AN: I've quoted a scene from S2 E10 – It belongs to the show and its writers and I hope they will forgive me for borrowing it. Thanks for reading!
The streets are quiet and the cab ride to Alex's building only takes five minutes. Alex pays the driver and unlocks the main entrance gate by punching in a code on a small key pad against the wall. The air is still and warm even though it is just after 3am.
Piper trails behind her and looks around sceptically. She wonders if she has made a huge mistake leaving the club with this woman who she only just met. The building does not look like an apartment block at all and scenes from the crime channel start creeping into her thoughts.
"Come on in." Piper hesitantly starts moving toward Alex who sees the worried look on her face. "This used to be a workshop, now the first three floors are design studios and the top floor is my apartment." The explanation helps ease her doubts slightly and Piper climbs into the freight elevator with Alex. Her hand brushes against Alex's but she resists the urge to take it; she will let her steer the situation.
The elevator rattles to a halt and Alex flicks a switch against the wall. Piper's trepidation is forgotten when the light reveals the interesting space in which this unusual woman lives.
"What an amazing place… and the view is just unbelievable!" She gestures with big eyes to the long section of windows through which the harbour lights are twinkling as though Alex was somehow unaware of the view she had from her apartment.
"Thanks, I was lucky to find it." The words came with a genuine smile at the innocent looking blonde's excitement. "Can I get you to drink? We can sit on the balcony, the view is even better from there."
For as long as they were dancing at the club, neither of them drank much so a nightcap was a welcome suggestion; it would also give Piper some time to think about how she wanted the rest of the evening to go. Piper did not want to rationalise what it was that made her kiss Alex at the club. She did not want to think too hard about how easily they moved together and how she felt while she was dancing with this incredibly attractive woman. She had never thought of herself as anything but straight and trying to put the exhilaration of that kiss and the surprising yet undeniable desire for more into any sort of perspective right now seemed unnecessary.
"A glass of wine would be great, red, if you have, please."
Alex smiles at the choice "when in wine-country…" She pulls a bottle of red wine out of the rack, grabs a cork screw out of the drawer and two glasses from the cupboard. Piper is circling around the apartment, looking for any clues that might give her a fuller sense of Alex but aside from good taste in interiors and a love for books, judging by the large collection on a shelf against one of the weathered clay brick walls, there isn't much to be detected.
"How long have you had this place?"
"I bought the building a couple of years ago, the market was great for buyers then but it took me a while to get around to remodelling it so I have only been using it for about two years".
"You don't live here then?" Piper does not want to hear a "no" from Alex but she does.
"I travel a lot for business and I spend most of my time between Paris and New York. I'm only here for a couple of nights on this trip. I'm flying out on Monday."
It isn't what Piper wanted to hear but she is used to things not going her way. She takes the glass of wine that Alex is holding out to her and they head out onto the balcony where Alex sits down on a large outdoor couch. Piper considers sitting on one of the single couches but given the newly revealed time constraints she decides not to pass up on the opportunity for closeness and settles down on the same one as Alex. The view really is magnificent and Piper takes a minute to take it in while sipping on her wine before she asks the obvious question.
"Are you single?"
Alex chuckles at the question. "Yes, I'm very single" then raises an eyebrow. Tilts her head slightly to the side and adds with a cocky grin "why? Do you have plans that I should know about?"
"N-no, um, no, I mean…"
"Hmmm, I was hoping you did."
For a second, Alex wonders if she has lost her mind blurting that out – she has gone out of her way not to get involved with anyone. When she has decided to have a sexual encounter, it has been calculated and she made a point of keeping her distance but here she is laying her cards on the table and leading this girl on.
She knew she would be leaving town soon and that it would be easier not to get sucked into any emotional nonsense that way. She had long since learnt her lesson not to be a science project for confused straight girls but this gorgeous blonde with the big blue eyes and innocent smile is different. Alex knows that she is probably going to be sorry eventually if she pursues whatever this is but at the same time, she can't suppress her curiosity about where this might lead. Ego, lust, genuine interest –it is all a little blurry and that is perfectly alright with her right now.
Alex's grin is still in place but Piper doesn't believe that she is joking. Alex sees the look on the blonde's face. It is somewhere between surprised and shocked and she is suddenly unsure of herself. This is not something that happens to Alex often but perhaps she misread the situation completely so she tries to downplay it.
"Relax, kid, a kiss is just a kiss. We can hang out here for as long as you want and then I will sleep on the couch."
"Really?"
"It's great couch, trust me I've" – the sentence is interrupted when Piper leans over and for the second time tonight pulls Alex's mouth onto her own. The kiss is soft but intense and a couple of seconds into it, Piper pulls away, just far enough to say "I wasn't talking about the couch. A kiss is definitely not just a kiss to me."
With that, Alex leans back in, this time it is more urgent than before and Piper's fingers are entangled in Alex's long dark hair. Alex has her one arm on the back rest of the couch and the other is running up the side of Piper's body, exploring the outline of her ribcage and the curve that her breast makes. "We should take this inside" Alex mumbles against Piper's mouth. There is a groan in agreement and Alex snakes her arm around Pipers's back to pull her up off the couch, reluctantly breaking off the kiss "hold that thought…" Piper smiles and as they head inside, Alex locks the door and switches off most of the lights in the apartment so that it is only the bedroom and bathroom area that is still illuminated. She playfully nips at Piper's neck from behind as she catches up to her.
"I'm covered in glitter from the makeup for the show, would you mind if I detour through the shower?" and then adds with a naughty smile and exaggeratedly big blue eyes "you could join me."
"And there I was thinking that you are a shy straight girl!"
"I am! Shy, I mean, the rest is, I guess, undefined right now"
Alex wasn't sure if Piper had wandered into female territory before but from this last statement, it seems safe to assume that this is a first for her. Alex turns on the hot water in the shower and grabs an extra towel from a shelf under the plinth on which the twin basins stand to the side of the open plan bedroom bathroom area. She turns back around to find Piper busy tying her hair up, her hands occupied behind her head for a moment, Alex steps closer to her and backs her into the glass door of the shower, pinning her hands above her head and kissing her mouth briefly before moving down to her now exposed neck. She hangs the fresh towel on a hook beside the shower without lifting her head. Every little hair on Piper's body reacts – she never liked it when Larry kissed her neck but the way that Alex's mouth and breath feels on her skin makes her entire body tingle. Her hands are released from behind her head and Alex quite casually starts taking her clothes off.
First her shirt is pulled up, she dutifully lifts her arms while the brunette slips it over her head and off her arms. In doing so she obscures her vision for a moment and takes the chance to sneak a peek at the petite blonde's semi-exposed body; she decides that this is definitely worth bending her own rules for.
Piper slides her hands in under Alex's shirt and undoes the clasp of her bra. Alex lifts her own T-Shirt over her head while Piper undoes her jeans. In a matter of seconds, the two are pressed against each other with no barriers whatsoever separating them. The feeling of breasts rather than a hairy chest pressing up against her nipples is new to Piper and she pulls Alex closer as though she wants more. They move into the shower, Alex adjusts the temperature of the water slightly. She moves circles around Piper where she stands in the middle of the cubicle to settle back into the embrace of the blonde's kiss and lazily runs her hands over the unexplored, warm, wet, naked skin.
Alex reaches for some shower gel and both of them are soon covered in soapy slipperiness. They maintain as much skin contact as possible and take turns to wash each other down, kissing in between. When the soap is rinsed away, there is little time for drying off - neither woman seems to be able to wait for what they both know will follow.
They tumble down onto the bed. "Are you sure you want to do this?" Alex asks although the question seems completely obsolete. She doesn't want to come across as too predatory.
It is met with a semi-breathless "Yes!" and an exasperated look.
That is all the encouragement she needs and she runs her hand along the curve of Piper's right breast, she loves the way the perky mounds look now against Piper's horizontal chest. She works her way down laying a trail of kisses along her neck and over her collar bone before taking each nipple in her mouth in turn, gently circling it with her tongue and ever so gently grazing over it with her teeth. Piper arches her back a little, trying to get more from Alex who obliges by tugging gently with her teeth to elicit a satisfying little growl which makes her smile to herself.
She makes her way further down Piper's body, her hands and mouth teasing their way across the soft, smooth skin of her toned stomach and down towards the neatly groomed little tuft of hair. The blonde looks down into the beautifully mysterious green eyes that look up at her across the landscape of her torso as if to communicate what they want her to do; there is only a moment's self-conscious hesitation before she shifts aside a little to allow Alex some room to move down in between her legs.
Alex runs her tongue down from the bottom edge of the neat little tuft until she feels Piper's clit under its tip, a flick over it causes a jolt of her hips against Alex's mouth and Alex slides her left hand in underneath her hips to get some more control. The grinding continues although less erratically when Alex settles into a rhythm of sucking and flicking her tongue over Piper's clit and the blonde is audibly enjoying it… A lot. Piper is very wet, they both are, but Alex is much too focused on giving her new lover an experience she would never forget to be distracted by her own desires for the moment, at least. She teases a little by entering the blonde only slightly with two fingers. This makes her raise her hips and Alex gets the message; her mouth is still very busy when she slides her fingers deep into the silken warmth and feels the walls tighten around them momentarily before they relax again slightly. She looks up at Piper, her head is tilted to the side, her eyes are closed and her breathing is fast. There is certainly no any indication that she is hurting her and she adds a third finger; it is accommodated fairly easily but leaves Alex with very little room to manoeuvre. As it turns out, she doesn't need much because within a couple of deep thrusts, her fingers are constricted in the build-up to an orgasm that soon, loudly, washes over her.
Alex looks pretty pleased with herself as she crawls up the length of Piper's blissfully satisfied body.
"Horrible wasn't it?"
"The worst. You're really bad at that" Piper teases.
"Can I do you?"
"You don't have to ask!"
"I've never… Really…"
"Gone down on a woman before?!"
"I mean… No."
Alex giggles.
"What kind of Lesbian are you?"
"The boob-touching kind…"
"Alright, are you ready to take the plunge.. so to speak?"
"Are you gonna coach me through it?"
"Yeah…"
Piper mimics Alex at first. She gets the brunette onto her back and starts kissing her moving downward to her chest when she decides not to be too predictable. She positions herself next to Alex and coaxes her onto her side. From behind her, Piper moves Alex's hair out of the way to give her unhindered access to her neck and leaves kisses all over her shoulders, over her back and she takes a moment to lick over the dimples at the base of Alex's spine. A playful bite on Alex's butt gets a small moan out of her but when Piper slinks her way in between Alex's legs and she slides her fingers along through the pool of wetness that had formed there it is Piper who sighs, turned on beyond her own expectations by the silky wetness under her fingers. Alex hears this and turns onto her back. She wraps her legs around Piper's back, catching her off guard and delivering the intended result – with their faces up close to one another, Piper supports her weight on her one arm and her right hand finds its way back to the unexplored territory between Alex's thighs. The kissing gets hotter as Piper's fingers make their way up over Alex's clit, the intense sensation of the slickness and heat that they bring with them reminds Alex just how badly she would like this woman to take her to the edge – the edge of reason, of passion, of sanity, it doesn't really matter right now as long as she gets to go to that edge and beyond.
Any anxiety that Piper felt melted away into Alex's kiss and she moved down to where her fingers were already very busy. She looked up at Alex as she licked over her clit, then took it into her mouth and relished the effects it had on this tall, unbelievably beautiful creature now at her mercy. It was surprising how in touch she felt and how easy that made it to know what to do. She slid two fingers into Alex, the moan that rewarded this was deep and hoarse. It was followed by increasingly ragged breathing until finally she could feel an orgasm clench down on her fingers. As Alex's body relaxed, she pulled Piper back up to her and the blonde listened to Alex's heartbeat slowly easing back to normal. As the day broke over the harbour they both fell asleep. Alex only barely managed to press the button to close the automated curtains in her blissfully post-coital state.
It was still dark in the apartment when Piper became aware of the soft flesh beneath her hand – they hadn't moved and she was lying on Alex's shoulder, with her hand on her chest.
"Morning" the voice was like honey – she settled back onto the shoulder and lazily ran her hand over Alex's tummy.
Alex kissed the top of her head. For the first time in a long time she did not feel the need to inwardly reprimand herself for her choices. "I'm making coffee, stay in bed".
She disappeared for a couple of minutes and returned with two freshly brewed mugs. They had their coffee in bed, it was around lunch time already and they watched the sunlight playing over the bay.
"I need to leave tomorrow."
"I know and that sucks" Piper says with a face that would put any puppy dog to shame.
"Why don't you come with me?"
"To Europe, are you serious?"
"Yeah, come with me, I will buy you a ticket."
It took about twenty minutes to "think about it" before the Alex called and booked another ticket.
What this would become they could not have guessed but neither of them were willing to pass up on the possibilities of what it might turn into.