Thank-you for taking the time to read this. This was born from an idea that I had of what would happen if Bo had caught sight of Lauren when she looked back at the end of 4x03, contains spoilers obviously. As per usual all spelling and grammar mistakes are mine.
Bo shifted her head slightly from where it had been resting on Dyson's shoulder. She looker over at the car as they were passing it. She could see someone struggling.
"Should we stop?" She looked over at Dyson as she asked.
"No. We should get you home."
Bo felt herself wanting to agree, to just lay her head back down on Dyson's shoulder. To take comfort in their love. But she felt a tug, a need to look again at the car they were passing. She looked over at the car again just as they were done passing it she caught a glimpse of a familiar head of blond hair, with a half skewed red wig on top. Who was she? The name was on the tip of her tongue.
A memory came to the surface. A hand running down her naked back, the room was cold but the touch was warm. A voice narrating over the moment "I've loved you from the second we meet." Who was the person? The voice?
"Stop the car." Bo heard herself say. She looked over at Dyson who was giving her a questioning look. The fondness in his eyes was still there. The love. "Stop the car right now Dyson."
She could feel the car stopping. Dyson looking at her with concern in his eyes. "What's wrong? Are you still feeling sick from the dimension hopping?"
Bo didn't answer him. She felt the hand that was holding hers squeeze it. She looked down their palms were facing each other, hands held in a loose grip.
"We touched." It was a woman's voice. Filled with emotions that Bo couldn't describe, but there was an undertone of fear to her voice.
Another memory. A hand, more similar to her own, feminine but strong. She was pulsing her power into the other person. She could here a gasp. She leaned forward about to kiss the other woman, the same one with the blond hair.
Bo gasped and removed her hand from Dyson's grip. She reached out to open the door. She felt a hand reach out and grab her wrist.
"My hands were probably cold." The voice again. More fear then before, there was a quiver to it. But her voice remained steady. Who was this woman? Why was she doing this?
Another memory. The same woman she had seen previously reaching out and grabbing her wrist. "I don't wanna hurt you." She said in the memory, her voice deep and full of emotion.
"I trust you." She felt fuzzy warmth spread through her. What was this feeling? Why did she feel so content in that moment? There was more to the memory, but she couldn't remember. Bo could feel her head throb slightly as she forced the issue.
She glanced over at Dyson. The man she loved according to the memories that had returned when she saw him. Through them she had remembered everyone, her best friend, the grandfather she thought she would never have, Dyson's partner and a good friend Hale.
She felt like she was missing people though. One she associated with friendship, a sense of betrayal attached to the name. The missing person was a more recent addition to their group. A blonde, but not the one that seemed to fill a gaping hole in her memory. Sad eyes. Dying. Those were the only things she could remember.
"Honey, do you remember?" The other blonde. That's whose voice this was. Why was the blonde scared? Who was she scared of?
Bo made up her mind in that moment. The pull she felt, the tug, the voice echoing in her head. She needed to help the woman in the car. She yanked her wrist out of Dyson's grip and ran back down the road, white dress billowing out around her. Bo could hear Dyson calling out, asking her what she was doing, begging her to return to the car.
Bo ignored him. She looked at the woman in the car. The look of fear in her eyes of betrayal.
"Lauren…?" A shuddering breath full of fear. A voice she barely recognized as her own. "What's happening…?"
Bo shook her head of the memory, Lauren. That was the name of the blonde in front of her. She could see another blonde to Lauren's other side and a man holding a knife to her throat, a cloth over her mouth.
Another memory. Lauren laid out on a table, a knife held to her throat. A man threatening Lauren's life. A resigned look in her eyes, she had accepted her fate. Bo could see the same look passing over her eyes now. She looked like she had resigned herself to whatever was happening.
Bo started to run faster. She would not let anything harm Lauren!
"I'm right here Bo. Just come back. I love you." I love you. I love you. I. Love. You. Bo gasped. "Human lover." Lauren. Human. Lover.
She could feel power starting to surge forth in her, a darkness wanting to take over her. She could also feel something deeper and more primal starting to take over. She could feel power pulsing under her skin.
"I want to give it a real shot. Us. Being together." A look on Lauren's face like she couldn't believe it was true.
"Really?" She says in a cracking voice. So much sadness in that voice. Had she ignored it the first time?
Lauren reaching out and grabbing her in the most passionate kiss. Feelings of love and contentment surging through her, kissing back with equal pressure, trying to communicate love and desire to her new girlfriend.
Bo was nearly to the car now. How far had they driven? She took one brief glance back at Dyson, he was looking at her confused. She couldn't hear what he was saying. Actually, she couldn't hear anything that was going on around her.
A tearful Lauren looking at her. "I love you." Bo could feel her heart breaking in two. The tone was so incredibly sad.
She could feel herself smiling and responding. "I love you too." Had her response then truly been the right one?
"Being a doctor I know that I'm not enough for you." Lauren why? She had slept with Dyson. Broken the woman heart of the woman she had claimed to love.
Bo reached the car she ran around to the passenger's side. How had they not seen her coming? She reached out and punched the window, hoping to break the glass. She succeeded.
The creature, which had been strangling Lauren, looks up at her. A creepy grin forming on its face. It holds the knife closer to Lauren's throat. She hears Lauren whimper slightly her eyes closed.
She sees the blonde in the driver's seat opening the door and beginning to run. Bo pays her no mind. She is single mindedly focused on the woman in front of her. She sees a tear slipping down Lauren's cheek, another soon following.
"I'm not happy Bo. I think we need a break." The most heart breaking tone Bo has ever heard. She wants to reach out and hold Lauren, to comfort her. But she can't because she has hurt the woman she claimed to love.
Bo feels herself standing up and starting to walk towards the door. She is tearing up. She reaches the door and looks back at Lauren, who is staring at her with big teary eyes. The only thing stopping her from running back to comfort her girlfriend is the fact that this is her fault.
She needs to know if this is permanent or just a break. "This is just a break right?" Lauren doesn't respond. Bo feels herself having to hold back a sob. She walks out of the apartment, only her respect for Lauren's wishes keeping her from running back.
She makes it to the elevator before the first sob bursts from her chest. By the time she reaches the Camero she is crying nearly uncontrollably. How could she have been so stupid! She lost the love of her life because of her own selfish decisions.
Love of her life. Love. Life. Soul mate. Lauren.
More memories started to surge forth. The first time they had made love, her first time with anyone where it had only been about love, not feeding. The disastrous end to that night. The moment she fell in love with Lauren.
Their second time. A quicker one, less tender, but no less emotional. The culmination of weeks worth of sexual tension.
The first time after the Garuda, the times in between it and the last time before she had cheated with Dyson, the closeness and the love in that one, the eroticism. The love. Love.
The last time she had seen Lauren. Lauren's spiteful last words that she had not truly meant, a show she had been putting on.
"Whoever you are I know you and I love you."
A time before that. "The person you are now I absolutely love!"
Love. Lauren. Protect. Another chance. The vow she had made to herself in the Camaro as she had calmed down. "I'll fight for you. For us. It's my turn. I'll give you all the time you need Lauren. But I'll be here. I'm going to fight for you, for me, for us. I love you, even if I'm the asshole who stopped showing it to you."
I will fight, for a future with you and I both in it, for us to be together.
She could feel the blinding power surge forth from within her. Something dark wanted to take control.
This time, she wouldn't let it.
Bo ripped open the rear passenger side door. She reached in and dragged the creature that was hurting Lauren out by the scruff of its coat.
She held it up to her and growled at it. Bo felt a surge of anger and she began to pull the Chi from the creature in front of her. She felt it go limp. It was strange that it hadn't struggled.
Bo dropped the body and looked over at Lauren. She still had her eyes closed, as if she was waiting for something to happen. Had she not seen what happened?
Bo blinked and took a deep breath, trying to get her powers under control. She looked at Lauren and felt her heart breaking. She could see tears running down Lauren's cheeks, but her jaw was clenched. She was ready for whatever was about to happen.
Bo wanted to reach out and to pull Lauren into her arms and never let go of her again. But did she even have the right anymore?
Bo shook her head and decided to go with a safer route. She gently opened the passenger's side door and knelt down in front of it. She gently called out "Lauren."
She saw Lauren open her eyes. Blinking and turning her head to face Bo. She heard Lauren gasp and say "Bo?" in a voice that sounded like a half chocked sob. Bo could feel a hand coming to rest on her cheek.
Lauren then asked her a question in a small voice; like she couldn't believe what she was seeing was real. "Is that really you? Or just another dream?"
Bo reached up and held the hand that was on her cheek. "I'm real. I'm right here. And this time I'm not going anywhere." Bo reached out with her other hand and caught Lauren's own in hers.
She could see tears trickling down her cheeks. Bo could feel Lauren pulling her hand away from her face, only to get out of the car and kneel in front of Bo.
Bo waited for Lauren to make the first move. She felt arms wrap around her waist. She could feel a head being pressed against her neck. Bo could feel her arms wrapping around Lauren's waist, pulling her closer.
She buried her face in Lauren's hair and inhaled her scent. She sighed in contentment. Everything felt right in this moment.
She could hear mumblings against her neck. She pulled away slightly and whispered to Lauren. "I can't hear you baby." The term of endearment slipping out before she could stop herself.
She felt something wet against her neck. Lauren was crying. She wanted to hold Lauren there, give her all the time she needed, but she remained holding Lauren in a loose embrace. She could feel Lauren pulling away. A look of happiness, love and anger marring her features.
"Why did you come?! It's not safe. There after me! If they find you here they'll…" Bo cut Lauren off by kissing her. It was most likely highly inappropriate at this moment in time, but she needed to do it. There were so many emotions surging through her, her memories had returned, as had her love for the woman in her arms.
A love that was so much more and so much deeper then what she felt for the man that she had left waiting at the car.
She felt Lauren respond to the kiss, leaning in and applying just as much pressure. They continued like that for a few more moments until Lauren pulled back. Tears in her eyes, looking so much like she had that night she had told her about Dyson.
Then something Bo had not expected, a sad watery smile. "You protect me. You always protect me." A tearful laugh.
Bo simply smiled and reached out with her hand to wipe away some of Lauren's tears. She then pressed there foreheads together and responded with. "Always. I will always save you."
It was a perfect moment, but only the first step they would need to take in order to repair their relationship. The world was against them, as she had seen with the elemental. But in this moment, with Lauren in her arms, there was something Bo knew for sure, that she wouldn't fight for them, for the chance for them to be together again. This would be their last shot, no more screw ups, no more running to others. Lauren is her last love, her greatest love, her soul mate.
She nuzzled Lauren lightly with her nose before whispering. "I love you, so much."
She felt Lauren bump their noses gently, pressing their foreheads together before she was drawn back into an embrace by Lauren. "I love you too." A tearful laugh. "I think you're it for me Bo. When I got my memories back the first thing I wanted to do was run home to you."
She hugged Lauren back. There were so many thoughts running through her mind, so much she wanted to tell Lauren, but the one thing that recent events had shown her was all she could say. "You're it Lo, you're the end. You're the one I will love until my dying breath. Not Dyson, not Tamsin. You."
She saw Lauren pulling back, her brown eyes shinning with tears. "Really?" The same tearful happy tone as in Hecuba.
Bo nodded silently. She felt Lauren grab both of her cheeks and smash their lips together. They parted after what felt like hours later.
"We still have a lot to work through. I can't loose myself again Bo. I need to be top priority. I can't…"
Bo brought a finger to her lip and said with a dazzling smile. "I know." She took a breath. "It's my turn to fight, for you, for us. I got complacent and dumped everything on you. It won't happen again. But first there's so much we need to talk about, but I learned from someone that the secret to any relationship is trust, love, and compromise."
She saw Lauren smile, a grin she had never seen before. What looked like pure happiness, not marred but the sadness which was usually in the eyes of her lover. She leaned in to kiss Lauren again. They were not where near ready to restart their relationship, but they had taken the first step. And in this moment. That was enough.
