Dear readers,
Please bear with me as I have not written fanfiction since the TiBette days of yore, and will probably take some time settling into it. You should know that I am a HARDCORE Doccubus shipper and a fan of AU.
Please enjoy, review, recommend… I'd love to hear your opinions as I generally don't plan with my fanfiction where things are going!
A.
Lauren was unsure about this blind date. Sure she had taken plenty of girls out to dinner before but never, ever, had she considered going out with someone she hadn't actually met. However, Dyson insisted that his new partner was interesting, beautiful, and to complete the triple-threat, gay. She reluctantly agreed under the condition that Dyson would be there to join them, and then leave if it became apparent that the girls were doing just fine by themselves.
So she pulled up a stool at her regular bar and ordered a small white wine. Lauren didn't want to be excessively drunk. Yes, it was her night off, but should this Tamsin girl be a dud, she'd make her excuses and head back to the hospital. Trick served her the drink and polite conversation before a sudden influx of people meant he was otherwise occupied.
Lauren stared at the glass in front of her, waiting for the tiny bubbles that formed on top of the wine to disappear. As she took her first sip, she felt a familiar hand on her shoulder. Shit. She'd positioned herself to face the door so that she wasn't caught off-guard and could glance at her date before she had to make conversation with her.
"Dyson" Lauren turned and greeted her friend with a hug.
"Lauren" he squeezed a bit too hard, not realizing his own strength, "this is Tamsin. Tamsin, Lauren."
The detective pointed to his left to reveal a stunning 5"10 blonde woman with her hair in tight curls, steely eyes, and wearing nothing but leather.
Lauren gulped.
"Hi, it's a pleasure to meet you". Lauren tentatively stuck out her hand, which was embraced surprisingly warmly by her new acquaintance.
"Likewise," Tamsin smiled.
There was no denying that the woman in front of her was gorgeous. Not her usual type, Tamsin had to admit, but she could certainly make an exception. Lauren was wearing a low-cut, green, cotton shirt with tight black trousers. She noticed the uncomfortable silence and decided to start the conversation before she looked like too much of a pervert.
"What would you like to drink Lauren?" She smirked and moved closer to the bar, eyeing up a definite potential conquest.
"I've actually already got a drink thank you"
Smooth Tamsin. Maybe if your eyes weren't distracted you would've noticed what she had in her fucking hand.
"I'll take one though" Dyson chimed in, thoroughly enjoying the awkward sexual tension between his two friends.
"No, please, let me" Lauren insisted, "Tamsin, Dyson, we'll get a table and I'll order some drinks over. What would you like?"
"I'll have a pint please" his beard parted to reveal a set of pearly-white teeth.
"Same"
Lauren ordered and they headed over to the a booth just around the corner from where Lauren was previously placed.
Silence.
…
They all sipped from their drinks at the same time.
"Welllllllll I'm gonna take off" Dyson shot up out of his seat and downed his drink impressively fast
"Where the hell do you think you're going?!" Lauren exclaimed.
"Don't be rude to your guest. I have work to do. Bye." He gave the girls each a wink and click and strolled out of the bar. Lauren turned and saw Tamsin was avoiding eye contact. Was she hurt that Lauren wanted him to stay?
"I apologize, I didn't mean anything by that, I'm just… I'm just not very good with blind dates."
"I'm sorry… is this…a date?"
"I-err-well-I mean"
"Relax Lauren" Tamsin put her hand over the darker blonde's in order to comfort her, when in fact it made her clammier, "I was kidding. I know this is a date. And for the record I did not ask Dyson to set it up. I think he had some weird kinko fantasy and just wanted to see it actualized. I am glad he introduced us though, I could use a friend in town. And a hot, gay friend wouldn't go amiss."
"Oh" Lauren sighed, slightly relieved, slightly…disappointed.
"But should anything develop" Tamsin's thumb caressed the back of Lauren's hand, "I certainly wouldn't be one to say no." She winked and gulped her drink.
Lauren laughed at the flirtation and became a shade of rouge. She was used to attention, but this girl was more attractive than anyone she had seen at the bar before.
"Well I am flattered, believe me. So, you're new in town?" she tried to steer the conversation so she could regain her composure, and thus control over the situation.
"Yup. Moved here about a month ago."
"And I'm your first lesbian friend. I am honored." She tipped her head slightly in a bow.
"Actually no."
"No? But I thought you sai-"
"A detective buddy of mine. Well, I say "detective", she quit the force a while ago to go private. I told her it was an asshole move but she wanted more independence. Anyway that's beside the point. This friend of mine- Bo- and I say friend, she's my best friend, moved here a year ago. It's in part why I asked for my transfer to be here instead of anywhere else. But she's been travelling in India while I've been here so we haven't had a chance to meet up. What was the point of this st- oh! Yeah! Well she's gay and thus technically she is my first lesbian friend who lives here."
Tamsin gasped for breath and finished off her drink.
"Well that's great" Lauren said, slightly overwhelmed with information, "when does she get back from travelling?"
"Actually not sure. Should be any day now. She's crap with contact when she's away but said she'd give me a call when she was back. Maybe we could all go for a drink sometime?"
"Maybe" smiled Lauren.
She liked how open Tamsin was. She didn't know if she was sexually attracted to her enough to pursue her. Of course she was beautiful, anyone would be a fool to say no, but she was also very intimidating and overpowering, and slightly… scary. She didn't actually know whether she could handle her in bed if she was struggling to handle the conversation.
"Sorry. I'm babbling. I babble when I'm nervous." She eyed Lauren up and down, "And you certainly make me nervous." Licking her lips she bent forward to whisper in Lauren's ear, "What can I get you?"
"Umm" Lauren gulped from the close contact, "sorry?"
"To drink. What can I get you to drink?"
"Oh haha! Yes. Um I'll have a-"
Just then a buzzing came from below them and shocked them apart. Lauren checked her beeper, sure it was the hospital. It was. But the phone that went off was Tamsin's.