Authors Note: Thank you for all the reviews. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Once again I do not own any of these characters.
The party was just about over and everyone had left, except for Nicky, Lorna, and Red. Nicky and Lorna wanted to let Red stay with them but their spare bedroom would be taken over by Lorna's cousin who was coming to visit in a day. Red told them it was no problem she would just got stay in a half-way house.
"Whoa there is no way you are going to stay there" Alex jumped in.
"You can stay here, we have the extra room." Piper chimed in
"No I don't want to be a bother" Red told them shaking her head.
"You wouldn't be a bother, we would love to have you" Alex told her and gave her a look saying don't bother arguing because you won't win type of look.
After a few minutes of arguing back and forth Red finally gave into Alex and Piper's offer, Nicky and Lorna said goodbye and told Alex she would see her at work on Monday. Red took her bags that she had with her upstairs and Alex took Piper in her arms and asked "Are you tired baby?"
Piper nodded her head and gave Alex a quick kiss "I'm okay, but can't say the same for Sofia she is out like a light" Piper said with a smile while she pointed at the couch where the little girl was sleeping.
Alex smiled "I'll take her upstairs" Alex told her while she picked the girl up in her arms and carried her upstairs.
Piper was in the kitchen cleaning the last of the silverware used from the party when she heard Red speak up from behind her "Thank you for letting me stay, if I become a bother just tell me and I will look elsewhere." Red told her and Piper laughed and shook her head.
"You will not be a bother, we will love having you. It is the least we can do with everything you have done for us. Plus it will give you time to spend with Shania and Sofia." Piper told her with a smile as Red smiled back loving the idea.
Red helped Piper finish cleaning up before she excused herself and went to bed herself. Pipe was in bed reading when Alex came back in the room from feeding Shania, Piper watched as Alex climbed into bed and Alex turned and gave her a look before she asked "What?"
Piper smiled "You're amazing"
Alex raised her eyebrow in that very Alex Vause fashion and asked "And why am I amazing?"
Piper placed her bookmark inside her book and set it on the nightstand and curled up close to Alex "Because anyone else would just want alone time with everything we have been through and you were the first to tell Red she can stay here." Piper told her before she placed a kiss on her neck.
"Well I don't see it as a problem, and would love to have her. Do you mind?" Alex asked
"Not at all" Piper whispered before she gave her wife a passionate kiss. When the kiss ended they both cuddled up close to each other and turned off the light and went to sleep.
Monday morning while Alex was at work she knew that Piper and Alex's one year wedding anniversary was coming up and Alex wanted to do something special for Piper. She had one thing in mind but she had no idea if they even allowed people to do it. Alex did her searching online, read the reviews, she called the number on the website and asked if they would allow a private event and they told her yes. That was all Alex needed to know before she booked her and Piper a trip to California. Alex filed out her days that she would be taking off, and planned everything out. She knew this would make Piper happy, and if it made Piper happy then she was happy. Alex filled out the days she would be missing from work and then went back to her work.
A month had flown by quickly, Shania was becoming more aware of her surroundings each day, Alex would make sounds at her and she would mimic each one of them. Carol Chapman had agreed she would come and stay at the house to help Red with the children, and give her time to bond with Red. Piper knew they were going on vacation and just like their honeymoon she had no idea where to. Alex and Piper's hair was growing back fast but it seemed like Alex's was growing faster.
Alex and Piper had said goodbye to their family and made their way to the airport. "Can you please tell me where we are going?" Piper begged her the moment they pulled out of the driveway.
Alex laughed and shook her head "You are just so impatient, I said no you will find out in a few short hours." Alex assured her and Piper pouted "And you say you married a five-year old" Alex added with a laugh.
Just like on their honeymoon Alex didn't let Piper see or hear anything that would give her a clue about where they were going. The flight to California was a long one but felt short. They arrived at San Francisco International Airport and when they were collecting their bags Piper looked at her with such a look Alex was pretty sure she had never seen before. "What's wrong Pipes?" Alex asked
"Nothing but why San Francisco?" Piper asked
"You'll find out soon enough" Alex told her while she took her wife's hand and led her out of the airport. Alex had rented a car and they drove to them to Hotel Vitale, a fancy hotel Alex had stayed at back in the days of the cartels.
They had just gotten back from dinner when Alex told her "Pipes, we really should head to sleep we have to be up at 4:30, to be at the place before 6:30."
Piper's eyes went wide "What do you mean 4:30, 4:30 in the morning Alex are you crazy?"
Alex winked "Crazy for you babe" Alex told her while she walked over and wrapped her arms around Piper before she added "And yes we do need to be up that early, but don't worry you will love it"
Morning came too early for them both, Alex woke up an hour before she was supposed to so she turned off the alarm and decided to wake Piper up herself. Alex began to kiss Piper's neck while she moved her hand slowly down her body. The one good thing about being alone they got to sleep naked in each other's arms not having to worry about anyone interrupting them. Piper stirred softly but didn't wake up, so Alex began to suck on her neck while she moved her hand to in between Piper's legs and traced circles on the inside of her thighs.
Piper moaned softly and Alex stopped sucking on her neck to see Piper's eyes flutter open slowly. "Happy one year anniversary, I love you" Alex beamed with a smile and then gave her a deep passionate kiss.
Piper moved her hips softly trying to get Alex where she wanted her but Alex wouldn't comply "Happy anniversary too, I love you" Piper smiled while she leaned her head back after she broke the kiss.
Alex giggled and pulled her body away all together "No we have to get ready to go, tonight I promise" Alex said with a wink and then went into the bathroom to shower.
It didn't take them long to get ready, and before they knew it they were on the way to wherever Alex was taking them. Alex pulled off the highway and turned down some dirt road and Piper finally spoke up "Okay I know you're not going to tell me but last time we went down some old road you were nearly raped and killed." Piper warned and Alex placed her hand on her leg.
"Pipes relax it's nothing like that we are almost there." Alex told her and just then they pulled up to a beach shack.
Alex shut the car off and got out and walked over to Piper's side and opened the door for her. They walked hand and hand to the door and walked inside. "You must be Alex Vause" A blonde suffer boy announced when they walked in.
"Yes I am, and this is my wife Piper" Alex told him while she shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you, I am Danny and this man is my father Richard" Danny told them while his father walked out of his office.
"Nice to meet you both" Alex told them
"Are we ready to go?" Richard asked
"Go where Alex, what is happening?" Piper asked with a confused look.
"You'll see" Alex told her while both women followed Richard and Danny out back to their boat, they got on board and went a total of 30 miles off the shore of Farallon Islands.
"Alex what is this?" Piper asked once again.
At that exact moment Danny began to lower a large steel cage into the water "I know how much you wanted to go down in a cage and swim with sharks. The not baby ones" Alex told her with a chuckle before she went on. "With everything we have been through what you have been through I wanted to make our one year special. So kid we are swimming with sharks." Alex told her and Piper gasped with a smile from ear to ear.
"Are you kidding?" Piper asked and Alex shook her head "Oh my god, but you told me I was crazy and watching too much shark week." Piper told her in shook.
Alex laughed "Kid I thought you were crazy when you jumped off that waterfall that one time. And I thought you were crazy many times since then, but you are my kind of crazy. You have always done what I wanted to do, you stuck by my side during all those crazy times back in the day so this is my way of doing what you want to do as to say thank you. And if you want to go swimming with great whites then we are swimming with great whites. I love you" Alex told her and Piper jumped into her arms and kissed her.
Both women got into the gear, and got into the cage. Danny and Richard explained everything to them before they went down. Even though you couldn't see Piper's smile she was grinning from ear to ear as the cage was lowered into the water.
Neither woman knew how long they were down there, but they were having fun just waiting, Piper wished she could call out for the shark to join them but she couldn't. Alex watched in the far distance a long large figure start to make its way toward them and she could literally hear the Jaws theme song in her head. Piper must have spotted it to because she started hitting Alex in the arm and pointing at the figure. "Oh please let it be a dolphin" Alex thought to herself.
As the figure swam closer the Jaws theme song got louder in Alex's head and Piper was swimming for joy. The great white came up to the cage and looked at Alex dead in the eye "Holy shit I am going to die" Alex was thinking but her wife was thinking the complete opposite.
"This is so fucking awesome" Piper thought to herself while the shark turned to swim around the cage, and of course Piper didn't listen to the rules, Danny had told them to keep their body parts inside the cage at all times. But what does Piper Vause do, the complete opposite, Piper put her arm through the cage and petted the side of the sharks body.
"Oh fuck why can't my wife ever listen" Alex thought while she pulled Piper's arm back inside.
After a while another shark spotted the cage and swam over and now Alex really did think she was going to have a heart attack, but not her wife she was having the time of her life if she could stay down here for the rest of her life she probably would. Shortly after the second shark arrived a dolphin came swimming over and scared the shark away. "Oh thank god" Alex thought to herself while Piper once again stuck her hand out of the cage to pet the dolphin.
The time flew too fast for Piper, but not fast enough for Alex when they felt the cage begin to be taken out of the water. "Have fun?" Danny asked when the cage was fully out of the water and Alex and Piper were getting out.
"A blast, we saw two great whites and a dolphin" Piper beamed like a kid in the candy store.
While Danny and Richard were getting the cage out, Alex wrapped her arms around Piper's waist from behind and whispered in her ear "You are fucking crazy"
Piper turned in her arms "You said that when I jumped of the waterfall too. Thank you for this Al, I love you" Piper told her while she kissed her.
Authors Note: Well I hope you all liked this chapter, the waterfall part is from Piper Kerman's memoir. I wish I could check exactly where Piper jumped off the waterfall but my mother is reading my book. Anyway, Alex aka Nora thought she was crazy for doing it. Please review and let me know what you all think and thanks again for taking the time out of your lives to read my story you all are amazing.