After the War, Hermione found a way to create beauty from pain. She joined magic and ink to create living tattoos. Can she set aside the past to help Draco find beauty in his seemingly inescapable pain? Rated T for language because let's be honest, I'm crass and can't help it.

It's been five years since they saw each other. They moved on and they're good. This is about to change.

Alex Vause is an English teacher who is gradually losing love for everything around her. When Piper Chapman is hired as her new colleague, Alex's life lights up. (I can't write these summaries without them sounding clichéd as s***, so here's the facts: slow burn, plenty of exposition. Sexual content coming up, some bad language. Prompts from Vausemaniac and Jamie Jay.)

Piper left Alex in Paris 4 years ago and they haven't spoken since. 2 years after Paris, Piper was sent to prison for 12 months for carrying drugs across international borders. Alex wasn't in prison with Piper. Now free, Piper is in business with Polly as they run a new soap business in New York. It seems as though Alex isn't quite ready to let go yet. Please review !

It's been two months of agony for Piper Chapman and she is struggling to cope, but when Winter arrives, it brings with it Alex Vause and something neither of them was prepared for. Expect some solid Vauseman and shenanigans along the way.

Dr. Chapman is a leading neurosurgeon completely focused on her career, with no time for life's frivolities. Alex, a paramedic, is a frivolity the good doctor finds herself making time for. Vauseman plays doctor. T for now but M is coming. Excuse the pun. Ps. Slooooow burn.

AU: Piper Chapman and Alex Vause are two of the hottest prospects in the interminable world of education; Chemistry, their subject of choice. However, when each woman begins her new job vying against the other for the Head of Department job, the explosive sparks created between them may just lead to more than just a burning flame. Teacher x Teacher.

RATING NOW CHANGED. Whoever says life is easy has never truly lived ... This was Piper's current mantra. Four years out of Litchfield Piper's life has changed again, not for the better and she doesn't understand why. All she wants is an answer but does she really want to know the truth?

What if Diane Vause hadn't died the day Piper left, but instead a month or two later? What if that anger and abandonment wasn't wrapped up in the breakup? What if they still hadn't spoken since Paris, and Alex is alone when she gets the news...and her first instinct is to call her mom to talk about it, but her second is to call Piper. Canon divergence, alternate timeline. Two shot.

Each person chooses their own medicine. Alex/Piper.

Piper is really stressed lately, so Polly gives her a coupon for a full body massage. Guess who's the masseur...[Smut will come to those who wait]

It's a funny feeling, and an even stranger exchange of words, that somewhere in the midst, grow appropriate. Whatever they've done, however they've tangled themselves, it's been done together. The words always and intended run through Alex's mind. It's some form of permanent, some flicker of forever. They're not going anywhere.

Ex-drug dealer, ex-girlfriend, ex-daughter, ex-con: Alex Vause's first days and weeks after being released from prison, one step at a time. Alex/Piper because ugh.