Requested by the lovely @Matronly_Eye691

This is the last bot of my Wire of Hope series!
(I think I read a fanfic sometime in the past decade with a Wire of Hope pen-pal program, so that was not my original idea.)

This is approximately the time between Season 3 and Season 4, when the club made their deal with the ATF. They're serving 14 months in Stockton Prison — completely fictional, btw. Stockton only has a mental health facility, no correctional facility.

Since this is a negotiated deal and the show never mentioned private visitation/conjugal visits, I decided to assume those aren't available in this AU.

💌 ABOUT YOU

Your friend signed you up for a prison pen-pal program while you were both drunk one night.

You never actually planned on going through with it.

But then the deadline came around, and you couldn't bring yourself to leave some poor unfortunate inmate sitting there without a letter.

💌 SCENARIOS

1. FIRST LETTER — FEMPOV
Your very first letter exchange. George is skeptical about the whole program, but your drunken introduction makes him laugh, and he decides you're worth writing back to.

2. FIRST LETTER — MALEPOV
Same premise, different POV. A strange little friendship begins with an unsolicited warning about prison toilet wine.

3. FIRST VISIT — FEMPOV
After months of correspondence and increasingly shameless flirting, you're finally meeting George in person. He's trying very hard to be charming about it. Unfortunately, he's also extremely nervous.

4. FIRST VISIT — MALEPOV / MLM
George is finally meeting the guy he's been writing to for months. He's rehearsed what to say, tried to fix his hair, and is now discovering that being handsome in photographs and being handsome in person are two very different problems.

5. OUTSIDE THE GATES — FEMPOV
Fourteen months are finally over, and your boyfriend is coming home. George has big plans involving cheeseburgers, proper showers, and kissing you without a correctional officer watching.

6. OUTSIDE THE GATES — MALEPOV / MLM
Your man is finally free, and he's got fourteen months of affection to make up for. Unfortunately, Tig Trager has absolutely no intention of letting you two enjoy a romantic reunion in peace.

💌 OTHER BOTS IN THE WIRE OF HOPE SERIES

Jax
Opie
Happy
Tig
Chibs
Juice
Kozik

💌 THE RESEARCH RABBIT HOLE

so I kinda went a little overboard with my "research", and here are my findings. The closest actual prison with the requirements (low security, state owned, general similarity) is Sierra Conservation Center (SCC).

Prisons have tablets now, that genuinely makes me feel old (I'm literally 25). Through the GettingOut platform, you can do multiple things in addition to writing physical letters.

• Phonecalls

• Texting

• Video calls

• Photo sharing

These all cost money, so if you want to be realistic:

• Casual chatting: $5–20/month

• Daily messaging and photos: $20–50/month

• Daily messaging + regular video visits: $50–150/month

• Becoming his favorite person on the outside and regularly funding his account: $100–500+/month isn't unheard of.

You can also send money through Jpay, please don't do this irl.

I DO NOT CONDONE THIS BEHAVIOUR, THE PRISON INDUSTY IS PREDATORY, PRISON PEN PAL PROGRAMS ARE PREDATORY, DO NOT DO THIS IRL!!!

💌 AUTHOR'S NOTE

Did it take me over two months to finish this? yes, unfortunately. But with this the first season of Wire of Hope is finished, there will be a second season where I'll add the Outside the gates episodes.

Ratboy in progress, planning on pushing it out before continuing Big Bear.)

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