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When; Saturday November 22
Rating; PG-13-ish
Characters; Thelma Bates deadlesbian and Dawn Summers tothelibrary
Summary; It's like Katy Perry only not insulting! Or, it's a nice night for questioning one's sexuality. In which there is dinner, and dancing.
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Dawn smooths down her dress and takes another sip of her water, glancing nervously at the clock on her cell. So what if Thelma still has five minutes until she's even on time? It's still nervous time.

A quick glance down at her feet shows newly manicured red toes peeking out from the new shoes Tosh bought her. Okay, so even if she passes out, she'll look amazing doing it. Check and check.

Another sip of water. Please let this go well. Please, please, please.

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Thelma shows up just about a minute before the scheduled time, in a black and red number (http://www.edressme.com/7602.html#) that had caught her eye.

She looked around, trying to spot where Dawn had gotten the table.

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Dawn sees Thelma and can't hold back a laugh. Oh God, they match. And not even on purpose. This is awesome, in a geeky kind of way.

She stands and catches Thelma's eye, waving a little. When Thelma reaches the table, she does a little twirl, then grins. "We match!"

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Thelma laughed. "We do! That's... brilliant." She waved back. "You look gorgeous."

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Dawn blushes, but the grin stays on her face. "You really like it?" She sits, then nods at a waiter so Thelma can order something to drink.

"You look gorgeous, too." Dawn fights the urge to look away as a light red flush spreads across her chest, instead smiling a little sheepishly and shrugging. "Really really gorgeous."

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"Red wine?" Thelma told the waitress.

"And yes, I do like it. And the shoes, don't think I didn't get a good look at those."

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Dawn looks down at her toes fondly, smiling. "They are pretty awesome, aren't they?" She wiggles said toes happily.

"So, just so you know, I'm really really nervous but you're really pretty and I think this is way less academic than I thought it might be and also I think I want to kiss you tonight." Dawn finishes the fast paced babble with a long sip of water and a deeper blush. Stupid confession curse.

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"Right," Thelma said. "How about we get through dinner. And you can... tell me about California, and hopefully calm down a little." She smiled, encouragingly.

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Dawn nods, already calming down a little. "Good plan. Sorry about the whole... spaztastic thing. I just don't want to mess anything up by trying to pretend I'm all cool cucumber-y when I'm not."

Another sip of water, and the red slowly recedes from her face. "I actually haven't lived there since we blew up Sunnydale. I've been in Rome for a while, with a brief stopover in Cleveland."

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"Rome, very nice," Thelma said. "I visited there once, with my parents."

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Dawn relaxes even further. "I like it, too. All the history, the old architecture? It's just amazing. Sunnydale has the whole 'mouth of hell, older than God evil' thing going on, but the downside of living in a recent-ishly settled country is the lack of over-arching tangible history."

She takes another sip of water, and glances at the menu, then continues, "And since I hadn't ever been out of the country, and really technically I was only, like, four years old and therefore had really really never been out of the country, it was a nice change."

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"...technically four years old? What, born on leap day or something?" Thelma asked.

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Dawn shakes her head. "Uh-uh. I didn't tell you yet? For once, I don't fail at secrecy. Rock."

She sighs. "Okay, long story short. There were some monks hiding this... Key, from a hell goddess, so she couldn't use the Key to get home and as a byproduct, end the world. They figured sending the Key to the Slayer would ensure its safety. My sister is the Slayer."

This part still sucks, but Dawn isn't a little kid anymore so she just shrugs and doesn't let it get to her. "So they made a bunch of memories of a kid sister, gave them to everyone in Buffy's life, and made the key into the girl from the memories." A beat. "Which would be me."

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"...wow," Thelma said. "So you're like... made of magic. Neat."

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Dawn laughs. "Magic and Buffy, yeah. Kind of neat. Which wasn't my response when I first found out, but I was really young." A thoughtful look. "Hey, if we ever get a crazy curse, maybe you can see it. Crazy people apparently see me as... green and glowy. I don't know how exactly, but anyone loonytunes can see the key parts of me."

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"I'm thankfully sane," Thelma said. "And... slightly undead, but that's another story." She sipped at her drink.

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Dawn laughed. "Well, I'm older than dirt cosmic energy made flesh and my blood used to open portals to other worlds. I think it works out pretty nice."

"You could tell me the undead story, you know. If you wanted. Not tonight, even. But sometime."

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"I think the 'how I got stabbed by a fallen angel' story isn't really first date-like material," Thelma said. "Especially when dinner is involved."

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"Fair enough." Dawn reaches across the table to lay her hand on top of Thelma's. "But after tonight, we can swap. Your fallen angel for my hell god. Deal?"

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"Deal," Thelma said with a nod. "...I haven't even taken a peek at the menu, yet."

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Dawn hands over the menu she got for Thelma. "Here! We can fix that really easily."

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Thelma grinned and looked over her options. "Something light, I think. Since I was told there would be dancing."

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"Oh, completely there will be dancing!" Dawn's enthusiasm is of the bubbly sort. Once she relaxes, it's back to the normal Dawn-like programming. Only with an added desire to kiss a girl, though. "It wouldn't be complete without dancing."

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Dinner itself went well, happy banter and good food. It didn't take them much time after paying the check to head out to the club.

"I was about to say I'd not been dancing in forever, but I just remembered about Halloween."

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Dawn nods. "That was my first time since... God, since I got here."

Dawn's on alert as they walk up to the club's entrance-- it's the Underground, and she's happy, not stupid-- but it's not showing much.

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"You okay?" Thelma said. "You seem all... ready to spring into action."

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Dawn shrugs. "Underground," she explains succinctly. "Gives me the heebies. Kind of a training thing."

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Thelma nodded. "You reminded me of Ella, there," she said. "And I guess I just... I don't think I'm invincible or anything, definitely. But I'm less likely to worry about my safety, now."

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"It's one of those things. You spend enough time in a place where dark alleys might as well be buffets, you react a certain way all the time."

"Yeah, well. You should still worry a good amount. Because you have people who would rather you stick around." Before she can think twice about it, Dawn leans in to press a kiss to Thelma's cheek-- thank God she wore that stain stuff and all the gloss wore off at dinner-- then, drunk and giddy on her own daring, tugs Thelma ahead, towards the door. "Come on! Let's go dance."

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"Dancing, yes," Thelma said, laughing a bit. She was smiling from ear to ear.

"And I'll keep that whole safety tip in mind!"

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Dawn's grin matches Thelma's. "Get ready to boogie, Ms. Bates."

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Thelma followed Dawn, glad that the other girl was totally taking point on this, and not needing to be egged on.

"Boogie I can manage. I've got a lot of moves in this body of mine."

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Well duh. Once a Summers girl makes up her mind, that's that. Plus, how tacky would it be to ask someone out then make them do all the work? Lame.

"Good, because I am so entirely ready to dance." Dawn drags Thelma to the dance floor; do not pass go, do not set anything down or grab a drink. It's dancing time.

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"You are absolutely adorable!" Thelma said, over the din of the dance floor. Her moves weren't write-home worthy, but she did her best to shake her groove thang.

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Dawn's moves are pretty damn good. And this isn't even how she usually dances. Get her into anything partnered and she'll knock your socks off. She laughs, and does a pretty nifty looking curtsy. "I dance!" She yells back. "Ballet, when I was a kid. Then add slaying and sparring and I can get jiggy with it with the best of them."

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"Oooooh, all fancy training," Thelma said. "I'm sadly purely amateur, with a side of yoga."

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Dawn shows off just a little bit more before giggling and moving closer to Thelma, resting one hand on her hip. "Is this okay?" she yells, and then laughs again because asking a serious question over the music of the club is admittedly hilarious.

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Thelma giggled a bit, and nodded in encouragement. She danced ever so slightly closer to Dawn.

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Let it never be said Dawn Summers can't take the hint. She moves closer to Thelma, closing the gap between them even further. Her other hand rests on Thelma's shoulder, and this isn't new. She's danced with at least half of the baby Slayers like this a bajillion times.

...Okay, the part where her gaze keeps drifting down to Thelma's mouth and she really really wonders what would happen if Dawn just leaned in and kissed her is admittedly a little newer.

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Thelma herself was just enjoying the dancing, the atmosphere, and the music. She didn't follow Dawn's eyes completely, but she couldn't help but smirk just a little at the vibe she was getting from her dance partner.

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Oh, the hell with it. Dawn leans in the last inch and kisses Thelma, light and if not chaste, not exactly the stuff of romance novels. Hey, it's a first kiss! And Dawn is just a little nervous, though the fact that kissing Thelma just feels exciting and fun-- and okay, sexy-- goes a long way towards both confirming her theory and killing her nerves.

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Well, Thelma was hardly one to get in the way of a good kiss... or to push a woman beyond her comfort zone.

She let Dawn take the lead here, but did make sure to kiss back just as good as Dawn gave.

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Dawn appreciates that. As much as it might be nice to be kissed, this one feels better if it's her call. No way to rationalize away anything, that way. But next time it can be Thelma's turn to take charge!

Dawn's deepens the kiss just a little, then pulls away, lips wet and grin fixed on her face. "I'll buy you the toaster oven tomorrow," she yells, laughing. Hopefully that's a reference in Thelma's world, too, or Dawn will have explain it, and witty revelations aren't as witty when they have to be explained.

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"Ooooh, it can go in my trophy case," Thelma added jokingly.

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Reference accomplished! Dawn laughs again, a little giddily. "As long as you put it in the very front, I'm okay with that!"

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"Reserved spot, promise," Thelma said with a grin. "Shall we keep dancing?"