The loud buzzer that sounded when a door was opening sounded across the dormitory that housed the white inmates.

Nichols was sitting on Red's bed with her feet bent up under her body, "No you didn't," she said in an astonished voice to Piper Chapman. Her mouth was wide open with a mixture of surprise and awe plastered all over her face. "You know, you two have the most fucked up relationship I've ever seen, and I keep a fuckin journal of everyone I fuck!"

Piper had a half grin on her face, even though no one could see it since her hands were covering her face, "I don't know what I was thinking, oh my god. The bitch was going to run, for god sakes she was leaving me... again! I panicked," and yes I know that sounds completely self involved, she was just trying to cover her own ass, but how is it that every freaking time Alex Vause decides to cover her own ass, I get left in the dust.

Nikki chuckled and shook her head and her curls bounced around lightly, "If I didn't know that you two fuckers were absolutely meant to drive each other crazy for the rest of your damn lives, I would be concerned that there was about to be a war, you two are worse than junkies rolling over on each other to get your fix," she said as she stood up from the bed and walked the small distance to the entrance of the cubicle.

"Wait! Don't tell her it was me who turned her in," Piper said with a desperate look in her eyes. She would never forgive me if I was the reason she landed back in this hell whole, for what is probably a very very long time...

"Chapman... you didn't think this one through with that big brain of yours did you? How long do you have in this hell whole?" Nikki asked with her hands on her hips.

"About 8 more months," Piper answered with a quizzical look on her face, not really following where

the other woman was going with this.

"Vause is going to be in here for YEARS Piper, probably many years! What the hell did you think was going to happen!? Did you think she was going to get out just because you do?" she said in exasperation at how how dumb the blonde could be. This bitch will probably be stupid enough to get herself trapped in here for the duration of Alex's sentence if she is left to make her own decisions. Lesbians man, fuckin doomed.

Piper stared at her completely silent, quite literally speechless, "Fuck you," she finally uttered. So maybe I didn't think this all the way through, I was to busy thinking about saving her freaking life. "She is safe... I'll figure the rest out when I get to that point," Piper said reassuring herself that while maybe she didn't think it through completely, it came from a good place and that would just have to be enough for Alex when the truth finally came out.

"Well you've got this all figured out," Nikki said sarcastically with a grin on her face, "I'm going to go see your little damsel in distress," she said. Life in this place is never boring for long, "I'll be sure to tell her where you are hiding at." She turned to walk away.

Piper watched her walk away cheerfully and returned her head to her hands. There was one plus, Alex was safe. The downfall is that when Alex finds out how she got to be so safe, there was a very big possibility that she was going to reinstate the vow of silence towards the blonde.

Alex had been processed in right before dinner so she walked into the cafeteria in her orange D.O.C. jump suite. She scanned the room looking from the Latina girls serving the food, damn Dia is soooo pregnant!, then she saw the group of black people which had not really changed since the last time she was here (little did she know that their whole group had just gotten back to normal), and then the group she had been looking for. She smiled as she saw Nichols, her face dropped a little when she saw Red with her fucked up left side of her face, but then she resumed smiling because even though she was back in prison she was looking at a family... until she realized the one person she wanted to see wasn't there.

"Vause! Get your sexy ass over here!" Nikki says as she stands up from the table. Alex walks right to her and they wrap their arms around each other. Alex and Nikki are friends to the core, Alex really doesn't have room in her head for anyone but Piper romantically but the two fem lesbians just connect on a friend level that is unique for both of them.

When they pull apart they look at each other and Alex feels a slap to the head, "Nick! What the fuck was that for?" she asked as she rubbed her head. She looked at the red headed Russian, "Damn Red, you're rubbin off on her," she says as she bends down to hug the maternal figure of their group. Alex sat down at the table and turned to her right to look at Nikki, "So are you going to tell me why you hit me?" she asked the girl that was smiling stupidly at her.

Nikki rested her chin on her palms staring at the brunette girl, "Your an iddiot," she said simply and watched as Alex nodded at her in agreement. "What the hell are you doing here? You were free, did you miss the bitch that badly that you came back to prison for her?" she asked trying to act like she had no idea what was going on.

Alex just looked at her, "Get right to the point Nick," Alex said with a small smile. "It's a long story, and now I'll have plenty of time to tell you in the next few years. Speaking of the bitch," she said as she used air quotes for 'the bitch', "where is Piper?"

Nikki rolled her eyes, "Of course, none of us normal fuckers are enough for you. Your girlfriend is in her bunk, probably worrying herself to death about your safety. She got her transfer stopped because she knew your were in trouble on the outside, your two really amaze my white ass you know. You two can meddle with the best of them when you are trying to ruin each others lives in the name of love." Fuck, maybe she won't think about it too much.

Red saw the flicker of *oops I shouldn't have said that* in her adopted daughters eyes but she wasn't sure if Alex was paying that much attention. "You should eat Alex," Red said in her incredibly Russian accent. I'm a pretty tough bitch, I was a high up in a international drug cartel for gods sake but that Russian bitch gives me goosebumps. "You will have plenty of time to talk with Chapman," the red head states with a half smile since her face was still considerably sore, "At the rate a which you two are going, you'll both be in here together a long time," she said and everyone at the table joined in the laughing, Lorna, Boo, the Yoga Hippie, the Nun, and Nichols.

Two days later Alex had still not seen Piper, there is not enough space in this prison for the two of us to not see each other in two days, shes got to be avoiding me. But that notion was too hard for Alex to think about. I had told her I was leaving town, she probably thinks I was leaving her. No wonder she is avoiding me, she has turned this into being about her in her head. The audacity she has amazes me sometimes.

She was sitting on the bottom bunk in the entrance cell when a C.O. walked into the room carrying four sets of khakis and another guard carrying four pillows, "Okay inmates, your getting assigned," and the female guard handed all four inmates wearing Orange their new clothes and their own pillow. "Let's go inmates, time to meet your new bunkies," the male guard said as he walked out to lead them to the their respective dorms, Alex went with him, and the three black inmates went with the female guard.

Alex walked into the familiar dorm and followed the guard to her cubical. She saw a familiar face in the cube directly to her left, "Red, we're neighbors!" she said with a very big smile, because that meant that her and Piper would be neighbors too. Her smile reached her eyes and she giggled she cant hide from me much longer.