Darkness falls.
Bohemian Babe
Archiving welcome
pg-13
The next day.
Brennan woke up late in the morning with Shalimar laying in his arms. He gently pressed a kiss to the top of her head and then pulled the blankets closer up around them. Lying quietly he could hear the sound of her breathing, the sounds from the rest of Sanctuary softly echoed into the room. Lexa and Jesse arguing over some pointless thing and the computer beeping.
He closed his eyes and tried to let himself fall back to sleep, unfortunately failing. Shalimar finally began to stir, and woke up slowly. Brennan leaned down and pressed a kiss to her lips and pulled her body close against his. When the kiss broke Shalimar laid her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. For a few moments they laid in complete silence.
"We really should get up now." Shalimar whispered, not making a move to leave Brennan's arms.
"I guess we wouldn't want Jesse and Lexa to come looking for us." Brennan agreed reluctantly.
They slipped out of the bed and Brennan pulled on the clothes he had worn the night before, not wanting to risk an awkward run in with one of the others.
A few minutes later all four members of Mutant X were sitting around the breakfast table. Shalimar noticed that Lexa was sitting unusually close to Jesse, and that the other couples body language suggested they had spent the night at least sleeping in the same bed.
Brennan also noticed the two moleculars, but dismissed the whole thing with out a second thought.
The meal was quick and quiet. Both couples were too wrapped up in their own little worlds to really talk as a group.
When the meal was over the boys went out to take care of the various jobs that they had to do while the girls stayed in the kitchen to clean up after breakfast.
"So were you two safe?" Shalimar asked when she was sure the boys were out of hearing range.
Lexa startled at the question, but then smiled. "We didn't do anything last night."
Shalimar raised an eyebrow. "You didn't do anything last night? Not what your body language says."
"We talked, kissed a little and I slept in his room in his bed. No sex involved, not yet anyway."
"You mean in the nearly eight months you two have been 'together' you haven't had sex with him?"
"Jesse and I aren't together. I thought that you understood that I wasn't looking for a relationship."
"Doesn't mean that you two wouldn't have." she wiped a plate dry and put it away in the cabinet. "So did you help Brennan pick out my birthday present?"
"I did and all I can say is that you will love it. It took him forever to pick out though."
"I'm sure it is perfect. I think we're going to a club tonight if you and Jesse want to come."
"Exactly how do you expect me to get the nerd wonder away from his computer for that long?"
"I'm sure if you promised him a reward he'd leave the computers alone for a while."
"I don't think I'm up to a night out." Lexa put away the final fork and turned to face Shalimar. "That temporary treatment Jesse tried on me is starting to wear off."
"You haven't told him yet have you?"
"I figure he's got enough to worry about right now and I don't need to add to the stress load. I'd be the straw that broke the camel's back."
"If you don't tell him and you end up dead it would be worse on him. You know how he feels about you."
"I know that it makes him weak, and that if he's not careful his feelings will get in the way and he'll get sloppy in his work."
"Don't worry about Jesse so much. He knows how to separate himself from personal feelings when work needs him too."
"I'll talk to him about the treatment wearing off, but I'm not promising anything else."
"You do that much and I'll let you have a couple of days off before I start to make you crazy about telling him how you feel."
The two women laughed and then walked out of the kitchen.
Later that afternoon.
Shalimar walked into the lab and found Jesse sitting at his computer. She noted the look of worry and frustration on his face as she walked over to him. "I guess you and Lexa talked."
"I don't know what to do." He pushed his chair back from the computer and put his face in his hands. "I cant figure this one out."
"Give yourself some time, you'll get it. Maybe taking a night off would help."
"I don't know how much time she has, I need to stay in and work till I get this thing figured out."
"Life is too short to be spent behind a computer. Just come out to the club with me and Brennan tonight. You only have to stay out three hours at the most. You can even bring one of the hand helds and work on this at the club if you want."
"You and Bren go out. I'll stay home and work. I don't want to be the third wheel."
"You wouldn't be the third wheel if you bring Lexa along as your date."
"I don't think she'd go for it. She's made it perfectly clear to me that she's not interested in dating me."
"Come on, it doesn't mean you two are in a relationship. You two can just come with us to the club, I don't care if you don't say a word to her the whole night. You and I both know that you want to date her, but if you don't make a move that will never happen. The worst that could happen is that you have a horrible, boring night and the best that could happen… you spend tonight in bed with Lexa having a little fun."
"You know its been so long that I don't think I can even remember what that kind of fun is like."
"All the more reason for you to get your butt out of that chair and go have some fun for a night. Maybe relearn what that kind of fun is like."
"I'll ask her, but I cant guarantee that she'll say yes."
"Just ask her and she what she says." Shalimar called over her shoulder as she walked out of the lab.
Later that night
Shalimar watched from her bedroom door as Lexa slipped out of her room and into Jesse's. When she heard the click of the lock on her door she smiled, knowing that her plan to get the two of them to finally hook up was working. She walked over to her bed and slipped in next to Brennan, curling up into his arms and falling asleep.