Savannah and Lydia had passed a reasonably quiet Christmas, both putting on a false front for the sake of their daughters. The next day they had agreed to divorce. The girls were spending New Years elsewhere--one had gone back to college a few days early and the other was spending New Years at the home of the family of her former gay male best friend, now her fiancee.
With no need to put up a front, Savannah and Lydia were spending the holiday apart. Lydia and Hermione were in Hermione's hot tub, splitting a bottle of wine and watching Claire of the Moon on the big-screen TV. After the first five minutes, Hermione was already in tears.
Savannah was at a big, raucous New Year's Party full of drunk Russians and only slightly less drunk Americans. Katerina had already gotten into a couple of fights with women who she claimed were making eyes at Savannah, both of which she had won. Savannah was simultaneously loving the fact that women were fighting over her and having a hard time dealing with the fact that she was loving it. She had always thought she would be the active one, not the prize to be fought over. She had noticed that since she has started dating Katerina she had been dressing and presenting herself in a more feminine way, even obsessively studying makeup videos on youtube.
"Hmm" said Katerina "Fighting always gets me hot. Noticed coatroom on the way in. You join me, pretty American girl who loves to fuck big bad Russian?"
And all Savannah did as Katerina led her to the coatroom through the middle of the party, where everyone could see her stepping daintly in her 4 inch heels on the arm of the scary "Black Widow," was blush.
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A few dimensions and a couple of universes away, Innanna laughed. Savannah was going to make a wonderful femme fatale, even if she didn't know it yet.
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"This is nice" said Dani, sharing a table in a private room at Casa Hermana, enjoying the $200 tasting menu.
"Well" said Tiffany "I had all of the money saved up for my lower surgery. Don't need it for that now."
"But you might need it for something else."
"I might. But I wanted to celebrate tonight, and I wanted to say goodbye to Tiffany the trans girl."
"I liked Tiffany the trans girl."
"I liked her too" said Tiffany "But she's gone. Tiffany's just another new woman now."
"No." said Dani, taking her girlfriend's hand in hers. "Tiffany is a woman with a big heart and an inner toughness that comes from putting up with an unbelievable amount of crap over the years before the Great Change. Tiffany knows what its like to be despised and to be hated by people who don't even know you and to persevere despite that. I wouldn't love you the way I do if you were just another new woman. Don't ever forget Tiffany the trans girl."