New idea I've wanted to write for a while, this is a cross over between That 70's Show and Orange is the new Black amongst other potential cross overs later on. I hope you enjoy!
It was New Years Eve and it seemed as though everything was falling into place. Except, it wasn't. Eric was back and the Foreman's weren't moving away after all and it seemed that everything was going to go back to the way it was. Randy was heart broken and her Dad was still moving to Florida and Donna was bored. She was bored; bored of her small time job at the radio station with no prospects apart from out growing 'hot Donna', and being with Eric (the skinny, pale guy who managed to come back from Africa without a tan). Donna needed this escape. This year, everyone was meant to go their separate ways and then it would be fine for her to leave without notice, for her to get the fresh start she craved so badly. She sat on the hood of Eric's ancient vista cruiser as the fireworks went off above her and she decided. She didn't want to be 'hot Donna' anymore. She wanted a career, she wanted to see the world and be taken seriously in her job, not just a pair of boobs. Tonight was her last night in Point Place.
If anyone from Point Place, Wisconsin had passed her in the street, yes, they would have done a double take, but they never would have recognised her from her days as 'hot Donna', now 25 Donna no longer resembled her 18 year old self. She had jet black hair, tattoos and black square glasses. She reeked of sex appeal and seductiveness and success. Men wanted to be with her and women…well they wanted to be with her too.
Donna Pinciotti was long gone and in her place stood Alex Vause. The DJ that dominated New York's club scene, she was famous in a refined way, out of context not many people stopped her in the street but her success had left her comfortable and enjoying her career and home life. Alex had dropped her old name as soon as she left Point Place, if this was to be a real fresh start, she told herself, it had to be a completely clean slate. She hadn't said any goodbye's but had a left a note for her Dad. "This is what I've always dreamt of, I'll be in touch when I can but don't worry about me, tell the others I've gone travelling in Europe, and tell Eric I'm sorry. I love you, enjoy Florida. Donna."
The only thing missing from her life was the commitment she had with Eric and honestly after how successful that had been she wasn't really prepared to put herself back out there. Sure she'd been with a lot of people but never anything serious. And in fact, never with a guy again. She guessed it made a lot of sense actually, why her relationships with guys hadn't ever really been successful. With women, it was like she didn't even have to try, she oozed sexy and she knew it. It hadn't gone to her head but it sure as hell helped. Still there had never been any time when she'd thought to herself she could settle down with this one. Until Piper.
Piper Chapman was a tall, blonde, 24 year old with legs up to her neck. She'd just graduated from Smiths liberal arts college, Massachusetts with her parents and grandparents sitting proudly in the crowd. Her wealthy grandparents asked her what she wanted to celebrate her graduation and she said her own shop. So she packed up her life and moved to New York to start her own business running her independent bookshop/coffee shop in Manhattan, Piper loved nothing more than losing herself in a good book and curling up with a cup of coffee in a cosy armchair, and that was all that she could picture herself doing in life, what better a way to do it she thought.
It was a snowy, blustery winter day in New York when Alex found herself stumbling into the quaint little book/coffee shop, Book Nook. She shook the snow out of her hair and wiped her boots on the welcome matt and smiled as she was greeted with the smell of coffee and a warmth she had thought, moments previously, that she would never feel again. Black boards lined the walls of the front section of the seemingly endless shop which appeared to be the coffee shop section, they had on them both the menu and the latest recommendations for books, suiting the weather and season, and also what other customers and staff members recommended. An assortment of mismatched sofas and armchairs, adorned with cushions and stylishly carved hand crafted coffee tables filled this area of the shop apart from the coffee bar set to one side where it had a nice view out of the floor to ceiling windows that made up the front of the shop and overlooked the park across the road.
That day the shop was pretty quiet, a few customers sat here and there warming themselves with cups of coffee before facing the wind and snow once more and only a couple browsing the endless rows of bookshelves at the back of the shop. Alex paid for a large coffee from a Brooklyn born and bred barista with crazy hair and folded up sleeves on her Book Nook pocket T-Shirt, and then wandered to the back of the store where the shelves stood. She found the book she was looking for and grabbed herself a few cushions from the front of the shop and then found herself a quiet corner at the back of the shop on the floor.
"Hey I thought you could probably use a fresh one by now." Alex looked up from the floor to see a gorgeous blond handing her a large cup of coffee, she wore a Book Nook pocket T-shirt like the other girl but wore it with a big woollen scarf, leggings and Ugg boots. "Hey, thank you, just let me grab my purse." Alex took the coffee gratefully and reached for her bag but the woman waved her hand in dismissal, "This ones on the house, you've been here hours, I'm fairly certain you'll come back some time" Alex grinned and looked at her watch, the time had escaped her, she'd been here for four hours. "Well if everyone that works here is as beautiful as you, I may well have to." She saw the girl's face redden slightly, but she sat next to Alex on the floor cross legged anyway. "I'm Piper by the way." She offered her hand to Alex who shook it with an exaggerated gesture, "Alex.".