This was all exciting and confusing, but it seemed like the woman was picking up on some of it. There was more hesitation than before, what was going on? Serena would've figured if it was a game the woman would be pretty happy with the direction it was going. She'd kissed her after all.

Serena really needed to not make a habit of kissing people she'd just met. She was already developing a reputation around the mansion, she didn't need one in cool gay bars... Although this setting was probably a much more appropriate for it.

Uh. What?

"Alice? What do you-" Her sister? Serena looked nothing alike her sist- okay, well maybe they looked alike, but you couldn't mistake them for one another, that was for sure. Alice had blue hair, and a very very different dress code.

"I- I assumed I'd met you at college or something and just forgotten you and was too embarrassed to voice that thought." She admitted, flushing in red again.

"The only Alice I know is my sister and I doubt you could be mistaking me for he-"

... 'this side of the tracks'? No way. "Where are you from? I mean really."

Wait, wait, wait. Cait needed everything to hold up because this wasn't right at all. Alice was saying she wasn't Alice and something about a sister. Alice didn't have a sister, at least not one she'd mentioned. Unless this a was twin thing, which meant she had felt up Alice's twin.

But no, no it wasn't a twin thing because apparently they didn't look alike. What the actual hell was going on.

"Well, our world Alice. Earth one, or A or whatever they want to call it." Some people in the mansion had suggested to her the ridiculous notion that this was Earth 1. Which was stupid because she wasn't from there and any world without Caitriona Hawke was not the best world. "You know, the place we got pulled from during all that stupid rip business?"

"OK, look. Alice......Serena.......you," so she was a little flustered, big deal. It's not like she had been aggressively flirting with a complete stranger. This was still a game, which Alice was clearly winning because Cait had no f**king clue what was going on. "please for the love of god tell me you are joking because this isn't anymore. If you don't want to have sex again just tell me because this is messed up." Totally messed up.

Clearly the other woman was having some trouble processing all of this. Was Serena's suspicion right? Please tell her she was wrong, Caitriona was so interesting and pretty, it would be all kinds of suck if it turned out she was the kind of person that hung out with her evil twin.

"Earth one?" Oh god oh god oh god.

"I- I am-" how did you even word this?

Serena let the woman get it out her system before taking a deep shaky breath and backing up a few inches. "I never got pulled from there, I got pulled too there."

Her cheeks flushed in. "I thought you'd met me from somewhere else, and I'd just forgotten you. From College or something." She repeated. "I'm sure I'd remember sleeping with someone as beautiful as you." That last part came out as more of a murmur.

"I- I'm from here. I've met the woman you're talking about, if you're saying she looked exactly like me." She had to be careful, this woman seemed earnest and honestly a decent person, but first impressions could be misleading and if she was into a woman Serena knew was a serial killer, she'd need to tread carefully.

Nooooooooo. No this wasn't happening. This had to be Alice because there was no way she had been been that forward with a stranger. It just wasn't possible.

Oh shit. She'd kissed her. And invited her to bed, within like 5 minutes of meeting her. This was a disaster, a complete and utter disaster. "Please, please tell me I wasn't just feeling up someone I have never met before because there is no way that just happened." Nope, no way. Not at all.

Cait, was turning bright red. Not just flushed, or blushing, she was probably about as red as her hair.

Backing away a little, to give them both a little room, "Oh god I am so so sorry. You just, well you look exactly the same as Alice and she........and me.........well I think you've guessed," she admitted. "I'm totally not normally like this, we just, well played games together, role-played." Why was she digging the hole deeper.

Putting her head in her hands, she flailed a hand is some vague motions to the bartender and ordered the strongest shit they had. Two actually but she really needed to drown the complete shame over taking her. Because maybe she could salvage this and walk away with some pride.

The more the woman spoke, the more Serena toiled between ordering and downing more drinks, and wanting to keep a clear head unless she was up to something. Something about the way that she spoke set Serena at ease a little. She was clearly just as embarrassed as the Brit, if not more.

"Well... I suppose it was a new experience for both of us." Well at least she was taking this with about as much grace as Serena had been, she wasn't bouncing back and throwing around accusations or getting defensive or anything.

Serena took in a deep breath. She seemed so, genuine... And she was getting more and more timid based on her the things she was admitting. They made Serena blush too, truth be told. She'd never thought about role play in the bedroom. Ahem.

The tension inside of her melted slightly. She supposed there was more to her evil twin than met the eye. She shouldn't judge Caitriona based on her alternate self. She held a hand to the bartender as well. Serena definitely needed alcohol. "Tequila, please."

While the red haired woman's face was in her hands Serena edged forwards slowly and placed a very gently hand on the other woman's knee. "Hey look, it's okay." She had questions, hopefully Cait had answers.

Drinks were swiftly supplied, Serena did the old salt, tequila, lime trick with practiced motion.

Laughing at the statement, she did have to admit she was enjoying being the more forward party. Plus, apparently confidence had been working out real well on Serena so clearly it was worth taking advantage of that on other girls moving forward. "Apparently, although it was still fun," she admitted with a blush.

Serena ordered drinks as well, good. At least they both had the same instinct when it came to dealing with awkwardness. Shooting one of the drinks dropped in front of her and shuddering at the frankly horrible taste of whatever it was she had ordered she idly contemplated doing that with the other. Deciding agaisnt it for now glanced at the hand on her knee and was suddenly very aware of exactly the kind of effect she had been having on Serena. No wonder it had been working, because damn that made certain sensations shoot up and down her body.

"I, well I guess I should introduce myself. I'm Caitriona, or Cait to friends." Which to be honest, she felt like Serena had kind of leapfrogged into that position since they'd skipped a few ordinary steps. "And I guess I know, knew your double."

Well, not really knew much about her while knowing a lot about her. "We kind of had fun together, hence the.....erm.....that," she trailed off kind of just vaguely gesturing.

Serena coughed a little, still very red. "Yes, it was. I'm very much not used to, nor necessarily opposed to that kind of greeting." It was so nice to feel wanted by someone gorgeous. She'd avoided this sort of thing for so very long, she'd forgotten how absolutely good it felt.

It was nice that Cait began to calm down a bit, that the interaction wasn't just doomed from the start. Because regardless of all of the awkwardness and history that the woman apparently had with Serena's evil twin, she was so lovely. And Serena really didn't want to stop chatting or flirting with her.

Being a very physical person, Serena was used to contact. There was something quite different about hugs and snuggles and gentle contact though, especially when there was a component of sexual interest involved.

"I like that, Cait is easier to say, and it sounds about as cute as you are." A sheepish smile tugged at the corners of her lips.

Nodding a little awkwardly Serena inserted her first question. "H-how well did you know her?" She let it linger for a moment before adding. "I don't mean intimately, I mean her as a person. Because you strike me as a nice person." She admitted.

Cait raised an eyebrow and tucked that little bit of information away for later. Sure, it had been extremely awkward when they found out what was going on but Serena was clearly attractive. Christ Cait had already been with someone who looked exactly like her so it wasn't like she wasn't interested and she kind of seemed really nice. "Good to know it wasn't unwelcome."

Grinning a little stupidly at the comment, "Cheers, kind of fond of it myself. Never felt right as a Caitriona." It was a name she had tended to only be called when in trouble and, well it didn't ever feel like ti was hers. Like there was a weight attached to it or some kind of culture she should be associating with it or something.

Oh thank god Serena didn't want to know specifics because there was no real way to explain how she knew Alice without some very explicit conversations and possibly a diagram and she was no where near drunk enough for that. "I mean, to be honest that was about all we knew about each other. We didn't tend to have long drawn out discussion if that's what you were asking."

"About the only thing she'd tell me was she worked for a friend and it clearly paid well from how swanky her clothes were." To be honest now that she thought about it with how intimate they'd been Cait didn't even know where Alice grew up.

Holy f**k she didn't even know the woman's last name. 

The little eyebrow raise was so adorable, the looks and ways her attention shifted around Serena still made her wriggle in her seat a little bit. It was the details an author tended to pay attention too, the fine details of how Cait worked. "It was unexpected, but I would tell you if I was particularly uncomfortable." Serena wasn't afraid of telling people no.

"Just try to remember I'm Serena, and I'll call you Cait, everything will be golden." She teased. She'd really rather not be called Alice. Why did her doppelganger choose that name? She hadn't known about the potential little sister situation.

Serena was very grateful that Cait used more innuendo than she used actual specifics. She did not need to think about that woman and Cait getting intimate. Nope.

She studied Cait's face and decided she was probably telling the truth, and would therefore let it go. "Well, her real name was also Serena, and I assume we shared a last name from what she said." She pondered. It had sounded like they had a very similar upbringing. 'Alice' had tossed out the implication that she was actually the more normal of the two given that Serena should have been much more damaged than she appeared, 'Alice' was more up front about it.

"It's Rivers, by the way. My last name. And I can guess at her profession, but that's only based on our brief encounter. You don't want to know." She turned back to Cait, staring at the woman's eyes once again. They were. So pretty. So happy, and excited and full of life.

"Well, given that I'm stuck here and she's back home I think it'll be easy to remember." She'd get back home somehow of course, but for now she kept the two worlds separate in her bead because it the was the only way she could function without being a complete wreck. "Plus, you.....well you dress a little bit less extreme than her so I should be able to get in my head quick."

Oh great. So it totally didn't get more confusing. They were just basically the same person, with the same name, the same face and a slightly different approach to sex. Which Cait was not complaining about at all because it seemed like she had really lucked out on that one.

Rivers? That was a very pretty name, and seemed to suit Serena well, "Hawke, with an e. Which is very important apparently." She didn't really know why but that had been drilled into her. Some nonsense about remembering the clan and paying respect to her ancestors or something, she really hadn't paid to much attention to that particular lecture from her father.

Frown at the pretty cryptic bit about Alice's job, there was no way she was letting that go. "I'm a big girl Serena, I can handle a lot. What did she do that was so bad?" Frankly Cait had assumed she was some kind of high class escort, with all the money she had to use and how she used her.....sensuality so effectively.

Serena nodded grimly. "Yes, I remember. I believe she called me a repressed psychotic prude?" Which was all kinds of rich. 'Alice' had spent most of the non-violent parts of their encounter implying that they were both broken, but she was less so because she embraced her rage, and Serena repressed her desires? She'd still not digested that one.

"Good." She smiled, tilting her head at Cait in amusement. "Because my little sister is called Alice, so that would be slightly strange."

Serena blinked for a moment. Hawke? She knew a Hawke didn't she, over here? Is that why Cait was so familiar? Had she met a version of Cait here?

But she didn't recognise Cait's face at all, just some of her mannerisms. The way she strung together language.

Momentarily distracted by the question Serena hesitated. How did she word this? How did you summarise a person as messed up as her evil twin? "I-" how did you even put this to someone that had slept with the psycho in question. Crap.

"Fuck, I don't know how to put this delicately. She was a murderer. She did something to do with ending lives for a living, and she drained her victims of her blood, and then drank it. She made it very clear to me that she enjoyed it." Serena stared at the floor for a minute.

Prude? Well, maybe by Alice's standard but how Serena had been responding to her 'advances' she was anything but a prude. Maybe a bit less adventurous and less overtly sexy but with just a little prodding Cait had found some very interesting reactions. Which she didn't need at all. No reason to remember those.

Well that didn't make every much more complicated. There was her Alice, this Alice who wasn't Alice but was Serena and now Serena's Alice who was her sister and not Caits Alice. It made her head hurt a little, she really needed a mindmap to get this put together in the right way. "Maybe just a little."

OK. So.....that was a thing.

Except it couldn't be true, right? Serena didn't seem to be lying but maybe she was mistaken. There was no way she'd been with a murderer and caught no sigh of it at all.

"Nooooooo," she started disbelievingly, "that can;t be right. She was a little cold sure and she never mentioned personal stuff but a killer? I think I have enough training to notice something, anything at all." Oh god if this was true Impact was going to reach across dimensions and slap her silly. "Are you absolutely sure? Because that is really hard to believe."

Serena was glad that the whole alternate reality awkwardness hadn't killed the mutual attraction. At least she thought it hadn't. Even if flirting didn't go anywhere, it was so good to feel wanted. And she was pretty sure Cait wanted her.

Serena nodded. She kind of wandered what Alice would make of this situation. She'd probably find Cait attractive too. It was kind of great how Alice had also turned out to be gay. Other than the nerdy thing, it just gave them one more thing on common.

She watched the turmoil on Cait's face. "I'm not surprised you don't believe me. If the situation were reversed, I'm sure I would feel similarly." She sighed, listening to Cait trying to pass it off, suggesting that she would have known if that was the case.

Serena stopped and did her second shot before turning back to Cait. "Look Cait, I'm not blaming you or anything for not knowing, you said yourself you didn't really know anything about her." Serena closed her eyes, feeling a little sick from vivid mental images penetrating her consciousness.

"I'm sure. I watched her drain somebody she'd just killed." She shivered, very visibly, rasping the words quietly. "And then she spent a few minutes taunting me, and then trying to provoke me, before trying to kill me."

Serena didn't strike her as a liar, or someone who threw around accusations like being a serial killer lightly and at any other time Cait would have believed her. Because who would lie about something like that. Plus, Cait reckoned she was usually a pretty decent judge of character, true she generally didn't think the worst of people but she wasn't stupid. The problem was, either she wasn't good at reading people at all or Alice had been that good at hiding the kind of person she was.

Or maybe it was all a weird, self destructive dream that would end soon. Preferably with her in someone else's bed.

Except it was real. Because of course it was.

"That's the thing Serena, I should have known. Christ I'm an X I'm trained to spot exactly people like that, to stop them. How many people did she kill while I missed the signs?" This, was heavy, and a huge amount to deal with on a night she'd just wanted to have a little fun.

Hearing the horror in the woman's voice, the revulsion she knew there was no way this was a lie. She might have not seen something then but her new friend had seen something really horrible, horrible enough to leave a little damage behind. Reaching out and touching Serena lightly on the shoulder, "Jesus I'm sorry, kind of going through self pity while you had to actually deal with a real life evil twin." Bit selfish of her really, ignoring a person who'd had to deal with worse.

"Why don't we talk about something other than crazy vampire killers?" Crazy hot vampire serial killers who looked exactly like the person opposite her. "After all now that we're friends we have to know something non strange about each other. Like what do you do for a living?" Anything other than thinking about one thing.....or the other thing still kind of lurking there.

She did have very intriguing eyes.

Serena's face twisted in discomfort. "Some people are good at lying, or hiding parts of themselves." She'd learned that from experience sadly. Part of her wished she was still as optimistic as Cait seemed to be about people. Sure, she was still very much of the opinion that there was good in most people. Even if you had to spend some time looking for it, but reality had also checked her opinion that everyone was like that to some extent.

Some people were just bad.

Serena blushed again when Cait touched her shoulder. Awkward horrible situation aside, Cait was still beautiful and getting attention from her made Serena feel all gooey.

"It's okay, I've dealt with worse. It was a lot, but I survived. So did she." As much as Serena hated her evil twin, she didn't want to kill anyone, period.

She smiled at the redhead, placing her own hand on Cait's on her shoulder, giving it a gentle reassuring squeeze. "I respect that you see the best in people, I don't think you should apologise for getting fooled. It's an amazing trait." She murmured, glancing down at the floor slightly when she did, a light blush colouring her cheeks again.

Her eyes darted back up when Cait carried on talking, meeting the other woman's. "Well, I'm a writer. I do critique, sort of. And I write fiction." Once upon a time she'd never had admitted that in a bar. "What about yourself? Does it involve making blondes blush in bars often? Because I feel like my cheeks are going to get stuck like this at this rate."