All of the following is complete and total fiction. Not a word of it occurred, nor would it.
Firehouse
Starring Madelaine Petsch
(MF, Oral, Cons, Exhibition)
By MrMaxLord
"I can't believe I'm actually doing this," Madelaine thought to herself. There she was, sipping on a whiskey Old-Fashioned and trying to loosen up, steel herself for something she wanted to do but also made the butterflies in her stomach slamdance.
It all began so innocently. It was on set, during a small little celebration over her best friend, Vanessa Morgan's, engagement. The entire cast new about it as it happened over the break from the show and had been announced over Instagram, but this was really the first time she'd gotten to congratulate and celebrate with her in person.
And for an on set shindig, the celebration was great. Everyone was having fun, or as much fun as they could on a backlot. Madelaine was too...but something was on her mind. Something she felt guilty about on a couple different levels. One of those levels being she thought she was bringing the celebratory mood down.
Madelaine headed over to Vanessa who was talking with their co-stars, Camila Mendes and Lili Reinhart. "Hey, congrats again but I think I'm going to head to my trailer and lay down down for a bit," she said. "Big time headache."
"Okay Mads," Vanessa said with a smile. "Feel better. Don't want you sick for the real celebration next weekend."
"Sure thing." answered Madelaine. The redhead then began to walk away and Vanessa resumed speaking with Lili, neither of whom noticed the slightest thing odd with what Madelaine had just said. Camila however, did.
The moment Madelaine was back in her trailer, laying down and looking up at the ceiling, there was a knock at the trailer door.
"Who is it?' she asked.
"Camila."
"I'm trying to work off a headache Cami."
"Yeah sure." she replied, not a hint of belief in her voice. "Let me in."
With her ruse seen through, Madelaine complied with Cami's request. The brunette walked in, taking a seat on the couch, waiting for Madelaine to join her. "Well, come on," said Cami. Madelaine sighed and sat next to Cami. "So...what's actually wrong?"
"What do you mean? I have a headache."
"No you don't." Camila said. "If you had a headache you'd have come here way sooner. And you wouldn't have even answered me if you did. So, I ask again, what's wrong? Vanessa getting hitched got you down or something?"
"What? No!" Madelaine said. "I mean, not really. I'm totally happy for her. And she's so happy that makes it so much better."
"Okay...so what's the problem?"
"Look...it's just...I'm not ready for that."
"Ooookay," Camila said. And what does that have to do with Vanessa?"
"Nothing. And it shouldn't but...I love my man. I do. And I know he's the one. I feel it in my bones. But I'm not ready to get married. Vanessa and I are so close and around the same age and..."
"You're wondering if maybe you should follow suit, right?" asked Camila. "Because if you're best friend is getting hitched, obviously people think you should be next or something, right? Or you feel weird because you didn't get there first, making it a competition then feeling guilty about that or something."
"Well, yeah actually." Madelaine replied. "Pretty much that."
"Okay Mads, first off, it's not a competition. It's your life. It's her life. There you go. No need to feel pressure or weird. Now...give me the last bit you're holding back."
"What do you mean?"
"You've got one last thing, don't you" Cami asked. "Sure, what you said is part of it. But not all. Not enough for you to duck out like that or stress this much."
"Well, look, if Vanessa said yes...then that means that, well, she;s content, right? She's done it all and to her, her guy is it. There's nothing else out there that's going to match. It's him and only him."
"Okay, I'm kind of lost now."
"Camila...I love Travis, I do. I really do. But...I'm twenty-four. Yes, I get to do what I love for a living. Yes, I have great fans and a man I'm crazy for, totally in love with. But I don't want to say "that's it" and put a ring on my finger, you know?"
"Ohhhh, I get it," Camila said with a laugh. "You still want a little fun and think Vanessa's engagement ring puts a countdown on when you can get it, right?"
"Yes," Madelaine nodded. "And how am I going to get that countdown even started without hurting Travis? I don't want to cheat on him but at the same time...I want to have a little bit something more before I settle down."
"I think I have a solution," Camila said. She stood up in front of a confused Madelaine. "Do me a favor, tell me your definition of cheating in a relationship."
"Um, well, you sleep with someone who's not your partner." answered Madelaine flatly. "What's yours?"
"Well, not quite that." Camila smirked and leaned against the wall. "To me, cheating is emotional. It's not the act of sex with someone else, not really. What it is, what hurts, is if there's emotion involved. Like I can forgive a guy for just fucking another girl, a total stranger. But if it was just a kiss? That's more. A real, true kiss? That has some emotion behind it. He fucks a friend of his? Some lovelorn childhood crush bullshit? That hurts. But some rando who's name you won't remember? That's nothing. A footnote in your autobiography that even you're going to have trouble remembering."
"So you're saying just fuck another guy, that simple."
"Well when you put it like that Maddie it sounds crass." That got a laugh out of Madelaine. "Look, I'm just saying if you have wild oats, get to sewing. You're only in your twenties once...indulge. Travis doesn't need to know. This is for you. So...let that inner vamp out. We all know you have it. We work with you. We see that fire in your eyes when the director says action. So let that Madelaine out to play. Just keep the Madelaine we all know and love in the back of your head as a chaperone. However you do it, just go out this weekend, alone. And have whatever kind of fun you want."
"Yeah," nodded Madelaine. "You're right. It's just fun. A one night stand. Not even that...more like one moment in time."
"Exactly. Nothing but a dalliance."
And now Madelaine was in a bar just outside of Vancouver, just far enough away so that no cast or crew from her show would show and see her. She was flying solo, just waiting for someone to come in and spark her interest and get her ready to, as Camila said, indulge.
Sitting at the bar, Madelaine had already had several suitors approach her, none of them interesting her and a few flat out offending her. There was something a bit heartwarming and depressing about seeing the singles scene hadn't changed that much.
Madelaine took another sip from her drink, getting ready to commit to cutting her losses and leaving once her drink was finished. However, as luck tended to have it in these situations, that's when things changed.
She almost didn't notice him. When he sat down next to Madelaine at the bar, she barely registered him as anything but another smooth operator, just waiting to unleash a barrage of pick-ups line that ranged from the kind of cute to completely shitty and sleazy.
He ended up ordering the same thing as her, except he took a lemon slice in his as opposed to her orange slice with a cherry. Still, when his drink arrived he noticed and looked at her, nodding with a smile. "Good choice," he said, giving he an oddly sincere smile to share over a whiskey drink.
"Thanks." replied Madelaine. She smiled a bit, not only at him but realizing how easy it was for him to get her attention. Not a pick up line, not even a stolen glance. He wasn't trying to nail the hot girl at the bar. That actually made him the smoothest operator at the bar. "Not going for it straight up?"
"Oh no, not tonight," he said. "Not that kind of night. Tonight, for me at least is more of a relax and take in the sights kind of night."
"How are those sights?" Madelaine leadingly asked, sipping from her drink.