Go Glitz for story Number 2! Okay, all the errors are mine. No copyright infringement intended. The characters are the property of Showcase. This is just something I wish they did with them. Enjoy.

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Lauren laid in her bed contemplating her circumstances as of late. It had been five hours already and Bo had yet to call her. She wondered how someone she loved so much could also make her so unhappy. The irony of her situation was sickening. She hadn't eaten anything more substantial than merlot and crackers in over two days. She knew the lack of nutrition had severely lowered her immune systems effectiveness, but she just didn't care enough to do anything to counter it.

Kinda like Bo.

she thought

She didn't care enough to fucking call me.

Bo had left Lauren crouched in the the Dal while she went off with Dyson to the light hospital. Lauren had spent the last few weeks believing that the love of her life would be taken away from her by an ancient rite of passage. One would think she'd be elated that Bo came back seemingly unharmed. The reality was that she was alone and restless in her bed waiting on some form of contact from Bo post Dawning.

Buzz Buzz.

Lauren's phone hummed softly on her dresser. It was as if she had willed it. She had just begun to stare at it not a moment before. Reaching her arm across the bed to her nightstand she reviewed the number. Taking a deep breath she seriously entertained the idea of not answering, though she finally caved on the fifth ring.

"Hello?" Bo inquired to her girlfriend's breathing. Lauren had yet to greet her on the line. Bo's voice sounded so hopeful and it was almost odd to her. She buried herself further underneath her covers as she thought to respond.

"Bo. I'm extremely relieved that you survived. I don't know what I would have done. " she scolded her professional tone. She said that like an old school robot.

"The big bad Fae have to come up with some more serious shit than that." Bo joked laughing lightly, "Ive missed you."

"I wish I could still be angry with you."

"I know . . . but I could have died today."

"but you didn't."

"In the light of all this life and death I had hoped you would reconsider your pissed of not returning my texts stance?" Bo said as a question. She knew she had been in the dog house before but figured that point to be moot.

"I've been reasoning that your survival now gives me the right to be angry with you finally. The Dawning guilt is gone."

Bo was thrown.

"The Dawning guilt? Baby don't you see? life is too short."

"Not for you Bo. For me yes . . . not for Dyson"

"Dyson?"She questioned incredulously. She knew she should have never let him come with her into the temple. Now Lauren was jealous.

"Well let's think about it your way. I'm 30 and he's a 1000 years old. waaayyyy to old for me baby. Way too old."

Silence

"Ahw, come on that was a joke! Dyson is non a factor. You win every time. I just left the hospital . . . everything is looking fine. I'm in the car now."

Lauren was just so tired and she was finding this conversation exhausting. Even though she knew she really would not be able to fall asleep now.

"I trust you with Dyson. It's . . ." was she really about to delve into this now? "Nothing with us can ever be normal."

"You taught me that normal is subjective."

Lauren cut her eyes to the ceiling.

"You pick one time to listen to me."

Bo could feel the doctor rolling her eyes in annoyance and it made her smile into the phone.

"I always listen to you. I find you fascinating Dr. Lewis."

Lauren was quick to respond.

"Objectively, I am just a normal human with an unusually high IQ."

"If you start geeking out I won't be able to take you seriously."

"Booo listen to me." Lauren whined into the phone. Odd behavior for her, but she hadn't slept in two no THREE days. She was mentally exhausted and needed Bo to focus.

"No, Lauren listen to me." Bo wasn't going to let Lauren out talk her, not dealing with the business of them. "Subjectively, you are the most amazing woman I've ever met and I feel honored that you share your life with me. I could never deserve better because you are the best there is."

There is was, the simple truth for Bo.

"Forever the sweet talker" Lauren relented.

"I only speak the truth" the grin returned to Bo's face as she knew she had at least won this round.

"You don't even know what's best for you."

"You said you wouldn't do me like this Lo. You can't just make up your mind about my intentions without talking to me. I had texted you 27 times! Not to mention the 10 missed calls and 6 voicemails."

Silence.

She had been avoiding Bo since Bo flaked attending The Moses Gomberg Distinguished Award ceremony. It put a lot into perspective for Lauren. She now understood that Bo's absence had been a challenge for the Dawning, but Bo had lied about her whereabouts. She said she had gotten called back into the Dal, the truth would have made the entire situation so much less infuriating. Lauren had come home to Bo's explanations and apologizes and as angry as she had been she let her stay the night. It was so routine at this point that Lauren did not feel like she should have to suffer herself the comfort of having Bo close to her. Who knew how many nights they had left. The Dawning was always looming. When Bo left that morning, two days ago to undergo more training, Lauren had thrown herself into her work. She had already pinpointed the enzyme that was causing Bo's cells rapid degeneration and had been trying to figure out it's amino acid structural composition. She hoped she could figure the sequence out and then synthesize a compound that would bind to the enzymes activation sites enabling them harmless. She'd been a long way from a cure. Of course she didn't have time to answer Bo's 27 texts, just like Bo didn't have time to stop by and see what she was up to. The Dawning ceremony came and Lauren's work had bore no fruit, yet somehow Bo survived without her nerdness. She still didn't even know what the hell happened to Bo during the Dawning. She only knew that she had indeed survived, brought a man back to life, and hadn't call her until now.

" Lauren, this Dawning experience changed my life."

"I've been wondering what you did in there."

"It reminded me of that Inception movie you made me watch."

Lauren knew the movie well. She and Leonardo had a long standing love affair and after the film she had a budding (now full blown) crush on Marion Cotillard. She had to watch the movie two times to completely understand it and she still wasn't sure if Leo wasn't still in a dream at the end so that worried her a bit.

"How so?"

"I was looking for a key that kept me going deeper and deeper into my subconscious. At first I knew what my mission was, but then when I went deeper in and I lost track of reality. . .You were Dyson and Dyson was you."

"I was Dyson? What do you mean?" Lauren laughed a little at the absurdness of it all. Maybe it was inception.

"So you looked like you except you were a cop and you kept saying things to me that were so clearly Dyson. 'You look hungry blah blah blah.' Then I go home. Beautiful home with an amazing marble drop tub like the one you wanted in that catalog. And then there's Dyson dressed up like a doctor totally geeking out and bringing home food from that indian place you love."

"Is this supposed to inspire confidence in us?" Lauren was Dyson in Bo's sub-conscience? Now she was wondering if Bo wanted her soul in Dyson's body. Shit just got really weird.

"Baby, we were eating Kande Pohe and doing sunrise yoga." Kande Pohe was Lauren's go to when ordering Indian. She doubted she and the wolf shared that taste. She thought of him as more of a masala type of guy.

Maybe he took on her form because he was physically there with Bo?

Yeah that makes sense.

"Dont you see?"

"No actually, I'm still processing" Lauren answered truthfully. She was still hidden in a cocoon underneath her covers head buried underneath her pillow with her cell phone to her ear.

"It showed me that deep down inside, past all the bull shit, all I want is a stable normal life with you. I made it out by my own hand once I realized that the life I found myself in was fake. The person that I want that life with wasn't there with me. I wanted you. I love the person you are. I've never met someone so understanding and thoughtful. I wasn't raised that way. I have a hard time believing I found someone who can make me feel this whole . . . this good. It makes me want to figure out a way to have children with you so you can pass on your love to our baby. It must be nice growing up like that and I want that for our children. You make me want to settle down be a better woman."

Bo was laying it on thick tonight. She had even been thinking about children, but Lauren still saw her as such a dreamer. Bo still didn't get it. Lauren loved her with every inch of her human being and that could never be enough.

"It's foolish to think that a succubus can be domesticated. You brought a man back from the dead today Bo."

"And all I can think about is raising a family with you"

"Bo . . ."

"All I can think about is coming home to you. . ."

"I'm still upset that you waited so long to call me."

"I know and I'm sorry-"

"You keep taking me for granted."

"No. You still don't know if you can trust me, but Lo you can't get rid of me. You know I'm on my way over there now and you better not lock the door."

"Your life is about so much more than us. I don't know if I can take all that. You are extremely powerful and so young in fae years. There is much for you to discover about your abilities. You still have yet to realize how rare you are."

"Our lives should be about each other. Just us. Whatever you need I will acquiesce."

"Acquiesce?" Bo had been listening to her a lot it seemed but she still had a long list of relationship cons. "I should feel better all on my own, but I don't Bo and that unsettles me."

"I know I don't know how to be me without you anymore." And they were back to silence filled with the heaviness of their previous revelations.

"You can be a really shitty girlfriend. Always off saving the world."

"I'm always here Lauren. It's just been a crazy couple of months."

"You're always here?" Lauren mumbled into the phone. " Im alone as we speak. I spend too many nights alone in my bed worrying about you."

"I never wanted this type of life for you."

"Lately I've been a mental mess. I'm feeling more than a little insecure." Lauren finally admitted. Everything about her had felt a little off for a while now actually.

"You fix everything in my life. It's something I want to give to you. "

"My girlfriend the super hero." Lauren teased

"So I am still your girlfriend?"

Lauren heard the door to her loft creek open and listened intently to the foot steps ascending the staircase. Bo gently pressed the bed room door open, it was a mess by Lauren standards, she started picking up clothes that had been discarded haphazardly around the room. Lauren still laid curled up in a ball underneath her comforter not bothering to come out.

"Your maid went on strike?" she asked gentled with a little humor to her tone. Honestly she was worried that her genius girlfriend had spent the better part of this week driving herself insane.

"It's a lead into my mental state." Lauren mumbled through her pillow

Bo finished placing the clothes into the sorted hamper bin making sure that whites went with whites and socks stayed separated from the underwear. A big no no in the Lewis house. She would be domesticated just wait and see. Bo moved around the room in silence stripping out of her clothing and walking to the bathroom to wash her face, letting Lauren know she had every intention on spending the night. Bo eyed the empty bottle of merlot on the bathroom counter and shook her head internally. Bo knew Lauren was not normally a heavy drinker, this whole thing had her in a terrible mood. The bed dipped as Bo crawled up to the top corner joining her lover underneath the covers. Bo's legs wrapped around Lauren's pulling her into the little spoon position. Lauren loved the warmth radiating from Bo's skin and she felt herself growing excited as Bo's chest tickled her back through her thin cotton shirt. Bo loved to sleep naked. Even when there was no sex involved she craved the contact of skin to skin. She pulled at Lauren t shirt and Lauren put up little fuss allowing Bo to slip it gently off over her head.

"You haven't earned me yet you know."

"I haven't?"

"No" lauren whispered out as Bo's hands trailed up from her navel ghosting her fingertips over stomach and finally gently cupping her breasts. L Bo noticed they seemed heavier than usual as she gripped them both in her hands. Lauren squirmed.

"Softer" she whispered

Bo eased her approach and danced her fingertips over the buds and Lauren's entire body shivered. Bo loved the soft pants emitting from her lover, but she also knew how tired Lauren was, in fact she was exhausted herself. She kissed the nape of Lauren's neck and pulled her back flush to her.

Lauren was amazed at how quickly her body could betray her mind. Bo's hands felt so right on her body and she could feel the tension in her neck instantly release once Bo's lips pressed to it. The rise and fall of Bo's chest on her back pacified her into a dreamy state of comfort.

"It's okay to dream. I'll still be here in the morning."

Lauren knew she did not need to respond, she just allowed her mind to finally drift to sleep.

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Bo rolled onto her back in her first moments of conscientiousness and snuggled deeper into the pillow top of Lauren's mattress. She felt warm and tingly all over until her arm fell into the coolness of Lauren's side of the bed. Bo's mind was instantly pulled from the fog of sleep in search of her missing partner. She sat up in the bed, pulling the covers off in one swift motion.

shit it's cold

Goose bumps riddled her skin as she began her investigation. Lauren left the heat on at about 68 which was torture to the succcubus, waking up in the morning half naked (in Bo's case fully naked), trying to just make it to the bathroom. She padded across the carpet following a noise she heard coming from the bathroom.

"Babe?" Bo called out as she tried the door realizing it was not locked. She proceeded to push it open with Lauren's non response. She found her on the ground half asleep with her head laid on the toilet seat. She slowly opened her eyes to meet Bo's gaze.

"Lauren" Bo's voice was laced with concern. No sooner than she called her name did she begin vomiting the nonexistent contents of her stomach. Bo pulled a robe off the side towel rack and wrapped it around herself as she joined her on the tile.

"Baby, it' s okay it's almost over." she moved her right hand to Lauren's back finding that it was covered in sweat. "I see you are paying for that bottle of merlot" Lauren groaned in response. Bo moved from her crouched position to wet a face towel with cold water. She placed it on Lauren's warm forehead. She was actually burning up.

"It feels more like a virus. Veisalgia never raises my temperature this much."

"Lauren you are hot to the touch. What should I do?" Bo felt useless. She hated seeing Lauren in such a state.

"There is a thermometer in a red case in the cabinet underneath the sink." She was barely able to articulate. She had woken up about a half hour ago with the worst case of nausea she had ever experienced. She barely made it to the bathroom and had found herself too weakened to return to bed. She had deduced that it was some sort of virus, which had no cure but to work it's way out. She was trying to think logically. She needed Bo to check her temperature to insure that her fever did not need to be monitored in the hospital.

"Who do you call when the doctor is sick?" she spoke out loud more to herself than a real question. She was trying not to panic. She had never seen Lauren so wiped out. In fact she had never seen Lauren sick at all except for the monthly period symptoms. Bo began to rummage through the cabinet intent on locating the red case. She pulled out many things in it's place comet, a large pack of scrubbing sponges, a package of baby wipes, and a box of tampons.

"Shit, baby. I don't see it." Bo turned around frantically to Lauren whose eyes seemed to be glued to the box of tampons Bo had haphazardly thrown near her feet.

"What's the date today?" Bo tried to tune into Lauren's seemingly out of place question. She thought maybe the fever was making her delirious.

"What?"

Lauren was becoming agitated. She wished the room would stop spinning.

"Today's date Bo. The date!"

"It's the 15th of March 2013"

Fuck.

Lauren waited for a brief moment as the vertigo seemed to be subsiding. The nausea, the tenderness, the two consecutively missed menstrual cycles. She had attributed the first one to stress, but two in a row could be no coincidence. She knew she'd have to do a blood test to be sure.

"Okay now Bo don't freak out, but I think I might be pregnant."

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