Fulfilling Tumblr prompt for Lifeguard/Beach 's the summer before her senior year of college, and Piper failed to make other plans, so she's stuck with her family in their beach house in some seaside town full of rich vacationers who can afford to take the time off. Nearby, locals Alex and Poussey work their yearly summer gig as lifeguards.
Brief, fluffy piece to ease the transition between lengthy angst fics. This is a complete whim, and probably the only time I'll ever write this trope/genre for these two. I don't even want to say anything else. Canon compliant with the end of season two, just fast forward a few years.
Season Two of OITNB told us over and over that prison isn't summer camp. But, like...maybe I want it to be. Just for a little while. Hence...camp counselor AU. Piper POV/Vauseman centric, but everyone's definitely a part of it.
Super random theme park AU. In which Alex, in the summer job from hell, is working a games booth at a theme park (alongside some other familiar faces), bored out of her mind until the day some dull Jewish guy brings his girlfriend by Alex's booth to try to win her a prize...but she's not exactly eyeing the stuffed animals.
"I know you aren't real. I...I'm not crazy." / "Methinks the lady doth protest too much," Alex replies with a smirk. "But I hope you're right, Pipes. I love you, but I'm not moving this show to Psych." REPOST.
"Piper Chapman is nine years when she first sees Alex Vause." A childhood/middle school/high school AU for Alex and Piper. Incorporates their flashbacks from the series. Emphasis on the high school era. Two shot.
Sort of "Young Blood", vignette style, from Diane's perspective. But the first half ended up just being Diane and Alex backstory that is just as applicable to canon as to my 'verse. So...if you're not into the YB stuff but just want some early Diane and Alex, first chapter's still completely applicable. For the second chapter, you only have to have read "YB" not all the sequels.
Latest in the Young Blood 'verse. Sequel to "Landslide". Piper and Alex at age 24.
Newest sequel to "Young Blood" and "It's Friday, I'm In Love". Three chapters in total. Starts us out in spring break of Piper's freshmen year of college.
Pipe's post-breakup perspective. Brief, one shot companion piece to "After Effects". Not required reading, but it enhances the experience greatly.
Your mom dies. Piper leaves. That turns out to be the answer to a question you will get asked a lot over the next several years: "What the **** happened to you, Vause?"
Follow-up to "Young Blood". Due to multiple requests for the the specific prompt: Alex's first time visiting Piper in college. Two parts.
""I'm sick, Delphine." Three words. The grenade that starts the war, really starts it, renders all battles up to this point mere child's play. You feel the impact in your whole body, a marrow deep armageddon, because you do not have to ask for clarification. You know what sort of sick she means." Mild season two spoilers. Cosima's health declines.