A/N: Hi, please remember this is AU/OOC.

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For Better or For Worse

Chapter 6

Running her hands from the top of Piper's shoulders, over her breasts, and down her toned stomach, she felt how heated Piper's skin was just from the minimal contact. The way Piper's breath almost inaudibly hitched in the back of her throat as Alex ran her hands down her wife's chest and the way her abdominal muscles quivered under her touch was something she would never get tired of.

There was already something different about this passionate night, and Alex couldn't quite put her finger on what that something was.

Piper gently pushed Alex back to where her head was resting on the pillows once again, covering her wife's body with her own and capturing her lips. Breaking the kiss, Piper gazed at her wife with a little more hunger in her eye and arousal shooting to her core. She felt her love for this woman grow exponentially in a matter of seconds. She had a wife that was fighting those demons from her past all because of how dedicated she was to her family. Alex could've easily just laid down and gave up everything, but she chose not to.

Each time the lightning flashed through the small opening in the curtains cast a soft glow on Alex's smooth, alabaster skin. Glancing down to her lovers swollen lips, Piper closed the few inches distance to lock lips with her wife once again, something she would never grow tired of doing. The kiss that started off slow and romantic gradually grew stronger into a more rough and passion filled one. After almost two weeks of no sexual contact or affectionate contact for that matter, Piper could feel her body teeming with pleasure as she let her hands wander down her lover's naked body and down to feel her abs rippling as she trailed her fingernails across the toned muscles there. Small groans of satisfaction could be heard emanating from deep in Alex's throat. Their naked and heated bodies sliding against each other were doing nothing but increase the feelings of pleasure.

Never breaking the still fiery kiss, Piper brought her hands from their place on Alex's abs to take a breast into each hand, her center slightly grinding into Alex's. The feeling of her wife's breasts was even warmer due to their bodies being so close to one another. Her soft kneading grew rough as her wife panted out what she wanted.

"Fuck… Stop teasing."

Slight running her finger around the outer edge of Alex's nipples and seeing they grew even more painfully erect only added more fuel to her growing pit of arousal. She didn't plan to tease for very long, but it always gave her great pleasure that she was the one and only person that had this effect on Alex Vause. Very little could break them from this much needed time together. Piper had missed her wife greatly and planned on taking advantage of this

The amount of electricity and adrenaline running through the older woman's body plus Piper's body on top of hers was a sensory overload. Wrapping her fingers in Piper's short, blonde locks, Alex couldn't help but moan out when Piper began to suck on her sensitive peak. Keeping one hand on Alex's left breast, Piper lightly swirled her tongue around, relishing in the sweet sounds that were pouring from her wife's mouth. Alex began to writhe around to try and find the friction she needed to release some of the ache building between her thighs. With the amount of times she and her wife had to stop and restart foreplay due to Ellie continuously waking up, she knew it wouldn't take much to be pushed over the edge.

"I love you." Piper husked as she pulled back and looked deep into her wife's eyes that were now dangerously dark and seductive.

"I love you, too." Alex whispered as she brought her hands up to palm Piper's breasts and drug her fingernails lightly down her stomach causing the same reaction as when her wife did it her.

Piper smiled and ducked her head back down to lavish attention to the neglected breast. Groaning at the way Alex's nipples smelled so much like marzipan, Piper felt her wife's hands take back their residence in her hair. Alex's breathing was labored and small moans began to trail out of her mouth.

Pleased with her work on the brunette's chest, Piper began to make her way down Alex's taut stomach, lavishing it with attention. She could feel Alex's patience wearing thin as she grew closer to the spot that Piper knew she needed her to be. Placing open mouthed kisses around the raven-haired woman's belly button, Piper swirled her tongue inside causing a new wave of quivers to radiate through Alex's stomach. The older woman's finger nails dug deep into the blonde's shoulders where she was steadying herself from the intensifying waves that were wreaking havoc on her body.

Alex glanced downward as she watched Piper grow closer to the ache that was begging to be attended to. Piper could feel the goosebumps popping up as she felt Alex's hand roam her naked back in encouragement to keep going. Alex made her feel so many erotic emotions at once it was hard to keep them from all exploding out of her. The ache between her own legs was making its presence known more and more as Piper continued her exploration over her wife's body.

Feeling Alex's stomach tremble as she slowly worked her way down the woman's long body, Piper couldn't help but smile to herself. The older woman could feel herself crumble as Piper began to plant soft, wet kisses on the area just below her belly button and continually descend downwards.

When she reached her wife's soaking center, Piper looked up to Alex and faintly heard her pant out a small "Please". Piper's adrenaline was pumping through her body all because of how intense this was. Looking up at her raven-haired beauty one last time, she found Alex's chest already heaving and her emerald eyes hooded and filled with lust. She had never witnessed something so beautiful in her life, and she was ecstatic this particular beautiful woman was hers.

Quickly placing a soft kiss just above her wife's clit, Piper dipped her head down. Just the scent of Alex's sex always made her mouth water almost uncontrollably. Running the tip of her nose gently through the trimmed strip of pubic hair, she felt Alex's hips buck up into her chin. She had this woman begging for her, something she always took pride in.

Pushing Alex's legs up so they were bent at the knee only opened her wife up that much more, revealing exactly how turned on she was and it was all for her. Piper could physically see Alex's juices dripping from her tight opening and gathering on her upper thighs.

Wrapping her arms around Alex's bent legs, she felt Alex run her fingers lovingly through her scalp. Piper could barely hear the strangled moan emanate from deep within Alex as she began dragging her tongue slowly from Alex's opening to just below her clit that was fully exposed. After a few more long strokes and purposely avoiding Alex's sensitive nub, she could feel Alex's hips try to seek more contact with her tongue. Smirking, the younger woman finally gave in and wrapped her lips around Alex's clit.

The frequency and amount of moans that were coming from Alex's mouth was something so sweet to the blonde's ears. It only gave her an incentive to work harder.

Lightly fisting a large amount of Piper's hair in her hand, Alex began to feel her whole body tremble as Piper teased two fingers halfway into her opening while still simultaneously sucking in all the right places. Automatically the older woman began to buck her hips, attempting to take her wife deeper. The amount of pleasure Alex was feeling was something so incredibly intoxicating.

Every moan and groan coming from Alex's mouth was sending chills down Piper's spine as she entered her wife fully and thrusting at a slow yet precise pace. When Piper left Alex's sensitive nub to glance at her lover, Piper felt as if she could release right there.

Alex's alabaster skin was completely exposed as she had her head thrown back in ecstasy. Her hips were following her wife's every move, trying to acquire as much pleasure as she could possibly could.

Feeling another surge of motivation to bring this woman over the edge, Piper quickly found am even more pleasurable pace with her fingers, and began to lap at Alex's clit with the flat of her tongue. The way Alex was moaning uncontrollably now and writhing underneath her, Piper knew it wouldn't be long. Unwrapping a hand from around Alex's muscular thigh, Piper traced a trail up her stomach to toy with her breasts again. Piper could feel the little beads of sweat trailing between them and her chest heaving from being so breathless.

The way Alex was clenching she knew it wouldn't take much to send her to that place of no return and as soon as Piper tugged at Alex's nipple, she felt Alex's grip in her hair tighten and her body tense up. This was all Alex needed to be pushed so far over the edge she didn't know when her release was going to end.

"Fucckkkk…Oh fuck, babe…" Alex panted as her release ran out into the palm of her wife's hand. The way Alex's walls were clenching around Piper's digits was painfully satisfying. Keeping a steady pace, in and out, Piper kissed her way back up Alex's body as she helped her recover. When she felt it was safe, Piper removed her fingers gently from Alex's still slightly pulsing sex. The small and breathless whimper that came from Alex's lips from the loss of contact was close to Piper's ear causing her arousal to shoot almost painfully to her core. The blonde could feel her wetness collecting on her upper thighs, waiting to be taken care of.

Sex with Alex had proven to be addicting the past six years they've been together. Something about the amount of intimacy on the emotional and physical level made the sex that much more exciting for both women. There was something inevitable about the bond they shared and it was one they hadn't shared with anyone else before.

"Babe." Alex breathed still trying to will her heart to stop pounding so heavily. "Come here."

Smiling subtly to herself, the blonde leaned over initiating a passionate kiss. Alex could taste herself upon her wife's lips causing the warmth in the pit of her stomach to stir once again.

Both women knew this night was just beginning.

Al,

You looked so peaceful before I left so I took Ellie with me on my run to let you sleep in.

Love you,

-P

P.S. There's already coffee made.

Alex smiled as she placed the note back on Piper's pillow where she found it. She hadn't intended on sleeping so late, but the activities of last night had really taken it out of her. Reconnecting with her wife on such an intimate and emotional level was what they needed.

Walking down the hallway she glanced into the living room where the stroller was indeed gone, and noticed their daughter's favorite blanket sprawled over the chaise in the living room with a bowl of half-eaten cheerios sitting on the coffee table. That was Ellie and Piper's morning ritual, they would cuddle on the couch, sometimes falling back asleep, until the toddler was ready to begin her day. Conner had been the exact same way and still was to an extent. He would be irritable until he ate breakfast and then everything was right in his world.

Just as Alex reached for a coffee mug, she heard the front door open and Piper singing to their child, causing shrieks of laughter to come from their little one. Alex didn't notice the smile that was plastered across her face as she poured her coffee and walked out of the kitchen.

"That's a face that makes me happy." Piper smiled as she spotted her wife walk into the living room. Glasses absent from her face. T-shirt rolled up to where a small sliver of Alex's pale stomach was showing. And her linen pajama pants were scrunched up towards her knee. It was in this state that Piper found her wife most attractive. Her walls were down and there was so much to love about her.

Piper watched Alex blush as she came and sat next to her on their worn loveseat. She had caught her off guard.

"How long have you been awake?" Piper lifted Ellie from her stroller and sat her in between herself and Alex. Ellie automatically leaning over to get Alex's attention.

"Five? Ten minutes max?" The older woman assisted Ellie to a standing position and stood her in her lap to where she was facing away. Alex then wrapped her arms around her daughter's tiny torso and leaned the side of her head against her back, gazing at Piper as she watched the scene unfold. "How was your run?"

"Good. We ran four miles this morning." Piper tickled Ellie. "And we saw the ducks in the park. Right Ellie?"

"What does a duck say?" Alex whispered into Ellie's ear. Her blonde hair starting to fall past her shoulder. She was starting to look like Piper every single day and her personality was starting to blossom, but her eyes were much like Alex's.

"Quack, Quack."

A few days later… June 7th

"Go give this to mommy." Alex whispered as she knelt down to her son's level, giving him a small, rectangular box with a pink bow on top. Piper had insisted that the dinner her wife had taken her to last night while Kelly and Hayden watched Ellie was enough, but Alex thought otherwise.

"Don't forget the card." Conner pointed to the top of the refrigerator where Alex had hid it after filling it out.

"Good call. Take your sister with you." The brunette retrieved the card and got Ellie cleaned up before lifting her out of her high chair. "Let her carry the card."

The brunette watched as Conner latched on to his sisters hand, which she happily let him hold. She had missed her brother, and when their grandma had brought him back to the penthouse earlier that morning, all was right in her world. Her brother had greeted her with a big hug and had even brought her a stuffed dolphin from his visit to the aquarium.

"Happy birthday, mommy." Conner walked around the kitchen table to where Piper was sitting on her laptop returning emails. "Open the box first!"

Piper looked genuinely surprised when she looked up from her frantic typing and saw her first-born presenting her a gift. Pushing the laptop aside she scooted her chair out and turned towards her children, not even noticing that Alex was perched upon the island watching from a distance.

"You didn't have to get me anything." The blonde ran a loving hand over both her children's heads as she untied the pink bow with the other. From what she could tell, it was a piece of jewelry, but the type was unknown.

Upon lifting the lid, she was greeted with a necklace that had a silver infinity symbol dangling from the end.

"This is so pretty, Conner!" Piper lifted the necklace to get a better look at it. It was definitely a high quality necklace from the looks of the stones and silver, definitely from a jeweler, not the cheap ones you would buy from a department store. She had a strong suspicion that her wife had simply let her children (Mostly Conner) pick the design and she found one that was up to her liking quality wise.

"Momma said that the necklace shows how our love for you is inf-." Conner stopped to think about the word and sound it out just the way Alex had showed him. "In-fin-ite. Infinite."

The five, soon to be six year old, concluded his final pronunciation of the word with a nod of his head, beaming from ear to ear that he remembered such a big word.

"Good job, bud!" Alex praised from afar. She too couldn't keep from grinning. That was her nightly ritual with Conner. They would read to each other out of whichever book he chose and she was seeing impressive progress in a short amount of time. His teacher had even recommend he start reading second grade books with guidance, something that blew both Alex and Piper's mind.

"You're getting so good at big words and you just got out of kindergarten! That's so awesome…Thank you, baby." Piper clutched her son close to her and noticed her son's arm being pulled by his sister's hand. "Did you get me something too, Ellie?"

Bringing the two year old in to form a group hug she couldn't help but feel overwhelmed. It went like this every birthday the past six years. It didn't matter if her children got her anything at all or something expensive, she enjoyed the unconditional love her children and wife poured out on her special day.

"She signed the card. You can't read her name because she's a baby and I haven't been home to teach her how to write, but momma said you would know that Ellie signed it." Conner watched closely as Piper wiped a stray tear and tore open the light pink envelope the card was placed in. The outside was decorated with many balloons of different colors on a royal blue background and read,

"Happy Birthday, Mom!"

On the inside, instead of reading a pre-written message with signatures underneath, she was greeted with a message in the distinct handwriting of her wife, filling up one whole side of the card, and the other side was filled with a message her son had written, most likely with the help of Alex. Ellie's scribbles could be seen at the bottom with her name written in parenthesis out next to it.

Conner's hands shot up into fists next to his torso and his face burst out into pure excitement.

"See mommy? Momma wrote on that side, I wrote right here, and that's Ellie's writing."

Piper followed his pointing to the corresponding places and had to turn her head and wipe the tears away as she listened to her little boy ramble. Ellie had grown bored of standing next to her mother and retreated back to Alex, practically begging for a bite of a slice of pizza she was nibbling on.

"I see, babe. I love it so much." The younger woman in the room buried her face in the crook of her son's neck as she felt him wrap his small arms around her shoulders. "Thank you."

Alex winked at Piper as she looked up and made eye contact with her wife. Piper blushed as she pulled back and placed a kiss on Conner's cheek.

"Read me what you wrote!"

"Okay!" Conner grinned as he climbed up into his mother's lap, taking the card from her grasp.

…

"I loved your side of the card…" Piper discarded her wine glass outside the bath and leaned back into Alex's embrace as they soaked in the tub of their master bathroom. The candles that were supplying the only light in the room and the sweet aroma of the bath salt Alex added only made the moment that much more intimate between them. Both kids were in bed, and had been for the past hour, giving Alex her own special time to celebrate her wife's birthday.

"I basically just told you that you're closer to forty now than you are thirty." Alex joked and dipped her head down to pepper Piper's neck with small nibbles and kisses. Something about

Piper scoffed but was having a hard time keeping a grin from spreading across her cheeks.

"You're closer to forty than I am."

"Hey." Alex nipped the area between Piper's shoulder and neck a little bit harder, causing a small, involuntary moan to escape from her lover's mouth. "Not fair."

Piper giggled, lifting her arms to wrap them around Alex's neck, keeping the brunette in place as she continued her ministrations on her neck.

"I can't believe I had just turned thirty when I met you. Not to mention I was nine months pregnant and gave birth just a few hours after."

Piper's breathing was starting to get a little more breathy.

"And here we are six years later." Alex grinned into the side of her wife's neck, allowing her hands to roam up and down Piper's torso, purposefully avoiding her already erect nipples. She still couldn't believe that almost six years ago, she was watching her life pass her by while abusing that white, powdered substance like it was going out of style. Her mother had just died two years previous and she was struggling to find that reason to keep going. Little did she know that Piper and two kids would be her reason after one eventful afternoon.

The Next Day… Saturday

"Happy belated birthday, Blondie!" Nicky's voice boomed as soon as the blonde swung the door open. "You don't look a day over twenty-one!"

"Back off, Nicky…She's married, thank you." Alex smirked as she sauntered up behind Piper, an almost sleeping Ellie in her arms.

"Hi, Nicky!" Piper laughed. "Come in."

"Hi, Ellie." Nicky scratched the toddler's back as she tilted her head to make eye contact.

"Say hi." Alex whispered. The little girl obeyed, lifting her hand and closing her fist. "Pipes, do you want to take her?"

"Yeah. I'm gonna go put her with Conner in our bed."

Alex nodded, kissing her wife on the cheek before letting her retreat to their bedroom.

"Quiet house this morning, Vause. Kids not feeling well?"

"No. Thank God. I've wiped enough snot the past few years to last a life time." Alex breathed. "Conner just got back from Jim and Barbara's yesterday so he's been recovering from that and Ellie's been up since four. It's just kind of the normal naptime I guess."

"Look at you all mommy mode. It's cute."

"Shut the fuck up." Alex laughed, pushing Nicky towards the kitchen.

Soon after Nicky and Alex were sitting at the island, feet dangling with a beer in their hands. The small talk had diminished leaving someone to address the real topic of discussion. Nicky physically looked well, even better than the countless amount of times Alex went to visit her in prison.

"So, how're things? Piper said you've had a rough few weeks." Nicky asked. "I called to tell her I was in NA, that's why I haven't been around, but when she said you were too, I didn't know what to think to be honest. What happened?"

The brunette removed her glasses and laid them on the counter, glancing towards the living room where Piper was now shuffling about the living room picking up after the kids, completely oblivious to the conversation happening in the kitchen.

"He came around looking for me…Something about being back in the business and building up his clientele and my brain just triggered when he pulled it out." Alex shook her head. "He fucking followed me to my own home, my own business, taunting me."

"So you broke your sobriety?"

"No." Alex blurted, causing Nicky to lean away. "God no."

Nicky nodded, allowing Alex to take her time. She had started to observe her nervous habits come out the longer they sat at the island. Her hands were rubbing her wedding ring, unable to stay still for more than a few seconds.

"I don't think I would've came home if I used. I was already so disappointed and ashamed that I even looked at it…I know that sounds fucking weird but I have kids now. What I do not only affects myself, but them and Piper."

"Blondie didn't flip?" Nicky's voice lowered to not attract Piper's attention. The concern in her eyes was prominent as she listened to her best friend explain herself.

"No." Alex caught herself faintly smiling. "She's been there day and night, being the biggest supporter. I was so afraid of how she was going to react but she had an open mind and open arms." She paused. "Even with her being so understanding I was hesitant to touch her because I felt so unlike myself."

"I'll tell you what." Nicky briefly looked towards the living room. "She has really surprised me. Almost as much as you've surprised me with this whole family dynamic. I tell you this time and time again, I never expected this from you but it fits you well."

"You and me both." Alex took a swig of her beer.

"So when are you guys popping out another one?" Nicky joked trying to lighten the mood a little more to bring them away from such a heavy subject.

"We're done. Conner and Ellie is it for us." Alex slumped back into the bar stool shaking her head.

"We'll have to see about that." Piper smirked walking into the kitchen.

Nicky nervously laughed not knowing who to believe.

A/N: Was that a smut scene? I guess that's my way of saying sorry for not updating. I hope it was okay lol.

I'm really hoping I can get back into a regular update routine but with how much I have to be away from my laptop, it gets hard sometimes to make the time to write.

Let me know what you think or if there's something specific you'd like to see. I'm always open to ideas or thoughts about what has happened or what could happen.

Cheers.