Lauren felt her phone vibrating; interrupting what had been an enjoyable night and immediately dreaded having to speak to the caller whose name had appeared on the screen. Readying herself for a hopefully brief phone call from the Ash she pressed the answered button and leaned back against the couch.
"Lauren, I am glad I caught you." Hale tried to keep his own from revealing his own fatigue. Leading the Light Fae and putting in some overdue hours with Dyson had made for a long day. "I wasn't sure if you would still be up this late."
"I'm still on my work schedule, but I appreciate the concern." Adjusting to some time off would take some time, but she really didn't want to spend her first night off talking to the interim leader of the Light Fae.
"Of course. I'll try to keep this brief, but I got some news a couple of hours ago and wanted to let you know." As if things were tense enough with the Morrigan gearing up for a battle the Elders wanted to avoid, Dyson shows up in a mood and starts literally growling at guards. "Have you heard from our favorite unaligned succubus tonight?"
Yet more stalling caused Lauren to sit forward and rub her temple. At least now they were getting somewhere though if he moved on to mentioning Bo. "Briefly. I am not really sure why that matters though."
"Did she seem okay? Was there any yelling or making genuine threats against someone's wellbeing?" He really didn't need an out of control succubus on top of everything else and that was the exact impression she had left Dyson with only a few hours before.
"She seemed like Bo." Lauren fully stood up and started moving to her kitchen as she clearly needed some wine to get through the conversation. "Really, what is this about Hale?" She tried to refer to the Ash, as well the Ash, but an odd personal call seemed to put them as friends for the moment. "Why would Bo being upset matter to the Light Fae?"
"I guess Dyson had a run in with a few hours ago and after he closed down the Dal I managed to find out that whatever went on between them seemed to result in Bo leaving him in a bad way. Now, Dyson I can deal with, but I just want to make sure that she is in control and won't be destroying half the city." The only news anyone cared to share with him about Bo these days was that she had evolved and nothing else. Even his attempts to get the wolf to talk about Bo had resulted in more confusion and not any answers.
"I don't understand. Bo is a succubus Hale, not a Fury." If Bo had enthralled Dyson, which Lauren didn't believe, the the shifter would not be complaining, let alone getting excessively drunk.
"I know that doc. I'm just worried as we both know Dyson isn't the most cooperative person and I just need to know how much of what he said comes from the emotional beating he took and what's true." He didn't want to play the Ash card, but Lauren would have had to see the signs before tonight and he had to know what to expect next. "I'm not saying he's exactly right in the head, but Dyson drew a sizeable crowd and a lot of those Fae will be spreading stories that Bo can cause real damage to other Fae without touching anyone and damn near kill a shifter with a light touch. You have to tell me Lauren about what Bo is capable of doing."
"Well, I'm sure Bo will appreciate knowing her word is almost worth as much as Dyson's by the time Trick cuts him off, but none of her abilities allow her torture someone just by looking at them or inflict harm directly through physical contact." Though Bo could certainly leave her in a desperate state with just a look and the ability to use a single touch in ways that made it feel like she hit every nerve in her body, but it never felt anything less than incredible and Lauren certainly wasn't going to discuss their sex life with the Ash because of some drunken ramblings from Dyson.
"Look I'll get some more information in the morning. Just keep an eye on her if she shows up. My partner seemed to think she might be a risk to herself more than anyone else, but he's not exactly impartial."
"Hale, whatever Dyson offered for explanation, or has to say tomorrow, needs an evaluation by a psychologist and be downplayed before the Morrigan decides to start having sports cars delivered to the shack again believing Bo can actually kill someone with a look. If it will make things easier though I'll be sure to do a complete work up and make sure..." Whatever she was going to say next was stopped by a sudden interruption of the succubus walking into her apartment.
"Lauren, do you want to order in or go out for a change?" Bo walked in on the middle of the woman's sentence about working and noticed Lauren staring at her like she didn't have a key and standing invite to show up when she could. Who the woman was talking to was a mystery, but Bo was certain she heard her name and that wasn't a conversation her girlfriend seemed to want to continue.
"Is that Bo?" Hale looked at his watch and frowned. Less than two hours after Dyson showed up a mess, and not 15 minutes after he finally got the wolf to agree to get some rest in exchange for posting a guard outside his place, yet the succubus sounded fine. Realizing the mistake he had made in letting Dyson convince him, along with too many other random Fae, that he wasn't exaggerating Hale started searching his office for the scripted, generalized, apology someone on his staff had given him last week.
Lauren had in fact expected Bo, getting constant texts from her girlfriend, but the conversation with Hale had her distracted and rather confused "Yes, she just came in. We are over at her place and I'll let you know about anything important as quickly as I can."
Bo just stood there with some takeout menus in hand, watching Lauren gestured to the couch before walking back into the kitchen. Picking the end of the couch closest to the woman Bo sat down and waited. Why not directly avoiding her it certainly seemed her girlfriend had other priorities.
"Doc, I just want you and Bo to understand that the Light met no offense and the error is mine to amend. The problem, umm Dyson, shall be investigated further to ensure no further incidents follow and anything that the Light can do to repair relations with," Hale threw some other papers to the floor until finding the official seal of the unaligned Fae. "Kenzi's Bobabeciously Awesome Hot Pants Clan will be seen to with great effort."
Lauren could practically hear every language and history professor screaming in agony at their apparently official clan name. She really needed to talk to Bo about getting that changed. "I understand Ash. Have a good night." Lauren hung up without waiting for a response. Picking up two glasses of wine and leaving her phone on the counter she found Bo making no attempt to hide that she had clearly been listening in.
"Work?" Officially Lauren had gotten some much deserved vacation time, unofficially the Light couldn't figure out how to handle the situation, but that suited Bo just fine. They had survived her evolution together thanks to the considerable efforts of the sexy doctor and that earned them both some time to enjoy one another. That she would lie to someone about her being at the club house instead of her place certainly suggested it being work related.
"No, more like Hale convinced you did something to Dyson to where you crippled the wolf and the Ash is trying to get ahead of the rumors that you completely shattered the mental wellbeing of a shifter like some sort of Fury and Succubus hybrid." Lauren wasn't a relationship expert, and seeing how her previous relationships went for those involved it would be in poor taste to ever claim the title, but she had learned honesty worked best with Bo and trusted the woman would be honest with her.
"I swear it's like the entire Fae political system shares the same standards as a high school." Bo drank most of a glass of wine before leaning backwards into the comfy cushions. "Dyson insisted on us talking now that I got a clean bill of health." Looking to the doctor that told her the good news personally, and coincidently her girlfriend that she celebrated with for several hours afterwards, Bo felt content. "Mostly he talked and I tried to interrupt him to get him to stop. After an hour I got smart enough to literally show him the exit and then push him out the door when he wouldn't accept goodbye as meaning he needed to leave."
"Taking the high road by deciding the conversation was over, very mature Bo." Getting a playful shove from her girlfriend, Lauren smiled and picked up her own glass. "Aside from the argument is there anything you remember about his behavior to suggest he suffered any physical damage before you two talked?"
"I don't think Hale exactly understands the situation." Bo finished off her glass before noticing Lauren had removed the second glass from her reach. "Dyson thought the dawning would change who I loved and he had an actual list of reasons for that. Somewhere around him always knowing I was mature for my age I handed him a piece of paper explaining that I had dinner plans with the woman I loved and he should go."
Lauren felt a familiar increase in her blood pressure and heart rate when Bo offered her declaration of love. No matter how times the woman said it, it still surprised her. "Well you might want to let Hale know that. He's okay now, but for a while there he probably thought you had an enthralled army ready to conquer the city and would be moving to finish off Dyson any moment now." Lauren shifted until she could lie against the woman she loved.
"Kenzi thinks I should kick Dyson's ass, just once, on the grounds it might knock some sense into his head." Firing off a quick text to the Ash, and wolf, explaining a visit from the neutral's ambassador about harassing two members of the unaligned would be in order, Bo set her phone down. Nothing about Hale bothering Lauren because Dyson couldn't let go of the past set right with her, but Kenzi constantly proved the perfect person for scaring Fae into realizing their mistakes.
"Speaking of Kenzi, did she ever tell you what she put down in response to the Ash and Morrigan's official recognition requests for your clan name?" Neither she nor Bo had wanted to do the paperwork when there better ways to spend an afternoon, but Lauren wondered if they had missed the signs that the goth girl had gone mad with power.
Yet another Doccubus one shot. Hope you enjoyed it and if you did please leave a review. For those of you that have recently tracked down my story Delusions of Insignificance, I will be getting the next chapter off to my beta by the end of the day.
