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Piper wasn't sure how it had happened but she found herself back in Alex's apartment.

After leaving the diner, the two of them had walked around the neighbourhood for a bit before they found themselves in front of Alex's building. Having, no other plans of her own, Piper agreed to come up and "hang". So far hanging out had consisted of making out like teenagers on the couch. And as much fun as it was, there was something that Piper needed to ask her about.

"So how's...this...going...to...work...?" asked Piper as Alex's mouth began to roam down the side of her neck and chin. They had yet to discuss how things at work where going to go. Like, she knew they would keep it professional. But maybe they should set some rules or something between them?

"How's what going to work?" asked Alex in between kisses. Her green eyes looking at Piper in puzzlement. "The sex?" She didn't know what else Piper could be referring too other then sex.

Piper's widened slightly before shaking her head vigorously at the brunette. "No! not the sex!" She still wasn't sure how that was going to work either, but that wasn't what she'd been asking.

"Work! " she hissed. "How is it going to work at work?"

Alex, who had been previously on top of the blonde, suddenly sat up and slipped her glasses back on. A sigh of sorts escaped from her lips as she looked over at the blonde. She could sense that fun-time was over as a serious expression appeared on the blonde's face. She actually wanted to talk about work now...out of all the things to talk about or not to talk about...

"Like...isn't there a no dating rule or something? How does that work? Like how do Mercy and Tricia make it work without Red going ape-shit on them?" Piper pressed her back into the armrest of the couch as she sat up and crossed her legs, facing Alex.

"Wow! Aren't we full of questions suddenly?" commented Alex. This was a first she had to admit. She'd never been stopped mid make out session to discuss work or anything really before.

"Well, don't you think it's something we need to at least talk about?" asked Piper, suddenly feeling defensive. "Since we're starting this whole...dating thing."

Alex just stared at Piper for a second. She'd no idea where all this was coming from. It just seemed sudden. This was only their second date. She couldn't help, but feel like Piper was talking about moving in together or something, not just about how things would work between them while at the bar.

"I think it's pointless..." admitted Alex.

"Pointless?!"

"Yeah...this whole conversation is pointless..."

"Why? because you just see me as some fucking plaything for you?" Piper knew she was jumping to conclusions here, that Alex was just trying to get into her pants and that afterwards she would just toss her to the side. But she couldn't help it. She liked Alex, but didn't want to get hurt in the process. If Alex just saw her as a fling, she wanted to know now.

"Well...I do want you as my plaything," joked Alex, trying to lighten the mood. She hated how serious it had gone so quickly.

"I'm fucking being serious Alex! Do you see this going somewhere?"

"Look...I can't answer that. And NO! It's not because I don't see it going anywhere. I see it going a lot of places, actually..." Alex's voice trailed off for a second as she tried to figure out what she trying to say to Piper. "I like you. I just don't see the point in having a whole conversation about the future and how this is going to work between us. Especially when it's still new, like really new!"

Piper couldn't help, but smile slightly. She guess it was a little crazy of her to bring up this whole conversation about the future of their relationship when it was just starting out.

"I guess, it is a little premature of me..." she admitted.

"Ya think?!" teased Alex with a smirk.

A blanket of silence fell over them as they met each other's eye. Leaning forward, Alex pressed her mouth softly against Piper's. They stayed like this for a moment longer before Piper pulled away.

"What?" asked Alex, sensing there was another question on the horizon.

"Well...how will this work tonight?" asked Piper.

"I dunno," murmured Alex with a shrug. "I'll bartend and you'll wait on tables."

"Yeah...but..."

"But what kid?" asked Alex as she once again leaned against the pillows of the couch. "I'm not going to do anything in front of Red...if that's what you're worried about. I need this job."

"I need this job too," whispered Piper, moving so that she was now seated close to Alex, slightly pressed up against her side.

"So why hasn't she fired Mercy and Tricia yet?" asked Piper out of curiosity after a moment had passed. "If she really doesn't allow for staff to date then why does she allow for them to do so?"

"I dunno...She likes Mercy," stated Alex as she casually stretched her arm and wrapped it around Piper's shoulder. "And is only keeping Tricia because of Nicky, really."

Piper nodded her head in understanding to this. She didn't know much about her boss really. Except that she was Russian and it was her way or the highway on most accounts.

"There wasn't always a rule that staff couldn't date," commented Alex. "She only started to enforce it a couple of years ago. For two years, now." She remembered back when she had first started to work at the bar, you could basically date or screw whoever you wanted on staff. She remembered clearly that Nicky had taken full advantage of that policy.

"What happened?" asked Piper with interest.

"You know Daya, right?" asked Alex as she turned her head to look at the blonde.

"Yeah...I met her on Sunday at the party..."recalled Piper. "She was the pretty Hispanic girl, who liked to draw manga comics."

Alex just nodded her head in reply to this before continuing on with her story. She'd no idea what manga comics were and wasn't really interested to find out. "Daya use to work at the bar. She was in the kitchen. She wasn't there that long...maybe a month or two before she started going out with Bennett, one of the bouncers at the time. He was new on staff too."

"Oh my god! Bennett worked at the bar too!" Piper couldn't help but be surprised to hear this. She'd wondered at first on how they all knew each other. It made perfect sense now, hearing how they all had previously worked together.

"Yeah. He was in the army previously and was friends with one of Red's sons through school or something like that," explained Alex. "Anyways, so Bennett or John as some people call him, was dating Daya. They fell in love and all that. But after four months or so, Daya found out she was pregnant. But...she didn't know who the father was!"

Piper's mouth hung open as she listened to Alex's story. She was shocked to hear that Daya had a kid. She was the same age as her.

"Wait! It get's better!" stated Alex with a smirk as she noted the look on Piper's face. "It turns out she cheated on Bennett with another staff member...Pornstache!"

"PORNSTACHE!? EW!"

"Exactly! Ew!"

"After Bennett found out what Daya did, he went berserk on Pornstache in front of the entire bar. Stormed in one night, yelling and cussing. Eventually a fight broke out between the two of them. Caused this whole fucking scene. Afterwards, Red fired Bennett on the spot and Daya quit shortly after."

"So wait...how does he still work there then...shouldn't he have gotten fired too?"

"You would fucking think so..."replied Alex. "But he seems to have something over Red's head or something. I dunno..." She shrugged her shoulders as she looked around the room. She didn't really pay much attention to what went on with Pornstache and Red afterwards that made her, let him keep his job.

"But after that little love triangle, Red made it a rule that staff was not allowed to date. However, most of the staff was already in relationships together by this point, so it didn't really work either. That's when Big Boo and Mercy were in the prime of their relationship."

Piper was silent as she studied Alex's profile, waiting for her to continue on. She loved to hear about the past drama of the bar.

"And after they broke up, Mercy of course moved on to the next thing...which was Tricia."

"But doesn't she care about the rule? Wasn't she afraid she would get fired?!" asked Piper in confusion.

"Mercy doesn't think the rule applies to her because she was here before it was enforced. So she does the fuck she wants. Plus Red ignores half the things that Mercy and Tricia due half the time. She just makes sure not to schedule them on the same shift and such...just like she did with Big Boo and Mercy after the break up." Alex knew that Red played favourites with her girls. And not having fired either Big Boo or Mercy yet showed that. However, neither had really screwed up big enough to disappoint the Russian. Red could go from loving you to hating you with the snap of your fingers if you did something to upset her.

"I don't think she likes me very much," whispered Piper after a moment had passed.

"Well...you haven't been there fucking long enough..." teased Alex towards the blonde.


Piper was surprisingly calm and relaxed that night at work.

She thought for sure she would be nervous working around Alex, knowing that Red could see them. She'd been afraid that she would be this open book of sorts. That she would have the words -ALEX written across her forehead, making it known to everyone that she liked the brunette. However, the night was going pretty normal so far. She'd only spilled one drink and mixed up an order. Alex was busy bartending while she waited tables along side Mercy. The two of them had hardly talked, except for exchanging orders.

Red was too busy talking and socializing with a table of men, the same table of men that Piper remembered seeing last week.

Piper watched Red through the corner of her eye as she moved around the room, serving. There was a huge smile plastered on the older woman's face as she let out a hearty laugh of sorts before saying something in Russian. No one was allowed to touch that table. That was another unspoken rule. Only Red interacted with that table unless told otherwise.

Piper had learned that lesson the hard way, when she approached the table of men earlier. Their table was in her section. However, Red had quickly shooed her away.

She couldn't help, but think again that Red didn't like her. Clearly, that group of men where of important status or something and Red didn't trust her enough with them. However, Mercy had informed her about the rule. The blonde had felt a little better after hearing this, but she couldn't help but think still that Red didn't like her. She saw the way the older woman interacted with the other girls. She was always some what smiling and joking with them. But with her, she always seemed cold and irrupt. She knew Alex said not to take it personally that she was still new here and Red would eventually warm up to her.

However, Piper couldn't shake the feeling that she'd done something wrong to offend the Russian woman.

As Piper continued to think about her relationship with her boss, a customer drew her attention.

"Another beer honey!"

Piper turned away from the table she'd been in the middle of clearing and looked over at the table behind her.

"No problem, Mr. Caputo!" spoke Piper with a smile towards the balding middle age man before turning back to the table she was in the middle of wiping down.

"Call me Joe!" He insisted with a smile.

Piper glanced over her shoulder at him again and smiled in return, "Joe."

Caputo was a regular at the bar. He worked at one of the near by business offices in security or something, she couldn't remember. Piper had met him on her second shift and he had shown up every shift since.

Piper checked on two other tables, taking orders before making her way to the bar.

"How can I help you?" asked Alex as she saw Piper approach.

"I need an apple martini, a sidecar and another Coors for ... Mr. Caputo!" Piper couldn't help but groan as she said the last order. She was use to being hit on at the bar by drunks but there was just something about Mr. Caputo or Joe as he insist she call him by, that gave her the creeps. He didn't hit on her in the obvious sense like she was use too. It was more of a shy subdued way where he was trying to show interested, but be friendly at the same time.

"Awhh," replied Alex nodding her head in understanding as she looked across the bar, towards Caputo's table. She grinned cheekily as her eyes fell back onto the blonde. "Good old Caputo!"

"He creeps me out!" whispered Piper harshly as she leaned over the surface of bar at Alex. "He was telling me, he was in some sort of band...Sideboob! Who the hell names their band Sideboob!?"

Alex let out a raspy chuckle as she reached for a bottle of whiskey and pulled down a clean glass from the shelf behind her. Caputo had been coming to the bar for years now. He was pretty friendly with most of the staff. His crush or whatever it was on Piper was innocent as ever. He was always hitting on the newest pretty thing that Red hired. His fixation on Piper would pass.

"If I had a band, I would name it something cool like The Pin-ups!" offered Alex as she placed the finished drink onto Piper's tray before reaching for another glass.

"The Pin-ups?!"

"Yeah, I love pin-up girls!" stated Alex as she gestured to the small tattoo on her right arm. "We could all dress in satin hot pants and wear our hair in these rad styles from the 40's and 50's."

Piper didn't know quite what to make of all this. She knew that Alex was this retro-style chick, but this was the first time she was hearing about her fantasy to have a band called The Pin-ups. "You've obviously thought of this before..."

"Just a little," admitted Alex with a smirk. Her eyes were full of mischief as she glanced quickly at the blonde before going back to making the martini. "When you grow up having a dad as some big shot drummer...you tend to think about starting your own band."

"I guess," murmured Piper in reply.

The two didn't say anything else to each other as Alex continued to make the drink and placed it down onto the tray before pouring the Coors for Caputo.

"If you are going to have some rockabilly band, you should be named something cooler sounding then The Pin-ups...like The Bettie Pages or Hep Kittens..." offered Piper casually to the brunette.

Alex couldn't help but be amused at what the blonde had just told her. Where they really discussing names for some non-existent band of hers?

"I like Hep Kittens!" she replied as she placed the pint glass down onto the tray.

"It's a way better name for a band than Sideboob!" Piper smiled at Alex as she took her full tray of drinks and began to walk away from the bar.


"Meet me outside..."whispered Alex seductively into Piper's ear as she placed a drink onto her tray. It was a few hours later and Alex's shift was almost up.

This took Piper by surprise.

She stood there dumbfounded as Alex winked playfully before disappearing behind the door which separate the main bar area to the back.

Piper stared at the door before shifting her eyes around the crowded bar, making sure no one was looking.

Of course though, no one was paying attention to her as she quickly took the tray and carried the drink over to the customer it belonged to.

She made sure to check on her others tables before slipping outside. Her heart picked up slightly as she walked passed the storage closet and kitchens, passed Red's office to the back door. She knew that she was entitled to a break and Big Boo was already here to take over Alex's shift. No one would really noticed that they where gone, but she couldn't shake the feeling that this was wrong.

Piper, ever since she was a kid, she'd played by the rules. She was never good at being bad and just being plain reckless.

She was a good girl.

However, as she pushed opened the door and felt Alex's hands on her...that all went out the window.

"Alexx?.." she stuttered in surprise.

"Ssshhh..."

Alex immediatly put her mouth on Piper's, kissing her deeply as her hands went to the blonde's waist. She pulled her away from the door and pressed her up against the wall. She'd been wanting to kiss her all shift.

As Piper felt Alex's mouth on her and was pressed up against the wall in a fire of passion she couldn't help, but think that being bad had never felt so good...so damn good...

Piper's hands flew to Alex's hair as her mouth began to press hard against hers. She didn't no where all this built up sexual tension was coming from, but she didn't dare to question it now.

They stayed like this for a few moments, kissing and touching before coming up for air.

Alex smiled sheepishly at Piper as she came to rest her forehead against the blonde's. "You don't know how long I've been waiting to do that."

"What? To kiss me?"

"Yeah," admitted Alex, bringing a hand up and lightly touching Piper's cheek.

"You couldn't wait a few minutes longer before both our shifts ended..." Piper was just teasing Alex as she continued to stare up at her.

"No, I couldn't," whispered Alex in a low voice before she began to nuzzle the blonde's neck.

Piper let out a girlish giggle as the feathery touches of Alex's lip tickled her skin. She'd always been ticklish along her neck. And this time served to be no different as Alex continued press kisses along the elegant scope of it.

"You smell good..." Alex's breath was warm against Piper's ear.

"Yeah?"

"Mmhmm..."moaned Alex as she once again nuzzle the blonde's neck. "Like vanilla."

Piper found her eyes closing as the sensation of Alex's mouth continued to take over her. Everything previous was gone from her mind. Red ignoring her. Caputo hitting on her. The guilt of leaving her tables to make out with the bartender...All of it was gone as warmth filled her stomach, creating a wave of pleasure over her.

As they continued to get lost in the feel and touch of each other, they didn't hear the back door being opened.

"Yo! Vause! Red's lookin' for ya!"

"Shit!" cursed Alex as she pulled herself away from Piper at this and looked over at Big Boo.

"Well. Well. Well. What do we've here?" There was a smug look on Big Boo's face as she crossed her arms over her chest and continued to stare at Alex and Piper.

Alex just glared at the other woman in annoyance. She adjusted her glasses before taking a deep breath.

"What does Red want?" she asked, ignoring Big Boo's other question. She was not in the mood to be teased about her love life at the moment. It was none of Boo's business what her and Piper had just been doing.

Piper didn't dare to look at Big Boo or Alex as her cheeks flushed with embarrassment at being caught in the act. She kept her eyes focused on her feet as she listened to the exchange of the other two.

"I dunno!" replied Big Boo. "She didn't say. Just asked where you were. I thought you just came out here for a smoke, but turns out it was for a whole lot more..." She wagged her eyebrows suggestively at Alex.

Alex once again just glared at Boo with annoyance before casting a sideways glance at Piper. God, this was not how this was suppose to go, she thought. She fought the urge to say something to the blonde. She didn't want to give Big Boo anything more she could hold over her than she already did.

The brunette sighed before she walked passed Big Boo and headed back inside to find Red.

"I should get back..."whispered Piper as she suddenly lifted her head and looked at Big Boo.

"Oh no...Hold it there Blondie!" spoke Big Boo as she blocked Piper from passing her in the doorway.

"What?" asked Piper was an edge of annoyance in her tone.

"Let's talk about what I just saw..."Big Boo licked her lips slightly as a smirk spread across her features. "I didn't know you liked yourself some pussy. I totally had you pegged as a straight shooter!"

"My sexuality is none of your business!" snapped Piper.

"Oh! That's where you're wrong! It's everyone's business here!"


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