"I would have met you at the troll it's just I lost track of time looking for my pills again." Tilly admitted unable to keep her heart from picking up a faster beat around the other young woman as the door swung open to find Margot leaning against the door frame. "I know but I wanted to see your new place…. for all I knew Rogers had you locked away in some tower."
That brought a shudder from the blonde at the unnerving sense of Deja vu at the scenario being described to her. "He wouldn't do that." She defended quickly as she closed the door once Margot had stepped past her into the little apartment. "I know that silly, but I just wanted to be sure you were alright." Tilly calmed at the soothing tone
"What's the deal with taking those anyway?" Margot wondered nodding to the bottle her friend was stashing back into her backpack as she closed the door after Tilly had let her in. "So, you're a little weirder than normal who cares?" he joked playfully nudging Tilly's arm. "Me." Margot's smile wavered a little at the honesty and the worry in her friend's tone as she accepts the bottle of water that was being offered to her.
They both decided to let the subject drop in favor of playing several games of chess and telling each other more stories of their lives only breaking for a lunch of shared sandwiches and splitting the one loan beer Tilly had found in the fridge over yet another game of chess that ended with Tilly losing dramatically only two of the five games they played and a sill giddy Margot agreeing to help Tilly clean up the remaining breakfast dishes after a narrowly won checkmate for her smug looking companion.
"Alright…Okay, Truce Truce Truce." Margot laughed trying in vain to dodge the water spirts Tilly was aiming at her instead of the playful swatting of water back and forth at one another as they washed the lone plate, fork and cup Tilly had used that morning as well as scrub out the skillet and other dishes Rogers had left soaking in the sink not knowing why or when she had locked her arms around Tilly's waist but now she was holding her up off the floor while her giggling friend still tried harder than ever to keep spraying her with water from the skins water hose.
"I win again." Tilly beamed shaking out her wet hair as the pair lost balance and fell back against the kitchen floor. "No, we're in a truce so technically you don't." Margot corrected as she caught her breath only vaguely remembering that her arms were still wrapped around Tilly's waist even with the self-described 'Crazy' woman didn't seem in too much of a hurry to get off of her. "Yes, I did, and you know it." Tilly countered tilting her head back to look at her friend with a wide proud smile across her lips
The pair stayed like that for a lot longer than they possibly should have given how little they really knew about each other and how new their friendship was but neither wanted to be the first to break the contact other than Margot letting Tilly go enough to let the blonde roll off of her, so she ended up cuddling against her side instead.
"What's that?" The question confused her for a second as Tilly was still enjoying the rush of completely happy feeling their little play fight as given her. "Oh…. just something that I didn't know I had until today." She admitted when she noticed Margot looking over at the little arrow charm around her neck.
"No, I meant what is that next to it smarty pants." Margot asked taking off her glasses in front of her for the first time since Tilly had met her to clean the water from them and to gesture at the other charm on Tilly's new necklace. "Oh that" the blonde shrugged as if it wasn't that big of a deal. "Seems I have myself a broken heart." Tilly sighed spinning the charm, so Margot could see it has her eyes found the forest green ones haunting her dreams.
"So, do I." her dream woman whispered to her the remaining water dripping from her hair forgotten in favor of pulling her own necklace out from under her shirt, so her friend could have a better view of the carefully shaped little rabbit but mostly to show the other half of Tilly's heart. "I've got yours and you have mine." The traveling life savior commented rolling onto her side to look at her better.
Tilly swallowed as her eyes flicked between Margot's and the second half of the heart she was guarding. She hadn't been ready for the galloping beat in her own heart those words had brought out of her "Perfect fit." She agreed as she closed the distance between where they lay side by side to bring the two halves together.
It was so strange they barely knew anything about each other and had really only met weeks ago yet they couldn't help but feel that they had to be around each other in some way. Gravitating back to each other when they were upset or just wanted to talk about their day and so Tilly could ask more questions about all the strange exotic places Margot's visited that she would never be able to go to.
Yet here they both are breathing in each other's air and both looking from the other's eyes to her lips and back again. Quietly asking permission as they both leaned in at the same time, testing the waters on if it was alright for what was about to happen.
"Tilly? Hey, Til?" Rogers voice called out from the little living room breaking the spell and making both women pull away from just the smallest brush of their lips in the start of a kiss. "Oh God what happened?" he pressed in deep concern when he saw the pair laying out on the kitchen floor still mostly covered in water. "I should have warned you about that tap." He sighed "It sprays like a fire hose at a moment's notice. I keep meaning to fix it, but I just never got around to doing it." The detective rambled making him miss the blushing cheeks of both the women now helping each other to her feet.
"Its fine Rogers," Tilly promised not that she was going to admit the purely innocent reason both she and Margot were still drying out as she kept a tight hold on Margot's hand as she pulled her along while she sped out of the kitchen. "This is Margot." She introduced grudgingly letting go of the hand she was holding to shove the little chessboard into her bag along with the other things that had spilled out of it in her earlier hunt. "We were just heading out." She summarized pulling the strap over her shoulder as she reached out wanting to hold Margot's hand again.
"Really? It's raining like Hades out there." the detective commented nodding to the window behind the sofa to the storming weather outside. Both Tilly and Rogers gaped in surprise at the almost sailor like curse their house guest let out as they watched the sheeting rain beat harder against the windows. "If you want you can stay here until the storm passes." He offered seeing the unease growing in the new aquatic's eyes no doubt thinking of how she was going to have to run back to the bar in that soon. "Any friend of Tilly's is a friend of mine. And with the way she goes on about you sometimes I can tell you. You are most definitely a friend." He smiled like he was a proud father rather than just Tilly's roommate earning an annoyed groan from Tilly at his oversharing.
"Thank you, sir." Margot nodded sharing a hopeful sideways glance with Tilly as her hand slipped back into hers behind the cover of the small kitchen island "I will but just for tonight." She tells them her eyes falling on the little arrow hanging around Tilly's neck then over to meet Roger's eyes once again just to be sure his offer was a real one.
Turns out it was.
