Doing Hard Time

Temporary Move-Part 1

Uso Penitentiary
Medical Department

Dr. Shareef's POV
What a day this has been. When I was off for a few days, it's like all broke loose. Deanna has intermittent seizures due to the head injury she received from Officer Rhodes, and what's worse is she got pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. Then, if that's not bad enough, Joe blamed me for it! I couldn't believe it, after Warden Heyman and I stuck our necks and put our jobs on the line for them and he had the nerve to come at me like that?! I was pissed and called him a Tribal Bitch. Man, what I say that for? Next thing I knew, he jumped over my desk and lunged at me. He grabbed me by my hair and all hell broke loose. Warden Heyman, Pearce and Dwayne tried to seperate us because I was about to snatch this fool bald headed, as I had wrapped my hand tightly around his locks.

Just as we were about to snatch each other's hair out by the roots, we heard Dee's sobbing voice pleading with us to stop fighting. Dee's voice apparently had an emotional impact on Joe as he released my hair and I had released his but not before I slapped the taste out of his mouth for grabbing me in the first place. I felt bad seeing sweet little Deanna crying, thinking it was her fault. But when Joe took her in his arms and attempted to calm her, my anger slowly dissipated. After everything had died down, we all sat around and discussed how everything had gone wrong in the first place and it was determined that Deanna nor Joe followed by instructions to use condoms, thus resulting in a pregnancy and miscarriage. So I determined that the best solution to avoid failing state inspection is to transfer all of the female inmates to the empty A Housing Unit temporarily until after the state inspection.

So after that announcement, Heyman and Pearce went to the Warden's office to discuss the matter further...Inmates Carter and Anoa'i were escorted back to their housing unit and I just sat there with a monster of all headaches.

As I closed my eyes and rubbed my temples to calm my headache, I heard Dwayne's voice and felt his hand rubbing my back...

"Are you ok baby?" He asked gently as he continued to caress me.

"I swear your family is gonna drive me to drink." I sigh.

"My family? Once you're my wife, they'll be your family too." He says laughing.

"Don't remind me." I say.

"Come on, they're not that bad really. It's just the situation that they're in, that's all. Before they got incarcerated, they did a lot of good, especially in the Samoan community." Dwayne replied.

"Whatever you say." I said shaking my head.

Dwayne lifted my chin and looked into my eyes....

"Everything will be fine. Remember we got a wedding to plan." Dwayne reminded me.

"Can't we just elope? It would be easier." I suggest.

"Nah...we're gonna have a big wedding, me in a tux, you in a wedding dress, flowers, cake the whole nine yards. Woman, I didn't put that 10 carat ring on your finger, just to elope!" Dwayne scoffed.

"I understand and you're right. I guess I should start on the guest list then, huh?" I sigh.

"Don't worry baby, I'll help you." He says with a smile.

Meanwhile in the Warden's Office.....

"So I think what Dr. Shareef suggested is actually a good idea." Assistant Warden Pearce said.

"I agree." Heyman sighed.

"But if I'm being honest, I always thought having females here was never a good idea." Pearce chimed in.

"You know giving the recent chain of events. I'm starting to think you're right. But once we pass inspection, we can reevaluate the situation." Heyman said.