A/N: So my muse decided not to play nice, why does that always happen? Anyway, on we go. I have the ending for this worked out already, I just need to get there. Hope you're all enjoying this, let me know. Read, review and enjoy!

Chapter Four

As the night dragged on Tamsin didn't sleep, she couldn't sleep, every time she closed her eyes she remembered more about her time training Ericka. At first the young Valkyrie had been pretty headstrong, Acacia had said Tamsin was just like her when she was growing up. But she put the work in when she was training, did everything that Tamsin asked of her and more.

The temperature in the hut had dropped as night had fallen. When the trio made it back they found three beds, Tamsin hadn't been kidding when she had said everything they needed would be provided. The bed didn't stop the cold. The temperature didn't bother Tamsin or Dyson, as a Valkyrie Tamsin's body adjusted to the temperature and as a wolf Dyson's body temperature ran naturally higher than most. But Bo could feel it. She had put on the big coat they had found, but it didn't really help much. As she got out of bed she saw Tamsin sitting by the wall, it was obvious to the Succubus that the blonde couldn't sleep.

"Hey T…" she said.

Tamsin just looked at Bo before resting her head back against the wall and closing her eyes.

"Any of that vodka left?" Bo asked.

Tamsin didn't look at her she just held out the bottle. Bo took it and took a drink, instantly she felt the warmth spread down her throat.

"That's better…" Bo said.

"You still cold?" Tamsin asked.

"Yeah," Bo replied, sitting down next to Tamsin, "how are you not cold?"

"My body regulates itself," Tamsin said, "Valkyrie's fight in wars all over the world, our bodies have to adjust to that… Dyson will probably help warm you up…"

"He's sleeping." Bo said, looking over at the bed that Dyson had taken, the wolf was fast asleep.

Without another word Tamsin put her arm around Bo's shoulders, the Succubus moving closer to her, resting her head on Tamsin's shoulder. It didn't take long for the cold to disappear from Bo's body.

"Thanks T…" she said, as her eyes started to close.

"No problem Succubus," Tamsin replied, "though you might not want to tell Lauren about this…"

Bo laughed a little, Tamsin could feel it.

"Get some sleep." She said, softly kissing Bo's head.

When Tamsin was sure Bo was asleep she picked up the sleeping Succubus and put her back in bed, it didn't take long for Bo to start shivering again. Sighing to herself Tamsin thought about the best course of action, she could wake Dyson and get him to keep Bo warm, or she could do it herself. Rather than having to deal with a cranky wolf Tamsin climbed onto the bed next to Bo, wrapping her arms around the Succubus as she slept.

x-x-x

When he woke up in the morning Dyson found Bo sleeping, but there was no sign of Tamsin, the Valkyrie's bed hadn't been slept in, her bag was still there, as was her sword. Just as he was about to open the door Bo woke up.

"Morning…" she said, getting out of bed, "how did you sleep?"

"Pretty well," he replied, "you?"

"If it wasn't for Tamsin I would've frozen to death I think." Bo said with a laugh, looking around, "Where is she anyway?"

"I don't know," Dyson said, "she wasn't here when I woke up, her bed hasn't been slept in…"

"She slept in mine," Bo replied, she was sure she felt herself blush a little as Dyson turned to look at her, "I was cold, she warmed me up, that's all…could this be part of some test?"

"It could be, but who's?" he asked.

"Let's go outside and find out." Bo said, picking up her weapon of choice and walking to the door.

Opening it she took a deep breath, she knew exactly where they were.

"We're home…" Bo said, stepping out of the hut.

Dyson followed her out. Everything looked the same as it had when they left. Something wasn't right though.

"Where to?" Dyson asked.

"The Dal…" Bo replied, "always the first port of call when you arrive in town right…"

Dyson nodded and they made their way to the Dal. The streets were pretty quiet, it was the middle of the morning, the streets being quiet was unusual. Dyson spotted a couple of guys walking around with very big guns, semi-automatics if he had to take a guess.

"Wait…" he said quietly to Bo, pulling her down an alleyway.

"What?" Bo asked.

"Those guys with the guns," Dyson said, looking out of the alley, "they're Fae."

"What are Fae doing walking around with guns?" Bo asked.

"The sooner we get to the Dal the sooner we can find out." He replied, "Come on…"

They left the alley and headed left, to the Dal. Bo caught the date on a newspaper.

"Dyson…" she said.

"Come on Bo we have to keep moving." He said.

"Dyson," Bo repeated, "stop."

The wolf did as she said.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

"Does the date on that paper look wrong to you?" Bo asked, pointing out the date.

"By about 6 months," Dyson replied, "what the hell is going on here…"

x-x-x

They arrived at the Dal, it looked very different. The doors were covered in scorch marks, where someone had obviously tried burning their way in.

"What happened here…?" Bo said.

Dyson pushed the door with his foot, it opened easily enough. Slowly they both walked in through the door.

"Hello?" Bo called, "anyone here?"

There was no reply. The place was dark, very dark. Bo and Dyson made their way over to where the bar was, broken glass crunching under their feet. Dyson found a torch lying on the floor, picking it up he turned it on, adding a bit of light to the room. Tables had been flipped over, chairs lay broken, and bullet holes were in the walls.

"Where is everyone?" Bo asked.

Dyson shone the light over to the entrance to Trick's lair, there were huge metal doors where there had once been none.

"My guess would be down there…" Dyson said.

They carefully walked over to the doors.

"What do we do?" Bo asked, "Knock?"

"Sounds like as good a plan as any…" Dyson said.

He lifted the torch and banged it against the door a couple of times. Slowly the doors were opened, there to meet them was Trick.

"Bo…" he said, "Dyson… is it really you?"

"Who else is it likely to be Trick?" Dyson asked, "What happened here?"

"Come downstairs…" Trick said, "There are a couple of people who would really like to see you."

Bo and Dyson shared a look before following Trick down the stairs.

"Who was it?" Bo heard Kenzi asked.

"Kenzi…" Bo said quietly.

"You're not going to believe who it is." Trick said.

Bo and Dyson walked into Trick's lair to find Lauren and Kenzi there. No Tamsin. Kenzi ran over and pulled Bo into a hug.

"I thought I'd never see you again." Kenzi said to her best friend.

"Likewise Kenz…" Bo said, breathing in the scent she had missed.

"What happened here?" Dyson asked.

"When you didn't return from Valhalla, there was no one to stop your father." Lauren said coldly as she looked at Bo.

"What do you mean, when we didn't return?" Bo asked, "We left two days ago."

"You left 6 months ago Bo…" Trick said to his granddaughter, "you, Dyson and…"

"Tamsin…" Bo said, finishing his sentence, saying the name he seemed to be having such a hard time saying.

"Yes," Trick said, "Tamsin…"

"Where is she?" Bo asked.

Trick, Lauren and Kenzi all looked between each other.

"Where is she?" Bo asked again.

"Maybe you should take a seat…" Trick said.

x-x-x

"Now talk…" Bo said, as she started to eat the food that Trick had put in front of her.

"The three of you left for Valhalla," Trick said, "6 months ago…"

"To get yours truly back," Kenzi said, "which, you know, thanks, by the way."

Bo just nodded a little.

"We didn't really know anything was wrong until about 5 days later, when Kenzi and Tamsin arrived back without you two." Trick continued.

"What happened?" Bo asked.

"We don't know," Lauren said, "Tamsin wasn't really very forthcoming about it, all she said was that the two of you had failed a test or something, I don't know…"

"So we died," Dyson said, "good to know."

"What happened to Tamsin?" Bo asked.

Both Trick and Lauren looked at Kenzi.

"She kinda lost it…" Kenzi said, looking down at the table, "she… er… started drinking, a lot, closed herself off. I tried to get through to her, but nothing was working. She blamed herself. Sorry to say it but Bo dying hit her harder than your death D… something happened in Valhalla, between Bo and Tamsin, something that Tamsin didn't talk about, at all… but we all kinda got the hint that maybe the two of you… you know…"

Bo could feel Lauren's eyes burning a hole through her.

"So far nothing has happened," Bo said, "I mean, it got really cold last night and she helped me stay warm…"

"I tried telling them that sometimes it gets really cold in Valhalla," Kenzi said, "but they wouldn't believe me."

"I thought I was going to freeze, and if it hadn't been for Tamsin I may have." Bo said, "other than that though, nothing has happened."

"Yet…" Lauren said coldly.

"Anyway," Kenzi said, continuing before Lauren and Bo could get into any kind of argument about what may or may not have happened in Valhalla, "she was on a path of serious self-destruction, nothing mattered to her anymore. Someone found a way to release your father, without you here to stop him…"

She looked at Bo.

"Let's just say things got really fucked up, really quickly," Kenzi said, "People died… a lot of people… He… he took Tamsin. We tried to get her back, even Evony was in on getting her back. But we couldn't. She was gone…"

"Gone?" Bo asked.

"Dead," Trick said, "Tamsin is dead."

x-x-x

"Have you figured out who this test is for yet?" Dyson asked as he sat opposite Bo.

Trick, Lauren and Kenzi had their noses stuck in some of Trick's books, trying to figure out why Bo and Dyson had been returned to them. Dyson had tried explaining to Trick that it was a test, one of the tests that they were having to face to get Kenzi from Valhalla, but Trick thought there was more to it.

"I think it's for me…" Bo replied.

"Emotional or physical?" Dyson asked.

A bang on the doors snapped Bo and Dyson from their thoughts.

"Who's that?" Bo asked.

Trick picked up his gun and walked up the stairs, Bo followed closely behind him. It was Acacia.

"I told you to call next time you were coming here…" Trick said, turning from the older Valkyrie and walking back downstairs, "I could have shot you."

"Would have been a gift…" Acacia said to Trick, though she couldn't take her eyes off Bo, "you're supposed to be dead."

"Apparently so," Bo replied, following her grandfather back downstairs, "but that's in this reality, not mine."

"Explain." Acacia said to Bo as she made it downstairs.

"We're still in Valhalla," Dyson said, "still going through the tests, yesterday it was Tamsin's test, this time we think it's Bo's."

"What did they put Tamsin through yesterday?" Acacia asked.

"She had to watch Ericka die." Bo replied, knowing that Acacia would know how much of a big deal that was.

"Shit…" Acacia said, "what kind of test is this for you?"

"Haven't worked that out yet…" Bo replied as she walked back over and sat at the small table.

Dyson was about to follow her when Acacia threw him a look which stopped him in his tracks. The older Valkyrie joined her at the table as the wolf took a seat on the sofa.

"You know this makes twice that Tamsin died for you right." Acacia said.

"I didn't ask her to…" Bo said.

"You didn't have to," Acacia replied, "I knew last year when I saw her that she was in serious trouble. She fell in love, with you, and for a Valkyrie that is everything. Nothing else matters."

"She…" Bo started to say.

"You're trying to tell me you couldn't see it?" Acacia asked with a laugh, "you're a Succubus, how could you not see it?"

"She couldn't read her aura," Lauren said from her seat, "I remember she said that… before she left for Valhalla…"

"You really do suck at reading people." Acacia said.

Bo laughed a little.

"What's so funny?" the older Valkyrie asked.

"Tamsin said that to me once…" Bo said with a little smile, "I said she was one of the good ones… she said I sucked at reading people."

"Let me explain something to you Succubus," Acacia said, "when a Valkyrie falls in love, that's it. Their entire life becomes meaningless without the other person. That's why she didn't fight your father, that's why she didn't put up a fight at all… I've heard from someone who was there when she died… she didn't try and stop your father at all, she let it happen."

"Why are you telling me this?" Bo asked.

"You need to start seeing what is right in front of your face Bo," Acacia said, "you need to realise what you're missing out on. The whole world will suffer if you don't."

The room around her started to spin, minutes later both she and Dyson were back in the hut, Tamsin walked in through the door carrying three water bottles.

"Fresh water." She said, putting them down in the middle of the room, Tamsin looked at both Bo and Dyson, a confused look on her face, "what did I miss?"