Piper was sleeping peacefully as her phone started to ring. Piper just groaned and buried her head in the pillow. The ringing stopped and just as Piper was falling asleep the ringing started again. Piper shot up and took her phone from her nightstand.

"What?" Piper didn't even bother to check the caller.

"Wow, you sound angry. Shouldn't you be up already considering that today's your work day?" Piper's best friend Polly said amused.

"Wha- SHIT!" Piper shouted as she checked her clock. It was already half past seven. She was going to be so late.

"Text me what you had to say", Piper told as she hung up.

Piper ran around her apartment trying to find some clothes before hopped in shower.

About half an hour later she was cursing in the taxi. If Alex didn't hate her already she sure as hell would now. She remembered that Polly had something to say to her and checked her phone.

[Polly] -I have a date for you. 7pm in that new Chinese restaurant near your apartment.

Fuck. Piper was so not in the mood for some shitty date. Polly always picked the worst dates ever. Piper wasn't even looking for a relationship. Sometimes Polly was so into her own waspy life that she didn't realize that Piper didn't want the same. Piper needed adventures.

Where was Piper? She was already ten minutes late. Alex hoped that she really didn't scare Piper so much that she was afraid to come work. Wait what? That was ridiculous, and it would only be better if she didn't show up. Still somewhere in back of her mind she hoped that she would see Piper today. Okay she would check on the lobby if Piper didn't remember where to go? As she turned around counter she walked into somebody.

"What the fuck? Watch where you are going", Alex said angrily. Her anger however disappeared when she realized who she walked into.

On the other hand, Piper exploded. Her morning was already shitty enough, so she didn't Alex to be an asshole too. She had had enough.

"Could you just for a second take your head up from your ass and realize that in this fucking planet are other people too?!"

Alex raised her eyebrow amused. Somebody had obviously got up on the wrong leg. She was just about to say something sarcastic, but Piper wasn't done yet.

"I get that you probably don't want to be working with me but there is nothing we can do about it. We are stuck with each other at least half a year so you need to learn to fucking treat me like an actual human being!" Piper took a deep breath. It was good to get it off her chest.

Alex waited for a while to be sure that Piper didn't have anything else to add. "I was going to apologize but now I'm not so sure if I should anymore", Alex said smiling. Letting Piper know that she was only joking.

Piper rubbed her face in her hands. She felt bad for going crazy on Alex. "Sorry, I had a bad morning."

"I figured", Alex said smiling. "Just go to your office, I'll get you a coffee, you look like you need it."

Piper watched Alex trying to figure if she was serious. She noticed that Alex looked sincere, so she just nodded and left to her office.

Alex poured coffee for herself and Piper smiling, thinking about Piper's temper. When she was done she went to Piper's office. Alex stood in a doorway, studying Piper. Piper was standing in front of a window her back to Alex. She was so tense that Alex was sure that she would get muscle cramps if she didn't relax.

"Here", Alex said, offering the coffee mug as she walked in the room.

Piper turned around and relaxed a little. "Thanks", she murmured.

"So, wanna talk about your morning?" Alex said trying to fill the awkward silence.

"No"

"Okay... Then I'm going to apologize. I'm sorry how I treated and talked to you yesterday. I was informed about twenty minutes earlier that I was going to have a partner and I've always liked to work alone. And I know that it's not an excuse but yeah.. Sorry again", Alex told her looking slightly embarrassed.

"It's okay, I get it. I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have just go crazy on you", Piper said smiling a little.

"Okay, now we can do what we were supposed to do yesterday and get to know each other" Alex said as she sat down in the chair.

Piper and Alex talked what felt hours. The conversation was flying smoothly between the two. Piper learned that Alex was 28 years old and had been police almost seven years. Alex had grown up in Queens and there she saw so much criminality that she wanted to be a police officer, so she could protect people. Alex's father wasn't in her life, but she had a loving mother who was also her best friend. Alex really didn't know why Piper wanted to be police, since she always changed the subject. But she learned that she was 24 and really wasn't contact with her parents. Alex didn't ask more about it thought she was curious.

"I'm glad you come along."

Piper and Alex was so deep in their conversation that they didn't hear Caputo coming in.

"I knew that Piper could handle you Alex", Caputo said smiling.

Alex just rolled her eyes. Thought she was happy that she got paired with Piper. She was smart and Alex was sure that she wouldn't have come along with any other newbie.

"So, I got a job for you", Caputo started. "There's this shop that has been robbed. You should go to check on that."

Alex took up the address and the owner's name and number and told Piper to meet her in five minutes in the lobby.

Piper was excited. Her first investigation had started. Thought she was pretty sure that Alex would handle the most of it. She wouldn't be stepping on Alex's toes, she decided that she would let Alex do her job and be helpful instead of being on her way. Piper took her gun and jean jacket and left to lobby.

Alex was in the lobby waiting for Piper. She had her black jeans and trademark combat boots. She was wearing a white T-shirt and black leather jacket on top of it. Her holster was on her hips and she knew she looked good. She was nervous about working with Piper. When she started working as police, she wasn't paired with anyone, so she never had worked with anyone. She liked having her own space and doing things alone. But now she didn't have a choice. She decided just to look how it goes and then talk to Piper if there was something that needed to be discussed.

Alex saw Piper coming and couldn't help but admired how good Piper looked. She had light blue jeans, black T-shirt and converses. She had also a blue jean jacket and her blonde hair hung loosely on top of her breasts. Alex could also see that Piper too had holster on her hips. She could only smirk when she thought how hot cops they were.

"Looking good Kid, are you ready?" Alex asked still smirking.

Piper blushed and nodded.

"Let's go then" Alex said as she went to walk on her police car.

Piper followed and went to sit on the other side as Alex hopped in the driver's seat.

"So, this is obviously my, now our car. Can you drive?" Alex asked.

Piper nodded again.

"I'd like to drive if that's okay? Obviously, you need to drive at some point, but could I drive for the most part?" Alex asked.

"Yeah, that's okay", Piper answered.

"Cool, when we get there, the owner should be there. I'm going to talk to him and you can come with me or watch around and find some clues", Alex told a little unsure what Piper should do.

"Okay", Piper said thinking about how weird this must be to Alex.

After ten minutes, Alex parked the car in front of the shop. Piper immediately noticed a broken window. Alex tried the door. It was open, so they stepped in.

"Hello?" Alex asked.

"Ah, you must be the police officers", a short, old man came behind shelfs and went to shake Alex's hand.

"I'm Alex Vause and this is my partner Piper Chapman", Alex said. Wow, that sound weird, she thought.

Piper also shook the man's hand who was named Patrick. Alex started to ask some things and Piper went to watch the broken window closer.

Something disturbed Piper with the window. She pictured the robber breaking in the shop and something just didn't fit. Then it hit her. The shards of glass were on the wrong side of the window. The window has been broken from inside.

"Found anything yet?" Alex asked behind Piper.

Piper jumped from the Alex's voice. She had been so deep in her thought that she hadn't noticed that Alex was standing behind her. "Jesus, you scared me."

"I know that we have many similarities, but I can assure you that I am not a Jesus", Alex said smirking.

Piper rolled her eyes and pointed the window. "It has been broken from inside. The shards of glass are mainly outside."

Alex looked the shards and the window. "You are right. Well noticed", Alex praised. "You have any theories?"

Piper was surprised that Alex asked her opinion. "Uhmm, the robber probably had the keys and came in with them. But then he realized that he would get easily caught and then he broke the window from inside, so it would look like somebody had broken into the shop from the window."

"I agree", Alex nodded. "I'll ask if Patrick could give us a list that contains everyone who has the keys."

Piper was smiling widely. Alex had agreed with her. Maybe they could work together after all.

Alex and Piper was back at the station and Alex got the list with few names in it.

"So, did you learn to use a computer system?" Alex asked, ashamed that she hadn't helped Piper.

"Yeah, I got it."

"Okay good, could you check if anyone on the list has a record? I can take up their addresses and phone numbers. If you want, you could also look for motives. It's pretty late already, so if you want to go home, you can take your laptop home and do your work there", Alex said, the clock was almost 5pm already.

"Yeah, sure. I probably take it to home." Piper said.

"Okay, I'll go quickly print the list out for you too."

"Thanks, I'm going to my office already", Piper said.

Alex went to her office, so she could print the list. In her office she switched the printer on. Somebody knocked the door and Alex told them to come in.

"Hello, are you Alex Vause?" A blonde woman walked in hesitantly.

"I am."

"You're woman?" The woman asked suspiciously.

"I am", Alex said becoming slightly irritated with the woman.

"Okay. I'm Carol Chapman."

Chapman? Could it be Piper's mother? She looked a lot like a Piper thought. But Piper had said that she wasn't in contact with her parents so how her mother could know where she worked?

"I was told that you are the best officer here, so I thought that I should come to you", the woman, Carol continued.

"I am pretty good", Alex said. "What do you need?"

"I would like to report a person who's missing", Carol said.

"Okay wait a second", Alex said as she went behind her computer. "Please sit down."

Alex typed on a computer for a while. "So, what's the person's name?"

"Piper Chapman."

Thanks for reading. Please review and sorry for mistakes. I'll try to update soon :)

-Iina