Chapter 12: Don't Rely On Fate
The Dahl
Lauren was frozen in place by Trick's words. Cursed? Who would curse Nadia? Why? None of this made any sense.
"Cursed? By who?" Bo asked the question since Lauren was speechless.
Trick knew that Bo wasn't going to like the answer. "The Ash"
Bo stood from her seat, she was so angry. He had lied to Lauren for five long years, making her believe that Nadia's condition was her doing. That bastard! "I can't believe this, he's lucky that Aife's bomb killed him. I wanna bring him back, just so I can kill him again myself! Is there a way that I can do that?" she was dead serious.
Trick shook his head. "No, sorry" Even if there was one, he wouldn't tell her.
Looking back to Lauren, Bo could see that her Girlfriend looked very pale all of a sudden. "Lauren? Babe, tell me what you're feeling" she sat next to her, placing a hand on her knee.
Lauren took a deep breath in, while still looking at the floor. "I feel…" She took a second to decide. "… Like I need to throw up!" In a hurry, Lauren ran to the bathroom with a hand over her mouth.
It wasn't really the reaction Bo was expecting. But at the end of the day, this wasn't the news that she was waiting to hear. "Should I go after her?" She was hoping that Trick would give her some advice.
Trick shook his head, he didn't think that was a good idea. "Give her time" He had no idea how Lauren was feeling right now. This was a shock to the system.
"How did you know that it was the Ash?" Bo was wondering, especially since she had read most of the journals and came up with nothing.
Trick held the said journal up his hands. "He documented it"
Bo was so mad. "Did he explain why?"
He nodded. "Once Lauren had cured the Fae tribe, he realised that he wanted her to join the Light. But Lauren refused his many offers, so the Elders instructed him to do whatever took. And unfortunately that was cursing Nadia, to ensure that Lauren would join them in hopes of saving her. I assure you Bo, I don't condone this method" Trick wanted to let Bo know he was not on board with this kind of behaviour.
"Thanks Trick. So, how do we fix this?" Now that they knew the real reason for Nadia's condition, Bo wanted to remedy the situation as soon as possible.
Trick shrugged. "Well, the Shaman that the Ash hired to place the curse on her was Dark. So I suggest that you start with the Morrigan" That was the only thing that he could say.
Bo scoffed, of course. The Morrigan. Bo wasn't exactly on her Christmas list, there would be no way that she would help her without wanting something in return. Both Fae turned their heads to see Lauren walking in holding her stomach while still looking pale.
"Are you okay?" Bo reached for her Girlfriend's hand.
Lauren shook her head. "Not really, can you take me home?" She held onto Bo's hand, she couldn't deal with anything else right now. She felt awful, physically and emotionally.
Bo nodded, "Sure, come on…" She wrapped an arm around her waist before turning to Trick. "… Thank you for telling us Trick. I'll let you know what I come up with" She led her Girlfriend out of the bar.
This was enough for one day, and Bo could see that it was taking its toll on Lauren.
Lauren's Place (20 Minutes Later)
As soon as they entered the apartment, Lauren began to throw things around. Picture frames, lamps, and vases. Bo didn't stop her, she thought that it was best that she got it out of her system.
She needed something to take out her frustrations. Lauren was about to grab another lamp, when she stopped and fell to her knees and cried. Bo approached the weeping blonde slowly, before kneeling in front of her and cupping her face. "Lauren? Look at me..."
Lauren lifted her head, showing her eyes that were filled with tears.
"... I'm gonna fix this. Okay? I promise you" Bo said.
Lauren didn't have the energy to form a sentence, so she just fell forward into Bo's arms. Bo stood up, bringing Lauren with her. She walked them to the bedroom so that they could lay down. They didn't bother changing their clothes.
After an hour, both of them fell asleep. Lauren was mostly tired from crying, and Bo nodded off while holding her. When she awoke, Bo reached her hand out to find nothing but cotton sheets.
Looking at the clock, she saw that it was two in the morning. Bo sat up seeing a light coming from beneath the bathroom door. Walking over she knocked the door gently. "Lauren? Are you okay?" Bo heard nothing, no movement. She knocked again this time a little harder. "Babe? Can you let me in?" She still heard nothing.
Bo was getting worried now. "Lauren, you're scaring me. Please open the door!" She put her ear to the door, she couldn't hear a peep.
That was it, Bo started to force the door open with her shoulder. Thanks to her Fae strength, it only took two tries. As the door flew open, she saw Lauren on the floor unconscious with blood dripping from her nose.
"Lauren!" Bo rushed to her side. "Can you hear me?" She held her head gently.
Lauren wasn't responding, this was definitely not a side effect from being upset. Bo did the only thing that she could think of, she leaned down and kissed her Girlfriend. Giving her some of her own chi. Lauren's colour was starting to return slightly, it was working.
Opening her eyes, Lauren saw Bo breathing chi into her. But she stopped. "What happened?" she didn't remember anything.
Bo let out a breath of relief, seeing that she was awake. And talking, that was good. "You must've passed out" That was all that she could think of.
Lauren sat up slowly, leaning against her cupboard. She touched under her nose, feeling the blood. "Oh…" She looked down at the red on her fingers. "… That's not good is it?" Her focus shifted when she noticed that her door was cracked in half and hanging off of its hinges. "Did you break my door?"
"Uh…" Bo looked at the broken door and then back to her Girlfriend. "… Yeah. I got worried when you didn't answer" She handed her a small towel for her nose.
Taking it, Lauren placed it against her nose. Wiping away the blood. "It's okay. I don't know what's wrong with me" she let out a breath.
"Maybe we should go to a hospital to get you checked out" Bo was really worried about her.
Lauren shook her head, "Not necessary. I can run a test on myself. Besides, it's probably just stress" She struggled to get to her feet, Bo met her half way and supported her with her arm.
Bo hoped that Lauren was right, and that it would pass. But she couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. It was strange that the only thing that woke her up was to give her some chi.
She walked Lauren over to the bed, getting in and settling behind her. "You scared me" she whispered in her ear.
Lauren grabbed Bo's hand to rest on her hip. "I know, I'm sorry. Really, I'm fine" she began closing her eyes. She was so tired, that had been happening a lot in the the last few days. She just figured that it was because of the long hours at the lab.
The Dahl (1 Week Later)
Bo had been trying for the last week to get an audience with the Morrigan, but the Dark leader kept refusing to see her. Safe to say, she was getting very irate. She was so close to freeing Lauren from her servitude to the Light, and yet to so far away at the same time.
Without the Morrigan, she was walking blind. She needed to find the Dark shaman responsible for placing the curse on Nadia. And if that wasn't bad enough, Lauren had been sick all week.
She suffered from terrible headaches and sickness. She said that she was fine, but Bo wasn't buying it. During the week, Bo had finally met the Ash. Lachlan gave her a weird vibe, she couldn't put her finger on it but it was there.
Bo was currently in the Dahl, sitting at the bar with Kenzi drinking a beer. "I don't understand why the Morrigan won't see me. What if I was calling because I wanted to join the dark?" Not that she ever would chose a side, she was just saying.
"You're not though, right?" Kenzi wondered, but then saw her friend shake her head.
"Maybe she's busy. She is leader of the Dark after all" Trick was in the middle of polishing some glasses.
"Why don't you just go over there? Barge in, you're good at that" Kenzi took a sip of her beer.
Bo thought it over, she was good at being where she didn't belong. If she barged in then the Morrigan would have no choice but to talk to her. "I guess I could"
"What does Hot-pants say about all of this?" Kenzi asked.
That always made her smile, Bo loved hearing that nickname. Because Lauren did in fact have hot pants. "Nothing, she's been sick all week. I didn't really wanna bother her with it" She played with the label of her beer bottle.
"Is she okay?" Trick sounded concerned.
Bo could only shrug. "She says that she is but I'm not so sure. She keeps getting headaches and every couple of hours she runs to the bathroom to throw up, she's taking a blood test today. I kinda made her"
Kenzi let out a small laugh. "Maybe she's pregnant"
Bo laughed with her, Kenzi and her jokes. "Very funny Kenz, but I don't think so" she took a swig of her beer.
Just then Trick had a perplexed look on his face, sickness and headaches did sound like pregnancy symptoms.
Uh Oh.
"Yo! Trickster? You okay? You look like you've just crapped your pants" Kenzi pointed out seeing his expression.
Trick snapped out of his thoughts and looked to Bo. "Would you mind if I asked you a very personal question?" he asked.
"Probably, but I know that you'll just ask it anyway. What?" Bo was looking a little confused herself.
"When you and Lauren are, intimate. Do you feed her your chi?" he asked. Bo
had no idea where this question was coming from. She contemplated it in her head, she had only done it once when they had that amazing night a week ago. "Just once, why?"
Trick's face dropped in shock, this wasn't supposed to be happening. Lauren was human, it shouldn't have worked.
"Care to share with us T-man?" Kenzi asked.
"I think…" he took a breath. "… That there is a very good chance that Lauren, might be pregnant" he looked directly at Bo.
Bo just burst out laughing, there was no way that Lauren pregnant. Hello? They were both women and last time that she checked, Bo didn't have a wang. "Yeah right. Good one Trick" She drank more of her beer.
"Bo, I'm serious. It's one of the abilities of a Succubus" Trick rarely joked about anything, and he wasn't joking this time either.
Bo's smile started to fade as she noticed that he wasn't joking. "Are you serious?" She watched him nod. She narrowed her eyes at the old man. "Why didn't you tell me that before?!" she yelled.
"Because it's not supposed to work with humans. Although, you are extra special" he said.
"Oh god! Oh god!" Bo was starting to hyperventilate.
Kenzi grabbed her best friend by the arms and shook her gently. "Bo-Bo? Snap out of it. We don't know anything for sure yet. Let's go and see Lauren okay, she'll have an answer in that big brain of hers…" she really hoped she was right. Bo nodded and walked out of the door like a zombie. "… Nice one Trickster!" Kenzi scowled at him before leaving to follow Bo.
Trick had awesome timing, as always.
Lauren's Place
Lauren had just got in, she was sent home from work early. While Lachlan came in for a Lab visit to check on the progress of Lauren's work, she couldn't stop running back and forth to the bathroom.
He could see that she looked a little pale and flustered. He ordered her to get some rest, after all he didn't know if she had something that could be passed onto other patients. Lauren quickly changed into a t-shirt and a pair of sweats, before taking her temperature.
It read, 102*C. That wasn't good. Although she didn't feel warm in herself, she was still running a fever. She grabbed a cold towel and laid on the couch, placing in on her forehead. She hoped that with some rest, maybe she would feel better.
Just then her front door opened, Bo and Kenzi walked in looking rather agitated. Lauren sat up while still holding the cold towel to her head, she noticed that Bo was carrying a brown paper bag. "Hi, what're you guys doing here?" she asked.
Bo sat beside her and took in her appearance, she didn't look well. "I called the lab, and they said that you went home sick. Are you okay?"
Lauren nodded. Although she felt terrible, she still didn't want Bo to worry. "Yeah, I just have a bit of a fever is all. It's probably just a bug" She didn't think that it was anything serious.
Kenzi scoffed, "Or a bun"
"Kenzi!" Bo gave her a glare.
Holding her hands up, Kenzi smiled sheepishly. "Sorry Bo-Bo, momentary lapse!"
"A Bun? What're you talking about?" Lauren didn't understand. She Bo hold up the paper bag and reached in to pull out a rectangular box. "Why do you have a pregnancy test?" she was so confused right now.
"It's not for me! It's actually for you" Bo said.
Lauren chuckled, why would she need a pregnancy test? "I don't think that I need one"
"Actually. You do. Trick kind of dropped a bomb on me earlier, and once he did everything made sense. Your sickness, I mean" Bo was still trying to wrap her mind around the possibility, but here it was.
Lauren shook her head. "Bo, I don't understand. What did he say?"
Bo took a deep breath before answering, she would probably laugh at her. Or think she was crazy. "He said that Succubi, which would mean me. Have the power to get you pregnant, with my chi"
Lauren looked at her incredulously. If this was a joke then she didn't get it. "That's ridiculous" This had to be a wind up, because there was no way that this was for real.
"Is it? Come on Lauren, you have to admit that every symptom that you have sounds like a pregnancy symptom" Bo added.
"I guess" Now that Lauren thought about it, they were similar.
Bo handed her the box, "Just take the test, maybe he's wrong and it is just a bug or something. But, it's better to rule it out"
Lauren looked at it, then back to Bo before getting up to go to the bathroom. Bo watched her close the door, before sitting back down on the couch and running her hands through her hair.
Kenzi sat on the coffee table in front of her, she didn't know exactly what to say. "I bet that Trick was wrong, ya know he's old. His brain probably doesn't work the way that it used to" She chuckled.
Bo hoped she was right.
10 Minutes Later
Bo was pacing nervously back and forth, waiting for Lauren to come out of the bathroom. Kenzi was just watching her best friend move from one place to another. It was starting to get annoying. "Bo! Seriously, you're making me dizzy!" she exclaimed.
When she heard the door open from behind her, Bo stopped and turned around to see Lauren emerging from the bathroom. "Well?"
"You're not my Girlfriend anymore" Lauren said.
Bo didn't know what was going on, was she breaking up with her? "What do you mean?" She started to well up.
Lauren gave a teary smile and held up the positive test in her hand. "You're my baby mama" she laughed.
Bo put her hand to her mouth in shock, Lauren was pregnant. They were having a baby. "Really?" she cried, watching Lauren walk forward with a nod and showing her the test.
"Yeah, looks like Trick was right" Lauren began to cry too.
The succubus smiled, wrapping her arms around her Girlfriend and bringing her in for tight hug. Kenzi sniffled back her tears, she wasn't the crying type. But seeing Bo cry made her cry too. Walking over to them, she wondered if they were glad that it was positive. "So? Are we happy about this?" she gestured to the two of them.
Bo looked at Lauren. "Yeah, I am"
Lauren smiled at Kenzi. "Me too"
Kenzi clapped her hands in the air and hugged them both. "I'm gonna be an Aunt!"
Bo laughed, yes Kenzi would be an Aunt. And she would be a Mother, wow that was a surreal thought to have. She never really thought about being a Mother herself, she had such a horrible relationship with her adoptive Mother.
And the one that she had with Aife wasn't any better. What if she turned out to be a bad Mother too? That in itself was a scary thing to think about.
"Are you sure that you're okay with this?" Lauren asked, seeing Bo's smile fade slightly.
Bo kissed her gently on the lips to reassure her. "Absolutely…" she said. "… Come on, you need to rest. I can feel how hot you are" She touched her Girlfriend's forehead. Lauren nodded and let Bo take her to the bedroom.
Kenzi went straight for Lauren's fridge, the doctor was more stocked than they were. She spotted a bottle of wine, and an expensive bottle of wine at that. She wanted to have a celebratory glass, she figured that Lauren wouldn't mind. Especially since she wouldn't be drinking it for nine months.
She took a sip, the taste was incredible. "Damn girl, that's good shit!"
Upstairs
Lauren laid in her bed as Bo sat beside her, she lifted the hem of her shirt. Touching her flat stomach. "I can't believe it" she let out with a smile.
"Me neither…" Bo placed a hand over Lauren's. "… Do you think that it's ironic that we were talking about this the other day? And now it's actually happening?" She couldn't help but wonder, it was weird that they talked about having kids one day.
Except they didn't expect 'One Day' to turn into next week.
Lauren just shrugged. "A little. Maybe it was sign"
Bo smiled, maybe it was. "You should get some rest. Both of you" she was referring to her unborn child also. She couldn't stop smiling, this was something that she never thought that she would have.
"You know that this complicates things even more, right? If the Ash finds out that I'm pregnant, he'll kill me. Fae and Humans aren't supposed to conceive children" Lauren just wanted Bo to be prepared for a rough road.
Even though Bo knew that she was right, she didn't want to think about it right now. They had plenty of time before Lauren began to start showing. She had to make sure that Lauren was freed before then. "Don't worry about that right now. I told you that I'd take of it, and I am. In fact, I'm meeting with the Morrigan in and hour"
She didn't exactly have an appointment per se, but she thought of trying Kenzi's 'barging in' approach. She needed answers, now more than ever. It wasn't just Lauren's life that was at risk anymore.
"She'll want something in return, you know what she's like" Lauren reminded her. The Morrigan never fought fair.
"I know, like I said. Leave it to me, okay?" Bo scooted a little closer to her on the bed, leaning into give her a loving kiss. "I love you"
Lauren smiled, "I love you too. Be careful"
Bo nodded, then moved to Lauren's stomach and pressed a kiss against it. "Love you too baby" With a laugh, she got up from the bed and left the room. Things were changing now, they were having a baby. And she was going to be damned if she was going to see her Girlfriend's and unborn child killed just because they fell in love.
No matter if they were Fae or Human, love was love. They shouldn't have to suffer just because the Fae think that they're better. She left her Girlfriend sleep, making her way downstairs.
Kenzi was on her third glass of wine. "Bo! You've gotta taste this shit, it's like Christmas in a bottle!" She held up her glass.
"Maybe later Kenz. Hey, do me a favour? And keep an eye on Lauren for me, I'll try and be back as soon as I can" Bo walked off to the door.
"Okay sure, where're you going?" Kenzi asked.
Bo only had two words for her. "The Morrigan"
