Authors Note: Hey everyone, thank you all for the wonderful reviews , follows, favs, of course reading. But also thank you for all the birthday wishes. You all are too kind. I am glad you all enjoyed the update, and I know it was a bit of a plot twist, but I promise happy ending. Don't worry!
Once again I do not own any of these characters.
The room quickly filled with a loud bang, one after another, as she fired three bullets into Larry, wanting to empty the whole clip into him, but as if Piper could read her girlfriend's mind, she quickly shouted "ALEX STOP".
As the room filled with the ringing of the bullets fired from the gun, and Piper's panic shout, the blonde despite the pain radiating through out her leg, she got off the ground, and placed her hands on Alex's, trying to grab the gun from her hands, while she leaned against the only chair that was standing. "Why should I? Why should I have mercy on him?" Alex snapped in a dark voice neither one of them recognized, as she squeezed the gun in her hands, not wanting to let the blonde take it from her hands.
The blonde looked at Alex's and saw her green – blue eyes, a darker shade than she had ever seen them, and something about Alex demeanor scared her. But she wasn't the only one; even Alex, didn't recognize herself in that moment. She wished she felt something, even if it was just a feeling of regret, she wished she felt it, but she didn't. She didn't feel anything, instead she felt completely empty inside. As if something had taken over her body, and possessed her. And just then, as if Alex's eyes could go any darker, they did, and in that moment Piper saw a smirk light up Alex's face, one that was almost sinister. "God damn it Alex, I said stop" Piper shouted as she felt Alex begin to squeeze the trigger again, but before she could, Piper pulled the gun out of her hands.
Piper quickly dropped the clip out of the gun, making it fall onto the chair, then dropping the gun there too, before she took off her t-shirt, and knelt to the ground, this time only wincing in pain, as she pressed the shirt to Larry's chest, where the blood was pooling out of his body. "God damn it Alex, call an ambulance." Piper shouted at Alex, when she saw she was just standing there, with that sinister smirk on her face.
Just then Alex escaped her trance, and pulled her phone out of her pocket and did what the blonde asked of her, before she disappeared from the room. "Where the fuck are you going?" Piper shouted after her, not sure where the darker haired woman was going, and right now nothing would surprise her.
"Going to get towels" Alex shouted back to her, and two minutes later, she returned, giving Piper a towel, which she pressed to Larry's chest, as Alex knelt beside her, whipped away some of the dried blood on Piper's neck, and then pressed the other towel she had to Piper's leg. "Fuck Pipes, you're bleeding really bad." Alex whispered as she wrapped the towel around her leg, to cut off the circulation.
"Yeah well I am not the one with bullets in my body, now am I?" Piper snapped.
"It was in self defense" Alex tried, but Piper laughed.
"Self defense Alex?" Piper asked but then quickly added "He wasn't hurting you, he didn't even have a weapon, he had a lousy piece of glass, one that you could have easily taken from him with your hand. And just so we are clear, a piece of glass does not justify you shooting him, not once Alex, but three times. So don't give me that self defense bullshit, because a simply a punch would have sufficed, not three bullets to his chest, while he lay on the ground."
"I was protecting you.." Alex began but Larry who was fighting off unconsciousness, tried to speak.
"Shh..Don't speak" Piper whispered as she pressed the blood soaked towel to his chest even more."
In that moment, both women could hear the sirens off in the distance, when Alex asked "What are you going to tell them?"
Piper's neck almost snapped as she looked over at the slightly older woman, "What the fuck do you mean what am I going to tell them?" Piper asked with a scoff but before she could give the other woman time to speak again, she continued. "I am going to tell them the god damn truth."
"But like you said it wasn't in self defense, so clearly they won't see it that way…" Alex began, but once again Piper cut her off.
"Well then it's on you Alex, because I didn't ask you to follow me. I didn't want you to come, that's why I left without you. I told you where I was going, yes, but I didn't want you here. I needed to handle this on my own. I didn't ask you to come here, and I certainly didn't ask you to bring a gun and shoot him. You are the one who decided to do that, this is all on you Alex."
"He would have killed you" Alex shouted at her as the siren's got closer.
"NO he wouldn't have Alex, he wanted to scare me, that is all. Piper shouted back to her before she added "So you made your choice, so now you will deal with it."
Alex watched Piper, as she removed the towel Alex had wrapped around her leg, and pressed that one to a now unconscious Larry's chest to try and stop the bleeding. "So you are taking his side?"
"Christ Alex, I didn't say that." Piper shouted.
"And you didn't say otherwise either" Alex shouted back but just then did they hear a male's voice call from downstairs.
"Hello?" The male paramedic yelled out.
"NYPD, is anyone here?" A female voice rang out next before Piper answered.
"Upstairs." Piper shouted ignoring Alex's statement.
XXXX
Not even two minutes later two male paramedics, and female NYPD cop came rushing into the home office. And not even a second later, the woman was calling for back up. "What happened here?" she asked as the paramedics rushed to Larry's side.
"He was hurting her." Alex whispered as she stood up.
"Did you do this ma'am?" The cop asked as Alex looked to Piper, before with a single tear dropping from her eye, she nodded her head. The cop nodded her head as well, before she took out her handcuffs, and grabbed Alex's arms and pulled them behind her, before she cuffed her. "You have the right to remain to be silent. Anything you say, can and will be used against you in a court of law." The woman cop began to read Alex her rights, as she walked her out of the room.
Piper watched the scene play out in front of her, before the paramedic asked her a question. "Ma'am are you okay?" as he moved to work on her leg, after he helped his partner put Larry on the stretcher.
"I'm fine, help him first." Piper whispered as she felt the tears fall down her cheek.
The paramedics quickly bought Larry outside on the stretcher, before a second ambulance arrived, and the paramedics rushed inside to attend to Piper's wounds, while Alex was escorted into the back of the cop car, and drove off to the station.
XXXX
"Well surprisingly you wont need stitches." The woman paramedic told Piper, as she finished bandaging Piper's leg, and then placed a tiny bandage to Piper's neck.
"Thank you" Piper whispered before she asked "Will Larry be okay?"
"That I don't know, but I am sure he will be." The woman told her with a slight smile, but she really wasn't sure either way.
XXXXX
Once the paramedic was done with Piper, the blonde stood up, and reached for the phone and called Polly, before a male detective interrupted her. "I'm sorry Ma'am, but I need your statement." The detective informed her.
Piper nodded her head before she said in to the phone "Please meet me at the station" And then hung up the phone.
"Sorry, but this can't wait." The detective told her with a slight smile.
"I know" Piper told him with a nod of her head.
"So what happened?" The detective asked "Do you know the woman that was here? I am told her name is Alexandra Vause." The detective told her before it dawned on him "Wait isn't she famous?"
Piper laughed slightly "Yes she is, and yes I do. She is my girlfriend." Piper told him.
"Oh wow. Okay, anyways, what happened?" The detective asked as he scribbled something on his notepad.
Piper took a deep breath before she began "I came here to talk to Larry, he is my husband, soon to be ex. I told him I wanted a divorce. We have been having problems." Piper told him and then stopped "Follow me" Piper told him before she led them to her master bedroom, and then her closet where she hid the photo's that Alex took, of her bruises. "These were caused by him." Piper told him as she handed him the photo's.
"May I take these as evidence?" The detective asked and Piper nodded her head.
"Yes, that is one of the many reasons we are getting a divorce. Anyway, he got a little upset, but then he got really angry and violent when I told him that our children aren't his." Piper told him a little bit ashamed of herself.
"Is that when Ms. Vause shot him?" The detective asked before he added "She confessed down at the station but she isn't saying anything else."
"She followed me, I left her note. She knew how Larry could be, and she just wanted to protect me. When she arrived, Larry had me pinned to a wall, with a piece of glass held to my neck." Piper told him before she continued "Alex of course wanting to protect me, rushed to my side, and yanked Larry's arm backwards, and then kicked him to the ground. She told me to leave, not wanting me to het hurt anymore than I already was. And when I went to walk past them, Larry grabbed my leg, pulling me to the ground, and then dragged the piece of glass against my leg."
The detective nodded his head, as he scribbled his note on his notepad, before he asked. "And when did the shooting occur?" Piper remained silent for a few minutes, thinking about what she wanted to do, did she want to tell the truth, or did she want to protect Alex. Because she didn't want to lose her, when she had just gotten her in her life. "Ma'am, when did the shooting occur?" The detective asked again.
Piper took a deep breath, and did what she knew what was wrong, she lied, praying that Alex hadn't told her side of the story yet. "When Alex knelt to help me, Larry noticed she had a gun, and lunged to get it. As he did this, Alex noticed it on the side of her eyes, jumped backwards, standing up, and drew her gun. Larry though didn't care that he had a gun aimed at him, he lunged at her again with the piece of glass, and Alex did what she needed to do to protect herself."
"But she fired three shots?" The detective said as he took his notes.
Piper nodded her head "Yes, he kept lunging the gun shots didn't stop him. And that's what happened." Piper told him before she asked "Are we done, I would really like to go and see my girlfriend, she is a bit shook up."
The detective nodded his head "Yes, thank you. An officer can bring you downtown."
XXXX
When Piper arrived downtown, she saw Polly already there, and waiting for her. "Pipes what the hell is going on?" Polly asked as she rushed to her best friend's side, and wrapped her in a hug.
Piper hugged her best friend back quickly before she announced "I will tell you after, right now I need to see Alex."
The blonde quickly made her way to the desk, and demanded to see Alex, and the officer who bought her in, led her to a cell, where Alex was sitting, and unlocked the cell, and let Piper in. "Pipes?" Alex whispered as she sat up from the bed.
"Oh Alex" Piper whispered as she rushed to Alex and wrapped her in a tight hug and whispered in her ear "Did you tell your story yet?" Alex shook her head. "Good, tell them the same story, but when Larry was on the ground, tell them he reached for your gun in your jeans, when you knelt to help me. You quickly backed up, aimed your gun, but he lunged again, with the glass in hands, and you shot him, and he lunged again, so you shot him three times." Piper quickly whispered in her ear.
"What?" Alex asked as she pulled back from the hug, and saw something in Piper's eyes, that told her everything. "You lied?" Alex mouthed, and Piper just nodded her head. "But why?" Alex asked.
Piper remained silent, she knew why she did it, but did she want to tell Alex the real reason? "Pipes?" Alex asked when Piper didn't answer, and took her hand. "Come on you know you can tell me anything." Alex told her when she saw the blonde woman was holding something from her.
Piper took a deep breath before she finally spoke and told her tall, dark, gorgeous girlfriend something she was so afraid to tell her. "Because, I love you Alex. I don't know how, and I don't know how I fell in love with you so fast, and I know it might sound cliché, but I knew I loved you from the moment I met you."
Alex gasped as she was now the one to remain silent, and Piper knew she must have blown it, what was she thinking say those three words so soon, she must have been crazy. But then she saw the tears form in Alex's eyes, because she finally answered her. "Well thank you for finally catching up." Alex told her with a smile, before she pulled her in for a deep passionate kiss, and then whispered against her lips. "Because I love you too."
Well there is chapter 19!
What do you all think of Piper lying to protect Alex?
Is Larry going to make it?
And those three words have finally been said.
All this and More in chapter 20.
But also I would just like to let you know that the next update won't be until next week some time. I am going away for the weekend, and won't be back until either Monday or Tuesday, and I won't have any time to write. So until next time, please let me know what you all thought of this chapter, I love hearing from all of you. And I am so glad you all are enjoying this story.