04. Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be.
(Nirvana – 'Come As You Are')


Tab popped one of the chili fries into her mouth and chewed happily as Luke nuzzled the sensitive spot behind her ear. Tab the barmaid was on her dinner break and she was enjoying it with her boss boyfriend. There were definitely benefits to working in the same place as your lover. Canoodling in the audience of a killer band while eating junk food was one of them.

Who would have thought Tabitha London Browne was into canoodling, anyway? Luke’s arms were wrapped securely around her waist as she stayed perched in lap and she giggled as he whispered something dirty to her. Guess she wasn’t so stinky as she thought. He apparently enjoyed her mid-shift sweaty state.


She offered him a fry and he took it eagerly and even sucked on her fingers. That just made Tab grin and she turned her head to meet him in a kiss. Luke tasting like chili fries was enough to make her moan. He pulled back and gave her wink as one of his hands dropped to rub her thigh through the denim of her jeans. She just kept grinning as she turned back to the band up on stage and started to watch them again. Luke started to nuzzle her again and Tab thought that right this instant she could die happy.

Even if her hair was probably a mess; the many clips keeping the cropped cut back in a ponytail had probably shifted by now, and even if she was sweaty, and stinky, and famished.

She was happy, and she was just herself. She wasn’t the Tab up on stage; she wasn’t the Tab worried about relationships and dating. She even had a daisy in her hair from the bouquet that she’d bought Luke. He had one tucked into the buttonhole on the lapel of his jacket. The bouquet itself was sitting on his office desk.

“Where are you right now?”

“Hm?” Tab blinked and glanced over her shoulder at Luke.

“Where’d you go, cutie?” he asked as that sexy mouth of his formed a grin. She really did love that mouth.

“Nowhere, smexy. I’m right here.”

He eyed her like he was going to question her further, but then he just shrugged it off. “What about later?”

Tab licked at her lips and smiled as she leaned back to rest her head on his shoulder. “Um, I’m thinking bed. Bed with you.”

“Good, because as your boss I insist on you keeping your boyfriend happy.”


Tabitha London Browne
Original Character
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notskywalker used with permission