Chapter 2

Piper opened her eyes to darkness. She squinted at the clock in the corner of the room, 4am. She reached out to the other side of the bed and found it empty. Her first reaction was panic. For a year she had to live with waking up in a panic and wondering where Alex was in the early morning. She always came home looking like shit, but sober. Piper never questioned her when Alex explained that she just needed to get out and breathe. Until that night. Piper shook her head to try to get the images to flee but, there they were. The knock on the door at 4am. The gorgeous beauty standing in the doorway, trying her best to hold Alex up.

"She got pretty fucked up tonight...I'm sorry. She told me where she lived and that you'd be home. I dunno if she's okay. You should maybe take her to the hospital." Piper remembered the numb feeling of betrayal before she even asked the question.

"Who are you?" The beauty blinked and shook her head.

"Jen. We did some x tonight and a few bumps. I had to get ready for work and she was still passed out on my bed." She had kind of dropped Alex into Piper's very tired arms and almost fell, and then walked away. Piper stood in the doorway, trying to process everything before she realized that Alex was breathing very shallow, too shallow. She did her best to drag her to the couch and slap her face a few times. No response. She had no choice but to call for an ambulance. Her temperature was over 120 and they had to knock her out and put her in an ice bath at the hospital. But her heart was strong and never stopped beating. It was a long fucking night.

They didn't talk about it for almost two days. Piper tried to calm her emotions before grilling her. Alex's answers were blurry and full of half truths.

"I just ended up at the club", "I wanted to dance", "She bought me a drink." etc. Piper had sat and listened for a good half hour to all the excuses and apologies, calm and quiet. Then Alex decided to close with, "I needed you...and you were off playing fucking hero at the office, helping other women get out of their private hell, while your girlfriend was home needing you. You didn't even pick up the fucking phone Piper. I called you like 5 times." Piper couldn't listen to any more. She got up, packed a bag and got a hotel room for the next two nights.

She realized, sitting in the smoke stale hotel room that Alex didn't say anything about hooking up with this "Jen" person. This made her start to cry. She drank that night, bought a bottle of wine and drank the whole thing. It felt good to not have to watch herself around Alex. She could imbibe here in solitude. However, she did decide to call Alex that night, drunk out of her mind and ask her the question her jealous little mind really wanted an answer to. Her fingers hit the buttons on the phone in a sloppy mess.

Alex answered the phone quickly, after the first ring.

"Pipes? Baby is that you?" She sounded like she had been crying as well but, very sober. This made Piper squirm a bit, trying to find a way to steady her speech and flatten out the slurs. She managed a convincing,

"Yes."

"Baby, please come home. This isn't something that needs to break us. We can talk though it...please." Piper hated to hear Alex beg. It was like listening to your father cry. It just didn't feel right. It was uncomfortable.

"Didjou fuck her, Alex?" The slur was heavy and Piper pulled at her hair with her head down in shame.

"You're fucking drunk." It definitely wasn't a question.

"Did...you?" Piper closed her eyes tightly and waited. It seemed like hours before Alex let out a long breath into the phone.

"Piper, I don't want to do this on the phone. Please come back and we can talk about this like adults, after you've sobered up." Piper couldn't control her laugh. She laughed hard and sharp.

"You're going to dare mention thword sober to me, Miss Vause? Did you fuck her!?" She yelled into the phone in a voice she didn't recognize as her own.

"Yes, I fucked her. She fucked me. We fucked. Are you happy?" Piper didn't say anything. They both were silent for a long time, listening to each other breathe on the other end. They were so close yet so far away. Piper hung up the phone.

Piper had gone home the next day, making sure Alex was gone, on her way to work. She wandered around their loft. It was the first thing they bought once they got out of prison. There were no questions, just a knowing that they would be living together and sharing their lives together. Piper's brother, Cal, had loaned her a large sum of money to get her on her feet. It was damn sweet of him. The loft was huge. It should have belonged to the cliche urban painter or recluse writer. But, it was theirs. Piper fell into their king sized bed and wrapped herself in the blankets, smelling Alex's faint sweat mingled with the lavender oil they would sprinkle on the sheets before bed.

Somehow they were able to sit down on the overstuffed couch when Alex got home and actually talk. They talked about everything and they decided that a fuck up was bound to happen and that they were both in the wrong in various ways. And no, Piper never really forgave Alex for fucking a random chick from a bar, just like Alex never forgave Piper all those years ago for leaving her when her mother died.

Now, almost a year after the whole mess, Piper was again sitting, waiting for Alex in the early hours of morning. They fought, so was Alex out getting high or drunk? She'd been sober ever since the night she almost died. Piper started to pick up her cell when she heard light snoring coming from the couch. She walked over silently in bare feet to find Alex curled on the couch. She instantly felt a pang of guilt as she took the patchwork quilt from the back of the couch and covered her with it. Her head filled with the idea of waking Alex up and apologizing for acting like a child. Then she got another idea. She carefully lifted the quilt off Alex and neatly folded it. She walked around to the front of the couch, bending down to gently stroke her cheek. She didn't stir. Alex's long legs were curled tightly into a fetal position so she could fit on the small, perfect to cuddle in couch. Piper slowly uncurled them. Alex stirred enough to let out a groan and flop onto her back, perfect. She was wearing a pair of black boy shorts and white tank top. Her nipples were hard from the draft that always seems to linger in a giant space, no matter how hot it was. Piper leaned down to one of her nipples and sucked at it over her shirt. A tiny moan slipped between her half parted lips. Piper realized that she wasn't doing this just to appease Alex. She was doing it because she had a deep ache inside her. Alex was right, it had been way too long. She craved to be inside her now, needed it. Her hand moved down between Alex's legs and under her shorts. She let her fingers play and get lost in the perfectly groomed hair, just above her clit. She pulled her hand out to quickly moisten her finger with the wetness of her mouth and returned it under, finding her clit and gently rubbing it. Alex squirmed on the couch, more noises escaping between her lips. Piper didn't wan her to be asleep anymore. She kissed her deeply on the mouth, waiting for those piercing green eyes to flutter open. They soon did. Alex moved her arms up and pushed Piper away.

"What are you..." Piper covered her mouth with the palm of her hand and shook her head.

"Listen to me. I want you. Maybe I'm mad at you and maybe I've been a bitch but I've never stopped wanting you. So let me have you." Piper felt Alex relax a bit. "So wake up and come into bed with me." Alex did as she was told.

Alex pulled off her own clothes and threw them into the ever growing pile on the floor. She lay on the bed without a hint of vulnerability or modesty. Why should she? She was a goddess in the flesh. Piper let her eyes follow the length of her body slowly, taking it all it. How long had it been since she saw Alex fully nude? She didn't know. Her tiny body crawled onto Alex's, covering her with herself. Alex pulled her shirt up and off so their skin collided in a warm state of bliss. Piper moved to quickly pull off her own panties, and back to straddle one of Alex's powerful thighs. Alex lifted an eyebrow as Piper started to move up and down her thigh, feeling her wetness glide over her flesh. She blessed Piper with a slight smile and they kissed deeply.

Piper broke the kiss and slid down Alex's body, kissing her breasts, her stomach, the sharp bones of her hips and slowly down her inner thighs. She opened Alex's legs wide and pushed them up at the knee. She kissed her pussy like she kissed her mouth, deep and long. Her tongue dipped inside her and sucked at the already present wetness, letting it cover her tongue and slide down her throat. Alex moaned deeply and softly said

"Piper...I love you." Piper answered her with a moan into her pussy and squeezed her waist in a kind of hug. She continued to lick deeply inside her, finding her clit and moving back down inside her in long, slow strokes of her tongue. Alex tangled her fingers in Piper's hair, moving her hips against her lips, wanting her tongue deeper inside. Piper stopped suddenly and moved so their lips could touch but her hand was still free to rub at Alex's throbbing clit. Their mouths met now in a fever of tongues and teeth. Piper entered her roughly with two fingers to hear that deep gasp she craved from Alex.

"Mm, damn baby." Alex said after her gasp. This pushed Piper to dive deeper inside Alex, moving her fingers quickly inside her, easily finding the spot inside where they fit perfectly and drove Alex crazy. She moved her fingers back and forth inside her hard, sucking at her nipples, listening to Alex begin to moan her name, rocking to the rhythm Piper kept inside her. When her mouth was free, she moved her lips to Alex's ear and whispered,

"I love you too, Alex. Now I need you to come for me." Alex closed her eyes and tilted her head back. Piper sucked at her neck and the hollow of her throat, leaving red marks all over, not caring. She slid another finger inside of her and felt the instant tightness around her fingers. Alex's body began to shake and inside, her walls began to clench tightly against her fingers. Her hips raised up in the air, taking Piper's hand with her, as the height of her orgasm fell silently out of her open mouth. She slowly lowered her hips, breathing heavily. Sweat beaded in between her breasts and at her brow. Piper licked it away, salty and clean. She then brought her fingers, dripping with Alex's come to her lips and sucked at them before bringing them to Alex's mouth. Alex sucked at her own juices and their mouths met again.

They lay in silence, wrapped up in each others arms. Piper played with Alex's hair as Alex stroked her spine gently. When Alex began to massage Piper's breasts and pinch at her nipples she stopped her.

"No. That was supposed to be just for you. And I'm pretty sure I already came just from touching you. Just hold me like this and sleep with me." Alex pulled the soft blankets around their naked bodies and did just that.