The sun shone through the open window, a lazy, cool breeze caressing her skin as her eyes blinked open. She turned from her side onto her back, stretching her limbs and arching her back, her naked breasts visible as blanked slid down from her body.

"You doing things like that should be a crime."

The husky voice made Piper smirk sleepily. "Are you going to arrest me now?" Her voice was still thick with sleep.

Alex looked up from the book she was reading on the couch in their ridiculously expensive hotel apartment in Cambodia. She raised an eyebrow at Piper before sliding her glasses up on her head. Closing her book she got up, dressed only in an oversized short that reached her mid-thighs. Her hips swayed seductively, full of promises, making the blonde swallow thickly as her thighs were squeezing against each other and her center was already aching with need.

"I am not going to arrest you, Pipes. But I may have to punish you."

"You may have to?"

The mattress dipped slightly onto one side as Alex crawled on her hands and knees towards her girlfriend, stopping only when she hovered over the blonde. They stared into the other's eyes before Piper reached up, locking her fingers behind Alex's neck, pulling her down and pressing her lips against the brunette's, wasting no time as she forced her tongue into the taller woman's mouth.

The kiss was wild, hard and passionate, igniting fire in both women. One leg between the blonde's, Alex pressed her thigh into Piper's core, making herself moan as she felt the heat and wetness of Piper's naked sex on her own naked leg.

Piper groaned into Alex's mouth, grinding herself against the brunette's leg, but it wasn't enough, she needed more. "Alex…"

The brunette smirked, making Piper lightly bite onto her lower lip. She gasped at the light pain, and again as Piper's fingernails bit into the skin of her back as she moved Alex's shirt up, exposing her.

"Stop being so infuriating…" Piper let a moan escape her as Alex moved downwards, sucking in one of her nipples. "…and get me off…"

Alex chuckled as she kissed her way downwards, the smell and heat of Piper's arousal making her mouth water. But she controlled herself, wanting to tease the blonde a little, so she kissed around the blonde's wet mound, just close enough to make the blonde feel something. She scratched her fingernails along the inside of Piper's slim and toned thighs, tasting hints of the blonde's wetness as she kissed along the fading scratch marks she left on the blonde's thighs.

"Aleeex…" Piper writhed under her, whining and moaning, spreading her legs even further apart. "Just eat me out for fucks sake…"

Alex chuckled, her mouth hovering just over the blonde's sex. The blonde gasped as Alex's breath hit her on her sex and Alex almost got dizzy from the intoxicating smell of Piper's arousal.

"But you were a bad girl…" Alex smirked up at the blonde. "Teasing me so early in the morning with your bare boobs."

Piper's eyes were hooded with lust as she looked down, right into her girlfriend's piercing green eyes. "Then fuck me hard."

Alex nearly growled, her smirk vanishing at Piper's look and words. She dived right in, licking around and between her folds, sucking on her clit, hard, as she thrust two fingers right inside her girlfriend. Piper moaned loudly, gasped and groaned, holding Alex's head in place, her fingers entangled with the thick black hair of her girlfriend.

Alex pumped in and out of her relentlessly; Alex was fucking her. Never before had she experienced such a mixture of pain and pleasure. There was no lovemaking, there was no sex. This was just raw fucking, and Alex's mouth working on her bundle of nerves, her long fingers pumping in and out of her, the loud sounds her mouth and fingers made on her sex made her come; hard.

Her back arched from the bed and she let out a loud gasp that turned into a long, drawn out moan as her muscles stiffened, threatening to cramp.

She fell down on the bed with a thud, her legs and arms heavy; spent and out of breath. "Fuck…"

Glancing at her girlfriend, her brows furrowed at the confused look Alex was giving her hand, which turned into a smug smirk, followed by a loud chuckle.

"What?"

"Look at that." Alex held her hand in front of Piper's face and Piper blushed furiously, mortified. The brunette's arm was wet, like, really wet, dripping even.

"Did I pee on you?" Her voice was high, the way it got when she was close to being hysterical.

"Relax, no." Alex laughed. "I think I actually made you squirt!" The brunette sounded almost gleeful about it.

"Wh-what?" Now, Piper felt almost embarrassed.

"I made you squirt! You came all over my arm!"

"Oh my god, Alex!" If she was able to move her arms, she would have covered her face in embarrassment.

"I made my girlfriend squirt!"

"Alex!"

"Penny for your thoughts."

Piper jumped from her chair in the library and hit a knee against the table, cursing under her breath as she rubbed the sore spot.

Alex chuckled lowly as she sat on a chair next to Piper's. "Someone's jumpy."

"You didn't need to sneak up on me like that, y'know." The blonde grumbled.

"Yeah, sorry I guess." She didn't sound like she was. "What were you thinking about? You've been staring at the same spot for forever."

Piper didn't answer, she just stared down, burning holes into the open page of the book in front of her as her cheeks took on a deep red hue.

A curious laugh escaped Alex; now she needed to know. "You've seriously got to tell me now."

Groaning, Piper let her head drop onto her hands. "I remembered that one time in Cambodia, when…you know."

Leaning back, Alex got a dreamy look on her face; she smiled softly at the thought of Cambodia. "I love that country." She whispered. "What were you remembering? We did a lot of things there."

Sighing in frustration for having to spell it out, Piper whispered harshly. "When you made me squirt, damn it!"

Her soft smile turned into a smug one. "My greatest accomplishment."

"I was sore for the rest of the day."

"My arm hurt."

"I couldn't move for almost an hour."

"You came all over me."

"Alex!"

The brunette laughed at Piper and scooted closer to her, throwing an arm over her and pulling her close. "I miss those days." She said with a sigh.

Piper nestled herself against the brunette, careful not to fall out from her chair. "Me too."

"Maybe, when we are out of here, we can take a trip there."

Looking up from her position, Piper's eyes were wide with surprise. "Really? Even if we are not…?"

"Even if we are not together then."

A small smile adorned piper's face and she felt truly happy right now. If everything worked out the way she hoped it to, then she may just have something to truly look forward to after her time in prison.

Alex smiled at the blonde's expression. "I just want you to be happy, kid. After everything, I still care more about you than about everybody else on this planet. You still are the most important thing in my life…even if you are not in it."

Piper didn't say anything and was about to nestle herself deeper into Alex's body when they heard someone clear their throat behind them. They jumped away from each other and turned around, to see Bennett behind them, raising his eyebrows and shaking his head at them before turning his back at the two women. He was a decent guard.

Alex then turned towards Piper and continued her talking. "And you know…I know that you know that we were never friends and I don't believe that we ever will be. It wouldn't feel right." Piper nodded at her. It would be weird and awkward at best if they ever were to become something akin to friends. "But I think that we could at least manage to be ex-girlfriends who still care a lot about each other for a trip to Cambodia. And who knows? Maybe it'll work out there if it didn't work out between us before then."

"Yeah…" Piper smiled. Alex really, truly seemed to believe that they still had a chance with each other and it made hear heart beat faster. "Cambodia has that kind of magic, hasn't it?"

"Now, that's a little bit sappy."

Piper blushed, slapping Alex's arm playfully. "Shut up, you know it's true."

"Yeah, I guess you are right. Cambodia is magical…in a totally unsappy way."

"Alex!"

"How do you do it?"

"Hm?" Nicky looked up at her from their scrabble game, her concentration broken.

"How do you keep going, knowing that you want, sometimes even need a hit, but you never give in? I mean yeah, your body doesn't want it anymore but you know how good it feels and your life is fucked up and…y'know." This was why she felt so close to Nicky. The crazy haired woman was becoming more and more something close to a sister to her. They bonded over their fucked up lives, over their addiction and Piper often asked her things like this. The question she just asked though was something she had wondered for quite a while now. How was she going to move on from heroin? How was she going to not give in if shit was to hit the fan again in her life? She knew that at some point that would happen; that it was bound to happen- she was Piper fucking Chapman after all and her life was never easy, her life repeatedly screwed her over and she literally was just counting the days for the next time it would happen. When that time would come, how was she not going to give in to heroin; just to make things a little easier? She was used to it now. When things got hard, take a hit; it will make you feel better.

"Take this, blondie!" Nicky laughed as she smashed her letter into the row.

Piper bend her head, reading it. "Cunnilingus." She furrowed her brows, squinted her eyes; her mouth opened and closed a few times without making a sound, before she looked at Nicky with an incredulous look on her face. "How?!"

Nicky leaned back on her chair, chewing on her toothpick, smirking all the while. "Vause warned you, didn't she?"

"I thought she was kidding!"

"Hell no, Chapman, no one jokes when it's about me and scrabble." Her smirk turned into a more serious look when she looked at Piper. "To answer your question…it's one big fat battle; every fucking day. Let me be honest with you…I love that shit. I, honest to god, love heroin and I hate her. I love her because she made my days brighter when everything was just one huge clusterfuck and I hate her because she brought me here and nearly killed me. Pretty much the same with you, am I right?"

Piper nodded, hanging onto every word the redhead said.

"I admit that there are days when I know that if someone offered me H…I know I wouldn't say no. It's hard, Chapman. It really is. I don't think that I'll ever be completely over that shit. I don't know if I ever want to be…when my life was at its worst she was the only thing that I ever looked forward to…but now I have Red…and…somebody else." Nicky gave Piper one of her rare unguarded smiles. "Before I got here I had no one…now I have Red and…y'know. People to live for."

The blonde leaned back, pondering Nicky's words. "Just like that…you have people and you stay clean for them?"

"Answer this: if it meant that you could lick Vause's pussy again, every day, several times- would you stay clean forever?"

Piper opened her mouth than closed it again, without saying anything. Her face burned from her blush but she knew that Nicky was right- even if her wording was a little crude for Piper's taste.

"Thought so." She looked at their game, then at Piper. "Your turn, blondie and try to lose with some dignity."

Piper and Nicky were on their way down to the washing room. Apparently one of the dryers was broken and they were supposed to repair it.

"Do you even know how to repair dryers?"

Nicky shrugged. "I repaired one of them once. Still don't know how, but I did."

Piper smiled at that, shaking her head. She looked forward to it and not because of the repairing part, but because Alex was down in the washing rooms.

They entered the washing room and Piper immediately spotted her ex-girlfriend, folding laundry. She had to smirk at that; it was odd seeing Alex doing something as mundane as folding laundry. It made her almost look like a housewife.

The thought made her snort and giggle and it made Alex turn towards them and look at her with a raised eyebrow. Nicky also gave her a weird look.

"What are you laughing at, blondie?" Nicky was the one to ask.

Piper took a deep breath, interrupted in between with small giggles. "Sorry, it's just…honestly, never in my life have I ever thought that I would think that the Alex Vause looks like a normal housewife. Almost like a soccer mom even."

Alex gave Piper an incredulous look. "Wow, I would feel insulted if there wasn't the sad fact that it's probably even true."

Feeling daring and brave all of a sudden, Piper walked up to Alex and grazed her fingers against the brunette's waist. "If it's any consolation…I think it's kinda hot…" Her voice was a husky whisper and she relished the slight shudder she felt from Alex.

The brunette turned towards her, her eyes betraying her lust. "Is it now?"

Nicky chose that moment to step in between them, interrupting their play. "Okay now, I understand that you'd rather finger each other than anything else, I honestly do, but there's business to be done and I'll be damned if I go and ask Messiah over there which one of the dryers is broken."

Piper turned towards the petite woman Nicky was pointing at and wondered if she had seen her before.

"You may mock me now but we gonna see who's gonna laugh last when you are in hell you evil lesbian!" The woman spat at Nicky.

Piper cringed at the foul teeth she spotted. "Meth." Her brows rose as understanding dawned at her after Alex's whisper.

"But is she for real?" She turned at Alex. "With that hell and lesbian stuff?"

"Pretty much, yeah."

"God."

"Don't use the holy Lord's name in vain!" The petite woman shouted at her, making Piper jump.

"Excuse me?"

"You talk with them abominations like they are normal when they ain't and you take the Lord's name in your mouth when you ain't supposed to! You will go to hell with 'em!" The woman was practically preaching and Piper's eyes were wide in wonder. It was quite the spectacle.

Alex chose that moment to step in, having had enough of the small woman. "Shut the fuck up, Pennsatucky and leave Piper alone before I bash your teeth in- or even worse…" She leaned in further towards the small woman, making her shrink away. "I may just come into your bunk one night and lick you between your legs…so softly that you'll barely feel it but enough for you to be on the brink of orgasm in just a minute and you'll beg me to make you come and maybe…just maybe…I'll do it and then you'll be ruined for men forever."

Piper knew Alex was bluffing but it didn't do anything for her to stop feeling a pit in her stomach, for that ugly monster called jealousy to rear its head.

Pennsatucky wasn't thrilled either, as she looked at Alex with disgust and backed away before turning around and leaving.

Nicky found that whole scene amusing and just laughed out loud before wiping away a fake tear. "I gotta tell during dinner man, you gotta let me tell that."

"Knock yourself out." Alex shrugged before pointing at a machine at the far end. "That's the one, by the way."

Nicky nodded and got to work while Piper waited with the manuals in her arms for Nicky to find use for her. Alex returned to her laundry, glancing all the while at Piper, who stared straight ahead, neither looking at Alex nor at Nicky.

It continued like that until Alex spoke up. "You are awfully quite."

Piper shrugged. "There's nothing to talk about."

"Are you jealous?"

Piper's jaw dropped agape as the books dropped from her arms, making her curse under her breath as she picked them up. "Shut up, I'm not jealous."

Alex smirked. "You so are jealous. You were always like that."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Piper asked, annoyed at her voice for being an octave higher than usual. "Shut up!" She barked at Nicky who sniggered silently to herself while trying to repair the machine, but raised her hands in mock surrender at Piper.

"You were always like that when I flirted with mules even though you knew that nothing would ever happen."

Piper glared at Alex half-heartedly. "That's not true." She couldn't even convince herself.

Alex's eyes gleamed with mischief, her smirk as wide as ever. "Oh, but it is. We always had hot make-up-sex after I was done." Piper's face turned beet red as she knew what Alex was getting at and Nicky turned towards them, ready to soak up whatever it was that Alex was about to reveal. "I made you come seven times in a row that one time. Took me a special kind of convincing, that one."

Nicky burst out laughing. "Holy shit man, the things I learn about you, Chapman! First you are a squirter and now you made Vause get you off seven times!"

Piper groaned in embarrassment and glared again at her ex-girlfriend. She liked to boast about her sexual prowess.

"But, if I am honest…you were best in bed when you were jealous so I kind of made you sometimes jealous on purpose.

Piper's eyes got wide and her ears burned. She punched the brunette weakly on her arm, laughing despite herself.

"Alex!"

AN: Something more relaxed in this chapter. Alex and Piper are getting close again and Piper is also forming a bond with Nicky. But we all know that Piper has a special bond with trouble, getting into it without even trying so yeah.

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