Authors Note: Hey everyone, thanks for all the wonderful reviews, favs, follows, and of course reading. And to the new readers to this story, I welcome you!

So I sort of lied with this chapter, they aren't in New York for the whole chapter, just the ending. I had some other things I would have liked them to discuss in LA. Also I would like to apologize for the little bit of the delay with this chapter, I spent the weekend in New York City, and Last night I just couldn't focus at all to finish this chapter. So my apologies.

And Also just a quick shout out to R117: I am so glad you are enjoying this chapter, and thanks so much for your review, it really bought a smile to my face. It is really easy to write about Alex's illness, not only because I have it (Not the cancer) but it also makes it so much more easy to write, because it brings awareness. A lot of people believe that being gluten free is a choice, or a lifestyle, just a fancy diet trend going on for the moment. And yes, that may be the case for some, but it isn't for people who truly cannot eat it. It's no a fab, there is nothing fancy about it, its really annoying, especially when you see people eat something as simple as a piece of cake in front of you, knowing you can't have it or you will pay for it afterwards. But what makes it worse, is when people say something like "Oh come on you can have a a little bit, it won't kill you." Actually it can, and it does. Not at first, but over time it does. Also just a little tidbit, a simple crumb from a piece of bread or cross contamination can cause an attack, and those attacks can last from days to weeks. So for me, it's easy, because it bringing awareness about something that isn't fully understood. So thank you for your review, and I am glad you are learning.

And now I am ranting, I apologize, I am grateful for all of you, and I hope you enjoy chapter 17!

Once Again I do not own any of these characters.

Alex kissed her quickly, "And you can call this selfish if you want" Alex told her before she moved her lips closer to Piper's ear and whispered in a seductive tone, that sent shivers down Piper's spine "But I can finally get you all to myself."

The rest of the day was spent celebrating Helena's birthday, and Diane couldn't believe that Piper was old enough to have three teenage daughters, but she herself had been young when she had Alex. Diane Vause had taken such a liking to all three kids, so after dinner she offered to take them all for ice cream. "Mom, is it okay if I pass?" Alex asked.

"Me too, I have to pack" Piper included then added "And you don't have to take them for ice cream, it's quite…" Piper began but Diane cut her off.

"Then you two don't have to come, so who wants ice cream?" Diane asked as she looked at the three teenagers, who quickly nodded their heads with a smile. "Then let's go" Diane smiled before she said goodbye to her daughter, and Piper, then went out to the car with Helena, Melanie, and Silas.

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Once the house was quiet, Alex started laughing "What's so funny?" Piper asked with an amused smile.

"I hope you know that they are going to be completely spoiled from here on out" Alex told her with a chuckle before she added "My mom always wanted grandkids."

"I can see that, she is great with them, and they seem to really like her." Piper told her with a smile as she stood up from her chair, and walked over to where Alex was leaning against the counter. "Plus the house is quiet for once." Piper added as she wrapped her arms around Alex's neck, and just then did Milah bark making both women laugh.

"Well almost quiet" Alex smiled as as she wrapped her arms around Piper's waist and then pulled her close, before she leaned down and kissed her passionately. Piper pulled Alex in to deepen the kiss, before she quickly ended it. "Tease!" Alex smirked as Piper pulled away, and started walking backwards, still looking at Alex.

"Your mom, and the kids, remember?" Piper asked with a playful smile.

Alex stepped forward Piper as she smiled as she teased "Who aren't here, remember?"

Piper smiled at the slightly taller woman, as she continued to walk backwards, never taking her eyes off the woman. "But they will be coming back"

"But not for a while, plenty of time" Alex chuckled lightly still approaching the blonde.

Piper stopped dead in her tracks, and Alex wrapped her arms around her waist, pulling her closer. "You can wait; I don't want your mom walking in on anything." Piper told her with a smile "Plus we have to pack" Piper added before she quickly kissed her, and then got out of Alex's grasp, before she headed upstairs.

"You are such a tease; do you know that Piper Chapman?" Alex announced as she walked into her bedroom, to see Piper's suitcase already on the bed, with clothes in it. "Damn you waste no time." Alex added with a laugh.

"I know" Piper smirked as she folded a shirt, before placing it in her suitcase.

"To which part?" Alex asked as she lifted her own suit case.

"To both" Piper smiled and Alex just rolled her eyes.

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A half hour later, both women had finished packing what they could tonight, and wouldn't need in the morning, when Alex heard her front door open. "We're back!" Diane shouted as she walked inside her daughter's home.

"Told you they would be back" Piper smirked.

"Shut up" Alex laughed

"That's my line!" Piper shouted after her, as Alex walked out of the room, with Piper quickly following her.

"Well there you two are" Diane smiled as her daughter and her girlfriend walked into the living room.

"We were packing" Alex informed her mother and as she was about to ask a question, Helena interrupted her.

"That's what she said" Helena smirked, making her brother make a face.

"Gross" Silas shouted as he walked outside, making Alex, Helena and Melanie laugh.

"Must you tease your brother?" Piper asked her oldest daughter.

"Yes" Helena quickly answered before she followed her brother outside, quickly followed by Melanie.

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Once the teenagers were outside, Piper turned to Diane and said with a smile "Thank you for taking them, you didn't have to."

Diane shook her head with a smile "I didn't mind one bit, I enjoyed the time with them."

Both Piper and Alex smiled at Diane's comment, and just then did the front door open again. "Hey, anyone home?" Jodi shouted as she walked into the house, closing the door behind her.

"In the living room Jodes" Alex shouted, making her mother smile.

"Is that Jodi?" Diane asked as she walked past her daughter, and met the brunette in the hallway. "Well hasn't it been ages since I have seen you" Diane announced with a smile, as she hugged her daughter's best friend.

"Hey mom" Jodi announced happily as she hugged the older woman back.

Piper heard the comment, and she quickly raised an eye brow as she looked at Alex and asked "Mom?"

Alex smiled "It's what all my friends call my mom. And plus ma you just saw her last week."

Piper nodded her head, and simply understood, since Polly did the same thing with her mom. As Diane joked with her daughter "Yes and that is ages ago, compared to how much I normally see her."

"What are you doing here so early?" Alex asked once the hug was over "I thought I said tomorrow morning we were leaving"

"Yeah you did, but I thought I would come by earlier, that way you guys can just leave and not have to worry about the kids." Jodi told her with a smile before she hugged her best friend quickly and then Piper.

"Well thanks Jodes" Alex smiled at her best friend.

"I am going to get going" Diane announced

"Now, but I just got here" Jodi smiled

"I will see you soon" Diane told her before she hugged her once more, and then walked out back to find the kids.

All three women watched as Helena, Melanie, and Silas hugged Diane goodbye, before Diane came back into the house. "You two have a safe trip, and Al, you better let me know when you land." Diane told her daughter, before she hugged Piper, and then her goodbye.

"I will ma, I love you" Alex told her mother as she hugged her goodbye, and then walked her to the door.

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As Alex walked her mother to the door, Piper and Jodi walked outside, and sat down in the chairs. "How is Alex? And did she tell her mother?" Jodi asked.

"She is doing okay; she hasn't said much about it. But she has been in good spirits. And yes she did." Piper told her.

"Good" Jodi quickly said before Alex came to join them.

As Alex walked out onto her patio, as she lit up a cigarette. "Oh this is amazing" Alex sighed as she exhaled.

"What did your mother say about you still smoking?" Jodi asked turning to look at her best friend.

"Nothing" Alex quickly said before she took another drag.

"Mmhmm, it's not like Diane to not say anything." Jodi told her before she asked again "So what did she say?"

"Nothing" Alex quickly told her and then added "Because I didn't smoke around her. "

Jodi looked at her best friend with a look Alex knew all too well as she sternly and simply said "Alex"

"I know, I Know I have to quit, but lets face it, people who never smoke a day in their life, get lung cancer too." Alex told her before took another drag off her cigarette.

"No you say that Alex, to justify it" Jodi quickly told her.

Alex rolled her eyes, as she exhaled the smoke, and leaned over to put her cigarette out in the ashtray. "Happy?" Alex asked her annoyed before she added "But you aren't one to talk, you smoke on occasion too."

Jodi just gave her a look, because as she was about to say something, the kids came walking over. "Hey Jodi" Helena greeted her with a smile before she looked at her mother and asked "Hey mom, what are our plans for tomorrow?"

Jodi looked at Alex, and then to Piper, before looking at the kids, then back to Piper and said "Well I take it you haven't told them yet."

"Tell us what?" Silas asked as he sat down in a chair.

Once all the kids were seated, Piper looked at her children as she announced "You three will be staying with Jodi, Alex and I are leaving for New York in the morning."

"What why?" Helena asked before it dawned on her "This is about dad isn't it?"

Piper nodded her head "Now there isn't anything to worry about, I just want to get this over with." Piper told her kids, but they weren't having it.

"You can't go back there mom.." Silas began but Piper cut him off.

Piper held up her hands, a signal to her kids to be quiet. "Enough, I don't want to hear it, I am going with Alex, you kids have nothing to worry about. I have to settle this with your father, I can't run from it, or things will only get worse. So you will be staying here with Jodi, and you all better behave, and Alex and I are going to New York." Piper told her kids sternly, a voice that all three of them knew, not well, but enough to know not to push the subject any further.

"Fine, but I don't like it" Silas mumbled.

"And that is your right not to like it, you don't have to, but I am the parent and this is what is best for all of us." Piper told him.

"Whatever" Silas mumbled as he got up from his chair, and disappeared inside the house.

As her son stormed into the house, Piper let out a deep breath as she looked at her two daughters and asked "Anything you two would like to add before you storm off as well?"

Both girls shook their heads as Helena said "Nope, we understand why you have to do this."

Piper nodded her head, as Alex stood up from her chair "I'm going to go and talk to Silas." Alex told them before she walked into her house.

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Once Alex reached the room that was now Silas's she knocked on the door only to get an angry shout in response "Go away"

Alex shook her head as she opened the door "I think I will come in instead" Alex told him, before she slipped inside the room, closing the door behind her.

"I don't want to talk" Silas mumbled as he looked at his mother's girlfriend.

"That's fine, you can just listen" Alex told him, as she sat down on the edge of the bed, and looked at the teenage boy. "I know you don't want your mom to go to New York, and I know you are worried. But this is something she has to do, she is right she can't put this off, or things will never end." Alex explained to him and once she finally thought she had his full attention she went on. "Plus, I want you to know, that I will be by her side the whole way, I won't leave it. Silas I promise you nothing will happen to your mother."

Silas looked at Alex, as he heard what she was saying, and then asked "Do you promise?"

Alex nodded her head "I promise" Alex told him with a smile before she added "I will not let anything happen to her, we will be back in a couple days, and this will all be behind us."

"But a divorce doesn't happen that quickly" Silas told her.

"I know" Alex told him "But this is the hard part, and then the rest will be easy. You just have to trust me Silas, I promise I won't let anything go wrong." Silas looked at Alex for a few seconds before he simply just nodded his head. "But you have to promise me one thing" Alex told him with a smile.

"What?" Silas asked keep a straight face.

"No holes in my walls, and absolutely no taking any of my cars for any joy rides" Alex warned him completely serious but added a smile.

Finally, Silas cracked a smile as he said "Deal"

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The rest of the night went smoothly, and just before eleven, Alex and Piper said goodbye to the kids, and Jodi, knowing that they wouldn't be awake when they leave in the morning, and then went to bed. And morning came way too quickly for both women, the sun was even starting to rise, when Piper and Alex's alarms went off. "I don't want to get up" Alex groaned, as she hit snooze, and rolled back over, going back to sleep. Only to be reawaken eight minutes later, when her alarm went off again. "Shut up" Alex mumbled to her phone, as she pulled the blanket over her head.

"Alex that isn't going to make it stop" Piper chuckled to herself, as she shut off her own alarm, and then leaned over to hit Alex's, before she got out of bed, and headed for a shower.

A half hour later, Piper reemerged from the bathroom, only to find Alex still sleeping, and her phone alarm not only turned off, but thrown half way across the room. "You really aren't a morning person" Piper chuckled to herself, but Alex heard her, once again burring herself in the covers. Piper rolled her eyes, as she smiled, and decided to let Alex sleep some more, as she went and got dressed.

Once Piper was all set and ready to go, she walked over to the side of the bed, and pulled the blankets back from Alex's body. "You getting up?" Piper asked sweetly, as she leaned in and kissed Alex's cheek.

"No" Alex groaned as she shuffled away from the blonde, and pulled the blankets and pillows over her.

Piper couldn't help but smile, as she once again pulled the blankets away from her "Come on Al, you have to" Piper told her once again sweetly.

"I don't want to" Alex mumbled "It's too early."

Now Piper knew that being sweet wasn't going to get her out of bed, so she used the voice that always worked on Helena when she wouldn't get up for school. "Alexandra Vause, you have to get out of bed, now!" Piper demanded, making Alex flip over onto her back, and pull the blankets back as Piper added "And don't make me count to three."

Alex reached over on the nightstand for her glasses and asked as she put them on "And what happens when you get to three?"

"You don't want to find out" Piper told her before she added "Now get out of bed now, we already running late because of you."

"Yes mom" Alex told her as she got out of bed, making Piper roll her eyes.

The drive to the airport didn't take long, and their bags were quickly loaded on to the jet, and before they knew it they were taking off. Once they were in the air, Alex and Piper both walked back toward the bed room area, and went back to sleep. And before they knew it, they were landing in New York City. Just like back in Los Angeles, it didn't take long for their bags to put in the back of Alex's car that was waiting there, and Alex and Piper quickly said goodbye to staff, and then got into Alex's car. "So my place or yours?" Alex asked jokingly.

"Obviously your place" Piper smiled, as Alex put the car in gear, and headed for her apartment.

Well there is chapter 17! I hope you all enjoyed!

Just a side note, the comment Alex made about lung cancer, and Jodi's comment about justifying it, was taken from an actual quote Laura Prepon (Alex Vause) said about her own smoking habit. I just improvised it a bit.

How sweet was it of Diane to take the kids for ice cream?

And Also for Alex to go and talk to Silas, and warned him about holes in the wall, and taking any of her cars for a joy ride.

So now they are in New York, god only knows what will happen...Guess you will have to wait until the next chapter to find out...And remember Reviews are greatly appreciated, I loving hearing from all of you, and I am so grateful you all are enjoying this story, I love writing it for you.

And also a big shout out to the cast of Orange is the New Black, for their win at the Sag awards, a wonderful speech done by Laura, and also a big shout out to Uzo for her win as well! Both great speeches!