He could hardly believe he was doing this.
His hands trembled and his legs felt heavy, as if made of lead.
He felt his heart racing, pounding against his ribs making him hold his chest.
He took a steadying breath.
"Calm down Nate... Breath..." he told himself. He glanced around, the cells were full of inmates getting ready to hunker down. It was just showers then lockdown.
If the plan was going to work he'd have to do this now. Seon had already done her part...
He took another deep breath and came into the cells walking past his own.
To himself he crossed his fingers praying Zac was elsewhere. If he wasn't... nothing would go right...
Geez, Seon was bad at planning!
Hadn't she thought of ANY of the parts that could go wrong?! He berated the redhead in his mind but finally came to stand in front of Zac and Greggor's cell.
Nate's eyes surveyed the little chamber and to his relief Zac was absent... but Greggor wasn't.
He eyed the young man, a disgusting curl in his thick lip.

"Hey there pretty boy. Want to stay the night..." the hulking man said bellying up to the bars like a hungry bear at the zoo, he even slid his wet pink tongue over his lips and teeth as if imagining his flavor...
"I'm here about Zac." Nate said surprisingly firm and calm, surprising even to himself. Though, he still jittered in place slightly.
"O really?" he answered, leaning down to a height more like Nate's. "And what EXACTLY did you want to talk about, boy?" his voice carried a dark chuckle to it, mocking Nate.
Nate paused shaking, he licked his lips as they quivered refusing to form words.
"I... I know you're... you're... putting him through.......... 'the ringer'. I'm scared he's really getting hurt..." he started.
"OOOO! You're scared for him?! What a sweet pair of girls you make..." Greggor laughed but Nate was too much on a roll now to stop.
"I don't want you hurting him anymore. I want to take his place." he said holding his own chest to keep from panicing.

Greggor stopped.
He leaned even closer, his face almost coming through the bars, his nose less than a hair's breath from Nate's.
"You want to take his place? You want to be my plaything?" he asked... a terrible evil smile on his ugly mug.
Nate's voice betrayed him again but he nodded.
"Hmmm, you are pretty enough... how about now?" he grabbed his shirt and Nate tight fisted the meaty paw to keep him from pulling him along.
"No wait..." he managed. "Not here and now. At shower time, in the back. I'll give you what you want, but you have to leave Zac alone..." he said.
Greggor narrowed his eyes but eventually realeased him.
"Ok, fine pretty boy. But you had better be worth it I may just break your skinny neck for wasting my time..." he warned.
Nate nodded again.
"Yes sir..." he replied and pulled away, his shirt slippping through the other man's thick fingers.
He tried to calmly make his way to his cell.
'This had better work...' he thought again as sweat poured off of him...

Shower time, a most dreaded time for many.
There was a 'back area'. Often called the 'love corner' now it had been the old shower room before the remodeling, but since then it was more or less used by the staff as a very open supply area.
Everybody knew what happened back there. Officers didn't enter the showers, just guarded the doors. No eyes, no law, no mercy...
But now Seon was back there alone.
The love corner was connected only to the men's shower, there was a wall seperating it from the women's area so she'd snuck in after last free time. So long as she made role call she wasn't concerned about being caught.
She reached into her breast pocket and pulled out her last cigerette.
She lit it and puffed, breathing out a cloud of tar. Then she heard the foot steps.
She stood up from the overturned mop bucket she'd made into a seat just as Miki rounded the corner, the kitsune's tails twitching.
"You REEEEEEALLY must have a set on you to call ME out." she giggled.

Seon smirked. "Awwww! I missed you too Miki!"
The fox girl glared. "You won't be smiling long. I've been in solitary for too long just thinking of how GOOD it's going to fell to kill you..." she growled pointing at her.
"I'm just glad you kept me in your thoughts!"
"Raaaaaaawr!"
Miki drew a sharpened plastic fork shiv from her sleeve and rushed Seon.
Seon, being human, was slower to react. She only managed to get her arms up to surpress Miki's mometum. Both of them holding each other, but a line of red up Seon's arm where Miki had sliced her.
The fox kicked Seon in her stomach making her let her go and slashed at her face catching her brow, but the ginger tackled her to the ground in a thud...
Suddenly there were more voices.
The men were coming to shower.
Both of the women knew they were vaunerable now. There was a moment of pause, panting and glaring, but Seon smiled.
"All part of the plan Miki..."
"Plan? Plan! You planned this?!" Miki whisper screamed at her clutching her.

* * * * *

The men bustled into the showers noisily. There was pushing and cussing but the officers kept them in line until they passed through the shower entrance.
The men disrobed and eventually made it to the white tiled wet walls that was their bathing area.
Nate and Greggor among them.
Purposfully Nate took his time so they'd be some of the last men to enter. The place was already wet and steamy by the time he'd left the changing area.
He done this more times than he could remember, but this time... he truely felt naked and vunerable.
Greggor was right behind him, towering over him... eyeing his every bare detail and he hated it.
He had to stay calm. He had to stick to the plan.
He had to get Geggor to the back room...
He sloshed across the open shower.
Dozens of eyes watched, some voices hooped, and there was evil lust in more than one man's twisted vision... but one didn't take it in stride.
"Nate!" Zac called coming from his shower head to stand in front of him.

"Zac I..." Nate answered but Greggor pushed him from behind.
"Move, I don't have all night or I'll just take both of you..." he threatened.
Nate looked at Zac, but just walked past him with a look of sorrow.
Zac eyed him sadly, knowing Greggor wasn't lying. If he interferred it would be both of them not just Nate.
He held his chest as his eyes overflowed, guilt swelling in his heart.
Greggor shoved him along, as they rounded the corner he pushed him down to the floor and the smaller boy flopped and rolled to look up.
Greggor licked his lips and laughed as he went to stand over him... but saw the women holding each other as if to fight, both staring his way.
"What in the he.ll?" he said giving Nate enough time to scramble away and to Seon.
Seon jumped off of Miki who kept her nails in her rising along with her.
"Thought you'd want something foxier big guy!" Seon remarked throwing Miki with all her strength taking her raking claws down her arms.
Miki fell into Greggor chest

(END)

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Aaaahhhhhh!
I'm so happy that Darker Days is back! X3
It just keeps getting better and better!

re: lol! X3 yeah he probably woudn't like facebook! >w<

0.0 oh my goose!! I love darker days!! thanks for writing them :]

Ohhhhhhhh myyyy gosh thats so great xDI love to see that Darker DaS is back your writing style is just so awesome

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lol just realised the you wrote Griffen instead of Griffin xD