Find a Light (JenLisa Adaptation)

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She tasted like coffee, just like the last time they kissed. But Jennie knew that this time around, she wouldn't get a face full of door. The softness of those lips and the gentleness with which Lisa was kissing her made her brain fly into another dimension and made her knees go weak, as cliché as that may sounded in her head.

But then, an annoying sharp sting in her left hip pulled her back into here and now, reminding her not so gently of her injury. She pulled away with a pained hiss and shifted her entire weight to her right foot.

"Oh, oh your hip." Lisa stuttered out, eyes and hand flying to Jennie's hip bone. "I'm sorry, I should have... I'm such an idiot, are you alright?"

The worry in Lisa's eyes as she looked up was so endearing that Jennie almost forgot all about the pain and grinned at her. "Yeah, I'm alright."

She braced her hands on Lisa's shoulders and ran her tongue over her lips, the lingering taste of coffee in her mouth causing her heart to tingle. "It's not that bad. I'm the idiot for running down the steps like that."

Lisa raised an eyebrow and lifted a single shoulder in a shrug. "True." She teased and smiled at Jennie when she felt her right hand giving her shoulder a light squeeze. "Well then, let us two idiots get you upstairs now before we cause even more damage."

Without a complaint, Jennie let Lisa lead her up the stairs but they stopped when Lisa's eyes fell on the door, wide open. "You really shouldn't leave it open like this." She said and started moving again, "Who knows what kind of creeps live here."

Jennie rolled her eyes. "Actually, I didn't have a choice. Claudia has my keys and even if she wouldn't have them–" she paused and slowly sank down on the sofa. "I didn't exactly have the time to grab them, seeing as I had to get to you as fast as possible before you drove off."

"How romantic," Lisa smirked and stood in front of the sofa with crossed arms, before she let the smirk slip and asked "What do you need for your hip? Ice or warmth? Do you even have a hot-water bag? I don't think I have one so–"

"Lisa?"

Stopping her ramble, Lisa worriedly frowned at the petite feline eyed woman. "What? What's wrong?"

Jennie smiled, shook her head and held her hand out. "Nothing. Just come here."

Jennie almost laughed at how nervous Lisa seemed to be as she took her hand and let her pull her onto the sofa next to her. But she just smiled at her and ran a soothing thumb over the back of her hand.

Man, she almost forgot how it was to feel happy. Before she could say anything however, Lisa shifted closer and said, "I'm sorry for leaving you out in the hallway after I kissed you. That wasn't right and I–"

"You already apologized for that, remember?" Lisa looked up from their joined hands and slowly nodded her head. "Right. Well then, I'm sorry for making you unhappy. Claudia... Claudia said that you were feeling horrible because of me and I... I'm really not worth it."

"That's not true! You had your reasons and–"

"No. No, don't do that." Her hand hesitantly lifted and cupped Jennie's cheek, fingers tangling in soft brown hair. "I wasn't the victim here. You were. I kept hurting you because I couldn't handle my own hurt."

Jennie frowned and weakly shook her head. "You didn't mean to do that."

"No, but... that's just not the point. Just because I didn't mean to doesn't mean that I didn't do it. It still hurts that Niki's gone but that's no reason for me to treat you so bad, especially since you make everything so much better."