03 December 2010 @ 12:13 am
hohoho fest gift | for [info]aldiara #2  
Note: This is the second of two gifts posted tonight. Make sure you don't miss the other one!

Title: Bed Scenes
Author: [info]giorgiakerr
Recipient: [info]aldiara
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Vanessa/Nina
Summary: Somehow, they fit together.
Rating: What's between PG and M? Because it's there. 'Teen'?
Warning(s): Not enough boobies.
Word Count: ~1 000
Author's Notes: Dialogue? What is dialogue? Oh, you mean the talking thing? PFFT. Who needs that? Also, I can’t believe I actually wrote this. I’m reeling a bit. Fandom needs more girlslash. This is my contribution.




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It’s nearing three in the morning when Nina feels the bed dip beside her. Although she isn’t sure why, she keeps her eyes closed, listening carefully to the rustling of the covers as her girlfriend shifts, trying to get comfortable. In the beginning, Nina had rolled her eyes at the constant movement - she'd even tossed a pillow at her a few times, just to get her to settle. She never thought she'd end up finding it comforting. It surprises her how easily she’s taken to liking it.

Everything about Vanessa surprises her.

She wonders why that is. Why are things so very different with Vanessa, so different from the way she'd always expected love to be? Their relationship isn’t romantic in the classical, Hollywood sense; no roses, no sunset walks on the beach, no long-winded letters written on a whim. But their relationship is no less for it. Those things now seem trivial, superficial - at least they do at this hour of the morning, with the reassuring warmth of her lover so close and the sleep-deprivation beginning to kick in. Maybe it’s because they had been friends first, and so Nina hadn’t expected these things. For once in her life, she hadn’t been looking for love or romance.

Maybe, Nina thinks, she's just grown up. The thought is kind of scary, in a way, even though it’s what she's always tried to be - grown up. She isn’t sure she likes the idea. But when she feels a soft, sure hand on her hip and a familiar kiss on her shoulder, she decides that she doesn’t care. She doesn’t care why things are different, doesn’t care that growing up may mean disproving every notion she’s ever had of what being grown-up actually is. Because whatever else it is, it’s also good. It’s fabulous.


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Vanessa sighs as Nina changes position for the sixth time in about as many minutes. She’s fast asleep, breathing just a little louder than usual; her hair falls across one eye as she tosses her head slightly, and Vanessa can’t help but laugh quietly. Nina, with her easy smiles and flippant demeanour but oh-so-petty mood changes – moods that Vanessa has to laugh at, even as she comforts her with honest sympathy. Nina is even petty and moody in sleep, something Vanessa finds both irritating and endearing. There are nights when she sleeps in the library at school, knowing that she’d disturb Nina if she returned home too late, or that Nina’s tossing would wake her from the precious few hours of sleep that she allows herself. Her school timetable means that her sleeping habits are more than a little unusual.

But she always misses Nina. She lets her know the next night just how much she’s missed her; with hands and lips and fingers and teeth. She drives Nina mad, and it was on those nights and those nights only that Vanessa ever takes orders. Harder, more, faster, now – words that sound almost innocent in Nina’s petulant voice. Her demands are never the sex-ragged pleas Vanessa might have expected, but terse, clipped – if breathless – demands.

She thinks that one day she might have to change that.


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Vanessa's hands are wonderful. They are wonderful, wonderful things. Graceful, smooth, yet deft and forceful - similar to the way Vanessa skates, Nina thinks as the hand at her hip tightens, fingers curling pleasurably into her buttock. She tenses and feels Vanessa snicker against her belly, warm breath making her shiver. If she thought she could spare the energy, she might have been mildly offended by that, but every ounce of energy she has right now is focused on not shoving Vanessa back on the bed and taking control, taking her, as she usually would. Because this has been three days coming, three days without Vanessa’s warmth in bed, without Vanessa’s hands and mouth and – oh – tongue, and Nina really isn’t in the most patient of moods. Isn’t the most patient of people, if she’s honest, and Vanessa’s ministrations, while more than welcome, are slowly – so slowly – driving her mad.

Eyes closed, she feels lips against her skin, a kiss placed directly between her breasts, teasing her with all the places it could go. The kisses move slowly up her body – chest, collarbone, neck, jaw – before pulling back just far enough for Nina to see her whole face. Vanessa is grinning. Wide and happy, hair a mess from Nina’s restless fingers, and she can’t help but grin back, despite her irritation at the pace. She pulls Vanessa to her, grins melting into one another; kiss broken by a gasp when Vanessa pulls Nina’s hips flush against her own, breasts meeting teasingly and far too briefly. Hears Vanessa snicker again, and she will definitely have to get revenge for this later.

All thought of vengeance lost when Vanessa bites her collarbone lightly, one then the other, deliberate symmetry even in sex reminding her of just how well Vanessa knows her. Can’t help but curve into it, and she’s amazed that her self-control is still intact. When she’d promised to let Vanessa ‘lead’ tonight, she hadn’t expected to be doing quite so little following. But Vanessa’s eyes had glinted the second Nina agreed, and so she’s followed orders from the beginning.

It’s not like it’s the worst thing ever, she admits silently.

Vanessa’s hand slides down her thigh, to the underside of her knee and back to her hip, just as Nina feels the warmth of her mouth, an open kiss on her left breast; all the more shocking for the contrast to the chill of the Boston winter they’ve never managed to keep out of the apartment. Her hand tightens in Vanessa’s dark hair as she does it again – a tongue, a nipple, a groan – and it’s truly some kind of superhuman feat on someone’s part that Vanessa’s still in control. Before she’s really begun anything, Vanessa’s stopped, free hand taking the place of her mouth and Nina looks down in protest, only to be met with another grin. The happiness is still there, but it’s shadowed with a passion that belies Vanessa’s seemingly unaffected actions.

A little frustrated when Vanessa doesn’t move, she lifts her knee and the hand at her hip falls inward, Vanessa’s grin widening. Fingernails dragging just enough to make Nina’s breath catch, only to leave her gasping when Vanessa finally touches her.

Yes, she thinks. Vanessa’s hands are definitely wonderful.
 
 
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Aldi: AWZ: Vanina is canon[info]aldiara on December 3rd, 2010 06:59 am (UTC)
WHAT? WHAT? WHY ARE THERE TWOOOOOOO??? OMFG!!! THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER! WHAT DID I DO? WHAT'S GOING ON? DID I WIN THE LOTTERY? DO I HAVE AN EVIL MIRROR TWIN? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS??? OMFG!

I DON'T EVEN CARE. TWO! TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I AM TAKING THEM AND KEEPING THEM AND IF THERE WAS SOME ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR, LOVELY MODS, YOU CAN JUST FUCK RIGHT OFF BECAUSE I'M NOT GIVING EITHER OF THEM BACK. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

OMG VANINA! GIRLSLASH! AYAYAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!! ONE OF MY VERY FAVOURITE THINGS!!

This is so lovely! So, so lovely! I adore the mood of this piece, how it's all languid and playful and detailed in just the right places. It's like a warm, fresh, yummy chocolate volcano that just melts on your tongue. I LOVE the descriptions of their bed dynamics, how they're slightly-annoyed-but-not-really by each other's sleeping habits - Vanessa coming to bed late and moving about, and Nina changing positions all the time - they're such intimate, fond details and totally something that I can see them doing. Vanessa with her library sleep, Nina being a petulant restless sleeper and musing about the weirdness of being a grown-up. AWWWWWWWW GIRLS, WHY SO ADORBS!!! *squishes them*

And GUH, the last part! Hot and beautiful! I adore the humour in it, the slight tone of exasperation that you can only really have with someone that you love to bits no matter how much they annoy you sometimes - you've captured that really beautifully and it's making me all embarrassingly mushy even as I type, hahahaha. I LOVE THESE TWO TOGETHER SO MUCH! The giggling! The teasing! The symmetry of biting first one collarbone, then the other! (IDK why but I love that detail so much, it feels like such a Vanessa thing to do). And I love the parallel Nina draws between Vanessa's hand and her skating... I don't know why that touched me so much, perhaps because when I think of Vanessa, I rarely think of her on skates, so that struck me as a really interesting image. And MROW, the end of this! Your warning (hahahahaha) is entirely silly because this is just perfect as it is, with sly teasing and super-sexy little details (fingernails! hand in hair! needy noises!) and warm yummy vibrant loveliness.

THIS IS TOTALLY CANON, BY THE WAY. YES, YES IT IS. SHOW CAN FUCK RIGHT OFF. OMG SO AWESOME.

Thank you soooooooooooo much for this, Mystery Author! you've successfully reduced me to a pile of gooey giggly awwwwwwing jelly, and I love you for it!
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Aldi: AWZ: Isabelle backwards[info]aldiara on December 3rd, 2010 07:05 am (UTC)
And btw, this applies to both of my Mystery Authors (AGAIN, I DON'T CARE IF THERE WAS SOME MISTAKE, I AM KEEPING YOU BOTH AND YOU'RE NEVER ALLOWED TO LEAVE!) - between your two fics, you've made me run the entire emotional spectrum between exquisitely heartbreaking, lump-in-throat, so-beautiful-it-hurts, fantastic angst on the one hand, and heart-mending, melty, tender, gorgeous, smile-inducing mushy squeeeeeeeeee on the other tonight. Congrats to you both! YOU WIN AT LIFE!

<33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
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쉘리 I whip my hair like Bang Bang: awz - HOHOHOFEST 2010[info]sdk on December 3rd, 2010 07:10 am (UTC)
[No admin error! They were both created for you! Your gifter wrote two; we just posted them separately for ease of reading. :D]
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Aldi: AWZ: Ingo's calm face[info]aldiara on December 3rd, 2010 07:16 am (UTC)
SERIOUSLY? OMFG! MY GIFTER IS THE MOST AWESOME PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE. ASKLASJALKSJAKLSJASKLDJASDAKJLSDJAKLSKAL;SKAL;SKAL;SAKSL;AJDK;ASDJASKLDHASLKDALKDHA!!!!

*scuse me, back for more comments later. ded from awesome now*
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Amilee: Olars - [info]amilee123 on December 3rd, 2010 07:35 am (UTC)
I just wanted to let the amazing Mystery Author know that this is a lovely piece - but since I am quite close to having to sleep in the library myself, further commenting will have to happen tomorrow.

And the only Vanessa or Nina icon I have is "Vanessa is not impressed" and Vanessa is fucking impressed so obviously that won't work, so have a randomly unrelated Olars icon!
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Amilee: Marc pretending to be Deniz (I blame Ald[info]amilee123 on December 4th, 2010 09:41 pm (UTC)
Okay, I'm back... I think I decided what I like the most about this piece: this is so AU but they are still them. When a fic goes this AU, it's pretty damn hard to do accurate characterizations. Even though Vanessa and Nina are completely outside of AWZ here, the Mystery Author has still captured important parts of their characters. Nina is impatient and they're both stubborn as hell. And I like how Nina contemplates her notions of romance and how this relationship basically goes against all the Hollywood storylines she used to talk about. If that part of her character had been ignored, it would've made this premise a bit unrealistic but it is quite believable the way the Mystery Author has set it up here.

(And I still don't have a proper icon so this time you get my "Marc murdered Deniz, stuffed him in the shower, and is now pretending to be him and taking over his life" icon)
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Aldi: AWZ: DeMarc smooch[info]aldiara on December 5th, 2010 10:34 pm (UTC)
(hahahahaha that icon is made of so much win)
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winterlover: WOW - Vanessa[info]winterlover on December 4th, 2010 12:18 am (UTC)
Forget everything that I commented on the other story! Well, no, only the bit about AUs. I love them!
As much as I love this.
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[info]merkyderry on December 5th, 2010 04:50 am (UTC)
I really love the interior monologue-type style here, how it mingles thoughts and visual snapshots. And I like that it's written (partially) in NIna's voice and from a place where she's taking stock of herself.
When watching the show, it seems like Nina is in a constant state of longing for things, so for me there's a relaxing quality to these scenes in that Nina has found a level of contentment with Vanessa. It's a nice feeling.
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Aldi: AWZ: Vanessa Bright Eyes[info]aldiara on December 5th, 2010 10:03 pm (UTC)
Back to cuddle the girls some more! (and maybe grope, but shhhhhhhhh, you didn't see nuthin'!)

I have so much trouble picking favourite parts from this piece, but this just reduces me to mushy squeeeeee:

Vanessa is grinning. Wide and happy, hair a mess from Nina’s restless fingers, and she can’t help but grin back, despite her irritation at the pace. She pulls Vanessa to her, grins melting into one another; kiss broken by a gasp when Vanessa pulls Nina’s hips flush against her own, breasts meeting teasingly and far too briefly. Hears Vanessa snicker again, and she will definitely have to get revenge for this later.

GIRLS!!! <33333 They're so playful and lovely and so THEM, with the irritation and all the hints that they regularly fight over who gets to top (I can just see them having a roster too, lol). And the playful wickedness is just so delicious and in character. Dammit, why did Show ever waste either of these girls on stupid guys??

THIS FIC IS LOVE! *squishes it all out of shape*
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Diana: AWZ- RoNina[info]notoriouslyuniq on December 6th, 2010 12:52 am (UTC)
Catching up on the stuff I missed *smites schoolwork*

This is BEYOND AWESOME!

It's been said before, but I love how in character they are and how they seem to have influenced each other :)
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Momo: vanessa by geogiakerr[info]momogermany on December 10th, 2010 11:54 am (UTC)
First of all: I don't have a VaNina icon and that sucks!

Second: This story is absolutely beautiful and the girls are so lovely and playful and vulnerable. And I somehow want to throw some invisible protective shield over them, to make sure nothing and nobody can ever harm them. Sorry, I know it's the season, but I can't help it.

Third: I'm not so sure if this is really AU. If Nina had stayed on the show, I could have seen this absolutely happening, it would have made total sense with everything that went before, no need to rewrite the past and, hell, those girls would have had it in them to make one of the most lovable and entertaining couples of the show.

So many missed opportunities! So thank you Mystery Author for this wonderful piece about two of my favourite characters!
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amberbluebell: AWZvanina[info]amberbluebell on December 10th, 2010 03:48 pm (UTC)
OMG, I can't believe I didn't comment on this yet! How remiss of me! Because it's utterly beautiful and I adore it. It's such a loving kind of fic, but without being at all fluffy, and I can just see it so clearly. Their sleeping habits and the dynamic between them is so them, and it's lovely.

I love Nina's musing about love and growing up. And this: Those things now seem trivial, superficial - at least they do at this hour of the morning. I like the little implication that, although she doesn't need/want/expect Hollywood romantic cliches in her relationship with Vanessa, maybe she hasn't abandoned those ideas entirely. Because Nina wouldn't quite be Nina if she wasn't a romantic. <333

And the last part, GUH. Just enough is left to the imagination, and it's so sexy and playful and totally gorgeous! If this is how good your girlslash is, Mystery Author, I DEMAND MORE. YOU ARE AWESOME AT IT. <3333333333333333333333
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Lilith: actor-nathalie[info]lilithilien on December 10th, 2010 07:17 pm (UTC)
I had to wait for the right time to read this, Mystery Author, and I'm so glad I did, because this piece should not be rushed through. There are so many subtle little character details here that feel so natural that you might miss them in a quick read. I love how it begins at 3am, and Nina is still awake (or such a light sleeper) to notice; and how that slides so easily into the comforting feel of Vanessa's movement. It's like when you're used to someone sleeping beside you, and can't sleep well if they're not there -- it says so much about their relationship in such a simple, natural way.

I love Vanessa's POV too, and her coming to accept Nina's capriciousness, and trying to protect her from her crazy schedule. I love her drive to make Nina lose control, the playfulness of it (and even competitiveness) that fits their personalities so well.

But most of all, I love Nina's struggle against growing up, too, and Vanessa being the crux of that -- how those romantic notions are dispelled, yet it doesn't feel like they're any less connected (in fact they seem more so) because of it. You've really got a great insight into Nina's head, I think!

I'm just sorry it didn't go on longer! I am GREEDY, want more!!!!!!
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[info]klutzerina on December 12th, 2010 01:30 am (UTC)
So beautiful. The connection between them is visceral, it's evident in all of the little details. I love the sense of peace between them, and the playfulness. I admire how you have kept the characterisations so authentic in an AU setting, I think this is my favourite - She drives Nina mad, and it was on those nights and those nights only that Vanessa ever takes orders.

Thank you mystery author! <333333333
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