Femmedreams: An L Word Fanfic

Chapter 1

Femmedreams: An L Word Fanfic   [Author's Note: I don't own Ilene Chaiken or any of her characters or ideas. Other than that, this is all me baby.]

Forward- This takes place after Season 3. Shane & Carmen are broken up. Bette didn't kidnap Angelica. Helena is slowly running out of money... Jenny is sort of involved with Max. Oh. And Marina is back in town. ;)

Alice sipped her frappa-whatever-the-Hell and leaned over the table flipping through the glossy-paged fashion magazine laid in front of her. To her right, Shane, obvious apathy washing her face, sat with her chin in her hand and looked over Alice's shoulder.

"Like anyone would actually wear that," she murmured when Alice paused on a page.

Alice glanced up. "I like it. It's bubbly. Just because all of your worlds are all dull and gray doesn't mean I can't wear rainbow attire."

"Dull, gray and POOR," Helena chimed in, hunched in her chair, passionlessly stirring her beverage with a thin black straw. "Where we're cut off from our family's money supply, and are slowly dwindling down the remaining cut-off funds..While our suddenly gay mother runs off and leaves us so we can be homeless as well."

Jennifer Shecter laid her head down on her pale arms. "Thus spoke Helena Peabody. We're all miserable."

"Well," Alice replied. "I'm experiencing a new reason to be happy. I'm single, I'm free and Dana would have wanted me to move on."

Shane nodded. "Good for you Al, and I mean it."

"Aren't you with Max?" Alice asked Jenny.

Jenny let out a melodramatic sigh. "I don't think so. He's so moody. And now I'm questioning whether we were ever actually together."

"Romance fucking sucks," Shane sympathized. "Sorry Jen."

She shrugged. "I have new reasons to write tragedies now. How about you Alice, by the way? Didn't you have something going on with Lara?"

"Lara Perkins?" Bette interjected looking up from her previously uninterrupted stare at the table.

"You know, Jenny's right," Helena argreed. "You two have been awfully snug, haven't you?"

"Well," Alice laughed. "We were sleeping together. But not anymore. Neither of us...Well we were grieving. Lara's going back to France to finish her classes and I'm going to get back to my life."

"I wish I was that cheeky," Helena mused and took a sip of her tea.

Alice positioned her glasses as she looked at her new best friend. "You'll find someone."

"I seriously doubt it."

The door opened then and a slender blond strolled in, her hair collected into a chignon at the back of her neck, and a form fitting black silk dress stretched over her body.

"Okay, who is that?" Alice asked the group, obviously interested. Her intentions to show how well she was coping was making her over zealous.

Shane looked up, but interested plagued her trouble face. "She's new. I don't know her."

Bette followed their gazes. "I'm so over blonds."

Helena nodded. "Me too. Actually I'm over lesbians. Women, really. I'm going celibate."

Jenny scoffed. "Celibacy? Do you think that's wise? You'll end up killing yourself after a week of not fucking anyone."

"The Princess of Darkness has a point," Bette replied. "I really can't see you celibate."

Helena sighed. "Yes. I know."