, runs around to the front, positions herself to the side of the shot so her back is not blocking the view, and starts punching Nicki's face, hitting it again and again until it's just a big red pulp. Mary is still strangling Nicki, her arms rigid, the triceps bulging, the forearms taut as spun steel, but Nicki has stopped struggling, she must be a goner. "She's dead!" Tiff yells at the screen, "Let her go!" Mary finally does, and Nicki crumples to the mat in a motionless heap. Her long neck looks constricted, too thin like a Modigliani, it's turned a sort of bluish black with deep hand prints like they were pressed in wet cement. Mary squats over the body and we all think she's going to piss or shit on Nicki now, but she suddenly reaches for Wilma, who's standing there looking down at Nicki's corpse and playing with herself. She grabs Wilma by an arm and spins her around, quickly locks her in a full nelson, trips her up and falls atop her on the mat, right next to Nicki's body. A pair of handcuffs are thrown onto the mat from out of the frame. Didn't the girls say they were taking handcuffs with them? Mary expertly cuffs Wilma while crushing a knee into the small of her back, then jerks her painfully to her feet by her wrists. Wilma groans in pain, then starts yelling, "I'm gonna fucking kill you! I'm gonna fucking kill you!" which seems kind of pathetic since she's so helpless with her hands bound perp style. Mary stands behind her laughing, kissing her shoulders and playing with her big tits, working the thick chocolate nipples with her fingers until Wilma, moaning now with pleasure, starts squirting thin streamers of milk in surprisingly long arcs. I've never seen this before, endless milk fountains, it's really flippy, then Mary spins Wilma around, still pulling on her teats and squeezing them like she was popping giant pimples, and she lets the milk spray her face and chest, then she latches onto a swollen nipple with her mouth and starts sucking like a baby, first one tit then the other. "She's gonna get high from that," says Lee Ann, but no one laughs, we're all just gaping like dim-witted children. I'm sure we're all thinking the same thing: when is she gonna start killing Wilma, as some kind of metal object is thrown into the frame and lands with a thud on the mat. Mary pulls her puckered face off Wilma's chest, bends and picks it up while keeping Wilma steady with one hand. It's a canister, and as Wilma says, "Don't you spray that shit at me," Mary lets her have it in the eyes, and Wilma is screaming, "I'm gonna kill you, you motherfuckin' bitch!" when the tape suddenly ends. Just like that. We watch about ten seconds of noise, then Stef shuttles forward, thinking maybe there's a gap like on the Watergate tape, but that's it, there's no more. "I think we can assume Wilma's dead," says Stef. "For some reason, Brooke didn't want to show it to us." "Then we can't assume she's dead," says Tiff. "Why would Brooke be bashful about showing it to us?" "Maybe she's saving it for later," I suggest. "One snuff a tape." "So the spray must've been their Mace?" asks Lee Ann. "I guess so," says Bon. "They had Mace and handcuffs and an ice pick, and they're all in the tape. Everything but the starter's pistol." We go back to Stef's for an emergency command council meeting. Tiff lights a giant doob and we pass it around, sitting in a sullen silence. I finally say, "I think we'd better stop dispatching people to dispatch Brooke. Unless we wanna keep getting these tapes. In which case we'd better dispatch people we don't like to dispatch Brooke." "Well, now it's not just a matter of rescuing Mary," says Bon. "I want revenge for Nicki and Wilma, assuming Wilma's dead." "Who's getting the revenge?" asks Stef. "Did Nicki have a tight girlfriend?" "No, not at the moment, but she has an older sister," says Bon. "Are you suggesting we send the older sister a copy of the tape, assuming we can make one?" I wonder. "No way anyone else can know about the tapes without us implicating Mary," says Lee Ann, "and the point of all this was for us to *save* Mary. And, anyway, Bon, why wouldn't Nicki's sister want revenge on *Mary*? She's the one who strangled Nicki to death. And it's Wilma who jammed the ice pick into her head." "God," says Tiff, "that was the fucking grossest thing I've ever seen. I wonder what part of her brain the pick was affecting." "I think the part that feels pain, Tiff," I go. "I suggest we just sit tight for the moment," says Stef. "Finding some other people to go after Brooke right now probably won't get us anything but more tapes. It's possible that Wilma is on Brooke's team now, just like Mary. I think we should wait a few days and see if we get another tape." "Do you realize what these tapes are worth?" I say. "Assuming all this stuff is real, and it sure as hell seems to be, these are authentic snuff tapes. Weirdos would pay hundreds of dollars for these, maybe thousands." "You suggesting we copy them and sell them mail order?" snarls Bonnie. Oh, shit, I don't want to get *her* mad. "Of course not, Bon, but I do think we should make at least one backup copy of them. We may need them for evidence against Brooke somewhere down the road, and you never want just one copy of crucial evidence like this. We could screen the fucking tape again and the VCR'll chew it up." "Jenna's right," says Stef, "we need safety copies. We can borrow a camcorder from the staff, and make them off the VCR in the lounge. I'll tell Marlow we want to make workout tapes, she'll go for that as long as we let her watch 'em." We're not allowed to have cameras or video equipment, just like we're not allowed to have TVs in our rooms, but top Hards are allowed to borrow camcorders and Polaroids sometimes. That's why everyone has dirty Polaroids tacked on their walls. So we sit tight, get the camcorder and make the copies. Stef and Bon keep one set, Lee Ann and Tiff keep the other. I can't keep a set since I room with Missy the outsider. Missy, by the way, has gotten really weird. We had a scene in the room yesterday where she demanded phone contact with Paula, and I had to lie again and tell her Paula was out of reach doing top secret work on the outside for the Hards, and that's all there was to it. So I discover that this morning Missy goes to a Nancy she's friendly with, a big Nancy who's getting out in four days, and makes arrangements for this Nancy to track down Paula for a sum of money, and mentions Brooke in Santa Chucho would be a good place to start, since Paula had a contract to bust up Brooke. Missy tells me this like I'm going to just smile and take it, and she's got a suspicious fresh shiner on her face, a nasty fucking purplish black swollen horror movie eye, and she says she got it from Go Blow Glo when they had a tussle over a toilet stall. Go Blow Glo is a wee Nancy, about Missy's size, a real sourpuss who says "Go blow" to everyone, even her mother when she comes to visit, and I don't really care if she hit Missy, I'm about ready to hit Missy myself. Of course, I can't imagine why Missy wouldn't have put her directly in the infirmary; Go Blow is a friggin' stick figure, she doesn't lift at all as far as I know, and Missy is way wiry and strong for her size, but never mind, I don't have time for this shit. I call a Hard command council, and the word is this Nancy will have to be dissuaded from her mission, and she'll have to be dissuaded immediately before she gets sprung. Unfortunately, this Nancy is one of the biggest and strongest Nancies in Tonya at the moment--a 6-foot, 185-pound brute known as Michelle From Hell, a sociopath who is reputedly in for torturing and hospitalizing her abusive and alcoholic parents. The story goes her father is now permanently on crutches and deaf in one ear and her mother needs a kidney machine and can only talk with one of those throat buzzers since her larynx was partially crushed. We would've considered Michelle for the initial Brooke action, but she was in solitary at the time. Seems her big brother came to visit her a while back, said the wrong thing, and she broke his nose and cheekbone and gave him a herniated disk before the guards could pry her off. So we're sitting in Stef's room smoking a giant doob again, and Bon, of course, immediately volunteers to take on Michelle in the ring if she refuses to back off on Missy's mission. But Lee Ann has a better idea: "Why don't we brief Michelle, like, selectively--tell her just what she needs to know--and send her out after Brooke? She's got the kind of physical power we need for a job like this." "You mean she'll make a great snuffee for Mary, don't you?" I say. I'm imagining the fight between Hairy Mary and Michelle From Hell, and I have to admit, it sounds like a peach, they're very well matched. "She might kill Mary, Michelle is some piece of work," says Tiff. "The object here is still to save Mary, let's not forget." "Michelle could never beat Mary," says the ever loyal Bon. "She's not in the same league." "Look," says Stef, "she's big, she's strong and she's already agreed to work on this case in a way. We just have to reorient her mission. Or we can have her look for Paula and tell her we have evidence Brooke is holding Paula, so she'll have to take out Brooke. I think we should use her, I think Missy did us a favor." So Stef and I go talk to Michelle. Bon doesn't go, she's too belligerent, and we don't want to bring too many Hards, Michelle doesn't like crowds, so Lee Ann and Tiff hang out with Bon in the weight room. This hellish Nancy doesn't like anyone, actually, except maybe Missy, who we were thinking about bringing along, but that would be too complicated since Missy hasn't got a clue about what's really going on. Michelle rooms alone; she had a roomie once, but she broke the girl's leg somehow--they were "play fighting" she claimed--and when she's not in solitary, which isn't too often, she gets a room to herself. She's 18 now, been in three years, she's an old pro. We can't call ahead to tell her we're coming, she hasn't even got a phone. Her room is almost unfurnished, like she just moved in. Well, she sort of did, she's usually in solitary. She doesn't use the weight room, she's got her own setup complete with bench and leg and cable attachments right there in the middle of the floor, which travels with her to solitary. Warden Marlow cuts her slack about this, 'cause the Warden likes to see girls get big and Michelle has gotten huge in here. It's like she spent three years at bodybuilding camp. Marlow keeps her supplied with Met-Rx and every supplement in the book, all out of the Warden's pocket, or the prison budget, actually. So, according to the story as told by Stef, a font of Tonya history who has long bull sessions with the Warden, Michelle came in at the tender age of 15, about 5-6, 140. Well muscled and strong for her age--strong enough to kill her parents with her bare hands if she wanted to--and now she's a diamond hard, limestone chiseled 6-0, 185, with 18-inch arms and a 50-inch chest. Marlow would not admit to supplying Michelle with steroids, since even Marlow will stop short of admitting to illegal drug trafficking, but they'd go a long way to explaining Michelle's size and aggressiveness. Stef tells me Michelle fought in the ring about a half dozen times in her first year at Tonya, when she wasn't so big and fearsome yet that girls wouldn't take her on. She won every fight on a KO, and Stef recommends I get the tapes from the library and watch them sometime, they're very entertaining. Yeah, as long as no one gets killed. Stef wasn't here herself back then, of course, she's 17, in the second year of a two-year stretch. Did I ever mention what she's in for? Arson. She wasn't so smart back then. She was dating some college football guy who lived at a frat house, and he and some buddies raped her--they each took several turns apparently--after she passed out from booze at one of their parties. She woke up with so much come in her she felt like a herd of elephants fucked her, as she put it. And she got knocked up and had to get an abortion. So she burned down their house, but they all got out alive--fucking smoke alarms. She would have taken them out one at a time after that, but the guys suspected it was Stef, they anonymously tipped the cops and things went downhill from there. Stef still plans to kill them all when she gets out, and she'll do it personally with her hands this time. Anyway, there we are in Michelle's room. "I was just warming up," she says casually. She's sitting on her bench and she's got a bar racked with 165 pounds on it. I count the plates while Stef makes some introductory remarks. Just warming up, indeed. With my fucking bodyweight! I wonder if Stef feels funny talking to a girl who has bigger arms than she does. Michelle is wearing a men's undershirt, way too tight, and baggy yellow Calvin Klein boxer shorts. This is the first time I've had a chance to see her close up, and I study her with mounting awe. She's really rather cute. A ghost-white, blue-eyed brunette, her porcelain skin looks weird in here, almost everyone is tanned, everyone is out in the sun all the time, but of course Michelle is usually in solitary, she has no yard privileges, and I doubt she goes out when she's in general pop anyway. So she's white, bright white, or rather pale blue. Her vascularity is ridiculous, she's got veins popping all over her, even her upper chest, it's unreal. I'm looking for steroid signs like stubble, but Michelle's brutally pretty mug is baby smooth, even her pits and legs are freshly shaven girlie style. She does have kind of a deep voice, though, and her jaw and nose are on the broad side. "Just the girl I wanted to see," is what she's saying as I come out of my erotic reverie, and she's looking right at me. "Uh, what? Why?" "So I could get a good look at you before I beat your face into a pound of chopmeat." "Huh? Excuse me?" I look nervously to Stef. "What the fuck are you talking about, Michelle?" Stef asks, folding her big arms across her chest. Michelle From Hell pauses, takes a deep breath, which makes the thick blue veins on her pec armor swell, her little stiff nipples popping through the tight undershirt like steel jacketed bullets. "Don't tell me you haven't heard about the challenge. I figured you came by to maybe try to talk me out of it, but no way." "No, we haven't heard about the challenge," says Stef. "What challenge?" A challenge means a challenge to fight in the ring of judgment around here, but why would Michelle issue a challenge to me? "I've filed an official challenge with the Warden to fight you"-- she looks calmly at me--"in the ring of judgment, no later than the day after tomorrow. I thought the Warden informed you." "She didn't," I complain. "Why the hell would you challenge me? We've never even met." Michelle pauses again, curls her left arm to scratch her chin, which causes her bicep to inflate to about grapefruit size. She sees me staring at her arm, she cocks it to give me the good inside view, then squeezes her fist down hard and the muscle actually gets bigger, it seems to swell up near honeydew melon size. She holds it like that for a few seconds, her whole arm quivering, and I can see various brachial and cephalic venous phenomena actually *beating* just under the flesh like they were extruded hearts. She smiles--she's got a sexy crooked front tooth- -and says, "I want a big fight before I get out of here, one that won't put me in solitary, so I need to be in the ring. Who better to fight than you, you stuck up bitch? You and your fucking wrestling trophies." She sneers at me with a kind of disdain I've never run up against before. It's quite unnerving. I mean, most girls, except for dramarama mamas, really like me. I'm fit, I'm cute, I'm smart, I'm funny and I'm a killer on the mats. Even girls who don't work out at all but just jump around a lot--pink knee socks cheerleader types--take a shine to me, I've got a magnetic personality. "But that's not a reason to get a challenge fight," I sputter. "Marlow would never accept a challenge for that reason. What reason did you give *her*?" "Oh, I told her I was fighting for the honor of Missy. You punched the poor little dear out, and she came to me, the big Nancy, for protection. That's a legitimate challenge." "What?! I didn't hit Missy? Did *you* hit Missy? She told me she had a run-in with Go Blow Glo in the girl's room, but it sounded like bullshit." "No, I didn't hit her, when she came to me she already had a black eye. She said *you* gave it to her." "No way. And she asked you to fight me on her behalf?" "No, that was my idea. She asked me to do something on the outside." "Listen," Stef butts in, "that's what we want to talk to you about. Forget about this challenge for a minute, and forget about Missy and her friggin' black eye, there's some really heavy shit going down on the outside that you're about to get involved in and we want you to work for us on it." "Work for you? I've got a deal with Missy." "So who the fuck really gave Missy a black eye?" I ask Stef. "Never mind that right now, let's iron out the Brooke business. Michelle, you are in some kind of awesome physical condition. You're exactly the kind of girl we need on the outside to take out someone who's been giving us big problems. Now, Missy hired you to find Paula, right?" "How'd you know that?" "She told us. She can't be trusted. We're not even sure where she got her shiner from. But *we* can be trusted. We're the Hards. You've been here a long time, Michelle. Do the Hards have a rep for honesty, or what?" "Well, yeah, but--" "But check this out: Paula already went up against our adversary on the outside, this Brooke chick, and *lost.* Missy doesn't know this 'cause Missy doesn't know shit. Paula got beaten so bad she couldn't talk, her fucking jaw was wired shut. Paula instructed us not to tell Missy, she thought she'd have like, a nervous breakdown or something. Missy's like, really emotional and vulnerable and a flake besides. So here's the thing: we sent someone else up against Brooke after Paula got her ass kicked, two girls, actually, and they both got their asses kicked too." "How big is this fucking Brooke?" "That's the other thing: Brooke doesn't do the fighting, she's got a girl under her power, a real big girl, as big as you, more or less, and this girl does all the fighting. The girl is, like, drugged or hypnotized or something, she fights for Brooke now even though she used to be one of Bonnie's best friends and she originally went after Brooke to break her legs. Brooke, like, *converted* her. We need someone really skilled with really big balls to take out Brooke and bring this big girl, Mary her name is, back safely. No fucking easy job, and we'll pay plenty for it." "More than Missy is paying me?" "What's she paying you? She didn't tell us and we didn't ask." Michelle pauses, obviously thinking how much to inflate the figure by, and the mind flex causes veins to swell at her temples. "Three grand." "We'll double it. We'll also keep you, if you like, as a regular Hards connection on the outside, there'll be other high-paying jobs to do. We need a big strong girl like you out there." Well, this is why Stef is Def and the head of the Hards. She's got the brains to match her brawn and her beauty, and the smooth tongue to make it all work. She tosses a killer salad, too--she did me the other night and she put me in a weightless orbit around my anus. If you stuck a rectal thermometer in me, the top would've popped like an overheated radiator. I can see in Michelle's softening face that she wants to kill Brooke and rescue Mary, after beating her up good first, no doubt, just to show her who's boss, she's bought the whole deal. "Sounds good," she says, "but I want half the money in advance, before I get out, as a measure of your trust." "You'll have it the day after tomorrow," says Stef. "You'll get it instead of having this ridiculous challenge with Jenna. There's nothing stuck up about Jenna. She deserves all her trophies, and maybe a few more. To know her is to love her." Stef playfully slaps me on the back. "You know, this whole Brooke thing starts with Jenna. Jenna's in here for beating up Brooke after Brooke attacked her out of the blue, pulled a gun on her and then planted the gun in her locker. Then Brooke ordered a kneecapping on Jenna in here. Brooke is a sick fuck, a totally stuck-up bitch, she's a drama queen, for chrissake, played Maggie in the Santa Chucho High production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Played Kate in The Taming of the Shrew at last year's Chucho Shakespeare festival. Well, we'll tame that fucking shrew. Now I want you two girls to make up, and let's focus on the mission." Whew, Stef is good! She invented that bit about Kate the Shrew-- Brooke didn't make the Shakespeare festival, she hasn't got the talent, she was dumb fucking Lola in Damn Yankees in the summer musical instead--but what the hell, it was a nice touch. Not that Michelle knows Shakespeare from her asshole, but still . . . Speaking of Michelle's asshole, no sooner does Stef tell us to make up than Michelle is up off the bench, sticking her haunches in my face and pouting sexily over her massive shoulder as she says, "Let's toss each other as a sign of our real friendship." She pulls her boxers down, she's got proverbial buns of steel, her cheeks are clenched as big and hard as bear traps, and I find myself poking them experimentally with a couple of fingers. They're as tautly resilient as overinflated volleyballs. Then she flexes them--they were relaxed!--and they explode in thick bands of striations like hairline fractures are running across slabs of sculpted granite during an earthquake. "OK," I say, "great idea, but let's shower together first and get all squeaky clean, I feel grungy." For all I know this girl is as dirty as Shitass Sarah. -30-