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"I was there for Alex. She was what I paid attention to, who I paid attention to. everything else was just... Back ground"

"Get over here" Alex Beckoned her , eyebrows cocked.

"Okay, but you know how much more effort this is for me now. I'm like a frigging blimp" Piper snarled back. She paced the length of their bedroom at the foot of the bed looking distressed.

"Fucking, Babe. You're a fucking blimp... And a hot one too". Piper bit her lip at Alex's comment. After all these years she still had that way with her. It was intoxicating and she loved it no matter how much trouble she'd dragged her into over the years.

2 years had passed since Alex finally got released from her sentence in Litchfield, they lived in a large century home in Queens with all the Eco-friendly touches Piper could ask for. Their toilet even composted which frankly Alex found disgusting but she did anything for Piper, that had never changed.

They lay in bed spooning, Alex parting Piper's hair to the side and tucking it behind her ears. It was like nothing had ever changed about them. Still nothing but passion between them... "Al, the baby's kicking! feel quick" oh, and the baby bump, that was between them too.

Shakily, Alex thrust her hand on her wife's firm, round belly and patted her gently. "I don't , I don't feel it Pipes, I think it hates my voice or something".

"Al! maybe that's because you call the baby 'It'!"

"Well, what would you like me to call it, Jim? we don't know if its a boy or a girl yet!"

"Alex!"

"Oh Pipes, you know I love you both."

"Well I hate you!"

"No you don't..." Alex repeated in a de'ja vu fashion.

"No... I still don't"

"Clearly! " Alex smiled. "You're having my baby."

"My god that sounded so un-attractive I think my nipples just inverted." They curled togther amongst the seemingly 15 pillows on Piper's side of the bed and laughed together into the late evening.

The cleaning lady interrupted their snuggling bright and early rapping at the door. Piper shot out of bed far faster than someone 7 months pregnant should have been able to muster. She was still very much her old self, an early riser with a lot of bounce in her step. Crisp with her favourite stalk of celery at her side every night.

"Al, Leihlee is here throw a top on!"

"mmmmphh" Alex grunted and covered her head. She was wound tightly in the comforter with her long legs sticking out at the side of the bed.

Piper shimmied into her clothes and flew down the stairs with her hair still half tucked behind her ear from the night before. She, like every morning, got the house moving. She let the cleaner in, fed their parrot Polly (Polly hated the namesake) who greeted her with a hearty "Fuck you", and started the coffee machine(a requirement to get Alex out of bed).

Piper tiptoed back up the stairs, hopeful she'd get a glimpse of her slumbering black beauty. She still pinched herself a little every time she realized that this life they had built was real, that somehow something good came of her time at Litchfield. That Larry, though she would always love him was more like a best friend and always had been. Which is why he still was, and though he could never truly look Alex in the eye (in his defense she was taller than him!) they did share the odd laugh together.

Alex began to rouse as the smell of coffee wafted into the room. Piper grazed her face with the palm of her hand.

"Morning love muffin. Here's your coffee black like your soul" Alex chucked and opened her eyes.

"Are you trying to tell me my red roots are coming in? By the way did you let Leihlee in?"

"Mmmhmm of course."

"Shit! You made sure the... stuff I left out on the table was put away right?!" Her eyes darted to Piper looking her up and down.

"Yes Al, I know what I'm doing remember I'm an old Mule."

"Ok...thanks for the coffee babe ." Alex smoothed her tone quickly. Piper pressed the cup to her lips and inhaled Alex's sweet smelling hair as she stepped back.

"Whaa" Alex shook her head and smiled slyly. "Is there whiskey in this!?"

"You know it" Piper winked and kissed Alex's head.

"You get everything about me." Alex charmed as she slapped piper on the ass.

"Don't flatter yourself too much, I'm kind of living vicariously."

"Oh please Pipes, like you'd wake up and drink a double shot of whiskey in your coffee without falling flat on your cute little as a half hour later! Ha that's a laugh" Alex said reaching out to put her glasses on. She narrowed her eyes at piper and pursed her lips slightly.

"Oh, is it really that funny? " Piper chirped frowning at Alex.

"Come here, both of you." Alex now sitting up in nothing but her boxer shorts with her hair mussed up and her glasses at the tip of her nose pulled Piper in tightly squeezing her in a hug and patting the baby bump lovingly. "You know one of the things I love about you is how you being a light weight helps keep me in check"

"Yes, Al I know... I love you too. You would have poured the coffee in the whiskey bottle and called it a cocktail."

"Yeah except I hate cock" Piper punched her swiftly in the arm.

"Get up I have to work in 25 minutes and I want to know you're up and putting on your face before I leave or you'll never get those orders out before I'm home and I don't want to have to see Kubra ever again."

"Okay, okay! I'm moving geeze don't get your panties in a knot, that's my job" Alex winked as she thrust herself off the bed and headed toward the shower.

Piper headed out the door to her office green tea in hand, put together like a very "normal" professional woman. She was the very successful owner of an eco-friendly lingerie business with Polly by day and the lover, and business partner of a very successful drug cartel by night... Yes, they were still in the drug business and Piper was far more in now than she ever had been. Determined, bound to be there fully this time for Alex, and far smarter both of them to the dangers, thrills and benefits this time around.

-2 days later-

"Whoa, chill yes I have the orders lined up and ready to go for you on Tuesday, I was up all night filling them for you, get off my back! Fuck man." Alex hung up the phone and stubbed out her cigarette on the balcony outside their bedroom window staring half spaced into the ravine that their property backed onto.

"Fuck!" She muttered into the foggy morning. I have so much to pull together by tomorrow morning she thought realizing she hadn't been up all night filling orders at all. She threw herself forward toward the door and nearly knocked Leihlee over on her way down the stairs but she barely noticed at all. Frenzied in stress and nearly blinded without her glasses she gathered the gumption to push out all 150 orders due the following morning and finally throw her glasses on for the day, but, not before a stiff shot of whiskey and a nostril full of powdered energy from beneath her pinky... And then the bottle of whiskey to follow because Alex really never was good at moderation. Not in anything which is why she still pushed herself over the edge with orders.

"Al? Alex? Al are you in here?" Piper hollered in the doorway.

"Mmmm. " She muttered from the kitchen floor.

Their cleaning lady was standing in the threshold of the kitchen standing next to Alex who was slumped up against the cupboards on the floor. "She was in a mood. got through half a bottle of whiskey before I convinced her to sit down and cool it a bit until you got home. I can't lift her though and this one's bite is worse than her bark..." she said in her thick Russian accent. Leihlee was right, and Piper knew it. She would have rathered not find Alex barely propped in sitting position on the kitchen floor but she was incredibly glad of two things, that Leihlee had stopped her from drinking herself to death, and two that she hadn't tried to lift Alex off the floor because they both knew that was a bad idea.

Piper let Leihlee go home and told her to take the day off the following day. She knew she'd be off work too with Alex, picking up her pieces just like she promised she would do for the rest of their lives after Litchfield. She vowed never to leave her to her own devices again lovers or not.

"Pipes... " Piper looked to Alex with her eyes barely open sitting on the floor , and beamed with love for her hot mess of a wife somehow in the craziness of it all. She took one look at Al with her blue extensions barely holding on to the tips of her long black hair, one wing of her eyeliner still in tact, and the white dust beneath her glasses rim and knew right where she was and why, but this time it didn't matter. Not that she was high, not that she was drunk and not even that she was still the drug dealer turned junkie she fell in love with because she was just that... the one she fell in love with, the one she ruined her life for so many times before. She was in it now, as far in as she could be. She knew the ins and outs of helping her deal, with life and with drugs. Her moods and her kingpin none of it really scared her anymore but Alex hurting in anyway that not only scared her, it made her mad. It took everything in her not to thrust all the perfect little baggies off the counter in anger but she knew it would do nothing but hurt Alex more so she sat. She curled up beside Alex with a bucket, and hung her head into her lap gently toying with her hair and holding her like she never admitted she needed until the sun peeked through their bay-view windows.

-Morning-

"Uhmm hmph Pipes. Pipes." Alex tossed slightly in her sleep gently waking. She had passed out on her chest the two of them curled up on the hard kitchen floor.

"I'm awake Al, how do you feel."

"The baby. "

"Huh?"

"I felt it move. Against your body I finally felt her move! It's fucking weird! And now she probably knows I'm a lush... Fuck me." Alex nearly shouted trying to push herself into a sitting position slowly using Piper for balance.

"No offense babe but I don't want to fuck you when you smell like vomited beets and whiskey with a hint of kale." The mention of that sent Alex flying to the bathroom pretty quickly and Piper chuckled a bit because this time she wasn't the one with a hangover.

Piper got up and turned on the lights and the coffee maker. She thought quietly to herself about the fact that the lights had been out all night as they slept, something that rarely happened since Alex hated being in the dark. She hoped that maybe she was losing some of her paranoia finally. But the sounds of her vomiting in the background quickly reminded her she had likely just passed out from all the whiskey.

-2 days post Alex being out of jail-

"Al ? Are you done in the bathroom?"

"Yah... For now. May have over done it a bit... I cannot believe I'm even saying that what happened to me in there?!" Alex slumped herself over to the couch and rubbed her temples. Piper curled up beside her and patted her matted black hair. She reeked of musky cologne, cigarettes and whiskey but somehow it was the most normal and comforting thing Piper had felt in forever! They were finally together in their own shit hole apartment in Queens. They had nothing but a bachelor pad and Piper knew Alex well enough to be fully aware that she would go back to dealing drugs (she was good at it and it's all she knew) but somehow in the moment the drunken bender they had just embarked on in celebration of Alex coming home was the most comforting thing she had felt in forever.

"You've gotten a bit soft..." Piper whispered into Alex's ear playfully.

"Fuck no I haven't I'm prickly as fuck! Do you remember how impossible it is to shave in prison?! Especially with a script for anti-psychotics ..." Piper looked her up and down literally undressing her with her eyes despite the dark reminder of Alex's paranoia and how close to losing her she had once come...

"Al, shut up. I-I think you need to come sit in my lap." She had no idea why but she had just realized there was no more sneaking around involved in them getting alone time anymore and the freedom of it made her want every bit of Alex right there and then regardless of the hot mess they both currently were.

"I need to sit in your lap? This is not how we work babe, get your ass up and sit down closer to me."

"Al, I just really wanted..."

"Shhut up." Alex clasped her hands over Piper's mouth silencing her and pulled the collar of her purple blouse yanking Piper eye to eye with her only inches from her face.

"I tell you where to sit got it? I still call the shots and you. well if you're smart you submit."

"Mhmm..." Piper nodded in bewildered amazement. "That's still , so h-hot."

"Fuck I know it." Alex bit the nape of her neck and worked her tongue up and down Pipers neck bone to her pulse point and behind her ears driving her wild. Piper moaned and Alex covered her mouth.

"Shhh you don't get to talk, or squeak or anything unless I ask you to got it!?" But they both knew very well she wanted her do far more than squeak!

Piper nodded in submission. And rithed a little bit more with every touch.

Alex worked her hands down Piper's hips and dug her nails into her lower back while Piper grasped the tips of her matted hair nearly weeping as she tried not to make any noise. And it was Alex that gasped as she gripped Piper's hair but only for a second before she dove her face between Piper's thighs and there was no silence for any part of that. But neither of them minded anymore...

Alex crawled up on top of Piper after her last exhale and kissed her all over her face and lips nearly beaming from ear to ear. She rolled beside her and swayed in and out a bit as she looked at her beautiful girlfriend, hers again and for good.

"Al? You want me to do you. "

"Uh, if you want to. " She bit her inner lip and swayed slightly side to side.

"Al you're swaying I know you well enough to..." She stopped herself and lowered herself even with Alex's inner thighs lapping her up as slowly as she could, taking in her every detail, smell and taste. There would be no more wasting time, no more guessing. She did know her and she knew what she wanted ...

-20 mins later-

Piper cuddled Alex into her chest, both of them nearly breathless and kissed her on the lips.

"Eww Fuck! Piper what the fuck" Alex said wiping her mouth rapidly.

"What?!"

"You just kissed me without brushing your teeth, washing your mouth, wiping it even!"

"And? you do it all the time to me."

"Well that's different, I don't wanna taste...well me? Eww complete boner kill thanks a lot!"

Piper looked at her and smirked. "I'd like to think you're bonered out anyways babe."

Alex slugged her and smiled still wiping her lips. They love cuddled into the morning.