Starving
"By the way, you do things to my body."
It’s 8AM on a sunday, Agatha doesn’t seem to realize the state she is in right now. Laying her head on Rio’s chest and legs tangled together. She feels a hand caressing her back and starts to stir, opening her eyes slowly.
“Morning” Rio says in a very sweet way. Voice a little husky. But Agatha sits up instantly when she realizes she slept with Rio. Literally slept.
“Oh my God, why didn’t you wake me up?” She says while getting up and then pacing around not really knowing what to do.
“I just woke up, I didn’t want to wake you by moving.” She sits up “And for what it’s worth, I fell asleep before you did, so it’s not really my fault you were watching me sleep like a creep and fell asleep too” She’s grinning looking at Agatha. Rio has this strange hope that Agatha might actually like her back in the same amount.
Agatha doesn’t answer, she grabs a sundress, white, and goes to the bathroom to change. When she comes back, her bed is made and Rio is nowhere to be seen. She frowns. “Rio?”
“Downstairs” She yells.
Agatha goes downstairs and she sees Rio drinking water in the kitchen. “Sorry, I feel really thirsty after drinking alcohol. And don’t worry, I’m calling an uber” she looks down and moves to the front door. Agatha follows her and in an impulse grabs her arm and pulls her closer giving her a brief kiss. Rio makes a sound in surprise. When they break the kiss, Agatha is the first to speak, tucking a strand of hair behind the younger woman’s ear.
“I loved our date” She gives Rio a warm smile and Rio retributes. “I didn’t mean to be so rude, I just have a… thing I need to go to, now.” Rio simply nods, grabbing Agatha’s hand and rubbing her knuckles in round circles. “Can I ask you a favor?”
“Agatha, I won’t tell anybody” Rio speaks before Agatha can even open her mouth. “But can I ask you something?”
“Yes, Rio, I’ll go out on another date with you” It’s like they can read each other’s mind. Rio has a grin bigger than her head now. “But, seriously, let’s keep that between us? It’s really, really risky-”
“Agatha, I just want to see you again like this, so whatever you want, I’ll do. I loved our date too.” Agatha cups Rio’s cheeks with her two hands. My god, she 's gone. She really likes this woman. Then gives Rio a warm, hot kiss. They only break it because Rio’s phone vibrates in her pocket. “I think my uber is here” then gives Agatha a little peck to end the kiss.
“Doctor talk real quick. Please do your in-home exercises” Agatha still hasn’t let go of the other woman’s face.
“Will do, Dr Harkness” Rio leans in and gives Agatha a peck on the cheeks. “See you monday”
She hesitates but eventually sort of yells cause Rio is already a little far “Let me know when you get home” and gets a thumbs up as an answer from her.
She watches Rio leave and a few seconds later gets a text.
Lilia
Nicky is asking if you’re coming. I made coffee and there’s homemade bread.
Agatha
On my way. And you baked?
Lilia
Joanne did.
So, Joanne was Lilia’s longtime girlfriend. They had sort of a situationship in college, but after graduation never saw each other again, but just ten years ago they reconnected through social media and the rest is history. Joanne was a PR manager, but quit about 8 years ago and became slash, a stay home girlfriend, slash baker.
When Agatha arrived at Lilia's enormous house, Nicky opened the door and hugged her in a hurry.
“Mom! What took you so long?”
“Ugh! Baby, I overslept, I’m sorry.” Nicky shrugges. “How are you feeling today? Any dizziness?”
“I feel fine. Lilia wouldn’t let me eat any candy though. Mommy please, can I have some today?” Nicky has those puppy eyes, but still, not as big as Rio’s. Agatha just runs her fingers through his hair and gives him a peck on top of his head before answering.
“Sorry, Nicky. Not yet. Let’s stick to your diet and then you can ask Doctor Robbins in a few days.”
“Fine” The kid hisses and Agatha just lightly laughs.
Lilia and Joanne were watching the interaction just a few steps behind, inside. As Nicky makes his way to the kitchen, Agatha comes in and hugs both women. Lilia sees the opportunity to tease her when they stop hugging.
"Overslept huh?” Lilia says in a lower tone, smirking at Agatha.
“Yes!” She simply answers, trying to avoid looking at her
“Come on Agatha, how was it?”
“Oh, stop bothering her, Lilia.” Joanne seemed to be defending Agatha. Seemed. “Maybe the date went horribly and she’s just embarrassed”
“I’m not- It didn’t-” Agatha then takes a deep but quick breath, mentally preparing herself. “It was good. Really good. I’m fucked. And that’s all you’re getting.” Agatha points a finger to the women in front of her and tries to head to the kitchen but Lilia tries her again
“Literally or…?” Lilia and Joanne get a little closer with mischievous looks on their faces. Agatha just shakes her head in ‘no’.
“Metaphorically? Oh baby, our little girl is gone” Joanne jokes while turning her head to Lilia and they both laugh. Agatha can’t help but roll her eyes. When her phone vibrates, she sees Rio’s text and involuntarily smiles.
Rio Vidal
I’m home. Did you get to your thing safely?
Me
Good to know. I did.
Rio Vidal
It’s not too far, then. Is it a fun thing?
Rio was trying to make conversation, but it could wait, so Agatha pocketed her phone.
“Is that the one who’s fucking you… metaphorically?”
“Oh my God, Lilia, stop it.” Agatha hisses at her, bringing both her hands to cover her own face.
“You guys coming to eat? I’m waaitiiing” Nicky kind of sings from the kitchen.
Breakfast went smoothly for Agatha, but not for Rio, who was now frantically checking her phone to see if there’s any notifications from Agatha.
She suspects the thing has to do with her son, but if Agatha hasn’t told her she has one yet, then she’s not going to push it. I mean, she also has a little secret regarding Nicholas.
After an hour went by she decided to go do what Agatha asked of her, which was doing the in-home exercises. In the middle of the exercise, her phone rings and she sort of jumps closer to it using her butt. Of course it’s not Agatha.
The annoying Jen name appears on the screen. She 's facetiming.
“Hey! You disappeared last night! Everything okay?” Jen sounded genuinely worried
“Hey! Yeah, sorry I had a date last night, and sort of, this morning…?” Rio says while relocating herself to rest on the headboard.
“What? What do you mean this morning? Rio, how did you go out on a date with a bad knee? How did you even have se- you know what? Don’t answer that, I don’t want to know that part” The way Jen sounds a bit desperate and shakes her head on the other side of the facetime call as if she was trying to erase her thoughts, makes Rio laugh a bit.
“Alright, calm down, woman!” - Rio can’t help but chuckle again. “I just have an insane crush on someone and I didn’t want to waste any time. And we didn’t have sex, but I did sleepover.”
“Wait, wait, wait-” Jen gestures a stop sign with her hands “you slept at this woman’s house, and didn’t have sex? Oh my”
“We made out a lot though” poor thing was trying to recover.
“You made-” she fake coughs “Are we back in high school? Wait- RIO” Jen just seems to realise what might be happening and has her mouth open and goes into deep thought “Rio, don’t tell me you’re in love with this woman. Please. You don’t do well in love”
“I’m not! I just-”
“The Rio I know would have nailed the woman, even with a bad knee. You’re telling me you spent the entire night talking?”
“Pretty much, yeah”
“Rio, you took your time getting to know each other”
“Well, that’s what dates are for, Jen”
“You are in love, Rio Vidal. Who is she?”
“Am not, Jennifer Kale. We went out on one date, it’s not possible”
“Who is she?” Rio doesn’t respond “Rio…?” Still no answer “Fine, but I will get this answer out of you sooner or later”
“Alright, bye-bye Kale, I have to do my at home exercises the doctor recommended”
“The hot-” Rio hangs up before Jen could finish her question and ask her something more specific. They were really close friends, and she really wanted to tell her about this dangerous crush she has on her doctor and the way she wouldn’t stop thinking about her since the day they met… But she promised Agatha she wouldn’t tell anyone.
Rio spent the day relaxing - minus the amount of times she checked her phone to see if Agatha had texted - and by the end of the day, she decided to use her bathtub. It was something she always did in order to relax and focus on something other than her problems. Not that Agatha was a problem, but the situation was making her a bit anxious.
With a cinnamon scented candle lit up, hot tea on the side and a thin book on her hand, she was doing okay in her bathtub.
Just when she was starting not to overthink about her unusual situation, she gets a notification. When she sees Agatha's name on the screen - she is saved as Hot Dr Harkness. She should probably change that - in a desperate action to get the phone and answer, her slippery hands can’t get a strong hold of it and she drops it in the tub.
“No. Fuck-” Rio catches the phone quick but not quick enough. Soon she’s up, her whole weight in one leg and grabbing the towel to try and dry the phone. Thanking past Rio, who left the cane near the bathtub, she grabs it and goes to her kitchen, it was time to try the bowl of rice thing - the one where you put the wet phone into a bowl of rice in order for it to dry and come back to life - So, with difficulty, because of her state, and also because she’s naked and wet on her kitchen with a cane supporting her weight, she does as planned.
“fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck” when she realises she is naked and there’s a pool of water in the middle in the kitchen, she goes back to her room. Thank God she doesn’t live in a two floor apartment.
After texting Rio, Agatha orders Nicky to go shower and goes to the kitchen to make them dinner. She takes her laptop with her, places it on the kitchen island so she can check her schedule for the following day and see if there’s any new emails. While the soup is heating up, she receives an email from riovidalcontact address.
From:[email protected]
To:[email protected]
Subject: DON’T HAVE MY PHONE
Agatha, I dropped my phone in the bathtub, it’s currently in a bowl of rice, I couldn’t even see what your text said. Sorry for using your professional email address, it’s the only one available on the Hospital’s website. Now I have a pool of water to dry out in my kitchen because I went there naked.
In the spirit of how emails work: Hope this message finds you well. (get back to me, please)
A laugh escapes Agatha as she reads the message, amused by Rio’s eagerness. With a smirk, she begins to type her response.
From:[email protected]
To:[email protected]
Vidal, I also hope this message finds you well… Why is the phone in a bowl of rice though? Why did you pick it up while in the tub? You’re so reckless.
I only texted saying my thing was okay, it was at a friend’s house.
Also, the kitchen situation couldn’t be a bad sight to have.
By the time Agatha’s e-mail arrived at Rio's, one nail was gone due to the biting.
She immediately started to type back.
From:[email protected]
To:[email protected]
Subject: You have to put a subject here
It did find me very well… They say it helps it dry and come back to life. And I wanted to see your text. I’m glad it was okay. And well… the situation is the same in the kitchen, I can take off my robe and you can come over to have the sight.
Agatha get’s the message and even though she chuckles, she also gets a tiny bit horny reading it and imagining it. No, Agatha, you cannot have sex with your patient.
From:[email protected]
To:[email protected]
Subject: no
Stop flirting with me via email.
I’ll see you tomorrow, Vidal.
Rio is not going to fight this. She’s just answering back, a win is a win.
From:[email protected]
To:[email protected]
Subject: yes
It’s not that easy when your picture here looks insanely gorgeous.
Can’t wait to see you tomorrow, Dr Harkness.
Agatha can’t stop the blushing from making her face red and it’s right in this moment Nicholas decides to join her.
“Is dinner ready?” She looks away from the laptop to meet his eyes.
“Yes, I’ll grab you a bowl, go sit on the table, baby”
Agatha turns off the stove, fixes the food for her and Nicky. There’s water on the table already. She places both bowls on the table and sits across from her son.
“Alright, eat it! And don’t complain it’s veggie soup, you’re supposed to eat lots of veggies.”
He only mutters but eats the entire thing.
The following day, Agatha has two patients before Rio. She scheduled the Basketball player at 11am so she wouldn't hear any complaints about it being so early. But it’s soon coming to bite her in the ass.
Rio arrives at 10:50am, wearing gym shorts and a sports bra. Light purple. She looks so good it’s annoying. She remembered Agatha’s favorite color. How annoying. She’s at the entry talking to William, so Agatha approaches.
“Vidal? Are you ready?”
“You still have five minutes to spare Dr Harkness” William warns her very sweetly.
“It’s okay. Come with me, Ri-” She stops herself before getting personal at her place of work. At least that’s something she thinks she could do. “Vidal”.
“Lay down for me, please” Rio does as she’s told and she starts to examine her “any pain?” The younger woman answers with a simple head shake in ‘no’. “Is your phone okay?” Rio looks at her surprised at the personal question.
“Yeah, the rice thing actually worked,” Rio sweetly smiles to herself.
“Good. Now get up, we’re doing only a few exercises today and I’m putting you on ice bag time out later”
“time out?” Rio looks at her with those big brown eyes in total confusion and oh boy does Agatha feel weak.
“I heard you fell on saturday? We are taking it easy today” She’s trying so hard to keep it profissional it’s actually funny to watch.
The couple exercises she helps Rio do are easy and while in the ice time out, Agatha goes to her office and William arrives with a huge paper bag in hands trying to hide it from Agatha.
“Kid, I told you to be careful” Rio whispers while waving him closer
“I was! She didn’t see it.” whispering back
“Good. Were you able to get everything?”
“Yes, but please don’t tell on me for this. I can’t get fired from my internship.”
“Relax. Now get my backpack” he does and Rio opens it and hands him 50 bucks. “Here, as agreed. I’ll get you the tickets during the week” She hasn’t forgotten the promise of getting him court side tickets to games. “Now remove this damn ice bag from my knee, it’s burning” He, again, does as told.
William guides Rio to Agatha’s office and leaves her by the door.
“Hey, I’m done with the ice thing” She approaches slowly, Agatha doesn’t look up from her computer until she hears the sound of the bag being put on her table.
“And what’s this?” She points at the bag and then looks at Rio. She’s wearing huge glasses, and Rio has to take a breath so she doesn’t stutter again.
“Lunch. We’re having lunch together” Rio is still standing and she has those big puppy eyes again. Goddammit.
“Rio…” Agatha stands and looks around to see if there’s anyone near. “This is my work place, I can’t have lunch with my patient” It does nothing to Rio because the next thing she does is move closer.
“Agatha, is just lunch. Sit and eat with me, I got you arabic food” She puts a hand on Agatha’s hand and starts to make little circles on her knuckles.
“Why don’t I want to say no to you?” Agatha whispers her thoughts out loud without realizing and looking deeply into Rio’s eyes. This is so fucking strange, I can’t control it. She thinks.
“Do you usually say your thoughts out loud?” Agatha doesn’t answer and Rio talks again “I like it” She then takes the other woman’s hand and moves her to the chair, they both sit side by side. Agatha accepts the situation without saying a word but Rio doesn’t seem to want to keep quiet. “So, I got falafel, which I love. You should deep it in the spicy sauce, trust me! I also got-” Agatha stands up abruptly and directs herself towards the door. “What-” Rio looks at her confused. She then closes the door and locks it. “Agatha?” Agatha stands in front of Rio, in the little space between the chair and the table, grabs her by the arm to make her stand up, holds her by the waist, to make sure she doesn’t put any weight on her bad knee and kisses her furiously. Rio makes a little squeaky noise in surprise and as Agatha deepens the kiss using her tongue, Rio moans into her mouth, making the older woman swallow it. One of Rio’s hands make their way into her hair, pulling it a little and getting a moan out of Agatha and the other free hand pulls her impossibly closer by the waist.
Their breathing was uneven, the air was filled with something inevitable. No one could really put a name on it. Agatha’s hands roamed on her back, Rio wasn’t wearing anything but the sports bra and shorts, so she could feel her burning skin burning her hand. Nails started to dig into Rio’s skin, making her arch her back, breaking the kiss and giving Agatha enough room to hungrily kiss her neck. Rio’s hands were still tangling the older woman’s hair, as if she was asking for more, and Agatha gave it to her, biting the side of her neck. “Agatha-” she murmured. Giving no space for talking, Agatha devoured Rio’s lips and in one motion, gripping her hips and spinning them, she pinned Rio against the table, earning a low moan. Every touch was like a moth to a flame. Agatha wasn’t even thinking straight. She was dizzy with want. Rio wasn’t one to question it, being so dizzy with want herself. No slowing down now. Agatha brings one hand to Rio’s breasts. They were the perfect size for her hand. Perfect. “I don’t know why, but I need you” Agatha whispers against Rio’s lips, with her other hand touching every part of Rio she could reach. Rio, fighting for air, takes a breath breaking the kiss. “Then take me”. It was all Agatha needed to hear now. A hand slid down, fingertips teasing along her thigh, bringing one up higher, around her waist. Rio’s breath hitching.
They were past the point of reasoning. Agatha kisses Rio again. God, did she love her kiss. Her soft lips, sharp and warm tongue. Her hand traveled further up her inner thigh, carefully reaching the source of the heat.
“Agatha, please just-” Rio says, breaking the kiss but staying so close Agatha could feel her breathing.
“Patience, Rio” Kissing her again.
She then avoids touching Rio’s sensitivity spot through the gym shorts. Wasting no time, her hand found its way inside the shorts. Rio whined, immediately rocking her hips involuntarily, seeking any form of friction. “Agatha, please I’m so-” Agatha’s face looked flustered, in a nervous, impatient way.
“Why did you buy it in purple?” she whispered. And again, this wasn’t directly to Rio, she was thinking out loud. She kept her eyes averted from Rio’s face, finding her neck once more and trailing kisses along it. “Fuck, you’re so wet” finally facing her now.
Rio’s hand flew to the back of Agatha’s neck, finding a balance. “Agatha, don’t let me fall”. And then Agatha inserted two fingers inside the other woman. With no warning. She then palms her clit. “I got you” she murmured to Rio.
“-ah” Rio puts Agatha closer and kisses her in an attempt to muffle her own moans. At least one of them was thinking. But as Agatha’s thrusts become faster, she can’t hold them back anymore.
“Dr Harkness-” someone calls from the entry of the waiting room.
They break apart, eyes wide, catching their breath. Rio loses her balance and Agatha immediately catches her again. “I’m sorry, you okay?”
“Dr Harkness, are you in there?” It’s a male voice.
“Yeah, I’m good, you should go see what that’s about” As they catch their breaths, Agatha helps Rio to sit and goes to the waiting room. It’s one of the Hospital’s directors. He’s old and cranky, but nice to Agatha.
“Oh, there you are! Am I interrupting something?” Just my first time fucking my patient, who I also had a date with, in a very inappropriate location. She thought.
“No, I’m just taking a lunch break. Is there anything I can help you with?” He starts to talk and explain how he needs some sessions.
While Agatha seemed composed and put together when she left, Rio was a complete and utter mess. For the seconds after Harkness left the office, she just looked at the ground, in shock, trying to process what the fuck just happened.
“Rio…” Agatha said as she was entering the room again, sitting beside her. “I’m so sorry, I don’t know what I was thinking. I actually wasn’t thinking-”
Rio faced her, slowly coming back to her senses, taking a deep breath.
“Are you okay?” Agatha asks, placing a hand on her face. Not even thinking twice while doing it. What is it with this magnetism?
“I’m more than okay, Agatha” finally speaking. “Maybe you should not think more often…”
Agatha removed her hand from Rio’s face and stood up “Rio, this can’t happen, I’m your doctor and this is my place of work and for some goddamn reason everytime I’m near you, all I can think about is kissing you and my hands feel magnetically attached to you. However, this cannot happen”
“What can’t happen Agatha? You fucking me in your office or you wanting me?” Rio asked. Words came out crisp. She was looking up at Agatha, who was now paused in place.
“Neither. I can’t do this. I can’t have a relationship right now, I-”
“I’m not asking you to marry me here, I simply asked you to have lunch with me, because I liked our conversations, I didn’t even think about kissing you here, because I know how worked up you get about your job.” Rio looks at Agatha up and down. And then looked at the floor “Look, I know I get a bad rep about hookups, but it’s not like that.” She then looks up again “Agatha, would you sit down?” Puppy eyes and authority at the same time? That was new. It worked again. Agatha sat.
“...You said you liked our date and now you say you can’t stop thinking about kissing me. But at the same time you don’t want anything to do with me, so what is it? Do you want me to back off?”
“No…” Agatha’s voice is so low, it's barely more than a whisper.
“Then what do you want? Because I would like to just have this lunch with you” Rio’s hands land on Agatha's thighs and start caressing the spot.
“I can’t have anything serious right now, I have my so-” Rio straightens her back thinking Agatha would now tell her about Nicholas. But she just corrects herself after cleaning her throat. “I have my responsibilities now.”
“Do you want to have this lunch with me now? Casually…” Rio is trying so hard to convince Agatha not to let her go. She would actually accept any condition to have Agatha near her. “We could just go with the flow” Rio rolls her eyes at the realization of how cheezy that phrase was. “Just, no pressure. Casual”
“Why would you wanna do that?” She frowned in confusion.
“Because I want to keep kissing you, and just might happen to have the information that you want to keep kissing me” Rio brushes a few stray strands behind Agatha’s ear, fingers lingering for a moment. “And of course, if you want to continue that” points at the table with a head movement. “I would not be complaining…” She smirks and gets a chuckle out of Agatha. Making the moment lighter.
“Should we have lunch then?”
The sweet look Agatha gives Rio, makes her relax.
Lunch went smoothly, Rio had to leave because Agatha had more patients during the afternoon. Rio didn’t push her. It was surprising how patient she was being. Agatha thought for a second she judged her too soon for those hookups tabloids.
Rio didn’t go straight home, she needed to see Dr Torres for a follow-up.
As she is making her way to the waiting room of the Dr’s office, she sees Lilia and Natasha. Natasha is Joanne’s daughter, and works as PR for Rio’s team and is Rio’s assistant, organizing her side jobs, such as campaigns. Also, one of Rio’s best friends.
“Hey, Vidal!” She waves her over, motioning for her to join them. It takes a moment, as she moves with her cane.
“Hi! What are you guys doing here?”
“Well, we have a meeting with the doctors of other teams,” Lilia explains.
“Lilia, would you mind if I have a word alone with Rio? It’s business”
“Sure, but be quick.” They move away from where Lilia is standing.
Natasha whispers, just to make sure Lilia isn’t eavesdropping. “Why did I have to spend my Sunday night reading flirtatious emails of you and your physical therapist?”
Shit. Shit. Shit. In the heat of the moment, Rio forgot Natasha had access to it.