"I think that we need a break"
"From us" Bo looks as though the wind was taken out of her sail.
"I'm so sorry Bo," Lauren continues "but I think that I am always going to be asking more than you can give to me."
Bo reluctantly agrees, as she walks to the door, the pain in this moment, was more than Bo could handle. She turns to make sure this is what Lauren really wanted, to make sure she heard the words that she actually said and the tears in those big brown eyes told it all. She did not want to take a break! Not from Lauren. The one person that actually gave Bo the stability she needed to be the Bo everyone expected her to be. Bo would do anything for Lauren and if she wanted space she would give her the space she needed no matter how much it killed her to do it.
Bo walked away from Lauren second guessing herself, wondering if she denied Lauren anything. What exactly did she do to make this break necessary and in true Bo fashion she couldn't figure it out. She didn't realize that the one person that created her foundation was the same person that shook its very core.
Lauren tried to contain her tears in the front of Bo but when the door closed behind her beautiful succubus, Lauren grabbed a pillow to muffle her screams. She was the one that broke them up but she didn't want to be away from Bo. What little time she had with her was everything. Lauren was tired but she loved Bo and this was not going to be an easy undertaking. But she needed to do this for her lady and if that meant time without her, then that's what it had to be.
It's been weeks since the temporary break-up and Bo was not fairing well. She was angry at everything and everyone in her reach. She didn't understand what happened. Why was Lauren not happy with her? Why was Lauren not as miserable as she was? Bo began to question the love and the relationship.
Bo continued as she had before on her path after the dawning but her purpose somehow became different. It was not to protect her family anymore it was simply what was expected of her.
Lauren would see Bo in passing often and she could see the pain in her lost succubus. Bo was not herself anymore. She wanted to make it right, make it better because after all she broke up with Bo to help her, not to hurt her and certainly not to break her heart.
Lauren occasionally frequented the DAL to unwind and she made sure to avoid the times she knew Bo would be there. Lauren did manage to avoid Bo but tonight she ran in to Kenzi.
K: "Well hey playa, playa."
L: "Hello Kenzi, it's good to know you haven't changed." "How are you?" Lauren continues….
K: "I am great, but I didn't fall in love with a Yale know it all who dumped me!"
L: "Please don't speak on something you don't understand, Kenzi"
K: "Well school me Doc!"
K: "Bo was never heartless, but after you asked for your temporary break she's using her heart less and less these days." Kenzi shrugs and turns to Trick ….. "What is it about a broken heart I don't understand?" as she jumps to her feet ready to take on the good doctor.
L: "Kenzi, please…." Lauren was absolutely taken aback. She knew Kenzi would be upset but she never realized Kenzi would hurt her because she broke up with Bo.
Trick jumps in to intervene or at least to calm Kenzi down.
K: "I'm good but you betta get this Yale-bait, away from me or they'll be another charge on my sheet!" "One I would gladly do time for…" Trick is holding on to a jumping, antagonistic Kenzi and turns to ask Lauren to leave.
Lauren looked defeated, she wanted to declare her love for Bo right there and then but revealing herself right now to everyone was not what she needed to do. She had a purpose for this hell she was enduring! The one person who would understand or at least listen was Bo. She needed to see Bo. She needed her to know why she wanted the break. She needed her to know it was all for her. But how was she able to let her know and continue on the dark side without an actual Fae war breaking out.
Bo's days consisted of helping Kenzi save the human world by day and by night a bottle of Jose Cuervo, some random feed and her crawling into bed to pass out and prepare to do it all again. Well this night was no different …. Until Bo was awakened by Lauren's hand over her mouth pleading with her to be quiet. The drunken succubus never reacted, or instinctively threw the body across the room. Somehow she knew it was Lauren. She recognized her smell, the weight of her body, how Lauren felt when she was settled on top of her. Bo prayed this was not one of those dreams straight out of a Cuervo bottle. As Lauren continue to watch Bo not knowing what to expect. She finally felt it was safe enough to continue …..
L: "I'm going to move my hands and please just listen …. Please let me explain something to you, before you say anything"
Bo knew it wasn't a dream. It was her baby, in bed with her. Lauren looked into Bo's big beautiful brown eyes. What she saw hurt her. Bo was the strongest person she knew but in that moment, Bo began to cry, tears streaming down her cheek, her body trembling racked with pain. Bo did the only thing she knew to do she grabbed Lauren and kept saying
B: "Baby, I'm sorry!" "Baby, I'm sorry!" "I'm so sorry!"
Bo needed this release and no matter how Lauren tried to tell her it was not her fault to please just listen. She kept apologizing. Lauren just held Bo; this was not going to be the easy conversation she thought it would be. Bo was broken and the only person capable of putting her back together was Lauren. The dark side would need to wait. Bo needed her and no power or force would make her leave.