A/N: Hey guys, hope all is well!
I want to clarify when I say that the reviews have gone down and so I'm going to "retire". I'm not saying that the quantity of reviews is not to my liking. It doesn't have to do with quantity. When I say I need reviews to continue I genuinely mean it, especially when those reviews are detailed. A lot of things are based on what I read from you guys it helps me write, figure out where to go next, what to do etc. or even an idea that I didn't think of it before like for example, bringing Grant's wife into the story. I didn't think about that but now I am because of JCM's review. Not sure if I can work it in but I'm definitely going to be thinking about it. And without those kinds of reviews I literally feel like I'm a car with no gas. It's very hard for me to write when I don't have you guys guiding me. When I say you guys literally keep me writing I literally mean it. So, since the reviews, especially detailed reviews are dwindling it really makes it hard for me to write. I cannot stress that enough that I need you guys, so I have my fuel. Those of you that have been with me since the beginning know that I love interacting with you guys and making you guys really engage with the story and this is part of that interaction that is lacking more and more lately and without that I can't write. So, whether you guys have good things to say or bad things to say in your review, I don't care because everything can help me in some way. I hope this clears things up.
Of course, if bad thing you have to say is "You suck! So, and so is so much better than you. This story is bad." etc. Comments like that will be ignored because they're not reviews at all. They're just negative with no contribution factor and besides, all fanfiction writers are doing this for free so if you don't like it just don't read it. But don't leave a review that's not actually a review. Anyway, I hope that clears everything up.
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Bo – Home – Living Room – Midnight – A Few Weeks Later
I stumbled into my house, barely making it onto the couch. I'm losing too much blood. Lauren…Lauren should be here soon.
"Grant…" I barely muttered out as I laid on the couch. I barely spoke a whisper and yet he managed to appear on one knee in front of me.
"Bo! Bo, what happened!? I was only gone for about an hour. No matter, your going to feed from me, your pulse is far too weak to wait for Lauren. Just try to take as little of my chi as possible. Your kind can easily overdose on my energy. Now, let your succubus take over."
Neither I nor my succubus needed to be told twice. She immediately took over and since we've become one our lips no longer need to be in contact with our feed. They can be quite a distance away.
Grant's chi was…strong would be an understatement. I remember saying Dyson's chi was like the Fourth of July. Well, Grant's was like all the major holidays of the U.S. rolled into one. Only Lauren's is better than his…she's perfection.
My succubus broke the flow of chi after only what felt like a few seconds. I had to take a large inhale of air, like I was being brought back to life. Grant's chi was…intense and overwhelming to say the least.
Grant kept me from sitting up too quickly. "Easy. Sit up slowly and take slow breaths. Like I said my energy is overwhelming for your kind. My energy is overwhelming for all creatures that feed off energy because I'm almost nothing but pure energy."
Just then Lauren came rushing in, only to find that I was healed already. "Bo, are you okay?" I nodded as she sat down next to me. "Grant gave me some of his chi."
"Now, Grant, to answer your earlier question I was hunting down a lead on whoever is leading all these attacks on us. Because let's face it every group of any kind, in this case a group of resistance to change has a leader to guide all the followers…Let's just say, people still don't like me nosing around even after all this time…I was outnumbered and alone against a whole bunch of brutes that all had different abilities."
"Ow!" Lauren smacked my arm for being so reckless. "Didn't I make it clear that no one goes anywhere alone right now!? Don't be a smartass and answer that, it's obviously rhetorical. These attacks have been increasing in frequency and hostility."
"Yeah, Lauren and I was trying to do this to put an end to it all. I have to take out the leader. I have to find out who the leader is before anything happens anybody. If you take out the leader or maybe even leader(s) then you take out the group. You eliminate or at least severely weaken the resistance, which will keep you, our family and our children safe. You can't be mad at me for doing everything I can to protect my family."
Lauren sighed as she gave me a kiss on the lips. "I know that you're just trying to protect us. But being reckless and just going in guns blazing is not going to get us anywhere. It's only going to get you guys killed and I need my Bo and my succubus. Did your Rambo approach at least give us anything we could use?"
"No…" I huffed like a pouting child. Before anyone could say anything further, we heard one of Grant's chimey sound things. "Oh dear…"
"What?" Lauren and I asked in unison, the tone in his voice and the look on his face was not good. "We're about to be under attack by a small assortment of fae and they're goal is to kidnap Lauren. They're on the heels of Dyson, Vex, Tamsin, Hale and Evony."
I've never been so happy that Kenzi, Trick and Dagny went on a vacation away from all this and that Lauren (The one that was made up of Lauren and Grant, that is) gave Evony special abilities when she turned her into a human. We're going to need all the fire power we can get.
"Forgive me Dr. Lewis."
"For wh-" Lauren disappeared before she could even finish her sentence. "Fear not, I sent her to the master bedroom which also has a hidden Panic Room that I forgot to tell you two about."
"Go! Go! Go!" The gang barreled in from the front door, using their backs to keep our enemies out. Well trying to…
I quickly grabbed a set of knives from my weapons chest in the living room, ready for a fight since they were about to break through the door one way or another. "Forgive Bo, but I have to go. A charge is literally dying I need to go. I'll be back as soon as I can."
Great, leave it to Grant to leave at the worst possible time.
"Ay Succubus! This door isn't going to hold any longer! You better have a bloody plan!"
As soon as Vex said that they were all blasted from the door. "Ow…That sucked." Tamsin groaned as they got back up off the floor.
As our enemies poured in Dyson tapped into his wolf with a growl, Evony has been dying to really use her new power of electricity, it's been a while since Vex has had puppets to play with, Tamsin…Well, she's always itching for a fight and Hale was just bracing for the fight.
"You guys are trespassing. I hate trespassers." My succubus growled as we went into battle with seven intruders. "This is gonna be fun."
The man near the center of their group was a siren and so, he and Hale squared with their shared abilities right away. A set of set female vampires went toe to toe with Tamsin. A wolf-shifter went after Dyson in partial wolf form like Dyson. A Naga went after Evony and a Wendigo went straight for Vex.
I know I saw a seventh member, where did she go? I spotted her hitting our staircase and bolted right for her. She was going right after Lauren.
I grabbed the railing and propelled myself in front of her on the staircase, eyes blazing and knives in hand. "You're not going near my mate!" Her eyes glowed a pale light blue as did her hands.
"You're an Albaster."
"Oh great, our natural-born enemy…Don't let her touch you. And if she does, don't forget to let me loose before she gets to your shame."
The fierce pale redhead grinned. "Our boss thought I'd be the perfect match for you. Personally, I consider that an insult to me because you're not even in my league, you filthy succubus."
She threw the first of many punches at me all of which I had to dodge. The moment she gave me her first opening I threw a punch back at her and as soon as I made contact with her jaw I felt her take some of my chi.
"How…I thought your kind could only feed through your hands?" She grinned at my surprise. "Like you're an advanced and some may say special succubus, I am an advanced and definitely special albaster."
"Okay, plan B it is." I was about to feed from her when she pulled out a gun with lightning speed and shot me with it in the abdominal.
She easily pushed me down the stairs out of her way as she continued her pursuit for Lauren. Everything around me seemed to be moving in slow motion…The various fights around me; we're losing. Dyson and Tamsin were both on the ground; beaten by the numbers. Vex, Evony, and Hale had the upper hand until they got distracted trying to help the fallen two before it was too late.
I was trying to scramble to my feet to get to Lauren. I know she's not fragile. I know she's not afraid or defenseless. But a pregnant woman should never be in combat mode. The risk of losing the twins is too great of a risk.
"Grant…Grant! Get back here now, we need you!" I called and called to no avail.
By the time I got to our room, it looked like Lauren put up a fight. But the albaster got to her by feeding from her, quickly driving her mad with guilt and shame. They were at the foot of our bed as Lauren was screaming and crying from the guilt and shame, crying so badly that I couldn't make out what she was saying.
I…We tried to pull chi from the bitch, but it was useless. I was too weak. The bullet embedded in me seems like it's been laced with something, blocking my ability to feed and making me weaker by the second.
The albaster looked over at me and grinned once more as I crumbled to the floor once more just a few feet away from them. "No…Lauren. Baby, fight it, please…Please try…GRANT!"
"Don't worry Bo, I'll give you some mercy by killing your wife quickly right in front of you in the next ten seconds with one of the knives that your girl cut me with. I'm assuming this knife is another one of yours." She was waving my knife in my face in front of the cut on her cheek.
"Oh, by the way, I hope you are enjoying the bullet I gave your abdomen. It was made with a poison and with a piece of that amulet that prevents you from using your abilities. You remember that amulet, right? The Koushang amulet that you used on dear old Mommy."
"Please…no. Take me instead. Please." I choked out, begging her to spare Lauren. She gave me one more sadistic grin before she turned her attention to a quivering Lauren who is mumbling incoherently. And I was just helpless to watch.
"GRANT! GRANT!" I tried one more time with all my might as everything seemed to be happening in slow motion again as I watched the knife move towards Lauren.
Just then a blue light emerged from me and the light became so bright that I had to close my eyes for a second. When I opened my eyes, I gasped with shock and surprise as my succubus was literally standing before me sucking the chi from the albaster with other chi streams coming into the room, obviously she's sucking the chi from all the enemies in our home.
But as she's sucking chi she's also pushing chi into everyone on our side to heal them, which also healed me from my bullet wound by somehow…Basically…telekinetically pulling it out of me just by pushing chi into me.
After another moment or two, she stopped feeding and healing all at once. Her eyes were still blazing blue but not as bright as before as she checked on Lauren, who seemed fully recovered. She just needed a bit to get her bearings back.
"You two okay?" Lauren and I nodded as we both helped her up to her feet. "Yeah, I think so. But how…How did…how are you separate from me?"
"I- I don't know…" She replied, she was just as confused as Lauren and I was as we headed downstairs to check on everyone. "Don't worry, our are enemies still alive…Barely, but alive." She assured us as our family members were all conscious and slowly getting to their feet while our enemies were all on the floor unconscious.
"I'm here! Dr. Lewis, Ms. Denn- Oh my…what happened here?" You would think that he was referring to the bodies on the floor and the war zone that was formerly our living room, but he wasn't. Speaking of which, he looked like he came from a war zone of his own as he barely glanced at our surroundings before looking right at my succubus then looking right at me. "Forgive my language but...How the bloody hell did you two split up? This is unprecedented..."
Grant's comments were followed by Vex who noticed the same thing he did, pointing it out to the rest of the group literally and loudly as he stood up looking at us. "What the bloody hell! Look, everyone! Either I got hit really hard on the noggin' while playing Puppet Master with these asshats or there's two Bo's. Oh my God, Doc, ya gotta check me for a bloody concussion because I'm seeing two of your bloody succu-bunny instead of one and one is bad enough!"
"Permission to knock out the Mesmer?"