Piper Chapman rubs the bridge of her nose as she crosses the street. The building she's supposed to go to is getting closer and she couldn't help but feel the excitement coming back to her.

This is the first time she's been given a part as one of the main casts and today is the day where she will be meeting the rest of the crew that she'll be working alongside with. She shifts her shoulder bag to her right shoulder and pulls open the door that leads to the main entrance.

She turns right out of the main lobby and towards the rows of elevators since she was told that the meeting will be on the 15th floor. One of the elevator doors was open and she hastens her pace to catch up before the door closes.

"Wait!" she calls out to the woman with raven hair who's wearing a white blouse and black skinny jeans with a leather jacket on which the blonde finds sexy as hell.

Piper mumbles a hurried thank you when the woman waited for her to get in. The blonde didn't get to notice more about the other person in the elevator once she got in as she tries to fix her hair up because of how disheveled it is. Brought to you by the New York City wind.

"You're welcome," came the husky voice of the woman next to her and is echoing in the small cramped up space.

Piper turns her head to smile at the woman but stops midway when her eyes lands on her face. Now the blonde has seen a lot of beautiful women in her life and better yet, she even dated some of them but the woman she's with now might take the icing on the cake because… wow.

She tries to lean over the tall woman just so she can try to gauge what color her eyes were and curses herself because the raven haired woman was wearing glasses. She then blushes when she realizes that she was talking to her all this time.

"I'm sorry what?"

The woman smiles with her point finger hovering over the buttons and the blonde feels stupid for not even listening, "I was asking what floor you're going to."

Piper feels her cheeks getting warm as she answers the woman because that voice was like the sexiest thing she's ever heard from a human being.

She turns back towards the doors after answering her question but then the woman went back to looking at her.

"I'm sorry but are you Piper Chapman?"

The blonde looks at her warily because she's not really that famous yet since she's only done two indie films and a flopped commercial she did a year ago that involves with a medicine and hemorrhoid (don't ask). She nods in affirmation and the raven-haired woman extends her right hand to shake.

"My name's Alex Vause. I'm actually one of the writers on this show."

Piper nods as a smile spreads across her face. Not because she just met a writer but because she already has a name to the face, "It's nice to meet you, Ms. Vause."

Alex rolls her eyes and scoffs at the name, "Please just call me Alex. I feel like I'm older than my mom if someone calls me that."

The blonde furrows her eyebrows as she looks quizzically at Alex. "She's a single mother so most people call her Ms. Vause."

She nods her head in understanding with her mouth shaped into an O. "So is this your first time being a writer or have you written other shows before?"

"This is my first time actually. I won this competition back in Atlanta where the grand prize was to become one of the writers in a show they were working on."

And by 'They' Piper understands immediately that Alex was talking about the creators of the said show namely Samantha Ryan and her husband Seth Ryan. She nods, amazed at what the woman just said.

They stepped out once the elevator came to a stop on the 15th floor and Piper takes a deep breath as she puts her game face on.


Alex Vause knows a lot of books and can decipher poems without even asking for someone else's help. But what she's really good at is making something out of nothing.

Writing was her escape from reality and she enjoys it very much. When she was young, her mother Diane Vause would knock on her door once she'll notice that her daughter hasn't come down from her bedroom the whole day and to find the raven haired girl in her desk writing a short story.

Now all grown up, Alex was just in the city of Atlanta with her best friend Nicky for a small road trip they planned ever since they were 15 years old.

She just graduated from college with Alex majoring in creative writing with a minor in history at Columbia University while Nicky went to OSU and took up computer science.

While walking around Atlanta the two saw a flyer about a writing competition and with a little push from Nicky, she agreed to join since they weren't planning on doing anything else in the city.

To say she was shock was an understatement when she won the grand prize because she was given also given an opportunity to write in a show that the judges were planning on making next year.

Shock turned to glee when she heard that the show will be shot in New Jersey which is only a couple of minutes away from New York, where she's currently living in.

Of course, she's really from a small town back in Ohio with her mother but moved to New York when she got a job in a publication company. It was hard at first because everything she loves dearly is back in Ohio but ever since Nicky moved and roomed with Alex things became a bit bearable for her.

Nicky is working as a secretary in a Law firm that her stepfather made a few arrangements in as being a friend to one of the lawyers working in that firm. Alex laughed at her best friend's face when she was being informed of where the ginger-haired woman would be working in and teasing her about 'Finally following the authorities even if she's just working with them' which earned her a punch to her biceps.

The first time she met all of the actors, she hit it off with Danny Wlliams, the leading man of the show but what really caught her eye was Piper Chapman.

The blonde has a grace in every movement she makes and the taller woman just can't keep her eyes off of her. Back at the elevator when the blonde blushed, she couldn't stop and think at how endearing it was but what makes Alex much more drawn to Piper was how she smiles. It was as if it could light up the whole entire room.

"You alright?"

Alex jumps and looks at Danny who's looking at her with concern while leaning slightly to get a better look at the young writer.

They were at the corner of the room just observing the interactions happening around them. She clears her throat and shifts to her right foot.

"Yeah I'm good. Just trying to think of what else I can write for the upcoming episodes."

Danny straightens himself and nods. Alex does find him attractive, I mean, who doesn't? He's got those ice blue eyes that looks like it can just take anyone's breath away with him just staring, those defined jaw, brown hair, fit body and topping it all off with his 6 foot 3 inch height. But he just wasn't her type mainly from the waist down.

"Yeah well, she can do that with any person she comes across with."

"What do you mean?"

The actor shrugs and crosses his arms with Alex trying not to look at Piper again.

"Because it's her presence, you see? It's like she demands attention from the people around her. Not to mention her penchant for saying what's on her mind. Got her into a lot of trouble with that mouth of hers."

Alex sighs and adjusts her frames, she's getting bored with the entire 'getting-to-know-you' thing and she just wishes she can get out of here before one of the cameramen would hit on her again. She's already had two invitations for a coffee and she might hit someone if there'll be a third one.

Danny leans in again and whispers to her ear, "I know I'm supposed to brush my shoulder and try to befriend the Directors so I can get a new gig after this fucking show but I'm seriously considering on killing myself right now."

Alex grins and whispers back, "You have no idea on how much I want to strangle one of the cameramen for looking at my breasts this whole entire time."

The actor sighs and looks at the cameraman who Alex was referring to and sighs, "Aw shit. That is so fucking gross. Wanna go out and smoke some joint?"

The raven haired woman looks up at the ceiling as she feels relief for the first time since the meeting. She then realizes she hasn't given an answer to Danny yet and so she lets out a relieved, "Hell yes!"


What was supposed to be a smoking some joint turned into coffee with Danny and Piper who caught up with them when she saw the two making a graceful exit.

"What do you mean by graceful exit, Chapman? We were like fucking ninjas!" The actor air quoted the words graceful.

The blonde rolls her eyes and Alex can see that the two knew each other from a previous engagement just by how familiar they were in making fun of each other. "If you call that being all ninja-like then why was Seth asking where the two of you were going?"

Danny opens his mouth to answer but comes up with nothing and points a finger at Piper, "Well you left!"

"Because Seth said there was no point in prolonging the meeting when his writer and main actor disappeared so he made us all go home."

Alex scoffs at the idea at just how easy it was if they left earlier so Seth can dismiss them. As they sat at the coffee shop, she learned that Piper and Danny do know each other because they were classmates in high school and was at the same acting workshop.

She also got to learn that Piper graduated at Smith's and immediately got her acting gig in a small play while Danny didn't go to college and opting for the old cliché by being a waiter and going from one audition to another.

The writer also found out that not only can Piper demand attention without asking for it but she likes to read too and make intelligent conversations as much as she can.

A while after, Alex was surprised when Danny looks at his watch and began to scramble for his jacket while pulling out money from his wallet, "Oh damn, I gotta run. My girlfriend wants me to pick up Dominic from the daycare center."

Alex looks at Piper quizzically, at a lost as to who this Dominic is. "Danny's kid. They had him when this stupid head forgot to wear a condom."

"Well that stupid head got an acting gig," Danny says while glaring at the blonde who's trying to stifle her laughter, "and it was a fucking accident! We were too drunk and I might've used the condom as a toilet paper when I had to go-"

"Oh my God! Just stop right there or I might throw up if you continue on with that story!" Alex says as the actor just grins and hugs Piper goodbye while shaking the taller woman's hand yet again.

After he was gone Piper turns to Alex with a small smile on her lips, "So it's just the two of us right now, huh?"

Alex slowly nods as she tries to keep her hands warm by holding her cup of coffee. She looks up and smiles back at the blonde, "Yeah. Just us."