Author's Notes: If you guys noticed, Cassidy's characterization was based on an imperfect Bo or should I say the differences between Bo and Lauren.

Chapter 9: Dreams

It had been two years since the Fae fought and won the war against the Wanderer. Right after the war, Bo finally decided to make a choice. It was him. She chose him over the human doctor. Dyson had been living with Bo under one roof ever since. It wasn't a complete domestic bliss. They were no vows and no promises just like what they had talked about back then. It was enough for the wolf.

Dyson got home from another criminal interrogation. It was a normal cop day for him. There was a trace of Bo's scent around his home. "She must have left just a while ago." Dyson opened the fridge for a nice cold bottle of water. "I wonder where she went."

His phone rang. It was Lauren. After Bo had made her choice, he and Lauren remained good friends. The whole gang was a family after all. He liked it that way.

"Yeah.." He answered the call.

"Dyson, you need to come to the lab." Lauren was granted a new laboratory by the Fae which served as the new neutral ground between the light and the dark.

"Why? Did something happen?" Dyson asked.

"It's Bo. Something happened. Come quickly" Lauren hung up.

Dyson threw the water bottle straight to the bin a few meters away from him and swiftly went out the door.

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Arriving at Lauren's lab, he saw Bo on the examination table sitting up right. No smell of blood linger in the room except perhaps a few drops in Lauren's petri dishes. Lauren was reading something in front of Bo—her tests maybe.

"Hey. I came as soon as you called. What happened?" Dyson asked the two women worriedly.

Lauren gave a smile and patted Dyson's shoulder "I'll leave you two for a while."

Dyson moved closer to Bo who was smiling strangely at him. "What's wrong?" He asked again with a more worried tone.

"Nothing.." She replied placing her hands around the wolf's neck and gave him a kiss.

"Are you sure that nothing's wrong?" Dyson broke the kiss and asked again.

"Nothing's wrong… but.." Bo took his hands and placed them on her tummy. "..there's something probably right in here."

Dyson paused for a while perhaps digesting well what she meant.

"I'm pregnant.." Bo finally said it straight aloud. In a moment, Dyson picked up Bo from the examination table, carried her bridal style and spun her around in bliss.

"I'm going to be a dad!"

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A new life was conceived and it called for a celebration with the people that mattered to them. Dyson and Bo, of course with the touch of K-star Kenzi, turned Dyson's roof top into a nice warm looking family party place that night. Trick brought the finest booze and wine for the people to enjoy. After all, he was going to be a great-granddad. There weren't much people but all the close friends from both the light and the dark came to celebrate with them.

"All set.. Dyson." Hale gave Dyson a wink.

Dyson smirked and stood at the edge of the roof top and called out everybody's attention. "Everyone, thank you all for joining us for this celebration." Dyson said looking at the guests around.

"As you already know, I'm going to be a father and I've never felt so happy in my life. It feels good and I know Bo feels the same way." He looked at Bo who gave the brightest smile he saw.

"Bo.. we've been through a lot of trials. We've been on and off many times. I never thought that this kind of happiness would even happen to us. I want to take this to another level." Dyson turned to Lauren who was holding a small box.

"Lauren.." He called out.

"I never imagined that I will be the one who will actually hand this to you." Lauren put down the booze she was holding.

"Neither did I.." The two paused for a moment leaving the rest including Bo in a little confusion.

"The ring.." Dyson asked Lauren for it. Everyone knew what that meant and it made Bo blush in happiness.

"Go fetch.." Lauren threw the box toward's Dyson a little too hard.

Seemingly caught off guard, Dyson reached for the box, missing it, and fell off the edge.

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Bo's jaw dropped realizing that the father of her child just fell from the roof top. Wolves couldn't fly. Everybody knew that. Wolves were strong but they would probably not survive such a high fall. She immediately ran towards the edge hoping to see a miracle. "DYSON!"

Looking down, shaking her head, she uttered "..unfreakin believable!"

Down below was a large fall breaker that caught Dyson. He was holding a large sign "ME" completing the question written on the road "Will you marry me?"

"You.. jackass…" Bo breathed in between laughs.

Everyone can see from the high up the building the complete set of wolf teeth Dyson was showing.

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Dyson felt weak not just because Bo had sucked chi from him before they went in the delivery room with Lauren. It was because of Bo's screams of pain. It sounded so excruciating. He had never felt his knees so weak before.

"Dyson.." Lauren called. "Just relax and hold Bo's hand ok?" Her voice sounded amused by the strange weakened situation of the wolf.

Dyson squeezed Bo's hand in every push. Even if he felt weak, somehow he was in enough conscious state to control his strong hands that might break every bones in Bo's hands.

Finally, a cry of a new born was heard. "It's… it's a girl…" Dyson smiled at the sight of his first daughter.

"I will stay and protect you… I promise." He whispered in astonishment.

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Pancakes, scrambled eggs and orange juice—simple breakfast in bed but Karen found herself all fuzzy inside. She was eating her breakfast while laying down on Cassidy's lap who was also enjoying her plate of pancakes. Using her fingers, Karen wiped off the maple syrup on her plate with the piece of pancake she had left and shoved it in her mouth. "Hmm.. so good.. fluffiest pancakes I've ever had". She said while sapping some syrup from her fingers.

Cassidy giggled and confessed "I wanted to become a pancake chef when I was little."

"A what?" Karen laughed.

"I had the weirdest dreams when I was a kid and pancake chef was the closest to the norm." She added in between giggles and put her plate down on the tray.

"Actually, I'm looking for that kind of chef.." Karen looked up smiling at Cassidy who also smiled while looking down at her.

"Oh really, so, what's the work schedule?" Cassidy stroke Karen's hair

"Every morning before going to work.."

"What a hustle.. What are the benefits?"

"Kiss tips every morning and five star dinner every night by yours truly.."

"Hmm..Not bad.. I'm applying" Cassidy moved her face closer to Karen's

"You're hired.." Karen grabbed Cassidy by the hair pulling her for a kiss.

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A pile of neatly arranged medical books; a plate of choco-peanut spread sandwiches and two mugs of decaf latte were on the living room table. Karen and Cassidy were half laying on the couch each taking the opposite end facing each other. Both women were busy with their laptops on their laps. Karen was preparing for a presentation about her research while Cassidy was busy reading a Harry Potter fanfiction debating concepts in her head. They had been at it for hours saying not a word on each other like there was an unmentioned rule to follow—"Productivity time. Please, do not disturb." Still, occasional leg stretching shifted their focused eyes on one another for a few moments and smiles would shift them back to their productivity. Self-control was the term perhaps. It was something Karen valued a lot and she was happy that her partner seem to share it with her. Still, the longingness was there. It was just being regulated and controlled. A deep breath was a signal of losing that control. And when one of them does, the other would follow. Karen lost it first and shut her laptop. Cassidy closed hers. Their feet began to wrestle each other's.

"Tired?" Cassidy asked.

"A little bit.." Karen smiled biting her lower lip.

Cassidy put her laptop on the table. "Snuggle time?"

Karen put hers on the table and immediately put herself in the open arms of the brunette. As Cassidy grabbed the remote, Karen positioned her face comfortably on Cassidy's soft breast—her favorite spot.

"What episode did we stop?" Karen asked.

"I forgot the episode number but the last time we watched was about the Jaradan accepting the greeting, heralding the start of successful negotiations."

"Oh ok.. we're on episode twelve" Cassidy selected the Star Trek Next Generation episode.

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The sun shone through the sheer white curtain lighting the room with the warm rays of the morning light. Karen woke up with an empty other side of the bed. She got up dragging the bed cover around her naked body and stood up in front of the large stationary window. Admiring the vast blue sea and the shores of the white beach, she smiled as her hand left a print on the window. At the beautiful shores of the beach, she found a familiar figure of a woman wearing a black kaftan. The woman collapsed near the water.

"Bo..!" Karen shouted and scampered down the stairs dragging the bed cover with her.

She passed the free flowing first floor and almost hauling the door open. As soon as she set foot on the sand, her body bumped hard on somebody and fell. In shock, she observed the person beneath her.

"You.." Karen recognized her.

"Yes.. It's me. What are you doing outside.. wearing.. the bed covers?" It was Cassidy who's eyes were on the exposed cleavage of the blonde.

"I was.." Karen was lost of words. She paused for a while thinking of an answer. It was strange as she had known why she was such in a rush but it all had faded away in an instant.

"What's that I'm feeling..?" Karen felt something hard pressing against her chest. It was something under Cassidy's white kaftan.

Cassidy sighed "This wasn't exactly the way I had in mind to give you this but.." She rolled the both of them over putting herself on top of Karen. Karen's eyes widen in mix of shock and curiosity.

Reaching for what was under her kaftan and between her breasts, she pulled out a small box and opened it.

"A ring..?" Karen recognized it.

"Will you marry me?" Finally, Cassidy uttered after a deep breath.

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Trying out a short black dress in front of the mirror, Karen was preparing for a romantic engagement dinner Cassidy prepared just outside the rest house. Observing how well the dress fit her perfectly, she took notice of the ring on her. Instead of a smile, eyes of emptiness reflected on the mirror.

"I should be happy. Everything is just perfect. Cassidy is perfect. She's all I've been wishing for.."

"Lauren.." It was that familiar and tender voice calling out to her again.

Without thinking, Karen swooped down reaching for her luggage. She began scattering her clothes all over the room searching for something. "Lauren.." The voice seemed to had become louder as her hands grope around the inner pocket of her luggage. Finally, she felt it. It was something precious and she knew it. She pulled out a necklace and a tear fell from her hazel eyes as the words echo in her head "I love you.."

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Three candle's in place gave yellow tint of light over the beautifully garnished dinner plate. Red wine bottle set in an ice bucket. The sound of the ocean waves solemnly echoed in the cold night breeze. All was set and Cassidy smiled at the sight of her well prepared romantic dinner. A pair of hands covered her eyes gently. She knew whose hands were those. Karen's. Cassidy gently stroke the hands on her eyes and found something missing—the ring.

"Karen..?" Cassidy's voice quivered a strange emotion of rejection.

Karen set Cassidy's eyes free to open. She put her arms around the other woman. One arm rested above her breast and the other around her stomach hugging her from behind.

"Thank you.." She whispered behind her ears leaving the other woman silent.

"You will always have a special place in my heart.." Karen kissed her neck.

"Am I not perfect?" Cassidy asked as her hands squished the arm above her chest.

"You are.." Karen replied.

"but you still choose her.." Cassidy slowly pulled away from Karen's embrace and faced the other woman.

Karen gave a nod. A simple gesture but it was full of certainty. Cassidy held her face using both hands "I really wished I was real.. that I was her."

Karen received the soft kiss as it was the last.

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Lauren gasped at the sudden pull of her consciousness back to reality. The seventh song of the bird was done. She stood away from the tree avoiding the bird's dung. Just beside the spot where she had been sleeping, was Dyson who was turning into stone from his head to his toes.

"Dyson.." Lauren prevented herself from reaching out to Dyson as the mission was not yet over. She took the golden chord beside Dyson and looked up at the bird resting on the tree. Just when she was about to climb to catch it, the bird flapped its wings and flew down on her shoulders. It raised it's one foot signaling Lauren to tie the chord.

The bird was as large as an eagle. Its majestic wings and long tail was covered with feather of different metallic colors

"My god.. you're beautiful.." Yes, it was.

~end of Dreams~

Author's notes: Sorry for the late update. Got sick last week. I couldn't finish the chapter on time. Sigh. But anyway, I'm fine now! XDDDD Thanks to fluids.

Things I want you to know: I typed this chapter using my handy-dandy smart phone! Cuz my mom hid the laptop while I was sick ROLF.

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Spoiler:

Bo will be revived next chappie yey... but _