Quick AN: This is a request that got away from me as I was between semsters and writing lots of papers (still am, kill me please) BUT I am chunking out time between a reasearch paper to finish this three shot for 93MANIAC and I promise you dude this is worth the wait. I will try to upload two on Saturday or Sunday so stay on the lookout for that.
PromptJillian and Erin have to protect a heavily pregnant woman that is haunted by Gertrude Aldridge ?
She could still hear the thunder sounding, the artillery pounding, men scared to the bone. Holtz heard a clatter and turned around when she saw Erin, she reached for a grenade and she had a terrified look in her eyes as Erin inched closer and Holtzmann landed on a couch.
Erin looked at the engineer as she slowly made her way over and sat down on the couch, gently grabbing the fake limb, and ripping it out of the couch. She hands the leg to Jillian and Holtz grins, gratefully taking the leg and setting it down on the floor.
"You never told me? I wanted to check on you after-why do you have a fake leg?" Erin said as she rubbed Holtzmann back, the feeling was nice and soothing.
"There's a reason I was able to do all the stuff in the square the other night, see I was a combat engineer and served three tours in Iraq, started buying one boot in the last one. Abby-she doesn't, she thinks I was in Switzerland and she never saw me without my combat boots. Erin, say something." Holtzmann said as she curled closer into Erin's chest and sighs softly, questioning what she would do with her engineer.
"I won't tell them but how did Abby not notice after you got back, I noticed you limped when we first met. Can we go on a date?" Erin s as she gently pats Holtzmann's head, Holtz cuddles closer to her white-haired lover.
"Patzeria?" Jillian asked with a sincere smile and Erin pats the engineer on the back.
"I like the sound of that, but you need to get some sleep my sister e-mailed me and said she was being haunted by a ghost. Plus, you are telling Abby and Patty about this." Erin said as she gently touches Holtzmann's face, letting her hand lingering near her thigh.
"Well, we can deal with that in the morning and right now me and you need to catch some Z's, especially with your wazoo." Holtz said with a yawn and the two women went to bed.
The Next Morning
"Ok, I need to have words with Holtzmann. I missed EssenceFest because I am apparently on a government no-fly list." Patty screeched as Abby nodded in agreement.
The two women walked as Patty continued to complain about missing her weekend gateway with her friends as they walked up the stairs and into the lab. Abby and Patty are confused with the sight that greeted them, no Holtz or Erin.
"Where could they be?"
"Having sex?" Kevin supplied as he finished his card tower and stared back at them.
"Holtzmann said she wanted to go on a date after that incident at the bar the other night, so I guess she went for it and asked." Abby said and looked at the ragged couch, pausing as she sat down and looked back at Patty, shaking her head.
"Nice guess, though Kev. Good job on the cards though." Patty replied as she got a thumbs up from their dumb secretary.
"I'm glad those two are finally getting their shit together. I was worried all that sexual tension was going to make the reactor farm go sky high.
Holtzmann led the way as they made their way to Pazteria Perfect Pizza and Erin smiled as Holtzmann led the way. It was quite a way from the firehouse so Holtzmann led her down several streets before they reached the pizza parlor.
"So, we are here at one of the best spots in Manhattan for pizza this side of the Hudson. What do you want?"
"The Neapolitan looks good-that one." Erin asked as she pointed to the pizza on display, "with the spinach?"
"I'll eat around the spinach, I hate spinach but anything for the fair maiden, of course."
Erin nodded as she watched Holtzmann order and get two fountain sodas, so far, the date was going good and better than any date she had with Phil.
"Right so, I got a Pespi and one Diet Pepsi for the fair maiden. Dan should have the pizza out in twenty minutes or so, what does one talk about on the first date?"
"Umm-I really don't know? Weather, I guess."
"Tell me more about Erin Gilbert. I fell in lo- liked your mind in Ghosts from Our Past. What else is behind those baby blues?"
Erin took a sip of her Pespi before she continued, "I grew up in Battle Creek and like you know I was already an outcast. My older brother, Jesse, he was always around but had a strange fascination with um-
"What, what?"
"Rockabilly. You two would probably get along famously but here's a picture of me and him during an old Halloween that he sent me when he was cleaning out of our parent's house. He wears Vitalis and I swear he is a diva if he hasn't slicked his hair."
The picture was faded, and the phone did not do it justice but, it was obviously taken at Halloween and Grease had obviously been the inspiration for Jesse. He looked like an auburn version of Danny Zuko and was Erin-
"I was Jo from The Facts of Life, I had the biggest crush on Nancy McKeon growing up."
"Really? Add that to interesting facts that I never knew about Erin Gilbert. Okay, so something about me?" Holtzmann answered as Erin looked at the pizza that had just arrived and smiled back at Holtzmann.
"I need a fact about you now. C'mon what was lil' Holtz like?"
Holtzmann took a sip from her soda and gave a big grin, holding Erin's hand as she found something from her childhood that would be appropriate. It had been an un-eventful one where she had grown up on Xena and Buffy while Rebecca told her it would rot her brain.
"Rebecca adopted me so, technically, she is my mom and not my mentor. I don't tell anyone as-
"You were in the program and she didn't want to think she was picking favorites!" Erin exclaimed as Holtz clasped her hand and it felt warm and nice, she grinned again.
"Yes, but, she did dress as Ripley one year and I was Jones for Halloween. She probably has a photo of that happening somewhere and boy was that fun."
"Any siblings?"
"A calico named Calista and a dog named Schrödinger." Holtz said as she took another bite of her pizza and smiled, "she liked the irony of a dog named Schrödinger."
"I do too, you have a little pizza on your, let me." Erin said as she picked up a napkin and rubbed the errant pizza off of Holtzmann's lip.
"Are you turned on right now?"
"Yes."
"Lez go then!"
"Argh-my eyes! Since, when did we have that sofa? Patty, they are doing i-
"I can explain-
"Erin, I have seen you in plenty of states of undress but, this and on a couch? Wait, were you guys doing it earlier?"
"She likes her cherry pie, if you know what I mean? No, Abigail we had pizza and I decided takeout-"
"Enough, I came up here as I was going through our e-mails after Kevin blew up the last one and found one from your brother, Jesse, Erin. "
"In his defense-
"No, there is no way you can excuse what he did with the flavorade and that was a new Dell, Holtzmann!?" Abby hissed as she cut Holtzmann off before she had a chance to protect Kevin of all wrong.
"A Dell you say?" Holtz replied with a smile and was prepared for puns ahoi.
"No, you ain't punning today. Look, we got an e-mail from a Jesse Gilbert and would you care to fill us in, Erin?"
"She can fill me in-
"Ya nasty."
"Anyways, can you tell these two about Jesse?" Abby said before Holtzmann got another bad pun in, she had seen her outpun Freddy in A Nightmare on Elm St. 5: The Dream Child
"Yes, Jesse is my brother and he broke a hip just to prove shecould dance like New Kids on the Block and told Karl Lund to suck it?" Erin replied and sighed, "she's been having bad problems in our old house and he thought it was just that the house was settling, until Amy got scratched."
"Wait- ? Your brother sounds like he can get jiggy with it!" Holtz said with an arm pump and Patty glared at her, knowing her pint-sized friend all too well.
"Don't you dare Holtzy, don't do it man." Patty said with a shake of her head and pointing her finger, she knew where this could go, and she really didn't want to hear another Coolio verse.
"That sounds bad, if there is already a physical manifestation of an entity" Abby replied as she rubbed her chin, "do you think it could be Mrs. Bernard?"
"Well, they have been having some paranormal activity and since Amy's pregnant again and my mom was pregnant during my haunting so, maybe?" Erin stated as she lay back on her girlfriend.
"How is Joan doing these days?"
"Good, actually. She took a lecturing job at Columbia and left two bags of dog poop by Phil's office and lit them. Twice. Blaring New Kids on the Block. "
"Are all of your family neurotic sociopaths?" Patty asked with a chuckle as Erin could only offer a smile to her brothers' antics.
"Well, I did kick Karl when Abby encouraged me to do it, so borderline." Erin said with a quick reply as Patty could handle it.
"Wait, I thought they had enough kids with and I quote, 'a mini-neurotic Sam who acts like Aunt Erin'?" Abby asked with a smile and grinned
"Yes, well shit happens and ya know Jesse can handle it. He handled me and my ghost, how hard could it be?"
The beginnings of a road trip where in place and Patty muttered something about keeping Holtz away from the radio. There was going to be an interesting road trip for sure and Patty didn't know if she could take twenty hours of Holtzmann bopping and eating Pringles.