"Hey Dani, what's up?" Vince had to look twice at his phone. Despite all their text messages over the last few months, Dani had never once called.
"How you doin' Vince? I called to...uh... see what you were up to." Her voice
sounded off and he felt his overprotective side spring up at once. Even when it came to his friends, he was always ready to jump up if they needed help.
"We've just been cataloguing some new stuff all day, so I'm having a beer hanging out watching T.V. What are you up to?" He figured with Dani it was better to wait for her to open up to him.
"Stan and I are about two hours away from you working on a case. And, well....we ran into a problem."
"What's going on?"
"Well, it's just. Aw..hell I called because I needed a favor or something like that and you sort of offered before...and..."
"Slow down Dani, what's going on?" He could hear the frustration in her voice and hearing Dani like that worried him.
"You see Oz sent us on the case where people were disappearing. And, then we started investigating and we discovered that it's some type of Aphrodite worshipping cult."
"Seriously? Like the ancient goddess?"
"Yea I know right? As if we don't have enough organized religions already, we need to make dip down and find more."
"So what's up. Do you need information? I can find Nick and we can start looking this stuff up for you."
"No, it's not that. We had trouble finding the main hub at first, but eventually Stan located a few old buildings. We're planning to go in tomorrow night after we stake the place out during the day to see how many enter, etc."
"Okay, so what? Do you guys think you'll need back up? I can tell Nick and we can head out and meet you."
"No, well. Listen, just let me get this out Vince okay?"
"Alright, sorry. Go ahead."
"So Stan and I were around this old building that was one we thought might be involved. And, I got close to it and my head got fuzzy and I felt weak. It was pretty wild, and I was definitely in no condition to go further let alone fight. Well, Stan felt fine. So, then I thought maybe it was some spell or such for women. We found some chick and well convinced her to help. She had no problem getting close. That meant it was something about me. Well, Stan and I couldn't really figure it out or anything, so I asked Oz to send over everything he had on the goddess or her followers."
"Are you okay now Dani?"
"Yea, the feeling went away as soon as I left the area. Anyways, Oz sent a bunch of stuff over and we went through it. I went and talked to the families of the murdered women and well, I think I figured it out. All the victims were virgins, so I think there's some kind of spell or whatever that renders virgins unable to function or fight back once they are close enough. Then, these chicks are draining their blood and using it for rituals, etc."
"Alright, so why would it affect you? I mean you've definitely had sex before Dani. I've heard it in person."
"Well that's the thing Vince. I've had sex how we define it before and I've had things put inside me before - I mean you even..... Anyways, I think despite being a pro-feminist deity well they still define traditional sex as the only thing that counts."
"Oh shit. So you mean you've never..."
"Yep, you guessed it. I've never had true penis in vagina sex. And, I can't very well go in there being a liability. I don't want Stan to get hurt because of me. He's been coming a long way, but I still can't have him do this alone. Plus, there's the sheer embarrassment of telling Oz I can't handle this or telling anyone. So, that left me with a few options. First, I could ask Stan, but that would make things awkward and you know I kind of don't want to kill a good partnership. Second, there's the disgusting thought of going to a bar and finding some random asshole to just fuck me and be done with it. I really don't want to do that though. So, I thought well you offered to let me experiment if I wanted and you said to ask if I needed anything so...."
"So, do you want me to come help Stan kill them all?" Vince didn't want to let his mind go there. He had to be reading into this wrong; there was no way she was asking what he thought.
"Not exactly Vince. You see this made me realize that I have a handicap, and it's a fixable one. So, before this is an issue again, I should fix it. I guess I'm asking if your offer to experiment includes taking my virginity Vince."
"Holy shit. Dani, are you sure?"
"Yes. Trust me, I've thought about this a lot, I mean I've just been pacing and running over it again and again in my head and it makes sense. So, what do you say?"
"I.....shit....sorry I never thought you would ask that."
"You know what, forget about it. I'll just figure it out. But please..."
"Dani, wait. Just tell me where to meet you."
"Are you sure?"
"I told you anything you needed right? I'm a man of my word, Dani and I told you that I would always help you and that you could ask me to try anything. So, tell me where to meet you."
"Well, we could just find somewhere to park and I could get to feel the leather in the back of the GTO too."
"Call me old fashioned, but I think your first time should be a little classier. Why don't I get a hotel room 15 miles or so from where you are and we can meet there?"
"Alright, but no romantic shit okay, just a wham, bam, thank you ma'am."
"I think you'll be thanking me."
"Seriously Vince? Just tell me when you're almost there and I'll make some excuses to Stan and come over."
"Oh, you'll be coming, I promise."
"I'm going now Vince." And with those words she hung up and Vince smirked. He only hoped he made things a little more comfortable with her with jokes.
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From there, Vince got himself ready. He told Nick he was heading out to meet up with some waitress from the next town over. Then, he took a quick shower and threw on some clean clothes. He packed a quick bag with what he thought they might need. From there, Vince drove over to a hotel he found online that seemed somewhat nice. Strangely, the whole time he wasn't nervous. Given how much he had dreamed about this very moment, he was surprised.
It wasn't until he sent a text to Dani with his location that his heart started to speed up. This was Dani, the woman that had occupied his fantasies since the moment he met her, and now he was about to sleep with her. It was somewhat terrifying really. I mean what if he wasn't amazing and what if this killed the friendship he had started to develop with her. He hadn't been nervous like this since his first time.
He thought back to that first time. It was him and Deena Hannigan in her bed while her parents were out. She was a cute cheerleader and his 16 year old self couldn't imagine anyone being hotter, so that day was pretty much the pinnacle of his life at the time. They had spent all of 10 minutes together including foreplay and both were left feeling like it was the best sex they would ever have. Now, dozens of girls later and another lifetime almost, he wasn't sure how to even take a girl's virginity. Add in this was Dani, who definitely had some experience in this area and he almost felt crippled as he paced back and forth. It was terrifying alright.
That was the thought running through his mind when he heard the knock at the door. His hand shook as he reached the door and held out his hand to the handle. One deep breath, and he turned it trying to seem normal.
"Hi."
"Hey." Dani smiled and he saw a red color in her cheeks that was so new and so beautiful. He gestured inside.
"Come on in. It's not the Hilton, but."