"Care to join me for a cup of coffee?" Rob asks as the meeting adjourned.

"No, thanks." Chance answers as they leave the conference room. "I'm going to go see Avi and see how visitation went today."

"Okay. I'll talk to you later then." Rob says as he turns and heads to the cafeteria.

"Sure thing." Chance says as he makes his way to the stairs that led to Block B.

Chance notices how strangely quiet the B Block was. All the prisoners were locked in their cells. Were they under lockdown for some reason?

"Thank, God." Avi says as he runs to his locked cell door. "What the hell took you so long?"

"The meeting lasted a little longer than expected." Chance says as he unlocks the door and walks inside. Avi throws himself into his lover's arms. "Are you guys under lockdown?"

"You haven't heard?" Avi asks as he pulls out of the hug. "There was a fight between Tim and that loudmouth from A. Tim messed the guy up pretty bad. I was on the other side of the yard so I don't really know what all went down."

"Where's Tim at now?" Chance asks.

"Johnson and Austin dragged him down to solitaire." Avi answers.

"Sh*t." Chance says. "Where's Adam? Is he in his cell?"

"Yeah." Avi nods.

"I'm going to go talk to Adam and find out what happened." Chance says as he gives his boyfriend a tender kiss before leaving the cell.

Adam looks up as he hears the keys in the lock. He had been looking through the photo album that Emily had given them. His cheeks were wet from the tears rolling down his face.

"Adam? What the hell happened today?" Chance asks as he closes the door behind him.

Adam begins to tell Chance everything that happened during the visitation as he wipes the tears from his face.

"Chance, please go check on him. You know as well as I do that Steve Austin likes to throw his weight around. He takes every opportunity he gets to show his authority." Adam says. "I feel like something bad has happened to Tim."

"I'll go check on him. But you know that if he is okay that he'll have to stay in solitaire for a few days. That's the punishment for fighting." Chance says with an apologetic tone.

"I understand that. I just want to know that he's okay." Adam says with a nod.

"I'll go check on him right now." Chance says as he turns to leave the cell.

"Please tell him that I love him." Adam says.

"Will do. But I'm pretty sure he already knows that." Chance smiles as he locks the cell behind him.

~~

"Hey, Chance?" Someone calls out to him as he walks down the hallway that leads to solitaire.

He turns around to see Dwayne walking toward him.

"Are you going down to check on Foust?" Johnson asks.

"Yeah, I just want to make sure that he's okay." Chance nods.

"Listen, I have no idea what went down after I left the cell. I just want you to know that." Dwayne says. 

"F*ck! That don't sound good." Chance says as he starts to run with Dwayne following behind him.

"He's in the last cell on the left." Dwayne says as they run past the other cells.

"Sh*t. Sh*t. Sh*t." Chance mumbles as he tries to find the right key. His hands were shaking so bad that he drops the keys on the floor. "D*MMIT!!"

"I got it." Johnson says as he snatches the keys up and finds the correct key. Unlocking the door and swinging it open.

The light from the hall illuminated the dark cell. Chance's heart drops as he sees Tim curled up in a fetal position on the floor. 

"Holy hell! Is he....?" Dwayne asks. 

"Tim?" Chance calls as he falls to his knees beside his friend's lifeless body. He brushes the brunette's hair back from his face and sees that his face was badly beaten and bloody. He lays his fingers on the prisoner's throat.

"Is there a pulse?" Johnson asks.

"Yeah, but it's weak. Call Rob and tell him to get Olusola and get down here NOW!!" Chance says. He was afraid to try to move Tim because he didn't know how bad he was hurt. "Tim? Buddy, can you hear me?" Chance says softly as Dwayne shouts into his radio.

Chance carefully raises Tim's shirt to see bruises covering his sides, back and stomach.

"I'm so sorry, Chance. I should have stayed but I had no idea Austin would try to kill him." Dwayne says.

Rob and Dr. Olusola come running into the cell with a stretcher.

"Who the hell did this to him?!" Rob asks angrily as the doctor quickly tries to evaluate the prisoner.

"That son of a b*tch, Steve Austin." Chance answers as he steps back to give the doctor some room.

"Well, I'm sure he just signed his name on the Fousts' hit list." Rob says shaking his head.

"We need to get him to the infirmary. He's having difficulty breathing so there may be some internal injuries." Dr. Olusola states as he puts an oxygen mask on the prisoner. "Be very careful putting him on the stretcher. No telling what might be broken."

~~

Tim begins to fight desperately with the restraints. If he could just get his hands free he would be able to protect himself.

"Hey! Hey! It's alright Tim, it's Dr. Olusola. You're in the infirmary." A soft voice says.

With some difficulty, Tim manages to open his swollen eyes. Everything was a blur. 

"Hey, Doc, nice to see ya." Tim says in a weak voice.

"I'm surprised that you can see anything as swollen as your eyes are." Kevin says with a kind smile.

"You're just one big black blur." Tim says with a slight chuckle but then groans from the pain in his chest.

"Should I be offended?" Kevin chuckles as he makes a few notes on the clipboard. "But then if you were seeing a white blur, I guess we'd both be in trouble." (laughs)

"God, I'm hurting. I can hardly breath." Tim says as he fights to get air into his lungs.

"Just relax, okay? You may have some broken ribs. We're going to be doing some X-rays and bone scans to see what we're dealing with." Kevin says as he gently pats the prisoner's arm. "Your nose was bleeding pretty badly but I don't believe it's broken. You have a busted lip and one hellacious pump knot on the back of your head. We'll do a Cat Scan to make sure no damage was done. While the technician carries you to X-ray, I'll go tell Chance that you're alive and kicking."

Dr. Olusola walks into the waiting room of the infirmary and reveals his findings to the waiting prison guards. Foust was awake and talking but in severe pain and having difficulty breathing. He would know more after all the test was run.

Now comes the hard part. Chance has to go tell Adam.

~~

"Adam?" Chance calls out as he unlocks the cell. 

The blonde was laying on his side hugging his husband's pillow.

"How's Tim? Is he alright?" Adam asks as he quickly jumps up from the cot.

Chance sighs as he walks over and sits down on the bed and pats the spot next to him.

"Tell me!!" Adam says as he sits down next to the guard. "Is he okay?"

"Adam, Tim is in the infirmary. He was beaten pretty bad..." Chance says.

"Oh, my God." Adam whispers as tears fill his eyes.

"But. He's awake and talking. Dr. Olusola is running test as we speak. He wants to see if there are any broken bones." Chance says.

Adam stands up and walks across the room toward the door.

"It was Steve Austin, wasn't it." Adam states as he quickly turns toward the guard. His expression had gone from being scared to being angry.

"Yeah, I'm afraid so." Chance answers with a nod.

"What about Johnson? Was he in on it?" Adam asks as he crosses his arms over his chest.

"No, I don't think so but I'll have to talk to Tim to be sure." Chance says.

"I want to go see him. I have to see Tim." Adam says, stepping toward the guard.

"I figured you would. That's why I brought these." Chance says as he holds up some shackles. "Sorry, but it's the rule."

"I don't give a f*ck." Adam says as he sits down and holds his arms out to be shackled.

~~

As they walk into the infirmary, they were told that Dr. Olusola would see them in his office. Adam glances around but he doesn't see his lover anywhere.

"Come in." Kevin answers the knock on his door. He looks up from the X-rays and scans that he had been looking over. Chance walks in leading Adam. Kevin smiles at the two and tells them to have a seat.

"How is he? Is he going to be alright?" Adam asks in a worried tone.

"Tim is going to be just fine." Kevin answers with a smile. "Although, he does have a bruised rib that he will have to nurture. I was just looking over the test that we ran. There are no broken bones which really is surprising. There's no damage to the brain. His vision was blurred when he first came to but that's understandable. He was having difficulty breathing which is due to the bruised rib. We gave him something for the pain so he's more relaxed and breathing a bit easier."

"May I see him?" Adam asks with a sigh of relief. "Please?"

"Of course but it will be just a few minutes. The nurses are cleaning him up a little. His nose was bleeding so there was a lot of blood on his face." Kevin says before leaning forward on his desk. "But, Adam, I have to warn you. He looks pretty rough. His face is badly bruised and his eyes are swollen."

"I understand." Adam says with a nod.

"Despite the way he looks? The man was d*mn lucky. It could have been a hell of a lot worse." Kevin says with a nod.

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