Living In Entropy – L.I.E. – 02.08 – Hollow

            The Planet’s back room was packed, filled to the brim with women of every color and demographic and Shane couldn’t touch them, just for one night she kept reminding herself. She was on a date even if it was fake she was committed to acting it out. Shane thought it was funny, she was committed and she snorted softly to herself at that thought.

            Alex was sitting next to her, her hair punked and gelled looking simply sexy in her simple attire of jeans and a cut off black tee shirt. The small earpiece was barely visible, and Shane almost wished she could hear what Jo and Amy were saying to her because every once in a while Alex‘d smile. The smile brightened her features, taking away that serious edge she always had and her eyes hard as green hazel ice.

            Jo was sitting in the corner booth with Tina‘s arm draped around her. Tina seemed to have fallen right in the role of Jo‘s adoring woman. Shane wondered if Amy minded she kept tossing glances at Amy, and she thought she looked sexy too. Who didn’t look sexy tonight? Thought Shane, they all do because you can’t have them that are why they look so good, appetizing to the palette.

            Jo was charming Tina and Tina was loving every second of it. The woman could be very smooth when she wanted too be and Tina was falling in love with the accent that seemed to make her voice like liquid sugar to her ears.

            Amy was at the bar, she was dressed casually too a trait that all the victims shared she also had on a pair of rimless glasses. They shared many traits but not hair color not their jobs, just casual women at a bar, casually watching the going ons. Days later they’d be found dead the last place they’d been seen was at a bar, never the same bar either. A mystery that confounded them all. Vanessa serving her drinks that were non-alcoholic and Amy muttered, letting the earpiece pick up her voice.

            “This is so boring Jo why don’t you do something sexy for me and dance with Tina, at least I can watch you shake that fucking ass of yours? Foreplay?” Jo was at her table and she told Tina what Amy had said and she got up, pulling Jo with her. Tina knew that Amy could hear her, and she whispered into Jo‘s ear. Her hand at the back of Jo‘s neck her lips grazing Jo‘s ear, and Jo felt a sudden heat in her belly as she did that. Thank you Miss Tina for upping the intensity scale by 100.

            “I might want to borrow her for the evening after this Amy hope you won’t mind. I’ve always wondered what a French tongue can do.” Jo‘s face flushed and she let Tina lead her to the dance floor. Amy‘s eyebrow’s shot up, then she just grinned know exactly what Jo was thinking at this very moment.

            Pez’s eyebrows shot up and she relayed what was being said and Shane thought she really liked Jo and Amy as a couple. They were free they knew it and they always found their way back to each other. She also thought that Tina was acting out tonight, there was something brewing inside of Tina she was busting to get out. Shane could understand that, she honestly could.

            “You to Pez pull Shane out there; have some fun while I wait it out, please?” Amy said in a begging voice and Vanessa smiled she was in on this whole thing. She’d written on a napkin that she wanted her sister’s ass on the dance floor. Amy had quickly complied she thought Pez needed to loosen up.

            “Fuck, Shane they want us to get up and shake our ass.” Shane groaned she hated to dance. It was so not her thing but she shrugged and let Alex move out of the seat and she scooted over and followed Alex to about a foot away from Tina. Tina was dancing nose to nose with Jo, their eyes locked on each other’s.

            Jo had a hand on Tina‘s hip directing her, as they pressed into each other, Pez licked her lips, and thought Tina looked very sexy moving against Jo. Jo danced up and down Tina‘s body, on her way back up she licked Tina‘s exposed belly, and Tina giggled. She found the back of Jo‘s neck again and whispered into her ear.

            “Trying to make me borrow you for the evening? I can make good on the request if you’d like?” Tina asked and Jo said nothing just continuing the dance, as Amy laughed in her ear.

            “Dance for me.” Shane said trying to get the image of Tina with another woman out of her head. She let the beat move her hips and Alex wrinkled her nose and she smiled, thinking it was the first time she’d danced in years. Her ex didn’t dance but she’d had Alex do sexy dances with other women to drive her insane. Then Alex would have to please her for hours afterwards, she shoved the thought and the memory into the far reaches of her mind.

            Shane closed her eyes and she let her fingers drifted down Pez’s face, and she let her hand rest at the back of Alex‘s neck. They weren’t dancing as close as Jo and Tina were, but close enough for Shane to start to get aroused by the cop.

            “Shane is you ok?” Alex asked as Shane‘s eyes clouded over and she found her rhythm and she leaned in kissing Alex softly on her lips and Alex pulled back. The kiss taking her by surprise, she blinked it had been a long time since she’d felt another pair of lips on her own. They were so soft, gentle, nothing like before. She swallowed her fear and said.

            “I am working you know?” Pez stated lightly moving behind Shane, and wrapping her arm around her waist.  Shane reached back grabbing her neck and letting Alex caress her neck with her lips. Shane sighed at the touch she turned around in Alex‘s arms, and now they were the center of attraction as they heated up the dance floor.

            “Looks like Alex and Shane are hitting it off.” Jo said Tina danced down Jo‘s body and back up again the FBI agent had a wonderful body, it had been hidden by her suit two days before. She was lean and strong, Tina could tell by the lack of fat, and her solid arms. She also moved with a grace that Tina had never seen before like she moved in slow motion, yet she was as quick as a cat.

            “Yes well that is our girl. Shane is the resident playboy as your wife knows.” Tina said months ago she’d have hated seeing two women cheating on each other. Now, it barely fazed her. Amy giggled at the bar and she turned to watch Jo getting all hot and heavy with Tina, the songs changing and someone sat down next to Amy and engaged her in conversation.

            “We have one on the line, let’s go sit down.” Alex said to Shane and Shane almost pouted, having been getting into the dancing. Back to business how did Alex do that, switch back and forth that way? This time they sat at Tina and Jo‘s table Shane winking at Tina who was really enjoying herself tonight. Jo sat down and Tina went off to the bathroom, smiling and winking at Jo.

            “What did you do to Tina?” Shane asked and Jo put her hands up in surrender, and smiled impishly. The FBI agent just turned and watched with a casual eye her girlfriend being hit on.

            “Nothing at all. I swear.”

*****

            “I don’t want to go in there.” Bette whined and Crystal slapped her ass softly, reminding her who was in charge. The person in charge was most certainly not Bette Porter. Bette looked down and she sighed, feeling completely stripped by this woman. She’d known it was going to come to this but this was too soon. Not now it was going to be hard, and she didn’t like hard.

            “Pet listen to me. You are going to have to accept this if you want it so continue. I have heard all about your friends and now I want to see where you hang out, where you used to be your other self. Now when you see your friends and you will introduce me. You will call me Crys. Not Crystal simply Crys.” Crystal said and she motioned for Bette to lead the way into Radar. Bette took a long breath into her lungs and plunged into Radar.

******

            “Please, I want to go dancing Tonya.” Dana pleaded, she needed to go out, and she needed to see the others without Alice. She knew Alice was in Santa Monica today and she wanted to go to Radar. She was still angry with Alice, Alice and her fucking with her mind. How could she have done that to her? How? She loved Alice, in that completely platonic way, right.

            Tonya cast her a soft look, she did want to go out, but not with Dana. She was starting to feel a bit smothered by Dana. Her friends hated her they all were comparing her to this woman named Lara, and she wasn’t accepted at all. That was different for Tonya who’d always been the center of attention, and now it was Dana that was the center of it all. She sighed, and thought that Dana did deserve to go out, so did she for that matter.

            “Ok, ok, we’ll go. Let me get my jacket ok?” Tonya said lovingly and she kissed Dana on the cheek. Tonya did want to go out she liked being with Dana, but not with Dana and her friends. At least that Alice woman wasn’t going to be there, she only hoped. There was something about the newly out Dana that let her see the world in a different light than before, a bit less business and a bit more pleasure.

******

            “I think that woman is a dud not exactly fitting out profile.” Alex said and Shane watched her eyes seeing her taking in the whole room with a quick sweep. She was always on alert, as if it was 10 seconds to lift off. Her body always taut Shane wondered if Alex ever relaxed, even just a little bit.

            “Are you always on the clock? Don’t you ever just be you?” Shane asked and Jo thought it was an odd question, she looked at Alex. Jo knew where the detective was coming from, she to was always on the job, even when she slept. There were times she’d dream of crime scenes, something Amy thought was morbid. Alex shrugged, biting her gorgeous lip.

            “I live to work, I work to live.” Alex responded and Jo chuckled. That just about summed up the life of a woman who was in law enforcement. You worked with men against them, and sometimes around them. You had to do it better than them and never fuck up, or you were done.

            “That makes for a boring woman Alex, mais I have a hard time believing that you, are boring. Oui? A bit of the wild in you.” Jo said her accent a bit more pronounced and Alex shook her head. Amy was trying to ditch the woman but she was relentless. Amy seemed annoyed and Jo thought her girl was going to get her back for using her as bait.

            “No more wild for me strictly quiet time. I have my legs back, I have my career back and I am not going to jeopardize that.” She said sweeping the room again with her quick eyes.
“Fuck.” Alex said, ducking into the seat and muttering something else under her breath, she bolted up and excused herself.