[Imagine your OTP hanging out with friends at someone's house. After a while of teasing and hidden touches, they sneak away to be alone. But as soon as they've started undressing, their friends barge into the room without knocking, only to stop in horror.]
Piper Chapman had only met Alex Vause a handful of times.
She was friends with Nicky, a member of the "edgier" crowd she ran with when out of her mother's reach. The kind of people Piper's mother would never in a thousand years allow her to keep any sort of company with. Which is part of the reason Piper was so intrigued by her. Alex Vause held a certain air of mystery. She carried herself with the attitude of someone who's got nothing prove because they simply don't care what you might have to say about them anyway.
Alex had taken her own interest in Piper from their initial meeting. She'd been weary at first, Nicky's hushed warning that she was an unintentional friend from her other life, ringing in her mind. But Piper was cute and Piper was sweet and Piper was different. And Alex enjoyed the flustered fascination she regarded her with every time they came in contact.
When Piper had agreed to this sleepover (a ploy concocted by Nicky in order to appease her mother's weariness as she went on another one of her trips; "It'll be a small sleepover mom, alright? A couple friends. So there's a guarantee there'll be no partying. I'll invite the Chapman girl, even!") she hadn't been told Alex Vause would be on the guest list. Not that she was complaining.
So now here she stood, hesitantly inside the Nichols' foyer, in a heated stare down with none other than the tall brunette beauty herself. Alex Vause.
"Piper." Alex purred.
"Hey." Piper's voice was slightly more wavering. "Alex."
"Nicky didn't tell me you were coming." Her eyes glinted with a flash of something. Something Piper couldn't quite place, but something she found herself blushing at.
"Yeah." She murmured. "Likewise."
"Everyone's downstairs. Here, lemme take your bag."
Before Piper could protest Alex had grabbed her bag and began moving through the house. She drew a deep breath, forcing down the blush that she could still feel coating her cheeks, before following the older girl.
It was an odd collection of people, Nicky's ragtag band. Nicky herself was nearly two years older than Piper, though technically in the same grade after being left back one year in elementary. They'd initially met through their parents, who ran in the same social circles, and eventually Nicky's hesitant acceptance of the blonde began to bleed into their school life. Piper figured it had something to do with Lorna Morello, who sometimes hung around Piper when they shared a class together with none of their closer friends. Though once Nicky had succeeded in wrapping Morello around her finger (or so Nicky put it, Piper personally seemed to think it was more the other way around) her demeanor towards the blonde softened, gradually coming to view Piper as an unlikely but welcomed friend.
As it was, Alex Vause was a grade above them, several years older than Piper, and one of Nicky's oldest friends. She was, for all intents and purposes, someone Piper Chapman would never have come across or interacted with if it weren't for her unconventional relationship with Nicky. Which Piper thought was a fair exchange in lieu of the Lorna situation. Piper wasn't exactly sure what Alex saw in her personally, it took her several awkward get togethers to even begin to convince herself that Alex's interest in her was genuine and not some elaborate joke. But the older girl always seemed to be just as enchanted to see her as she was (though with much less fumbling, blushing, and awkwardness than Piper typically exuded).
Piper never told Polly about her secret... whatever this was... with Alex Vause. Polly barely approved of Piper's tentative friendship with Nicky, and Nicky was at least from the same general circle as them. It's not that she was looking for Polly's approval though, she mused as she watched Alex laugh at something Nicky said, tossing Piper's bag next to another one at the foot of the couch. No, Piper's reasons for keeping Alex Vause a secret were entirely selfish. She simply didn't want to share. Alex was a secret slice of a small pleasure Piper had allowed herself, this tiny world carved out of her friendship with Nicky in which she no longer had to play perfect daughter or model student. So what if she wanted to keep this part of her life a secret to herself. She deserved it.
Alex's gaze had turned to her and Piper's thoughts came to an abrupt halt as she faltered under the brunette's intense gaze once more. She was watching her. Expectantly. She'd asked her something. Fuck.
"What?" Piper finally managed to utter.
"Chapman! So nice of you to join us!" Nicky exclaimed from the corner of the room. "We've only been talkin' to you for five minutes."
"Sorry." Piper blushed, throwing a breathless greeting around the room. "Hey."
Lorna and Nicky were currently squashed together in the obnoxiously large lazy boy in the corner of the room. Poussey and Taystee nodded their hellos from the floor in front of the TV, which Piper returned with a soft smile. She had a few classes with Taystee and considered her among her favorites of Nicky's eclectic collection of friends. Cindy (or Black Cindy as she insisted upon being called for reasons unknown to Piper, apparently there was something about a white Cindy who she'd never met or got the full story on) tossed out a loud and somewhat bored sounding WHATUP from the counter of the bar at the back of the room where she stood pouring drinks next to Nicky's friend Boo. Piper cut a quick glance over to Nicky in silent questioning, Black Cindy was typically only among the group when larger parties were involved and even then it was rare to see her without her friend Watson. Nicky only shrugged nonchalantly.
"Alright so I ordered pizza, I hope yous bitches is hungry." Nicky calls out lazily. "I figure we'll wait to start the movies until that gets here. For now you're free to do whatever your little gay hearts desire."
"Yo!" Black Cindy called out indignantly. "Not all of us is gay, Nichols."
Nicky merely rolled her eyes, hefting herself out of the chair with an exaggerated air of cheeriness. "Vause has suggested a game of poker so all who are interested please place yourselves around the table immediately."
Piper watched as Nicky, Boo and Cindy began to shuffle around the small table by the bar before casting her attention to Poussey and Taystee who were now booting up a video game on the television. She'd just begun to take a step towards the them when a shoulder collided gently against her own.
"C'mon, Chapman. Don't tell me you're gonna skip out on poker." Alex's voice taunted gently at her ear.
She turned towards the older girl, smiling warmly before hesitating. "I... don't know how to play." She quietly admitted.
"Well now you definitely have to come." Alex gasped with mock surprise. "Come on. I'll teach you."
Their shoulders knocked gently again as Alex gave her a light shove towards the table, her hand coming to reset at the small of Piper's back, and suddenly Piper's feet were moving before she could stop herself.
They slid into a pair of vacant seats next to each other, pulling them closer together so their shoulders brushed.
"Ay ay ay, what's this!" Nicky called indignantly. "There will be no cheating in this gentleman's game."
"Fuck off Nicky she doesn't even know how to play."
"Rule is rules, Vause." Nicky drawled, shuffling through her cards. "You think I'm not wise to your ways. Like you even need it anyway yah goddamn hustler."
"Fine then, she'll be on my team." Alex countered throwing an arm around the back of Piper's chair and pulling her closer still. "Which will pretty much only work in your favor."
Squinting at her in quiet suspicion for a hot moment, Nicky finally relented with a grin. "A'right, Vause. You're right. It's your funeral."
Piper tried to pay attention to Alex's murmured lessons, she really did, but it was very hard when Alex's face was very close and her voice was very hushed and the softest puffs of her breath were colliding very lightly with Piper's neck as she whispered softly to the younger girl. Her arm had moved from the back of her chair once she'd been dealt her cards (Piper had deflated slightly at the loss) and now occasionally caressed Piper's thigh as she directed the girl's attentions and dictated the flow of the table (which Piper had to admit was a much better arrangement). Piper watched her intently, their gazes locking over the cards every so often as Alex murmured quietly. At one point her hand fell to Piper's leg and remained, as she stroked a gentle path back and forth across Piper's jeans with her thumb. Piper's eyes jumped to Alex's once more and she was met with a soft knowing smirk that simultaneously melted her into a puddle and set her taut with a vibrating excitement. At some point she'd managed to pluck up enough courage to run her own fingertips lightly up and down Alex's wrist, causing the older girl to shift and lean into her. Piper was nearly delirious with contentment.
They'd played several hands (Alex winning every single one) before Nicky kicked her grumpily from the game with a grumbled huff about goddamn hustlers. The doorbell rang not long after that and Alex, having been kicked from the current round offered to retrieve the pizzas ("It's the least I can do after robbing you all blind" she'd cackled).
"Wanna give me a hand?" Alex had turned to her and murmured.
Piper smiled shyly back at her, tucking a wayward strand of hair behind her ear. "Sure."
They headed upstairs in silence, Alex's hand ghosting occasionally against Piper's back. Alex smiled warmly as she accepted the pizzas and paid the delivery boy, turning to hand them to Piper as she fished out her wallet. Their fingers brushed when she reached to take half the load after closing the door and Piper once again found herself blushing lightly.
Whoops of joy broke out as they reentered the basement, arms laden with several boxes of warm pizza. Poussey, Taystee, and Lorna ambled over, video games now forgotten as the delectable aroma of food wafted through the basement. They all piled their plates high with greasy masses of dripping cheese before piling back over towards the television.
Taystee and Poussey dropped to their pile of blankets before the TV once more, Black Cindy and Boo settling down beside them. Lorna curled back into the large recliner she and Nicky had been sharing when Piper first arrived. Piper paused idly in front of the couch as she watched Nicky ruffle through a pile of DVDs, a small debate breaking out across the room.
She was watching Alex out off the corner of her eye, still lingering around the bar and boxes of pizza. She stacked an assortment of the various slices onto a plate then moved two of her fingers into her mouth, gently sucking some wayward grease from their tips. Piper observed dazedly. She was lost once again in her thoughts when Nicky's voice boomed loudly.
"CHAPMAN."
She jumped abruptly, nearly dropping her plate of pizza. "What!?"
"Goddamn, girl, you are fuckin' out of it tonight." She grumbled.
"What, Nicky?" She asked again, somewhat embarrassed at her reigning lack of focus.
Alex's husky chuckle filled her ears and Piper gave herself a mental pat on the back for managing not to swoon. She laughed warmly, slipping around Piper towards the couch behind her as Piper continued to stand before it, eyeing Nicky. "Just put it on, Nichols. She'll be fine. You don't give her enough credit."
Dropping heavily to the couch with a content sigh, Alex eyed her expectantly. She turned her attention from Nicky (who'd just finished placing a DVD into the player and was now climbing back into the recliner with Lorna) to the brunette waiting patiently behind her.
"It's kinda hard to watch the movie through you." Alex teased gently, patting the spot next to her as Piper continued to not move.
"Oh. Right."
She slipped onto the couch beside the older girl and nibbled quietly at her pizza. If she kept her focus on things other than Alex Vause and how close they were sitting then she could maybe make it through this night alive. Fat chance.
It was a simple enough endeavor for the first fifteen minutes. When she still had pizza. And the movie's plot was still slowly unfurling. And the lights were still on. But the second she placed her empty plate on the coffee table before her Boo shot up to turn out the lights with a muffled "Perfect timing." Perfect timing for what she was about to ask before the music swelled and she realized what Nicky must have been asking her about fifteen minutes ago when Alex had told her she'd be fine. Oh. A horror movie. Fuck.
She unconsciously settled deeper into the couch as the movie's true nature began to unfurl across the screen. Her thigh brushed against Alex's hand and she recoiled slightly in timid shock. Alex cast a sideways glance her way before leaning forward to rummage for something at the end of the couch. When she leaned back into her seat a soft blanket was drifting down across them and a light smile was touching her lips.
"Oh, Thanks." Piper murmured as they settled deeper against each other.
They were another fifteen minutes into the movie when Alex's hand began to draw soft patterns against the top of her thigh under the blanket. Piper tensed for a moment, and Alex's hand stilled as their gazes met. She was watching Piper closely, waiting to make sure she was comfortable before resuming the gentle motions. Piper blinked, holding the other girl's gaze before returning her attention to the movie and shifting just a little bit closer. She watched Alex's slow smirk unfurl from the corner of her eye as she returned her own attention to the movie.
Piper's hand grasped Alex's as she jumped, squeezed it as she tensed, and traced gently around her wrist as she relaxed. Her head had fallen to Alex's shoulder at some point and her attention was only half on the movie (she wasn't sure Alex was even watching it at all anymore) as their touches grew more heated underneath the blanket. Alex's fingers hand begun to slip higher and higher along her thigh and were now dangerously close to the juncture of her legs, fingertips skimming her inner thighs just barely as she stroked lightly. Piper shifted slightly, unintentionally jostling Alex's slow path, and they both stiffened as her hand brushed against the crotch of Piper's jeans. Their gazes met again and Piper could no longer mask the heated longing in her eyes as she took in the hesitant unbridled lust across Alex's.
Fuck it. She thought.
Holding Alex's gaze she thrust her hips softly, just once, against the hand still resting at the apex of her thighs.
Alex's gaze swept around the room quickly, taking note of the various faces still heavily immersed in the movie, before returning to Piper's. They slid closer together, just slightly, so as to not alert the others to their movements.
"Keep watching the movie." She whispered hotly against Piper's ear.
Piper nodded almost imperceptively, turning her face back towards the television, watching Alex through the corner of her eye.
Her palm turned fully against Piper as her fingers began to rub at the center of her jeans. Lightly. With just enough force for Piper to feel the barest hint of pressure. She bit back a whimper as Alex's fingers began to build a steadier tension. Alex's own face was still turned slightly towards her, keeping note of how comfortable she was, eyes occasionally skirting around the room to assess where everyone else's attention lay.
They remained this way, Alex touching her steadily through her jeans, for a short while before Alex's fingers snaked up to flip open the button and slide underneath the material. She inhaled quietly as her fingers met the material of Piper's panties. Damp. So damp. So fucking damp. She rubbed against her lightly a few moments longer as Piper fought to keep quiet.
Alex must have sensed her struggle because she quickly withdrew her hand, stretching her arms above her head with an exaggerated groan (a well timed exaggerated groan as Piper whimpered softly at the sudden loss, and no one was any the wiser) in a stretch.
"Mmmm... I'm gonna make some popcorn." She murmured to no one in particular as Piper stared up at her in quiet disbelief. She shot the blonde a significant glance as she began to move from the couch.
Oh. Oh.
"I'll come with you!" Piper exclaimed shooting up from the couch a little too quickly. Nicky eyed her suspiciously for a moment. "Alright! I'm scared! You win Nicky, stop looking at me like that."
Alex couldn't stop the grin sliding across her face at Nicky's cackling acceptance. She'd underestimated the wily blonde. "Come on, kid." She murmured, pulling Piper against her protectively. "I'll keep you safe."
"Yeah, I bet you will, Vause." Nicky called tauntingly after them.
Alex shot her a middle finger from across Piper's back as the two made their way up the stairs to the kitchen.
Her hand slipped from Piper's waist once they'd reached the kitchen, pausing as the blonde turned to face her. "Well look'it you all quick on your feet." She purred. "I'm scared."
Piper giggled breathlessly as she stepped slowly into Alex's space. "Honestly? I can't believe Nicky bought it."
"Me either." Alex laughed, reaching out to pull her closer.
Her arm slid around Piper's hip and she allowed herself to be pulled against the older girl's warm, inviting body with a grin. Alex dipped her head to place a soft kiss against Piper's neck before drawing her face into her hands.
"Is this okay?" She husked quietly as their gazes locked, thumbs brushing gently across Piper's cheeks.
"Yes." Piper whispered.
They shared a quiet smile before Alex leaned in to place her lips against Piper's. Their lips melded perfectly and Piper fought to keep her knees from buckling as Alex held her mouth against hers. They kissed steadily for a moment, languidly, before Alex leaned forward with a sudden urgency. The kiss deepened as she began to back Piper towards the kitchen table. Her back connected abruptly with the edge and Alex wasted no time hoisting her onto it and stepping between her legs.
Her hands dropped to Piper's hips as they helped her onto the table and Piper felt her own hands fist tightly against Alex's shirt, drawing the older girl impossibly closer. She shifted to wrap her legs around Alex's waist as Alex's hands began slowly pushing up her t-shirt. Their kiss broke momentarily as Alex shucked the shirt over Piper's head and onto the kitchen floor.
Alex immediately moved to palm Piper's breasts as their mouths connected once more, and Piper arched against her touch, her own hands moving down to slide under Alex's shirt. She moaned deeply as Alex moved to pull at the straps of her bra, placing a hot string of kisses against Piper's exposed shoulder. Taking advantage of Alex's momentary distraction, Piper ripped the brunette's shirt over her head before letting it fall to the kitchen floor to tangle with her own.
She ran her hands up Alex's back, sliding beneath the fabric of her bra as Alex's hand returned to Piper's still unbuttoned jeans. Her fingers dove beaneath the tough material once again to stroke heatedly at the damp fabric of her panties.
"Damn, Pipes, you're so fucking wet." She panted hotly against Piper's shoulder.
"Your fault." Piper murmured dazedly, pulling her nails down Alex's back, causing the older girl to lean into her with a soft bark of laughter and a quiet moan.
Their mouths returned to each other once again as Alex's fingers moved to slide beneath the final layer of fabric separating her from Piper's wet heat.
"What the ever loving FUCK."
They sprang apart from each other immediately. Piper raced to cover herself as Alex moved in front of her, turning to face the door behind her. Nicky stood gaping at them from the doorway to the basement, the rest of the girls peering out from behind her in similar states of shock.
"Fuck." Alex grumbled, rolling her eyes skyward as she reached for Piper's shirt.
"UNBELIEVABLE." Nicky exclaimed. "Defiling my kitchen table in the cover of darkness under the guise of retrieving popcorn. How DARE you. I eat dinner there."
"Apparently Vause does too." Poussey quipped quickly from behind her as Taystee squealed with glee.
"Shut the fuck up, Nicky." Alex grumbled, turning away from her friend's teasing glare to the blonde before her. Piper's face was cherry red as she buried it in her hands, Alex stroked her chin gently, catching her eye through the gaps in her fingers, before leaning down to retrieve her own shirt.
Nicky let loose another whoop of laughter as the rest of the girls chattered teasingly behind her. "Chapman, I gotta say, I am quite frankly surprised. Had I known you were on the level I would have worked a little harder to become better friends with you sooner."
"Ugh." Piper murmured from behind her hands. "I can't believe this is happening."
Letting out one final bout of laughter, Nicky turned to begin shooing everyone else downstairs once more. "Ahhh, Chapman, relax, all's well. You're among friends."
Piper's hands dropped from her face to regard Nicky wearily as she paused at the threshold of the basement once more. Alex still stood protectively before her.
"Seriously," Nicky murmured, a genuine smile alighting her face. "I'm happy for you guys."
Their eyes met briefly as they turned towards each other at Nicky's gentle words, soft smiles touching their lips.
"Lemme just grab the popcorn and I'll leave you two lovebirds to it."
Alex turned towards Nicky, brows furrowing. "Nicky, we didn't actually make popcorn."
"What!?" Nicky roared dramatically causing both girls before her to jump. "YOU SNEAK AWAY TO DEFILE MY KITCHEN AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN MAKE THE POPCORN!? You know what, I take back my blessing, unbelievable."
Her continued muttering drifted softly through the door as she made her way back to the basement and Alex and Piper turned to each other, alone once again.
"Well." Piper murmured.
"Yeah." Alex laughed.
"I guess we should probably head back downstairs. I don't really think I can continue this knowing everyone is down there listening now." She groaned.
Alex laughed softly once more, as their gazes met and pulled Piper in for one more kiss. "No." She whispered mischievously. "I guess we'll just have to wait until they all fall asleep and sneak into Nicky's bed to finish what we started."
"Mmm..." Piper hummed eagerly against her lips. "Yes. I think that sounds like the perfect idea."
They kissed softly for a moment longer, giggling giddily against each other's lips.
"Come on," Alex whispered as they broke apart. "The sooner we get down there the sooner we can convince them all the fall asleep."
She helped Piper slide down from the table, and they made their way quietly back to the basement, fingers tangling together gently, and thoughts of iimpending revenge and eager promises swirling through their minds. Though for now they were simply content to be.