A/N: So this my new story. It's MoJo and it's AU. In this version everything at a ballet company where Joanne is the new choreographer, and Maureen is a ballerina. More characters may come in play later on. Thanks to the lovely tazlvr2001 for beta-reading this! Please R&R, would love to hear what you think of this! Enjoy :)
Joanne Jefferson looked out of the window at her studio. It was snowing outside. Joanne just started as a choreographer at the ballet company, so she was very nervous. Even thought it wasn't a very big company, it was a successful one, so she had to be at her best.
This was the first class she was going to have. Well, it wasn't her class; she was just sitting in on it, watching the dancers go around. Joanne was going to perform a version of the classic ballet piece named Swan Lake. It's a tale about this beautiful young woman, Odette, who has fallen under the spell of a powerful sorcerer, enchanting her into a beautiful swan by day and only human by night. But when she meets a lovely prince, looking for a wife to marry before his birthday, they fall hopelessly in love with each other. The prince invites her to a ball, to announce his true love for her, and break her spell, but when the evil sorcerer finds out he decides to arrive with his own daughter, Odil, disguised as Odette. So the prince mistakes her for being Odette and declares is love for her to the whole world, so that Odette must remain a swan forever. Upon seeing this and realizing that she will never have the chance to be a human again, Odette throws herself into the lake and thereby commits suicide.
It wasn't very hard to find the dancers for the role as the prince and the sorcerer, but she couldn't seem to find the perfect girl for the role as Odette, the swan queen. So she decided she was going to have to look around in the studios a bit more, before making a decision.
She already knew the obvious choice for Odette, the white swan. Her name was Nina. She had the best technique and danced with almost perfection, always working hard to prove her worth, but she lacked the grace and the let-loose attitude Joanne wanted. She was too tight up. You see, she was perfect for the role as the white swan, but the girl playing Odette, must also play Odil, the evil, black swan and daughter of the sorcerer. She had to play seductive, letting go and enchanting the prince with her free charm and grace. Joanne knew that Nina wouldn't be able to do that. Plus, Nina was also leaving soon for a better company, so it didn't really matter.
But after a day or two, Joanne got hold of someone who seemed interesting. She usually stood in the back of the room, so Joanne had never really seen her before, but now, she was completely enchanted by her. She had long brown curls framing her pale beautiful face and brown eyes that seemed to light up every time she danced. She was tall and fit. Light toned, stunning, beautiful and breathtaking in every single way. She was about the same age as Joanne herself. And her dance, her dance! She danced with so much power and energy. She floated over the floor dancing with more grace and beauty that Joanne had ever seen. She was extremely seductive, dangerously seductive. It might be that she didn't have the technique and perfection, but she had a power to make it look so simple, but she lacked the technique and her dance was too seductive and impure for her to play the white swan. She could only play Odil.
But after that, Joanne decided to take a closer look at the girl. She wasn't like the others. There was something special about her. She didn't seem like the quiet girl next door - too shy to ever have kissed a boy, dreaming of true love, marriage and as many children as possible. In fact, the woman was a real diva - a playgirl, no doubt of that and as lesbian as Joanne herself. Joanne quickly came to know that she was dating one of the other dancers. As far as Joanne remembered her name was Lila or Mila or something like that. The two of them seemed to be making out every time possible, but as soon as Lila or whatever-her-name-is had left the room, the girl quickly starting to flirt with every other living and breathing girl near her.
Joanne thought about it for awhile, until she decided that she had to get to know who this girl was. So one day when she was closing down, she locked herself into the archive, and looked through the files, until she found the right girl.
It took awhile, but finally, she found her.
Her name was Maureen Johnson. She was 23 years old. The picture that was taken of her was just as beautiful as when Joanne looked at her. True enough, her girlfriends name was Lila. Lila Martins. Cold blonde hair and pale as a sin.
Joanne didn't quite know where to go from there. She still needed a swan queen and after more time of thinking, she knew exactly which girl she wanted, and she knew that she was the only one for the role. Maureen Johnson.
It didn't take long before the last roles were filled, and the list finally hung on the wall, getting more than enough attention.
Maureen Johnson was stretching out after their class. She took her towel, gently wiping the sweat away from her face and neck. Maureen couldn't help but to notice a mocha skinned woman sitting on a chair in the back of the room. She wouldn't quite admit it to herself but she was absolutely stunning. Maureen had seen her around the last couple of weeks, and thought she remembered her being introduced as the new choreographer, she was almost sure of that. She had big brown eyes like chocolate and ringlet hair falling down and framing her beautiful face. And the girl had a body!
Maureen was quickly pulled out of her thoughts before the eyes came to wander on the teacher, by her blonde girlfriend, suddenly standing behind her.
"Come on, Mo! The role list for the next performance piece just got up! We have to see which roles we got!"
Maureen looked up at the squirming blonde. She could see how excided she was.
"Only if you kiss me," Maureen teased, as Lila helped her up from the floor.
"You got yourself a deal," Lila smirked, but before she could even get to move, Maureen had already crashed her lips against the blonde, her tongue demanding access to the whole mouth. A light moan escaped her lips as Lila willingly opened her mouth granting Maureen the access she wanted. As the two of them where locked together, Maureen couldn't help but to look over at the woman on the chair. She looked amazed at the two of them, blushing like crazy when Maureen caught her eye, smiling at her, before leaning in and closing her eyes, only to pull back soon after, in need for air and more privacy if they were to continue, but now wasn't the time for that, both of them knew it.
"Oh, Maureen, how I wish I could get the role as the swan queen!" Lila said dreamily. Maureen moved forwards, giggling while placing a small kiss on the edge of her mouth.
"Honestly, I don't really care what role I get. I know I'm not as good as the others, and it's not like my parents are coming to watch me or anything." The brunette smirked, before slipping her arms around her girl's waist, pulling them towards the list.
Soon enough they got through the big crowd looking at the list, filled with names. Maureen kept searching at the bottom, looking for her name without success.
Great, she thought to herself. Another show I don't get to be a part of.
But that was when Lila started freaking out, pulling and jumping with a very confused Maureen.
"Oh, Mo! Congratulations! Wow! I can't get that you actually got the role!" She almost crashed Maureen's ribs as she hugged her so tightly, the diva couldn't get any air down her lungs.
When Lila felt Maureen pushing back, she saw that the confused girl actually hadn't even seen it yet!
"Oh, Maureen! Look! It's your name!" Lila pulled the brunette closer, pushing her once more through the crowd as she rapidly pointed on the name at the top. Maureen looked in awe as she saw her own name written beside the role as the swan queen herself. Maureen was almost in shock! She had never expected anything like that to happen to her! That's when she heard claps coming from behind her. Smoothly she turned around to see the teacher from the chair looking at her with a cold smile and clapping her congratulations.
"But… I- I don't understand?" Maureen smiled, still as confused as before.
"It's very simple. Congratulations. You got the wanted role as my only swan queen. I'm Joanne Jefferson, the choreographer on this piece. You and me are going to work very hard together to make you shine on that stage," Joanne smiled at her.
"I… I don't understand. Surely there must be some sort of mistake, right?" Maureen asked.
"You don't want the role?" Joanne asked. "Cause-"
Maureen interrupted her. "No! No, no, it's not like that at all. I'm just… not use to being chosen other than playing in the background."
"Well, then see this as your lucky day."
Joanne gave her a witty smile, before leaving the room again.