Author's note – Someone asked me for a sequel to A Lifetime for a Day so I thought that I would give it a shot. I make no promises here except that I will try to create a story that you guys will like reading.
Tamsin woke early the next morning and opened her eyes to see the first rays of sunlight streaming into the bedroom that she and Bo shared. Bo was still sound asleep and Tamsin closed her eyes for a minute and just listened to Bo's breathing. It was mornings like that still took her breath away. She still could not believe that she was here with Bo, Kenzi and her baby, Eden. She was so thankful and sometimes she still felt like it was all a dream that she was about to wake up from.
Bo stirred next to her and moved over so that her arm wrapped around Tamsin's naked waste. Bo smiled as she remembered the night before and laid her head on Tamsin's shoulder. Tamsin placed a kiss on the top of Bo's head and Bo smiled up at her.
"Good morning," Tamsin said in a tone that she seemed to reserve only for Bo and Eden, and sometimes Kenzi.
"Morning, Bo said in a voice that was still heavy with sleep. How did you sleep?"
"Great, so what's on the agenda for today, babe?" Tamsin asked.
"I believe that Kenzi said something about going to speak with someone about a case," Bo answered.
"You never stop amazing me, you know?"
"Why's is that," Bo asked with a smile.
"After all that humans and fae have put you through you still try to help them. Me on the other hand, I don't forget that easily. I'm not sure I deserve you."
Bo laughed, "Of course you do. Eden loves you and you are a good person. You have proven that several times. Your other lifetimes don't count. The person you are now is not the same person."
Tamsin just looked into Bo's eyes and smiled. She knew that Bo would say anything to make her feel better even if it was the biggest lie in the universe. Bo also had a way of making her believe these lies when she talked to her like that. It was part of the charm that was Bo. Tamsin would believe her no matter what.
Tamsin was about to get out of the bed and find some clothes for the day. She should really go make Eden some breakfast and talk to Kenzi about their case. Bo grabbed her before she could get up though and pulled her back down on the bed. She kissed her and started moving her hands down Tamsin's still naked body. Tamsin moaned, but their time was interrupted when Eden came bounding into the room unannounced and still in Frozen pajamas. Tamsin laughed and pulled the blanket up around her and Bo. Bo groaned in mock frustration and smiled at the bright eyed little girl looking at them.
Eden jumped on the bed between them and hugged Tamsin. "Morning MommyT and MommyB, Eden said going over to hug Bo as well.
"Morning little bit. What are you doing up so early and where is Kenzi?" Tamsin asked.
"The sky is awake, so I'm awake," Eden said proudly quoting from her now favotie movie and Tamsin rolled her eyes. Tamsin made a mental note for that movie go missing for a while. Bo just laughed as she saw the look on Tamsin's face. As smart and as much of an adult as Eden seemed to be at times, Tamsin was reminded that she was after all, still a kid. "Kenzi was snoring really loud and I tried to wake her up but she just went back to sleep," Eden continued in a sing song voice.
"Maybe you should go try to wake her up again. Tell her that if she does get her butt out of bed than I might let the neighbor dog have her favorite boots," Tamsin said with a smirk. If that didn't get Kenzi out of bed, than she needed to take her to the hospital. Eden giggled and ran off in the direction of Kenzi's bedroom with a new purpose.
"I know that you like the open floor plan of the house but we really need to get some doors for this room," Tamsin said getting up from the bed with the sheet wrapped around her.
"Yeah I guess we should," Bo said with a smile as she put on some clothes herself. "It seems like we are living in the home with two children sometimes and neither one of them know the first thing about privacy."
"Eden is only the age equivalent of five but what is Kenzi's excuse?" Tamsin said slipping on her jeans and Bo watched as Tamsin's perfect back side slid into them just right. Tamsin was moving a little slower than usual because she could feel Bo's eyes on her. Tamsin turned just in time to see Bo's eyes go from her lusty blue back to her normal chocolate brown.
"Like what you see?" Tamsin said in a seductive tone that made Bo's heart skip a beat.
"Only a little too much," Bo answered with a smirk. "I wish we had time for me to show you just how much I like it, but I think we have some people waiting on us downstairs."
They walked downstairs to see a very sleepy looking Kenzi slumped over on the couch and a very active child trying to get her to pay her some attention. Eden was on the couch next to Kenzi and had a hand full of Kenzi's hair in her hands. She looked like she was trying to braid it but it came out looking like a twisted mess. Kenzi was too sleep to care that much but looked up when Eden pulled a little too hard.
"Hey easy on the merch, squirt. It's hard enough to look this perfect in the morning without your help," Kenzi said finally waking up and pulling Eden into her lap. Eden just laughed as Kenzi kissed her face several times and hugged her tight.
Tamsin walked into the room with Bo right behind her. She pulled some pans down and started to make some eggs and bacon. Eden jumped down from Kenzi's arms and ran into the kitchen. She tackled Tamsin in a bear hug around her middle.
Tamsin looked down at her daughter hugging her waist. "Can I help you with something Little Bit?' Tamsin said with a smile.
"Pancakes?" Eden said in a questioning voice while looking back up at Tamsin.
"Okay, I guess I can do that." Tamsin said picking her up and kissing her. Eden wrapped her legs around Tamsin's waist and Tamsin put her on her hip. Eden watched as Tamsin cooked and got out the stuff to make the pancakes. Eden made a special request for chocolate chip pancakes.
"You know chocolate, like the color that you call MommyB's eyes," Eden said matter of fact to Tamsin. Tamsin looked at Eden with a look of amusement and distain. Eden's powers sometimes took her off guard. The emotion reading portion of them didn't bother her too much but when she could pick up on her thoughts or memories it always surprised her. She was such a young fae to have such strong power.
Tamsin sat Eden back down on the floor and looked at her. "Eden, what have we told you about poking around in people's minds without permission?"
"Not to," Eden answered.
"Well then why are you poking around in my mind then?"
"Sorry I slipped. I didn't mean to." Eden said looking pitiful and changing the color of her hair and eyes to Tamsin's color. They had been Kenzi's color earlier.
Tamsin couldn't be too mad at Eden. After all she was still learning her skills and it was only natural that she wanted to see what all that she could do. Eden was too much like her in the manner that she also liked to push the boundaries with her and Bo to see what she could get away with as well. It was really hard to stay made at her when she saw her own features looking back at her.
"It's okay, baby girl. You do need to try to control that kind of thing though. It's not nice to get into people's heads without them knowing," Tamsin said bending down to talk to her as she said this.
"Okay MommyT. You're not mad at me are you?"
"No baby I'm not mad. Go play with Aunt Kenzi for a little while so that I can make your pancakes." Tamsin said and gently smacked her on the bottom as she ran into the living room to jump on Kenzi once more. Tamsin turned back to the cooking and cussed a little under her breath as she realized that she had burned the eggs.
"That was a bad word, MommyT." Eden shouted at her from the living room.
"Sorry I didn't mean for you to hear that," Tamsin shouted back and Kenzi laughed.
Bo walked into the kitchen to give Tamsin a hand with the cooking. She couldn't help but smile and she watched her carefully had the chocolate chips to the pancake mix that she was making. Bo would have never thought Tamsin could be so domesticated but it was endearing. Tamsin popped one of the chips in her mouth and Bo was coming up behind her.
"I thought that I was all the sweet that you needed." Bo said encircling her arms around Tamsin from behind.
"No harm in a little snack before the main course," Tamsin shoot back with her usual quick wit.
"I don't know", Bo said with a monk pout, "I could ruin your appetite."
"Nothing could ruin my appetite for you, Bo." Tamsin said with a wide grin.
"Is that a fact?"
"No, it's a promise."
"Would you cut it out? I would like to keep my breakfast down after I eat it and there is a small child here." Kenzi said joining them in the kitchen.
"Are you talking about you or Eden?" Tamsin asked.
"Come on TamTam is that the best you got this morning? You're off your game."
"Sorry I was up late last night and it's a wonder I can even form a coherent sentence," Tamsin said giving Kenzi a wink.
"Guess I'll have to step up my game then," Bo said.
"TMI," Kenzi said sitting down at the table. Bo and Tamsin sat beside her so they could eat their breakfast. Eden was really excited about her pancakes and gobbled them down.
"Hey there slow down or you're going to get a stomach ache," Bo said watching her eat.
"Okay," Eden said between mouth fulls of pancake.
"So what do you want to do today, Little Bit?" asked Tamsin. "We have the whole day to ourselves while Aunt Kenzi and MommyB go work on a case."
"So MommyB and Aunt Kenzi aren't going to be with us today?" Eden asked with a pout.
"Sorry honey, we have to work today but you have MommyT all to yourself and I'm sure that she will do anything you want her to," Bo said smiling a sly smile at Tamsin.
"Okay," Eden said and hoped over on Tamsin's lap. Tamsin kissed the top of her head. Eden then went to kiss Kenzi and Bo goodbye. After they were gone Tamsin and Eden went into the living room.
"So what do you want to do?" Tamsin asked Eden.
"Can we watch a movie for now and maybe go to the park in a little while?"
"Okay what movie do you want to watch?"
"Frozen!" Eden said excitedly.
"How about we try something new? I think Aunt Kenzi has a whole collection of movies up in her room. Let's go find something, okay?" Tamsin asked her.
"Okay," Eden said with a shrug of her little shoulders and they went up to raid Kenzi's collection of movies.
They looked though Kenzi's movies and Eden pulled out one that she thought looked like it might be fun. She showed it to Tamsin and Tamsin smiled.
"Yeah, I think that you'll like that one a lot," said Tamsin taking the movie from her and headed back down to the living room. The movie that Eden had picked out was one of Kenzi's favorites, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Eden watched the movie with delight and Tamsin watched her. Eden would laugh, and she covered her eyes when she saw Fluffy come on the screen. It was so much fun to watch her react to everything and it was like Tamsin was watching it for the first time as well. After the movie ended, Tamsin put Eden down for a short nap. Tamsin watched Eden's small chest rise and fall in rhythm and thought about how much she loved that little girl. Bo often told her that it seemed like Tamsin had just made a clone of herself with Eden, but Tamsin saw so much of Bo in her when they were together like this. Tamsin left and let her nap because she wanted to get a few things done before they went to the park later.
