(Piper's POV)

"Alex? Alex baby who is it?" I asked into the phone, I was starting to panic now. "Baby answer me! Alex!"

"Don't worry she is fine for now, I suggest you come with me." A deep voice said from behind me. "Don't look alarmed, just follow me out of the building and everything will be fine."

God I tried not to panic as I turned to face the man.

"Where's Alex?" I asked calmly even though I was screaming on the inside.

"Follow me." He smiled before turning and walking towards the door. I didn't have a choice I had to follow him, I sent a pleading look to the doorman who seemed to react quickly with a small nod. I followed the tall man outside before he opened the door to the back of his van and let me in.

"I want to see Alex first."

"She will be down in a moment or two, we need to pick her up from the back entrance." He smirked slightly. Why would they need to go round the back?

"Look you either get in and we drive around or I make you get in and then might not even go get Alex for a while to let you suffer, your choice princess." He snarled at me, I decided getting into the van willingly was my best option. As soon as I was in the van started up and we were moving. We did stop a minute later, the back door was thrown open and a body was launched in. I saw a flash of Alex's dark hair and moved to catch her. She groaned as she landed on me. The doors to the van closed then and we were on the move in no time.

"Alex, baby. Look at me" I pleaded, all her hair was covering her face, I franticly pushed it away and took in the sight before me. My eyes started to fill up, she had bruises all down the right side of her face and her lip was cut with blood dripping out. "Fuck."

"Pipes, it's okay I have had worse." I wiped away the blood from Alex's lip and it actually stopped bleeding. She started talking quietly now so only I could hear her "Babe look at me okay, I'm okay, we will be okay, first thing to do is follow my lead, I will talk okay Pipes, just stay quiet, promise me?" I nodded at her. I didn't think I could talk right now.

"Okay second thing, don't let go of me okay, when we get pulled out they will try separate us but you hold onto me as long as possible okay? We may get split any second but I need you for as long as you can hold on. Never let me go Pipes." Her voice was starting to shake.

"I don't really know what to expect here, they are after me but they will use you to get to me, god I'm so sorry! Loving me has done nothing but cause you any pain, I'm so sorry."

"I'm not." I simply answered, she looked confused. "I'm not sorry for loving you Alex, every second is worth it, don't forget that." She placed her forehead against mine softly.

"Alex I'm scared." I whispered softly. Her eyes closed tightly as if it pained her to hear those words before she lifted her lips to my forehead and gave me a soft kiss.

"They won't hurt you Pipes, I won't let them."

"Alex I don't care about me! I can't even think about them hurting you it makes me feel sick, how are we going to get out of this?!"

"I don't know yet but I'm going to think of a way okay, do you trust me?"

"With my life." Alex swallowed hard after I said this, I could tell my choice of words affected her.

"I love you so much, we will be fine okay?" She said softly before claiming my lips with her own. We shared an extremely soft kiss, one that showed exactly how we felt.

"I love you Alex, too much. You have to save yourself baby, not just me, don't be the hero, I don't want to come out of here alone, I would rather die."

"Don't say that babe, don't ever say that." Alex cried, tears were forming in her eyes. "Pipes, I will do everything I can to keep you safe, you have to understand that."

"Well then you have to understand that I will do the same for you."

"Pipes please." I shut her up by kissing her again harder this time, we didn't part until we felt the engine go out.

"Remember what I told you." She gave me one last kiss before the doors opened.

(Alex's POV)

I placed myself in front of Piper as soon as the door opened, I grabbed one of her hands behind me.

"Out." One man demanded and started to reach for us.

"We can fucking get out on our own jesus!" I snarled and shuffled out the van pulling Piper behind me. One man tried to grab Piper causing me to unless a growl. A heard a laugh from behind me.

"Never could share could you Alex." Kubra smirked. "Leave them be." He said to the men before turning back to us. "Let's go." He motioned in the direction with his head. I kept Piper close to me as we walked and always slightly behind in case danger appeared in front of us. Kubra opened the door to a building which looked to be deserted and motioned for us to walk through. I walked in first and kept walking but it was pitch black and silent. I could hear Piper breathing softly into my ear, I squeezed her hand trying to comfort her.

"Kubra, what am I doing here? Why haven't you just killed me?" The lights came on as I spoke, we were in a tiny dirty room which had 3 doors leading off it one of which was the one we came in.

"What use to me are you if you are dead? Sit." He said to us, I turned and found an armchair behind Piper and I, I made her sit in it first and sat so my body was in front of hers. "You don't need to be on guard Alex, we aren't going to hurt her."

I didn't believe him, I didn't trust this man with anything.

"Piper is actually one of the reasons you aren't dead, if I had gone down then I would have had you killed but since I am still here I am in a good mood. I know you were trying to save your skin Alex and you did so without it actually affecting me so I'm being kind." I was shocked by his words and knew he didn't mean it 100%, he was trying to gain my trust, and it wasn't working.

"Why are we here then? Couldn't you have just sat down had a nice cup of tea and told me this instead of beating me in my apartment and bringing us here to the most disgusting place ever."

"Alex you know me, I never do things half-heartedly. So I have a proposition for you." Great, here we go. "I need you to come back." No no no, I couldn't.

"Did you forget I just got out of prison…I'm not going back to that shit."

"I only need you once Alex, you owe me."

"Why the hell do you need me?"

"No one else can do what you do. I have a particular female client who I need to invest in us, you get her to make a deal, transport some money, and we leave you alone."

"It's never that simple with you."

"Alex, I will keep my word, I don't care if you want to go off and live happy families now, do this one last job for me, you can have some of the profit too."

"What makes you think I am interested in this? Why would I help you?"

"If not we will kill Piper, simple as that." They knew they had me now, they knew I wouldn't say no.

"Alex." Piper said softly, I turned to look at her beautiful face.

"Look it's a big decision whether or not you want to kill your girlfriend, we will give you some time to decide." Kubra smirked before his men pulled both me and Piper up and shoved us into a side room before locking the door.

"Alex you can't…"

"Piper, you are not seriously telling me that I can't do this right! Did you not hear him, they will kill you! They will fucking kill you Piper! I have to do this, there is no other option, I am doing it."

"Alex please." She was crying, I gathered her into my arms.

"Piper, you know I have to do this, they said they would leave us after this, it will all be over. I can do this Pipes."

"But what if you get caught Alex! You will get sent straight back to prison, I don't want to be separated from you!"

"You will either be separated from me by bars or from being buried 6 feet under Piper, you make a decision." I was harsh I knew it, she was sobbing now. "Piper, please, I'm sorry, just calm down baby. I can do this, it will all be fine okay. Trust me." I pulled away from her and looked her in the eyes, I tried to communicate with her through eye movements, I knew they would be listening to us. "Trust me okay?" I said to her whilst widening my eyes, her eyebrows raised slightly and I moved my head in a small nodding motion.

"Okay." She said firmly. She knew I had a plan, I just couldn't share it with her yet.

(Piper's POV)

Alex was plotting something, I could see it, I followed her lead just like she said. She turned to the door and banged on it. It opened a few seconds later.

"I will do it, now can we go." She stated simply to Kubra.

"Of course, I will be in touch with more information, nice to have you back Vause." He smirked.

"I'm not back, now let us out of here."

"Fine, my boys will drive you back, it was nice seeing you Alex, you too Piper." He turned to look at me with a sickening smile. Alex just tugged me away from him. We followed some guys into the van and sat quietly the whole way home. When the van stopped we got out quickly and went up to our apartment in silence. As soon as the door was closed I was pulled into a tight hug by Alex. We didn't let go of each other for a while.

"It's all going to be okay Piper. I promise you." I nodded into her neck.

"What's your plan Alex?" I asked simply.

"We have those cops helping us right, I'm really not sure if this is worth the risk but I'm thinking we tell them about this whole thing and then I will kind of be undercover for them so when this deal goes down I get information for the cops about Kubra's ring and everything so when I do the deal I can get out and they will all get arrested."

"Brilliant, I will call them."

"Piper no, that's only an option. What if he doesn't go down for it? He will get us for sure Pipes. I could just do it without the cops and then it will all be over."

"But then there's a chance you could get caught."

"Yes there is that. Okay let me think." She paced for a few seconds before stopping. "Okay, when Kubra contacts me I mention how the police have been on my back and how I think it might endanger the deal, Kubra will act like he doesn't care, if he really wants me to do this then he will have me do it and then that way if they are arrested Kubra may think it was just because of them tracking me rather than me working with them to screw him."

"But won't Kubra still be pissed at you?"

"Yes but not as pissed. I think it's the safest option." She sighed.

"We don't really have any more options right now, it will have to do."

We decided to ignore the subject for the rest of our night, we could deal with it in the morning, tonight I just needed to get lost in Alex.