A/N: This Is the first time I have ever written anything. Please leave me any feedback you've got but keep it friendly!

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Divas Prison Ch1

"This is the Florida State Police! There is nowhere for you to go. Put down your weapon and come out slowly with your hands above your head!"

Paige Knight was frozen with terror. Things were never meant to get this far. She had fallen on some terrible times recently, no job, no support and ever increasing debt from rent and bills. She was a sweet girl,but naive, and had fallen in with a bad crowd who had shown her friendship when nobody else would. One of them had offered her a way to try and make some extra money.

"I've got some contacts in the jewellery trade, they pay good money for gold and stones, way better than those scamming pawn shops" he had told her.

"I don't know Scott, I don't have much jewellery left anyway, certainly nothing worth anything to anyone else, it's all just sentimental now."

"That's ok, there are plenty of places that have lots of it"

Paige wasn't sure what he meant, and certainly was worried about it. " You don't mean from shops do you?"

"Well yeah, it's easy, and you can make a fortune for just a few minutes work, you could clear your debts in just a few minutes."

The thought of having some money and not having to worry about losing her apartment for the first time in a long time sounded really good to Paige, but she had never done anything illegal before and didn't know anything about how to go about it. The thing was, neither did Scott, but he had smelt an opportunity to make some money and was going to do everything in his power to make it happen.

"It's easy, you just go into the store, tell them you have a gun and to empty the stuff into a bag quietly. They won't give you any trouble and they'll never suspect a pretty young thing like you so they'll be caught napping."

"But surely they won't take me seriously? I'm not exactly threatening to look at, and what if they don't believe I have a gun?"

"That would be a problem, if you didn't have a gun." Scott opened his jacket to show Paige that he had a handgun inside his belt. He gave it to Paige. She had never held a gun before and was scared and excited all at once. "Are you sure that I can do this?"

"Of course you can, just get in and out quickly and cover your face and they'll never know it was you. As soon as you're done come to my garage with the goods and we will get it all sorted out."

Paige left shortly after that and went home, thinking that all her problems would be over with in just a few days.

Illuminate Jewellery was a small store located in a quiet area of town. They had a lot of high quality items and Scott had texted Paige and suggested it to her as it would bring them the most money from his contacts. She had dressed all in black, jeans, t-shirt and leather jacket with a baseball cap to pull down over her face. She had the gun tucked into her jeans, covered by the jacket so nobody knew it was there. But she knew it was there and as she looked in the window of the shop, the feeling in her stomach was really bad. Maybe this wasn't the right thing to do. She walked around the corner and called Scott.

"I'm not going to do this, thanks for the help but I'm coming to give you the gun back."

His reaction scared her, he was suddenly very aggressive. "You've got to be joking, I've told my contacts that this merchandise is coming and these are not people that you make a promise to and then don't deliver. I told you it's simple, get in and get out. You had better be here with the goods within an hour or we are both in big trouble."

Paige took a deep breath, pulled the cap down low and went into the store. She went over to a case full of diamond rings of varied sizes. It was near closing so there weren't many people in the store. A older man came over to her. "Good afternoon miss, is there anything I can help you to find today?"

Paige leant over to him and spoke quietly "listen to me, I need you to empty these rings into a plain bag right now and give it to me. I have a gun and I will use it if you don't do what I say. Empty the cases now."

"Don't do anything stupid, please just leave my store, I won't tell anyone"

Paige was starting to panic, people were looking over. She pulled out the gun. "I just need you to give me those rings. Quickly. I'm sorry but I have to do this."

Two women near the door made a run for it out the door. This made Paige turn and look. While she did that, she didn't see the owner push a small red button he had behind the counter.

"Hurry up, I need as much as will fit in a bag!"

"Ok ok, just don't shoot. I'm doing it now." He got a paper bag out and went to open the cabinet in front of her, the lock looked like it was sticking and he took ages to open it. "Please be quick, I don't want to hurt anybody, I just want to get this and go" Paige pleaded, hating that things had gotten to this.

The man took the rings out of the tray and put them in the bag, then emptied a second. He could have done it faster. He then went to open a second cabinet but Paige stopped him. "That's enough, just please give me the bag."

He went to hand it over but as soon Paige grabbed it, she dropped it as the sound of a siren outside made everybody turn and look. There were about five police cars outside and twice as many police officers, all with their guns drawn.

"This is the Florida State Police! There is nowhere for you to go. Put down your weapon and come out slowly with your hands above your head!"

Paige was frozen, she was absolutely terrified. With all those guns pointed her way, she thought she was dead already.

"This is your final warning, put down your weapon and put your hands above your head." The voice from outside was booming.

Reality was starting to sink in for Paige. She realised that she was in a lot of trouble now. She just wanted to go home but that wasn't going to happen. But she certainly didn't want to die. She put the gun down on the ground, making sure that the police outside could see that she had complied and was no longer armed.

"Now come out of there slowly, with your hands above your head" came the instruction from outside.

Paige stretched her hands up, knocking her cap off, she wanted to pick it up but was scared how it look to the police so left it. She pushed the door open and left the store, standing in front of the officers in surrender.

"Now get down on your knees, then lie down on the floor face down." Paige did so and could see that two officers were approaching her from the side. One of them removed a set of handcuffs from his belt and told her to place her hands behind her back. She did so immediately and quickly felt the cold steel on her wrists. As the cuffs clicked she felt completely helpless as she could not move her arms. One of the officers picked her up and she was face to face with the other, who was reading off a card.

"You are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have read them to you?"

Paige could only nod, almost struck dumb by fear. The officer lead her by the arm away from the store as others went inside to see to those inside still. She was led to a police car and put into the back seat. The seat was solid plastic and very uncomfortable, not to mention her handcuffs were tight and digging in. The windows were barred to stop escape but Paige wasn't thinking about that, she just looked through them as the car started and pulled away.

The journey wasn't long, the car pulled up at a door behind an automatic gate and the officer got out opened the door by Paige, helping her out of the car as it was difficult to do by herself while handcuffed. They went through a door marked 'County Detention Centre - Intake' and into a big hall with lots of seating and a big desk at the front. There were lots of areas leading off too.

The officer walked Paige up to the desk. They started to take down her personal information then asked the officer for the offence. "Armed Robbery". Paige felt all life suddenly drain out of her. Armed robbery. She was under arrest for armed robbery. Just trying to pay her rent had landed her in more trouble than she ever thought possible. She tried her best to stay composed as the questions continued and they took all of her possessions off of her. After she confirmed she understood why she had been arrested, the woman behind the desk came round with a set of chains and cuffs. The officer who brought her in removed her handcuffs and stood guard while a chain was placed around her waist and her hands were put into cuffs but at her sides attached to the chain. "This will be a little more comfortable for you" the guard said, "Take a seat in row 2 and you will be called for processing when they are ready for you. You will not talk to anyone else in this room apart from our staff and only when spoken too, clear?" Paige nodded and sat down where told.

There weren't too many others in there so she was called fairly quickly. First she was fingerprinted and photographed. She was then taken to a room and told to take off her clothes and change into an inmate uniform. Bright orange clothes sat on the bench for her. It looked like what you see in the movies, but now it was real life. As she picked it up she saw that they had given her underwear as well. She couldn't believe she couldn't wear her own but changed. It was all badly fitting and uncomfortable, not what she liked at all.

She was then brought to another guard. "It's too late for you to see an attorney or a judge today so you'll be placed in a cell until one is ready for you tomorrow." So this was it, she was spending the night in jail. She was expecting a holding cell with others but they put her in a single cell as they saw her as dangerous due to the offence. As she walked down the hall she saw other women in cells, some banging and yelling at the guards. She didn't understand why they would do that or what they wanted to accomplish. The guard then opened a door. "This is you, there is a phone, you get one call, breakfast will come in through the hatch at 6am." She walked in and the door was slammed behind her. There was just a concrete slab with a mat, a metal toilet and a basic phone. There was only person she could think to call.

"Hello?"

"Scott? Thank god, it's Paige"

"Paige, where the hell are you? I've got my contact here to pick up the goods"

"Scott, I'm in jail, the police were there before I could get it."

"You're in jail? How the hell did that happen?" There was commotion in the background.

"I don't know Scott, they were there before I even got the stuff. You've got to get me out of here."

"Have you told them anything about me, or about my contacts?"

"No, they said I won't see a lawyer or a judge till tomorrow."

"Good, you better not say a word to them about me or anyone else. you do and you're dead."

"Why are you being like this? I need your help, please get me out of this place"

I'm not getting you out, you were stupid enough to get busted, you deal with it. Just make sure you keep your mouth shut or they will have you killed. These are dangerous people you let down." He hung up the phone.

"Scott? SCOTT!" He was gone. Paige tried to redial but the phone would only allow one call, just like they had said. That was it, there was no hope now. Paige went to the mat and laid down. Sleep wasn't likely, she just stared at the ceiling and into nothingness, scared of what was coming tomorrow.

A/N This wasn't meant to be a chapter by itself, but it just kept writing, I know we've only had one character really so far, but a lot more will be met over time. If everything goes to plan, I want this to be a long story. In the next, Paige will see a lawyer and judge and a lot of her fate will be decided.

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