[OOM] San Francisco, Again
Jul. 23rd, 2012 07:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filemyclaimIt's hotter than Hades tonight - a steamy sort of heat that adheres clothing to skin and makes Dixie grateful for her skimpy stage costumes. Because her dressing room is an entire floor above the burning hot arc lights on the stage floor of the Horseshoe club she takes her breaks among the costume fragments and dust ruffles, stirring up a stiff breeze for herself with a black, elaborately-decorated ostrich feather fan. Her black heels, stockings and robe are still in place, though the top button of her body-hugging teddy has been furtively unsnapped.
Just as she's starting to drift into a hazy sleep, there's a knock at the door and a smile comes unbidden to her face. "You know you don't have to knock," she says, blotting her face with an ice water-soaked handkerchief.
Just as she's starting to drift into a hazy sleep, there's a knock at the door and a smile comes unbidden to her face. "You know you don't have to knock," she says, blotting her face with an ice water-soaked handkerchief.
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Date: 2012-07-26 03:46 am (UTC)"Some weather we're having, huh?"
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Date: 2012-07-26 04:05 am (UTC)"Mmm..." she drags the handkerchief down her cheek to her collarbone. "This isn't what I meant when I told you I love it when it's hot." She wiggles her fingers. "Close the door, Brisco."
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Date: 2012-07-26 04:53 am (UTC)"You look great tonight, Dix."
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Date: 2012-08-07 05:02 pm (UTC)"It's been a long, hot, lonely week without you." Her fingers close over his. "Did Roy tell you I'm headed out to New York next week?"
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Date: 2012-08-16 04:25 am (UTC)He's doing his best not to take it badly. They get to see each other so rarely as it is...
"Gonna take the East Coast by storm?"
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Date: 2012-08-16 07:33 am (UTC)"I'm trying - though even a drizzle might do them good." She slinks forward in her chair and reaches out for him. "It'll only be a month," she says. "And rumor has it you're after Big Smith again." He won't be lonely.
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Date: 2012-09-11 03:21 am (UTC)He leans into her touch. "Your gossip's a little behind the times."
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Date: 2012-09-11 03:36 am (UTC)But he'll have to ask her first, now, won't he?
Unless she beats him to it. "Oh? Mind giving me a refresher course?" She runs her fingers over his hand, examining the nearly-healed injuries he'd gotten during their little train trip.
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Date: 2012-09-11 04:34 am (UTC)"You sure you wanna know?"
It doesn't end happily.
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Date: 2012-09-11 05:48 am (UTC)Though the evidence of that with Brisco is occasionally elusive.
"I don't expect a fairytale," she tells him- and she's been over Smith for a good six months.
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Date: 2012-09-23 06:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 06:57 am (UTC)Not that she didn't expect Brisco to get Smith some day, but to have it happen so immediately...No. She bites back her shock and gives him a wry look.
"Big always did want to go out in a big way," she snorts. "I did try to tell him not to play with fire."
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Date: 2012-09-30 07:02 am (UTC)"Anyway, I just thought you should hear it from me."
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Date: 2012-09-30 07:08 am (UTC)"How kind of you to call," she teases. "So this isn't social?" she stands up to hang her arms around his neck, heat and her next show be damned.
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Date: 2012-09-30 07:12 am (UTC)He leans down and kisses her, slowly and gently.
She's probably going to have to redo her makeup.
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Date: 2012-09-30 07:18 am (UTC)But eventually she does need to breathe, and, breaking the kiss, she gives him a dreamy look. "I don't suppose you'd like to share an ice bath?" She wants to have fun without passing out.
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Date: 2012-09-30 07:44 am (UTC)He wraps an arm around her waist, wanting to keep her close in spite of the humid, stagnant air in the room.
"But I need to be ready to ride out in the morning."
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Date: 2012-09-30 07:53 am (UTC)"I'm gonna get you for that, Brisco."
That's probably the sexiest threat he's ever had levied on his head, isn't it?
"Well," she points out. "You always were an early riser."
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Date: 2012-09-30 07:57 am (UTC)"Sadly, yes."
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Date: 2012-09-30 08:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-30 08:03 am (UTC)He can't help himself, though.
"You sure you don't want to enjoy the rest of the night?"
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Date: 2012-09-30 08:12 am (UTC)"You're the one who said no to french champagne...a nice cool icewater bath...me singing La Marseilles in a tiny little blue and white number with a slit up the thigh..." kiss kiss to the neck.
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Date: 2012-10-02 11:10 am (UTC)If his tone of voice is any indication, he really wishes he didn't.
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Date: 2012-10-02 11:45 am (UTC)