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The two weeks in which Piper is gone come to an end, and although she hadn't been there in person, the blonde ensured she kept tabs - as best as she could - on her girlfriend and her well-being.
Since taking the brunette home after visiting her at her mother's grave, Piper could only stay until the next morning; catching a flight out of state wasn't what she ideally wanted to be doing, but it was something Alex insisted she went along with - especially considering she missed her earlier one out of guilt.
Her working schedule was gruelling and long, and with the time differences she encountered throughout the weeks she was gone, the contact with her girlfriend wasn't as available as she would have liked.
Tired from her final flight for the time being, Piper is picked up by a driver before she sits back in the car's luxury leather seats. Pulling out her phone, she goes to call the person that's been on her mind but holds back. She had told Alex that she would be back the following evening, but in having had her flight changed to the morning, she planned on surprising the older woman.
Her main hope is that her girlfriend isn't busy; when they did have the chance to talk throughout the week, Alex was busy dealing with a new client - a female client - that - although she didn't want to openly admit it - stirred levels of uncertainty. The woman - according to Alex - is irritable and demanding when it comes to how she wants her work laid out, and no matter how many times the brunette offers some form of feedback, her client seems to think otherwise, instead attempting to file extra meetings.
Whenever she would call, the brunette often seemed spaced out and would only mention her work, and despite the fact that Piper knows she can trust her girlfriend, it doesn't stop her innate levels of self consciousness and jealousy to take over.
Arriving home at her apartment, the blonde quickly drops off her suitcase, grabs her car keys and heads to her vehicle. The drive to Alex's work place is slower than she expected; she'd momentarily forgotten about the traffic that surrounds the area in which her girlfriend works in, but by the time she finds a space to park, the number of people on the roads is the last thing on her mind.
Getting out of her car, the blonde heads into Alex's work building whereby the workers - most of whom she's rather familiar with - greet her upon entry. Stepping into the empty lift up to the floor in which her girlfriend works on, Piper brushes her outfit down to ensure she's somewhat presentable considering she had just gotten off a long flight. She's wearing a black blazer with matching office trousers and heels that complement a light blue shirt - an outfit that she had specifically chosen knowing how much Alex loves her in formal office attire.
Undoing an extra button from the top of her shirt, the blonde steps out of the elevator and walks down the long corridor until she reaches the door at the end she was looking for.
Upon knocking lightly three times, she twists the door handle and pushes open the wooden barrier, excited to see the person that had been invading her thoughts throughout the last two weeks.
Piper's smile soon drops, as when she enters the room, her girlfriend doesn't look up, instead she is still in an in depth conversation with a client. It isn't necessarily the brunette's lack of response that irritates Piper, it's the fact that another specific female client - blonde hair similar to her own - is the one catching Alex's attention.
The brunette is seated in her normal office chair whereby the smaller blonde - who is wearing a navy skirt and blouse - is standing next to Alex, leaning over her as they both read over a piece of paper that is lying on the desk. Alex obviously is too focused on whatever she's writing to look up, and considering what comes out of her mouth in hearing the door open, she was obviously awaiting the arrival of her assistant.
"You can leave them on the sofa over there. Thanks Allison."
The comment causes Piper to raise her eyebrows - feeling slightly agitated that her girlfriend hadn't looked up, and in seeing the shorter woman standing next to Alex look up, deliver a smug smile, and then look back down at the paper in front of them, Piper's blood begins to boil.
"Last time I checked, I'm not called Allison," is all the blonde says, trying hard not to give off a smirk herself at the sight of Alex's head snapping upwards at the sound of her voice.
"Pipes-" the brunette responds while giving off a toothy smile, instinctively going to move her chair, but seemingly having a limited range of movement considering her client is practically draped over her in which invading her personal space.
"Sorry," the smaller blonde says to Alex yet not making an effort to move back, instead turning her head over to Piper. "Have we already ran over?"
"Oh, no," Piper says, lifting her hands into the air. "Please, continue. I can come back."
"No - it's fine, we were just finishing up here," Alex says, managing to successfully push her chair backwards from her desk.
"Alex is this due tomorrow. We need to finish it," the smaller blonde says, sounding somewhat worried.
"It's perfectly fine as it is, Liz," the brunette says, turning towards her girlfriend. "I'll be one minute."
Piper, meanwhile, doesn't dare make eye contact with the brunette, instead gluing her eyes onto the woman who is staring down her girlfriend's top, obviously trying to get an eye-full of her cleavage.
"Listen, Liz," Alex again begins, turning back to her client as she stands from her chair and places a hand on her upper arm. "We've been through this. Just send it over and then I'll get back to you tomorrow."
"That's not what we agreed on; you-" the younger woman begins to challenge, causing Piper's restraint to break.
"You know, I'll just leave you two to it," she voices, delivering a fake smile before turning to leave the room.
"Piper!" she hears Alex calling but proceeds to leave the room, not wanting to make Alex look bad in front of her client.
The blonde soon hears the sound of the door reopening and another echo of her name. She stops where she's walking down the private corridor that's lone possession is Alex and her assistant's working spaces, and turns around.
"Alex - it's okay. Go and finish your work with Liz," she says, placing a dreamy tone filled with sarcasm on the blonde woman's name.
"Did you not just hear that whole conversation? We were just finishing up."
"It didn't look like that to me."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"She obviously likes you, Alex," Piper rolls her eyes, shaking her head sideways to emphasise her point.
"Piper - she works with me."
"So did I and look where that took us," the blonde replies sharply.
"Piper that's different. You're my girlfriend," Alex sighs, pushing her hair back with her right hand before taking a step closer to reach out for the blonde's hand. "Will you just please come back inside?"
As Piper goes to give her response, the two are no longer alone in the hallway.
"Alex I think we could-" the high-pitched voice rings throughout their ears.
"Can't you see we're in the middle of something here?!" Piper asks, the anger in her tone evident.
"Well we were also in the middle of something too before you rudely interrupted," the smaller blonde snaps back, tilting her head to the side.
"Oh what could be more important than you trying to subtly fuck your colleague,?" Piper says sarcastically, rotating her neck while rolling her eyes.
"Why would that matter to you anyway?" the smaller woman asks, something that agitated Piper more; she didn't admit that trying to sleep with Alex wasn't her motive.
"When it's me that gets to fuck her when we go back home together, it matters."
"Jesus where did you find this girl, I bet she's real fun," the younger woman scrunches her face as she looks over at Alex.
Before the brunette gets a chance to step in and defend her girlfriend, she's beaten to it, as when Piper takes a few steps forward and angles her body, she pushes the other woman so that her back is against the wall and begins to talk in a low whisper.
"I would let you in on a little secret about what goes on between us back on that desk you were working on, but you're right: where is the fun in that?"
The small blonde - now enraged by how Piper had embarrassed her - goes to retaliate, but before she manages to lunge forward to get her revenge, Alex steps in.
"You need to go and not come back."
Stepping to the side and away from the two taller women, the blonde laughs.
"Don't kid yourself - you need my sales, Alex. I'll call in tomorrow," she adds, beginning to walk down the hallway.
"Don't," Alex shuts her down in a warning-like tone, grabbing Piper's hand and pulling her back towards her office. "Oh, and don't ring me anymore either," she concludes, slamming the door shut behind her.
Now alone in Alex's office, Piper observes her girlfriend's chest rising and falling rapidly - why though, she's unsure.
Without a word being exchanged between them, the blonde then witnesses the woman before her take a few short strides to lessen the distance between them before feeling a set of hands land on the side of her face, crashing their lips together passionately.
She tries to fight back - feeling somewhat guilty for how she had acted, but it leads to no avail, as with the touch of Alex's tongue plunging into her mouth, Piper begins to crumble.
Switching their positions, Alex pushes the blonde up against the door, placing both of her hands above her head in which her wrists are being held captive.
"So you leave for a week and then think it's okay to just come in here while I'm working," Alex begins to voice between kisses, "and accuse me of fucking my client," she continues, ripping her lips away from the blonde's to attach them to her slender neck.
"I didn't say you fucked," Piper tries to reason through heavy breath.
"But you were thinking it," Alex challenges, feeling a surge of adrenaline course through her body having witnessed her girlfriend's jealousy.
Piper can only let out a groan at the feeling of her girlfriend's lips grazing her neck, yet Alex seems unsatisfied by her lack of answer as shown in the way she bites down on the reddening skin, causing the blonde to try and move her hands to keep Alex's head in place yet finds them still held strongly against the door above her head.
"Answer me, Pipes."
"I wasn't thinking it," she admits.
"So you were just jealous then. What did you think I'd do all the things I've done to you in here to her? Do you think I fuck everyone I work with as I go along?" Alex asks demandingly, making Piper's knees buckle at the dominance of the woman pressed against her.
The blonde hesitates, not wanting to say something to further anger her girlfriend, yet it seems as though giving no answer was the worst option she could have possibly chosen as before she can let out another breath, Alex drags her by her wrists over to her desk, whereby she pushes off its contents and shoves Piper's body so that her stomach is resting on top of the surface.
"Maybe this'll get you to talk," the brunette whispers into the blonde's ear, placing her arms on her waist and squeezing the skin.
"You wore this outfit on purpose, didn't you?" Alex goes on to ask, running her hands down from the blonde's hips to her ass, rubbing the surface over her tight trousers.
"I flew straight after I had an early morning meeting."
"So you wore these tight trousers on the plane too. Who're you trying to impress?" the brunette goes on to ask, moving her hands back to her girlfriend's hips, pulling them back slightly so that her own front makes contact with the blonde's ass.
"Y-you," Piper stutters out, not knowing how much longer she can take Alex's dramatic act.
"So you did wear this outfit on purpose?"
"Okay, I did!" the blonde shouts into the desk, impatience evident throughout her tone.
"Is see," is all Alex says, moving her hands around the blonde's front to undo her trousers and pull down the zipper. "You're a little wet down there, Pipes. Did you spill your water on the plane or something?" she goes on to ask as her hand rests on top of the blonde's damp laced underwear.
"You made me wet," Piper huffs out, trying hard to not focus on the light contact being that the feeling of combustion already begins to shock her core.
"I don't remember dropping anything on you? Are you sure it was me."
"Positive," the blonde groans, moving her right hand down to try and push her girlfriend's hand into her underwear but is stopped by Alex's free one grabbing her wrist.
"What're you doing?"
"I think you should assess the damage down there considering it was you that caused it."
"What makes you think you deserve to be helped and not punished?"
Turning her face so that she's now looking into her girlfriend's darkened, lust-filled green eyes, Piper answers while pushing her ass further back.
"Punish me then."
Despite trying to play the dominant part in their intimate exchange, the blonde's comment causes Alex's insides to constrict and her eyes to flutter over - this was the first real time she'd heard Piper talk dirty in a place other than the bedroom and by God was she enjoying it.
Without vocalising her intentions, Alex pushes her hand into the blonde's underwear - her groan masked by the loud moan coming from the woman below her who had turned back to the front where she's now resting her forehead on the piece of wood supporting her.
"If you insist," the brunette finally says as she runs her fingers down the blonde's soaked slit, plunging two inside quicker than Piper had expected.
"Fuck, Alex," the blonde shouts out, extending her arms to grip the edge of the opposite side of the desk.
"In case you hadn't noticed, this isn't what was happening when you walked in," Alex begins while thrusting her hand as forcefully as she can given the fact that the blonde's trousers are still in their regular position. "And you've never walked in to something like this happening," she adds, resting her head on the back of the blonde's neck, breath heating her skin.
"I noticed."
"What made you so jealous, Pipes."
"I wasn't-"
"Don't lie," Alex reprimands, slowing down her hand before pulling her fingers out to which only her fingertips are inside her girlfriend's centre.
"Al, what're you-"
"I suggest you answer me honestly or you'll see that I'm not always so nice," the brunette growls into the blonde's ear while smirking at the feeling of goosebumps erupting along the younger woman's soft skin.
Feeling her cheeks blush while she thinks through her explanation, Piper is jolted with pleasure as she feels Alex's left hand deliver a harsh slap onto the surface of her ass - something that she hadn't done before, yet something Piper happily - and vocally - welcomed.
"I've just lost two weeks of hard work because of you so fucking answer me, Piper," she demands with a stern voice.
When the feeling of a second slap along with the lack of movement from Alex's fingers gets too much for her, Piper sobs into the desk, feeling her cheeks blushing all the while grateful for the fact that her girlfriend can't see her face as she speaks.
"I was jealous," she reveals upon subsequently crumbling into the desk as Alex's skilled fingers sink back inside her wet centre.
"That wasn't so hard, was it?" the brunette asks in a smug manner before leaning her body forward so that she can talk into the blonde's ear.
"Now you know how I feel about the fact that you're now some sort of sex symbol, but I have to admit that jealous you really got me going," she adds, running her tongue along the blonde's jawline while speeding up her fingers.
"God, Al, this is so hot," Piper groans out, her knuckles beginning to tire due to their tight grip on the edge of the desk.
"And I'll tell you something else, Piper Chapman," Alex begins before lowering her voice an octave, "you're mine. Mine to touch; mine to look at; mine to fuck… anyone or anything isn't going to change that."
Although in more explicit terms, Piper's heart flutters at the underlying meaning of her girlfriend's message. She feels an urge to touch the older woman, watch her face as she talks, and as she turns her head while using her left hand to grab Alex's head, she pushes their lips together in a passionate kiss - one giving off both the heat of the intimacy they're sharing along with the pragmatic attentiveness of their current ambiance.
"I love you," Piper manages to get out as she bites down on Alex's bottom lip, struggling to breathe and speak at the same time.
Alex, meanwhile, doesn't allow their activity to turn into a conversation, instead leaning back and turning the blonde over so that her backside now rests against the edge of the desk, almost as though she's sitting down.
Ensuring that their lips are still fused and that her hand is still doing it's work, Alex relents and gives in to the pleasure of what she's experiencing - going along with where their emotions are currently taking them.
By the time Piper's breathing is near uncontrollable, the brunette skillfully adds a third finger, and it doesn't take long before the blonde stiffens up and lets go, announcing her powerful orgasm along with the calling of Alex's name as she throws her arms around her girlfriend's neck while also burying her face into its crook.
They remain silent for several minutes, both trying to catch their breath, and it isn't until Piper pulls away from the older woman's now sweaty neck to look into her eyes that it breaks.
"Hi," she smiles, blushing at how she was leading their post-coital conversation.
"Hey," Alex chuckles, amused by her girlfriend's sudden bashfulness.
"That was-"
"Too much?" Alex asks, afraid she may have initially taken things too far.
"No! No - I liked it. I was going to say unexpected," Piper answers, using her fingers to play with the opened collar of Alex's shirt.
"I didn't think you'd be back until this evening?"
"My flight changed," she pauses to look down at her fingers before returning back to Alex's eyes. "I really missed this, Alex," the blonde admits, suddenly feeling vulnerable under the older woman's green gaze.
"Sex?"
"No. Well, I mean of course I missed the sex but I missed this: conversation."
"I missed it too," the brunette gives a close-lipped smile, pecking the blonde's nose as she senses a tone of embarrassment. "Do you wanna come back to mine?"
"Now? Don't you have work to be doing?"
"Well I did, but considering you nearly beat up my client in the hallway, I think my schedule's looking pretty clear from now on."
"Shit, Alex, I'm sorry I shouldn't have lost my temper like that."
"She is a bitch anyway," Alex smiles which is mirrored by the blonde. "And it was pretty hot."
"So that's what gets you going now?"
"Anything you do gets me going, Pipes, I thought you'd have figured that out by now," the brunette voices, laughing at her girlfriend's light punch.
"Let's get going then," Piper counters, pushing Alex back by the shoulders followed up by doing up her trousers and waiting for the older woman to collect her belongings to take home.
"So are we going back home together or are we going back home together?" Alex ask from where she was bent down putting some things into a cabinet with her back to the blonde.
Piper immediately knows that her girlfriend is alluding to the comments she had made during her argument earlier and feels her body heat up with nervousness, worried that what she said may have crossed a mark.
Alex's head turns in time to witness the blonde's internal state of contemplation before smiling to herself, deciding to take pity on the younger woman.
"I guess home it is then," she concludes, standing up and shutting the cabinet before taking her girlfriend's hand and leading them out of the room.