A/N Just before I start, I would like to add that I'm not the most confident writer but am really passionate about these characters, the next chapters will be larger in size as this is just a small taste, I would really appreciate any reviews as well and I hope that you enjoy the story. A song I recommend for this chapter is A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke -boundless
All characters belong to Netflix, Jenji Kohan, and Piper Kerman
Chapter 1
Piper's POV
Piper almost always enjoyed the rain, it reminded her of summers in Maine and playing with her brothers when she was a child. But at this time, she would have preferred the warmth from the sun. Recently Piper had been struggling with darker-than-average thoughts and a bit of light would have helped her feel a little happier, yet here she was, in the darkness of her two-story home, alone. A blackout from the storm outside had led Piper to believe that she would be better off upstairs in her room with candles and a decent read.
Almost 4 hours had passed since the blackout and the power had not yet turned back on, Piper had fallen asleep and the candles had long since burned out. She was dreaming of simpler times when a knock at her door awoke her. Confused and a little scared about who would be at her home at this time in the middle of a storm, quickly trying to gain a sense of logic she assumed it was her best friend Polly, whom she had been ignoring as she slowly slipped into her depressed state. Piper grabbed a torch and went downstairs to open the door. As she faced the light towards the figure at her steps, a woman who was not Polly stared back at her. She was slightly taller than Piper by about 5cm, had long dark brown hair, horn-rimmed glasses and eyes the colour of new leaves in spring. Piper would have considered her beautiful if she wasn't terrified that a stranger was knocking at her door in the middle of a storm. Piper went to close the door.
"Wait, I need your help, please"
Piper was taken aback by the rugged voice of the woman.
"Please, may I come inside?"
Realising she had yet to say anything, Piper gestured the woman into her house with the logic "who would come to kill me in the middle of a storm in Ithaca?". Piper turned to the right to show the woman to her lounge and she collapsed onto the couch. "Would you like anything warm to drink? It's quite cold outside and you're drenched."
The woman nodded and Piper went to go and fix them some tea.
As she returned with the drinks, the woman on her couch had lost some colour to her already pale face but seemed to perk up a bit more as Piper entered the room. Piper gave the woman her drink and asked her why she was here.
"I got into car troubles and your house was the only one nearby"
"I don't understand how you would have seen at all as it is pitch black out there"
The woman nodded her head upwards to Piper's second floor "I saw a light coming from a window upstairs and made my way towards it"
Piper thought about this and was unconvinced by the woman's story so far "The only lights I had in that room burned out over two hours ago"
The woman gave a low chuckle and says that her car had broken down a few miles back. Piper just nodded, not wanting to question her anymore, the woman looked exhausted. As Piper went to take their cups away, the woman attempted to sit up but winced from the effort, this did not go unnoticed to Piper and wondered about the real reason this mysterious woman was in her home. "Are you hurt?", she shook her head but Piper noticed that she was favouring her left side to her right. Piper offered her a towel and told her that she could take a shower in the downstairs bathroom and that she would come back downstairs with some dryer clothes. The woman thanked her and went into the bathroom to wash under some warm water.
Piper knocked on the outside of the bathroom door and switched the woman's wet clothes for her dry ones. As Piper went to go and put them into the washer she noticed a liquid drip through her hands from the clothes. It was not rainwater. It was blood.