A/N: Not sure where this came from, but I had to write it, it's a pretty short part to start with. Please drop me a review, let me know what you think. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten my other stories, updates will be coming soon. Read, review and enjoy!

Chapter One

Sometimes Tamsin craved normality, even though most of the time she had no idea just what normal really was. In the world of the Fae was anything ever normal? Or was there a sense of normal in their little world of madness. All the things she had seen, all the things she had done, all of it would probably fry a human brain. They wouldn't understand, couldn't understand. Humans had this way of blocking out everything that made no sense to them, everything they didn't understand. Tamsin envied them in a way. Living one life, a short life, no chance of ever having to live it over again. Once they died, they were dead. As a Valkyrie she had been reborn more than a few times, each time the memories coming back to her in pieces. Flashes from wars long forgotten. Drinks in bars with people who she never wanted to remember. Long nights sitting in a tent in the middle of a battle field. Watching people she had grown up with, people she trained and lived with die around her. She'd seen it all. Nothing had ever got to her, no one had ever got under her skin, until she met Bo. Her target, her job. Someone she had been hired to track down. Tamsin was the best at what she did. Finding people was her thing. Understanding people wasn't important when you had a job to do, find someone or something and deliver it to where it's supposed to go. That was it. Simple.

But Bo was different. Tamsin had never met anyone who got under her skin, made her think or feel the things that Bo made her feel. Bo was a Succubus, someone who survived off the life energy of other things, humans or Fae didn't seem to matter too much. They seduce them, sleep with them, and suck their life force. That's what Succubi do. People don't matter to them, forming relationships isn't important. Most Succubi that Tamsin had met certainly weren't too interested in finding out about a person before they slept with them. Bo did, Bo was different. Bo was a Succubi who believed in love, true love, a thought that within itself terrified Tamsin.

Love. A mess of feelings and emotions all caused by a chemical reaction in the brain, or that's what Tamsin liked to tell herself. She'd been around long enough, and had seen enough people fall in love, to know that nothing good could ever come of it. Especially not for her. She was a Valkyrie, a warrior. Love was a weakness she couldn't afford, feelings she couldn't indulge. Yet no matter how many times she told herself this her thoughts always ended up in the same place. Bo. The one job she had failed. The one person that had made Tamsin think that she could be capable of anything, that she could be anything that she wanted to be. She changed the way that Tamsin saw the world, the way she thought about everyone and everything around her. No one had ever made Tamsin rethink her outlook on life. No one until Bo. People had tried, tried to get close to her but Tamsin had never let anyone in for any length of time. She had never stayed in the same place with the same people for too long, she'd always moved on. Until she met Bo.

x-x-x

She was sitting in the Dal, overthinking things as usual. Life was so much easier for her before she came to the city, before she started working for the Morrigan, before she got involved with the gang. She didn't do friends, she didn't do feelings, or that's what it was like before. Tamsin preferred herself when she was closed off emotionally, when the only thing that mattered to her was completing her current job. Now there wasn't a current job. She had took a step back from the bounty hunting world when she failed to deliver Bo. Who would want to hire her now anyway, that's the way she looked at it. She failed. For the first time in her existence she failed. She had known that Bo's father would look for her, it wouldn't take much to find her, but she didn't care. All she cared about was keeping the people that she loved safe, no matter the cost. She failed on that front too. When Kenzi walked into the door to hell Tamsin felt a pain that she never thought it was possible for her to feel. A pain that she had spent hundreds if not thousands of years watching others feel, the pain of losing someone that you love. There was that word again, love. Kenzi had raised her this time around. The two hadn't really got along before, Tamsin had never really took the time to sit and realise just how amazing the little human was. But when she needed her the most she was there. Tamsin cursed the day she couldn't return that favour. She hadn't been able to keep Kenzi safe. She failed. Again.

As Trick poured her another drink Tamsin didn't even look at him, her eyes were firmly trained on the bar in front of her. She didn't see Bo walk into the Dal Riata, she felt her. Somewhere in the deepest recesses of her senses, she felt her. Tamsin closed her eyes and let out the breath she didn't know she had been holding. She knew Bo wasn't alone, she never was. Lauren was with her. The human doctor. Lauren and Tamsin had never really seen eye to eye, though since they lost Kenzi things had seemingly been easier. The Valkyrie didn't have it in her anymore to hate anyone, it was a waste of energy she couldn't afford while she had been looking for a way to get Kenzi back. She had delivered her soul to Valhalla, knowing that she would, someday in some way, find a way to bring her back. That's what had been playing on Tamsin's mind all day, she had found a way. She had tried to get in contact with Bo, because it wasn't something she could do alone. The Succubus had said they'd meet at the Dal later that evening, now was that time.

"Hey T…" Bo said, walking up to the bar and sitting next to the Valkyrie, "sorry I'm a little later than I thought I would be, we got… caught up."

"Really didn't need to know that." Tamsin said, downing the drink that was in front of her.

"I was running a few tests," Lauren said, explaining why they had been so late, "we got chatting about the first time Bo was sat on my examination table… that's all."

Tamsin nodded a little.

"Everything okay Tamsin?" Bo asked, suddenly concerned by the way the Valkyrie was acting.

"Yeah, everything is great," Tamsin said, "I found a way to get Kenzi back and you're playing happy memory games with your girlfriend…"

"You…" Bo started to say, "You found a way to get her back?"

Tamsin nodded, looking at the Succubus.

"Why don't you look too happy about it," Bo said, "I mean it's what we've all wanted for months…?"

"I'll give you two some space." Lauren said, kissing Bo on the cheek before walking over to the pool table to talk to Dyson.

"It's not going to be easy," Tamsin explained, "it's not going to be as simple as walking up to the gates of Valhalla and asking nicely… there are going to be some… tests…"

"Written or oral?" Bo asked with a smirk, Tamsin shot her a disapproving look, "not the time… but seriously, what kind of tests?"

"Physical," Tamsin said, "and I don't mean examinations from Lauren kind of physical… we're going to be pushed to the very ends of our physical capabilities… There will be emotional tests as well, something tells me I'll find that harder than the physical side…"

"Physical and emotional tests," Bo replied, as Trick poured them both a drink, "Sounds like the Dawning all over again… what happens if we fail one of these tests?"

"We die," Tamsin said, matter-of-factly, "we die and our souls, as well as Kenzi's, are banished from Valhalla, forever."

"Banished how?" Bo asked.

"We'll be condemned to wander the wasteland beyond the gates of Valhalla for all eternity," Tamsin said, "always so close but never allowed to enter…"

Tamsin didn't say another word before getting up and walking to the bathroom.

"What isn't she telling me Trick?" Bo asked, "I know there's more…"

"It's not my place to say." Trick said, "It's for Tamsin to decide when, or even if she tells you, it's her journey Bo, not mine."