"Tamsin," she heard a voice but groaned and rolled over,"Tamsin wake up."
"You better have a damn good reason for waking me up at..." she looked at the clock next to her. "four thirty in the morning!" She rolled over and glared daggers into soft brown eyes.
"I'm sorry... I couldn't sleep and wanted to talk to you." Bo addmited sheepishly.
Tamsin sighed and ran her hand through her hair before sitting up. Hair came out when she pulled her hand away once more. "Great."
"You shed like a dog."
Tamsin could have snapped and killed Bo just then but something about the way Bo was smiling told her she was joking. So instead, she played along. "And you feed like one."
Bo glared at her for a minute before her resolve dissolved into pure laughter. Tamsin joined in and before either knew it they were both on the floor laughing.
"Shhh!" Bo said suddenly and rolled under Tamsin's bed.
A knock on the door was heard a moment later and Tamsin jumped up and scrambled back into bed.
"Keep it down in there Tamsin." she heard Dyson's voice from the other side of the door.
"Whatever. Keep your nose out of my business wolf boy." Bo's voice echoed through the room, impersonating Tamsin.
"Oh my god Bo I do not sound like that!"
"Sure you do Tammers!"
Bo rolled out from under the bed and looked up into Tamsin's electric eyes. They were so full of life, so full of energy, so full of...sadness.
"Tamsin, why don't you want to know what you are?" Bo asked quietly after she sat on the bed next to her.
"Because that makes everything here become real, Bo." she replied in barely a whisper. "You and I are real...right here..right now." she added emphasis on right here and right now.
"I hope this is real..." Bo leaned in and kissed Tamsin square on the lips who was kinda lost in her thoughts but was returned straight to reality once Bo's lips touched hers. So she reciprocated the kiss carefully at first, moving her hand into Bo's hair and pulling her closer then more forcefully as the two battled for dominance when their tongues met. Tamsin pulled away enough to rest her head against Bo's forhead. "I can't..." she said breathlessly.
"Yes you can." Bo was all hot and bothered. Tamsin was a really great kisser and she wanted to taste those lips again or she swore she'd drown in her cravings. She moved her hand to touch Tamsin's cheek and kissed down her jawline slowly.
"No I can't!" Tamsin shoved Bo off of her and moved far away from her.
"What is your problem Tamsin?!"
"You! You are my problem! Get out of my room before I drag you out by your hair."
"You say you don't want to know what you are because that makes everything real, well you know what I think?"
"I don't give a flying fuck what you think!" Tamsin screeched from across the room.
"I think you are a coward." Bo looked directly into the electric eyes that now looked like they were shedding tears."I think you are too scared to want anything more than this because you can't handle it." she walked out of the door and slammed it.
Tamsin slumped to the floor, pulled her knees to her chest, and cried. Because Bo was right. Of course she was right.
Later that day Bo went to find Lauren again and this time Dyson was in there with her. "Hey wolf, hey Dr. Hotpants." she winked at both of them and sat down.
"Hello Bo." Lauren smiled at the nickname and gave Dyson a disapproving look as she noticed he was checking Bo out. "Dyson..why don't you go check on the other patients?"
"So doc, how about you tell me more about the Fae?" Bo asked playing with a pen on Lauren's desk.
"Alright Bo, I'll tell you more about the Fae,"she grabbed the pen from Bo, "walk with me?" She opened the door and led Bo out. "So the Fae. Let's see. There is Dark Fae, Light Fae, and then there's you who has yet to choose a side. Dyson is Light Fae which means he works under the light elders. Tamsin, like you, has not chose a side. But I strongly believe she will choose Dark once she decides to know what she is. If she ever does, that is."
"Right..Tamsin..." Bo touched her fingertips to her lips remembering what happened that morning. "Go on."
"Well one of the rules about being Fae is you cannot tell humans what you are or you risk exposing the rest of the Fae and you don't want that." she opened a door and Bo walked in and saw different people she'd never seen. "There are different parts of the hospital but this is the Light Fae area. This is where you can find me if I'm not in my office or the lab."
"Wait, so humans can't know I'm Fae..but you are human?"
"With the exception of Kenzi and I. I assume you've met Kenzi. She's human too."
"Well why is Kenzi in here?"
"I'm her cousin and she's a mental case. I couldn't send her somewhere else. I think she just needs a friend or family and that's why I'm here." she cleared her throat and walked over to a man with chocolate skin and brown eyes. "Hello Hale, how are things going today?"
"Hey Lauren, just fine. And who is this?" he gestured to Bo.
Bo stuck out her hand. "Hello, I'm Bo Dennis."
He shook her hand. "I'm Hale. She's a chipper one, isn't she?" he asked with a bit of mirth.
"Just innocent." Lauren smiled and opened the door for Bo to leave the room with her. "My job is to treat sick Fae or wounded Fae and take care of the Fae if anything ever happens to them."
"I see..." Bo replied and found they were back in Bo's side of the hospital.
"Tomorrow I'll show you the Dark Fae side of the hospital and maybe you can meet Trick."
"Who's Trick?" Bo asked curiously.
"You'll see." Lauren started walking away but Bo grabbed her hand.
"Thanks Dr. Hotpants."
Lauren's face lit up at the nickname again and she nodded. "You're welcome Bo."
"Someones got the hots for my cousin. Gross." Kenzi was sitting in a chair across from the TV this time.
"Whatever." was Bo's reply. "What are you doing Kenz?"
Kenzi smiled at the nickname. She didn't mind Bo, not really. She actually enjoyed her company though sometimes she seemed to chipper for her own good.
"Just trying to pass time. Time goes by incredibly slow in this place.."
"Yeah, tell me about it."
Bo was half expecting and half hoping Tamsin would come out of her room like last time but there was no sign of the troubled blonde since Bo saw her earlier that morning. She didn't know what to think of Tamsin anymore. All she knew about her was that she didn't want to know what she really is, that she is unaligned like herself, and that she had gorgeous eyes that drew Bo in every time.
"Where is Tamsin? She usually comes out about now with a sarcastic comment."
"Don't hold your breath." Bo replied then walked away heading into her room.
"What the hell does that mean?" Kenzi replied before giving up and going into her room too.
Tamsin was fast asleep on the floor when she heard a knock that awoke her. "If your name starts with B don't even think about entering."
"It's Kenzi." She opened the door and closed it. "Where are you?"
Tamsin's head popped up and Kenzi walked over to her and sat down by her. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong Kenzi I'm just sleeping on the floor because I felt like it."
Kenzi would believe that maybe if Tamsin's eyes weren't puffy and red.
"You've been crying." Kenzi pointed out the puffy red eyes.
"Yeah maybe a little..." Tamsin had a soft spot for Kenzi. She thought of her as a close friend if not a younger sister.
"It's Bo, isn't it?" Tamsin didn't even have to reply, it was written all over her face. Kenzi sighed and Tamsin laid her head against Kenzi's.
"She's so...infuriating but so honest and kind and caring and interesting at the same time." Tamsin felt the sting of tears threaten her and so she wiped them away before they could start again. She touched her fingertips to her lips and remembered kissing Bo and feeling so light like she could float away. "I don't know what to do, Kenzi."
"Maybe it's time for you to find out what you are, Tamsin." she put her arms around her and hugged her. "It'll help you decide what's right.
"You are wonderful Kenzi but I don't know if I can."
"What if I went with you to see Lauren, would that help?"
Tamsin shook her head. "I have to do this on my own."
They sat like that for a while before Kenzi went back to her room and went to sleep.
"She's right. Maybe it is time..."