Every morning, Dot goes into Miss Fisher's room with her morning cup of tea, and whatever Mr. Butler made that morning. Usually every morning, Dot walks in and sees Miss Fisher on her stomach, but today, today is different.
Dot walks into the room, the tray in her hands, and she looks towards Phryne's bed, expecting the woman to be on her stomach, sound asleep, but no… Phryne was on her back, and something under the sheets was up, making a small tent shape of the blankets. Dot drops the tray, making a loud bang as it hits the floor, startling Phryne.
The detective sits up quickly, looking in the direction of the noise, seeing Dot in a state of shock. She then, looks down at herself, seeing her erection under the sheets. She quickly places a pillow over herself, just in time for Mr. Butler to run into the room.
"Is everything okay?" He asks.
"I-I…" Dot couldn't form a word.
"There was a large spider." Phryne quickly says. "But it was squished by the tray."
The man rolls his eyes, "You ladies and bugs," he mutters before leaving the room.
Phryne and Dot lock eyes before she leans down to start cleaning the mess. Phryne starts to move to help, but realizes she needs to take care of her problem first. She bites her lip before looking at Dot, seeing her bend over, which gives her a view right down the younger woman's shirt.
"Damn," she mummers under her breath.
"I-I'm sorry, M-Miss." Dot says before standing back up with the tray in her hands and the broken pieces of the cup and plate.
"You're fine, Dot."
"I-I…" she just stands there, her eyes flickering between Phryne's and the hands that hold the pillow in front of her crotch.
"Dot," the older woman sighs.
"R-right… sorry." With that the maid leaves the room, and shuts the door behind her.
Not long after, Phryne makes her way downstairs, and into the kitchen. She grabs a bagel off the table and spreads cream cheese over the top of it. Her eyes move to Dot who is looking at her while biting her lip. Phryne quickly looks away, and starts to eat her bagel. "I'll see you two later," She says before leaving the kitchen and exiting the house to the police station to see if Jack has any interesting cases she could get in on.
The rest of the day, Phryne stays away from home, leaving Dot to question what she had seen this morning. Part of her knew exactly what she saw, but part of her wanted to not believe it. Her mind races and races, wondering how on earth this was possible? She had never heard of a female with… with male parts.
Before she could think about more, the front door opened, and in walked the woman detective. They lock eyes, and Phryne heads for the stairs.
"Wait, Miss!"
Phryne bites her lip before turning to face the younger woman. She gulps, and sighs. "Yes, Dot?"
"Can we uh, can we talk?"
She thinks about it, did she really want to have this conversation? "Can you make me some cocoa?"
"Yes, ma'am."
The detective smiles, "I'll change and be down." She says and walks up the steps.
After changing into her night clothes, and after Dot had made her nightly cup. She heads into the kitchen and finds Dot sitting with two cups in front of her. She takes the seat across from the brunette, and takes one cup.
"So…" she sighs.
"Yes," Dot says, looking deep into her boss' blue hues. "I-I have a question about, about this morning."
Phryne sighs, she knew that's what she was going to ask, and she wasn't sure how to answer whatever was to come. "Okay?"
"Do you have a… a penis." She whispers the last word.
"Yes," she answers simply.
Dot sits there, her mouth slightly open as if she's going to speak, but nothing was coming out. She closes her mouth, and looks down at her cup of cocoa that was now running cold.
The black-haired woman looks the other up and down, wondering if she had just ruined everything between them. She sighs before reaching across the table, and gently setting her hand on top of Dot's. "Does this… does this change anything?" She takes a deep breath before continuing. "Do you want to leave now? Knowing that I—"
"No." Dot interrupts her. "I'm not leaving, Miss."
"Y-you're not?"
"No," she shakes her head. "A-and it doesn't change anything either. I just, I just wanted to know if what I saw was what I saw."
Phryne lets out a sigh in relief. "A-anything else?"
"One more thing…" Dot finally looks up. "Were you born with… with it."
"Yes."
"Oh." She looks back down, wondering so many more things, but she knew she shouldn't ask anything more for the time being. "Okay."
"Is that all, Dot?"
"Yes, Miss."
Phryne stood up, taking her cup of cocoa to bed with her.
