"Fucking stupid fucking goddamned motherfucking fucker of a fucking fuck!" The torrent of profanity really didn't make Doctor Emily Crane feel any better as she pulled into the nearly-deserted parking lot, but it certainly seemed like a better plan than punching the steering wheel again. At least swearing didn't make her knuckles hurt.
"Fucking idiot! Fucking doctorate in biochemistry didn't help you remember to take that grant application home with you, did it?" She parked the car and got out, slamming the door furiously behind her before she remembered that the door sticks when you slam it. "Fuck!" she shouted, just before remembering that she was no longer in the relative privacy of her car. Lucky for her, it looked like most of the staff had gone home for the evening.
Oh, yes. So very lucky for her. She was so lucky that she hadn't noticed that she'd left that grant application in the office she shared with Doctor Halloway until after she'd driven the entire length of her two-hour commute. She was so lucky that she got home at seven o'clock only to realize that she had to drive all the way back out here, then drive back home, then finish the grant application because it had to be ready at 7:00 AM sharp or the lab would lose ten million dollars in funding. Which would be a massive setback to research efforts that could save millions of people from the miseries of clinical depression, schizophrenia, and other neurochemical disorders. "Maybe you should have taken a class or two in 'Not Being Such a Fucking Idiot', Doctor Genius!" she snapped at herself as she stalked into the building, slamming the door behind her. The door-slamming didn't help any more than the wheel-punching or the swearing, but Emily couldn't seem to let go of her anger just yet.
She flashed her I.D. to the security guard, who didn't even look remotely interested. This late, who could blame him? She'd seen all of three cars in the parking lot when she got here, and one of them was probably his. Not exactly the world's hardest job. He was too busy leafing through a girlie magazine to say anything to her, which was probably a good thing. The mood she was in, Emily would probably have bitten his head off for saying "Hello."
She stomped down the empty hallways, her grumbling voice echoing through the silence of the deserted labs. "...fucking hate that fucking drive anyway, why did I even buy a house that far out in the sticks, 'oh, I know, I'll buy a house out in Forest Lake, property's so cheap out there that I can get a great deal,' fucking four-hour round trip every day and I don't even see the house I bought because I'm always driving!" She let out an explosive sigh as she approached her office, her anger carrying her so quickly through the hallways that she barely had the chance to register that there was a light on inside before she'd reached the door and flung it open hard enough to smack into the wall with a loud bang.
Suddenly, Emily forgot about her anger far faster than she imagined possible, as it was replaced with shock and embarrassment. "Sorry, Vanessa!" she blurted out, her eyes widening. Because instead of interrupting her office-mate in the middle of catching up on some late-night paperwork, or perhaps doing a few after-hours experiments, Emily found Doctor Vanessa Halloway sitting in her office chair with very little clothing on. In fact, the only thing really obviously draped over her was-- "Sorry, Lily!" Emily blushed bright crimson. Lily was sitting in Vanessa's lap, more or less straddling her crotch, and she was wearing even less than Vanessa was.
They both looked over at her. Lily wore a startled expression on her face, like a little girl caught trespassing in a neighbor's garden. But even as she stared at Emily, her hands kept roaming over Vanessa's body as she rubbed against the other woman like a cat in heat.
Vanessa's expression, on the other hand, was entirely different. She was clearly enjoying Lily's caresses, but she seemed to be far more interested in Emily than in Lily. She didn't look guilty or ashamed at all, and any trace of surprise had vanished from her features by the time Emily had finished speaking.
Neither one of them said anything. The awkward silence seemed to stretch out forever, with Lily's panting breath and tiny sub-vocal moans the only sound in the room. Finally, Emily felt like she had to say something, if for no other reason than to explain that it was stunned surprise instead of some sort of sick voyeurism that kept her from turning around and leaving. "I, um...I didn't mean to interrupt," she said.
Vanessa's mouth quirked in a smile so tiny it was practically subliminal. Emily pressed on, her mouth now going independently of her brain. "I just, I forgot the grant, and I had to come back, and...I didn't know you were in here--I mean, I didn't know you were in here at all, not I didn't know you two were in here having--um...I mean, not that there's anything wrong with it or anything, I'm not offended, I just, I didn't know you two were, um, that is, I mean, it's fine and all, but I didn't know you and Lily were lesbians..." She finally forced her jaw to clamp shut.
Vanessa chuckled. "Oh, Lily's no lesbian. I am, but Lily's not." Lily started to speak, perhaps to voice some sort of protest at the statement, but Vanessa put a finger to her lips and the nervous look on Lily's face melted into a dreamy smile. She began to suck gently on Vanessa's finger in utter contentment.
Emily studied the buckles of her own shoes intensely. "Um, bisexual, then."
Whatever,
she thought to herself.
Gay, bisexual, bi-curious, just really really horny, who cares? I don't want to see it!
"Oh, she's not bisexual, either," Vanessa said. "At least, she wasn't until an hour ago. Doctor Bouvier here has been helping me test a formula I've been working on for quite some time, and I think you'll agree that it's been..." Lily nuzzled her neck, and Vanessa's voice trailed off into a wordless purr for a long moment before she finished her sentence. "Quite successful."
Emily looked up in surprise. Somehow, even the sapphic tableau in front of her seemed less surprising than Vanessa's words. "You drugged her?" It seemed hard to believe. Lily didn't look drugged--not that Emily was studying her closely. In fact, she was studiously avoiding doing exactly that. But Emily kept up on her research, and she felt pretty confident that nobody knew of any drugs that could make Lily do what she was doing with her tongue right now.
"It's a bit more complex than that," Vanessa said. "The formula I created actually bonds to key chemical receptors in the brain itself, altering the neurochemical balance on a permanent level. I've theorized for some time that certain core personality traits are actually the result of complex neurochemicals, but it's only in the last week or so that I've been able to isolate and replicate a formula that would induce permanent and irreversible changes in those core personality traits." She shrugged nonchalantly. "After that, it was simply a matter of getting someone alone after hours."