"Ok Mr. Balor, remember the doctor said you should be fine as long as you take your antibiotics on a regular for the next 72 hours," I say. Mr. Balor smiles back at me.
"Thank you so much for everything. If I were twenty years younger…" He starts and I chuckle.
"I don't think that would go over so well with my boyfriend," I joke. The sixty year old man looks at me curiously.
"Should have known. All the good ones are taken. Women like you and my Anna don't stay single long. She was quite the looker back in her day."
I smile at that. "Where is she, I'd love to meet her."
His smile fades a little. "She passed away two years ago. Heart problems."
"Oh no, Mr. Balor, I'm sorry."
He reaches out and pats my hand.
"It's alright. I wouldn't trade the years we had for nothing in this world. Sometimes we don't need forever. Just to make the years we do have feel like it," he says. I smile at him.
He grabs his coat and makes his way out of the room. I pull out my phone as it starts to vibrate. A wave of anxiousness shoots through me and I know without looking who the call is from.
"What's wrong?" I ask.
"How did you know something was wrong?" Dyson's voice responds back through the speaker.
I sigh making my way out of the room and down the hall towards the locker room. My shift is over anyway.
"Because I could feel it and then what do you know my phone starts to ring."
There's a pause on the other end and it makes me nervous.
"Dyson?"
"Meet me at Lauren's lab...it's Kenzi."
My mind races as I try to remember what it could be. Then it hits me.
"I'm on my way," I say before hanging up.
Kenzi must have eaten the soup with the sick human foot cooked in it. How could I have been so stupid to forget this?
I get to the lab in record time only to find no one there. I turn to follow Dyson's scent and catch him headed down the hall towards the cementary.
"What's going on?" I ask as I catch up to him. He looks back at me in relief.
"Kenzi is sick and her body is deteriorating. I promised I'd stick around and keep an eye on her but she wondered off. I was just following her scent." He explains. I nod grabbing his hand.
"Let's go find our girl then."
Just as expected she's sitting on a bench in the middle of the graveyard. A grimace crosses her face as she sees us.
"Big ups to finding me. And look you even brought Levy. Those hospital scrubs look good on you by the way," she says pointing to my blue scrubs. Dyson sits on one side of her and I sit on the other. There is blood coming out of her eyes and nose but I ignore it and pull her into a hug.
"It's gonna be ok Kenz."
She pulls away and smiles at me before letting out a cough.
"This is a rather morbid choice of resting place," Dyson says quietly. I give him a look over Kenzi's head.
"I came here a lot when I was a kid," she explains.
"I get it, sometimes you just need a place to think," I reply and I cringe a little when Kenzi looks at me in awe.
"I'm convinced. You're my soulmate Alev. Leave this wolf man for me and let's spend the last hours of my life together," she jokes and I chuckle softly.
"Hey, not even on your death bed would I let you take my mate," Dyson jokes. She bumps him lightly.
"Greedy."
"Told yah," I tease. She shrugs.
"Meh, well. I had to try right?" Then she looks at Dyson.
"You promised you wouldn't leave."
"I know, I'm sorry. Bo needed my help with someone but I'm here now," he promises and my heart breaks a little watching the two. None of this had to happen if I'd just remembered to warn her about the foot soup.
"I'm not going back to that place. It's way too coocoo's nest. I'd rather die in a ditch," Kenzi says firmly. Dyson puts his arm around her shoulder and pulls her a little closer. Surprisingly my wolf is okay with the action.
"Kenzi, you're not going to die but we will take you somewhere else, somewhere safe," he tells her. She looks to me and I nod.
"Ok...but can we stay here a little bit longer? It's nice," she replies before looking from him to me.
"Unless you have somewhere to be."
"No...we're good," I promise. I pat her leg softly as Dyson continues to hold her even as she lets out another round of coughs.
We sit there for another ten minutes before she passes out. Dyson lifts her and we make our way back to the car. The drive to Trick's bar is made in silence. Kenzi doesn't come back around again until Dyson places her on a couch in the lower level. Trick claims to be able to help slow the process to buy Bo and Lauren some time and I watch as Trick places a cool cloth over her forehead and Dyson makes sure she's comfortable.
"Did I just wake up in Narnia? Or is that the fever talking?" She mumbles and we all smile at her. Trick encourages her to rest and for once she does without a fight.
I know that Bo and Lauren will come through but it's still hard to watch.
Trick makes a deal with a fae and gets something to brew a tea that helps slow her symptoms. I pour myself a shot from behind the bar and throw it back before heading back downstairs.
Kenzi is in the middle of another coughing fit and Dyson is holding her. She coughs into a napkin and I sigh when I see the blood.
Dyson encourages her to lay back and she makes a poor joke about not lying to a dying girl.
I come to stand next to them, placing my hand on Dyson's shoulder as he sits next to Kenzi.
"Levy, you're back. Just in time. I need a full death bed disclosure."
"Oh Kenz," I sigh.
"No, here me out. I see more than anyone thinks because no one is watching me. Everyone's always watching Bo. And what I see is you two helping her. Levy, I need you to promise to stick by Bo. The power of three will have to go on. And Dyson. I need you to keep them both safe. If I'm not here some day, I just want to know I can count on the two of you to have her back," she says as she sits up and looks at us both.
Dyson crumbles some more of the magical horn into the tea.
"Please just drink your tea. You're not going anywhere," Dyson promises and I nod.
Kenzi lets out another cough and Dyson helps her take a sip of the tea her hands are shaking too badly to do it herself.
Kenzi fades out of consciousness just as Bo and Lauren come rushing in. Dyson and I step back and allow the doctor to work. She has me put the Iv in Kenzi then all we can do is wait.
"She's still burning up. How longs is this going to take?" Bo demands. Lauren checks the Iv.
"Should be working by now," she replies.
Dyson and I stay a little ways back watching. He laces his hand with mine.
She's going to be alright, Dyson.
I hope so.
Trick comes over and stands near us. And then there is nothing to do but keep waiting. Then finally Kenzi comes around.
"Bo?" her scratchy voice calls out and we all sigh in relief. Bo rushes to her side as Lauren checks her vitals.
"Hey, hey. I'm right here," Bo says, a smile of relief on her face.
"I'm hungry," Kenzi mumbles and we all chuckle lightly.
"Any special request?" Trick asks eagerly.
"Yeah, no more feet," she replies. Lauren continues to look her over.
"The healing will be slow, so she's gonna need to take it easy for a while."
"Yeah, good luck of convincing her of that," Bo teases.
Lauren moves away from Kenzi as if to leave and Bo pulls her aside to thank her. When Lauren puts her hands on Bo's shoulders and smiles I bump Dyson and nod in their direction.
Well...that is interesting.
Think, they'll make it? I ask.
If we can then I'm sure they will.
Bo looks in our direction and I wiggle my brows at her. She rolls her eyes and looks back to Lauren.
What a stressful day.
We relocate upstairs and kinda stand around as Trick gives Kenzi enough food to feed two people. But it's clear from the look in his eyes he's just happy that she's okay. Bo, Dyson, and I stand a little ways back watching.
"So thanks to my training I can probably have sex with a human now without killing them," Bo says. I smirk at her.
"Oh really? Well that is good news. Congrats" I say.
"And will the good doctor be your first test subject?" Dyson teases. Bo rolls her eyes.
"Would that be a problem? I know I'm undeclared and what not but just because Lauren works for the light doesn't mean rules apply to her. She's still a human," Bo argues. Dyson holds his hands up in surrender.
"No problem here. Actually you being undeclared means you can have sex with whoever you want," he replies. A twinkle comes to her eyes and I laugh as she walks off.
"Honey, I think you just created a monster."
He watches the succubus walk over to a dark fae sitting alone at the bar and chuckles.
"Maybe so, but at least she's having fun."
"Touche...now how bout you have a drink with me," I say while pulling him towards the bar.
"Absolutely. My treat," he smiles.
"I knew I loved you for a reason," I laugh and he chuckles too.
Despite it being a long day. Everything turned out alright.
Author's Note:
Well...how was it? Are we feeling the Dyson, Alev, and Kenzi bond? I have to admit I'm a fan of the Dyson/Kenzi dynamic and I didn't have the heart to cut it out. I think Alev is the type to like it too. Don't forget to review!