Hey everyone! Sorry I didn't update sooner, university classes just started up again and I've been a bit busy, settling in again and stuff ... I know, I know, it's not really an excuse, so I hope I make it up with some Vauseman cuddles. They're growing closer guys! Are you excited?! I know I am! I wish I had someone like Piper has Alex, but that doesn't matter anymore now. Hope you enjoy this! Let me know what you think!


Last chapter: She hears her teacher greet her students before starting the class, but Piper's mind is already drifting off, the images of both Larry and Alex flashing behind her eyes. She swallows hard as the sensations of Larry's hands all over her body and Larry's penis inside her take over her senses again. Piper is running out of luck as the brunette asks her a question, and Piper can hear it, she just can't get herself to answer, too wrapped in the events of this morning. Her breathing picks up, and so does her heart rate. She hears Alex saying something about class being dismissed and that they all get to go home, but she can't get herself to move. She closes her eyes, trying desperately to get the flashback to go away, but it's no use. She feels hands on her arms and face, but she doesn't react. "Shit, I'm having a panic attack," Piper's last thought flash through her mind before she faints, and slumps in her teachers arms.


Alex greets her last group of students of the day before once again diving headfirst into today's subject, Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg. They'd been talking about the Civil War for three days now, today finally ending her classes about the subject. Alex is extremely happy about that, having to give classes about that subject way too many times. She rambles on and on about why Lincoln's speech was such an important one, all while keeping a close eye on the blonde. After a while of seeing Piper being zoned out, she decides to try and get her back with her, addressing her a few times before realizing something must be wrong.

She quickly dismisses the class, telling them they can go home or do whatever they want, and everyone stands up without so much of a doubt. "They're probably just happy that they get to hang out or go home early," Alex thinks as she stands behind her desk, watching everyone but Piper leave the classroom. No one notices the blonde, and as the last student steps out of the classroom, Alex takes a few quick strides to Piper's desk and observes the blonde for a few seconds. "Shit, she's having a fucking panic attack," Alex thinks as she gets down to Piper's level.

"Piper, sweetie, look at me, Pipes please, come back to me honey, come on, I need you to come back to me sweetheart," Alex tries to pull her student out of it, but she gets no reaction.

Alex caresses her face and arms, hoping that physical touch will get the blonde to come back from her panic attack, but her eyes are closed and once again Piper is not reacting to her actions.

"Pipes, sweetie? Open your eyes baby, come on sweetheart, please just open them," Alex basically pleads with the blonde student, but it's no use. She has her arms on the blonde's arms, but quickly moves them as Piper slumps down, in her arms. "FUCK!" Alex shouts as she realizes the blonde has just fainted.

"Good thing I'm quite strong," Alex thinks as she picks the blonde up, bridal style, and bringing her over to her own desk, figuring she can put her on top of it. She gently sits her down before swiping her free arm over the desk, effectively sending everything down to the floor. "Fuck the papers, I need to help Piper," Alex thinks as she gently lays her student down on the desk. Alex freaks out as she realizes she's never had to help someone having a panic attack. She quickly pulls her phone out of her jacket, knowing that the school nurse has already left the building, and calls her mom.

Diane picks up after three rings. "Hey Al! What's up?" Diane asks before the brunette has a chance to say anything.

"Mom, I need help. Piper had a panic attack during class, and she fainted just now, and the nurse isn't here anymore, and I don't know what to do and I'm freaking out," Alex says quickly before being cut off by her mother.

"Alexandra! Calm down for fuck's sake! Just stay calm, I'll help you get her back," Diane wants to help both her daughter and this girl (who has taken her daughter's heart without her knowing).

"I don't know what to do mom, I'm so fucking worried about her, she seemed to be fine earlier," Alex says.

"Those things can happen, only one image or word is enough to set her off, baby," Diane explains.

"Okay so how do I do this?" Alex asks, really desperate to get her Pipes back.

Diane goes through the steps that will help the blonde come back, and it takes Alex some time, but eventually, the blonde opens her eyes as she tries to sit up.

"Stay down Piper, you fainted a while ago, and you only just woke up," Alex gently pushes her to lie down again.

"Thanks for helping me mom! I owe you! I'll let you know how things evolve, I'll call you later, love you," Alex says, so grateful she could reach her mom.

"No problem Al, and Piper? Let Alex take care of you alright? Talk to you later babe, love you too, bye Alex," Diane says before hanging up the phone.

"What happened?" Piper croaks out in a raspy voice, sounding nothing like her own.

"You fainted and fell in my arms, so I picked you up to lay you down on the desk, it seemed like a good idea at the time," Alex says, slightly embarrassed that she didn't really know what to do.

"Oh okay, well thank you Ms. Vause," Piper replies.

"You can call me Alex, kid," Alex chuckles, happy that the blonde didn't pick up on her embarrassment.

"Okay, well thank you Alex, but I think I can manage from now on," Piper says, trying to sit up again. She groans as she reaches for her head, wincing at the throbbing in her temples.

"You're obviously not okay Piper, like my mom said, let me take care of you now, you can trust me," Alex says, trying to calm down the blonde.

"Okay, thank you," Piper whispers, not wanting to admit she really needs the help.

"Do you want to sit or lie down?" Alex asks, not really knowing what the best position is.

"Could you help me up? My back is quite sore, you know from lying on a hard wooden desk," Piper replies with a slight chuckle.

"Oh yeah, right" Alex says, quickly reaching out to the blonde, lifting her off the desk and into her desk chair.

"Much better," Piper sighs as she melts into the comfy chair.

"Take it while you can kid, that chair is way too comfy for you to sit in all day, that's something only I am allowed to do," Alex chuckles as she sees the blonde melt into her chair.

"I don't know, Al, I think I could get used to this," Piper sighs quietly.

"Al?" Alex questions.

"Oh shit, sorry, I didn't mean to say that, shit I'm so sorry, this is so awkward …" Piper rambles her apology before quickly being cut off by the brunette.

"Kid, chill out, it's okay, normally only my mom calls me Al, but I like it a lot coming from you, so I'll allow it," Alex chuckles. Piper only smiles and nods, not really knowing what to say. "I can't believe I just dropped that nickname on her, and she likes it! God, this woman is so beautiful," Piper thinks as Alex starts picking up the sheets of paper she had sent to the floor earlier.

"What happened in here? Whirlwind pass through or something?" Piper asks with a smile on her face.

"No, I just had to clear my desk, and the first thing that came to mind was swiping everything away with my free arm while I was holding you upright," Alex replies without a hitch.

"Oh right, okay," Piper replies quietly, a little embarrassed about knowing that her teacher carried her over here. Alex picks up the last sheets of paper off the ground with her back to the blonde, resulting in the brunette showing off her amazing ass (yes, Alex knows people think she has a great ass) to her student.

"You trying to put up a show or something, Alex?" Piper asks laughing.

"What do you mean? Oh, no, just picking everything up, something you could help me with probably, since you're the reason that they're on the floor," Alex says.

"I don't think that's such a good idea, seeing that I only just wake up, right?" Piper retorts.

"Right," Alex says before a tense silence falls over the two women.

Alex is the first one to speak up.

"We need to talk about this morning and your panic attack Piper," Alex says, she really wants to address the problems now, before the blonde is expected home.

"I don't know Alex, you know what Larry said, if I told anyone, they'd be dead and so would I," Piper says quietly.

"Well, fuck that sick bastard, we need to talk, we'll figure out how to get him back later, I want to talk about YOU now," Alex says, emphasizing everything she just said by pointing at the blonde.

"Okay," Piper whispers, still a little embarrassed that she had a panic attack in the hot brunette's classroom.

"Take your time, okay Pipes? I'm here for you, I will always be here for you," Alex says reassuringly.

"Thank you Alex, but maybe you could ask me questions? I'll answer if I want to, and otherwise I'll just shake my head. I don't really know where to start, so yeah," Piper trials off, really unsure of herself right now.

"Oh okay, let's start with your panic attack, can I ask what might've been the trigger for it?" Alex asks sweetly.

"Larry, he was standing in front of the door before my period, and he, … he forced me to kiss him, before that I was doing okay for being, … you know, …" Piper trails off. "Sick fucker, forcing Pipes into something like that," Alex thinks as she listens to the blonde's answer.

"Has anyone seen anything of that interaction Piper?" Alex asks.

"No I don't think so, the hallways were fairly empty, and no one really pays attention to me, so," Piper answers her timidly.

"Oh well, okay, that's good, did he threaten you again?" Alex asks, a bit afraid of the answer.

"Yes," Piper whispers.

"Don't listen to those Piper, those are empty threats, I've seen him, he isn't worth anything," Alex says. Piper takes off her hoodie before looking at her teacher again, completely forgetting about the cuts on her wrist as she puts her arms on the desk. Alex looks at the blonde again, secretly admiring how good the blonde looked in that low-cut V-neck before she notices the lines on the blonde's inner wrist.

"Pipes, what did you … Did you do this yourself?" Alex gasps as she picks up the blonde's hand and turns her wrist so she can inspect it closely. Piper tries to pull away, shying away from the beautiful brunette, but Alex grasps Piper's wrist slightly harder, not wanting to let go.

"Pipes, please look at me, I'm not judging you sweetie, just look at me," Alex begs. Piper looks up at the blonde with tears in her eyes, still not answering her question.

Alex sees the guilty and sad look in the eyes of her beautiful blonde student, and grasps her hands before pulling her up from the chair and wrapping her arms around her. Piper starts crying, the guilty feeling about her cuts rushing through her body. Alex just hugs her a little tighter, saying nothing. She knows the blonde doesn't need words now, all she needs is silence and comfort from the brunette. Piper cries silently as she snuggles into the brunette's embrace, feeling a little better that someone seems to care about her.

"Anyone else would probably have run or just ignored me, but Alex actually took care of me," Piper thinks as she grabs the brunette's blouse tightly. She never wants to let go, loving the way she seems to fit perfectly in the brunette's embrace. Piper feels Alex pull her even closer, and she sighs, finally feeling comfortable. They both don't want to let go of the other, feeling completely at ease, even when shit has just hit the fan big time. Alex loves the way her student snuggles into her, secretly hoping that she gets to do this more often after today.

As the tears stop streaming down her face, Piper pulls back to look at the brunette. "Thank you Alex," Piper says quietly, wanting to express her gratitude for staying with her.

"No need to thank me Piper, I'm glad I could help you," Alex says sweetly.

"I've never had a panic attack before, but thank you for staying Alex, usually no one cares to stay and look after me," Piper says timidly, admitting that she has very few people that honestly care about her. "Oh no, poor Pipes, I'll never let her feel alone again," Alex thinks as she smiles at the blonde.

"I'll always be here for you Piper, whether you want to talk or cry or just need a hug, whatever it is, you can always come to me," Alex says, wanting the blonde to feel cared about.

"Thank you Alex," Piper says with a small smile tugging at her lips.

Alex pulls away from the embrace, only to grab a pen and paper. "What are you doing?" Piper asks as she sees the brunette jot something down, but she can't read it. Alex folds the little paper before turning around to face the blonde. She hands Piper the piece of paper.

"Here, this is my phone number, you can call or text me whenever you want, day or night and I'll answer you, whatever you want to talk about," Alex says, a big smile still on her face. Piper wordlessly takes the paper from the brunette's hand, feeling the jolt of electricity course through her veins as their hands brush. Alex feels it too, and smiles at the blonde, letting her know she felt it too, and that that's okay. Piper doesn't know what to say, so she just smiles and nods as she puts it in the pocket of her jeans.

Piper and Alex simply stare at each other, blue meeting green, both of them taking in the other's beauty. Anyone who would enter the classroom at that moment would find the situation extremely weird. A comfortable silence falls over teacher and student, and both think the other one has never looked more beautiful. "Even with the tear stains on her cheeks and red puffy eyes, she's still the most gorgeous person I've ever seen in my life," Alex thinks as she stares into Piper's eyes. "God this woman is beautiful, I'm so fucking unbelievably lucky that she still supports a fucked-up person like me," Piper thinks as she meets the mesmerizing eyes of her teacher.

After a few minutes, Piper can't take the loving look in her teacher's eyes anymore, and she shies away from it, darting her eyes to her clasped hands. Before she realizes it, she's picking at the scabs of the cuts on her wrist, and Alex has seen it. Alex takes one stride towards the blonde, quickly closing the distance between them. Alex wordlessly takes the blonde's hands in her own, squeezing them softly. The brunette lets go of one of the young girl's hands to lift her chin up, and she smiles widely as she meets the blonde's eyes. Piper can't help but smile as well, loving the way the brunette's smile even reaches her eyes. Alex can't help but notice that the blonde's smile isn't reflected in her eyes, the sad look still adorning them.

Alex just wants to kiss the younger girl, but decides against it, seeing that a lot of people are still in the building, and she might just very well scare her student away, making her close herself off. Little does Alex know that Piper wants those plump lips against her own as well. Alex lets go of Piper's chin, and the blonde's face falls down again, Piper not wanting to give in to the urges she feels when she looks at her teacher. Piper also knows Alex will get into a lot of trouble if anyone sees them kissing, and honestly, Piper doesn't know if she'll be able to just stop there, either.

She looks down at her hands again, hands being held by her teacher's. They both feel the electricity run through them at the feeling of skin on skin, even when it's something as simple as hands. Piper likes it, and hopes that Alex can feel it too. Alex's smile is still present, happy that she can connect to her blonde student.

They've been standing close to each other in the history classroom for a long time, only realizing they had to let go of the other as the final bell rings. Alex reluctantly lets go of her student's hands, immediately missing the warmth they provided. "They're so soft, I wonder how talented they are," Alex thinks before she pushes the thoughts of sex with her student to the back of her mind. "Now's not the time," Alex thinks as she watches Piper go back to her own desk and pick her bag up from the floor.

"Thank you so much for today, Alex, I don't know how to pay you back for all of it," Piper says timidly, internally a little embarrassed that she had to yet again rely on her beautiful teacher to take care of her.

"No need to pay me back Piper, I care about you, I don't care about too many people, but you're one of them, so consider yourself lucky," Alex chuckles. "She's so fucking cute," Alex thinks as she sees a small smile appear on the blonde's face.

"I guess I am, for this one time then," Piper replies.

"Don't forget that you can always text or call me, just put me in your phone under a different name, wouldn't want to get you in trouble," Alex says sincerely.

"I will do that when I need it Ms. Vause, thank you, see you tomorrow, Alex," Piper says as she makes her way to the classroom door.

"See you tomorrow Piper," Alex says lovingly, wanting the blonde to feel cared about.


Alex sighs as she watches the blonde open the door and walk out, probably heading home. Alex doesn't have the slightest idea what Piper's home situation looks like. Alex hopes that she has loving parents (just like she has her amazing mom) and siblings, but as she remembers the blonde's words, "usually no one cares to stay and look after me," she's afraid that the blonde will have to deal with her emotions all by herself. She knows what true WASPs are like, and knows that the blonde probably has one of those families. "Shit, she's gonna have to do this by herself," Alex thinks as she plops down in the chair the blonde had just sat in.

Alex gathers the tests she has to grade at home, stuffs them in her bag, puts on her leather jacket, keys in her hand and heads out the door, locking it behind her. As she heads towards the exit, she sees a familiar head of blond hair heading out the double doors. A smile appears on her face, one that only seems to appear when she's around the blonde, or thinks about her. Her smile falters as she sees the boy she nearly ran into in the morning walking across the hall.

She follows him outside, watching him catch up to Piper as the blonde's walking to the parking lot. She sees Piper cringe as Larry grabs her wrist and spins her around. She can't hear what he says to her, but Larry seems to spit out his words. Piper's terrified look on her face is another clear indication of the threats that seem to spill out of his mouth. Alex wishes she could run up to them and knock the asshole down a peg or two. "I can't believe he's gonna get away with this," Alex thinks as she watches him give Piper a kiss, Piper's face repulsive. Larry lets go of her wrist and walks Alex's way with a smug look on his face. Alex is seething.

Before she knows what she's doing, Alex quickly runs up to her blonde student as she is still standing there in shock. "Piper, are you okay?" Alex asks as she comes near the blonde. Piper quickly snaps out of her previous thoughts of how she's gonna keep quiet about everything that happened today when she hears her teacher.

"Yeah, I think so," Piper replies quietly.

"Was that Larry?" Alex asks, afraid she already knows the answer.

"Yes, that was him," Piper replies, looking up at her teacher with tears in her eyes.

"Hey, shht, it's gonna be okay Pipes, we'll find a way to deal with him, I promise," Alex says as she wraps up the blonde in a tight hug.

Piper's tears fall silently, wetting Alex's leather jacket, something Alex really doesn't give one shit about. Alex only shushes her, well aware of the horrifying effect the boy had on Piper. They hug for a few minutes, both reluctant to pull away from the comforting embrace. Alex looks around and sees that almost all students have left already, and softly pulls away to look at the blonde. Piper looks up, tears still in her eyes, but she has a small smile on her face. Alex smiles back, relieved the blonde is feeling a little better.

"You okay now?" Alex asks.

"Yeah I'll be okay, thanks Alex," Piper replies quietly.

"I should let you go, so you can get home," Alex says, trying to hide the disappointment in her voice.

"Yeah, I should go, I have to look after my brothers tonight, mom and dad are going out," Piper says with temporary anger flaring in her voice.

"Shouldn't you tell them about this morning?" Alex asks, hoping she didn't cross a line. Piper stays quiet for a while. "Her mom said to trust Alex, and she has done nothing but take care of me, I really hope I can trust her," Piper thinks before answering Alex's question. Piper laughs a little when she thinks of her mom and her stress on the perfect image.

"My mom," Piper laughs, "she would just tell me to suck it up and be glad a boy has finally found interest in me. I would finally fit in the perfect image she painted of me, with a nice young love, getting married as soon as possible and having three babies running around by the time I'm 25," Piper chuckles darkly.

Alex is a little shocked at the admission falling from the blonde's lips. "God, I really hate those WASPy families," Alex thinks as she pushes her glasses up in her hair.

"Piper, you really shouldn't keep this from them, maybe they'll come around and take care of everything," Alex tries to reason with her.

"You haven't met my mom, Alex, only thing that matters to her is image of the family, and a raped daughter is gonna ruin that. She's a true WASP Al, she's not gonna change even if it could save everyone in the world. Hell, she even grounded me for pointing out that my dad was cheating on her consistently when I was younger. She doesn't give a shit about her children, Alex, all she wants is to hold up our image of the perfect little fucking family," Piper sighs at the end of her sentence.

"She doesn't care Alex, she doesn't love us," Piper continues as her voice drops.

"Jesus, that's really fucked up," Alex says quietly, wondering what she can do to help the blonde. She looks as Piper bows her head, looking at her feet.

"Hey, hey, Piper, it's gonna be okay, I'm here for you," Alex says soothingly. Piper looks up at hearing the sweetness in her teacher's voice.

"Thank you Alex," Piper nearly whispers.

"Call me tonight when you have some time, okay?" Alex asks.

"Yeah, thanks Ms. Vause, I should get going now, don't wanna be late," Piper says as she slowly starts to back away from her close position to Alex.

"No problem Piper, see you tomorrow," Alex replies as the conversation between teacher and student dies.

Piper turns around as she hears the last of her teacher's words, and silently heads to her car. She knows she's being watched by the brunette, her eyes are basically burning holes in the back of her head. She doesn't dare to turn around and look at the brunette again though. Piper knows that when she does that, she'll run back into her strong arms, cry her heart out and then kiss her, never wanting to leave the brunette bombshell again. So, Piper quickly makes her way to her car, gets in, sighing once before putting her key in the ignition and starting the car. She pulls out of her parking space and off the parking lot, not once daring to look back to where the brunette was still standing.

In the meanwhile, Alex was staring at Piper while the blonde was walking away, towards the parking lot. She can't help it, she just stands there, looking at her student, feeling disappointed. Somehow, it feels a lot heavier than when she first saw the blonde walking out of the classroom earlier. With the new information she got from the blonde, Alex finds herself worrying even more about what the blonde is going home to. "I definitely need to call my mom when I get home," Alex thinks as she shakes her head and starts moving. The blonde had just driven off the parking lot, so she was standing there for no reason at all. "Oh Pipes, please be okay tonight?" Alex thinks as she makes her way to her motorcycle.


Hey, it's me, I know, here she goes again. I just wanted to thank everyone who has gotten this far with my story. It really means a lot that people read it, and even like it :) It's an amazing encouragement for me to go on with this story, but nonetheless it's hard to write about my past. I'll get there, and the first Vauseman kiss will come soon, who knows, maybe it could be helping Piper with her situation ... ;) See you soon! xx Ellen