Here's the next chapter. As always I hope you enjoy and right now things are about to get real so bear with me! And btw, you guys have been great so far and it's just getting better every time I see your responses to my work! :)
It was a cold night. No clouds hid the stars in the sky, the almost full moon illuminating the area with its ghostly light, casting long black shadows around the old glass factory on the outskirts of town. Shadows, two dark figures were intent to stay hidden in as they walked towards the deserted factory. They still had five minutes until midnight when they slipped into the old building. Kenzi let out a breath she didn't realize she had been holding.
"I don't know what it is about moonlit nights, but they kinda give me the creeps."
Bo looked at her best friend, eyebrows raised. Kenzi made sure she looked as if she could kick anyone's ass tonight. She had Geraldine with her and an assortment of other weapons, including her extremely high-heeled boots, that could probably be used as weapons, too, if necessary. Not that Bo was far behind. She was dressed in her usual leather attire, with thigh daggers and a crossbow on her back. She also had daggers in her boots, just in case. By now they had reached the center of the old factory where Bo passed her choosing and it was very dark, save for a few stripes of moonlight that fell through where the windows would have been.
Kenzi looked back at Bo with a fake-annoyed expression.
"What? Can't a woman have a little fear of the full moon since she knows what creeps around in this world?"
"You certainly should human, not only of the full moon, which won't be shining for a few days. It would be a terrible shame if something were to happen to you, wouldn't it?"
Kenzis head snapped up from where the velvety voice was coming. She had never heard a voice like quite like this one. She wondered how it could be so soft and inviting but so cold at the same time. Bo looked up, too trying to locate the speaker. Their eyes finally landed on a female form, who stood casually leaning against a pillar on the upper level of the glass factory. Bo noticed it was almost the same spot where the Morrigan had stood when Bo went through her choosing. The woman was almost hidden in the shadows, one more step back from where Bo and Kenzi were standing and she would be completely hidden.
"Who are you?" Bo demanded, stepping to stand slightly in front of Kenzi and pulling out one of her thigh daggers to protect her best friend from a possible attack.
A dark chuckle could be heard. "My, my. You are a feisty one, aren't you? I'm the one you seek, Ysabeau." The figure leaning against the pillar disappeared into the dark, leaving Bo's eyes searching right and left.
"So Tamsin sent you?"
Another chuckle, but this time it sounded less amused. Bo couldn't place from where it was coming.
"If that is the blonde valkyries name. Then yes, and no. I'm wouldn't be here if I didn't want to be. But it is true that the valkyrie informed me you were looking for me."
By now Kenzi had a very bad feeling about the whole situation, so she did something she rarely did. She stepped closer to Bo hoping she could protect her from whoever this woman was. She even forgot to draw any of the many weapons she carried.
Bo's tone was annoyed when she asked again. "Who are you?" She peered into the darkness on the upper level slightly to the right where she thought the woman's voice came from.
Both, Kenzi and Bo, almost jumped when said woman stepped casually around a pillar almost right next to them. Bo twirled around, pulling Kenzi behind her once again and pointing her dagger at the woman she now could see properly for the first time. She was probably by far the most beautiful woman she had ever seen. She was tall and had eyes so dark they seemed black. Her hair was of the same color and hung loosely in soft waves down her back. It was a stark contrast to her skin that looked almost like marble from which her dark red lips stood out perfectly. The stranger had curves in all the right places that could be seen even through her black business suit and Bo couldn't make out a single flaw in her appearance. The only thing that was off was that all the beauty seemed sort of unnatural. Not like it was somehow forged, but rather too good to be real, like the woman stepped right out of a dream, her power radiating from her in waves. For a brief moment Bo wondered if that was what the victims of her ten-year killing spree had seen in her when she came on to them.
"Holy shitballs.." Kenzi whispered behind her.
The woman gave a dazzling smile that was obviously fake but didn't fail its purpose nonetheless. Kenzi felt her head start to swim with sudden arousal and she had to look away to keep from drooling. Bo felt the same arousal wash through her but it didn't affect her as much. It had quite the opposite effect. Her inner succubus started rattling her cage, desperate to get out, Bo's eyes flashing vibrant blue.
"Ahh, there she is. Hello Ysabeau. I see now why you need me. You can't control what you are, so you want to know more. You want to have full control."
The tall woman casually walked away from Bo and Kenzi, turning around when she was about ten meters away in the middle of what once had been the arena Bo fought in.
"And how would you be able to help me?", Bo's voice was barely controlled, almost a snarl.
Another deep chuckle echoed of the high walls. "I believe I owe you an answer to your question before. I have been given many names over the years but the one my mother gave me is Sulpicia." As she said that her eyes turned blue. But it wasn't the shining blue of Bo's eyes. It was a lot darker and it seemed like the color was flowing inside her eyes like liquid.
It was Kenzi who whispered. "You're a succubus?"
Sulpicia smirked, her eyes shifting back to their almost black color. "The oldest one still alive."
-x-
Lauren lay in her bed, trying desperately to sleep. She kept looking at the alarm clock on her nightstand, knowing that Bo and Kenzi could be is serious trouble right now. The doctor had made sure Bo fed from her before they left, wanting her girlfriend to have all the power she could have. But even now, exhausted from being fed on, she couldn't sleep. As much as she worried about Bo she worried about Kenzi, too. The petite woman had returned back to her normal self the past day, desperate to keep Bo and Lauren from noticing that she still shivered every once in a while. Of course, the blonde had noticed anyway. After all, it was her job to keep people healthy. And as much as Kenzi tried to act perfectly normal, Lauren knew that the bond Kenzi had with Tamsin would only be gone after the small human had made fulfilled her part of the deal. From what the doctor knew, valkyries were never easily satisfied when it came to what they wanted in exchange for their services.
Lauren turned to the other side, sighing deeply. If she only knew what Kenzi had offered Tamsin. She would try to get it out of her, the blonde decided. Once she and Bo came back from their meeting with this mystery Fae.
Lauren got up from her bed, walking down the stairs to get herself a glass of red wine. If, she thought as she poured the ruby liquid into the glass, If Kenzi and Bo came back. She took a sip from the glass, rolling the wine around in her mouth, savoring it's taste. No, she told herself fiercely, when they come back. She'd talk to Kenzi about all of this when they came back.
The blonde doctor slowly walked over looked out of the large windows in the back of her living room and out into the night sky. She could see the stars shining brightly and the almost full moon making it unnecessary for her to have on any light as she stood there. Just come back safe, Bo. Lauren smiled as, just as she thought those words, a shooting star raced across the sky.
-x-
"It's quite impressive that you learned to control your feeding without any guidance, on your own." Sulpicia still stood in the middle of the space, hands linked together behind her back, looking at Bo. "Of course, there is still much to be learned but the level you're at is a high one, given your circumstances."
Bo gave a half-smile. "I try my best."
"You certainly do. I can feel you fed just a couple hours ago. I see her chi swirling in your body. A beautiful human woman. More so than most of her kind."
Bo nodded, somewhat overwhelmed with what the older succubus could read just out of a stream of chi.
"Her girlfriend.", Kenzi stated and immediately knew she had said the wrong thing when Bo looked at her in shock and Sulpicia started laughing. She was going to keep her mouth shut from now on.
"You have a human as mate? You are young, but I wouldn't have thought you that naïve, Ysabeau. She can't sustain you, fascinating and enticing as her chi may be. She will grow older, while you stay the same. In ten years she will have lost at least half her beauty."
Bo tried not to explode at the standard answer everyone seemed to be giving her when they found out about her and Lauren. Instead she used it to ask about what she was really here for.
"About that. I seem to have perfect control over my feeding but I sometimes have problems with my girlfriend. She seems to awaken her inside of me. Also, a couple of nights ago, I felt this deep connection with her. I can't describe it. It feels like it has always been there. So right. Like.. we're meant to be."
Sulpicia met Bo's eyes, coming closer. "Ah, there lies the real reason for you being here. I knew there was more to it. She awakens the beast inside you fear so desperately. She is the one who tames her? You want to bind yourself to her, make her yours and be hers in return, forever."
The other succubus was now standing so close to Bo she could feel the warmth of her body. A long finger traced Bo's cheek and she had to fight the urge to pull away. "Do you even know what you are asking for, child?"
"I know that I love Lauren. And I won't ever stop."
Sulpicia smiled while Bo scolded herself for mentioning Lauren's name.
"Dr. Lauren Lewis, the light Fae's best doctor. I knew I've seen that energy somewhere before. She is a very useful human."
Sulpicia abruptly turned around and walked a few steps before looking back at Bo.
"But this isn't my choice to make. If you are willing to die for each other, come here again tomorrow night. I will be waiting for the two of you. And then we shall see if there is such a thing as eternal love between the unaligned succubus and the human doctor."
And with that, she disappeared. I wasn't like she just vanished, she seemed to become a shadow herself, melting away until only the old power humming in the air was left as proof she hadn't been a dream.
Bo just stood there, eyes fixed on the spot where Sulpicia had stood mere seconds ago while Kenzi finally dared to move again and shivered before saying: "I can only repeat myself. Holy shitballs."
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