Authors Note: Here is chapter 8, once again I do not own any of these characters.
Hope you all enjoy!
Polly and Nicky both helped Alex over to her chair and gave her a water bottle while Dr. Adams asked Carol Chapman to come with her. She bought Mrs. Chapman to a side room and shut the door "Is my daughter okay?" Carol Chapman asked in a shaky voice.
"Yes Ma'am she is alive, but I need to ask you about your mother." Dr. Adams told her as both women sat down.
"My mother why?" Carol asked her daughter's doctor.
"Piper told me she had breast cancer, I would like to know the extent of her cancer." Dr. Adams told her.
"She had stage three breast cancer, she is a three-year survivor." Carol said while she played with her necklace.
"Excellent that is excellent news. Did it spread to her lymph nodes by any chance?" Dr. Adams asked.
"Just a few, but doctors caught it just in time before It went much further." Carol told the doctor and they made their way back to the gang in the waiting room.
"Is my wife alive?" Alex asked in tears.
"Mrs. Vause, she is alive but I am sorry we had to take more breast tissue than we had originally planned. Also we took out some lymph nodes to examine to determine if the cancer has spread." Dr. Adams told her and Alex let out a sigh of relief that her wife was alive.
"Can I see her?" Alex asked and Dr. Adams agreed and took her back to see Piper.
Alex walked into the room, and Piper was still under the anesthesia, she pulled a chair close to her bed and took Piper's hand.
After a while Piper started to return to consciousness "Al?" Piper asked in a sleep filled voice.
"I'm here baby, just rest" Alex told her while she placed a kiss on Piper's forehead.
After a half hour Dr. Adams came back to talk to Piper "How you doing?" She asked when she walked in.
"I am okay, some pain." Piper told her with sleep still in her voice.
"That will go away shortly, promise." Dr. Adams told her while she sat down in the chair "Piper the surgery went fine, we took out some lymph nodes to be sent to the lab." Dr. Adams told her and Piper nodded "But Piper, we had to take out more than we planned" Dr. Adams added.
Piper looked up at her with wide eyes and asked "What?"
"The cancer was larger than it seemed, and spread more throughout the breast since our last test." Dr. Adams told her and Piper eyes filled with tears.
"Do I still have my breast?" Piper asked.
Dr. Adams nodded "Yes but you may want reconstruction surgery in the future." Dr. Adams told her.
They discussed a few more things and they said goodbye. The gang came back and sat with her for a bit, but Piper was very silent through it all. Once everyone was gone Alex sat gently next to Piper on the bed and took her hand. "It will be okay Pipes, I know you may not believe that but it will be. When you feel weak, I'll be strong. When you let go, I'll hold on. When you need to cry, I swear I'll be there to dry your eyes. When you feel lost or scared to death, like you can't take one more step, just take my hand and together we can do it. I am going to love you through it." Alex told her and kissed the back of her hand.
Two months had passed since Piper's surgery, so far everything was looking good and no more spots had showed up. Piper and Alex had a checkup with Dr. Avery for the baby and were hopefully going to find out the gender of the baby. Alex and Piper had just walked in and Jennifer greeted them at the desk. "How are you feeling Piper?" Jennifer asked.
"I am doing good" Piper told her
"Excellent I will tell Dr. Avery you are here." Jennifer told her and Piper went to sit down next to Alex. Piper had a nice baby bump, not too big, but not small enough to hide it anymore.
Jennifer took Alex and Piper back to the room, Piper changed and then they waited for the doctor. "How are you feeling" Dr. Avery asked when she walked into the room and shut the door.
"I am doing good" Piper told her and Dr. Avery looked at Alex.
"Is she doing good Alex, and how are you doing?" Dr. Avery asked.
Alex nodded "She is doing good, not that many depressions states right now, and I am good." Alex confirmed for her.
"Excellent" Dr. Avery told them and squirted the gel on to Piper's baby bump, she moved the wand around a bit before she looked at Piper and Alex "Everything looks great, are we finding out what the gender is?" Dr. Avery asked and they both nodded their heads with a smile while they watched the screen. "Great, Mrs. And Mrs. Vause I am pleased to tell you, you are having a healthy baby girl." Dr. Avery told them with a smile.
Piper put her hand over her mouth and smiled with tears in her eyes while Alex leaned in and placed a kiss on her forehead. They got some pictures from the ultrasound and then left the doctor's office they couldn't wait to tell Sofia.
Later on that day during dinner they told the little girl "Sofia honey, we went to the doctor today" Piper told their daughter.
"And did you find out yet?" Sofia asked with a smile.
Alex nodded "We did sweetheart" Alex told her while she handed her an ultrasound.
Sofia looked at the picture and made a weird face before she asked "That's a baby?"
Piper smiled "Yes honey that is, you looked like that too at one time." Piper told her and Sofia looked at her mother like she grew three heads.
"You are getting a baby sister" Alex told her with a smile and Sofia jumped for joy.
Later that night after they had put Sofia to sleep Alex and Piper were sitting on the couch trying to decide a baby name, they had a few names picked out from before they knew but now they just had one group of names to choose from. "Pipes I feel like we are picking out our wedding song all over again" Alex told her with a smile
"It does feel like that, and no we are not naming our daughter Cher." Piper joked.
"Well damn" Alex smiled.
After two pages of names later they still couldn't decide "Hey Pipes I got it." Alex yelled out and Piper looked at her "Azkadellia." Alex told her with a smile.
"Seriously?" Piper asked
"Yes" Alex told her in a serious tone.
"Alex I love you to death I really do but we are not naming her after the wicked witch from the TV show Tin Man" Piper told her
"But she was hot and had monkey tattoos that flew" Alex told her with a laugh.
"I said no as unique as it is the answer is still no" Piper told her
Alex laughed and then a few seconds later she said another name "How about Regina?" Alex asked
"From the wicked witch to the evil queen from Once Upon A Time" Piper said with a chuckle
"She is hot too" Alex said and Piper hit her softly
"Fine then how about Piper?," Alex asked and then added "Since I know a Piper and she is the most beautiful, strongest, caring, loving woman in the world."
Piper smiled at her and then pulled her in for a deep kiss. "That is so sweet but if that was the case then I believe her name must be Alex." Tina told her with a smile.
"Oh god, I don't want her turning our like me." Alex joked.
"Okay we really do need a name Alex." Piper told her.
"How about Alessandra?" Alex asked and Piper wrote it down.
The list had now been narrowed down to Alessandra, Chloe, Zoie, Helena, Martina, Portia, and Giselle. And those were only on page one. Just like with Sofia they couldn't decide.
The next day when Piper was at work Polly had come into her office with some woman she had never seen before. "Hey Pipes this is Danielle Wuornos." Polly told her and Piper got up to introduce herself.
"Piper Vause, nice to meet you." Piper told her while she shook her hand.
"This is the woman I was telling you about a couple of months back about how she is interested with you writing a book." Polly told her and it all hit Piper. Polly had told her about Daniela and how she was interested in Piper writing a book about her time spent in Litchfield, and how her life has changed since then.
"The offer still stands Mrs. Vause if you are still interested." Danielle told her. "Also Polly told me about the cancer, and I think readers would love to see how you deal with it while raising a family." Danielle added.
"I will talk it over with my wife, but yes I think the truth needs to be told about prison, and also how people can survive breast cancer." Piper told her "Even though I am not a survivor yet." Piper added.
"Don't listen to her, Piper Vause here can make it through anything." Polly said with a smile while she placed her hand on Piper shoulder.
Later than night Piper discussed the book offer with Alex, and she told her it was a wonderful idea and told her to do it. Piper called Danielle the next day and told her she would.
Three months had passed, Piper had begun her book and life seemed perfect for the Vause family and everyone it, but Piper knew as well as Alex that life never stayed the same for long. She was seven months pregnant and the baby girl who still didn't have a name was doing great, Piper had an appointment the day before to check on the cancer and to make sure it had not spread or returned. Alex and Piper had just arrived at Dr. Adams office to get the results when they were taken into the doctor's office.
"How are you doing Piper?" Dr. Adams asked
"I am doing excellent" Piper assured her.
"How is the book coming?" She asked
"It is coming." Piper told her
"Good that is good to hear, how are you Alex? How is Sofia?" the doctor asked and Alex told her they were both good. "That is excellent news." Dr. Adams added.
"So what are the results?" Piper asked she couldn't stand the wait any more.
"Piper you are seven months now right?" Dr. Adams asked and Piper nodded in agreement "Piper I am sorry, but we are going to have to induce labor as soon as possible." Dr. Adams told her.
"She is only 32 weeks." Alex told her
"I talked to Dr. Avery, the baby will be a preemie, but there is hope she will survive." Dr. Avery told them.
"Why what is happening?" Piper asked frightened and Alex took her hand.
"Piper I am sorry, but it seems we didn't remove all the cancer cells. Sometimes they like to hide, and the cancer has returned and the only way we have to treat it now is with Chemo." Dr. Adams told them.
"As scary as it sounds to have the baby born this early, my cousin was born two months early and she survived. So Alex?" Piper looked at her asked.
"Pipes I don't want to lose you or this baby" Alex told her.
"Alex if we start the chemo now there is very good chance Piper will survive, and as far as the baby she has just as high of a survival rate. But if we wait any longer, Piper chances go down every day." Dr. Adams told her
Alex finally agreed as scared as she was she didn't show Piper. "Good we need to induce as soon as possible I will call Dr. Avery now." Dr. Adams told her and Piper and Alex left her office and waited in the waiting room.
After a few shorts minutes Dr. Adams came out and told them Dr. Avery would meet them at the hospital.
Piper was now lying on the hospital; the nurses had just given her the medication Polly and her mother were now standing in there with Alex, while Nicky, Poussey, Taystee, Sofia, Lorna, Pete, and Finn were in the waiting room waiting for the newest member of the Vause family to enter the world.
Alex was holding Piper's hand, it was about time and Dr. Avery was telling her to push. Piper felt like she couldn't her mind was elsewhere and she just couldn't focus. Alex leaned over and whispered in her ear "I know your mind is elsewhere babe, but I need you to push. Push for me, push for us."
Alex always knew what to say to get Piper motivated and it worked "Don't be surprised if she doesn't come out crying" Dr. Avery warned them. "You are doing great Piper just a couple more." Dr. Avery added.
After what seemed like forever Piper gave one more final push and on March 7th at 9:01PM a healthy baby girl came screaming into the world. "I thought you said she wouldn't be crying" Alex asked with tears in her eyes while she held Piper's hand.
"Well it seems we have a fighter here with a nice set of lungs" Dr. Avery told her while she carried the baby girl over to be cleaned up and weighed.
"Just like her mother" Alex whispered while she leaned down to kiss Piper.
Dr. Avery came in a couple of minutes later and Alex and Piper heart dropped when there was no baby in her hands "Don't worry everything is fine, you can't hold her yet. But shortly, she weighs 3 and half pounds but she is healthy." Dr. Avery told them and Piper squeezed Alex's hand.
"Do you have a name for her?' Dr. Avery asked
"Pipes I got it" Alex told her and Piper looked up at her "Shania it means I'm on my way, and clearly our little girl is a fighter and she will do big things on her own." Alex told her and Piper smiled.
"We will never have to worry because she is a fighter just like her mother's" Carol Chapman told the room.
"Then it is settled, baby would you like to do the honors?" Piper asked her and Alex smiled.
"Her name is Shania Marie Vause, born March 7th to Piper and Alex Vause" Alex told the doctor and leaned down to give her wife a deep kiss.
Authors Note: Well there is chapter 8, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Big things lie ahead for the Vause family. Please review and let me know what you think.
Also the little speech Alex gave Piper after her surgery those are lyrics to Martina McBride's song "I'm Going to Love You Through it" Which is a breast cancer survivor song. Very touching I recommend everyone listen to it if you haven't already.
