Just having some fun here…need a break from the drama of the past two chapters.

Characters not mine, they belong to Showcase and Lost Girl

Chapter 24

"Hahaha Tamsin stop!"

The Valkyrie smirked as she leaned over and placed another series of wet, sloppy kisses on Lauren's neck. It had been a few days since the big discovery about her possible, and highly unlikely according to Lauren, connection to Bo and Katya and the doctor was in full research mode. Tamsin had been patient the past few days and been treading very lightly as she wasn't convinced that Lauren wasn't secretly pissed at her for not sharing her wealth of information earlier.

Apparently Tamsin figured out that the doc truly wasn't upset and now she was getting restless as she hung out with Lauren who was too occupied in her research for the Valkyrie's liking. It had been a tense few days and if Lauren wasn't home researching alone Natalie was there and the two of them were doing their best to learn as much as they could so they could help Bo and Tamsin when the time came. And as Lauren quickly learned, a bored Valkyrie is almost impossible to keep still.

Tamsin had watched Lauren quietly all morning but now her restlessness had turned to boredom and she was beginning to get grumpy at the lack of attention. She had snuck up behind Lauren and was doing her best to distract the shorter woman from her current research with wandering hands and lips much to the doctor's amusement and very slight irritation.

Lauren pushed Tamsin away gently as she smiled at her. "Honey you need to let me do this."

Tamsin pouted. "Come on doc. You've had your nose in those books for the past three days. Aren't you due for a break?"

The shorter blonde raised an eyebrow and turned a bit in her chair to face the taller woman. "And what do you suggest?"

Tamsin grinned and wiggled her eyebrows. "I could think of a few things."

She reached forward and pulled Lauren out of the chair and over to the couch where she set her down gently and maneuvered herself between Lauren's legs as she rested her chin on the doctor's chest. She looked up at Lauren's warm smile and bit her lip a bit as her eyes fell on the faint trace of a bruise that was still there.

"How's your eye?"

Lauren ran her finger over it lightly. "Fine, all things considered. You have a very hard elbow."

Tamsin scrunched her lips. "And a hard head too apparently. I'm sorry again about that."

The doc smiled and brought one hand up to play with the ends of Tamsin's hair. "It's okay, it was an accident. Which by the way could have been avoided—"

Tamsin huffed. "Yeah yeah yeah I know, if Bo and I weren't fighting. Like I told you we agreed to make nice so no more of that. And why am I the only one who always gets in trouble for that?"

Lauren gave her a look and Tamsin pouted again which caused Lauren to laugh and tap her on the nose lightly. "Because you usually instigate it. But I see your point, and from now on I'll be sure both of you get in trouble."

The Valkyrie raised an eyebrow and gave her an uncertain look. "Let Natalie handle her, seems she's got Bo under control anyway."

The doctor laughed and gave Tamsin a knowing look. "Are you saying Bo is whipped?"

Tamsin smirked and nodded which made Lauren laugh loudly and look down at Tamsin after her laughter subsided. "And is she the only one?"

Tamsin's eyes bugged out and her jaw dropped a bit at Lauren's obvious intent behind her question. "Yes."

Lauren raised an eyebrow and gave her a playful smile. "Oh really?"

The Valkyrie nodded and tried to give her a nonchalant response. "Um yeah…please I am not like the trained Succubus."

Lauren contemplated the statement for a bit and nodded her head casually. "Okay. Good to know."

Tamsin watched her carefully not quite understanding whatever game it was she was playing. The pair laid there in silence for a bit before Lauren's phone broke the silence and she reached into her pocket to answer it. Tamsin saw Bo's name on the caller ID and she rolled her eyes a bit as Lauren chatted with her and hung up promising to see her and Natalie later that night at the clubhouse.

"Do we have plans that you'd like to share?"

Lauren gave her an amused smile. "Well Bo suggested we all get together and blow off some steam since everyone's been putting in so much time and effort lately. Seems you two are on the same page there."

Tamsin made a face at that statement causing Lauren to laugh. "Trust me we are not on the same page."

Lauren nodded and sat up a bit forcing Tamsin to back up slightly. "Well we need to be over there in an hour so I'm going to take a shower. Alone."
The doc laughed at Tamsin's shocked face as she was about to suggest company when Lauren said she was going to shower only to be cut off before she could. The Valkyrie watched Lauren walk up the stairs towards her bathroom and shook her head knowing if she tried to follow Lauren would surely kick her out of the bathroom. She huffed a bit as she stood up and decided to change her clothes while she waited for her human lover to return. Tamsin went up to Lauren's bedroom and pulled out a clean shirt and jeans from the drawer Lauren had cleared out for her and she slipped on the fresh clothes before heading back down to wait for Lauren.

A few hours later they were at the clubhouse enjoying some good wine and snacks with Bo, Natalie, Kenzi and Jeff. It was all so pedestrian, so normal, so human. Jeff and Kenzi were occupying the large armchair with Kenzie sitting half on the side and half on him while Lauren was seated on the couch between Natalie and Tamsin and Bo was on the chair at the other end of the couch. Jeff was telling them some entertaining stories from his college days and Lauren and Nat laughed along with him as he described freshmen dorm horror stories and graduation stressors.

"Doc you want more wine?"

Lauren looked down and noticed her glass was almost empty and she nodded as Tamsin got up to retrieve the open bottle of wine from the kitchen as well as the other unopened bottle knowing they would drink it soon enough. She poured some of the liquid into Lauren's glass and offered around to see if anyone wanted more as well. Kenzi refilled her glass and she leaned back against the chair comfortably. Jeff gave Tamsin a curious look and a small smile as he sipped his beer.

"Why do you call her doc?"

The Valkyrie rolled her eyes a bit and tried to smile over at him. "Because she is a doctor."

He nodded and looked around with a curious smile. "Yeah but you guys are…I mean…isn't that a little I don't know…informal?"

He kind of gave her a shy smile as he'd asked the question as he wasn't sure how to interact with the tall blonde. Of everyone in the group she had always been the most distant and he could tell she oozed snark just like Kenzi but in a more serious way.

Tamsin glanced over at Lauren and shrugged as she sipped her wine. "I guess? I dunno I just got used to it ya know? Does it bother you?"

The last question was directed at Lauren who coughed suddenly making her choke on her wine a bit. Bo smirked and gave Tamsin a knowing look. "I guess that's a yes."

Tamsin glared at her over the rim of her cup and Natalie laughed as she looked over at Tamsin. "Don't listen to her, Lauren here has never been bit on pet names so I think you're okay."

Lauren cleared her throat and looked at Tamsin with an amused smile. "It's fine, and no it doesn't bother me."

Tamsin nodded and turned back to Jeff with a look that said, 'see told you so.' Kenzi laughed and nodded as she finished off her current glass and reached for the bottle. "Besides, can you picture Tam Tam here calling her cutesy little names?"

Kenzi found her own comment hilarious and Bo and Natalie joined her in deep laughter as Jeff kind of chuckled along not sure if Tamisn was offended or not. Even Lauren had to giggle at Tamsin's slight pout and she leaned over and placed her hand on the Valkyrie's thigh as she kissed her cheek. "It's okay babe, really."

Tamsin huffed a bit as she finished her glass of wine in slight annoyance. "I can do that if you want."

Bo laughed and nodded as she tipped her glass towards Lauren. "Now that might be something I'd like to see."

Lauren laughed and nodded as she caught the look on Tamsin's face out of the corner of her eye. She turned to the Succubus with a raised eyebrow and smirked. "Well if I recall you're a big fan of pet names."

Bo blushed a bit as Natalie gave Lauren a knowing look. "Unexpected isn't it?"

Lauren laughed and nodded as her and Natalie toasted the statement and now Bo was pouting slightly as she sipped her wine. "Nothing's wrong with that."

Jeff laughed and put his hand on Kenzi's knee. "I'll drink to that."

Kenzi rolled her eyes a bit as she laughed. "Yeah this one here is a big fan of that also."

Lauren and Natalie laughed as Kenzi chuckled and Jeff just smiled along while Bo and Tamsin continued to pout a bit. Apparently both Fae were a bit embarrassed and neither one knew how to handle this situation gracefully so they just sat back as their girlfriends shared a laugh at their expense. Jeff didn't see the harm in it and he was just glad everyone was having a good time as he was really starting to like this group of friends.

"Well, now that you've all shared in that can we move on to another topic?"

Lauren patted Tamsin's thigh lightly and nodded as she looked over at Natalie. "Hey that reminds me, I wanted to see if you wanted to join me at a lecture tomorrow night?"

Natalie nodded with a smile on her face as Bo sat forward a bit and refilled her glass. "What kind of lecture?"

Lauren looked over at Bo with a small smile on her face. "It's on predicting protein dihedral angles from chemical shift data."

Bo's face fell a bit as she simply nodded and laughed. "Well you two have fun with that."

Tamsin laughed and rolled her eyes. "Above your reading level there succ….Bo?"

Tamsin glanced at Jeff hoping he didn't hear her almost say Succubus and thankfully he was too involved in whatever Kenzi was whispering to him to have heard. Bo rolled her eyes and nodded. "Oh like you know anything about that."

The Valkyrie just rolled her eyes a bit as she huffed. "Actually my guess is it's on the empirical prediction of torsion angles using a combination of chemical shift assignments for a given protein sequence."

Natalie and Lauren gave Tamsin an impressed look as Bo, Kenzi and Jeff gave her a confused look as the petite Russian finally laughed. "Say what now?"

Tamsin rolled her eyes a bit. "Nothing,"

Lauren smiled and nodded as she nudged Tamsin with her shoulder. "Maybe I should take you to the lecture also."

Tamsin gave her a strange look. "Uh pass."

Natalie laughed and nodded. "And how is it you know so much about biochemistry?"

The Valkyrie shrugged. "Been around a while I guess. Learned a few things."

She was looking at Bo as she said it and the Succubus just nodded and sipped her wine almost as if acknowledging she had 'won' that round. Tamsin smirked into her glass and Lauren raised an eyebrow at her in warning as she rolled her eyes. Lauren looked over at Bo with the same look and the Succubus pouted slightly as she sat back in her seat and drank her wine. Natalie saw the display and laughed as she patted Bo's knee lightly.

"I can teach you if you want."

Bo made a face. "No thank you. That's more your speed."

The group laughed and Lauren and Natalie shared a knowing laugh. They knew the women they were dating were not the most academic people in the world but what they lacked in book knowledge they more than made up for in other types of intellect and knowledge. The rest of the night was spent finishing basically all the wine that Bo had on hand before Kenzi and Jeff headed out to a bar to continue their night while Lauren and Tamsin headed home. Bo all but dragged Natalie upstairs and Lauren shook her head knowing in that state, after all that alcohol she shouldn't expect her friend to meet her in the morning for breakfast like she'd promised.

As they drove home Tamsin looked over at the doc and took her hand lightly. "About earlier…"

Lauren looked over at her with a warm smile and she patiently waited for Tamsin to continue. "Yes?"

The Valkyrie bit her lip a bit as she maneuvered the truck back to Lauren's condo. "Uh, it doesn't really bother you right? I mean that I call you doc?"

Lauren laughed lightly as she gripped Tamsin's hand tighter and ran her other hand down the exposed arm of the taller blonde. "No it doesn't. Believe me, if it did you'd know by now."

Tamsin smiled and nodded as she pulled up to the condo and put the truck in park. She looked over at the human and gave her a smile as she leaned in for a kiss. "Thank you for being so cool."

Lauren smiled into the kiss and laughed as she pulled back. "All that and all I get is cool?"

Tamsin rolled her eyes and smirked. "Yep. Cool. You're super cool doc."

Lauren laughed and slapped her arm lightly. "Well you're not so bad yourself."

Tamsin nodded and got out of the truck moving around to let the doc out and she held her hand as they walked the short distance up to the front door. Once inside Lauren threw her things on the couch and pulled Tamsin's hand lightly towards the stairs. "Come on, let's see if I can earn another descriptor besides cool."

Tamsin grinned as she allowed Lauren to pull her upstairs and into bed where she deftly showed that she was a lot more than 'cool' as previously described. All in all it was a great day and a good recharge for both women who had been so burdened with everything going on. It wasn't going to solve their problems but for at least one night they wouldn't have it end any other way.

So like I said, just fun times…let me know what you thought and thanks for reading!