The Planet, filming of the Showtime Series: Earthlings.

            “I want to be on TV, I really do.” Vanessa was telling Kit, as she was pulling Vanessa away from the bar, her station of the day. Vanessa wore a face of determination, she tugged gently on Kit‘s hand and Kit tugged back.

            “Listen, they aren’t using us as those kinna extra’s darlin’ but we are gonna have a table very close to the action. So hush you may learn something in the process.” Kit was telling her, and Vanessa pouted, a tall lanky brunette cast her a hungry look, and Vanessa smiled at her.

            “Baby girl, you best be careful, she’s gay.” Kit said, as she pulled a chair for Vanessa and the woman sat down. The table-playing host to a few of the other ‘regulars’. Vanessa wiggled her eyebrows but then instantly thought about Tim as she flirted with the woman. Nope, she sure as hell wasn’t worth it. Tim was much too cute, sweet and smart to cheat on, or even flirt on. She was settling down, wasn’t she?

            “I read that she was straight.” Jenny slid her the basket full of pastries, and Vanessa waved it away, seeing Dana talking to what looked like the director. Vanessa was getting a thought and it was a naughty one. She could walk up to behind Dana ask for an introduction.

            “Don’t do it.” Alice said sitting with her back to the action, really not wanting to be on camera, she slowly at her yogurt. Kit rolled her eyes as the pop music played on the speakers, they were playing Britney Spears, and she shivered.

*****

            Dana saw her from across the room as she was speaking with one of the actresses, her mouth got dry, and her hands began to shake. Did she go up to her and talk to her? Or did she pretend to not have seen her? Dana rocked back and forth on her heels, and decided that she wasn’t the same wimp she’d been when she’d been with Lara.

            Dana walked up to Lara and tapped her on the shoulder timidly; Lara turned to see a smiling and shy Dana. A smile unwillingly graced her lips as she looked into Dana‘s brilliant eyes.

            “Hello Miss Fairbanks.” Lara said leaning back against the bar of the Planet. The tight shirt showing off her belly and perfect swell of her breast, and Dana pulled her eyes away from them.

            “Hi, um, yeah, hi.” Dana said a loss of words plaguing her as she licked her lips. She rubbed her hands on her jeans and stared openly at Lara, who was just letting her stew.

            “Is that all you have to say to me?” Lara said playfulness in her voice, but it was missed by the nervous athlete.

            “I tried to call you last week and your cell had been disconnected, and then I found out you took a leave of absences from the country club and that no one that knows you even knew where you were. I tried to find your family, but I didn’t remember where you…”

            “You’ve been looking for me?” Lar asked standing to her full height as she regarded Dana, and a steaming Alice over her shoulder. Lara wondered why Alice, who’d been sweet to her the whole time she’d been with Dana, was giving her the evil eye. Lara almost wanted to go get a clove or garlic, or to find a spell that warded off evil. Alice looked pissed off.

            “Yeah, I was it’s a really long story.” Dana stammered and Lara sat down, patting the stool next to her. Dana looked over her shoulder, seeing Alice turn away in anger as some of the cast began to filter into the caf. Alice didn’t know what to do did she go over and tell Lara to back off that Dana was her woman now? Or did she let the red head talk to Dana? She played with her dark blonde hair.

            “Umm, well, see…” Just then a flash of a camera snapped in her face, and a giggling next to her as she blinked, trying to clear the black and yellow stars and spots in her vision. She shook her head, hoping that she didn’t mess up her hair, because she’d have to go back to the makeup trailer.

            “You are such a fucking bitch sometimes!” Lara yelled jokingly Dana rubbed her eyes, seeing someone next to Lara, and Lara didn’t realize that Dana couldn’t see. Just a shadowy figure, Dana blinked, batting her eyes as she wondered who the hell had blinded her.

            “Dana, I want to introduce you to my, well I guess you can say she is my girlfriend, we did spend two months…” Lara asked and her companion nodded, “Yeah, two months together on a little island.” A smooth, barely accented voice drifted to Dana ears.

            “Hello Dana, a pleasure to meet you.”

            “Nice to meet you.” Dana stuck out her hand about a foot off from where the other woman was, and she laughed.

            “I guess I blinded her huh? Sorry about that I didn’t realize that the angle would blind you, I promise to make it up to you.” The sweet voice said as Dana finally was able to focus, seeing a rather cute tomboy leaning against Lara. Her arm was slung over Lara shoulder, and she kissed Lara‘s cheek.

            “SAM!” Alice yelled from across the room pushing passed a few of the cast members, one of them a lanky blonde that muttered ‘Bitch’ under her breath. Alice turned and gave her the finger, and making a face at the woman.

            “As I live and fucking breath, Al?” Sam said, stepping up and grabbing Alice into a hard hug, spinning her around and they both smiled at each other. Sam set her down, pinching Alice‘s cheek as she did so.

            “What the fuck is going on?” Dana demanded, slamming her hand on the counter, she’d had enough of being in the dark, in the closet and always the last to know a fucking thing.

******

            “You are not to take this off do you understand me?” Crystal said as she slid the crystal snowflake around Bette‘s neck tying the leather rope so that the crystal was very close to her neck, a brilliant choker.

            “Why would I take it off?” Bette asked her voice different, no command, just a pleading tone that implied she was a taken woman. She drifted off into Crystal‘s blue eyes, leaning in and kissing her lips, feeling the coolness of the snowflake at her neck.

            “You won’t, not ever. It means that you are mine, totally and freely. Mine.” She took Bette‘s hand, leading her down to her studio to work, while Bette watched. The illusion was complete, Crystal thought as she saw the look of submission in Bette‘s eyes. The show was in 24 hours, 24 hours before she could display Bette as her own, in front of her peers, wonderful.

*****

            “What are we doing at the Planet?” Alex asked groaning because they were filming here all day today. Vanessa hadn’t shut up about it all during dinner the night before. Tim had finally hushed her with a kiss threatening, playfully, to withhold sex if she didn’t stop about the filming.