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Assistant: Title: Rumours (Terrible and True)
        Author: SunsetSharkbite SunsetSharkbite 
        Chapter: 14/21 
        Summary: “I’m always amazed at how you’re not kidnapped or dead in a ditch. Your luck is almost annoying.”
 
  “What can I say?” Vi grinned with that casual leaning shrug. “God is a woman, and She thinks I’m hot.” 
 Vi and Cait are coworkers on the second season of their hit show. Their characters onscreen have great chemistry and are popular with fans, but the actors themselves? Barely get along.Until they have to.
        Contents: Chapter 14
    

    


      
        
          Sorry this one was a bit late! I’ve been having a spot of health but should be speeding back up again ^^
      
  

  
  
    
     
  Twitter post displaying a professionally shot photo showing Caitlyn sitting on a fold out chair outside the Tent in the low afternoon light. She’s in full costume, holding a bottle of water, chatting casually with an equally costumed Vi, who’s looking at her with an expression of concentration.Text: Taking a well deserved break while on set, one of the few calm moments for these characters we’re probably ever going to see (Source: Netflix)
> omg get married already 😭😍😭😍> i love theeeeeemmm> a photo meme of a roughly drawn emoji with tears and hearts pouring out of it’s eyes as it wide mouth cries> a photo meme of a cartoon figure crying on the floor surrounded by hearts> Hey guys, I think Caitlyn has a hickey.   >What??? I can’t see it???      > a cropped copy of the original photo showcasing Caitlyn from the shoulders up, with a red circle on her neck where the collar reaches. A further cropped photo showing just the circle area is posted with it, but far too pixelated to see details.         > that could be anything            > including a hickey> honestly I normally don’t assume things about public figures, but this makes me excited for the show because if they’re in a relationship there’s NO WAY the characters aren’t going to be, right?> NGL half the reason I moved to Piltover was to try and get on Vi’s radar, can’t believe I missed it by just a few months! d@mn you grad school.   > shoot for the stars, or in this case the three-way  “Hey, I’m home!”Vi dropped her duffle bag at the entrance with a loud thump, cracking her neck as she stood up straight. Rolling a shoulder, she stepped further into the house, glancing this way and that to see where her sister might be. “Jinx? Shortstack? You here?”“Vi?” Jinx’s voice, sounding half-asleep despite the fact it was afternoon, rang through the hall, before the sound of a door slamming open and footsteps running came through. “Vi!”The lanky younger women ran through the hallway, her bare feet echoing loud slaps on the hardwood before she launched herself at Vi, who stumbled but expertly held her balance, swinging Jinx around with the momentum of the jump. The sisters laughed as Vi squeezed Jinx a bit too tightly and the other girl wiggled to get out of the strong grip. Vi dropped her sister and they both stepped back, still laughing and catching their breath. Jinx, dressed in an oversized tshirt with a cartoon cat and blue pyjama pants with a cloud motif, playfully punched Vi in the arm.Vi clapped her sister on the shoulder fondly a couple of times. “So you missed me?” she asked as she picked her bag back up and began to walk down to her room. Jinx elbowed her in the side and followed after.“The house just isn’t the same without the constant noises of your stupid blender.” Jinx said, taking tall steps on her toes behind Vi through the hall. “But playing games until 1am on the speakers. You know, as loud as I wanted. That was fun.”Chuckling, Vi opened the door to her room and tossed the duffle bag onto the still unmade bed. She turned around, guiding her sister to turn as well and walk in front of her to head back to the main living area. “Did you eat actual food while I was gone or did you live out of chip bags?”“I will have you know,” Jinx whirled around, hands behind her back as she walked backwards toward the kitchen, “that I ate nothing but professionally made meals formulated to standards of including all government suggested food groups.”“Takeout and frozen dinners?”“Bingo!” Jinx spun to face forward again, heading over to settle at the kitchen island, sliding into one of the barstools. Vi walked past, heading toward the fridge to open it and look inside. The shelves were pretty barren except a couple of pizza boxes, two Chinese takeout containers and a styrofoam clamshell that hadn’t been closed properly and was half open, revealing maybe a couple forkfuls of rice and a single slice of roasted potato. She shook her head, chuckling, and reached down to grab a bottle of water.Standing up and shutting the fridge, she leaned against the counter while uncapping the bottle. “No big parties?”Jinx shrugged, her bony shoulders reaching her ears before dropping down. “Eh, Vik came over a couple of times to watch stuff. Pretty Boy came with him once. Ekko took the week to visit his fam so he wasn’t around and uh-“ she scratched at the back of her neck, chewing her bottom lip. “Yeah that’s it. Been in gremlin-mode.”Stretching her arms forward, she tapped her nails on the counter surface and tilted her head while looking at Vi. “How about your week? Who’d you have to room with? Se-vi-kaaaa?”Vi shook her head. “I was assigned to, but I actually didn’t spend much time in the trailer.”Jinx snorted. “What, she kick you out?” At Vi’s affirmative laugh and nod Jinx rolled her eyes and blew her bangs out of her face with a muttered “d@mn, b@tch.” She looked back at Vi quizzically. “So where did you sleep?”Unable to stop the smirk that spread across her expression, Vi tried to mask it with a sip of her water. Jinx leaned across the counter, her own smirk spreading.“Vi-O-Let,” she said, dragging the syllables out with a dramatic click of her tongue. “Did you shack up? While at work and on contract not to? Did you break both of your rules at the Tent?”Vi’s smirk turned into a full grin, which she tried to temper by biting at her lower lip and pointedly avoiding eye contact with her sister. She re-capped the bottle and gave a casual shrug. “I’m a lady, I’d never kiss and tell.”“B@llsh@t, you’ve texted me at half-time twice.” Jinx snorted. “And remember Deb’s BBQ when you called me from the bathroom during?”“That doesn’t count, it was was a call for help.”Jinx blew a whistle, laughing. “Oh jeeze, that’s a loaded term for you.”“F@ck off.”Squinting, the young actress snorted and stuck out her tongue, before blowing a kiss Vi’s way. She flattened her hands on the counter and pushed herself up, rolling one shoulder and then the other before seating properly on the stool. “So,” she said, making a grabbing motion toward the water bottle Vi was holding. Vi slid it across the counter, turning back to the fridge to grab another for herself. Jinx uncapped the bottle and took a deep drink. “Who? You f@ck@d a stagehand? Tell me it wasn’t the married chick.”“Jesus J, you think I’d cross that line?” Vi frowned at her as the fridge slammed shut while she returned to lean against the counter with a fresh bottle. Jinx shrugged.“You literally just told me you crossed two other lines. Why not go for gold? The…” she held her teeth in her tongue a second, thinking before her eyes brightened. “Triple crown! That’s a thing, yeah.”Vi snorted, laughing and shaking her head. “It wasn’t a married chick. She’s single.”“Oh, is that a hint?” Jinx leaned forward, face a comical expression of interest and attempt to stifle her laughter. Vi rolled her eyes, poured some water in her hand and tossed it towards her sister who shrieked, giggling as she ducked her head to avoid the droplets. “But seriously, spill. Who was it? Was it Boom Mic Chick, Shania or whatever her name is? I know she’s not really your type but girl will not stop staring at your ass when filming, so—““Okay no.” Vi interrupted, “I’m not telling you even if it was Shantya, and seriously she stares at my ass while we film?”“Every time,” Jinx sipped her water cooly. Vi nodded thoughtfully. “Soooooooo,” Jinx tapped on the plastic bottle, pointedly not looking over to Vi as she tilted her head side to side thoughtfully for a minute. “Is this something we should be worried about though? She… she knows how you are, right? Not gonna blow up and make work awkward?”“Why are you asking that?”Jinx gave Vi A Look. “Because that’s the whole reason you have the rule in the first place. And you’re still under contract to, y’know, not do that.”“I was under contract, it’s over as of today,” Vi said with a deliberate point and a grin. At Jinx’s incredulous look in return, she sighed and shrugged. “I probably f@ck@d up, yeah, but it’s cool. It was a… I mean it was one time thing, alright? She wants it to be a secret too, nothing to worry about. It’s just been a long two months, I needed to blow off some steam.”“Yeah. Riiiight,” Jinx slide the water bottle between her two palms, still glancing between it and Vi, unable to look at her for a long time. “If you’re both on the same page.”“I wouldn’t have broken it if I wasn’t sure. She’s having a hard time too, just wanted some stress relief.” Vi shrugged, though her voice was a little low and less confident. It was quiet for a minute as the two sisters stared at their water bottles idly, glancing at each other and then back down at different times. Vi finished drinking hers, crinkling the plastic in her hand a minute before shaking her head and looking up.“Seriously,” she said, opening a cupboard under the sink and tossing the water bottle into the recycle bin inside, pointedly maintaining eye contact with Jinx as she did so. “Pressure valve. Over and done. Not going to be a problem.”  The elevator door of the studio building chimed as it opened, revealing the empty space with it’s brown-orange walls and silver bars with mirrors on the side. Caitlyn, dressed in a flowery blouse and dress slacks and even taller than normal in heels that clipped loudly on the tile floor, stepped in and hit the number for the dressing rooms floor. Just as the doors were beginning to close, Vi’s voice shouted out through the lobby.“Hey, could you hold that?”Caitlyn shoved her hand between the closing doors to stop them; the elevator let out a protest chime as it opened it’s doors again. Vi, dressed in her character costume minus the jacket, jogged in with a grateful wave.“Hey, thanks.” She said, slightly breathlessly. “Jinx wanted to borrow the car and forgot her keys, so I just ran mine down to her.”“No, not a problem,” Caitlyn shook her head slightly, eyes raking over Vi before she snapped her expression into a smile. “Did you have a good weekend?”“Oh yeah, missed my bed so much,” Vi chuckled, leaning and resting her head back against the elevator. “Good to be home and not filming those insane scenes or eating that sh@tty free food. How about you?”“I didn’t consider it, but now that you mention I also missed my bed,” Caitlyn nodded, smiling slightly. “I hadn’t realized how lumpy the bed in the RV was in comparison. Much better sleep, I feel much more rested now.”“Well I don’t think the bed is the whole reason for…” Vi started to quip, grin wide before she trailed slightly, closing her mouth against acknowledging anything out loud. She cleared her throat, looking at the numbers rising on the elevator screen. Caitlyn coughed lightly.“Are you filming today?”“Blocking with Ekko,” Vi replied, shoulders dropping slightly in relief of the subject change. “Apparently we’re still waiting for some script revisions so we’re just working on getting ‘mood’.”Caitlyn nodded knowingly. “What time do you have to be on set?”“Not for like, another two hours.”“Right.”Silence settled between them again, Vi tapping the back of her heel against the elevator wall before looking up.“You?”“Oh?” Caitlyn blinked. She shook her head. “Oh, not until Wednesday. But my mother wanted us to have lunch today so I got here early to avoid the hassle of traffic.”Vi nodded a slightly. “Cool. So you got here early with a bunch of free time?”“It seems so.”“Cool.”There was a pause between the two of them in the small elevator space. Vi chewed the inside of her cheek while Caitlyn stared straight ahead, the hand on her purse strap tapping it’s thumb against the leather repeatedly. She took a slight breath, straightening her shoulders and speaking without looking Vi’s way.“Did you maybe want to… practice some lines in preparation?”“My lines?”Caitlyn didn’t say anything else beyond pressing her mouth together and glancing at her out of the corner of her eye. Vi’s eyebrows shot up.The elevator chimed the sound of their floor, the doors opening to the hall to the dressing rooms. Both actresses looked at each other. Vi let out a slight laugh and grin.Less than a minute later Caitlyn was slamming the door to her dressing room closed, locking it and stepping forward to press both of her hands on either side of Vi’s face, kissing her hard.Vi immediately pushed up on her toes to even out the height difference, one arm wrapping around Caitlyn’s waist as the other buried in her hair. She stepped back, Caitlyn instantly pushing forward with her, until Vi’s legs hit the small couch in the back corner. She moved to the side, turning Caitlyn and lightly pushing her down to sit on the couch before climbing back into her lap, straddling her and kissing her again.Caitlyn pulled her head away, both of them panting against each other. “Last time?” She asked breathlessly. Vi nodded.“Last time.”“Just… out of our systems.”“Yeah,” Vi nodded into the crook of Caitlyn’s neck as fingers danced at the hem of her shirt. “There’s a couple things we haven’t done yet, right? Just gotta check those off.”“Yes, off,” Caitlyn gasped, Vi sitting back to pull her shirt off, diving back in for another kiss. “We’re just getting it— ah-“Vi’s mouth muffled Caitlyn’s, stopping her from speaking with demanding kiss; one Caitlyn gave in to with her fingers in Vi’s hair and gripping slightly for purchase on the belt of Vi’s costumed pants.  “Caitlyn,” Cassandra smiled warmly as Caitlyn met her outside the studio building, blinking slightly in the bright sunlight.Caitlyn smiled tightly in returned. The collar of her blouse was buttoned all the way to the top, tugged as high as it could go, and she brushed her hair forward to stay untucked from her ears. Her mother seemed not to notice, turning to walk towards the white Tesla parked just outside. She opened the driver’s side door as Caitlyn went round to the passenger.“Now I don’t want to catch you off guard with any of this,” Cassandra said as they were about to get into the car, “but we’ll have guests at lunch.”Caitlyn let out the sign before she could catch herself. “Mother,”“Oh, don’t ‘Mother’ me, Caitlyn, it’s just a lunch. And Catherine is a lovely girl, I’m sure you two will get along famously.”“The contract literally just ended.” Caitlyn rolled her eyes as she seated herself and shut the door beside her.“All the more reason to move onto the next opportunity,” Cassandra said, beginning to drive out of the parking lot and onto the street. “I’m sure Vi was counting down the minutes until her ‘freedom’ to sow her wild oats or whatever it is you call it in your circles.”“Mother.”Cassandra was unphased by Caitlyn’s annoyed tone. “Is this going to be the extent of our conversation today?”Caitlyn wrinkled her nose and sat back in her seat with a quiet sigh.“After spending two months with that girl I would expect you looking forward to talking to someone with a little more… class.” Cassandra continued, the car slowing to a stop at a red light, “I admit I wasn’t fully aware of the extent of her reputation when we first started this little project. And there have been a few… reports of women leaving her trailer while she was at the tent filming last week.”“Have there.” Caitlyn asked, voice flat. Her mother made not indication she noticed the tone.“She’s a polite and friendly enough character, and I can’t deny her charisma. I think overall this project was good for your reputation. But I am relieved you don’t have subject yourself to her anymore. We can begin to distance ourselves from this; when the interviews start try to deflect if you can, and if not you and Vi only have to say this was a friendship recently started and celebrated and any other interpretation is miscommunication.”“I mean, that is nearly the truth. Vi and I have started a friendship out of this.”“So I’ve noticed.” Cassandra’s face pulled into a tight frown that she pushed into a smile. “Try not to let her rub off on you dear, I have enough grey hairs.”Caitlyn absently rubbed at her neck where the collar was pulled up, clearing her throat slightly to look out the window.“Now,” Cassandra pulled up to the restaurant with the little patio furniture outside, parking the car and smiling pleasantly at her daughter. “Do try to give Catherine a chance, won’t you?”   
  
    Instagram post from a gossip blog showing candids of Caitlyn and Vi, dressed in casual t-shirts and jeans, with sunglasses, getting ice cream as a local kiosk. The first image is them in line, Vi’s hands in her pockets and Caitlyn looking down at her phone. The second photo shows them with their cones, walking down the sidewalk side by side, Caitlyn taking a bite of her ice cream while Vi talks animatedly beside her. The third picture shows Caitlyn shouldering Vi off balance, both women laughing.
  
  Text: Costars Caitlyn Kiramman and Vi Lane enjoying warm weather and a sweet treat as a break from filming.
> so you think they uhauled yet?> they work together and hang out after work and on weekends? Goals. Me and who. Manifesting   > working with your partner is hard. Bet they break up by the end of the season because they’re sick of each other      > my friend, have you met the codependent subspecies known as the sapphic         > heh. ‘Sub’ species> we still don’t know if they’re dating! Stop shipping real people!   > photo of a meme that has one cat holding a paw against the mouth of another cat, the words ‘let people enjoy things’ typed overtop.
     > photo of a crab firing lasers from it’s eyes with the world ‘SILENCE’ written over top

     > photo of a selfie from Caitlyn’s instagram of her and Vi wearing sun glasses, with an atrocious amount of heart stickers, rainbows, and pride flags crowded around them, with the words ‘DEAL WITH IT’
> I still refuse to believe Vi could be tamed that easily. FFS she’s the lesbian Adonis f@ckboy, give us this role model for a couple more years before she starts buying throw pillows with Nepotism Poster Child   > i mean, two guesses of why she’s sticking to Kiramman and the first one doesn’t count and the second one is streets v sheets behaviour       > Oh yeah I was going to guess money.   “You know, I can never say it right, is it veh-ter-narian or veh-tra-narian?”Vi leaned onto the bar top, her half finished drink in one hand while the other rested on her forearm, displaying the muscles and tattoos exposed by her tanktop. The girl in front of her, long honey-brown hair and a nose ring, giggled.“I think it’s like a potayto-potahto thing, both ways are right, or at least no one cares.”Vi grinned, hand up as she talked. “Okay but which way am I spelling it, so I don’t get those angry little red lines?”The two of them laughed over the din of the crowded bar, before they both took sips of their drinks.“So,” Vi said, licking her lips as she set her glass down, “as a vet you must love animals right? Any pets of your own?”The girl’s expression light up. “Oh, yeah, I have a little rescue pug! He’s the sweetest thing.”“Oh pugs!” Vi leaned forward, eyes and grin wide with interest. “I love pugs. Do you have any pictures? What’s his name?”Excitedly, the girl grabbed her phone, unlocking and swiping through pictures as she spoke. At the same time Vi’s own phone sitting on the counter beside her buzzed loudly, lighting up. She glanced at it, blinking slightly as she raised the device a little higher. One eyebrow raised the instant she read the message. CaitlynI just found one other thing we haven’t tried… if you’re up for it. “…name is Morty but we all just call him Moe, by ‘we’ I mean my roommates and I, I have a couple of roommates but they’re usually pretty chill, you know how rent is here, and okay here, this is him last week when we took him to the roller derby and he dressed in our team’s colours.”Vi blinked back to the conversation to look at the other phone screen held in front of her, displaying the picture of a happy little pug in a purple and red coloured tutu. She looked down at it with an absent little half smile, before looking up to the girl holding the phone.“He’s, uh, he’s pretty cute.” She said, standing and tucking her phone into her back pocket. She pulled a couple of bills out, placing them on the counter and nodding toward the girl. “Hey sorry, I just got a text from my sister, gotta run. But it was really nice to meet you, hope you have a great night.”The girl’s hand dropped to her lap, face wide eyed and blinking in confusion as Vi began to walk away. “Hey!” She called out, “can I get your number?”Vi turned with her arms wide in a grin and shrug. “I come here all the time! I’ll see you again!” She spun back around to duck into the small alcove that led to the door outside, the girl she left at the bar still holding her phone with the pug picture displayed, looking extremely lost.   
  
    Interview posted on YouTube from a popular geek media news source, Vi and Caitlyn sitting in chairs against a backdrop of a giant poster for their show. They’re both dressed casually, Vi in a muscle tank and frayed jean shorts and Caitlyn in a button up and slacks. The interviewer, a blonde woman with short hair and large round glasses, is enthusiastically asking them about previous happenings on the show and possible plot hints, when after a quiet lull the interviewer sits back and asks,
  
  
    “Now I want to pivot a little, if you’re comfortable, to some of the gossip that’s been trending since season 2 started filming, namely about you two.”
  
  
    Vi and Caitlyn both look at each other with knowing smiles, Caitlyn’s posture still perfectly still except for her hands in her lap fidgeting slightly. Vi shifts in her sit, sitting up a bit, clearing her throat. Caitlyn speaks first, calm and poised.
  
  
    “Oh, yes we typically don’t read too much on social media but obviously when something like that goes on for that long we hear about it. It makes sense, really, so we didn’t see the harm in it.”
  
  
    “I mean, I thought it was funny.” Vi laughs, slouching down again and leaning to rest her chin on her fist. “Me and Caitlyn just started hanging out and the assumptions were like —“ she snaps her fingers. “Wasn’t stopping girls from trying to test to see if any of the other rumours about me were true either.”
  
  
    Caitlyn blinks, looking at Vi with an unreadable expression. “Really, it didn’t stop anyone?” Vi shrugs, looking over at her without a care in her expression or body language.
  
  
    “If anything it got worse.”
  
  
    “Oh, well,” Caitlyn frowns slightly, before slipping back into a stoic neutral smile. “Hmm.”
  
  
    “So I just want to clarify —“ The interviewer interrupts, pointing between the two of them. “Everything online is just speculation?”
  
  
    “If we were dating we would have said so,” Caitlyn nods along with the interviewer while Vi just glanced between them both.
  
  
    “We were asked to be more active on social media to engage with the fans, but the relationship is all those guys. I think because our characters,” Vi waves between herself and Caitlyn, “are y’know, sometimes people have trouble separating.”
  
  
    Caitlyn nods, shifting in her seat. “Our characters are different people, and not us. Yes we bring a little bit of ourselves into the acting, that’s how the business and joy of personal interpretation works, but no, there was nothing going on during that time.”
  
  
    “Yeah, we just started taking pics but it doesn’t mean anything other than we’re… taking pics.” Vi smiles coolly over to the interviewer. “We’re just coworkers.”
  
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 “Yeah the interview went fine,” Vi said quickly into her phone, trying to shuffle her jacket of one handed, whipping her arm in frustration. Caitlyn’s hand grabbed at the sleeve and helped her pull the jacket off in equally fast, frustrated moves.“So you coming home? Or can I order what food I want?” Jinx’s voice echoed over the phone speaker, echoing in the entrance of Caitlyn’s apartment.“No there’s,” Vi’s voice hitched as Caitlyn’s teeth found her earlobe, and Caitlyn laughed at the hiss she got from the other woman. “There was a girl at the interview. Got us coffee. So I’ll uh,”“Dammit Vi, this counts as calling me during! I don’t care if your pants are still on!” Jinx’s voice shrilled over the phone and Caitlyn had to bury her head in Vi’s shoulder to stifle her laugh. Vi laughed louder, running her hand up and down Caitlyn’s back.“Sorry! You get the drift! See you in the morning.”She made sure the phone had disconnected before shoving it back into her pants pocket, shedding her jacket entirely and grabbing Caitlyn up in another kiss, messy and awkward as they were still laughing.“You couldn’t have waited a minute?” Vi teased, pulling on Caitlyn’s waist and smiling into the kiss.Caitlyn pulled back with a mock offended expression, bumping Vi’s nose with her own. “You couldn’t have just texted?”“Shut up,” Vi laughed, kissing her hard so neither of them could speak.A moment later Vi fell back onto the plush bed, Caitlyn quickly chasing after her to catch her mouth in another kiss. The movement pushed Vi to lift her chin, the woman on top of her pulling back with Vi’s bottom lip in her teeth before leaning up kissing her fully again. Vi buried her hands in Caitlyn’s hair, keeping it out of their faces, hearing her let out a little sigh as their hips pressed and rolled together.She let out a groan at the feeling, the sound echoing in Caitlyn’s sparsely decorated bedroom.“F@ck, Caitlyn.”“You’d better,” Caitlyn nipped at the skin under Vi’s jaw, kissing her way down the skin of her throat, and Vi groaned again, hands in Caitlyn’s hair sliding down to tug at the buttons of her shirt, tearing it open.  Hands tugged slightly at Caitlyn’s white cardigan, pulling the edge over to rest a bit more to centre. The small black microphone clipped to it was adjusted, resting lightly against her throat.“Mic’s set,” the tech nodded toward Caitlyn as she adjusted the cardigan a final time until satisfied. Caitlyn nodded in return and the tech stepped back, giving Caitlyn a quick glance up and down and a small smile before briskly walking off.“She was cute.”Caitlyn looked over at Jayce, who was double-checking his camera makeup with his phone camera, squinting at a bit of bronzer that had been applied too heavily on his cheekbones. He sensed her looking and shot a grin her way. “She doesn’t work for us, you should ask her.”“I— I’m not going, what?”“Cait, you haven’t had a date in ages,” Jayce adjusted his collar, turning his head back and forth to the camera. He sighed and pocketed the device, looking over to his friend and coworker again. “Your mom talked my ear off about you rejecting Catherine. She thinks Vi is being a bad influence on you.”“God, mother,” Caitlyn huffed, unable to prevent rolling her eyes. “Though I have to say, wouldn’t pushing me to ask out a stranger would count more towards Vi influence than myself?”With a chuckle Jayce shook his head, “I’m not bugging you because of your mom, Cait. I’m your friend, I’m supposed to bug you about this. And I had two months of watching you pretend and thinking ‘yeah, she deserves this but real’ y’know.”“Well,” Caitlyn said with a small smile. “I can’t really be mad at you for caring, can I.”Jayce beamed back at her, looking for all the world like a dog that had figured out out to open the cupboard. Caitlyn couldn’t help laughing at his pleased expression.“But,” she added with a pointed finger, “no more setups. Not after that disaster at the sailing club.”“I thought you were into the librarian type!” Jayce protested.“It wasn’t that, she just had -such an atrocious personality,” Caitlyn sighed. “More than appearance I also care about who a person yes. Especially if I want to date them.“Someone like Vi?”He said it in a teasing tone, a grin quirked at the end of his mouth, but his expression towards Caitlyn was softer, more focused, almost concerned. Caitlyn laughed it off, slapping lightly at his shoulder.“Don’t be ridiculous,” she scoffed. “Someone like Vi means someone who doesn’t date. She’s said it many times, she only does this to have fun.”“Well,” Jayce shrugged. “Maybe you need to do that. Get it out of your system.”Caitlyn fidgeted with the little clip that held the mic to her cardigan, mouth pressed into a tight line. “Maybe I do,” she said with a light shrug. “I have thought of it.”Jayce’s smile softened and he shook his head in defeat. “Well, then I’m forcing you to come to the bar with us tonight. It’s Vi and them, but you guys are good now right? This might do you some good.”“Caitlyn, Jayce!” A stage tech waved to them from the doorway to the recording stage. “Okay, we’re ready for you.”With a final point to her before they headed to the room, Jayce nodded and said “Bar. Tonight. Meet someone. Maybe ask Vi for help.”“No promises,” Caitlyn replied.  “Someone’s gonna see us,” Caitlyn murmured, pressed against the side of her car in the dark parking lot with Vi’s hand under the hem of her shirt, and mouth against her skin. She glanced nervously over to the noisy bar, at the front door that was closed, breathing heavily from the goodbye kiss that had been going on much longer than a typical goodbye.“It’s dark,” Vi breathed into her neck, drawing out a stifled noise from the taller woman, “we’re at a bar with barely anyone in it, we’ll fine.”“What if the others come looking?” Caitlyn asked, hand fisting in the back of Vi’s shirt as Vi gently ghosted her lips along the pulse point.“Jayce and Ekko have been playing foosball for like twenty minutes already, Jinx is busy with whoever she’s texting and Viktor doesn’t give a sh@t. They think you left already and I’m having a smoke. We got time.”“I do… I do have to go,” Caitlyn swallowed, pushing weakly against Vi’s shoulder. Vi let herself be moved back, taking a step to give Caitlyn space and catch her breath. She smiled a bit embarrassed towards Vi, fixing her hair.  “I promised my neighbour I would check on her cat in the evenings.”“Wait, really?” Vi laughed. “That wasn’t just an excuse to leave?““No! Delores is counting on me.” Caitlyn laughed herself, shoulders shaking as she still leaned up against her car.“What about after?” Vi asked, a coy expression and husk to her voice. Caitlyn blinked and then a small smile spread on her face and she laughed slightly.“Are you serious?”Vi raised an eyebrow and stepped back in, pressing closer to the warmth of Caitlyn in the cooler night air. Caitlyn’s hand automatically moved to rest on her waist“Y’know, if anything, Jinx is going to start getting suspicious if I don’t start spending more nights away,” Vi reasoned, a low satisfied hum to her voice as Caitlyn kissed her again. “So really, this might help.”“Wait, with me, are you sure? What about the girl you were talking to inside?” Caitlyn brought both hands to the side of Vi’s face to push her away gently, running her thumbs over the cheeks softly. Her voice was teasing, but she swallowed as her eyes darted to look over Vi’s face.Vi’s smug expression softened, a slightly shy smile and laugh coming from her as she tried to look away, face still held in Caitlyn’s hands. “Caitlyn. She was hitting on you.”“On me?”The laugh Vi let out was felt as much as heard by how close they were standing, Caitlyn still pressed against the driver’s side of her car. Vi scratched at the back of her neck, looking up at the other actress. “Did you really not notice? She was laying it on thick.”“I only noticed you laying it on thick. Really? She was hitting on me and you flirted with her anyway?” Caitlyn asked, looking puzzled.Vi made a bored expression, looking to the side, shrugging. “Nah, I just wanted the extra free chicken wings.”Caitlyn stared at her in the slightest shock for a minute before bursting out laughing. “You,” she said, hand on Vi’s shoulder giving her a playful shake, leaning down slightly to grin, “are jealous!”Vi let out a noise of protest, slapping Caitlyn’s hand away but she pressed further, still laughing. “I finally get the random stranger hitting on me when you’re right there and you got jealous you didn’t get the attention! you little—““Hey! I am sure as hell not little,” Vi laughed back, playfully pushing Caitlyn into her car. Caitlyn wasn’t deterred, running her fingers down to tickle Vi under the arms and cause the shorter woman to try and push the hands away, reaching and grabbing Caitlyn around the waist to lift, distracting Caitlyn from her assault to grab onto Vi’s shoulders in order to stay balanced.“Put me down!” She laughed, Vi dropping her gently and both of them playful shoving at each other before Caitlyn grabbed and kissed Vi, causing both of their laughter to die down in the distraction. The kiss, chaste and slow, ended as they both pulled apart and Caitlyn ran her hand up and down Vi’s arm.“Two minutes,” she whispered, “go inside and tell them you’re running away with a trucker or whoever,” Vi chuckled, “but you do have to help me with the cat first.”“Oh, I’m great wi—““Don’t say it.”“Yeah okay,” Vi kissed Caitlyn on the nose, jogging backwards towards the bar, “I’ll grab my stuff. See you in two minutes.”     
  
    Instagram live from Get69Jinxed’s account showing her from an angle holding her phone in arm’s reach as she’s walking down the hallway of the studio. “Hey what’s up my chaos kiddies, I can’t show you much of the set,” she blows a raspberry, “but I sure as hell can show you everyone’s favourite set piece.” She comes to a stop and knocks on Vi’s door, before trying to open it. The handle doesn’t budge, locked, and the sound of muted thud comes from the other side of the door. Then muffled hushed whispering and giggles is heard before Vi shouts “uh, yeah?”
  
  
    Jinx makes an extremely comical expression, wide-eyed and mouth contorted as she tries not to smile, laughing a “oh ho, ho, ho, hooo” towards the camera. “Nevermind, I’ll come back!” She replies before walking down the hall, still chuckling into her stream. “Oh that’s my sister for ya folks, never a quiet day with her.”
  
> WAS THAT????> NO> OMG> OMG???> ASKSHSJAKFHA JINX YOU GO BACK THERE RIGHT NOW> WHO????????> CAITLYN> CAITLYN!!!!!> 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯> JINX GO TO CAITLYNS ROOM SEE IF IT’S EMPTY> GO BACK GO BACK GO BACK> omg I just joined the stream what the duck did I miss  “I’ll be right out, just a second!” Vi called back. Slumping against the door, Caitlyn buried her face in the crook of the other woman’s neck to hide her own laughing as Vi made no effort to hide hers. Caitlyn tried to shush her through their laughter but the embarrassment and surprise was making both of them fumble their efforts to quiet down.At the same time, the two of them stilled, holding their breath to listen and try to let their laughter die down. Caitlyn let out her breath first in a heavy sigh, Vi following after, and they made eye contact for a second before having to look away at the threat of starting to laugh again.At the lack of reply from the hall, Vi assumed Jinx had gone and stepped back slightly to give Caitlyn space to straighten herself up. Standing back on her feet, Caitlyn pulled her shirt down from where Vi had pushed it up over her bra, smoothing out the wrinkles in the middle from being unceremoniously bunched up. Watching her do so, Vi went to re-button her jeans and smoothed out her hair, bottom lip in her teeth as she grinned slyly over to Caitlyn.“Not, uh, up for it anymore huh?” She teased as Caitlyn rubbed at her neck and stepped over to Vi’s mirror to check it was unblemished. The taller actress let out a soft laugh, hands coming up to touch at her hair and check her makeup.“You don’t think I can continue after that,” she said with a slightly embarrassed laugh and a sheepish attempt at a smirk towards Vi, who grinned wolfishly back. Vi leaned against the closed door, arms folded and one shoulder raised in a shrug.“I thought the sneaking around made it hotter?”Caitlyn let out another soft laugh and smoothed her hair one last time before standing straight again. “Yes but now I’m going to be thinking of your sister on the outside of the door.”“You’re gonna be thinking of my sister?” Vi asked in mock surprise. Caitlyn made a face at her, turning towards her with an amused frown. “I mean, I’m not really into that but if it’s something you need to talk about, I’m at least a good enough friend to listen.”“Oh shut up,” Caitlyn teasingly slapped at her shoulder, prompting a laugh from the other actress. She nodded toward the door. “Do you think the coast is clear or is she waiting to ambush us?”“Want me to check first?” Vi asked, stepping away from the door.“You should check if anyone is in the hall first anyway, really.” Caitlyn motioned to the doorknob and Vi nodded. Slowly, she opened the door and peeked her head out. “J? You still out here?”The hall was quiet, with no sign of Jinx and only the faint, distant noises of the set crew down the other side of the building could be heard. Vi glanced back to the waiting Caitlyn and gave a nod and jerk of her head to follow.Caitlyn quickly ducked out and walked stiffly and rapidly to her own dressing room, opening the door so fast she nearly slammed it. Vi stifled a laugh, standing behind her in the hall and scratching the back of her neck.“We still have like an hour before makeup has to start with us, you know.”“I know,” Caitlyn said with an exhale, hands on the doorframe and glancing both ways down the hall again. “But that was too close for comfort.”Vi shrugged. “It was just my sister.”“Specifically because it was your sister,” Caitlyn corrected in a firm tone, then shaking her head she spoke again with a softer voice, a slight smile to her face. “It’s not that I think poorly of Jinx, it’s just that she can’t keep a secret to save her life. She livestreams and blogs every detail to a frightening degree.”Vi snorted a laugh. “Yeah, okay, I’ll give you that. If Jinx knows, that’s like a million people who know too.”“I think maybe,” Caitlyn said, voice lowering slightly as she still smiled shyly, quickly glancing up the hallway. “We should cool down on doing this at work. We’re going to get caught.”“I know, I know.” Vi chewed her bottom lip with a bit of a coy smile. “But it was your fault, you know.”“My fault?”“Yeah, coming into my dressing room, wearing that perfume, bringing me coffee and looking cute,” Vi said, stepping forward with a bit of a swagger. “And your ass looking really grabbable in those pants.”“Don’t be crude,” Caitlyn murmured, despite the smile on her face. “And I don’t think that’s a word.”Vi stepped closer again, fully in Caitlyn’s space now, “You know, I’d stop but I’m starting to think you actually really like it.”Caitlyn stood her ground, smile still present, “What, making up words?”“No,” Vi leaned in a bit closer, tilting her chin up so she was almost level with Caitlyn, voice lowering, “the other thing.”Eyes half lidded, both of them so close there was barely any space between, they leaned in to close the gap when the elevator chimed and they both sprung apart. They stood still and watched as the door opened; two stagehands, an intern and a producer, not Caitlyn’s mother but an older man in a crisp suit, stepped out and turned to walk down their hall. They passed by Vi and Caitlyn with greetings and nods, the intern talking about the editing rooms further down the hall, and the actresses gave friendly waves as the group passed by.Vi and Caitlyn looked at each other and laughed nervously, Vi scratching at the back of her neck.“Hey, you free tonight?” She asked. Caitlyn glanced down the hall and back to her, nervous smile still on her face. Vi grinned back. “I was thinking it’s been a while, we should watch another movie?““Oh,” Caitlyn blinked a bit in surprise and then leaned forward, “isn’t it my turn to make you suffer with a film choice?”Vi groaned. “I forgot about that.”“Oh, I haven’t. I had to sit through that whole excuse for an explosion budget. It’s your turn.”“Alright, but I can’t promise I’ll pay attention.” Vi slipped her hands into her pockets and leaned back on her heels, smiling coyly. “I, uh, might get a little distracted.”Caitlyn looked about ready to quip something back, but she bit it down and smiled instead, a wide, fond one that wrinkled the corners her eyes. “I’m going to shut the door now. I have to get ready for work.”“Yeah, you do.” Vi said, voice low and grin still teasing. “Before you make any more mistakes, right?”Glancing down at Vi’s lips and then back up to her eyes, Caitlyn just pressed her mouth together and quickly and quietly said “I’ll talk to you later,” before closing the door.Vi stood in the hallway for a second, looking at the closed door with Caitlyn’s name plate on it, chewing the inside of her cheek for a moment before letting out a wistful sigh and a quiet “f@ck,” to herself, before turning and heading back to her own dressing room to close the door.     
  Twitter post from a fan account dedicated to the relationship between Vi and Caitlyn’s characters, featuring a poll.Fan poll! What are your theories? Vi and Caitlyn are:1. Dating2. Fake Dating3. Just Friends4. “Just friends”
> Where’s the ‘f@ck buddies’ option   > That’s 4.      >… oh right, that makes sense> I will die on my deathbed that they were forced to get close in order to make the scenes in the show better and we all just misread it because we’re thirsty, thirsty gays.   > You’ll die on your deathbed, eh?      > F@ck off Morgan I said what I said         > I’ll f@ck off if you make me fuck off you thirsty thirsty gays            > *sighs* This is my gf guys she just likes to give me sh@t on main> They literally said in an interview that they’re not.   > No, they danced around it.      > Any answer that isn’t a ‘yes’ is a no. They’re both already openly Out, so why would they hide it?         > Contracts, NDAs, privacy concerns.            > everyone online being thirsty ass b@tch@s and weird about it  Caitlyn woke up with a yawn that melted into a groan as she stretched herself out under her bed covers. Sitting up and rubbing at the back of her neck as she yawned again, she slowly blinked the sleep out of her eyes and glanced to the other side of her bed. The sheets were rumpled, the pillow askew, but the bed itself was empty.Stepping into her slippers and standing, stretching her arms overhead, Caitlyn adjusted her camisole and sleep shorts and walked out of her bedroom to the bathroom to wash her face. Then she walked out to the kitchen, turned on her coffee maker and grabbed a box of cereal and an bowl from the cupboards.She opened the fridge to get herself some milk, letting the door shut on it’s own as she sleepily uncapped the lid. She poured the milk into the cereal bowl, a bit into her coffee mug, and then recapped it as she turned to the fridge to see a note pinned by a magnet on the door.Curious, she plucked it from the magnet and looked it over, at the messy but legible familiar handwriting.
  Thanks for the really boring movie and doing your best to make it less boring. I’ll see you at Jayce’s thing! I stole a bagel. -Vi
Caitlyn rubbed her thumb against the paper note, frowning at it slightly. She lowered her hand to lean it against the counter, paper still grasped tight, milk carton in the other hand and stared out the window at the early morning light as the sun still peeked over the horizon.She looked down at the note again, chewed her lower lip, let out a humourless laugh.“F@ck,” she said with a heavy sigh, shaking her head at herself. She dropped the note on the counter, returned the milk to the fridge and sat down on the barstool to eat her cereal, distractedly staring outside to watch the rising sun.'
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