Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, I write this out of pure love for the TV Show 'Orange is the New Black' and the mighty Vauseman!


Chapter 1 – Replay

It had been over four years since Piper Chapman walked out of Litchfield Penitentiary as a free woman. She had done her time for a crime from another life and the blonde haired woman who had entered with her fiancé by her side had left alone as a changed woman.

With nowhere to go Piper had to move back into her parents' house, locking herself away in her old bedroom attempting to block out the world around her and the badly hushed observations of her family member's.

'Look at her, just skin and bones'

'That poor, messed up girl'

'Why does she not smile anymore, she had a lovely smile.'

But as they say, time heals all wounds and slowly as days became weeks and weeks became months Piper Chapmans life started to form some resemblance of a time before prison. Friendless and stuck at her parents' house she reached out to Polly and Larry. With a cocktail of guilt, remorse and obligation they patched their broken friendship together, although cracks were still visible and every now and again the glue weakened their friendship held together…just.

After months of rejection letters (who wants a convicted felon working for them?) Piper reluctantly had taken her Father up on his offer and accepted his help. She found herself working in an office, in a little gray, three walled cubical which weirdly felt comforting. So Piper Chapman now spent her days pushing paper from an 'In Tray' to an 'Out Tray'. At least prison had prepared her for the monotony of life.

Eventually after some pay checks started rolling in Piper had moved out of her parents and into her own apartment in the heart of New York City. It was small, cheap and seemed to always smell of mouldy bread but it was hers, it was home.

Life then started to seem normal, on weekends when Pete had Finn, Polly and Larry would come over and they would watch movies and eat take away. She even started dating guys from the office, much to the delight of her mother. After all she had only been 'gay for the stay'.

Happiness had found its way back in Piper's life, the gleam had returned to her blue eyes, her brow was rarely pinched into a frown and the sound of laughter echoed around the small apartment. It may have taken over four years but life was good, life was…normal.