Written by ainethewolf ( ~itsirmster) detective-tamsin on Tumblr.
Aine-bold, Tamsin-regular
Aine-Face claim: Olivia Wilde
Tamsin: Rachel Skarsten
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EPISODE 1.
Tamsin watched as the dancer grinned at her from across the table. She returned her smile, nodding and tilted her beer. "You gonna just stand there and watch or are you joining in on the party?"
Tamsin turned and looked at the tall brunette who sidled up next to her. Well Hello..
"I am the party." Tamsin replied with a cheeky grin.
"So I've heard. The Valkyrie, right? Why don't you show it to me then? There's a table over there that offers body shots."
"Lead the way,"
My kitchen offers body shots too. Tamsin thought. She held her tongue from blurting it out. She could tell the brunette was a werewolf.
"Some of the idiots I know are already there, but I'm taking care of it."
Once reaching the table on which one of the strippers were laid down and a group of werewolf males were howling at, she grinned before shooing them away."Got a name?"
The wolf propped herself up, leaning her hands on the table where the stripper was lying.
"Many. But you can call me Aine. What about you?"
"Tamsin."
The stripper flashed a cheeky smile at Tamsin and poured the salt on her stomach. While Tamsin licked her way up, she felt Aine's eyes all over her and grinned. She finished her shot and seized the lime between her teeth. She exhaled sharply and recovered.
"Your turn,"
Interesting, Aine thought while watching the scene, remaining propped on the table all the same.
When the stripper heard the Valkyrie's words, she took the shots glass and held it with her teeth while lying down, knowing what the wolf liked, since she was a regular there.
"Mm." She hummed, licking up the salt from the stripper's abdomen, leaving a small kiss as she reached the end of the line, then took the shot glass with her teeth and downed it, grimacing. "Not really a fan of lime." She admitted, finally grinning at the blonde.
Tamsin took her hand and led her to a booth. She poured her another shot.
"You're new. What's your deal?"
Aine followed the blonde without resistance, and sat down next to the Valkyrie, spinning the shot glass in her hand after having finished it off.
"Dark Fae business. I was summoned all the way from New York. Didn't know I'd meet a Valkyrie here, I would have come way sooner."
"New York is great, but this city is full of pleasant surprises…including cheeky werewolves. Stick around long enough and you might not want to leave."
Tamsin knocked back another shot with Aine. Her smile was dazzling.
"If you're hoping to see the helmet and chain mail tonight you're out of luck." She teased.
"Damn, I was really hoping for that chain mail to come up sooner rather than later. Guess I'm gonna go now." The wolf teased back, but instead just whistled to the waitress for more shots at their table. "Believe it or not, New York's been really boring for the past fifty years.
"The change is doing good for me." She looked the Valkyrie up and down a little.
"Obviously. I assume you live here?"
Tamsin couldn't wipe the grin from her face.
"I thought about it, but strangely enough a strip club isn't the coziest place to live," Tamsin shrugged with a grin.
Werewolves' eyes stood out, and made them fairly easy to identify but Aine's seemed to glow several shades of blue and grey. Tamsin's gaze lingered a bit on her eyes.
"I could show you around.."
"Clever." Aine quipped with a smirk. "Though the buffet is pretty neat, I have to say." She looked around at all of the strippers dancing on their places before returning her gaze to the Valkyrie, once she heard her offer.
"Well…" She tilted her head to the side with a grin. "I pretty much know this place by heart… But if you're talking about the town, how could I ever say no?"
"The town, yeah.." Tamsin downed another shot. She felt light headed and restless.
The girl she did a body shot off of was laughing with a few of the werewolves. She waved Tamsin and Aine over but Tamsin just smiled back and remained in place.
"She just mouthed "body shot" at us,"
Tamsin looked at Aine, mischief shining in her eyes.
"I have a better idea.." Tamsin purred.
"Mm." Aine hummed, taking a shot a second after. Narrowing her eyes, she realized that her head was only slightly fuzzy from all the tequila. Her eyes were resting on the blonde for couple of moments, but Tamsin's voice snapped her out of it. She looked over at the stripper and the bunch of her newly made werewolf friends, and then back at the Valkyrie. Her eyes lit up at the mischievous spark in Tamsin's eyes.
"You do? Lay it on me." She smirked, spinning the shot glass between her fingers.
"As you wish,"
Tamsin took the shot glass from her and playfully pushed the wolf on to the table. She picked up the salt and smiled as if to challenge her.
"Shot?"
Aine left out a sharp breath as she was pushed onto the table. "Show me how creative you can get." The wolf mused, putting a lime between her teeth and lying on her back.
"Game on, Valkyrie." She said with a grin, unbuttoning her shirt and revealing skin underneath it, as well as a black bra. Never moving her eyes from the blonde, she took one shot herself and leaned back, propping herself with her elbows and enjoying the sight.
Tamsin admired her toned stomach and leaned an inch away from her mouth.
"I thought you didn't like limes."
Tamsin took the lime out of her mouth with her teeth and dragged it down Aine's neck, chest and all the way to her stomach before placing it on the crook of Aine's lower neck and shoulder. She poured a little salt just above the button on Aine's pants, then put the shot between her legs on the table.
Tamsin flicked her tongue from side to side over the salt and exhaled as she took the shot. She licked her way up the wet juice trail she had made earlier and bit in to the lime on her neck.
Right, but you do.
The werewolf wanted to say it, but her mouth was a little bit too busy for that at the moment. Holding her breath and keeping her eyes on Valkyrie, Aine's back arched only a little when feeling the lime dripping on her now heated up skin.
Werewolves were howling by the time Tamsin was licking the juice clean and biting into the lime. Sitting up, the wolf did not bother with her own shirt but instead grabbed the blonde's, unbuttoning it with her gaze lingering at the sight for a moment.
"Your turn, hotpants." She smirked, pulling her on the table as she moved aside, and then straddled her, finger trailing down the middle of the exposed skin, taking the shot from the table and pouring it a little bit over the Valkyrie's stomach and to her bellybutton.
Aine then took the salt and smeared it over Tamsin's bottom lip with her thumb. Her tongue trailed across the salt and then to her neck, down the middle, leaving a kiss just under the bra like she did to the stripper, before drinking the liquor off her stomach and the bellybutton. The cheers were louder now, and the wolf sat up, grinning down at the Valkyrie.
She's fun.. Tamsin smiled from ear to ear.
She beckoned Aine to come down and cupped her hand on her face and kissed her.
The crowd's cheering roared in her ears. She moved her hands up the wolf's thighs and hips.
Aine's grin didn't fade when Tamsin beckoned her to lean back down. Her hand ran up the Valkyrie's front and cupped the side of her neck while the other held her waist. Tilting her head to the side a little bit, wolf's tongue was once again sliding across Tamsin's lips, seeking entrance to deepen the kiss. As the crowd cheered, Aine pressed her burning skin against Tamsin's cool one. The taste of lime making her scrunch up her nose only a little, but she didn't mind it one bit.
Wolves were always warm to the touch and her skin radiated heat, making Tamsin inhale deeper. Her scent had a hint of pine and Tamsin couldn't get enough.
Her phone buzzed in her pocket. She tried to ignore it but it kept going. Aine leaned back up and Tamsin gave her an apologetic look. She looked at the caller ID.
"Make it snappy or I will skin you and wear your pelt as a scarf, Dyson."
Aine climbed off her and finished off a drink. When Tamsin hung up she couldn't hide the distress on her face. They had a lead on the Una Menz seed.
She started to button her shirt.
As soon as Aine felt the buzzing in Tamsin's pocket, her lips parted from hers and she sat back up, smirking down at the Valkyrie and and almost chuckled at the apologetic look, as if saying 'don't worry about it'. Hearing the name Dyson, her head tilted to the side, and she soon hopped off of the blonde, buttoning up her own shirt. The look on Tamsin's face let her know that something was off, even though she had no idea. "Sorry to pry," she asked, a small smile on her face while she pushed the shot glass aside. "But was that the wolfy Dyson?" Aine had met him couple of nights previously. "Everything alright?"
"Yeah, he's my partner."
It was no surprise that she was puzzled. Every fae looked at Dyson and Tamsin as the oddest pair on the job.
"It was a little peace project between the light and dark, and no.. Shit's hitting the fan. I'm sorry about this."
"How do you know Dyson?"
"Holy shit." Aine would have laughed if Tamsin's face did not turn completely serious. If she thought New York was a small place for Fae, this was even smaller. "Your partner, as in work partner?" Her eyebrows raised a little.
"I've met him at that… Dal bar, is it? Wolves kind of have noses for each other." She smirked, then nodded. "Don't be sorry. I was sent to Canada to be of help to the Dark Fae with the Una Mens seed. Peeps over there are really freaking out about this, and for a reason."
"You're the Hot shot import? I thought we were supposed to pick you up on Saturday..And yeah Work partner." Tamsin trailed off. She was not about to elaborate or ask more about their encounter.
"We've got a meeting in a few hours. Where are you staying?"
Aine couldn't help but laugh at the nickname. "Yes, that would be me." She nodded, looking over at the werewolves. They have walked away to get a lapdance each. She rolled her eyes and focused her attention on the Valkyrie."
"I wanted to come earlier. Get used to the place and all that." She shrugged. "At some cheap ass hotel. I don't get my stuff sent until later this week, so I didn't bother looking for anything fancy. Why do you ask?"
"You can crash at mine, there's some things you need to see."
Tamsin kicked herself when she saw the sly expression on Aine's face. She realized how foolish she sounded only after she said it. Damned Tequila. Tamsin avoided eye contact.
"Ahem- I mean get caught up on." She sputtered quickly, trying to recover.
She sensed Aine's amusement, her eyes searching Tamsin's face.
Aine ducked her head down a little bit, a smirk threatening to break out into a wide grin, but seeing how Tamsin got uncomfortable, she decided not to tease her… too much.
"See some things, huh?" Her tone of voice gave off that she held back a laugh.
"Oh I've seen some things already."
Her eyes trailed down to Tamsin's now covered front, and her eyes lifted up to the Valkyrie's face that was still turned away somewhat.
"I don't mind, uhm, seeing more stuff… There's never too much information." Her hand trailed to the side of the blonde's face and landed on her cheek, prompting her to look at her.
She is so cute.
"Are you going to show me things right now or?"
"In the morning.." Tamsin struggled against a smile playing at her lips.
Looking at Aine's mesmerizing eyes was almost as deadly as a human looking in to a Valkyrie's eyes.
"-after my head is cleared of Tequila. Besides, where's the fun in showing all your cards at once?" Tamsin finished.
Days earlier she heard another wolf was to help with the search and had voiced her opposition at having to work with two wolves.
"Excuse me while I pack leashes and prepare for your standard ass sniffing welcoming party," She sneered under her breath. The chief walked away and Dyson smiled widely.
Once another wolf was around, they tended to think and do the same. Tamsin could not grudge their nature, they thought and acted for a pack, but it could hinder an investigation. If they disagreed on anything with Tamsin, she'd have to put up a bigger fight. Tamsin felt slightly embarassed. She didn't think the import would be Dark fae..or stunningly attractive.
"We don't have all the pieces and we could use a fresh set of eyes-"
Aine's smirk turned into a smile as her icy blues met with the pale ones. In an instant she wondered how they looked like when she was using her powers, but did not voice it. Instead, her lips parted only slightly for an exhale, and a light chuckle. "That might be a good idea. I behave like an idiot under the influence of tequila. And there's no fun in it at all… though it is a little bit amusing to see a Valkyrie being little sheepish."
The wolf hoped that Tamsin would not take it in a wrong way. The sexy, body-shot taking Valkyrie was certainly hot, but there was something attractive to this version, especially when they didn't take eyes off of each other for couple of moments.
"That's why I'm here. I haven't worked for the police in a long time, but I still have the… nose for it. And eyes." She grinned, sliding the hand down Tamsin's neck until she dropped it completely. "Should we go now or…? Those guys definitely won't miss me." Her head nodded towards the pack she had met that night.
Tamsin was about to protest but laughed at herself.
"Idiots don't know how to take shots like you. And about being sheepish-" Tamsin stepped forward and slipped her hand through Aine's hair and the other wrapped around her waist. She pulled her hips against her own and gently tugged her hair back, exposing Aine's neck. Tamsin leaned in to her ear and spoke in a low murmur.
"Enjoy it while you can,"
Tamsin loosened her grip, leaned back and grinned.
"Get your coat."
Aine was about to say something but she was pulled in, licking her lips when the Valkyrie stepped close. Her hands resting on Tamsin's shoulders, a soft growl emitted from her throat when she felt the blonde's breath against her ear.
And a tease too.
Her eyes pierced Tamsin's, turning a little paler since the wolf came out almost subconsciously at the brief episode that just happened. "Be back in a second." She said, stepping slowly away from her and turning around.
Her coat and a bag were on one of the chairs that were now deserted, and she glanced at the wolves who were a bit too busy with their strippers to notice. Leaving some cash on the table, she passed by the Valkyrie, wrapping her arm around her waist to say
"Move it, gorgeous" against the side of her neck.
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Tamsin caught a flare of the wolf in her eyes and grinned wider at the sound of her growl. Tamsin swept up her cash and slipped it back in Aine's jacket.
"It's already taken care of."
She felt the heat from Aine's arm around her waist and exhaled. Working with another wolf might not be so bad after all.
Tamsin hailed a cab.
Aine opened her mouth to protest at getting her cash back, but the Valkyrie seemed stubborn, even more so than she did. "Next time it's on me."
Her arm did not unwrap itself from around Tamsin's waist until the cab had stopped in front of them, and she opened the door for the blonde.
"After you." A grin played on her face as her hand lingered on the edge of the cab door, her body leaned in only a bit towards Tamsin's. Once inside, Aine scooted towards the blonde, looking past her outside the window when it started moving. "Toronto reminds me a bit of New York." She mused. "I might get used to it just yet."
Tamsin muffled a laugh. She hadn't been around this much chivalry in a long time.
"Similar, we've got better coffee though. And yes. Next time.. it will be on you."
"Really? I've yet to see that." As someone who was addicted to Starbucks, Aine was highly skeptic of these things. The lights died slowly away as they passed the Lake Ontario, but when the cab took a turn, she felt Valkyrie's body bump into hers,her eyes immediately dropping on the hand in her lap.
Tamsin stopped herself from falling with her hand on Aine's thigh. She glanced up at Aine and bit back a grin. She still felt the tequila. Fuck it, she thought. Tamsin straddled her and kissed her.
Before she knew it, Tamsin was already acting upon Aine's thoughts, and the wolf's hands gripped her waist almost immediately, kissing her back, holding another urge to growl. She pressed the blonde's hips to her own, unable to stop a smirk that formed into the kiss.
Tamsin instantly mirrored her smirk when felt Aine's chest vibrate and heard a low growl growing stronger. Aine seemed to be trying to control it but Tamsin loved the sound.
There was a gruff sound coming from deep of Aine's chest, but the scent of the Valkyrie was all over her that she almost did not bother to control it. She only did it for the sake of the driver, who soon realized what was happening and started to shout. A chuckle was building up the wolf's throat, but her hands sneaked under Tamsin's shirt, her claws extending just enough to graze her lower back as the kiss deepened.
Tamsin mirrored her smirk when felt Aine's chest vibrate and heard a low growl growing stronger. Aine seemed to be trying to control it but Tamsin loved the sound.
"HAY! Hey Lady,-"
Tamsin ignored the driver. She rolled her hips further on to Aine and pushed her hands up her body and chest. She rested her hand on her cheek and felt the wolf nipping at her lower lip. Tamsin deepened the kiss.
Skilled tongue..
The driver was muttering profanities, but he couldn't pull over on the highway. Tamsin broke her kiss with Aine to glance briefly at their surroundings before diving back at her jawline.
"Get out of my cab."
Tamsin simply smiled and helped Aine out. She paid the fare and waved at him. They were not at her door but at least it was close by. Tamsin laughed.
"My bad.." She acknowledged.
"It's the second block over."
There was a sharp exhale when the kiss was broken, but Aine's eyes remained closed, just in time to feel the lips across her jawline. Sadly, the cab came to an abrupt halt and a second later they were already in the chilly Canadian air. Aine's body was still heated up, though, especially after still feeling Valkyrie's lips against her own.
"I have to admit", she mused, leaning into the blonde, "I thought my new colleagues would be two grumpsters with no sense of adventure at all." Quirking one eyebrow up, she started walking, taking Tamsin's hand in the process.
"And here I am, taking romantic walks under the stars with a Valkyrie." She finished with a smirk, teasing, her eyes taking in the surroundings.
Tamsin froze slightly when she took her hand, but relaxed in to it and linked her fingers through Aine's. She hadn't felt warmth like that in a long time, and Aine's hand felt like a heater.
"I thought my new colleague would be as helpful as a splinter..but here you are, ruining everything and making me walk under the stars," She joked, knocking her shoulder in to Aine's.
Tamsin led her up the steps to the front door and pulled her in for a kiss, her tongue teasing Aine's bottom lip. Their kiss became more fervent. Tamsin didn't stop, but took her free hand and fumbled with the keys, jamming them in to the door as Aine tugged her close. Finally the door opened and the pair crashed in, still connected at the lips. Tamsin inhaled her scent deeply and stumbled backwards, taking Aine with her while pulling off the wolf's jacket. The growling grew louder and Tamsin pulled back slightly, revealing a smirk.
"I'm happy to be making a successful first impression… I'm actually not good at those. " Aine stated with a light grin, nudging the blonde just as playfully. She felt somewhat silly, even with a lot of tequila in her system.
"And walking under the stars isn't half bad as I expected it to be." She breathed out, moving close behind the Valkyrie once they were climbing the steps. Another breath was hitched in the wolf's throat and she scolded herself mentally for letting Tamsin surprise her that easily. Aine's free hand threaded into the blonde hair as the kiss deepened, and she chuckled when they stumbled into the apartment.
The wolf closed the door behind her with her foot, letting some of the buttons of Tamsin's shirt loose.
"You welcome all of the new Fae like this?" She asked through a smirk, throwing her own jacket aside and getting the Valkyrie's before pressing her into the nearest wall, her hips leaning into Tamsin's and her lips brushing across the jawline, purring out another growl. "And your scent…" She husked, finishing off the unbuttoning of her shirt and sliding it off her shoulders.
"Chief said I need to work on my people skills. You're a good start," Tamsin exhaled.
Tamsin wrapped her arm around the small of Aine's back and felt her self melting in to the kiss. Her fingers fiddled with Aine's shirt. Finally she managed to tug her shirt off and threw it to the floor. Aine pinned her wrists and pushed her hips on to her. Tamsin couldn't tell if it was herself of Aine who was growling anymore. Tamsin pulled back to take a breath.
"Bedroom-"
She pushed Aine back on to the bed and straddled her. Her skin felt like it was on fire. Tamsin started to pull at Aine's pant zipper. As she kissed her jawline and made her way back to her lips, Tamsin saw Aine's eyes pulsate a different colour.
An eyebrow quirked at the statement, but now it was not the time to protest or be cheeky. Aine's skin was on fire and it threatened to self combust, figuratively speaking.
"Mm." She hummed with a curt not, taking Tamsin by the hand and leading her to what she deemed to be a bedroom, since she picked up the sight of the large bed at the end of the hallway.
A grin spread from ear to ear on Aine's face as she was the one being straddled this time, her claws extending and running up Tamsin's thighs, slightly ripping at the fabric of her jeans, before they ran up her front, head tilting to the side when the lips found her jawline.
Several moments into the kiss, while her teeth were tugging on the Valkyrie's bottom lip and hands running up her back to fetch the bra clasp, Aine arched her back to feel her much cooler skin. Her chest was heaving with an animalistic desire she had for the blonde who was kissing back hungrily, prompting more growls and moans from the both of them. Just before Aine's desire to be the dominant one made her push Tamsin and pin her down onto the bed, a sharp pain in her spine made her cringe and groan out loud. She gasped, the out of breath feeling prompted not only from the kiss.
"Shit!"
"Dammit!" The wolf groaned, her ribs cracking slightly as her hand pulled Tamsin closer, teeth gritting in pain.
Aine's claws sunk in deeper and Tamsin pulled back. She stroked her hair and held her head in her hands.
"Aine?"
Tamsin climbed off her and tried to calm her. Shit.. the full moon isn't supposed to be until the day after.
"Shit..Aine look at me- Stay with me. Breathe Look at me." She repeated, lifting Aine to sit up.
She could tell Aine was doing her best to control herself and Tamsin didn't know how well she could do it. She could handle a wolf, but didn't want to use her powers over her. Dyson was left struggling for weeks after she had stared him down.
Tamsin grabbed a case from under her bed and extracted a needle.
"Sorry about this.."
Before Aine could protest she injected the contents in to Aine and watched as she went limp and laid down. She had a good two hours before it wore off.. maybe less because Aine seemed exceptionally strong. She slipped Aine's shirt on to her, admiring her physique as she finished with her buttons. She slipped her own shirt on and looked up at the moon. Fucking asshole.
The effects of the Tequila had dissipated but Tamsin didn't want to take that chance yet. She needed a few provisions first anyway.
Tamsin grabbed an extra set of clothes and tossed it in bag. She yanked open the fridge, downed a bottle of water and took out a few more tranquilizers. There was little else in there except beer, a couple of bruised apples and a left over pizza. She'd have to pick up something along the way. Tamsin scooped Aine up and laid her in to the backseat of the car. She swept her hair out of face and placed a blanket over her.
Tamsin got in the car and looked back at Aine.
"Hang on,"
Aine thought for a second that her teeth might crack apart since she clenched her jaw too much in order not to cry out in pain. The bones that were snapping slightly were still not doing so bad as they would have the night afterward, but she had forgotten to take her meds that she left back at the hotel room, and now it was coming back to bite her in the face.
Tamsin's hand running through her hair and cupping the sides of her face offered comfort, but definitely not relief. She rolled onto her side, eyes tight shut, putting herself in a fetal position. Every single fibre of her being was burning, and this time most definitely not in a good way. She was unable to move even the slightest muscle without being afraid of the pain returning tenfold. The Valkyrie's voice in the background seemed nothing but a white noise, and, being stiff in the blonde's arms, she could feel herself being lifted up, but no breath came out. "I'm okay… I'm okay..:" She breathed out, cringing as a small crack was heard from her shoulder. In the next second Tamsin was stabbing her with a needle, and her mouth opened to protest, but in the next second she felt unusually lump and numb, though still sore, and fell back on the bed. "Tamsin…" she choked out once the Valkyrie walked out of her sight.
What did she do?
As soon as she walked into sight again, she felt comfort, and gave her a small lopsided smile. "You drug all the girls that come here, huh?" She slurred and closed her eyes. Next time she opened them, she way lying in the car and the hand was brushing hair out of her face.
"What are you doing?" She asked weakly, unable to do anything with her body.
"Tamsin, I can deal with this myself. Where are you taking me?"
"I'm keeping your ass from being someone's new mantle piece. I know you can take care of yourself, but this city is different. They don't take kindly to werewolves, not since last month's incident."
Tamsin helped Aine sit up and handed over her meds and a bottle of water. Aine's confused stare stayed on the valkyrie.
"I grabbed your stuff along the way, bag's in the back. We're going to the middle of nowhere, outskirts of Brazenwood."
"Sorry about the whole needle thing. Raw steak?" Tamsin quipped with a package of steak in her hand.
Aine muttered something under her breath and looked outside at the clear sky. The moon was still not completely full, but Aine's eyes flashed brighter at the mere sight of it. She decided it was a better choice to look at the blonde beside herself.
"What was last month?" She asked, trying not to sound too grumpy or angry.
Usually, when this time of month came, she would hide herself away from everybody, and now having a complete stranger did not sit with her, no matter how gorgeous and pleasing to the eye Tamsin was.
"Yeah." She nodded, knowing that the raw stake would make her feel slightly better.
"And I'm sorry. No one's supposed to see me like this." She growled.
And no one did. For at least one hundred years.
"I hope this means you're going to drop me off and return, right?"
"I'm a chauffeur in my spare time, how'd you guess? No, I'll be in the truck. You'll be in the house."
Tamsin understood her frustration, she didn't want anyone around when she had to show her true face. It was too dangerous to leave Aine on her own, even at a deserted ignored the muttering.Tough shit, Aine.
"Last month.. a werewolf attacked a mother and her child. The mother has got scars for the rest of her life and the kid's in a coma. If the kid had been light fae, you'd be in the middle of an all out war. Case is still under investigation but you didn't find out from me. Things are tense to say the least. Wolves have been targeted."
Aine rolled her eyes at Tamsin, but couldn't help but give her a small smile. The movement was returning to her limbs now, and with that soreness, but the meds she had just downed down worked quickly. There was still couple of cracks here and there, but they merely made her wince.
"Thanks." She murmured, biting into the raw stake and chewing slowly, looking down at her lap rather than at the Valkyrie, even though she could feel those green eyes on herself for a little while.
"That sucks… I wish I could say I hadn't done the same in the past, though." The wolf was speaking in a low voice, more to herself, but she knew that Tamsin could hear her, and could not understand why she was telling her any of it. "But I'm alright now, as long as I got the meds, and isolation."
Tamsin turned away. She heard the regret and guilt in Aine's voice and felt her chest tighten. Tamsin walked to the trunk and started checking her guns. They were ready to go but she wanted to give Aine some time. Tamsin waited until she finished her steak before returning.
Aine sat in the car, not turning around to see what Tamsin was doing. Instead, she ate the stake, a little more hungrily than she maybe needed to, and tried to move her feet. They were undoubtedly still a bit shaky, but there was nothing she could not manage.
However, Tamsin seemed to think about everything, and Aine was smiling to herself when she was propped up and half-lead, half-carried into the house, her arm tightly around the Valkyrie's shoulders.
"Come on, Rocky." She said, lifting Aine's arm over her shoulder and leading her in to the house.
Tamsin picked the lock open and pushed the door. She brushed the dust off and sat her down on the couch.
"It's almost day. No worries 'til night.. You should get some rest. I'll be in the next room."
Once seated down, Aine felt tired, but still alert enough to feel her own chest tight when hearing Tamsin's words. "Hey, Valkyrie?" Her hand once more caught a grip of her wrist, pulling her closer. "Would you, uh, come here and lie with me?" The wolf looked up. "You know, for protection."
The wolf's expression caught her by surprise. She hesitated a moment before sitting down beside her. She was accustomed to having a lot of distance between herself everyone else. It was for the best. Aine would probably come to see that too.
Tamsin lay on her side, and faced Aine. The morning light caught the silhouette of Aine's figure, illuminating her form.
"I draw the line at bed time stories." Tamsin mused.
Aine could see the reluctance in Tamsin's posture and she scolded herself yet again. Whatever had gotten into her, she would not let it surface again after the full moon was over.
"Good." Aine breathed out a chuckle, still feeling a slight dab in her ribs, turning to the side towards Tamsin too, her hand under her head as she looked at her. "And to think this night started off with us licking salt from a stripper's stomach. Oh fucking hell." Her other hand placed itself on her own ribs and squeezed. "I hate this."
Tamsin grasped Aine's hand and gave her a gentle squeeze. She smiled, recalling the way Aine laughed just hours before.
"It'll be day soon. You'll be alright. I have a pretty bad ass bark too."
Tamsin lay on her back and stared at the ceiling.
"Wasn't just the stripper's stomach.." She grinned.
Aine's fingers shifted so she intertwined hers with Tamsin's. It was not a matter of anything but the comfort that touch gave her. She buried half of her face into the pillow.
"I'd love to hear the Valkyrie bark." She said with a grin, but then she snorted a chuckle at her last words. "Speaking as someone with an acute sense of taste, you tasted way better than a stripper." She blinked. "And you still didn't… show me stuff, and it's morning." Aine teased, shifting a little.
Tamsin frowned in mock offense. She had nerve. Tamsin scolded herself for letting Aine push her buttons but she was impressed by the wolf's ability to banter with her.
"One little taste and she's hooked-" Tamsin teased back.
She turned her body and put a hand each on either side of Aine. She leaned over her, enjoying Aine's reaction and studying her features.
"I'll show you all you need to know, but you'll just have to be.."
She lowered herself further, lips slightly parted and almost touching Aine's mouth.
"Patient."
Tamsin pushed herself up and leaned her back against the pillows.
"Count those sheep," She grinned.
Aine's lips spread into a smile as half of her face buried itself more into the pillow. "I'm hooked, huh? I don't know who carried me all the way to the middle of nowhere like some Princess Charming, and bought me raw steak. You know, in some cultures, we'd be married already. Ow." The light laugh that escaped her lips as she teased the Valkyrie back brought a small dab in her sides, but she kept grinning, even when Tamsin leaned over at her. Her eyes flashed gray up at her, own lips a little parted at the closeness. The blonde's scent washed over her again. Patient? Not really what I'd call myself. "Teasing a wolf in this state is a crime." She mused, reaching out her hand to trail down the lines on Tamsin's jeans that she made with her claws earlier. "Sorry about this, by the way." She smirked, exhaling and closing her eyes. "I think I need to take you up on that offer… and if I eat some in the process, don't judge."
Tamsin glanced at her jeans and shrugged. The claw marks made them look better. Tamsin didn't know what to say to her Princess Charming comment. Even Bo would laugh.. if she was ever around her friends anymore. The Valkyrie refocused on Aine.
"Lucky for me teasing a wolf in this province is an honour. In your current state.. I'll go on ya. And don't be sorry. Every month is a pain in the ass for all of us. More so for you though."
It was a bright morning but Aine was drifting off and Tamsin soon followed suit.
Tamsin's phone buzzed in her pocket and jolted her awake. She blinked and brushed the sleep out of her eyes.
"Hold on," She whispered in to the phone.
Her head pounded and her vision had star bursts everywhere. She gingerly shifted out of the bed and walked outside. Her phone cut off. She looked back at the door to make sure it was closed and walked further down the dirt driveway. There were plenty of tall trees around which made for a great hideaway but crappy phone service. She tried again.
"Dyson,"
"Tamsin, where the hell are you? You were supposed to be here half an hour ago."
Tamsin lowered the phone.
She shook her head and mouthed, "Shit."
"Callahan is indisposed at the moment." She replied.
"Callahan? Thought he was arriving later today. What do you mean indisposed?"
Tamsin rolled her eyes. Guess he didn't know Aine was a detective too.
"Callahan is a woman. And by indisposed I mean it's that time of the month.."
"It can't be that bad. Get her a hot water bottle and an advil."
"Get some ovaries and tell me that again. Anyway, it's not THAT time of the month. Callahan isn't just a wolf.. she's a werewolf."
There was a moment of silence. From a previous case she understood that wolves could sniff each other out but it virtually impossible for them to tell if the other was a werewolf.
"You met her at the Dal a few nights ago. Brunette, Cheeky, hot, ring a bell? You'll have to cover for now."
"Keep a close eye on her. Attacks haven't stopped yet."
"Already on it, Sweet cheeks. As far as everyone else knows, she's not here yet."
Tamsin's last words were simply a blur to the wolf, as she could feel the tiredness wash over her. It was not simply tequila and the pain in her bones, but she had hardly slept the past couple of nights, ever since she came to Toronto.
After what seemed only minutes of a very restless sleep, Aine opened her eyes. She did not move from her present position whatsoever, and her whole left side was numb. Blinking a couple of times, and feeling a sharp pain pulsating in her temples, it took her couple of moments to realize where she was, and what she was doing there. Tamsin. Frowning, Aine raised her head and found herself in an empty room of a late winter afternoon. Reaching for her pocket, she pulled out her phone. 4 p.m.
It seemed as if the Valkyrie had listened to her and got out of her sight for the day, leaving the wolf in a state of both relief and strange emptiness. Pressing palm to her forehead, she noticed the remaining raw stakes on one of the tables in the other corners of the room, and she made her way there, taking one and devouring it in only couple of bites.
Only hours away from shifting. Even though she was used to it, it was like going to the dentist - the waiting was the worst. The air outside was chilly but perfect for her heated muscles and sore bones. Stretching, Aine sat on one of the logs in front of the house, spotting the car nearby, which made her frown. Where was Tamsin? Shrugging it off, she pulled the remaining meds from her pocket as well as the bottle of water, drinking it. The phone buzzed in her pocket. Happy shifting, Moony. One of her rare friends, also a werewolf, had texted her. You too, Toothy.
Minutes might have passed. She stood up, walking towards the woods and away from the house, losing herself in the darkness of the trees as the night started to fall. It was always like this. Aine, the woods, and silence. Soon enough, the moon would come out, and the wolf hoped that the landscape around the cabin was desolate enough, for everyone else's sake.
Tamsin walked back up the path. She had set up a surveillance perimeter. She checked her phone. 4:00pm. She had an hour and a half until the transformation. Tamsin spotted the open door and ran to the house.
"Aine!" She called.
No answer.
"Aine-"
Tamsin kicked herself for leaving the house. Aine couldn't be that far away. She dashed to her car and opened the surveillance cameras but saw nothing. Tamsin slipped on her holster and grabbed the tranquilizers.
Aine might have been in the middle of the forest, as far as she knew. Her ears were tuned to hear every single sound within a mile radius, but nothing but the soft rustling of the evergreen trees' leaves could be heard. That, and her blood boiling from the thudding of her heart. Reaching one of the clearings in the middle of the forest. Aine glanced at the sky. But before she could see it, she felt it in her bones. Crack. It seemed to her that the cracking of the bones echoed through the forest. Falling on her knees, the wolf ripped her shirt open quickly, leaving it on a tree stump, then did the same to her jeans. Eyes pale white now, and fangs extending as well as her claws, she began to growl. Soon, her spine cracked, deforming itself. It was an event she relived a million times, but it still hurt like a bitch. Kneeling naked in the snow, Aine breathed heavily, watching her arms deforming, feeling her face changing shape. She looked at the moon. It's time. Within only seconds, in the place where she stood, now a big, furry beast was gasping for air, stomping in the snow and growling. Aine was still in there, but the anger in her heightened, though slightly numbed down due to the meds. Grumbling, the wolf Aine turned her head towards the night sky, and howled.
Tamsin exhaled sharply in to her scarf. She tracked Aine's footprints. She found only one set of tracks, definitely Aine's. Tamsin was relieved no one had dragged her out there. The temperature was dropping fast. All she could do is keep watch of the perimeter and make sure no one else came here. So far there there had been no breach.
She looked up at the sky, the moon would be out any minute. She made a dash back to her truck and locked the doors. Tamsin covered herself and her laptop with a blanket to prevent the light from getting out. It would be a long night.
The wolf, now that the initial shock from turning had been done, sniffed around the place, but could come up with nothing but her own tracks. Her fur was a mixture of gray and white, whiter than the snow, so if anyone would come across her, they would have trouble noticing her in the shadow of the trees. Leaving her phone and everything else behind, her paws followed her own track back, stopping to howl every now and then. She was hungry, and the only scent that was there, beside her own, was of the Valkyrie. She ran through the trees, scratching the barks taking a bite at the branches. Soon enough, the trees were thinning, and before she knew it, the wolf reached the brink of the forest, her pale eyes fixating on the house, and then the car. The Valkyrie's scent was everywhere. However, the wolf Aine was not as friendly as the human version, and soon enough she felt provoked by the scent, wanting to examine it. Growling, she approached the car, taking a sniff here and there.
Tamsin felt an odd presence around her. She pulled the blanket off and peered through her window. Nothing. She looked in the rear view and saw nothing as well.
Tamsin crawled to the other side and saw a tail and she ducked back down. Carefully tilting her head back, she leaned up and caught sight of the wolf. Aine was massive. She was at least twice the size of Dyson in wolf form. Her fur was beautiful and luscious.
The wolf bashed her paws in to the door and broke the window. Tamsin squeezed to the back of the truck. Seriously? You had a whole forest to wander around..
Aine scratched the door again. The truck rocked back and forth from another hit.
The screen blinked an alert. She saw several figures, one of them had a shotgun. She seized her own shotgun. She wouldn't shoot Aine but she wasn't against knocking her out with it if she had to.
BOOM!
"Look at the size of it!"
"I don't care! It's still damn werewolf scum-"
"So they're not farmers.. even worse."Tamsin thought. she lowered the back window a crack and screamed,
"HOLD YOUR FIRE!"
She heard Aine on the other side of the truck, snarling defensively.
"You'll be alright, stay down, girl!" A man called back, raising his gun and firing. They were too far away for Tamsin to face them.
"STOP no-"
Tamsin knew it was futile but she looked back at Aine.
"RUN." She commanded. She watched as the wolf backed away slightly.
Tamsin turned her attention to the group. She zoomed her cameras in and recognized them. They were regulars at the Dal.
Once the window was broken, tried to get into the car, but was still careful about the sharp glass that was now sticking from all around the place.
Why doesn't the Valkyrie want to come out and play? The wolf thought, pawing at the door, scratching it and rocking it back and forth.
I won't harm her… a lot. Maybe nibble a little. I always wondered how a Valkyrie tasted like…
The wolf curiosity and hunger had taken over her completely. She growled impatiently, but before she could do anything about it, there was a loud bang. She was too focused on Tamsin to notice the others approach.
Within a second, she was on the other side of the car, snarling as the bullets scraped her sides only slightly. It did not hurt, but only made her more rabid. Baring her canines, she growled. Hungry and angry, she felt like she could take them all on.
But then the Valkyrie told her to run. Without thinking about it, Aine found herself stepping back for a second, but their voices provoked her.
I will rip them apart. Nice flesh, fresh. The raw steaks have nothing on this.
But she did nothing yet. They were too far away for her to attack, and she would make an easy target.
Come closer, lovelies. She growled, her eyes flashing towards Tamsin in determination.