"You listen here, asshole," Green eyes stared into coffee-colored orbs, distaste clear in them. "I've worked too damn hard to let my relationship with my wife get ruined by the likes of you.

Her threat was replied to with a yelp and a lick to her face before the white Pomeranian spun around once then laid down on Alex's feet, licking her pale toes idly. Her face contorted into a look of disgust, staring down at her toes which were now being assaulted by a tiny pink tongue. I will shave you, Piper will come home to a happy wife and a very, very unhappy and naked dog. Perhaps the dog only understood telepathic messages. Her eyes widened when the dog bit down on one of her toes. It didn't hurt it was a warning bite, a bite that said, try it bitch. I'll chew right through you and piss in your shoes while I do it.

Piper stood in the doorway, a large smile plastered across her face. "Stop threatening Peter Piper." The name still made her grimace, never would she assign the task of naming an animal to Alex. She should have known better, anyways. She knew Alex wanted revenge after she'd named their cat Lord Cuddleton The Second and how she insisted Alex called him by his full name.

"Threatening? No, not yet. I'm just warning him. Besides, I thought you were still at work, Mrs. Vause." Alex bit her lip gently before pushing her glasses on top of her head, an eyebrow raised at Piper's expression.

"I'm still getting used to that, and no, I told you yesterday that I was taking today off. Remember?"

"No. I was probably lost in your eyes."

"You are so full of shit, Alex Vause," Piper said from the doorway, arms crossed. It seemed that Alex had completely forgotten that Peter Piper was gnawing on her toes, apparently in doggie heaven. "But I suppose in some areas you're not."

"What?" Alex gave her a questioning look, squinting a bit in Piper's direction.

"In your vows, you said ever since we met in that bar all those years ago, I was the only one on your mind, everyone and everything else was just a distraction until you could see me again…" Piper's grin had dulled to a smile now. She pulled her bottom lip between her teeth before continuing. "That - what was it? Everything else was just background, your like was on auto focus and the focus was on me."

Alex felt her cheeks heat up as Piper repeated the wedding vow, she knew it by heart.

"And your point is?" The book she'd been rereading, This Side of Paradise, by the great mind of F. Scott Fitzgerald was resting on her lap now, closed.

"Well, for one, you closed your book without a bookmark, which you never do. Even that one time I got food poisoning and you ran around the apartment looking for a bookmark." Alex quickly looked down at her book before flipping to the page she estimated she was at. "And Peter Piper has been having a hay day on your toes ever since we started talking and you've just been staring at my eyes like some lovesick teenager, not that I mind, but I'm a teeny bit afraid that he's going to break skin."

Quickly, Alex cursed and pulled her feet up, her nose scrunching up in a way that made Piper want to crawl into bed with her and kiss it and maybe kiss a few other things, but she had plans with "the girls" and they wanted the newlywed couple to tag along.

"Come on, you doof, we've got a date with destiny. Also Nicky, Morello, Poussey, and the others," she put on an all-too-serious face before walking into their room fully, and towards the closet.

"Doof? What the fuck is a doof?" Alex questioned from the bed, not showing any signs of getting up. She watched the blonde pull out a baby-blue dress, which she threw it to the side and on top of Alex. Alex looked down at the dress that Piper had apparently punished for not fitting her liking. I'm sorry. She mouthed to the dress, gently petting the fabric.

"I don't know, it's what you are, okay? A huge damn doof that needs to put her ass in gear because they're expecting us in an hour," Piper nearly hissed at the brunette, throwing another ugly pink dress at Alex.

"But you see, babe," Alex had now moved from her place on the bed and was now stretching, feet hanging over the edge. "It doesn't take me an hour to get ready, twenty minutes maybe." Still, she complied and stood up, narrowly missing a white floral-print dress that had been onto the bed, covering This Side of Paradise. She quickly made her way to the dresser and pulled off the dark blue v-neck she had been wearing. She pulled on a long sleeve white shirt, that she pulled the sleeves up on immediately. Then she pulled off her grey sweatpants and pulled on black skinny jeans that hugged her as if it were a second skin. "Wow, would you look at that," she teased as she turned to face Piper, that had discarded three dresses since Alex had been getting dressed. Alex kicked the clothes she'd shed to the side as she walked towards the frantic blonde. "Here."

She spun Piper around and gently kissed her glossy lips in a sweet way, yet it was a way that told Piper to back the fuck off. "Alex, I don't-" But then Alex pulled a light-yellow dress from Piper's closet and pulled out a pair of tan flats from the bottom of the closet with her foot.

"And I do it again." Alex helped Piper discard the white button up that the blonde had worn to work. She pressed a kiss to the other woman's collar, causing a soft noise to emit from Piper's lips.

"No, no. Not right now," Piper warned, taking Alex's face into her hands. A very firm kiss was pressed to the brunette's lips, that caused a warmness to suddenly form between Alex's legs. "Later," Piper assured, kissing pale lips a few more times before pulling off her black pants.

"Woman, why must you tease me so?" Alex groaned as Piper turned away to pull on the dress that hugged her in all the right places. "Why do I tease me so?" She muttered as the blonde walked towards the bathroom door. There were two bathroom in the apartment, and both belonged to Piper, though Alex was co-owner of the one in their room. Piper almost always chose to do her make-up in their shared one when they were going out together, then the two could talk as they got ready. She made her way towards their shared bathroom and leaned against the doorway, watching the younger woman run a hair straightener through blonde locks.

"Are you going to gape at my ass for the next forty minutes or are you going to help me not look like the grumpy old troll that lives under the bridge?"

Her comment was met with a loud laugh, it was just like Piper to make a reference to some stupid kids show. She seemed to have kids on the mind a lot lately which made Alex very, very nervous considering they'd only been married for almost a month.

"You're a piece of work, Pipes, you know that?" She entered the bathroom slowly, before helping Piper pull the front of her hair up in one of those stupid halo hair-styles that the blonde was so smitten with and that she pulled off so damn well.

When her hair was safely tied, Piper spun around on her heels to face Alex. "Yeah? I'm your piece of work, though." She pressed another chaste kiss to her wife's lips with a large smile. "And don't think I'm going anywhere." She then spun back around to look into the mirror, leaning forward as she applied a generous amount of mascara and eyeliner.

Alex shook her head before pinning her hair up. "I love you." She said suddenly as Piper applied her lipstick.

The blonde turned around again and looked up into Alex's eyes. She reached up to gently hold Alex's face in her eyes. "I love you too, baby," she said gently before pressing a kiss to Alex's lips.

Then it was Alex's turn to pin-up her hair and apply her make-up. Which took a lot less time than Piper.

"Let's get going," Alex said, pulling on her boots next to the door.

"Yes, ma'am." Piper said, grabbing her purse full of both her and Alex's belongings.

Within minutes they were out the door and in the elevator, fingers threaded together almost immediately when the doors to the elevator opened. They were greeted by curly hair and a goofy grin. "Piper!" He said lively. "And Alex." This part was muttered more plainly, Alex grinned at the disdain in his voice.

"Gary, wonderful to see you as always." Alex said as she and Piper walked out of the elevator.

"Actually it's-" His words were cut short when Alex nearly pushed Piper passed him and through the apartment doors.

"I didn't even get to greet him," Piper pouted. "He may be my ex-fiancé but that doesn't mean I harbor any negative feelings towards him.

"You do refuse to watch Mad Men, though. And you refuse to let me call you sweetheart, which is a huge letdown," Alex replied as they made their way down the sidewalk.

"You don't even like that nickname," Piper replied, bumping against Alex purposefully.

"I did want to watch the rest of Mad Men, though." Alex frowned teasingly, using her finger to trail a line down her cheek, imitating a tear.

"Oh shut up. Mad Men sucks."

A/N: This is my first fanfiction that I've actually put some sort of effort in so reviews would be WONDERFUL! Whether or not I continue this depends on the reviews I get! I'm up for suggestions, whether go back to when they first met and how that evolved or just keep going where I'm at it is up to you guys!