Disclaimer: Lost Girl is in no way my creation, I am merely toying with the possibilities of a storyline that bit me while out to dinner. No monetary gain was brought from this writing.

Author's Note: Ni got away from me in her story telling here, I had thought her escape was a bit different myself but apparently she changed it on me. The end might be a little misleading, it'll pick up in the next part.

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At the beginning of the scent that the shifter tagged, Dyson had moved with a sure pace but as it continued his steps had picked up. Behind him, Trick's face was beginning to redden as he attempted to keep up the swift pace he had not kicked his heels to for a few hundred years. "What is it?" The Blood King questioned, feeling the concern that emanated from his friend's back.

"Two streets ago we doubled back, we're headed towards the Lab now," Dyson growled, his voice drifting to his liege.

"Do you-"

The red haired man shook his head, patting his jacket as he pulled his phone out, "On it."

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The two story bore witness to a pregnant pause between the two fae in the kitchen, Bo staring at the long haired female at her side, brown eyes seemingly forced to focus on the her still figure, "What?" Tan fingers flexed on the island's countertop, muscles tense as goose pimples rose along her skin at the coldness that seemed to swallow her up at Ni's confession.

"I was a pet under the Hawthorn's care for years before he knew the truth, before he stumbled across me feeding." Thin fingers curled into fists on the knees of her jeans, head bowed, "I was in favor in my last home, and Hawthorn thought he needed to break me with his other pets. Food was scarce, meager even by human standards,," green and blue, her eyes cast to the side in thought, remembering, "when I tried to pass my meals to the real mortals that needed more I was separated, punished."

Bo's gaze traveled up Ni's back watching as she shivered, Bo pulling her own arms up to her chest to fold as though to protect herself from Ni's rehashing.

"It had only been a few months, but he suspected and I had to exert myself to match what was expected of a starving pet and the guards relented, giving me sustenance." One hard nail picked at the knuckle of her folded index finger, "More time passed and I was allowed out but you don't know how things are in the states," Ni's gaze changed, from the mixed earth tones to a darker swirl of grey and blue, "Jax went first, then Colin. The Hawthorn had many taste's," her lips pulled back to form a bitter smile, "but he was foolish. When one was used up he moved onto the next, my time at his side in the public was easy, even in private at his side I could sit and play the part but when… When I was unwilling, he was surprised to be held off by me, and he tried burning me for it. Stupid of him to think it would work…"

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The phone snapped shut, and Dyson barked, "Nothing at the Lab, Lauren says it's clear." Growling Dyson felt his bones shifting under his skin, attempting to keep from ripping from his clothes as two other scents joined the first, these easy to identify, "He called in reinforcements."

Trick grabbed his friend's elbow, keeping him from turning down another lane, "If they aren't headed to the lab, they must have been trying to follow the car."

A beat and then, "They're headed to Bo's."

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"I was so hungry after healing, it had been too long since I'd fed in the presence of mortals even with his consorts in the community, I could not stop myself from sipping from the guard. I should have known he would come to make a show of apologizing. For years after I let him hold it over me, let him keep the knowledge of my kind to himself. As if he knew the whole truth, what he suspected was nothing, nothing that he could ever guess!"

Bo stepped back as Ni's voice deepened and rose at the same time, the pitch almost tossed between two reverberating points in her throat as the strands of her hair seemed to sharpen. The half step back cost Bo her ability to spy the other Fae's expression but the movement allowed her to focus on a new development in her surroundings, though she had not noticed it, so entranced in Ni's thoughts as she was, the room was cold, not cool as with their usual heating problems but cold and as Ni seemed to be gathering air to speak again Bo's breath came out in visible puffs.

"He thought I'd stay there, feed on them in way so unmistakable it would be clear to everyone what he must have but hide me?" The elder fae laughed, unable to stay in her seat any longer and she moved, her clothes stiff on her frame, the material crinkling loud enough for the Succubus to hear, "I refused."

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Clinging to her bedspread, Kenzi rolled over, attempting to bury herself in the covers even as she began to rise from her fitful sleep. The glass separating her room from the next began to coat in a thin frost accentuated by the dark curtain shielding it.

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"It was his fault they died, each Shadow another statue as I left, frozen in place. I can only imagine how they were found. Did they bump into them in the morning? Did they trip over nothing along the floors?" As one hand gestured to the carpet Bo noted the steely look that had started to form over Ni's fingertips, eyes widening as it turned an all too familiar white and blue crystalline, her chest burned with remembered pain, and she started to move to the side even as she attempted to bring her friend back to the present,

"Ni."

The young woman continued, "He tried to stop me himself, that fire fae. Maybe if this were my first trip he'd have stood a chance," Bo watched with mixed fascination as the peculiar change traveled past Ni's hands up her arms until they were hidden beneath her clothes, "I told him he could have me if he could handle it, if he withstood my power I'd kneel at his feet and stop his every foe in their tracks. All he had to do was live through one little touch, just one," the ice that Ni's palms were made of sounded like crystal cracked as she curled her hand into first, fingers moving slowly, her eyes a so bright a violet they were tinged with pink around the rims, "He burst to shards within seconds and I reveled in the heat his body had contained."

Bo's body shook, her lips tinged blue and her lashes seemingly coated in a thin white film the room was so cold, her breathing labored in such a short time. How long had Ni been talking now, only minutes? Her teeth chattered, the feel of her jaw grating against itself in her head, "Ni!"

The Hrimthurs straightened, turning to look at Bo and the Succubus stepped back at the sight, the creature before her both Ni and not as it grinned wickedly past her, "You shouldn't be here."

Head pounding, Bo managed to stagger back sensing danger before a force moved from behind her, knocking her to the floor as the Frost Giant reached out.