Disclaimer: I do not own Wynonna Earp. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
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Waverly's life had always been complicated. She wasn't like normal girls. Sure, she had played the part for a long time now so she could pass for that girl with a crazy sister, but it wasn't that simple.
Because that sister wasn't crazy. Their town really was full of Demons out to get them for what Wyatt Earp had done to them, and the Earp sisters were doing everything in their power to stop them. For Wynonna that meant hunting them down and shooting them in the head.
For Waverly that meant research. Hours and hours of research every day of her life, most of which had been confiscated by Wynonna's seemingly ungrateful boss and left Waverly feeling like a fish out of water in the one place she didn't want to be.
See, all of that wasn't the most complicated part of her life. The most complicated part was she had been in love with her own sister her entire life, and now they were finally together Waverly found her mind drifting to a certain redhead, who was of course waiting outside Dolls' office when she was unceremoniously dismissed.
She was even smiling that wonderful smile of hers and, yep, Waverly was blushing again. At least Wynonna was still getting a lecture from Dolls, although the fact that her sister/lover was just on the other side of the door just made Waverly feel even more guilty, even though she hadn't technically done anything. Yet. This time.
"Yeah Waverly, can we go somewhere and talk." Nicole asked softly.
"Sure." Waverly replied without hesitation.
Giving her one of those knee weakening smiles Nicole turned her back to her and Waverly followed, getting quite a few steps before she even questioned whether this was a good idea. On the one hand if she was going to talk to Nicole, or anyone else, the further she got away from Wynonna the better.
On the other hand, after what happened last time they were kind of alone together... well, Waverly was already guilty enough over what happened so probably the last thing she should be is alone with this woman who intrigued her the way only one other had before. Yet she couldn't help herself, following Nicole into an empty room and only slightly flinching when she shut the door behind them.
There was a brief pause and then Nicole let out a tiny little laugh, "You must think I'm a total stalker by now, but-"
"No, no, no." Waverly shook her head, "Believe me, I've had plenty of guys who couldn't take a hint, and they weren't nearly is nice as you."
"I believe that." Nicole said softly, and a little bitterly.
"Not that ya can't take a hint, because it isn't like that." Waverly said quickly, "I know I've been sending you mixed messages and all. I don't mean too, just-"
"You've spent your whole life trying to please others, but haven't figured out what you want?" Nicole offered unknowingly.
"No." Waverly said quickly, "Well yeah to the trying to please other people part, and I still do, but... I've always known what I really wanted. It's just... scary, and I kind of thought it would never happen. Maybe part of me was hoping it wouldn't. But it did. I have everything I have ever wanted... and it's even more scary. It's fucking terrifying, for so many reasons... and... and I think this whole thing started between us because it was scary, but... not as scary. And more... acceptable? Maybe not by much in this town, but... yeah... I'm, I'm sorry. I'm rambling. I always do that. Nervous habit. Anyway, I know I kissed you and all, but I really just want to be friends. Okay?"
A long silence fell over them in which it became obvious that Nicole was trying to figure something out, frowning intently at Waverly and probably analysing the word vomit the brunette had just thrown up all over her. This was bad. This was really bad. Oh why couldn't this be any other detective in this building.
Other than maybe Dolls every other Officer in here seemed lazy at best, and incompetent at worst, and while Dolls might have figured out what Waverly was saying he probably wouldn't care. But Nicole Haught definitely cared, perhaps too much, and Waverly was suddenly terrified it was going to lead to her being outed as a sister fucking deviant.
"Who exactly are you dating?" Nicole asked.
As if fate or God or whatever was trying to punish Waverly, Wynonna opened the door at that moment and stared at them, an unmistakable look of anger crossing her face before she turned to her little sister and asked, "Ready to go Waves?"
"Erm, sure." Waverly nodded, awkwardly walking over to Wynonna and then turned back to Nicole, "I'm sorry. I really am. I didn't mean to lead you on, I just... erm... sorry. I hope we can still be friends."
That should have been it. Nicole knew she should have just let the Earp sisters go and left her stupid theories to herself. But she just couldn't resist blurting out, albeit in a soft tone, "Are you dating each other?"
There was a deafening silence, then Waverly turned back around again and without really thinking it through softly murmured, "Please don't tell."
"WAVERLY!" Wynonna exclaimed, before grabbing her siblings hand and dragging her out of the room, and eventually the station.
Wynonna angrily ignored Waverly's protests, which earned her more than a few funny looks. Luckily most of the cops were too lazy, or figured it was just a family matter, and didn't bother them.
More importantly there was no one around to hear them get outed. At least not in hearing distance. Although that may not matter if Officer Haught freaked out and told anyone about that little exchange. Or if Waverly had another attack of madness.
Luckily she didn't say anything too bad, which for now was pretty much just 'I'm sorry' and Wynonna's name over and over again, which was annoying but Wynonna could handle it. At least until they got to her car. At which point she whirled around and yelled at her sister.
"WAVERLY!" Wynonna yelled, quickly calming herself with a deep breath before continuing, "We will discuss this at home."
"But-" Waverly began.
"I will not tell you again." Wynonna growled in warning.
Thankfully after that Waverly kept quiet, giving Wynonna a chance to calm down and think. Some part of her knew she shouldn't be too angry with Waverly.
She was only human, and made a mistake. A big mistake, but how many of those had Wynonna made? Too many to count, chief of all killing their Daddy, and that was still by far the top of the list of the Earp sisters' sins.
Wynonna allowing Waverly to seduce her was right below that, because she was the older of the two and shouldn't have been so selfish to allow Waverly to sully herself like that.
