"The night we met I knew I needed you so
And if I had the chance I'd never let you go
So won't you say you love me? I'll make you so proud of me
We'll make 'em turn their heads every place we go
I'll make you happy, baby, just wait and see
For every kiss you give me, I'll give you three
Oh, since the day I saw you, I have been waiting for you
You know I will adore you 'til eternity"
-'Be My Baby' by Snowhill
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Piper woke up with a kink in her neck, and an ache in her lower back. She had her head resting on Alex's chest, the brunette clearly still asleep if her deep breathing, and the slow rise and fall of her chest had anything to say about it.
Polly was gone, and in her place Nicky sat staring out the window.
"Nicky." Piper whispered, shocked at her friend's presence. She was supposed to be in class, hell they both were.
The red head looked over at Piper, a breath being let out slowly as she took the two of them in again. "Why did no one call me?" she asked. She sounded hurt.
Piper's eyes widened, she had completely forgotten to call. She had been so worried about Alex. "I'm so sorry, Nick."
Nicky waved it off, "Polly called me, which I guess is better than no call at all."
Piper nodded, sitting up on the bed now, making sure to continue speaking in stage whispers so as not to wake up the sleeping brunette.
Nicky held up the manila folder from earlier that Piper had yet to read. "I read all the stuff that's in here."
Piper cocked her head to the side, "How long have you been here?"
Nicky shrugged, "Couple hours."
Piper sighed, rubbing a hand over her face. Checking her phone for the time, it was 10 am. "You're a good friend, Nicky."
The shorter woman shrugged, "Yeah, well, I couldn't just leave you alone while Polly went for an ultrasound, now could I?"
Piper frowned; she had yet to go to one of the ultrasounds. She had been dealing with Alex and Diane for months; it was a miracle that she remembered to breathe through the majority of it.
"I thought I was gonna lose her, Nick." Piper whispered her throat thick once more with emotion.
Nicky nodded, "She's okay though, and that's what you need to focus on."
Piper sighed, swallowing back the oncoming tears. "She started drinking again."
The red head raised a brow.
"Well, it was one beer, but that's all it originally was last time, and well, you know how that ended." Piper said, animatedly talking with her hands.
Alex had started drinking back when she first found out about Diane's fate. She worked two jobs, and took on extra shifts so she didn't have to be home with Piper. She would come home way after Piper had already gone to bed. It was a time in their lives that no one wanted to see a repeat of. It almost broke them apart.
Nicky shrugged, "We'll just have to keep an eye on her then."
Piper nodded, "I'm going to take off of school until she gets better."
"No. I will, let's face it; I don't even know why I'm at Smith anymore. Pete offered me a job at the station; I think I'm going to take it."
Piper frowned, not wanting to argue, she nodded reluctantly. Alex would be comfortable with Nicky, not to mention Piper really needed to go to classes if she planned on becoming a TA next semester.
Piper picked up the folder that she was handed earlier, quickly looking it over. "So there's no medicine she can take?"
Nicky shook her head, "She can take pain meds so it doesn't hurt as much, but other than that, no. She's supposed to sleep and eat healthy foods, says that'll help the fever subside."
Piper looked over at Alex who was still sleeping. "Oh, she'll love that."
Nicky chuckled, "She's going to hate me."
"Well, I can't even kiss her for the next three weeks; you think you've got it bad."
Nicky's eyes widened. "I can't even picture that! Vause not getting some, man she's going to be one grumpy ass bitch!"
Piper rolled her eyes, "Vauseman."
Nicky dismissed her with the flick of a wrist.
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"Come on Al, help me out here." Piper said as she led her wife into their apartment.
The hospital had released her around noon, she was awake at that point, but she wasn't too keen on moving from the position she had been in.
Piper helped her on to the couch, draping a blanket over her and turning on the television.
"Pipes, you know I hate TV."
The blonde shrugged, "But I don't, and if I have to spend all day sitting with you, not being able to touch you in all the ways I want to, than I need the distraction."
Alex rolled her eyes, "You could read too, you know."
Piper sighed, "I can't read with you sitting right there, especially where I am at in my book right now."
Alex raised a brow, "Sexy times?"
Piper nodded sadly, "Sexy times."
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Piper made dinner, making sure to stay away from red meat, much to Alex's disgruntlement.
"What is this?" Alex asked, staring down at the plate Piper had just handed her.
Piper sat down in the armchair, enveloped in the familiar smell that was just Alex. "It's chicken and vegetables."
Alex pushed the food around on her plate with a fork, "It looks like tofu, you better not be trying to feed me tofu."
Piper rolled her eyes, "No, I just didn't put any seasonings on it."
"Why not? Was there a bland food convention in town that I didn't know about?"
"Very funny, just eat your damn food."
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"Nicky, what are you doing here? And how did you get in?" Alex asked from her spot in the armchair.
Nicky smirked, spinning her keys around her finger, "Your wife-y made me a key, you know for when she wants me to come over when you aren't home." She wiggled her brows for emphasis.
Alex rolled her eyes, "Nicky, even if I were to think you were having an affair with Piper, you wouldn't be stupid enough to come over during the day and use the same key right in front of me."
"Which is why I would do it, to make sure you didn't think anything of it."
Alex gave her a pointed glare over the top of her book.
The red head nodded, "Point taken." She slipped out of her shoes and flopped down onto the couch, picking up the clicker and pointed it at the TV.
"Don't even think about it." Alex said as she continued to read.
Nicky groaned, dropping the clicker down onto the coffee table. "Well, what the fuck am I supposed to do then?"
Alex turned a page in her book, "Leave."
"Nope, sorry, no can do, I am on strict orders from Blondie not to let you leave my sight until she gets home."
Alex shook her head, "Does that mean I'm going to have an audience when I go to the bathroom?"
Nicky chuckled, "You're hot Vause, but nobody's that hot."
"Vauseman."
"No."
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Piper came home around five with groceries in hand.
Alex was still reading, and Nicky was passed out cold on the couch, snoring loudly with her mouth hanging wide open.
"She's driving me fucking crazy." Alex said as soon as she saw her wife.
Piper took one look at the red head's sleeping form and asked, "She's not drooling on the couch is she?"
Alex shook her head, "No, I put a blanket underneath her head."
Piper nodded, "I got us dinner."
"It's not another meal meant for my dead grandma is it?"
The blonde rolled her eyes, even while sick; Alex still found ways to make jokes. "I also got you some pain meds."
She heard Alex get up from the couch, sauntering into the kitchen behind her.
"Alex, you shouldn't be walking around, you need to be resting."
"That's all I've been doing is resting, just let me get a good look at you, you left before I woke up."
Alex looked Piper up and down, licking her chapped lips. God she missed her already.
"Don't look at me like that." Piper scolded, it was hard enough as it was to rein her libido in; she didn't need to see the lust in her wife's eyes. Even sick as a dog, there were just certain things that Alex never failed to make look sexy. The way she read, how she pushed her glasses up into her hair, and even the way she sat in that fucking armchair with her legs draped over the arm. Three weeks, Piper would sooner die.
"What're you thinking about?" Alex asked knowingly.
"You know damn well what I'm thinking about, now shoo. I'll call for you when dinner's ready." Piper said, flustered.
It had only been two days. Piper was pretty sure she would faster melt into a puddle of frustration than stick it out.
"Piper, you do realize that if you were going to get it, you would've gotten it by now." Alex said matter of factly.
Piper never thought of it that way, she rarely got sick, her doctor had once told her that she had a strong immune system. She was just too frazzled to actually remember that now, and too proud to admit to it.
"So you could kiss me if you wanted to." Alex continued.
Piper shook her head, "Wouldn't want to risk it."
Alex huffed, turning around to head back into the living room when she got an idea. She pulled out a drawer and grabbed the saran wrap roll, opening it and tearing off a piece.
"Hey, Pipes."
Piper turned around, ready to tell Alex to lie back down, but instead raised a quizzical brow, "What are you doing?"
"I want to kiss you dammit, so I'm going to kiss you."
"Are you sure you aren't trying to just suffocate me? I promise I won't feed you plain chicken ever again." Piper joked.
Alex squinted at her, "You know, this benefits you too, jackass."
Piper shrugged, "Whatever you say."
"Fine, you want to make a bet out of this?" Alex asked, balling up the saran wrap she had ripped out, and threw it into the trash.
Piper raised a brow, "What kind of bet are we talking here?"
"Oh you know the kind that you lose." Alex said, moving closer to Piper and wrapping her arms around the shorter woman's waist, holding her close.
"Confident are we?" Piper asked, her eyes flicking back and forth between the brunette's eyes and lips, she had a pretty good idea what the bet was, and she already wanted to cave.
"Very." Alex breathed.
"Okay, so what is it?" The blonde asked dumbly, trying and failing to act as if the proximity of her wife's lips wasn't making her loins feel like they were on fire. It had been a long two days.
"Let's see who can go the longest without kissing or sex."
"What do I get when I win?"
Alex smirked, "Well, when I win, I get full bragging rights and the knowledge of how much of a sex god I have always believed myself to be."
Piper rolled her eyes, "Okay."
"Okay?"
"What are you, John Green?"
"Fine, it's on."
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AN: Hey guys! I sure say that a lot, oh well it can be my catch phrase! Special place in my heart if you make a t-shirt saying that! Lol. Also, if any of you are creative, maybe some fan art? So I didn't expect to be done with this chapter this quickly, I hope you guys liked it. I thought the angst was getting a bit suffocating, so why not a good ol' bet where we find out how pathetic our girls really are! Leave me a review letting me know what you thought, and please, if you have any ideas on how they can tease each other in the next chapter, don't hesitate to let me know! I also figured that just thanking you guys for reviewing wasn't enough, I don't think you will ever understand how much they mean to me, so I'm going to start leaving little comments next to your names. Special thanks to bluepaintbox (you've been there since the beginning Liz, thank you!), Irish Courtney (I'm just considering us friends now. Good? Good), Guest (thank you, you are a doll!), Chand3li3r (I was dropping hints about Alex's illness since the wedding, but I guess you just didn't catch them, that's quite alright though!), g4gusgrisam (you must be new here, haha don't worry, nothing too life altering), ejm137 (it is nasty! Which is why I used it lol), and finally vanillaltte (I'm glad! Hopefully I'll continue to please! That sounded dirty…good). Love you guys! Until next time!
-Marissa
