Chapter Four: Finding Her

Arriving at the compound after having nearly flipped the car in her mad turn the three piled out and went towards the entrance where Bo handed two buff men the envelope. One of them opened it and three bracelets fell out. One said 'Mother/Buyer', the next 'Father/Buyer' and the last had 'Doctor' on it. A lanky man walked out just as the men finished putting the bracelets on.

From this man's back were two large wings that were folded up. His eyes were yellow like that of Dyson's but the pupal was more narrow, cat like. His lips protruded just a bit so that his nose molded flat and into them. They also had an orange tinting to them. He closed his eyes and breathed in deeply them let the air out. It was odd to see his half formed beak bed up into a smile, "Congratulations, Miss," he said and held out his hand, "I'm Onar, I'll be questioning you about what kind of Mother you are looking for to help set up interviews. Do you know the babies gender?"

"Huh? Oh, oh no! I'm not having the baby, my friend is and she asked me to come for her. This is my boyfriend and he wanted to come too to see what your services are like in case we decide to have a baby." Bo explained while grabbing Vex's arm. It was hard for him, but Vex withstood the urge to shudder and leaned towards Bo.

"You may want to decide soon," Onar let his eyes go to Bo's stomach before turning and saying, "Follow me."

Bo met Vex's surprised eyes and he asked quietly, "when were you going to mention this?" Bo looked at Lauren and Lauren too had on a surprised look that was far too easily able to be seen.

"Probably after I learned of it, this is the first I'm hearing of this. Besides how much weight do you put on beak boy's words anyway?"

"Beak Boy," the man called out, "is a Nest Father, I know you're looking for a mother but I would have thought you'd looked into us too." He said calmly not really caring about whether or he had just been made fun of.

"Bo, as a Father he has the ability to smell the hormonal changes. If you really are pregnant then your hormones would give off a signature and he could smell it. Most Fae use the Nest Fathers to check if they really are pregnant or not."

"You're pregnant, Love. No way about it after hearing from a Father." Vex said ending the conversation before it got started, "now, what question do you wish to ask?" His voice was the epitome of calm even though inside he was anything but. As he walked these halls all he could see was himself making the little birds kill each other.

But he held himself in check and he realized, with the slightest bit of horror, that Bo and her ragtag team were slowly breaking through his barrier and becoming important to him. Important enough that he trusted Bo and was following her on this mission rather than doing it himself.

Halfway through the questions Bo asked to go to the bathroom and a maid took her away. Then then minutes later Vex and Lauren went to find her, against Onar's wishes of course. They came to find Bo being dropped into a hole in the ground and the two were quickly forced to go down too.

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"Well you were not as secretive as I thought you would be, Miss Bo." A voice familiar to both Vex and Bo said. Vex immediately placed the voice and was in shock at how much the man looked like Aelith.

"Ari, thank you," Bo was shocked but she remembered her manners.

Vex on the other hand did not, "well, well, well," he said and Ari eyes him confused, "never thought I'd see you. Big bro to the rescue. Or was it big bro that ratted her out?" Ari's eyes softened, he too placed Vex's voice. "Well, how shall I kill you?"

Bo's knife, that Vex still had, was in a death grip. "It isn't like that, Vex. I love my sister and I think," He looked Vex over from head to toe, "I think you're perfect for her," the two men had a small staring contest before Vex shrugged and waved an arm, "this way."

Ari led them through multiple corridors and stopped at the top of a set of stairs, "aren't you going to come?"

"Bo, he can't," Lauren ran a hand over runes that were etched into the wall around the door, Vex too cursed, "Only me and you can. These runes keep all Dark Fae from entering."

"Will she be able to exit?" Bo asked suddenly and nearly shrank away when all three answered at the same time.

"Yes," the three said and only Vex continued with, "you bloody idiot, now hurry the fuck up." Bo felt her body tense up under Vex's control and he forced her through the door, "well, that's nice to know. While I can't enter my powers still work." He released Bo and let the two continue on their way, then once the girls were out of earshot asked Ari, "what are we going to do now?"

"You have a car?" Ari asked with a raised eye brown and Vex smirked. While Ari and Aelith shared hair color but not freckles it was obvious by how similar their facial expressions were that they were twins. Even Ari's right eye brow had a missing part to it in the middle- birth defect or something of the sort Aelith had once told him.

"No," Vex admitted, "but I have Bo's keys, haha!" he laughed as he held up Bo's car keys and jingled them. Oh he was good! Bo, all seeing succubus Bo, had just been pick pocketed by Vex. How she never noticed the loss of her keys from those ass tight pants she wore, he'd never know, "let's get our get away vehicle ready shall we?"

"I see why she likes you," Ari said with a devious smirk of his own, "she's always been a sucker for bad boys who were good guys." Vex tilted his head in slight confusion as Ari snatched the keys from him; bad boys who were good guys? What the hell did that mean?

.~:*:~.

Bo and the good doctor had notice upon coming back up the stairs that Vex and Ari were gone. Aelith leaned heavily on Bo due to her malnourishment. Apparently food and water were necessary for people to live, who would have guessed with how starved the girl was "Lauren, get my keys from my back pocket. We've gotta get out of here before anyone notices the dead guy in the basement." Bo could feel Lauren's hands on her ass, searching for the keys.

"They're not there," Lauren said, her voice taking on a panicked edge, "Bo, your keys are not here." either way keys or no, car or no, the two needed to quickly get out.

"Right..." Aelith directed and even in her delusional state from dehydration she knew where she was like the back of her hand. Bo didn't question the directions that Aelith said and they'd soon arrived at a blank and unmarked door. Bo passed the too light girl off to Lauren and kicked the door open.

"Holy fuck!" Vex cried as he stumbled away from the door, "took you two long enough. He said, we've been waiting out here- Aelith?" Bo ignored the panic coming from Vex as he pushed passed her to get Aelith from Lauren. She herself opened the drivers door and a dozing Ari fell out. He hit the ground before quickly standing up and brushing himself off like nothing had happened.

"Shall we?" Ari asked as he headed to the passenger side door Lauren slid in that side while Vex, holding Aelith like she might break, slid in behind Bo.

"Hey, Doc, she gunna be alright?" Ari asked as Lauren looked over Aelith precariously in the now crowded car.

It was a few minutes before Lauren spoke, she wanted to do a full check up on the girl before giving a definite answer. But then with the way Vex was eying her she thought better than to with hold information like this at the moment. "I can't give you a positive answer, but," She said loudly when Vex opened his mouth to say something, probably witty, "she seems perfectly fine except for being dehydrated and starved."

P.S. Oh man, do I have a plot twist for you guys or what soon. The only hint I will give is that it has to do with our FAVORITE couple. But No at this point Vex/Aelith are too underdeveloped to be that couple.