Lauren had been checking her phone, or more accurately checking the time, for hours, which meant instead of doing the intelligent thing of staying and home enjoying some extra sleep, as Kenzi was, she had been wondering the streets trying to keep her mind busy. That wasn't to say she got up early. No, it was more like she hadn't slept at all in the hours since Bo dropped them off.
She had tried of course. Going through her normal nightly routine after getting Kenzi settled in and making sure her roommate would be okay, but nothing could slow her thoughts about Bo. Reading only made her wonder what books Bo liked. Cleaning the condo, since nothing was going to wake up Kenzi before noon, had her debating what aspects of the woman's personality would be reflected in her apartment. Even a brief Star Trek marathon had left her worried that Bo might prefer reality shows to classic science fiction.
If she wasn't overanalyzing something she knew about the brunette, she was panicking over what she didn't and how something unknown could end their relationship, if they were even in a relationship. Lauren felt comfortable with the phrase based on everything that happened last night and Bo wanting to continue to see her romantically, but she wondered if in the light of day if anything would change. It hadn't for her. She couldn't think of anything that would make her give up a chance at a future with Bo. She just had to know if she was alone in hoping for something beyond three days.
When her phone finally showed 8:15 AM Lauren opened her text messaging app, then closed it. Her plan had been to send the woman occupying her thoughts suggesting a morning rendezvous between them for breakfast since things were quiet and from there they could talk about what would happen tonight. Leaving something to chance had always sounded like an excuse for poor planning so she had been trying to plan everything out, on her own nonetheless but, the strange thing was, nothing with Bo had gone according to plan.
Lauren had assumed that she would be looking for a new doctor for the ER within a few months as something at a specialty level opened up in the area. Then as the dynamic between them started to shift Lauren was certain it wouldn't go beyond having more social interaction at work. Last night she had figured would be about Kenzi having a chance to interact with Bo and provide her oddly keen insight when it came to people. Instead the woman stayed in the ER even before they started growing closer, she started wondering if Bo's flirting was more than Bo being relaxed around her and she she left Kenzi standard at a bar because she spent most of the time wanting to climb into Bo's lap to see if her lips were as intoxicating as the drinks. She didn't, but it had been tempting.
It was her planning that had kept her up all night, leaving her exhausted despite the several cups of coffee she had consumed when overthinking everything seemed like a perfectly reasonable idea. Why was she making it so difficult to ask Bo if she wanted to grab some coffee because Lauren didn't want to wait until tonight to see her? It would be a good opportunity to find out more about Bo's tastes and maybe what Bo's lips tasted like in comparison to the coffee.
Tired of arguing with herself, or perhaps just tired, Lauren decided to let chance settle the matter. She would go to the apartment building and then call Bo once she was there. If the woman that resided there answered she would ask Bo to coffee, if not she would go home and try to take in as many hours of sleep as possible.
It should have took far longer than the fifteen minutes that had passed to walk to get two fresh coffees and walk to Bo's apartment, but she must have headed in that direction after leaving her condo or her phone was lying and arguing with time did not strike Lauren as a promising sign of what the next few minutes would hold for her ability to have an intelligent conversation. Not wanting to argue with a chance, a concept she did not believe in, Lauren pulled the phone out her pocket and dialed Bo, hoping to deliver a simple yet coherent question to the other doctor.
"Lauren? What's going on?" Bo felt excitement and confusion completely takeover her life when she saw Lauren's name pop on her phone.
"Can I come up?" Lauren felt surprised at how calm she sounded given how stressed out she had been all morning.
"Can you...where are you?" Bo was certain Lauren must have dialed her number by accident because at no point had she told the woman her address or to stop by this morning.
"Outside your building." Suddenly Lauren felt the panic rise up again. This might be far too much like a stalker and now Bo was going to change her number, then cities, because of her.
"Okay. I'm apartment 309." Bo wasn't sure what was happening exactly, but if Lauren had made a trip to see her then she wasn't going to miss the opportunity to spend more time with the blonde. Plus her apartment wasn't a complete mess for once, although it wasn't exactly clean. "Just please take the stairs."
"Yeah?" Lauren needed conformation, just to make sure she wasn't hallucinating.
"Sure. Stairs, 309, knock when you get here." Bo was already tossing clothes into a pile without a thought as to if any of it was clean or why it had been scattered across the living room in the first place.
"Okay." Lauren ended the call before firing off a quick message to Kenzi letting her know where she had gone, just in case her roommate actually woke up before she returned. Unlikely, and Kenzi wasn't the kind who would start calling the moment she realized Lauren had left unannounced, but she hadn't completely sworn off being a responsible person.
She took a moment to study the building and the immediate area. It was nice. Further from the hospital than she would have picked if another option was available, but Lauren figured that distance from the central area of the city was part of the appeal to a lot of the residents. The entryway was wide enough that even on busy mornings it could probably handle the traffic. Even the stairs were clean and sturdy as she made the climb to the third floor.
Lauren had never thought much about where Bo, or her other coworkers, lived as long as addresses matched official records. Now though she was pleased that Bo was in a safe area and that it was close enough for walking to be feasible if she didn't have to worry about time. Arriving at 309, Lauren knocked lightly with her knuckles and before her hand could leave the door it was already open.
"Hi." Bo felt a smile overtaking her face, but there was no stopping it, not with Lauren being the best surprise in her life in years and suddenly showing up.
"Hi." Lauren immediately felt Bo's excitement wash over her and returned that smile with one her own. She also noticed that Bo appeared to be breathing harder and leaning forward as if trying to catch her breath, signs that she had clearly rushed around the apartment since her call. "I should have given you more notice."
"No!" All Bo heard was Lauren saying she shouldn't have showed up and might leave for fear of causing Bo problems. "Stay. Come in. I'm just not used to company. Aside from the building manager fixing a burnt out electrical outlet, it has literally been just me."
"If you're sure." Lauren started moving her feet forward, almost disappointed when Bo stepped aside to let her enter the living space and prevent them from colliding. It was a simple apartment without much beyond the necessities, but it was warm with wood flooring and what looked like a small kitchen nestled in a corner and a bedroom at the other end of a small living room.
"I know it's not much." Bo had checked online for a basic idea of what Lauren's condo might look like and yeah there was a notable difference because the two.
"It's yours." Lauren liked her condo. It had space for a personal lab and office. She could also put up the paintings she did when nothing else would sooth her. Still, part of why she liked having Kenzi there was to give it a sense of life. Even if that meant occasionally coming home to an empty pizza box that had been thrown at the TV.
"Every square foot of it as long as I keep depositing rent checks." Bo felt a sense of a satisfaction that Lauren liked her little apartment because she definitely liked Lauren being in it. "Want the tour?"
"I'd like that." Lauren wasn't sure where this tour would end, but yeah she was very willing to find out what Bo had mind. Remembering some of her manners, Lauren extended a coffee towards the brunette. "I figured you were probably just getting up and might like some caffeine."
"Mother of god yes." It had been a rough night after she left Lauren's as Bo constantly replayed the night over in her head before she finally passed out, only to wake up a few hours later thanks to a nightmare where her pending date with Lauren went horribly wrong and the blonde disappeared from her life. Coffee, and Lauren, were something she dearly needed after that.
Lauren smiled at Bo's eagerness for the substance and sipped on her drink quietly as the tour started in the kitchen. It was a small area, barely housing a stove, sink and a few cupboards, but Lauren figured she could manage to make a decent meal in it if ever it was necessary. Silence seemed to be a part of the tour though until they left the small area for the living room again.
"Mind if I ask you something?" Getting only a shake of her head from Lauren, Bo pressed forward. "How did you and Kenzi end up living together?" Bo definitely got more of a sister vibe to their relationship then anything in the way of unresolved sexual tension, but she still couldn't figure out how the unlikely duo fit together.
"It started in college as Kenzi sort of forced herself into my life. She was there on a scholarship and generally harassed most of the faculty and other students that she thought would and I quote 'be dead within five minutes if they ever had to buy a stolen stereo'. Turns out she was pre-med and picked up a lot of the same, practical, courses I had and I guess she decided I would be able to successfully buy a stolen stereo." Lauren thought on their early encounters before remembering the last year at college brought a slight frown to her face and earned the blonde a sympathetic look from Bo as they walked into the living room and though Lauren wasn't going to get into details she did feel like Bo should know something. "We drifted apart during med school as she wasn't a fan of Nadia and the two of them could barely be in the same room."
"I could see how it would difficult to avoid Kenzi if she didn't wanted to be avoided." Bo figured alcohol made the surgeon clingy in a physical sense, but she seemed like a hard person to shake off. She could also tell Lauren was opening up to her about Nadia at the same time, but didn't want to push on such an unhappy topic for the blonde. "I was lucky when Hale returned my phone call because no else was when I started leaving messages."
"How did your previous relationship end anyways?" Lauren realized a reason for the blank walls might have more to do with why Bo was living alone than a lack of interest in decorating. The brunette never talked about the family Hale had referenced and were somehow connected to the location of their escapades last night according to Kenzi.
"With him and that redhead waitress who spent the night doing her best to not notice I was there. I found them in the backroom of that bar. Apparently he had some idea that our relationship was an open one." Bo thought that was the worst excuse she had ever heard, but certainly enough of her friends and family bought it that she became the bad guy for ending things. Having reached the end of the tour, Bo gestured to the couch with the coffee still in her hand.
"Wow that is terrible. Well, frankly, if he couldn't get past his own issues other than by cheating on you than he doesn't deserve you as a coworker or his girlfriend." Lauren saw a smirk tugging at the lips of her companion before Bo joined her on the couch.
"My my Lauren if I did know better I would say you have a bit of a soft spot for me." There was no echoing laughter, the look of feigned surprise like the blonde had no idea that the two of them were closer to each other than either one should be comfortable with however had made appearances in the past and Bo smiled at Lauren's terrible poker face.
Since finding herself in Bo's life, Lauren felt barriers being lost at an ever more rapid pace as the woman got closer. She had no idea how things were going to progress, but Bo was not someone that life let slip by and for the time being Lauren was still amongst the living. The brunette was still celebrating getting a shot in against her friend with a couple more drinks from the reflex impairing concoction, which was a mistake she was not going to let pass when it could be so easily utilized. "You have some something on your lips."
That said Lauren made sure she kept Bo's lips busy with her own why pushing the woman into the couch cushions. Her heart was racing, the heat shooting through her threatened to burn her alive from the inside out and she was certain she would tear her own hair out if her hands hadn't found Bo's soft skin instead…yet, in that moment, she felt calm. The pressure to be the perfect doctor, the perfect wife, the perfect boss, hell the perfect person, all faded as Bo's lips moved against her own.
She was free of it all, but the moment Bo's tongue found her own in a kiss unlike any other she had felt it became clear that she had lost control. That thought was completely exhilarating, like free falling from a mountain. Only in this case she didn't need to even jump off a mountain. Instead the sensation seemed to follow just letting Bo do whatever she wanted, which would explain how she found herself suddenly under the woman as talented hands ran grazing touches on skin that had been exposed by a slightly raised shirt.
There were a thousand thoughts screaming in her head to say something, anything. Tell her to stop. Tell her to go lower. Tell her that this was a mistake. Tell her that she had made the mistake of not doing this sooner. Scream for help. Scream for more.
It wasn't any good though. Lauren had lost any ability to speak; something Bo discovered when she found a spot on the blonde's neck just above the quickening pulse that was usually covered by soft hair and instead of words the sound that came out was more like squealing brakes. That brought something of an abrupt stop to the line crossing as Bo stopped to make sure everything was all right and Lauren used the break to gently push up until she was sitting with Bo in a lap.
As her mind sought clarity for what had just happened, her body just wanted to feel the heat rushing through it again. There would be little hope for rational thought if Bo pushed forward, but instead the seemed to need a bit of space herself and when she went to pull away, Lauren decided clarity could wait and captured Bo's lips again why pulling the brunette against her.
The younger woman did not seem upset by the sudden interaction in the slightest. In fact when the softness of lips, a swipe of a tongue and light nips against her bottom lip ended when Lauren felt a need for oxygen, Bo suddenly leaned back and had a smile as if she just conquered Rome. Lauren wanted to be annoyed, wanted to dump the woman on her ass to if she was so certain of herself from the floor, instead it just turned her on.
"Would you like a paper bag?" As a doctor it was not unusual to see patients whose only problem was an acute shortness of breath and yes Bo was rather pleased that in this case she was why Lauren's lungs were trying to take in as much oxygen as possible.
Bo looked so happy with herself, and her joke, that any insecurity Lauren felt before turned into a raw determination to wipe that smirk off those heavenly lips. Taking full advantage of their position, she leaned towards the other woman until just as lips were about to touch. She would give anything to feel Bo's lip against her own, and got the impression that feeling was mutual, so in a final second she pulled away slightly and dumped the brunette off her lap and onto the couch.
Standing up, and ignoring both the confused Bo and tipped over coffee cups, Lauren started towards a closed door, not bothering to turn around before clueing Bo into what she was doing. "You forgot to show me the bedroom during the tour."
Bo was still in a daze, not helped by Lauren suddenly heading for her bedroom, until it hit her like a brick as to why she hadn't used the 'would you like to see the bedroom' line. Unfortunately Lauren had the bedroom door opened before Bo could spring to her feet and run ahead to cut off the embarrassing scene. There on the unmade bed was all the random pieces of clothing she had found on the floor that definitely didn't add to a 'this is where we won't be doing any sleeping if you play your cards right' line she was hoping to set up before Lauren ever opened that door.
"Oh." That was the only thing Lauren could think to say after seeing the mess that Bo had clearly intended to keep hidden.
"Yeah, sorry." Bo wasn't one to blush, but she felt embarrassed and had started turning red. "In my defense it is usually not this bad. Last night…it took a while for me to settle on something to wear." Again not something that Bo was familiar with as over the years she had gotten used to selecting date attire based on how quickly she wanted a date to end in the bedroom. With the thought of wanting to impress, and entice, Lauren it had been different, difficult even.
"Well, if I caused this let me help fix this." Lauren did the only reasonable thing someone in her position could do, she grabbed the corner of a blanket and dragged it onto the floor, taking the clothes with it. Then she turned her attention to the brunette, capturing her lips and pulling at the clothes she had own.
When enough of the interfering fabric was removed, Lauren pushed Bo onto the bed and straddled her waist. She placed kiss against the soft skin on the bottom of Bo's right cheek. Small kisses followed just above the jaw line, each one covering as little skin as possible on the trip towards soft lips. Instead of connecting to those lips to her own, Lauren then started a second trail at the bottom of the left check. Obviously recognizing the change in pace, she could hear Bo groan and try to adjust her position to where she would be the undoing of Lauren's plan.
Any protest the woman was making stopped though when Lauren moved her hands over the lace covering her breasts and her fingers traced the sensitive skin barely hidden beneath it. Lauren moved her lips to Bo's shoulder, bare except for a strap Lauren didn't intend to remove just yet, thoroughly enjoying it as the woman arched into her hands after the added simulation. Her eyes never lost sight of Bo's for very long though, even as her efforts increased.
Some part of her brain was intent on noting the strangeness of the event. At another time her teasing this woman into both opposition and submission, hearing her moan as she stripped her, touched her, kissed her, when they had only had one date, would have impossible for Lauren to imagine, but seeing it, experiencing it, made it a reality that she could easily accept.
Lauren captured Bo's lips again once her own shirt was out of the way. The moan it drew from her girlfriend encouraged her to move forward as her right hand slipped lower, just grazing the inside of Bo's inner thigh, Lauren felt her own reaction as she moaned when the brunette's suddenly jerked her hips to force more contact with her fingers.
"So needy." Another oddity. Lauren never felt a need to be especially vocal in bed, especially not the point of actually talking. Yes she wanted Bo to know exactly what was going through her mind, what the woman was doing to her.
"For you." Bo had lost any intelligent thought the second Lauren tossed the clothes on the ground. All she knew was neither one of them were completely naked and Lauren hadn't put those long fingers where Bo wanted them, yet. "For weeks."
Lauren lost it and a would-be-embarrassing-if-she-had-the-sense-to-recognize-it moan escaped her throat. The thought of Bo relieving that desire for her in the bed they were in at the end of the day, or maybe the shower before work, before seeing her almost every day, broke her resolve. She stripped the brunette and herself of what little they had on before kissing, licking and biting her way down Bo's bare body.
Lauren didn't wait, didn't bother with further conformation, at least not in words, the moan as her hand trailed down the muscular abdomen of the dark haired goddess beneath her was enough to know Bo was ready. Her lips went to the right thigh and she saw a curtain of dark hair cover Bo's as her back arched off the bed before the woman fell against her.
Her hands pushed apart the woman's thigh and she stalled only long enough to blow across Bo's center, causing the woman to buck her hips. Lauren wanted to truly understand how ready Bo was and with that tongue entered the warm sex of her lover. Her left hand joined her in pushing Bo ever closer to the edge as she started rubbing Bo's clit.
Bo had wrapped her hands around the head post, holding on to the only thing she could grip, as she screamed the blonde's name. It had been a strange twelve hours, a strange few months really, but finally she felt something other than the weight of the world on her shoulders. She was so close to release that she nearly missed Lauren's mouth pressed lightly against her own and that fingers had replaced a talented tongue. She needed that push, the reminder that she had someone for more than a one night stand, and when Lauren curled her fingers she finally let go.
"Lauren." This time Bo painted out the name not out of lust, but something deeper, something more meaningful, that her brain couldn't convey.
"I know." Lauren reached out, gently placing her hand on Bo's cheek. She felt the same, but she was human and knew the occasional distraction helped when unable to come to decision, discover a solution or express a thought properly. Fortunately Bo seemed satisfied with her response and she felt the woman flip their positions, bare breasts pressed into her own as the heat from a series of open mouth kisses spread across her neck and shoulder.
"Good." It wasn't difficult to see why they had trouble figuring out her relationship up until this point as even know Bo wasn't sure exactly where it was all headed, but for now that didn't matter. Lauren completely exposed to her completely and Bo wasn't going to waste that by doing so instead she cupped Lauren's center, earning her a throaty moan. She wanted to push against Lauren, discover what the doctor's reaction to being devoured by set of lips, explored by a pair of hands, feeling a soft body against her own.
"I think we're do for a talk doctor." Bo only got another moan and several nods from Lauren, but she wasn't sure if the woman really liked the idea of talking or if it was because her fingers were teasing the blonde's silky entrance. If she had to guess her money would be on the second. "After I've heard you scream my name we'll see how that goes."
Lauren only pushed her hips down against the teasing fingers of the dark haired woman lingering over her, ignoring the world that tried to push in with reason and processing what Bo was saying. That wasn't for today though, not with more pressing desires to deal with. She had given up on intelligent thinking and settled on waiting for Bo to do more than tease with the rest of her mental capacity needed to control her ragged breathing, alternating between biting and licking at Bo's lips, and the thrust of her hips all while focusing on the brunette who was watching her.
Every thrust, every caress, every nip of teeth against flesh, Lauren focused through it all on the black eyes fixated on her own. She had wanted to see Bo's reaction, to know that Bo, had wanted this and what was clear was Bo wanted her. No matter the complications, no matter that they worked together, no matter that Lauren had been resisting the attraction between them even after exploring Bo's mouth the night before, Bo still looked at her as if she was perfect.
When Bo's fingers entered her she couldn't hold back anymore. Lauren closed her eyes and there was only one thought surviving as the contractions of the muscles and flood of chemicals created the familiar euphoric state. "Bo!" The world was lost to her senses, a state that was prolonged by the physical ministrations of one woman and memory of the other. Slowly the world returned and Lauren found herself on her side, held tightly from behind by an arm across her waist.
"Welcome back." Bo took the blonde's earlobe between her teeth and intended to resume her fun with the doctor when she felt the woman still her hand and that smirk appeared on Lauren's face as the woman turned around.
Lauren's familiar lips were on collarbone when three fingers were inside her without warning. Where Lauren found the energy, Bo didn't care at this point, last night's make out session hadn't been enough and she would kick herself later for not tasting Lauren on that desk the first time they were alone in her office.
She did however want control back. Even as fingers were joined with a greedy mouth and Lauren was slowly, painfully, teasing her breast, Bo wanted to resume her plan to turn her lover's legs into jello. It wasn't that Bo didn't enjoy Lauren's sudden boldness, but she had a reputation to uphold.
Before Lauren could do anything more she was suddenly on her back looking at the ceiling. "Bo!" Lauren was fairly certain didn't have the upper body strength to stop physically stop Bo if well hydrated and rested so that certainly wasn't going to happen now. Fortunately the sudden movement didn't seem to mean she was in any immediate danger or at least not in the way most people would consider dangerous, but the desire in Bo's eyes as she looked down at her definitely left her breathless.
Lauren had been with other women, not just Nadia, and had never felt unsatisfied, but already she knew nothing would compare to being with Bo. When Bo's mouth pressed hard against her core, lashing against her with a precision that didn't seem possible, all the while fingers worked rapidly in and out of her, it was truly incredible. For fleeting moment, when it all came crashing down again, she thought she might actually be dead and Lauren smiled why waiting for death to claim her.
When she realized her mortal coil had survived she had to laugh that she had never thought about how just much she was missing out on those slow nights when it was just her and Bo in the ER with hardly a thing to do. Her body was starting to protest, but seeing that smirk on Bo's face Lauren wasn't going to give up that easily. With one more kiss, tasting herself on Bo's lips, providing a burst energy, her fingers to resume their previous effort.
Lauren put everything she had into turning Bo into a whimpering, hot, mess one more time. It didn't take long and Lauren smiled as the brunette shuddered beneath her. Lauren completely collapsed against her lover's side and felt Bo's heart still racing from her own climax. Once the fog cleared and Lauren could slow her breathing she knew it was time to face reality.
Bo body burned as Lauren's fingers slide into her again. The pace the blonde set caused her orgasm hit more like a mad dash than to the finish line than a marathon and when the world came back to her she more than a little pleased to feel Lauren sprawled out against her.
Bo watched Lauren for a few seconds, fighting an urge to wrap her arms around the blonde and fall asleep. As tempting as it was she didn't know how her lover would respond, despite them starting the day in bed, for though nothing sounded better than to enjoy the next several hours with her own sleeping beauty.
Lauren gently traced a random pattern on the outside of Bo's arm until she felt Bo's body completely relax and couldn't resist placing a light kiss on the spot her fingers had been as Lauren slowly took in the bedroom around them. It wasn't out of uncertainty. No she often did the same even when in her own bedroom. Like so many other little things the check of her surroundings is simply how the woman ended and started her day.
Getting no sign of disapproval, Lauren set her head against Bo's chest and reached out to entangle their fingers on of her hands. She wasn't certain about Bo, but personally she felt completely drained and, for the moment, satisfied. They had to talk and Lauren was still looking forward toward their date in the hours ahead, but when Bo put an arm around her and pressed a kiss against the top of her head, she even managed to somehow get the comforter off the ground and over them. Lauren could only smile has she drifted off to sleep.
So there it is, the "last chapter" of this story. The epilogue will probably pop up during the next week. I do apologize again for the lengthy wait between chapters 6 and 7, along with a two week delay between 7 and 8. My life-long friend showed up to make my life more interesting for a week, but I did manage to settle on an idea for my next story and start on a doccubus one-shot. Thank you to all the guest reviewers who left comments for the last chapter, there were a lot of you I couldn't reply to directly so just know I appreciate all the support and suggestions.