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Lauren's POV – 1 Week Later - 5th Precinct – Afternoon

"…Lauren? Hello…earth to Lauren…Lauren!" I was startled out of staring at my gorgeous new wedding ring. I blushed as I turned my focus to Dyson standing in front of me while I was sitting in my comfy new desk chair.

"Sorry Dy, my ring is just so pretty. See, look!" He shook his head as he chuckled when I put my hand in his face to show him the ring, which I think I've done that to everyone at least once a day now. "I've seen it Laur, you've stared at it with that goofy grin every day at least twice a day since the wedding."

I grinned as I thought back to my wedding. "Bo's so romantic and I love her so much. I still can't believe I'm married. After my fallout with Crystal I never thought I'd ever get married."

I noticed Dyson's face become flushed at my last comment. "…Yeah, about that…Listen Lauren, I just got a call from Crystal's prison, she's missing."

My eyes widened and my heart is racing at the horrifying news...I'm so glad that I'm sitting down right now. "So you're saying that she somehow escaped a maximum security prison that is supposed to be escape proof."

Dyson sighed, "Either that or she's still in there somewhere waiting for the prison staff to thin out to look for her before she makes her actual escape."

I leaned forward in my chair and clasped my hands together before I asked the dreaded question. "How long has she been missing?" Dyson crouched down in front of me and wrapped his hands around my hands.

"About five hours according to the prison security footage…So if she did escape, she's probably in the city right now. Lauren, I want to set you and Bo with police protection."

I was feeling so many emotions right now; fear, anger, stress, exhaustion and more. But, anger just took the forefront. "Why did they wait so long to notify us!? Sorry, didn't mean to snap at you…I just can't take this…this bullshit anymore. It's just too much, Dyson, it's just too much…"

"It's okay and believe me when I say I gave them an earful and I will report their incompetence and negligence before the day is over. They claim that they waited because they didn't have any electricity and they thought they'd find her not long after the power came back on. Somehow, the backup generators didn't kick in for about an hour and she's the only prisoner that is unaccounted for. So anyway, back to the police pro-"

"No Dyson, you know I won't risk others lives for my own and besides, we can't risk anyone finding out about Bo and her you know what. Bo and I can handle this without police protection. In fact, let me call Bo to warn her right now."

I grabbed my cell phone and hit speed dial 5 for Bo. It just rang and rang before it went to voicemail. "She's not picking up; I'm going to go check on her."

I got up and headed towards the exit to get to my bike immediately. "Calm down Laur, she's probably just busy working." I know Dyson is trying to keep me calm, but since Bo's phone keeps going to voicemail with every call I make; his attempts to keep me calm aren't working.

"She took the day off to relax." I heard Dyson groan from his position behind me. "Shit, I'm going with you."

Bo's POV – Condo – Living Room

"Aww, your phone keeps ringing. Don't you wanna get that?" I glared at Crystal as we continued to circle each other. "How'd you escape the prison?"

She shrugged, "We all have our secrets. Like how did you and Lauren get so much evidence against me? How did you find everything? How were Lauren's parents found? And so on…but truth be told, I really don't care. Honestly, now…all I want is to kill you, so here I am to do just that."

"If I were you, the only thing I'd want to do is get out of that ugly orange jumpsuit. Orange is not the new black regardless of what anyone or any TV show says. As my man Vex always says, black is always the new black."

"Shut up, enough talk…Now, you die!" Crystal charged at me with a kick which I countered by grabbing her ankle and twisting it along with her body to cause her body to flip and hit the floor with a thud. She immediately flipped back up to her feet and charged at me again.

I wasn't holding back at all this time. I was so fed up with this psycho bitch. So almost every hit she threw my way was dodged or countered while almost every hit I threw at her hit its mark.

I landed the perfect round house kick to her stomach. She was thrown back and over the couch towards the coffee table. Her head hit the TV before she landed on the coffee table.

The TV wobbled off the wall before it fell on top of Crystal's back while she was trying to get back up. "You know, I said it once and I'll say it again. You're really fast, fast like the Shadow Assassin. But, let's see if you're faster than a bullet."

The moment she stood up from the mess her body made, she had an automatic gun pointed at my head before I could completely close the gap between us. I backed up as she advanced me. We started circling each other again.

She stopped circling me to slightly lean against the stair railing in pain and exhaustion. "So, any last words?" I smirked, "Yeah, just one, JIN!"

"Gin? You want a drin- omph!" With lightning speed, Jin descended the stairs and tackled Crystal to the floor with a growl as he bit into her arm, making her lose her gun and scream out in pain. I quickly kicked the gun away from her just as she punched Jin off of her making him whimper before he got ready to attack again. "POLICE! FREEZE! JIn, heel!"

Crystal stopped mid-lunge towards me because she knew Lauren was behind her with a gun; ready to fire. "Actually Lauren, it's you who needs to freeze and put the gun down." My eyes widened in shock when I saw Nadia behind Lauren with a gun to her back.

Crystal laughed maliciously as she went over and retrieved her gun from where I kicked it to in the living room. "Nadia, what are you doing? You were freed from Crystal. Why are you helping her?"

Nadia smirked at Lauren's confusion as Lauren held her hands up in surrender. "At first, I was under her control. But then, I thought about it…we both love you and what did you do? You picked Bo over both of us! Needless to say, the more I thought about it the more it pissed me off. So, I thought if we can't have you then nor will Bo or anyone else for that matter."

"Jin, heel boy, it's okay, it's okay." I tried to calm down our growling and rightfully pissed off dog. But he was barely obeying my command to stand down with both Lauren and I in danger. He was ready to rip Nadia to shreds since I always trained him to protect Lauren first.

"Now do you two understand? Nadia is freely on my side now and she used her police contacts to break herself free without you guys being notified and then she broke me free. Nadia is part of the reason why I always slipped through the cracks of the pathetic justice system and why I am always at least one step ahead of you two. She helps me in any way I want and or need…Now, sorry Lauren but, your girl's gotta die. Just be thankful we don't kill that stupid mutt of yours especailly after it attacked me!"

"NO!" Lauren screamed as a gunshot went off. The room stilled as we realized it wasn't Crystal's gun that went off to shoot and kill me. A gasp escaped from Nadia prompting all of us to look at her. We saw that she was the one who got shot…in the chest and from behind. As Nadia collapsed to the floor we saw that Dyson was the one who fired the shot.

"NO! I'M NOT GOING DOWN WITH HER, NOT ALONE!" Crystal shot at me, Dyson and even Lauren as her last stand. She pulled out a second gun to keep the three of us under fire.

We all dodged her shots and took cover wherever we could. I briefly peeked out from my cover behind my desk to see that Lauren, Dyson and Jin took cover behind the couch. I knew it was now or never…

I opened the secret compartment in my desk with my thumb print. I grabbed all five of my throwing stars and got ready to make my move as my desk was about to give way any moment now. I just needed a distraction to take my shot. Come on Lauren, read my mind or something, please.

"CRYSTAL STOP! I'LL GO WITH YOU, just stop…please..." The gun shots ceased at Lauren's pleading statement. I peeked over to find Lauren standing up from behind the couch, getting Crystal's attention. "Sorry Laur, but I'm done playing nice. If I can't have you then Bo's got to di-"

She saw me lunge out from my cover and throw all the stars I had before she could even fire off a shot. Luckily, all the stars hit her chest. She dropped her guns and stumbled back against the couch.

With her last moments of life, she looked at me with an undeniable look of confirmation because she just found out that she was right about me all along. "Shadow Assassin…" She whispered out just before she turned her head to look at Lauren one last time. "I love you, Lauren…" With her final words spoken; she collapsed to the floor.

She was dead, just like Nadia. It's finally over now…But, did I just show Lauren my true colors? Lauren was never supposed to see this side of me. She was never supposed to see the monster I really am.

I couldn't help but stare at her body. I didn't want to kill her. I didn't want to break my number one rule.

I guess I was tearing up because next knew, Lauren held me tight and wiped away the tears I didn't even know I had. "You had no choice. She was going to kill you."

I felt Dyson's hand on my shoulder. "Lauren's right, you didn't have a choice. If you didn't take her down then one of us would have the first chance we got before she killed one or all of us."

"I know, I just didn't want it to come to this. I didn't want you to see the monster that I am." Lauren kissed my teary salty lips with her soft sweet lips.

"You're not a monster. You never were and never will be. You're my loving wife and an amazing person."

In that very moment, Jin came up to us and put his head right under my free hand. "See, even Jin agrees because he knows you're not a monster. You can't argue with our dog, you said it yourself; he's super smart."

I chuckled as I lightly scratched Jin's head and held Lauren tighter. "Guys, I hate to break this up but I had to call this in since I am the precinct captain so the precinct will be here soon since this is now a crime scene. The good news is we don't have to lie about anything when they take our statements."

"What about my throwing stars in her chest?" Lauren reassured me with a quick kiss. Then she left my embrace and crouched down in front of Crystal's body and started removing my throwing stars from her body as soon as she put on a pair of gloves.

"We remove them from her body. It won't be hard to place our kitchen knives it their place. No one at the precinct or any local law enforcement entity will question it because Crystal turned one of their own against us and also attacked one of their own and even a precinct captain. But we have to work quickly to remove your throwing stars and replace them with our kitchen knives."

"Holy shit BoBo. I know people want to kill their significant other's exes but you actually did it." We all turned to see Kenzi and Vex standing next to me in shock as they both looked at Crystal's body. "I didn't want to Kenz…"

Kenzi immediately felt bad about her joke when she heard my remorseful tone. "I know, I'm sorry…I was just trying to break the tension."

"Are ya guys okay though?" I nodded in response to Vex's question as he held me in a quick embrace. "Good, I really wish I didn't have to break up our hug but we really need to get to work. The precinct shouldn't be too far behind Kenzi and I even with the horrible traffic."

Dyson nodded in agreement. "That's why it took me longer to get here in my car than Lauren did with her bike. I contacted Kenzi before I officially called it in so she and Vex could come help us." I just nodded and watched Lauren handle Crystal's body as I struggled with a war within myself.

Kenzi took out three pairs of gloves from her pocket so the three of them could start helping Lauren. But to my surprise, she gestured to Lauren with a shoulder nudge and a nod in my direction for her stop what she was doing and to focus on me instead. Lauren immediately got up and took off her gloves before she faced me and led me over to the staircase to sit down. She gently pulled me onto her lap and moved a stray hair from my face, tucking it behind my ear.

"Bo, honey…we tried the legal way and it failed. You heard Crystal, she was done playing nice and so was Nadia. It was either going to be them or us today and you know it. You had no choice, just like Dyson had no choice but to kill Nadia. The good news is it's over now."

I was crying again as I nodded and looked down at my lap. "I know I just never wanted you to see me take a life. I never wanted you to see the monster that I really am…I love you, Lauren."

She curled her finger under my chin to bring my face up to look her in the eyes. "I love you too and I promise you, when I look at you I see my best friend, a hero, a protector and most importantly; my perfect, loving wife. You are the only one who sees you as a monster and you couldn't be more wrong about that even if you tried."

I kissed her with all the love I had as we heard sirens pull up. She always knows just what to say with such warmth, honesty and love. "So…what now?"

She smiles at my question as we continue to look into each other's eyes. "Now, we look towards our future together since both our past demons are finally behind us." I lit up at her words about our future together with a bright smile.

"I love you Bo."

"I love you too Lauren."

Jin suddenly invaded our intimate moment because he wants some attention. He barked at us making us laugh as he put his front paws on my lap. "We love you too, Jin." We told him in unison we as continued to laugh since he kept licking both our faces.