The dinner with her fiancé and long lost love is going along surprisingly well as far as Emily is concerned. They seem to be tolerating each other nicely, in fact they are even laughing at each other's jokes. In any other time, place, world or universe; they might have been friends but in this world they stand on either side of Emily waiting for her to make her move; to make her choice between staying with Stephanie or going back to Paige and she has no idea what she is going to do. Stephanie makes her feel safe and loved. She enjoys their time together so much and it doesn't hurt that Stephanie is a really good kisser and damn good in bed. Paige however, is her Paige. She's the one person Emily ever wanted to be with, someone she thought she'd never get over and to be honest she really hadn't. Paige always had and always will have a large piece of her heart. Had she not been 'dead' all those years Emily probably wouldn't be so mentally lost right now. Unfortunately, life isn't so easy or black and white, it's a complicated and confusing labyrinth, that throws you for one hell of a loop whenever it damn well feels like it. If she and Paige hadn't been apart for so long and if she wasn't already engaged to another amazing woman, she might have an easier decision on her hands. However, she IS engaged to another amazing woman and she and Paige HAD been apart for a long time, so long that it felt like they were familiar strangers. The emotions, connection and love were all still there but did they still know each other like they used to? Was Paige willing to get to know her again if they didn't? Emily still had a lot of questions that needed to be answered before she would be able to choose.
When she and Stephanie talked the night before, she was overwhelmed with how patient her fiancé was being. Most people would have flipped out if their fiancé's past love they weren't expecting to lose or weren't hurt by, suddenly waltzed back into their lives. Stephanie really loves her and genuinely wants Emily to be happy and she's not expecting Emily to ban Paige from her life most of all.
"I want you Em and I love you but I don't want you staying with me because you feel like you have to. I want you, all of you," Stephanie says sitting on the couch with her elbows on her knees, her hands nervously clasped in front of her. She tilts her head up looking at Emily as the dark-haired girl paces back and forth across Stephanie's floor. The pair hasn't moved in together yet. Not because Stephanie or Emily didn't want it but because Emily just didn't want to get rid of Paige's house but it felt weird for Stephanie to move into it for some reason. They decided that was an obstacle they would overcome when the wedding was closer and they had to make a decision once and for all.
"I know Steph, I know you do," Emily says as she ceases her pacing to kneel in front of her. "I love you too, very much and I can't tell you how much it means to me that you are so understanding and patient during all of this."
"I just want you to be happy," Stephanie whispers out as she places a hand gingerly on the other girl's cheek at the same time leaning in to touch their foreheads together. "That's all I've ever wanted."
At the end of the night, the couple had decided that even though Emily was confused and had no idea what she was going to do yet, she would finally move in with Stephanie so Paige could have her house back. The soldier shouldn't have to live in some apartment when her house was here, it just doesn't seem right. Emily also decided, on her own, that she would stay taken by Stephanie until she could get her heart in order. She didn't want to lead her on but it would be awful to mess up a great thing, especially if she decided that was what she really wanted.
Emily turns her attention back to the other two girls after being lost in thought for the past several minutes. Both girls look so amazing that Emily can help but stare at them, looking back and forth between the two. Stephanie's eyes are a stunning blue-green, the color popping due to the light-blue long sleeve shirt she's wearing. She looks... dapper you could say with her bangs swooped to the side and suspenders completing the outfit by being worn down so they hang around her backside. Every time she looks at Emily, her eyes light up, silently conveying to Emily how much she loves her. Paige's eyes are her normal, deeply alluring brown that makes Emily's head swoon. The looks she keeps giving Emily are also full of love but also of longing, eager to rekindle something, whatever that might be with her. Three and a half year of being dirty, bruised and bloody, and yet the solider was still sexy as hell.
"I think she's checking us out Paige," Stephanie jokes when she sees the dark-haired girl practically in another world.
"Oh Emily Fields, still the day-dreamer I see," Paige adds with a side glance and a smirk as Emily finally snaps back to reality.
"Oh now you're ganging up on me...great," Emily retorts back sarcastically. She's glad things are going well and that things aren't awkward between all of them. Looking at Paige again, she sees a small smile on her lips and is amazed by the strength of soldier. She can't believe that after all she's been through, as evidenced by her scar laden back and obvious limp, that Paige can still manage to smile. She always knew Paige was capable of doing anything but to see it was another story. It's hot… hell it's sexy.
When dinner is over, Emily finds herself fairly bummed that Paige would be leaving soon. There is still a so much more she wants to know, but that would all come in time. The last business of the night is discussing the house, to which Paige graciously protests to but Emily, of course, is having none of that.
"You are not staying in that hotel anymore Paige and I'm not letting you get a dingy little apartment when you're house is right here. Plus, Stephanie and I had been meaning to move in with each other anyways," Emily says earning a look of mixed emotions from Paige. Paige of course is happy she'll be able to move back into her house but the thought of all the reminders of the memories of their love on top of the fact that Emily would be with Stephanie instead of her makes it bittersweet. In the end, Paige relents and it is decided she would move in a couple days later, giving Emily plenty of time to move what she needs to Stephanie's.
"Thank you for coming and having dinner with us. I'm so happy I got to see you," Emily says with a smile after walking Paige to the door. They give each other a heartfelt hug, holding on to each other for as long as they can without it being awkward with the other girl standing there watching them.
"Maybe we can get together just us some time?" Paige asks softly into Emily's ear earning a smile and a whispered "I would love that." After pulling apart from each other's arms, Paige gives the short-haired girl a hand shake and says her final goodbyes for the night before heading out the door. Instead of staying at what was now Paige's house again, the other two decid to go back to Stephanie's for the night. Thankfully, she lives just down the street making it a fast walk home.
"Well I thought that went well," Stephanie comments as she walks into her house behind Emily and closes the door. She had not been sure of how she and Paige would react to each other at first but she is glad she could be there for her fiancé. Before she can think or get a reply to her statement, she finds herself being pushed against the door with Emily's lips connected to hers. The short-haired girl drops her keys and tangles her hands in Emily's dark, smooth hair, pulling the girl into her to deepen the kiss.
Emily is heated from seeing both of her girls dressed up with the added sexual tension between her Paige that started after she lifted her shirt and saw her toned, muscular back. Yes it was covered in scars but she could still see the tight definition of her muscles. It was all she could do not to lean down and start placing soft kisses all up and down the soldier's back. Emily needed a release and Stephanie, being as hot as she was tonight, only added to the heat coursing through her body. Emily moves her hands from Stephanie's waist, sliding them around her back and slowing up her shirt. She moves her lips to the other girl's neck, allowing her to feel the goose bumps now adorning Stephanie's back.
"What's gotten into you," Stephanie breathes out as Emily nibbles on her earlobe.
"Does it matter?" Emily replies giving her a mischievous and incredibly sexy look before returning her lips to the other's neck.
"No it really doesn't," Stephanie moans out gripping her fiancé's back tighter. Getting frustrated with standing up, she grabs Emily's hand and pulls her up the stairs towards her bedroom, her eyes growing darker just by looking at Emily in her more aroused state. Emily follows, watching her fiancé's movements, enthralled by how sexy she looks. As she's being pulled into the bedroom, longing for her fiancé's touch again, she still can't stop thinking of Paige and the way the soft skin of the soldier's back felt against her fingers.