A.N Your response to the last chapter was absolutely amazing thank you guys ever so much! I've changed the rating from T to M for the story as this chapter does get a little hot and heavy *blushes*

I didn't really intend to make this fic M rated at the beginning but hey that's where the writing led me and I'll be honest I didn't put up much of a fight :)

I hope though, that you still enjoy it and if you have a moment I would be grateful to hear any feedback :) ...

"What did you just say?!"

"Marry me"

Piper's voice was confident and sure, in fact she was certain she had never been so sure about anything in her whole life.

"Why?"

"You don't seem to believe me when I say all I want is to spend my life with you. I'm deadly serious Alex I would marry you tomorrow if it meant I got to spend every waking moment by your side"

Alex just looked at her in shock her eyebrows raised high on her head a disbelieving look across her features. It was like she was frozen and Piper just allowed the words to keep falling trying desperately to make her point.

"I'm not going to leave you Al and I don't know another way to prove to you that I would be 100% committed if we gave us another go"

"You could still divorce me"

Piper scoffed "Don't be ridiculous that would be the final tipping point for my mother a lesbian ex convict she can just about deal with but a divorcee? Never!"

Piper smirked at her joke but Alex's face was still unreadable so she sighed letting the humour fall away her face and tone becoming serious once again.

"I wouldn't leave you whether we're married, girlfriends or co-habitants I'm not going Alex, I promise I'm not leaving, not again. I just want you to know how serious I am about this and if it meant you could feel safe in the knowledge it would be me and you forever I would quite happily become Mrs Vause til' death do us part"

Piper didn't dare move her breath held as she waited for Alex to answer her. It felt like an age and she was almost certain she was going to faint until Alex spoke rendering her body incapable of anything except breathing.

"You really are something else Kid"

Alex's face had relaxed into a bright smile her eyes watering slightly and Piper smiled back although hesitantly.

"Is that a yes?"

Alex laughed her deep husky voice echoing around the room filling her body with the sound.

"We don't need to get married Piper I get it. I don't really understand why you are not running for the hills what with the cancer and everything but I do understand that you don't want to be apart from me"

"Because you know just how fabulous you are" Piper winked and chuckled.

"No because I know how much I've missed you these last few months. Even though it was from my own doing and I knew I was doing it for you deep down I wanted to rage and cry at the unfairness and come home to you Kid"

Piper's smile stretched from ear to ear and she launched herself at Alex wrapping her arms around her as tightly as she could crashing their lips together heatedly.

"I'm yours, I promise" the words tumbled from her mouth onto Alex's lips and Alex's reply was like a match to a flame her body igniting with heat.

"Mine"

Alex's hands began to roam her body leaving a fiery trail in their wake and Piper couldn't stop the hitch in her breath it had been so long since she had been touched like this that Piper felt slightly embarrassed by how easily Alex's touch made her body hum with want. Piper moaned as Alex licked and kissed a path up her neck until she reached her earlobe biting down sharply.

"Fucking mine"

Piper let out a guttural groan her hands coming up to anchor themselves in her lovers luscious dark locks. Alex's hand palmed and grasped at her breast her nipple hardening at the touch.

"Jesus Alex.."

Piper crashed their lips back together her tongue instantly entwining with Alex's beginning the familiar fiery dance they had perfected over the years. Every nerve in Piper's body began to tingle in anticipation of what was to come before the feel of Alex's left hand shaking as it held onto her hip bone distracted her slightly. Piper slowed their kiss bringing it to a natural end and lent her head to Alex's forehead.

"If you carry on kissing me like that we're never going to get any sleep"

Alex winked "Who said you were sleeping over"

Piper's face fell and Alex quickly smiled gently bringing her shaking hand to caress Piper's cheek.

"I'm joking Kid the left side of my bed will always be yours"

Piper took Alex's hand in her own and placed a gentle kiss to her palm her lips revelling in the feel of the soft warm skin.

"You really don't want to get married?"

Piper cursed herself at how insecure her voice sounded and she buried her head into Alex's neck as she felt a blush rise up settling onto her cheeks.

"I just don't need to sign a piece of paper to prove my love for you or your love for me and that's all marriage is. I do love you Piper I truly do I always have done. I just don't think we need to get married"

For a moment rejection washed over her body and she didn't reply until Alex raised her head placing a long slender finger under her chin.

"Don't look so unsure Kid if you're truly serious about wanting to be with me then I'm in it for the long haul too, well as long as I've got. I always was I just got a little lost in my own head along the way"

Piper studied Alex's face and seeing nothing but sincerity Piper let her fears fall away and she pressed her lips to Alex's in a sweet kiss winding her arms around Alex's neck threading her fingers in the hair at Alex's nape.

"Can I at least call you my fiancé?"

Alex rolled her eyes but she smiled widely taking hold of Piper's cheeks in her warm hands as she chuckled.

"Well I suppose I can agree to that"

Piper beamed her body humming with elation, she felt like a giddy schoolgirl her body thrumming with excitement. Alex yawned her eyes looking tired and heavy but they still shone brightly with happiness and Piper pulled her by the hand guiding her forwards.

"You going to show me this bedroom of yours then?"


She was burning from the inside she was certain her nerves where alight with lust one hand was buried in the soft pillow behind her the other tangled in the dark soft tendrils that where currently buried between her legs.

"Fuck Al..."

She had walked into the bedroom with the good intention of getting in bed and cuddling innocently with Alex until they went to sleep, knowing how draining today had been for her lover, Alex though had other ideas. As soon as Alex had walked out of her en suite the gleam in her eye had turned primal, she had pounced and Piper's clothes had been removed as quickly as shaking hands would allow. Every inch of her body had been worshipped by Alex's lips before she had settled between her legs, her strong muscled tongue causing Piper's eyes to slam shut her body arching with pleasure.

"Al ... I need ... fuck I need your fingers"

Piper couldn't take much more Alex's tongue was heavenly but it was torturous how she would push her body to the edge but not let her have the sweet relief Piper so desperately craved. Alex's smirking face appeared over the top of her and she crashed her lips to Piper's own.

Piper immediately entwined her tongue the taste of her own arousal filling her mouth along with the taste that was distinctly Alex, it only served to turn her on more.

Alex pulled back abruptly, her weight supported by her left arm at the side of Piper's head as her right slowly made its way down her body avoiding any of her sensitive spots her face smirking wickedly as she continued to tease. Piper began to pout desperate for Alex to stop her torture but she quickly stopped as Alex suddenly winced in pain her face stricken. Alex's left arm shuddered then went slack, caving underneath her, and Piper moved upwards swiftly to catch her falling lovers body in her arms before they butted heads.

"Alex!? are you ok?"

"Fine"

The response was short, said through gritted teeth, her tone laced with irritation and Piper knew Alex was frustrated and that anger would soon make an appearance. Not wanting to lose Alex to her fears and rage Piper sat up slowly pushing Alex back until she rested on her haunches.

"I believe I told you I needed you to fuck me"

Alex opened her mouth to retort angrily but Piper just crashed their lips together swallowing the scathing reply that she knew was to come. Still keeping their tongues and lips together Piper moved turning Alex with her not allowing their contact to break even for a moment. Pushing insistently against Alex she made her body slide backwards until her back hit the bed frame all the while still kissing her furiously. Reluctantly she pulled her lips away while she gathered the pillows and tucked them behind Alex so that she wasn't leaning uncomfortably upright against the exposed bed frame.

Piper knelt on her knees in front of Alex's crossed legs her naked body completely on show and slowly slid one hand down her stomach while the other wound into her hair.

"I need you Alex, I'm so fucking wet for you"

Piper wanted to bring Alex back into the moment and she was pleased to see Alex's breath hitch and the anger across her features recede as she watched Piper's hand creep it's way down her stomach to the top of her pussy lips.

"I can feel it Al, feel what you do to me and it's making me so fucking hot"

Piper didn't linger for long knowing how close she was already instead she brought both hands to her breasts dragging her thumbs across her rock hard nipples not stopping the moan that escaped as her eyes met Alex's in a heated stare.

"If I come over there are you going to fuck me Al? Make me cum while screaming your name?"

Alex nodded, her eyes alight as she gulped audibly her mouth slack. Watching Alex look at her with such lust in her eyes made another rush of warmth run through her and Piper felt the wetness between her legs increase dramatically. Slowly Piper crawled up the bed and straddled Alex's lap with shaking legs, Alex's hands coming to rest immediately on her thighs. She pressed a bruising kiss to Alex's lips and grasped the headboard with both hands.

"Show me what I know you can do"

Alex didn't need telling twice. Piper's grip on the headboard turned her knuckles white as three deliciously long fingers were thrust up deep inside of her immediately hitting the spot that made her vision blur.

"Fuck Pipes ... you're fucking dripping..."

Piper could only moan loudly in response as her body stretched to accommodate Alex's slender digits. Alex did not give her long to adjust and instead of fighting for control Piper just held on to the bed frame tighter as her lover began to pound into her, each time catching her clit with her thumb in the process. Piper could barely form a coherent thought from the feelings the dark haired woman was causing to build ferociously inside her.

Piper was so lost in the heady sensation she didn't even realise she was matching the thrusting of Alex's hand with her hips as her body desperately sought relief. Moaning incoherently she brought a shaking hand down to clutch Alex's head to her chest crying out in pleasure louder as her lover latched her lips around her rock hard nipple causing even more wonderfully erotic sensations to course through her being as Alex's hot wet tongue dragged incessantly over her hardened bud. All too soon Piper began to feel the familiar coil of tension tightening in the pit of her stomach and she knew that her orgasm was building at a ferocious rate, she could feel her muscles beginning to clench around Alex's fingers but she still needed more.

"Fuck ... Alex ... Harder"

Her gasped words spurred her lover on and the pounding between her thighs increased as did the pressure on her clit from her lovers thumb. Piper nearly cried with pleasure as her mind and body began to free fall, feeling her orgasm begin to peak she did one final arch of her hips and she came clutching onto Alex as if her life depended on it, whimpering her name over and over as she did so. Beads of sweat ran down her face and her chest as her eyes clenched tightly shut against the onslaught of pure pleasure her body desperately riding out the last waves of her orgasm jerking uncontrollably.

Feeling her body beginning to collapse completely sated she let her limp form slide down so she could rest her head into the crook of Alex's neck. She desperately tried to get her breathing under control keeping her arms tightly wrapped around Alex she began to place feather light kisses to her lover's neck.

"Fuck that was amazing ..."

Piper lay exhausted letting her shuddering body settle quietly listening to Alex breathe until she felt a wetness on her cheek and she looked upwards in surprise to see Alex crying silently.

"Oh Al..."

"What did I do in life to deserve you Kid? I'm broken, battered, practically beaten. I can't even fuck you properly and yet you still want me"

Piper sat up and kissed Alex lovingly, cupping her cheeks as she did, her thumb running soothingly up and down Alex's soft damp skin.

"Did you not just see the way you made me cum there is no complaint here Al trust me"

Piper kissed Alex's lips softly feeling overwhelmed with love for the woman in her arms.

"Shhh my darling we're not starting this again no more tears ok? I love you, you love me that's all that matters"

Alex smiled and Piper wiped her remaining tears away before she quirked her eyebrow upwards a coy smile playing across her lips.

"Now I want to make you feel as good as you have just made me feel" and Piper began to worship the woman she loved intent on lavishing as much love and attention as she could within the next couple of hours before they inevitably gave in to the need to sleep.