Title: Birthday Presents
Rating: very Pg
Pairing: Helena/Dinah
Disclaimer: I made a wish and blew out the candle but they're still not mine
Author's notes: Thought I'd go for sweet – for a change.
I know you didn't have a lot to do with this one but thank you Lena for beta'ing
"I've bought you something."
Dinah looked up at the brunette from her book. She scrunched up her forehead with a frown. "Me? Why?"
"Cuz it's your birthday." Helena couldn't help the large grin that spread across her face.
"Next week."
The beatific smile faded. "Oh. I thought it was today … and I've been so busy … so I couldn't come over before I'd fetched it." She stood near the arm of the sofa that the soon to be eighteen year old was lying back on.
The blonde grinned as she pulled herself into a sitting position. "So what is it? I don't have to wait until by birthday … we could make a new tradition."
Helena chuckled softly. "A one week before your birthday present?"
Dinah nodded eagerly.
Still laughing, the brunette shrugged her shoulders. "It can't really wait anyway."
"So it's not clothes then?" The blonde looked a little disappointed; her friend had great taste in clothes. "If it can't wait … hmm." She chewed on her lip as she thought.
"Dinah, you don't have to guess … you can have it now." Helena grinned. "Where's Barbara?"
"Out." Dinah shrugged her shoulders. She didn't really know where her guardian had gone only whom she had gone with. "She's on a surprise date."
"You mean a blind date?" Helena tut-tutted. "She's not that desperate, is she?"
It was Dinah's turn to laugh at the look of distaste on the older woman's face. "No … and she's on a surprise date. Mr. Waldon, from school, wouldn't tell her where he's taking her."
"Damn. I think Bab's is making her way through New Gotham High's faculty."
The blonde giggled. "So, where is it? Gimme Gimme Gimme."
The brunette's smile was back. "Okay. But before I give it to you … well there's a little back-story."
"Unh?"
Helena shook her head and waved off the question as she took a seat next to Dinah. She turned to face her and crossed her legs. "Okay. So here goes. We all have a little something … it kinda reflects who we are."
"Unh?"
Helena pursed her lips. "I'm not doing this very well am I?"
"Just give me what you've bought me." Dinah was becoming impatient.
"It comes in three parts … and I have to explain them." Helena chided.
The blonde stuck out her tongue.
"Okay." Helena took a deep breath before starting again. "When Barbara was younger … when she was Batgirl she had the whole suit and bike and then there was the bat cave … with all its bats."
"Obviously." Dinah rolled her eyes.
The brunette bobbed her tongue at the teenager. "Then there was me. When I was younger … I had a kitten and … my mom who was like a big cat." She shook her head at her own crazy thoughts. "And now there's you … Canary."
"You bought me a bird?" Azure eyes were incredulous.
Helena scrunched up her face. "Sort of. Why? Don't you like birds?"
"Oh sure." She lied. "With all the pretty feathers and squawking and stuff. I love birds." 'Especially spit roasted.'
The brunette jumped to her feet and ran to the elevator. "Close your eyes."
Dinah did as she was told. She listened carefully, trying to determine what kind of bird her friend had bought her. Dinah hoped to God that the older woman hadn't bought her a Canary. She hated the damn fluttery little birds.
"Open your eyes."
The blonde had to laugh. Helena had her arms wrapped around a giant Tweety Pie. It was huge and yellow and Dinah laughed even harder at the thought of Huntress going into a shop to buy it. "I love it." She grinned as she was handed the stuffed toy. "I felt for sure you'd bought me a real live bird."
"No way." Helena's face lit up at just how happy she had made the blonde. "Me and the feathered kind just don't mix. So you like?"
"I like." Dinah hugged at the toy before placing it on one of the arm chairs. "But this could've waited until next week."
The older woman shook her head. "It's part two that couldn't wait until next week."
"Part two?"
Helena ran towards the elevator again. "Close your eyes."
Dinah dutifully closed her eyes. She squirmed in her seat with apprehension and let out a shocked squeal when she felt a bundle of fur deposited in her lap. "Oh my God." She heard a meow. Azure eyes flew open. A charcoal kitten pawed at her lap, turned and sat down sleepily. "You bought me a kitten?"
"Yeah." Helena grinned. "I kinda got the impression that you like cats."
Dinah blushed. She had been sure that Helena hadn't noticed the way she would sometimes look at her.
"So what you gonna call her?" The brunette averted her eyes from cerulean and sat back down. She reached over and petted the pussy cat sitting between the other girl's legs. She tickled it gently.
"Tweety." The blonde's hands joined the older woman's as they continued to stroke and play.
"That's a weird name to call your cat."
Dinah arched a fine golden eyebrow. "Barbara used to dress up as a bat, your mom was a cat and mine was a bird. There's nothing wrong with a little weird." She scratched behind the feline's ear and heard her purr. "Besides, it'll remind me of my first 'week before my birthday present' of which there should be many more."
Helena chuckled. "A new tradition."
"So, Barbara's not gonna freak out about her is she?"
The brunette shook her head and then swept dark bangs out of her eyes. "She knows … but she was expecting the new arrival next week."
Dinah shrugged her shoulders; one week wouldn't make much of a difference. "Thank you Hel. I love my Tweety Pie and Tweety. So … where's number three?"
Helena paled slightly. She wished that she'd never brought up that there were three gifts. "Erm … that one should wait until next week."
"Oh come on." The blonde rolled her eyes. "Just give it me." She grinned playfully. "I'll die if I have to go another week wondering about what else you've bought me."
"You'll die, huh?" Talk about hamming it up.
Dinah nodded furiously. "Yep … and then would you be. No more blondie or kid or baby-bird. No more sparring with someone who actually gives you a run for your money. No more … "
Helena covered the other girl's mouth with her hand. "Okay, okay. Talk about persistent."
"So, what is it?"
The brunette chewed at her lip nervously. "I didn't actually buy it." She reached for a box from behind the arm of the sofa and carefully picked up the sleeping kitten. Helena placed the kitten inside the box where it would be warm and safe for a little while. "It's something that I've wanted to give you … for a while now."
"Come on, Hel. You're killing me here."
"Close your eyes."
Dinah squeezed her eyes shut and waited.
"Happy one week before your birthday, Dinah."
The blonde gasped as she felt softness against her lips. Hands were on her thighs and lips were on her lips. Helena Kyle was kissing her and then she wasn't. Her heavy eyelids fluttered open to see the other woman's face mere inches from her own and that the brunette still had her eyes closed.
"Open your eyes, Helena."
"I don't want to."
"Why?" Dinah breathed as she reached up to cup her friends face.
"Because … because I'm scared of what I'll see if I do." Helena swallowed hard.
"What are you scared of?" The younger woman began to move her thumb across full lips. "Seeing that I don't want you, or seeing that I do?"
Cobalt revealed itself slowly. "Both."
"You know I want you … you've always known." Dinah leaned forward, her mouth brushing against the back of her own thumb. "You've noticed, haven't you?"
"I've noticed the way you look at me." Helena confirmed.
Dinah sighed as she tasted the other woman's breath. "You've just been a little more … covert."
Helena nodded. Her tongue flicked between her parted lips and moistened them. "I was supposed to wait."
"Who told you to wait?" Dinah wanted to kiss the other woman again. She wanted to feel her tongue, her teeth. She wanted to taste the woman she had thought would never be hers.
"Barbara."
"What?" Sky blue eyes snapped wide as she moved away.
Helena whimpered as the teenager snatched back her hand. "Barbara knew, she always knew."
"What do you mean?" Dinah couldn't hide her confusion. The pair had been plotting her seduction like it was Cruel Intentions. Barbara was Katherine and Helena was Sebastian … only Helena was way cuter than Ryan Phillippe.
"She noticed the way we looked at each other before we did." Helena hung her head and stared at her hands. "She told me that you were too young for what I wanted. She told me I should wait."
Dinah couldn't breath. Her heart was racing and threatened to beat its way out of her chest. This was more, so much more than what she had hoped for. "What did you want?"
"To love you." Helena sighed. "And have you love me."
"You should have told me."
"You never told me either."
The blonde woman touched Helena's chin and tilted her face up so that she could gaze into the deepest blue she had ever seen. "I love you."
Helena's lip began to tremble. Tears threatened to fall from emotional eyes. "I love you too."
"Helena." Dinah moved closer until she was sitting in the other woman's lap like Tweety had been sitting in hers. "I loved all my presents … but that third one … I want that again … and probably again." She wrapped her arms around Helena Kyle and bought their lips closer. "And next week … when it's my birthday … I want it again."
"And what about between now and next week?" The brunette could feel sweet; warmed air against her lips.
"Oh … there will be a lot of again's between now and next week." She brought their lips together so that they could kiss – again and again and again.
Tbc - maybe
