For heavens sake someone save me from Pretty Little Liars, it's so good I can't stop watching it, I tore myself from adorable Paige/Emily goodness to write this next chapter, it got too long so it's now going to be a two maybe even three parter. Never fear the valentines shenanigans are coming, I'm fairly excited to write it so yeah, I just uploaded this part early because I know a lot of people were upset with how I ended the last chapter but it's necessary ya'know, lesbians don't exist without drama, I know this you know this. Trust me it will be worth it, maybe, I don't even know. I hope you enjoy this hot mess and obviously if you do then make sure to leave a favourite or a follow and especially reviews, they are like crack to me (say crack again)


"I do hope we might get a gank at some point in the near future...you know before I die of old age" Caitlyn murmured unhappily to her laning partner as she continued to last hit the wave of minions mindlessly throwing themselves against the tower she was stood underneath. The sheriff was glad of any slight reprieve from her enemy bottom laners, who had been unusually forceful this match, the only reason that she hadn't died quite so many times was her support Soraka who was doing her best to keep the both of them alive. This was the only fortunate part of this match however, it was almost certain that the remainder of her team felt no desire to keep the brunette alive, rules of league be damned. The silence was becoming a bit too eerie now though, Caitlyn quickly tapped the intercom on her headset and stated "enemies are missing" before bringing up the map as a hologram on her wrist band.

Eyeing it warily, she found that she could see each of the other lanes in combat with one another, so at least an all out attack wasn't approaching, her eyes narrowed at a quick blip of red that passed by one of their wards by the dragon pit. Caitlyn had turned to pursue the missing enemy when a soft voice called "I do not think that is a good decision", sighing she turned to face Soraka who had raised an eyebrow at the brunette and stood with arms crossed. "C'mon, I need some kills, they must be out of position so it's definitely worth the risk" the sheriff pleaded with her skeptical laning partner, who finally nodded in agreement but not without an expression of long suffering upon her face. Grinning she stormed off towards the dragon pit with the star child shuffling after her, quietly the two of them stalked through the brush and leaned against the wall adjoining the pit, Caitlyn paused to check the map once again and found she could still not see her enemy laners, or their jungler.

"Perhaps we should ask for assistance?" Soraka queried hesitantly, eyeing the map nervously and regarding Caitlyn with concern after her comment caused the stoic sheriff to stiffen noticeably. "No" she replied firmly, continuing her pursuit, the star child rolled her eyes and threw a ward beyond the wall they were leaning against and into the dragon pit. "Bollocks" stated Caitlyn tonelessly, surprised to see the majority of the enemy team facing against the dragon, the ward they had just placed obviously caused the same reaction amongst them as both Leona and Vayne hurried from the pit. Unfortunately the buff was on such low health that Jax easily smites it before jumping over the wall and attempting to ambush the both of them. He was particularly strong and though her partner silenced him quickly, against Caitlyn's wishes Soraka pressed her intercom and called for assistance.

It was a case of too little too late however as the enemy mid laner appeared and Caitlyn found herself charmed into walking towards both Jax and Ahri and within seconds she was dead, shortly followed by Soraka. The two of them reappeared at their fountain and while they waited to re-spawn, Caitlyn scowled as she realised that two members of her team had been close to where she had been ambushed and had not responded to the call for assistance. Sighing angrily she spat into her headset "thanks for the help guys, really appreciate it" while perusing the shop for items she could now afford, a sickly sweet voice responded "no problem cupcake" and an obnoxious laugh followed it. Scowling further at Katarina's comment, the sheriff groaned and pressed her fingers against her forehead attempting to alleviate the migraine that was sure to manifest.

It had been two months since the snowdown celebration and all that had occurred around it, obviously Vi had been incredibly hurt by her cold rejection and had not spoken to her for a few days afterwards. Though the enforcer presumed this was enough time for her to decide what she wanted, the truth of the matter was that Caitlyn still had no idea how she felt and due to her father's threats, she knew she had to keep her distance from the pink haired woman, at least until the election was over. Unfortunately for the sheriff, Vi had always been quite thick-headed and struggled to deal with the silence, after four days had passed from their moment in the hallway, the enforcer had appeared at Caitlyn's door and attempted to speak to the brunette. She did this everyday for a week, as well as trying to text and call the sheriff, hell, Vi had even sent her an email and a letter. Each fresh attempt at communication chipped away at Caitlyn and she honestly struggled to not just reply, if she was feeling hurt by the desperation laced into every new correspondence, that was only a mere shadow of how Vi must be feeling.

The problem was the signature underneath every text and email, it was her fathers way of letting her know that he had seen the message and was well aware of any replies she might make. For goodness sake the letter that Vi had sent had even been carefully resealed after he had obviously read and signed the bottom of it, Caitlyn was feeling completely trapped and she didn't know what to do. Obviously if anyone else was treating her this way or being this controlling, it was a fair shout that she would have shot them in the face, or at least brought it to the police's attention. She had even tried to contact her mother, she was certain that her mum liked Vi and would have been aghast to know the extent to which her husband was threatening both herself and the enforcer. Every time that she had been able to speak to her mother however, she was with Mr Buxton due in part to their campaigning for his statesman position and Caitlyn was all too aware of the more insidious reason that her father did not want her speaking to her mother in private.

So Caitlyn had ignored Vi, she had not responded to anything at all, via any means of communication and had sat in her apartment and binge watched entire seasons of television shows in her pyjamas. Ordering in unhealthy foods and using the near entirety of her tissues when she felt the all consuming urge to weep once again, it had been so hard cutting out her best friend but at least she knew why she was doing it. Vi had no fucking idea why the brunette had ceased speaking to her and she knew that it must have been killing the enforcer, after a week of no response, she had stopped coming to Caitlyn's apartment or sending any sort of message. That had really hurt, Vi had never been the sort of person to give up and for her to do so must have meant she was heartbroken, the sheriff knew that after the election she would be able to speak to her again, remaining civil of course. However, she suspected that her best friend would no longer wish to speak to her after silence for three weeks, a suspicion that was completely warranted and transpired to be totally correct.

Once her father had been re-elected as a statesman,minutes after really, Caitlyn had sent Vi a tentative message after two weeks of no contact, asking whether the two of them could meet. She had no reply initially and hours later when she heard her phone ping the answer was a picture message from Katarina that was of Vi's couch titled "go fuck yourself." Caitlyn was not surprised and had known of course that the assassin would have stayed in Piltover longer than she ought to have been, primarily in order to look after her friend who had just been thoroughly heartbroken. The violent redhead had never liked the sheriff and now Caitlyn was positive that she absolutely detested her, the captioned message only proved it for her. The issue was how the two of them were supposed to work together in the police department, though on their first day back after the holidays Caitlyn was surprised and honestly quite hurt when Vi didn't utter a single word to her, unless in response to a direct question.

The curt and oh so civil manner that the enforcer was using with her was driving her insane, she wanted Vi to be mad or upset or just to be anything really besides this emotionless robot. It was apparent to anyone with even the most rudimentary understanding of the two that something was wrong though none of Piltover's finest fancied a hideous and untimely death so it was not mentioned, at least to the sheriff's face, though Caitlyn was aware of their gossip. The real problem was their interactions on the rift, unlike their colleagues at the station, the other champions had no problem asking the two of them what was wrong and making loud observations about the state of their relationship. Caitlyn physically cringed at the memory of Leona pulling her aside earlier that morning and having a frank discussion with her about how even after months together, she and Diana still had pretty severe fights but the longer they went without speaking the harder it would be to forgive one another.

"They're almost in our base cupcake, get a grip" snarled a furious voice that was accentuated by a forceful shove that left Caitlyn falling to the ground with a painful groan, bringing her back to the current reality with a crash. Glaring after the retreating redhead she scowled and pushed to press herself up from the ground, before she could however she felt powerful hands gripping gently onto her waist and she soon found herself upright once again. With a gulp the sheriff steeled herself into turning around to face the owner of the gauntlets she could recognise anywhere, before she could summon whatever courage remained deep within she felt the unmistakable breeze that accompanied her partner storming from the fountain and her eyes burst open, she had not even realised that they were closed. "Caitlyn we must help them" murmured Soraka softly at her side and with a jolt the brunette noticed that the rest of her team were engaged in a fierce effort to protect one of their inner turrets from the entirety of the enemy champions.

Caitlyn cursed loudly and ran towards the raucous just in time to turn the tide of battle, Vi had used her ultimate upon Ahri who was attempting to escape after being caught shamefully out of position and the sheriff relished using her own to finish the elusive fox. Pleased with the kill she had just acquired, she turned to her enforcer with a wide grin only to find the pink haired woman offer her a thin imitation of her usual enthusiastic grin, the sight caused a deep ache within Caitlyn's chest and she sighed sadly before following the rest of her team in chasing the opponents currently on low health attempting to flee through the brush. The two of them were racing ahead in hot pursuit of Vayne, who for some reason had went for the glass cannon build and was certain to implode once Vi caught up to her. As they stormed head first into an unwarded brush however a tiny yordle with a very large hammer surprised them and flung them halfway across the map in a matter of seconds.

Whist airborne the sheriff watched wide eyed as the two of them flew over and away from the remainder of their team and all of a sudden she found herself crashing into the ground with a loud "oomph." It took a minute to register that the brunette was not pressed against the hard ground and instead lay upon something soft and strangely warm, afraid of what she might find Caitlyn hesitantly opened her eyes. They widened further as she registered the bright azure eyes that were now locked upon her own, all thoughts seemed to flee from her in that moment as she finally registered that not only was she inches from Vi's face but that she was also on top of the enforcer. An expression of shock was written across the pink haired woman's face as she stared into the chocolate orbs of the woman she cared so deeply about, this was the first time they had been close to one another in months, ever since...

The thought seemed to rouse Vi from her self imposed stagnancy and unbeknownst to her, a fearful frown flashed across her face, she could feel tears burning at the corners of her eyes and grimacing she resigned herself to getting a grip. The brunette that was clumsily atop her did not however miss the pained expression on the enforcer's face and incorrectly presumed that it was to do with her weight bearing down upon Vi, she could definitely feel that her knee was pressing hard into what must be a fleshy thigh. It was impossible for the sheriff to formulate a coherent thought in that moment however and though she willed her legs to start working again all she could manage was getting the offending knee to move a few inches to the right. In doing so however she inadvertently found herself straddling the pink haired woman now attempting to remember how to breathe as she felt Caitlyn's thighs pressing against the outer side of her own.

Staring transfixed into the frightened eyes of her partner, a thought flashed through Caitlyn's mind and she grinned unable to help herself, it was certainly strange that they kept meeting like this. In following her father's wishes in remaining far from the enforcer, she had had a lot of time to consider her feelings, she had just chosen not to because the thought of it was fucking terrifying. Even if she was gay, which was an idea followed by a considerably large question mark, it was even scarier considering how such an admission would affect her relationship with Vi, let alone dealing with any feelings to do with the brash and unabashedly charming woman she was now straddling. Though a lot of the bigger issues seemed to float away from her as she glanced between the bright blue eyes and the slightly parted mouth of the enforcer, pondering only whether Vi had always had such nice lips.

Though it felt like hours passed with the two of them frozen staring at one another, it was more a number of seconds, each one Vi felt passing agonisingly slow. Honestly at this rate she was going to have to get Caitlyn checked out for bipolar disorder or even schizophrenia, maybe there was a sexy sane version of the sheriff that had been cloned, possibly even a robot hard-wired to drive her insane with every calculated touch. Vi struggled to reconcile the attractive brunette currently pressed against her with the cold one who had disregarded her very presence not so long ago and then not spoken to her for weeks. Grimacing, she furrowed her brows at the sheriff and sighed, attempting to move herself from under Caitlyn and turned her head away from the probing brown eyes, "I'm sorry" a soft voice murmured, so quietly it was hard for Vi to hear her over the roaring in her ears. Eyeing the brunette warily, she was surprised to find a tear tracing the contours of her cheek, the admission of apology and subsequent emotional display caused a rush of warmth into Vi's chest.

"I'm sorry" Caitlyn repeated staring forcefully into the wide azure eyes beneath her, whilst attempting to contain the rush of emotion that threatened to herald the tears she was struggling to keep from pouring down her face. "I didn't mean to hurt you, I really care about you Vi and I've missed you...so much" the sheriff continued at a loss for why she couldn't stop the torrent of words fumbling from her mouth. The enforcer watched dumbfounded as Caitlyn sniffed sorrowfully and wrapped both of her arms around Vi's neck, burying her face in the crook of her neck. Initially she was frozen at the new turn of events but she could never really stay mad at the brunette, especially not when she behaved this vulnerable, almost unconsciously she returned the embrace, wrapping her arms around the upper back of the sheriff and squeezing her slightly.

"Can we just go back to normal?" sighed the brunette, and as Vi felt warm breath and lips ghosting across the taut flesh of her neck, she was ready to agree to whatever Caitlyn had just said. Nodding in place of any words, she did not trust her mouth or her mind at that moment, Vi hugged her tightly and grinned for the first time in a few weeks. As Caitlyn begun to pull away and lift herself from upon her all too comfortable perch, Vi couldn't help herself and in an attempt to get back to normal she murmured "just can't help falling for me can you?" with an exaggerated wink. The sheriff rolled her eyes in response and swatted at the pink haired woman now leaning up from the ground with both elbows pressed against the floor, trying to ignore the way her heart had leapt into her throat at both the flirtatious manner she had just been spoken to and also the comment itself. "You're insufferable" the now upright woman stated as she extended a hand to the still grinning fool on the ground, Vi accepted it gratefully and soon the both of them were stood smiling at the other.

"Can you two have sex later?" snapped a young dark skinned man as he sprinted past the two of them, Vi scowled after him and turned to Caitlyn with an apologetic shrug, "I suppose we had best get back to the match" stated the sheriff with a slight smile. "Catch ya later cupcake" called the retreating pink haired woman over her shoulder as she followed Ekko in heading towards the top lane. Caitlyn watched her go with a grin before checking the map and turning towards where Soraka was valiantly attempting to protect one of their turrets in the base with her bananas. With a crash, she realised that she had just collided with a team mate, snapping her head up to apologise, she met dangerously narrowed mossy eyes. "What do you think you're doing?" Katarina furiously whispered, the redhead pressed Caitlyn against a nearby wall with more force than was necessary and stared angrily at her.

Indignantly the sheriff responded with a derisive sniff and stated "what are you on about?" with an all too practiced indifference she found herself using regularly with the Noxian assassin. Katarina narrowed her eyes further at the brunette and flicked one of her blades upwards and pressed it against the hollow of Caitlyn's throat. For her part the sheriff remained stoic and simply raised an eyebrow at her barely concealed threat, glaring back at the scowling redhead. "No really, what the fuck do you think you're doing?" spat Katarina as she pressed the blade closer into her neck, "you just cut her out of your life like she means nothing and as soon as you bat your eyes at her, all is forgiven?" Caitlyn remained glaring angrily at the other woman but she did not say anything, it was almost as if the redhead was channeling her sister and exuding poison from her very pores, the absolute venom in her glare was enough to make the sheriff grimace.

"If you hurt her again I swear...consider this a warning, maybe Vi wants to forgive you but I fucking don't" whispered Katarina into the brunette's ear before pulling both herself and her blade far from the still glaring sheriff, and taking off at a run to help a now frantic Soraka defend an inhibitor from the entirety of the enemy team. Taking a moment to compose herself Caitlyn watched the redhead disappear from sight before recalling and attempting to defend what was left of their base. It was however a lost cause as the brunette was the only surviving member of her team who was watching from the fountain as their nexus fell, with a sigh the sheriff waited to be disconnected from their virtual reality and with a crash she found herself once again in the summoner's hall. Blinking rapidly she grinned at the sight of Vi stood in front of her, with her flushed cheeks and rather messy hair, she had to admit that the enforcer looked thoroughly adorable.

Over Vi's shoulder however she caught sight of a fiercely protective glare as Katarina regarded the two of them with furrowed brows, to be honest as much as Caitlyn did not like the uncouth assassin she knew that deep down Katarina had every reason to hate her right now. She had truly hurt the enforcer, and even now neither of them knew precisely why the sheriff had cut off communication so coldly, "hey good game" interrupted a cheery voice into her internal reflections, glancing to her right she regarded Leona with a smile. The redhead looked truly radiant as she surveyed the two officers with raised eyebrows and a beaming grin, she nudged the sheriff jovially and stated "glad you took my advice" before winking and heading towards the cafeteria. Vi raised her own eyebrow at the statement and turned to the sheriff with a questioning smile, Caitlyn just shrugged in response before chewing on her lip and asking hesitantly "so are we okay?"

Instead of replying Vi stepped forward and placed both of her arms around Caitlyn's shoulders pulling her into a tight embrace. The sheriff snuggled further into her arms and berated herself for being so foolish in attempting to stay away from her very comfy and all too forgiving best friend. As she pulled away from the hug, Vi noticed that the rest of the champions from their previous match were still stood around watching the two of them, raising an eyebrow at the group she caught sight of the deep frown on Katarina's face and attempted to walk towards her but the assassin was all too quick and disappeared from sight. Furrowing her brows at the space Katarina used to occupy she heard Caitlyn harrumph quite loudly and watched as she placed both of her hands on her hips, staring at the still lingering champions. Ahri giggled at the sheriff's expression before stating "I am glad you are no longer fighting" and as she sashayed away from the pair, Ekko walked alongside her and called over his shoulder "don't let us stop you from kissing and making up."

A chorus of laughter followed the retreating champions as the two of them stood watching them walk away, after a time Vi turned to the brunette with a smile and queried "so, got any plans for tonight?" Caitlyn replied almost instantaneously with a shy smile and a shake of her head, this made the enforcer's grin almost triple in size before she stated "well, I know it might be a bit presumptuous due to the date but why don't we hang out tonight, we can order in and watch movies, you know, as friends?" The nervous energy that had existed between the two prior to the snowdown celebration seemed to be back in full force and Vi was rubbing her hand on the back of her neck as if to reassure herself. It wouldn't be so bad if she was turned down for a friendly hang out, nothing like a date obviously, despite it being Valentines day, just a friendly evening. Caitlyn chuckled at the sight of Vi's anxious effort to reassure herself, it had been a welcome and sorely missed sight, narrowing her eyes at the enforcer she quickly queried "presumptuous? Has someone been using their thesaurus?"

She was well aware that her tone could possibly be misconstrued as flirtatious but resolved herself that it was still a civil manner she was speaking to her partner in, this was just how they spoke to one another, surely her father would see that. Remembering her father's promise about the frailty of Vi's career in the police sobered her up slightly from the slight dizziness she always felt around the pink haired woman. She knew that there had been other promises she had had to make her father but right now Caitlyn wished she could just act like the young woman she was and get excited about the prospect of hanging out with her friend. Vi was still stood awaiting a reply and held her hands out in a gesture of surrender and laughed "yeah, I wanted to improve my lexicon ya'know", the brunette rolled her eyes at the statement. She was just going to have to deal with her father at a later date, she was certain that once her mother knew about their pink haired issue that the matter would be all but resolved, well hopefully. Biting her lip playfully Caitlyn finally replied "yeah, lets hang out later, lets go out for dinner though, might be nice" with a wide smile, she took note of Vi's bewildered expression and frowned at her.

"It's gonna be hard to get a table though, I mean it is valentines day" stated the enforcer hesitantly as she eyed the brunette warily, Caitlyn's jaw had all but hit the floor and she had groaned rather loudly smacking her palm flat against her forehead. How could she have been so stupid, of course it was valentines and oh for goodness sake she did have plans this evening but she couldn't very well tell Vi about them, she'd only just blundered into being forgiven by the woman now watching her with a worried expression. "Erm yeah, oh gosh, I'm so sorry Vi but I do have plans, it's like a family thing, I wish I could get out of it but I can't..." blathered the bothered brunette as she paced busily across the otherwise empty hall. Vi raised an eyebrow at the change in behaviour at the mention of the commercial holiday, perhaps it had been too much to presume that Caitlyn would be completely back to normal, it seemed as if the enforcer had scared her off with a perceived attempt at anything vaguely romantic.

The usually energetic woman seemed to withdraw into herself once again and just shrugged at Caitlyn with an off hand "no worries", before she could turn around and head towards the bar where she suspected Katarina was sat she felt a tug on her arm. Then she felt a warm hand fit snugly against her own and she clenched her eyes tightly together, knowing that if she looked at Caitlyn right now she would have no choice but to press her against a wall and kiss the breath out of the brunette. "Hello there Caitlyn, shouldn't you be getting ready? Tables booked for seven...oh, hey Vi" queried an all too charming voice that the both of them found familiar, the sheriff felt as if her limbs were made from lead as she watched the recognition of what Jayce had just said wash over Vi like ice. The enforcer's face twisted into an uncharacteristic snarl and she asked tonelessly "why lie?" at Caitlyn's feet, she could not bear to look into those deep brown pools at this moment in time. "Vi...I- I can't...I don't-" she began to stammer whilst trying to strengthen her grip on the other woman's hand.

The only physical sign that Vi had heard what the sheriff stuttered was the clenching of her jaw, she remained staring at the ground by Caitlyn's feet before breaking their hands apart and turning to storm from the hall. She chose to ignore the way that her heart felt like it was crunching together once again, why should she care if her boss wanted to go on a date with him, she shouldn't that's right. Vi shouldn't care at all, she knew it but it hurt that she had been lied to most of all, questions started to swirl in her mind and she hazarded a guess that the radio silence she had received from Caitlyn for the past two months was because she was dating that pretentious prick.

Surely if they were best friends though she would have wanted to talk to Vi about it, what was the point in lying about it, she couldn't understand and it made her so angry she just wanted to smash something. "What has she done?" snarled the redhead that had appeared in front of Vi, looking around the enforcer realised that she had just stormed into the bar and was stood in the centre of the room with her gigantic fists tightly clenched. Katarina noted the deep frown on her friend's face and the fact her eyes were glistening and pulled her into a private booth far from the prying eyes of other champions that were watching Vi carefully.

In the main hall Caitlyn stood transfixed watching the Vi shaped hole that had just materialised in her life, she didn't even hear the snort that came from Jayce or his comment of "jeez, what's got into her?" If she had he would certainly have had a slap, eventually he prodded her in the side to get her attention and cried out from the sharp slap on his offending hand. "Ow" he muttered shaking his injured appendage and frowning at the sullen sheriff, he sighed before stating "hey fine sorry, I wasn't joking earlier though, I'll be round for quarter to, see you then." Caitlyn murmured some noise to the affirmative and once the sound of footsteps had ceased she made to step forward and follow Vi into the bar she had disappeared into. Freezing she recognised that there was nothing she could say to make this any better right now, she had lied to her best friend and for what, she couldn't think of anything she wanted to do less than go on this date with Jayce.

A thought flashed into her head and she knew that there was one thing she wanted less than to go on this date with Jayce and that was helping Vi pack up her stuff from the office after her being fired, imagining the forlorn expression on her face in her daydream helped the sheriff to cope with the heartbroken one she had just seen moments ago. She cursed herself internally for listening to her father when he demanded that she go to dinner with Jayce, apparently Mr Buxton needed the ear of his father and it was well known that the defender of tomorrow rather fancied the sheriff. Caitlyn growled at the idea of being used as some sort of bartering device, akin to a cow or a goat in some third world countries and hated herself even more for going ahead with it.

Only managing to reconcile it with the fact that her father had warned her that he would get the enforcer fired unless she did so, the brunette scowled in the hall as she thought that it was likely her father would threaten that over her for the rest of her life. She was good friends with Jayce and under ordinary circumstances she would have enjoyed a meal with him, but for goodness sake not on this consumerist nightmare of a holiday. Gritting her teeth before leaving the sheriff resigned herself to getting through this evening so that she could keep her word and once they were finished she was going to find her mother no matter what and tell her all about her husbands new-found fancy for blackmailing his daughter. Then she would fix things with Vi, she had to, it was just a question of how precisely she was going to be able to do that.