*Clink*

A noise from downstairs awakens Bo. She darts up from a not so deep sleep and grabs the nearest weapon, which happened to be her knife she always kept close to her hip for obvious reasons. She quietly moved from one part of the room to the next as she intended to sneak downstairs to meet the intruder face to face. She knew it could not have been Kenzi as she was on some fashion mission with Hale upstate, leaving the succubus alone with her thoughts and her alcohol until she returned.

As she made it to the bottom step, she saw Tamsin with her arms crossed, leaning against a beam, an evil smirk on her face as usual for being able to successfully scare Bo down to her.

"What the hell, Tamsin?" she said angrily.

"Just giving you your early morning alarm, succubus," she replied coyly.

"How did you get in here?"

"Kenzi isn't the only one with delinquent skills around here. Lock picking is child's play, although I could've just busted the door down, that would've been my favorite alternative."

"What do you want?"

Bo finally backed down, realizing after her initial heart attack that there was no real danger here. Of course if you didn't count Tamsin as danger that is.

"Well, it seems we have quite the little issue here, one that needs your kind of specialty."

"And what makes you think I owe you anything to want to help you one bit," Bo huffed, opening the refrigerator to scavenge for breakfast.

"Well, let's not forget that time I broke you out of Trick's little prison to save your human, or that time when we first met where I sparred you after escaping the interrogation room twice, OR the time I helped you with your little quest through Brazenwood."

"Well sure, if you wanna get technical. What could you possibly need my help with anyway?"

"Well, I figured this matter would appeal to you. There's a Fae that is believed to be kidnapping humans for endless feeds, an unlimited food supply for him. An underfae, who probably shouldn't be too much trouble, but this is where you come in. You see, with your clever investigation and undercover skills, I needs to you go in, and get the location of where he's hiding his little snacks-"

"The humans," Bo corrected her.

"Yeah, whatever, anyway, all I need you to do is go but some succu-magic on him and get the location of the humans, then we'll go and get them and bring them back to wherever it is they belong."

"Why are you so interested in saving humans all of a sudden anyway?" Bo asked, her curiosity peaking as Tamsin was so eager to get this job underway.

"Like I said, this is something that appeals to you, not me, anyway, I know your soft spot for humans. Anyway, just get dressed, oh and don't worry about breakfast, I got that covered," Tamsin said, her voice getting weaker as she was exiting the house.

Why would Tamsin wanna help humans?

Why does she care what would 'appeal to me'?

Why do we have to do this now?

Bo's questions seemed to drag on and on in her head as she headed back upstairs.

A few minutes later, she was outside her building looking at Tamsin and her truck.

"I was starting to think you had gotten lost on the way out, but at least you're dressed for the part," Tamsin jeered, as she got into the truck, a sign for Bo to climb in too.

As usual she was ready with her tight as holy hell leather pants, her secret stash of knives, and a blazer that hugged every curve and exposed the highest amount of cleavage possible.

"Okay so where are we finding this guy, Tamsin?"

"In the woods, near the old Abandoned Orchard."

"The Abandoned Orchard, as in the used-to-be nightspot before some strange things happened there?" Bo questioned, her eyes growing wider with each word.

"Yeah, that would be the one," Tamsin smiled.

"Okay look, Tamsin, I'm all about doing good deeds, saving humans, you know me, but I really think we need to put a little more planning into this one, instead of just going in blind. I mean we could ask Trick, maybe recruit Vex, grab Dyson-"

"Please, there's no way I'm bringing in straight edge, wolf cop in on this one. He'd be too busy playing macho man to even finish what we came here to do, is that what you want, Bo? And second, what good is vex if he can't even Mesmer, mind as well sign his death certificate now, although, that wouldn't be a bad idea after all. And Trick; please, that know it all."

"That 'know it all' happens to by my grandfather, Tamsin, and if he does know it all, then he'd be of great use on this mission of yours now wouldn't he?"

"Just shut up, Bo, we're almost here."

A few minutes later, they pulled into the parking lot of the old night club. They both got out and shut their doors, listening for anything they could.

"You know, Dyson might be able to pick up the scent of the humans," Bo suggested, trying anything she could to get the Valkyrie to call for some back up. "Something tells me there's more to this than we think."

"You know, Dyson isn't the only one who can smell humans. Now come on, let's just get this show on the road," Tamsin said, beginning her walk into the woods.

After walking for about twenty minutes, they came upon what they thought they were looking for. A massive tree, that seemed to stand out from the rest. Tamsin wasted no time.

"Hey, come out, I know you're in there, Kronan," she shouted at the tree, as if it had done something to her.

"Tamsin-"

"If you don't come out here in the next five seconds, I'm going to strip ever last piece of bark from your ass until I have enough to build a house, you hear me?"

She waited for a few seconds, Bo standing awkwardly behind her, as if she were a crazy person.

Then, something started to move at the base of the tree. Pushing dirt and grass aside, a man emerged from the ground. He had ear length brown hair and a trimmed thing mustache, something Bo thought was unusual in ground-dwelling Fae.

"That's a pretty neat trick you got there," Bo commented from behind Tamsin.

"Thank you, dear," he laughed, surprised she had never seen a Fae like him before. "What can I do for you and your friend, Tamsin?"

"Well, for starters..."

She grabbed him by the neck and slammed him, knees first on the ground, kicking him in the face as soon as he hit the ground, sending him backwards onto the forest floor, grasping for his jaw.

"What was that for!" he exclaimed painfully.

"You've been taking humans, hiding them so that one by one you can feed over and over again, a lifetime supply. I wanna know where they are, and I wanna know, now."

"Look darling, if its the humans you're looking for, get your own, they're all over the place. It's taken me weeks to capture these ones, and I'll be damned if they'll be stolen by some barbaric Valkyrie."

Tamsin took her foot and stomped it on his chest, holding him onto the ground. As she was about to speak, he grabbed her leg and twisted it, making her fall backwards on the ground as well. He bolted upright and grabbed her from the ground by her neck, hoisting her up like she was a feather, as a trophy for all to see. Bo reacted quickly and grabbed his arm.

"You know, a big strong man like you, doesn't need to live in the dirt, why don;t you come back to my place huh?" she moved her hand up to reach his hair, playing in it like a school girl.

He dropped Tamsin and she watched holding her neck as Bo worked her magic. This is why she knew she would need her for this mission.

"If you tell me where those humans are, I'll give you something even better in return," she said seductively in his ear. All Kronan could do was stand and be completely transfixed by the succubus.

"You have quite the amazing talent. I'd like that very much. I keep them just north from here in a cave, which to the untrained eye may appear non-existent, but to a woman like you, you'll see it from a mile away. Be sure to lock them up when you're done," he explained.

"Now go crawl back into your home, and don't come back out until we call you out, okay?"

"Okay," he said obediently. He broke her grasp and disappeared back into the roots of the tree as if the whole confrontation between Tamsin and him had never happened.

After he was out of sight, Bo came to Tamsin's aid.

"Hey, are you okay?"

"I'm fine," she said letting go of her neck and getting off the ground, brushing herself off as if she had just tripped and fallen. "Let's go get some humans."

Although Bo admired her willingness to go rescue the humans, she also knew Tamsin had an ulterior motive behind everything she does, and that 'rescuing humans' was not the only reason why she accepted this quest. She was going to monitor her closely for the rest of this trip.

They soon came upon something that could have been what Kronan has described. It was a huddled bunch of trees and branches, but it also looked like it could've been an entrance if you had moved the branches out of the way.

Tamsin and Bo approached slowly, looking for any signs of a trap. They made it to the branches with no issues and began moving the pieces of wood out of the way until they had a pathway into this shelter.

Inside, they found no light, only what was shining in from daylight.

"Use the flashlight on your phone," Bo instructed Tamsin, as she pulled out her own phone.

"Way ahead of you," Tamsin retorted, pulling out an actual flashlight from her pocket. "There's no such thing as being 'too prepared'."

Venturing further into the cave, they came upon a metal fence of sorts.

"Do you think it's electric or something?" Bo asked, examining the fence, trying to figure out its mystery.

"Only one way, to find out," Tamsin said, grabbing Bo and hurling her towards it.

She crashed into the fence, back first, but nothing happened. She was fine and the fence wasn't electric after all.

"Are you fucking crazy!" Bo yelled, wanting to throttle Tamsin right then and there.

"Well it was a better idea than standing there staring at it all day now wasn't it?"

"After this, I'm never working with you again, ever, got that?"

"Understood now move back so I can pick the lock."

Bo pushed her back off of the fence and moved out of the way so that Tamsin could get the lock open, still in disbelief that the past two minutes actually happened.

"Alright, we're in," she said kicking the fence open.

She marched in, holding her flash light in front of her just to see, but as she came around a corner she saw lighting, a dark, fiery light that made her immediately turn her flashlight off and motion Bo to do the same. Bo slipped her phone into her back pocket and grabbed a knife. They slowly crept around the corner, prepared for anything, only to see a group of teenagers, sitting in the corner.

"You guys are just kids," Tamsin said as she spotted their faces.

"Are you here to take us home," a girl asked, shaking in the corner.

"Yes, we are, you're all going home," Bo said, walking over to the girl and placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"Wait a minute," Tamsin told Bo. "These teenagers aren't human, they're Fae."