Pairing: Bo/Lauren, Kenzi/OC
Disclaimer: These are not my characters, well, most of them aren't. I'm borrowing them for a good time, because my imagination won't rest until I do. ShowCase owns the main ones.
Summary: It's been three years since Nadia "woke up". Things have changed for everyone. And some things never do. Four dead bodies and a mystery for our girls to solve. Complete AU now, though it didn't start that way…
Author's Note: Well, since both Nadia's death-by-Garuda-possession and Ciara's untimely demise (RIP Faerie Queen, I actually *liked* you!) by the same baddy, this has turned into a complete AU story. I hope that it continues to be a fun ride for all. Thank you all for your kind comments! I hope this is a fun for you to read as it is for me to write. Sorry updates take so long…
It All Starts With...
Part VIIb: Round Two
Bo took Lauren's hand and allowed herself to be helped to her feet. Then the blonde began to lead her out of the living room and down a short hallway. She paused just outside of a darkened room to wrap her arms around Bo's neck, pulling her close and kissing her deeply. The succubus returned the embrace whole-heartedly, running her hands up Lauren's back and tangling her fingers in her luxurious hair. Lauren pressed her against the wall, plundering Bo's mouth with her own.
Gasping for breath Bo managed, "Bed?"
That made Lauren pause and glance nervously into the dark room. "B-bed?" She gulped down some air. Then her nervousness seemed to vanish once more and she grabbed the front of Bo's t-shirt and hauled her bodily into the room.
Lauren had to fight her sudden nerves as they neared her room. She hadn't had anyone in her bed since she had replaced the one she and Nadia had slept in together. The fact that the first person in said bedroom since Nadia had left was Bo made her feel suddenly more skittish than she had in the living room. To get over it, Lauren kissed Bo with everything she had and Bo's responsive moan served to galvanize her. Hesitating only slightly once more, Lauren grabbed the front of the succubus' shirt and pulled her into the room. A few steps past the door she stopped and contemplated the lighting; she could only just make out Bo's silhouette in here. She wanted more light, wanted to see Bo as she undressed her. Unfortunately, all she had was the lamp next to her bed and the overhead light. Well...
She kissed Bo once more, tenderly, nibbling on her lower lip and stroking her cheek; she pulled away reluctantly. "Don't move," she murmured and moved away.
To her credit Bo did as she was told, standing still in the darkness, wondering what Lauren could possibly be doing. Her unasked question was answered a few moments later as blinds were opened and the blonde was suddenly bathed in the pale light of the fading day. Her hair glowed, taking on the hues of the sun as it set, from soft pink to a slightly deeper shade of violet. Bo's breath caught in her throat at the site. She is so damn beautiful, she thought, I'd almost forgotten that.
Lauren turned to face the succubus and a wide smile spread across her face. Subtle colours from the approaching sunset played over her, bathing her in radiance. The white shirt she wore seemed to absorb the colour and make her look like she was wearing the light.
"My god you're beautiful," Lauren managed in a whisper. She crossed the room once more and pulled Bo to her for another searing kiss while her hand fumbled under the shirt to find Bo's bra-strap and unhook it. It took a couple of tries, much to her chagrin, but Bo wasn't paying attention; the succubus was much more interested in the silken skin being alternately kissed and nibbled by her.
Lauren paused and let her head fall to the side, giving Bo more to work with. She let herself revel in the feeling of it, in the way her heart raced and her blood started to slowly simmer once more.
"You okay?" Bo wondered, moving her head back to look into Lauren's eyes. The blonde smiled and in one swift movement she pulled both the t-shirt and the bra over Bo's head, dropping them on the floor. The look she gave the woman was nothing short of smouldering.
"Oh yes," Lauren husked out running her hands up Bo's flat stomach to her breasts, cupping them both and squeezing with enough pressure to make the whole of the succubus' body tremble.
"Lauren." She kissed the human doctor softly. Lauren moved her hands, wrapping her arms around Bo and pressing herself against her. Bo responded by deepening their kiss and then slipping her hands beneath Lauren's own top and breaking only long enough to haul it over her head and drop it onto the floor beside her own.
Lauren locked her lips onto Bo's neck, kissing and nibbling her way up to gently suck on Bo's earlobe. As she did, she pushed Bo back until her knees hit the edge of the bed and she sat abruptly. Lauren didn't stop there; instead, she straddled Bo once more and the other woman ecstatically buried her face between her breasts.
The feel of Bo's lips on her skin sent more shivers through Lauren and she arched her back, signalling her willingness for more of the same. The other woman's arms tightened around her waist, her lips quickly find purchase around one of the doctor's already hardening nipples. She sucked gently at first, then harder at Lauren's moan of encouragement. The blonde buried her fingers in Bo's soft dark tresses and held her mouth in place as her pleasure built higher. The warmth that had been building in her stomach suddenly travelled south, pooling between her thighs.
"God, Lauren, I've missed you," Bo managed when had to break her contact in order to fill her lungs. She looked up at the blonde, her eyes holding a look of tenderness that belied her heaving chest and the tight hold she had around Lauren's waist.
Stillness came to Lauren suddenly as her eyes focused on Bo's dark orbs, and she spent a few moments getting lost there. She was hit with a flash of memory, of the last time when she had looked into Bo and seen this level of trust; it had been just before the battle with the Garuda had taken place.
"Hey," Bo had walked into the lab dressed for battle. She wore black leather everything and her hair had been pulled back into a high tail. At her side, somehow attached to her belt was the beautiful sword-cane that Trick had given to her for her birthday. She also had a dagger in an easy-draw sheath on her thigh and one at her ankle. Her eyes were focused and alert, her stance was an almost over-confident swagger.
She looked every inch the vision of a Champion. Lachlan had been right in his estimation of her. Not that Lauren had doubted it for a second.
She had to clear her throat before she could respond. "Hey yourself. You…ahem...came for the venom?"
Bo smiled at her, a real smile, not the semi-hurt, sad thing that she usually showed when in Lauren's presence. It lit up her dark eyes and the human couldn't help but smile back. It was always like that with Bo – her infectious smile, the way she laughed – had always made Lauren feel good.
"Yes. But that can wait a minute," Bo replied, coming closer, invading Lauren's personal space. Lauren didn't move, could barely breathe because when she did, all she could smell was Bo and it was the most arousing scent in the world.
"I wanted to apologise for the way I've been treating you," Bo began, "it hasn't been fair of me. You haven't exactly had an easy time of things, especially having to hide so much from Nadia."
Lauren swallowed hard. Bo's hand cupped her face. "I was going to be all adult here, but I may not come back from this the same or at all." The idea that Bo might not survive made Lauren sick. Seeing it in her eyes, Bo just smiled more and continued, her voice lower and huskier, "I am going to try to be better, Lauren, after this, I'm going to try to be the kind of friend you need me to be. It won't be easy - for either of us - especially after this." And having said her piece, Bo's mouth captured Lauren's in a gently passionate kiss that made Lauren's knees turn to water. Her hands moved to stroke Bo's face of their own accord as her tongue twined and slid against Bo's. Her moan of pleasure was answered by the succubus and she was pushed backwards into the counter. Her hands moved again, running over the leather on Bo's jacket, down her back and over her ass for a long moment before moving back up to rest on her shoulders.
The kiss wound down as gently as it had started and it was then that Lauren had realised that she was crying. Bo caught a tear on her thumb as it grazed Lauren's cheek, lifted it away from her face and touched it to her slightly kiss-swollen lips.
"Bo...I...I..." Lauren tried, but she couldn't find her voice, nor could she collect her thoughts enough to form a coherent sentence.
Bo put a single forefinger softly against Lauren's lips.
"Shhh." Her voice was quietly commanding, as she gazed into the blonde's light brown eyes with an expression of pure and undiluted trust and understanding. "I know. Nadia. The Ash. It's okay, Lauren. I just...needed you, right now. Okay?"
Lauren nodded slowly and swallowed again. Why did everything have to be so complicated? Bo was about to say something else when her phone vibrated in her pocket. Rolling her eyes, she gave Lauren an apologetic look and answered it. Almost immediately, her face fell and she went white. She stumbled backwards and would have fallen if Lauren hadn't caught her and kept her on her feet.
"When?" The succubus finally asked. "O-Okay. Um..." her voice trailed off and for just a moment, Lauren was reminded of the bereft young woman that Bo had been the first time they met, so scared and unsure, begging Lauren to 'cure' her. Lauren tightened the hold she had around Bo's waist, lending her what strength she could offer, though she knew it wasn't much; it was enough.
Giving Lauren a grateful smile, Bo seemed to come back to herself and she straightened slowly.
"Then we need to move the timetable up. I'm at the Compound now, getting the venom from Lauren. Meet me at the rendezvous point in half an hour. We're going in. Oh," her voice became acerbic, "and tell Vex to stop whining or I'm going to break his arm and shove it up his ass. Let's see him use his powers then." With that, she hung up the phone.
"What is it?" Lauren asked her.
"It has Trick," Bo said quietly.
"Shit." Lauren swore and Bo looked up at her in surprise. Her smile returned just a little.
"He's my grandfather, Lauren. He told me just yesterday." The terrified look that suddenly came over Bo's face was enough to make Lauren's hold tighten in a real hug. Anything to take that expression away.
Lauren blinked as some pieces fell into place. Her grandfather. It explained why Trick was so protective of Bo, even though he tried to hide it at first. And for that to be true, it meant that he was also...Aoife's father.
"Wow," was all she could think of to say. The implications were...
"Yeah. He's my family, Lauren. I have to save him." Bo's voice was hard and resolute. Lauren nodded and she reluctantly let go of the succubus, turning to the counter behind her and picked up a double-syringe with a single plunger. "Here. Use this. I...don't know how you will get that close, but...I know you can do this, Bo."
"You've always believed in me, haven't you?" Bo asked quietly, taking the Naga venom and slipping it into sheathe on her wrist that would normally belong to a dagger. To test it, Bo flicked her wrist and the syringe slid smoothly into her palm.
"Perfect." She said, and then looked to Lauren again.
"Without you this wouldn't be possible, Lauren, any of it. Thank you."
Lauren smiled. She didn't think she had done all that much. But Bo had never seen anything except the best in her, had always treated her with respect that she wasn't sure if she deserved.
"And I know that you will be successful. Go, Bo, get him back, save the Fae. I...Yes, I believe in you."
Bo gave her that same look then, full of faith and trust and naked longing. Then she turned and left.
"Be safe." Lauren murmured after her.
She had not seen Bo for several weeks after that, not until she had shown up at Lauren's door with Lachlan's proclamation of her freedom. He was gone by then, his job fulfilled, and the Light were planning another Stag Hunt.
Now, Lauren saw that look again and it made her heart ache at the sweetness of it. Once upon a time, she and Bo had known each other well, despite the things that had come between them. Could she still read Bo like that? Could they have what situation had previously denied them?
Smiling radiantly, Lauren gave Bo another deeply passionate kiss before she backed off of her. Bo's fingers grasped at her hips, but she pulled away and stood. With another smile, she slowly slipped her pants down over her hips and let them fall around her ankles; she was wearing nothing beneath them.
Bo inhaled sharply at the sight of a completely naked Lauren and she drank in the sight, committing it to memory. The sun was setting completely now and she was awash in the colours of the city at night.
She walked back to the bed and held out her hands; unsure-but-game, Bo took them and was pulled to her feet. It only took a moment for her to figure out why when Lauren's hands found the clasp on her pants and unbuttoned them again. She helped a little, just wriggling to get the stiff material over her hips again. It should have been easier than it had been in the living room, but for some reason, they got stuck on her ass. Growling in frustration, she shoved hard and they finally fell to the floor. As an added bonus, her red satin bikini underwear went with them.
And then Lauren took her hand once more and led her back to the bed. They both lay down on their sides facing each other.
Bo moved first, reaching her arm out and pulling Lauren's entire body against hers. She found Lauren's mouth in short order and the blonde didn't hesitate to return the kiss. She slid against the other woman, insinuating her leg between Lauren's thighs and eliciting another moan from her. Bo's heart beat faster, her stomach churned in anticipation at the sound of it. She kissed Lauren with all the pent up emotions of three years of the succubus form of celibacy; she broke it long enough to draw breath and to roll them so that she was on top of Lauren, pinning her on her back. She stared down at the woman that she had cared for once upon a time, years ago, and time fell away.
It was as though three years had never happened. Staring down at Lauren, at the way her golden hair spread around her, seeing her eyes filled with desire, and feeling the way her body responded to her, Bo knew that she was done for. No matter how hurt she had once been or how long they had been apart, Lauren had always completed her in a way that nobody – not even Dyson – else ever could. The smell of her was like an intoxicant and if it hadn't been for what had happened earlier, Bo would have been fighting her other hunger. This was better, though, because she could concentrate on the woman and she could let her body say words that her mouth simply couldn't articulate. She let go of Lauren's arms where she had pinned them, dipped her head, and placed a very soft kiss over Lauren's heart. And then the blonde was tugging her hair gently and she let herself be guided back to the blonde's lips.
Lauren spent the next short eternity relearning what it was like to feel again. It was like her first time with Bo all over. They touched and kissed, petted, nibbled, tasted, and held each other. Lauren lost count of how many times they brought each other to climax. If not for the events of the day, Lauren was sure it would have gone on for even longer - she found that instead of subsiding, her passion for Bo and for Bo's body only increased.
Several hours later they lay in a tangle of limbs and blankets trying to catch their breaths. Lauren's arms and legs felt too heavy to move, the rest of her body tingling with fading endorphins. She knew that she was grinning like a fool and couldn't stop.
Bo had to admit that she hadn't expected this when she had come to see Lauren, though a part of her had hoped. Now, as she lay with her head on the blonde's shoulder, eyes closed and chest heaving like a bellows, she was glad that she had taken the time to make sure that Lauren was truly alright. Though her muscles were moving sluggishly now - even a succubus had her limits when it came to marathon sex, especially after three years of self-imposed limitation - she draped an arm across Lauren's mid-section and threw a leg over the human's to keep her from going anywhere. She opened heavy eyelids and looked up at Lauren's face in profile.
Her eyes were closed, too, but she wore a smirk that filled Bo with a strange feeling of pride and tenderness. She had done that, put that smile there; it was amazing to see.
"I'm so glad you're here," the human murmured, voice gravelly with fatigue.
"Me, too," Bo managed. Her arm tightened around Lauren and she settled herself more comfortably.
"G'night, Bo." Lauren let out a pleased sigh.
"'Night, Lauren." Bo responded. Sleep claimed them both in moments.
