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Everything was dark, except for a soft lightning above her head. Catherine looked up, desperately searching for whatever ray of light illuminated her. She covered her eyes in fear. Suddenly she found her fingers trapped. Catherine uncovered her eyes and the light was now gone, darkness surrounded her. She gently touched the hand that was holding hers and recognized every finger ,they were so close to each other that it was biologically impossible. Her free hand traveled from the Sara's arms to her shoulder, her chest and down to her stomach and hips.

Catherine caressed the soft cheek of the woman standing in front of her and slowly opened her mouth to finally kiss those angel lips-

Catherine Willows turned over in her sleep and struck out at the offending noise of her alarm clock.

"Shit!" She covered her head with the blankets and carried on dozing.

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Sara glanced at the attractive women with outfits that showed more than was necessary and the men with seductive eyes in the bar, everyone in their own business, dancing and drinking. She felt vastly out of place.

When was the last time she went dancing? Panic began to set in. She couldn't remember ever going dancing. That couldn't be right! It wasn't possible. She closed her eyes and let the memory play over her. She remembered been asked to a couple of times, but the answer was always the same: 'No'. Dancing just wasn't 'her thing'.

"It's crowded tonight huh?"

"Yeah..." Sara screamed. The music was so loud she could barely hear her own thoughts. She could feel the vibration caused by the strong bass, under her feet. She walked to the back of the club, as far away as possible from... everything.

"I'm glad you agreed to come Sara." Catherine pushed her hair behind her ear, her blue eyes bubbling with enthusiasm. "It's going to be fun, I promise."

Sara raised her eyebrows in disbelief as she took a swing of her cold beer. "It better be."

"Did you hear that?" Catherine leaned forward and put both her hands on the table. The end of the song was near and she quickly downed what was the end of her drink. "We gotta dance."

"Dance? Now?" Sara laughed nervously scratching the back of her neck. "Easy there! Give me another drink or two, or ten, to loosen up, get some courage to go and make a fool of myself attempting to dance."

"That's not going to happen." Catherine snatched away Sara's beer and took her hand, pulling her with strength off the chair, leading her to the dance floor.

"No, no, no..." Sara argued.

The moment Catherine let go of Sara's hand, the moment Sara sneaked through the crowd, escaping from the dance floor. It took half a song for Catherine to notice Sara was not there with her, she had been dancing alone.

"What was that!?" Catherine bristled as she approached Sara, a look that was all fire and ice at the same time across her face.

"This was a bad idea. I've never danced in public, I don't dance in public."

"Oh, so you do dance?"

"No!"

"It took me forever to bring you here and now you don't want to dance?"

"No. I changed my mind. It's a wise person who isn't ashamed to change his mind."

"What? I can't believe you Sara!" Catherine buried her face in her hands and shook her head in annoyance. "Then why did you come in the first place?" Catherine felt her temper flaring, and tried to control it, but it wasn't easy, nobody could get under her skin quite the way Sara could.

"I think you are overreacting a little Catherine."

She wasn't overreacting, it was something she had literally dreamt about a moment alone with her for countless nights. "Do you ever have fun?" Catherine said more calmly and waited for Sara to look at her.

"Define fun. You and I... we have different concepts of fun."

"Just..." Catherine straightened up a bit, moving closer to Sara "...something fun, it doesn't matter what it is." Her face was inches away from hers.

Sara's gaze fastened to the floor. Catherine and her were so different from each other, from head to toes. Unlike Catherine, Sara was familiar with the idea of not fitting in. She had always been more interested in work than on relationships. Catherine liked to go out, Sara liked to stay in. The simple though of Catherine and her together was enough to make her realize how utterly silly she was to think going dancing with Catherine was going to be fun.

Sara lifted her gaze from the table where they sat, locking eyes with the blonde woman staring at her. Catherine's emotions swirled. "I turn the lights off and lit candles all around me, I put on music, drink a beer and read a book. I can stay there for hours."

Catherine almost gasps at the thought of Sara and candle lights, she couldn't help but smile.

"Alone." Catherine said, a statement more than a question.

"Sometimes it's good to be alone. It's perfectly possible to have fun alone." Sara retorted with a gap-toothed grin.

"Alone... but not lonely. Sometimes it's good to be alone, but sometimes you just need company you know?" Catherine squeezed Sara's arm and sighed at the mere touch of Sara's skin, weakening and intoxicating, cold and hot, soft and desperate, magical.

"You are not the one to give advice, random guys picked up from clubs and bars are not company, they're-" Sara paused at the angered look on Catherine's face. Normally she wouldn't have cared about hurting or pissing off Catherine, but this was different, it felt different.

"I'm sorry I didn't-"

"I know." Catherine interrupted. "It's fine, don't worry." She had taken many risks in her life, but trying to build a friendship with Sara was definitely the biggest risk of all.

"Maybe I should try having some fun." Sara replied as sweet as she could and finished her last sip of beer.

Both women remained silent for a few minutes, Catherine's looked up as if thoughtful, then turned back with a mischievous smile and spoke. "I have a new offer if you still want to have some fun."

"I'll take it."

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