Chapter 13

Bo

Bo came to on the hard cement floor of an empty warehouse building. She jumped to her feet when she saw the three bodies of the men who had beaten her to within an inch of her life, lying dead on the floor. Their faces all had a goofy smile plastered on them and glazed over eyes. She started to back away from the bodies surrounding her when she remember the chain that had been around her ankle, but as she looked down, she realized that the chain had been broken in half and the cuff had been pulled apart.

When Bo backed far enough away, what she saw before her made her do a double take. Her eyes blinked several times before she realized that what she was staring at was actually there. She walked as steadily as she could towards the fourth body on the ground.

The bright red dress and red heels made Bo's stomach lurch and before she could fully process what she saw, she was running back towards the wall, throwing up the contents of her stomach.

When her stomach could pump no more fluids up, she staggered back towards the dead woman and slowly rolled her over.

Bo didn't need to see the woman's face to know it was Evony, but she needed to be sure. And as soon as the woman had been turned over, her fears had been confirmed.

Evony; the Morrigan, a.k.a. the leader of the Dark Fae lay dead on the ground, a surprised look on her face and a chunk of wood sticking out of her chest. Bo shuddered and went into survival mode.

Bo forced the thought that she had no idea why she kept blacking out or if she had been the one to kill the Morrigan from her mind and focused on destroying any evidence that could tie it all back to her.

Her heart was beating so fast she was sure it would leap out of her chest but she couldn't worry about that. She ran around the building looking for something to start a fire but came up empty. She settled for siphoning the cars the Fae had arrived in and drenched the bodies and whatever parts of the building she could in gasoline before setting it aflame.

She'd been tempted to throw her clothes in the flames as well, but she was sure that running home naked or in a bra and panties wasn't the wisest move. She waited and watched as the building was consumed in flames and the bodies inside were nothing but a melted and crushed mess.

Bo opened the cars and removed and evidence of her presence, including her jacket, keys, glasses and phone then promptly wiped down every surface she could.

Content that she had done all she could possibly do, Bo set out towards what she hoped was the nearest gas station or town. The building she'd been inside of was in the middle of nowhere and she desperately hoped a gas station was near or some restaurant, anything. She needed to find a car to 'borrow' and get back home. She'd covered her tracks so many times before it was almost like an instinctual ritual for her. She'd destroyed whatever evidence could be linked back to her and now she needed to get as far away and as quickly away as possible.

Bo took off in a sprint, running as fast as her legs would take her. It wasn't until she'd been running for twenty minutes that she saw the faint glow of lights in the distance. She'd come up on a bunch of small stores and restaurants.

She silently thanked whoever had blessed her with such luck and promptly broke into and hotwired a car. She drove well above the speed limit until she was back in the city limits and dropped the speed to the limit.

She ditched the car a mile from the Dal and ran back to the bar, praying that she didn't run into anyone she knew. When she got to the bar she turned her phone back on. She'd had a few messages from Lauren and one from Kenzi not to mention about ten calls from Dyson. She rolled her eyes and opened Kenzi's message. Crashing at Hales 2nite, c u 2morro –Kenz

Bo ran to her bike, kick started it and rushed back home. She had thought she might hit a snag at some point but so far things seemed to be going as smoothly as possible. She practically ran into her house, stripping off her clothes the second she passed the threshold. It wasn't until she was halfway stripped down and at the bottom of the staircase that she saw someone staring wide eyed at her on the couch.

She whirled around, her hand going for the sword she kept stashed by the stairs. The sword was pointed towards the intruder on the couch the whole time Bo inched closer to the light switch. When she flipped the light she was momentarily startled to see Lauren sitting there, just staring at her.

"Lauren? What are you doing here?"

"I…" Bo just stared at her, wondering why her eyes were still wide, like a deer caught in the headlights. She set the sword down and waited patiently.

Lauren cleared her throat and blinked a few more times before launching herself off the couch and throttling herself towards Bo. "Bo, what the hell happened? Are you okay? Do you need to heal? Should I get my kit? Can I do anything?"

Bo stared at her, shell shocked. When Lauren started to slowly tilt her head to the side with that worried doctor look in her eyes, Bo realized what was happening. She jumped backwards, ignoring the jumbled questions the doctor had just asked.

Bo shook her head and ran up the stairs, "I'm fine," she screamed as she rocketed into her room. She grabbed whatever clothes she could get her hands on and rushed into the shower, desperate to scrub off the dried blood and evidence of her night that clung to her skin.

When she emerged from her scalding hot shower, her skin lobster red and hot to the touch, she quickly redressed and blew past Lauren to go outside to the trash cans. "I'll be right back," she muttered as she made her way outside. She tossed the clothes in the can and set it on fire; she waited until the fire had died down and effectively charred every fiber of the clothing before going back inside.

"What are you doing here Lauren?" Bo asked as she grabbed a beer from the fridge.

"I told you earlier, I wanted to be here for you." The doctor paused for a moment, focusing her gaze on the succubus, "Bo, why were you covered in blood earlier?"

Bo flinched at the question and averted her gaze. "I got into a bar fight, I guess that's what I get for trying to feed somewhere I shouldn't have."

"Bo, I know you better than that. What really happened?" Her voice was soft and imploring and it took everything Bo had not to tell her.

Bo thought for a moment and tried to tell the most truth without revealing anything damning. "I got jumped by three guys on my way home from the bar. They nearly beat me to death." 'But I went all crazy succubus on them and drained them of all their Chi. Oh, and I may have killed the Morrigan too.' Bo added mentally.

Bo watched as Lauren's eyes widened and her mouth fell open, "Oh my god Bo, are you sure you're okay? Did you heal?" The doctor rushed back over to her and started her search for injuries again. Bo grabbed her hands and looked down at her.

"Lauren, I'm fine. I healed just fine. See?" Bo lifted her shirt and turned around to give the doctor a full view of her injury free torso. "All better." She smiled and finished off her beer.

Lauren's lip quirked in a half smile before it disappeared completely. "I know it's late but I really do think we need to talk. I know something is going on with you and I have some important things to tell you about."

Bo closed her eyes, "I know you wanna talk but it's nearly 3 A.M. and I'm tired as hell. I've gotten my ass beaten and come with an inch of dying. I just wanna crawl into bed and sleep. If you want, you can stay. We can talk tomorrow." She opened her eyes and walked slowly towards her bedroom. Part of her hoping Lauren would stay, another part hoping she'd leave.

It wasn't until her head hit her pillow that she realized what had happened that night. How close she had come to dying and how close she might come to it again if anyone found out it was her who killed the Morrigan.

She turned off her light and started to drift off when she heard the floor creaking and felt the other side of the bed dip. An involuntary smile pulled at her lips as she felt Lauren's arm snake around her waist as the blonde pressed her body tightly to her own. It wasn't long before Bo succumbed to sleep.

When Bo finally woke up the sun was shining brightly and the clubhouse was eerily quiet except for the faint sleepy mumblings of Lauren. Bo delicately lifted Lauren's arm, untangled their legs and slid out of bed to get ready for the day.

Despite her nightmares that forced her to relive the torture she endured the night before, Bo couldn't help but hope her day would be better. As she got dressed, she figured that being tortured, nearly killed, and then blacking out and waking up next to the dead Morrigan pretty much summed up the worst day for a Fae. She glanced over at the still sleeping doctor and considered her options; she could tell her about everything that had happened or she could leave an ambiguous note and slip out before she woke.

Looking at the sleeping blonde and realizing how slimy it would be to just leave she manned up and walked downstairs to formulate a good enough lie to explain her erratic behavior. Bo knew that killing the Morrigan, even in self-defense, would be something that would get her killed. No doubt about it. The less people who knew, the better; especially considering how she was still trying to cover up the fact that she'd possibly killed a Light Fae member the day before.

Bo turned on the coffee pot and started to assess her options for getting out of this huge disaster. The first thing she needed to do would be to figure out why she kept blacking out. Then would come, well, why she kept killing Fae, or more importantly how she could get out of an execution for killing 'innocent' Fae.

She ran a shaky hand through her hair and started thinking of answers to her first problem. She kept blacking out and that's something she'd never done before, at least not without her body being riddled with life threatening injuries.

Bo automatically made her coffee while her mind ran through all the facts she could remember. She had talked to the Morrigan both times before blacking out but Evony didn't have the power to make people black out, so she deduced that couldn't be the cause.

"I was pissed off the first time but the second time I didn't feel anything." Bo mumbled into her coffee cup. Bo took a healthy gulp and closed her eyes. "I'm obviously missing something. C'mon Bo, you solve cases for a living. What are you missing?" She asked herself just as her stomach let out a loud growl.

Bo, only then realizing it'd been over a day since she'd eaten any real food, reached into the fridge to reheat some leftover pizza. She put the food in the microwave when a thought nearly sent her jumping into the air with joy, "Food! Sonofa…How could I be so stupid? I fed both times." Bo smacked her palm to her forehead but as soon as the revelation popped up so did more questions.

She puzzled over the fact that she'd fed before the Morrigan took her and she didn't black out then. 'I hadn't overfed though, I only took enough to heal my wounds, and it was from a human. Maybe that's the key? I took more than enough to sate my hunger from Evony but when I finished it was almost like I hadn't fed at all. What I took at the bar was just enough to last me but I definitely got my fill from the three Fae I drained at the warehouse. This doesn't make any sense.' Bo thought to herself; her eye's still locked on the now beeping microwave.

As if on autopilot, her body moved to stop the beeping and retrieve the now hot pizza, but her mind was busy formulating answers.

I guess there's no pulling the wool over your eyes, now is there? A foreign voice echoed inside of Bo's head.

"Guess not." Bo whispered before taking a bite of her food.

Perhaps you should get rid of the eavesdropping doctor before we discuss my plans for you. The voice cooed to her, causing Bo's eyes to widen in surprise. Bo shot out from behind the island in the kitchen and ran to the stairs, only to see Lauren standing there with wide eyes and her mouth hanging wide open.

"Uh...Lauren, what are you doing?" Bo's voice made her seem calm and relaxed but inside her head she was running through everything she'd done and said aloud since waking up. She hadn't said anything damning and she could easily cover up whatever she'd said, assuming that Lauren had heard everything. Bo was so busy trying to mentally cover her tracks she hadn't even caught what Lauren had been saying. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" Bo asked.

"I said I was just coming downstairs to get some coffee. Who were you talking to?" Lauren asked, her face already wiped of any indication of her emotions. Bo let out a sigh.

"I was on the phone with a contact. Ya know, working a case and all. The usual." Bo's eyes locked onto Lauren's in a test of wills. Lauren was the first to look away. "Coffee is in the pot, you know where everything is at. I'm just gonna run upstairs and grab something." And with that, Bo took off upstairs, not sparing another glance at Lauren.