Broken Parts, Torn Hearts
Bo and Kenzi rushed into the Light Fae Throne room. That is where the first explosion went off. Where the Ash and High Elder's were attacked. Where Lauren was caught in the middle. There were about five other fae in all black suits in the room. Fallen debris was everywhere. There was only one column still standing. They didn't know how the roof hadn't caved in already. In the middle of the room was were the most damage was done.
"Where is she?" Bo asked to anyone that would listen.
Eli rushed over to her side. He didn't want her to cause a scene. "She is under that column." He said pointing to the rubble that was on the floor. "We can only identify her hand but I know it is her."
"How do you know?" Kenzi asked.
Eli looked almost ashamed when he answered. "Her wrists."
Bo knew he meant the scars that covered Lauren's wrists. No fae would have those scars simply because they would have healed by then or because they wouldn't have been punished as harshly as she was. "What are we waiting for? Why isn't she out yet?" Bo asked anxiously.
"We can't just yet." Eli answered.
Bo was furious. She didn't care what the fae had to say about saving Lauren. She was going to get Lauren out of there. "I know you fae could care less about that human under there but you will save her. She has done more for you guys than you have done for her. She has saved many of your kind single handedly and what does she get? Days in the dungeon. Days of torture."
"Don't you think I know all of that?" Eli said getting angry with the succubus in front of him. "I know exactly what has been done to her." He whispered out.
Bo had a moment of recognition. "You are one of them aren't you?" She asked. Her eyes burning blue. "You hurt her." She said as angry tears started to sting her eyes. "How could you?"
Kenzi could see this wasn't going to end well. "Bo, cool it." She said as she squeezed Bo's arm. "Beating this asshole's head into a pulp won't help Lauren." Bo said nothing. She knew Kenzi was right. She wouldn't cause a scene now but there was no way that she would forget about this. Eli would pay, they all would for hurting Lauren. Kenzi noticed Bo calm down and decided she would be the one asking the questions. "Why isn't Lauren out of that mess?" She asked.
Eli could feel Bo's stare burning through him but couldn't bring his self to look at her. He felt disgusted with what he did. He wished he was courageous enough to disobey his Ash. He would have never hurt the doctor if he wasn't ordered to. Lauren was always a soft spot for him. She was caring, selfless and the most courageous person, human or fae, he had ever met. He knew if there was a second chance he would make it up to Lauren. "You see that column." He said pointing to a large white column that had collapsed. Bo and Kenzi nodded. He went on. "It is being held up by a very small piece of wood. Moving that piece would mean that the column would hit the floor and then in turn crush Lauren. The biggest problem is getting to that piece of wood. It is surrounded by other fallen debris. Moving them too fast could result in knocking down that tiny piece of wood which would make the column collapse and then crush Lauren."
"We can't get an ogre or fae with telekinetic powers to move it all?" Kenzi asked.
"Ogre's are brutes. They don't posses the ability to be gentle enough to move the debris slowly and smartly. And I don't trust anyone else coming in here to save Dr. Lewis." Eli said. He knew most fae wouldn't be as gentle with the human or simply couldn't care less if she was alive or not. He finally looked to Bo. He recognized the look of disgust in her eyes. She had every right to be infuriated with him. He wasn't like most fae. He had a genuine heart. "For the record I do care about Lauren." Eli said looking at Bo. "She has saved me more times then she even knows. I will do everything in my power to get her out of there. It is my turn to save her."
Bo was surprised at Eli's words. She wasn't sure about what he meant about Lauren saving him but she could tell Eli admired her. He was telling the truth and she would trust him with Lauren's life. Bo was struggling to ask her next question but she had to know. "Is she alive?" She whispered out.
"There is a pulse, a weak one but it is there." Eli answered. "Bo, like I said before there is a slim to none chance for anyone, human or fae, to survive this. If I can I will save her." Bo nodded. There was nothing else she could do.
"How are you going to get her out?" Kenzi asked.
Eli had a plan. "I am an elemental. I can control all natural elements."
"Like Storm in X-Men?" Kenzi cut in.
Eli had no idea what she was talking about. "Um, I guess." He continued. "My element of choice is lightening but I still have control over the elements, one of them being wind."
Kenzi smiled knowing where this was going. Eli returned his smile. "Then what are you waiting for?" She asked.
"I was waiting for Bo. When I lift the column I need someone quick enough to get Lauren out of there and safely. I trust no one other than Bo to do that. Now mind you the column is very heavy so I will only be able to hold it up for thirty seconds at most." Eli explained. He looked to Bo. "I need you to be fast but gentle. I need you to focus. Do you understand?" Bo nodded. She would not mess this up. They would save Lauren. She wasn't leaving the compound until Lauren was alive and in her arms.
Lauren looked down to Anima's extended hand. "What happened?" She asked. "What happened back at the compound?"
"There was an explosion." Anima began to answer. "I jumped in front of you and wrapped my wings around you."
"You saved me?" Lauren asked.
"Well if you chose to live then yes." Anima said. "But I may have broken your arm."
Lauren laughed. "I've had worse." She knew Anima was waiting for an answer. Anima had to take Nadia to her next life. "Where is my body?"
"Right now it is under rubble. You are literally holding on by a thread. The smallest chance at living is keeping you alive. It is up to you whether the chance collapses or you grab hold of it." Anima said hoping Lauren would take the chance to live. She had just gotten her life back. She deserved to live.
Lauren looked at Death with tears in her eyes. She was looking at her friend. She didn't want to disappoint her but she didn't know if living was worth it anymore.
Eli, Bo and Kenzi were in the throne room alone. He pushed everyone else out of the room. No one questioned him since he was head of security. He needed quite in the room to focus. He only allowed Bo and Kenzi there with him. They were all now standing in the middle of the room. Eli's eyes turned white as a gust of wind was swirling around them. He then directed the wind to the column. At first it didn't budge, not even an inch and it worried Bo, but then it started shaking. The column proved to be very heavy. It took all his will to lift it up. It slowly started lifting up. He not only had to lift up the column but had to make sure it was steadily in his control. As the column lifted up they slowly started to see more body parts. A hand, an arm, a leg, a torso, a head.
Eli was struggling to keep up the column. "Bo hurry." He gritted out through clenched teeth.
Bo lunged into the debris. She went to lift Lauren up but noticed her left arm and leg were being pinned down by a wooden beam, a heavy piece of wood. She tried to push it off of her but it wouldn't budge.
"Bo hurry!" Eli shouted. "I can't hold it up for much longer."
Bo tried harder to push it off. She started to panic. There was no way she could do this alone. She prayed to every force she knew to give her the strength to save Lauren. She then saw too small arms pushing the wooden beam. Kenzi had came to her side. She knew she may not be much help but she wouldn't let Bo or Lauren down. Bo and Kenzi used all of their force to move the beam. It finally started moving.
Eli was using so much of his ability that his nose started to bleed. He was fighting with himself to keep the column up. "It's slipping." He warned. He couldn't keep the column up anymore. It was going to fall.
"It's not worth it anymore." Lauren said letting the tears fall freely. "I've lost the only women I have ever loved. The both of them. What is the point in living a free life if I have no one to live it with?"
"I will be with you." Anima said desperately wanting Lauren to live.
"You will always be with me. In every life." Lauren reasoned. Anima knew this was true. "There is no point in living this miserable little life anymore."
"There is always a point." Anima said.
"Not anymore." Lauren whispered. "I am so done with being everyone's doormat. I am so tired of being walked over. I can't be treated this way anymore. I come first to no one. No one really cares for me. Not the way I care for them."
"That isn't true." Nadia said. She had been quite until now. "I will not let you diminish yourself to nothing. You are wonderful but you can't see that."
"You are the only one who has ever thought that." Lauren said. "Will I know Nadia in my next life?" She asked Anima.
"You two will always be meant to be in each others lives." Anima said.
Lauren nodded. She had made her choice.
The column had collapsed, and Eli collapsed with it. He couldn't hold it up any longer. He had blood covering is mouth and chin from his nose. It took most of his strength to lift that column and keep it up. His body was exhausted. He hadn't used that much force in years. His vision was blurring as he tried to focus on the bodies in front of him. There on the floor lied Bo, Kenzi and Lauren. Bo and Kenzi were successful in pushing the beam off of Lauren and in the last second they got Lauren's body out of the rubble as the column fell. Kenzi's arm was torn open from a stray piece of wood but that was the only injury the both of them suffered. Bo crawled over to Lauren and immediately checked her pulse. Eli was right it was a weak pulse but it was still there.
"Come on Lauren. Stay with me." Bo whispered with tears in her eyes. "Don't leave me. Please don't leave me." She sobbed out.
Kenzi stayed back. She didn't think Bo had the power to keep Lauren alive. Tears were forming in her eyes. Lauren had to live. She couldn't just leave them. Eli came crawling over to them. He didn't think Lauren would make it. There wasn't a way for any of them to help her. He only regretted never thanking Lauren for everything she has done for him. He suddenly felt a tug in the pit of his stomach. Bo was pulling his chi. The corners of his vision became black. When he thought he would black out the pulling stopped. He looked over to see that Bo was giving chi to Lauren. He hasn't known many succubus but has never known a succubus to give her chi away willingly. He only hoped it would be enough to save Lauren.
"Will it hurt?" Lauren asked looking back down at Anima's hand.
Anima sighed. She knew Lauren had made her choice and couldn't convince her other wise. "No," She whispered out. "It is the most peaceful feeling you will ever experience."
Lauren nodded. Smiling through the tears. "Take me with you." She whispered. She went to reach for Anima's hand.
"Come on Lauren. Stay with me." She heard a woman say.
"Bo?" Lauren asked.
"Don't leave me. Please don't leave me." Bo sobbed out.
Lauren wanted to stay for Bo but knew it would be for nothing. Even if Bo wanted her it would never be enough. There would always be Dyson or any other fae that would be able to give Bo the life she wanted.
Lauren went to grab Anima's hand but couldn't. Her hand was disappearing along with the rest of her body. "What's happening?" She asked.
"You've been given another chance." Anima said with mixed emotions. She was happy that Lauren would get to live but knew it wasn't what Lauren wanted.
"Go be free." Nadia said. "And live a beautiful life."
"No. Nadia please. Take me with you." Lauren pleaded.
"I will be seeing you soon." Anima said as Lauren disappeared out of the ether.
Lauren shot up as she took in a large gasp of breath. Bo's heart jumped at seeing the doctor alive. Lauren was coughing and struggling to breathe. Kenzi was smiling through the tears she didn't know she shed.
"Easy there." Bo said as she rubbed Lauren's back. Happiness filling her tears.
Lauren's mind was clouded. She didn't recognize where she was or who was near her. She could only see a silhouette of three people. One of them being a woman with long black hair. She hoped it would be her friend. "Anima." She whispered out as she looked at the blurred out woman in front of her.
Bo's heart broke as Lauren called out for the other woman. It seemed as if Lauren's heart belonged to another. Lauren was looking at her but hoping to see Anima. She had Lauren right in front of her and she couldn't have been happier but she would never have Lauren's love. Or so Bo thought.
Five Days Later
Lauren had been staying with Bo in the crack shack. Bo wouldn't let Lauren out of her sight for more than five minutes. Bo had taken the couch while Lauren stayed in her room. Lauren only had a broken arm but Bo barely let her do anything by herself. Bo was hoping to reconnect with Lauren but for reasons she didn't know Lauren refused to speak to her Actually the only times she would speak to her was to argue. Lauren would argue about how she wanted to go to her own home, how the crack shack wasn't the cleanest of places for her to stay or how ridiculous it was for her to be waited on by Bo. Kenzi had tried to convince Bo that Lauren would need time to deal with what happened to her. Kenzi tried to reason that Lauren was acting out because she had gone through a traumatic experience but not even she was believing that anymore.
Bo was now climbing up the stairs with a tray of soup and grilled cheese. She wanted to get the doctor to eat. When she walked into her room she saw Lauren laying down on the bed with her back to the door. She knew Lauren wasn't sleeping. Lauren barely slept anymore. She would cry at night hoping no one would hear her but the other two women heard every bit of it. They wanted to comfort her but didn't know how especially since Lauren would call out to Nadia while she sobbed. Neither of them knew who Nadia was.
"I made soup and grilled cheese." Bo said to Lauren hoping that she would finally get the doctor to eat. She had barely eaten in five days.
"I'm not hungry." Lauren said. Her voice was hoarse from crying so much.
"You need to eat." Bo gently said.
"No thank you." Lauren said never moving from her position on the bed.
"Come on Lauren." Bo pleaded. "The soup is from a can so I couldn't have screwed that up and I didn't burn the grilled cheese that much."
"I said no thank you." Lauren said a bit more harshly. "Just leave me alone."
Bo was going to let Lauren deteriorate in front of her. "I get it Lauren, you're angry but starving yourself won't solve anything."
Lauren turned to look at Bo. "You get it Bo? Really?" How could she understand what Lauren was going through.
Bo was getting irritated with Lauren's tone. "Yes I get it Lauren. I get that you're angry but how am I supposed to know why if you won't tell me. You won't even talk to me anymore. Please tell me what it is that I did wrong." She pleaded.
Lauren wanted to tell her that she took away her only chance at real freedom. She took away her only chance to live a happier life. Lauren wanted to tell Bo that she took away her only chance but she couldn't. She didn't want to give away Anima's identity and she couldn't bring herself to talk about it. "Nothing Bo." Lauren said harshly. "You did nothing wrong." Lauren laid back down on her side avoiding Bo's stare.
Bo knew there was something Lauren wasn't saying and wouldn't let her get away with not saying it. "Oh am I now dismissed since you are done talking?" She asked a bit irritatingly. "Well I'm not done." She said as she sat down beside Lauren. "You won't talk to me. You barely even look at me. I can't stand it. I know I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes but I honestly don't know what it is that I did to make you hate me."
Lauren hated that Bo thought that. "I don't hate you Bo." She said not looking at her.
"Actions speak louder than words." Bo said. Lauren said nothing in return. Silence engulfed the room. "Who is Nadia?" Bo asked.
Lauren turned to look at Bo once again. "What?"
"Who is Nadia?" Bo repeated. "You think we don't hear you at night. We barely have walls. I hear you say her name every night. Who is she?"
Lauren didn't answer. She couldn't bring herself to talk about Nadia without crying. Bo saw that she wouldn't get an answer. "Fine." She said sounding defeated. "But we aren't done talking." Bo said as she got up wiping away tears from her eyes. She felt horrible. "Just please eat. You need your strength."
Bo walked to the door. She looked back to see Lauren laying on her side with her back to the door. Her heart broke every time she looked at the broken woman in front of her. Bo turned away.
"I never asked you to save me." Bo heard Lauren say. Her breath hitched. Lauren was a shell of her former self and Bo didn't know if there would be any way to fix her. Lauren continued. "I never asked for any of this."
AN: I know. Pretty depressing right? I know I am the Queen of cliff...wait for it... hangers (Ha ha got that from one of you guys) but I swear I don't do it purposely. It's just always the best spot to end a chapter. You guys are AMAZING. If I could I would shout every single one of you out. You are so inspiring and I do take into account what you guys say. I also do not have a beta so any and all mistakes are my own. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I'm trying to update as soon as I kind but with the end of the semester comes an abundance of exams and papers, especially for a double major. Please review, favorite and follow. Once again you guys are awesome.