AU: Annabelle and Tanya

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What do you do when you realize you're in love with your best friend? Your female best friend, to make things worse.

Annabelle sighs, staring up at the dark ceiling above her bed. She's never felt this way about a woman before, the warm and tingly feeling of desire tagging along with what she knows is love. Tanya Adams is an exception to all the rules, and she doesn't know why.

Sexual attraction doesn't work like that, does it? Annabelle thought people were built to prefer one side or the other, no exceptions. Hell, she's not even sure how sex works when both partners are female. Perpetually waking up aching and frustrated, longing for things she's never known would be bad enough...

....but it's not just sex she wants. She wants to be with Tanya through good and bad, to be her PARTNER in every possible sense of the word. She doesn't know how to say it and make Tanya believe it. (She's afraid that Tanya doesn't really want her that way, that this will wreck everything between them.)

Annabelle ruthlessly attempts to squash those feelings down, to try and hide her nerves and desire as much as possible. Tonight is their night. (Can you have a date night when you're not dating?) Time to curl up together on Annabelle's couch, get a slight alcohol buzz, and "watch" an action movie. (Mostly they take them apart, rolling eyes and making smart-ass comments at Hollywood stupidity. Or topping whatever is happening on screen with stuff they've actually done.)

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Annabelle grins. "Well, the gauzy pseudo-dress was a break with tradition that I made," she begins. "Traditionally, it's always performed nude."

Hm. Babes and Bullets IV, Revenge of the Scorpion God III, Steel Your Heart....

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Baron Fear - The Beginning, Blood Insanity VI, Siege Breaker 2000, Evil Bride, Fear Canyon, Invasion Beyond Mercury, Rage Reapers, The Busters, The Wrath of Carol Wilson, Bloody Wednesday, Creatures of Fear, Eyes of Justice, The Metallic Man... "What about this one?"

Plague 1997, the cover has all the clichés, the ripped, stone-faced soldier-types, scantly clad women, zombie-like monsters, guns and explosions.

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"Looks good to me," Annabelle says with a grin. Ah, cheesy movies.

The credits start to roll across some cheap and grainy stock footage of several cities, inexpertly spliced together. The letters of the credits are supposed to look like blood splashes, but the effect is more 'someone went crazy with a squeeze bottle of ketchup'.

"I see they spared no expense," Annabelle quips.

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"Wanna bet they saved every penny for the faked explosions?" Tanya fills the glasses with chilled schnapps. "I bet everything they give a sour look at, explodes."

They will not be disappointed about that, likely.

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Hmm, schnapps. "No bet," Annabelle replies with a snort.

They are not wrong, no. Considering that right after the credits end a car EXPLODES in a giant fireball for....no discernible reason.

Cue eye rolling in 3, 2, 1. "They do not explode like that, even when you hit the engine," Annabelle comments. "The effect in real life is rather disappointing."

Why yes, she HAS done that.

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"They do if you hit th engine with an RPG-7." Tanya winks, taking a drink.

Interesting how the movie starts 'mid-scene', without explaining the scenario: a group of survivors fighting off hordes of 'infected', who look all the same in the several shots. "Looks like they couldn't get many extras for the movie either."

At least the 'survivors' are good looking, right? five men and two women, a strong, wisecracking type and a dumb bimbo who seems to exist only to make the men die rescuing her tushie.

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"Ah, but they don't have one of those," Annabelle replies, taking a drink. "Is it bad that I'm hoping the bimbo bites it early?"

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"No, but she'll live to the end. The strong woman will die, right after she confesses her love for the male lead." Tanya rolls eyes, refilling glasses as needed.

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"That's a damn tragedy," Annabelle grumbles. "He's an asshole. Hell, she'd be better off with the bimbo."

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"With the death-bait? All she does is get in trouble and lure people to die." Tanya shakes head. "I'd have shot her already."

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"Still better than being stuck with that asshole as a romantic partner," Annabelle snorts. She's getting slightly tipsy by now.

"At least she's useful bait....sometimes."

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"She'd be better paired with the blonde from Blood Insanity II, remember her?" Oh yes, another strong woman killed in 'dramatic' fashion.

Coincidentally, strongwoman from this movie is a brunette. But it's not like Tanya is insinuating anything.

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"I didn't know we were allowing other universes," Annabelle replies with a chuckle. "Hm. Yeah, that would be a good match."

"Little like you and me, eh?" Oh yeah, definitely tipsy.

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"We surely would not make the same mistakes they do." Tanya giggles, slipping an arm around her friend and leaning to her a bit.

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"'Course not, we're brilliant," Annabelle says with a wink. Annabelle is enjoying the leaning, so she slips an arm around Tanya too.

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"And you're prettier than the other girl too." Tanya winks, teasing in a friendly way.

Looking into Annabelle's eyes.

Face so close to hers...

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Annabelle is slightly drunk, and Tanya is nice and close....and damn it she's been waking up from rather erotic dreams involving Tanya for weeks.

It would be nice to say that Annabelle is a good kisser, but that would require experience she doesn't actually have. It's a gentle kiss, nervous, almost trembling.......

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The kiss... is a surprise.

To say the least.

But it is a welcome surprise, returned and improved upon as Tanya presses closer to her friend and loses herself in the contact.

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The relief when Tanya kisses her back is almost overwhelming.

Annabelle melts into the kiss, her body molding itself to Tanya's. She's trying to learn from what Tanya is doing, improve her own poor skill, but she's having trouble concentrating.

Tanya's lips are warm and soft and it feels oh so good....

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Funny how Tanya is thinking exactly the same: how Annabelle's lips are warm and soft, how her body is warm and soft and nice and how good it feels to be so close...

Probably the movie will be long over by the time both need a pause for breath. "...wow."

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The TV has been putting out nothing but static for quite some time by the time they pause.

Annabelle is still in something of a kissing induced haze, but she blushes nearly crimson at Tanya's 'wow'. Apparently she's not bad at kissing, who knew?

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Apparently.

Furthermore, apparently Tanya recovers her breath really quick, if you are going to judge from the way she moves from lips to neck, purring her friend's name.

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Annabelle had almost recovered the ability to speak, but then Tanya started kissing her neck.

This? Is a completely new experience for Annabelle. A new experience that feels very, very nice. She's putty in Tanya's hands, tilting her head back to let Tanya's lips roam where they will.

The closest she gets to verbal is a soft moan of pleasure as Tanya's lips near her collarbone.

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So... what would be her reaction when Tanya starts undoing her shirt...

...with her teeth, lips and tongue?

One button at a time. One kiss at a time on the soft skin revealed by her exploration.

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More soft moans and gasps of pleasure, to start with.

Tanya's explorations will fail to reveal lingerie, alas. Annabelle tends to plain and uncomplicated in the underwear department

Tanya may pick up on a bit of embarrassment from Annabelle when Tanya has opened her shirt enough that the scar from her death wound is visible. It's not grotesque, but the pale ragged circle of scar tissue over her heart is a reminder of her sins, so to speak.

Reasonable or not, she's worried Tanya will be put off by that scar in particular.