Through the Smoke of Forgotten Dreams.
A/N: A little something that someone asked me to write a long time ago, and I've been putting it off and putting it off because my muse (and my Lost Girl related WTF happened brain) will just run away with itself. But anyway, here we are. I've decided to just trust the muse, probably a mistake but we'll find out. This is no way leads into any of the cluster-fuck that was Season 4, but it takes place before Season 4. The month that Tamsin was missing/presumed dead (there was no body, so allow me my madness). We're also going on my part-way-through-Season-3 theory that Bo's father is in fact Odin. I already know how this will end, so that's a plus, I'm also pretty tired, hence this part going on for a million years. Read, review (if you can keep up with the madness) and enjoy!
Chapter One
The last thing Tamsin remembered was pain, searing pain, burning through her like the flames from the sun. When she came around she had no idea where she was. The room was dark, cold. The walls were damp. She was in a cell. Her memories started returning to her.
"Bo…" she said to herself.
She remembered fighting with the Succubus, throwing the Rune Glass, and then fighting some more. Her heart started to ache as she remembered leaving Bo at Taft industries, while Bo went to find Lauren and Tamsin went looking for Dyson. She remembered telling Bo she wasn't like anyone she had ever met in any of her previous lifetimes. They agreed to fight. Looking around her now Tamsin realised that they had lost that fight. The Valkyrie had driven her truck off a cliff, with Dyson in the passenger seat next to her, she had driven her truck at Bo's father.
"Asgard…" Tamsin said quietly looking around her, "shit… what kind of stupid mess have you got yourself in this time Valkyrie…"
She'd done a lot for Bo, she'd lied to the Morrigan, she'd turned her back on a job, she had risked the very essence of who she was for her. Now she was stuck in Asgard. Standing up she walked towards the door, she had no idea how long she had been unconscious. She figured it would have been a while, she was pretty sure that driving a truck off a cliff would leave some pretty big marks, though she was fully healed.
"We should have stayed together…" Tamsin said, "Gone to find the doc and then looked for Dyson. None of this would have…"
She was interrupted by the door opening. She came face to face with a man she had hoped to never see again.
"Our guest is finally back with us," Odin said, a sadistic smile on his face, "you had us worried for a while there Tamsin, for a moment I thought you might not pull through."
"Where's Bo?" Tamsin asked.
"It amuses me that your first question is about her," Odin said, walking into the cell and walking around Tamsin in a wide circle, "not about the wolf who was in your vehicle with you, not about why you're here, but about my daughter."
"Where is Bo?" Tamsin asked again, a little more firmly.
"My daughter is settling into her new accommodations as we speak," Odin said, the smile still firmly in place on his lips, "she hasn't once asked about you, strange that. You come so close to professing your undying love for her, and she just forgets you ever existed. That has to hurt."
"I want to see her." Tamsin said, doing her best to not let Odin get to her.
"I think we'll give her time to settle in first." Odin said.
"It wasn't a request." Tamsin replied.
"When did they stop teaching Valkyrie's to have respect?" Odin said, his tone of voice still calm and collected.
"They didn't," Tamsin replied, "we respect people who deserve it."
x-x-x
In another part of Odin's palace Bo was just starting to wake up again. She had slept a lot in the previous few days. She dreamt of home, she couldn't help but wonder what was happening. She thought about Kenzi, whether Tamsin had found Dyson, whether anyone had found Lauren. They probably got back to the Dal to find it in such a mess, they'd be out there looking for her right now. She knew Tamsin and Dyson wouldn't give up trying to find her, nor would Kenzi. In the times that she was awake Odin was teaching her about everything in the palace, the suits of armour, the shields. There was armour that looked like it belonged on a horse, a winged horse. It made Bo think just how young she was compared to everyone else. Though from what her father said there was a legend that Pegasus still existed. The entire experience was making Bo more determined than ever to read up more on her history. So far her father hadn't given her cause to think he was anything other than interested in educating her about where she came from, she hadn't seen anything like the evilness that people had made her believe apparently resided within her father.
As the door opened and her father walked in Bo sat up in the massive bed that she had been sleeping in.
"Good morning Ysabeau," he said, "how did you sleep?"
"It's Bo…" Bo said, "And I guess I slept okay, I dreamt of home."
"This is your home." He replied.
"My actual home," Bo said, climbing out of bed and heading for the wardrobe, not looking at her father, "where my family are, where Kenzi is, where Lauren, Dyson, Trick and Hale are…"
She turned back to face him as she added.
"Where Tamsin is."
Bo watched for the slightest sign of recognition from her father when she said Tamsin's name. She needed to know that it was him who sent Tamsin after her. She saw him tense his jaw slightly, that was all the confirmation she needed. In her time around her father Bo had already realised it took a lot to get a reaction out of him, usually she would look in his eyes and read him that way, but he only had one.
"I heard one of your guards mention something about Valkyrie's," Bo said, "which makes me think that you may have come across a few. Do you know Tamsin?"
"For a Valkyrie the world is a very big place Bo," Odin said, "Valkyrie's have passed through here from time to time, and I came across one or two when I was in your realm, but I don't recall meeting a Tamsin, no."
Bo nodded a little and stepped behind the screen to change, she kept talking to her father.
"I know I'm just a…" a smile crept onto Bo's lips as she remembered what Tamsin had called her, "a baby-Fae, but I know when someone is lying to me."
"She was a bounty hunter for hire Bo," he said, "I went to her because she came highly recommended for getting the job done anyway she had to. She was the best."
"So you did send her to find me…" Bo said, stepping out from behind the screen.
"Yes," her father said, "I did."
x-x-x
Tamsin was crouched in the corner of the cell, her elbows on her knees and her head in her hands. This was one mess she didn't know how she was going to get out of. She was obviously there for a reason, though she had no idea what it is. If she could figure out what Odin wanted from her then maybe she could figure out a way that she could get herself, and Bo, out of whatever mess they were in. She knew that there was no way the others would be looking for them, if Tamsin had learnt anything about Odin and the way he operated, it was that he never left anything to chance. He always covered every possible angle.
x-x-x
"Why her?" Bo asked.
"Why Tamsin?" her father asked in reply.
"Yes." Bo said.
"Because I had been told that she carried a… almost a guarantee of job completion." Her father replied, "Of all the jobs she had, she never failed. Never, once, did she fail to complete a job. No matter what she had to do to get it finished."
"So I was just a job to her?" Bo asked.
"A job she got paid very handsomely for." Odin replied.
x-x-x
The door to the cell opened and a guard walked in, he put a plate of food down just in front of the door and turned to leave.
"I want to talk to him." Tamsin said, not moving from her position in the corner.
"He will talk to you when he require your assistance again." The guard said, "He's got one more thing he needs you to do Valkyrie."
"Oh yeah?" Tamsin asked, "I've retired from the bounty hunting business, so he can find someone else."
The guard laughed.
"This job isn't yet over for you." He said turning to Tamsin, "it ends when you die."