Alex's P.O.V
"You are my life." Those words constantly echo through my mind as I make my long walk from C block to the bus that will be transporting me down to Ohio. I'm allowed my mesh bag of things I've collected while at Litchfield but to be honest I don't bring much. My bag is considerably smaller than other inmates from C black and also some from D block who are making the trek down to Ohio. Glancing at my bag in the seat next to me I immediately notice the yellow envelope which holds some of the best small notes that I've received from Piper. My mind is cast back to less than two weeks ago when I told her of the transfer and then subsequently broke her heart by saying the move was a good thing. Needless to say she wasn't at my last visitation yesterday, not that I expected her to be. In all honesty I'm just hoping that she is happy, if Zelda makes her happy then I'm glad. I'm also sad that I can't be with her and that's how our problems seemed to start, although I can't say that I made things easy by making our and sleeping with one of the guards at the prison, that was a bad idea but at the time I just needed the release.
Slipping my cuffed hands towards the mesh bag I grab the envelope just to see it and its contents, 'Because you giggle when you fart', 'Because you floss regularly and who does that?' and my personal favourite that I found; 'Because without you my life has no purpose, your my life'. Smiling to myself I tuck the offending objects back in their space before shutting the mesh bag one last time and settling in for the long journey from New York to Ohio which is close to ten hours in this stinking bus. At that particular moment the bus hits a giant pothole and my head is slammed into the seat in front of me, instantly I hear a crack and know my glasses have cracked somewhere. "Oh fuck!" I whisper shout to which a C.O stands near the front and just my luck it's the bitch who applied for my transfer to Ohio. "Did you say something inmate?" she questions looming over me. I glance at her name tag, her name forever ingrained my mind, McCullough. "Nothing, I said nothing." Is all I mutter as she nods stiffly and walks towards the back of the bus checking the other ten people I'm on here with. She is the most confusing person on the planet though, she asked for my transfer because I broke up our hook-ups and then she comes on the ten hour ride even after she assisted in ruining my relationship with Piper, I would be mad at her or more mad as she knew I needed to stay in New York to be near Piper since she's on probation and can't leave the state of New York, but who am I to argue with a CO even if I am Alex Vause.
Piper's P.O.V
The drive home from Litchfield was torture, I was forced to pull to the side of the road ten times to cry or wipe my nose or eyes. I can't believe that Alex would say that her transfer is good for us, after all we've been through. The more I thought about her and how we've grown the more upset it makes me feel.
When I first met Alex she was an international drug lord's second in charge. The first time I travelled with her to Europe I was shocked at how much 'produce' she was able to move in just a few days and what's more is the money she was making. But I wasn't with Alex for the drugs nor the money, I loved the danger and adventure that being with her gave me. I'd carried money for her across the border one time and it made me feel alive until I freaked out when the case didn't arrive with me. We had made out in hotel pools at 10:00am in the morning in France but by 1:00pm she was in a meeting with some of Europe's most prominent drug lords. Our days were full of her business but our nights were ours to spend; hours to spend loving each other, discovering each other and planning for the day when all this may end. I could never have imagined how my life would change once we broke up but as time passed the pain and hurt became less that was until I was named as a participant in the drug scheme. Fifteen months, that's what I was sentenced to when someone opened their mouth and spoke about me to someone. Sentenced quickly and sent to Litchfield, I think my fiancé was taking it rougher than I was, I had always known there was a chance of being caught, but the adventure drew me in, it opened my eyes to a world outside the rigid life of white privilege that I'd grown up with.
I must admit that prison wasn't the most glamorous place to be and I was constantly screwing up, I did it my first day there. I insulted the food cooked by the red haired Russian. But then my life changed, I was thrown the biggest curve ball of them all when 'she' arrived. Her black hair shining like a new penny and her glasses providing that comfort, I almost went to her but then it hit me that I was there because of her. Running for my sanity I was cornered outside, she greeted me like an old friend as I struggled to compose myself and not completely fall apart. That struggle continued as 'she' made new friends, ate three meals a day because she was smart enough to not piss off the Russian. A simple change in my job schedule forced our friendship, but a comment from the CO Healy forced me to fight for Alex and I'm not ashamed to say that I dragged her to the Church, I kissed her like a sex-starved woman needing a little comfort, my love for her found a new beginning. Always equal in our goals, our love only grew the longer we spent time together. Through it all we grew stronger, our foundation was solid, solid until the Litchfield Riot forced us into a bunker that Frieda had made. Here watching Alex go through so much pain from a guard and have her ulna snapped I took my opportunity to use a phone and tell my mom how much Alex means to me, how much I love her and how I am going to marry her. So that's what I did, I proposed to Alex with a can of baked beans, we were moved to Maximum security prison and before I was released we got prison-married. Which is the problem leading me to right now, Alex wants to set me free.
As I throw my head back against the head rest once the car finally stops outside my new apartment I still can't believe what transpired today. I knew that it would be tough to be with Alex and continue our lives just like we did inside those cement walls, but I never expected her to walk away from me. Yes, she was setting me free, but I couldn't comprehend how she thought that setting me free would change the way I feel about her and the way I love her. She's my person, my one true love and the only person I can ever love the way I love Alex is Alex. I could never love another woman like that nor could any woman ever make me feel the way Alex makes me feel. I love her, she is my life and the new Piper Chapman fights for what she wants. That fight began the moment I met Alex Vause in that tiny bar all those years ago, but this time round I won't run, she needs me and I love her. Within three weeks my probation is over and I'm free to move states. Leaving absolutely everything behind including my newly reconciled relationship with my father, who hates Alex for landing me in prison to begin with, and then I'm gone. Mom gave me her car and I'm travelling to Columbus Ohio, I have no idea what is there for me in terms of work or a place to live, all I can think about is my wife, Alex Vause. She is my one true love and wherever she goes or needs to go I vow to always be there for her, even if she does have four years left.