Out of the Dark

by The Descent into Chaos

This Valkubus fanfic is at the request of a reader. It begins at the start of S1 E1 of Lost Girl when Bo is captured and taken to The Ash's compound. After being examined by Lauren and learning what she truly is, Bo is again taken to be given The Test, to choose a side. While waiting in custody, The Morrigan visits Bo to get her to join the Dark, and this is where the story begins.

36. Chapter 36

At the crack shack. Kenzi goes up to Bo's room, who's lying in her bed. "That was Dyson again. Coming over for the tenth time this week," she says. "You'd think after having someone ignore your phone calls that he'd get the point," she adds. Bo doesn't respond, her mind is somewhere off in the distance. "So, when are we gonna talk about it?" asks Kenzi.

"Talk about what?" responds Bo.

"Bo c'mon, you know what I'm talking about. And I know that you've been keeping busy, but when you come home, it's straight upstairs," says Kenzi. Bo doesn't respond. "Well if you're not gonna talk, I guess I'll go back downstairs and continue saving the world from robot hookers."

Bo sits up. "Okay, fine Kenzi. What do you want me to say…how humiliated I was? That you all had to see me being intimate with someone? And how Dyson probably ruined any chances of me and Tamsin being together again? Or how I felt like some kind of prostitute in the end? And all because I was trying to save Dyson's life," says Bo. She shakes her head. "I don't know. I mean maybe, maybe I could have done something else, but I didn't have time to think. And now she hates me."

"Bo, I wouldn't say that she hates you. I'm sure she's just hurt. And you did what you had to do."

"No, I didn't. He wasn't even supposed to be there." Bo frowns after realizing something. "Why did you bring him there? You've been there before, you know what her place looks like and…"

Kenzi interrupts. "Hey now, don't go blaming this shit all on me. I told him that we should leave repeatedly, but he didn't listen. You know how Dyson is."

"But why was he there in the first place?" asks Bo, not understanding.

Kenzi sighs. "Because, I got all worried and stuff. You left an untouched glass of wine and your phone. So I got paranoid. And I needed someone to help me know that you were okay. And when we started getting closer to the place, I asked him to turn around. You know Dyson has that sniffing power shit. Then it was like all woods. So then I really started to freak out."

Bo shakes her head again. "You know what, just forget it, it's done, all of it."

"Bo, you can still win her back," says Kenzi, sitting next to her.

"How? Please explain to me how? You saw that look in her eyes. I did that. I hurt her. And it's not like I can ever go back there and she's not going to call me. She was serious Kenzi." Bo pauses. "You don't understand," says Bo, with a sad tone. "I saw a different side of her. The one that I fell in love with. And the things we did, we've never done before. It was like our minds were connected, and our bodies, and everything was on an entirely different level." Bo shrugs. "And what did I do? I went and fucked everything up. If only I just left things be…if only I never fell in love with her again."

"Bo, you gotta stop blaming yourself dude. It wasn't your fault. It was Dyson's. He could have just as well walked away instead of doing what he did. And you falling in love with her again is bull Bo, you never stopped. Does she even know?"

"No," says Bo, shaking her head. "And it doesn't even matter anyway. I think I caused enough problems, I don't need to add more, plus it would confuse her. All she knows is that I like her, more than I should." Bo shakes her head again. "This is so messed up. And why did you tell him all that? I wanted to do it on my own, in my own time."

"Because Bo, I was tired of playing musical chairs. And I was tired of him hurting you. And believe it or not, I was tired of his disrespect for her when you care so much about her Bo."

"But it wasn't supposed to be like that. I wanted to be the one to tell him."

Kenzi shrugs with a sigh. "Alright, I was wrong for that, but he was getting on my last damn nerve. And what was that about trying to kill her twice?"

Bo is quiet for a moment. "Back at The Dawning, I had to choose who I'd bring back with me. And he decided that it should be him, so when she wasn't paying attention, he clawed her."

"What?! Are you serious?" asks Kenzi, with her mouth wide open. Bo nods her head. "Damn that's fucked up. No wonder she was going ham on his ass."

Bo heaves a huge sigh. "Can we just please not talk about this anymore?"

"Okay. Well in other news, you and Lauren, how did you two break up?"

"Oh let's just add more to the depression while we're at it," says Bo, giving her a look. "And she said that we needed a break. And before you ask me about how I ended up at Tamsin's, she came over and she invited me to her place."

"I saw the home and garden, it was beautiful Bo," says Kenzi, trying to make Bo feel better.

"Well, I guess that's the last time I'll be seeing it too," says Bo, gloomy. She draws her knees near her, and leans her head against them in thought.

"Bo, don't think like that. You'll get her back. You two have way too much in common for it to end like that," says Kenzi.

"What do you mean?" asks Bo, giving her an odd look.

"You know…chemistry and shit like that," says Kenzi, covering herself. "So, wings? How the hell did that happen?" she says, changing the subject, and hopefully Bo's mood.

Bo sits back up and shrugs. "I don't know. It happened after she had an orgasm," she says, not thinking anything of it.

Kenzi's mouth is open in shock. "Bo, you giving bitches wingasms now?" she says.

Bo laughs a little at how ridiculous that sounded. "I'm sure I had nothing to do with that, she is a Valkyrie. And I know what you're trying to do. Thanks," she says, with a small smile.

"No prob Bob. So while we're on the subject, you should have seen yourself," says Kenzi. Bo wonders what she is talking about. "Dude, you were like glowing and shit, and it was like how you make people glow when you touch them for intel. And glowing as in your whole body."

"What, really?" says Bo, surprised and embarrassed at the same time. Kenzi nods her head. "I didn't know that."

"Yeah, probably why Dickson was so mad. He was all like, she must have her under some kind of spell," says Kenzi, trying to sound like Dyson in his growley voice. "But let's not even bring him up. Anyway, what is it about Tamsin?"

"What do you mean?"

"I'm just saying, yall be on some other shit."

Bo thinks about it. "Well…everything. I mean, being with Tamsin, like that, it's like being with a man and a woman at the same time and then some."

Kenzi gasps. "Tamsin's a hermaphrodite? Not that I'm judging or anything, just saying."

"Um no Kenzi," says Bo, with a frown. "I don't even know if I should tell you now."

"Ah c'mon Bo. You can't just lead somebody on and then leave them hanging out to dry like that. No secrets remember?"

Bo exhales. "Okay," she says. Then she tells Kenzi about what Tamsin can do with her chains, and it leaves Kenzi speechless. "Kenzi?" calls Bo. Kenzi is still in her thoughts. "Kenzi."

"Sorry. That was just a tad bit more graphic than I thought it would be." Kenzi frowns as she thinks of something. "Wait, shouldn't that hurt? I've seen those things kill. Now I heard of kinky, but this is far far beyond that. I mean that sounds like some Alien Cyborg Species Avatar Matrix Mortal Kombat kind of shit."

Bo laughs. "No, it's not like that. It's like a double connection to each other. Like aside from what we're feeling separately, it's like feeling what we feel like together and what the other person is feeling," she says. Kenzi is looking lost. "I know it's kind of hard to explain."

"Okay, but doesn't it hurt, like down there?"

Bo shakes her head. "No. It feels like the real thing, but surrounded by some kind of major aphrodisiac that has this really nice burning sensation," says Bo. Kenzi is thinking since when does burning ever sound right when it comes to sex, wearing an expression of the sort. Bo is still talking. "And as that is going on, it's like other stuff touching all the right spots, soft as a tongue, and…"

Kenzi interrupts with a gag expression. "Okay we can stop right there. I get it."

"Hey you asked," says Bo, with a shrug. "I guess you probably don't want to hear about the rest then."

"Um I think I'm good," nods Kenzi. "They did say that curiosity killed the cat." Then Kenzi shakes her head. "And that can so be misinterpreted."

"I feel kinda bad. I mean here I am always talking about sex all the time to you when…"

Kenzi lifts her hand in the air in a halting manner as she interrupts. "Don't even go there. And you're a Succubus, what else are you supposed to talk about?" she says. Bo looks a bit offended then she does a shrug while nodding like yeah she's probably right. "If I wanted a snore fest I could just go see the Doc. And anyway, I'm just preserving myself," she says.

"For what, mummification?" says Bo, with a laugh.

"Oh very funny. And yes I am if you must know. Well not the mummy part. You on the other hand wouldn't know anything about that missy."

"Well yeah if I wanted to die," says Bo, with a frown. "But Tamsin, she fills me up, and leaves reserves...and now I'm back to being depressed."

"I don't know why? With all that you said, you two are definitely made for each other. Speaking of which, Bo there is something I gotta tell you, and it's about you," says Kenzi. Bo looks on curious to what Kenzi has to say. "Okay, I don't know how you might react to it, but I'm just gonna come out and say it. So do you remember that day when…" says Kenzi, being interrupted by a knock on the front door. "Timing is always so awesome here," says Kenzi, wanting to tell Bo about the Dark Bo's. "And that had better not be Dyson again." Kenzi goes downstairs and it's a client of the babysitter class. She tells Bo and Kenzi about the missing people in her well-to-do community of Shady Grove and the two decide to take on the case. They check out the community and it's like The Real Housewives of Shady Grove, book clubs, margaritas, and gossip.

Lauren's apartment. Dr. Taft shows up, apparently insistent on having Lauren to work for him. Lauren tells him that she is already employed. She works at Ash Pharmaceuticals, a research and development facility to which even Dr. Taft isn't buying. He gives her all these admiring compliments about her as an individual, all flattering, but Lauren still sends him on his way. He lets her know that he won't give up.

At The Dal, Kenzi, who has returned from Shady Grove, and Trick are doing some research of their own in regards to the case when he discovers the babysitter in one of his books, Lisa Allan, who was missing 100 years ago. He tells Kenzi that she is Duppy, which is the equivalent to a person without a soul, meaning dead, but Fae. Kenzi frowns upon this information. Meanwhile in Shady Grove, Bo finds out that Lisa is in fact the killer of the missing people by witnessing her kill one of the housewives. Bo takes her to The Dal, where Lisa is now lying on a sofa, passed out. Kenzi, Trick and Bo are discussing the nature of Lisa. He tells them that basically she is called upon every 100 years to kill. Kenzi feels sorry for Lisa, especially since the name Duppy sounds so adorable, but not for a serial killer. Bo wants to know how she's doing this being dead and all. Trick tells Bo that Lisa's essence comes from whoever called upon her. Bo wants to wait to ask Lisa who summoned her when she comes to, but Trick's tells Bo that Lisa doesn't know that she is doing it, and won't remember which complicates things. Now Bo has to find out who is making Lisa kill. Lisa awakes and Kenzi takes it upon herself to tell Lisa about everything by way of over a dozen kinds of alcoholic beverages. She tells Kenzi that she has to babysit today, so Kenzi goes in her place for the sake of no one else getting the Norman Bates.

In Shady Grove, Bo is doing her undercover work when one of the housewives, Caroline, sees her charming a guy, Sam, that Bo suspects is invoking Lisa. Caroline goes over to Bo and steals her away from Sam, telling Bo that where they are going is a surprise.

At the cop shop, Tamsin walks in, not looking like her usual self, highly inebriated. She silently sits down at her desk, not saying a word to Dyson, who doesn't know any words to say to her either. He looks over the file of the Fae victim left at the tracks near Bo's house as Tamsin looks like she wants to be anywhere else but there. But Dyson breaks the silence. "Tamsin, I…"

Tamsin interrupts. "Don't," she says, still pissed.

"I just wanted to say…" he says, being cut off again.

"Look, I don't give a shit about what you have to say to me because there's nothing that you can say. And I may be your partner, but I am not your friend," she says, firmly.

Dyson nods his head, knowing that there's nothing he can really say to fix what he has done. "Okay, well you remember the girl from the tracks?" he asks, changing the subject. Tamsin gives him a duh look. "Well her twin sister came in today wanting to know her whereabouts."

"So," says Tamsin, not giving a care in the world.

"Look at the picture again," he says, handing it to her.

She snatches it and looks at it. "Same shit, so what?"

"I know that we both believed it to be Bo's doing, but we never paid attention to the marks on this girl's neck. It's like whatever killed the girl has the same kind of feeding signature as Bo, but Bo doesn't have six fingers," he says.

Tamsin looks at the picture again and sees the marks, all the while frowning. "Well, guess the good Doctor missed that part too when she was not performing a thorough autopsy, but whatever," she says, with a shrug.

"Look Tamsin, I know that you're drunk. I could smell the liquor on you before you even sat down, but try a little professionalism."

Tamsin rolls her eyes. "You're one to talk."

"Just listen Tamsin, I think that this girl wasn't killed where we found her, but dumped there."

"Well I guess you got it all figured out then. Good luck with all that," she says, getting up.

Dyson frowns. "You're not going to investigate this with me? We are partners."

"Partners, really? Let me think about that for a second," says Tamsin, acting as if she is really thinking. "Oh yeah, you see the thing about partners is that they don't try to kill their partners, and twice," she says, with emphasis on the twice. "Never was in any handbook that I ever read."

"Tamsin this isn't the place or time for this," says Dyson.

"Does it look like I care where the fuck we are?! And it was just the time and place when you were about to try to say that you were what sorry," says Tamsin, giving him a look. Dyson doesn't respond. "You invade my home," she says, pointing at him. "You kill my wolves, and you expect me to forget about that shit!"

"Tamsin, lower your voice."

"Don't tell me what the fuck to do! I can say what the fuck I want as loud as I want to," she says.

Dyson looks around to see if they are causing unwanted attention. "Again, we are at work. And this is a peace project, why don't you act like it?"

"Peace project my ass. You broke the peace. You know, ever since I got back here you always had a problem with me, and I wasn't even fucking your girlfriend, well then," she says, the last part with a mocking tone. This irritates the hell out of Dyson, who is trying his best to restrain his emotions. "So I'm gonna make this crystal ass clear, I don't like you and I have no respect for you."

Dyson sighs in an effort to calm himself, and ameliorate the situation. "Tamsin, I know what happened, and what I did was out of line and really wrong on my part. And I do apologize."

Tamsin frowns and shakes her head. "I don't accept that generic ass shit. And even if it were genuine, I still wouldn't."

"Okay," says Dyson, nodding his head. "I know that there's nothing that I can say or do to rectify my actions, but with that being said, we still have a job to do."

"And that is?" says Tamsin, with a raised eyebrow.

"We have to investigate the crime scene again. This thing could be actually bigger than what we expected."

"Fine," says Tamsin, with a sigh. "I'll do my job. But if you ever in your fucking life touch me again, I will rip your dick off and feed it to you!" she says, walking away.

Lauren's apartment. She is going over some kind of report with Hale. When she finishes, she asks him if she could go on a leave for a special project to which he denies. His thinking is that she is much safer within the Light Fae's reach than anywhere else, well not wanting her in the clutches of the Dark Fae where they would execute her. She begins to feel like she is being held captive, reminding him of all the things that they went through before he came into power. He gives her the weekend off and leaves.

Meanwhile in Shady Grove, Bo and Caroline meet up with another, Susan, in a field with a random carousel. This is where Bo discovers that they are witches, who want her to be a part of their circle. Caroline shows Bo her powers by making it night with a burning star symbol on the grass. Bo agrees so that she can get more information on what is really going on there. They divulge way too much information to Bo, incriminating in fact when they began telling her about the killings as if it were nothing. Bo tells them that she can't in good conscious just kill people even if they are cheaters. Then the witches propose that they could get rid of her ex for her. And Bo is like no thanks, not that serious. Bo gets a call from Trick telling her Lisa is gone, and if she finds the pendant that is used to invoke Lisa, then she'll find the killers, but Bo already knows who the culprits are and who has the pendant.

Back at Lauren's, Doctor Taft shows up yet again, in stalker-like fashion, asking Lauren to join him in his research to which she constantly refuses. Then he shows her a document that she thought was hidden. It's her, a known fugitive by the name of Karen Beattie. She looks stunned, but tells him that she won't be blackmailed. He tells her that he still wants her to join him and that the document was the only copy, handing it to her. Dr. Taft allows her to make her own decision and leaves. Lauren is left in her thoughts, thinking that she can actually contribute something to humans than Fae all the time, and that it is possibly a fresh start to be away from the Fae period.

At the dark side of Shady Grove. Bo and the witches have bonded themselves together with some kind of a fabric. The head witch, Caroline, is in the middle of what seems like casting a spell when the wind blows and the random carousel starts to spin rapidly out of control as it plays a creepy carnival version of The Wanderer song. Bo is looking disturbed and having second thoughts. Then Bo realizes that Caroline is summoning Lisa to kill Sam, whose child Kenzi is babysitting. Bo tries to be released from the circle, but Caroline tells her that she can't unless they all agree upon it, which Caroline doesn't intend on doing. As Lisa is going on her kill, Bo tries to charm the witches into stopping Lisa. She then decides on charming them to turn against one another. It is all put to an end, when a creepy dark voice begins talking through Susan, telling Bo about her power and conquering the world together. Bo is looking freaked out. But when the witches flare up and disintegrate, Bo looks really terrified, thinking what in the hell was that, and who was that? The skies return to day and Bo grabs the pendant that is laying on the grass. The carousel is spinning at a typical speed, still playing the creepy song.

The crime scene. Tamsin and Dyson end up in some field. "How much further are we going to walk? We left the crime scene like fifteen minutes ago," says Tamsin, not wanting to be there, or do any extra work.

"Can you smell that?" asks Dyson.

"Smell what, you in heat or something?"

Dyson ignores her comment. "That girl came from here." He sniffs again, frowning. "It's death.

"Well then I guess you should be making a call then."

The Dal. Lisa has agreed for Bo to end her life since she doesn't want to return in another one hundred years to be under the control of someone else who wears the pendant. Bo is reluctant, but out of mercy, Bo chi sucks Lisa until she dies and then burns the pendant.

Sometime later, at the crack shack, Bo enters feeling bad after having done what she had to do for Lisa. She and Kenzi hug it out. Then Bo tells Kenzi that when she was at The Dawning, she felt love from her father, but all she saw was his backside. Kenzi wasn't expecting to hear this. Bo goes on talking about this strength she now has, and how she believes it has something to do with her father. Now Bo wants to locate her father.

"Dude, you so have too many things on your plate right now. You might want to start, if I were you, to go on, deal with what, you got going on, in the present," Kenzi says, words a bit slurred.

Bo sits down on a kitchen stool. "What do you mean, like me and Lauren breaking up?" she asks.

Kenzi frowns. "Um, I was thinking…" she says, being cut off.

"Because I want to know too. I mean are we on a break or broken up for real?" asks Bo.

Kenzi seems to be very confused, thinking that whatever the case may be, that it is in Bo's best interest if they were. But some Succubi need closure, plus the loneliness is beginning to set in, no matter how selfish it may seem.

"Well if you want to know for sure then just ask her. But I thought that you wanted to be with Tamsin."

"I do, but even that seems bleak," says Bo.

"Well have you, have you even tried to contact her?" asks Kenzi, with a hiccup. Bo shakes her head. "Well then how can you expect, expect anything to happen if you haven't even made the first step?"

Bo shrugs. "I was hoping for a little divine intervention. I don't even know what words to say to her if I did get a chance. And as far as Lauren, I just want to be sure, that's all."

"I'm not trying to be, be funny or anything, but didn't you just have like Star Trek every generation sex. Hey, you ever thought about making a, a sex tape. It is totally in these days. We, we could be filthy rich dude. But then that would kinda expose the Fae. Or we can be, be like we had a badass budget for those special effects. And dude, I, I could be like the manager, but not a part of the crew and…"

Bo is looking at her strangely. "Kenzi what the hell?" she asks. "That was so random."

"Oh my bad. I think I was thinking about something else and, and got lost. Okay, oh right, if Tamsin is so awesome, and is two sexes in one without being a hermaphrodite, why do you care if you're broken up or not?"

"I don't know. I just do," says Bo, with a shrug.

"Well if Lauren says that you all are back, back on then what? You gonna break up with her for good measure? Or are, are you just trying to do the whole rebound thing because you don't like being alone?"

"Hey, I'm not lonely. And if I wanted I can just about have anyone I want," says Bo as a matter of fact.

"Yeah okay, except the person that you really want, want. Let me hold, hold my breath for like ten seconds, these hiccups are killing a playa," says Kenzi, doing it. They finally go away. "Okay I'm back. Where were we? Yeah, and forget about calling the Doc. You need to be trying to get Tamsin back. Like they say, anything that you want is worth the fight, or is it something worth it you gotta fight for, oh hell you know what I mean. And Bo, you really want her. The Doc, she's just an easy way out to avoid your real problem. You're in love with Tamsin, go to her."

Bo gives her an odd look. "Are you drunk? I mean you are making a lot of sense, but I just want to know."

"Mayhaps. It's possible that I drunk all of Lisa's drinks after returning from Shady Grove. I just realized that the name implied itself, get it, Shady Grove. Anyway, priors to that, Lisa thought that she wasn't old enough to drink them, and I was like dude you're like a thousand or two. So as the story goes, no use in letting them go to waste. But that's beside the point, the point is, wait a sec, I gotta remember what the hell I was just talking about," says Kenzi. "Oh yeah, the point is, you gotta try Bo. Don't let love slip through your fingers because of embarrassment or ego. And I can't believe I'm saying all this shit. Totally wasted dude."

"Me either. And I hear you. I just have to take care of the situation with Lauren first before I can really move on move on. And maybe I am afraid of losing them both, but I put myself in this situation, so I have to figure out a way to fix things, or at least try to."

"That's the spirit. Speaking of spirits, I needs me some more, alcohol that is," says Kenzi, with a burp.

"You might want to let the drinks already inside of you marinate for a while."

Back at Lauren's. She decides to go with Doctor Taft after all. He carries her luggage out for her. Lauren takes off her necklace of the Light, placing it in a drawer. She is about to take her phone, but decides to leave it on her desk. Lauren receives a missed call from Bo after she exits her apartment.

At the other crime scene. Tamsin and Dyson are inspecting the different Fae, Dark and Light, that have been surfacing. They have come from near and as far as Egypt, and had been feeding off each other which doesn't make any sense to either Dyson or Tamsin seeing as it goes against their customs. Tamsin bends over looking as if she has to hurl, Dyson notices.

"What can't handle your liquor?" he asks.

Tamsin gives him this you-are-not-funny look. "It has nothing to do with that. It's just that they all died in fear for their lives. I can feel shit like that."

"So someone is not only killing Fae, but pitting them against each other, and then placing their bodies here, a dumpsite."

"I wouldn't call it that, it's a gravesite."

"Then something or someone is coming after the Fae," he says, disturbed.

"It would seem that way," says Tamsin, still appearing ill. A camera in a far away tree is watching their every move.

Later on that night at the crack shack while Bo and a drunken, but not still wasted Kenzi are watching a movie, they get a knock on the door, it's Dyson. He walks in. "Hey Bo, look who's at the door. It's a bird, it's a plane. It's Super Douche Bag!" says Kenzi. Bo sits a bowl of popcorn on the table with a look of irritation, in regards to Dyson that is. "Oh don't worry about me. Even though I would love to see how you're gonna manage to get yourself out of this situation, it's kind of boring. So I'm gonna go to The Dal. Laters." Kenzi leaves.

Dyson walks closer to Bo. "I know that you don't want me here, but I needed to talk with you. I didn't like how we left things off."

Bo looks over to him. "You never do."

"Bo, you don't have to respond to me. I just wanted to talk to you. But if you want to say anything then by all means do." He pauses. "I wanted to start off by saying that I was really wrong on all accounts," he says. Bo looks away from him. "And I know that you are tired of hearing me say these things. Honestly I am too. And I don't know why I act so foolish when it comes to you, never considering the possibility of losing you…I guess I act the way that I do because deep down inside, I wish it was me that you were in love with, but the world doesn't act like that sometimes. And I had my chances with you…but I took them for granted. I guess I always thought that we'd end up together in the end…I didn't know that your heart belonged to someone else…"

Bo interrupts. "So everything was cool when you thought it belonged to Lauren, why because she's human? I'm confused."

"Bo, I was caught up in my own jealousy. When a wolf mates it's for life," says Dyson, to which makes Bo frown.

"Wait a second. I know in the beginning we had sex, and I caught feelings. And over time I grew to love you. But don't you think that's a bit drastic to say to someone?"

"It's true Bo, and that is my price to bear," he says. Bo is looking like when did this happen because I don't get it. Dyson continues. "And I'd rather have you happy with someone else than not be a part of my life at all," he says, whole heartedly. All Bo can do is sigh. "I love you so much that I don't want to lose you…And I know that I took my frustrations out on Tamsin, I guess because I felt like it should have been me. I thought I was better for you, even when you were with Lauren, or anyone else. I never liked the idea of someone else touching you unless it was me."

This conversation is making Bo feel really uncomfortable underneath. "Dyson, what is this? Like what are you doing?" she asks.

"I'm just trying to be honest, and be honest with myself for a change." He sighs heavily. "Bo, I truly apologize if I messed up things between you and Tamsin. I didn't know about you two's history. I don't know how much that would have really mattered, but I would like to think that I would not have gone that far. But when it comes to matters of the heart, love will make you do some strange things. And you have every right to dislike me, or even hate me. But I love you Bo." He clears his throat. "Well, that's all I wanted to say," he says. Dyson begins to exit when Bo stops him.

"Dyson, I am really tired of fighting with you. I am," says Bo, shaking her head. "I forgive you way too much. All the time actually. Some of the things you do are pretty unforgivable. But I do it anyway because I try to understand you. I thought I did. But I don't anymore. And your apologies sound like a song on replay that I just don't want to listen to anymore." Bo pauses. "You don't understand how I feel. And the sad thing is…you're the one that's hurting me the most, and you don't even know it," she says, sadly. Dyson looks as if he has something to say, but Bo continues. "And I try so hard. I even make excuses for you so that you can still be a part of my life. But you constantly break my heart, by trying to kill it." Bo gets teary eyed. "I don't know anymore Dyson."

"You don't know what?" he asks, with concern.

Bo sighs. "I don't know if I can be your friend anymore."

"No. Don't say that Bo. I just told you that I won't interfere anymore," he says, with a reassuring nod.

A tear falls from her eye. "I don't know."

"I won't Bo. I wouldn't lie to you. When I did those things, I didn't know about you two."

"But that doesn't make it right," says Bo. Dyson is quiet. "You don't do those things to people Dyson. It's wrong. And you don't treat your friends like that." She pauses. "You saw me with her. You knew what we were doing. And I was not under any kind of spell like you told Kenzi. That was like the worst excuse you could've come up with." She pauses again. "Dyson, what you did was disgusting. And I would've never done anything like that to you, and I've seen you with other people before. Sure I was hurt, but I walked away. You don't seem to get that."

"I do get it Bo."

Bo exhales. "No, you don't. You talked about Lauren like she was an expiration date on a milk carton. And now that Tamsin is around, what you gonna try to outlive her too?"

"It's not like that Bo."

"Isn't it? Sometimes you act like some typical arrogant asshole guy in a bar. He checks you out the entire time and sees you interacting with your girlfriend, knowing full well that you two are together. But he comes up to you anyway, ignoring your girlfriend like she isn't anything because she's a woman, and since he is a guy, he thinks that I should be with him instead of her as if he were somehow better than she is to me."

"What do you need me to do Bo? Just tell me and I'll do it. And if you don't approve, I'll stay out of your life," says Dyson.

"I need you to respect me Dyson, and my decisions. And to, to back off," she says, upsettingly.

Dyson looks hurt. "What do you mean Bo?"

"Dyson, you know what it means," says Bo. Dyson nods his head and walks away. "Dyson," calls Bo, before he walks out. He stops. "You have to know your limits. Or you will lose me…only you wouldn't have to leave, I would just no longer be there."

"Why is it that when people love each other, there's always that one person that loves the other more?"

"Dyson, I never said that I didn't love you. You know that I do. I'm just in love with someone else."

"But you can be in love with more than one person."

"Yeah. I just choose not to. Not anymore."

Dyson shakes his head. "Why isn't love ever enough?" he says, pained. Bo doesn't reply. He stands there for a second, taking it all in, then he is about to walk out when Bo stops him.

"So now you're suddenly the victim," Bo says, standing up. Dyson turns around and faces her. "You came over here to apologize to me, and now you're trying to make me feel guilty? You want to get on me about love?" she says, with arm gestures. "You played me Dyson," she says, with emphasis on the played part. "And I let it go. I even went along with your whole friends with no strings attached bullshit," she says. Dyson is quiet. "You gave up your love. I never asked you to do that. Then you got it back and didn't tell me. You wait until I get involved with people, or show interest in someone every time when you want to drop bombshells on me. And and that whole mating for life thing? I never asked for that. You coming to The Dawning, and attacking people while I'm having sex with them…I never asked for that, any of that Dyson. So don't come here trying to make me feel bad over poor decisions that you made. That's not fair at all." Dyson doesn't know what to say. Bo shakes her head. "I mean Dyson come on, if you were me, what would you do?"

Dyson looks at her with genuine eyes. "Knowing how much I've hurt you in the past and now…friends or not, I shouldn't have done some of things I've done. In the past, I was looking after you. I wasn't supposed to become involved with you and I did. Then I put in place stipulations even though they hurt your feelings. But I cared too Bo. Then we became distant, and I know why now. But I gave up my wolf and my love was taken. I don't regret it. What I do regret is mistreating you after, but I couldn't do anything about it, I was empty until my love was restored. And yeah, I should have told you sooner. I was going to tell you when I came to get you from Hecuba prison. But I saw you and Lauren kissing each other. I've been frustrated ever since." He sighs. "Kind of a long winded answer, but honestly Bo, I can really see why you wouldn't want me around anymore. And I can't even be upset with it because it's my fault." The room grows silent. Bo is no longer looking at Dyson, but away, thinking. Dyson seems to be awaiting her response which she doesn't seem to be giving as she is still thinking. He breaks the silence. "So, what do you want to do now?"

Bo looks back over to him. "I don't want to do this anymore Dyson. I mean it," she says, seriously. Bo gets a message on her phone. She checks it. Then she puts on a jacket. "I would like it if this stayed between us."

"You're referring to Lauren?" he says. Bo gives him a look. "You don't have to worry. It's not my place to speak."

"Well, I'm gonna go meet Kenzi at The Dal." She walks to the door and opens it. "If you don't mind, I could use a ride," she says.

"Sure. But I have one last question for you. Did you really mean it when you said that you would kill me?"

Bo pauses for a second and then. "Yes," she says as she exits.