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Ok let me start by saying that I own not a damn thing connected to Lost Girl because if I did Hale and Kenzi would be End Game and that would be all she wrote.

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"What?"

"Congratulations."

"Kenzi?"

Bo was speechless and Kenzi couldn't help but give a laugh at how clueless the succubus was. Then she just felt bad. It wasn't any one thing or the other that did it to her, it just was, so she ignored that feeling. Taking in the glimmering stainless steel appliances and pretty counter tops distracted her for just a moment and she decided she was hungry after all. Well it was to be expected as she had just yakked up her guts again for the umpt-teenth time it seemed.

"Hey, do we have any of that yummy fruit-salad we had yesterday?"

Sturgis looked a little exasperated by her going off track and not truly explaining herself, but still seemed willing to give in and give her what she needed-wanted. "No we did not have any left, however I did have some made up this morning for breakfast since it was the only thing you actually held down yesterday."

"Oh, thanks."

She thought it out as she opened the refrigerator and grabbed the plate with wrapped and slightly wilted fruit taunting her. It was probably pretty mean of her to not give some kind of acknowledgement other than surprise or cautions thanks.

"Kenzi, you're pregnant?!"

Looking up from her dish of the day Kenzi regarded Bo with a heavy contemplation.

She wasn't happy with the succubus right now and still didn't know how she felt about everything, but she knew as Bo's first friend in the succubus' admittedly short tragic life, that she maybe sort of owed her an explanation. She took another bite of the yummy fruit-salad and chewed slowly before deciding exactly how she would answer her.

Giving everyone in the room a glance Kenzi finally spoke up. "Uhh, guys can I get a few minutes alone with Bo, we need to talk," Giving Sturgis and Dyson pointed looks she continued. "You guys can take a look at the baby pictures and let the doctor know what happened."

They caught on quickly, and everyone exited the room, other than Tamsin, who still held the file. Kenzi waited for the Valkyrie to speak her mind, but was pleasantly surprised when she only smiled and dropped a blurry little photo on the counter.

The blonde spitfire turned and walked down the hall yelling as she went. "I am taking bets on the sex of the baby at the Dal tonight."

Shaking her head and giving a soft smile, Kenzi took another bite of her food before looking at Bo to find her staring at the photo transfixed.

"Wow, Kenz I…" The succubus just went silent.

"Yeah I know."

"Kenz, why didn't you say anything?"

Her friend was hurt by the imagined slight, but she was more hurt that Bo had just said those words in relation to her, when anytime she really tried to speak to Bo in the last few weeks she was interrupted by some Fae or the other.

That was why she had left in the first place.

It wasn't too hard to imagine the pain she had felt when Massimo had escaped, Vex had taken the druids side, and Bo had gotten married to Rainer. It was a sharp blade, coated in salt, being slowly drug across her already bleeding heart. And really who gets engaged (let alone married) after their best friend loses their would-be- fiancé?

BO that's who.

"I didn't say anything because I didn't know until yesterday." She paused to take another bite, glaring down at the rapidly vanishing food. "I was going to tell you until we got interrupted by Rainer and his lady knight."

"I-I'm sorry Kenzi, it's just everything going on has me spinning back and forth."

Kenzi slammed her fork against her plate and then her plate onto the counter for good measure.

"You don't think I'm spinning back and forth going through all this?" The little Russian glared and grabbed the photo from her friend. "Screw you Bo-Bo. My life sucks ass right now." She stared at the little grainy image before continuing on with her train of thought. "Here you are princess Blood-King, daughter of the Biggest Bad of them all, and not one, not two, but three people who love you with everything they have, going to war for you, fighting together to make sure you make it out alive."

She sneered at her friends shock.

"Forgive me if I think your being a big ass baby whining about which toy to take off the damn shelf to play with." She took a breath and returned to the conversation. "I think you need to just get over yourself. You love Dyson, you love Lauren, and you love Rainer cause he's your destiny, well fuck don't you just deserve much better than that?"

"Kenzi, that's not fair."

"Fair." Kenzi stood stoic still and waited for Bo to elaborate, and when she didn't she fumed even more.

"You think Hale dying was fair? You think Nadia dying was fair? Do you think it was fair to Dyson, losing his love for you, and facing the love he once had for Ciara, only to watch her die? Fuck you Bo, life isn't fair, it sucks, but you have to keep going. You walking around wallowing in self-pity won't get you anywhere, and pushing away the people who have been here the longest and loved you through all your shit is just plain stupid on your part."

Bo stood shamed by her friend and looked about ready to break, but Kenzi wasn't going to give in that easily-not yet. "You need to figure out what you want Bo, cause I ain't got the time to try helping you out, just to be left alone again when the shit gets going. I've lost the man that used to sit back in the shadows with me, lost the best-friend I thought I had, and now I am going to be having a child that remind me of both of those realities. Forgive me for not giving a damn about your issues at the moment, and let me make this easier on you, yes I am safe, and no I do not hate you."

Kenzi stormed away from the counter and across the room to distance herself from the sniffling succubus. She couldn't handle this right now. She wanted to be nice, and just forgive Bo, let her back in, maybe go home, but she couldn't. There was a tiny baby growing inside of her that needed her more than Bo ever could and she had to make sure that it would be safe, no matter who it hurt to do so.

"I am so sorry Kenzi. I haven't meant to ignore your feelings or push you away. I just didn't know what to do for you after Hale died."

"I didn't need you to really do anything. I just needed a friend."

"I'm sorry." Bo cried messily.

"I know." Kenzi hugged herself as her friend wept behind her back.

"Can you please forgive me Kenzi? I can't do this without you."

"You're already forgiven." Kenzi heard Bo immediately take a step towards her trying to gauge the truth in her statement. "And yes you can Bo, and you're going to have to, because I can't help you this time. I have a child to think about and no Siren to stitch me up after." She spoke softly and turned back and walked to her friend.

"I love you." The succubus squeezed her in a hug and cried.

"I love you, too." Kenzi tried to put words together, and make what she was about to say simple and sweet, but just didn't know how.

"But?" Bo could feel her hesitation.

"But I think I need to stay here, and you need to figure this out with the three musketeers at your side."

Bo let go of her friend and wiped her tears away. "You're going to stay here?"

"Bo, I am safe here. At the Crack-Shack we tend to get invaded- a lot. I need to be safe right now while I'm toasting this bun in my oven."

Bo frowned.

"You can come by, I mean Dyson and Tam have stopped by to see me every day no matter where I have been at, and I don't think Sturgis would stop you from seeing me." She gave Bo a small hopeful smile. "I mean Fae-by Hale has a big sis in Tam, and the best God-father any child could ask for in Dyson, but she's gonna need her auntie Bo-Bo to show her how to kick ass and take names later."

The succubus perked up. "You think it's a girl?"

"I don't know." Kenzi took a split second to think about it. "We won't know until the baby is born, but I'm all kindsa happy bout that, because I don't really wanna know."

"You don't?" Bo sounded six shades of surprised, but covered it with a smile and watery eyes.

"Nah, I just want it to grow healthy and be happy."

"But if it is a girl?"

"Then we'll get to buy her pretty outfits and do her hair." Kenzi shrugged.

"And if it is a boy?"

"Well, then Dyson gets to buy him shoe's out the wazoo, Tam gets to teach him how to shoot a gun, and you get to teach him how to pick up the ladies the right way."

"Wow." Bo looked a little confused for a moment. "You sound like you want it to be a boy."

Blue eyes studied brown for a minute and Kenzi thought about the insinuation before deciding how to respond. "Hey, now. Don't do that. I didn't mean it like that, but if it is a boy he'll need more attention and shit. Us girls, we get by just fine on our own, its men that need the helping hand and guidance to do right and be good."

"Umm, ok."

The succubus was unconvinced.

"No I mean it. If baby Hale ends up with a penis he's gonna need Dyson to tell him about his dad and be there for him when he gets his first crush, cause I just don't think you and me are gonna cut it. I mean if it's a boy and a Siren like Hale were all in for Hell. No pun intended." Kenzi gave a put-upon look to her friend.

The brunette woman stood off to the side now, trying to find words to voice her question. "So is that why you want to stay here?"

"No, not entirely."

Kenzi was tired of thinking and explaining, but wanted to tell Bo the truth too, she just didn't really know how to say 'yeah, I am only staying cause living with you holds too many dangers and I am way to danger prone right now'.

How do you just say that without sounding like you're pinning blame on someone?

You don't.

She turned away from her friend and grabbed her plate to place it into the sink hoping that doing the inconsequential would give her time to smooth out the wrinkles in this answer.

"Look, it's like this Bo, as long as I am here I am protected and baby Hale has an actual chance of surviving all this shit, cause then you, Tam, Dyson, and Lauren aren't all sidetracked by me. I'll have people here who can protect me while you do your destiny thing, and when it's over you guys can settle your shit and I'll decide what to do from there."

"So, you might come home?"

"Yeah, of course, maybe." She really didn't know how to answer.

"Ok well then I guess I'll get to kicking ass and hurry back, I mean we only have a few days left to come up with a plan."

Kenzi's eyes widened at the thought.

"Speaking of plans, I think I need to hunt down Dyson and Sturgis before they start climbing the walls and making all my decisions for me."

"Yeah that would probably be best."

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Coming down the hall to a room that was bustling with excitement was kind of disorienting as she and Bo had been arguing a short while ago.

Walking into the room made her just laugh outright. Dyson, Trick, and Sturgis stood along a low table sipping congratulatory drinks, all of them with varying smiles shifting across their faces, and Tamsin had Val staring at the grainy images under a lamp.

"Probably trying to make sure it wasn't a fault in the machinery after all." Kenzi nudged Bo's shoulder as she pointed them out.

"What are you guys doing?"

Rainer came up to Bo as Kenzi voiced her questioned, and asked the succubus if she was ready to leave as they had things to figure out still, and as much as she tried she couldn't hide the little bit of hurt that spread when Bo nodded.

"We are celebrating the start of a new generation, I'd ask you to join, but then you are carrying the generation we are celebrating, so it's not allowed." Dyson turned around, smug with laughter in his eyes.

"Wolfy, you might not want to tease me, because that is just all kinds of cruel and unusual punishment." She made a pout, and let her eyes tear up, taking pride in her acting ability still being intact after all this time. "I think I might just hop a plane and disappear cause my feelings have been hurt."

She laughed as everyone in the room turned terrified eyes towards her.

She turned off the fake waterworks and walked over to the wolf man and gave him a bit of a hug. "Calm down troops, I was just kidding. I mean I've went this long without the lovely hooch, thanks to Trick. And the doctor yesterday said that the baby was healthy as far as he could tell. I have no intentions of jeopardizing that." She gave everyone a critical eye before continuing on. "So, what kind of questions do I have to answer today?"

"Nothing you don't want to." Dyson gave everyone a threatening glare.

"We just want to know how you are truthfully feeling." Sturgis suddenly seemed ten times bigger then what he truly was.

She took the time to think it out before answering as best as she could without throwing in a little white lie. "I am fine. Still really depressed that someone I really think I could have loved forever had to die. Also really pissed off that my 'someone' had to die for some lame ass prophesy none of us even knew about. But I can also honestly say that I am sort of excited about the baby, now."

Trick looked guilty but decided on intrigue as a sort of icebreaker. "Are you having any weird symptoms?"

She was dumbstruck for all of twenty seconds and looked at Sturgis to weigh in his understanding of the question. The Pombero looked a bit more intrigued about the answer than even Trick did but it was still a confusing question. She hadn't even thought of pregnancy when she had the normal symptoms. How the hell was she to know what 'weird symptoms' included?

"I'm not sure. Just the same old nausea, same old sleeplessness, and same old mood swings." Kenzi answered as she watched Bo give Rainer another nod and step forward.

"Sorry guys, but we have to go, we need to drop by a few places, figure some stuff out." Bo gave everyone apologetic eyes and turned directly to Kenzi. "Can I stop back by later tonight? We can have some girl-time then?" She was hopeful and terrified all at the same time.

Kenzi didn't even bother asking if she could invite anyone into the Santiago Home, since it might very well be her own home for the rest of her life- ya know if she ever decided not to go back to the Crack-Shack and live it up. "Yeah, sure."

While Rainer and Bo made their exit everyone else just drew closer to her and began making inquiries to the previous question.

"Really guys, I don't know what you mean by weird symptoms. Are we talking growing extra limbs, excreting toxic ooze, or something a little more normal?"

Trick is the one that answered. "No nothing so horrendous. It's just that most fae have a sort of special symptom unique to their species. Hale was a Siren, so it says in history that the Siren embryos bring forth visions to the mother."

She perked up at this. "Visions like Dream Visions, or visions like Bam-In-Your-Face-Visions?"

She couldn't help but throw up her hands and imitate what she pictured in her head.

"The visions appear differently to each mother, and differ from child to child." Sturgis was a bit more defensive now.

"What?" Blue eyes clouded with confusion.

"My wife told me that the Siren where a species born out at sea. They adapted to the seclusion by singing, but then, in that time, that was the only way they could communicate or heal." His look was imploring her to read between the lines.

However, she was a bit too uneducated in all things Siren, besides, (A) whistling makes head explode, (B) Whistling makes hangover go away, (C) Whistling can mind control your ass into doing the hokey-pokey, and most importantly, (D) whistling heals the Kenzi to an all new understanding of the phrase –won't even leave a scratch.

"It's like this. The baby can help you see things, or, well, know things. If it is indeed a Siren, and it didn't get shorted by the human half of its' DNA, the Genetic makeup just responds to your deepest wishes and the baby gives you a little push here or there to keep going." Val continued in place of her father. "It is a glorified survival instinct for the children of the Siren."

"What do you mean survival instinct?" Trick asked even more intrigued than he was before, all the guilt clouding him from before overshadowed by something he hadn't ever known before.

Kenzi didn't take offence.

She wanted to know now too.

Val took a decorative bowl from the table and lobbed it over at Tamsin. The quick duck and glare that the battlefield weary woman shot at the young Pombero was comical to say the least.

Val continued on completely unconcerned for her safety. "That was a reflex. The baby's reflex is to ender you to him or her so you don't terminate the pregnancy."

"Why the hell would that be a part of a baby's genetic makeup?" Kenzi was horrified.

"Like I said, the Siren where a race born out at sea, or so my wife said, and it wasn't unheard of for the Siren' to eradicate any danger to themselves, including any children conceived at a time that made them vulnerable to opposing forces or fae." Sturgis seemed a bit conflicted. "From what I was told it was a sort of a fluke that gave the children this shorthanded gift. See, the Siren were close to dying out, much as they are now, and the fates seemed to believe blessing them was the only way to keep the line from dying out."

Kenzi waited for him to finish, but it was taking him a while to spill the syllables from his lips.

He shook his head after he set his drink down and turned back around so he could rest back against the low table he had been standing by. "The tale my wife told me insinuated the fact that it was actually a curse so the mother would feel obligated to keep and care for the child. She said, the truth was a small war broke out among two factions of the family and one sold out the other to foreign men, humans, and among those sold where three sisters bound for slavery upon an old ship."

She stood froze to the floor and began immersing herself into each little dream she had been subjected to since Hale's passing.

"As the war imploded around those left, it abandoned them to infertility with others of their kind, they had to turn to mating with other fae in order to continue and even then it was not always possible for each pregnancy to result in a Siren. Those women on the ship made it to shore unchained, and unbound, finding their way to other fae seeking refuge. As far as my records show they were all taken in by a Head of the clan Zamora, and as a gift for his uncharacteristic act of kindness they granted him a blessed twig they swore would protect his kin from then onward."

"The twig of Zamora was actually a gift form Hale's mom to you then?" Kenzi inserted into the monologue .

Sturgis gave a huff and a roll of his eyes. "No, it was a gift from the Siren to the Pombero."

"Ok, so what does this have to do with the baby-vision-thing?" She gave everyone a searching look.

"It's like this. Those sisters gave the twig as a gift, but their estranged family wasn't happy with that so they sent a curse for them." Val stepped back in with the explanation. "Assuming that the sisters three would marry into and sire Pombero ilk they cursed them never to be able to hold the magic of that gift, even if it was freely given."

"That wouldn't actually happen until I married their mother, but the curse the family laid made the fates angry and so they cursed all of them with the visions of their children, bringing forth their darkest wishes and deepest nightmares. The children born as Siren would then become the whole world to the mother, her own well-being no longer a factor. The magic used for such a curse has slowly lost its potency as the years wear on, as you can tell from how few Siren live today." Sturgis concluded with a deep frown upon his brow.

Kenzi just stood there for a while and absorbed the imagery and information. It was surreal how she had a pretty good idea what those women looked like and how deceivingly innocent they had looked when she had first saw them. Innocent was what they seemed to be too, but she didn't get the rest of the dream.

Vision.

Dream Vision?

Vision Dream?

"If I said I have dreamt of Hale bound to the sea, complete with iron shackles, with a trio of bound and gagged women across from him, would you say that was a dream or a vision?" Blue eyes peered skittishly from person to person.

Dyson's grimacing smile from earlier turned straight down into a heavy frown, while Sturgis seemed to lose all air in his lungs with a resounding whoosh.

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To Be Continued

A/N Sorry for the long wait but I just moved and had to get everything resituated. Hope you guys enjoy this. The next instalment shall be up sometime within the next two weeks, so keep an eye out for that, and don't forget to drop a line. ^_^ Ember Ashleigh Davis