Cordy and Dom

[luckydom]

A few weeks after this

So for some fucking reason Dom and Cordelia had decided to try being a thing? Again? It was such a risky proposition and it was so tied up in trauma. Moreso for Cordelia, yes, but Dom had her own shit from that time, particularly the things that had led to her being hospitalized, and diving back into something, no matter how tentative, was like a reckoning.

So Dom had gotten herself a therapist. And she still wasn't sure how to pay for it, though she knew if she asked Johnny she would help, but that was fucked up. But anyway, that was a problem for next week's Dom - this week, she was doing it.

She was quiet and broody after the first session, but still wanted to see Cordelia, so Dom headed to Cordelia's place without asking first. Still just taking a moment to enjoy the reassuring feeling of knowing where Cordelia lived. She slipped into the building behind someone else who buzzed in, and made her way to Cordelia's door, knocking.

Comments

[frostyfeelings]

"It's what I'm going to call my memoirs," she nodded solemnly.

[luckydom]

"I would buy that."

[frostyfeelings]

"You get a free signed copy, Lucky."

[luckydom]

"Will there be a chapter about me? 'Combat boots and two nipple rings.'"

[frostyfeelings]

"You will feature prominently in several chapters, obviously."

[luckydom]

"Several!" Dom had the urge to lie down beside Cordelia, but she fought it - settling for squeezing her hand instead. "What will they say?"

[frostyfeelings]

"We're both too young for that level of pornographic detail," Cordelia lied, barely keeping a straight face.

[luckydom]

Dom burst out laughing. "You're younger than me and you straight up seduced me that first time!"

[frostyfeelings]

She loved being able to make Dom laugh. "As if I could help myself."

[luckydom]

"I was pretty hot then," Dom agreed, breezy.

[frostyfeelings]

"And some things, thankfully, do not change."

[luckydom]

"Smooth talker."

[frostyfeelings]

"Appreciating beauty is my actual mutant power."

[luckydom]

"That explains so much," Dom replied, with a wry smile.

[frostyfeelings]

Cordelia snorted. "So tell me things. What's it like being friends with a cheerleader? How is Johnny Storm in bed? How many times did you find money lying in the street this week with your awesome magical luck?"

[luckydom]

"Being friends with a cheerleader is like falling in love with a Frost," Dom said, smiling easily, shifting to better look at Cordelia as she talks - though still sitting up beside her rather than lying down. "Totally weird but a good lesson in not judging people. She's great at the work we do. And her boyfriend's a giant rock now, I can't remember if you knew that, and she didn't bail. She's good people. Johnny Storm is almost as good in bed as you, now that I've trained him, and this week I found sixty-five bucks, so I can eat real food, which is exciting."

[frostyfeelings]

"Aww, you trained him. I'm so proud." She grinned up at Dom. "And really? Like, rocky like Santo was?" Sure, she hadn't been friends with the guy, but it was hard to miss the walking mountain. And they'd sort of run in adjacent circles before he went all rocky himself.

[luckydom]

"Sort of like Santo. They look different, but the concept is pretty much the same. Permanent rock. It was really hard for Ben, for a while. You know, star jock, professional handsome guy, et cetera..." Dom loved him.

[frostyfeelings]

"That really blows." It sucked how some really great people got stuck with really shitty mutations, while so many assholes of the world got off so easily. "And I'm trying not to think about their sex life, but you know me."

[luckydom]

Dom had to laugh. "They have one and they like it, but Johnny won't tell me the details."

[frostyfeelings]

"I am sad for us, but happy for them."

[luckydom]

"He'll tell me one day. I mean, I just assume Tabby gets laid with rock fingers."

[frostyfeelings]

"Chafing, though," Cordy pointed out sensibly. "I guess it depends on what kind of rock he's made from. Also, sex toys are a wonderful thing."

[luckydom]

"Sex toys are a wonderful thing, and not enough people say that aloud."

[frostyfeelings]

"If I were still rich I would leave baskets of sex toys for everyone on Valentine's Day like a pervy Easter Bunny. That holiday needs less sad and more hot."