A/N Hey everyone. Thought you guys might like an update considering where we left last time. I warn you in advance, this coming week might be a little less frequent with the updates just because I have a lot on and won't have as much time to update as I did this week. I will try my best though to get up as much as I possibly can. To make up for any future delays, this is a nice long chapter for you.
Reviews not answered in PM:
Guest 1: You pretty much read my mind, I knew I was going to have the fight in this chapter so I hope you like it.
Guest 2: I hope you like this chapter then, I was pretty excited to write about the fight with Doggett as we haven't really had the chance to see a lot of boxing yet in the story.
Hammo59: Thanks for taking the time to review again. I'm glad you like how I bring in other characters- expect to see a lot more of that in later chapters. If you have any one in particular you want to see, feel free to let me know and I'll happily do my best to work them in for you.
I3VauseMan: God, I bloody love your reviews. I hope that when you read what I have come up with it was how you had envisioned it. Like you said, I felt it was important to show the emotional as well as the physical connection. Exactly what I was thinking, it was about making love not having sex. I love writing smart mouth Nicky so expect so see more of her. Haha yes about Alex being 'breakfast', I needed to find a way to help transition everything and breakfast seemed to be the key and I couldn't help but just want to use that line. Haha I'm excited as well about the arse kicking, I feel it might help me feel better about Season 3. *Holds up drink-cheers* I don't drink either, yes I know way to ruin the typical Australian stereotype lol. Oddly enough, I am actually drinking a coke zero whilst typing this reply, so how's that for a coincidence.
Guest 3: Thanks so much. Yes, option 2 it is. Hope you enjoy it.
Guest 4: Thanks for having so much faith in me. I literally have never once wrote one, ever. So hopefully this lived up to your expectations.
Sarah Harrison: Thanks thanks thanks :D
Sue: Thanks so much for pointing that out, I have no idea about anything to do with boxing other than the basics and it's not exactly like you google something like that to find out lol-I really had no idea it would be a thing. But I will keep it in mind for future chapters. About to Nicky thing, I get where you are coming from and I would 100% agree if it was anyone but Nicky doing it. I guess because I have in my head the bond that they have, I personally don't think she is enough to be a trigger. Nicky is very special to Piper and has been there through the worst of it. I do though have a good idea as to what Piper's triggers are, as I have her back story mapped out pretty well. You guys will learn more details of it in the coming chapters so I hope that helps clear up any confusion.
Guest 5: No, not pervy at all. I must say I definitely felt a little bit like one though as some of the scene was written around my family as I was sitting on my laptop in the lounge room.
So you guys requested it and I was more than happy to oblige. As Vausemaniac so perfectly put it- 'We've waited nine chapters and deserve the five-course meal, not fast food.' (God, I still laugh every time I read that line.) So enough talk and on to the sexy times that I all know you are waiting for.
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Piper gently pulls Alex by hand towards the door of her bedroom, her girlfriend's heightened breathing the only sound that could be heard throughout the silent apartment. Stepping into Alex's bedroom, Piper turns herself around to face Alex so she can reclaim her lips with her own. They continue to kiss passionately, their tongues interwoven in each other's mouths, as their hands explore each other's bodies, gripping and pulling gently. Piper slides her hands down Alex's back and under her shirt, her finger's tracing the hem. "Pipes," Alex breathes out against her lips.
Alex pulls her head back slightly so she can look into Piper's eyes as she cups the blonde's face. "Are you sure about this?" she asks.
Piper smiles tenderly, her heart warming under Alex's concerns. "I've never been more sure of anything else in my entire life" Piper states firmly, earning a wide smile from the brunette.
Leaning forward, Piper places her mouth back against Alex's smiling lips and swiftly pulls her girlfriend's T-shirt over her head, letting it fall to the floor below. Taking this as a cue, Alex turns their bodies around slightly and slowly begins to walk Piper backwards towards the bed until the back of Piper's thighs hit the edge of the mattress.
Pushing her down gently onto the soft mattress below, Alex continues to kiss Piper as she reaches for the edge of the girl's shirt. Pulling back from the kiss to quickly yank the shirt over her head Alex reaches around the blonde's toned back and unclasps her bra, letting her breasts fall freely from the cups. Leaning back, Alex takes in the sight of the chest of the girl below her, her breathing hitching in her throat as she sees numerous white scars that litter her torso. How had she not noticed them before?
Seeing the brunette's shocked stares, Piper shifts uncomfortably under her, not used to ever really getting a reaction from the sight of them as the people, she had previously slept with, were normally too inebriated to notice. Piper looks into Alex's worried eyed and gives her best nonchalant shrug. "He didn't always just use his fists," she offered in explanation.
Alex takes in a sharp inhale of breath at Piper's words. Looking deep into Piper's eyes, Alex bends at the waist and brings her head down to her girlfriend's abdomen and places a soft kiss upon one of the most prominent scars that lies at the base line just above her hipbone. Alex works her way up the blonde's chest, continuing to place soft, gentle kisses on the scars as she goes, before making her way back up to reclaim her lips and gently pinning their foreheads together.
Piper drags her hands down to the small of Alex's back before slipping them into the waistband of her grey sweatpants, her fingers slipping into the brunette's underwear, enticing a loud moan which Piper feels vibrates through their kiss. Piper removes her hand, grips the sides of the sweatpants and pulls down, releasing Alex's naked body.
Pushing back off of Piper, Alex kicks her sweats off from her feet before turning and unbuttoning Piper's jeans and pulling them and her underwear off in one fluid movement. Throwing them to the floor, hastily Alex climbs back on top of Piper, both moaning loudly at the feel their naked bodies flushed together for the first time.
Piper cups Alex's face as she kisses her firmly before she feels Alex's long fingers brush between the inside of her thighs. Opening her legs wide, Piper groans vociferously as she feels the gratification of Alex plunging her fingers into her wet centre. Alex continues to kiss Piper passionately as she brings her closer to her high. As Alex plunges deeper and deeper into the blonde, she begins to feel her walls contract around her fingers and hears a moan that semi resembles her name as Piper reaches her peak.
Alex continues to kiss Piper tenderly as she comes down from her high, the blonde's chest rising and falling quickly underneath her body. As Piper's breathing begins to even out, Alex can feel her beginning to return the kiss with more force. Hooking her legs around Alex, Piper uses their body weight to swiftly turn them over so she was straddling Alex's hips. Breaking away from the kiss, Piper looks lovingly into Alex's eyes before a cheeky grin forms on her lips.
"My turn."
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Hours later they lay cuddled together, Alex against Piper's side with her head resting on her chest. Their legs remain intertwined under the covers as they try to get their breathing under control, their faces flushed red from their little rendezvous. Alex absentmindedly traces patterns lightly on the skin of Piper's arm, earning a hum of content from the blonde as she lies with her head on the pillow lazily watching Alex.
"You know, if I had of known it would have been as amazing as that, I would have done this a long time ago," Piper says, breaking the comfortable silence they had been in as she basks in the afterglow of their lovemaking.
Alex laughs, drops her hand from Piper's arm and looks up at her with a smile. "Mmm, well, we could always go for round four," Alex says playfully, lifting herself onto her elbows to hover over Piper so she can kiss her passionately.
Piper hums satisfyingly into the kiss before pulling away so she can stroke Alex's cheek as she stares affectionately up at her. "I hate to admit it, but Nicky was right for once."
Alex looks at her with a slight level of confusion, her eyes telling the blonde she needed and wanted an explanation. Piper laughs at her confused expression as she brings her finger to tuck a strand of Alex's hair behind her ear. "She said emotionally connected sex was the best and by god she was so fucking right. I think that was the best I have ever had in my life."
Alex laughs, her face smirking proudly. "You think? Well, in that case, we definitely need to go for round four. You know, so you can make a clear decision."
Piper laughs freely, her body filled with so much happiness she felt like she could burst. Piper lifts her head from the pillow to meet Alex's lips that hover above her, groaning slightly when she hears the sound of the brunette's phone go off indicating she had a message.
"Ugh," Alex grumbles as she unwantedly pulls herself away to glance at the message on her phone. "Oh shit," she whines, "I totally forgot I promised Red I would help her with stock rotation today."
"Well, you were slightly distracted," Piper giggles towards her girlfriend, who gives her a broad smile as she hops out of the bed and begins to search for some work clothes.
Piper slips out from under the covers and begins to dress herself, knowing she had better get home and begin her preparation for tonight's fight. Alex groans at the sight of Piper beginning to cover up her gorgeous body, wanting nothing more than to continue to lay naked in bed with her for the rest of the day, silently kicking herself for agreeing to help Red.
After they are both dressed, they make their way towards the front door before Alex stops and pulls Piper into a zealous kiss just by the entryway. "I'll meet you tonight at the hall for your match," Alex says as she pulls back from the kiss, her arms still tightly wrapped around the blonde.
Piper smiles, pleased at the thought that her girlfriend was so supportive of her. "Okay, I'll um miss you," Piper says shyly, still finding that she struggled with expressing her emotions to Alex.
Alex smiles warmly before giving her another kiss. "I'll miss you too."
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Piper can hear the roar of the crowd as she stands in her locker room, beginning her mental preparation for the fight that was to come. Piper is zoned out focusing on her breathing when she feels a familiar set of arms wrap tightly around her waist from behind and a sweet kiss placed on the side of her neck. Smiling, Piper turns in Alex's arms so she can greet her girlfriend properly. "Hey," she says and places a quick peck on her lips.
"Hey, sorry I'm late. Traffic was a nightmare. Nicky and Lorna already took their seats. You ready to go?" Alex asks, taking in just how hot her girlfriend looked in her boxing apparel, secretly wanting nothing more than to just rip it off her right there in the locker room.
"Sure am. Been waiting for a fight for weeks" Piper says excitedly, eager to go out there and begin the process of exerting some of her build-up of emotions, having had another nightmare a few nights before that had left her feeling slightly antsy after images of her past had resurfaced during her dream.
Piper reluctantly pulls away from Alex's embrace so she can begin the process of having her hands wrapped by her trainer. Her gloves are then pushed onto her hands and Bennett straps them tightly at the wrist before giving Piper an encouraging slap on her shoulder with his hand. A familiar knock on door sounds, indicating that they were ready to start the fight. Piper smiles at her trainer who quickly pops her mouthguard in before he taps his fists against Piper's gloves in their normal pre-fight good luck ritual.
Piper walks from the locker room and towards the boxing ring, Alex and Bennett following closely behind. The crowd shout encouragingly as Piper makes her way towards the stairs of the ring, her opponent already standing in her respective corner, glaring at Piper as she waits. As she approaches the stairs, Piper turns around to face Alex for the final time before the fight. Piper leans forward and places, the best kiss she could manage with her mouthpiece in, on Alex's lips, inciting a roar from the crowd who watches them. Alex smiles and laughs as she pulls back from the kiss. "Good luck babe, knock em dead," she says as her final parting, before making her way to her seat next to Nicky and Lorna at the edge of the ring.
Piper climbs the steps of the ring and tucks herself under the ropes, walking to her own corner once she enters the ring. Piper begins to get in her zone, staring towards Pennsatucky who has this odd look of disgust on her face as she glares at Piper. Confused Piper shakes the girls glare from her head and begins to focus on the task at hand.
The referee calls the girls into the centre of the ring, Piper reaches her gloves out in the usual show of good sportsmanship, only for Pennsatucky to refuse to touch her gloves with her own.
"I ain't touching those lesbian hands. She a lesbian with the brunette. They lesbianing together. God will smite you, you know," she barks out towards a shocked Piper, who just looks at her in utter confusion, never having received any form of homophobic slur in the boxing ring before.
Is she for real? Piper thinks to herself, glancing up towards the referee who looks just as confused at the religious nut ramblings. He shakes his head, trying to supress a laugh at the woman ridiculous comment.
After Pennsatucky's blatant disregard for protocol by not touching gloves, the two girls return to their corner of the ring and wait for that familiar ding of the bell that will start their fight. Piper bounces back and forth from each foot as she ready's herself. As the repulsive girl's words sink in, it allows an anger to build inside, Piper smiles to herself knowing she will be able to harness it for the fight.
Ding
The two girls begin to shuffle towards one another, their gloves raised protectively. Piper continues to stalk forward, her body ready to attack, craving to land that first punch on the brown haired woman's face. Noticing the girl is slightly distracted at Piper's forwardness to approach her so quickly, Piper seizes the opportunity and throws a quick hard jab towards the direction of the woman's face, instant satisfaction seeping in as she feels her glove connect with the soft pallet of Pennsatucky's right eye. Piper steps back, dodging a clumsy right hook that was thrown at her. Piper throws a couple more quicks jabs at the woman's face before she hears the ding signalling the end to the round.
Walking back to her corner, Piper looks down towards her friends in the front row and is greeted by their smiles and a 'thumbs up' from an overly zealous Nicky, who is practically bouncing in her seat, evidently proud of how the fight was looking as if it was going in her friends favour. Piper stands in front of Bennett as he leans over the rope offering her a drink. Piper takes a grateful sip and throws a quick smile down at Alex, who in return beams back in pride, before she turns back to face her opponent.
As Pennsatucky looks towards her, Piper notices a small trickle of blood that runs down from the girl's forehead. "Hey, you're bleeding a little bit," Piper points out to the girl, knowing that it was better to treat small cuts and lacerations before they turned into bigger problems in later rounds.
"Just shut your trap, Blondie. Nobody cares what's comin' outta them slit lickin' lips," she spits out at Piper angrily.
Piper just stands there, mouth slightly agape at the woman's sudden outburst. Piper quickly recovers, a new aggregate of anger beginning to seep into her skin. Let's fucking finish this bitch, Piper thinks to herself, now determined to only let the nasty woman last two rounds in the ring.
The ding sounds, signalling the new rounds commencement and Piper stalks towards her opponent is sheer fortitude. Piper sees a flash of fear in Doggett's eyes and she smirks to herself, knowing that this was a signal for the end. Piper lands a solid uppercut to Pennsatucky's face, watching in glee as her head snaps back from the impact. The girl tries to recover, throwing an unexpected punch to Piper's left cheek, catching Piper slightly off guard. Determined to finish it, Piper feigns a punch with her left hand, causing Doggett to let her guard down on her right side. Seizing the opportunity, Piper throws a solid right hook and connects, Pennsatucky's eyes closing almost instantly as she falls into an immediate unconsciousness.
Piper watches as Doggett drops to the ground with a thud, hearing the crowd who surround her roar at the realisation they had just witnessed a total knockout in only the second round. Piper steps back from the body on the floor, allowing the medical team to give Doggett a once over to ensure that she is okay. Piper glances down, surprised to notice one of Pennsatucky's gross teeth lying on the floor of the ring, having evidently been knocked out in her final punch.
Giving the signal to the referee that the fight had ended, the referee walks over to Piper and raises her gloved hand in the air indicating she had won the fight. Piper beams as she takes in the aura of the people in the room. Turning her head, Piper meets Alex's gaze and smiles broadly, watching as the same warm smile is returned to her, Alex's eyes sparking in adoration under the dim lights of the hall.
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Sitting in their usual booth at Red's bar, they raise all their shot glasses high in the air in a toast to Piper's big win. Piper sneaks a quick glance towards a smiling Alex, who is seated beside her, before throwing back the disgusting liquid, it burning her throat on its journey downwards. Piper feels Alex's arm wrap around her shoulders before she pulls her closer into her side, allowing Piper to take in the sweet aroma that was Alex's perfume.
Alex turns to face Piper, sneaking a quick, gentle kiss on the bruise that is beginning to form on her upper left cheek from Pennsatucky's wild wayward punch. Piper smiles at Alex's affection before leaning in to give her a sweet, yet passionate, kiss on her lips, not caring about the thoughts of their display of affection from those who surround them. Piper pulls away to rest her forehead against Alex's before she feels her leg being kicked from under the table in an effort to get her attention. Piper glares towards the person who dares interrupt her moment with Alex and is greeted by a widely grinning Nicky looking in her direction.
"Yes?" Piper asks her roommate, the annoyance showing in her voice.
Nicky just laughs at Piper's tone as she continues to grin. "As much as I'm glad you took my advice and finally slipped your files in Vause's folders, can you tone it down a little before I throw up?" Nicky playfully teases Piper, her eyebrows lifting slightly in amusement at her own joke.
Alex laughs loudly from her seat next to Piper as Piper throws up her middle finger towards Nicky. "Oh fuck off Nicky, do you know the shit I have had to put up with whenever you and Lorna are together? I mean I can't even begin to count the amount of times I have found you guy's tongue fucking each other's mouths on our sofa. This is fucking tame compared to you guys."
Nicky snorts out a laugh and nods her head in amused agreement as she wraps her arm lovingly around the small brunette who is seated next to her, who is slightly blushing as she listens to Piper's description of her and her crazy-haired girlfriend.
"What can I say? Lorna's mere presence does things to me and I can't control myself," Nicky retorts flippantly with a shrug of her shoulders, earning a light slap on her arm from her girlfriend who continues to blush in embarrassment at the exchange between the two roommates.
Piper just laughs in response before she feels the vibration of her phone through the pocket of her black jeans. As the three girls who surround her continue to talk drunkenly about seemingly nothing, Piper reaches into her jeans and pulls the phone out, pressing the middle button to illuminate the screen which reveals a short and unexpected text message. Piper feels the colour drain from her cheeks and a horrible nervousness begin to pool in the bottom of her stomach as she reads the messages words.
From Cal:
Pipes, can you call me as soon as you get this. We really need to talk.
Oh, fuck!
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A/N Ooh me and my cliff-hanger endings. What do you guys think will be the reason behind Cal's text? I'd really love to hear what you guys think it is-so please leave your guesses in the reviews or your lovely PM's you send me. 20 points to whoever can get the closest :P
So that was the first time I have ever written any form of a sex scene like ever- what did you guys think? I really was trying to find that balance of all the good stuff as well as giving you a bit of their intense emotional connection and that tiny little bit more insight into Piper's abuse. I decided to just focus the actual written part on Alex taking care of Piper as I felt it meant more to the story than if I wrote about both of them. I really hope I lived up to all your expectations and it didn't disappoint.
Oh and to those readers who really wanted to see the fight scene- what did you guys think? Did Piper kick Tucky's arse enough for you? I hope you all found it satisfying, I know I did. I just had to put those few Pennsatucky quotes in from the show :P
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