Okay, last one for the night. Just wanted to make sure I got the full episode in before I slept. Reviews are love, but if you just want to read, that's cool too. Hope this is an acceptable first offering to the OB fandom.
You laugh most of the way back to her home. Free from being under Dr. Leekie's watchful eye, you once again can look at her as Cosima, your new friend who just happens to also be a subject, but the rest of the night is for you. Your coats are put aside as you enter, relaxing once the door is shut. While she heads to open the bottle of wine, she tells you to make yourself at home, pointing the way to the restroom with a wave of her hand, corkscrew nearly flying loose as she gesticulates.
You wash your hands and walk back out into her bedroom, stepping up to look out her large bay window appreciating the quiet. For some reason, you feel fluttering within your stomach. Perhaps you don't need more wine. You'd had several glasses over dinner. But no, you know you don't want to leave just yet. Making your mind up to try one more time to push the Dyad application before letting yourself just be Delphine and her be Cosima, you walk out as she takes a sip from her newly filled glass.
She pushes back once more at your question, prompting you to ask her why she is being so coy. Her answer shocks you. "Don't you think it's time we admit what this is really about?"
You freeze, sure she is about to confront you as her monitor, terrified of what that could mean. Then she is coming closer and leaning into you and merde, she is kissing you and now you finally remember what that little reminder was in your memory - her last partner was a woman. You feel your hands coming up to her face and you force yourself to pull away, breaking the kiss and obviously confusing her. "I um...I," how can you have forgotten this? Was this why Dr. Leekie assigned you to her? Because he wanted you to seduce your subject? Your mind races, patently ignoring the fluttering that has escalated to full scale flapping within you.
"Oh God, Delphine, did I just make a huge mistake?" No no, you want to say. I don't know, you want to say.
"I have to go," is what you do say. The evening is over, you grab your coat from her stool and glance back once more. "It's fine," you say as you slip out of the door.
The short trip to your own apartment flashes by you. You are walking in your front door, sitting down at the computer and logging in before you come fully back to yourself. She... she kissed me, you think. And I... almost kissed her back? You diligently log your meal with 324B21, citing that your supervisor had conducted the meeting (see expense report), and that your subject ate well, did not imbibe copious or unhealthful amounts of alcohol, and returned home safely. You are about to write what happened at the end of the night, but something stops you. You will tell Dr. Leekie yourself. That will give you a chance to see if this is what he intended all along, and if so, why he would have sent someone in who had zero experience with seducing women.