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Betty lay awake.

Her eyes were fixed upon her bedroom door, it was as if she was expecting a demon to burst in a attack her.

Her gaze was drowsy, but intense.

You really screwed up this time kid.

The tick of her wall clock filled the empty space.

She could still taste the copper of her blood upon her wounded lip. It was a reminder, a stern scolding of how fate wanted her life to be.

Lonely.

Nobody could really control what happened, not when other people roamed the earth with alternative motives.

Betty closed her eyes slowly, the let her limbs relax and pulled herself out of her daze. All her mind could think about was Kate, how she had denied her for a second time, against her will.

Betty rolled onto her back.

A German bomber, yes, a German bomber, dream about them, bombing the church Kate's Father is praying in.

Bomb him so his body pops.

Betty gritted her teeth with a mean grin.

What God is protecting you?

A creak sounded outside her door. Betty sat up and flicked her lamp on, the glow hurt her eyes, but hopefully fended off the intruder.

"Betty?" a soft voice travelled through the door. Betty rubbed her eyes and groaned.

"Gladys, I swear I will-" she pulled herself out of bed and pressed her ear to the door.

"I have nowhere to go" Gladys admitted sourly.

"What?"

"James-he's missing in action" her voice was reduced to tiny hiccups of breath.

Betty unclipped the lock with a stiff clunk and pulled her door open.

Gladys had her coat, now damp wrapped around her body. Her eyes were red raw and her face was pale.

"Why didn't you say anything?" Betty peered out into the dark hallway.

"I wanted you to be focused on finding Kate"

"Come on"

"Daddy wont, he wont let me in"

Betty ushered Gladys in and shut the door as delicately as she could.

Betty looked Gladys up and down, everything on the woman seemed to be facing downwards in a sulky, irritated grimace. Betty tutted and pulled the woman into a strong hug. Despite the dampness of Gladys's coat and the frost upon her skin, Betty found it easy to wrap her arms around such a petite frame.

"Today's been a screwy one for us both huh"

"Yesterday" Gladys muttered into Betty's shoulder.

"What?"

"It's past midnight, it's technically-"

"Do you want to sleep in my bed or not?" Betty smirked playfully and helped Gladys's out of her coat. As it was taken from her and slung over Betty's arm chair, Gladys rubbed her chilled arms.

"Take them off" Betty motioned up and down the woman.

"Pardon?"

"You look like you've caught your death, I don't want you to die because it'd mean I'd have no one to tease, take them off"

"I there I was thinking you were attracted to me-" Gladys muttered smirking, she then unbuttoned her blouse. "So you've forgiven me?"

"I never really hated you" Betty shrugged and pawed through her draws in attempt to try and find some pyjamas for her. Betty smiled to herself. "I don't think I could hate you"

Gladys blushed and shed her blouse then set it on the radiator. She slipped off her heels and let them fall to the floor with a clomp.

"Hows your lip?"

"It hurts" Betty shrugged and pulled a night gown from her draw. It was black silk, the only thing that she ever owed that was a luxury piece of clothing.

"You are sooo hypocritical" Gladys moved behind the blond and took the gown from her hands. "And you haven't burnt this, you know, in the war effort rampage?"

"Quit it" Betty glared, but found it hard to maintain a stern and irritated stare when Gladys stood in a bra and pencil skirt. "I actually forgot about it"

"You've worn this?" Gladys's eyes light up with intrigue. She held it up against herself, it came up mid thigh.

"No" Betty hissed. "I bought it on a whim"

"A whim that would lead you to a scandalous night with some girl in a bar?" Gladys bit her lip and swayed her lips. She locked her eyes with the blond and winked.

"I thought you were supposed to be sad" Betty snapped and crossed her arms over her chest, she tried to avert her eyes from Gladys's.

"I can't help it when I'm around you, you make me feel...better"

Betty rose an eyebrow, a look to fend off any suspicion that she was actually charmed by the comment.

"Well, yeah" Betty began to chew on her lip but winced as her tooth caught the cut that resided to the left of her bottom lip.

"Here" Gladys walked into the bathroom, after a few seconds of running water, she was back with a damp cloth, folded neatly. "Press it to your lip"

"Yeah, because I'd press it to my dam forehead to make my lip heal" Betty took the cloth and pressed the cloth to the wound.

Gladys chuckled and unzipped the back of her skirt and with a swish it pooled at her feet.

Exposing her stockings and black underwear.

Betty felt all her brain cells escape her. Unable to stop, her eyes roamed across Gladys, her figure, her curve of her waist, her subtle hip bones.

All covered with milky skin that should be cherished.

"See something you like?" Gladys blushed under Betty's gaze, the blond's stare was intense, like she was mentally undressing her.

"Erm, no, ye-no" Betty turned her back awkwardly and pushed the cloth harder on her lip to scold herself.

You've just lost the woman you love. Gladys has come here for refuge and this is ALL after you had a fat lip at her about the whole Kate situation.. but she did say, suggest, she wanted you.

The voice in Betty's head had a charm not many internal voices possessed.

Gladys's feet padded, bare and exposed to the cold wood floor towards Betty.

"You don't have to be ashamed Bets" Gladys whispered, her hands held Betty's shoulders then trailed down her arms to cup Betty's hands. Gladys's body then pressed against Betty's back, her breath tickled the blonds neck.

Betty's eyes fluttered shut.

"You are attracted to women" she lowered Betty's hands from her mouth and turned the woman in her arms. "In all honesty" Gladys took the cloth from Betty's hand and dabbed her lip of any remaining blood. "I'm attracted to you-"

Gladys leant in and kissed Betty, slowly. Betty's bottom was cold with the water that had been applied, but soon warmed as Gladys connected it with hers. Betty let out a strangled moan and pulled away, shaking her head.

"We can't" she stuttered, her reasoning was a sin when Gladys looked so heavenly in the night dress. With her eyes dark, lips slightly parted, chest heaving and nipples erect through the thin material.

Betty pressed her hand to her forehead.

"Why not?"Gladys pursed her lips.

"It's wrong, you-you're acting off this deranged idea that you like me, you've just lost the man you were engaged too"

"You've just lost the woman you love"

"Loved" Betty corrected and ran a hand through her hair. "Listen, you can stay tonight, tomorrow night if you need to, hell all week, but don't go and screw what you have with James"

Knowing she wasn't going to get any further, Gladys nodded and walked over to Betty's bed and climbed in. Shuffling under the covers, she patted the space at the side of her. Betty crawled in after her and closed her eyes.

"Night Bets"

"Night Princess"

Gladys planted a soft kiss upon Betty's lips and rolled over before the blond could retaliate.

Betty opened one eye and smiled, despite all they'd been through earlier, it finally felt like a new day was upon them and not just the same old record that had been playing for a month.

The morning sun shone through the slit in the curtains, it illuminated the dust in the air and darted across the floor, to creep up over the slumbering pair.

Betty stirred with a groggy moan and opened a tired eye, only for it to be shocked with the light. Closing it again, she tried to roll away but soon found herself incapable of moving.

"What the-" the blond struggled but soon remembered Gladys was sharing her bed.

Fragments of last night slid back into place slowly as she blinked away the spots from her eyes.

The brunet was huddled much like a child around Betty, with her head resting in the crook of the blonds neck. Gladys breathed slowly into Betty's skin, making it tingle and form a impossible itch to scratch.

Betty was holding Gladys to her by the lower back and she felt their legs intertwined. Gladys's left leg was hooked in between Betty's and Betty's right leg was hitched up to Gladys's hip.

The brunets arms were wrapped around the back of Betty's neck.

The intimacy of their position would suggest they had shared a few more nights in the bed rather than one. Betty pressed her lips into Gladys's hair and planted a soft kiss in greeting since they went to sleep.

"Morning" Gladys mumbled and nuzzled her nose into Betty's neck. The blond shivered felt tingles attack her nerves.

"Morning" Betty whispered and tried not to move, thinking it would upset Gladys if she did.

"We should get up shouldn't we" Gladys groaned and held Betty tighter.

"Yeah, we probably should, but with you holdin' onto me like a baby monkey, I don't think I'll be moving any time soon"

Gladys unwrapped her hands from around Betty's neck and trailed her hands down the blonds sides.

"W-w-what are you doing?" Betty was breathless as the ache in her chest travelled south.

"I'm getting you to move" Gladys planted butterfly kisses upon Betty's neck.

"Stop Gladys" Betty whimpered and felt the woman's hands slide under the blonds pyjama top. "What's gotten into you?"

"Hopefully you" Gladys peered at Betty. "I want to know what it feels like"

"What?" Betty blushed and tried to sink into the mattress.

"You know what. Bets, in the car yesterday, I-I've thought about it, I want you, I actually want someone who wants me"

"James-"

"James is dead" Gladys spoke sternly. "I know you want me"

Betty closed her eyes and gulped.

"We need to get to work"

Edith peered up from her coffee, from watching the steam rise the woman in front of her proved more interesting.

"Gladys, you look as irritated as a dog chasing no tail" she puzzled and set her mug down. Gladys stopped chewing on her sandwich and shook her head.

"I'm fine Edith"

"Tell that to your face" Betty slid into the seat next to the brunet. Gladys thinned her lips and set down her skimpy meal.

"What don't you tell my face what it wants to hear for once?" Gladys drank her tea quickly. Edith rose her eyebrows as Gladys rose to her feet and left.

Betty sighed and looked after her.

"What's gotten into her?" Edith scoffed. "Hold on, what have you been saying to her?"

"Nothing"

"Oh sure" Edith rolled her.

"James went missing in action" Betty chewed on the inside of her lip.

"I know"

"Huh?"

"She told me" Edith stared into her coffee once more.

"She cared to tell me last night-why tell me last?"

"Because of the way you act around her"

Betty stayed in a patient silence and let Edith continue.

"You act like your the king of everything and that she's always wrong, just let her be right for once, then she might open up to you more... I see you care about her Betty, don't deny it"
Betty rolled her tongue around her mouth, a habit to sooth her thoughts.

Just let her be right.

"I'm gonna find her" Betty rose from her seat and passed her lunch to Edith. "Eat it, I know you've not eaten in days, it'll make you feel better"

Betty roamed the work floor and the changing rooms, to her irritation, Gladys wasn't there.

Betty neared the store room, the stairway down was littered with stray tags and straw from the crates. She still had fifteen minuets before shift started again so decided to take a chance.

Pushing open the doors, Betty stepped inside. The dim light didn't offer any shadow of another person, but reassured her if anyone did come in she could hide in the shadows until she made a quick exit.

"Gladys?" Betty called out, her voice echoed around the large crates, but no response followed. "Gladys?" the second time offered the distant shift of a crate. Betty walked towards the sound, with her heart in her throat.

Turning the corner, the blond soon lay her eyes upon Gladys, curled in a corner.

"Gladys" Betty felt her chest tighten when the woman sniffled and tried to compose herself.

"I'm-I'm fine, just go" Gladys corrected her hair under her bonnet and stood shakily.

"I'm not gonna leave until you tell me" Betty crossed her arms over her chest.

"Tell you what? That I'm a mess!" Gladys sobbed, her voice strained under all the pressure.

"What's wrong. You need to let it out" when she knew her words weren't getting through, Betty knew she had to take Edith's advice. "You're right" Betty sighed and sank down to her knees in front of Gladys.

Gladys's eyes widened.

"I have, feelings for you and I guess I'm scared, because I've never had someone want me"

Gladys sniffled and gasped as Betty wiped away her tears with her thumb. "No one this pretty should be crying"

"You'd be okay with us?" Gladys motioned between them with her tissue clasped in her hands.

"Yeah, I'm more than okay with the idea" Betty pinched Gladys's chin and as she drew her hand away, Gladys wrapped her hand around the blonds wrist.

"So you'd be okay if I did this?" Gladys kissed each of Betty's nimble fingers and caught the blonds eyes, only to hold them with hers.

"Fine" Betty mumbled.

"And this?"

Gladys then placed a soft kiss in Betty's palm, then trailed up the her wrist before her skin disappeared under her overalls.

Betty's chest heaved and she nodded.

Remember to breathe McRae.

"What about this?" Gladys moved her hand slowly to Betty's cheek and rubbed circles into jaw bone. The brunette pressed their foreheads together and whimpered as Betty's hands slid down her side to grasp her hips.

"Just kiss me Gladys" Betty whispered against Gladys's lips.

Gladys closed the gap and took time to smile into the kiss. Each seconds promised more depth and connection. Betty tilted her head after a few hurried pecks and Gladys did the same and they connected their lips, only to let each others tongues dip and rub against each others.

"Tonight, I want you to show me-" Gladys pulled away and kissed Betty's neck before saying. "how you pleasure a woman"

Betty shuddered and made a small noise to confirm her agreement.

"Gladys, you'll like it" Betty smirked and bit down on her lip as Gladys popped each button on Betty's overalls. "Although, your doing just fine Princess"