Chapter 37

" Do you know there are over one hundred different kinds of fucking wild berries, and some of them are deadly poisonous, but you can't really tell from their looks?" Bo said to Tamsin as she was reading the books she borrowed from Trick. They were both sitting on Tamsin's bed. Bo was reading, while the blonde was polishing her sword.

" I thought everyone should have known that." Tamsin said, smirking.

" I'll never remember all this shit!" Bo exclaimed, throwing the book to the floor. She lay down on the bed, feeling frustrated.

" And lucky for you, I do know all this shit." Tamsin said.

" Yeah, but what if you are in a coma, and I need to do something for you?"

" Oh, sweetheart, believe me. If I am in a coma, you'd be dead long time before that." Tamsin stared at Bo, with a mocking smile on her face. " No more trainings from Acacia today? Or she just finally got tired of you and kicked you out?"

" She said it's the last day before the trial, so I should just get some rest, and clear my head, blah blah blah." Bo said.

" Well, enjoy your day off then. I need to go to work now." Tamsin said as she put down the sword in her hand. She stood up and got changed. Bo stared at her the whole time. The morning sun shined on Tamsin's body, giving her a smooth, warm gloss. Bo thought it looked too beautiful to be real, yet the blonde was standing right in front of her. Her craving for her was back, and she had to clear her throat and turn away. " Maybe you should take a day off, you know. Maybe you need to get some rest too." Bo said, trying to hide the fact that she didn't want the blonde to leave. Then she thought about what Acacia had told her about how Valkyries normally dealt with the days before their trial, they would try everything they could to have fun because they might not come back. Maybe we should do that too. Bo thought, and she was about to give in to the spiking craving of hers for the blonde.

Tamsin stared at her, eyebrows raised. It was a little bit surprised to her that the brunette was hungry for her suddenly. Before she could say anything, her phone beeped. She checked her text and said, " I would if I could, succubus. It's Dyson. There's a dead body waiting for me."

" Can I tag along?" Bo asked.

" Are you sure? I thought you need to cram."

" Oh hell, I'm so done with the different types of berries, and I haven't even started on the mushroom part yet!" Bo rolled off the bed and got dressed.

Bo saw Dyson getting out his car when Tamsin and she arrived at the crime scene, an abandoned building.

" Wow, it looks a lot like your place." Tamsin said to Bo when she pulled over right outside the factory gate.

Bo rolled her eyes at the blonde. The blonde had a smirk on her face, and she was leaning close to Bo. A mischievous smile appeared on Bo's face. She leaned over and laid a kiss on the blonde's lips. Then she laughed inside, while enjoying the embarrassed look on the Valkyrie's face. She got out of the truck and walked to Dyson.

" Hey, didn't expect to see you here." Dyson saidto her.

" Yeah...thought I might be able to help." Bo said. She saw the Valkyrie walk towards them, with both of her hands tucked in her jacket pockets.

" Where's the body?" Tamsin asked Dyson.

" Inside." Dyson pointed at the factory gate.

" Then what are you two waiting for?" Tamsin smirked at them, before she walked in.

A dead male was lying face down on the floor inside the factory. He was behind a bunch of old, abandoned factory equipment, only his legs were visible from the entrance. Dyson turned him around so they could examine him.

The first thing Bo noticed was the warm smile on his face, as if he had died while experiencing something happy. Other than that, he just looked like any normal guy in their early twenties. Both his hair and his beard were carefully trimmed, and his cologne was still in the air. There was no visible trauma. He didn't have any bruises on him. It almost looked like he was asleep, except his eyes were open and filled with fear.

" No IDs. Nothing." Dyson said after searching every pocket on him.

" Yeah, well, let's run his face in the database, see if we get a match or something." Tamsin said, " Do we have any eye witnesses?"

" Yeah. The one who found the body and called 911 a couple of hours ago. He's outside." Dyson said.

" I can talk to him, if you two don't mind." Bo said.

" Sure." Dyson nodded to her. He watched Bo walk out, then he turned back to Tamsin and said, " I heard tomorrow is your rebirth trial?"

" Yeah, tomorrow." Tamsin nodded, " So, need you to cover me for a couple of days, I guess."

" Sure thing, partner." Dyson nodded, " Bo is going with you, right?"

" Yeah, bitch's coming with me. Couldn't get rid of her even if I wanted to."

" You two will be fine." Dyson said, " I wish I could help."

" Help how? Like offering yourself as a hand in her Dawning, knowing you were not coming back out alive?" Tamsin said.

" Hey, we all did stupid things for love at least for once."

" That we all do..." Tamsin murmured. She turned her eyes back to the dead body, and heard Dyson asking, " What do you think about this? Can you hear anything from him?"

" No, not really. It sounds like...white noise. I can't really get anything useful from it." Tamsin said, frowning. She leaned down to the body, trying to concentrate on what she was hearing. " I think he said something about liar...it's just too vague. Is he Fae or human?"

" Fae, definitely Fae, and...his smell is...damn I can't tell, his cologne is a little bit too strong." Dyson said.

" I guess you'll have to wait for the coroner to wash him up." Tamsin said, " Since he wasn't carrying anything, maybe it was just a mugging went wrong."

" But why would a kid like him come to a place like this in the first place?"

" No idea. Maybe he was here to buy some drugs or something." Tamsin said. Then she noticed something. She opened the clenched fingers of the victim's right hand and said, " Look, he had a few cuts on his fingers, and they look fresh." She pointed tout he minor cuts on his thumb and index finger to Dyson. They were so small that she almost missed them. They looked fresh, like they had just stopped bleeding.

" Looks like he cut himself on something right before he died."

" Or, could be right after he died." Tamsin said. She stood up, waving her arms in the air to show Dyson the movements the victim could have done before his death. " He fell off over here, no signs of struggle, maybe he knew the killer...then something cut his fingers, because I didn't see any blood anywhere but a drop of two right beneath his hand on the floor. And look at how the blood dripped off, if he was standing when he was injured, it would not be like this." Then Tamsin frowned. She crouched down and checked the body closely again, and said, " It almost looks to me like someone dragged out something that he was holding tightly, and it cut him..."

" You think the killer took something from his hand after he killed him?"

" Maybe it was the thing the killer was after..." Tamsin said, " I don't know. The look on his face...that smile...If Bo wasn't with me last night, I'd probably be telling you that she did it right now. It just looks a lot like a succubus feeding went wrong." She was completely immersed in the case solving, and she didn't even realized that she told Dyson Bo was with her last night, till she saw the mocking look on Dyson's face.

" I see you two are getting close." Dyson said, trying hard not to laugh.

" It's the fucking bond. Screwed every fucking thing up." Tamsin said.

" I think it's more than that, but, if you believe what you told yourself..." Dyson said. He was going to continue, but he stopped when he saw Bo coming in.

" Hey, I just talked to the witness. He said he saw a man leaving the scene. He's with the sketch artist right now. He thinks that he can give a good enough description to let us ID this guy."

" Yeah, well, don't get your hopes too high, sweetheart. Nine out of ten times, the witness gives a misleading description." Tamsin said.

" Why do you always have to be so negative?" Bo asked her, frowning.

" Why do you always have to be so optimistic?" Tamsin retorted.

" Ok, ok. You two, stop. We are at a crime scene. We should be discussing the case, not your life attitude."

" Fine. You two find anything?" Bo asked.

" Not really. We were just talking about...how the killing looks like one of your feeding accidents." Dyson said.

" What?" Bo exclaimed. Then she thought about it, while looking at the expression on the victim's face. " Well, I got to say, it's definitely not me, but it does look like my feeding went wrong...You think there's another succubus in town?"

" Could be." Dyson said, " I'll talk to my sources, see if anyone has heard about any new succubi lately."

Bo stared at the body. She frowned. There was something off about this case, and her guts were telling her it was something far more than just a random killing. She could almost feel something crawling under her skin. She examined the body closely, then she noticed something. She reached her fingers out and picked a small feather off the victim's hair. It was the same color as the victim's hair, both were dark. With the dim lights inside the room, it was almost impossible to see.

Bo showed it to Dyson and Tamsin. She frowned and said, " Is it just me, or is this the same type of feather we found at my place, the night of the break in happened?"

Dyson took his phone out, and compared it with the crime scene photos he had stored on it. " Well, without analysis, I can't say for sure, but they do look alike. But you are not seriously suggesting..."

" Call me crazy, but, what if the one who broke into my place killed this guy..." Bo said, " I mean, isn't that the only reasonable explanation for the feather?"

" I'll look into it." Dyson said, " I'll call you, if anything pops up."

It was already passed dinner time when Bo and Tamsin got home. For a moment Bo just sat on Tamsin's couch, watching the blonde reading her case files. The blonde was concentrating on her case, as if she was just gonna go to work tomorrow instead of to a life and death situation.

After a while, Tamsin raised her head, and her blue eyes met Bo's curious brown. She raised her eyebrows, like she was asking Bo what the fuck she was looking at.

" Do you always spend you last night before the rebirth trial reading case files?" Bo asked.

" No, being a cop is not the only job I've ever done, ok?" Tamsin said.

" So what do you usually do before your trial?"

" Nothing." Tamsin shrugged.

" Acacia told me...emmm...Valkyries normally have as much fun as they can before the trial, because-"

" Look, if you want to have some drinks, they are right in the kitchen. But not for me, not today."

" Wow, this is the first time I've ever heard you turn down drinks. Are you ok?"

" I don't want to wake up with a hangover headache during my trial, ok? Besides, for the first time, it's not only my own ass on the line here..." Tamsin said. Then she realized she had not been drunk for days. With the succubus by her side, with her soft touches, warm kisses, and light whispers, alcohol never comforted her anywhere near as much as the woman sitting next to her.

" Ok, I'll keep sober too." Bo said.

" Don't you have some books to read or something?" Tamsin asked her without raising her head from the case files. She could feel the brunette's stare on her, and it felt a little bit awkward.

" Yeah, I guess..." Bo rolled her eyes. She went to pick up the books from the bedroom. She didn't really want to think about how little she had learned, and how much she had not.

" I'm so not made for this shit!" Bo exclaimed. After reading for an hour or two, she put down the book frustrated. She heard the Valkyrie huff out a light laugh, as if she was agreeing with her too. " Damn, I guess if you had a choice back then, you probably wouldn't have bonded with me... Hell, I wouldn't even bond with myself." Bo murmured, leaning back with her eyes closed.

Tamsin raised her head, turning to Bo's side. At first she thought Bo was joking, but by the look on Bo's face, she knew the succubus was speaking the truth. Tamsin sighed. " No, I wouldn't have, but it is not because you suck at this." She said to Bo.

Bo looked at the blonde. The Valkyrie was frowning a little, with a serious look on her face. It was the exact same look she had given Bo when she was in her bathtub, telling her that to her she was perfect. She was leaning close to her that day, just like what she was doing right now. Tamsin grabbed the side of the couch and leaned close to Bo, her eyebrows furrowed a little, and her lips clenched. She let out a deep breath, and put a lock of Bo's hair behind her ear. " I wouldn't have bonded with you, if I had a choice, only because I don't want put you in danger, whenever I'm in danger, like my rebirth trial."

" You know I'll help you no matter what, right?"

" I am fully aware of your stupidity." Tamsin smirked, "Look, during the trial, just stay close to me, and try to stay alive. And don't throw yourself into danger, for...anyone, ok?"

Bo smiled. She stayed quiet for a while, just before she was about to say something, Tamsin's phone rang.

" It's Dyson." Tamsin said to Bo. Bo nodded. Tamsin put the wolf on speaker.

" What's up, Dyson? If you want help in a bar fight, I'll have to say no today..." Tamsin said to him.

" No, I'm still in the precinct, processing the stuff related to the murder case we have today." Dyson said, " Our sketch artist finished the drawing, and guess who is it?"

" Anyone we know?" Tamsin asked.

" Technically, no, but we've all seen him, today." Dyson said.

" What are you talking about?"

" According to the description of the eyewitness, the man who ran away from the crime scene right before he called 911 looked just like our victim. And the eyewitness was in fact high back then..."

" Damn, I'm just so not surprised. I guess he probably mixed up the victim's face, and the man who fled the scene, in his mind. Or maybe there was no man at all." Tamsin said.

" Well, anyway, this trail is cold I guess. We still don't have a match on the ID of the victim..." Dyson said.

" Just keep us posted." Tamsin said. Then she hung up her phone.

Bo sighed, but she knew she should no be worrying about some murder case right now. They had a big day tomorrow, for Tamsin's rebirth trial.

Tamsin looked at the time on her phone, and closed the file folder for her case files. She turned to face Bo, hesitating. Then she said, " You...emmm...you probably should fully feed tonight...so..."

Bo chuckled. It looked to her that it took a lot of courage for the blonde to spit that out. She took Tamsin's hand in hers and said, " You don't have to use that as an excuse every time you want to make out or something..."

The blonde shot a cold stare at her, but she blushed a little.

Bo smiled. She didn't say anything else, except to kiss the blonde on her lips. The blonde quivered lightly when their lips met. She was waiting for her Chi to be pulled out from her, but the succubus was just kissing her. Her lips were so sweet, that Tamsin drowned in them in seconds. She unconsciously cupped Bo's face, caressing her jaw line slowly with her fingers. Then she moved her fingers down to Bo's neck. She ran her thumb on the brunette's collar bone, and heard the succubus let out a few vague moans.

It didn't take long before Tamsin topped Bo on the couch. The succubus was staring at her, with a warm smile on her face, and her hands caressing Tamsin's cheek. Tamsin lifted Bo's tank top, and Bo pulled it off over her head. Tamsin lowered her head and kissed Bo again, with her hand behind her back, trying to unhook her bra. Bo arched away from the couch, partly for the passionate kiss, partly for letting the blonde take off her bra. She heard her bra fly away and hit something, and she giggled. Then she felt her pants get pulled off. The blonde's hand was slowly moving up from her thigh. Bo fisted the pillow tightly when it finally pressed on her core.

The blonde moved back to kiss her when she rubbed her finger tips on her clit. Bo gasped hard, arching further away from the couch. With her eyes closed, she was completely drowned in the pleasure. Then she felt the blonde slam her fingers inside her. She couldn't make a sound. She could hardly breathe. The blonde kissed her aggressively on her lips, with her fingers pushing in and pulling out, and her thumb rubbing her clit. Right before it exploded inside her body, the blonde moved away from her lips and whispered to her ear, " Feed off me..."

Bo did. The extremely powerful Chi flew to her body just as she reached her peak. She thought for a moment she was going to black out, but she didn't. She unconsciously rolled her hips for more, and the blonde didn't hold back at all. Bo orgasmed three times before the blonde finally stopped and pulled her fingers.

Bo let out a deep breath. She felt unbelievably charged. She wrapped her legs around the blonde's waist, and rolled on top of her. " My turn." She murmured, pinning the blonde down on the couch.

After their love making and a quick shower, both of them lay on Tamsin's bed again.

" Are we going to Asgard, or some other place, to enter...any entrance for the trial or something?" Bo asked Tamsin as she pulled herself close to the blonde under the blanket.

" No." Tamsin said, caressing her face, " When we wake up, we'll be waking up in the trial."

" Oh..." Bo said, " Then what happens if we never fall asleep tonight?"

" Then we'll be in the trial by tomorrow noon. It's not something you can dodge by not sleeping." Tamsin said, " We should get some rest."

" Ok." Bo laid a kiss on her lips, embracing her.

The Valkyrie let out a light sign, and held Bo's hand in hers. She slowly interlocked her fingers with Bo's and held her hand to her chest. She closed her eyes, lowering her head to give Bo a kiss on her hand. " If...I ever had a choice, and I had to bond with someone..." Tamsin whispered, hesitating, not sure if she should continue talking.

" Ok...?" Bo waited patiently for the blonde to continue.

" It would be you..." The blonde said in a low voice, " It would always...be you..."

A warm feeling passed through Bo's heart. She smiled, holding the blonde tighter to her chest. " 'Cause I'm perfect, right?" She whispered back to the blonde.

Tamsin sighed. " You are not gonna let me get away with that ever, are you?"

" No. And you can't take that back." Bo said.

" I shouldn't have fucking said it in the first place..." Tamsin said, " Fucking stupid alcohol..."

" Well, consider that a small price to pay for stealing all my liquor..." Bo whispered to her.

Tamsin let out a deep breath. She didn't say anything, but tucked herself closer to Bo's side. She had her fingers lightly pressing on Bo's chest, caressing her smooth skin. She vividly remembered how she told the succubus that she was perfect in her bathtub that day, and she wasn't regretting it at all. Now she was bonded with her forever. They would never leave each other ever again. That thought warmed her.

" We should get some rest." Bo murmured, already half asleep. The last thing she remembered was Tamsin's semi sleep stalk whispering, " Perfect...damn right...you are..."