A/N: Sorry again for the delay, work has calmed down now and I can finally get back to writing. Thank you for all being so understanding about the delays, it was a real sigh of relief to not have any upset reviews. The updates will be back to normal from now on.
Enjoy
BPOV:
"You want any packed?" Kenzi asks shaking the small bottle of whisky in my direction.
"I'm driving." I laugh.
"Suit yourself." Kenzi shrugs.
"And we're on a job."
"I'll be fine, it's not like I plan on drinking the whole bottle." She huffs. "Just something to keep me warm."
"That's what the blankets are for." I tell her pointing to the pile in the corner.
"Okay…but don't coming whining to me when you have nothing to warm your bones."
"I'm sure I'll manage."
Kenzi nods and stuffs her bottle into her bag. Tonight we're both on a good old fashioned stake-out. Hale actually hired us, he thinks some of the guards are pushing drugs through one of the fae prisons. So, after Kenz and I followed them around for a week or so we've learnt their habits, routines and have discovered that five of them like to meet up for a weekly card game…or so they like to call it. "You ready Kenz?" I call out while taking my phone off charge.
"Let me go pee first." She says before running into the back.
"We'd better text Lo, Doc. She'll have to fend for herself tonight." I take a seat at my desk and send Lauren a quick text.
Hey gorgeous,
Hale has decided tonight is the night. Kenzi and I will be watching the guards most of the night.
Doubtful I'll be home tonight, and I know you'll most likely be busy at work, so I'll keep Doc with me.
Love you xx
Doc lays his head on my lap and looks up at me with his big brown eyes. "Don't worry, I'll bring your blanket so you don't get cold." I say scratching at his head. "I know you miss Lauren, I do too. We'll do this, go home and the three of us can snuggle on the couch."
Doc rubs his head into my hand as my phone pings.
Not sure I'll be home either tonight, things are really happening here. Anni thinks she may have found a breakthrough. I'll keep you up to date on how it goes.
Be safe
I love you xxx
"Looks like we're definitely keeping you tonight."
Good luck Lo
No matter what I'm so proud of you xx
Kenzi comes skipping out the back room and grabs her bag. "You ready BoBo?"
"Lets go." I nod slipping my phone into my pocket. "Come on Doc." I grab my own bag and head out with Kenzi.
We drive to Gabe Millers house, the man that Hale believes is the leader of the pack. I park outside and we only have to wait 10 minutes before Gabe exits his house, get in his truck and leaves. "I wonder where the card game will be held tonight." Kenzi muses as we follow him through town. So far we've had houses and bars that were open after hours, no where we've been able to get into.
"Hopefully somewhere we can have a peak this time. I'm fed up of not going back with any new information." Hale has been so amazing these past few weeks. I never thought he'd trust us with a case this big, we'd always helped out the police and face…but this is the first time we've officially worked side by side with them.
"Don't worry, he understands." Kenzi says patting my knee.
"Five kids have already died because of these drugs Kenz, we have to find something soon." All the victims that have died from taking these drugs in the prison have been 18-21, they'd not even started their lives.
"We will." She nods confidently.
After following Gabe for about 20 minutes, he beings to lead us out of town. Not long after that we come to a slowing stop outside a row of warehouses. "Well this isn't suspicious at all." Kenzi mumbles and begins to take pictures of Gabe as he enters the warehouse. "I don't think they could be more obvious."
"I know. A tad cliché." I park us a few warehouses away from the one he's inside. "We'll wait a little while, see if anyone else turns up before scoping the place out."
I shuffle down in my seat slightly as we wait to see if anymore of the team show up, and I think they will. This feel like the night.
Kenzi takes a few more pictures of the warehouse and Gabe car before placing her camera down. "And so it begins." She sighs shuffling down like me.
I take a quick glance at my watch and see it nearing 9. "If they're coming, they shouldn't be too long."
Kenzi reaches down and grabs her bag. "Good thing that I know the perfect way to pass the time." She says while pulling her bottle of whisky out. Kenzi takes a deep swig before offering me the bottle, I shake my head and watch as she places it on her lap. "Warming me up already." She winks.
"Doc and I are fine with our blankets." I nod pulling one out for my boy. I lay it over him.
Kenzi looks back at him and lets out a small laugh. "He looks so pitiful."
"He misses Lauren." I sigh turning back to the front. "We both do."
"She still working all hours at the dark?" Kenzi asks.
"Yep."
"At least it's for a good cause." She says taking another sip of whisky. "How is all of that coming along?"
"Slowly. She's working so hard Kenz, her and Anni are. Lauren text me tonight and said they might have something, but they've said that before." I really do hope they've got it this time, it breaks my heart to see the disappointment in Laurens eyes when she comes home.
"Well if there's anyone that will do it, it's those two." Kenzi says confidently.
"I know." I see the hope in Kenzis eyes too. With the likely possibility of Ava being fae I think turning is on her mind more and more every day.
After a moment Kenzi turns her head and looks over at me. "I'm so amazed by her Bo."
"Lauren?"
"Yeah." She says turning to me. "I mean it's not even been a year yet and it's like she's completely readjusted."
I can't help the smile that comes across my face. "She's phenomenal. I'm in complete awe of her every single day Kenz." With everything that she went through on that island, to just come home and re-start her life. What a woman. "My girl really is something."
"Cheers to that." Kenzi nods lifting the bottle. "And what about that?" She says looking down
"What?"
"That." She says tipping the bottle towards my hand.
I look down and see I've been twirling my ring. Maybe now isn't the best time to tell her about our possible eloping plans. "Ahh. Well we've both decided to wait until after Lauren turns." Or I turn.
"So everything will come after that." She says wiggling her eyebrows. "The baby making." Kenzi smirks while wildly thrusting her hips, before realising what we're doing here and ducks down.
I roll my eyes at her dramatics. "Yes of course children will have to wait, but at least we're both on the same page…we both want babies in our future."
Kenzi sighs dreamily and hugs the bottle to her chest. "You two will have the cutest babies, not as cute as mine or Hales but still little cutie pies."
"Yeah we will." I grin proudly.
"My girls are all grown up…cheers to you." She raises the bottle and takes a swig. This girl really needs no excuse to take a drink. I don't know how she still handles it.
As Kenzi drinks I see more headlights approaching. "Don't have too much…looks like we'll be needing a lot more pictures." I tell her as two cars pull up besides Gabes car.
"Here we go." Kenzi mumbles giddily, lifting her camera and snapping the other men as they enter the warehouse.
"So, we now have inside the warehouse Gabe, Dan, Harv and Will."
"Just Michael to go." Kenzi nods. "That's if he shows, he always did seem like the weasel of the bunch to me."
"Preach." I send a text to Dyson, letting him know how everything is going. At first I was a bit pissy about being asked to be on the freezing cold stake-out, but when Hale told me Tamsin and Dyson were able to get a contact to get them into the morgue after hours, and that's where they would be all night, my attitude soon changed.
"Shall we hold out for a little while longer? See if the weasel shows his face." Kenzi asks placing her camera back down.
"Yeah, it's not like they're going anywhere any time soon."
We both end up waiting in the car for a couple more hours before a van arrives. "And here comes the weasel." Kenzi sings are Michael jumps out of the van. "I wonder why he traded in his lovely Honda for the van? I wish Dan had the van...then he could be white van man Dan." She pouts while taking the pictures.
I give Kenzi my own grin and open my door. "Lets find out shall we?" Kenzi and I both jump out the car and I open up Docs door. The three of us quietly run round the side of the warehouse, seeing if there's anyway to get a peak of what's going on inside.
"Shit." Kenzi hisses looking up at the window that's about 12ft above us. "I'm gonna go ahead and guess there isn't a ladder laying around."
"I think you'd be right." I nod looking at our surroundings. I spot a dumpster in the corner and decide it'll have to work. "Keep a look out boy." I tell Doc and he lowers himself to the ground with his eyes trained ahead of us. "Gimme a hand with this Kenz."
We both slowly, and as quietly as we can roll the dumpster below the window, before hopping on top of it. "We're still about 8ft short." Kenzi whispers.
I crouch down slightly and hold out my hands. "That's what I'm for. Take off your shoes."
Kenzi slips off her boots, slips the camera strap over her neck and climbs up onto my hand. "You sure about this?" She asks as I lift her.
"Of course I'm sure. Just use the wall to keep your balance." I groan raising my arms and settling her weight on my shoulders. I know this girl might look like she weighs 90 pounds, but she is solid. "You see anything?"
Kenzi thankfully finds her balance and my legs stop shaking. "Give me a sec…this window is filthy."
"Anytime today Kenz."
"Okay, okay." She huffs. "They're all in there. Three of them are sat down while Gabe and Dan are gathered round a table. Oooh I can see some packages on the table that look to be filled with little while things, and I don't think it's candy."
"Can you get some pictures?" I ask trying to hold her steady.
"Way ahead of you BoBo." Kenzi says and I soon hear the sound of the camera clicks. "We've got you now you fuckers." I stay as strong as I can and let Kenzi take as many pictures as possible.
The clicking soon stops and I pray its over. "We good?"
"We're good…sooo how are we gonna do this?"
Shit. I didn't think about this part. "Maybe if I crouch you can jump off?" I suggest.
"That could work."
I place my hands on the wall and begin to slowly lower myself, my thighs burn and shake but I manage to keep my balance. "This low enough for you?" I ask. I don't think my leather pants will let me go any lower.
"I think so." She hesitates for a moment before hoping off my shoulders. Kenzi lands a lot louder on the dumpster than I thought she would and we both just freeze, staring at each other with wide eyes. "You think they heard that?" She whispers with a panic in her voice.
I just give her a shrug and turn to Doc. He's still laying in the same position, but to my relief his ears are resting against his head. "I think we're safe."
"Lets not push our luck then." Kenzi says before grabbing her shoes, jumping off the dumpster and running back to the car.
Doc and I follow after her and we all settle down back in our seats. "I'll let Dyson know what's going on."
The 5 of them are in the warehouse.
We've got pictures of them arriving and gathered in the warehouse with some sort of white packages on the table.
What do you want us to do?
"Oh god." Kenzi says through a big yawn. "I'm not used to these late nights."
"It's 11:30." I laugh.
"Yeah and my kid is up at 6 every morning. I pass out at 9 most nights." She says fishing out her bottle.
"Yeah I can see you're really suffering."
Kenzi rolls her eyes as she takes a big sip. "I've already told you, it's to keep me warm." She smirks.
"Mhmm." I grab a blanket for myself and snuggle under it just as my phone vibrates.
Great work.
We're not finished here just yet. A couple more boys to examine.
Can you both stay there for now? Just until we're finished, or they leave.
I text Dyson back, letting him know its not problem. I think Kenzi is enjoying relaxing with her bottle for now. "We're gonna be here a little while longer." I tell Kenzi, who just gives me a salute.
"Fancy a game of eye-spy?" She suggests after a few moments.
Oh god.
.
.
.
"LO…YOU HOME?" I call out. I didn't see her car out front, but she's caught a cab home some nights when she's been too tired to drive.
"LO?"
"I guess not." I sigh when silence is all that greets me.
"There we go buddy. That's for being a perfect boy tonight." I place some treats in Docs bowl for him and finally kick my shoes off. The couch looks so pleasing to me right now, but I know the second I sit myself down on it I won't get back up. "Come on Bo." I pull myself upstairs and into our bedroom. I collapse down onto our bed and feel my back relish in the soft feeling, sitting in my car for the past 5 hours wasn't great. After Dyson's text Kenzi and I spent the next 3 hours outside waiting for them to leave. Thankfully they didn't make us wait all night and they all left at quarter past two.
Doc comes trotting up after me and jumps up to Laurens side while giving me a look. "Yeah I don't know where she is bud." I've been trying to contact Lauren all night but there's been nothing, not even a text.
"Let's try her again." I lay back next to Doc and give her a call…but as usual all I get us her voicemail. "Hey babe, me again. Just wanted to let you know that I'm home, everything finished up well and I'm just waiting for you now. Please give me a call. I miss your voice. Love you, bye." I throw my phone down and I hope I kept the worry out of my voice. It's been pretty normal for Lauren to get lost in her work most nights, but I always at least get a text from her.
Maybe I should go down there. I feel Doc paw at my hand and nudge me with this head. "Okay, I'll try once more." I reach for my phone and call Lauren again.
This time before it completely rings out, she picks up. "Jesus Lauren, I've been calling you all night baby." I laugh.
"Bo?" I hear an out of breath voice say.
"Anni?"
"Yeah hi." She pants.
"Where's Lauren? I've been trying to reach her for hours."
Anni whispers something to someone before clearing her throat. "Sorry about that. We've had a bit of an emergency here." She says just before I hear a loud crash in the background, followed by a pained groan. "Shit…"
I sit up as my heart rate speeds up, with Doc shooting up by my side. "Anni, what the hell is going on?"
"Oh nothing bad…we've had a work emergency. A…uh, a lot fae were attacked at a bar and everyone's been rushed off there feet trying to treat them." Anni says over some more noises in the background. "Laurens not had a moment to herself. I had to rush out for a pee break when I heard her phone ringing."
"So, everything's fine with Lauren?" I can't help but feel somethings off with her.
"Yes, yeah everything is perfect. She's just got about 15 patients and not enough hands." She laughs awkwardly.
"Anni…what's going on here. You sound weirder than usual."
Anni just breaths down the phone for a few seconds before clearing her throat. "You caught me." She sighs. "I wasn't on a pee break, I was scared. I've never seen injuries like this Bo, I'm worried I'm out of my depth." She whispers.
Ahh Jesus. Sometimes I forget she's only 23. "Lauren speaks so highly of you Anni. There's no way you'd be where you are today if you couldn't keep up with the best of them. You've got this."
"Thanks Bo."
"I'm serious. Now is there anything I can do? Come down there maybe?" I suggest.
"NO" She shouts. "I mean no thank you. There's already to many cooks right now, and Lauren would kill me for dragging you out of bed to deal with this after your long night. We've got it covered, you just get some rest so you can deal with tired, grumpy Lauren tomorrow." Anni again laughs awkwardly.
"Okay then. Can you tell Lauren I called, and everything went well tonight." I ask.
"Will do." She says just as another loud crash sounds. "Gotta go, bye." The dial tone buzzes down my ear and I pull my phone back with a frown.
"Man that kid is weird sometimes." I sigh falling back onto the pillows. "I guess everything is okay then Doc." He stares at me with a tilted head for a moment before curling up next to me. Everything is fine I tell myself as I soon lose my battle with sleep.
A/N: Sorry if this is another tease, but I felt like I needed some Bo/Kenzi time because it's going to be very Doccubus heavy for a little while…and don't worry all will be revealed very very soon.
