Prophecy of Power
Chapter 28
The Dal was so silent you could hear a pin drop. It took Trick several seconds to comprehend what the woman standing just in front of Bo had just spoken.
"Shit, I knew I should have stayed in bed today," says Kenzi, breaking the silence and Tricks stupification.
"Everybody out! Sanctuary has been invoked," Trick announces to the patrons, hoping they understand that it is more for their safety, than for the rules for the rite itself. He cannot pull his gaze from his dangerous daughter, his heart aches with regret and guilt as she stares directly back at him.
After the last of the fae have left the Dal, leaving him with his volatile daughter, his granddaughter and her lover and best friend, he clears his suddenly dry throat unsure on what to do. Lauren is the first to speak, "Bo, perhaps you should lock the front door before anyone else enters." The brunette looks towards the shell shocked bartender awaiting his consent, he nods to her and she immediately moves towards the door bolting it shut.
"So cool under pressure, huh blondie. Now I know, how my well planned attack on the elders and The Ash managed to go tits up," Aoife says, moving her eyes from her father to the doctor. Again she marvels at the blonde's aura, it is so bright even when the doctor isn't sexually aroused. She notices the distinct swirling of chi mixed through it and takes a step closer towards the woman without a conscious thought. Bo seeing the older succubus' intent gaze and forward momentum, steps quickly into her path cutting off her approach and view of Lauren. Aoife blinks rapidly a few times, before looking her daughter in the eye. "My, we are protective of the doctor aren't we."
"Well you did try to blow her up a few days ago, why the hell wouldn't I want to protect her from you?" The younger succubus retorts, with barely contained rage.
The older woman raises her hands in a placatory gesture. "Now hang on a minute missy, that was not my intent. In fact, I gave my lab suicide bomber implicit instructions to make sure your doctor wasn't in the lab, when detonated. How was I to know that she would be at the elders meeting. I mean she's human, how was I supposed to know she was held in such high standing with The Ash. I swear to you, that she was not an intended target. However, she did completely screw up my plans, which is why I have graced you all with my presence and asked for sanctuary. The light will be hunting for me now, so I need my dad to do what he should have done the first time and protect his daughter from those who wish her harm." Aoife smiles slightly at the grimace her words bring to her fathers face. Bo steps back towards the bar, closer to Kenzi and Lauren.
"What would you have me do, Aoife?" Trick says, in a soft none threatening voice.
"Well hopefully, something that doesn't involve a couple of centuries of imprisonment and torture at the hands of a vicious sadistic bastard," She spits back vehemently. "A succubus is too good for execution, didn't you know, such a waste The Dark King thought, he was really quite imaginative and inventive in his tastes and pleasures." They watch as the dark beauty falls off into painful memories from her horrific captivity. "Go get your book of blood, Blood King." Bo looks towards Trick, pleading him with her eyes to comply with her mothers wishes. They all watch as the small man, steps down from behind the bar and heads towards his living quarters. "No tricks, give me your oath...father, that you will protect me and keep my being here a secret."
The blood king looks into his disturbed daughters face. "I give you my blood oath, that I will not trick you, by revealing your presence or endangering your life in anyway," he says, meaning every word. It pained him to see just how far Aoife's torment and torture had affected his once loving and caring daughter's mind. He had an obligation to make up for his past mistake's and to protect his daughter from this mess she was in, he owed her that much. He gives Bo a glance, his eyes telling her to be wary of the woman, even though she is her mother, before heading downstairs towards his study. Bo turns towards Lauren and Kenzi, trying to give them a reassuring smile, even though her stomach is tied up in knots with worry and fear of the unpredictability of the older succubus.
"I'm hungry. I really should have eaten before I got here," she says suddenly, switching into her less stable personality allowing her needs and desires to dictate her actions. Aoife takes another step towards Lauren and her tasty looking energy. Bo again moves forward defensively, sensing her mother's emotional shift and seeing the dangerous glint in her dark eyes. The older succubus raises her eyebrow at her daughters courage and stupidity, "Now Bo, surely your parents brought you up to share with others. I won't kill her I promise. Just a taste."
"Lauren's mine! There's no fucking way I am going to let you get anywhere near her," Bo says through clenched teeth, her jaw set.
Aoife laughs menacingly, "Like you could stop me sweetie, now share with mommie."
"Over my dead body," Bo says, she hears Lauren's intake of breath at her words.
"So dramatic, that is definitely something you got from me." In one fluid motion Aoife reaches towards Bo, hands grabbing at her leather jacket and throwing her across the Dal. The brunette collides with the stone wall stopping her momentum hard, the back of her head slamming into the rock with a load resounding crack.
"Bo!," Kenzi and Lauren yell out together, both looking towards the young succubus' still body lying crumpled on the floor. Lauren turns her face back towards Aoife, rage flushing her face. Before Aoife manages to touch the blonde with her powerful seductive influence she pushes everything she has into her ability and pushes out with her mind into the fast approaching older woman. Aoife lets out a cry as she is pushed with enough force to crack the wooden panelling in the wall that she crashes into, before falling to her hands and knees, trying to regain the breath that has been knocked out of her.
"Kenzi, go check on Bo," Lauren says calmly, eyes still locked on Aoife. The older succubus finally able to breathe properly, looks up at the doctor with slitted eyes, mouth set in a snarl. As she goes to get up, gaze still locked on the blonde, she is again forced down with a small flick with the doctors finger. "Stay," she warns, the unhinged succubus, with a small dangerous smirk of her own.
"SHIT!" she hears Kenzi proclaim, as she kneels beside her best friend.
"Kenzi?" the doctor says, her eyes never leaving her captive.
Kenzi holds her hand up red with blood, that is leaking profusely from Bo's head. "There's a lot of blood coming from her head, Lauren! Tell me what to do!"
"Go downstairs, tell Trick we need something to bind Aoife with. Hurry." Kenzi gets up quickly doing exactly what Lauren instructs her to do, trusting her judgement completely, she races past the doctor and down towards Trick.
"Well, you are not a normal run of the mill human now are you, Lauren?" Aoife enquires curiously, no longer resisting the blonde as she sits with her back leaning against the wall. Lauren doesn't respond to the fae, she just leans a elbow on the bar as she continues to stare at the succubus with her well practised cool and emotionless expression, giving nothing away on how she is actually feeling. On the inside, her mind and heart is screaming at her to run to Bo to take care of the woman she loves. "Please hang on, Bo," she thinks, her composure threatening to slip as each agonising minute passes. Kenzi re-emerges with Trick following closely behind her. He has several books in his hands and two sets of shackles slung over his shoulder. He places the books down, but picks up the smaller one. He starts reading from the small book, the doctor is unfamiliar with the language or the purpose of the incantation. When the small fae, falls silent and steps towards Aoife with confidence and slapping the manacles onto her ankle's and linking the other set of shackles so that they are joined hindering free movement. He then reaches for his daughters wrists and she smiles as she thinks she can use her power to stop Trick from confining her hands...nothing happens. She screams out in rage and spits at her father as he finishes locking up her hands.
"I'm sorry, but until I can free you from the torment in your mind, no one is safe, even you," he says, his eyes pleading for his estranged offspring to understand.
"I am your creation; I am like this because of you. You failed me," She hissed in reply.
"I know, I'm sorry," Trick says again, as he moves away from her hate filled stare, and sits in a nearby chair wearily.
"Can I release my hold on her now, Trick?" Lauren asks restlessly, desperate to tend to Bo's injuries.
"Oh yes, sorry Lauren, go to Bo. I have bound her powers, she's not going anywhere.
The doctor leaps off her stall, crossing the distance between her and the still unconscious Bo in seconds. She rolls the brunette onto her side grimacing at the large pool of blood spread out on the floor around her head. Lauren curses as she feels the huge gash across the back of Bo's scalp and what feels like a cracked skull beneath it. "Shit! Kenzi I need you to help me get her into the storage room, this is going to require her special kind of healing. Trick, what have you got downstairs that I can use to wake her up long enough to feed? Get it for me, before I move her, hurry!" Lauren looks at Bo's pale face as quiet tears roll down the blondes face.
"Hang on, Bo. I can't lose you, don't leave me," Lauren says, placing a gentle kiss to the succubus' forehead.
