A/N: Sorry it's been so long without an update, real life kind of got in the way. I am very dissappointed with the way the season ended and the way certain things were handled so although I will take some things from season 3, like Kenzi's rash being from the kitsune, but for the most part it's all me. Thanks again for the great reviews and I am truly humbled by all of the favorites and follows. I know this chapter is a little short, but I will be posting another one before the end of the week. As always any mistakes are mine, enjoy!

Lauren Lewis was frustrated, no, not just frustrated, but rather angry, stressed, confused and frustrated. The file gripped tightly in her hands, the one she had been staring at for the last hour willing it to make sense, represented an entire morning's work wasted.

"Inconclusive," she spat out, "just great." There was something wrong with Bo, that much was obvious, but nothing added up. Something was attacking Bo's cells, that was clear, but what? Her white count was normal so it wasn't and infection. Both her blood smear and stool samples were clear so no parasite. There was no evidence of a fungal infection, her lungs were clear, kidney function appeared normal, so why were her cells dying?

Lauren sighed, tossing the file on her desk, her only option was to do a full body assessment on Bo, meaning more tests: x-rays, bone scans, brain scans, hair samples, oral, rectal and vaginal swabs, and of course more blood. It should make for an interesting afternoon, at least Bo, aside from balking at the stool sample, was a cooperative patient, unlike Kenzi who currently occupied Bay 3 next to the succubus.

Lauren understood that the young woman was not a fan of doctors or hospitals, but to the extent that she nearly needed to be put in restraints when the tech tried to take her blood, seriously Kenzi? Lauren had kept her composure, but just barely, it took some convincing and a little succubus whammy to get her to sit still long enough to obtain the sample. For God's sakes it was just a needle, it's not like somebody lit her on fire. Oh well, at least there was no mystery involved with Kenzi's problem. She had been exposed to a fae essence from the kitsune family and since Kenzi was human, as the essence was absorbed her body rejected it. It had already been absorbed into the blood stream so amputation was not an option, there were some topical remedies she could use to clear up the rash, but the essence inside her was the real concern. Lauren wanted to run a few more tests and then would have to go into full on research mode to try and find a way to expel the essence from Kenzi's body without killing her.

As Lauren weighed her options, she was interrupted by an abrupt knock on her office door, "Yes, come in."

Lauren looked up and was greeted by the sour, irritated expression on Boston Harpy Greta's face, "Sorry to bother you Dr. Lewis, but your children are fighting."

"My children?" Lauren blinked in confusion, then rushed past the smirking harpy out of the office into the main lab as realization dawned on her, "Oh you have got to be kidding me!"

She could hear them yelling before she reached the patient area. Kenzi was accusatory and wildly gesticulating with her good arm, while Bo's posture was defensive, belying the volume of her voice. Lauren locked eyes with the bewildered technician standing behind them, "Woah, hey! What is the problem here?" Ignoring the tech's blank stare, she continued, "Bo? Kenzi? What is going on?" Silence rained in the lab and somewhere in the distance crickets chirped. Kenzi looked defiant, Bo looked apologetic, the tech looked down at his shoes. Separation was key, Lauren zeroed in on Kenzi, "Fine, Bo please go back to your bed, Kenzi come with me." Lauren led Kenzi away from the crowd that had gathered and put on her best stern face, "OK do you want to tell me what that was about?"

Kenzi, the true picture of an obstinant child, grumbled out something that sounded like, "Nothing", but Lauren was having none of it, "Kenzi, I know you are used to hanging out in bars, but this is a lab, my lab. This is where I work and I am the one in charge. If you can't show any respect for me, then at least show some respect for the others that are going out of their way to help you despite you being just the pet of the unaligned as a favor to me."

"Pet, seriously?' Kenzi was incredulous.

"Save it Kenzi!" Lauren bit back, "Like it or not that is what you are in this world. I know living with Bo it's easy for you to forget, but to most fae all you are is food." Lauren could tell Kenzi wanted to say something, but for whatever reason she held her tongue and simply nodded. "OK good now I am going to ask you again, what is so dire that has you and Bo about ready to verbally assault each other in my lab?"

"Verbally assault, seriously?" Kenzi huffed.

"Kenzi," Lauren warned.

"OK, OK sheesh, that vampire over there," she pointed at the tech, who instinctively glanced up, "wanted more of my blood, and I was like, 'hell no not again' and Bo was trying to give me the love whammy again to get me to calm down, which I won't. I mean damn between your first go around and the hospital the other night I'm not going to have any left."

"Kenzi, the body holds eight pints do you know how many of these test tubes we would to fill up in order to take it all?"

"How many?"

"Let's just say a lot, and a lot more then the three we have taken here and a lot more then they-" Lauren froze, "Kenzi did you say they took blood samples from you at the hospital?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Shit, shit, shit shit!"

"Wow four shits impressive, go figure the super-nerd knows how to swear."

Lauren rolled her eyes, "Kenzi stay right here," she motioned to the tech, "I need more blood samples for analysis, I'm asking you to please cooperate with Mr. Davis. If I can't figure out a course of action you may loose the arm all together so please, do as he asks, thanks."

Lauren ignored Kenzi's panicked expression and retreated into her office locking the door behind her. Lauren grabbed her telephone receiver and dialed the Ash's extension, "This is Dr. Lewis, I need to request an audience with the Ash, it is urgent, we have a situation."