Title: For You I Will

Author: fadedink26

Pairing: Bianca Montgomery and Marissa Tasker

Summary: This story is about the everyday ups and downs that come with new relationships, ex spouses, small children and just trying to make it all workout, without loosing the person you are trying to make it work for.

Rating: PG-13

Spoilers: Yes, with my own tweaks.

Reposting: If you want to share it with fans on other boards, go ahead.

Disclaimer: All My Children and the characters in this story are not mine. I'm just a fan taking them out for a spin. No money will be made from this.

Author's Note: I've been missing them on the TV this week, so I thought id put them online for us to enjoy. Its not AU, but I may change one or two known facts, simply because I don't like it or because it detracts from me telling this story. No beta , all mistakes are my own.

Chapter One

Marissa stabbed at her garden salad idly. Her mind was working overtime, so much so that she could barely focus long enough to eat her lunch. She was at Krystal's, with Bianca and they were having their regular afternoon lunch, chatting about their day before each had to head back to the their respective offices. They were having a great time, or so she thought when Bianca got eerily quiet … well more quiet than usual. Had she said something wrong? Was something else on Bianca's mind? Normally she could read Bianca and figure out what was brothering her, but not today.

Bianca rubbed her temple, her head was pounding. It was two weeks ago that Marissa had served JR documents requesting temporary sole custody of AJ and it was one week since the court hearing, which the judge had granted said custody to Marissa and yet still, every other conversation between them was either about JR's drinking or the custody battle. Bianca was trying, she really was trying to be the supportive girlfriend, but JR and any topic about him was grating her last nerve and now she had the headaches to prove it.

"Headache?" her girlfriend asked concerned, but Bianca shook her head and whispered a "no". Admitting to a headache was like gateway drugs to talking about feelings and that her headache was just a manifestation of those feels.

She also wasn't prepared to ask Marissa to stop talking about JR all together. So presently she was going to live with the headache and do the next best thing, avoid eye contract, focus intensely on her lunch and hoped Marissa changed the topic to something else. She smiled when Marissa's fork sneaked over onto her plate and stole a cutting of her grilled chicken.

"No fair" she smiled looking over at her. "Eat your salad". Marissa made a face and pushed her plate away.

"I know … I was all pumped last week about loosing those 5 pounds, but salad is just …" she stuck her finger in her mouth and made another face, Bianca couldn't help but laugh and reached across the table for her girlfriend's hand and gave it a light squeeze.

"You look amazing, you don't need to loose any weight" Binx assured her.

Marissa knew Bianca was being sincere but she couldn't help wonder. If Bianca thought she looked so amazing why hadn't she tried to… well make love to her? She wasn't all that familiar on the protocol for lesbian dating, but she had high hopes of all night sex, soft lips, sensual caresses and multiple orgasms. Certainly there had to be more than handholding and kisses? Was 'After Ellen' wrong?

Then again Bianca hadn't so much as taken her out on a real date … no meeting for lunch at Krystal's was not a date, that was something they did everyday as best friends. Maybe she was reading too much into it, or expecting too much. Maybe with two women either one could initiate the date? She was just really hoping Bianca would take the lead being the more experienced one and make this a little less scary for her.

"I was thinking, maybe we can get someone to babysit the kids and we can go out tonight …maybe dinner, or a movie, or a play?" Marissa asked hopeful.

Bianca paused midway in her attempt to swallow her beverage, coughing a little as she did so. "Just us?"

"Yeah, a part from lunch we hardly get to spend some alone time together" Marissa eyes brightened. She was already planning what she would wear and how great it would be to just be alone with Bianca sipping champagne, or cuddling in a dark theater…. bringing her back to the house.

"You and I? … Alone .. Eating food … in the night" her brain felt scattered, the little man in there was baratting her for being an idiot. Why hadn't she asked Marissa out? She been so caught up with her mother's problems, Kendall relationship issues, the Miranda center latest project and everything JR that she had simply forgotten to work on her relationship. She looked at Marissa with that hopeful smile that went right to her eyes and felt she had somehow let the other woman down.

"Like a … date" Marissa encouraged, "we are dating . .. Right?" she now sounded a bit unsure and Bianca felt it was her fault for the confusion.

"Yes! We are dating," she said clearing the air. " We should do date stuff " Bianca replied with a smile. "But let me do it properly." She reached again for Marissa hand, her thumb running softly over the other woman's knuckles.""

"Marissa ... I'd love to take you …"and that was all she got out as Marissa's phone started ringing.

"Hold that thought" she smiled apologetically at her girlfriend before answering." Marissa Tasker. Yes. It's already in? Court 30 minutes. Thanks. Honey I have to go" Marissa said rising. "But Yes! I would love for you to take me…" she winked before she reached down and pressed her lips to Bianca's.

The play on words had not been lost on Bianca either and while she too wanted to get to that stage in their relationship, she had been deliberately stalling. She was in a word .. scared. Scared of all that could go wrong if Marissa wasn't ready to experience what she had to offer. The problem was, there was no way of knowing other than just doing it.

"Tonight? 8pm?" Bianca asked once their lips parted.

"Perfect, can't wait" Marissa purred before kissing her again, then she was out the door.

Alone, Bianca finished the rest of her meal in silence, her mind consumed with plans for her date later with Marissa. How she was going to approach the topic of JR among other things.

At the end of her meal, she popped out two painkillers from her purse and chased it with a glass of water before paying the bill to Krystal.

"So this is where you hide out now," the voice sounded familiar to her and Bianca turned around to look at the tall, slender woman with light brown hair.

"Reese" she gasped. "Uh…. um" She felt uneasy in her presence. "What are you doing here?" she asked finally finding her voice.