Chapter 2 - Karma is a Bitch

3:00 pm - Police Station

Bo walked in the police station. She saw Tamsin sitting at her desk reading some files.

Even though Bo tried to persuade her to stay in the morning, Tamsin still left a little after 6am, with her shoes in her hand and her hair tied up as a messy bun.

Bo walked to her. She leaned against her desk, with her arms crossed in front of her chest and her eyes staring at the blonde.

Tamsin had finally noticed her. She raised her head. " Surprise, surprise." She asked.

" You didn't even text me to let me know you get home safely this morning." Bo said.

" You think anyone would attack a valkyrie with a gun and a badge?"

" Still..."

" Why are you here?" Tamsin lowered her voice.

" I need a favor, to track a phone location."

" You could have just called..."

" Well, maybe I wanted to - Dyson!" Bo saw Dyson walked in the police station. She subconsciously moved a little away from Tamsin. Tamsin sat up straight and cleared her throat. She grabbed some random file in her hand and walked away.

" Hey, good to see you here." Dyson smiled at her. To Bo's surprise, he didn't make fun of her and Tamsin, making Bo wonder if Kenzi had already told him the encounter this morning.

" Good to see you too. I need to track a phone location." Bo said.

" Ok. What's it for?"

" Kenzi and I...are working on a case. Some run away fiancé, Kenzi's friend's friend's...well, I don't exactly know."

" Ok. Here's the address." Dyson wrote down the location on a piece of paper and gave it to Bo, " If you need any help, call me."

" I'll be fine." Bo smiled.

Before she walked out the station, Bo slowed down, trying to locate the blonde but she didn't see her. She knew the blonde was trying to avoid her, and that had made her heart ache.

3:30 pm - Entrance to the Abandoned Sewerage System

" I don't even want to start with the question like why the hell he would come to a place like this." Bo said to Kenzi when she trying to ignore the nasty lingering smell in the air.

" I have no idea, dude." Kenzi said. She hesitated for a while, then she said:" I think I had a nightmare last night."

" Oh, what was it about?" Bo opened the rusty gate of the entrance and turned on her flashlight.

" I think I saw you and detective bitchiness making out... if you know what I mean." Kenzi opened her eyes wide and shook her head, as if she just had some really strong drink.

Bo stiffened when she realized what Kenzi was saying. " You think it's a nightmare?"

" What else would it be?" Kenzi asked.

" Yeah, that's right. What else would it be..." Bo said. She almost confessed to Kenzi that it was all real, that she did sleep with Tamsin, and that Kenzi did see them kissing.

However, when she thought about how Tamsin reacted to it, and how she pulled herself away from her, she decided that it was probably better not to discuss it with anyone ever again.

" With a nightmare like that, I think I really need to get laaaaid..." Kenzi mumbled.

Bo didn't answer her. She looked at something on the ground, between old trash, muddy water and something she didn't even want to know what it was.

" Hey, check this out." Bo put gloves on and picked it up," It's his phone. He must have dropped it here...then where did he go, and why did he come in here in the first place?"

They both looked around.

" Yo, Bo-Bo, see this?" Kenzi shined her flashlight on the walls of the tunnel. There was something on it.

" What is it...?" Bo touched it. It was very sticky. She could even pull it away from the wall without pulling it off. She noticed that whatever it was, it was all over the walls. The deeper they went in the tunnel, the more the sticky things were.

" It looked to me like some sort of silk..." Kenzi said.

" Well, let's follow it and find out."

5:00 pm - Abandoned Sewerage System Tunnel

Bo and Kenzi followed the trace of the sticky silk on the wall and eventually they came into a intersection point of several tunnels. The sticky silk were all over the place. In the center, there were dozens of cocoon like thing sitting there.

" Holy mamma!" Kenzi said.

The cocoons were light gray, almost silver, but with a dull color to it. Bo touched it, it was very sticky. She pulled out her dagger and cut one open. Green goo flew out.

" Oh I think I might throw up soon." Kenzi turned around, trying not to puke.

Then something came out from the cocoon with the green gooey liquid. Kenzi screamed when she saw that. Bo almost did too.

It looked like a human, or at least it once probably was a human, of some kind, except that right now it looked like an empty skin. There were still pieces of clothes fabric on it, but no flesh, no bones.

Trying hard not to think about it, Bo cut other cocoons open. More skins flew out. Two bodies came out from the last couple cocoons. They were unconscious, but they were still alive, just unconscious. The man they were looking for were among them too.

" Let's get them out here when we can." Bo dragged one on her shoulder. There were less green goo on them two than in the other cocoons, but it was still slippery.

" Yewww..." Kenzi dragged the man with Bo.

6:00pm - The Entrance of the Abandoned Sewerage System

" I guess it's time to call Trick." Bo took her phone out, after they dragged those two people out.

" Yeah good idea." Kenzi tried to wipe the goo, the silk and everything else on her clothes.

Bo called Trick. Trick looked up in his books and scrolls, then he said:" The light gray silk, the dark, damp habitat, the cocoons... I think it's mostly likely that you are dealing with some arachnes."

" Ara what?" Bo asked.

" Giant spider-like under faes. They prey on humans and faes like spiders. They paralyze their victims by biting, wrap their victims up in cocoon and inject their digestive fluid in them. That's why there are only skins left, because they sucked all the other stuff out. Kenzi's friend must have came close to their picnic area or something."

" Ok. How are we gonna kill them?"

" Stay where you are, I'm calling Dyson right now. He'll bring all the equipments."

" What about these two people? Are they gonna die?"

" With treatment they should be fine. Just stay where you are and wait for Dyson."

6:40 pm - The Entrance of the Abandoned Sewerage System

" We got here as fast as we can." Dyson said.

" Yeah, whatever, like I don't have anything better to do after work, than hunting some spiders in the sewer." Tamsin got off the car and said.

" So how are we gonna kill the spider?"

" Spiders, a group of them. We need to find the Queen and kill it first, with these special pesticide bullets." Dyson waved the gun in his hand, " Then the other cops will do the rest, probably burn the whole sewer to kill the small ones."

" Ok." Bo said, " Do we get guns too?"

" Unless you grow a badge right now, you are coming with me." Tamsin smirked.

" Kenzi comes with me. We split up and find the Queen as soon as possible."

" Fine with me." Kenzi raised her hand. She would give up anything right now not to team up with Tamsin.

6:50 pm - Abandoned Sewerage System Tunnel

After split up with Dyson and Kenzi, Bo and Tamsin went to the left side of the tunnel. Neither of them had said anything.

Finally Bo decided to break the awkward silence.

" Look, you don't need to worry about anyone knowing about last night anymore." Bo said, " Kenzi thought it was a nightmare, and I didn't tell her it was not."

" Great!" Tamsin scrunched her nose and smiled.

Bo didn't say anything. She felt a little bit hurt by Tamsin's indifferent attitude. Usually she was the one who sneaked out in the early morning and never called back. She thought Tamsin had feelings for her, just like she had for her, but she was not sure anymore now. She wanted to ask her, but she was afraid that she would scare the valkyrie away.

" Karma is a bitch." Bo murmured to herself.

" What?"

" Nothing. Just keep going and kill this thing, then we can all go home." Bo felt frustrated.

They went quiet again, walking in the darkness. The only light was coming from the flashlights.

" Hey, maybe we should just-" Bo finally spoke up again.

" Shhhh!" Tamsin interrupted her.

They both heard something coming from the tunnel, something fast. Before they could react, a huge black shadow jumped to Bo.

" Watch out!" Tamsin grabbed Bo and jerked her aside. Their flashlight fell in the dirty water. Bo could barely see anything but the huge shadow in front of her. She could sense that it was something alive. She could feel the rage towards her.

Then she realized that Tamsin was on top of her. She felt something warm dripping down on her hand.

" Shit...the bitch bit my shoulder..." Tamsin said in a low voice.

Bo stayed there, shocked for few seconds. Then she remembered that they were supposed to shoot the Queen. She knew Tamsin was probably paralyzed by the bite, or she would have already started shooting. Bo reached her hand out and found the gun not far away from them.

" Damn it! I have never used a gun before!" Bo could feel her hands shaking. She could barely hold it.

" Just...point and shoot...succubus, just point and..." Tamsin couldn't even finish her sentence.

Bo gripped the gun in her hand and raised it to aim. She could barely see the target. The Queen was in front of her. Her eyes were shining like gems in the darkness. Bo could hear her hissing, like a snake. She could hear her legs rubbing together.

Ok, point and shoot, point and shoot... Bo told herself.

She pulled the trigger. With a loud noise, she got pushed back by the recoil. She saw the flare and then a flash on the wall of the tunnel.

She knew she missed, because the Queen was pissed instead of dead. She felt a breeze on her face, smelling really bad. She had no choice but to fire another shot.

She missed again.

" Fuck...succubus...if I die here today...I'm gonna..." Tamsin suddenly murmured. She tried to move but she just couldn't.

The Queen charged them. Just right when she was about to grab them, Bo fired the last shot. It was a close range shot, so close that she could even feel the Queen's furry legs on her body and her breath on her face.

Subconsciously, Bo closed her eyes and held Tamsin tightly in her arms to shield her from the Queen.

Although, the anticipated bite or attack never came, Bo heard a loud scream and the Queen crashed on the ground. Bo had finally picked up the flashlight from the water and checked. The Queen was not moving. She had her legs drawn back and her belly was facing up, just like any other dead spiders.

Bo had finally let out her breath. She gasped and tried to stand up, but she just couldn't. Her legs were just not in control right now.

" Are you ok?" She asked Tamsin.

" ...as long as... I stay... away from you..." Tamsin muttered.

8:20 pm - Tamsin's apartment

Bo drove Tamsin to her apartment. The venom slowly wore off, Tamsin was able to move again soon after they came out from the sewer.

" I can't believe you can't fucking shoot!" Tamsin opened the door to her apartment.

" And I can't believe you just did that! Did you not know I'm a succubus, that I can heal even if I'm injured?"

" Well then what the hell are you suggesting? That I just let the damn spider bitch bite you, and offer you my kiss?"

They were both quiet for a while. Then Bo said:" I would never turn down the kiss part." She grinned at Tamsin.

" Shit..." Tamsin regretted what she said the moment she said it. She lied down on the couch. Then she stared at Bo and said:" Are you gonna patch me up or not?"

" Gee, I really don't know what is more attractive, your attitude, or your hospitality." Bo said, " At least tell me where the first aid kit is."

" In the kitchen. It's called the vodka and the towel."

" Oh you can't be serious." Bo rolled her eyes at Tamsin, but she still went to the kitchen and grabbed the stuff.

She sat down beside Tamsin, who was lying there with a bleeding left shoulder.

Bo slowly took the shirt off the blonde. She tried not to stare at any other part of her body than her wound.

When she peeled the fabric off her wound, the valkyrie gasped in a low voice and fisted the pillow on the couch.

Tamsin gasped more when Bo poured some vodka on her wound. The alcohol diluted the blood, washing it off so it looked less serious. Bo wiped the blood off with the clean towel. She tried not to put any pressure on it, but Tamsin still squeezed Bo's hand hard when she did that.

" No gauze pads?" Bo had finally cleaned her wounds.

" Don't need any. The bleeding has already stopped." Tamsin turned her head to look at it.

" Ok then. Now it's time for you to take some pain killer and get some rest." Bo said, " Where did you put your pain killers? In the bathroom?"

" In the kitchen. It's called vodka."

" Absolutely not..." Bo said, " I guess just rest then."

" Whatever." Tamsin sat up and switched side so she could rest her head on Bo's lap.

" I thought this was the part when you go to bed, and I say goodbye." Bo said. She was confused by Tamsin's move. For the first time in her life as a succubus, she couldn't tell whether the blonde wanted to be close to her, or wanted to push her away.

" Don't want to make a mess in my bed..." The blonde said, before she fell asleep with her arms around herself and her legs curled up.

Bo sighed. She moved a little, just enough to reach the throw on the other side of the couch, but not too much to wake up the valkyrie. She put the throw on Tamsin.

Bo was going to wake Tamsin up, but hearing the unconscious moans coming from the valkyrie caused by her injury during her sleep, she just couldn't. After all, the valkyrie got bit because of her.

Oh well. Bo thought. She leaned back to the couch and closed her eyes.