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Time-Frame: Set directly after Episode 2:22
Rating: T
Pairing: Bo/Lauren
Missing: Part Ten
By: The RainbowWriters
By the time Dyson had driven the three of them to the hospital, Bo wasn't anywhere near as calm as she had been in the club house. Partly because she had caught up with what little they knew, partly because she had had all of the drive to think and more specifically because those thoughts had come up with the rather undeniable fact that, as she put it;
'Okay people don't need to be in hospitals.'
Since coming up with this Bo had been hard to contain, even for Kenzi who had been doing her best, plying her with mostly unoriginal phrases that offered her sympathy and encouragement, but in reality they both knew that the words had no real basis as none of them in the car had any idea what had actually gone on.
As Dyson finally pulled into the hospital entrance, Kenzi quickly pointed to the drop off point nearest the large double doors close to emergency, pointing out to the shifter that he could go and take his time finding a good parking lot, when there wasn't a salivating rabid succubus in the passenger seat.
As the wolf stopped the car, and Bo instantly had the door open, Kenzi wasn't sure whether or not she was happy to see Hale leaning against a pillar waiting for them near the large doors. The Siren looked more than a little pensive as he watched out for their arrival, putting his hand up in greeting as soon as he caught sight of Bo, not that the succubus was hard to miss as she made a bee line for him the instant her feet touched the pavement.
"Bo." Hale skipped forward to meet her, wiping his hands on the side of his thighs as he did, obviously nervous as to how the next few minutes of his life were going to play out.
"Explain now and explain fast." Bo stopped right up in front of him, her breathing fast, her dark eyes almost literally flashing.
"One of the members of the 'House of Delivery' ran her off the road." Hale gave the succinct answer of what had happened to Lauren on her drive over to answer his call.
For a moment Kenzi was sure that Bo's head was going to explode into confetti, like in some crazy cartoon. The succubus' face reddening slightly with rage as the first detail was fed to her about what brought them all here.
"She called Tamsin as soon as she realized she had a tail but..." Hale glanced down at the pavement trying to ignore the succubus' growing reaction.
"You dude need to learn to talk faster and with more details." Kenzi urged him rolling her hands over each other in a visual display of how the information needed to keep coming and quickly. Especially as Bo seemed to be continuing to reach detonation point.
"Oh, right sorry." Hale took his hat off and wiped his hand over his head. "I'm afraid your car is upside down in a ditch, South on Westbury, I'm pretty sure it's ..."
"Lauren man, details about Lauren." Kenzi reached out and swatted him in the arm. "She doesn't give a shit about the car."
"The Doc, of course. She's still in the examination area, Tamsin's with her." The Siren looked at the aggravated succubus. "Honestly Bo, when I saw her, she looked okay." He offered with a slight shrug. "Good considering the state of the car."
Bo just looked at him for a second, a thousand things on the tip of her tongue to snap out at him. Mostly about his incompetence, but some aiming lower, designed just to hurt the Siren for no other reason than right now she was really, really angry. Rather than give voice to any of them however she just looked up and saw what she wanted to on a very large directional signpost screwed into the wall by the side of the double doors. A green arrow pointed up and then left with the words Emergency stencilled next to it. Without so much as a glance over her shoulder the succubus took off in the direction the sign suggested.
"Later, you... me... talking about how to frame things to Bo." Kenzi made a motion between them as she walked backwards, following her best friend into the hospital. "If you don't get a crash course before then." She added before taking off in a fast jog after Bo.
Hospitals were always busy, Bo's life had taught her that already and tonight was no different. The only difference was that she had somewhere to be and the people milling around, mostly in their own worlds, paying little or no attention to anyone else, were in her way. Normally the succubus was the type to hold doors for people or at least share a sympathetic look with a stranger who obviously needed it, but right now she barely opened doors wide enough to get through and didn't once look at anyone else. Not even when she moved through the automatic doors to the front lobby of emergency did her attention waiver.
The room itself was full, with people sitting or standing in small groups, talking in hushed tones while triage nurses did their best to assess people and keep the system in place working. Bo didn't take in any of it as she just stepped up to the reception desk and put both of her hands flat down on it, fixing the young woman behind the large desk with wide dark eyes.
"Lauren Lewis, where is she?" She demanded her voice hard and powerful.
"I'm sorry?" The receptionist frowned slightly, obviously slightly off put by the very direct approach, "Did you say Lewis?" She asked as she ran her finger along the top of the row of patient files she had on the table in front of her.
"Lewis. Lauren." Bo repeated both names with a short snap, her eyes having already read all the names on the paper folders. She reached forward and stabbed her finger on the one with Lauren's name on it, her look challenging the young woman to tell her to move it.
"Exam room 32." She said, her voice slightly uneven as she slid out the file and read the detail.
"Through here?" Bo was already moving as she pointed to large double doors just off to the right of the large reception station. The young woman just nodded as Bo pushed through them and a millisecond later Kenzi came through the first set of automatic doors and just caught site of her best friend slipping through deeper into the medical zone.
"Bo..." She called out as she hurried after her bestie. "Bo!" She called again as the inner doors closed behind her. She breathed an inner sign of relief when she saw her dark haired best friend stop and turn. "Wanna slow down for the recently freed captive here?" She gave Bo and uneven smile, making a big show of dropping to put her hands down on her knees to breathe for a moment.
"Sorry." Bo actually apologized and backed up the short distance between them and put her hand lightly on Kenzi's back.
"'S'okay." Kenzi shook her head and eased upright. "Just ease up on the gas." She requested, and then realizing the possibly bad timing of her comment, considering they were here because Lauren had been in a car accident she gave a slight wince. "Sorry." She mouthed.
Bo just shook her head and looped her arm into her best friends'.
"Come on, it should be just down here." The succubus guided, glancing up to follow smaller arrows that pointed her to where beds '30 to 35' were.
The small area with its five curtained off beds was quiet in comparison to the busy main lobby. All the curtains were drawn around each bed trying to maintain as much privacy as possible for the patient waiting for the doctor inside. Bo instantly moved to bed 32 and pulled the curtain aside.
Inside Lauren was propped up on the bed, her left arm up in a temporary sling, much of the left side of her her neck that was visible was covered already in a dark purple bruise. Her face was uneven in colour with patches obviously having been bumped or knocked into hard surfaces. There was also a large white temporary dressing taped to her forehead. Her nose was bloody and her top lip was swollen with an ugly cut through it.
At the bottom of the bed Tamsin was perched, one leg tucked underneath her, the other swinging against the frame as she flipped through a magazine. The detective looked up the instant the curtain moved.
"Lauren." The word was pressed out of Bo's lips, coming out a whisper as the brunette literally stopped dead in her tracks, her eyes fixed on the blonde on the bed. "Oh God Lauren." The breathy whisper continued as Bo almost stumbled forward her hand coming up to almost clumsily reach out to touch the blonde.
"Bo." Lauren closed her eyes briefly saying the succubus' name carefully so that it didn't pull her lip, so much so that it came out sounding a little odd. She quickly reached out with her uninjured hand to capture the succubus hand and bring it to rest against her cheek. "I'm fine." She said slightly weakly.
"You're not fine." Bo shook her head, she could feel the unusual heat in patches on Lauren's skin, where the flesh was raw and scrapped.
"It's just a dislocated shoulder, a few stitches here and there, some bruising." She opened her eyes again looking at Bo.
"That's not fine." Bo continued to shake her head, as she pulled her hand back from off Lauren's cheek, unsure whether or not the touch was painful for her girlfriend. She carefully turned and eased herself down to sit on the edge of the bed with Lauren, cradling the blonde's uninjured hand in her lap. "What happened?" The question was asked of Tamsin as dark brown eyes came up to look directly at the detective.
"From what Lauren told me, someone from the 'House of Delivery was watching the house, or more specifically watching the car. When she called me she couldn't have been more than a few blocks from your house." Tamsin began, putting down the magazine and sitting up to be able to comfortably look the succubus in the eye.
"He was there all the time." Lauren offered the precise detail. "Bo, I can tell you all this." She added, wincing only slightly as the words pulled at her lip.
"I can hear it from her." Bo flicked her head towards Tamsin. "You just rest." She brought up Lauren's hand to her lips and kissed it. "So some creep was following her, how did that turn into this" Bo's tone was icy.
"Dr. Lewis didn't want to lead the..." Tamsin paused. "Creep, back to you or more specifically you and Kenzi, so she called me." The feline shifter maintained her calm as she continued. "I put an APB out on both cars for an intercept and drove out to meet her."
"Which isn't what I wanted either." Lauren interjected unable to just sit back and listen to the one sided recap. "Bo with what Hale and Tamsin had found, with the complications it brought, I didn't want her involved either. All of this..." She leaned her head back into the pillow slightly. "Is my fault." She closed her eyes again as a tiny trail of blood began to seep from the cut in her lip.
"Doctor that's not an accurate assessment of events." Tamsin admonished softly. "I've already made it very clear to Lauren that risk is our job." She wanted the point made clear.
"Not clear enough." Bo narrowed her eyes at Tamsin. "It was you who put her in harms way in the first place." She stated angrily. "Dragging her out in the middle of the night on some weird emergency call. What was that about?"
"Not here Bo." Again it was Lauren who replied as she leaned her head up off the pillow opening her eyes again, "As soon as I'm done here, I'll explain when when you drive me over to the Reverend's house."
"The Rev..." Bo squeaked and cleared her throat. "The only place I'm taking you when you get the all clear is back to the clubhouse." Bo shook her head. "I'm bundling you on one side of my bed and Kenzi on the other. Then I am sitting myself at the end of it on an uncomfortable chair, watching the two of you. All night." She outlined her her personal plan.
"Kenzi." Tamsin glanced at the younger woman, who had spent the entire uncomfortable conversation so far looking between Lauren and Bo and frowning slightly, obviously clearly seeing how much potential the situation had to become 'very bad'. "Do you think you could keep Dr. Lewis company for a moment? I need to talk to Bo." Tamsin took a breath and kept a very even face as she looked directly at the succubus. "Please, if you would, take a walk with me?" She asked of the succubus, hoping maybe given a choice Bo would chose answers.
Angry brown eyes flashed in Tamsin's direction, but when faced with the even, almost neutral look she was getting in response, they turned away coming back to look at the injured blonde, who had once again leaned back onto her pillows. As the succubus' brown eyes came to rest on Lauren once again, all trace of anger was gone from them.
Bo focused on the trail of blood that was oozing from the ugly cut in Lauren's swollen upper lip and frowned. Turning around, she reached for a tissue from the small box on the side.
"I wish I could heal you." She whispered as she leaned close and dabbed the tissue to stem the blood flow.
"I know." Lauren gave a soft breath out of her nose and a tiny smile. "Talk to Tamsin." She added.
The succubus patted the blonde's lips a couple of times more and then eased back, slipping off the bed. She turned and held out the slightly bloodied tissue to Kenzi.
"Look after her." She asked of her best friend.
"You got it Bo-Bo." Kenzi gave a quick wholehearted nod, and a 'be brave' smile as Bo walked passed her to join Tamsin who was already standing near to the open curtain edge.
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Tamsin led Bo the short distance through the emergency wing towards where she had earlier noted there was a small interior courtyard. Probably designed as a 'smoking area' back before smoking had been universally outlawed in such placed.
"I know you're new and that all you know about me you got from some file someone handed you, but something you better learn fast is that those two back there, they're my family, and no one, and I mean no one touches them. Whatever job you think Lauren has to do for you and your side, you can forget it, she's hurt and she needs to recover." Bo began, not even waiting until they reached the door to the outside.
"Just as I am new to you, you are new to me, so I'll over look your judgement that I would risk further injury or discomfort to someone who has already shown remarkable bravery and loyalty to 'My Side', especially considering I'm pretty sure you've not even read a file about me let alone the dossier I've studied on you." The feline shifter used the succubus' argument back at her. "But you need to understand what the situation is here, and I think you'll find it is the good doctor you will have to convince to let this one go and not me."
"Well as no one has explained the situation to me it's hard for me to be sympathetic." Bo met the passive aggressive stance with one of her own.
"While we were going through the Reverend's house as part of our usual evidence and information sweep, Hale and I found a number of should we say... disturbing things that take this from being a simple kidnapping case to something more severe. That was of course before the incident with the doctor happened." She added the footnote as she she pushed the door open to the courtyard, holding it for Bo to pass through.
"Like?" Bo asked, pleased to step out into the cooler air, it helped take the heat of anger off her skin.
"Well for one thing, files. Files containing the details and specifics of other individuals that the 'house' has 'healed' for want of a better word. The oldest one dating back twelve years." The blonde revealed the first rather startling detail.
"Twelve years?" Bo's brown eyes widened as she turned to look at Tamsin. "But I'm pretty sure the 'House of Delivery' hasn't been around that long, not according to the registry we found them through." The succubus tried to recall the details from the papers she read what seemed like an age ago now.
"It hasn't, by the look of it the 'House of Delivery' is just the latest name." Tamsin pointed out.
"But I don't understand, you didn't call Lauren out in the middle of the night to look at old paperwork." Bo tried to keep her focus because, no matter how alarming the idea that possibly people had been being kidnapped by this man for twelve years was, it couldn't have been what needed Lauren's attention.
"No, we didn't." Tamsin agreed with the succubus easily. "In the basement of the Reverend's house, in his 'office' I suppose you would call it, we found what we believe to be the frozen remains of a wolf shifter." The blonde blinked her amber eyes at Bo as she revealed the great mystery that had been so far kept from her.
"What?" Bo's eyes narrowed and she pulled in a deep breath of the cool night air.
The feline shifter just nodded that indeed the succubus had heard her right, in case she was questioning such a thing.
"The Reverend had a dead Fae in his basement freezer?" Bo felt her mind literally stall at even the idea of it. This took the idea of crazy human religious zealot and shot it out into the stratosphere.
"And so now we come to why we needed the Doctor. Initially to positively identify the remains, and then to what is best to be done with them. Like I said, the freezer is in the basement of the house, and to say the Reverend is a collector of all things would be an understatement. Getting the freezer out will take a great deal of time and will cause a lot of attention." She explained more. "Letting the doctor assess the remains in situ would also allow her to conduct a postmortem and other test that she needs." The blonde continued with her thorough explanation of why it had all got so very complicated so suddenly.
"Okay wait a minute, I think I'm still getting my head around the fact that the guy who kidnapped Kenzi, has a dead Fae in his freezer." Bo admitted as she rubbed her finger against her forehead, where she could feel the beginnings of a hard headache forming.
"I can understand that." Tamsin took in a breath and moved back from Bo slightly, as if literally giving the succubus more room to breathe. "But equally..." She continued, watching Bo carefully. "You have to understand the time sensitive nature of our predicament." She put her hands behind her back and straightened up to stand tall.
"Oh don't even try." Bo looked up instantly at the blonde, her eyes flaring again with quick anger. "I don't know who told you that I could be placated with calm explanations and 'quiet walks' only to be pushed into quick badly thought out decisions, but whoever it was, was way off target." The succubus' voice was low and aggravated.
"I know that you are used to things a certain way." Tamsin paused. "Bo." She offered the succubus' name as an acceptable title. "And I know that I don't know what way that is, but I can assure I wasn't pushing or trying to force you into anything I was merely telling you what you had asked to know, which was details. The who, why's and where's of what is going on. Which in turn needs to be followed up with the what's of how to address the issues that have arisen." Tamsin flicked her hair over her shoulder and didn't for a second look away from Bo.
"You missed the bit in between where I get to react to the who's, why's and where's." Bo snapped as she turned from Tamsin and took a few short strides away. "And you also missed the fact that my girlfriend is in there looking she just went three rounds with Tyson." The succubus added pointing off towards the door to the hospital.
"I can assure you I haven't forgotten that." Tamsin actually let her head drop forward a little. "What happened to Dr. Lewis this evening was..." She stopped the trace of something in her voice, that could have been guilt, or shame was just evident. "Terrible." She decided on a summary.
"Yeah well that 'terrible event' just took your doctor out of the scenario you just outlined for me back then, so what now? Why did you even need Lauren in the first place? It's not like you Light Fae don't have other doctors." Bo kept turned away from the feline shifter, to be honest she hadn't expected anything like remorse from the young looking detective.
"We don't have other doctors linked to you." Tamsin with quick with her answer, just as she had been every other time. "With what we found at the house, the word has come down from the powers that be, that this is to become a closed Light Fae investigation." The blonde breathed out as she explained. "All other elements are to be, excluded." She pointed out. "By involving Dr. Lewis, I was involving you, as much as I could for as long as I could."
"Wait give me a minute..." Bo had to stop her vague walk away and turned again to look at the blonde. "Are you trying to tell me you were bending the rules for me? Actually bending the rules to keep me in the game?"
"An attempt that rather backfired." Tamsin looked down again.
For a long moment Bo was silent as she tried to process everything she had just been told.
"What can you tell me about what happened tonight, to Lauren I mean?" Bo walked back towards Tamsin, her tone different now, the anger tempered slightly.
"Other than to add that the car following her rammed into her approximately three times, the third resulting in Lauren's car leaving the road and coming to rest inverted in a ditch. The aggressive vehicle in pursuit proceeded to crash into a tree in the field beyond." Tamsin relayed more details.
"The driver?" Bo pushed instantly.
"Dead." Tamsin shook her head. "He was a young Caucasian male, no form of ID on him, we're running him through databases." The blonde Fae gave the succubus the information with a frown.
"The car?" Bo asked the next question in her mind.
"The sedan registered to the group, but it definitely wasn't being driven by the registered owner who was a Mrs. Eileen Powel, single mother of three." Again the information the succubus asked for was quickly supplied.
"But..." The small word made Bo look up.
"I'm not sure that the purpose of the tail was to cause the damage it did at least not initially." Tamsin's words made the brunette narrow her eyes, partially in confusion, partially in annoyance at to what she might be missing or not understanding. Seeing the succubus' reaction the blonde held up her hand. "It's just that in a quick on scene examination of the car, one of my fellow Fae officers found something, well three somethings." Seeing Bo's 'get on with it' look Tamsin continued. "Digital wireless cameras, live feed cameras. One mounted on the dashboard, one on the head rest of the passenger seat the other on the back window shelf.
"Cameras?" Bo blinked rather stupidly at the blonde as if this was the last thing she had expected to come out of the feline shifter's mouth. "So you think that the Reverend was watching? That the camera's were set up to feed our actions to him? Why?" She frowned.
"Have you ever heard the term 'Bug hunter'?" Tamsin asked. Seeing the blank look the succubus was giving her the blonde continued. "It's a term we use for people that spend their time looking for the us, for the Fae." She explained simply. "My gut feeling is that the Reverend is a Bug Hunter." She summed up.
Again Bo took a long moment to think about what Tamsin had said.
"You said you don't think that the purpose of the tail was initially to cause damage, are you suggesting someone, the Reverend, changed the instructions?" Bo felt her jaw flex as she clamped the muscles in it tightly, the idea that this lunatic may have specifically ordered a recon to turn into a intercept made her stomach turn and her anger flare again.
"If the doctor wasn't what he was looking for, running her off the road would be a way to get your attention." Tamsin offered the possibility.
"Oh he's got my attention." Bo literally snarled. "And he's so going to wish he hadn't."
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Kenzi had scrunched up the bloodied tissue Bo had passed her and deposited without hiding her disgust in the small bin close to the hospital bed.
"I'm sorry Kenzi."
It was Lauren's quiet, odd sounding voice that brought the young woman's head up from where she had been looking at the linoleum floor. Kenzi blinked blue eyes at Lauren as she walked closer to the bed shaking her head as she moved, flapping her hand in a 'oh please' motion.
"This isn't a sorry situation, like me getting hogtied and thrown into a wacko's van wasn't a sorry situation." The young woman leaned against the bed, her slightly weight pressed against one leg as she folded her arms across her chest. "This is a lay there and try not to hurt too much type scene." She added motioning again to Lauren, this time waving her hand up and down the doctor's body for emphasis.
"You should be at home." Lauren who had not moved from leaning against her pillows, let her eyes remain closed. The blonde's words were a little hard to make out as she was barely moving her lips.
"Believe me Bo was not capable of coming here alone, or just with Dyson." Kenzi shook her head even if Lauren couldn't see. "I thought she was going to fly here under here own steam after Hale called. My bestie's got it bad for you." She added with a soft chuckle under her breath. "She's got a soft spot for us squishy human types, you need to learn that and take better care of yourself."
"From the girl who threatened me with a massive head injury." Lauren's voice tone was amused, but her voice weak.
"Yeah well that was different." Kenzi shifted slightly and actually sat down on the bed as reached out she sandwiched Lauren's 'good' hand between both of hers. "I mean it Hot Pants." She said her voice more serious now. "You need to realize you're Bo's girl now. Crazy shit has to stop."
"She told you?" The confusion that was in the question very nearly made the badly pronounced words unintelligible.
"She told me what?" Kenzi shifted slightly on the bed her mind going over what the blonde could possibly mean. "Wait?" She paused. "You and Bo are..." Kenzi snorted slightly to cover a soft laugh. "Oh really girlfriend, you HAVE to cut the crazy shit out now." Again unseen Kenzi shook her head.
"Hello?" A deep male polite male voice called for their attention as the curtain was pulled back and a young nurse stepped in as another pulled the curtain fully around. He tried to act natural as the two women went from looking shocked, the visitor ready to pounce on him, to relaxed again. "Someone has an appointment with x-ray." The nurse continued as he moved into position to move Lauren's bed.
"You don't have to come Kenzi." Lauren moved to ease her hand out from between Kenzi's.
"Are you kidding me?" Kenzi just slipped off the side of the bed, and changed her grip on Lauren's hand, holding it in just one of hers as she walked along side as the bed was pushed out of its place. "You're stuck with me lady."
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The air outside the hospital was cool, but possibly not as cool as Hale would have liked it to be considering how tense he felt.
For one, the powers that be were breathing down his neck at the recent developments in the case, they wanted all outside forces closed out, and they wanted it dealt with Fae style, quickly. But that wasn't easy, especially as Tamsin had involved every cop in the district with Lauren's car chase, which had led to the need for the doctor to be brought to a standard hospital, to be processed the normal way, so that 't's' could be crossed and 'i's' dotted before the 'human' investigation could be shut down.
Two, the Siren was pretty sure the succubus wanted his balls – and not in a good 'a succubus wants your balls' type way. It wasn't that he thought Bo blamed him for what happened to Lauren, aw hell, who was he kidding, of course she did, or at least part of her did. If he hadn't have called for her, the doctor wouldn't have been in the car, wouldn't have been tailed and wouldn't have ended up upside down in a ditch. It was just the natural progression of things, like shit rolling down hill, ultimately something was going to land on him.
All that of course led very nicely to cause three, the fact that he wasn't any closer to unravelling the mystery that was the 'House of Delivery' or to catching its leader than he had been hours ago. He didn't even have his frozen corpse identified yet. He just had a hospitalized doctor, a heap of extra paperwork, a royally pissed off succubus and a hell of a lot of unanswered questions.
"To quote a good friend of ours, 'who pissed in your cornflakes.'" Dyson greeted the Siren with a smile as he walked up, having had a long walk in from parking the car.
"Says the wolf who less than a day ago ripped the door off one of our cars and caused a twenty thousand dollar bill, which I have to explain away." Hale glanced up at him with an unamused scowl.
"Sorry about that." Dyson lost his grin and looked at the pavement at his feet.
"Yeah I should think so." Hale breathed out in a hard huff. "Not making it easy man." He shook his head, once again pulling off his hat to run his hand over his head. "What was that anyway and where the hell did you go? Not like you should need reminding but we were in the middle of something, not just hanging out together out there."
Dyson took in a deep breath feeling his chest tighten a little as the Siren took out a little of his frustration on him.
"I don't know..." He decided to be honest, at least to a point. "All of a sudden I went from okay to really, really pissed off." He flexed his hands at his side.
"And your way to vent that was rip the car door off?" Hale eyed him slightly. "Seriously I think you should talk to Trick, you two go back a real long way, and you've been off man, for a while." The siren shook his head slightly as he put his hat on again.
"I don't need to talk to Trick." Dyson shook his head in return. "I know I was out of order, but it was just a thing. I was tired, worried, angry. I took off, went for a ride and found some perspective. Drove home and took a shower." He listed his activities from the moment he had ordered them away from the car. "I guess I really wasn't in the mood for an in car peep show." He breathed out, his tone tense again. "I mean seriously, was it the kind of thing you wanted to watch?" Dyson cast Hale a quick glance.
For a moment Hale looked at his old partner still shaking his head, as he eventually let a slight smile spread across his face.
"You so don't want me to answer that honestly man." The Siren chuckled, backing up a little from the wolf.
Dyson let the moment bring a little brevity between them happy at least that the younger Fae had felt able to be somewhat lighthearted in his response. Letting the moment settle between them, the wolf stepped a little closer lowering the volume of his voice considerably.
"So what do you think about what you found?" The wolf asked of his old partner, turning his back to the road to make the conversation more private.
"I think it means that this Reverend is trouble, that we need to find him and we need to stop him." Hale summed up. "Before tonight and what we found I was thinking zealot, possible loon, now I'm thinking dangerous psychopath intent on exposing the Fae."
"And do we have the say so to do what needs to be done about that?" Dyson pushed, not pleased when Hale paused.
"Anything that is a danger to the Fae, a danger to our anonymity, we have the green light on its just..." Hale paused again. "If we're talking eradication not just containment, I want, no I need to make sure..." The younger Fae looked over at the shifter his face a mask of seriousness. "Killing out of ignorant fear feels wrong Dyson, Fae or Human. It has to be the right thing to do."
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