You are my life

Going for the kill

(Piper's POV)

"Your honour I call back to the stand Artesian McCullough." I say.
At my request, McCullough takes the stand again.

"Okay. Let's continue shall we?" I ask her and continue,
"Now, thanks to my wife's testimony, we know that you abused your power and authority as a CO, along with CO Hellman, when you forced her to sell illegal and contraband items then you went further and used your power to transfer her did you not?" I ask her.
McCullough, knowing she's fighting a losing battle, mutters, "I did."
I nod.
"So not only did you, by law, rape my wife, and, as a supposed citizen of the law, coerce her into illegal activity, in a place where she's meant to be correcting her previous mishaps, for your own personal gain, but you also abused your authority by having her transferred to an out of state prison because she rejected you and chose me, her wife?"
She mutters,
"That's correct."
I wasn't finished though.
I still had the letters to submit into evidence.
"But you weren't going to let her go were you?" I ask her and continue,
"Your honour, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I would also like to present into evidence, a number of letters my client received from the defendant after she told her to leave her alone and after she was transferred by this very defendant."
Again, the jury hums.
"Did you send my client these letters?" I ask her.
She sheepishly nods,
"I did."
"Mhm, and why did you send them?" I ask.
"I was hoping I'd split you up and that she'd be alone and would be looking for someone." She replies.
I had to hold back my anger and nausea.
"So not only did you stalk me and prove my point that you're obsessive, but you also harassed my client?"
She nods.
I'd got her in a corner and I'd gotten all that I needed to convince a jury that she was guilty and deserving of prison.
"No further questions your honour." I state and go to sit beside my wife at the prosecution table.
Once I'd sat down, Alex leans over and whispers in my ear,
"If I wasn't handcuffed right now, you'd be the one handcuffed to this table after that sexy, jealous little show of yours Pipes." She tells me with a smirk.
I ignore that.
I was still so pissed at her and no doubt will be even more so by the end of this trial.

It was now the defence lawyer's turn.
It was also my turn to intently listen.

"Miss McCullough." The defence lawyer starts.
"Were you under the impression that you and inmate Vause had a real, tender relationship?" She asks.
McCullough nods,
"I was."
"And what made you think that?"
"After I kissed Alex- I mean, inmate Vause, I came to her cell that night to apologise and told her she didn't have to sell the chargers anymore. I thought she'd be grateful since she's married and it'd keep her nose clean so she could get out for her wife. But instead, she started flirting with me, then she started kissing me and one thing led to another and she brought me to lie on her bunk with her and we had sex."

Okay, so it was Alex who initiated the sex AFTER McCullough offered to stop forcing her to sell.
I felt sick.

"She'd told me before that, that she didn't have feelings for me so I again told her we could stop but she told me she didn't want to. This was when we were in the janitor's closet. We used her bustier to smuggle the chargers and we used the closet to put it on each other. We were a team. Once she'd put it on me and I'd put my shirt back on, that's when she told me she didn't want to stop, admittedly she added 'selling chargers' as what she didn't want to stop doing. But we both smiled at each other, kissed quite passionately as she undid my shirt again and we had sex again. In the closet this time. She kept giving me these looks after that that told me she wanted more but I still had it in my head that she said she didn't have feelings for me but she said that before we started having sex so I thought things had changed. Then one day, she gave me this look that told me 'meet me in the showers' so I followed her and asked her "Am I stupid for thinking that this is a thing? Like a real thing?" During this, she was stripping and came up to me, deadly serious, told me "You're not stupid", kissed me and led me to a shower stall with her. She broke up with me after that but through breaking up with me she told me that we could be a real thing if things were different and if she wasn't married."

When McCullough was finished, Alex reaches for my nearest hand, although awkwardly since she was handcuffed. I've never pulled away so fast in my life.
I hissed at her.
"Don't you fucking touch me."
I also bowed my head and let my hair fall over my face so she wouldn't see the tear falling. I wiped it away just as I caught her hurt puppy expression. Oh boo fucking hoo Alex. Boo fucking hoo.
Shower sex was our thing.
No not just that, Alex said she hated it then does it with McCullough?!
We had made a commitment to each other. We were supposed to be exclusively monogamous so sex of any kind should've been our thing only.
But to top it all off, she actually did tell McCullough that if she wasn't married to me they could be a thing?
I was starting to rethink our reunion now if I'm honest. I'd get Alex out because not only had I promised it but my new bosses were counting on this win. It'd also show them I was competent, meaning I'd get junior partner.
But after hearing this, I wasn't so sure anymore if Alex and I could continue.

"Pipes, please, let me-" Alex starts but I shoot her a glare that would've killed her if it had the power to so she stops talking and looks shamefully and intently at the floor.

The defence lawyer then asks,
"And how did that make you feel?"
McCullough answers,
"Angry. Hurt. Hopeful. At that point I'd developed strong feelings for her but she told me that what we were doing wasn't fair to Piper or to me. I knew then that she had used me and I didn't want to accept it so I told her that she knew it was real, I guess, in a last ditch attempt to keep her. Her reply was 'Maybe it could be if things were different. But I'm married.'"

"So, by you transferring her, you stopped yourself getting more hopeful and heartbroken?" The defence lawyer asks.
McCullough simply nods but I object. I felt sick and angry enough at what I'd found out but she was NOT getting away with this. No fucking way.
Neither was Alex but we'll come to that hurdle when the time comes.
"Objection your honour! What she did with my client was still rape by law! She already admitted as such!" I yell indignantly, standing up.
I wasn't doing this for Alex anymore.
She had no hope of me defending her anymore.
Not after what I'd heard today.
I was doing this for me.
I was doing this for my broken heart.
I was doing this for my career.
I was doing this because that bitch wasn't getting away with ruining my relationship with the love of my life.
"Sustained. The jury will ignore the defence's last statement." The judge said.
The defence lawyer nodded her head.
"In that case, I'd like to call inmate Vause to the stand."
At this point I was silently telling her, 'feel free, do as you will'.
Alex was on her own now.