Who: Kady & Doc Holliday What: They’re married When: Relationship Confusion Where:His their apartment Warnings: Both of them, probably Status: Completed GDoc
It had been a long night at The Den. Normally, Kady drew in a decent audience. Tonight, however, it was weird. Not the usual faces in the seats, and definitely not the typical tips. She’d barely been able to get an applause, and the tips she’d made definitely left a lot to be desired. Needless to say, she was a bit cranky when she got home.
Then discovered she’d forgotten her keys. Kady gave a heavy sigh then knocked. “...please be home, please be home…”
Luckily for Kady, Doc had just returned from dropping off Alice with her momma. The gunslinger heard the knocks and made his way to the apartment door. He could just make out her faint pleas through the hardwood. He couldn’t help, but chuckle to himself; Kady forgot her keys again.
Clicking off the lock, Doc tugged open the door and looked at the beautiful woman on the other side, amusement visible in the depths of his blue eyes.
“Someone forgot their keys again,” he teased.
“Shut up,” Kady said but there was more warmth and fondness in her admonishment than there would be for anyone else.
She walked in, pausing to kiss that mustache on her way by. “So tonight sucked,” Kady said before she dropped her bag of stripper tricks on the floor next to the dining table. “Weird crowd. Hardly any regulars, and a bunch of new faces. None of them knew how to tip.”
Kady turned to give Doc a melodramatic pout. “Beer?”
At her words, Doc chuckled. It was impossible not to pick up on the warmth in her voice. However, Doc knew it was only because of who he was that it existed. It endeared her even more to the cowboy.
She stepped in and Doc closed the door behind her. He clicked the lock into place just as those lips brushed his mustache. Doc smiled and turned just enough that he got a taste of that mouth before she pulled back. Most might consider the mustache a little dated, but not Kady. She seemed to enjoy it.
“You know, I can’t put my finger on it, but I feel like some thin’ is off,” Doc replied. He knew Madison Valley loved to play tricks, but usually it was far more obvious than the turnover of a strip club.
The pout was adorable and instead of vocalizing an answer, Doc leaned in and kissed her. He could smell her perfume and nothing could really compete with those soft lips. Pulling back, he smiled. “You know, you’d get that beer sooner if you didn’t pout at me,” he teased and then headed to the kitchen and pulled out two beers from the fridge.
He loosened the cap on hers and held it out. “One beer for the very demanding, but sexy Miss. Kady.”
That mustache was magical, in Kady’s opinion. Maybe it was the man that wore it, knew what to do with it, but anyone who mocked the old fashioned look got a solid laugh from Kady. Needless to say, any time she could indulge herself with kisses she took advantage of.
She chuckled when Doc spoke the obvious, but she accepted the beer with a smile of gratitude. “It’s cute you think the beer is the more important thing.” Kady wrinkled her nose at him then went to flop on their couch.
“I know!” She frowned as she took a drink straight from the bottle. “I don’t feel anything magical, and there’s no velociraptors running loose, but I feel like something’s different.” But she shrugged it off. So long as it didn’t fuck with her and Doc, Kady felt the dome could do whatever it wanted.
Her wrinkling her nose at him was adorable. “Priorities, darlin’,” he teased. While Kady flopped onto the couch, Doc followed at a slower pace and settled beside her. Leaning back against the cushions, the gunslinger twisted off the cap of his beer and took a sip as he listened to Kady talk.
So, he was not the only one that noticed something was off in Madison Valley. Given Kady’s magical heritage, it made sense she would be able to feel something different, but if it had nothing to do with magic or velociraptors, what was it then?
“Strange that it isn’t magic-related, but I suppose we shouldn’t worry. It doesn’t seem to be affecting us.” Doc shrugged and patted her knee. “As long as I have you and my family, I don’t much care what this place tries to do to us.”
Kady took advantage of his proximity and flopped her head onto his lap. Her black curly hair spread over his leg and onto the couch as she smiled up at him. Could she drink a beer while laying down? Yes she can! It’s a talent she developed a long time ago that had nothing to do with magic.
“For once things are going right for me,” she said as she reached up with her free hand to push her fingers through his hair. “I’ve lost everything good in my life as fast as I got it. I’m not gonna lose this. Not this time.”
Kady shifted, her head settled in his lap and that mane of dark hair spilling out over his leg, and looked up at him with a smile. Doc couldn’t imagine a time when he didn’t have that smile or this woman in his life. His mustache twitched and his lips pulled back in a smile of his own.
Her hand slipped into his hair and Doc leaned into the touch. Her words tugged at his heart strings because he felt the same. He had lost a lot of good in his life often as quickly as it arrived, especially when it came to his love life. He wasn’t about to let anything take Kady away from him.
He turned and pressed a kiss to her palm. “Neither am I, darlin’. Neither am I,” he replied, voice laced with determination.
Kady smiled. For the first time in a very long time she felt relaxed. Completely at ease. Safe. A romantic would say it was because of this man right here, but she knew it was also because she decided to trust him. He had never betrayed that trust, and she would never take him for granted.
She looked up at him in silence, just caressing his hair and enjoying the moment. Then she smiled. “You working tomorrow?” She asked that in a manner that strongly suggested he say no.
After being trapped in that god forsaken well, Doc had never really known a moment of ease. Of safety. Even with Wynonna, there was always the chance of some kind of evil rearing ugly black eyes, coming to hunt them down. There was no true sanctuary. Coming here, raising his daughter, and meeting Kady had been life changing for Doc. Now it was impossible for him to truly imagine life without them.
Her question prompted a chuckle from Doc. “If you make it worth my while, I can say with certainty I won’t,” he teased, leaning down to press a kiss to her nose playfully.
Kady set her beer down on the coffee table without looking as she bit her lower lip. A little magic kept it from falling. “Worth your while? I have to earn your attention now?”
Still with her head in her lap, Kady gave a sensual writhe that she’d perfected on stage. Doc had always been her best customer, but his motives changed once they realized their emotions had gotten all mixed up in their times together. That just made everything better.
It always impressed Doc how naturally Kady wielded her magic. He wasn’t used to magic being used for such trivial things. Hell, he wasn’t used to magic being used for good. Kady had opened his eyes to more things than just the fact that he was potentially deserving of love. And how amazingly sexy a woman could look when she bit her lip.
If that wasn’t enough, Kady gave a sensual writhe; it was a move she’d perfected on stage. A move Doc had seen her perform numerous times. Of course, nothing could compare to when she gave him a private viewing. His lips shifted to her mouth and he pressed a lingering kiss to her lips, tasting the beer and something that was uniquely Kady there.
“No, darlin’. You don’. But I’ll never turn down a chance to see you move like that up close and personal,” he murmured against her lips.
Since he was right there, Kady wrapped her arms around her gunslinger. “It’s a good thing I know you love me,” she whispered back, ending it with a nibble to his lower lip. “Otherwise, I’d think you were just using me for private shows.”
There had been that thought when they’d first started seeing more of each other. Kady’s self-esteem wasn’t what you’d call solid. People all through her life, her mother included, had used her for one reason or another. Penny had been the only one who had really loved her…until Doc. But sometimes she needed the reminder.
Her arms wrapped around him, drawing him closer, and her breath warm on his face with the whispered words. They tugged at his heart strings as surely as she nibbled his lower lip. Doc pulled her closer, breaking the kiss in favor of pressing his lips to her forehead instead.
“You don’ need to worry about none of that, darlin’,” Doc assured her softly. “My intentions with you go far beyond you dancing skills.” He knew she didn’t have the best self-esteem and Doc never wanted to put her in a place where she felt she could doubt him. The gunslinger knew that feeling himself all too well and he had no interest in putting someone else in those uncomfortable shoes, especially not Kady.
A soft smile came to Kady’s face as she looked into Doc’s eyes. Her fingers bunched into the back of his shirt, more from wanting him to stay where he was along with not wanting to ever let him go.
“You know I love you, right?” She gave him a quick kiss then smirked. “I must have a thing for dirty old men.” Kady chuckled, not meaning a word of that beyond her loving him.
Doc wasn’t going anywhere. Hell, there was nowhere else he wanted to be. While Alice would always hold the biggest piece of his heart, Kady was always a close second. She could hold on as tight as she wanted; Doc never planned on letting go.
The gunslinger returned the kiss and a smirk tugged at his own lips. “I do. Though I don’ mind the occasional reminder.” The comment about dirty old men earned a genuine chuckle from Doc. “How truly fortunate for me,” he murmured, allowing his forehead to rest against hers.
“In case it wasn’t obvious, I love you too,” he said quietly. “You got me darlin and I ain’ going nowhere.”
That gentle smile returned to Kady’s face as she looked into those baby blues then kissed him with all her heart. Nothing felt as right as this. Nothing else in her life was so comfortable. Safe. It was that last part that had won her over completely. The first time she slept all through the night, not waking up every time he moved or made a noise, Kady knew this was real.
She broke the kiss only to give him the smirk that worked so well on stage. “So, are we going to ruin the couch cushions again or take this to the bedroom?”
Doc returned the kiss, putting as much of himself into the gesture as Kady did. No, Doc had never felt as comfortable as when he was with her. Everything just fit perfectly. She was truly the missing piece of the messy puzzle that was Doc Holliday.
The kiss left him breathless, but he still managed to return her smirk with one of his own. “I think we can make it to the bedroom this time.” And without a word or warning, Doc scooped Kady up in his arms and headed towards the bedroom.