Anon prompt: Tamsin and bo fighting over who's kid is cuter. (They both had kids with lauren, idk how or why the details arent necessary lauren is just that badass lol)
"How do you know he's even yours, Tamsin?", Bo shouts as she throws her arms up, frustrated at the valkyrie. "I mean seriously, how do you know that spell didn't backfire on you? Karma for being such a bitch all the time?"
She lets out an angry growl, and bites the inside of her cheek to stop herself from erupting in a string of curses at the brunette.
"How do you know she didn't get succu-knocked up by someone else?"
Lauren hangs her head into her hands, sighing as her ex-girlfriend and wife argued. Six year old Charlotte, the splitting image of Bo, was sitting at the doctor's feet with baby Ethan, appropriately the spitting image of Tamsin, trying to reach him how to play with her dolls. She would roll her big brown eyes and huff at him when he giggled and placed the arm or leg of one in his mouth, which only caused the toddler to giggle more.
"Just look at Charlotte", Bo says, causing Lauren to raise her head and eye her seriously in warning – Bo and Tamsin arguing was nothing new. In fact, it had been one of the few constants in the doctor's life over the past decade or so. Their mostly harmless bickering only became more frequent when Bo found out that Lauren had gotten pregnant through a spell her and Tamsin had accidentally stumbled upon when looking for ways to combine their essence, as is custom in the rites of a fae marriage. Bo, who was so flabbergasted that Lauren was going to be having a child with the valkyrie, had barged in to Lauren and Tamsin's apartment and tried to scoop up Charlotte, who was only about 4 at the time. After many months of petty arguing and just as petty custody battles, the three had finally found a precarious peace. 2 years later, the peace was still just as fragile. "She looks just like me. Ethan barely looks like you. He could be anyone's kid."
Lauren's offended 'hey now' goes unnoticed as Tamsin takes a threatening step forward and invades Bo's personal space.
"That is such bullsh- crap. Such bullcrap. Look at him", she turns her head to send a dazzling smile at Ethan, who had just began to gnaw on the leg of one of Charlotte's Barbies. "He looks just like me. He's beautiful."
And Tamsin was right - even at only a year old, Ethan was definitely the spitting image of his mother. His pale blonde hair clung to his head in loose curls, and his eyes were the same piercing green color as the valkyrie's. He inherited Lauren's strong jawline and chin, but he was without a doubt Tamsin's son.
"Yeah, well", Bu stammers as she raises her chin defiantly, "Charlotte is cuter."
"You're blind, succuslut. Ethan is a hell of a lot cuter than her. Look at that hair, and those eyes."
"He's chewing on a Barbie. He must have inherited your hair and thick head, huh?"
Tamsin's string of curses was interrupted by Lauren quickly standing and picking up baby Ethan as she ushered Charlotte to go play in the other room. Once Charlotte was settled on the couch in the living room watching Finding Nemo and Ethan was put down for a nap, Lauren stomped back in to the kitchen and stared daggers at both of the other women with her arms crossed. Bo immediately resheathed the dagger she had pulled out, and Tamsin released her loose hold around the succubus' throat – as reluctant as Lauren was to admit it, this was not the first time she had barged in on the women like this. They straightened themselves and looked down at their feet, both feeling guilty as soon as they noticed the annoyance etched all over the doctor's face.
"Can we please", Lauren breathes out, "not argue about the children in front of the children?"
Sighing, they both mumble apologies simultaneously.
"I don't think it's fair to either of them, or to me, to have to watch their mother's argue over who is the better looking child."
"You're right", Tamsin says quietly, "We don't mean anything by it, babe. Just, uh, playful banter, you know?"
She hits Bo's shoulder (probably a little harder than necessary) to emphasize her point. Bo fights the glare she wants to send the valkyrie and sends a tight smile in Lauren's direction instead.
"Yeah. Playful."
Lauren rolls her eyes as she returns to her seat at the kitchen island. She sits down in a huff, hanging her head in her hands again. Tamsin slowly saunters up and places a kiss on her cheek, an action which Bo follows. The two women may not get along, sure, but at the core of everything they have one very important thing in common – Lauren. They both love her, and would both do anything for her. They both have a child with her, which doesn't make for the simplest of situations, but they make due. Tamsin loves Charlotte as much as she does Ethan, and Bo loves Ethan as much as she does Charlotte. What matters to them is that each child is a piece of the woman they both love so much, not so much who the other half of their chromosomes happen to come from. And, though neither of them will ever say it out loud, they suppose that there could have been less favorable donors.
"We're sorry", Bo starts as she sends a sheepish smile to Tamsin before looking Lauren in the eyes. "We love you. All four of us do."
Tamsin places another gentle kiss to Lauren's forehead, and pulls back to return Bo's smile before nodding in agreement.
"And that's all that matters."