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Laid Up: Another Season 3 – Chapter 26C
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3:00pm
Whereas Alice, Dana, and Kit had only been threatened with a trip downtown to sit in the LA County Inmate Detention Center, Stephanie really was. A police officer handed Stephanie a large, puffy white envelope. “Drop your ring, bracelet, watch, earrings, and any other possessions in this envelope.” Stephanie removed everything and signed both the envelope and another sheet of paper that stated what had been placed in the envelope.
“When do I get to make my phone call?”
“When we finish with the booking,” the bored officer said dryly.
She was taken to another section of booking for fingerprinting. Stephanie tried to maintain decorum, but this place smelled of B.O., stale beer, strong marijuana, and ammonia. She was being processed and as her hand was held rigid, fingers and thumb pressed in ink and then rolled across the fingerprinting paper, she asked about the timetable for phone use. This fingerprinting technician said, “How would I know?” and left it at that.
The final act was a body check. She stood naked, humiliated, embarrassed, and angry. “I don’t have any contraband,” she shouted as the corrections officer had her bend forward. Stephanie sucked her teeth. If I could spray a blast of diarrhea at this bitch, I would, she thought. She almost laughed, then, but later frowned when she was handed a bright orange jumpsuit and directed to follow the escort down the hall and up the stairs.
Before Stephanie reached the holding cell, a uniformed cop walked up to her and said, “I can take you to make your call.”
Stephanie, now in bright orange, was led to a bank of telephones. She didn’t know whom to call—Henry? He hated her. Her mother? Stephanie was finished with her. Tina? As usual, Tina was focused only on Tina and what was going on in Tina’s life. Peter? Bastard. Stephanie picked up the phone and dialed 0 and then the area code and finally the number. “I’d like to make a collect call to Mr. Randolph McGhee from Stephanie Kennard.”
“Please hold while we attempt to connect this call,” the operator said.
Stephanie waited, wiped her mouth, and listened as McGhee’s office accepted the call. “Is Mr. McGhee in? This is one of his clients, Stephanie Kennard.”
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i am once again left speechless at your incredible ability to weave a tale. i actually yelped in excitement when Angie was safe but at the same time, believe it or not, felt somewhat sorry for Josh. only your writing could evoke that somewhat schizophrenic sympathy.I’m also a bit worried at the introduction of Jodi into the story but hope that after all that we’ve been through with Bette and Tina to date, she will not pose a threat to their relationship.as for all of the other characters and their stories, i am finding them entertaining and interesting as well which is not usually the case when reading as i’m pretty much just a Tina/Bette fan. this again, is testimony to your ability to ability to entertain.thanks again for the story and the time and effort that must be involved. looking forward as always to reading more.
WOW. you put so much into this everyone was weitten about. Could have done without Jodie tho. thanks
I’ve spent the past two days reading the whole thing, and honestly? It’s great. Really, really great. The characters are well written and adhere to canon, your reweaving of the events of Season 3 into this alternative version is not only really well done, but in my mind — preferable. As for the Jodi issue, if she’s like every other non-core character in your work (herself, but changed), I’ll be very happy to see where that goes. I do wonder, though, moments after Bette is reunited with Tina and her baby for the first time in weeks, she wanders off to talk to Jodi? That seems a little… I don’t know, inhuman? But, hey, if that’s my only complaint in 26 chapters, consider it an amazing feat. I’m a huge Danish fan, and I’m happy to see you keeping the love alive. Would love to see more of that relationship in your writing, but generally I think the chapters are fairly good about being even with their time. You’re prolific. Are you really spitting out this much in three days? Because if so, that’s incredible. I mean, really, really exceptional. Thanks for writing this, it’s a great read, and I can’t wait to see more of it.
more sharmeeeeeen!!! pleasee!!..excellent chap, so glad angie’s ok, hope you post soon
Thank goodness Angelica is safe. I’m glad Boden was there. Um, not too excited about Jodi showing up in this story :). Can’t wait for the celebration…hope everyone gets a little ‘private celebration’ time :wink:. You’ve really spoiled us this last week Portia. Thanks for this wonderful fic and don’t be gone too long :)
Nice way to weave Jodi and Big Bear into the story – and loved that Bette denied ‘gush’ing. Great stuff, Portia.
Bette better mess up of jodi!! yeah for angie being okay… now it’s time for the port-kennards to get on with their lives. tina needs to finish her rehab.i wonder what else steph. did what else is she hiding??? great update!!:)
Ahhhh… I can breathe now. That was tense, but Baby A is safe, finally! I’m so glad there was a third person there and Boden clocked that whining maggot Josh. Although, I think Bette would have ripped him apart eventually anyway. Hels is leaving, which is a shame, but her heart’s somewhere else… So! Ol’ Steph’s about to get her comeuppance, big time. I hope Peter gets his money back, as well as his furniture. I’m dreading the stuff coming out that was on that list of hers. Girl needs help, if she can survive prison. This was so good, I can’t wait for the next post. thanks Portia.
glad angie is ok…can’t wait for shane to get home and face the wrath of carmen…things need to change