Lauren stared at the exact duplicate of herself. Everything appeared to be the normal about her, well, except for the fact that she woke up with the woman in her bed and had probably done some very terrified screams of shock and fear, which woke the other her up and caused her to do the same. They both ended up jumping out the bed, before they both calmed down.
A few minutes later, they stood on opposite sides of the room, taking great interest in the floor and nervously looking at the other.
"So..." the original Lauren began, "did you ah, want clothes?"
The duplicate looked down and smiled as she realized, "that would be nice," she said. Noticing the odd color as the duplicate moved across the room to her...their? drawers, Lauren realized that the woman even had the same bruise on her thigh from when the fae attacked her in a fit of panic. Puzzled further, Lauren studied her duplicated self, wondering if in fact, the fae attack had been the cause for this.
"I'm assuming that, if you're me, you understand why I'm..."
"Uncomfortable? Questioning? And wishing it had happened in the lab so we could run tests?" Lauren smiled as she pulled on the pants, "Do you think this had to do-"
"With the fae that had the flu yesterday? It's the only plausible hypothesis to run with at the moment. It seems fae related, but it doesn't make any sense as to why I woke with you next to me though." The original Lauren shook her head.
"In my mind, I remember going to bed in clothes. Just now, waking up without them is an odd experience, but one I've..." Lauren bit her tongue, remembering that time. "I didn't mean to..." She trailed off, "you know what I mean." A stiff laugh filled the air momentarily from the two of them, as she pulled the pink shirt on over the cotton singlet.
"I don't like this." She shook her head staring at the ground and not at the duplicate, "I don't like it at all...I need my supplies."
"Going to Ash is not a preferable option though."
"If one of us goes..."
"We could sample the other, but neither would trust until we both had tested each other, and we can't bring supplies back. It's messy and leaves too much room for the Ash catching us." They both sighed, smiled at the unison, then returned back to their thoughts, figuring out what to do.
"I think we should call Bo."
The original Lauren agreed, she didn't feel comfortable with another her, if it was truly her, and Bo seemed to be the only logical person to call in a situation like this. Walking over to the bedside table, she picked up her phone and called the succubus, relaying briefly that there was a somewhat important emergency and she should probably be as discreet as possible in coming over.
Somewhere in the background, she could hear Kenzi laughing and talking to someone as Bo's curiosity was peeked, her voice worried.
Finished, the pajamas Lauren placed down the phone hesitantly and turned back to her duplicate in pink. "We can't both go by Lauren."
"Forcing one to choose one name, and the other, another isn't going to work though because we both like being Lauren." Lauren nodded, agreeing as she sat down on the bed. "So, if the fae was sick that could possibly explain why the effect took so long."
"Over night though?" Lauren paused, swaying her head in possibilities as the other did something similar in movement. "I guess it could be due the sickness affecting his powers making them drained. In a way, I'm glad I didn't wake up with only half of a duplicate lying next to me."
"I'm glad I'm alive." Lauren, the original, paused and turned to look at herself.
"We're exactly the same, aren't we? Every memory, experience that I've had, you've had. If, genetically, we are the same to the last strand, then perhaps we wouldn't be able to return back to a whole, if there even is a possibility. I've never heard of a human duplication before, excluding cloning theories."
"Hypothetically, if there is an altered part of our DNA, it leads to the suggestion that we haven't been duplicated, but halved."
Lauren stood up, off the bed and tugged at her grey shirt uncomfortably. "I need coffee and breakfast and then we can continue," she paused, "We need coffee and breakfast," she corrected, smiling at herself, "this is very odd."
"So we keep saying," she smiled back. "I don't feel like a duplicate, copy or a clone, to be honest."
"Well, it could entirely be possible that you're not any of those things. We could be two halves of each other and perhaps only half of each of us is duplicated, or the fae did double us but the 'original' could have been forced out of the spacial placement to where the duplicate is grown."
The other nodded, "all of which is excruciatingly hard, if not impossible to prove, even with our resources, and we both know that we don't believe any of that and are both set knowing that I am not the original." She grinned, "this actually seems almost like fun, having someone who will always agree with."
"Troubling though," the original Lauren stated. "But eventually we will have different experience which will slowly cause us to evolve differently and become unlike the other."
The duplicate nodded and began making the breakfast as the original began the coffees, "however, no matter what we think, Bo's going to walk through my, ah, our door worried, and the first thing she's going to see is one of us and then the other."
"And the first thing she's going to feel, is confusion. That is, until shock wears off, then she'll want to understand how and why, knowing that we're both...us, and then-"
"She'll probably propose a threesome."
There was a pause, only broken by the sound of the jug turning off, "I don't know how I feel about that," the original whispered.
"Perhaps...?"
Lauren turned, checking with herself if she truly meant the same thing. Deducting from knowledge of Bo's personality, her heritage, not to mention her feelings for Lauren, it was obvious that the woman would bring the suggestion up, probably with a mix of hope, worry and wanting desperately for both Lauren's to be comfortable with the situation.
Lauren, in pink, nodded in answer and awkwardly placed her hand on the original's hip, feeling the other her do the same.
"Perhaps we should just go for it?" She suggested to the duplicate. The other Lauren nodded, smiling tightly as inside they both wondered if perhaps this would somehow cause a paradox and tear a rip in time and space. Usually theoretical, pseudo-science like that didn't sit top priority in their minds until sleepless nights, but well...it was an odd situation.
Slowly, they lent forward, grazing the others lips. Pulling back, they looked in themselves before moving forward again. Parting their lips this time, they deepened the kiss, feeling the other move so synchronized with them in the new kiss.
Lauren, in pink, pushed the other into the bench running her hands up her body with experience, as her mind drifting. A part of her was aware of what she was doing, whilst another was quite happily enjoying the situation, smirking quietly to herself as she realized that sans-Nadia, not many people knew her body as well as she did.
Quite suddenly, the original broke from the kiss and looked to the door. The duplicate turned, then hearing knocks. Smiling she pulled away and allowed the original to be the one to walk over to the door as she placed the jug of hot water on again, and pulled out three mugs.
Author's Note
So instead of continuing with Hot Mess or Opportunities for Eternity I started this. Why? Well people really liked Elements so I thought...why not give them a fic with more plot and lots of sexy! So I hope you enjoy this tease.
