Author's note: This is one is a little longer, but I figure what the heck. Please enjoy and as always review if you like.
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After a few moments of just holding the doctor, the succubus finally loosened her hold on the woman that had captured her heart completely. Still holding onto the doctor, although not as tight as before she looked at the doctor in the face. "Sorry about that, I am just so happy to see you awake and alive." Once again pulling the doctor into a hug to reassure herself that the doctor was indeed here in her arms.
"Shush, its okay. I am alright now. Please don't cry, because then I will start to cry. And then we will just make big puddles of tears on my floors that I just cleaned." Trying to lighten the mood alittle. "I hear I have you to thank for healing me."
As the succubus pulled back once more to look into the eyes she had missed for so long now. "I could not let you die, there is so much I need to say to you. But don't ever do anything like that again. I was so afraid I would not get to see you again. And I was not the only one to help you though, Gaia helped also."
"Yes, I heard that and also a guard here in the Ash's compound helped also." Lauren stated then seeing the confusion on the succubus's face. "One of the guards here, Matthew, was able to take most of the scarring away."
Bo was shocked at this news, she had not heard anything about this and why would Matt help the doctor out. Bo remembered that he was the one here that had the same golden aura that Lauren had and the man that she saw looking for the Dal earlier. She needed some answers, but first she needed to discuss some things with Lauren first.
"Who is Gaia?" Lauren asked not understanding the look on Bo at the moment. As she pulled Bo into her quarters and lead them to the couch. "I don't think I know of a Fae here named that."
"Oh no I guess you have not met her yet. Gaia is the Sister of Life that Kenzi and I sorta freed from this weird ass rock prison she was entombed in." Bo explained the circumstances of her meeting with Gaia. "Remember you texted me about being careful with them?"
"Ahh I remember the Ash saying that there was a Sister of Life her now. That was the reason we he cut his business short and we came back. I did a little research on them while we were flying back. They are so interesting, did you know they are supposedly the originators of all sentient life on the planet, and the caretakers of all life itself. They are supposedly unkillable but I found that at least 3 sisters have been killed though it doesn't say how. Could you imagine everthing they have seen and done, it is truly fascinating. But they were cursed by some fae ritual though and only gave birth to horrible underfae." Lauren spouted off what she had found in her cursory search into the Sisters. Bo looked on at this woman that was so smart it was scary sometimes, but could not help but smile wider as she listened to the doctor geek out on her research. And then she remembered why she going to see Lauren earlier before getting sidetracked.
"Lauren, as much as I love listening to you geek out and I really do love it. We need to talk about somethings and I am not sure how to start exactly. But before I go into all that I need to say something to you." Bo looked at their entwined hands and took a deep breath before looking up into the doctors eye to show the seriousness what she had to say. "I want to apologize for everthing I have said and done to you since the Vex thing. It was cruel and unfair of me to not give you a chance to explain why. And I let my anger and initial hurt to cloud my judgement in seeing that you were only trying to save me. And then to say all those things to you and all the things I said at the Dal were just to make you hurt and humilated as I thought I was at the time. I have already spoken and apologized to your friend Baron Simon, and he showed me something that made me realize why I was so hurt and angry and that is because I am in love with you. And looking back now I have always been in love with you from almost the moment I first met you."
"Bo, you don't have to apologize. I betrayed your trust and I deserved what you did." Lauren looked away the tears forming in her eyes at the rememberance of her actions. She felt Bo tighten her grip on her hands in reassurance and comfort. "I understand I may have lost your trust and lo...friendship. I hope you can forgive me one day, though. I really wanted to keep you safe and I just didn't know what else to do. I was going to tell you where to find Vex and maybe go and help you even, but I chickened out when you started talking about wanting to be loved and wanted. And I just wanted to show you that you were and are to so many people especially to me. I am the the one that is sorry, not for keeping you safe but being a coward about it." As she looked up into Bo's face and saw the tears flowing again from the succubus's eyes. As she lifted her hand out of Bo's to wipe the tears away gently. "I am so sorry and I will tell you that everyday if you would let me."
"There is no need to apologize, you did what you did because you loved me. Your friend Simon gave me a vision, although it was more an accident, but it showed me everything that would have happened if you had done what you wanted to do. If you would have told me everything you were going, but if you had you would have been killed by Vex using his power on me, and it was me that killed you. So please never apologize for doing what you did. I would rather what happened after that happen than to have what could have happened everytime. But the one thing I did realize though, is that I love you with everything that I am and still want you. I guess I trying to tell you in my long winded way that...I love you." Bo answered the tears long having stopped with Lauren's hands on her cheeks. Bo saw the doctor's golden aura spike just a mere moment before she felt the lips of the doctor on hers. The kiss was passionate and demanding, both could feel the healing of their relationship begin. Tears of joy and love freely flowed between the two women. For what seemed like hours but was only a few moments, both women pulled back to gather in much needed air.
"In case you didn't realize it, I love you also." Lauren responded slightly blushing and out of breath.
"Good, just so we are clear though. We love each other and there is no more you being a bodyguard ok." Bo smiled a little at the comment. "The only body I wanting you tackling from now on is mine." As she leaned over to give the doctor another kiss. "But as much as I want to continue this, there is some other stuff we need to talk about that I think involves Gaia and yourself. And this is going to be pretty unbelievable but please hear me out."
"Me? I am not sure how I could be involved." Lauren stated confused at how she could be involved with any of this. "Unless your talking about the cure for the Sisters dilemna, because if that is the case I already found a way to fix it."
"What? Are you serious? How? You really are the smartest person I have ever met, and just wow." Bo was shocked, the pride she felf for the doctor could only be rewarded with another kiss. "And yes that is a part of it, but that is just a part of it. But really wow, you only just heard about the Sister how could you possibly have solved that so fast."
"Oh well, as I have told you my life has been lonely for my time here. And in my research of the Fae and ...oh wait I need to tell you something first. About why I am here, I need to tell you about Nadia." Lauren looked away briefly not really knowing how to have this conversation about her ex-girlfriend. "Bo, I had a girlfriend...Nadia. She has been in a coma, for the last five years and when I went to the Congo ..." Before Lauren could continue, Bo had placed her finger over the doctor's lips.
"I know about Nadia and how she followed you. How you traded your freedom for a chance to find a cure." Bo stopped Lauren, happy that she was going to tell her, but she knew everything already and did not see a point causing the blonde in more needless guilt. "When I had that vision, in it you told me everything. You don't need to go into it again, but thank you for wanting to tell me again."
"Oh, I am sure one day soon, you will tell me everything that I told you." As a smile appeared on her face, glad that at least in some universe she had the courage to tell Bo everything even if it did lead to her death. "Although I just found out that it was the Morrigan that had cursed her though. She was going to attempt to offer me the Dark Fae resources for my service, but the Ash had offered first."
"Ok that I did not know. Are you okay?" Bo was shocked to hear this bit of news, she was not really surprised that the Morrigan would do something like that but still that just sucked.
"Yeah I think so, I really don't know what to think about it really. But I will think on it later, but back to what I was saying during my research for a cure I got access to the Fae archives. And so I would spend every moment I could reading and learning what I could. In one of the older books that is forbidden to most Fae, there was a mention of the ritual used in cursing the Sisters. And then with some other things that I read in other books, I was able to deteremine a means to cure them. Although the ingredients to make the cure are very rare, and until I met you there was one item I did not understand how to get. But now if I could get all the things together I could make the cure for them." Lauren explained her research.
"And you remembered all that just from the Ash mentioning that there was a Sister here? And what do you mean until you met me?" Bo was astonished at the brillance at her hopefully soon girlfriend's ability. The pride she had in the doctor never seemed to lessen, and really she did get turned on when the doctor geeked out. And it was really only Lauren that did that, she had never got turned on from other smart people who did the geekout thing either.
"Oh, I have a photographic mememory and there is just something about learning things that I have always had knack for figuring things out. There was a Fae elder once that came in and thought I was some new type of Fae they never had seen before, but except for a small flaw in my dna makeup I am just a simple human." Lauren shrugged, there was no boasting or arrogance in her statement, just a simple explaination. "And as for you, there was one item that was the called the breath of a succubus and I did not realize what that was until you gave me your chi to heal. I think that is what it was talking about."
"Can I just say again, you are smartest person I have known, and there is nothing simple about you. But this flaw in your dna, is it a problem are you sick?" the worry for blonde came to her instantly.
"No nothing like that, just there are some incomplete genetic markers there. Nothing really serious, it is more common than you might think. Could be a throw back from our evolution. There is so much still to learn just about the human body, you know." Lauren stated with a small smile, she really did love the science of research. Something her adopted father taught her to love. "But you said there were some other things we needed to talk about, are you on a case that you need some help on?"
"Well yes you could say that I am on a case, but it does involve you and Gaia. Look there is no easy way to say this, but I think Gaia is your biological mom. And she is looking for you, she says you are not fully yourself because your essence was pulled out of you. I don't understand how completely but says she can give it back to you." Bo just rushed that out, I mean really how do you try to explain that you may be the daughter of a power being that the Fae fear and love equally, and a Dragon that is just as powerful as a Sister who had united as a whole to almost wipe out Fae. "But she said something that reminded of you and I told her I would look into before I came to a conclusion."
"Me, I am just a human Bo. Nothing special except for the high IQ, I am not sure what could remind you of me." Lauren stated not believing that she could be anything other than human, she had ran blood tests on herself also when the Fae elder had believed her to be an unknown Fae species to see for herself the results. And she came up with the same results, except for the genetic flaws she was just human. "I am sure with all the stress you have been under worrying about me and giving me your chi, it is normal to project those feelings."
"I already thought about though, but she gave me a clue and it points straight to you, babe. And even though I don't have a photographic memory when it comes to stuff, but when it comes to you I can remember everything about you. Including your angel wing birthmark on your left hip, the one that looks like wings with a little halo above them. The ones that I could not seem to stop from kissing and tracing with my tongue." Seeing the blush that came on the blonde's face and neck. Oh she could remember finding that birthmark and being so smitten with it she spent many moments just worshiping it with her mouth and tongue.
"But that could just be a coincedence, Bo. I am nothing special, just human slave that is a little smarter than most." Lauren stated reluctant to see herself as anything special. "Maybe she figured out that I might be able to come up with a cure and mentioned it get me to help with it. I am sure that is it."
"Well you may be the smartest person I know but you give Trick a run for the most stubborn also." Bo smiled, she understood the doctor's reluctantance. She had been seen as inferior for so long she just could not see what Bo saw in her. "Well you could always ask to see if you she would give you a blood sample and you run a dna test to see if it matched." Knowing that if nothing Lauren would believe the science of it. And further added to enticing the blonde with some rational thinking. "And if nothing else if you give her the cure you have already before she asks for it, then she would have no reason to lie to you, then right."
"Well I guess I could do a blood test just to clear this all up. And if nothing else and she agrees to a blood test then I can add that to my research database. Could you imagine what I could learn from one that is practically the mother of all Fae. Why that alone could answer so many questions that I have that I don't have answers for." Bo could see she had hit the weakness in Lauren's armor, and she learned something also, when in doubt go with a scientific challenge. She could practically feel the blonde's excitement at this possible research, more than the possibility of being the daughter of a Sister. This brought a smile on the succubus's face, she really did love this geeky, beautiful scientist.
"So lets go then. Do you need to get anything before we leave?" Bo asked the blonde that was getting up and walking over to a desk to pick up the Ash's necklace before putting it on. Bo watched her and decided to ignore the fact that Lauren had her freedom, one thing at time she decided. First figure out if Lauren was Gaia's daughter, then discuss the status of Lauren's slavery. She watched as the blonde gathered up a few things and put them in a oversized medical bag and heading towards the door. However just as they were about to open the door, Lauren ran upstairs and came back shortly with a small book in her hands that looked old. Bo watched as she carefully packed it in the bag and making sure it was secured, she took the succubus' hand as they headed out the door. Turning to lock up, both women were startled when they saw that Matt had walked up behind them.
"Whoa, sorry about that, didn't mean to startle you both." Matt raised his hand to show he was unarmed and truly sorry for startling the two. Bo saw the golden aura that was almost identical to Lauren's but she saw nothing that was sexual in nature, relaxing at this bit of information. "I was just coming to see how Dr. Lewis was doing. See how she was doing with all the healing of her scarring."
"I am fine Matt, I can't even begin to thank you for using your power to get rid of the scarring. Between Bo and you, I feel like nothing ever happened." Lauren answered, grateful to have learned that Matt was able to take the physical scarring from her back. She had learned that Bo had come everyday sometimes twice just to give her some her chi that had literally saved her life and healed her body. And that Matt had come in every night to take away the scarring that had been left. "I owe you big time."
"You owe me nothing Dr. Lewis. You fixed my leg up last year when I fell and everyone was saying it needed to be amputated. But you saved it, so it was the least I could do. I can't take all the scarring though, but i made it a very small." Matt waved off the idea of her owing him. "I am just happy to have helped Bo here save your life."
Bo could tell he was holding something back, she knew without a doubt. "Thanks for doing that Matt, before too long I am going to owe you a bar of your own with the amount of beers I owe you. But I gotta ask, what kind of fae are you."
Laughing and waving goodbye, "well I see you are leaving so I will come back tomorrow to see if there is anything else to do with the scarring that is left. You two have a fun time, goodnight Dr. Lewis. Nite Bo." As he walked off into the shadows and just seemed to meld into them and was gone.
Lauren watched the succubus who had not turned to leave when she did. "Bo are you alright?"
"What do you know about him? Do you know what kind of Fae he is?" Bo asked, the only person she felt that would give her a straight answer when it came to the different types of Fae.
"I really can't tell you." Lauren saw the brief flicker of frustration in Bo's eyes at her answer. Thinking it was her keeping secrets she hurriedly continued. "I mean I really don't know, he never told me when I treated him. And his blood work didn't match anything in the database. And it is forbidden for me to ask a Fae what they are without them giving me permission."
"Oh...there is something about him. I don't know yet, but I really want and need to know." Bo stated. "But lets go to the Dal, and get this case over with. We got a lot of things to talk about, that can only be fully discussed when we have time."
"Really, like what do you want to know, I promise to answer anything you want to know about me. We still have to talk about something while we drive to the Dal." Lauren smiled at the succubus. She promised herself that she was going to be honest with Bo and that needed to start right now. "Anything you want to know."
As they walked to Bo's car, she had hundred's of questions that she wanted to ask the doctor. But where to start that would not lead into anything really serious though. As they reached her car she saw the look on Lauren's face a small smirk on her face seeing the look on Bo's face as she tried to find the right question. As the both buckled up and Bo started the car, she decided to keep this flirty and light and came up with great start.
"So tell me doctor, do you prefer sleeping in shorts or pajamas." Bo nearly laughed when she saw the look on the doctors face, clearly not anticapating that question. "Well doctor, you said you were going to answer my questions." Giving the doctor a wide smile.
"Are those my only 2 options? Because it would depend on who I am with." Lauren answered in a lusty throaty voice that sent shivers down the succubus's spine.
'Damn, did not think she would go with flirty answers' Bo thought as she had to reign in the sudden urge to skip the Dal and go back to the Crack Shack and make sure her memory of the blonde goddess was accurate. "That was so not fair, I got to drive." As Lauren's hand had fell on the succubus' upper thigh before reaching up to grab her hand entwining their hands together.
"But you asked me a question, I had to answer it though." As she leaned closer to the succubus' placing her mouth near Bo's ear while they stopped for a red light. "Now if you would have asked what I wear when I am with you, I would have said nothing." As she used the most sultry voice she had that was just a bare whisper, as she pulled back to seat in her seat properly. "But I would say for the most part, shorts though." Using her regular voice, while she watched Bo close her eyes and regain her regular breathing. Hearing a horn behind her, Lauren looked up and forward. "Its green."
"You are going to be the death of me you know?" As Bo got her breathing and hormones back under control briefly. Yeah this business better be over with quickly, otherwise Trick was going to learn an all new meaning to 'bringing down the house'.
Using that sultry voice again, just to see the reaction she could bring about in the succubus. "Don't worry, I am doctor. I assure you I know mouth to mouth." As she watched Bo's eyes turn blue and her breathing increased, "and for you mouth to wherever you prefer."
Screw it, as she turned the corner heading for the crack shack. As she increased the speed of the car to something that was probally very illegal. And barely managing to stop the car before she put it thru the front door. Hearing the blonde next to her, "I thought we were going to the Dal?" Again in that sultry voice, Bo could not resist as she scooped up the doctor over her shoulder, the doctor's ass in her peripheal vision. She could hear the weak demands of the doctor to put her down, and thinking maybe she had gone to far when she felt the doctor's hands on her ass. She did not know where she got the strength, she didn't care as she took the steps two at time placing her own hand on the doctor's ass to hold her in place. Kicking the door to her bedroom open, as she got to her bed she gently threw the doctor on the bed.
"Now doctor, I think I have a hurt. And you need to take care it. I am not sure where it is exactly, so you have to be thorough." As she pulled the doctor's shirt up and off. And straddling her.
"What about the Dal?" The question weak and not even serious.
"We'll get there sooner or later." As Bo leaned down to capture the blonde's lips with her own as she felt the doctor's hand begin her exam on her breast. Yes having a doctor as a girlfriend was good.