Young Forever: Growing Up Fae
By: Ruina Bell
Rating: M for mature subjects and nature
Pairing: Bo/Lauren
Summery: The second story to my original story, Young Forever. It's five years later. Bo and the gang have been living somewhat, normal "human" lives since moving into what they now call home. Ethan and Charlotte are only growing. There are new characters and old. With the children getting older, Will Bo and Lauren be able to raise them as honorable fae so they can fulfill their destiny or will they fail?
Chapter One
Bedtime Stories
~Bo and Lauren's House~
"If you two don't come down here and clean this up right now, you're both going to have something taken away! Charlotte Ysabeau! Ethan Fitzpatrick! Now!" Bo shouted upstairs to the twins. She walked back into the kitchen to try to finish making breakfast. Now that the twins were 6 years old, they hadn't come into power yet but they had their own attitudes and personalities. Some were easier to deal with than others. Up until this point, life was somewhat normal. The children had just started school, Lauren was still working for the light fae, Hale had become the ash completely and not just the "acting ash", Trick was still Trick, Megan was still learning her power and still lived in the house and Kenzi of course still lived there too. Kenzi had become a big deal of help when it came to the kids.
"Coming mama!" The twins said in unison as they stomped down the stairs. They quickly ran into the kitchen to answer to their mother.
"Alright, fess up. Who did it?" Bo asked, putting her hands on her hips and looking down at the two six year old twins.
"Did what?" Lottie asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Don't give me attitude, Charlotte. You know what I'm talking about." Bo said, shaking her finger at her daughter. Bo often wondered if she was this bad when she was her daughter's age who was proving to be quite a little diva. Ethan however on the other hand was good until his sister talked him into something. He could hardly say no.
"Lottie did it, mama!" Ethan said almost in tears.
"Na uh! Ethan did it!" Lottie said balling her hands in fists.
"One of you needs to tell me now before I call your mother and she will not be pleased especially because she is at work." Bo said, glaring at the twins.
"I swear it wasn't me, mama! Lottie did it! She said that she didn't like the fact that the walls were white and wanted them to be pink!" Ethan cried, pointing at his sister.
"You're such a tattletale, Ethan!" Lottie whimpered, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Alright, that's it. Lottie, I'm taking your vanity away and you won't be getting it back until you prove to me that you've learned your lesson. And no outside for the rest of the day either." Bo sighed, running her hand through her hair.
"But mama!" Lottie cried.
"No buts, Charlotte! Now get a rag and clean the wall off." Bo told her daughter as she pointed to the rag sitting on the side of the sink.
"Man!" Lottie said as she wiped her eyes before grabbing the rag and going into the dinning room to clean the paint off of the wall.
"Mama, I'm sorry I didn't tell you before." Ethan sighed, hugging Bo's leg.
Bo leaned down and picked him up. "It's okay. I don't expect you to tell me everything Lottie does, but don't lie when I ask. Okay?" Bo asked, her tone softening with her son. Ethan nodded and hugged Bo's neck. Bo kissed his cheek before putting him down. "Why don't you go get Aunt Kenzi and have her take Lottie's vanity out of her room, okay?" Bo patted Ethan's bottom as he ran off.
Lottie had a fake vanity with fake makeup and even fake jewelry in it. She loved playing with it. It was probably her most prized possession. It was a birthday present from Aife to her granddaughter and Bo knew that was probably one of the reasons why her daughter was such a little diva. Not only was she a growing succubus but she was spoiled by her grandmother, incredibly spoiled. Bo often wondered that Aife spoiling her granddaughter and grandson was maybe a way of her trying to make up for the times that she couldn't spoil Bo as a little girl.
Bo put the food that she had made on plates and sat the breakfast table. Lottie had milk with her breakfast, Ethan had apple juice, Kenzi had coffee and Megan had water. She herself had coffee. Bo walked over to Lottie who was sniffling as she scrubbed the wall. She often wondered if she was too hard on her children. If maybe she should lighten up. But this was how she was raised. She made a mess, she cleaned it up. She did something bad, she got grounded and something got taken away. Lauren often said she was too hard but she knew no other way.
Bo crouched down behind Lottie. "Charlotte, look at me honey." Bo said as her daughter turned. Her hazel eye were green right now and her little round face was flushed and she sniffled. "Look, I don't want to yell at you sweetie. But Charlotte, you can't just do things because you want to. You need to listen to me. If you do these things, you will get grounded and you will have your toys taken. But if you don't, you won't have to do this." Bo said as she put her hands on her daughter's waist.
"I'm sorry, mama. Sometimes I can't help it." Lottie sighed, looking down at her feet. Bo brushed some of the long brunette hair from Lottie's face.
"What do you mean, baby girl?" Bo asked.
"I don't know. Sometimes I just... I h-have to." Lottie confessed. Bo sighed. It had to be fae power. It had to be something she passed onto her daughter that made her feel that way. That scared Bo quite a bit.
"Well try to do something else, okay? Next time if you get a feeling like that, just color on your coloring scetch pad or you can always come to me or Aunt Megan or mommy or even Aunt Kenzi. We'll help you, okay?" Lottie nodded at her mother.
"I'm sorry, mama." Lottie sighed.
"It's okay, baby. Come on. Give me a hug and then go wash your hands. Breakfast is done." Bo said with a smile as Lottie hugged her. She took the rag and stood up as Lottie ran upstairs. "If anyone ever said being a fae mother was easy, I'll kill them." Bo mumbled as she walked into the kitchen to clean up herself.
After breakfast, Lottie pretty much followed Bo around all day, helping her around the house while Ethan and Kenzi played outside all day. Kenzi was a huge help while Megan and Lauren worked. It was nice knowing that she had someone around who loved playing with her children as much as she did. But Bo was beyond stressed out. The same wedding that they had been planning for the last five years was so close and there was so much she had to do. She was on the phone all day with the caterer or the venue for the ceremony. Everything was crazy.
"Mama?" Lottie asked, tugging on Bo's pant leg.
"Hold on, Charlotte." Bo said, putting her hand over her cellphone and trying to listen to what the person on the other side of the phone was saying. She was currently trying to book a DJ or a band for the reception.
"Mama?" Lottie asked again.
"Shh!" Bo said to Lottie once again.
"But mama!" Lottie started to whine.
"Charlotte! Stop!" Bo huffed, trying to concentrate. Suddenly the person on the other side hung up on Bo. "Damnitt, Lottie!" Bo grumbled. "I told you to hold on. You can't be interrupting me like that." Bo said, trying to redial the number.
"You never play with me anymore! I hate you!" Lottie shouted at her mother, tears glistening in her eyes and her hands in fists before running upstairs to her room and slamming the door shut.
"Lottie!" Bo called out. Bo put her phone down on the counter and sighed, running a hand through her hair.
Kenzi and Ethan ran into the house from the back porch when Kenzi noticed Bo.
"Mamabus, what's wrong?" Kenzi asked, walking into the kitchen and grabbing a bottle of water.
Bo took a deep breath. "Kenzi, why am I planning a wedding?" Bo rolled her eyes.
"What are you talking about sweetie? You're getting married!" Kenzi giggled before taking a sip of water.
"I feel like I'm treating this like it's going to be a big wedding." Bo sighed.
"Uh, earth to mother-fae, it is!" Kenzi laughed.
Bo cringed. "It wasn't even supposed to be!" Bo groaned.
"Well, that's what you get when you have both light and dark fae not to mention humans, invited to a wedding." Kenzi nodded.
"Now my kid hates me too." Bo threw her hands up. "I can't win!"
"Wait what?" Kenzi asked finding herself suddenly confused.
"Lottie was trying to get my attention and I yelled at her and she said she hated me." Bo slid into a chair and looked up at Kenzi. "Am I a bad parent Kenz?" Bo asked.
"Bobo! Don't you ever ask that! YOU, my bestest favoritest succubus in the world are the worlds best mother! Look, Lottie's a six year old girl. She's not 16. She's not going to understand you right now. She just sees it differently than we do." Kenzi smiled, rubbing Bo's shoulder.
"You know, Kenz, you should be teaching parenting 101 believe it or not." Bo smiled.
"Yeah boy! I be like, whaddup mamas and papas, lemme check get yo money and help you screw up your kids." Kenzi joked. Bo laughed, shaking her head.
A part of Bo felt like something was wrong in all the wrong places. Was it her children? Was it her power? What it trying to be a normal life? Stress? She knew it could be anything and she couldn't seem to put her finger on whatever it was that was wrong right now.
~Bo and Lauren's house, a few hours later~
Bo sat in her dinning room along with Lauren, Kenzi, Megan, Ethan and Lottie. They had just started eating dinner and everything seemed good. Lauren had talked about her day at "work", as they had started to call it. Megan had talked about some crazy things that went on at her job and Kenzi and Bo just talked about the children and being at home.
"So when are we going to start training the kiddies to be butt kickers like their mommies and aunties?" Kenzi asked with a giggle.
"Hey! We're not little!" Ethan said, frowning at Kenzi.
"Not until they come into power." Lauren said toward Kenzi.
"Why not start them now?" Megan asked curiously. "I know if I had a heads up, I probably would know better by now."
"Well that's where Lauren and I disagree." Bo added, eyeing her fiancée and then looking back at Kenzi. Lauren sighed and rolled her eyes. "I agree with you, Megan. I'd like to start teaching them as early as possible about their heritage and what they are so that when the teenage years come in, they can begin to be more prepared." Bo said as she took a bite of her pasta.
"She's getting is all backwards." Lauren stated, trying to defend herself. "I want the children to know about where they come from, their history, their mother's... well... maybe not a lot of Bo's until they're older, but about the fae world and all of those things. I want them to know but I don't feel like we should "train" them in combat or tell them stories that would give them nightmares. As their mother and their doctor, I don't want to give the children nightmares." Lauren said in defense to Bo's accusations.
"But one day they will have to face the scary truth that there is no "fae" in fairytales, Lauren. There are people out there who aren't going to think twice about hurting them. Especially because of their destiny." Bo argued from across the table.
"Yes, Bo, I get that but we don't need to go into detail." Lauren argued back.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Settle down moms." Kenzi chuckled, putting her hands out to hush them. "This isn't Jerry Springer, this is the dinner table." The comment caused Megan to laugh a little.
"I see where the problem is coming from." Megan said with a nod.
Just then, Lottie looked up at Lauren who was sitting beside her. "Mommy, what's fae?" She asked, her beautiful blue eyes gleaming up at Lauren.
"That's what you, mama, Ethan and Aunt Megan are." Lauren informed her daughter. "It's what makes you special." Lauren paid a glance over to Bo who rolled her eyes.
"What about you and Aunt Kenzi? Aren't you guys special too?" Lottie asked before stuffing her face with pasta.
Lauren smiled. "We are still special, sweetie. Just not as special as you guys."
"Damn straight we're still special!" Kenzi added.
"Kenzi!" Lauren, Bo and Megan all said in unison.
"Sorry!" Kenzi apologized, covering her mouth. She was truly trying to cut back on her swearing around the twins.
"Well, I finks you guys are just as special!" Lottie giggled as she leaned against her mother and kissed her arm, getting pasta sauce on it. It was messy but Lauren still smiled before wiping her arm clean.
"Thank you, honey." Lauren kissed Lottie's head which made her smile.
Once dinner was over, Kenzi and Lauren cleaned up while Megan went to bed and Bo got the twins ready for a bath. It was little things that seemed to make the most sense for the children. They didn't realize that having two moms was any different from any other family. Nor did they think that being "fae" meant they were any different either. Not that it made them any different right now but once they came into power, it would be a totally different story. But for the time being, Bo was enjoying having a somewhat normal life with her family. She liked that the children were still innocent, naïve even to a lot of things. She liked not having to explain every little detail of what Lauren did or what made them any different from anyone else. She loved that her children just enjoyed life. It was like how she grew up, without any sort of complication. Of course she always felt like she was different and the children probably would too but it didn't mean she needed to explain it to the six year olds already.
Bo understood where Lauren was coming from, but she didn't want the children to be clueless. She wanted them to know. She wanted them to know just how special they were and that they were destined for great things. She didn't see the harm in that. The other side of Bo was afraid for her children. Knowing what she went through in the last decade or so of her life was horrifying to think of her children having to live a similar past as she. She didn't want her babies to be monsters. She wanted her babies to be the best they could be. Bo never voiced her fears to Lauren about their daughter but she feared that Charlotte would be just like her. Ethan was more timid, more relaxed. Charlotte was more controlling, devious at times and very much a diva. Her attitude was very bipolar at times. She often hoped and prayed that her children would be nothing like her, except strong and powerful. That she definitely hoped they would be.
Once Bo got the children in the bathtub, Kenzi left to go to the Dahl for some drinks and Lauren joined Bo in the bathroom to help give the children a bath.
"Everything is cleaned up. Kenzi left to have some drinks at the Dahl with your mom." Lauren said, leaning against the doorframe as she looked over at Bo who sat on the closed toilet while Ethan and Lottie played in the tub for a bit before Bo washed them.
Bo looked up at Lauren and smiled. "Thank you, sweetie."
"Dinner was great." Lauren grinned.
Bo stood and walked over to the blond, pulling her into a sweet embrace. Lauren leaned in and locked her lips with Bo's, giving her lover a gentle but loving kiss. They couldn't help but break it by giggling slightly when they heard a round of 'ew's' from their children in the tub. Bo turned her head to look at her daughter and son.
"Hey, we can show each other some love too!" Bo chuckled. Ethan and Lottie made disgusted faces which caused the mothers to chuckle and break the embrace.
Bo sat back down and looked over at her twins who returned to splashing around and playing in the bathtub. She found herself lost deep in thought. The creation of her children was a complete and total accident. She never thought it would ever in her wildest dreams be even remotely possible. She had never been prepped that certain things happen in the fae world. More like anything could happen! Bo never wanted children. But now that she had her twins, she couldn't even fathom the thought of living without Charlotte and Ethan. They were her babies. Sometimes she often wondered how hard it was for her mother to give her up as a baby. Her mother had tried to explain it but she still didn't ever want to feel it. She prayed she never would.
"C'mon, mama. Wash their hair and lets get them in bed, huh?" Lauren said, breaking Bo from her trance as she rubbed Bo's shoulders. Bo looked up at Lauren, smiling sweetly at her fiancée.
"Good idea, mommy." Bo winked at Lauren before turning and washing the children up before bed.
When the twins were finally clean, Bo and Lauren each took them into the bedroom that their mothers shared. It took what felt like forever but as soon as they were dressed and ready for bed, the four found their way cuddled up on Bo and Lauren's bed, the twins between them.
"Mama! Please can we have a bedtime story please?" Ethan begged Bo, tugging on her shirt with his little fists.
"Of course. Which one do you want to hear?" Bo asked.
"Oh! I want the one... the one about grandpa Trick!" Lottie giggled.
"No! I want to hear the one about nana!" Ethan followed.
"How about the one about the brother and sister who went to bed without a bedtime story!" Bo chuckled at her own sarcasm. Her twins just looked at her.
"That's not nice mama!" Lottie huffed, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Yeah! Play nice, mama!" Ethan said, doing the same.
"Yeah, mama!" Lauren chimed in, winking at the succubus.
So Bo went on to tell the kids a random story that she thought of. It was based on a story that Trick had told Bo about young fae who fell in love. It had enough action and romance in it that she could appease both of her children. It didn't take long for them to fall asleep either. Ethan had fallen asleep with his head pressed against Bo's chest and Lottie fell asleep sitting in Lauren's lap, leaning back on her mom.
"I don't really want to move them." Lauren whispered, running her fingers through Lottie's hair.
"Me neither." Bo giggled beside her.
"We really should." Lauren said with a yawn.
"Yeah... we should... shouldn't we?" Bo asked, she too yawning.
Soon they were all finally asleep, one big family.
TBC