In which Beauyasha meets Vexleth and Vex makes everyone blush.
“Oh, fuck me…”
The exclamation was so soft it almost disappeared amongst the cacophonous conversation, laughter, and music filling the tavern. Almost. Luckily Yasha had been draped around Beau’s shoulders, her chin resting upon the monk’s shoulder while she sat on a barstool and scribbled in her notebooks.
The ever-observant woman raised a single brow at that utterance and looked down to see what had made her girlfriend curse, frowning when she just saw words that ended in a long line across the whole page.
“Gladly. But I remember being promised a trip to the bathhouse first. They’re natural hot springs you know.”
Yasha couldn’t remember the name of the city they were in as they’d only arrived a day ago and had immediately been busy. They’d been taking some downtime in the Xhorhaus when Allura had messaged Jester requesting their help in Tal’dorei with something. The mage had Teleported to the Xhorhaus and had briefly explained what she was requesting of them. Apparently, there was to be some large political gathering in the city of Emon and keen minds and fighters alike were being recruited as protection considering the last major political gathering had apparently ended with dragons, city-wide destruction, and a huge loss of life.
Allura had Teleported the Might Nein once they’d prepared their gear and had lead them to the lavish inn and tavern where the group was currently enjoying a relaxing night going over what information they’d gathered today before they really got down to business the next day with preparations and more research at The Alabaster Lyceum, a huge library or research center that Beau and Caleb had drooled over at first sight.
She had joined the two bookworms at the library despite not being the biggest research fan because Beau had asked her to. Her love had been hesitant to let Yasha leave her side after a fight just a few weeks ago where Yasha had nearly needed to be revived, so who was she to say no?
“Yeah, yeah. Yasha, you know I love you, right? And you’re super hot?” Her monk had seemingly broken from her stupor and turned in her girlfriend’s grasp so they were face to face. There was a look in Beau’s eyes that Yasha recognized well, but it wasn’t directed towards her for once.
“Um, yes? Why-”
“I think I might have just seen a deity or two,” Beau motioned to the left side of the room with her electrifying gaze. “And they’re walking this way.”
Casually, so as not to draw too much attention, Yasha stood, stretched her arms above her head, and turned her head to the side to glance in the direction Beau was indicating. At first she didn’t see anything or more specifically anyone, but after a moment the crowd parted like there was some invisible force pushing them aside.
“Oh.”
Her arms paused halfway from their stretched position as two of the most beautiful women she’d ever seen walked with purpose towards her and Beau. The taller of the two was a long-limbed woman with a circlet of vine, leaf, and antler that rested atop a shining head of auburn locks that ended midway between her chin and shoulders. The woman beside her was dark where the taller one was light, her hair- a deep chestnut color that reminded Yasha of freshly turned soil- was tied to her side in a long braid with a few Raven’s feathers worn behind her gently pointed ear.
Yasha could understand why Beau was so flustered and she was feeling almost at a loss for words herself, mostly because she was really confused about what was going to happen. The placid masks of emotion both women wore didn’t help decipher anything, but the red-head seemed to have a faint blush painting her freckled cheeks pink and there was a certain intensity to the dark-haired one that Yasha recognized very well.
This woman was on the hunt and -it seemed- she and Beau were the prey she sought.
Off to the right of the two women she could see Jester waving to get her attention before she gave Yasha a huge thumbs up and a wink. Did she have something to do with this?!
“Vox Mach-” was all Beau had time to quietly choke out before the two women stopped in front of her and Yasha. The dark-haired one looked Beau up and down leisurely, her head cocking ever so slightly to the side as a smile crossed her full lips.
“So, your blue friend told us you were planning on visiting the Silver Springs later? We thought we might join-” The red-head spoke as if the words were just falling out of her mouth and she couldn’t stop them. “Oh right! We already met the rest of your group but-”
The shorter woman placed a loving hand on her arm and smiled at the flustered druid who was fiddling with her antlers now.
“I’m Vex’ahlia and this is my wife Keyleth-”
“The Voice of the Tempest!” Three pairs of eyes turned to the woman seated on the barstool who clapped a hand over her mouth after interrupting Vex. “Sorry, I just...Beau. I’m Beau. I read about what Vox Machina accomplished when I was at the Cobalt Soul. You’re...legends.”
Yasha placed a steadying hand on Beau’s thigh that was bouncing up and down wildly with pent up energy and looked back to Vex’ahlia and Keyleth, her bi-colored gaze looking the both of them over. Keyleth seemed only slightly shorter than herself, and though Beau was sitting on a barstool, Yasha knew she’d be heads below the other women, a thought that made her chuckle internally.
“Smart girl.” Beau’s leg stilled after that remark from Vex and Yasha rolled her eyes, her girlfriend was nothing if not predictable when it came to what got her to sit still. Praise was always Yasha’s secret weapon.
Vex seemed to preen under the praise and fangirling Beau was doing, her eyes turning up with delight at the corners as she continued to speak. “What my dear wife failed to mention is that Allura Vysoren told us we should meet the ‘new lot of adventurers’ she apparently adopted to replace us. Of course, we also wanted the chance to meet the people we’ll be working with over the next week, and when Jester told us you all had missed out on their wonderful bathhouse trip because you were researching at the Lyceum…”
The half-elf moved her gaze to where Yasha’s hand rested on Beau’s thigh before meeting the barbarian’s gaze directly, “Well we figured you might want to join us there this evening so we can get to know each other like Allura suggested.”
Keyleth nodded encouragingly at that, the slightly sheepish smile she gave Yasha and Beau was very different from the wolf-like gaze Vex had fixed on Yasha.
The tall woman felt her own cheeks warm beneath the intense deep green eyes of Vex’ahlia, and after a few moments had to avert her gaze to combat the warmth she felt spreading through her chest like the first whiskey she’d ever tasted. Beau turned her head up to look at Yasha, almost as if to ask permission she didn’t need. Yasha was down for anything these two women had to offer.
There must have been some amount of confirmation because Vex chuckled heartily and made a sweeping motion with her arm towards the door.
“Well then...Let’s see what some steam and relaxation will lead to.”
The other three women in her presence fell a little further under her spell, all following her lead with flushed cheeks and eyes bright with lust.
“Yasha,” Beau whispered to the hazy minded woman at her side. “If I die this week I’ll die a happy woman.”
The barbarian could only nod and take Keyleth’s offered arm as Vex swooped in to hook her arm through Beau’s like they were old friends and pull her away so they were walking in front of Keyleth and Yasha.
“Oh, fuck me…” Yasha murmured almost inaudibly.
Vex turned over her shoulder as if she’d heard Yasha, and, with a wink and smirk said smoothly, “That’s the plan darling.”