Bo

I sat in the chair beside the couch where Lauren lay, unconscious. Trick had been able to stitch up her back and surmised that the amount of poison in her blood had been minimal. He said she'd be out for a while but it would soon wear off, so Kenzi and I had brought her back to the house.

Fortunately, Trick had asked me to check her eyes and I had lied, saying they were normal. I knew I couldn't trust him or Dyson to be there when she woke up. They might tell the Ash.

"Bo," I heard Kenzi say my name as she came down the stairs and turned around. "Are you ever going to tell me what the hell happened with you and Dyson?"

I sighed and turned back to Lauren, making sure she was okay before getting up and walking to the counter. "It's really not that complicated," I said, sitting on a stool. Kenzi went to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of wine.

"Well, it seems a little complicated. He won't talk to you." She poured a glass for each of us and took a swig of hers.

I shrugged, "I broke up with him, Kenzi. He's not exactly going to be happy about it."

She lifted her eyebrow and gave me an expectant look, not saying anything and occasionally sipping her wine.

After about a minute, I threw up my hands, "Okay, fine. I cheated on him." I took a long drink of wine as Kenzi stared at me with her mouth open.

"Why didn't you tell me?" She put a hand over her chest, "Bo, I'm hurt."

"It's not something I'm proud of," I said, resting my forehead in my hands.

She leaned across the counter and lowered her voice, "Well, who was it?"

I poured myself more wine and chugged it down before answering. "There were two," I admitted and Kenzi's eyebrows shot up. "A Dark Fae I met at a club..."

"You went clubbing without me," Kenzi whispered. "And a Dark Fae? That's... intense." I nodded. "Okay, so that's one... and two?"

I sighed and looked towards the couch to make sure Lauren wasn't awake, before turning back to Kenzi with a meaningful look.

It took her a second, but she soon realized and her eyes went wide. "No way," she said loudly, then caught herself and lowered her voice again, "The Doc?"

"Yes."

"Wait... pre- or post-memory loss?"

"Pre-, Kenzi," I answered, shaking my head.

"But I thought you were pissed at her for the whole..." she trailed off.

"It just kind of happened." I really didn't know how to explain what transpired in the bathroom of the Dal. "I broke up with Dyson because... well, yea, I cheated on him, and that wasn't fair to him, but also because-" I heard a noise from the couch and turned around to see Lauren suddenly sit up. I jumped off the stool and hurried over. "Whoa, easy," I said, putting a hand on her shoulder, "You don't want to rip your stitches."

She reached up and felt for the bandage on her face, pulling it off. The cuts were gone.

"Well, damn," Kenzi said, coming up behind me. "You can heal yourself, too?"

Lauren shook her head, "He must've done it."

"So, you did see him again?" I asked, sitting down next to her on the couch. "Did he tell you anything?"

She ran a hand through her hair, nodding. As she put her hand back down, I realized she was shaking.

"Lauren? What is it?"

"He said some things... I don't know if he's telling the truth. It could be a trap."

"What do you mean?"

"He said your dreams, the ones you couldn't remember, they were memories... from a past life."

"What? A past life? Does that actually happen?" Kenzi slapped a hand to her forehead, "The Hindus were right."

I was staring at Lauren as Kenzi started rambling about changing religions. "Is it true?"

Lauren turned her attention away from Kenzi. "I don't know, but..." she trailed off and didn't seem to want to continue.

"But, what?" I pushed her, wondering what she was so reluctant to tell me.

"I remember, Bo," she said, softly.

"You... you remember me? You remember everything?"

"Everything," she nodded. "And more."

I gave her a confused look, "What do you mean 'more'? And did he just give you your memory back?"

She shook her head, "It came back when you gave me your chi, before the test."

"Wait, what?" Kenzi interjected and looked at me. "You gave her your chi? Since when can you do that?"

"I'll explain it later, Kenz, I promise," I told her, then turned to Lauren. "Why didn't you tell me?" I was kind of hurt that she hadn't.

"There was so much going on and there just wasn't time, I'm sorry," she said quickly. "But what I'm trying to tell you is that I had memories come to me of us... but it's not us. It's hard to explain."

"Doc, you look like you could use a drink," Kenzi observed.

Lauren looked up with a half smile, "Please." She stood up to follow Kenzi, but I grabbed her hand to stop her.

"Wait," I went behind her and lifted her shirt so I could see the bandage on her back. I pulled it off gently, revealing the unmarked skin. The string Trick had used to stitch the wounds fell away.

Without thinking, I softly traced my fingers down the exposed skin, hearing Lauren's sharp intake of breath and seeing her aura flare up. "Sorry," I whispered. "All healed." I pulled her shirt back down, and Lauren turned around.

"Bo... your eyes," she said and I quickly raised a hand to cover them. "What happened earlier... You have to feed."

I shook my head and removed my hand, knowing my eyes were back to normal, "I'm okay, really."

She continued to stare into my eyes for a few seconds, then looked away, "Okay."

We walked over to Kenzi who had missed the exchange, having been busy pouring the wine. She handed us each a glass and lifted hers, "So, I know we have mystery Fae business to deal with, but I would just like to say," she motioned for Lauren and I to lift our glasses as well, "congratulations, Doc, on passing your trial thing and sticking it to the Ash-hole. Welcome to the Unaligned."

Lauren ducked her head with a smile, "Thanks, Kenzi."

"No prob. Cheers!"

We all clinked our glasses and took a drink.

"Okay, back to the issues," Kenzi said. "You were saying you remembered your past life?"

Lauren sighed, "I don't know if it really was my past life. The Fae, who told me his name was Castor... he said that Bo and I are reincarnated souls from approximately twelve thousand years ago, and my... past self wrote the prophecy, which it turns out isn't a prophecy but a coded message for me. He also told me in my past life I was Zoie, his sister..."

Kenzi and I just stared at her for a minute, trying to process this information.

Kenzi was the first to say something, "Okay... so who was Bo's past self?"

"It's hard to say, he didn't tell me. But in the memory, we were speaking in a different language, one I've never heard before, yet I understood what we were saying." She looked at me, "I called you Anna."

"It doesn't really ring a bell," I said, unsure if the name was supposed to trigger anything. "What was the memory of?"

"It was just a few seconds. You said... you loved me... and I said, 'I love you, too, Anna. Forever'," she said softly.

I swallowed and looked from her to Kenzi, whose eyebrows were raised. "So we were together... in our past life...?"

Lauren shrugged, biting her lip and looking down into her wine glass, "That's what it seemed like."

"Well," Kenzi said with a sigh and pulled out her phone. "Did he tell you what the message was? Because I have a picture of the un-prophecy." She walked over to the computer and plugged her phone into it.

"He said he didn't know what it said... that I was the key to decoding it," Lauren explained, walking up behind Kenzi as she pulled up picture on the monitor. Lauren looked closely at the screen for minute, then shook her head, "I can't read it."

"Did Castor say anything about how you'd figure it out?" I asked.

She looked up, "He wants us both to go there. He said he would explain more, that he would show us. But I don't know, Bo. It's a big risk... Like I said, it might be a trap."

I nodded, "We'll do it. Tonight."