Note that I've now edited the previous chapter to include a bit where Taystee tells Chapman that Leann was sent to the SHU for flipping a table over, because plot. I'm sure you can all guess...
Showering with a cast is hard. Piper had wrapped a plastic bag around her right arm and was extremely frustrated with how difficult simple tasks like washing yourself had become. She secured her towel around her body as best as she could, but in her hurry she tripped on her way out and fell out of the stall.
"Ow. Shit."
She landed right against a soft and warm body, as strong arms wrapped around her and held her steady. Piper stared wide-eyed into Alex's stunned face, just inches from her own. Alex drew a sharp intake of breath and both women stood staring at each other, frozen in position. Alex found it hard enough pretending not to care from a distance without being thrown right against Piper's body, remembering how it felt against her own, without so much as a warning.
The moment seemed to last forever, though it was really only a few seconds. The few seconds it took for Alex to rearrange her features into the stony mask she was adopting around Piper, before she roughly shoved Piper away and barked "Watch it, Chapman."
Both women turned to the sound of footsteps as Nichols walked into the showers, eyeing the scene before her cautiously. Alex walked up to her, grabbed her by the arm and dragged her into the nearest shower, throwing a dark look over her shoulder.
As the unmistakeable sounds of kissing started to echo around her, Piper stood staring at the space where Alex had just been, feeling her heart shatter into a thousand pieces. Tears brimming in her blue eyes, she ran out of the room.
Piper laughed loudly, obnoxiously at the man's jokes, as her fingers danced around the rim of the glass of champagne she was holding. Alex had dragged her to a fancy party at a hotel in Vienna, full of diplomats and rich traders. As Piper mingled with charming strangers in her dark green cocktail dress and golden earrings, Alex was networking and finalising a few business deals. A far cry from the seedy underbelly of cities that Piper would have associated with heroin, here she was, amongst the glamorous and the elegant, enjoying the free booze and canapés while Alex arranged the moving of large quantities of hard drugs across international borders.
She felt a hand come to rest on her hip, as Alex joined her and her current partner in conversation with a strange look on her face. "Will you excuse us for a moment?" she said, with a polite smile that didn't reach her eyes. Alex grabbed Piper by the hand, using her other one to take her full champagne glass and slam it down on a bewildered waiter's tray of canapés as she dragged Piper out of the room.
Piper had no idea what was going on. "Alex, are you OK? What's wrong?"
Alex didn't reply, simply pulling Piper into the luxurious hotel bathroom and locking them both inside a stall. Alex shoved Piper against the wall, and stared at her for a second, breathing deeply. Then she lunged forward and kissed Piper roughly, hungrily, all open mouths and teeth dragging on lips. As they broke apart, Alex leaned into Piper's ear and hissed "You're mine". She gently bit Piper's earlobe, before taking it into her mouth and proceeding to kiss and nip her way down Piper's neck.
Through the want that was starting to completely cloud her brain, Piper managed to break into a smug grin.
"So that's what this is about. Is the great Alex Vause jealous?"
Alex cocked an eyebrow to accompany her incredibly sexy pout and wiped the smirk clear off Piper's face as she roughly stuck her knee between the shorter woman's thighs, applying just enough pressure to elicit a low moan.
"Say it", Alex commanded, as she removed her knee and began lifting the hem of Piper's dress, nails raking against her thighs tantalisingly slowly.
Piper's breathing was becoming faster and shakier, as she stared deep into the amused grey eyes in front of her.
"Say what?"
Alex grabbed Piper's silk panties and pulled them down to her knees in one quick swoop.
"Say that you're mine".
Alex ran her index finger through Piper's wet centre once, before slowly bringing it up to her mouth and sucking on it, moaning with pleasure, while never taking her eyes off Piper's.
"Oh God, Alex. I'm yours. I'm all yours. Please stop teasing."
Alex smirked evilly, pleased to have turned Piper into a puddle of need so quickly.
"All right then", she husked, as she sank to her knees.
"Morning, losers!" Nichols dumped her tray heavily and joined Piper, Black Cindy, Pousséy and Taystee at the breakfast table.
"Someone's chirpy", Pousséy pointed out.
"Someone just had a very *pleasurable* shower", Nichols said, suggestively wiggling her eyebrows.
Piper abruptly put her spork down, no longer hungry. She stared down at her food, willing herself not to cry in front of everyone.
"Stop acting like I killed your cat, Chapman. I like you but you fucked up, and she made it perfectly clear it was over."
"Not if Chapman has anything to say about it", Taystee quipped. "She going to woooo her", she teased, as the table erupted in a chorus of mocking "oooohs".
Piper glared at Taystee, who just shrugged apologetically and continued laughing with Pousséy.
"You have to stop messing her around, Chapman," Nicky continued. "She's had enough of your drama. I know you two have history but I'm not going to pass up on uncomplicated, mindblowing prison sex because of it." Nichols sent a wink over Piper's shoulder as she watched Alex's strategically staggered arrival at another table.
Piper had had enough. She knew she should learn to develop a thicker skin, but she was still raw from her encounter with Alex earlier, and stood up abruptly to go empty her tray as everyone's eyes followed her. Nicky had the decency to look at least slightly guilty.
Piper went out to the track to try and walk off some of her feelings before heading back to her dorm. Bennett was there to take her to her new bunk. He led her to the suburbs and pointed to a bed with an apologetic look on his face.
On the bunk next to it sat Alex, who looked up from the book she was reading. "You have got to be fucking kidding me".
Right, that was probably the last in my string of quick uploads, really should get back to work now... As ever, please let me know what you think and what I could improve. Also if you have an idea for a scene that you'd like to read, let me know and I'll see if I can fit it in!