halfamoon | Prompt Challenge: Friendship

Having noticed that older works are accepted, without further ado:

Friend In Need (10842 words) by frogfarm
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Angel
Rating: Explicit as all get out
Warnings: None
Characters: Max Guevara, Original Cindy, brief appearance by Logan Cale
Summary: Max is in heat. Cindy can't bear to see her best friend suffer.
Partial list of tags: Lesbian character of color, fluid sexuality, friendship/love, best friends, light angst, light dom/sub, trust, no safeword, weird biology, mother nature being an asshole, bechdel test fail

One of my sweetest and smuttiest fics to date. If you remember this fandom, I hope it brings back all kinds of great memories. And if you don't, I envy you being able to discover it for the first time.

"Never let it be said Original Cindy didn't rise to a challenge." Her determination softened as she stroked Max's forehead, moving down to cup her cheek. "Don't you worry about a thing."

"I -- you mean --" Max sat up, her bewilderment slowly turning to something else.

"I mean you and me." Cindy let her eyes do the talking just long enough. "Gettin' busy."