Winchester Legacy 1.2

RECAP: Really not much to recap. Toni met someone new and is thinking about going all the way. She’s  getting promotion after promotion in her LTW career.

“Look, we don’t have to do this if you’re not comfortable. I mean, I’m content to be your friend. I love being your friend. If it’s meant to be more…fine. If not then that’s fine as well. LaTonya, I only want you happy.”

I laid on the bed and listened as Gordon chattered on nervously. Did I really want to take things to the next level? Gordon was a good guy, someone that I knew I could lean on if I ever needed someone to lean on but…did I really feel anything for him more than friendship? Inwardly I shrugged. A lot of relationships started out from friendships. Who knew what the future held? Right now I had an always naked man in my bed trying to calm my fears. I might not be that attracted to him but I had felt a tingle so that had to count for something.  With that thought in mind I turned to him and trailing my head up his chest leaned closer.

“Gordon, are you trying to talk me out of having sex with you? If so it’s not work.”

I smiled when he swallowed dryly then leaning closer nibbled on his bottom lip before I darted my tongue into his mouth. I heard the photographer mumble something about the bathroom before I was lost in a haze of sexual heat.

Just like with Joe things didn’t change between Gordon and I. We still hung out and played stupid games and just had fun with each other. Granted the sex wasn’t the best but…I could deal with good sex when I had a great man. While I was thinking that Gordon whapped me upside the head with a pillow.

“Hey!! I thought you said time out!”

He laughed as I shook my head and brushed feathers from my hair. “I lied.”

“Sneaky,” I said with a laugh before we went back to pummeling each other. It was times like this that I was grateful. I had a friend, who I secretly thought of as friends with benefits since I had the sneaky suspicion that he thought of me as his girlfriend,  I had a decent house, and a career that was on the fast track. Speaking of my career…

Being a doctor I had an inside track to some of the new things that had yet to be released to the public. Well, this had been released to the public but in a much weaker strain. The one that the Chief of Staff had given me, Dr. Landau I believe his name was, was supposed to be a much stronger strain. He and his colleagues had worked on this for years. It was their lives work. No one knew exactly how old they were since they’d taken to drinking this early on in their careers.

I filled a glass with the brilliant green liquid, it seemed it was more like a sludge than a liquid, and swirled it around in the cup before lifting it to my mouth. I was expecting it to have a strong chemical order but it didn’t really have a distinct odor at all. It was much like drinking a thick glass of water.  As the elixir hit the back of my throat and went down my stomach I was over come with chills. Putting the glass down I shivered and then gave a small jump at a particular strong tingle.

Small blue molecules came from my body as the elixir finished working its magic. I blinked when the tiredness seemed to leave my limbs. They seemed to be injected with a new found vigor. The general public felt as if days had been lifted from their shoulders.  Curling my arms I stretched only to realize I felt as if the last few weeks hadn’t occurred at all. Weeks or days, it didn’t matter, all I knew was that I felt rejuvenated. As if I could take on the world. With that thought in mind I got ready for work.