OITNB Fanfic; Chaos Theory Chapter 1 (Piper/Alex)
Title: Chaos Theory
Fandom: Orange Is the New Black
Pairing: Piper/Alex
Spoilers: 1.13 Can't Fix Crazy
Disclaimer: Don't want to go to prison so I disclaim. I don't own this show. Don't own the characters on it.
Summary: Chaos seemed to follow Piper everywhere she went. Like a butterfly flapping its wings Piper couldn't help the hurricane she caused.
Note: Wrote this awhile back and realized I didn't put it on P&P so I guess I will since I really like this story.
Chaos seemed to follow Piper Chapman everywhere she went. It wasn't something she planned or even wanted. Piper was like a butterfly flapping its wings that couldn't help the hurricane it caused. It started long before she was sent to prison. It started long before she met Alex Vause.
Piper Chapman was ten years old when she met Polly Harper, the girl who would later become her best friend. They went to the same school but didn't really know each other very well. Polly wasn't poor but her family didn't have the kind of money that Piper's family had which made her a target for the popular girls at school. Girls like Piper. However that day Piper had taken pity on Polly and had come to her aid which caused an altercation that nearly got both of them expelled.
Piper swears that she never meant to punch the other girl in the face.
Polly swears the girl deserved it.
After that day Piper and Polly were inseparable. Then they turned into teenagers and Polly started to date boys and soon Piper followed. Polly's relationships were always the kind you would expect from a girl in the suburbs while Piper's were anything but. Polly liked the nice and sweet ones and Piper dated the wild ones.
It drove her mother crazy.
College only fanned the flames for her. Now it wasn't just boys that she chased and chased her; it was girls as well. Every relationship she was in began and ended the same, it didn't matter if it was a boy or a girl. It always went the same way for Piper. It was like she was riding a roller coaster.
It was like she was flying.
Until she fell back down to the ground.
And she always fell down hard,
Then she met Alex Vause and her life changed forever. It sounded like a cliche to say that even to her but it was true. Meeting Alex changed her life. It wasn't just that Alex swept her off her feet, plenty of her lovers did that. It was something else. Something that Piper could never define. Whatever it was Piper liked it.
Piper craved it.
Alex didn't fear the chaos that seemed to stick to Piper like a well worn sweater; the exact opposite really. She consumed it like she consumed Piper. Mind, body and soul. There was nothing about Piper that Alex did't want to experience and in return she let Piper experience every part of her. Piper was no fool. She knew exactly what Alex did for a living. It was part of the thrill; part of the turn on. She also figured out early on in their relationship that Alex had intended to turn her into one of her mules but had changed her mind and had instead made her a girlfriend. Piper was irrationally proud of that.
Piper was never really able to tell anyone why she left Alex the way she did. She could never explain it in words even to herself. It wasn't the drug smuggling. It wasn't that Alex had asked her to smuggle drug money into the country; and that she had been horrible at it. It was something else she couldn't define.
The thrill wasn't there.
But the chaos was.
Because Piper could turn anything into chaos and before she knew it she had run out of Alex's life and back into the carefully constructed world of the suburbs where she thought she would be safe. Where she thought she could redefine herself.
That's when she met Larry Bloom,
Larry Bloom was everything Alex Vause wasn't.
Larry made Piper feel safe and secure and the chaos seemed to vanish from her life at least for the most part. There were always little bits of it. Small moments that exasperated Larry but he took it with good humor. He took it as part of her personality that he had to live with. He became the balm that calmed Piper.
He made her happy. He made her feel safe. It wasn't wild or crazy. It wasn't like riding a roller coaster every day. Piper found herself redefining herself and liking what she was finding. She liked looking into Larry's eyes and seeing the image of herself that he saw even though she knew deep down it was a lie. She wanted to be that person and she was determined to be that person.
Then everything went to Hell.
Because when a butterfly flaps its wings a hurricane will always happen somewhere in the world. It may not happen right away but it will happen.
The day Piper Chapman left Alex Vause one hell of a storm began.