A/N~ Again thanks to Jommy26 for the idea to do a story on Delinquents with our own twist. Staying close to canon for now, close but not completely true to it. Sorry about any tense or POV errors. Please review it helps me write better and lets me know what you like. Meanwhile read, enjoy and review. Thanks to everyone who has read, followed, favorited and reviewed. You guys are the greatest! ~A

Tikbalang here, Tikbalang there?

Back in the camp's main building Dyson and Bo are waiting impatiently in the hall for the fireworks to begin. Bo says in a worried tone, "I hope this works."

"Smoking out prey, is a hunting technique that's been used since the beginning of time," Dyson informs her casually.. He switches places with Bo to scan the area for the tikbalang. His focus is divided however as he starts thinking about Kenzi who hadn't really spoken to him since the locking in incident.

"Do we need to talk about what happened in the Dawning?" Bo asks. Dyson gives her a speaking look that basically says, "No, not really."

She ignores that speaking look and says, "Because I need to talk about it."

"Okay," Dyson agrees looking surprisingly unruffled in comparison to the succubus. He steps back toward her and waits for Bo to speak.

"I need you to know," she says intently, "that I appreciate so much what you were willing to risk for me." Dyson ducks his head a little, embarrassed. "But I also need you to know that I am still in love with Lauren."

Dyson smiles softly at the succubus wondering if she really thinks he doesn't know that, he merely replies, "All right."

"All right?" Bo repeats, clearly insulted to not get more of a reaction. Making Dyson realize he might be a little glad that while he still loved Bo he wasn't in love with Bo.

It's become a little obvious that while she wants him to know she is in love with Lauren, she still wants him to be hers, and he's not anymore. The thought shocks him a little, but also makes him feel more relaxed in his own skin than he has in a long time.

Dyson chuckles, shaking his head slightly and closing the distance between them. He takes her hand as she looks on with a slightly sad expression on her face, before he says a little wryly, "I think the tales of my romantic heroism have been slightly exaggerated."

"You volunteered to be my Hand," Bo says in denial, "knowing you weren't getting out alive." Obviously believing that only someone who is in love with her would be willing to die for her.

"Then why aren't I dead?" Dyson points out. Not really following his line of explanation, Bo shifts from foot to foot and tilts her head confused. "We've been through a lot together Bo," he says "And the one thing that I've learned in that time, is that the people who underestimate you? Always lose. When I volunteered, I wasn't risking my life. I was trusting that you would save it." he concludes in a matter of fact tone. The words unsaid but obvious. It's what we do, we're partners.

Bo smiles coyly and then playfully pushes him back with the bat. He goes without resistance but with an affectionate smile. "Tell me the truth," Bo demands, serious again.

Dyson lowers his head waiting for her to speak, "Was it hard dating me?" she asks.

Surprised by the question, Dyson chuckles lightly and responds honestly, "It was harder losing you." Having learned tact over his thousand or so years, so he bites his tongue rather than saying what he was thinking (but I'm over it now).

"You know," Bo says as she moves closer to the wolf, "even with all we've been through, I'm really glad we ended up here."

Dyson smiles and opens his mouth when the pipe bomb finally goes off. "That's our cue," Bo says in a determined fashion.

"Go," Dyson orders, "I'll go around the side."

She heads off down the hall into the kids former dorm room, where the tikbalang is crawling out of a tent.

Bo swung her bat and connected with the Yeti-like tikbalang. "No fun fighting for air is it?" she snarls viciously as Dyson runs into the room. Bo jerks the hood off of the Yeti, or rather the Yeti suit to reveal Jolene.

"They deserved to die," she brags painfully.

Bo quips, "Yeah and you deserve a haircut." Then pulls out her knife and proceeds to saw a wedge of hair off of Jolene's head. The fae screams bloody murder until Bo finishes, and then abruptly stops, dead.

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Lauren enters her flat, exhausted she moves as though her heart is weighed down with the weight of the world. The doctor throws her bag onto the sofa and as she rolls her neck to work out some of the kinks, only to gape in horror at her ceiling. As she sees hundreds of the twig talismans hanging from her ceiling, waving slightly from the breeze from her air conditioning.

She whirls around to find Nelson right behind her, with an evil, maniacal grin on his face. "Sup, doc?" he menaces as he stalks her further into her flat.

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Trick grins as he drops a large tome onto the bar in front of Kenzi and Bo. Dust from the old tome actually flies up in his face. "They're called caltrops," he says proudly

"You're still working on that? Kenzi asked sheepishly with a speaking expression to Bo as she asks, "You wanna tell him?"

"Yeah, sorry Trick," Bo says apologetically, "we just closed the case."

Trick is taken aback but still feels the need to tell the pair what he found out in his research. "They're pretty fascinating actually," he says, falling into his lecture mode.

Kenzi pays him little mind, focusing on her drink, while Bo gives her grandfather a half-hearted smile. "It's part of an old fae hunting game, used by an obscure fae sect." Trick continues and adds, "They mark the prey with these caltrops."

Kenzi focuses on the writing next to the picture of the twig talisman in the pages of the tome. "I've seen this, this is Klingon." she says enthusiastically.

Trick chuckles at the young woman affectionately, "You're close, actually it's a Filipino language called Baybayin, a pre-Spanish writing system."

"Blah, blah, whatever writing system," Kenzi says with increasing urgency. "Nelson, had a tat in this language on his arm! Said it belonged to his girlfriend."

"Uh oh!" said Trick.

"What uh oh?" Bo asks.

"Mates hunt in pairs," Trick says with concern.

"Which means Nelson is gonna kill again." Bo says contemplatively.

Kenzi says, "Uh oh, the doc."

Trick looks at her a little strangely and says, "What about Lauren?"

"She was talking to Nelson, all kinds of smack about Jolene." explains Kenzi anxiously. "I don't know about you, but I would be supremely pissed."

Bo starts to freak out and doesn't hesitate, "Call Dyson," she tells Trick already halfway off of the barstool. "Tell him to meet me at Lauren's."

Trick nods, taking the mobile phone out of his back pockets and starts dialing. "Oh brother," Kenzi moans rubbing her hands up and down her face in obvious worry.

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Back at the doc's flat, throws Lauren onto the ground and brutally kicks her across the floor. "Get up," Nelson orders, panting from his exertions, "Come on, come on," he shouts and pulls her to her feet, with his hand at her throat. With guttural gasps for air, the doc asks, "What do you want from me?"

"Nothing personal," he says, "just the chance to end the game with a little dignity."

"Are you going to kill me?" Lauren wheezes.

Nelson says, "I have to, it's the rules." He jerks her around and roughly pulls her head back to look at the caltrops hanging from her ceiling. "I marked you for my girl, see? Now, she's gone."

Choking Lauren manages to get out, "But you're human."

"Well, you know what it's like," Nelson shouts as he yanks the blond around to face him as Lauren moans in pain. "You're nothing, nobody. Then one of them comes along, looks at you,, catches you." He grabs her long hair and she closes her eyes as she fights to breath. "How do you go back to a mortal life," he wonders rhetorically.

Lauren feels her heart break a little more as she recognizes the truth for herself in what this maniac has said. The doc continues to struggle as Nelson asks, "Any last words?" The doctor catches sight of something over his shoulder and her whole body sags in relief in the mad teens arms.

"Yeah," Lauren rasps, "this game of yours? It's over, asshole."

Bo jumps him from behind and uses her bat to put the teenager into a chokehold. Lauren falls to the floor, able to breathe now, and no longer having the potential to pass out herself. Lauren looks up in time to see Bo take Nelson to the floor, with a feral look on her face..

The succubus continues to apply pressure to the teen's neck even as he starts to lose consciousness. Dyson rushes into the flat and calls a warning, "Bo!" When the pair watch and the succubus doesn't react, Dyson calls out again, "Bo, let him go!"

When it looks as though she still won't comply he yanks the bat out of her hands and tosses it across the room. While Lauren watches her lover, calm down slightly not sure if the brunette would have stopped before she killed Nelson, a human.

Nightmare broken Bo lunges for the doc, gathering the woman up in her arms. "You're okay, you're okay," she murmurs repeatedly as she cuddles her against her chest. Dyson restrains the struggling Nelson as Lauren continues to struggle to catch her breath.

Bruises were already starting to form on Lauren's neck as she looks over at the werewolf as he drags a still struggling Nelson out of the flat. As he manhandles the teen out of the door without taking his eyes off the pair of women still sitting on the floor.

Concern for the Doctor is evident but it is also obvious that, Dyson his brow furrowed, is beginning to wonder if what came back from the Awakening was really their Bo after all.