Well, it was slow, and not back to full episode chapters, but I'm not leaving you hanging. Here it is.
Waverly found herself locked inside her old bedroom in the homestead. She was left trapped without any apparent route of escape. It continued that way for at least hours, Waverly had no way of telling time, with her pounding on the doors and trying to draw it's attention numerous times. Eventually it did respond though.
"You can give up you know. I never have to let you out. Play along though and I may even let you come to the front sometimes. Perhaps even see Nicole." The voice whispered through the door.
"If you're talking to me now after all that silence then I bet it means they stopped you." Waverly tried to maker her voice confident, even so, the fear and isolation of being trapped in her own mind weighed on her tone.
"Or, I finally killed her. Perhaps your sister lies dead and I came to boast." The voice taunted back.
"I don't believe it for a moment." Waverly responded with venom.
"Suit yourself. You will learn soon enough."
The entire gang returned to the homestead in the wake of their hunt. Wynonna even kept the revenant carefully tied up just in case one of them might know something about what was going on. Waverly was likewise carefully bound and gagged. They had however, remembered to bandage her bleeding foot.
"I think somebody owes me an explanation why my goddamn sister needed knocked out after trying to kill me." She bluntly demanded.
"For once, I can completely truthfully say that I am absolutely innocent to what is happening." Doc offered.
Nicole loudly sighed and hung her head.
"I'm not."
"Then get talking or I get shooting." She pulled out Peacemaker and leveled it at Haught. "This is my fucking sister. I may like you, but I love her. Way too damn much to lose her so soon after coming back."
"She's possessed by a demon." Nicole's voice wavered as her face burned with shame. "She asked me not to tell you. How could I go behind her back so early in our relationship?"
Wynonna lowered the gun, calming down enough to realize threatening Nicole's life wasn't going to help.
"Alright, I get it. Lovebirds and shit. Just give me the deets on the demon."
"She didn't tell me much. The only important facts about it seemed to be that it talks in her head, and its goal is to kill you."
"Shit!" Wynonna threw her arms up in the air and frantically paced the room. "Shit, shit! So my own baby sister is being used to kill me? Really? And I thought Bobo sucked."
"Fine then, how the hell do we get it out of her? You," She pointed at the captured revenant. "Have you revenants heard anything about who's behind this?"
"Do you honestly think I made myself privy to any of their incompetent plans? My only concern is a comfortable living without being shot." He sarcastically bit.
"Good. Just covering all bases." She casually commented, not even bothering to turn his way as she swung Peacemaker towards him and fired, sending him screaming through the hell-gate opened in the ground.
"So, solutions people. How do we get Waverly back?"
"Tea!" Nicole suddenly looked more hopeful. "Waverly mentioned something about an herbal tea that Victoria gave her to suppress the demon."
"Hell yeah. That's what I'm talking about Haught." Wynonna was obviously relieved to actually hear some good news. "So where is it?"
"I don't know." The officer shook her head. "But I'm sure she would have kept some here at the homestead considering the demon is targeting you."
"Well then." Wynonna declared. "It looks like we're brewing some tea."
The gang canvassed the kitchen, scouting every cupboard for anything that could resemble tea leaves. Not entirely, despite both inhabitants of the house preference for vodka, there were several options. The first were just clearly generic store bought options though.
"Why do we even have this? Who here has ever drank tea?" Even with her sister's life in danger, Wynonna still had to ask.
"Everybody has tea left somewhere in their cupboard." Nicole offered. "You either bought it or it bought for you at least once, and it never looks or smells bad, so you can't bring yourself to throw it out."
"Same deal at your place?" The Earp guessed.
"No, I actually drink it. Which is how I learned everybody I visit has a dusty old box of it." She replied.
"How on earth do you have so many greens?" Doc was curiously holding a bundle of both parsley and cilantro. "In my time it was a miracle to see a fresh leaf of lettuce if you didn't farm it."
"Supermarkets have changed a lot." Wynonna offered. Doc just shrugged and kept looking.
After a few more minutes search the team gathered what they had found: two boxes of cheap store bought tea.
"Okay, that's…" Wynonna paused. "Completely useless."
"Maybe." Nicole grabbed the boxes and poured out the contents onto the table. "However, we probably should check first."
The boxes did indeed contain ordinary tea bags, but one of them also contained a small resealable bag with a few small balls of, presumably, tea leaves.
"Let's get that shit brewing!" Wynonna snatched it with a celebratory exclamation and went to grab a kettle from the stove.
Shortly, after the leaves had steeped, the group returned to the living room and prepared to administer the cure. They could clearly see that Demon-Possessed-Waverly was awake.
"I got this guys." Wynonna signaled the others to stay back. Her confidence however was put into doubt as she immediately began to mumble reassurances to herself as she strode across the room to Waverly.
"It's okay Wynonna, you can do this. You've got to do this."
She reached the bound girl and ripped out her gag.
"You going to just drink it, or do we have to do this the hard way?"
A dark, very in-Waverly like chuckle came out of her sister's mouth.
"Why? You can't kill me. I can take torture far beyond what you could ever give." She smiled and released another short laugh. "That is if you can do anything to your precious sister."
"Just give her back, please." Nicole suddenly interjected a desperate plea.
The Sentinel suddenly looked visibly uncomfortable. Wynonna looked between them curiously.
"I cannot do that. Wynonna must die so that I may personally assure that the damned rest in Hell."
"Cool story, but like I said: I can handle this." Wynonna quipped.
She pulled out Peacemaker and lifted up towards the Sentinel possessed Waverly's cheek, ensuring that it could see what she was doing, and slowly pressed it to her face.
"Aaaaahhhhh!" An ear-piercing scream ripped from Waverly's mouth as her face contorted in unimaginable pain.
Wynonna lifted the gun and switched to the other cheek.
"Yeah, this pain frightens things that have experienced the torments of Hell. You just watched the door." She sneered at the collapse of the creature's tough act before pressing to its skin.
The screams erupted yet again. Nicole looked physically sickened and frightened at the sight of what appeared as her girlfriend screaming and suffering so much pain.
"Now, since I think I've demonstrated just how far I'm willing to go to get my sister back, you can drink the goddamn tea, or I can shove this up somewhere even more painful." She threatened, punctuating the point by quickly pressing the tip of Peacemaker to its forehead.
"Fine!" She screamed. "I accept. But I will kill you Earp."
The older sibling rolled her eyes. "Yeah, right. Get in line, you'll be somewhere around sixty-five. Sixty-six if Jimmy still remembers that whole junior prom thing."
She rudely pressed the cup against its mouth. After sputtering a few moments, it swallowed the liquid.
The whole group watched as Waverly's eyes flashed black, before slowly seeping back to their normal tone.
"Ugh." She groaned. "Wait a minute… I'm back? You did it! I knew it!"
Both Wynonna and Nicole pounced on her with a hug as they made a ruckus of laughing and crying.
"Wait a minute." Wynonna suddenly interrupted the celebration and tapped Waverly's cheek with Peacemaker. "Right, your good. Back to hugging now."
The three continued to share a group hug. It wasn't long until Waverly turned to Nicole and they began to share a kiss as well.
"Okay. I'm beginning to feel a little third wheel-y in this hug right about now." Wynonna joked as she let go.
Waverly actually pulled away from Nicole with a final apologetic kiss.
"You'll never be a third wheel Wynonna, you're my sister. Now get back in here." She pulled the older Earp back into her arms. "Besides, me and Nicole will have all the time in the world to do this same thing, but naked later anyway."
"Fucked up girl!" Wynonna laughed as she pushed Waverly off of her. "Only I'm supposed to give uncomfortably much detail about my sex life to family."
After a last laugh, her face took a much more serious expression.
"You know we're going to need to have a very serious conversation about you hiding the fact you were possessed by a demon out to kill me."
Waverly looked intensely nervous and embarrassed.
"Yeah, sorry about that whole trying to kill you thing." She sheepishly replied.
"S'okay Baby Girl. Happens to the best of us." Wynonna gave her a quick peck on the forehead and finally stood up again. "Now that that's all done, we have a job to finish. That was the last step to begin Operation Rescue Dolls. Me and Doc should get everything ready, we're heading out tomorrow. Day after at the latest. We'll talk tomorrow."
She and Doc headed out to prepare, leaving Waverly and Nicole alone. The two of them just sat in silent embrace for a few minutes before Nicole spoke up.
"So, you got shot again?"
"Yep." Waverly nodded. "I'm beginning to think bullet wounds are a gay thing. You guys should warn newbies about that."
Nicole chuckled.
"You didn't think it might be an Earp thing? It also all started after your sister came back." She countered.
"Fair point, but I'm still pointing my finger at gayness." Waverly stood her ground.
"Do you need anything? Should I be taking you to the hospital?" Nicole sounded concerned now that the true extent of the events that passed began to set in.
"Nah. The last one was way worse. The Sentinel obviously assumed that it would still be controlling me, so it couldn't do any real damage."
She leaned even closer and began whispering in the redhead's ear.
"Tomorrow I will visit the hospital just to be sure everything is safe and clean. Tonight, I believe we have privacy."
"Total privacy." She added, staring at Nicole with a sultry grin.
"Oh." Nicole reacted, her eyebrows raised.
"Yeah." Waverly confirmed.
"Oh." Nicole repeated, this time with a dimpled smile and hoisting Waverly up into her arms as she said it.
"Yeah…" Waverly breathed out slowly.
The much taller redhead carried her girlfriend to the bedroom. Waverly made the process much slower than it need to be by choosing to nuzzle under Nicole's uniform collar and plant kisses along her neck and collarbone.
Not that Nicole was complaining.
She reached the bedroom and dropped Waverly gently onto the bed.
"I think we're both too well dressed right now."
"Really? Those khakis do make your butt look great." Waverly couldn't help but joke.
Nicole did not distract herself from stripping down, unbuttoning her uniform top and loosening her belt. Waverly followed suit and quickly shed her skirt and crop top. She finished so much quicker that she was able to help her girlfriend finish removing the last of her uniform and underwear.
Where Nicole's job essentially required at least moderately sensible rather than stylish undergarments, Waverly had no such limitations. The redhead's eyes went wide once Waverly laid back on the bed after helping her strip and she saw that her small lover was in a purple mesh and lace lingerie set. The set barely concealed anything, but most certainly accentuated it. Which nearly struck Nicole dumb when in her eyes, Waverly was already a phenomenal sight without anything accenting her charms.
"Baby Girl… just… wow." The cop stuttered.
"I take it you like it?" The Earp grinned.
"Baby, there's no one alive who would not like that." Nicole breathed, still a little… distracted.
"Well then, it's lucky only you get to see it." Waverly whispered.
"Let's see some more." Nicole dropped onto the bed and pulled the smaller girl onto her, who squealed at the sudden move. She reached behind, gently removed the bra, and tossed it over the side of the bed. Waverly took the opportunity of their bodies pressed together to pull Nicole into a kiss.
Their movements were awkward, and slow, and oh-so-pleasurable as Nicole reached down to work Waverly's panties off without pulling out of the kiss.
The entire process took several minutes, but neither woman was trying for speed. Once the underwear was off though, and Nicole finally pulled out of the kiss, she slowly teased down her girlfriend's body, kissing every open space.
Once she reached her lover's center she gently teased Waverly with short kisses and slight flicks of her tongue before pulling back entirely.
"I want to try something if you're okay with it." Nicole explained when Waverly whined at the loss of contact.
The redhead pulled out from under the bed the overnight bag she had already brought to Waverly's room weeks ago. Unzipping it, she removed a more recent addition. Waverly sat up a little bit just in time to see her lover affixing a harness with straps.
"You want to try a strap-on?" She questioned, intrigued by Nicole's desire.
"Only if you want to." Her lover attempted to reassure her that there was no pressure.
"Right now I want anything from you." She lurched forward and pulled Nicole back onto her just as she had finished lubing the toy to plant another searing kiss on her. "Besides, I'm sure you'll feel a whole lot better inside me than Champ."
The redhead looked briefly disgusted.
"A tip with women Baby. Most of them don't ever want compared even positively to a man's parts. Especially Champ Hardy's."
Still, despite her warning Nicole did not let herself be deterred, and reasserted control of their kiss. Reaching down between their tangled legs, she began to carefully align the shaft with her smaller lover's center.
Since, unlike most men, she placed no artificial value on virginity, Nicole was actually rather glad that Waverly was already experienced. It meant that although she would be no less careful about Waverly's feelings or pleasure, she could worry much less about causing the girl any pain.
"You sure your ready?" She confirmed one last time.
"Do it." Waverly confirmed before reconnecting their lips.
Nicole slowly pressed the toy into her lover, the feeling of Waverly releasing a slow gasping moan into her mouth was perhaps the most sexual thing she had ever experienced.
Then again, with Waverly Earp, it was already a very competitive list.
She started with a slow rhythm, more pressing into her and slowly twisting in a circle than thrusting, enjoying the sensation of their warm bodies touching. Waverly was clearly enjoying it as well; at first throwing her head back and releasing a low breathy moan before suddenly clutching her almost painfully tight and biting sharply into the crook of her neck.
The sudden pain spurred Nicole on. She now began thrusting in earnest. The feedback from Waverly's every whimper and clutch giving her the delicious pleasure of being inside her lover.
Waverly, for her part, was in heaven. Nicole's powerful thrusts were like nothing she had ever experienced. Champ was, despite his ridiculous number of flaws, not a completely terrible lover (it was the only reason she ever stayed with him), but he was still an absolutely selfish lover. Nicole was reacting to every moan, every gasp, to gauge how to best drive her lover's pleasure. Just as Waverly was reaching her peak, Nicole snaked her hand down between them and pressed her thumb firmly against her clit and gently twisted, sending her cascading over the edge with a scream.
"Oh fuck Nicole!" She semi-incoherently screamed immediately before biting even more deeply into the already bruising hickey.
The redhead just used the pain to help drive her own orgasm. Once she knew Waverly had came, she began once more grinding against the smaller girl, this time pressing her own sex against the inside of the toy to help bring her own climax to head. She came with a muffled, breathy grunt.
They laid there for the longest time, Waverly enjoying the warm comfort and security of being held firmly beneath her lover's gently breathing form.
"Wake up Sleeping Beauties! We've got a prison to break!" Wynonna's voice cut through the haze of sleep. Waverly didn't even realize she had fallen asleep until she saw the sunlight streaming through the window.
Nicole rolled off of her in shock, also knocking off the sheet that one of them must have drawn over their bodies at some point in the night.
"Is that- Were you still inside… Jesus Nicole, just take that off! I did not need to see that!" Wynonna looked a little bit queasy as she span around to avoid further seeing her baby sister's post-coital state.
Nicole was briefly mortified with embarrassment, but then began to laugh to both Earp sister's surprise.
"Hey, it's your fault you have to keep busting in on us! I'm just glad that for once you showed up after we got to have our fun." She seemed extraordinarily self-satisfied at seeing a near Wynonna interruption fail.
"Whatever Haughtstuff." The older Earp was already walking out of the room with a dismissive hand wave behind her back. "Nice tits by the way." She slammed the door shut again to let them get ready.
Which they did. A still embarrassed Waverly particularly quick to throw on her clothes.
"Did she just compliment my girlfriend's tits right in front of my face?" She grumbled will pulling the day's crop-top on.
"Don't let it get to you. Flirting is exactly how Wynonna likes to get on people's nerves. Besides, she's straight, so I'm pretty sure she's no threat to you." Nicole reassured her girlfriend, clearly still amused.
."Yeah right. Neither is her 'top-shelf ass'." Waverly sarcastically grumbled with an eye roll to punctuate her point.
"Hey! I was trying to-" Nicole started to protest.
"I'm just teasing Honey. Now come on. 'Nonna is right, we have a rescue mission." She gave the redhead a quick kiss on the cheek.
Once they were ready Waverly and Nicole went down to the kitchen, where, as it turned out, Wynonna and Doc were already waiting. Doc already had some scrambled eggs waiting for them.
"Good. Eat up, we have a long drive." Wynonna said, still busy double-checking supplies. Mostly bags of guns and ammo.
"If we're assaulting a secret military prison do we have a plan? I mean a specific plan, not the vague idea to run at it while invisible." Nicole pressed, trying to gauge just how dead they all were.
"Even Victoria's divination and cool toy didn't exactly give us important details like, you know, a map? Blueprints? Sorry Red, but we're flying blind. Our only hope is that they will be too." Wynonna explained, pulling the brooch out at the last point.
"She is right." Waverly piped up. "We really have no idea how this place will be set up. The only option is to scout it out on site."
"Alright." The redhead conceded. "But we need to all be careful then. This isn't any of us's area of expertise, so we are running into a threat far bigger than hillbilly demons with guns."
Wynonna made a point of Nicole seeing her dramatic eye roll.
"I can see you're trying for the role of team mom with Dolls gone."
"I wasn't the team mom with your sister last night." Nicole shot back.
Wynonna, Doc, and Waverly just stared at her wide eyed and silent for several seconds before the elder Earp burst out laughing.
"Don't try to do my quip thing Haughtstuff. It just… doesn't work for you." She fit in between fits of laughter. Doc awkwardly nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, alright." She mumbled feeling humiliated. "That really wasn't my thing."
"It's alright Honey." Waverly kissed her on the cheek. "Your amazing with your mouth in other ways."
Nicole suddenly looked even more mortified and Wynonna choked mid-laugh, before then chuckling again.
"See? It's an Earp thing?"
Finally getting back to that rescue! You will all get to see how Dolls has been hanging in this time line soon. Please Read, please Review. And P.S. I am still amazed ratings recovered so big we will get a third season.