A/N: Happy New Year! I hope you've had a great festive break and wish you the very best for 2017. Exactly 1 year ago today I posted Chapter 1, so thanks for being with me as I posted updates over the last year. Really appreciate those of you who have reviewed, especially regular reviewers and those who have read it for a second time ;-)

"I'm pretty sure we had more water in here when we got in. Are you getting cold?" Alex felt goose bumps raising on her own arms as she lay with Piper against her. The water was barely above the blonde's smooth hips now and both of them were as much out of the bath water as they were in it.

"A little. It's nice lying with you like this though." Piper snuggled into her more.

"We can lie like this in bed, where it's warm….and we won't catch pneumonia. If you want to?"

"I want."

Piper pulled herself up and Alex was right behind her as they got out of the tub together. Alex pulled a warm towel over Piper's shoulders before placing her hands on her waist and pulling her towards her to continue their kiss.

"Where were we?" Alex smiled against the shorter woman's lips.

Piper leaned in to kiss Alex and felt like all of her nerve endings were on fire, her heart pounding in her chest as Alex moved her hands down her neck slowly. The blonde moved to close the remaining space between them and pressed their naked bodies together. Alex's breath caught in their kiss as she felt Piper's naked hips touch her own. Moreover, the sensation of the blonde's pussy lightly touching her own was exquisite and her senses were overwhelmed. Breaking the kiss suddenly, Alex pulled their lips apart and rested her forehead against Piper's.

"Fuck….." Was all she could breathe, eyes closed and breathing shallow. "This doesn't feel real yet." Her eyes were rolled so far back that she couldn't open them if she wanted to. The feeling of Piper's nakedness pressed against her own, their wet skin slipping silently together at the smallest movement. It was a connection for which Alex had long since forgotten the sensations.

"It's real…..I can feel just how real it is between my legs still." Piper husked as she leaned in to capture Alex's lips with her own. Piper pulled the beautiful porcelain hips towards her to ensure the contact was maintained as she moved her lips softly against Alex's above her. Piper hummed appreciation as Alex stroked her fingers through the damp, blonde hair that framed her face as they made out. Sensing that things were escalating again, Alex reluctantly broke off the kiss to lift Piper's chin with her index, meeting her eyes.

"How was it?"

"You need to ask?" Piper grinned sheepishly. "Are you kidding me? It was amazing." She chuckled, remembering her very recent first orgasm in years.

"I loved feeling you like that." Alex smiled, stroking Piper's cheek as they pressed their foreheads together again.

Piper smiled back at her. "Maybe we should get dried off and get some towels on this floor before it gets any wetter with our soppy sentiments?"

"Hmm, I'm glad I opted for a wet room down here." Alex grabbed a short silk robe for Piper to put on and she pulled a black version of the same around herself before throwing some towels on the floor and quickly wiping it over while Piper pulled the plug on the bath water. Alex blew out the candles and picked up their glasses.

"You want a top up? I've got another bottle."

"Yeah, shall we take it to bed? I've kind of got a thirst for more now." Piper tried to bite back her wide smile, but Alex's face already broke into a grin as she turned to finish the last of the open bottle.

"Can you hang on down here for 5 minutes? I just need to do something. Get some ice out of the freezer box please. The full bag is OK." Alex shouted over her shoulder as she jogged upstairs to her room. Piper got the ice and waited at the bottom of the stairs, smiling to herself at what just happened. It wasn't long before Alex reappeared in the doorway, opening it to take Piper's hand.

"OK. Ready now, come on."

Piper stepped through the door to find there were red rose petals scattered all over the wooden stairs, lined with a few white candles in tall glass vases.

"Aw, Alex, this is so cute!"

"I thought you might like it." Alex smiled as she led Piper up the staircase to her room.

When they got there, Piper stopped in the doorway again and surveyed the room in awe. Norah Jones 'Come away with me' was playing from the speaker in the corner of the room and there were rose petals scattered over the floor by her feet. Alex took the bag of ice from Piper and poured it into the ice bucket where a second bottle of champagne was chilling on the bedside table. The trail of rose petals led right up onto the bed and a bowl of strawberries and melted chocolate caught her eye on the other side.

"Wow…." Piper was choked up with the effort that Alex had gone to to make this night special for them both.

"It's not too much?" Alex was regretting setting this up when Piper was having a panic attack earlier, but the time seemed right now she was more relaxed. "I've put the kinky stuff in the drawers." Alex winked.

"It's perfect." Piper stroked Alex's jaw. "Dance with me?" Piper moved her arms to rest around the back of the taller woman's neck. Alex stepped closer and rested her arms around her girlfriend's waist. They swayed to the music, barely moving at all until the song ended and it switched to the next song on the playlist. Norah Jones 'Turn me on' started playing and Piper moved her fingertips to Alex's chin, caressing her jaw with them as she leaned up to kiss Alex softly. Their lips moved slowly against each other, Piper swiping her tongue over the plump red lips she was getting lost in the taste of.

She ghosted her hands over the swell of Alex's hips to pull the knot loose in her robe, letting it fall open. Piper placed soft kisses along her clavicle and down her breast bone, moving her hands inside the robe to stroke up the pale skin along her sides. Alex moved her splayed fingers into the blonde hair in front of her, massaging Piper's scalp as her girlfriend kissed and sucked her way along Alex's skin until she was caressing her breast with her tongue gently. Reaching her hands further up, she pushed the silk robe off Alex's shoulders, letting it pool by her feet when it dropped to the floor. Piper kissed her breasts slowly before breaking away and leading Alex to lie on the bed, head propped comfortably by pillows. Alex tried to swallow down the lump that was in her throat now, borne of anticipation for what might be to come tonight.

Piper reached over and plucked a strawberry from the bowl, dropping it into the warm chocolate a little before leaning her head back and sucking it into her mouth and moaning as she bit into the juicy fruit. She reached for another and held it above Alex's mouth, chocolate threatening to drip from the bottom as Alex parted her lips, reaching up with her mouth to catch it with her teeth. Piper watched her devour it as they held their eyes in a lust-filled exchange. The blonde leaned down to clean the chocolate from her girlfriend's lips and pulled her own robe loose, shrugging it off her body before moving to lie on top of the woman whose green eyes had been following her every movement from the bed. Settling her legs so they were entwined, their bodies pressed together, Piper continued their kiss eagerly.

Alex moved her hands down to Piper's naked ass and squeezed her cheeks firmly, pressing her into her own hips more. "Mmm you feel so good on top of me like this." Alex breathed between kisses.

"Yeah? I bet I know what would feel better….." Piper husked into her ear as she kissed down her neck. "Spread your legs."

Alex's eyes fluttered closed as she parted her legs, allowing Piper room to lie between them and press the mound of her pussy against her apex.

"Yesss….definitely better….." Alex moved her hip to increase the friction while pulling Piper against her. Piper hovered above her, looking into the darkened green eyes below her as she began moving her hips to slide against Alex's pussy. Drawing her pussy slowly from the bottom of Alex's lips up against her wet folds and up against her clit with each stroke, they maintained eye contact only inches apart. Their heated breaths becoming oxygen for the other as they built the tempo.

Piper lifted Alex's leg up higher so she could set herself into a position where she had a knee either side of Alex's straight leg and could press her own pussy right against the woman's beneath her. It meant their arousal would mix into a messy and heated cocktail of lust between them as each woman sought to take pleasure from the other in the most intimate way.

"Ohhhhhhh….yesssss….right there…fuck that feels good….." Alex could feel Piper's hips thrusting into her and rubbing herself against her frantically building to a quick orgasm and she let her set the tempo. Reaching over to the champagne bucket, Alex took a couple of cubes and held them up against Piper's nipple while the blonde's eyes were closed.

"Fuck!" Piper grinned when she saw Alex smirking as she popped one into Piper's mouth and dragged the other across her chest and down her taught stomach towards their joined pussies. The icy water, mixing with their arousal sent new sensations to their nerve endings and Alex groaned as she felt the cold water run down her own pussy. Piper leaned down to kiss her and they toyed with the cube a little before Piper leaned down to drop it between Alex's tits.

"God I've missed this." Piper panted as she gripped the hair at the base of Alex's head tighter.

"Pipes….I'm close…..I want you to come with me…" Alex panted out as Piper increased the speed of her thrusts.

"Oh God… I need-." Alex reached up and pinched Piper's nipple hard between her thumb and forefinger and Piper tensed very quickly, gripping Alex's hair as she came for the second time that night. Watching her and feeling her pussy pulse right next to her own was enough to send Alex over the precipice herself and she came in a shuddering climax, both women panting and spasming with their muscles against each other. Their eyes remained open throughout as they gasped into each other's parted lips. Piper's smile was wide when she was in sufficient control of herself to acknowledge what had just happened. Their hips continued to move slowly as they slid against each other, jerking in involuntary reaction to their sensitive nerve endings every now and then.

"Hmmmmmmm…..." Alex pulled Piper on top of her, entwining their limbs again as their chests heaved to refill with air.

"Let me see your post-orgasmic chill." Alex lifted Piper's chin to look at her.

"I'm sooooo in my happy place right now. Don't you dare move."

"I've got your wet pussy and sweaty sex body pressed up against me. Are you kidding me? This is my wet dream!"

Piper swatted her arm and leaned over to pick up their champagne flutes. "Now there's something else to toast…to orgasms! Those we've already had and those that are yet to come….in every sense of the word." They clinked glasses and took a sip before Piper reached for another strawberry.

"I'll drink to that. Especially the ones still to come." Alex curled her arm tighter around the slender shoulders on top of her, stroking her fingers up and down Piper's naked back.

Piper hummed into Alex's collarbone as she lay, nestled in the arms of her lover. Leaning up onto her elbow, she stroked the damp hair from Alex's face with her fingers, twirling it between her index and middle fingers slowly. Alex smiled back at her and continued moving her hand up and down her long back, tickling her slightly as she moved.

"Can I ask you something?" Alex ventured after a while of quiet content between them.

"Sure." Piper reached over and popped another fruit into her mouth, chewing it slowly.

"When was the last time you had an orgasm with someone else?"

"Are you sure you want to know the answer to that question?" Piper raised her eyebrows as she regarded Alex curiously.

Alex swallowed. She figured Piper had slept with other people, but she wasn't sure she was prepared to find out it was fairly recently.

"I mean….was it a long time ago?"

Piper sighed and put her glass down. "I've had sex with other people since we were together Alex. Men and women. But it wasn't the same… I never had an orgasm with any of them. The last time I had an orgasm was the last time we had sex, so….Paris….4 years ago I guess….You probably don't even remember it."

"It was room 246 of the Maison Libertine." Alex didn't need to dig far for the details. "I fucked you in the mirror with my fingers before you went down on me in front of it. We didn't even snuggle up together that night as I had to shower and go meet some people for Kubra later. You were asleep when I got back in the morning, so I stayed up and did my emails. I napped while you went shopping the next day and I was gone again before you got back."

"I brought you a cake back from a fancy patisserie that day and you were gone for three days without saying goodbye to my face."

"The beginning of the end." Alex finished sombrely.

"It was ending long before that Al."

"I'm sorry I never paid you enough attention." Alex pulled Piper back against her side, murmuring her apologies directly into her bronze skin.

"You're making up for it with a bed full of roses and extremely expensive champagne." Piper smiled before leaning over to kiss her again.

"Can I ask you something else?" Alex turned onto her side, to look at Piper now.

"Go ahead."

"Can you cum by yourself?"

"Don't I pay Julie to have these conversations?" Piper raised a brow, but wasn't offended by the question.

"Sorry. Don't mean it to sound like therapy. Just….curious I guess."

"When I masturbate? Yeah, sometimes…..I mean, it's not earth shattering by any means, but I get a quick release if I'm properly relaxed and ready for it. It just takes the edge off you know?"

"Yeah. Well, at least you were getting some orgasms I guess."

Piper turned to face the brunette on her side.

"It might have been enough if I didn't know I could be having so much more. It's like getting a dessert menu with only one item on it that you can only have if you make it yourself. If it was the only menu I'd seen, I'd be happy with that dessert every time. But I've eaten at that restaurant many, MANY times Alex and I know there's a huge menu of options that I just wasn't getting. It's like I KNOW the options but I'm only allowed the take home packet mix substitute."

"That's quite the analogy, but I think I catch your meaning." Alex chuckled as she reached over to stroke her cheek before leaning in to kiss her on the lips softly. "We can try all kinds of ingredients along the way to making you some different desserts in that case." Piper smiled and pulled Alex towards her so that the brunette was laying on her chest and she could stroke her fingers up and down the lithe back of her lover.

"You want another drink?" Alex asked as she reached over for the bottle of champagne.

"Yeah, go on. We are celebrating after all."

"You want to open this then?" Alex lifted the bottle out of the ice and brought it over Piper, dripping icy droplets onto her chest as Piper shrieked below her. Alex took the top off, leaving Piper to pop the cork. She pushed the cork out with a loud pop. "I could get used to this."

"Popping your cork in my bedroom? I'm sure that could be arranged." Alex smirked until Piper pressed the cold bottle onto her stomach. "Argh! Cruel!" The liquid spilled over the top and Piper did her best to catch as much as she could with her tongue, but didn't try so hard that she didn't get a decent amount over Alex's chest. Piper dropped the bottle back in the ice bucket and settled back to straddle over Alex and lap up the spillage with her tongue, leading a gentle trail in between her breasts with the tip of her tongue before flattening it and teasing her nipples with it.

"Piper Chapman….is your lustful body not yet sated?" Alex moaned beneath her as she trailed kisses between her breasts.

"I seek only to satisfy she who has unleashed this lustful body Alex Vause." Piper's voice was low as she spoke very deliberately against the shell of Alex's ear.

XXXXX

The light shining through Alex's window in the ceiling woke Piper the next morning. Alex was used to it and able to sleep longer, so she carefully moved her lovers arm from across her waist and got up to pull on a robe. There were rose petals all over the floor and Piper smiled as she stepped through them all until she found the kitchen. She put the coffee machine on and looked through the fridge for something to make for breakfast. Not wanting to wake Alex until she was ready, she opted for chopping fresh fruits and mixing them into a fruit salad. She found a tray and put the coffees onto it as well as the fruit bowls, before wandering to the book shelves and picking up a Jane Austen novel to read. Placing the tray by the side of the bed, she removed her robe again and slipped back into the bed. Alex was sleeping exactly where Piper had left her and she was sorely tempted to return to exactly the same position herself, wanting to slip under Alex's arm and press their naked skin together again. She knew she was too awake to stay there and would only disturb Alex, so she opted to drink her coffee.

Alex sensed Piper had moved and she reached her arm out blindly, until she could wrap it around her waist, if a little higher than before. The smell of fresh coffee made her open an eye slowly as she pulled herself against her girlfriend's body again.

"Mmmm good morning." Alex kissed Piper's hip from where she was lay against it. Piper looked down from reading her book and stroked Alex's hair.

"Hello sleeping beauty."

"I'm glad you're still here." Alex smiled against the skin her lips were still pressed against.

"Of course I am…I still have 15 chapters to read."

Alex nipped the skin at her waist, causing Piper to squeal, before she reached over to find her glasses and sat up.

"What are you reading?"

"Sense and Sensibility." Piper reached over to hand Alex her coffee.

"Thanks. Is that breakfast?"

"Yeah. Want some?"

"Are you gonna feed it to me?" Alex wiggled her eyebrows and set her coffee down after taking a gulp.

"I asked you if you want breakfast, not sex."

"Same thing if you're bringing fruit into the bedroom. There's no scene in Spartacus with grapes that doesn't involve lusty fornication."

"True. But they didn't have cheese boards to accompany them back then."

"Are you telling me cheese is a replacement for lusty sex?"

"I am."

Alex leaned forward and peered at the tray next to Piper. "I see no cheese. Looks like we're doing it the Roman way. When in Rome….." Alex closed the book Piper held and dropped it on the floor before pulling the sheet down her body slowly. Piper wriggled beneath her until she was lying down again and Alex smirked at her as she reached for a bunch of grapes. She held them above Piper's mouth until Piper tried to reach for them with her mouth. She let her pick one off before trailing them down her body and resting them over her perfect pussy.

"Now I can eat breakfast."