Life in prison

Chapter 9

Kids grow up so fast.

Babies grow up so fast.

You killed your baby, Anne.

So why did you come here?

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"Daddy. Are you sure we should go to the children's corner in the women's ward? " - asked the Iris with a little disbelief.

"Mm-hmm"- was all Miles answered.

After his little confrontation with Richard, he was as gloomy as a cloud. Thoughts of his former comrade's black eyes were now flying around in his head like a hurricane.

He still didn't understand why he was so afraid of them. It wasn't Richard himself that frightened him, it was those eyes that frightened him.

"I guess that's good... Well, that's where we're going. I'm just going to visit Charlie and Anika." - Richard said.

The former captain looked sadly at Miles. The sergeant began to look away after their little confrontation. Damn, this was what Richard had feared. A stifling silence hung between them. No one knew what to talk about, or what to talk about.

Neither wanted to, for some reason.

They came to the very door, also in silence, which separated the two parts of the prison, the women's and the men's.

The door was quite massive, and there was a guard standing near it, who let men into the women's section, and women vice versa. But it was very strange that he was alone. Because usually there are at most two of them standing here, to make it safer.

"Pfft. There's not much defense here." - Richard muttered to himself.

Miles and the Iris didn't pay any attention to it. The guard was talking excitedly on his radio when three prisoners came up to him.

"Stop! Why are you going to this part of the prison!" - The guard asked menacingly, pulling away from the radio.

Richard answered calmly and quite friendly, while gesturing carefully.

"Don't worry, Mazt! We just want to visit Anika."

"Why? You're not on good terms with her, or you've made friends with her while Dokat was on the mend, have you?"

Richard just rolled his eyes irritably. This whole situation was pissing him off.

The guard seemed to notice his irritation. And immediately shifted his gaze to the little Iris.

"Hey, little one. The clock is ticking, you have two hours before the gate closes. "

Saying this, the sea-colored Teletubby walked over to the prisoners. To which the Iris immediately hid behind Miles' back.

"Yeah... About that. Hahaha..." - The sergeant smiled very crookedly. -"I need to talk to you."

"No." - the guard suddenly cut her off. - "I can't let her stay with you."

His answer shocked the Iris and Miles, only Richard remained calm, as if it didn't surprise him.

"B-But Daddy didn't tell you that!" - Iris exclaimed worriedly.

Mazt's face didn't have a threatening expression on it, but instead turned into confusion. He realized that he had said something wrong. Taking his eyes off the IP and Miles, he cast a panicked glance at Richard. In turn, the red prisoner looked at him calmly and his lips spread into a smile.