They wake up the next morning. Piper sits up. The sheets are tangled, but that's to bed expected after the night they had. Piper orders room service, and returns to the sleeping brunette in the bed. She checks her phone, and texts Nicky to make sure all is good. Nicky let's her know that everything is fine, and that Ella had a good night. No problems. Piper feels some relief.

The room service arrives. Blueberry pancakes, croissants, orange juice and fresh juice. She brings the tray and Alex quickly gets up.

"Mmm, looks so good." She says, grabbing a fork and digging into the pancakes. "Amazing." She says, and then picks up another piece for Piper to eat.

"So, I have that meeting with the store at 12, hopefully it's done by 2, and then we have dinner reservations, so wear something extra sexy." She says, winking at Piper. "Then I was thinking maybe we could go out for the night…on the town." She says, raising one of her eyebrows.

"Ooh, that sounds fun. We can go dancing!" Piper says

"Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It'll be fun." She says, smiling at Piper.

Alex goes and takes a shower, and gets ready for her meeting while Piper flips through the channels, munching on the food that's left on the tray. Alex come out, towel wrapped around herself, and her hair and makeup already done.

"Babe, you look hot." Piper says raking her eyes up and down Alex.

"Yeah, well I'll look like a hot business woman here in a minute. She goes and gets her meeting outfits from her bag. A black pencil skirt and a white blouse. She changes into that and fixes her hair so it's just right and throws on her black high heels. "So, what do you think?" she asks, turning around so Piper can see a 360 view of the outfit.

"Gorgeous. They'll never be able to say no to you in that."

"Let's hope you're right. Wish me luck!" she says, giving Piper a quick kiss and then heading for the door.

"Good luck!" Piper yells, and the door closes.

Piper decides to go and work out in the hotel gym. She changes into workout clothes and some tennis shoes that she brought, and puts her iPod armband on and heads down to the gym. She works out for an hour and decides to go back up to the room. When she walks in she is greeted by a large bouquet of flowers sitting on the table in the foyer area. A note is sticking on the top. It says: Pipes, thank you for coming with me. Make sure you put on something sexy and have your dancing shoes ready for tonight. I heart you. –Al

Piper smiles and places the card down. How sweet of Alex.

She takes off her clothes and jumps in the shower. It's 20 minutes later that she gets out and walks out into the bedroom to see Alex sitting there with her hands behind her back. "Hey, you're back. How'd it go?!"

"Well…" she brings out a bottle of champagne from behind her "It was great! We got the store!" she pops the champagne, and licks the neck of the bottle to clean up the overflow. She grabs two glasses that are sitting on the nightstand and pours Piper a bit, and then herself. "To PoPi." Alex says, and they clink their glasses together.

"So good." Piper says, quickly polishing off her glass.

"Yeah it is." She stands up to give Piper a kiss. "So, make sure you're ready to go by 5. That gives us an hour to get to the restaurant. You're going to love it." Alex says, smiling

"I'm sure." Piper says "Can't wait."

It takes Piper two hours to get ready, which Alex expected. Hair, makeup, picking out an outfit and then contemplating whether or not it was the right one for a solid half hour. "Pipes, hurry up. We have to leave in 20 minutes."

"I know, I know. I'm almost ready." A few minutes later, Piper walks out in a skin tight black dress that cuts off mid thigh.

"Holy shit." Is all Alex says

"You like?"

"I love it. You look amazing." She says, placing her hands on Piper's waist, and looking her up and down. "Wow."

"You look beautiful too, Alex."

Alex is wearing a navy blue dress, and it hugs in all the right places.

They put on their shoes, and grabs their clutches and head out the door. Alex had called for a cab, incase they drink too much, they don't have to worry about their rental car.

Piper calls Nicky on the ride over to check on Ella.

"Chapman!" Nicky answers

"Hey, Nick, how's everything going?"

"Good, we are getting ready for dinner. You want to talk to her?"

"Yeah, that would be great!"

"Here, I'll put you on speaker phone." Babbling and giggling can immediately be heard and Piper and Alex's faces both light up.

Piper is holding the phone between her and Alex's ears.

"Hey Monkey!" Alex says first.

"Hey baby!" Piper says "Are you being good for Aunt Nicky?"

Squeals and laughing is heard in the background. "If she could answer you, she would say yes. She's been great. No problems at all." Nicky says.

"Well we just wanted to check in and see how everything was going. We'll be on our cells if you need us."

"Okay, sounds good."

"Bye Ella!" They both say. "Love you, baby!" and Piper ends the call. She feels relieved. She can go out and have a good time now.

They pull up to a very nice restaurant on the water, and Alex helps Piper out of the car.

"Vause, table for 2" Alex says to the hostess

"Right this way, ladies." And she leads them to a beautifully decorated table with pink rose petals and a gorgeous view of the water. Alex pulls out Piper's chair and then goes and sits down.

"Al, this is amazing." Piper says, reaching her hand across the table, and Alex grabs it, rubbing her thumb over it.

A waiter comes over and pours them both glasses of white wine, and then takes their order. They both order grilled fish, and rice, with steamed vegetables.

"Are you having a good time?" Alex asks

"Yes. I'm having an amazing time. I didn't realize how much we needed this."

"Yeah, we really did. Sometime you just need together time...alone. No baby. Just us." She runs Pipers leg with her foot, smiling. "You excited for tonight?" she smiles at Piper.

"Yes! I can't wait to go dancing!" Piper says, her face lighting up.

They continue talking and a few minutes later, their food comes out.

"Al, this looks incredible." Piper says. She takes a bite. "Oh my God, ugh, it's so good." She says, closing her eyes.

"It's amazing." Alex says, laughing at her wife's reaction to really good food.

They finish their dinner, and sit and talk for a while longer, watching the sun set on the water. It's beautiful.

"So, you want to get going? I know a couple places we could go."

Let's do it." Piper says smiling. Alex takes her hand and leads her out of the restaurant and to a waiting cab.

They pull up outside of a club with a huge line out front.

"There's no way we're getting in." Piper says, looking a the line of people.

"Trust me, we'll get in." Alex says, taking her hand and pulling her behind her. Alex walks to the bouncer and says something to him, and he automatically let's them in.

"How'd you do that?" Piper asks, totally amazed.

"I know people." She says, winking at her.

"I feel like I'm 23, and no time has passed." Piper says

"Well baby, this is so much better than when you were 23. Trust me." Alex says, pulling her in for a kiss. They walk to the bar and Alex orders herself a martini and Piper a margarita, because the woman loves her tequila.

They have a couple drinks, and Alex can tell Piper is feeling the alcohol. She grabs Alex's hand and pulls her out onto the dance floor.

They dance, Piper grinding into Alex, and dancing all over her. They dance for a long time, and eventually Piper has to go and sit down.

"Another drink, babe?" Alex asks

"No, no more drinks. Too many drinks." Piper says, trying to catch her breath

"Lightweight" Alex says, nudging at her arm.

"What time is it?" Piper asks

"Uh, midnight."

"Oh my God. We're so old. Tired by midnight!" Piper laughs

"Ready to go?" Alex says, looking into Piper's eyes

"Take me home." Piper says, reaching for Alex's hands, and they leave the club. They make it back to the hotel and Alex helps Piper out of her dress and then gets out of her own. Piper doesn't even wait to get dressed, she flops onto the bed and lays there, motioning for Alex to come lay with her. Alex doesn't bother with the pajamas either, and scoots into bed, wrapping Piper up in her arms.

"I love you she says, placing soft kisses on Pipers neck."

"I love you too." Piper says in a sleepy voice. Alex grabs the sheet, and pulls it over them and shuts out the light. Piper is asleep in a minute and Alex follows soon after.

Hey, so double update since I drove home 8 hours for Thanksgiving break yesterday, and couldn't post. Sorry about that! Hopefully you liked Chapter 20, and this one. Thanks for your patience with the update! Please review because they're great to wake up to. Thanks for reading!