A/N: Okay, last one I swear...for now.
This is mostly just dialogue practice. I want to make sure I get this right before I do something big. It's the first time I've written outside of MHA. So I don't want to screw this up.
Dr. Legs time. I liked Tae from the moment I saw her, and I loved her character even more as time went on.
This is essentially one big conversation.
"Doctor...I- uh... I'm having trouble with my, u-uh...you know what. Could you help me?"
Tae lifted her eyes from her clipboard with a brow raised, swiveled around in her chair and looked at her boyfriend lying on the examination bed. "Are you trying to roleplay with me?"
"I'm bored. Thought it would be interesting."
"...And you thought that I would want to roleplay in a scenario where you have erectile dysfunction?"
"I...well...I guess I didn't really think about that part."
"We'll save it for the bedroom, my little guinea pig. I'm working."
"Is that a promise?"
"Do you have permission from Sakura-san to stay over?"
"As long as I say it's for a girl, he doesn't care what I do."
"Then yes, it's a promise." Ren smiled to himself, satisfied with his evening plans. This wouldn't be the first time they had done the deed. When Tae had shown up to Leblanc all those months ago to tell Ren that the feelings were mutual, she had been very...forward. When Tae said she was gonna give him a "thorough examination", she meant a Thorough Examination.
...He got laid. Like, all night.
It was easily the greatest night of his life. The woman he fell in love with loved him back, and she wanted to show that in every way possible.
He remembered every single second like it had just happened. Her beautiful pale skin glowed with an ethereal beauty in the moonlight. He had never seen a more perfect body.
Tae here.
Tae there.
Tae's legs everywhere.
He still remembered how nervous he was when she took him by the hand and led him up the stairs. Scratch that, terrified. He had never had a girlfriend before. Then, suddenly as soon as he got his first one she immediately had sex with him.
But, he felt much more at ease when he realized Tae was just as nervous as he was. And...wait…
Tae, nervous? Tae didn't get nervous. She always had control of whatever situation she was in. That was something he really admired about her. And now that he thought about it, she had said it would be a learning experience. When she said that, Ren thought she was talking about him.
Unless...
Ren sat up and looked over to his lover. "Tae?"
"Yes?" she said, not looking away from her computer.
"What were your past boyfriends like?"
"I wouldn't know. Never had any."
Ren's eyes widened, his suspicion was true. "R-Really?"
"Well, becoming a doctor takes a lot of focus. I never had time. Besides, most of the men who made advances on me were dicks, morons, or both. The rest saw my sense of fashion, immediately realizing that they wouldn't want to bring me home to their parents. And then after I did become a doctor, my reputation was ruined. After that, even the idiots were scared of me." Tae kicked the floor, her swivel chair rolled over to the examination bed. She brought a hand up to Ren's cheek, "The boyfriend I finally did get is the one that saved my reputation and gave me my life back. So I'd say the wait was well worth it."
She gave him a chaste kiss, then rolled back over to her desk. "So...I was your first?"
"Boyfriend, kiss, or sexual partner?"
"Yes."
"Yes."
Damn, she was the only one who could compete with him on witty comebacks. Tae looked over her shoulder at him. "Why? Does that bother you?"
Did it bother him? He wouldn't lie and say he didn't kinda like it. All of those first experiences were also her first experiences. He got to truly share those moments with her, and no one else.
On the other hand…
Ren shook his head, clearing his thoughts. "No, it's just…I didn't expect that. You're so amazing, I just thought you'd have found someone before. You're also…"
"What?"
"...really, really, really good at sex."
Tae chuckled, "Thank you, I try. You're not too bad yourself. Besides, I'm a doctor. I know exactly where to touch."
"But...why?"
"Why what?"
Ren leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees. "If I'm your first, why'd you immediately do it with me? Hell, I didn't even ask. You just showed up, said you loved me, and the next thing I know we're doing it."
"Guinea Pig, I'm in my mid-twenties. I felt that I didn't need to wait any longer. I loved you, you loved me, I wanted you, and from all the staring it was clear you wanted me, too. So, why not? Do you regret it?"
"Absolutely not. Never."
"Then there's nothing to worry about, is there?"
He knew Tae was right, but he just couldn't shake this feeling.
"I already never wanted to let you go, but now I legitimately can't. I don't want to be compared to other men."
Tae laughed, "Don't worry about that. I don't plan on going anywhere."
"I'd be screwed anyway. Where am I going to find legs like that again?"
"Nowhere."
Ren laughed this time, rolling his shoulders as he leaned back against the wall the bed was against. He still didn't know exactly how to feel. Not about having sex, but about being her first partner.
How many first relationships last? What if she found someone who suited her far better than he did? Wasn't as much to deal with. Someone older.
If he was her first boyfriend, what expectations did she have?
Could he live up to them?
Was he even worth all of the trouble?
"Do I make you happy?"
Tae frowned, turning back around to look at him. "What brought this on?"
"I don't know. I guess I just thought that...Well, I'm your first boyfriend. Your boyfriend that goes on dangerous missions, has a criminal record, is a year under the legal minimum for our relationship, the list goes on and on. You just got your reputation back, and I could ruin it in the blink of an eye. Or a mission could somehow go horribly wrong and I don't come back."
"Don't say that," Tae interrupted with a glare. Ren knew she didn't like talking about the danger he put himself through.
"Sorry. It's just that you could easily have anyone begging on their knees for one conversation with you."
Tae continued to stare at him as she tried to put the pieces together of what he was saying. "You're asking me if I think you're really worth it?"
Ren nodded. "You immediately gave all of your first times...to me. Me, of all people."
"What happened to my confident, smart-ass boyfriend?"
Ren smiled softly, "It's much easier to be confident in the Metaverse. Out here it's much easier for this kind of stuff to get to me. My stoicism can only go so far."
Tae stood from her chair and sat down next to Ren. "How often do you think about this?"
"Are you kidding me? Since the second I kissed you. But, now that I know I'm your first, the pressure is even worse."
"Am I also your first girlfriend?"
"Yeah, and I'm already fumbling my way through a thousand other things, some of which could kill me. The last thing I want is to mess this up. I love you more than anything. You're the only person I feel completely free to talk to. Even my friends call me quiet. I want to be strong for them, so I'm afraid of speaking freely. I almost never talk like this with them. You're my outlet. I may live at Leblanc, and my hometown may be miles away. But, you're my home. You're the only person I feel completely free with. I need you. But, if you don't need me...if I'm more trouble than I'm worth, then…"
Tae sat wide-eyed as she stared at Ren. They were both very open with each other when it came to their feelings, but Ren always seemed to take a little bit. He would hold things, then share them with her a short time later. However, this was something he had clearly been keeping to himself for quite awhile.
Even when confessing his fears about their relationship, he still manages to make her heart flutter with words alone. Tae stood up, and suddenly jumped on Ren.
"Woah!" Ren quickly caught Tae, her knees on either side of his body as she straddled him. He wrapped his arms tightly around her so she wouldn't fall. "What are you doing!? We're sitting right on the edge!"
Tae nodded, "I know. I knew you'd catch me. I know you'll always catch me, because that's what you do. Even if I said I didn't want to be with you, broke your heart, almost poisoned you again…"
"Again?" Ren chuckled.
"I said almost," she said with a smile. "I know you'd save me. Over and over again." This was just another thing Tae loved about Ren. He immediately knew she was joking, playing right along with her. She wrapped her arms around his neck, placing her forehead against his. "My little guinea pig, you're the best thing that's ever happened to me. You gave me my life back, and gave me a future. Not just with my career, but with you. You help more people than even I do. You like my style, you can keep up with me and my morbid humor. I'm the happiest I've ever been. I love you, Ren. My lovely, handsome, heroic, little guinea pig."
She kissed him deeply, then tucked his head under her chin as she ran her fingers through his hair. "I love you, too."
"You're worth every second I've spent with you, and every second we spend together in the future." She kissed him again, pushing him down on the exam bed. She suddenly pulled back, looking him dead in the eye. "And if you ever think you're not worth it again, I will inject you with the deadliest cocktail of drugs I can craft."
"Noted."
Tae chuckled, "How do you always distract me from work?"
"I'm a very alluring person."
"And he's back." Tae hopped off of his lap, grabbing a piece of paper and a pencil. "Here."
Ren took the paper and pencil with a brow raised. "What's this for?"
"Write down all the roleplay ideas you have." Tae smirked as Ren's eyes widened. She sat back down at her desk, getting back to work. "Oh, and all the characters have to be different versions of ourselves. If you write any down where you're imagining screwing a different woman, I'll dissect your penis."
"Also noted." Tae smiled as she made her way back to her desk. "What about time?"
"Hm?"
"Do I see you enough? Should I make more time for you?"
Tae shook her head, but a small laugh escaped her lips. "Are you trying to go through every aspect of our relationship?"
"We're talking about it. I figured I should cover all the bases."
Tae checked the clock, "It's a slow day anyway. Scoot over." She walked back over to the bed and laid down next to him. "You see me everyday. Even when not for a long amount of time, you make it a necessity to stop by the clinic every single day. Either before school, after school, or both. If anything, I'm the one who should be asking you whether or not we spend enough time together. I'm the doctor who, thanks to you, has plenty of patients to keep her occupied."
"Yeah, but I have commitments to tons of other people. Everyday I get texts asking me to help them with something. It's not even just my school friends. Ohya, Hifumi, Chihaya, Sadayo, Caroline and Justine, Iwai, Sak-"
Tae grabbed his face, turning him towards her. "Exactly how many women do you know?"
"...If it makes you feel any better, Iwai isn't a woman. And Caroline and Justine are children...Or are they? I actually don't know." Tae's glare grew more intense. "You already know there's nothing to worry about. None of them are you."
Tae merely grumbled in acceptance, looking away to hide her blush. "The only way we would see any more of each other is if we moved in together."
"Is that a real proposition?"
"Ask me again when you move back to Tokyo after you leave." Ren grunted in response. "What's wrong?"
"I don't want to go back."
"Ren, your paren-"
"Who cares about them? I have you, all of my friends are here, the best colleges are here. I didn't have, and don't have a future there. I don't have a future with them either. All I need is their permission, and I don't have to go back. And I doubt they'll want me back anyway."
Tae sighed. Ren's relationship with his parents was...complicated.
Who was she kidding? It was terrible.
Ren had told her that he was far closer with his mother than his father. But, even his mother seemed to dismiss him after his arrest. Tae was sure there was more to it than that. But in Ren's eyes, all he saw was his parents giving him away without a second thought and never bothering to contact him.
Tae rolled on her side, placing a hand on her chest. "As much as I urge you to at least talk with them about why they did what they did, if this is really what you want, then you can stay with me once your probation is over."
Tae knew that Ren took certain things to heart. And trust was one of them. If you betrayed him in a serious way, that was it. No more. You lost his trust and friendship. He might give you a second chance to try and earn it back, but if you fail again, it's completely over.
His parents were no exception.
It wasn't that she didn't want him to stay. She had already grown accustomed to waking up in his embrace. Mornings used to be evil until he came along.
However, she'd gladly wait if it meant he fixed his relationship with his parents. Or at the very least had some form of closure.
"Do you miss them?"
Ren shook his head, "No."
"What about the feeling? The feeling of family."
"You and everyone else here are more of a family to me than they ever were."
Tae placed her head down on his chest, "Do you want a family? Together, I mean."
"Oooh, I see you're also participating in this deep dive of our romance."
She pinched his leg, "Answer the question."
"Only if you want to."
Tae thought about it for a moment, remembering all of the children that would come into the clinic. She thought about the interactions she would have with them, and seeing the way the parents would look after learning their child would be okay. The thought of not just curing children, but having some of her own…
Of their own.
Tae imagined children with unruly hair, chocolate brown eyes or storm gray hair, wanting to dye it like their mother or perhaps keeping their black waves.
The doctor smiled, "Yes. I think I do."
"I'm a little scared though. I have no idea how to be a parent, and I don't have the best examples to go off of."
Tae nodded against him, "You're young. You don't have to know yet. And you do have good examples in a way. Just don't do everything you think your parents did wrong, and do everything you think they did right. I'll be there learning with you."
Ren smiled, a warmth spreading throughout his body. There wasn't even the question of "if we're still together by that point". They already knew they'd last. "I look forward to it. More than anything. Although, I'm assuming you want to get married by that point. Unless getting married isn't punk or something."
"Ah, yes. The good ol' Punks Don't Get Married rule. How could I forget? Sorry Guinea Pig, but it looks like we can't get married."
Ren chuckled, then sighed. "Is this too fast. These are topics for a decent while into the future."
"We banged our first day as a couple. There is no speed limit here."
"Fair enough."
Tae's mind was still on the idea of marriage. It certainly seemed more than pleasurable in her eyes. Obviously, it was far off from now. Although, Ren could be impatient at times. It might happen sooner than she thought. Marriage would come with some third-party concerns, however.
"Do you think your friends will approve of us?"
Ren breathed in through his teeth, "That, I'm not totally sure. Ryuji would probably just congratulate me on landing someone as hot as you."
"I like him already."
"Ann would be happy, but I'm not sure how she would feel about the age difference."
Tae hummed in response. "She's the one who was being blackmailed and perved on by Kamoshida, right?"
"Yeah. Our scenario is far different, so I doubt it'll be a problem. Yusuke...well, he's Yusuke. He'll probably ask to paint us "in the passionate act of lovemaking" with a completely straight face."
"Oh, I like him already, too."
"Very funny," Ren deadpanned. "Makoto will probably interrogate you, just to make sure your intentions are pure and aren't using me to gain something."
"How'd she figure out my plans?"
"Futaba w-...Oh shit," he exclaimed, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"What?"
Ren sighed, "Futaba bugged the café before we even knew her. And she hacked my phone. She already knows."
"Are you sure?"
"Remember the date we went on after I came back from Hawaii?"
Tae purred in his ear, "How could I forget a night like that? We...Oh."
"Futaba wouldn't look at me for three days after that. She also stopped looking at my texts, too. She definitely heard some things she shouldn't have."
"At least she can keep a secret."
Ren nodded in agreement. He knew Futaba hadn't told anyone. He would've known. Most of his friends couldn't keep a secret very long to save their lives. Especially Ryuji.
"Haru... actually I have no idea. Haru is surprisingly very hard to get a read on. She's as likely to have a teddy bear collection as she is to own and frequently use a torture chamber."
"If she does, can I borrow it?"
Ren smiled, "For what?"
"Nothing you need to worry about...yet. You certainly have an interesting group."
"I sure do. But, I know it'll all be fine. What about you?"
"Hm?"
"What about your parents? Would they approve?"
Tae shrugged, "Maybe. I haven't spoken to them in a while. After becoming "The Plague" my father was disappointed in me. My mother was too, but she wasn't as vocal about it. He already didn't like my sense of style, but he looked past it once I told him medicine was my true passion. But, once medicine brought my bad reputation, his disappointment came back. There was no fight. No yelling at each other, no harsh words. We just...disconnected."
Ren rolled on to his side, wrapping his arms around Tae. He held her tightly as he buried his face in her hair. "I guess we're in the same boat."
Tae buried her head into the crook of his neck, "I guess we are."
Ren closed his eyes, nuzzling Tae's head. "I know this isn't exactly how you expected to spend your evening, but I'm really happy we had this talk."
"I am, too. You…" Tae lifted herself off of Ren, propping herself up to look down at him. "You know I'm not the most... secure, about some things. At least until you came around. But, there's nothing in my life that I've been more sure of then you. Everything that happened, with Miwa-chan, my parents, my dreams crumbling before my eyes...I'd do it all again for you."
"If you're what I get for being arrested, I should commit more crimes."
"And the moment's gone."
Tae began to move away, but Ren put his arms back around her. "Sorry! Sorry. You know my silver-tongue doesn't have the best timing every once in a while. But, there's still truth to what I said. My arrest gave me my friends, and it gave me you. I owe him a lot. If I ever find the man who accused me, the first thing I'm gonna do is thank him...then, I'll show him what assault really means."
She patted his cheek, "Good boy." They both leaned him, putting all of the passion they could into the kiss.
Tae bit his bottom lip, tugging on it before releasing. "Now, about that problem you were having…"
"Problem? What pr-" Ren thought back to how the conversation had started. "O-Oh." He quickly grabbed his phone, sending Sojiro a quick text.
Ren: Not coming back to Leblanc tonight.
Sojiro: Girl?
Ren: Girl.
Ren tossed his phone aside, focusing back on the much more important scenario that was laying out before his eyes.
"I don't have any pills to prescribe you for that. But, I have something much better."
Tae began undoing Ren's belt. "What would that be?"
"Don't you know? I'm the best medicine~."
…
(Takemi's Apartment: Many hours later)
Ren stroked Tae's hair as she slowly began to fall asleep on his bare chest. The black comforter protected their modesty, and their bodies from the cold.
He closed his eyes as he took in every second, every breath Tae took, every beat of her heart against his.
This was what he wanted for the rest of his life.
Ren raised the covers higher over them, burrowing deeper as he fell asleep.
A/N: Okay, now I go back to writing "An Insecure Violet". For real this time. These stories are seriously a breath of fresh air though. It's nice to not write the same show all the time.
I sincerely hope you enjoyed.
