A/N - Dear CopDoc shippers. You're the best and you know why.
Just to reiterate, this fic is all CopDoc all the time.
Three weeks, eight date nights, four breakfasts and still no sex. Tamsin had brought her A-game to the wooing of Lauren Lewis but still the human found a means to resist her. The Valkyrie was at a loss.
After the success of their first date Tamsin had spent the subsequent three dates simply taking Lauren out for dinner. The Doctor caught her up on what she had missed in eight years of absence. They spent a lot of time talking about what had happened between the two of them in Tamsin's previous life and all the talking helped to put to bed the hurt of the past. But that was all that was getting to bed.
Come the end of each of those nights Tamsin made clear her intentions but struggled to even get a hand under the hem of the Doctor's pristine button downs. Lauren initially only allowed the Valkyrie a good night kiss, albeit passionate ones, within the confines of the taller woman's truck. Tamsin left those dates worked up to the point of breaking, the burn on her scalp from where Lauren's fingers had been entangled in her hair a constant reminder. Every touch, glance and taste of Lauren's lips seared into a memory that would not allow her to think of anything else. When they parted ways Tamsin resorted to banging out her frustration with exercise before conceding to fantasy alone wrapped in her sheets.
On the evening of their fifth date night Lauren had let the Valkyrie walk her to her apartment, the taller blonde sure she was going to be invited in. Lauren led her to her front door before turning into the Tamsin's expectant arms and kissing her fiercely. As they separated Tamsin was at the point on unrestrained panting, her body buzzing with electricity when Lauren leaned into her ear and whispered goodnight. Before she could even comprehend of what was happening the door was shut and Valkyrie stood in front of it shocked, desperate and scorching hot with desire.
Getting to the human's front door again was at least a step forward and Tamsin felt sure she was only a date, maybe two, away from the bedroom itself. Unfortunately a further three dates passed without an opportunity to even make a run for home plate and the Valkyrie was now at her wits end. She'd tried all of her best moves, used all of her charm and wit and yet it was as though Lauren was completely immune. In the back of her mind the Valkyrie began to worry that perhaps eight years had been too long apart. She wondered whether Lauren was still deciding if she wanted to advance their relationship at all. If she did want to advance it, if she at all felt a speck of desire to the extent that Tamsin knew, then the Fae was beginning to believe that perhaps the woman possessed superhuman powers of sexual resistance.
Tamsin was bordering on sick with the affliction of need for the human. Her stomach hurt, a strange anxiety settled in her chest and she was finding it difficult to concentrate for long periods of time. Any time she could get with the Doctor provided a small relief that lessened the symptoms but just as quickly when they parted she found her aliment inflamed again and usually with a renewed vigor.
She was fast finding Lauren physically difficult to resist. She'd never been one for PDA, in fact quite the opposite. Now when on dates she found herself trying to take Lauren's hand, stroking her knee while they were at the movie theater and kissing her when the chance arose. In addition to the sickness she was feeling in not having won back the Doctor's full affection Tamsin was now making herself sick with her own needy behavior.
The Valkyrie needed a second opinion that there wasn't something physically wrong, that she wasn't going to internally combust given the reaction her body was having. In her mind she was convinced that getting Lauren back into bed was going to cure all these ails but after weeks of trying she was equally convinced she didn't possess the wooing capabilities to get the woman there.
It was time to call in reinforcements and who better than Kenzi to assist.
"You're not sick you fool. You're in love." Kenzi rolled her eyes as she stood up from the stool by the island bench that sat in the middle of the kitchen she once called home.
Tamsin stared wide-eyed and waiting for more as Kenzi pulled out a bottle of vodka stored cold in the freezer. She went to the cupboard and came back with two tumblers placing them down with a clink as she released her grip and cracked open the frozen bottle.
"This isn't what it felt like last time." Tamsin huffed, accepting greedily the vodka as it was slid in front of her.
Kenzi shot down the neat pour, a small twitch above her left eye the only thing giving her away as having registered the triple distilled Finnish vodka. "Yeah, well, eight years ago you were able let that love manifest into a sweaty dirty physical dance. Right now you ain't got no outlet."
"Damn straight." Tamsin scoffed, her entire face scrunching as she downed her glass. She let out a breath and gave a small shake of her head. Her alcohol tolerance was still high but in her new body she felt the spirit more as it lit a fire down her gullet and burned at the center of her gut. "She's a doctor she should know better than to mess with someone's health like this."
Tamsin's voice was sketchy and it made Kenzi smile to see the once iron gutted Valkyrie struggle a little.
"She's not putting out Tamsin, it's not like she's denying you universal health." Kenzi poured another round but this time sipped at her drink as she kept her eyes on the blonde.
"So whaddo I do?"
Kenzi stood once more from her seat, walking around to the back of the Valkyrie like a master assessing her pupil. She leaned into the still forward facing blonde's ear, whispering in a tone that suggested she knew the answers not just to this problem but to the world as whole. "You need to shake up your date nights, they're sounding pretty beige."
Tamsin's head snapped around. "Are you serious? I'm wooing her. This is some Jane Austin style shit I've got going on! Dinner, flowers, I've even tried to keep my language clean. What else could she possibly want?"
The dark haired woman marched the room, her glass cupped in her hand. She was teaching now as she stopped in front of Valkyrie, tutting at her as she shook her head. "You know in all the time you were together you never just dated. You were always just getting beat up and broken down, fighting evil, finding cures and you-" Kenzi poked Tamsin in the shoulder. "You ended it all by getting yourself executed. Not exactly a girl's fantasy are you? You might want to forgive the Doc for wanting a little more second time around"
Tamsin's chest deflated as she pondered the words. She knew she was perhaps being a little selfish, it had only been a few weeks and here she was, sat in front of the newly married Kenzi complaining about a lack of sex. She let out a steady breath and the dark haired woman watched her process her thoughts.
"I'm horny Kenz."
Kenzi stood mouth agape before shaking her head once more and finishing the last of the vodka in her glass.
In fairness to the Valkyrie she was thinking all the right things but her mouth, well her mouth wasn't quite there yet.
"Jeez Tamsin." Kenzi returned to her seat, slamming down her glass harder than was required as she returned to the bottle.
"What?" The blonde scoffed. "What do you expect? She's all soft to kiss and when she touches me...I get really turned on and my stomach feels like it's in my chest. I just can't control how much I want her Kenz. She wants me to be all Captain America and I'm feeling all Incredible Hulk if you catch my drift."
The earnestness of the Valkyrie's voice made Kenzi smile. "D'aww TamTam, you do lurve her."
Tamsin just shrugged and mirrored Kenzi's return to fast drinking as she pushed her glass back under the Slavic woman's nose. "So are we going to shoot the breeze about my case of feels or are you going to get to advice making?"
Kenzi huffed. "If you want to get Lauren into more sexy time then maybe try a date that's a little more along those lines"
A refilled glass was pushed back across the bench and this time Tamsin led, her eyes flicked up in thought before shutting hard as she swallowed down the alcohol in a single gulp. She wheezed as she forced down a cough. "Like what? Dinner and strip bar?"
"Close. I like the way you're thinking though." Kenzi said, proudly pouring a refill for her tall protégé. "But how about something more like dinner and a burlesque show?"
"Kenzi! That's genius and I know just the place."
oOo
Tamsin was early to Lauren's apartment. She let herself in without a second thought and when the downstairs area appeared vacant she called out to Lauren to announce her arrival. The human poked her head out at the top of the staircase looking slightly disheveled and wrapped in a robe.
"I'm still getting ready. You're early." Lauren sighed, a small panic setting across her face.
"No rush Doc. I'll make myself comfortable."
After about twenty-five minutes and with one beer already emptied Tamsin began to fidget. There was no rush but that eager feeling of desperateness has returned to the pit of her stomach. If Lauren didn't make her way downstairs soon then she feared she might empty more beers than she should in an attempt to calm the nerves.
"You planning on coming on this date Doc or shall we stay in for the night?"
She barely had the words out before the sight of Lauren at the crest of the staircase had her picking up her jaw from the ground. The Doctor delicately made her way down in a short deep maroon dress that dipped low on her décolleté providing the most sensual outline of her breasts. Tamsin bit down on her lip, needing very little imagination to get a picture in her mind of what lay beneath the thin slither of fabric.
By the time Lauren had completely descended the Valkyrie's mouth was desert dry forcing the woman to swallow hard. Lauren smirked at her and Tamsin cursed the human without saying a word but she imagined all the teasing she would eventually retort with when the time was right.
"Hey, you ready to go?" Lauren asked, as Tamsin made no effort at all to hide her ogling.
"Fuck Doc." Was all the Valkyrie could manage as now both her brain and mouth were failing to function properly.
"Hmmm" Lauren purred seductively, placing a soft and chaste kiss on the taller woman's lips. "Not yet, you've got a little bit of work to do still."
Tamsin tried to steady her mind. This night was to be about her working Lauren up to the point of no control not the other way around. She took a breath and nodded. "You look smoking hot Doc, ya definitely get points for trying."
Lauren tried to contain a scoff but it puffed out of her mouth like a heavy breath and Tamsin grinned at her offense.
"Points for trying?" The human said incredulously.
"Yeah, points for trying. Tonight, I'm going to take you somewhere where the sexiness and naughtiness is completely off the hook, so this a nice start."
"You're not taking me to a strip bar are you Tamsin, because if you are -"
Tamsin broke in quickly. "Nah I'm not taking you to a strip bar Doc, I'll let you save that one as a gift for me another time. Come on, let's go or we'll be late for dinner."
oOo
Dinner went well but their dinners always did. There was a lot Tamsin had to learn about Lauren, her life and her past. Tamsin too shared tales of her earlier lifetimes, battles she'd seen and the burden of pain she'd carried. Since their time together locked away by the Dark in the pits they called dungeons the two had always found talking to each other about their usually quieted pasts easy. A discussion about the past was so much less testing for their relationship than a discussion about the future.
When dinner ended Tamsin led Lauren out of the restaurant and she hailed a cab. She'd thought one way of ensuring that the night didn't end with a simple 'in truck' make out session was to leave the truck at home. Plus, it meant she could have a few more drinks without getting the worried glares from Lauren about her driving capacity.
"So?" Lauren lifted her eyebrows in Tamsin's direction as they sat in the back of the car.
"So what?"
"So where to from here?"
Tasmin put her hand on the doctor's exposed knee, feeling the slightest tremble returned by the human to her touch. She rubbed her thumb gently across skin trying to stoke the beginnings of the woman's fire but only served to ignite her own.
"I'm taking you to a show."
Lauren leaned into the Valkyrie's ear, pressing short kisses on her lobe and then down her neck as she engaged in the game that Tamsin had begun. "A show?" She muttered, emphasizing a breath that swirled in the other blonde's ear. "Colour me surprised, I didn't take you for the theatre type."
Tamsin couldn't resist tilting her neck, allowing Lauren greater access before turning back into the kiss and nudging Lauren's head to look up as she pressed into her lips. She wanted to yell at the taxi driver. To tell him to turn the car around and take them back to Lauren's apartment. She wanted to be anywhere but in the back seat of a car where access to Lauren was so much harder than it need be. But Tamsin knew what Lauren was playing at just as Lauren knew the Valkyrie's game, so she resisted.
Tamsin pulled away from the kisses they were now indulging in, showing her strength of resolve as Lauren pouted momentarily.
"Ouch Doc." She said, smirking at the doctor's reaction to their sudden separation. "A girl might think you're accusing her of being uncultured. I lived through the Shakespearean period, I sat in the Globe and watched that shit first hand. I know a thing or two about good theatre Doc."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to –" Lauren placed her hand on Tamsin's and squeezed. "It's a nice surprise. Thank you."
The cab pulled up at their destination. A small neon sign lit up in pink read 'The Hour' within a looping arrow pointing to a door. It was innocuous enough and Lauren was immediately intrigued.
As they exited the cab Lauren took Tamsin's hand and the Valkyrie led them through the door. Inside a heavy-set man sat behind a counter. He looked up at them as they entered and sat up a little straighter as they arrived in front of him.
"Tickets?" He groaned out.
"Nah." Said Tamsin.
"No ticket. No entry." The man stated emphatically, holding Tamsin's eye as they entered into a staring contest of sorts.
"I don't need ticket. Tell Podge that Tamsin's here."
The man scrunched his face. "All Podge is going to tell ya is what I just told ya lady. No ticket no entry. We're booked up tonight."
The Valkyrie leaned in close to him, Lauren holding tight to her arm. "Call Podge and tell him Tamsin is here."
The man cursed under his breath making sure it was loud enough for Tamsin to hear. He picked up his phone and pressed down on the receiver before bringing the handset to his ear.
"Boss. A woman's here, says her name is Tamsin." The man's nose flared as words were spoken down the line. "I'll check." He responded to whatever had just been said before looking to the Valkyrie. "How many in your party?"
"Just the two of us."
The man nodded before bringing the phone to his ear again. "Just two boss." There was a pause for a moment before the man hung up. He looked up at the two women unable to hide a growing fury creeping across his face. "Your table is being prepared. You can go inside and wait at the bar."
"Thanks for your help. You're a peach." Tamsin winked, took Lauren's hand and walked her down a dark hallway.
"What was that?" Lauren asked, half bewildered, half impressed and wholly aroused by the Valkrie's show of steal.
"The owner of this club and I go back a ways. He owes me a few favors and I like to call them in every now and then."
They walked through a door and into the cabaret bar with tables set all around. No single table could take more than four people as they sat dimly lit with small candles set in their center. A stage was set up the front of the room, lit in blues and purples. On the stage a woman dressed in tight-fitting red and black corset walked under the spotlight. The microphone hung from the ceiling and dropped to her jaw. She grabbed it, pulling it towards her as she turned her gaze out onto the dark room in front of her.
Lauren watched the stage, the lights and the woman in all her glory but was distracted. She held onto to Tamsin's hand as she was pulled closer and closer towards the front.
"Where are we going?" She tried to ask, but Tamsin barely heard a mutter above the announcements that were taking place in front of them.
Tamsin stopped at table at the front of the room, pulling out Lauren's chair as they sat close enough to the stage to feel the heat of the spotlight and look upon the singular dust particles as they danced in the light beam.
The next act was announced by the woman on stage, her voice squealing joyous with delight just as a bottle of champagne was placed on the small table in front them. The Valkyrie poured them both a glass before resting her hand on the human's thigh pushing up the line of Lauren's dress ever so slightly.
Tamsin felt Lauren shutter to the touch but sat with eyes forward trying hard to lock down her own growing desire as her fingers crawled gently across skin.
Out on stage walked a woman naked except for balloons to cover her most holy of holies and laid like coronation bunting across her chest. She was beautiful; her dark eyes somehow shining luminescent under the hard blue lights.
Tamin squeezed Lauren's leg as the woman faced them, smiling down as she pulled a giant pin from her hair. The music ramped up and the balloons began to pop. With every pop Lauren pulled herself slightly closer into Tamsin's embrace. First she gripped at her hand, then her arm and then the Valkyrie's own leg. When the performer on stage finally revealed her naked chest the two women at the table most closely situated to the stage were unaware as they were busy making out.
The crowd cheered and Tamsin felt sure it was for her as she slipped her hand up easily and without reticence between Lauren's thighs. She kept her eyes closed for as long as she could but they shot open when she felt a scorching heat radiating on her hand.
"Lauren." Tamsin begged.
The smaller blonde blew out a low groan as she shut her eyes tightly.
"Lauren. Can we leave?" Tamsin pleaded, as her finger touched the soaked outer layer of the Doctor's underwear.
"Home." Was all Lauren could eke out as the final balloon popped to the raucous cheers in the room.
By the time Lauren and Tamsin had maneuvered their way out of the bar onto the street and into a cab, they were completely unaware of the world around them. Tamsin was able to bark out Lauren's address to the cab driver as she and Doctor kept themselves tittering on the edge of their own person restraint.
"Get me inside." Lauren groaned, as they pulled up at the apartment complex. Tamsin knew this dance and threw a fifty at the driver before dragging Lauren out of the car and to the door of her home.
Lauren turned with keys in hand, pushing the door open and falling inside but immediately noticed the Valkyrie was not behind her.
"What are you doing? Are you coming inside?"
Tamsin stood in the doorway smirking but locked to the spot. "So are you asking me in?"
'C'mere." Lauren said, grabbing the Fae behind her neck and pulling her into a hard kiss. "I need you." She said in between breaths.
Tamsin stumbled into the apartment pushing Lauren forward and closing the door desperately behind them.
Everything from that moment on was a blur. How they ended up half-naked on the staircase or wholly so in the Doctor's bed. How they came to be wrapped around each other, skin wet and sticky with beaded sweat. When Lauren's back arched up Tamsin watched her with new-born eyes and when she herself rolled across the orgasmic waves that the human gave to her she clung tightly, desperate to hold onto her for whatever time she might be allowed.
Tamsin held to Lauren while the moonlight streamed through half closed curtains and was gripped to her still when the first rays of early morning sun pierced their skin. Lauren stirred in the warmth of the sunlight and Tamsin groaned at the movement knowing their evening was over and a new day born to face.
"Morning." Lauren croaked, her nose and mouth nuzzled into the soft skin in the crook on the Valkyrie's neck.
"Hey."
Lauren pulled her body into an exaggerate stretch, air popped in her joints as she sat up in the bed. She looked down at Tamsin and smiled. "Worth the wait."
It was unclear to the Valkyrie whether the words were uttered in statement or question.
Tamsin smiled softly acknowledging the duality without seeking clarification as she reached her hand up into the golden locks of hair that sat across Lauren's features. The Doctor obeyed the movement without question, bringing her body back down onto Tamsin's as skin melded once more into skin. They kissed and it was luxuriously slow and indulgent.
"Are you going to make me wait before we go again?" Tamsin asked, terrified of actually what the response might be.
"Yes." Lauren said, as she lay soft kisses across the Valkyrie's cheek and lips. She looked down to see a startled set of eyes staring back at her. "You'll have to wait, at least until I brush my teeth."
"Ah." Tamsin flung back the covers leaving them both exposed to the cool morning air. Lauren gasped at the sudden coolness. "Up you get Doc. I'm not sure I can wait a second longer than I have to this time round."
Lauren laughed as she dragged herself to the edge of the bed, looking over her shoulder at her sleeping companion. "Wooing is done with then?"
"Nah. I'm just getting warmed up Doc." Tamsin smirked as she pulled Lauren up by the hand and dragged her towards the bathroom laughing.