here's a quick filler chapter for you. i've been writing this like crazy, but honestly the show moved along with it so quickly (and I usually complain that shows take too long) that i didn't know exactly where to jump back in. let me know what you think. i'm sorry alex isn't in this chapter, but she will be the star of all the following chapters, i promise. this is just a necessary internal/explanatory chapter. i hope you're not bored with it. please read and review. i really want to build this ship. everyone deserves to see and love joss and alex. thanks.

Josslyn Carver had had a lot of what some could consider 'random' (and often hot) sex in her life. But never had she had more random (or hotter) sex than she did when Alex decided to invite herself into her shower. Joss honestly didn't know what to think at first. So many things were running through her very sexually-oriented brain at such a pace that she couldn't keep them straight (literally, as it turned out).

As Alex stood in front of her, Joss took a moment to contemplate the situation, and where she should go with it. Was this a good idea? Okay, honestly, that's all the further the contemplation went, because Joss's gaze kept unintentionally jumping from Alex's lust-filled eyes to her beautiful (and until now, hidden) body. Joss was toast.

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"And what happened between us, that can just be fun, right? I had fun."

Alex's words kept running through Joss's mind, not because they were hurtful or untrue, but because they were so true. Not only sex with Alex, but just being with Alex in general was very fun for Joss. So fun that it seemed all she wanted to do was be around the girl, and that thought scared her, whether she would admit it to herself or not.

Joss seemed to remain in a fog for days after the shower encounter, even after she and Alex had hung out many times and easily proven that nothing had to get weird or change between them. She was so lost in her thoughts now that she didn't even realize that she had been living in a daze.

"Joss? Hello? Are you with us?" Savi chuckled, drawing her sister's attention as they sat with April and Karen at April's store.

Joss had forgotten that she was even there with the women. How long had she been out this time?

"You okay?" Savi tried again.

"I slept with Alex."

Joss had blurted it out before she could even notice to stop herself. Though, she had never been one for censorship.

"What?! When?" Savi gasped, but Karen and April were obviously confused.

"A few days ago," Joss told her.

"Who's Alex and why is Joss sleeping with someone suddenly a big deal?" April asked, not being rude- just curious.

Savi raised an eyebrow at Joss, in her own way challenging, 'Yeah, Joss, tell them who Alex is.'

"Alex is a client of mine. Well, was a client," Joss began cautiously, wondering how to approach the explanation.

"And you've never slept with a client before," Karen nodded, reasoning.

"Oh. No, I have," Joss shrugged.

"You actually care for him, don't you?" Karen asked, her empathy seeing a certain sparkle in Joss's eye that she had certainly never seen before.

"I…I might," Joss's nose scrunched up a bit, as though it pained her to actually admit it aloud. "I might actually care for her…" She said it again as a realization that all of this that she was feeling might mean just that.

"Her?!" April and Karen exclaimed in unison.

"And there it is," Savi said, nearly inaudibly.

"How did this happen?" Karen asked, going straight into psychiatrist mode.

"I don't know," Joss shrugged. "It just did. We've been friends for a while now and she just broke up with her horrible girlfriend and it just kind of happened."

"You let yourself be some lesbian rebound?!" April asked, appalled at the thought; not because it was a woman, but because Joss was no one's rebound.

"No! It wasn't like that!" Joss shouted, offended at the thought. So what if they were just friends? So what if it was just for fun? Alex would not use her, and the idea of it made her heart cringe. "God! If I had known that you guys were going to react like this I wouldn't have told you." Joss was obviously hurt, which wasn't something any of the women were used to seeing.

"We're not trying to be any type of way about it, Joss. We're just shocked, I guess," April explained, softening.

"I'm not," Savi said quietly.

"Why shocked? I'm the free-spirit," Joss defended.

"It's not your spirit that I'm shocked by; it's your body," April told her. "You like penis more than anyone I've ever met in my life."

"And you had sex with a woman," Karen added.

"And it was the best sex I've ever had in my life."