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Pairings: Bo/Lauren

Time-Frame: Set directly after Episode 3:02

Rating: M (Contains scenes of violence, sexuality and mild nudity)

Summary: Set directly after Episode 3:02, following an AU storyline of our own creation.. Distinctly Bo/Lauren centric.

"Lauren and Bo resonate." Zoie Palmer speaking about Doccubus in an interview on AfterEllen.

Heavenly Resonance - Part Twenty Eight.

By: The RainbowWriters

The upper bar of the Dal Riata was filled with a nearly tangible tension. There were those who would fight, thinking of their roles and futures. Those who would remain behind, having to carry their own burdens whether it be just the fear of the impending life and death fight or the fear of not being a part said fight.

Below in Trick's lower rooms things were quiet and dare Lauren assess peaceful. When Kenzi had come up finally to get her and tell her Eli was feeling more balanced, she hadn't exactly expected to feel peaceful but inside her she could feel a relief of sorts. A soft wash of stillness that filled her despite the circumstances around them.

"You're doing that aren't you?" Lauren looked to meet her brown eyes with Eli's gold ones as the small woman turned around from where she was leaned over a table. "Taking away my fear, my apprehension? On the way down I was compiling questions and thinking of data I needed to take note of, but everything has calmed." She walked slowly closer and stopped a pace or two away. "You are a remarkable Fae, if I may say so."

"Have you ever met a Fae you didn't think was remarkable?" Eli smiled at the blonde gently.

"No, probably not, each is remarkable in their own way." Lauren gave a soft laugh realizing Eli's question was true. "But might I say you are particularly remarkable because having now read quite a bit about Geists, you seem to possess a near mythical amount of power, putting you in an elite category that I normally reserve for others like Bo and Trick."

"I don't think we can really speculate on how much power I possess." Eliyana shook her head. "I've not been an active Geist for a very long time." She shook her head, "Sit down Lauren." She added patting the soft high backed chair that she had put beside her.

"You forget Eli that's what I do." Lauren gave a gentle smile as she did move to sit down. "My hypothesis that you're remarkable comes not from recent events but more solidly from the fact you interacted with Bo while she was inutreo, created a construct in her mind and kept her hidden from other Fae of exceptional power, all when you were a child yourself. Somehow, since even before puberty you have been an active Geist."

The small Fae moved around the front of the chair and looked into brown eyes, her whole face smiling.

"Lauren Lewis, you are an amazing woman." She wiped her hands on the thighs of her jeans. "What makes you happy? Makes you feel safe?" She added dropping down to rest on her haunches, all the while still looking at the blonde, her golden eyes glittering.

"Bo." Lauren said the very first and most natural answer that came to her. "Being in Bo's arms."

"I can't put people into constructs." Eliyana laughed softly. "But perhaps... her room? Is that a good place for you? A safe one?"

"Yes." Lauren nodded her head. "Can you add the idea that someone, like Bo, is on her way?" She asked the question her mind fascinated by the fact Eli couldn't 'recreate' people in the construct. The truth making perfect sense when she thought about it after all they required much more knowledge to recreate than a tree for example.

"On her way, just left..." Eliyana nodded. "The sheets still warm." She smiled a little more. "A built in lab, though a door that shouldn't be there, but for some reason isn't questionable in the construct. It's just always been there."

"Yes that, I want that." Lauren's blush didn't come until after she had blurted out her agreement.

"I just need to take a little look around, is that okay?" Eliyana looked into Lauren's eyes flexing the fingers of her right hand as she brought them a little closer to the side of the blonde's head.

"Yes." Lauren nodded and closed her eyes, wanting to catalogue and observe everything that this process felt like.

"It's to get specific details, things that will help make the construct solid, more believable for your subconscious. Things like the colour of the bed sheets, the layout of the room, the right way you set up your lab desk." She explained for the doctor knowing that on top of everything else she was desperate for insight into every step of the process.

"Of course, I apologize if you are forced to deal with personal details you would rather never had known." Lauren blushed again thinking to herself maybe she should have chosen a tropical beach she loved beaches after all.

"Lauren it's fine." Eliyana shook her head knowing after all she'd tried on more than one occasion now to sleep in a room adjacent to the Resonants, that probably her all the details she wished she didn't know already. "Now just relax." She took a breath and then pressed her fingers lightly against specific points on the blonde's head letting her eyes drift close.

-x-

"So I was thinking about this and since this is going to be my temporary construct, since we have lots to figure out in detail about the real one." Kenzi grinned as she came down the stairs after Lauren had come back up, looking completely no worse the wear for the process. In fact the entire proceed, to a pacing Bo's relief, hadn't taken long and the blonde had come back with a seemingly renewed sense of balance. "I want you to come up with what you put in there, make it a surprise."

"A surprise?" Eliyana looked at her girlfriend with a slightly perplexed look. "Why would you want a surprise?"

"Because I love surprises and I want to see what you make up." Kenzi moved straight over and sat in the seat clearly put there for the purpose of what they were doing. "You know surprise me... with anything you think would make me happy."

"The biggest most extensive shoe store I can create it is then." Eliyana grinned as she moved and wiped her hands on a small towel that she had obviously taken from Trick's bathroom.

"Ooooo see this is why I knew a surprise would be awesome." Kenzi, unlike Lauren, was a giddy ball of excitement. Clearly for her this part of the lead up to the fight was far less stressful then the idea of the fight itself.

"You know I'm only putting a construct in your head for the worst case scenario." Eliyana made clear. "With who and what you are, Eysan has little chance of having any control over you, even with direct contact. You are a Geist Master, that makes you pretty untouchable to another Geist." She lightly rubbed the back of her knuckles on Kenzi's cheek.

"Geist Master." Kenzi restated the two words like a child's television host would as part of a commercial promo to a new cartoon show. "Bow evil doer before the mighty power of the Geist Master."

"You have to take this seriously you know." Eliyana chuckled but then sighed a little sadly, she repeated the soft stroking motion of her hand. "It's not going to be pretty." She licked her lips a little nervously. "The people that my brother has guarding him, they're his puppets... I don't know if you've thought about that, what that means but..." She stopped and frowned deeply. "It means they're better off dead Kenzi, there is no releasing them."

"I've tried to think of them as gone already." Kenzi frowned softly. "And I am taking this seriously, this is just my inappropriate way of dealing with the nervousness. I know your brother is deadly and when he finds out you're alive, it's going to be ugly. I'm going to do whatever it takes to help you and Bo, and when I have, if I have to, I'll use the Frenum."

Eliyana drew in a deeper breath and then lightly pressed her fingers to points on Kenzi's head.

"Let's make you a happy place." She smiled softly and closed her eyes.

-x-

When Lauren let Bo lead her through the doors to the tap room in order to talk to her, she couldn't help but think back to Dyson's then ill placed joke about this becoming the room on record for one on one confessions. The words that flunked then came back to her now, as the sheer drama of situation made the humour of it sickly funny. Facing the end of the world, her side retreated to the tap room. She could only imagine where Eysan retreated to talk to Bo's father.

"I needed to talk to you before this happens." Bo admitted as soon as she pushed back from her thoughts to the very real fact they were about to go take on an evil Geist who had betrayed his whole family for a place in her father's court. "I have to admit something." She saw the instant look of concern on Lauren's face. "Before something like this, I always take a few moments before we you know... ride off into the sunset, and talk to myself but I know that even after doing that, this time I still have to talk to you."

"Bo, I know I'm your resonant now, but that doesn't mean I always understand what you're talking about, now would be one of those times that I'm not so sure." Lauren admitted frowning a little as she looked at her lover. "Talk to me about what?" She asked softly.

"What I would normally talk like a crazy woman to myself about, try to remember this is the Fae world I am dealing with, one where there are all these games within games, and I have to always look a step outside of what I'm focusing on to be sure." Bo looked at the blonde's mild confusion and smiled gently. "I kinda self on self battle plan, map out the lay of the land as I see it so I don't get blindsided by as many sudden twists as I used too."

"You try and out think yourself so that you don't get out smarted." Lauren summed up.

"I'm actually making sense?" Bo stopped her pacing and gave the doctor a broad smile before her brow furrowed again. "So why am I left talking to myself about how I need to detach myself from thoughts of Eli, take her out of the equation and make a very serious assessment of what a psychopathic Geist with the gift of the word can do, leaving me looking at me because I just said psychopathic Geist?" She put her hands on her hips.

"Because you have to assess this fight in terms of you." Lauren said softly. "You have to have a plan of what you intend to do about Eysan. As you said Bo, our biggest problem is that we truly don't know what kind of a mindset he is bringing to this fight. From what Vex said, I'm not wholly convinced Eliyana's brother is quite sane." The blonde was honest.

"Meaning I am in the right to put him down if I have too? Eliyana wouldn't hate me forever for killing her brother, not trying to redeem him?" Bo's look of worry came from something bigger than the idea of a Geist. The fear that was crippling her ability to come to terms with the worse case and most likely scenario, all things considered.

"I know you have this desire in your heart, that heart that is so big and so strong, to save everyone Bo." The blonde moved closer to her lover and pressed her hand over the succubus' heart. "But some people..." She shook her head slightly. "Some people were lost before you knew to even think of trying to save them." She frowned, obviously the words bringing her pain and unhappiness. "I know it's hard to accept, hard to believe, it's like that for me when I have a patient who I can't help, who has an illness too malignant, an injury too severe..." She curled her fingers into a light fist against Bo's chest. "You just have to know in your heart that the best thing you can do for them is release them."

"He is too dangerous, just like my father." Bo made the instant link between the two Fae. "Because if this is the kind of person my Father recruits to be his second in command, just makes it even clearer to me that fighting him isn't going to be easy but I have to beat him or he'll never give up. He'll keep coming and coming, until one day he catches me off guard and takes someone I love, on purpose because it will hurt me. Starting all of this all over again, my father has to die Lauren." She put her own hand up to cover the one of Lauren's that rested against her body.

Lauren closed her eyes briefly understanding why this discussion had brought them to this place, but truthfully wishing it hadn't.

"The time will come when we deal with your father." She opened her eyes and looked at her lover seriously. "I know that, and I will stand by you and we will do whatever needs to be done, but right now, we need to focus on Eysan because we cannot go into this with our focus divided, he will use that against you Bo." Lauren breathed out a little unevenly. "He will sense the fear and anxiety you have about your father and use it to manipulate you, and Bo, you cannot let him get an in like that, something that strong against you could be disastrous."

"Everything we've read he can do, he can control people from across the room with a once upon a time touch and your own name." Bo shook her head in disbelief, she looked into her Resonant's brown eyes. "But you're totally right, we are going to deal with Eysan, that is the focus, even if my father shows up we'll just have to wing it because we are not going in to deal with him, just take down this lunatic." She fleshed out her main objective, settling her mind to it before a frown spread over her face. "You should know the reason Dyson can't come with us..." She gave a sad breath out. "That night, of the fire, he was on the light Fae territory line at one end of the property, he found a young boy he thought, Eysan." She filled in the information as the wolf himself had. "He told Dyson he'd come there so he could see the fire and hear their screams." She grimaced. "Dyson tried to grab and he must have teleported away, he was clearly much older but we know how young the Frost's look."

Lauren took a breath totally unprepared to hear the news that Dyson had been so intimately involved with the situation so long ago.

"I..." She began but stopped. "I had no idea." She admitted easily. "Does Eli..."

"I doubt it, well other than now she has a very large question as to how the wolf knows of her brother." Bo had to put the time line that she knew of together honestly and there was no way she could have known, she was either in the fire or being carried out by her Dad and Eysan didn't see that. "Something else I need to tell her isn't it?"

"I think in time, all the players and their histories need to come out." Lauren was honest as she moved a little away from her lover. "I wish I could say I understood, or at least empathized with decisions made in the past but..." She stopped. "I know I only see them from the view I have, the damaged one." She admitted. "I can imagine Dyson must right now carry a lot of guilt for his part in this." She gave the wolf some credit.

"He does, especially since he can't be there to right an old wrong himself." Bo admitted the vibe she'd gotten from the wolf. "I also wanted to know how you feel, now that Eliyana's construct has settled in there."

"It's strange I expected to feel something but..." Lauren shook her head. "I don't other than insanely calm, but that's Eliyana's doing. She has extraordinary skills Bo." The blonde admitted. "Like you, I think I could spend a life time just studying her."

"She is so much more than she appears Lauren." Bo summed up agreeing with the blonde. "Push comes to shove, I think she's about as likely to let Eysan hurt Kenzi as I am to let anything hurt you."

"I just hope..." Lauren frowned and stopped.

"You just hope?" Bo reached out to tip Lauren's chin up the slight bit it had dipped, restating the abandoned sentence.

"Her father Bo." The blonde continued steeling herself a little more strength as her lover encouraged her to finish communicating her worries. "That he survived the fire is amazing, especially if Eysan didn't get him the care he needed, I'm just worried in case..." She paused again looking away from Bo for a moment.

"He's living through what his son does, or is somehow being supported or prolonged by his son or my father?" Bo put forward the one worse question that had been whispering in the back of her mind as she tried to think of all the players in this.

Lauren nodded breathing out.

"If we take away that source, before we know it Eliyana's father could die and nothing any one of us could do could stop it..." She looked down at her own hands. "I doubt even my new found abilities could heal that kind of trauma, or prolonged abuse." She shook her head. "I wouldn't even know where to start without a full assessment or a basic idea of his health issues." Her brow crumpled into a hard furrow.

"I know you will do whatever you can but if he finally gets to find release, maybe that is her reason for finding him, to save him." Bo whispered the somewhat horrible words but meant them in all the beauty they really contained. "She knows her brother better than any of us, her memory of him frozen to that boy almost man that Dyson ran into in the woods, and from what she hasn't said, she knew even then she wasn't a typical Geist because she was nothing like her brother."

"I don't think she's ready to lose them both Bo." Lauren shook her head disagreeing with her lover softly.

"She just might not have a choice." Bo frowned so hard it made her insides hurt with the realization that as always if they prevailed there was an 'after' the fight. One in which if things went their way, Eysan would be dead and as Lauren was rightfully assessing Eli's father could die by proxy. "We'll do everything we can, that's all we can do." She vowed looking at her Resonance.

Lauren took a deep breath and looked off into the darkness at the far end of the room.

"I don't know whether to pack a medical bag or a .38, or both." The blonde said with a hard sigh as she wrapped her hand around her stomach, the feeling beneath it not fear but sadness for Eliyana.

"You pack a medical bag and know that after healing her, Eli knows you will do everything you can to help her father." Bo shook her head to the blonde's comment. "She knows if anyone on earth can do anything for him it's you right now." She held Lauren's eyes for another moment and then reached up cupping her chin. "No matter what games have to be played, I love you, anything you see or hear that says otherwise is a lie."

"It's going to be hard." Lauren said breathing in and out slowly, deliberately focusing on the touch of her lover's hand on her skin. "There's going to be death." She frowned and closed her eyes.

"There is but not anyone on our side." Bo leaned her head forward and pressed her lips to Lauren's.

Lauren moved her hand into Bo's hair, pressing her fingers through dark locks as she pushed into the kiss hard. Gripping a small handful of the succubus' hair she pulled back and met Bo's eyes.

"I love you." She vowed seriously. "I'm ready." She added kissing her again before pulling back and releasing her grip on Bo's hair. "To be your right hand, to be your resonant, to be your love."

"You always have been." Bo assured her in a loving voice. "Guiding me, protecting me and loving me." She leaned in and kissed Lauren again, letting a moment of silent 'this is it' pass between them. "So how long since you've been on a horse?"

-x-

"Now we are going to be quiet and we are not going to do anything impulsive." Tamsin stood next to the horse she had finished leading off the truck for herself, the other four women already stood beside their own tall mounts, though Eliyana and Kenzi were going to be riding together. "Our goal is to get to the building Eysan is in without anyone or anything knowing we're there." She looked around at them all again and then frowned. "This was a stupid idea, why did anyone listen to me?"

"Because it's not a stupid idea." Bo hissed at the Valkyrie and then moved over beside Lauren. "Do you need help getting on?" She asked the blonde, as she could see Eli mounting and pulling Kenzi up to settle in behind her.

"It's been a while." Lauren admitted stroking the long neck of the chestnut coloured horse she had chosen. She watched as Bo laced her fingers together, ready to give her a push up. Gathering the reins Lauren reached up to get a firm grip on the saddle, looking at Bo briefly before trusting her to give her the upward momentum necessary to lift her high enough to swing her leg over the tall animal's back. Like a pro, the blonde was sat, adjusting herself in the saddle the next moment, slipping her feet into the stirrups and looking down at Bo with a smile. "Thank you."

"You look beautiful." Bo looked up at the blonde, who did indeed look radiant in her tight fitting jeans, her crisp button down hidden under a short black cropped jacket.

"Oh please can you two turn anything into an appreciation fest?" Tamsin groaned as she swung herself up onto the slightly darker brown horse she had chosen for herself. As any Valkyrie would be she was dressed for war, her outfit tight fitting and all leather, various weapons tucked into pouches and slings ready for her use in mere milliseconds.

"We need to find you someone to love Tamsin." Kenzi hissed as Eli led their horse by the Valkyrie towards the hole already cut in the fence where a trail seemed to lead into the trees beyond.

"You're funny." Tamsin spurred her horse to follow. "I do just fine with my own version of love, it's clean, non-clingy and doesn't need worrying about."

Lauren lead her horse in a small circle, as Bo took an attempt or two to actually get up on her mount.

"Wow, it's been a while for me too." The succubus smiled as she brought her horse level with Lauren's.

"By the look of Kenzi, it's a first for her." Lauren nodded ahead of them to where Kenzi was clinging rather too tightly to Eliyana, looking down at the floor occasionally as if it were a million miles away.

"She's a city girl, did we expect her to have ridden more than a pony at a fair?" Bo agreed with the blonde's assessment. "Let Eli breathe Kenzi." She called out softly to her best friend who went into line ahead of her with the Valkyrie in the lead.

"Did you have to get giant mutant horses?" Kenzi threw the statement at the blonde Valkyrie. "These things are underfae aren't they?"

"Standard size for horses Kenz." Bo assured her best friend.

"I could have got you a Shetland pony but then we might as well just have drove up to the front gate and invited ourselves in to see Eysan." Tamsin hissed back the alternative. "Now shussh, I'm serious, no unnecessary conversation."

"I thought part of a good hack through the country side was the merry banter." Kenzi put on her best English accent.

"We're not hacking Kenzi, we're hunting, or at least supposed to be." Lauren reminded her of their 'cover story' if they were stopped.

"I said shut up or I'm turning these horses around the lot of you! The whole purpose of my ridiculous plan was the element of surprise." Tamsin turned and growled the words at them all like a parent staring into the back of her minivan at her unruly youngsters. "Not one more word." She looked down the line of faces having turned her horse slightly.

"Bu.." Kenzi began.

The blonde warrior put up her hand and made a close your mouth motion by her own face before pointing behind Kenzi to underline she'd meant what she'd said, this rescue caravan would be turning right around. She stared at the younger woman until she was sure she was going to stay quiet and then began to lead them again.

-x-

Trick breathed out and looked up as Hale walked into the Dal, the handsome siren looked around with a frown when he didn't see Bo and the small crew that she had around her most of the time.

"Ash?" Dyson pushed up from his seat at the sight of his old partner. "I didn't expect you to be here, Trick suggested when you went to the compound it was for the duration."

"Have they gone?" Hale's face was somber, his tone agitated as he looked between Trick and Dyson.

"Yes, why? What's wrong?" Trick knew that the answer wasn't one the siren wanted and it made him want to know why immediately.

"I have grave concerns about Eysan." The Siren pushed his hands into his pocket and looked at Trick more specifically.

"Grave concerns of what nature?" Trick put both hands on the bar to steady himself.

"I think he has a Koushang." Hale breathed out hard knowing mention of the amulet wasn't something any of them wanted added to this evening.

"On what information do you think this?" Trick's slowly whitening face showed how disturbed this information made him.

"These." Hale took some papers out of his pocket and unfolded them, putting them on the bar top. They were various doodles on scraps of paper, though among the miscellaneous scribblings was the recognizable interpretation of the succubus power blocking amulet, repeated several times on the papers in various details. "These were taken from the Huldra's cell."

"We have to warn Bo." Dyson pulled out his cell phone and hoped that the Succubus hadn't already turned it off, merely putting it on silent.

"They don't have them on Dyson." Trick shook his head at the wolf's actions.

"We have to do something." Dyson felt his breathing speed up slightly as he looked between the Siren and the Blood King. "Bo thinks she is walking in there with the ability to hurt him."

"There's nothing we can do, accept pray that she notices it and they rid him of it." Trick looked off as if for a very rare moment he accepted that there was nothing he could do.

Dyson's eyes yellowed, his fangs showing as he snarled and swept his arm across the bar top, sending papers and glasses flying.

"NOOOOO!" He roared pacing away, his shoulder's heaving as his breath came hard and fast. Was this what it felt like to be punished by the past? What they meant when the older Fae spoke about the fates catching up with you?

Hale closed his eyes, frowning hard and feeling every moment of his friend's pain. Whatever was going to happen when Bo faced off with Eysan, the Geist had more tricks up his sleeve then anybody had been preparing for.

-x-

To everyone's surprise, especially Tamsin, her approach on horses' plan was working exceptionally well. So well in fact that they had managed to bring the horses into easy running range to the small cluster of buildings that formed Tavistock Farm. The main 'barn' being obvious by its size, even from the distance away they were huddled at the edge of a small copse of trees.

Indeed they were close enough to see that there were four cars parked here around the back side of the large building and a large van. At each of the two visible corners of the bar, a pair of guards stood with their backs to the aged metal walls looking out for trouble. It was likely to count then that another two pair were guarding the two out of view corners, while two pairs of guards continued a slow moving rotation of the large building. Their pacing making it so that the moving pair were always highly visible by at least one of the pairs posted at each corner at all times. Bo could only imagine the set up gave Eysan a complete view of the exterior of the building at all times.

Tamsin made a dismount motion with her hand, that made Kenzi pull a face of complete confusion which was only relieved slightly when the Valkyrie slipped off the back of her horse and began securing it to a tree.

"Please tell me getting off is easier than getting on." Kenzi whispered, still not releasing her vice like grip on Eliyana's waist. "I prefer unicorn racing." She added as she felt the Geist move one hand to rest over one of hers.

"You did just fine." Eliyana said gently.

Like Tamsin, Lauren had already dismounted and secured her mount and was tying up the reins of Bo's horse as the succubus slid from her saddle. The five of them gathering close to the treeline when everything was secure.

"This is where it's going to get tricky." Tamsin glanced at Bo, hoping the Succubus had realized that while the horses would get them so far getting into the building was an entirely different battle.

"Tricky? There is no way on earth we're getting in there unseen." Bo shook her head at the crouched Valkyrie.

"I can distract them." Eliyana offered her eyes scanning the area, quickly formulating her own plan.

It was a typical old farm site, dotted with broken down buildings and fences, with the odd piece of left over equipment, having been abandoned and just left exposed to the elements for years. Among the barrels and crates was the shell of an old tractor. It was mostly rusted, and one of the huge wheels looked decidedly off kilter. A half broken plough arm hung loosely from the back of it, a gouge dug into the dirt beside the old machine, where the blade had obviously dropped when one of the suspension bolts had finally rusted through.

"The old tractor." The Geist's eyes focused on the tractor as she brought the others attention to it with a quick nod. "If I get closer I can use it to distract them."

"Are you sure you can do this?" Bo looked at Eli and asked her the serious question.

"Trust me, I used to steal a lot of cars." She nodded at the succubus. "Granted this one doesn't look like it's got an engine, but it's got wheels." She tried a smile.

"We need to be ready when you are." Bo nodded and a few moments later she found herself watching with the others as Eliyana began to make her way to a better vantage point to send the tractor in such a direction as to give them all the chance to make a run for the building. "Kenzi, I can feel you breathing in my ear." She hissed when her best friend hovered too close.

"I'm a little freaked." Kenzi admitted, her breathing fast and uneven. "I've just pommelled by a monster horse from hell in ways I was not expecting, my girlfriend is about to distract fourteen heavies by levitating a tractor that looks like it hasn't moved this century, and all so we can enter the proverbial lions den." She hissed at Bo. "I'm allowed freakage!"

"This is the last minute you're allowed yes." Bo had to smile knowing this moment would come for her best friend, Kenzi had this way of having a bit of a mini meltdown moments before the real bad stuff started. It was something Bo had come to expect and almost rely on, a reality check of sorts to remind her that it was showtime. "But we're going to do what we need to Kenz, we have too."

"I know I just..." She glanced up at to where Eliyana was crouched impossibly low hardly disturbing the long grass she moved through. "This whole thing is messed up." She frowned hard. "I hate this guy."

"She needs you to support her Kenzi, to believe in her, to believe she can beat him, no matter how trained he is and she isn't." Bo turned whispering the words to her best friend.

"I do believe in her but..." Kenzi frowned slightly. "He's a..."

"When you two have quite finished." Tamsin hissed staring at them, putting her hand up to point out that Eliyana had stopped and had slipped onto her knees in the grass. Seeing that Eli was obviously in position made Kenzi refocus instantly.

"Should I go to her or stay with you?" Kenzi bit the side of her lip and looked at Bo.

"Right now you support her by staying put 'till she gives the signal to run." Bo put her hand around Kenzi more to make sure she stayed put. She then glanced at Lauren who was settled in the grass close beside them, her eyes on the Geist, obviously completely fascinated in what she was doing despite the danger.

Eliyana took long, slow deep breaths, her eyes flooding with gold as she focused solely on the rusted old piece of farm equipment that stood a good five metres to the side of the large barn. For a long moment, nothing happened though on closer inspection, flakes of paint and rust were falling from its old framework to land on the dirt below it.

Then with an impossibly loud crash, considering the silence that had filled the air, the whole thing lurched forward, not actually making any ground, but jarring the whole mechanism enough to make a terrible noise. The two guards flanking the corner nearest it immediately called out in alarm, and were joined by two the group hadn't seen before and the two holding point on the closest corner to the trees the main group hid behind. The six men gathering against the barn wall just staring at the old junk heap as the four men who were walking the back wall jogged around to join them.

"Stay on point." Someone from the group already gathered barked at them as they appeared, causing the new arrivals to pause and turn to look back over their shoulders at the posts they had just abandoned.

In quite the timely fashion the large farm machine lurched again, this time the old plough arm fell off the back mounting, the rusted bolt holding it in place giving out under the new found vibration.

Far from returning to their posts the four new arrivals milled almost as one towards the broken plough attachment, all seemingly completely bemused as to what it was and how it had mysteriously been tossed to the floor.

"What's going on?" Called the only two men still in position, on the far back corner, clearly on their way around to see what the issue was.

"Animal or something in the old tractor." Came the assessment, spoken in unison by a pair of guards who were poking at the fallen plough arm, their voice's dull and expressionless.

The tractor shuddered again, making the four men near it all step back, and then without warning the large heavy plough arm, swung out in a wide arc on the gravel, sending all four guards onto their backs into the dirt. Making the others run forward to help their upended comrades.

"Now." Bo encouraged their small group into a hard and fast run to the only visible back door. Fully expecting it to be locked the Succubus caught Kenzi's eye and nodded. "Pop it." She urged her best friend who already had her lockpick kit out.

"I could have done that..." Tamsin began to object but stopped when before she could even begin Kenzi had the door open.

"And done. Eli!" Kenzi made a motion with her hand towards the still concentrating Geist, who had now trapped two of the guards under the plough arm and spilled over the stack of crates close beside the old tractor to add extra confusion to the melee.

Immediately responding to her lover's call, Eli glanced towards the large barn building and with just a look to check her distraction was still working she disappeared, only to reappear next to Kenzi in a soft sparkle of gold.

"Let's go." Bo pulled open the door and let everyone rush inside with Tamsin in the lead and Eli close behind before Kenzi and Lauren went in, and carefully closing the door behind them so it didn't look like anything odd had happened when the guard finally returned to his post.

The barn interior wasn't like they might have been expecting. Instead of just opening up to a large interior the door led into a small room with a sink, a row of coat hooks, a fridge and a microwave. There were three doors leading out of it, two in the wall directly opposite the one they had entered from, and one to their left that clearly bisected this area. There was also a small table in the room and six plain wooden chairs.

"Area for the guards?" Bo put forward the question moving around the perimeter of the room, the idea that the mindless puppets Eysan was supposed to have working for him needing a break room not jiving in her mind completely. "Problem is we don't know what door to take." She looked to everyone in case they had some great idea.

"Whichever we choose we go together." Tamsin pointed out logically moving as if to take a step forward but stopping mid motion, and raising her hand, bringing it to her lips pointing to the door in the wall to their left. "There's someone in there." She mouthed to Bo specifically obviously looking to the succubus for guidance on how to play their next move.

"Well our whole goal is too avoid, so." Bo looked at the other two doors. "Right it is." She moved up towards it and put her hand on the knob, trying to listen to see if she could hear anything in the room beyond.

Kenzi put her hand to her back ready to grab the handle of her new katana as she moved to Eliyana's side, the Geist ensuring that Lauren went in front of her behind Bo so that she wasn't left out behind in case any of the guards from outside came in and surprised them. Tamsin stood to Bo's side looking at the brunette's hand and then up into dark eyes.

"When you're ready." She mouthed.

"Wait." The succubus hesitated for a moment, glancing back at the door she had discounted already. "You said you sensed someone, not a group?" The distinction struck Bo and she pulled her hand off the door, after all so far the guards had always been in pairs. That way if one was killed rather suddenly another would remain to get a better detail of what kind of attack was starting. A 'someone' didn't make any sense around her. "We find out who that is." She took her hand back off the door and went over to the other door, putting her hand on it and turning it every so slowly, so she could open it only a little and try to see whatever was beyond before they saw her.

It was the smell that hit Bo before anything else. The smell of blood, of urine, excrement and sickness, it was enough to make the Succubus stop with the door barely open, She turned her head away, only a tiny sliver of light from the room they were in spilling into the darkness of the one that Bo had been entering.

"Lauren." Bo said under her breath still not going near the door or room further.

The Doctor somehow knew before Bo could even tell her that it was big, knowing more quickly then Bo did that it was likely to somehow be Eli's father from the faint hint of infection she could smell in the air blotting out the usual smells of the outdoors. She moved forward without hesitation, coming around the door and disappearing inside the moment she had too.

Bo's eyes flared open as her lover just disappeared inside without thought and so quickly slipped inside to follow her, stopping instantly when she saw her lover crouched down on the stained newspaper covered floor, her penlight torch in her hand, shining it off to the side of a broken, disfigured, shell of a man that was sprawled out at her feet. It was easy to deduce from the fact that from his knee joints down there existed nothing but blackened burned stumps, and that he was missing one arm entirely, that they were looking at Mickale Frost. The poor Fae's body was covered with bruises, scabs, scars and fresh bloody wounds, as well as large infected swellings and other bodily fluids and substances. The tattered shorts that clung to his almost skeletal frame did nothing but hide his modesty.

"Oh God." The succubus put her hand up to her mouth, trying hard not to retch.

"Get Kenzi and Eli back." Lauren glanced up at her lover, her face a controlled mask of anger and professionalism.

Bo did exactly as she was told going back out the doorway to immediately moved towards Kenzi and Eli.

"Tamsin, get in there please." She urged the Valkyrie but kept her eyes on Eliyana. "I need you to let Lauren work."

"Bo?" Kenzi said her best friend's name while looking past her to the doorway in which the Doctor and the Valkyrie had disappeared.

"Eli, I think your father is in there but Lauren need to do some things to help him first." Bo held the Geist's eyes that had begun to flicker with gold.

The young Fae seemed to look past Bo for a moment looking to the door, her breathing shifting to come high from her lungs, her nose flaring as like all of them now, the smells that had been shut out of the larger room by the door, she could smell what Bo had first been faced with.

"Is he alive?" Eli's jaw locked as she asked the question her voice low and cold.

"I don't know, Lauren will be able to tell us more soon." Bo kept her hand up as a physical sign that the Geist wasn't supposed to move.

"Kinda the thing we need to know right now." Kenzi widened her eyes at Bo and made her give a better answer.

"I think so." Bo remembered seeing the Fae try to move a little when the flashlight startled him. "Yes, but he needs Lauren right now to do what she does."

"Doctor Lauren, we don't call her that enough." Kenzi's hand had gripped into Eli's coat arm as if somehow her grip on the polyblend material would make it possible to keep her lover in place.

"No." Eliyana pulled her arm free of Kenzi's grip and pushed quick towards the room. "Lauren leave him..." She said, her voice tight, her breathing close to hyper ventilation as deliberately took a path that moved her past Bo without a chance of the succubus being able to touch her.

If the Geist had been going to say more the words literally died in her throat as she breached the small cell like room, where Lauren had pulled open her medical bag and already had a good number of things spread out around her and Tamsin had laid out a silver emergency blanket over some of the soiled newspaper and had lifted her father's broken form onto it. The stark contrasting colour almost making the seriously sick Fae look worse, every scar, mark and injury now so vivid, his emaciation so obvious.

Eliyana's knees buckled and before anyone could catch her the Geist landed hard on them on the floor of her father's cell.

"There are things I can begin to do for him Eli, to prepare him to be moved." Lauren tried to assure the Geist as she prepared a needle and began to move it towards the man's neck, where she hoped to have the best chance to find a vein.

"Doc wait." Tamsin's hand shot out and stopped her as she looked at the Geist who could do nothing but stare at her father. "She said for you to stop, there must be a reason." She looked between Eliyana and the abused Fae with a growing frown. "We've been so worried about the guards but everything here is under his control." She looked down at Mickale again. "We help him, your brother knows?" She asked the question of Eliyana. "We need you to snap out of it and answer Frost."

Gold brown eyes blinked at Tamsin having slowly pulled away from her father.

"If he's kept him alive, it's too feed from, if he's feeding from him, any change in him, he'll feel." Eli put her hand down on the ground and pushed herself up on unsteady legs. "You have to leave him." She tried but failed to swallow. Her eyes going back to look at the man on the blanket, her breath heavy and fast.

By now Bo and Kenzi were in the doorway and held out her hand for her lover trying to urge her to come back again.

"No." Lauren shook her head. "I can't..." She pulled in a deep breath, her fingers still holding tight to the hypodermic in her hand a slight shake entered the tense limb. "I can help him."

"You heard the Geist, you help him, you let Eysan know we're here and all of the stealth we've put into this is for nothing." Tamsin continued taking the hard line. "Pack it away until we've dealt with the problem, then you can help him." She took a forced breath.

Lauren looked up her eyes looking at Tamsin, who met her look unerringly, the only one who could or would.

"As soon as it's done, I am coming back." The doctor forced herself to put down the prepared injection, and simply pushed her things into a small pile to sit beside her patient.

"Not gonna stop you." Tamsin shook her head, reaching down she pulled the Doctor upwards to her feet, knowing if this was how it had to be, they had to do it and get the things finished they needed to in order to get back here. After all she might not feel fear, but she did feel suffering and before her was a Fae for most of her life she would have put out of his misery long before now because he deserved better.

Tamsin and Lauren eased passed Eliyana who hadn't moved from just staring at her father, who similarly hadn't moved from the loose foetal position he was on on the blanket.

"I'm sorry father." The Geist whispered looking at the floor as she took a step backwards, turning at the last moment she pushed past both Bo and Kenzi taking herself off to the furthest side of the room possible.

Bo closed the door slowly and moved back towards the others.

"I'm sick of a cat and mouse game, it's time to end this." Bo went to the door she had chosen before and pulled it open. Of course she had been surprised with what was behind the first door she'd opened but now that the second had literally led her into the brightly lit main area of the warehouse she was surprised by how empty it was.

Save of course from the most hideously uncomfortable looking throne thing she'd ever seen and she'd seen a few now. Bo faced the back of it and it was obvious that someone was sat on it, making sure not to let her boots echo on the flooring Bo moved in slightly so that the others could filter in behind her. The silence was wasted however when Eysan's tone's filled the vast space.

"It's not time for your meaningless report so go away I'm brooding." He dismissed them aggressively. "Unless the small hunting party you told me of brought down a human on the land and you have something exciting to tell me about the hunt in which case I might just listen."

"More like that hunting party is really here for you." Bo announced their arrival in a bold and hard tone.

In a flurry of blue velvet Eysan stepped down off the overly artsy chair and moved around it to stare at whoever it was who had dared to make such a ridiculous suggestion. The look that came across his face unreadable when his eyes fell first on Bo, who was stood a little further forward than the others.

"And so finally she comes." The Geist tossed the over sized cape away slightly clearing his arms as he rubbed his hands together. "Forgive me for this but I've never liked weapons..." Hardly even moving his right hand, Kenzi's katana, Tamsin's gun and collection of throwing weapons, Bo's sword and thigh dagger, even her boot knife went skittering across the vast barn floor into distant corners well out of reach.

"Forgive me if I point out I don't need weapons to hurt you." Bo did her best not to react to the sudden loss of all their security blankets.

"All this forgiving, oh it could bring a man to his knees, but that's the only thing that would because with this..." He flipped the Koushang out from where it was nestled under his shirt. "Little trinket, I'm afraid you do nothing for me." He smiled at her.

"You always talked to much." Suddenly Eliyana broke the line behind Bo and tipped her head up from where she had been looking at the ground, her hand went to her hip, snapped the poppers holding the loops of the Nagaika to her belt and pulled it out with one swift motion. She had felt the weapon try to lift when her brother had made the others, but she knew that the Dwarf who had constructed it had known enough of his craft to also create the holder from the proper metals to stop such telepathic interference. Cracking it once for pure show, each of the 22 blades sparking as they hit the concrete floor of the barn.

Kenzi watched in awe as her lover stepped forward confidently, the sound of her voice and the sparks that her weapon caused made their dangerous foe visibly stiffen.

"I knew he was lying!" Eysan's first words were probably not the ones anyone had expected, his tone that of an upset child. "He swore you died in his arms, but I never found your body in the river. I knew you were too stubbornly good to die." His black flecked eyes came to meet hers.

"Why would he tell you the truth? You murdered everything else he loved, what did he care what lies he told you?" Eliyana paused for a moment in her progress towards her brother. "It's over Eysan." She took a deep breath, widening her stance a little, her grip on the bladed whip shifting slightly.

"Over?" A hard laugh broke from her brother's lips, and in a motion faster than any of them could track, the older Geist moved his hand to his own hip and in a flash of black and sliver, the last metre of Eliyana's whip was entwined with one that Eysan held, he tugged his sharply and pulled Eli off her feet.

"You really don't know how to treat family do you." Bo moved and kicked the whips apart to let Eli regain her footing.

"I think that's rather hypocritical of you considering succubus, your father is feeling rather left out of your life right now." Eysan drawled at her having clearly recovered from the initial shock of seeing his sister.

"Ysabeau!" Eliyana called as with a flick Eysan arced his Nagaika back towards the succubus.

More on instinct then anything, the Succubus threw her upper body backwards and the whip's painful blades went soaring past her in an arc just short of cutting her.

"I'm just playing." Eysan cracked the whip beside him for effect. "With her at least." He stared at his sister using a motion of his wrist to make the whip undulate against the ground. "Now with you, what a treat this is. I should have known that if anyone would dare to arrive on my doorstep with you it would be the Succubus."

"I've protected her since before she was born, it's not a job I take lightly." Eliyana stood up her head upright and proud.

"Oh please Eliyana, spare me..." Eysan rolled his eyes, his words punctuated by the sound of the door at the far end of the room opening. "She's a succubus, her father is the greatest Fae to have ever lived, do you think she ever needed help from a weakling like you?" He stepped back a little as at least ten men, all dressed exactly like the guards had been outside filed into the warehouse behind him. For all any of them knew they could be the guards from outside, but underestimating the number of puppets Eysan had at his disposal wasn't a wise thing to do. "You just got in her way, kept her from the one person who could let her reach her full potential." He continued to back up until with the ten of them formed a line across the barn behind which he retreated. "You ruined her life not saved it, and got our whole family killed in the process."

"Finally I was getting bored with this family reunion, does this mean we can start actually fighting and not just name calling?" Tamsin cracked her knuckles.

"Yeah, this is the part we start fighting." Bo narrowed her eyes at the display.

Without any obvious command the line of ten started in towards them, four going at Tamsin who actually smiled before she looked at them and to even her teams surprise became a whirlwind of punches and kicks. The high kick she delivered to the closest bent his neck around her boot before he just fell to the floor. A driving hard fist into the side of another attacker's head was accompanied by the unmistakable crackle of breaking facial bones and the move let her body glide forward while she chopped out with more kicks and sent the last two down to meet the rest on the floor.

Bo had only had two come at her and she found herself immediately in a rhythm of trying to hit one and then the other in turn to cope with their fearless attacks. She made a mental note that when they all lived through this she was going to pester the Valkyrie until she showed her some of the moves she was using in this group fight. The blonde's energy saving movements made her fighting style more like the dancing Kung Fu champions from the movies Kenzi made her watch on the weekends they had nothing to do.

Four had gone after Eliyana, clearly her brother's puppetry sending them at her to test her preparedness for this show down. The younger Geist pulled the legs out from under one with her Nagaika long before he got anywhere near her, the blades slicing through his tendons leaving him uselessly floundering on the ground. She clipped a second also before he got close, ripping up his body with a row of blades that ultimately sent him reeling backwards, moaning in pain though he still tried to rise to serve his master.

The first one to reach her, she choked out with the stiff rod at the top of the whip, using his body to dodge the blows the last one was aiming at her, tossing away his limp body to focus on the last who she grabbed tightly by the neck and stared at hard, her eyes glittering with gold as she searched inside his mind for exactly what was left there.

The answer was scarey, precious little that wasn't created and maintained by her brother, kept in a world of balance between madness and sanity, between fear and illusion. With a strong push she forced his body away from her and looked past it towards her brother.

"You're a monster." She was about to move to dispatch the last of her attackers when Bo moved over and did it for her, driving the heel of her boot into his skull. "But you're ten fuel sources down." She added a part of her hating that that meant ten lives had already been lost.

"You think I care? I barely considered them nourishment." Eysan scoffed disappearing suddenly only to reappear behind them right next to Lauren. So far both the blonde and Kenzi had been hanging back out of the hand to hand combat the others were engaged in as long as they could. "And why would I after all, when you brought me dinner." He reached out smoothing his hand over blonde hair, locking his arm around Lauren's throat the next second. "Really sister, bringing human's to a Fae fight? Any one would think you were here to vie for a place by my side, not to rout me out of mine." He glanced briefly at Lauren, who had instinctively put her hand up to his arm, trying to pull it away from her neck. "Now, you must be Lauren." He said, his voice taking on a slight sing song quality. "Lau... ren." He repeated it. "Not an unattractive name." He went on. "Tell me Lauren." He said again leaning his mouth a little closer to her ear. "Did my sister tell you what I can do to your kind with just a touch and a name?"

"Yes." Lauren tried to keep her body from struggling too much, his grip seemed impossibly too strong for her to break out of.

"I don't care what ugly necklace you wear, you don't touch Lauren." Bo's eyes began to flare bright blue and she growled the echoed words at him.

"So quick to anger, your father is going to love that." Eysan's eye's briefly panned over to Bo seeming to delight in the bright blue glow that met him.

"Let her go." Eliyana echoed Bo's sentiment, her eye's beginning to lose all colour but gold. "Or I won't let your death be a swift one."

"Oh dear little sister, you're not getting this are you, not keeping up with what is really going to happen here." Eysan didn't do anything yet to Lauren, he just held her in his grip. "I'm going to really enjoy killing you..." He licked his lips. "Then the Valkyrie, then the pet and then while she watches I'm going to pull her little concubine apart with just... Lau-ren." He said her name again stroking one hand down her cheek.

"You know you really are boring." Tamsin suddenly broke ranks and just walked up towards the Geist. "Take away your family angst and your love of velvet and what do you have? A short little man who likes his own voice, even though it sounds a little like one of your boys didn't drop if you know what I mean." The Valkyrie mused with a shrug of her shoulders.

In a flash Lauren was tossed to the side and the Geist's whip flashed out to one side of Tamsin and then the other caging her in place. He sent out several quick lashing to beat at her in a quick motion before several of the blades encircled her arm. The small weapons cut in deep enough to go through the coat and into her arm, the pull back he used taking chunks of flesh with the whip sending a spray of bright blood into the air and onto the ground with a wet splash.

"God I hate that thing you bitches use." Tamsin put her other hand up to her injured arm, blood profusely flowing out through the cuts in the leather. "They were right to ban it."

"Whips are one of the only ways to train animals." Eysan bit back at her. "That and they are one of the only things effective over fearless creatures who just wade through battlefields to clean up the dying." He sneered slightly as he pulled his weapon back preparing to unleash another volley of attacks on the Valkyrie, though he never got to release it as Eliyana's whip disrupted the preparation by curling around his and dragging it out of the air.

Eysan looked from his Nagaika to Eli, his eyes darkening as he pulled on the handle of his weapon slightly as if testing his sister's strength.

"You forget Eliyana, you are the baby, the weakling, the one I used to hold..." He chose the word with obvious care. "You know what that means, don't you Eliyana." As he spoke more men filtered into the room, this time using the back door, making Kenzi squeak in surprise and run towards Bo, bending down she grabbed a large club like weapon that one of the previous guards had dropped, feeling naked without her katana.

The barn became a mass of action and confusion as guards moved to attack everyone, who instantly brought the fight back to them. The succubus doing her best to make sure that Kenzi wasn't overwhelmed, but at the same time Kenzi was doing her fair share of damage, wailing down on anything that staggered too close to her with the club.

Eysan and Eliyana encircled each other slowly, tugging occasionally on each end of their whip like weapons, their eyes fixed on one another. A low torrent of insults spilled from Eysan's mouth as he toyed with his younger sister.

Tamsin had beaten down the guard that had come directly at her using mainly her head and his own weapon against him, but the Valkyrie was tiring quickly, giving up on her attempt to cross over to Bo and Kenzi as quickly as she started it. The pool of blood collecting on the floor at her feet from her arm growing with every second.

It was that sight that gave Lauren the strength to scramble up off the floor, crash her medical bag into the side of one of the guards in her way as she passed on her way to the injured Valkyrie. By the time she reached the other blonde's side she had a bandage ready and pressed onto the large wound. It soaked red almost immediately.

"This is bad." Lauren hissed almost unnecessarily as she swapped it out with another.

"Nagaika banned for a reason." Tamsin winced. "But he was really getting to me." She breathed in hard through the pain. "I can't stand the mouthy ones."

"They need you." Lauren glanced over to Bo and Kenzi and without thinking any more about it she pulled away the second bandage and pressed her hand over Tamsin's arm, closing her eyes for a moment as she centred herself. When she opened them again, she raised her hand and a soft purple glow spread through it onto the Valkyrie's skin.

In that instance the cacophony of chaos in the room suddenly ended with just one word from Eysan. The older Geist ordering everything and everyone to suddenly...

"Stop."

All at one the remaining guards froze like statues, giving Kenzi the opportunity to take a cheap shot and knock one out with a quick clean smack to the face, and nearly making Bo fall over when she reached out to grab an incoming shot that never actually came.

Eysan's eyes were no longer on his sister, indeed for the first time since finding out Eliyana was alive, the other Geist paid no attention to her at all, instead dark swirling orbs had a different focus. Lauren.

"What is she?" The words slipped out of the Geist's mouth as his eyes narrowed, watching as Lauren pulled her hand back from Tamsin's arm, the only reminder of the grievous wound now being the Valkyrie's shredded clothing.

Bo looked at Tamsin and Lauren and knew instantly what her lover had done and what it was that Eysan had seen, she felt a cold spike of fear hit her spine. Nothing looked at Lauren like Eysan was right now and got away with it.

"She's a doctor." The succubus moved to step directly into his line of view so that he couldn't just see Lauren anymore. "You know someone who helps people. Let me guess, you get distracted by sirens and shiny things too?"

"Imbecile I don't need you to tell me." Eysan snarled at Bo and then took a breath. "Lau-ren." He used his high sing-song tone to roll the blonde's name over his tongue, "I can get into your head Lauren... know you, get you to..." Eysan made a small 'umph' noise and stepped back suddenly as a soft sigh escaped Lauren's lips and she pitched sideways seemingly unconscious. Tamsin caught the blonde seconds before her head hit the ground.

-x-

Lauren's body jumped slightly and then settled again, but with a groan she opened her eyes, noting her heart was beating a little faster than normal. Blinking a little she rubbed at her eyes and stretched her hand out over the dark burgundy cotton sheets that she lay entwined in, smiling slightly as her hand passed into a small warm divot beside her.

Pushing up onto one elbow the blonde tucked her hair behind her ear and looked at the very 'body' shaped impression left on the dark sheet covered mattress next to her and reached out and smoothed her hand over the soft valleys of the shape, smiling more at the residue heat left in the cotton. Lauren then leaned back flat and breathed out. A part of her wanted to get out of bed, but another didn't, it was comfortable and she couldn't think of anything she had to do desperately.

Gathering the dark cotton sheet to her chest, the blonde sat up and took a sip from the glass of water on the bed side. She looked over to where the door to her 'lab' was wide open at the far end of the bedroom. The brightly lit interior shone out at her, and though it was as welcoming as ever, with its clearly visible stacks of shelves and large open plan work desk. The microscope and monitor hook up all ready turned on and just ready for her to start her day, she wasn't sure she had the motivation.

In fact Lauren was pretty sure she didn't have the motivation right now, the bed was just too perfect, Bo's scent was too all encompassing and she even had water. And that Bo would probably be back soon and she had not real reason to move.

Smiling broadly Lauren slipped the water glass back onto the side table and lowered herself back into a reclined position. The lab could wait.

-x-

With a hard curse Eysan's attention suddenly went back to his sister, the blonde on the floor giving him nothing anymore. No insight and definitely no fear to feed from.

"YOU!" He pointed to her, his arm out stretched. "What did you do?"

"You know what I did." Now it was Eliyana's turn to smile confidently. "You really think I would bring anyone here without making sure you couldn't hurt them? You think I would give you anything after all you have taken from me? I might be the baby Eysan, but I was always smarter than you." She shook her head. "You can't take anything from Lauren, you can't hurt her and you cant strip her mind." She summed up.

"No, no. Liar!" Eysan bit back angrily. "I am the oldest. I am Eysan Frost." He puffed out his chest a little "You will tell me what she is."

"Ysabeau told you already, she's a doctor, a really good doctor." Eli replied. "And that is all you need to know." She added breathing out slightly harder obviously this whole interaction with her brother taking its toll. "It's time this ended..."

Sensing the change in his sister, the older Frost knew that it was time that he too changed his approach, for fear of losing ground.

"I don't think so Eliyana..." The dark eyed Geist shook his head, his tone shirting a little to return once again to its slightly effeminate purr. "I think little Yarnie it's time you started to listen to me." He added his dark swirling eyes focusing on the younger Geist.

It was at that moment that Kenzi could feel the hair of the back of her neck stand up, as suddenly she could just tell there was something different about her lover. There was something subtle about the way Eliyana shifted in her place, her head tilted slightly to the side, instead of straight up as it had been.

"Better." Eysan purred also obviously noting the difference. "Now, I think it's time you put that little toy down... Yarnie, you could hurt yourself with something sharp like that." Eysan barely had the instruction out of his mouth when the Nagaika slipped out of Eliyana's hand to drop to the ground with a clatter of blades. "Excellent, now the blonde Yarnie, tell me what she is." He encouraged her softly. "Yarnie, tell your big brother, tell me what Lauren is." He pressed his voice into her.

"She's Ysabeau's..." It was obvious that though Eliyana was trying to fight herself, the words were out before she could stop them. She did however stop herself from continuing, though it was only through massive effort. The small Fae's jaw literally trembled, her whole face grimacing as she fought to remain silent.

"Enough." Bo stepped forward again, unable to watch Eliyana's struggle. "Lauren's my heart, my soul, my echo, my love." The brunette stood up a little taller. "My Resonant."

"Your..." Dark eyes widened slightly as Eysan looked from Bo to Lauren to Eliyana and back to Bo. "You have a resonant." The news seem to strike Eysan a little oddly, making the Geist take a step back. "Your father..." For the first time a frown appeared on the Geist's face.

"Will not touch her." Bo summed up, her voice full of assurance and confidence. "Now let Eli go. Like she said, this is over. You have done too much, caused too much..."

"NEVER!" Eysan snarled suddenly, the anger and vivacity that had been gone suddenly back in full force. "Not until I destroy her." He glowered snapping his fingers so that the guards who had been on layaway suddenly began moving again, bearing down on the succubus and the rest of them on mass, leaving Eysan focused solely on Eliyana. "I knew, somehow, in my soul you were alive." He moved a little closer to the paralysed Eliyana. "Like this dark spot marring the beauty of all of my accomplishments." He added looking at her. "On your knees." He ordered, laughing to himself as the small Geist dropped heavily onto the barn floor. "You are the reason that 45 innocent people died Yarnie. You, because our precious mother thought you were too good for the Dark, too good to be a Frost."

"You killed them... not me." Eliyana pushed herself to argue every muscle in her body trying to fight to push herself up off the floor.

"Murderer." Eysan snapped at her moving closer to her he backhanded Eliyana hard across the face, her head snapping to the side with the powerful blow.

"I didn't do it." Eli forced the simple words out of her broken lips.

"Really? Then why can you hear them screaming Yarnie, why do their voices fill your head, echoing in you mind over and over, why do their burning bodies, fill your vision at night..." He hissed.

Bo and Tamsin were definitely getting the better of their adversaries with volleys of punches and kicks that was with each series giving them distance and recuperation time, to bring a second and third wave down on them.

Lauren's jolt back to consciousness was a little more than shocking as it came because a guard hit her as his body skidded across the floor, thrown there by Tamsin. Slightly dazed, the blonde pushed herself to her feet, taking just a moment to catch up with what was going on. After all being suddenly dragged back from the place she had been, one that was so perfect and calm to find herself here was jarring. The skirmish between the Valkyrie and now two guards was intense, and her lover was fairing only a little better with three guards all intent on doing her harm.

Without really thinking it through the blonde glanced down at the short club that the guard on the ground before her had dropped and picked it up before throwing it at one of the puppets attacking Bo. With a low growl of annoyance more than anything he peeled off from his assault on the succubus and ran to give Lauren his undivided attention.

It was Kenzi who was playing a much more strategic game than all of them, but that's because she was trying not to fight anyone, she was trying to keep an eye on what exactly was happening to Eliyana, to get close enough to know what was going on, but the wall of guards was making it impossible. Thankfully Bo and Tamsin's latest counter attack produced a break that gave Kenzi the opportunity she had been looking for to shimmy forward, moving to crouch near the 'throne' she finally got a good view. But she'd found herself looking at something she hadn't been expecting when she found her lover was on her knees and her lip was bleeding.

Kenzi instantly gripped the edge of the chair, her brow creasing in a deep frown as she watched Eysan drive a hard kick into Eliyana's ribs calling her a dog. Taking a deep breath the young woman cleared her throat and pushed her body up to stand.

"MIlaya moyA, stop listening to him, you are not his to command, you are mine." Kenzi said the words with her jaw locked in anger as she saw what her lover had predicted happening in front of her. "His power with the word means nothing to you, you are Eliyana Frost, and I command you to stop listening to him."

It was Eysan that first looked up from the floor where he had been looking at Eliyana. His eyes coming to stare at the small human who had shouted at his sister, at first a look of confusion then mild amusement filling his face. This quickly faded however when below him Eli gave a soft shake of her head and taking a breath pushed up off the floor and stood taller than ever, her shoulders back her eyes glistening solid gold.

"I hear and obey, command me at your will." The woman's haunted voice was firm.

"Severe his link with his guards, all of them." Kenzi said the words to Eliyana though now her blue eyes were locked on Eysan who had took a step back and brought his eyes up to hers.

Like puppets with their strings cut all of the guards fell down to the floor dead.

"You gave your Frenum to a human?" Eysan backed up more, a new look entering his swirling eyes.

"Link severed." Eliyana stood perfectly still not even blinking even as Eysan retreated.

"Pick up your whip." Kenzi saw his overconfidence start to turn into uncertainty. As soon as she had said the words the stiff grip of the weapon made a leap off the ground into Eli's hand. "Cut him." She heard the words come out of her mouth as she thought them, suddenly wanting to make him feel so much pain, and in unison Eli's arm snapped the Nagaika and his left cheek erupted with a long slice mark. "She gave her love to me Eysan." Her blue eyes stayed fixed on him but what no one could see but the Geist looking back at her was that the centre of her pupils were gold. "Because she knows only I would do this..." She took a long visible breath. "Remember all of the pain, all of their screams Eliyana, remember it is the brother in front of you that betrayed you, betrayed your whole family, betrayed all of the Frosts." She lifted her hand at him and Eli pointed with the whip at the same time. "Remember all that your mother taught you, about yourself, about your powers, remember that you too know how to use the word and remember most of all that you are the most powerful Geist that has ever lived. Remember that and awaken MIlaya moyA, awaken and do as you wish to punish your brother, I command you."

With the ghost of a smile pulling at her lips Eliyana blinked and in a sharp motion slapped the Nagaika at her side making her brother look from Kenzi back at her.

"Remember that you were born to be better than them all, born to be good, born to help Ysabeau and born for me to love you." Kenzi's voice grew deeper and a smile pulled on her lips as she heard the whip snap against the floor again.

With an undeniable smile this time Eliyana whirled the bladed whip above her head flashing it out in an instant to hook into the velvet of the embroidered robe Eysan wore and with a simple twist of her wrist she pulled the loose fitting garment from his body making him twirl to try and keep from being taken off his feet.

"You don't deserve to wear that." She curled her lip up into a snarl.

"You are unworthy to be a Frost." He snarled back putting one hand to his cheek to see his own blood was flowing out of the wound. "I want you to turn and kill her, this human you love Ya..." His direction to her had been deep and powerful, his eyes gone to pure pitch black but as his mouth tried to say her childhood name his voice seemed to seize. "I command you El..." He tried again but his lip trembled and her birth name didn't finish either. "You are too weak, I stand with the Dark King." He seemed to argue as to why or better how this couldn't be happening. "ELI..." He tried again to complete her name but only ended up barking out the first useless syllable.

"Eysan." Eliyana said her brother' back in response to his inability to say hers. "Eeeeeeysan." She extended the E for a long time as she began a slow walk towards him, punctuating her steps with soft whip lashes to the floor. "Ever wonder why sometimes you would fall out of your bed at night? Trip in the garden? Bloody your nose on a door you swore was open?" The Geist's voice went a little low and dark. "I could use the word before I knew what it was Eeeysan." She said his name, but this time almost like a little child would, lisping it slightly. "Only I didn't like how it felt, that control, that manipulation, so I only ever did it when you'd been mean or spiteful." She added getting closer still moving her hand briefly to wipe a little of the blood from her nose and lip.

All look of self confidence was gone from her brother's face now as he listened to his sister's words.

"I know what you're afraid of big brother, I know what you've always been afraid of, and guess what." She stopped millimetres in front of him. "I'm right here." She smiled more. "And everything you've ever thought, that I'm stronger, better, smarter, more skilled than you. All of it, that's all true." She looked at him narrowing her eyes slightly. "How do you want to die big brother? Fast and mercifully?" She asked in and a flash of movement she held a part of the Nagaika taut, its blades across her brother's throat. "Or in a fire-storm." The next second literally anything that wasn't screwed down in the barn apart from her friends, was swirling around in a tempest around the two Geists. The whirlwind mainly consisting of dead bodies and the now broken pieces of his throne.

"Mother was beautiful until she had you... dark and evil!" He spat the words at her even as he still tried to raise his power against her, the effort making his hands lock out at his sides. "But then suddenly you were there and she started to change, turned on her family, on her King... turned on our father to try and save you! The unworthy runt who should have been slaughtered at birth."

"You dare mention our father?" Concentrating on Eysan again there were multiple thuds around them as bodies and objects fell from out of the air as she stopped pushing her power into the tempest. "I know what you have done to him, how you treat him."

"He deserves all of it, he held her leash, it was his job to control her and he let himself be turned into the controlled one." Eysan didn't give up his verbal attack, all the time poking and prodding with his power trying to find a way to gain control again.

"Release him." Eli suddenly gripped her brother's head her fingers splayed out in the very points that she touched on Kenzi and Lauren's head's earlier when she had been placing their constructs.

"Never!" Eysan continued to try to defy her even as his body began to shake from her touch, the dark seeping out of his eyes as his power became more and more useless.

"Release him and I might spare your life." Swirls of black began to seep into gold.

"The Dark King is going to eat her soul, devour what you love while you watch helpless." Eysan managed a dry cackle of a laugh. "Geists do not love sis-ter." He could barely put the word together.

"Release our father or I will kill you, right here, right now by draining every ounce of power you have, Geist to Geist." Eliyana's voice became slightly odd as if she was speaking at him from down a long tunnel.

"You can't do it!" Eysan dry words pressed out of the taunt muscles of his jaw. "When I used to kill the butterflies... you were too soft... you always cried..." He tried to find one way after another to bore back into her mind. "And.." He struggled with a breath... "You kill me... You kill him."

Eliyana's hands pulled back the next instant, releasing her brother who dropped to the ground and rolled onto his side, slapping at the concrete weakly as weak laughter broke from his lips.

"Eliyana..." It was Bo's voice that suddenly entered the conversation again. "You are more powerful than him, maybe more powerful than us all but the link he holds to your father..." She stalked over to where the small Fae withered on the ground from the internal Geist fight still waging between them. With a hard grip she reached down and stripped the necklace that blocked him from being effected by her tossing it aside. Her hand came down a second time and held his chin. "What he won't give up willingly to you, I can take." She locked blue eyes with his scared one and pulled a thick stream of chi from his body before she pulled back and licked her lips. "I have all that I need from him." Blue eyes came up to meet gold ones. "He's yours to judge now."

"Take the others and go." Eliyana glanced at Bo. "They don't need to see this." The Geist looked back at her brother dark swirls mixing with the gold freely now.

"I'm not leaving you." Kenzi said something for the first time since she'd given Eliyana the power to act on her own.

"You are not alone." Bo shook her head at the Geist, her eyes dimming back to loving brown from the powerful blue they had been.

"You are not alone." Lauren repeated coming to Bo's side.

"Oh crap, I'm here too." Tamsin rolled her eyes and waved from her place a way back where she had retreated to avoid the crush of falling bodies when Eliyana had released them.

Eliyana turned for a moment and looked at them, frowning as she looked around the room, taking in the pile of bodies that her whirlwind had dumped to the sides of now crawling brother. She looked back at Kenzi, her eyes suddenly pure golden again.

"MIlaya moyA it's time." Kenzi's eyes met Eli's golden orbs. "He doesn't want your help, he can't be the Geist you are, cannot be good." She answered the unspoken questions she knew her lover still had after all her brother had done. "He's given you no other choice."

Oddly enough Eliyana didn't step up and go closer to her brother immediately, instead she closed her eyes and just lifted her hand into the air. From somewhere in the room there came the sound of metal scraping on concrete and the next second Kenzi's katana was glistening in Eliyana's hand. The young Geist took several small steps up to her brother and stilled his motion with just the simple tap of the weapon on his shoulder.

"You have never shown an ounce of love, of mercy to anyone, to anything." Eliyana dropped down and looked at her brother. "And I can't imagine my life without those things." She shook her head. "Our mother was right, I am not like you." She said standing up and taking ahold of the katana with both hands. "Because even now, I love you Eysan." With that Eli pulled back and with her full strength slammed the katana down onto the back of her brother's neck infusing the strike with as much power as she could, turning her head when the spray of hot blood and the sound of metal on concrete confirmed to her that she had stuck hard enough, and her brother's head rolled lifeless from his body.

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