A/N: This just came to me randomly, I'm struggling to get my muse to behave right now, so I have to take everything she gives me. It follows on from 5x08. I have no idea where it's going or how it will end (though I do have an idea about that, we'll see if it plays out). Any reviews would be greatly appreciated. Enjoy!

Chapter One

Pain shot through Tamsin, it felt like not only was her skin on fire but the very blood that flowed through her veins. Opening her eyes she quickly forced them closed again, the bright fluorescent lights hurting her eyes. She felt like she'd been drinking none stop for the previous 20 years, it was like the hangover to end all hangovers. Slowly she opened her eyes again, noticing that the lights had been dimmed.

"Ouch…" She groaned as she looked around the room, her eyes coming to rest on Lauren, "Wow doc, you look like shit."

"Thanks…" Lauren replied with a little smile, "how are you feeling?"

"Like I've just gone 10 rounds with an ogre after going 20 rounds with a matador…" Tamsin replied, "What happened to me?"

"I'm not sure," Lauren said as she checked the machine readings again, "Dyson and I were out looking for Mark and Iris, as you know, we got back here and found you in a heap outside… security camera's show Hera dropping you off here before speeding off again. What happened while we were gone?"

"Talking, discomfort brought on by talking, more talking," Tamsin said, "threats, and… lightening, there was definitely lightening…"

Looking around the room again she noticed a couple of people missing.

"Where's Dyson?" she asked.

"I thought the first person you'd ask about was Bo…" the doctor replied, "Mark was… he was stabbed…"

"Is he okay?" Tamsin asked, interrupting Lauren and trying to sit herself up.

"He's fine," Lauren replied, trying to reassure Tamsin and get her to lay back down again, "it was touch and go for a while, but he's fine."

"Good… that's good." Tamsin said, wincing as pain once again shot through her.

"As for Bo…" Lauren said, assuming Tamsin would want to know where the Succubus was, "Trick called half an hour ago, saying that Bo had gone to get the box that her father sent her. They figured that Zeus was after the box, that's why she lied to them. The visions that Bo and Trick saw were not caused by Bo's father, they were caused by Iris."

"That's why she took me out of the picture," Tamsin said with a groan, "she knows that I would do anything to protect Bo…"

"Even after everything?" Lauren asked.

"Unfortunately…" Tamsin replied, "I can't stand by and watch something happen to her Lauren, I just…can't."

Lauren nodded a little, her face full of understanding.

"No matter how much she hurts us, we're always all still there for her," she said, "Dyson, me, and now you…"

"We're pathetic…" Tamsin said, resting her head back on the pillow and looking up at the ceiling, "anymore of those pain killers going, I feel like I'm on fire."

x-x-x

Bo stood frozen to the spot as the light faded and her father appeared in front of her.

"Hello Ysabeau." Hades said, his rich voice flooding through Bo.

"Dad…" She replied.

It had seemed like forever that Bo had waited to meet her father, so many questions, now he was standing in front of her she couldn't think of a single one. Times in her life where she had wished her mother and father were there. At the time, of course, she thought that they were, she didn't know that the people she believed were her parents in fact weren't.

"I…" The Succubus started to say.

"Have many questions," Hades replied, to which Bo nodded, "that isn't a surprise. You want to know who you are, it's understandable."

"I also want to know why you kept my mother locked in a cage." Bo said, suddenly finding her voice again.

"So she wouldn't try to kill me." Hades replied, with an unsettling smile.

"That… isn't what I meant…" Bo said quietly.

"All in good time," Hades said, "There is a time for everything, now it is time for you to show me the city, I must find a suitable place for the battle."

"The battle?" Bo asked, "We jump straight from introductions to the battle? I like the in-between time. Plus, all I've had from you is riddles and part answers, I deserve some straight answers from you, answers which you said I would get."

"I see you really do have your mother's temper." Hades said.

"I'm going to take that as a compliment." Bo replied, the original fear she felt still firmly in place, but her act at masking it improving.

"I will answer all of your questions at a later time," Hades said, "But we need to prepare. If we do not destroy Zeus, Hera and Iris, they will destroy the world as you know it. The sooner we prepare the more likely the chance that you and I will win."

"And when it's over, what happens then?" Bo asked, "You go back in your box and all is right with the world as I know it?"

Hades smiled again.

"All in good time." He replied.

x-x-x

When Tamsin opened her eyes again the room was dark apart from a light above the bed. The quiet of the night only interrupted by the soft beeping from the machine of the bed that was now across from hers, a bed that hadn't been there earlier.

"Wow…" she said, trying to focus in the near dark on the face of the person now in the room with her, "those were some good drugs…"

As she tried to sit up pain shot through her again and she couldn't stop shouting out in pain. It didn't take long for Lauren and Dyson to come running in and over to her.

"What did she do to her?" Dyson asked Lauren.

"I don't know," Lauren replied, helping Tamsin lay back down again, giving her more pain relief, "Tamsin mentioned lightening, which would explain the injury to her left shoulder. But other than that there are no more physical injuries that I can see, nor are there any internal injuries that show up on any of the dozen or so scans that I've already run."

"My wings," Tamsin said through gritted teeth as she tensed up with pain, "she took my wings."

x-x-x

When Bo walked into the Dal it was empty, other than Trick who was currently sweeping up broken glass and other debris from the storm. Bo walked closer to the bar, her every footstep crunching with broken glass. Trick stopped cleaning and turned around.

"Bo," He said with a little smile, "did you find what you were looking for?"

"Kind of…" she replied, "where is everyone? I have something that I need to talk to everybody about, something… important."

"They're at Lauren's clinic," Trick said, "I left you a lot of messages."

"I… don't know where my phone is." Bo said, suddenly realising that she had absolutely no idea where her phone was.

"Mark was stabbed in a confrontation with a woman whose husband had been killed by Iris," Trick said, "And… Tamsin… I don't know exactly what happened but Lauren and Dyson found her left outside the clinic when they returned with Mark."

"Are… are they okay?" Bo asked, her concern evident in both her voice and the look in her eye.

"Lauren operated on Mark, he's going to be fine…" Trick replied.

"And… Tamsin?" she asked, struggling to force the Valkyrie's name from her lips.

"I… we don't know exactly what happened," Trick said, trying to explain in the best way he could, "Lauren said the security tapes show Hera dropping her outside the clinic before speeding away in his car. She is conscious, but in constant pain and Lauren doesn't know why."

Bo was already at the door by the time Trick finished his sentence.

"Where are you going?" Trick called after her.

"I'm going to pay the extended family a little visit." Bo replied as she left the Dal.

x-x-x

Tamsin was curled up on the bed in the clinic, facing the window, her back to Lauren and Dyson who were standing outside the door. Trick had arrived a short time before.

"Do we tell her?" Dyson asked.

"I think we should," Lauren replied, "I mean if I were in Tamsin's position I would want to know… but then again, what good would it do her knowing? She can barely sit up without screaming in pain…"

"She'd walk to hell and back for that Succubus…" Dyson said quietly.

"I don't understand what Zeus stands to gain by taking her wings," the doctor said, changing the subject slightly, hoping to get Trick's insight into it.

"A Valkyrie in her final life finally reaches her full strength," Trick said with a sigh, "They reach their most powerful. I would suspect that in the time we were gone Zeus learned something about Tamsin that lead her to believe that she's a threat. Tamsin's reputation precedes her, she is one of the most powerful Valkyrie's who ever lived…"

"She said something earlier, when I mentioned to her about your call," Lauren said, "when I told her that you and Bo knew that Zeus had lied to you, Tamsin said something about Zeus taking her out of the picture because she knows that she'll do anything to protect Bo."

"It is very possible." Trick replied, "I'm not sure how aware you are of what happens when a Valkyrie falls in love…"

Both Lauren and Dyson just looked at Trick, neither of them knew that much about Valkyrie's, all they knew came from Tamsin, or the diary that the Valkyrie had given to Lauren when the doctor confronted her about going to Valhalla to find Bo.

"It happens once in a Valkyrie's life," Trick continued, "it's a vulnerability for them. They are…driven, compelled if you like, to defend the person they love…"

"Even if that person doesn't feel the same?" Lauren asked.

"Unfortunately, yes," Trick replied looking back at Tamsin, "they cannot just walk away, the not knowing would kill them."

"So she's tied to Bo even though the one thing she probably wants to get as far away from her as she can…" Dyson said, "I think Lauren and I know something about how that feels…"

"You, yes," The Blood King said, "not to in any way undermine your feelings for my granddaughter, Lauren, but a wolf's love, and a Valkyrie's love for that matter, put what humans feel as love to shame. With the Fae the connection is so far above just a matter of the heart. In your case Dyson, you gave her your love, which happens once in a wolf's life, it's something that cannot be given back. But you could walk away from Bo, it is possible, even though you would always feel that connection to her… Tamsin on the other hand…"

"Has no say in the matter," Lauren said, "we get it…"

Tamsin turned over and looked at the ceiling as the door opened. Lauren walked in followed by Dyson and Trick, the doctor checked the IV drip that was in Tamsin's arm.

"How's the pain?" Lauren asked.

"Still there…" Tamsin replied.

"I can increase…" Lauren started to say.

"You might as well just knock me out doc," Tamsin interrupted, "it would have the same effect… what's going on?"

"What do you mean?" The doctor asked.

"I might be a grounded Valkyrie," Tamsin said, "but I'm not stupid. I know something is going on… Dyson, you're terrified of something… what is going on?"

"It's Bo…" Dyson said, sitting on the side of the bed next to Tamsin, "she…"

"She's gone back to the penthouse." Trick said, stepping forwards as Dyson seemed to be having a hard time forming full words and sentences.

"And none of you thought that it would be a good idea to, oh I don't know, maybe stop her?" Tamsin asked, her voice dripping with sarcasm as she attempted, again, to sit up.

"What good would it do?" Dyson asked in reply, "she wouldn't have listened to any of us. And if I'm being honest, she'd be doing me a favour if she takes them out."

"She can't take them out," Tamsin said, finally managing to sit up, "not alone. She needs her father, and she needs her family, she can't do it alone."

"What use are you going to be?" Aife asked, walking into the room, "What use are any of you going to be? Do you even know what you've started, what Bo started, opening that box… The end is coming."