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Reunions: Chapter 2
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Alice was only a couple of feet away from Lara, but the redhead could feel herself being drawn closer to her, like there was some kind of magnet buried inside each of them. For her part, Alice couldn’t unglue her feet from the spot on which she stood. She breathed deeply, as Lara’s hauntingly familiar sweet scent drew nearer.
“Alice, I was such an idiot to leave,” Lara said softly. “I haven’t stopped thinking about you once in the past seven months.” With deliberate steps, she moved as close as possible to Alice without actually touching her. She was afraid that the spell that had suddenly been cast over them would mercilessly disappear if she dared to make physical contact with the blonde. But, she knew she had to touch her, if for nothing else than to make sure that this moment was actually happening. Tentatively, Lara reached out her hand and cupped Alice’s cheek. To her delight, Alice sighed contentedly and leaned into her touch, as their bodies pressed lightly against each other.
“We can’t do this,” Alice whispered, shutting her eyes and shivering with pleasure as Lara slid her other hand gently around her waist. She knew it was completely wrong to be getting this close to Lara with her girlfriend sitting downstairs, but for some reason her body was disobeying every rational thought in her head. Right now, all she could think about was how much she had missed Lara, and how good it felt to be near her again.
“Then tell me to stop,” Lara whispered back, as she leaned in to bring their lips together. Alice opened her eyes and looked directly at Lara, then at her tempting lips – and said nothing. Taking her silence as an invitation, Lara closed the gap between them hungrily.
“Ahem!” a voice called out loudly, causing Alice to forcefully pull away from Lara and spin around. At the top of the stairs, a hand resting on her hip, Helena stood wearing a look of disappointment and surprise on her face. “Sorry to interrupt, but everyone wants to present Lara with a welcome home cake, and I thought I heard your voices.” She raised one eyebrow inquisitively. “I’m just glad I decided to check up here before Tasha did.”
At the mention of Tasha, Alice swallowed hard and looked guiltily at the floor. “I should go back down,” she said, avoiding Lara’s gaze and nearly sprinting past Helena as she headed down the stairs.
Lara started to follow suit, but Helena moved into her path. “I believe this might be a good time for us to chat,” she said in a calm but icy tone.
Lara met her gaze and nodded reluctantly. “Alright,” she agreed cautiously.
“Look, Lara, I realise that what happened between you and Alice is your business, and it’s not my place to intervene,” Helena began.
“That’s right,” Lara replied, slightly more defensively than she had intended.
“But,” Helena continued emphatically, “Alice is a good friend, and I feel it’s my job to protect her in any way I can. I’ve helped her get through two very rough periods in her life: the first was when you moved in on her girlfriend Dana and contributed to their break-up.” Lara tried to object, but Helena waved her off. “I don’t want to hear your excuses, Lara,” she said firmly. “The second time I saw Alice hit absolute rock-bottom was when you left her to pursue your career in New York. Now, I know that wasn’t entirely your fault, and that Alice had to work through her grief in her own way. But, my point is that the two lowest moments of Alice’s life have involved you in some way. I would hate to see her hit a third low point for the same cause.” With a final challenging gaze, Helena spun around wordlessly and strode down the stairs.
Lara leaned heavily against the wall in the narrow hallway, feeling like the air had suddenly been vacuumed out of her lungs. As much as she hated to admit it, she knew there was some truth in Helena’s words. After a moment, Lara took a deep breath and slowly descended the steps on shaking legs.
Welcome home, she thought to herself sarcastically as she rejoined her party.
tbc
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first off a big shout out to Midtown manhattan! Hells kitchen… lol this was just the kicker blue so this IS how S4 will go right? lol if only wishes would come true. Big kudos on the use of Papi character even tho the papi thing just sucks. Helena scared me here so another kudos for u. This looks like its gonna be a bumpy ride and im on it for sure! keep up the greatness and post soon plz :)
Ouch! Hel fire..lol..she is right though..their actions & decision need to be honorable b4 any possibility of a reconnection. Don’t care much for Papi character, Shane is bad enough. Nice update thanks!
I’m glad Helena had a little chat with Lara. Everytime the going gets tough, Lara gets going. When Dana became ill, Lara went to France. ALice starts to get close to her, Lara goes to Manhattan….hmmm…do we see a pattern ? Lara has committment issues and as much as I think her and Alice are cute together, I hope she doesn’t hurt Alice again. Thanks for the post. PPS.
oh and you also rock for keeping B&T together in this story :)
there are so few lace stories out there, and i have to say im extactic that you have this one! its really amazing an di love it! please post more soon, and can we get tasha out of the damn picture? i already dont like her…
nice work, love the whole lace ship so this fic is definatly going to turn out to be a fave. Post soon!
I am loving this!!!! Keep up the good work.
I just read the first two chapters & I’m definitely intrigued. While I will always be a Danish fan … I do enjoy Lace & would hope that they get a chance on TLW.
omg i LOVE IT! It’s totally satisfying until the premier of S4, I’ll be really interested to see how it turns out. Did I mention I love it? I loveee Alice and Lara and I don’t know why. I just connect with them. This story is fabulous and I love how protective Helena was, she made such a good point. I love Helena. Wow, it’s so crazy how things have changed over the season. I never would’ve expected to be saying these things you know? Anyways, I ‘ve done enough rambling. Can’t wait for the next update! You’re fabulous!
Welcome home… *Sad sigh* Lara IS a runner isnt she? I mean, first after the initial break up with Dana… then to paris, not to NY… What would be the background of that I wonder? Thanks for this wonderfull update! PPS!
I’ve just gotten around to read this story. I love it! It’s – just as your other story – well-written. You capture the feelings (the aching) of Lara and Alice very well. I like it that all the spoilers are wrapped up in this story. I’m actually getting excited to see how all this will develop in S4 (at first I was a bit skeptic about all the new characters on the show). I’m really glad to hear this is going to be a Lace-story (eventually)! They have to work out a lot of things but I hope they know their relationship has much more meaning than their inital reason for hooking up (out of grief of Dana).
Hm, Helena has a point. I liked it! Can’t wait for more!
I love this but I just hope that alice and lara work all of the shit out and then get back together great update
I hear what the other readers have to say about Lara’s penchant for bolting when the going gets tough, but, hey: This is still more characterization for the girl than we’ve had in the past three seasons. And that ‘talk’ just made me love Helena. I love this.
Great update, can’t wait to keep reading more. I agree with Helena that Lara has been a common denominator in Alice’s ‘low points’ BUT…the times that Lara has left, she’s pretty much been shown the door, no? What’s a girl to do? Tough one. Still, nice touch having Helena step in and say her piece and giving Lara something to chew over. Of course, I love how you keep that Lace spark on simmer mode–obviously the door has not been shut on these two, yay!, and lots of room for angsty goodness, not to mention character development. They are angry at each other yet still step back offer polite and kind feelings from the heart, so there seems to be that respect there. Of course, I’m interpreting it as LURVE. I’m looking forward to seeing how these two continue their journey. Update soon please;) Great job as always!
well of course I agree with Min, that Lara has been shown the door the times that she’s bolted….but, she’ll be allowed back in…no? Through the haze of Oktoberfest, Lara’s actions seems perfectly plausible, so….I’m hoping for some Lace reunion action soon….and as for mine…it will come early next week…I must return home first and concentrate! For the time being….I am SO glad you are writing again…and I am, SOOOOOOO enjoying your new story!Yay!waiting for more…..