I feel your compliments like bullets on skin - chapter seven
“What?” Lilith shouts, a lot less excited and quite a bit more accusatory than Camila.
“Can you please step outside so we can make ourselves decent?” Beatrice tries, god help her, she tries not to let the boiling feeling of fear in her chest take control - but knows she failed miserably when her hands start trembling.
There’s a long pause where no one says anything, Ava is looking at her, watching her, but Beatrice might as well be in another world.
Then Ava moves and looks back over her shoulder. “I know this is a lot, but she asked you to step out. So if you could give us a minute.” There’s a sharpness in her voice, it’s unfamiliar and precise - protective. Beatrice wants to tell her it isn’t necessary. These are her people, her family - but she really does need a moment.
“Of course, yeah, yes - Lilith let’s…”
Camila pulls Lilith by the arm and Beatrice watches her get dragged out of the room - staring daggers into Ava.
When the door closes behind them, Ava exhales. “Well…that was a thing, huh?”
“I didn’t know,” Beatrice says without thinking, she just feels so heavy all of the sudden - so unmoored. Their little bubble has burst and with it her safety feels lost. “They won’t say anything, they’re good people and I’ll speak with them and -”
“Whoa whoa, hey,” there are suddenly strong hands cradling her face, holding her steady. “Bea, I’m not worried about that, they’re your people. Of course I trust them.” She feels her bottom lip still trembling and Ava must notice because she brushes her thumb across it. “Even if the tall one looks like she wants to kill me.”
Beatrice lets out the smallest laugh, it feels good - as if some of the weight on her chest releases with it. “She’s that way with everyone.”
“Oh well that makes me feel less special.”
She’s still Ava, that’s what Beatrice registers first when she finally starts to calm down. People know now, beyond anything they can hide. Certainly it’s easier this way, she thinks, that it’s her people and not Ava’s world.
That doesn’t change the fact that things will be different now - and yet…she’s still just Ava. “I’m sorry we didn’t have the chance to…progress.”
Ava grins. “Don’t worry,” she tips Bea’s chin up and presses a kiss to her lips. “I’ll get you where I want you soon enough.” Then she somehow just steps back as if she hasn’t just sent another rush of wetness to Beatrice’s underwear, and grabs her shirt off the floor.
CONT ON AO3
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did a blog cleanse, going through all my works to revise and edit them, queued a fic to post midday Monday, hoping to have a clean slate and find my happy place here again
have a good weekend everyone 🤍
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The only way I can survive a 6am shift is coffee. I'm somewhat bearable after coffee but I feel you about working 6am shifts!! 😘 hang in there! 🌻
i wish i could drink coffee!!! it makes my heart rate skyrocket and i have a panic attack🤣
I’m just surviving at this point lol. Thankfully its not an 8 hr shift, but i’m still dreading it🤣
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