"Bo please, just come back, I'm right here." Lauren Lewis pleaded with her girlfriend, bringing her hand to her heart. Trying to show the thing that was standing in front of her she was safe.
It happened again, like it always happens when Lauren was in danger, it starts the same way. Bo's beautiful brown eyes burning into an electric blue. Her veins turning black and pulsating against her skin with unbridled power. Her teeth gnashing the air in front of her. And every time it happened, Lauren would always bring her back.
Always.
But not this time.
Bo's knife was covered in blood as she walked closer to Lauren, her eyes burning. A decimated corpse of a man lay unmoving next to her, a pool of blood beginning to form beneath him. Lauren had watched, horrified, as Bo became conscious and saw the man holding Lauren by the throat, choking her. She moved so fast Lauren's eyes couldn't keep up. One moment she was by the hospital beds, taking in the scene, the next she had her knife sticking into the man's back. As he stumbled, Bo had taken the blade from his back and mercilessly stabbed his torso again and again, until he fell forward onto the cold linoleum floor.
And now here was Bo, standing in front of Lauren, her bloodied knife next to her side. Lauren couldn't help it, being this close to Bo, it made her scared.
So very scared.
This would never have happened if Bo hadn't gone by herself to the abandoned motel off of Destiny Road. A case she was working on assured her the rouge vampire that was attacking humans, draining them dry and leaving them out in the open for all humankind to see, was seeking shelter there. Bo was completely in her right to find and bring him to justice, as even his own dark fae kind didn't approve of his disregard for their rules. She had called Dyson, telling him where she was, and unsheathing her weapon she opened the heavy door inward and proceeded inside.
The vampire came at her when she didn't expect it, biting into her jugular vein immediately, beginning to drain her. Bo would have fought back, would have done something, but it felt like all reasoning failed her as the vampire bit into her neck from behind. She briefly remembered Lauren telling her about vampire saliva, how when mixed with the blood of their victims it creates an almost euphoric state of mind making the vampire's victim literally too intoxicated with emotion to fight back. But Bo had to fight back. She tried to raise her weapon but the vampire was too strong. She would be dead in minutes.
Bo heard an enraged roar come from behind them, and suddenly the vampire was ripped from her throat and thrown across the room.
Dyson.
Dyson was there to help her. Picking her up gingerly, the last Bo saw of the vampire was his back being skewered with a bit of metal that stuck up from the ground, Dyson carried her back to his car. Bo heard him on his phone talking to someone to come by and pick up Bo's car for her. She had smiled to herself. Dyson really was taking care of her.
When Dyson had gotten back into his car Bo said, "Lauren," in a weak voice he wouldn't have been able to hear if not for his wolf ears. He would have argued, would have said no and that he could heal her just fine, but seeing one look on her face made him change his mind. Pulling off from the curb, he drove to the light fae compound, and to Lauren's lab.
Reaching the lab, Dyson brought in an delirious Bo, picking her up and laying her on one of the hospital beds. Calling Lauren, he watched as the human came running, her face contorted into horror. "What happened," She asked.
"The dark fae vampire, Raze. He got her from behind. Sucked her blood." Dyson said, panting.
Lauren leaned over Bo, checking her pupil dilation, when Bo said groggily, "You're real pretty, doc. You've got specks in your eyes. They kinda look like-"
"Bo," Lauren cut off her girlfriend, "I need you to tell me what you feel like. Can you do that for me?"
"I feel nice." Bo smiled at herself, "I feel like I'm flying. Swish, swish, swish," she made flying motions with her hands.
"She's feeling the effects of the chemical in the vampire saliva." Lauren sounded breathless as she went to a cabinet and pulled out a hypodermic needle and a bottle of clear liquid. "This should counteract the euphoria but it will make her drowsy." Lauren swabbed Bo's forearm gently and pierced the skin. Bo jumped but fell back immediately, her face frowning. It only took a few moments for her to rest her eyes, her chest falling and rising slowly in the pattern of sleep.
Lauren looked up towards Dyson and said, "What happened? You were supposed to be with her."
"I was," Dyson said, indignantly. "She had a break in the case with Kenzi and just took off before I knew where she was going. She only called me right before she went into the motel."
Lauren sighed and cupped her head in her hands. "What about Raze?"
"He's probably still alive. I didn't do enough damage to his heart for him to die."
"Call Trick, I think he'd want to know about Bo." Dyson nodded, leaving the room with one last glace towards a peacefully sleeping Bo. Lauren was left alone with Bo wondering if her rule for Bo would have gotten her killed. Her girlfriend had refused to feed off of Dyson, saving her from the pain of being in Lauren's lab, but she didn't to spare Lauren her feelings. If something happened to her…
Lauren heard footsteps coming from the opening of the door and she turned expecting Dyson. What she saw was Raze, his shirt torn and ripped over the hole Dyson had made with the metal rod, and saw his eyes turn red as he saw Bo laying on the cot.
"Her blood," Raze said, coming into the lab, "her blood is so exquisite. I must have more."
The human didn't know what to do. Should she try to call Dyson back, hoping he was somewhere near to hear her screams? She looked around the lab for some type of weapon but found none in arms distance.
So she did what she could.
Stepping in front of Bo's body, she made herself a living shield, trying to protect the woman she loved. The vampire smiled and laughed harshly, he knew as well as Lauren that she made no real difference in his plan to take Bo. He was from the doorway to holding Lauren's neck, and having her sail into her desk across the room, in two seconds. Her body skidded down onto the floor but the vampire didn't relent. He moved across the room, kicking Lauren in her stomach, and grabbing her hair pulling her to her feet to face him. He smiled in the human's face, laughing cruelly at her folly, her belief she could have really saved the succubus before taking a finger and swiping it across the broken skin and blood on her cheek. His face grimaced as he tasted her blood, "Not my favorite," Raze sighed before wrapping his hands around her neck, beginning to choke her.
Lauren's vision began to blur as Raze's fingers pressed harder and harder against her neck, cutting off any type of airflow. She thought she was done, really thought she was going to die, when suddenly there was Bo pushing a very sharp dagger into the vampire's back. Her eyes were so blue.
Raze fell over dead onto the floor, his heart was irreparably damaged, and Bo moved on Lauren. Her dagger was next to her side, her eyes only on Lauren. Reaching up a hand Bo splayed out her fingers as she touched Lauren's cheek softly. The doctor flinched inwardly with shock, the ginger tone the darkness in Bo was using was so unlikely, so strange that she couldn't fathom it ever happening. Wiping the blood from the small cut across Lauren's cheek, Bo brought her now bloodied fingers to her face and looked at them with awe. She couldn't believe Lauren was hurt, that she had failed. Her eyes were dimming in their blueish color and Lauren felt her lover coming back to her. Lauren stretched out a hand towards the brunette, clasping it around her shoulder, and tried to look her in the eyes.
Just then Dyson walked in as he smelled blood from the end of the hall. Looking towards Bo and Lauren, he moved quickly and soundlessly behind Bo, grabbing her arms and locking her shoulders behind her. Bo's eyes flared back up again, unaware that it was only Dyson, and tried to break his grasp. The shifter couldn't handle Bo's strength and he backtracked into the hospital cot, Bo still held securely in his grasp. Her teeth gnashed the air as she tried to break his grip, she was like a monster.
Lauren had to reach her, moving closer to them she said, "Bo please, come back, I'm right here. I'm right here, honey." Bo had broken a hand from Dyson, and as Lauren spoke instead of hitting Dyson in the side, she brought it up to touch Lauren's face again, her eyes dimming once more.
Until a whimper came from their feet as Raze's body began to regenerate himself. Apparently, Bo hadn't killed him dead. Bo made a growling sound in the back of her throat, brought her arm swinging back into Dyson's side, making him drop her towards the floor. Dropping down onto her hands and knees, Bo picked up the dagger she had dropped when Dyson grabbed her, and ran to the vampire immediately.
"Ysabeau, stop!" A flurry of unnamed words were thrown through the air, some type of white powder cascaded over Bo and her body suddenly catapulted to the ground, asleep. Lauren and Dyson looked over bewildered and saw Trick and Kenzi standing in the doorway, his hands out toward Bo's sleeping form, white residue on his palm and fingers.
"What the fae was that?" Kenzi shrieked, astonished.
They all looked towards Bo, resting peacefully on the ground, and then at each other. Taking a collective sigh, Lauren walked over to Bo, moving the dagger clutched tightly in her hand. She looked down at her with tears forcing their way to her eyes. They stung the back of her throat as she thought of the repercussions when Bo woke up. If she was going to be her Bo. Or something different. She looked up towards Trick, saw his eyes downcast and sad, and she knew without a doubt which part of Bo would awaken when she gained consciousness. Which eyes would pierce into Lauren. And she knew, without a doubt, how her heart would break as the words came to the surface of her mind.
Bo wasn't coming back anytime soon.