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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 Thirty Five
By: The RainbowWriters
Bo couldn't believe that she had actually dozed off on the couch in front of the television after hanging up from Lauren's call from the hospital. The blonde had assured her that after a quick diversion to pick up something she needed she was coming home, probably bringing Dyson with her, who needed more than anything to just rest and take time to calm down after the friction and chaos of the day. Her lover had even reassured her that Tamsin was taking over guarding Kenzi, pointing out that the Valkyrie didn't want to deal with a pissed off Succubus if she let anything happen to her bestie.
The phone ringing had woken Eliyana, who had shuffled off to bed still mostly asleep. A quick assurance from Bo that nothing was wrong with Kenzi or any of the rest of her hospitalized gang was all the Geist needed to hear in order to give into her overwhelming exhaustion.
Not having the younger Fae there in view, had given Bo the opportunity to relax a little more than she would have normally, which is how she had fallen asleep, not that the nap had been restful in any way. The short sleep had been rife with dreams that filled her with a sense of fear and panic, that seemed to have no cause and as soon as she blinked open her eyes all memory of the terrors left her, though the feelings lingered making her stomach churn uncomfortably.
Pushing herself upright on the couch, Bo blinked her eyes into focus on the small green numbers on the TV, blinking harder and frowning as she mentally calculated that according to them her lover had been away for close to two hours, no where near the thirty minutes she had been expecting. Pushing up off the couch completely Bo ran her hand over her stomach fighting a second wave of queasiness, that now she felt was due more to the fact that Lauren was missing than the residue from her dream.
Just as Bo was trying to form a plan of just what she was going to do next, the succubus' eyes flicked over to watch the dip of the handle on the hotel door. Her hyper alert sense catching the movement, her breathing halting in her throat as she watched the door push open. To her relief it was obvious quickly that the door was being opened by Dyson, who moved in first with the blonde Doctor following close behind.
"Lauren." Bo let go of the breath she held as she moved around the couch towards her Resonant. "You're okay." She said her voice flooding with relief as she moved to greet her lover, stuttering to a stop when she caught sight of the deep staining on Lauren's clothes and Dyson's badly ripped pants. "Or not... Oh God no..." She hurried over and immediately ran a hand over Lauren's shoulder, the other cupping the blonde's cheek.
"Bo, Bo... I'm fine." Lauren's voice was low as she moved her hand to cover the Succubus'. "There was a problem but Dyson handled it." She glanced back at the wolf, who smiled softly at the blonde as he pulled off his jacket. The look between the two of them clearly underlining that they had gone through something 'big' together, but come out the other side the victors.
Unlike at Lauren's condominium, the wolf's arm was now perfect again, there wasn't a mark on it to show he had even been bitten, but the wound on his back was covered with a large slightly stained white dressing and through the tears in his jeans a similar dressing could be made out on his knee. It had been the doctor's suggestion that he just put his coat on for the drive to the hotel, as she guessed the bandage would need changing from the amount the would was still oozing blood.
"Got any beers in?" He asked with a smile as his eyes met Bo's after her appraisal of his injuries.
"For you always." Bo smiled back at him, for just that moment content in the idea that whatever had happened Dyson had made sure Lauren was okay, and that meant the world to her. Her appreciation was easy to read as she crossed over to the mini fridge and dug into the back to find two beers that the Valkyrie hadn't seemed to have had time to drink. "But I would really like to know what happened?" She cracked open the first one for him and handed it to him as he settled into the chair that Eli had been curled up in earlier.
"My guess is that since finding out where Lauren, lived thanks to Vex, Eysan has had a pair of Lupines staking out the place, waiting until they scent traced her home." Dyson offered his version of events. "Tonight that happened and they tried to follow orders, so I stopped them." He gave the summary with another small smile before taking a long swig of cold beer. "I think they got the message that Dr. Lewis isn't available for a house call."
"Do I even want to know what a Lupine is?" Bo looked between the two of them holding out the beer on the off chance her lover wanted one. Lauren shook her head to the offer with a small smile, and Bo placed it in front of the wolf in case he wanted another. She could tell that he'd clearly earned it.
"Think shifter and then take a few long steps down the evolutionary ladder." Lauren moved slowly, easing her boots and jacket off. "More feral, far less..."
"Charming." Dyson interrupted with a low laugh. "Think of them as my unlikeable cousins, the ones I wouldn't invite to my wedding." He took another drink.
"That would be one way of putting it I suppose." Lauren consented with a small nod. "Excuse me, I really want to get out of these clothes." She added glancing down at her ruined shirt.
-x-
Bo had given her lover the polite ten minute window to return to the living room. In that time she'd managed to get a better run down from Dyson on what exactly a Lupine was and what kind of history they had with wolves like himself before she just couldn't stay put anymore. She refrained from asking the other important questions like what did you need so desperately to get at Lauren's place and why did you call her in the first place? After all they were both questions she wanted to ask her Resonant, and the wolf's body language was enough to tell her he wasn't going to be a great source of information.
After making sure that Dyson was comfortable on the couch, she ventured into the room she shared with the blonde and found the Doctor sitting on the bed with papers scattered around her on the mattress. Lauren's brow was knotted in a look of deep contemplation that Bo knew well enough.
"I'm guessing this was why you detoured to your apartment?" Bo looked down at the print outs, her voice curious to understand what all of it meant..
The blonde looked up, pushed her hair behind her ear and then looked down again picking up a sheet of paper off the bed before she put it down and then picked up another.
"The complexity of this serum is like nothing I've ever seen before... human or Fae." She frowned hard as she looked between the paper and her lover. "I didn't even know or believe such a thing existed, could exist. I don't even know how these individual elements could be held together to create a stable substance. The enzymatic nature of this precursor should denature at least three of the other additives." She pointed at one paper in particular. "And at least one of the possible original ingredients is a colloid venom found only in an now extinct underfae."
"Let's pretend that would ever make sense to me and start at the beginning." Bo sat on the very corner of the bed careful not to disturb any of the papers. She'd learned along time ago not to mess with Dr. Lewis' research papers. "And try to dumb it down just for fun."
Lauren looked at Bo, her brow furrowing more in apology.
"I forgot Bo. I got caught up in the whirlwind and I forgot." The blonde blinked brown eyes at her lover, looking for just a moment like she might well up with regretful tears. "Something a good researcher, a good doctor never does."
"Lately there hasn't exactly been the time to be a good researcher Lauren, you've been a great doctor though." Bo clarified the point out of what her lover had said that made sense to her. "And I'm sure whatever is in this..." She waved her hand over the papers. "Only you are smart enough to put it together, whatever this... you said serum? Like a medicine?"
"Bo, you're not..." Lauren shook her head and dropped the page she held back into its place among the rest. "The thing I forget was Kenzi." She looked directly into brown eyes. "Her arm." She underlined quickly the importance of what she was talking about, her hand going to the identical spot on her own arm..
For a moment the Succubus did let the seriousness of the situation settle in her mind. Of course she remembered what Lauren was talking about, remembered the conversation where Kenzi had revealed the 'problem' that had arose from her forcing the Norn to give Dyson's love back. The worst part of it all was that as she remembered all of this, she knew she too had forgotten. Forgotten that something unknown had spilled on her best friend and potentially was putting Kenzi at risk. After all, the Norn couldn't be trusted and with what Kenzi had done to her tree it was likely the scheming ancient Fae hadn't let something good contaminate her bestie.
"These are the results? You know what was in that jar? What is it? What can it do? Is it going to hurt her?" Bo fired the questions at her lover in quick succession, not able to focus so much on the 'forgetting' as on the idea of doing something proactive now.
Lauren closed her eyes briefly and then opened them as if trying to order her thoughts in an attempt to give Bo answers to any of her questions.
"That's just it Bo, these are the results, but as for what it was..." The blonde paused. "The Ash's archives came up with something called a Potency serum, it's an ancient Fae concoction that could be crafted by certain 'creatures' and gifted to worthy Fae who gave their 'heart and soul' for it, which looking at the ingredients could well have been a literal detail." The doctor tried to explain the tie in between the chemical analysis and historical records she had. "If any creature in this county would have such a serum in its possession it would be the Norn, but as for what it can do, or has done..." She paused again. "I just don't know." She admitted her failing. "Apart from the initial obvious damage, but that was mainly due to the highly acidic nature of the substance itself, the burning, and the irritation. I'm more worried more about the more complex ingredients in here."
"Potency serum?" The words stuck in Bo's head amongst everything else that Lauren had said. "Do you mean like late night infomercial potency serum?"
"No, think more along the lines of becoming a bigger and better Fae, tougher, stronger that kind of thing." Lauren shook her head to the comparison. "In your case there would be an obvious sexual nature but that's because of your species. A potency serum would make you a better succubus, increase the power of your sway, the proximity from which you could use your power. For Dyson it may make him more aggressive, stronger, that kind of thing. Going on the slivers of references in the archives it affects each Fae differently." Lauren moved and tucked her leg under her as she sat on it. "The thing is I think the serum has still managed to metabolize into Kenzi's body and because she's not Fae it's changed, adapted." She looked at Bo, her eyes slightly pinched by the frown on her face.
"Adapted into what?" Bo looked down at the read-outs as if somehow they could tell her what was going on.
"That's what I don't really know, but I think..." The blonde took another breath. "My hypothesis is that because Fae power enhancing abilities of the serum couldn't be applied actively to the body they were in, they found away to store themselves within her bloodstream, even regenerate themselves ready to apply themselves when and if they can."
"So now she's creating serum?" Bo raised an eyebrow not quite catching on.
"Her body has definitely retained elements from the serum, the last round of tests I took from her had the same levels of of them that the first round I did. But it's not just that Bo." Lauren looked up from the paper work to her lover.
Brown eyes held hers waiting for her to continue, after all Bo just wanted to know what was going on, she didn't in any way blame Lauren for losing sight of this in the chaos that had been their lives lately.
"Dyson called me to the hospital because he had had an interaction with Kenzi, in which he partially wolfed out at her, to quote him, he didn't feel in control, he just felt irrationally angry..." She explained, watching as her lover's eyes went wide with shock and worry. "He was worried that it was his wolf reacting to something outside influencing Kenzi, but that made me think, it made me remember back to the fact that I had been doing tests on Kenzi because of everything that had happened to her at the Norn's." She quickly explained. "So went back to my apartment to pick up the lab results and now I think maybe that it was Kenzi who made the flare reaction happen and not an outside influence."
"You mean this serum is making it so Kenzi enhances Fae powers in those around her rather than it enhancing something inside her?" Bo summed up what she was actually starting to understand. "She's become the serum?"
"That's basically my theory." Lauren looked at Bo with a nod. "It's too early to know for sure and there are a dozen tests I need to do, but..." She sighed. "The numbers Bo. Some of them have even increased in her blood not decreased. "
"What kind of numbers?" Bo pushed to understand more, after all this was her best friend they were talking about.
"Just points of a percentage, but that's not the point." Lauren shook her head. "There isn't anything in Kenzi's body to replicate them, it's a Fae serum. I need more up to date samples, more comparisons if I'm going to make any sense of this..."
"But she's not completely un-Fae anymore is she?" Bo put forward the fact gently cutting her off. "She's a Geist master."
The words made Lauren stop, a sheet of paper still clutched tightly in her hand.
"The Frenum has no biological connection..." Lauren frowned as she looked up from the comforter to Bo. "Does it? I mean I've never read or..." The blonde stopped. "Who am I kidding I've never read anything about it before." She rolled her eyes to the ceiling briefly.
"Lauren, it's okay." Bo gathered up a few papers to clear a path to her resonant and moved up beside her to gather her up into her arms. "You can't know about every little thing in Faedom, especially things you've never come across before and types of Fae that usually are only on the side of the Dark. Maybe there isn't a physical link but we know there is some kind of psychic one, or else how could Kenzi do what she does when she takes control. Maybe this serum in her blood only gets accelerated when she's actually taking control, maybe we have a lot of questions that no one has the answers too."
"Or afterwards, Bo that could be it." Lauren looked up suddenly, her eyes bright. "Something about Kenzi's metabolism alters when she uses the power of the Frenum, which is the catalyst for the serum to activate, otherwise it is dormant, or you and Eli would always be experiencing fluxes around her that you couldn't control." The blonde beamed at Bo. "You're a genius." She smiled giddily.
"I try." Bo couldn't do anything but give her a goofy smile that suddenly sobered. "Does that mean this could be affecting Tamsin?"
"Tamsin." Lauren let the name breath out of her lungs as she half turned to look at the clock. "Unfortunately I have no idea how long the activation of the serum lasts." She admitted the failing. "Though on the positive side, Tamsin's not exactly a talker, the only reason Dyson was 'activated' as it were is because they were engaged in a conversation. Also believe it or not, the Valkyrie is very, very self disciplined. The powers her kind has to repel outside attacks both mentally and physically are legendary. There is a reason folk lore has them as the chosen of a god." She gave a quick smile. "I can call, it will help us all worry less." She added the practical point. "You should probably check on Dyson, he saved my life tonight Bo." For the first time a slight waiver entered the blonde's voice as she looked into the deep brown eyes of her lover. "I healed some of his wounds, but I'm tired and he wouldn't let me continue."
"Then I have two reasons to say thank you to him." Bo pulled her a little tighter and smoothed her hand over blonde hair. "And I know you want to understand everything going on with Kenzi, but right now we have to remember who is out there watching and waiting for chances to strike." She held the gaze hoping her words conveyed a lot of what she was feeling. "We will do whatever we can to help Kenzi and still be safe."
-x-
Bo settled the door closed gently behind her as she slipped out into the small hallway of the hotel suite and walked down it into the main room. Dyson had made himself a little more comfortable in the time she had been away, started in on the second beer and taken off his boots. He had flicked the TV on to a channel that suited him, his slightly tired looking eyes turned from the screen to watch her entrance, his lips turning up into a soft welcoming smile.
"Lauren okay?" He asked his voice warm and genuinely caring.
"Yes, just tired and well unhappy with herself." Bo moved around and sat down on the nearby arm chair. "How are you doing?"
"A little bruised, nothing that a good rest won't fix, I'm not even in pain thanks to the good Doctor." He gave the brief run down as he looked at the succubus. "I wasn't going to let them hurt her Bo." He went on shaking his head as he met dark brown eyes. "I know what she means to you, how important she is." He went on, his voice deep and sincere.
Bo looked at him for a long silent moment, her eyes holding his, her face showing how much she believed his words.
"Thank you." She said again, her voice a soft gentle tone of heartfelt sincerity. "For stopping them from hurting her or kidnapping her, or doing anything my Father might have ordered them to do."
A muscle in Dyson's jaw twitched slightly.
"Lupine's aren't catch and retrieve Fae Bo." He shook his head solemnly and he watched as the news stuck the succubus in the stomach like a hard punch.
"Tell me what happened." She urged in, her face making it obvious she was looking for more then a 'they attacked, I stopped them' kind of retelling.
"My guess is that they were sent there, told to familiarize themselves with the scents of anyone who's traces lingered there, mainly Lauren's, and wait, wait until that 'target prey' turned up, which last night she did." Dyson shifted his sitting stance and sat forward a little. "We'd been in the apartment a while, at least half an hour, maybe more, I'm not sure, I was distracted. If I hadn't have been I would have smelled them before we went in. Their plan was to trap Lauren in the apartment and..." He stopped and glanced at Bo. "They coordinated their attack to begin as she was leaving, prepared to jump her as she opened the door, but I sensed them after I had calmed down from the hospital incident and managed to stop her before she opened it." He glanced away briefly and took a breath. "I gave Lauren my gun, sent her out onto the patio and then did what I had to too keep her safe." He summed up the intense fight briefly. "I guess they thought one lone wolf wouldn't be a match for two Lupines." He gave a soft chuckle. "Perhaps they shouldn't have snacked on a drunk homeless guy before making their move, they might have been a bit more successful."
"They're weren't successful because it was you." Bo shook her head to the last statement. "If anyone other than you had been there Dyson, they'd have ripped her apart at the door..." She reached out the short distance and rested her hand on his leg. "So again I say thank you, not just for saving her but for being the incredibly strong and honourable wolf that you are." She waited for his eyes to reach hers again. "No matter what has happened in our lives, I want you to know I trust you, with everything and everyone who is the most precious to me and I hope you know you can trust me."
Dyson put his large hand over Bo's.
"You're welcome." He said softly. "And yes, I do know." He nodded with a gentle smile. "I love you Bo, we both know that but Lauren is your love, your life, your Resonant." He took a breath, "I'm the shaggy old wolf that will always be there to protect you both, because you're his pack, his family."
"I know it's not fair to you sometimes but right here with me, as part of my family is exactly where I've always wanted you to be." Bo's face beamed of love and pride. "Even when you couldn't love anything, you never gave up on me and I never gave up on you. I couldn't imagine my life without you in it." She pushed herself forward and hugged him.
"You're never going to need to." Dyson held her tightly breathing in deeply and after a lingering moment Bo pulled back to sit down again.
"Now... tell me about this fight you had with Kenzi." She winked at him. "Not exactly what I left you at the hospital to do."
"And here I was hoping to get out of that..." Dyson smirked and leaned forward to grab his beer.
-x-
Dyson laughed brightly and finished the last of his beer and put the can on the table to join the six others that were already there, four in front of him and two in front of Bo. The succubus still held one in her hand that she brought to her lips and drank from it trying not to choke on the liquid as she laughed.
The wolf didn't follow up the comment that had had them both laughing so hard and let the bright mirth settle as he just watched Bo calm down and lower her beer.
"You should turn in, sitting around drinking beer and laughing about the 'old days' is fun but we both should be resting." He pointed out sensibly not needing to look at the time to know it was way to late for them to both still be up, but they had just fallen into gentle comfortable banter and it had felt good to just talk with Bo for a while, something they hadn't done in so long it seemed. "I am going to use your comfortable looking couch to rest my weary wolf hide while you go curl up with the good doctor."
"If you need anything give a howl." Bo laughed more as she put her drink down on the table and got up. "Night Dyson." She said gently before she finally did cross the short distance and make her way into room.
As she very quietly closed the door behind herself, she wished she could forever keep an image of the blonde lying sideways on the bed with one hand still on a printout in her mind. Even knowing that her lover had probably continued to correlate data until her eyes had simply just closed involuntarily, the sight was just quintessentially Lauren. Reminding her of another time when the blonde had fallen asleep on her couch with a full plate of dinner balanced in her lap, mumbling about isotopes and other lofty scientific terms.
Carefully Bo moved to the bed and began to collect up the papers and tucked them into the small folder sitting under one small pile. It was only when she came to the last sheet under Lauren's hand that she knew she was in jeopardy of waking the blonde.
"Work time is over Dr. Lewis, time for sleep." Bo prompted in a whisper as she played tug of war to get the printout.
"Morphogenesis..." Lauren mumbled not immediately releasing the paper as she sleepily turned her head on the comforter, her blonde hair trailing over her cheek.
"Exactly." Bo gave a soft laugh and secured the last paper, putting the folder on the side before she began the very delicate task of turning the blonde so that she was the right way in bed. She'd learned long ago that sleeping in your clothes was better then not getting back to sleep so as soon as Lauren was turned enough for her to slip in with the other woman she did. "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to you too baby." She kissed into blonde hair softly.
This time when she felt the soft interruption of her sleep, and Lauren gave a soft moan and stretched out one of her long legs down the bed. Pressing her body back so that it pressed against Bo's, a second moan slipping from her slightly open lips as her body met the succubus' and reacted with a slight arch, that pressed her ass against Bo's hips and her breasts away from her lover slightly, while at the same time she nestled her head into the pillow that Bo had carefully placed beneath it.
"Sometimes I think you forget I'm a succubus." Bo whispered, noting to herself the low tone of her response she really only expected to be heard by her own ears. She softly placed her open palm against Lauren's thigh, happy for the light cotton yoga pants she'd changed into to get out of her blood stained jeans, and mapped out the rise to the curve of the blonde's hip. Her own hips pressing forwards softly as she did.
"Bo..." The name was breathed out of Lauren's lips as the blonde repeated the soft push back of her body.
"Right here." Bo assured her letting her hand slid around to sit flat on Lauren's stomach, tucked up under the loose button down she was wearing. "I tided up all your papers."
"Shushhhh." Lauren purred softly moving her hand she laid it lightly over the top of Bo's on her stomach, the soft back and forth push and pull of their hips now a gentle continual motion. "I need you Bo." She whispered, the voice a thick purr as she began to draw Bo's hand down lower over the skin of her stomach.
"I always need you." The brunette spoke the words back, her fingers taking a moment to find a way to hook under the tight waistband of Lauren's pants before continuing lower as urged. Her palm came to cup around the apex of the blonde's legs as their lower bodies continued to press and pull, but now pressure from her hand was there when Lauren's hips pressed forward and Bo's own hips were there when she pressed back.
This time the moan that escaped Lauren's lip was low, thick and more guttural, the smooth back and forth movement of their hips staggering slightly as she felt Bo's warm fingers sliding and pressing over her heated skin. The blonde bent her other arm back, her hand searching for Bo's head, which as she found it she pressed her fingers deep into silky locks before grasping slightly tightly onto a handful and bringing her head back towards Bo's, Lauren let her dark eyes flutter open.
"You'll always have me." The blonde underlined breathlessly, opening her mouth to breathe as her moved back and up slightly, finally bringing the side of her head in contact with Bo's jaw. "Always." She repeated, shifting the back and forth movement of her hips to an up and down one now that her lover's fingers were exactly where she wanted and needed them to be.
"Never leave me." Bo answered as she bent her upper body more up and around the blonde so that she could just catch the corner of Lauren's mouth with her lips, hungry for the connection that a kiss always brought them. She kept her hand almost stationary, letting her lower body still pull and press against the blonde's ass so that Lauren couldn't escape far from the pressure of her fingers and palm.
"Why would I?" Lauren asked shaking her head, her movements stronger, a long roll and circle now encompassing most of the passes she made against Bo's body, her hand gripping dark locks tighter. "Oh God Bo." She squeezed her eyes closed again, feeling her body begin to spasm, her muscles flex and lock.
"I can feel how needy you are inside, how hungry." Bo groaned the words back to the blonde, the echo inside her telling her so intimately how Lauren was feeling just as her succubus abilities told her just close the blonde's body was already to release. A release she knew could be just the first strike of lightening in a thunderstorm of pleasure. "I can feel you pulling me into you, to complete you." Her mouth desperately tried to find the blonde's again, the tickling of pleasure deep in her own core wanting to be consumed by her resonant, desperate to be devoured by the only power that could.
"BO!" Lauren's body shuddered hard, the release the succubus so expertly brought her body to hitting her hard and quickly, but it seemed almost lost secondary to the other desire, the other need that was so obvious between the two of them. Not seeming to care if the contact lower contact between them was broken Lauren turned over and pushed her mouth hard against her lover's almost with a bruising strength and passion.
The hand that had rested on Bo's wrist beneath her pant's the whole time pulled free and joined the other in a mess of dark hair, as the blonde literally assaulted Bo's mouth with kiss after hot kiss, nipping and pulling at rich plump lips as she pushed her way on top of the brunette to straddle the succubus onto the mattress.
If Bo's mouth hadn't been so extremely busy she would have tried to say many of the things that were whirling in the back of her passion filled mind. She would have tried to express how she was still scared because she'd come so close to losing the blonde without having even been there to try and help. She would have tried to express how more that that she felt blessed that no harm had come to her Resonant, and yet again floored by the intensity of emotion that relief helped her feel. Every time she thought she was starting to get a handle on how very much she loved the blonde doctor, something would happen to reset her feelings to another all time high point.
Of course the sheer weight of all these deep thoughts running through the succubus' head only helped magnify the feel of the hips that pressed her body into the mattress. It wasn't that the blonde's body was heavy, but feeling the full weight of it distributed between the thighs that straddled her, the hands that held tight handfuls of her hair and the mouth that sought to own hers in every way was just so intoxicating she felt like she might explode before Lauren had even really begun to touch her.
Pulling her mouth from Bo's briefly Lauren blinked open vibrant violet eyes and looked at the beautiful brunette below her.
"Can I?" Lauren licked her lips as her eyes darted from Bo's dark brown orbs to her lips and back.
"What does the echo tell you is my answer?" Bo moaned the words back, her hips pressing up enough into the blonde's to tip her closer.
"It tells me this." Lauren replied leaning down again to press their lips together briefly before pulling back, a broad undulating ribbon of sparkling purple trailed from the succubus' mouth into Lauren's causing Bo to gasp and arch in pleasure and Lauren's eyes to glow vibrantly, her hips pressing down against Bo's in a long luscious roll.
Stopping the flow with a kiss after a short moment Lauren untangled her hands from Bo's hair and literally ripped her own shirt open and wrestled with it to get it off her shoulders. For once the brunette felt what it was like to still be reeling from an exchange of chi, usually her partner's being the one to enjoy that fact. Her bright blue eyes only managed to focus on Lauren again as the blonde was pulling off her bra. The moment her lover was topless, Bo pressed her body up, this time pushing her hands into blonde hair and anchoring their bodies in place she moved their mouth to within a few inches of each other.
With bright blue eyes wide open, Bo let herself begin to slowly pull chi from her lover in a way to draw out the feeling like they were moving in slow motion. Her eyes barely registered that for the first time the energy she was feeding from Lauren was violet and not the usual blue that she saw when she consumed energy from someone. What she did register was how much more erotic and powerful the chi tasted, as if as time went by and the Resonance between them revealed itself further she was getting closer and closer to the very centre of her lover's essence. Drinking from the most sacred font of the spring within the blonde, a source of energy reserved just for her.
Under Lauren, the brunette's hips bucked up from the force of a hard unexpected orgasm, it only taking a small exchange to tip the succubus over the edge into a hard release.
Lauren's eyes flared a wide, her gasp breaking the flow of chi between them.
"Bo, what..." The mixture of surprise, confusion but almost overwhelming pleasure swirled in Lauren's face as she stroked her hands down over Bo's arms. "Oh God Bo... more..." She smashed their lips together drawing deeply from the succubus, her hands gripping strong shoulders as she ground her hips down and around, tipping her head back, the violet arch of chi almost glowing in the dim light.
"Yes." Bo growled the word managing not to cut off the flow of chi between them. She couldn't actually tell now which one of them was feeding and which who was being fed from. The arc of power seemed to flow one way then the other, or was it that it was flowing both ways. In and out of her at the same time that the same chi was flowing in and out of Lauren.
Their bodies literally shivering in ecstasy against one another, the brunette finally broke off the flow between them only because Lauren's breath was coming in such erratic gasps and gulps she was suddenly afraid the blonde wouldn't know when to stop the erotic exchange.
"We're... becoming... more powerful..." When Bo tried to speak she suddenly found that it wasn't just her lover's breathe that was erratic and taxed from the physical reactions of their lovemaking. "So... powerful." She brushed her hand down the side of Lauren's face, the violet eyes that looked back at her underlining how very 'hers' the blonde was now.
"Oh Bo..." What once had been such an almost aggressive growl to Lauren's voice had changed to a satiated purr as she leaned into the gentle touch, her body sagging and then gently slipping to fall with Bo's onto the mattress. She raised her own heavy arm and brushed it over Bo's sweat slicked shoulder. "I've never...you..." She tried harder to steady her breathing and therefore make it possible for her to actually intelligibly speak. Unsure of exactly how to express everything she was feeling the blonde just shook her head as she focused on brilliant azure coloured eyes. "I love you." She said her voice so full of conviction that even the muscles at the top of her jaw tweaked just slightly.
"I love you." Bo assured her back, moving her head just enough to press her closed lips to Lauren's mouth. "More than I could ever express." She vowed gathering the blonde's body to hers in an embrace more about closeness then passion. She urged Lauren to settle her head on her shoulder, the doctor's body still lying on the succubus for the most part. "Ever." She underlined again with the small word.
Lauren moved her legs and body, though not much, just so the rest of the night that they spent sleeping would be more comfortable for both of them, before she nestled her head tightly into Bo's shoulder, the strong pulse of Bo's heart filling her sense as she closed her eyes and let her body fall into a more relaxed state with her lover's, though the cooling sweat on their skin and the heavy scent in the air, not to mention the way her body felt, couldn't wipe the smile off the blonde's face. Softly she moved her hand and cupped Bo's breast in the ready to slumber embrace.
Bo's smile was just as strong as she let Lauren settle before firmly closing her arm around the blonde's slender body and letting her head loll back onto the pillow. Despite everything else that was going on right now, all Bo knew was that though she didn't understand how she had been chosen to have been born with this whole resonant deal, but the fact that she had made her the happiest and possibly luckiest woman alive.
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"I will take two of the most expensive and most alcoholic drinks on your menu good sir." Kenzi's voice cut brightly through the low levels murmurings that were coming from those already assembled at the Dal, huddled around the bar, in the emptiness of the large room since opening time was still a half hour away.
The tight knit group parted easily as Kenzi and Tamsin walked in through the main doors. Bo was the first off her stool greeting the young woman with a tight hug, which was returned with as much force and gusto.
"Hey you." Bo said softly as she pressed her lips against Kenzi's head releasing her momentarily only to bring her back into her arms for a second hug.
"Hey yourself." Kenzi smiled tenderly back at the succubus, the look between them saying more than words ever could.
"I brought you fresh clothes." Eliyana watched the soft loving welcome with a smile, as she lifted up the small ruck sack that sat beside her on an otherwise empty stool.
"Ooh fresh clothes, perhaps you could come to the wash room and help me put them on?" Kenzi licked her lips and wiggled her eyebrows at the Geist as she made the suggestion, stepping away to the side of Tamsin who had shadowed her movements somewhat as if ensuring a safe delivery of the young woman.
Eliyana felt a warm blush glow in her cheeks briefly as she pulled the small bag completely free of the stool and took a step towards Kenzi, only to have her hand snatched up by the young woman with a giggle, a breathed out 'awesome' was just audible from the raven haired beauty as she hurried the Geist off to the privacy of the washrooms.
"Well I'm glad that wasn't awkward." Tamsin moved to take the seat Eliyana had vacated. "Young lust has no sense of timing." She reached for what she guessed was a bottle of beer that was meant for her even though it was barely nine in the morning.
"Everything okay?" Bo checked looking at the Valkyrie briefly as she settled.
"Just peachy." The blonde replied with a nod, even looking at the succubus. "So did I manage to miss the planning stage and we're just into the wrap up, or was I unlucky this morning?" She took a swig of the rather surprisingly heavy beer. Before she had even swallowed her mouthful she could feel the look she was getting from Bo, the succubus' eyes burrowing through her back. "Relax, I don't mean it, it's just my way of relieving the tension." She put the bottle down with a solid thud. "We're not doing this out here right, we're sneaking out back where all the secret stuff is, and where the dozens of locals can't eavesdrop when the place opens?"
With a sigh Trick picked up the book he seemed to have been about to draw their attention to and motioned to the door to the back.
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Eliyana had barely gotten through the door when she felt Kenzi wrap her arms around her neck and soft lips press against hers. Instinctively the Geist let the backpack slip from her grip to land on the tiled floor with a soft thud, before sliding her hands onto Kenzi's hips and then letting them press around her body to draw the slender young woman close.
The kiss moved from gentle to passionate and back again over and over in a soft ebb and flow for long moments, with Kenzi pressing Eli's body back slightly until the Geist body couldn't retreat any further, being pressed firmly to the door.
Eventually the dark haired young woman pulled her mouth free and let her fingers play in Eli's short hair.
"I just had to tell you, and show you that I love you." Kenzi blinked her blue eyes as she looked into the light brown ones that were honestly looking back at her still a little shell shocked as to what had just happened.
"Wow." Eliyana blinked. "I only brought your red jeans and a black bodice top, the one with the fishnet arms you like, it's not like I went shopping and actually bought you a new outfit or anything, in fact I feel kind of bad now that I didn't go out and do that actually." She admitted with a soft frown.
"I don't need a new outfit." Kenzi shook her head softly. "I just had a lot of time to think last night, about everything that has been happening, about what is important to me, and I just wanted you to be 100% positive that you knew how I feel about you." She continued to curl her fingers around Eli's ear. "I can't imagine my heart without you in it, you're like the piece I didn't know was missing."
Eli licked her lips and looked at the young woman in her arms for a moment.
"When I got up this morning and saw Dyson in the hotel room I didn't know what to think..." She admitted with a frown pulling at her brow. "He explained that you and he had had words that had made him angry, I knew without either of us having to say it that it had been about me. I don't want to come between you and your friends Kenzi, I never have wanted that, and I never do."
"You're not, he just needed to express some ideas and I needed to tell him how things were going to be. It's kind of how we work." Kenzi shook her head to the idea. "Everyone has the right to express themselves but they can't expect people to act the way they want just cause they say so. It's one of those rules of the unaligned, you'll find out Bo evokes it a lot." She could see her explanation wasn't going into enough detail for Eli's liking. "He just wants to protect me, from everything Fae, and you being Fae and being with me scares him because he's afraid he might not be able to protect me and protection is kinda his thing. I just had to remind him he doesn't pick who I fall in love with, I do."
"I won't hurt you, I can't hurt you." Eliyana shook her head. "Taking away the love aspect only for a second, a Geist cannot hurt their Master." She breathed out softly. "The last person or Fae he needs to be worried about hurting you, is me." She paused for a moment. "This isn't the time to talk about this, I know that, but things have changed now, you know that don't you? For you and I?" The Geist's eyes went a little darker as she looked at her lover.
"No, changed how?" Kenzi tilted her head completely confused by the statement.
"We joked about it before I know but..." Eli took a breath. "You are my master now, you don't just hold my Frenum."
"I don't understand, I didn't think there was a difference." Kenzi shook her head not sure how to interpret what she was being told. "You mean I could hold your Frenum but not be your master?"
"You could choose never to use it, Kenzi I told you, when I gave it to you I never thought you would use it, hell you didn't even know I was Fae. I just wanted you to be the one to have it because of what you made me feel, the fact you made me feel. I didn't give it to you thinking this is what you would ever be." She admitted honestly. "Don't get me wrong, that you are... that's not something I regret... I just, it was never my intention." She hoped she was making some sense and not just making things complicated and worse.
"No..." Kenzi shook her head over and over. "I want you to understand something, I'm not your master. I only used the power and will use the power of the Frenum in the future if I absolutely have too." There was a slight shake in her voice. "We are equal Eliyana, that's how I want us to be."
"Kenzi, you have to understand." Eliyana reached up and took hold of the young woman's hands, drawing them to the front of their bodies and holding her own over the top of them. "I love you and to me that's all that matters, to the world, you are my Master. And I wish I could rewrite what is already history but I cannot." She shook her head. "It is already by your hand and in your name that victories have been made, blood has been shed and trophies taken, I am just the weapon that hand wields."
It was pretty obvious that Kenzi wasn't dealing well with the news, as her usual light skin went a slightly sickly shade of green.
"I don't care what the world thinks, I don't care what the relationship between a Geist and they one that held their Frenum used to be, we are different." She held tighter onto Eli's hands. "You are not a weapon, you are Eliyana, you are the one with the power, I'm the one you trust with the fail safe." She tried to re-frame things. "I shouldn't have done what I did in the garage, but you were on fire and I panicked, you could have handled them without me and I'm so so sorry I didn't let you but I'm not going to make that mistake again." She shook her head hoping Eli would forgive her. "Tamsin told me about how Geists are usually used, how they are consumed up in a lust for power and greed, I won't do that to you, I could never do that to you. The world of the Fae can give me any title they want, they can look at us like they looked at Bo but it doesn't have to define us. I hold your Frenum, but it won't be used to make you a slave, I will not master over you like that." She pulled Eli's hands up to kiss one of them. "She also told me that in all of her life she has never ever even heard of a Geist who gave her Frenum away willingly, by her own choice and to me that means we're different already. I didn't take something from you that in order for you to be in control again you would have to somehow take from me. You gave me it as a gift, for safekeeping, and what I believe in my heart is that if you really wanted it back you could take it, because I would give it back to you if that was what you wanted."
"That's not what I want." Eliyana shook her head drawing in a deep breath as she wrapped her arms around Kenzi and drew her close, she pressed her nose into dark locks and breathed in again. "I just want you, since that night when I watched you through the firelight and you nearly drove my bike into the statue in the park."
"Then we both want the exact same thing, to be together." Kenzi held her tightly back. "And I will hold your Frenum in order to keep you safe, but when I say you are my Geist, I don't mean because of it, I mean because you are the woman I want in my arms, in my bed, the one I'm in love with."
The next words out of Eli's mouth were probably not what the young woman were expecting. The strong Geist slid one hand down, splaying her fingers out over Kenzi's ass.
"I want you so much right now." The words themselves were deep and lustful.
"Bar's closed for a half hour, no one will come in after us." Kenzi pressed her body against the Geist's in a different way, the tone of her lover's voice igniting a need in her instantly. As soon as she finished the words she pressed her lips to Eli's.
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"The ancient wardings used by various tribes in times past might prove useful to us..." Trick put down what had to be the fifth book that he had brought over from his extensive library and began to approach the shelves of old tomes again. "Some of the powers they managed to harness are legendary." He went on turning his back to the small group of four, the only one of which who was actively looking at the books that he had left being Lauren.
"I'm not sure we should be focusing on legends so much as actual to goodness things I can rely on." Bo was open and honest as she watched her grandfather begin to climb up a short step ladder to get to the higher shelves.
"You need to put more faith in the mystical Bo." The Blood King chastised her as he climbed, receiving a thinly veiled sigh from his granddaughter who turned away from watching the older Fae and glanced at her resonant.
"Anything babe?" She asked gently and the blonde looked up with a delicate frown.
"That's her polite way of saying no." Tamsin interjected. "Hate to be the one to pose this rather awkward question but am I the only one in the room thinking if you had the answer of how to beat Mikah, wouldn't you have already you know, done it?"
"Well..." Trick stopped obviously flustered for a moment at the harsh truth. "Yes."
"Which means we have to think a little more outside the box." Bo piped in again trying to soften the blow of the truthful revelation. "Maybe there is something that was made for other purposes we can use against him. He a soul eater right, is there anything that could eat his soul instead?"
"Yeah we keep little soul eaters as pets, rich Fae especially like them, they carry them around in cages and give them names like FiFi and Tinkerbell." Tamsin looked at Bo and rolled her eyes.
"Tamsin." Dyson growled. "I think Bo was suggesting something that might not be obvious that we could be over looking that might help."
"C4?" The blonde Valkyrie offered, leaning back in her chair with a sigh. She'd gotten grumpy about fifteen minutes ago when her beer had run out and no one had seemed interested in her request for someone to go get more.
"Go get yourself another beer before I use C4 on you." Bo shot her a separate warning glare. "But seriously, in all of Faedom no one has ever made a thing that could stop a soul eater? There's even an amulet to stop my powers from working, why is he immune?"
"Again succubus aren't you asking the wrong little person?" The Valkyrie slapped Bo's leather clad leg as she went by and then stopped dead in her tracks, "Oh shit someone shoot me for what I'm about to suggest." She slowly turned around, letting the air escape slowly from her lungs as she dropped her arms by her side and looked at the four of them. "If you want to know about weapons you should talk to a Dwarf." She rolled off the sentence in a heavy possibly supposed to be Dwarven accent. "Am I going to need a false beard?"
"She might be right, if anyone would know of any weapon that would aid in the fight against a soul eater it would be Tamkl Deathdig." Trick began to descend the small ladder he was on. "He keeps the library of knowledge for the Dwarfs in this County, I will write him a letter of request for assistance immediately. Dyson would you be so kind as to deliver it for me?" He began to move towards his desk.
"I'm getting that beer." Tamsin shook her head and quickly slipped out.
"So there might be some kind of a weapon?" Bo looked at Lauren for any insight into the idea.
"It's more than possible Bo, the Fae have become more than adept over the years of finding ways to hurt and counter each others gifts and powers. The Koushang is a classic example, Succubi were universally feared before the stone and the unique powers that it holds were discovered and exploited." The blonde replied shaking her head softly. "It's not as much as a stab in the dark as it might sound, the question it leads to is if such a thing exists, where it might be found. That I'm not sure will have quite such an immediate or easy answer."
"You know I love how smart you are." Bo looked at her resonant, her look full of pride and love.
"Don't confuse smarts with knowledge Bo." Lauren smiled back. "One you can learn from books, the other..." She shook her head. "The other is the kind you have, the kind that you have in here..." She leaned forward briefly and rested a finger tip on Bo's temple. "And here." She moved it to linger briefly against the leather covering Bo's heart.
"Sorry what did we miss?" A slightly out of breath Kenzi surprised Lauren, the blonde having been lost for a moment in her lover. As the young brunette bounced down the stairs into Trick's study, she literally pulled Eli along behind her. "Old book, that's a good sign." The young woman noted instantly reaching over between Lauren and Bo to pick one up.
"You missed me getting to visit an old Dwarven friend and Bo learning patience." Dyson looked over towards the new arrivals, surprising Kenzi by giving her a soft smile.
"Exciting..." Kenzi quirked an eyebrow as she dropped down into a chair and then looked up again to smile back at him. "And fun." She summed up what sounded like a complete lack of both. "Great, I picked a history book, my favourite." She added with an eye roll as she leaned back and flicked absently through the yellowed pages. As she did Eliyana finally settled in a chair next to her. "Why aren't these things ever filled with nice stories?" She added after another moment, her brow furrowing after facing page after page of conquest, death and famine.
"Because little is learned from the good in life." Trick grumbled from his place, busy with his letter writing.
"That is such bullshit." Kenzi objected violently. "I swear if years ago these people had been more concerned about writing down how two beautiful maidens in their kingdom found each other and fell deeply in love, their union blessed by both families, their love celebrated by all who knew them, it would have become inspirational to all who read it, instead the guy who wrote it was obsessed with who lobbed off whose head and paid how much for it." Kenzi shook her head as she pointed to a chart detailing just such information. "Geez who was this guy?"
"I wrote that particular record of history." The Blood King interjected solemnly.
"Oops." Kenzi said her voice small. "My bad."
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Trick finished rattling off a very long list of do's and don'ts of protocol that Dyson needed to follow when delivering the message that he had finally finished writing, after what had seemed like and age to Bo. The wolf seemed to share the succubus' opinion as well as he was paying only surface attention to everything the Blood King was saying. Bo had over time gotten used to observing how the tall shifter could seem to be watching and listening but in reality was a million miles away in his own thoughts. The wolf's eyes were actually on Kenzi and Eliyana. The two youngsters were huddled close together on the floor, with a small collection of books, though at the moment they were engaged in some sort of 'snatch it' game involving something Kenzi had stolen from Eliyana's jacket pocket. Kenzi's bright blue eyes, wide smile and soft laugh were hard to miss and things that quite simple just made you feel warm inside.
"Caught you staring." Lauren's soft voice at her ear broke Bo from doing just that and the succubus smirked both at being caught and openly at what had caught her and Dyson's eye. "They both seem better." The blonde added as Bo turned her attention back to her, apparently the young twosome had also caught the doctor's attention.
"They do, Eli's not been the same since Eysan..." Bo admitted with a frown slightly breaking her positive vibe.
"How could she be?" Lauren pointed out softly, her tone as ever non judgemental. "Talking of which, I need to call the clinic, I'll only be a minute or two, be right back. I'll see if I can round up Tamsin while I'm upstairs, though I'm not sure a drunk Valkyrie will be any more helpful than just a bored belligerent one." The blonde rolled her eyes as she pushed up to stand and closed the book in front of her. "The chapter on elements is fascinating, it's given me something to think about." She added tapping the cover of the before she turned.
Bo reached up catching hold of Lauren's wrist lightly before the blonde could actually leave.
"Don't go anywhere, just upstairs, I know down here the reception is for shit." The succubus understood the need for her to make the call from the bar. "Please." She added feeling a small wave of panic flow over her after the events of the night before.
"I'm not going to Bo, I just want to check on Eli's father, it's just a call." Lauren smiled at Bo, her face full of understanding for her lover's concern. Bo nodded and smiled releasing her light grip. Lauren leaned down and pressed her lips softly against Bo's cheek. "I love you." She whispered before moving off towards the stairs.
"Hey if Hotpants is getting drinks she could have asked for orders!" Kenzi pouted as suddenly she was up on her feet and over to Bo, her arms draped around the succubus' neck.
"You have to get your own drinks I'm afraid, Lauren is checking up on Mr. Frost." Bo put her hands over Kenzi's arms holding them in place as she enjoyed the contact with her best friend. "I'm guessing I'm not the only one who's christened the Dal's bathroom now?"
"Maybe not." Kenzi slipped around and gently lowered herself onto the seat that Lauren had just vacated grinning brightly, she glanced over to Eli quickly before looking back at Bo. The succubus looked over to the Geist too but the younger Fae was looking at the book Kenzi had abandoned and didn't notice either of them. "It was rather amazing." The young woman admitted grinning more.
"I'm happy for you, you know that right?" Bo turned to focus on her best friend. "I know that everything right now is hyper intense because of my Father but she makes you happy and that's all I've ever wanted. I haven't seen you anywhere near this happy since Nate."
"I'm happy, I'm also scared." Kenzi admitted, lowering her voice. "Because I love her and that's terrifying in so may normal ways, but she's Fae and I hold her Frenum and nothing about any of that is normal so there's a whole boat load of other terrifying to add to the usual stuff." The young woman admitted. "But I think it's gonna be okay as long as we remember who we are and..." Kenzi stopped and looked at Bo letting the breath out of her lungs. "Who am I kidding." She said with a frown. "I hope to God it's going to be okay but I haven't a real clue." She admitted with a very typical Kenzi smile.
"There is a lot of wine drunk conversations we've missed out on, but I promise you we are going to have them." Bo assured her gently. "And I can't even begin to tell you I understand this whole Frenum thing, but I do know you Kenzi and if I was in Eli's place and had to have someone looking out for me like that, I'd want it to be you." She reached out and patted her best friend's hand where she had rested it on a book. "What's it like?" Her question was said in a soft voice even though there was no one close enough to hear their conversation.
"It's like nothing I can describe." Kenzi replied keeping her voice just as hushed. "It's like the biggest adrenaline rush but at the same time, there's this feeling inside you that fills you with this kind of churning sickness..." She scrunched her face up a little. "So even though you feel untouchable and as powerful as a... a God..." The young woman shook her head. "You feel kind of dirty and wrong too."
"I had no idea." Bo's shock and displeasure was obvious on her face. "I guess I just assumed that it would feel... I was wrong." She summed up. "I wish I knew more, could help you, explain..." Her desire to help her best friend was clear and as her thoughts stalled her mouth curled into a frown. "There is so much going on Kenz, I hope you don't feel like what you're going through isn't important, because it is. It's important to me because it's you, and I won't let anything hurt you."
Kenzi reached turned her hand over and closed it around Bo's.
"I miss you I admit that." Kenzi said with an honest smile. "You're my best friend and life has gotten crazy and you're right normally by now, this deep into shit, we'd have got drunk together and hashed shit out in our own way and a huge part of me misses that so much." She brought their joined hands together and rested them briefly over her heart. "But I also know babe that right now, we don't have that kind of time, we don't have 'stop and stare' time. We're in this thing up to our tits and its not messing around." She breathed out hard. "So I'll get through it." She straightened up a little and lowered their hands, but didn't let go. "We all will, and when your father is beaten and everything is back to what used to pass as normal, we'll kick our girlfriends out for a weekend and catch up, just like old times." She squeezed the succubus' hand.
"You have a date sista." Bo pulled her hands away but only in order to pull the other brunette into a tight hug. "We'll even get the expensive stuff, with corks." She gave a soft laugh as she held her tight for a moment and then pulled back. "Now, speaking of that stuff we're in, you want to talk about what happened with Dyson last night? Usually the last two I have to worry about having a thing is you and the wolf man."
"Oh come on like you two haven't already talked that one to death." Kenzi snorted as she leaned back in her chair. "No doubt he called me a foolish stubborn human, and I'll call him a stubborn bad tempered wolf." The young woman summed up smirking more. "It was nothing, he's just wary of Eli, she's new, she's not one of us..." The darker brunette gave a soft shrug, "He thinks I should rescind her Frenum, I told him that wasn't going to happen, end of argument."
"There might be another reason you two had to go over a point that didn't need going over." Bo watched her best friend, a little proud of the resolution regarding Eli she'd made in her mind at least.
"He has fleas? Mange? A tick that's making him cranky?" Kenzi gave a wicked grin, her blue eyes twinkling and for a moment all Bo could do was smile at the very 'Kenzi' remark.
"A lot happened last night, after Lauren came to the hospital and she talked to Dyson about your run in with him." Bo's demeanour became serious again. "She remembered that on top of everything else going on there is the question of what was spilt on your arm at the Norn's, and the tests she did on you before we abandoned her place showed something."
For the first time in their close and very warm conversation Kenzi's smile dimmed back to unsure, a change mirrored by the fact that from the other side of the room Eliyana's head suddenly came up from the book and immediately turned to focus on the pair of them, her brow crumpled in concern and curiosity.
"M...M...My arm?" Kenzi stuttered, her hand automatically going to the long forgotten wound, that was a long way to healed after Lauren's treatment.
"From what Lauren can figure out it was a potency serum, meant to be used by a Fae to make themselves more powerful but because you are a human, its acting differently." Bo began her explanation knowing Kenzi needed to have the facts in order to deal with what she was telling her. "Lauren's best hypothesis so far is that the serum is building up in your system and when you do things like use the Frenum, it gets released in a way and the side effect is that you effect Fae around you. Like Dyson going a bit over the top with his showing how much you mean to him and wolfing out a bit."
Kenzi fidgeted in her place a little as she tried to understand what Bo was telling her.
"You're saying I might have made Dyson wolf out? Like against his will..." Kenzi felt a shiver of fear race up and down her spine. "No, no that can't be what your suggesting, you just mean I managed some how to just be able now to some how make him more pissed off than I used to." She rubbed at her face quickly, her agitation in her hand movements and the rapid shift in the focus of her blue eyes clearly underlined to Bo that this news wasn't going over well. "Right?" She asked of her best friend.
"Yes, more pissed off, you made his emotions more intense." Bo underlined for her quickly. "But it's not something happening all the time Kenzi, or else I'd have felt it and Eli would have noticed it for sure. It's just this serum is inside of you and I knew you needed to know the truth." She tried to explain why she was complicating the young woman's life even more then it already was. "Lauren is going to do more blood tests, we're going to get Trick to research this serum more. Right now it's just something we all need to be aware of, that's all." She stressed the benign side of things.
"But can it hurt you, is what's inside me dangerous? Am I dangerous to you, or Eli or Dyson?" Kenzi frowned harder nothing about Bo's attempt to make her feel better seeming to settle her at all, so much so in fact that away from them the young Geist put her book down beside her and pushed up to her feet.
"Kenzi?" She said, her voice low and not out right alarmed, just clearly asking for confirmation that things were okay. "Bo?" She extended the range of her questioning.
"You're not dangerous to any of us." Bo shook her head to Kenzi's question, her eyes darting to Eli urging her to come over considering how clearly disturbed she'd also become because of her girlfriend's reaction.
"Do you know that or just think that?" Kenzi pulled back slightly into the chair, her voice was tight her brow furrowed as Eli indeed began to move closer.
"I know that." Bo assured her. "Nothing about the serum is meant to hurt anyone Kenzi, the only reason it made your arm sore was because the actual liquid is acidic and burnt you. But what is inside you, the whole purpose of it is to make powers better and bigger. Last night with Dyson was just unfortunate because he was upset about the idea of you being hurt, you didn't take control of him or make him lose control, his reaction was just amplified because of how tense everything was."
"Private party?" Having been totally preoccupied with what was going on between Kenzi, not to mention having to factor in Eli, Bo was totally unprepared for Dyson's hand to suddenly land on her shoulder.
"No, I was just trying to explain to Kenzi about her arm, that no matter what the serum is it doesn't make her a danger to any of us." Bo repeated the words giving not only Eli the basic outline but the wolf as well.
The tall shifter looked at Kenzi.
"That's right." He said with a nod, his voice soft. "And on the subject, I'm sorry about last night." He added, his entire presence acting as if the news held no negative connotations whatsoever. "Especially if I scared you, you know I never want to do that." He shook his head sincerely.
"It's not... you didn't..." Kenzi didn't seemed to be able to pick what she was going to say at first until she just took a breath and eased out of her slightly cramped position, and just looked at him. "It's okay, we were both a little...on edge." She smiled. "You ready to play postman?" She looked at the rolled up parchment the wolf held in his hand.
"I am indeed." He cocked his head to the side and nodded, his smile brighter still.
"Can I walk to the door with you? I want to get drinks for Eli and I." Kenzi pushed out of her chair and moved over to the wolf, slipping her arm through his, but not before reaching to squeeze her girlfriend's hand as a sign to show her she was okay.
"Well of course you can, and what makes me thinks I will end up paying for these drinks this way too?" The shifter chuckled as together they moved towards the stairs.
"Huh, if Trick makes you pay, tell him to deliver his own letters from now on." Kenzi nudged her shoulder into Dyson's before leaning against the tall wolf's body as they walked together up the stairs. Leaving Eli to slip into the seat that Kenzi had vacated, her eyes settling on Bo in anticipation of getting her own explanation about what was going on.
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