It was Big Ape's first day out of prison.  He was distraught.  He'd been in prison since he was 18 years old; a skinny kid, heck, he didn't even have hairs on his chest back then.  He was convicted of murder, that's true, but he wasn't a murderer like the other murderers that he met and befriended.  Big Ape learned that, in terms of murderers, he was a novice.  He'd previously thought that to be murderer, all you had to do was murder someone.  That was part of the reason why he'd actually murdered someone.  

He thought back to a conversation about this very matter, that he'd had with his first cell-mate: Huge Ape.  Huge, as he liked to be called, said that Big Ape was stupid to assume that simply murdering someone made someone a murderer.  No, that isn't true, said Huge, you have to murder a lot of people; murdering has to become second nature.  You have to enjoy it.  Otherwise, you just committed a murder.  Big Ape was fascinated, and wondered what else Huge had to say on this matter.  They began to talk:

Big: but how did you get into a position where you could just murder so many people that you became a murderer?

Huge: well, this is going back some time, but the main man in charge of the world, what he did was, he killed anyone that could be a threat to him.  These killings became known as "the purges" and that's when murder became really popular.

Big: murder was popular?

Huge:obviously the people being murdered didn't like it.  We were't popular with them, or their children.  Fact is, they hated us.  But the DRUS liked us.

Big: the DRUS?

Huge: the Disorder Regime Upper Structure.  That's who we worked for.

Fascinated, Big Ape began to wonder what it would have been like to have been a murderer.  He realised that, thus far, his life had been an abject waste.  He's committed a murder, believed himself a murderer, and got to jail and realised that he wasn't important.  Huge Ape agreed that he'd make a strategic error; that he should have committed more murders before declaring himself a murderer.  Big Ape asked what he could do to become powerful, famous, a big shot now.  Huge signed, and said

 "the only way that will happen is by taking on the prison hierarchy.  And, son, that means taking on me.  But I can train you how to.  It won't be easy.  But you'll have a shot.  But when the time comes, you'll have to try and kill me.  There's no other way." 

Big Ape was astonished, and wondered why Huge would leave himself open to an attempted murder at some point in the future.  Huge made some reasonable points:

"you're probably wondering why I'm proposing training you up to get to the stage where you can try and kill me.  It's simply this - I've lived this life for so long that I want to either die or get out.  And they'll never let me out.  So I'd like to die as a man, fighting.  That's the only reason."  

Big Ape saw the sense in what he was saying and said that he was eager to start his training.  Huge began explaining the dangers that he would now face and what to do about it; 

"you are now facing dangers.  This is what you should do about it.  We hide things in plain sight here, in jail.  So we need to hide that I'm training you.  The best way to do this is for you to adopt feminine traits and characteristics, wear a dress fashioned out of sheets, grow your hair long and use some bootleg make up.  Some eye shadow, lipstick, and a bit of concealer.  Shave your face, and all of your body hair.  Nobody would ever expect that the man being trained to kill his cellmate is the attractive transvestite.  They'd think it was someone else.  Now, in order to fulfil this role fully, you'd need to embody it.  That means becoming my lover, my prison wife.  Now that won't be easy.  Fact is, it'll take some getting used to.  But after five or so years, you'll be ready to enter the next step...

Big Ape was fascinated.  Could he be Huge's prison wife?  He didn't particularly want to be, but then again, having just found that he wasn't a murderer, he wasn't quite sure what he could be.  And, besides, he had sometimes, when drunk, dressed up as a housewife and followed a local vagrant to a public restroom, saying to him "I'll take over" before kneeling or bending over for whatever intrusive masculinity presented itself.  Perhaps, thought Big Ape, he was already a Prison Wife and this was his destiny.  And besides, he really had to know what the next step was.  So he asked Huge "what's the next step?"

Huge grinned and replied

"Let's get you measured for a dress and then I'll explain.  But first, we must consummate this wedding"

Big Ape thought back to those long, forbidden, sometimes painful, and always damp, hours spent in the cubicle with the man-sized hole in it and resigned himself to what he must do.  His last words to Huge before striding over to fulfil his date with destiny were

"I sure hope it's a nice dress!"