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Pairings: Bo/Lauren
Time-Frame: Set directly after Episode 3:02
Rating: M (Contains scenes of violence, sexuality and mild nudity)
Summary: Set directly after Episode 3:02, following an AU storyline of our own creation.. Distinctly Bo/Lauren centric.
Heavenly Resonance. - Part Eleven
By: The RainbowWriters
Bo wasn't exactly sure where she was going, after all she didn't have a clue where to go in order to find Kenzi. Somewhere in the city her best friend was now confronting an unknown person about whether or not they were Fae, and her brain continued to come up with a myriad of ways this meeting could be playing out. After all Medi's 'friend' Razor had been exposed as Dark Fae, which meant if the mechanic had any connection to the Fae it was most probably to the Dark. As her brain swirled, thinking of the Kobold made her stop.
"Razor..." Bo suddenly blurted out the name. "He'll know where her apartment is." She looked to Lauren, who for her part was in the passenger seat trying to keep the Succubus calm enough to not cause an accident.
"The Kobold?" Lauren checked that they were talking of the same person.
"Yes, if anyone knows where Medi lives its him." Bo pulled her phone out of her pocket. "Dyson will know his address."
"And just what are you going to tell Dyson you need his address for?" Lauren tried to get her lover to think a little out side of the box of panic that she was in at the moment.
"How else am I going to find her?" Bo asked the question, her tone angry. "I shouldn't have let her go, if anything happens its all my fault."
"Bo, I know how responsible you feel, I do, but right now I think it's best if we go back to my apartment. Think about the best way to handle this. Maybe you're right maybe we could ask Dyson for Razor's address, but we have to think of a good reason we need it, one that makes sense." She tried to reason with her lover. "You have to remember why he was even brought to the attention of the police in the first place." She reminded with a soft frown. "The less you have to do with this the better." She reminded gently.
"I just..." Bo took a long deep breath. "Okay." She gave in and changed lanes in order to head back to the blonde's place. Her mind was still overwhelmed with what could be happening with Kenzi but her hands were tied. "Thank you." She reached and put her hand on Lauren's leg, knowing the blonde was trying to steer her in the right direction.
Lauren smiled a little tightly, just hoping that she was doing the right thing.
-x-
"Wow." Medi made the small noise as she walked slowly through the door into Lauren's apartment following Kenzi's lead. The muscular young woman's light brown eyes were wider as she looked around the bright spacious apartment with its modern decor and attractive art pieces. "You weren't kidding about the Doc." She summed up, pausing on instinct to take off her sneakers at the door.
"You can leave those on." Kenzi shook her head. "I don't know how she does... all the white. Makes me sometimes think it's like an asylum in here." She gave a soft laugh. "Nothing personal but stay away from the Doctor zone." She motioned to the work table and other cabinets. "Apparently unqualified people like us, well like me, can break expensive equipment without really knowing it." She rolled her eyes. "You wanna drink?" She moved towards the fridge.
"I think I'm going to need one." Medi nodded as she followed Kenzi a little further into the condo, her eyes still wide at the beautiful layout of the place. "It's so..." She looked around. "Clean."
"Lauren has stocks in a bleach company." Kenzi teased getting them both a drink. "I don't know why they're not here though..." She tried not to let her worry about that fact spill too much into her mood. "I'm sure they'll be back sooner than later." She crossed back to hand the beer bottle to Medi. "You hanging in?" She asked gently.
"I guess." The Geist frowned slightly as she moved to perch on the very edge of the couch. "It feels weird you know, you're the first person in like forever who knows." She glanced down at her own hand's around the bottle, shaking her head a little. "I..." She eventually looked up and at Kenzi. "I'm terrified." She admitted the simple fact.
"I can't imagine how you're feeling." Kenzi moved to sit next to her, putting her own bottle down on the coffee table. "But you're not alone in this anymore... you have Bo and Lauren, and me. We take care of each other, like a crew, the Unaligned Fae crew." She specified.
"I don't know Kenzi, I..." Medi took a breath. "I don't want to bring any trouble into your lives, and believe me..." She frowned. "I have a habit of finding trouble." She picked at the edge of the label on the bottle. "Perhaps I shouldn't have come?" She edged a little forward on the seat as if to get up.
"No, you're doing the right thing." The brunette reached out her hand on Medi's arm to gently keep her from moving. "You can't run forever Medi, you deserve more than that."
"Wow. this feels so weird." The pink haired young woman tipped her head back and blew out a lung full of air. "You know..." She slowly righted her head and looked at the hand Kenzi still had on her arm and then slowly looked into blue eyes. "You know I'm Fae." She said the words almost in a whisper, the ghost of a smile pulling on her lips.
"I do, and you know my best friend is Fae, the one and only unaligned Fae." Kenzi gave her a smile. "Even playing field all around."
"I so should have guessed Bo was a succubus." Medi laughed at herself softly. "I knew one once, well no, my mother she..." Her smile dissipated into a frown that melted into a look of confusion.
Two things struck Kenzi at the same time: first was the obvious pain that remembering her mother caused the young Fae, probably because she had barred most thoughts of the fire and what it had taken from her from her immediate thoughts; and the second was that she knew already the Frost family had been associated with the Dark King and she already knew of a succubus who was also tied to him.
"Do you remember her name?" Kenzi asked the question softly. "The succubus..." She clarified her brain not able to let go of the point.
"I try not to think about back before the fire..." The muscles in Medi's jaw locked and flickered as she obviously shut down the emotions and memories that flared in her brain just thinking about it. "Do you mind if we don't talk about it?" She shook her head, pulling her arm back from Kenzi's light touch.
"Sorry, when you're ready." Kenzi tucked the question to the back of her mind, after all, even if figuring out Bo's origins was always a priority there were bigger fish to fry right now and with any luck Medi would be around a long time to ask the question again. "I know what it's like to want to forget the past, push it from your mind. It's nothing like what you've gone through, but I understand."
"Ozzie told me your step-dad used to hurt you." Medi looked up to meet Kenzi's eyes again, the very centre of her brown eyes glowing a more golden colour as she spoke.
"Damn Ozzie, he never could keep his mouth shut." Kenzi gave a soft tight laugh. "But he did, I wasn't his child, so the only way to make me respectable was to beat the crap out of me at any opportunity, 'correct me' as he used to call it."
"He was drunk when he told me." The young Fae offered the fact in Ozzie's defence. "He wanted us to go and beat the shit out of him for you." She laughed softly as she looked at Kenzi. "Good thing I hadn't met you by then or he'd had gotten his wish."
"Carl isn't worth it." Kenzi shook her head. "I decided that along time ago, though when I first met Bo I was tempted to send her over to teach him a lesson." She leaned back on the couch. "But risking everything I have now, he wasn't worth it."
"Does she know? Bo? About what he did?" Medi shifted to sit sideways slightly, her eyes becoming more muted brown again as she pressed back to relax into the cushion.
"No." Kenzi made the soft admission. "It would eat Bo up, that's just the kind of woman she is. She knows I had a bad go, that I ended up on the streets young. Once you get to know her you'll understand, Bo is the kind of person... well Fae... that leads with her heart. That's why she's the unaligned, she couldn't agree to either side if they treated humans like crap."
"The Dark King, I can't imagine he likes the idea of an unaligned just out there..." Medi shook her head as she took a quick drink.
"He's not really on the scene anymore, the only threat from the Dark comes from the Morrigan." Kenzi tried to address the issue.
Wide brown eyes flicked up to stare at Kenzi, her confusion obvious.
"But..." The young fae's brow creased hard, her voice trailing slightly. "Really?" There was more than a trace of disbelief in her tone.
"The rare times I've heard him referenced it's always in the past tense. We have a friend though, I can ask him for better details, if anyone knows he will." Kenzi filled in again reaching out to put her hand on Medi's arm. "Just remember you're not alone in this, we're in it together."
The pairs conversation was suddenly broken up by the loud opening of the front door announcing the equally loud arrival of Bo and Lauren, the blonde having to keep up with the lover who was moving quickly through the door and was already halfway towards the kitchen before she stutter stepped when she noticed the fact there were two people sitting on the couch.
Medi had on automatic withdrawn into a defensive ball, the instant the door had been pushed open, the tall table lamp next to the couch rising a good five inches off the end table it was sat on, hovering delicately in place, somewhat like a cumbersome butterfly.
"Medi it's okay, it's just Bo." Kenzi stood but put herself close to the mechanic as she looked at her friend. "Bo, who is going to relax and listen as I explain the things you've told me." Her look bored into the Succubus, willing her to please chill and just listen as she was freaking out the newcomer.
To her credit Bo had stopped in her tracks and was looking at Kenzi since her best friend had directly addressed her and to some extent had drawn her attention away from the pink haired girl on the couch. Lauren however was staring at her lamp, watching as it slowly went back to resting on its base on the table.
"You don't know how happy I am to see you." More or less ignoring everything Kenzi said Bo crossed the room and pulled Kenzi into a hug. "I was an idiot to let you go alone." She apologized softly so that only the younger woman could hear as she held her tightly.
"No, it was the right way to play it." Kenzi assured her and then leaned back out of the hug. "Bo... Lauren... this is Medi, who is Fae." She let the fact be spoken first. "And she's got a dozy of a story to tell." She smiled as she moved to sit down next to the mechanic again.
"Light or Dark?" Bo asked immediately watching as Lauren silently moved around the back of the couch to the kitchen, getting Bo a drink before moving back pass it to her lover.
Kenzi looked at Medi first, seeing how reluctant and unsettled the mechanic was and couldn't keep from answering the question for her.
"Neither." She spelled out immediately. "She's been on the run since she was thirteen because the Dark King had her whole family murdered in a fire."
"What?" Bo's eyes went wide looking from Kenzi to Medi and then back to Kenzi.
"She's like you Bo, no side. She's been on the run all this time, hiding from the Dark King's order to have her family annihilated." Kenzi spelled out more succinctly. "She's..." She looked to Medi and gave her a supportive smile. "A Geist."
It was quite possible that Bo was going to say something in response to this next revelation, but to everyone's surprise it was Lauren who made a small strangled noise of surprise which made everyone look at her.
"Sorry." She said apologetically when she felt everyone's eyes on her, doing her best to recover her usual calm collected appearance.
"Babe?" Bo frowned softly at her lover, clearly not going to just let Lauren recover and move on.
The blonde smiled and then took a breath focusing her soft brown eyes on the small woman who was still sat far back on the couch.
"You're a Geist?" Lauren asked specifically of Medi, her words slow and clear. Medi looked up slowly and nodded, to which Lauren licked her lips, looked up at the ceiling and rolled her eyes slightly.
"What's a Geist?" Bo frowned in confusion between Lauren and Medi. "Is it bad?" She felt her tension increase ten fold as she focused on her lover for answers.
"Bo, there is no good or bad Fae you know that, not in essence anyway." Lauren shook her head her eyes briefly meeting Bo's before going right back to look at Medi. "How have you..." She asked with a frown, shaking her head as she obviously thought about the young Fae's life on the streets. "At thirteen your powers weren't even fully active." She continued to shake her head.
"Lauren, sharing would be good." Bo continued to harass her lover, who had very typically for Lauren gone into internal dialogue with herself, rather than information sharing.
"Bo..." Lauren eventually blinked and looked at the succubus. "A Geist is a rare and powerful Fae." The blonde focused herself on her lover. "Like you feed on sexual energy, they feed on fear, their telekinetic powers are unmatched in the Fae world and that's only one aspect of their abilities." She began to explain.
"Fear." Bo had really only focused on one word and she really didn't like it. "She feeds on fear?" Dark brown eyes shifted back to stare at the smaller fae.
"Bo." Kenzi eyeballed her back with the warning to ease off. "Medi, I think they need to hear this part from you."
"I do." Medi uncurled a little her eyes shifting nervously between all three of them. "But I don't have to create it to feed, I've lived all this time and I've never had to hurt anyone." She shook her head and then frowned slight. "Well not really..." She amended her statement.
"Not really?" Bo questioned immediately, glancing back to her lover who had come around to look at the young Geist.
"It was bad, for a while when I was younger." Medi looked distinctly uncomfortable as she seemed to try and back up into the couch a little. "I couldn't...I..." The increasingly tense atmosphere was made worse when a decorative vase over by the stair well suddenly pitched itself onto the floor, smashing into a thousand pieces.
"Medi..." Lauren's voice was soft and kind, even after the jump her body had instinctively made at the unexpected explosion. "It's okay to be confused and nervous..." She moved to sit on the coffee table close to the mechanic. "Bo of all people understands what you are going through, she just is cautious because of Kenzi." She tried to point out the elephant in the room because clearly her lover's demeanour was the thing mostly putting the Geist on edge. "You've grown up knowing what you are but not having any guidance I guess, you are very powerful, very extraordinary, but like Bo you can't be expected to control the power inside you without training and time. "No one here is going to hurt you, and most certainly none of us will tell the Dark that you exist until you are ready to face them."
It was strange but the atmosphere in the room noticeably calmed down with Lauren's words as if shifting in response to Medi's change of mood, the young woman looking up at the blonde, drawing in a slower breath.
"I've never hurt anyone on purpose." She shook her head.
Bo had listened to her lover's words and watched the way that the pink haired Fae reacted to everything going on with fear more than any other emotion and as her worry about Kenzi dimmed a little she realized how much worse she was making the situation. After all, hadn't all the Fae she'd been introduced too in those first few days of learning what she was done the same thing to her, make her feel more afraid and more out of control.
"Neither did I." Bo took a soft breath and looked at the young Fae. "Lauren is right Medi, we're not going to let anyone hurt you, or find out anything about you until you are ready to face it. That's not how I work." She gave a nod of her head to agree with herself. "Learning control is hard." There was a haunting nature to her words. "Every day is a different struggle, a different situation, new challenges to face that make it hard to just not go nuclear." She made the painful admission. "But we will help you learn... if it wasn't for Lauren, I don't know how I would have ever learned to feed without killing."
The blonde glanced over her shoulder at her lover and smiled softly reaching back she held out her hand, happy when Bo slid hers into it. With the connection solid between them, the blonde looked back at Medi.
"It's overwhelming I can imagine." She said gently. "Why don't you just sit, take a minute, I have something I want to talk to Bo about which we'll do upstairs, give you some space." She eased up off the coffee table and walked with Bo to the stairs, moving quickly up them and slipping off to the privacy of the main bedroom.
Once inside the blonde eased the door closed behind the succubus and breathed out a soft but obviously slightly anxious breath.
"Bo this is..." She glanced between her lover and the door.
"Lauren, how rare is a Geist? The look on your face, I know that look." Bo watched the blonde's body language. "And how the hell has she been just roaming around out there and no one knew it."
"I've never seen one." Lauren shook her head. "In all my six years with the Light fae." She breathed out. "I've read about them, seen maybe one case study from Europe." She added with a gentle frown, "But..." She looked off into the room as she paced away from Bo before turning round again to look at the Succubus. "She lived like you did Bo, under the radar. People don't find what they're not looking for."
"They must have thought she died in the fire with the rest of her family..." Bo said the words and the true reality of what that meant hit home for her. "My God, how did she survive that, as a child..." She shook her head.
"I don't know." Lauren was honest. "I'd really like to examine her." She went on. "I'd be able to get more of the picture, possibly even find her brand, work out her clan, find out the history without her having to tell us and relive the horror. If it even survived the fire."
"I think Kenzi will need to be there for it, to help her stay calm." Bo admitted the obvious fact. "I can make myself scarce and stay up here."
Lauren moved back towards her lover and reached out and took hold of one of the Succubus' hands.
"You make me so proud do you know that?" The blonde whispered as she moved closer to the brunette, her voice full of true emotion. "On top of how much I love you and how close we our with our..." She rolled her eyes. "'Mystical bond'..." She smiled. "Every loop you're thrown into, every new challenge your faced with, you rise to." She brought her other hand up and rested it lightly on Bo's face. "And all when I know inside there is raging this force that wants to flare up in uninhibited reaction." She smoothed her thumb over Bo's cheek. "Yet you breathe, you centre yourself and you look beyond yourself to the people you love, the people around you who matter and you remember them." She breathed out lightly letting her warm air from her lungs caress Bo's lips. "And you wonder why I never, ever doubt you." She gave the softest of smile before leaning the impossibly small distance that existed between them and placed her lips over Bo's mouth.
Suddenly feeling the uncertainty inside of her called out, Bo kissed her back with a level of desperate emotion that told Lauren more about how she was feeling then any words could.
-x-
If Kenzi admitted it, she'd never really thought about the things that Lauren did as a doctor, specifically as a Fae Doctor but now she was seeing a prime example. Luckily her warnings to Medi about the Doctor's need to examine her had helped the idea that the examination was happening right now.
In all ways, Kenzi had to concede that the blonde was courteous and kind, first taking a blood sample as carefully as she could and then doing the usual medical checks that even Kenzi would have gone through at a normal doctor. It wasn't until Lauren had asked Medi to remove her shirt that the vibe in the room had grown more pensive.
"It's okay... she only has eyes for Bo." Kenzi assured her from her perch close to Medi, trying to help her relax.
The young Fae briefly met Kenzi's eyes before she moved to pull off her top, balling the material up into a small tight mass that she clutched in her fist as she stood in front of Lauren, doing her best not to tense up like she wanted to.
The Geist's eyes were fixed firmly on the floor, aware that both Kenzi and Lauren's attention was back on her. Medi wasn't at all comfortable with the idea that people were looking at her, especially not when she knew without a doubt that for one of them at least, her patchwork like back would be the central focus. Actually for Medi right now it wasn't so much Lauren she minded looking, she reasoned with herself that Lauren was a doctor, she saw this kind of thing, it's what she did, it bothered her more that Kenzi would be seeing it, in very bright white lit technicolour. She was more than aware that her back and legs were a mess and that was the politest way she could think to describe it.
Lauren made sure she let herself have no open reaction to the heavily burn scarred expanse of skin that was suddenly exposed in the bright light of the condo. Beginning just below the small Fae's shoulder blades, more or less her entire back was a mish-mash of scarred skin, melded together, stretched and creased, in places looking almost plastic and glossy. Just above her right hip, there was a more intricate, black pattern in the skin, but it became blurred and lost in the scarring the lower it went over the curve.
Kenzi couldn't hide the soft breath she did take in seeing the extensive scarring on the mechanic's back, remembering it from their intimate moments but never having the chance to examine it. Her emotion however wasn't one of disgust or dislike as Medi might have thought, but of empathic pain for the trauma the other woman had gone through.
"You're doing great." Kenzi assured her, trying to catch brown eyes.
"You are." Lauren underlined Kenzi's gentle encouragement. "Did you get any medical treatment for the burns?" The blonde asked moving a little closer to actually look at the damaged skin.
"No." Medi made the almost silent reply, suddenly remembering with clarity the mind numbing pain that filled her body for what felt like an age, the feeling of her skin literally burning off her body. The vision of flames licking off her skin...
It was then that Lauren noticed just how tense the younger Fae was holding her body, the muscles in her shoulders and arms jumping under the skin as she fought to hold still.
"Okay, okay Medi, breathe." Lauren frowned softly glancing at Kenzi.
"You need to listen to the Doc." Kenzi moved over in front of the mechanic and reached to take each of her hands in her own. "Both of us just want to help you." She underlined squeezing softly.
Medi forced herself to look up to meet Kenzi's eyes, though the centre of her own were burning with a bright golden ring as she forced herself to breathe in, her small hands closing around Kenzi's.
"You're eyes glow gold." Kenzi pointed out in a whisper, a soft smile spreading on her features. "Bo's glow bright electric blue." She added wanting to show Medi how 'normal' it was.
A soft laugh broke the hard tension holding Medi's body so taunt at Kenzi's words.
"Really?" She said, her breath coming out suddenly quick and hard as if she had been holding her breath for a long time, or running a marathon.
"Yes, it's how we know she's doing her thing." Kenzi's eyes went briefly to Lauren to encourage her to keep doing her exam. "And the sexual chi she drinks is blue, I've seen her suck it out of people. I guess this means fear is gold, that's kinda cool."
"I've never really thought about it." Medi admitted. "I taste it more than see it." She looked at Kenzi obviously thinking about it now, her concentration clearly moving off from the fact that she was standing topless in Lauren's condo.
"What does it taste like?" Kenzi asked the gentle question her hands not leaving Medi's.
"It's hard to explain..." Medi looked up for a moment and then gasped almost sinking to her knees obviously in pain in response to something that Lauren had done.
"Oh Medi, I'm so sorry..." Lauren moved to the side of the younger woman.
"Nothing should hurt that much." Kenzi's voice was filled with a hint of anger as she looked at Lauren.
The blonde frowned as she looked back at the brunette the look in her eye obviously agreeing with her assessment.
"I'm fine..." Medi pressed both hands that she had pulled from Kenzi's hold to her side where Lauren had been pressing. She shuffled sideways putting distance between them. "I should go..." She added releasing one hand from the grip she had on herself, to shake out her shirt in an attempt to put it back on.
"No." Kenzi disagreed immediately. "Lauren can help with the pain." She looked at the blonde expecting her to say something to that effect. "You can't live with this all the time."
"Medi, please, Kenzi is right." She glanced at Kenzi and then back at the pink haired Fae. "I understand this must be uncomfortable for you really I do, but I can help. I have a few things here that I can put together, but if you let me get a proper look, a better idea of exactly..."
"No." One armed Medi struggled into her shirt and continued to back up. "I don't want to be a bother. You..."
"You're not a bother, please... let us help you..." Kenzi shadowed her and stopped her from hurting herself more as she half shrugged on the shirt. "Let me help you, please." Her voice was a soft pleading whisper, laced with emotion.
"I could hurt you, all of you." Medi shook her head, then suddenly with a pulse of brilliant gold that seemed to emanate from her eyes, Kenzi was pushed back a little, the only recently re-hung picture was thrown off the wall by the door, smashing to the floor and the light blub in the lamp above the door blew in a shower of tiny glass shards.
"Kenzi!" Lauren called out seeing the younger woman slip and fall sideways as the front area of the condo dipped darker. Medi used the moment of confusion to quickly slip out of the door, hitting the hallway outside in a hard run.
On the top of the stairs Bo had appeared, having heard the raised voices and disturbance caused by the Geist easily. If the truth be known she was in the hallway keeping track of the progress downstairs.
"Look after Kenzi." Bo instructed Lauren as she almost leaped down the stairs and rushed out down the hallway, quickly assessing that the Geist had taken the stairs instead of waiting for the elevator. "MEDI! WAIT!" Bo called as she entered the concrete emergency staircase, hearing squeaky sneakers at least two full cases below her.
"Stay back Bo, I can hurt fae too." The younger woman called the obviously still pounding down the stairs as fast as she could manage.
"But I know you don't want to hurt me." Bo used her superior conditioning to make up ground, soon only a staircase behind her, able to see the Geist. "I know you're afraid..." She timed herself and jumped at the right moment to land on Medi so they would both fall onto a small landing. She even tried to twist their bodies so that she would take the brunt of the fall. As soon as the initial shock of hitting the hard concrete had passed, she slipped her hand up to the other woman's throat and used a small amount of power to subdue her. "You need help Medi." She said softly. "I know, I've been where you are."
-x-
It came as a surprise to Lauren when Bo came back through the front door moments later carrying the light, limp form of the pink haired mechanic. The blonde who was leaned beside the couch with Kenzi, who was assuring the doctor that she was fine, frowned hard and pushed up to her feet crossing quickly over towards her lover.
"I had to subdue her, she was freaking out." Bo tried to explain seeing the mix of emotions in her best friend's eyes. "I've been in that place she's in right now." She looked at Lauren. "Upstairs or down here to finish your exam?"
"Upstairs would be better." Lauren nodded to the stairs. "I'll be right there." She added going to her work area to collect some things. "Are you sure you're not hurt?" She added checking with Kenzi as she moved.
"I'm fine." Kenzi shook it off, though her hand went to the area on her arm where the angry Norn rash had bled through the bandage.
The blonde paused as she reached to get something from the desk drawer as her eyes followed the brunette's hand movements.
"Kenzi?" She moved out from behind the desk. "Is that the rash Bo told me about?" She moved closer to the young woman.
"Yeah it's nothing, just grumpy I smacked it when I went down." Kenzi tried to brush it off. "You need to help Medi."
"I want to see it, when I'm done." She frowned softly not letting the matter drop. "Bo said it was better." She added keeping her close proximity to her lover's best friend.
"It comes and goes." Kenzi tried to lower her concern, but she knew in some senses that she wasn't going to be able to keep the blonde from seeing it. "When you're done with Medi, I'll show you... just you." She added slightly nervously.
"Okay." Lauren nodded and then moved to the stairs. "When I'm done, you're next."
-x-
"Well her physique is..." Bo arched her eyebrow trying hard not to stare at the incredibly fit body on display laid out on the spare bed. "Impressive."
"Down girl, this is a scientific appraisal." Lauren teased her softly as she continued to map her fingers over scar tissue, and make notes of the estimated thickness and other important indicators.
"I didn't mean..." Bo tore her eyes away from Medi's muscular torso and caught sight of Lauren's grin. "Be nice." She moved slightly just to check that the other Fae was still comfortably unaware of things. "They look..." She paused trying to think of some kind of appropriate term. "Bad." She offered knowing the word was ultimately lacking.
"They are." Lauren gave a soft frown as she used a blunt instrument to examine one of the areas a natural crease had formed to allow movement in Medi's arm. "They would have easily qualified as third degree burns in almost all of the area, some of her mid back and side might have even been fourth degree. A human would have simply died from the initial shock to the body, but clearly her Fae powers allowed her system to go into survival mode." She continued to make notes and examine Medi inch by inch.
"With all the burning on her legs, how did she even escape the fire?" Bo glanced down to where the burns continued over the smaller fae's thighs. "Who could do this to a child?" She added the more unbelievable question.
"You already know the answer to that Bo." Lauren admitted sadly remembering the Geist's mention of the Dark King. "And she couldn't have run, no amount of Fae power could have allowed her to with this type of damage." She ran a gloved finger over one section of skin a second time, a frown coming over her face. She knew this was the area that she had been examining downstairs when Medi had literally buckled in agony and now that the young woman was unconscious, a more through examination was making her worry more and more. "I think..." She bit her lip tracing her fingers down a rectangular bulge under the damaged skin. "Bo, go downstairs, behind my work station in the cabinet to the left is a large box marked 'quarantine kit', get if for me please and one of the trays of instruments wrapped in blue on the second shelf."
"What?" Bo didn't move she just looked up at her lover. "You're kidding me right? I know I'm not a doctor and I didn't go to Yale, but I know what quarantine means." She glanced at Medi. "What's wrong with her?"
"Sorry, I don't need it to quarantine her, but there are sterile sheets and surgical equipment in the kit. I need to remove whatever this is inside of her, it's caused a damaging sub cutaneous infection as her body attempts to reject it. The inflammation around it must be causing her excruciating pain, it's pushing the scar tissue to make spaces underneath it that are filling with infection with no chance of it draining due to the burnt skin above." She turned to look at her lover with a soft frown. "Imagine a splinter that is..." She put her hands on Medi's back to show the fifteen centimetre length of the object. "This long and that has been there long enough to form a bubble of infection around it?"
"Debris from the fire?" Bo made her best 'ew' face.
"Most probably, she said that she had never had real medical attention for the burns." Lauren continued to frown. "You stay with here, I'll get what I need." She decided on another plan. "Thank you for catching her." She reached out to press her fingers to Bo's shoulder as she passed by.
-x-
"All done?" Kenzi perked up as soon as she saw Lauren mid step coming down the stairs.
"No, there's been a complication." Lauren admitted moving down the stairs to her work space to collect the things she would need that she did have on hand. "There is a foreign object embedded in a section of the burns, it's the reason the area caused the reaction it did earlier when I examined it. I'm going to remove it and clean out the infection." As she talked she created a pile of supplies.
"Here? Like now?" Kenzi's eyes went a little wide. "Don't you need like a lab to do that kind of thing. I mean I..."
"I don't have a lab anymore Kenzi." The blonde looked up clearly upset by this very fact herself. "And I'm not sure bringing her to the Light Fae Compound would be safe for her anyway. You have to understand Kenzi... there has never been a Light Fae Geist, much like Bo they will try to do anything to sway her to their side."
"Right." Kenzi let out a breath and tipped her head back. "Can I help? Is she okay?" The young woman offered feeling completely useless.
"I gave her a sedative to keep her comfortable." Lauren admitted trying to gather everything up. "You could help me with this." She asked with a soft smile. "And though you can't help with the procedure having someone there who cares is always helpful." She tried to catch blue eyes with her own.
"So not how I expected tonight to pan out." Kenzi breathed out again and moved to help Lauren with the small mountain of medical gear she had prepared.
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"What the hell is it?" Bo held up the long, flat rune filled rectangle of silver metal that Lauren had recently exorcised from Medi's back, frowning harder as she tilted it, the light literally sparkling off the edges of diamond cut runes.
Lauren glanced over to her lover from where she was just closing up the cupboard, putting away the last of the medical things that she hadn't used in the long procedure to remove the object. She shook her head as she stood up and moved to join her lover at the kitchen island.
"I have no idea." She admitted honestly, pausing briefly to glance at her lover and then at the strange object itself before moving to get herself a glass of water.
"Are you still thinking debris from the fire?" Bo laid the shiny metal plate back down in the collection dish that Lauren had first put it in and shook her head in bewilderment.
"No." Lauren shook hers back as she ran the tap water to a cool temperature. "Someone placed that there on purpose, even if they didn't understand the inner workings of skin tissue and rejection. From the amount of internal scar tissue I would also guess it's been there awhile." She made the logical leap from what had presented itself. "I think we need to go and talk to Trick. If anyone can recognize the rune patterning it will be him." She moved back over to stand beside Bo. "Medi will be out for a few more hours, Kenzi can look after her." She made the silent offer for them to go immediately.
"Are you sure you're up to it?" Bo looked at her lover with a frown. "That can't have been easy." She glanced to the stairs. "And it's not like we had a quiet day around it." She admitted the other fact. "Oh and I meant to ask, that mark, on her hip, the one messed up by the scars, was that her family brand?"
"Yes." Lauren nodded. "I took a picture of it for Trick as well." She revealed that she was ahead of the Succubus. "Remember how in the early days you told me you didn't need to sleep much, you would sleep but you didn't need to when you were feeding?" Bo nodded that she did remember.
"That was before I knew what it was like to sleep with you." She grinned brightly and winked at the blonde.
"Thank you." Lauren leaned in and kissed her very lightly. "But I get it now, the buzzing energy when there is something important to do. Let's talk to your Grandfather and then we can curl up, Medi's going to need a day or so at least to really re-cooperate. I'm hoping he might also have a medical supply dealer he can send me to in order to get more supplies."
"He's my Grandfather, he can do anything." Bo gave her lover a grin. "That's what Grandad's do, right?" She added picking up the mysterious silver object and sliding it into the bag Lauren had placed next to the tray. "Well that and spoil their Granddaughter's rotten, and in my case own a bar." She smirked as she watched Lauren grab their jackets, noting with a frown that the nude next to the door was broken. "You're rough on the ladies Doctor." She said with a wink as she moved to take her coat from the blonde.
"Only the inanimate ones." Lauren teased back taking the bag from Bo. "You go tell Kenzi the plan I'll get this ready to transport it."
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Peering at the long silver object from behind a large magnifying glass mounted to a leather head harness Trick made a myriad of unhappy and curious noises. He used a pair of tweezers to turn it over and back again, before he brought down an second lens to magnify the object even more.
"This is just the start of the mystery, but we figured we'd get your take on this first." Bo admitted to him sitting nearby as Lauren stood watching him appraise the object.
"And you are both expecting me to believe that you came across this?" His tone was somewhat judgemental as he moved back slightly and lifted the magnifier out of his way, shuffling over to pick up something from the dresser, he came back over to the desk and dribbled a blue liquid onto the metal which instantly bubbled, hissed and evaporated.
"When we explain where it was found it will probably be more confusing." Lauren answered his unspoken question. "Do you know what it is?"
"It's a shalafae, or a crude hand made attempt at one at any rate." He grumbled, pushing it away from him over the desk with his tweezers.
"A shalafae?" Lauren's eyes went wide as she moved around the side of the desk, back closer to the innocuous looking object, her look a mixture of wonder and horror.
"Which would be?" Bo asked both of them at the same time.
"It's a Dark Fae torture device Bo." Lauren turned to look at her lover. "A curse is inscribed on an object that is then literally inserted into the body of the victim, usually destroying them from within."
"I am liking this whole thing less and less." Bo's face showed her complete and utter displeasure with the fact.
"You're liking it less and less." Trick said standing up tall against the desk. "The two of you show up at the Dal at four thirty in the morning with a hand crafted shalafae, and you're the one's feeling uncomfortable." He shook his head and moved to sit down, his eyes on Bo. "What aren't you telling me?"
"What I'm not telling you is..." Bo gave a hard sigh and looked at her lover, whose eyes immediately encouraged her to continue. "That I found another Fae like me, one who has existed outside of the Light and the Dark. She knew what she was but went on the run at 13, this was stuck in her back Trick under a boatload of burn scars. Her family was torched out of their home and murdered, that's why she went on the run."
The Blood King looked down with a small noise of surprise escaping his lips, obviously not in anyway prepared for what his granddaughter had just told him.
"She has a brand, it's been partially destroyed but I have a photograph." Lauren reached into her pocket for her phone as she spoke. "I don't recognize it, but her family were Dark Fae..." She continued holding out the picture as soon as she had her phone free.
"Another Fae like you." He barely glanced at it before he turned and walked away from the pair of them. "How remarkable." His tone was careful and oddly even. "You know she will have to be returned to the Dark." He added having put some distance between them.
"No, that isn't why we came and she can't be." Bo shook her head firmly. "You know the brand don't you, tell me who she is Trick."
"It's badly disfigured by the scaring, it would be easy to miss-identify..." Trick shook his head.
"Trick, this child was nearly burnt alive, her family was murdered and she was left for dead." Lauren fixed the Blood King with brown eyes, tossing her hair back over her shoulder. "She deserves no less than honesty from you."
For a moment the Blood King was slightly taken aback that the doctor had been the one to push him, he looked from her to his granddaughter and then let out a breath.
"Frost." He said through his breath. "It is brand of the Frost clan."
"Medina Frost, okay, question one answered." Bo took a breath, happy to finally be getting somewhere.
"Eliyana." Trick countered moving back to one of his bookshelves. "The youngest of the Frost Clan was a girl, Eliyana." He pulled out a book and brought it over passing it to Bo. He opened it to a page with a large oval framed painting recreated on it. Within it were a couple with two young woman standing beside their seated pose. The one on the left baring a striking resemblance to the pink haired mechanic. "That is her mother Slyviana and her father Mickale." He moved back leaving the book on Bo's lap. "A very powerful family."
Lauren quickly crossed to the brunette's side to look at the photograph, slightly speechless at the resemblance.
"That's her." Bo gave a fast nod. "Why was this done to her family?" She asked the direct question of her Grandfather.
"The Dark metre out their own forms of justice for slights and sins." A frown pulled at Trick's brow. "I do know that it was believed that the Frost name was erased from history." He sighed a little harder.
"I know you know why." Bo stared at him seriously. "Too many times Trick, too many times you've hid stuff from me and I've tried to let it go but right now I have a scared girl whose been running most of her life, persecuted and alone, afraid of herself and the Fae that turned on her. I know what all of that feels like, and it hurts so much..." Her jaw locked as she stared at him. "Why?"
"Slyviana Frost was judged a traitor of the Dark, her whole Clan decreed to suffer for her actions." Trick replied closing his eyes as he breathed out. "Bo, the fact that her daughter survived is far more important than the past right now." He added quickly opening his eyes the next moment and looking at the Succubus. "You cannot harbour her." He underlined just as fast. "As much as I understand your desire too." He added the soft discernment. "Bring her to me and perhaps with my ties and my connections I can..."
"No!" Bo's answer was firm and uncompromising. "She is not being turned over to anyone, right now she's ill and needs to be helped, she has burn scars all over her back and legs Trick. A choosing is not what she needs to worry about." She shook her head. "And if you did turn her over to the Dark, what guarantee do we have she wouldn't just be killed to finish the order?"
"None." The old Fae admitted the simple fact. "Other than those times are past and gone now." He tried again to sway her a little. "The Frosts were Geists Bo, do you even know what that means?" He attempted a different angle, glancing this time at Lauren hoping that the revelation of the young Fae's rare and powerful nature might sway the blonde.
"She already told us." Bo burst his bubble. "And it doesn't matter what she is, she doesn't deserve what was done to her and I won't abandon her, not again, not like I was for all those years." She made the cutting comment directly at him. "Are you going to help or do we take that Shanana and you just keep your mouth shut?"
"I can't keep this to myself Bo." Trick shook his head. "You can't keep a secret like this in."
"A secret can be kept forever if those who know it keep it." It was Lauren who once again caught the Blood King's eye. "You said this was hand made..." She brought the attention back to the metallic object on Trick's desk before things got too heated again. Thankfully everyone refocused again with her and the older fae flicked down his magnifier again and looked at it for long moment.
"Definitely, there is no way this was made with the precision tools of an official torturer." He summed up lifting his head up again from the examination.
"So someone else made this and put this inside her?" Lauren looked across at Bo.
"Why would someone do that? If someone else had found her why curse her instead of just carrying out the order to kill her?" Bo came over trying to breath through her emotions. After all, there were times when she just wanted to shake Trick, demand he stop keeping secrets and telling her half truths.
Lauren paced away from the desk obviously thinking, her mind unhappy about so many things right now. She glanced around her at the Blood King's private rooms, taken in as she always was at just the vast array of lore and information that surrounded her. Here there was so much she could learn, so much she could understand about everything. About Bo's family, about her powers... Lauren's brain refocused as she turned around and looked at Trick.
"What does it say?" She asked somewhat oddly.
"I'm sorry?" Trick asked looking at her with a frown.
"Specifically what is the torture of this Shalafae?" She moved back over to the table briskly.
"Yeah, that would be important might help point to who did put it in her." Bo moved over closer.
Trick brought down the magnifier for a third time and picked up a note pad scribbling down the runes he came across and then glancing at them on the pad, doing his best to come up with a fluid translation.
"It's weakens the cursed, lessens their power, causes them pain to access their natural abilities." Trick summed up.
Lauren's brown eyes went from Trick to Bo as she rolled her eyes, a soft curse falling from her lips.
"You said her friend, was a Kobold..." She asked of her lover and Bo nodded immediately. Lauren lifted her hand to the side of her head and rubbed at her temple. "Efficient tinkerers and etchers." She looked at Trick. "No one did this to her against her will." She cursed again louder this time as she turned away from the table a hot anger flaring up inside her at the thought of what the young scared Fae must have done. "She asked Razor to make it." She turned back towards them when she was a distance away. "To stop herself losing control, she did this to herself."
"To stop herself from being found." Bo made the additional leap and suddenly locked her eyes on her Grandfather. "That's it Trick, I'm calling it in... you lied to me about who you were, who I was... you let me think all those months I had no family, you left me to chase every scrap of information I could about my Mother..." She bent down to lean over the table and look him directly in the eye when he wouldn't meet her gaze. "She had a metal plate stuck in her body to mute her powers..." She balled one hand up into a fist. "She is that afraid of the Dark King... tell me why Trick, TELL ME WHY RIGHT NOW!" She had been trying up until that point to ignore his body language, the way the small man betrayed himself to her that he knew something big, far bigger than he was giving away. After all if he knew nothing about the situation then why had Medi's mother's name fallen so quickly from his lips.
"Slyviana hid your mother from him for three months, the three months before you were born." Trick whispered the words, never once looking up.
Trick's private room was broken by the sharp pained gasp that Bo took in the moment he said the words. She took a staggered step back from the table as another noise came from her throat that was also indicative of pain.
"Her family..." Bo's eyes welled up with scalding tears that poured over onto her cheeks. "Were murdered because of me?"
"No." Trick instantly moved, reaching out to try and touch Bo's arm, shaking his head as he did so, his voice flooding with sorrow and regret. "No none of the blame for this falls on you..."
"Don't!" Bo staggered back further, the tears continuing to pour, her chin shaking in agony. "You haven't seen her... the burns... the pain... all because of me."
To the side of the room, Lauren had been forced to press her body back and lean against a nearby bookcase as a wall of grief and agony hit her in the midsection, seeming to press all the air out of her lungs as she felt her lover's intense reaction to the news. Her own mind reeled on its own with the ramifications of who this young Fae was, but her primary focus was of course Bo.
"YOU TELL NO ONE!" Bo's focus suddenly changed, her voice booming off the walls, her eyes burning bright with power. Her mind had tumbled in on itself for awhile: an entire clan of Fae, light or dark had been burnt up in their own home because they harboured her mother while she was pregnant; a little girl had somehow crawled from the inferno and lived all this time in hiding, mutilating herself to stay safely away from her powers and the Fae; and here she was putting her back in danger again. "Do you understand me? Not a word, not a hint, not a notion, to anyone." She stepped back towards her Grandfather. "I won't let the entire Frost Clan be destroyed, I won't." She vowed to him and to herself.
"He won't..." It was Lauren who hurried and placed herself between the Blood King and the succubus, she felt more than noted her own body pulling a little taller, her shoulders drawing a little squarer as she looked Bo in the eye, blue meeting blue suddenly. "He wouldn't mar Slyviana's memory, the sacrifice she made for his kin... would you Trick?" She flashed her face back at him, her eyes burning bright. "That's why he knew the brand, he knew her real name, why he knew the exact page of the book to show you their picture."
"You have my blood oath." Trick's words came from behind the blonde, said with a small nod of his head. "I will not bring harm to her."
"We should go." Lauren turned back to look at Bo, her eyes dimming back to brown, though blue flecks danced through them as she kept tight focus on her lover. "Kenzi and Medi need us."
"Ask him about the supplies, I'm going upstairs for a drink." Bo closed her eyes and willed herself to calm down, she opened them brown again and looked at Lauren for a long moment. "I'll wait for you up there, I promise." She added in a whisper. Lauren nodded with a small smile and let her slip away.
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Medi's world was awash with pain and disorientation, the last thing she really remembered was running away from Kenzi to make sure that, well that she didn't hurt her, after all the Doctor had accidentally hurt her during the exam and sometimes she didn't do well with intense pain like that.
"Take it easy Wonder Woman, the Doc had to put some heavy duty shit into you." Kenzi's soft comforting voice came from what seemed like a long distance away but it was most certainly real, not imagined.
"Kenzi?" Medi moaned her voice muffled mainly because she realized she was laying on her front on a bed, her body felt heavy and unresponsive, tired and drained. She blinked her eyes open and lifted her head slightly, only managing to turn it slightly to at least unmuffle her mouth a little.
"I'm right here." Kenzi was closer in an instant and ran her hand over Medi's cheek. "You're going to feel like shit, but it's okay. You had a huge infection in your back, Lauren's drained it and packed it, so you can't roll over, that's why you're in this position. I'm allowed to give you more painkillers if you need them."
"That's one hell of a thorough exam she gives." Medi made the soft attempt at humour fighting a hard wave of nausea and pain that rolled through her.
"She went to Yale." Kenzi filled in with a soft laugh. "You need painkillers, let me get some for you." She moved to the side table measuring out the right amount of liquid as Lauren had instructed her. "She even left you the fast acting liquid kind. I was tempted to drink it myself but I figured you might need it..." She teased softly as she brought it over. "Let me lift your head up so you can drink it okay?"
"I'm sure I'm fine to just..." Moving one arm under her to push up, Medi got half of her torso a little way up off the mattress to turn over before her elbow gave out in a grunt of pain sending her back into the mattress.
"Have you proved anything to yourself hero?" Kenzi chided her gently as she knelt by the side of the bed. "Just stay put and drink this okay? Doc's orders... and well, I saw the amount of green stuff that came out of your back... I promise I'll be here to take care of you, and technically for the record I hate anything to do with doctors and doctoring, so give me a chance to step up here."
"My back?" The reference that Kenzi had now made three times finally cleared in Medi's brain enough to make sense. She wrenched her hand from under her and reached it around her body trying to feel exactly where the padding and bandaging was on her back. "No." She groaned catching the sides and top of the dressing with her fingers. "Shit... no." Putting extraordinary effort into her movement Medi pushed herself onto the side that Kenzi wasn't resting near and rolled or rather dropped heavily off the bed, dragging herself to her knees as she hit the floor.
"Medi, what are you doing?" Kenzi pushed up rushing around to the other side of the bed. "If you burst that bandage Lauren will kill me..." She tried to get her to stop moving.
"I have... to..." Medi pushed herself up onto her knees, her breathing hard. "Did she..." She squeezed her eyes shut. "Metal, Kenzi, there was a..."
"Yes, she took it out, it was hurting you." Kenzi tried to help her stay semi upright but in a burst of sheer stubbornness Medi managed to get up onto her feet. "Please just let me get you back in bed."
"You have to get out of the way Kenzi." Medi staggered a step or two forwards, pain flaring up her back with every step.
"No." Kenzi said firmly moving to get into her way. "You have to stay put." She put her hands up onto Medi's body to stop her from going forward. She stared into wild, pain filled eyes. "Let me take care of you."
"You don't..." Medi panted fighting the wall of blackness that edged in the side of her vision as the pain threatened to take her consciousness. Blinking she focused on her jeans that she could see on the side dresser. "Understand.." She more or less threw herself at her goal, coming up short and landing awkwardly on her knees.
"I do understand..." Kenzi hadn't been able to stop the move, and she grimaced when she saw the painful landing and the blood that was now spreading out over the pure white bandage. She fell down on her knees beside the Geist. "I'm not afraid of you Yarnie..." She used the almost secret name on purpose wanting her to believe as much as she did. "I lived with a succubus who could suck someone dry just because she was a little hungry... I wasn't afraid then, and I'm sure as hell not afraid of you... not when I know how gentle you are..." She reached up cupping her palm to the other woman's cheek. "I'm not afraid of your powers." She underlined again. "You won't hurt me."
The young Geist leaned more heavily on Kenzi blinking up at her for a long moment, her body moving with each hard breath, before suddenly she slipped more heavily against the young woman unconsciousness winning the pain battle inside of her.
"Why did you have to move off the bed?" Kenzi managed to catch her, looking alarmed at the now soaked bandage and the bed that might as well have been a mile away.
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When they finally breached the outside of the bar and the sharp cold air of the early morning hour hit Bo in the face, it was a welcome assault. Most of her body felt primed and ready for a fight, the news she'd literally had to pry out of her Grandfather giving her answers but no real feeling of completion as it only brought up more questions.
"Lauren..." She said the blonde's name softly as they both stood there, a very light spray of tiny icy snowflakes falling from above and twinkling in the street lights. "How do I tell her the truth?"
"You'll know how, when it's time to tell her." The blonde glanced at her lover and then shook her head gently. "But it's not time right now." She added words she truly believed gently. "Bo, I'm not saying what I'm about to say because I back and support him totally, but I do agree with this one point wholeheartedly. Trick was right when he told you none of this, falls on you." She reached out and took hold of Bo's hand. "You weren't even born when Eliyana's mother chose to hide your mother from the Dark King." She rubbed her thumb lightly on the back of it. "Eliyana herself was probably only a small child then herself and knew nothing of what was going on around her."
"How does that even make sense?" Bo frowned softly. "She only looks about as old as Kenzi now, and I know for a fact I'm thirty."
"Different Fae age at different rates Bo. Thirty years for you may be three for another, and thirteen for another." The blonde smiled softly and kept up the gently stroking motion of her thumb. "As a child she may have even known your pregnant mother, but despite the time that has gone by she's only aged into her early twenties."
"I don't understand why I have to come from so much pain." Bo turned more to her lover, and swallowed down the tears starting to strangle her throat. "I'm going to protect her now Lauren, from all of them, I have too, I need too. What her mother did for me... I..."
"Bo, listen to me okay?" Lauren tightened the grip she had on her lover's hands. "I can't possibly understand what you're feeling right now, but believe me when I say I know what it feels like, because I can feel it..." She moved their joined hands to cover her heart. "In here, and I know how much pain and sorrow and guilt the thought of what they did to Medi's family brings you." She brought their hands down again, keeping the contact between them. "But you have to remember that Medi is like you were, she is afraid and untrained, and right now she doesn't know who are the good guys and who are the bad guys." She underlined gently. "We will help her, we will be there for her, but we need to do it the right way."
"What is the right way?" Bo asked almost innocently, kicking herself again for having not remembered that the Resonance would cause Lauren to feel all that she was feeling.
"Carefully." Lauren said with a slow eye roll. "There is a lot going on right now, that Medi doesn't need to get involved in." She hated being the one to make the subtle reference to the other major ongoing issues in their lives.
"You're right, she doesn't need to be involved in any of that, no matter what happens." Bo agreed with her instantly, stepping closer so that their hands were pinned softly between their bodies. "I don't think I could handle all of this without you."
"Well lucky for us the powers that be knew what they were doing and made sure that didn't happen." The blonde smiled softly.
"We should get home, Kenzi isn't the best nurse." Bo smiled back at her, feeling a little more shored up against the onslaught.
"Talking of Kenzi..." Lauren lost her smile for a brief moment. "Didn't you tell me that rash of her's cleared up?" She eased back as they pulled apart and began to walk towards the jeep.
"Rash?" Bo tried to get her mind to work as the sudden question came at her. "Oh the rash, yeah she said the polysporin cleared it up, why?"
"Because I noticed earlier before the whole having to operate on Medi, that she has it tapped up with medical gauze, and from what's missing from my drawer I don't think she just did it this morning." The blonde admitted as she climbed into the vehicle. "Where did it come from anyway? Was it a topical allergy to a perfume?"
"I actually don't know..." Bo shook her head as she started up the car. "She just started to complain about it after the Garuda, she told me it was a reaction to a wool shirt but..." The excuse didn't settle well with her suddenly. "But that wouldn't last months would it?"
"It also wouldn't be localized to one zone, it would effect anywhere the shirt touched, which is why I was thinking perfume or maybe some skin lotion she had tried?" The doctor frowned more as it became clearer to her that Bo knew next to nothing about her best friend's 'rash'. "I'm going to take a look at it when we get back either way." She added securing her seat belt. "Honestly, looking after the three of you, I don't need a full time job." She gave her lover a loving smile.
"I only pay in kisses." Bo smiled back at her. "I hope that's okay?"
"I'd like to see the tax people try and audit that." Lauren laughed as they pulled out onto the road to return to her condo.
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