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"Where are you going, Vause?" Nichols asked with a frown. "We just sat down?"

Alex didn't reply as she walked away as fast as she could.

"Alex!" Piper yelled. "Hey!"

But Alex didn't look back as they watched her back disappear into the hall. Piper just sat there with a confused look on her face. She looked at Nichols for some kind of explanation, but she just raised her eyebrows and shook her head with the same confusion. The only person who seemed calm and didn't look surprised about the whole situation, was the new girl. The girl just started eating as if nothing happened.

"What just happened?" Boo asked, breaking the silence.

"Beats me." Nichols said. Then she turned her attention to Grey. "You care to explain what happened here, Orange?"

The girl looked up. "I just arrived here little more than an hour ago and now I'm the one you're asking questions to?" she said with a grin. "And here I thought I was the rookie."

Nichols raised her eyebrows, leaned back and let out a surprised chuckle. Boo laughed at the girl's answer. The girl had her wit about her, that was for sure.

Piper wanted to stand up and go after Alex, when Nichols grabbed her arm. "Hey, just eat something first." she said. "Let her cool down, y'know."

Piper nodded. She was worried and confused by Alex's reaction, but she would talk about it later. She continued eating her delicious meal, but couldn't help glancing at the girl that was sitting next to Nichols. She didn't know who she was and why she was in here, but she did know that seeing her had upset Alex. Piper couldn't quite place the feeling she got when she was around the girl. She looked nice enough, but Piper couldn't help but feel intimidated by her as well.

The girl, Grey, ate her meal in silence. Then she stood up. "Well, it was a pleasure meeting you all." she said with a wink and a grin. "I guess I'll be seeing you around, since we all live together now." And then she left towards her dorm room.

It was quiet for a while after she'd left.

"Well, the girl is something else, am I right?" Nichols said, she seemed impressed.

"I just thought she'd be a nice piece of tail, but damn." Boo said with her eyebrows raised.

They finished the rest of their meal in a relative silence. Nichols cracked a joke every now and then, but Piper was too far away in her own thoughts to even listen to them.

After dinner time was over, Piper went to find Alex. She started at her bunk, which was empty. After that she tried the bathroom, the rec room and the library. With no success. That meant there was only one place left where Alex could possibly be hiding. So, Piper made her way to the chapel.

She wished it was physically possible to hug her knees even tighter. She wanted to escape her own mind, now more than ever. Being in prison wasn't a nice experience to begin with, but it's even harder when your ex-lovers start showing up on a regular basis. The worst part was that the two ex-lovers that were in prison with her right now, weren't just some flings. She had loved them both. Grey and Piper were the only people in the world that had ever meant anything more.

She couldn't run from this one. She literally couldn't run away any further than the fucking chapel. Alex didn't know how to handle the unexpected turn this day had taken. The whole Piper coming to prison thing wasn't that much of a shock, seeing that she ratted her out herself. But being confronted with Grey in this way had fucked her up real bad.

Alex didn't know how long she'd been sitting there when she heard the chapel doors open and some very recognizable footsteps that were coming her way. She smiled a small smile. Of course Piper knew where to find her, it had only been a matter of time. She closed her eyes.

Before opening her eyes to see Piper, Alex already knew she was close. Her scent was so familiar to Alex that she didn't even need any of her other senses to recognize the woman that sat down next to her. A warm soft hand stroked her cheek softly. Alex felt her panic fade just a little, just enjoying Piper's touch.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Piper asked her softly.

Alex knew Piper was really eager to know what the hell had happened back there, but she was taking it slow because she saw how vulnerable Alex was right now.

"No." Alex said with a quivering voice. She put her glasses on her head and began rubbing her eyes. She let out a huge sigh.

Piper pursed her lips together. Of course she wasn't at all satisfied with that answer, but she didn't want to push Alex in telling her either. So she took a deep breath and kept all the questions that she had inside. She put her arm around Alex's broad shoulders and stroked her upper arm. It was the best she could do for Alex at the moment. Alex laid her head on Piper's shoulder and they sat there as long as they could until last count.

While Nicky was known around prison for her ruthless sense of humor and even bigger attitude, she liked just laying quietly in her bunk thinking about things that happened inside these walls. The thing she enjoyed most about life behind bars, was the drama. If you want to figure out the perfect recipe for a drama bomb, you should put hundreds of women together in a place they can't get out of. Drama. Will. Happen.

She grinned. During dinner time today something had happened that no one had seen coming. Following the Vauseman drama had been an epic way of spending her time lately. She had gotten a lot of information about their past by frequently poking both women with a bunch of uncalled for questions. She even bluffed her way through Piper admitting on squirting one time. God, that was some funny shit right there.

But today was a whole new level of epic. You see, over the last couple of months Nicky thought she'd gotten to know Alex Vause pretty damn well. Alex Vause was someone who was always in control. She had her emotions in check, even with Piper acting like an asshole back then. Sure, she let go of her anger every now and then, but she never lost total control of her emotions like she did today. It fascinated Nicky to see it happen. And over what? Was she really that shocked that the girl liked pussy!? No, there was a history there. And if someone was going to get to the bottom of this, it would be her.

After last count, Grey lay on her top bunk staring blankly ahead. She couldn't cry. She had promised herself that she would be in control and she wasn't going to break that promise. Her heart on the other hand, did what it wanted. It was beating like a drum.

The whole 'trying your best on making this an easy experience' thing, had proven to be even more difficult than it had seemed a few hours ago. It was a miracle that she didn't lose it right there, when she saw Alex. It had taken all of her will power to pull her eyes away and concentrate on the words the bushy haired woman was saying to her. She didn't even know what she would have done if she would have lost control. She couldn't decide between kissing Alex or punching her in the face. Maybe she'd have done both.

Grey closed her eyes and concentrated on breathing steadily. When she'd finally calmed her mind as well as her body, she dozed off into an uneasy sleep. Her very first night in prison.