Chapter 28 - Conversations

"I can't believe they're pushing through with this." Taylor still hadn't gotten over the fact that they were shooting a scene today wherein she would have to get handcuffed to a bed for Laura's Alex's own enjoyment. "I mean, handcuffed! On a bed! Isn't that a little too much? I mean, even for Alex and Piper?"

Taylor found it a little fishy when Jenji called and told her they were gonna shoot one scene again, one that wasn't supposed to make it to the final script. Filming was over months ago and it was odd that there were still a lot of things that weren't done. The production was almost perfect and it was the first time this was happening and she couldn't help but be skeptical about this.

"Too much? People are having sex in a chapel. And you think being handcuffed to a bed is too much?" Laura couldn't stop laughing at Taylor. She had been going on about this ever since they had gotten the script for this episode, and she seemed as if she wouldn't be stopping anytime soon.

"You're just not taking this as a big deal because you don't get to be handcuffed," Taylor pouted. "You're gonna be the one 'enjoying.'"

Laura smirked. "Oh yes, I am."

-o-o-o-

Both Laura and Taylor were already in bed, waiting for their scene to be shot. Taylor already had her left hand handcuffed to the bed's headboard. She also had a blanket over her because she was just wearing a bra and shorts. To say she was uncomfortable was an understatement.

Laura, on the other hand, was having the best time of her life making fun of her blonde friend. She was a lot more at ease because she was free and fully clothed. Perks of being Alex the Aggressor. "You know, I think this is turning me on," she said, with a little bite on her lower lip.

Taylor laughed and shook her head. "Do you want me to kill you? Right now, coz I'd do it," answered Taylor who tried shifting unsuccessfully. She couldn't move properly and she was so annoyed she wanted the scene to be done already.

Laura just laughed at her. "Will you relax? You're gonna hurt yourself even more if you keep moving." Taylor did as she was told. "Where are they anyway? What's taking them so long?" Laura was talking about the whole crew.

"I don't know. Will you please check it out? I'm dying here."

True enough, Laura saw that a red circle was starting to form on Taylor's wrist. "All right. Wait here." She stood up.

"Like I can go anywhere," answered Taylor.

"Cranky pants," commented Laura, laughing. But when she reached the door, her smile was gone. "Fuck."

"What?" asked Taylor, noticing Laura's reaction.

"It's locked."

"What?!" Taylor tried sitting up, but was stopped by the handcuff on her hand, and she groaned in pain. "Ouch! Damn it." For a second, Laura looked as if she was gonna come rushing to her, but she didn't. "Wait, what do you mean it's locked? How can it be locked from outside?" She was starting to freak out.

"I don't know, do I? We're both here!" Laura started thumping on the door, hoping that they were all just outside. "Hello?!" She kept thumping even if she knew there weren't any people out there because it was dead silent. "Damn it," she said, more to herself.

"There aren't any people outside, are there?" Taylor asked.

That's when Laura stopped and looked at Taylor, "No. No one's outside. It looks like we're stuck here."

-o-o-o-

"How did you convince Jenji to do that?" asked Yael, incredulously. Natasha just told her all about her little scheme involving Taylor and Laura. She had planned all of this. She knew it was a little childish, and maybe it was stepping out of the line a little, but she promised herself that if this still did not work, she would finally give up on getting her two friends back together.

She was the one who asked their writers to write in that little scene of Alex and Piper on their script. She also asked Jenji to get it on her plan, to lock those two up together, let them talk and figure things out, and not give them a chance to just make out, hence the handcuffs. She knew Taylor and Laura weren't on that kind of thing so she was pretty sure they weren't going to do anything.

At first, Jenji thought it was a bad idea, but Natasha managed to convince her how much Taylor and Laura needed to have that talk. They were both refusing to face reality and sooner or later, it was gonna blow up right on their faces, and that's never a good thing. And Jenji agreed.

"Well, I'm Natasha Lyonne. I can do pretty much anything," Natasha joked, thinking of what might be going on between Taylor and Laura now. If they found out about this, she was pretty sure they were gonna kill her.

But she was ready for that. She's Natasha Lyonne.

-o-o-o-

"So what, they just locked us in here?" It was Taylor. Laura was already lying beside her, looking up at the ceiling.

"Yeah. Pretty much." Laura sat up and looked at Taylor. "Are you okay? I'm sorry."

"Sorry for what? Why? Is this your plan? To get us locked in here so you could do... things... to me?" asked Taylor, with a challenging smile on her face.

Laura's eyebrows shot, and hid the smirk that formed on her lips. "What did you say?"

"Nothing. I was kidding," Taylor answered. Laura was wearing a gray tank top and Taylor thought she looked sexy as hell. It was taking all her will power not to pull Laura towards her to kiss her mindlessly. Not that she could do much, anyway, with only one free hand.

"Yeah?" said Laura, now wearing a toothless grin. "Well, I wasn't."

"You weren't?" Her breathing started to slow as Laura inched her face so close to her.

She stared into her eyes, "When I said this was turning me on," then her lips, which was partly open, "...I wasn't kidding."

Taylor swallowed. "What?" She asked as her eyes darted down to Laura's lips which was probably just an inch from hers. "What do you mean you're not kidding?" Laura softly chuckled, and Taylor found even that sexy, and she realized how stupid she must have looked right at that moment.

"I mean..." Laura let that last word drag before she spoke again, "...I'm not kidding," she continued as her lips crashed into Taylor's and before they even knew it, they were making out.

Since Taylor couldn't move much, Laura decided to go on top of her and started kissing her from her lips down to her neck. The fact that Taylor was handcuffed and she had total control over her was making her so hot, but Taylor's delicious moans were intensifying that a thousand times even more.

Thinking of how Taylor was handcuffed made Laura absentmindedly look at her arm which was pinned at the headboard of the bed. And then the sight of it made her freeze. It was bleeding. Just a little, but it felt like someone poured cold water over her because she was suddenly not feeling hot at all. She was worried now.

Taylor, on the other hand, was already wondering why Laura had stopped. "Wh-why are we stopping?" she asked, confused.

"Because you're bleeding," answered Laura as she got off Taylor and went to examine her wrist.

"What?" She looked at her wrist and true enough, it was bleeding. But the blood was so little she wasn't sure how Laura even noticed it. "It's okay. I'm not feeling anything." She then stopped. "Except down there so just get back here, please?" She was so hot she didn't think she would notice even if her hand fell off.

Laura, meanwhile, wouldn't budge. She was actually a little panicked that Taylor was hurt and she couldn't do anything about it. Funny how Taylor was almost naked in front of her, and pinned to the headboard, and almost begging her to get back to what they were doing earlier, but all she wanted to do right at that moment was to put some clothes on her, remove that handcuff off of her and just make sure that she was okay.

"I can't. With you all bloody and stuff."

"You call that bloody? When have you ever been such a pussy? Just get back here and kiss me," she said Taylor, as the heat inside her was slowly subsiding. "Oh, forget about it. It's gone now anyway."

Her feeling earlier was now replaced by warmth, looking at Laura seem so concerned about her. They've been at this 'friends with benefits' thing for quite a long time now and she knew that they both hadn't let any feeling other than desire for each other be known towards each other, if there were any. This was the first time that one of them had let her guard down.

"But seriously, don't worry about it. It's just a little blood. It doesn't even hurt." Laura looked at her with one of her eyebrows shooting up. "Well, it does a little, but I'm fine. I swear."

"No, you're not fine. You're handcuffed for crying out loud." Laura sighed, because she couldn't do anything about it anyway. But instead of going back to bed beside Taylor, she went to the door and started pounding on it again. "Is there really no one out there? Come on, you guys!"

"Laura, no one's there. Just get back here." Laura just looked at her. "Don't worry, no making out. We can just talk." She smiled.

Laura shook her head as she made her way back to the bed. "Whoever's responsible for this is gonna get his or her ass kicked when we get out of here." She didn't know why Tasho's face suddenly popped inside her head.

Taylor laughed as Laura laid down beside her. "Wow, getting a little violent there, Prepon. Come on, it's probably just an honest mistake."

"Do you seriously believe that? We've been here for more than an hour. Don't you think they should have realized it by now if it really was just an honest mistake?"

"Well, if they indeed did this on purpose—"

But Laura cut her off. "They did. You were right. There was something fishy about this supposed little scene."

Taylor nodded. "Fine, since they did this on purpose, as you so strongly believe, we might just as well make the most of it. Although I don't get why there was a need to handcuff me, it's not like I'm gonna be able to go anywhere else if I wasn't, anyway," she added, feeling the pain on her wrist get stronger by the minute. But she didn't show Laura that because she did not want her to worry and get pissed any more than she already felt.

Laura laid on her side and faced Taylor. "Right," she said, finally forgetting that she was annoyed. "And you're right, let's just make the most out of this."

And they started talking. Just talking. Like the way they did before all the mess they got into regarding their relationship. For hours, they talked about Taylor's new relationship with her mom, they talked about Laura's family, and they talked about things about them besides their work on Orange. They talked about everything that they wouldn't allow themselves to talk about before when they would choose to just make out or do something other than talking.

They never talked about anything, nothing so personal at least, because they didn't want to go down that road again. It felt like if they did, all those times they spent moving on from each other would just be thrown away.

Right after their break up, they both thought they would never find a way to be around each other anymore, that any kind of relationship between them was forever ruined. So when they successfully figured out a way to do so, they were happy. They were fine around each other, there were no negative feelings towards each other, and they were both in a really good place right now.

They had tried making themselves believe that doing what they're currently doing was them finally accepting that they had finally and truly moved on from each other. But in reality, something they both found difficult to accept, it's them trying not to let each other go in an unobvious manner.

But neither of them would admit that, because no matter how much they denied it to themselves, they were scared of what it might do to them, of what feelings it was gonna bring out just in case. So for the meantime, they were choosing to ignore reality. Because as much as they wanted to face it, what they had right now was way easier than any other option.

So they kept on talking... and talking... until both had fallen asleep... with Laura's arm protectively wrapped around Taylor, and Taylor's free hand entangled around Laura's.

A/N:

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