Prophecy of Power

Chapter 8


Lauren

Lauren had had the most restful sleep in what seemed like weeks. The tension she had been carrying around about Bo and the fear of losing her had lifted, allowing the blonde a solid eight hours of uninterrupted blissful sleep. Lauren had left for the lab with a spring in her step, looking forward to the day ahead. That was until she stepped through the labs double doors and saw Dyson leaning against an examination table and flirting openly with one of the nurse's. He straightened up at the sight of the doctor, obvious that it was her he was waiting for. Her agitation changed into confusion when Dyson actually smiled at her as he approached. It wasn't the usual condescending smile, it was a pleasant almost friendly smile and it threw her off balance.

"Hello Dyson, what can I do for you this early in the morning?" Lauren says going for her easy emotionless reserved voice.

"I just thought I would see how you are doing after everything that happened with Bo," Dyson replies, sounding sincere. Lauren was struck mute for a moment, trying to make sense of what the hell was going on. Am I in some alternate reality where Dyson isn't an ass, she wondered. "Lauren? Are you okay?"

"Ummm sorry, but who are you and what have you done with the real Dyson?"

The wolf laughs at the blondes comment before saying, "I guess I deserve that. I haven't treated you fairly over the years have I? Look I'm going to try to make an effort to be more congenial, maybe even take the time to get to know you, if you would be open to that. I'm not saying lets be best friends or anything but I would like to see if we can find a way to get along." Lauren just stared at Dyson as if he had grown another head; she had no idea what to say. "Look, it's just that after Bo told me that she didn't want to see me any more because she is in love with you, I thought..."

"I'm sorry what did you just say," Lauren was having trouble breathing, she crossed the floor and sunk into a chair. The wolf faltered at the look on the blondes face realising he had just revealed something that the blonde obviously wasn't aware of yet. He wasn't sure what to do now, Kenzi said that the women were having a big reunion talk at the crack shack last night. He just presumed Bo would have declared her feelings for Lauren, but obviously he was wrong because he had totally thrown the doctor for a loop.

"Ummm sorry, I just presumed she would have told you last night and I had promised Bo to make an effort and shit she's going to be pissed with me." Dyson turns to the sound of the lab doors opening and watches Bo followed by a weary looking Kenzi enter the room. Bo stops just inside the door, Kenzi bumping into her with a groan. "Shit Bo, I'm so hung over, please tell me when you're gonna just stop like that."

"Sorry Kenz. Dyson what are you doing here?" Bo says, voice suspicious as she looks at him and then at the very shaken looking form of Lauren. "What have you done to Lauren, damn it Dyson, you said you were going to try." Bo approaches Lauren standing next to her facing the wolf and putting a protective hand on the blondes shoulder.

"Bo, I didn't do anything bad, well not intentionally anyway. I came here offering the doc an olive branch. Umm Lauren can you tell Bo, I didn't do anything? She looks like she's going to kill me." Lauren looks at Bo, her body is tense, her face set in anger. Lauren places her hand on Bo's hand resting on her shoulder, causing the succubus to turn her attention to her and is met by the glowing blue orbs that rises with Bo's power. The doctor flinches but forces a smile in the attempt to reassure Bo that she is fine. The sound of shattering test tubes and flasks, provoke Kenzi into action.

"Bo go outside; calm yourself down." The succubus glances in the direction of Lauren, when she sees the blonde nod her head, she lets out a frustrated groan and exits the lab. Kenzi turn to the shifter, eyebrows raised, "Well start talking wolf man, I'm not feeling well so this better be good."

"Can you excuse me please? I'll be in my office," The doctor says hurrying away.

"D-man I'm waiting."

"Shit Kenzi, it's not my fault. As I told Bo, I came over to try to make peace with the doctor. If Bo and I are going to be friends I need to make an effort to get to know Lauren. I mean she can't be that bad right, Bo loves her and you guys are friends now."

"That doesn't explain why we found her looking like you just flashed her or something." Kenzi says irritated as her head continued to thump.

"You told me they were going to talk and sort things out last night, so I presumed that Bo had told her that she broke up with me because she is in love with her." Dyson says, unable to hide the pain he still felt by Bo's rejection.

Kenzi's face blanched at the realisation that the wolf had inadvertently told Lauren that Bo was in love with her. "Oh my God Dyson, did you just out my best friends most intimate feelings to the unknowing source of those said feelings. Sweet baby Jesus, use the back entrance Dyson, because Bo's going to have kittens." Dyson didn't wait another second before taking the labs second exit, leaving Kenzi to sort the mess out.


Bo/Kenzi

Bo was pacing back and forth just outside the lab doors, muttering under her breath and waving her hands about in frustration. Kenzi approaches her friend with caution, as her hung-over brain tries to come up with the best approach for dealing with this new crisis.

"Kenzi, what did he do? And where is he?" The succubus stops pacing and approaches the goth girl, slightly calmer but still agitated.

"I sent the stupid wolf man out the back door, as for what he did well..."

"Just say whatever it is Kenzi, you never hold back from me. So don't start doing it now; out with it,"

"Alright, what happened is this. Dyson knew that you guys were having a talk last night, and so decided to make peace with the doctor because he presumed he would be seeing a lot more of her now, because of your choice. He presumed that you declared your love for Hot Pants last night, I thought you would have as well for that matter, anyway obviously you didn't tell her that you made your choice because that's why we found her sitting in the chair all flushed and shocked. Dyson told Lauren that you had broken it off with him because you were in love with your hot, hot doctor lady love in there," Kenzi concluded.

Bo just stood there, looking at Kenzi incredulously, opening and closing her mouth several times unable to form anything coherent. The succubus sits on the bench next to the lab doors completely deflated, all the anger gone as she realises that Dyson had spoken her three little words to the doctor. Words that she had never spoken to anyone, the blonde was to be her first.

"I didn't tell her about Dyson and I, because I didn't think she was ready for it, obviously I was right. What the hell do I do now Kenzi, how am I supposed to face her. She wanted to work on being friends again, this is too much too soon. Bloody Dyson damn it."

"It might not be as bad as it seems Bo Bo, just go in there and tell her that yes you broke it off with wolf man but that there are no expectations. That you will give her as much time as she needs to works through how she feels and what she wants."

"And the I'm in love with her part, do I say it or just not mention it at all," Bo questions her friend,as she jiggles her legs nervously.

"Just see where the conversation goes, If the time feels right say it, if not, don't. Go with you instincts Bo, you two are connected, that much is obvious to anyone with...well...eyes," Kenzi laughs to herself and shakes her head, "I feel like Dr. Phil or something, just go in there and be whatever she needs, Okay."

"Okay, thanks Kenz, I don't know what I would do without you. Wish me luck." Bo gets up and heads back towards the lab doors.

"Luck," Kenzi says, as she gets up from her position on the bench. "I'm going to head down to the Dal, get me some pancakes for breakfast. Come down when you are finished with the Doc."

"Okay, and if you see Dyson tell him, tell him, there will be words." And with that the succubus takes a deep breath and goes in search of her doctor.