A/N: I get sad with every chapter...we're finally to the end of pt1.
Pt2 will not be written right away. Or as long. But it will be written, maybe jump a couple of years...I personally think they met their limit of angst and heartache. Pt2 will be fluff filled with a side of drama lol
Rated M
Enjoy.
"We need to do body counts" Bo ordered peeling herself away from Lauren's body.
"Already did, everyone's here" Tamsin said running her fingers through Lyric's hair. Bo walked over to the blond and spoke with sadness in her voice.
"That's not what I meant. Who's alive and who's not" Silence overtook the crowded room, it has been hours since Tamsin and her sisters tried everything in their power to bring life back into the pack.
Some gave signs of life...some didn't
"List of names alive...now" Bo whispered closing her eyes readying herself for the results. Tamsin's cleared her throat nervous as she spoke the first name.
"Vex"
"Ironic but continue" Bo rolled her closed eyes. He would survive. The evil always did.
"Hannah"
"Lexi"
"Dave"
"Frank…" Bo eyes shot open at the name of her mate's father.
"How is he?" Bo asked concerned.
"He's okay for the most part, he was holding on for dear life when my mother healed him."
"Where is he now?" Bo scanned the room but didn't see him.
"With Ethan and baby Lewis" Kenzi assured her as Tamsin's continued.
"Hugo"
Tamsin whimpered not able to say the last name, Kenzi took the sheet of paper from Tamsin who gave her a watery eyed smiled.
"Lyric" Kenzi said as tears fell from Bo's eyes but suddenly a sob escaped her lips. Her mate name wasn't on that list.
"List of the dead" Bo ordered, getting herself together...she couldn't breakdown...not yet anyways.
"Jack"
"Heather"
"Zola"
"Alexis"
"Fuck not Alexis! She was only nineteen" Bo cried as Kenzi held her tight.
"Travis"
Tamsin stopped, she didn't want to say the last name. Bo knew the last name, her heart tore even more as she let her brain comprehend the reality of the situation.
"Say it." Bo whispered
"I...I c...can't" Tamsin let the paper drop from her hands.
"Kenzi" Bo ordered her best friend but Kenzi knew better.
"No Bo...I can't either" The small woman's voice cracked. Bo snatched the paper off the floor and looked at the last name.
Lauren
Inhaling a deep breath as tears filled her eyes. Bo opened her mouth and softly spoke.
"Lauren"
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Gasping for air, she clutched her chest hard as tears filled her eyes. She was struggling to breathe, as her chest filled with excruciating pain…
A voice hit her ears.
"Just relax and breathe"
Lauren swiftly turned at the sound of the voice to see no one there. Her breaths was becoming shorter with every struggle she gave.
"Stop fighting it! You're going to die if you don't get it together"
Lauren closed her eyes and tried to relaxed but the tightening in her chest was too much...but she stayed motionless and tried to breathe. Calling on Jia for healing, after a few seconds of complete silence...Lauren hissed as the pain doubled. Relaxing her muscles, the girl voice hit her ears again.
"That's it...deep slow breaths" The voice was closer, Lauren eyes shot open as she was met with a pair of extraordinary eyes and dimples. The girl had to be about fifteen years old. The girl was a sight to see with her flowing brown chocolate colored hair.
"Feel better?"
"Who are you?" Lauren asked ignoring the girl's concern. The girl rolled her big round eyes and sat down next to the confused shifter.
"Uh you could've said thank you, I can release the hold I have on your pain and let you feel how much it really hurts" The girl frowned huffing as Lauren smirked thinking about who the girl remind her of.
Bo
"BO!" Lauren screamed in panic, scrambling to her feet, she stumbled and sway. The girl caught the injured swaying shifter, laying her back down on the bed...the girl rolled her eyes again.
"Dude I'm gonna need you to chillax before you break something. Sheesh!" The girl rubbed her fingers through Lauren's hair, scratching softly behind her ear. Lauren immediately relaxed but froze as the girl continued to scratch. Only two people knew about that spot.
Bo and Sara.
Who the hell was this girl! Pushing the girl away and scrambling to her knees. She looked into the girl's eyes.
"I'm not going to ask you again, who the hell are you? Where am I?" Lauren growled but it came out weak and pathetic.
Wait a damn minute!
Lauren's head was silent...too silent!
"W...wh-
"Don't freak out-
Lauren screamed as she grasped at her head, her shifters were...gone. How the fuck was her shifters gone!
"I don't feel-
"I know I took them away. It was the only way to save you" The girl said as Lauren ignored her brain telling her not to attacked, lunging at the girl only to be subdued quite quickly. Lauren struggled in the girl's iron grip, it looked like the girl wasn't even using much strength either.
"You are really starting to piss me off"
"Well join the club! Let me go!" Lauren ordered as the girl pushed the older woman away from her. Hissing angrily at the dirt mark on her all white heels.
"Look at what you did! Do you know how much these shoes cost!" The girl's eyes shifted from blue to green and last to raging red. Lauren gasped surprised as she could taste the girl's anger.
"How…"
"If you actually calmed down and let me finished! I will tell you everything you need to know"
"Why should I trust you!" Lauren said rubbing her chest as pain suddenly crept back into it.
"You feel that? I'm shielding your pain, you died Lauren, you gave up! Which I personally think was a bowl of bullshit on your part. I had to separate you from your shifters to save you"
"Why? Who. Are. You." Lauren stressed out as the girl let her eyes shift.
"Your daughter"
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Bo had managed to fix the house back after Hades attack on her grandfather and the rest of the pack. Luckily no one got hurt bad, Tyro been healing mostly broken bones and gashes. Teamwork was the only way for them to get things done in a quick and painless way.
They had to rebuild and restore...emotionally and physically.
With so much death and their Alpha dead, the six members left that was awake was weak and heartbroken. Lyric still hasn't woken up but her heart was beating which was all Tamsin needed to hear to know her mate was alive. Ethan and Baby Lewis still hasn't seen the pack or Bo, Bo wasn't ready to face that kind of music right now. She was Alpha now, they looked to her for guidance. She couldn't lose her shit and breakdown yet...not yet. Ethan and Baby Lewis was staying up in Valhalla until everything cooled down on earth. Vex went back to his master, one arm lost but alive nonetheless. The Morrigan was given proof that the shifter didn't survived the war and resigned her deal. Vex got so comfortable with the (Good Life) that he visits regularly to the mansion. Trick took flights back and forth from Africa to see his Granddaughter, as they all watched her baby bump grow day by day. Kenzi was playing doctor to Dave and his injuries, they stopped running circles around each other and finally hooked up. Frank was so emotional which was shocking to the pack when he stepped into his house after so many years held captive in hell. He didn't take Lauren death okay, but once Bo introduced him to the three shifters...he relaxed a little. Loki was like a little kid around Frank, excited to hunt and patrol with his Father. Bo felt extreme sadness in her heart as she pictured her own child not being able to do those things if she didn't find a way to get Lauren back. Bo managed to figure out why her shifters separated from Lauren. Lauren body couldn't withstand the powers her shifters was dishing out when she got hurt.
Human Lauren was dead.
But her shifters were not, something was keeping them on earth with her...giving them strength without Lauren's body as host. Bo couldn't sleep if all three shifters weren't in her bed, the night terrors was a bitch. Gia don't leave her side for anything. Jia was mostly with Loki and Frank, Bo didn't question the sudden mood change in Gia. Her overprotective attitude was warming to the heart. She would catch the panther purring against her stomach when she was sleep. The baby had all three shifters wrapped around her finger already.
Bo had her suspicions as to why and how Lauren's shifters were here but she never told anyone, she didn't want to get anybody's hopes up.
She just prayed that she was right.
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Lauren looked at the girl dumbfounded.
"Come on! The brown hair, the shifting eyes...my inpatients should have tipped you off."
"Why am I seeing you?"
"You are dead Lauren, your shifters couldn't survive in a dead body so I separated them from you. You're here because I'm healing your soul first before your heart. Lauren your soul is completely broken" the girl said sadly with glistening eyes.
"Seeing your dead wife's face plastered on a woman that wasn't your wife, your children abused and almost killed and your bond broken so carelessly by the one person you've trust most in the world...my Mother"
"What does any of this have to do with my shifters?"
"You gave up and they didn't. You are the root of your life tree and your shifters are your branches, you gave up. They were dying inside you and I couldn't let history repeat itself."
"Wait! You're from the future?" Lauren eyes widened.
"I'm from a world that you don't live in and it's makes everything so much darker and lonely" The girl voice cracked, Lauren body jerked in response. Lauren wanted to wrap the girl in her arms.
"Mom is nowhere to be found, she gave into her succubus a few years after my birth and left. Aunt Kenzi has been a lifesaver for Ethan, Lawrence and I" Lauren watched the girl try and keep her emotions in check but was failing miserably.
Fuck it!
Wrapping her arms around the girl, Lauren felt so much love hit her right in her heart. It made her heart jump in her chest.
"I'm sorry I gave up. I...I just couldn't fight it anymore, all this hate and anger inside me made my decision more easier to rid myself and other the pain" Lauren explained wiping at her own tears.
"And by doing that you created such paralyzing pain and anger for everybody involved. Mom fought hard to stay strong but the pain was too much...she gave up. So that's why I did what I did. I wanted a different future, a happy future"
"I want that to…so much"
"There's so much my power will let me do, you need to truly want to live and fight for this to work"
"I do!"
"You must forgive" Lauren froze shaking her head as tears filled her eyes.
"I...I-
"She will never rest peacefully until you forgive...Mom will never stop beating herself up over breaking you guys bond. The first rule to healing in my book...is forgiveness"
Lauren bit her lip, how was she suppose to forgive Dyson and his pack for raping and killing her wife? Lauren shook her head as tears fell. The girl could see the struggled her mother was going through.
"She needs to rest peacefully Mom, it's been long overdue. She will always be in your heart and the hearts of my brothers...but right now you need to let go and heal"
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"Bo Bo you're gonna miss it! Look!" Ethan yelled as Bo pulled her sunglasses down her face to see what he was referring to. Ethan was standing on the diving board, jumping up and down slightly with excitement. They were having a family day up in Valhalla.
"I'm looking sweetie" Bo struggled to sit up as her slightly enlarged belly started to make things difficult for her. Ethan made it seem like he was in the Olympics, as he sored through the air doing impressive tricks before he hit the water. Baby Lewis was swimming with Kenzi in the kiddy pool as the rest of the pack lounge around while Frank fired the grill up. It's been three months since that fatal night, Bo had arranged the funerals for their fallen brothers and sisters. It was a very sad day to watched so many caskets be lowered into the ground. Bo assisted that Sara be reburied with new clothes...new everything. Lauren wasn't buried because Bo refused to, no one could talk her out of it. Lauren's body was replace by Pyro's who finally got laid to rest. Bo was getting bigger and bigger everyday, eating everything in sight. Her succubus was a raging horny bitch but Bo couldn't even dream about touching anybody else. Luckily for her, the baby's chi was producing far more than they both needed.
Such a strong little girl
"Bring her back to me" Bo whispered as a tear fell revealing itself as it rolled from under her shades and fell down her cheek.
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"Ready to go back? We've been up here for far too long. But I take full responsibility for that, I just don't want to let you go" The girl confessed, Lauren hugged the girl tight.
"So don't. No matter where we are in time...I will always be there" Lauren whispered into the girl's hair as she quietly shed a few tears.
"Close your eyes and call on your shifters, they will hear you...and they will come running"
"Where will you go?" Lauren asked moving hair from the girl's eyes. God! She was a split image of Bo.
"Wherever my heart takes me...we'll meet again, I hope you're ready for my teenage angst" They both laughed as Lauren hugged the girl one last time.
"Will you tell me your name?"
"Nope" Lauren laughed as the girl looked up into her Mother's eyes.
"I love you Mama"
Lauren never felt this emotional since Ethan's birth and Sara death.
"I love you too...so much and I forgive. I forgive everything. I want to go home and see my family" Lauren told the girl as she put her hand on her Mother's chest and softly pat three times over her dead heart.
One beat.
Two beat..
Three beats…
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That conversation was heartfelt to write. Too emotional. We have one more chapter to go! What a emotional anger filled bipolar ass ride this story was.