A/N: Thank you to everyone who reviewed and to all my readers for being so patient. I'm going to continue alternating between this story and Saving the Savior depending on how cooperative my muse is. Plus I have one or two one shots I'm working on-is it summer yet? For any of my readers who are not familiar with Lost Girl, the Selkies were the female Fae that Kenzi was considering (briefly) switching teams for. Enjoy. :)

"Do you want to get her back?" Bo asked gently. She was having a hard time picturing the broken woman in front of her as the root of all evil that the townsfolk would have her believe.

Regina shut her eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them again before responding, "Yes, I…my son is very attached to her, and he blames me for her leaving."

"I'm so sorry. Look, we'll get her back. I promise, and I never break my promises," Bo offered. At least one of them deserved to be with the woman of her dreams. She'd solved crazier cases.

Tears threatened to bubble from Regina's eyes. She wanted more than anything to believe in this stranger, but she was too old to believe in fairy godmothers. Still, she saw the honest determination in the woman's eyes, a look she'd only ever seen directed at her from Emma. She knew that whatever happened, this stranger would do her absolute best to bring Emma home to their dysfunctional family, and in that moment, that was enough. She did something she almost never did; she spoke directly from her heart, "I could totally kiss you right now."

"What's stopping you?" Bo looked into her eyes, not even realizing that she'd placed her hand on Regina's shoulder to offer comfort. Her chi flowed to the other woman of its own accord, having been stifled for too long. She was hungry, starving in fact, and she was so tempted to break her moral code about feeding on human chi. The fact that Regina was now looking at her with hero worship in her eyes only enticed her further.

Regina tried to stop herself. The woman in front of her was most definitely not Emma, but the pull of attraction she felt was overwhelming nonetheless. She'd never struggled with monogamy before, even when she hadn't loved the individual she was with, but then she and Emma weren't together, not technically, and Emma was off in another realm doing god knows what. Was Emma even thinking of her or was she bedding the nearest warm body in one of her infamous one night stands? That thought, that doubt was all she needed to justify touching deliciously moist, tender lips with her own, and once she started she didn't want to stop. For once in her life, kissing wasn't about control; it wasn't about dueling for dominance. It was about comfort and warmth and the shots of electricity running through her body. It was about healing. Soft lips contrasted with the slightly rough texture of the tongue that had just entered her mouth; her senses were on fire. In that moment, she knew that forces beyond mere lust were at work. She forced herself to pull away, desperately missing the contact, but needing an answer to the questions forming in her mind, "Magic….you have magic."

"Um, not exactly," Bo sighed, faced once again with the conundrum of whether to come out as Fae. "It's sort of complicated."

Regina's mind raced as she realized what she thought should have been obvious to her from the beginning, "No, you do. It's ok—this is great news! We can combine your magic with mine, and then we really will be able to get Emma back."

"See, there you go. A little optimism goes a long way," Bo smiled, biting back the tinge of jealousy that she couldn't really explain. She loved Lauren; this was only a distraction…right? Her thoughts were interrupted by a tell-tale ringtone.

Regina inquired, "Are you going to answer that?"

"Oh, yeah. It's probably nothing. I'll be right back. Don't start plotting without me," Bo warned with a grin, putting the phone to her ear and walking into the hallway. "Kenzi, this better be important."

"Well, now I'm insulted. Here I am, checking in on my bestie and how she's doing on the case, and this is the thanks I get," Kenzi bantered into the phone as she took another sip of her drink. "The Dal is really boring without you, you know."

"Tell Trick to make sure you don't go overboard with those drinks. We can't exactly afford a huge tab," Bo asked with the real reason for her request understood between them. Kenzi was a bit of a wild drunk, and Bo didn't want to worry about what trouble the young girl could get in while she was out of town.

"Speaking of moolah, any luck getting the mayor to let you search for those missing kids?" Kenzi pestered good-naturedly.

"I was just getting to that when you called," Bo answered, bending the truth slightly. She'd honestly forgotten about the kids the moment she'd kissed the mayor.

"Oh, really? Tell the truth, is the mayor really as hot as she is in her picture? Because I would tap that and I don't even go for chicks," Kenzi joked into the phone while motioning to Trick for another drink.

"Kenzi," Bo cautioned. She knew that Kenzi didn't swing that way and so wasn't a real threat, but she had to tamper down some possessiveness just the same.

"Oh my god, she is, isn't she? You like her! There's my Bo-Bo, getting herself back on the wagon," Kenzi clinked her glass with Hale's goblet in a toast. "I'm putting you on speaker."

"Kenzi, wait!" Bo tried to stop her, even though she knew reasoning with a drunk woman was pointless. She could hear Trick's voice in the background, and she thought she could hear Hale's as well. "Hale, is that you?"

"Yeah, don't worry, I'm keeping an eye on her," Hale replied casually. "Do you have any leads?"

"Nothing I can talk about at the moment. Who's all there?" Bo asked.

"Just me, Kenzi, and a few Selkies who dropped in. Oh, yeah, and Trick of course," Hale replied. "Who were you expecting?"

"No one…just…I'll call you guys later, ok?" Bo hung up quickly. She was not going to think about why Lauren wasn't out at the Dal or who she was with instead. Not when there was an incredibly attractive woman in the other room who required her help—and missing children who needed to be found.

An impatient Regina called out to her when she saw the phone no longer next to other woman's ear, "Was everything alright?"

"Nothing that a little time won't fix. Now where were we?" Bo turned to face her with a smile. "I can't wait to hear all the ideas you've been dreaming up."