Ok, hi guys, this is my new story, which is a zombie apocalypse story in Litchfield. This happens a week or two after Season 4 finale which I've just created a little explanation for. Some parts may seem completely lucky and circumstantial, but it was just because I couldn't be bothered to create a longer explanation as to how they did this, that, etc.

Now this fic will centre around Piper and Alex, but they will by no means be all this story has to offer. Every character will have a part, even if they are minor. Trust me, this story will have every character playing a part and getting developed.

"Fuckin' CO's y'all pieces of shit."

Red stared at Daya and muttered "shit" as everyone shouted at Daya to shoot him. Red could see the gears in the young Hispanic's woman mind turning, and she was realising that she was already in too deep. She was definitely going to be punished for threatening to kill a CO, but she certainly didn't need twenty plus years for actually doing the deed.

As time went by, it became more and more uncertain whether Daya would do the deed. Humphrey watched on with intensity, frozen in place on his knees. Everyone was pushing Daya to commit the deed. The Dominicans were screaming, the White Supremacists were screaming, the Hispanics were screaming, but the Blacks were screaming the loudest. Notably, Taystee, who was repeatedly yelling "pop his ass".

Humphrey's, without warning, jumped forward, his hand outstretched for the gun, and everyone screamed in unison. Daya, startled out of her daze, pulled the trigger, and the bullet soared beneath his outstretched arm, before it hit him in the chest. The explosive sound from the gun quelled the noise and Humphrey slowly fell to his knees and then to the floor in complete silence.

That's the last thing many people remember of the old Litchfield. It was funny calling it the 'Old Litchfield', seeing as how it was only two weeks ago, but it seemed longer ago. Daya was sentenced to twenty years in prison, and was put in Max, leaving Gloria dumbfounded at how she could fail Aleida so badly. However, she placed the blame on Maria, citing "she made Daya crazy, and made her shoot that bastard." Nobody dared to take sides against either of the fierce women, but many agreed with her.

The New Litchfield however, resembled that of a maximum security ficility rather than a minimum security prison. Guards were harsher, and even the most minor of offences was met with yelling and multiple shots. Even Sister Ingalls, after her return from SHU, received shots for taking too long in the shower.

Caputo, even though he was aware of the mistreatment, still didn't bother to stick up for the women. He cosied on up to MCC and as a result, got a higher paying job and a new warden took charge of actual prison management, who was more apathetic than a sleeping Figueroa.

However, none of the girls were prepared for what would happen today.

Nobody truly knew how it began.

They were all inside the dining hall, eating their breakfast with solemn faces, when a guard had run in, disheveled, and clutching his shoulder which was pouring blood, startling all of the inmates and the guards, who had descended upon him, with Piscatella screaming "SOMEONE CALL THE FUCKIN' MEDIC!"

Another CO bolted down the hallway as inmates watched on, mouths hanging open, but Piscatella was quick to quell this. "EVERYONE, GET BACK TO YOUR BUNKS, NOW," Piscatella boomed, and the inmates slowly made their way back to their bunks, all staring at the guard as he fell unconscious, foaming at the mouth.

"So what do you think happened to him," Piper mused, cupping her chin in thought "did an inmate attack him? Maybe it was Kukudio- no wait, maybe it was Suzanne. Actually, maybe it was Soso, after what happened with Washington-"

"Chapman," Red muttered, lying into her bunk, on the verge of sleeping "I don't mean to be rude, but please, shut up." Piper bit her lip, and nodded, before hopping onto the top bunk, lying back in thought.

"Hey Happakuka?"

"Yeah," the overweight woman below responded.

"Eh..sorry for trying to get you to be my bodyguard and stuff."

"...ok."

The woman's curt reply made Piper double take. She knew that she was mean to Happakuka, but didn't she at least deserve an apology from her? She got branded for fucks sake! And it was Happakuka's fault for ratting her out! God, Happakuka could at least give her a small 'I'm sorry' instead of being so short with her...

And with that last train of thought, Piper was claimed by slumber.

It was in the dead of night when screams awoke Piper and the rest of the dorm, and they stumbled out of bed (or in Piper's case, fell) and stuck their heads out of their cubes, the silence now more delicate than an ornament. Piper and Red shared a look as the silence continued, until it felt like it was smothering them.

"Should we try and look," Piper whispered harshly, and Red shook her head, biting her lip "but there was screaming..." Red still shook her head, but remained leant over, staring at the doorway, expecting some kind of creature to stalk through the door. However, nothing came, so a few girls started to wander back to their bunks.

However, just when Piper was giving up hope, a loud, monstrous groan emanated from beyond the doorway, and all of the girls in the Dorm jumped, and formed a crowd in the middle of it. For a moment, all there was was the loud groaning, until a shadow started to creep up on the wall opposing the door.

Many of the girls started to back away as the groaning got nearer, and Piper found herself backing into Alex, who started to rub circles in her back while muttering "it's ok" repeatedly. However, it was when the figure finally turned the corner into the doorway was when everyone lost their minds.

Standing there was a creature was something that vaguely resembled Stratman, however, it looked like a horror movie interpretation of the guard. Storm grey skin, milky white eyes, along with blood caking his entire body caused all the girl's to scream. The CO's in the bubble, quickly locked the door to their safe haven, and they bolted, leaving the girls to fend for themselves.

As Piscatella got closer, everyone scattered to their own bunks for protection. Piper couldn't have gotten to her bunk faster, while Red followed slightly slower. Alex met Piper's eyes and the blonde woman could see tears swimming in Alex's emerald eyes. The Stratman-esque creature began bumbling down the dorm, before wandering into a cube, prompting one of the girl's to scream shrilly.

However, that's all it took for 'Stratman', and he descended on her, and took a large chunk out of her throat. The women around her screeched as well, before bolting. As if a domino effect, the rest of the girl's in the dorm bolted, crying and screaming obscenities. Nicky and Morello found Alex, Red and Piper in a small group, making their way to the dining hall.

"What the fuck is going on," Nicky exclaimed, her expressive eyes wide like headlights "I fuckin'- I just- what the fuck is going on?!" Lorna was rubbing her forearm, as the five of them made it further through the winding halls of Litchfield. The girl's surrounding them were silent, and were currently shaking with fear.

"We have to get out while we can," Red sighed, and Piper turned to her with wide, skeptical eyes.

"B-But we can't, we don't have the keys-"

"I know where we can get them," Red sighed, and began to make her way back to the dorms, shocking many of the people in the hallway, including Nicky.

"R-Red what the fuck," Nicky stated, using her hands to emphasise her shock "I know you want to be in charge, but godammit, you could, eh, y'know, DIE?!" Alex and Lorna nodded in unison, while Piper looked ahead, her mouth opening and closing repeatedly at the sight she was seeing.

"A-Alex, there's another one, there's another zombie!"

Piper's words startled many other of the prisoners to look at the common room to see Ginsberg, the blonde Jewish inmate, limping towards them, leaving a trail of blood. Again, the girl's scattered, yet the five of them stayed together. Red was spitting angry curses in Russian, crouching low as they approached the gate which lead to the outside.

"How do we get out without any muscle?!"

"How about me," a new voice asked, and they turned around to see a large crowd of people of different ethnicities standing there expectantly. Among them stood Sister Ingalls, Gloria, Sophia, Taystee, Crazy Eyes, Janae, Black Cindy, Abdullah, Flaca, Maritza, Blanca, Maria Ruiz, Yoga Jones as well as other girls, all throwing scared glances back.

"I mean..me or Boo or Black Cindy could try," Sophia said fiercely, gaining some since her return from SHU "we're more on the…offensive side if you will."

"….you mean me and Cindy are fat, and you got man strength," Boo cut in, eyebrows raised, and Sophia rolled her eyes, before stepping forward and taking a moment to focus. The rest of the girl watched, hoping none of them garnered any attention for being close to the exit. They did not need any of those creatures on their tail.

Sophia rushed forward, and kicked the gate, which crumpled under Sophia's kick. They weren't surprised, with the amount of changes MCC were making, nearly everything in the prison was cheap or poorly assembled. They all ran down the hall to the front door, which lead to the outside, when more screaming erupted down the hall, but this time, it was much more intense.

"Quick, we gotta do this now," Maritza said sassily, and Sophia threw her a glare, before kicking the door, which was, unlike the gate, able to handle a hit. Boo rolled her eyes, before turning to Janae, who gave her a look that screamed 'don't-ask-me-for-anything'.

"Gimme a hairpin, I know you got some. I can unlock this door," Boo said, and Janae complied, thrusting the pin into Boo's hands "thank you Watson." Boo said the words clearly and curtly, and they were dripping in venom.

Big Boo made quick work of the door, and it opened after a few tries at it, however just as they started walking out, there was more groaning from down the hall, and Piper was the only one to stay to look. Crawling towards them, was Stratman and unnamed inmate, who had a gaping hole in her stomach, revealing her intestines.

"Oh my god.."

"PIPER, WE GOTTA GO, C'MON," Alex yelled, startling Piper out of her daze and they caught up with the others, and Piper gave the prison was last look, which was now filled with screaming of all sorts, male and female, old and young. Taystee however, who was just a few feet in front of them said:

"All them guards can burn in hell; 'specially the one who killed my girl."

Piper nodded in solidarity, as the group started to make their way to the tree line, when Pennsatucky spoke up for the first time. "Hey wait, wait y'all," Pennsatucky stated, catching the attention of everyone "so we can agree that them zombie's don't get tired or nothin' so they can basically outlast us-"

"Who said their zombies," Flaca interjected with a fearful look, and Gloria turned to her with a no bullshit look.

"Really Flacaca? Ain't you neva' see a zombie movie before? They're fuckin' zombies-"

"Anyway, what were you saying," Piper interrupted, before a fight started and they attracted some unwanted attention.

"Yeah, so they can outlast us and we're dead? But we're forgettin', we got a van," Pennsatucky said dramatically, flourishing the keys, and many of the girl's smiled "Boo took '

The suggestion hung in the air for a minute, before Red crossed her arms, and raised an eyebrow. "So, let me get this straight," Red said in her thick accent "you want us to go back in there, with the zombies and try to get the van back?" Pennsatucky looked crestfallen as she realised what that entailed, when Flaca shook her head with a smile.

"Nah, look," she said, pointing at the fence, which held a new compartment for the van "if we just get in there, we can bust outta there!" The girl's smiled, and they turned to Sophia, who rolled her eyes, and her and Pennsatucky walked over to the fence. They watched Sophia go at it for a few minutes, before the fence fell.

Pennsatucky's face lit up, and the two of them hopped in the van, but then Sophia stuck her head out. "Wait, there's not enough seats in here!" However, it was just their luck that there was a little enclave that housed a second van and their keys on the ground beside them, which a guard must have dropped.

"Ok," Pennsatucky said as the two vans roared down the road "if we're lucky, and the city hasn't crumbled, we can get some gas, steal some essentials, and we can hit the road since we know the city ain't gon' last." Piper nodded in agreement, but then Leanne piped up.

"But what if the city has crumbled?"

"Then we're fucked."

They were fortunate however, when they found the city as vibrant as ever, with thousands of people populating the streets themselves. They parked, and Pennsatucky and the rest of the girl's gathered around her, as she surveyed the colossal buildings towering above her.

"I'm guessin' it's about one thirty in the mornin'," Pennsatucky speculated "so most shops are closed. That's why we're lucky we can just break in and steal, because who cares 'bout surveillance, we're leavin' anyway." The girl's nodded in unison, and Pennsatucky continued.

"Ok so we gotta split into a few groups, where we all cover a different area: food and drink, clothing, medical and hygiene, weaponry and other. And two people have to guard the vans to make sure they ain't stolen-"

"What about our families," Sophia cut in nervously "I mean, my boy-"

"Listen, I'm sorry to say, but our families probably won't have enough time to survive; if you wanna survive, you gotta let them loose."

Pennsatucky's blunt delivery sent chills down everyone's spine, and the transgender woman looked down sadly, as Gloria rubbed her arm comfortingly. "Ok, so who'll guard the vans," Pennsatucky stated "because me and Boo are doin' medical, I'm gonna establish that right now."

"I'll do it I guess," Sophia shrugged, and Gloria quickly volunteered herself as well, surprising many.

"How do you know so much about zombies and shit," Flaca questioned.

"My parents didn't really care what I watched, and now I planned this all out pretty damn quick," Pennsatucky explained simply with a shrug "so who's doing what? Gloria and Sophia are doin' the vans, what about the rest o' y'all?" The suggestion hung in the air, and Pennsatucky sighed.

"Fine, I'm assignin' you guys," Pennsatucky said, and pointed at Flaca, Maritza, Blanca and Maria "you guys are gonna take over food and drink. Just grab as much as you can, but try to make it water and healthy shit. Or honey! That shit lasts forever." The four girls nodded, before they ran off in search of a general store

"You two," she pointed at Sister Ingalls, Leanne, Angie and Yoga Jones "are gonna help me and Boo do medical stuff. We ain't gotta do much, just grab all the important shit." Sister Ingalls nodded sagely, and then Pennsatucky rounded on Black Cindy, Suzanne, Alison, Janae, Soso and Taystee.

"You guys are gonna do clothing since you got," Pennsatucky's eyes raked up and down Cindy's figure "the most varied body types; just grab clothes of all types, alright?" The five girls nodded, before they walked down, Cindy saying something about "bitch givin' me a judgin' look."

"And you five," Pennsatucky looked at Piper, Alex, Morello, Red and Nicky "take care of weaponry "y'all just gotta do whatever and grab all the weapons; don't forget ammo and knives and stuff like that. That'll come in handy." The five girls nodded, before they set off in the most questionable of confidence.

"Ok, so you guys ready," Pennsatucky asked, looking at Sister Ingalls and Yoga Jones, who nodded "ok, let's go." And then that left Gloria and Sophia to look after the vans.

Down the street, Maritza, Flaca, Maria and Blanca found a general store, however it was near a populated area. They were reluctant to do something to open it, however it was clear Maria was getting agitated. It didn't have an upper floor, so chances are that the owners lived away from the city.

Eventually, after some poor ideas were thrown around, Maria simply picked up a large enough rock from the sidewalk, and even after Maritza's worried 'no, no, no's' she chucked it at the window, and with a resounding smash, it fell to pieces. Blanca and Maria wasted no time in hurrying into the store and grabbing food left and right, while Flaca and Maritza, after some hesitance, grabbed all the water they could find, even grabbing basket full's of it.

"So are you ok," Flaca questioned and Maritza looked at her with soft eyes "I mean, with your baby, it's gotta be hard, leavin' her behind and all.."

"I j-just," Maritza's lil quivered, before she steeled her resolve and put on an impassive face "I just hope her baby daddy keeps her safe; he ain't no coward. He's an asshole, but he loves her." Flaca nodded, and returned to pulling water off the shelves like a mad woman. Eventually they'd filled close to six baskets of it, while Blanca and Maria had packed varieties of food.

"Great, all you got was water," Maria commented snootily, but then hopped out the window, nearly toppling over with the unbalanced weight she was carrying, before she hurried back towards the van while a few people watched on curiously, Blanca, Maritza and Flaca following behind quickly.

Not far away, Sister Ingalls and Yoga Jones were filling their pockets and bag's full of medical supplies including pills, bottled medicine, and even syringes if the time come, as well as a variety of things. "So, are you still strong with your Lord at the moment," Yoga inquired warmly and Ingalls nodded, still pulling female hygiene necessities off the shelves.

"Yes; in times of difficulty, your faith is tested, but you must never waver, for the Lord is on your side," Ingalls stated, and Yoga smiled, looking at the clock.

"It must be difficult," Yoga said, but then blushed "I don't mean being a Christian or anything, I just mean, it must be difficult for you to be so close to the Lord despite being excommunicated from the Church." Sister Ingalls gave Yoga a look that clearly screamed 'shut-up' but she replied nonetheless.

"Not really," Ingalls shrugged "many of the girl's were bitches, truth be told, especially Sister Monroe, she was especially cruel. I think it was because she was a virgin." However, taking their momentary distraction, Pennsatucky slipped past them silently towards the women's hygiene, a sad look on her face.

She hated this part so much. She'd done this, what? Five? Six times already? She should be used to this now. However, it never got any easier, especially not in these circumstances. However, she shook these thoughts away as she pulled a pregnancy test off the shelf and into her sleeve.

At the vans, Sophia and Gloria stood, throwing their most threatening looks at passerbyers who looked at them confusedly. Gloria looked at Sophia and then her eyes met the ground. She'd initially accepted this job to apologise to her, but she had a feeling Sophia didn't want to talk to her, or anyone as a matter of fact.

"Hey Burset.."

"Yeah?"

"I wanna say sorry for, y'know, puttin' you in SHU and everything; I mean, truth be told it wasn't me, it was the fuckin' prison, and Aleida was the one who caused the attack-"

"I don't care," Sophia said sharply, still looking at the tall buildings that towered above her "I just…Benny never visited me after I got out of SHU. And now I'm never gonna get to say goodbye to him…I just…I can't handle the thought of him dying, or even my wife. I can't handle the thought of either of them dying and being alone.."

"I'm the same," Gloria nodded, arms crossed over her chest "I got two boys, and neither of them are equipped for this type of thing. Let alone my fuckin' mother, I mean, she's sixty eight for God's sake, I don't think she could handle this type of thing, and the two boys got no experience fighting…" After Gloria's emotional admission, both women fell into silence, pushing off any passerby who looked at them funnily.

Eventually, the four groups returned, arms ladened with different items. Piper's group was especially fortunate that the shop was open, and all that they had to do was simply subdue the man at the counter and tie him up before raiding his shop of his guns, ammunition, and his knives and other weapons.

"Ok, so-"

Pennsatucky was cut off when a loud scream erupted meters from them, on the road, when a woman began ripping into a man's stomach as he thrashed, coughing up blood violently. Pennsatucky cursed deplorably, before she motioned to the trucks.

"Alright, pack 'em up," she sighed, and hopped into the first van, while Morello the second "it's already begun fuckers, so get ready for a hell of a ride." The vans sped off, trampling the undead woman without remorse. The only thing Pennsatucky really focused on was the scratching the pregnancy test box was making against her wrist.

"Hey, I found some canisters, we can fill them up with gas," Leanne exclaimed, pulling up a large red canister from underneath the chair "ain't that good?...Tucky?" Pennsatucky was snapped out of her daze and nodded, smiling at Leanne's find. God this will be a shit show.