Authors Note: Hey everyone, thanks so much for the reviews, follows, favs, and of course reading. I am so sorry this update is later than planned, I just couldn't get the words the way I wanted them to. But I finally was able to work through it, and now here we are. I can't believe we are on chapter 20! This wouldn't be possible without all of you, and I am so grateful you all are enjoying this story!
Once again I do not own any of these characters.
Enjoy chapter 20!
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."
As the words played over in her head, Piper could only stand there as she tried to make sense of the words she had just heard, but she also wanted to make sure she heard them correctly. "You do?" Piper asked barely above a whisper.
"I do" Alex told her with a simple nod of her head with a smile, before she pulled the blonde woman in for a deep passionate kiss. Both women forgetting where they were, as the kiss began to get deeper, but before it could a voice interrupted them.
"Ladies, break it up" A man told them before he walked inside the cell, and told Alex to come with him.
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As Alex went to tell give her statement, Piper went back out to where Polly was, and told her what happened. "You are lucky to have her Pipes" Polly told Piper with a smile, she understood why Alex did what she did, and she was grateful that she did. Because Polly knew that Larry got what he deserved, even though it may not have been Alex's place, she did what she knew was right, and protected Piper. "So what are you two going to do?" Polly asked.
"We will have to see, right now we are just waiting to see what happens." Piper told her with a shrug of her shoulders, but to be honest she really didn't have a clue what was going to happen, she didn't even know if Larry was okay or not. But before she could say anything else, the detective that was getting Alex's statement, walked over to them.
"Mrs. Bloom?" The detective asked, and Piper could feel herself cringe at the name, because she couldn't wait until it was gone forever from her name.
"It's Chapman, please" Piper told him, as Polly smirked, while they both got up from their chairs.
"Sorry, but may I talk to you for a second?" The detective asked, and Piper nodded her head, before she followed him to an empty room, smiling at Alex as she passed the cell that she was once again sitting in. "Please take a seat." The detective told her, as they walked inside and he shut the door.
"I told you everything.." Piper began, mentally slapping herself for having such a big mouth in this moment.
"Ms. Chapman, please, I am not here to ask you anymore questions." The detective interrupted her. "I have spoken to the detective over at the hospital where your ex husband is."
"Is he okay?" Piper asked this time being the one to interrupt him.
The detective nodded his head "Yes is fine, he will be fine. We have two officers outside his room. We will get his side of the story when he wakes."
Piper nodded her head before she asked "And Alex?"
The detective took a seat across the table from Piper, and folded his hands together before he told her. "We have to wait for Larry's story, before we decide anything. But due to Alex's popularity, we will place bail for her. We will keep it out of the media for now, and for as long as we can."
"How much is her bail?" Piper asked
"We understand that self defense did play a part, but because we don't know Larry's side, and we don't know when he will wake, her bail is set at $500,000." The detective told her.
Piper's eyes widen when she heard the amount "Are you fucking kidding me, she didn't fucking do anything wrong." Piper shouted quickly standing up from her chair. "Is this how you treat people who are in danger for their life? But I am sure this would be different if it was say a cop, who shot someone because they felt they were afraid for their life. But we all know how that goes, now don't we? A cop shoots and kills an unarmed man, and everything is fine, no wrong done there. But god forbid someone is really in danger, and shoots someone. Then they are the ones in the wrong." Piper shouted as she paced the room.
"Ma'am I suggest you sit down and keep your comments to yourself" The detective warned.
"Or what, you'll arrest me? Because you don't like what I have to say, because we all know I am right." Piper shouted once again not even bothering to keep her her voice down. "But I am sure you are one of those dirty cops. So I think we are done here." Piper added before she stormed out of the interrogation room.
"Ms. Chapman, we are not done." The detective shouted behind her, following Piper into the hallway.
Piper stopped dead in her tracks, which happen to be right in front of Alex's cell. Alex quickly stood up from the bed the where she was sitting, and walked over to the bars. "Pipes?" Alex asked.
But before Alex could ask anything else, Piper turned on her heels and looked the detective in the eyes. "No I think we are done here, and I'm going to tell you why." Piper told him before she paused and then went on. "You see Alex here, did nothing wrong, and until you decide you want to stop treating her like a suspect, then we will be back, but until then, her and I are leaving. So I will tell you again, we are done here, and my lawyer will be in touch with you. So maybe you would like to do your job, and actually go talk to Larry, since he is the one you should be charging, not Alex." Piper told him before she said between clenched teeth "Now unlock this cell, because we are leaving."
Just then did Polly place her hand on Piper's shoulder, since she heard the yelling, and followed the voice into the direction. "Pipes, calm down." Polly warned but that didn't help, that only increased Piper's anger.
"Don't you dare tell me to calm down, they are treating Alex like the suspect, when Larry is the one who should be here not her." Piper shouted before she once again sent a glare toward the detective "And I told you to unlock this fucking cell."
As the scene played out in front of Alex, she couldn't help but smile, she loved this side of Piper, and she loved that the blonde had her back. And the detective looked at Piper for a few minutes before he walked over to the cell and unlocked it. "Don't leave town" He warned.
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Once the cell was unlocked, and Alex was free, Piper grabbed her hand before she looked Alex deep in the eyes and said "Lets go home." Alex nodded her head, and then all three women walked out of the police station.
The three walked over to Polly's car, but just as she was about to unlock it, her cell phone started ringing. Polly quickly unlocked her car, and grabbed her phone from her pocket. "Hey Pete" Polly greeted her husband, as she got inside the car.
"Hey Pol, listen I am down at the hospital with Larry, and he's awake." Pete told his wife.
"Okay, listen I will call you in a few" Polly told him before she hung up the phone, and locked it before putting it in her cup holder, then turned to Alex. "What's your address?"
Piper listened as Alex quickly gave her the address, and waited for her best friend to put the address into her GPS before she asked "Was that Pete?"
Polly nodded her head, before she backed out of her parking space, and headed in the direction her GPS told her. "He said Larry is awake." Polly told her and then just like that, the rest of the drive to Alex's place was a silent one.
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When they arrived to Alex's place, both Piper and Alex invited Polly inside, but she declined saying that right now she needed to be with Pete. Piper wanted nothing more than to explain the whole thing to her best friend, and even though she was hurt, she understood that Polly needed to be her husband, and his best friend right now. Instead, they both said goodbye to Polly, and then made their way inside. "You know she is your best friend, and she should be there for you." Alex announced once she shut the door to her place.
"Alex can we not?" Piper asked as she sat down on the couch.
Alex rolled her eyes as she made her way over to Piper, and sat down next to her. "But you know I am right." Alex smirked.
Piper smiled slightly as she nodded her head "Yes I know, and don't think it doesn't bother me, because it does."
"It's like she picked Larry over you." Alex began but Piper cut her off.
"No she picked her husband over me, which I guess is okay." Piper began but now Alex was the one to cut her off.
"Now don't be one of those who it has to be you or no one else." Alex teased her before she added "But she went to be with Larry, which isn't cool. She should be here with you instead."
Piper nodded her head as she said "I know" before giving Alex a look telling her she didn't wish to discuss it any further. "So how are you doing?" Piper asked as she moved closer to her girlfriend on the couch, and snuggled up against her.
"I'm doing okay, how are you doing?" Alex asked as she pulled the blonde closer against her body.
"I'm okay, because I'm with you." Piper smiled as she leaned her head against the darker haired woman's shoulder.
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Meanwhile down at the hospital, Larry was finally coming to, when two detectives walked into his room. "Mr. Bloom, we would like to ask you a few questions." One detective told him, but Larry held up his hand to stop them from saying anything else.
"There Is no need to ask anything, I will tell you what happened." Larry told them before he paused and then explained. "Alex Vause had every right to shoot me, I was going to hurt her, and I hurt my wife, I'm sorry my soon to be ex-wife Piper. It wasn't the first time either, and I accept full reasonability for my actions, and I accept my punishment."
Both the detectives looked at each other before they looked back at Larry, while Pete stood there speechless, Polly had told him about the abuse, but he didn't want to believe that his best friend was capable of that. But now he knew, it was all true, and he really didn't know if he could stand beside someone he considered his best friend, when he had done something so wrong.
"So are you saying that it was in self defense Mr. Bloom?" One detective asked him.
Larry nodded his head "That is exactly what I am saying, if Alex had not shown up when she did, I probably would have killed my ex wife." Larry told them and both the detectives eyes went wide.
"So do you not wish to press charges against Ms. Vause?" The other detective asked.
"No I do not." Larry told them right as Polly came walking into the room not knowing she had heard his whole explanation in the hallway. Before he added "And no it is not the pain meds or the anesthesia talking."
"You son of a bitch" Polly shouted as she moved toward Larry's bedside, only to be held back by her husband. "How could you do that to Piper? You never deserved her. I am so glad she left your sorry pathetic ass for Alex, you sick fuck." Polly added before Pete dragged his wife out of the room, before she got arrested for doing something she shouldn't, no matter how badly Larry deserved it.
The two detectives looked at each other for a second, before one took out their handcuffs, and walked over to Larry, grabbing one of his arms. "Mr. Bloom you are under arrest." The detectives stated before he handcuffed Larry to the bed, and then read him his rights.
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Although, back at Alex's, both women were sitting in silence, just listening to each other breath, before Alex finally asked "So did you mean it?"
Piper lifted her head, and looked up at Alex before she asked "Mean what?"
"What you said down at the station." Alex told her looking her in the eyes before she added "Do you really love me?"
Piper looked back at her for a few seconds which felt like years to Alex, before she smiled and nodded her head. "Yes I do, I know it seems really fast, and I know it will be crazy to a few people. But with you Alex, I feel like that part of me that has been missing for so long in my life, I have finally found. Something I couldn't haven't put my finger on, it was something I didn't understand, something I couldn't figure out, and now I do. You have been that missing something, I needed for so long." Piper explained as she felt tears fill her eyes, before she asked "Do you love me?"
Alex nodded her head with a smile "You are that missing something to me too, kid."
Piper smiled back at her before she smirked "I'm not a kid!"
"You are younger than me, so you are a kid" Alex chuckled but before Piper could say anything, Alex pressed her lips to Piper's as she whispered "I love you." Against them before she kissed her passionately, like she would never be able to again.
Well there it is chapter 20!
Once again I apologize for this chapter being later than planned, but I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I would love to hear your comments, as always I love hearing from all of you!