Chapter 10 - I Thought I Lost You
8:30 pm - Tamsin's Apartment
" Seriously, how can I get rid of you?" Tamsin looked at the succubus who is standing at her door.
" I don't know." Bo smiled to her, " Just want to discuss Alice with you."
" Who?" Tamsin frowned.
" The little girl who asked me to find her killer?"
" Well, learn to take care of your own shit." Tamsin wanted to close the door, but she didn't. " I got my work out to do." She added, trying to be persuasive.
" I thought you do your work out in the morning." Bo walked in as she crossed her arms in front of her chest, staring at the blonde. She had never seen Tamsin in her sports bra and shorts before. The Valkyrie was practically half naked in front of her right now. With a few locks of her hair stuck to her face and her body covered by sheen of sweat, she looked so alive, and hot. Bo couldn't help but stare at her half shown breasts, her stomach, her ass and her legs. She had to turn her eyes away, before she started to picture those legs wrapped around her waist in bed.
Bo suddenly found it hard to breathe. She walked to the kitchen and poured herself a glass of water.
" What do you want?" Tamsin asked. She was running on her treadmill, not looking at Bo.
" Maybe you could search in the system for me, see if you can find any Alice who drowned?"
" That is a lot to search. We need to narrow it down a little."
" We? So you are in?"
" Whatever. The sooner we figure it out, the sooner I can kick your sweet little butt out of my apartment."
" What if I keep showing up?"
" Then I'll have to keep kicking you out." Tamsin stopped running. She grabbed a bottle of water and smirked to Bo, before she started to drink.
" Oh really?" Bo walked to her. She stood right in front of the blonde, staring into her blue eyes. She found the Valkyrie extremely hard to resist today. She didn't know if it was because she was half naked right now, or just because she wanted her so bad.
Tamsin raised her eyebrows, looking back at her, with the what-the-fuck-do-you-want look on her face.
Bo grabbed the water bottle from Tamsin's hand and put it down. She stared at the Valkyrie's lips for a while, and leaned over to kiss her.
Tamsin stiffened. She pushed the succubus away from her after few seconds. Not that she was not enjoying it, but she knew she shouldn't dwell into it.
" Want to get your ass kicked?" Tamsin looked at Bo. She had her hands on Bo's waist, stopping her from getting closer.
Bo ignored the defensive attitude of the Valkyrie. She leaned over and kissed her again.
" I really am going to kick you out..." Tamsin replied when the succubus pulled back for some air.
" Then do it...tell me to stop...kick me out..." Bo laid her kisses on the Valkyrie's shoulder. Her hands were already tucked under the sports bra. Her finger tips caress across the blonde's nipples. Tamsin gasped.
" Damn it!" Tamsin cursed. She knew she should just push the succubus away and kick her out, but with all the moans and the pleasure, she couldn't say another word.
10:10 pm - Tamsin's Apartment
" Are you fucking staying?" Tamin raised herself up from the bed on her elbows, staring at the brunette lying on her bed.
" Well, unlike someone, I don't sneak out after sex. " Bo said with a smile on her face.
" Unlike you, I'm just more than happy if you get your ass out of here right now!"
" Are you kicking me out...?" Bo stared at her.
" Oh fuck me!" Tamsin cursed and closed her eyes. She sighed.
" Well, you are very straightforward..." Bo rolled herself over, topping the blonde. She tried hard not to chuckle. With her eyes staring at the Valkyrie, she pressed her lips on the blonde's neck and kissed her playfully.
"Shit! No! I didn't mean..." Tamsin couldn't finish her sentence before she fisted the sheet and stopped talking, because the succubus had already moved her kisses down below.
11:20 pm - Tamsin's Apartment
Bo giggled when she looked at the Valkyrie, enjoying watching her exhausted, satisfied and pissed off at the same time. Despite Tamsin's meaningless struggle, Bo armed around her waist from the behind and laid a light kiss on her shoulder.
" Time for bed..." Bo murmured. She buried herself closer to the blonde and fell asleep.
Tamsin tried to move Bo's hands away from her waist, but the succubus just moaned and held her tighter.
Shit! Tamsin cursed. She had nowhere to run.
7:00 am - Tamsin's Apartment
" I thought you'd be fucking gone by now..." Tamsin sat beside her dining table, frowning at the breakfast.
" I thought you could take me to the station to look up case file related to Alice." Bo was eating her breakfast.
" Damn! Totally forgot about her! Fine. Whatever." Tamsin said.
9:00 am - Police Station
Dyson frowned when he saw Tamsin and Bo walking into the station together at the same time.
" Found her wandering outside." Tamsin pointed at Bo as she sat down in front of her desk, " She needs the help from a wolf."
" Of course, anything you need." Dyson looked at Bo and said.
" Can you check in your system to see if there's any girl named Alice, about 7, 8 years old, who was drowned?" Bo tried to act normal.
" Sure, why?"
" Just a side project of mine...from a client." Bo didn't want to get too deep into it, because she knew the second she told Dyson, the wolf would go to Trick, and then Trick would give her this you-are-in-trouble-lady speech.
" I don't have anyone matching the description in the system. Do you know when she was drowned, 'cause our computer database only has the case files from the past 20 years."
" Well I don't know. If she died more than 20 years ago, where am I gonna find any information about her then?"
" I could look into the archives, but I'll need to look through them one by one. I can't do it right now." Dyson said.
" By any chance I can go through them myself?"
" No. You can't." Dyson said, " However, no one really goes to the archive room, and there is only one guard there. He's probably very easy to persuade..."
" Alright then." Bo smiled. She said good-bye to Dyson and left.
" Do you hear yourself, Dyson?" Tamsin said in a low voice as she frowned at him, " You practically just told her to go into the archive room without any authorization. Are you crazy?"
" Relax. How many times have we asked her in on interrogating suspects? Do you think it's approved by the rules?"
" That's totally different!"
" Tamsin, I know you and Bo are not exactly on the best terms." Dyson sighed, " I'm just doing her a favor. Besides, what harm could she possibly do to those old files?"
" Well, if she stays in there long enough, maybe those case files will fall in love with her." Tamsin smirked.
Dyson laughed. He shook his head and started to file his report.
8:00 pm - Police Station: The Archive Room
" Another box of nothing." Bo murmured when she put a box of old case files back to its shelf.
It was like Dyson said. There was only one guard, and he was really easy to charm. Bo had been in the room for almost 12 hours now, but she still didn't find anything linked to Alice.
Bo stood beside the shelf and stretched herself hard. She yawned. She felt exhausted.
When she took off another box from the shelf, she heard someone coming through the door. Bo held her breathe and hid behind the shelf.
" I know you are in here, succubus." Tamsin's voice came from the door.
Bo let out her breath and said, " Are you here to arrest me, officer?"
" Tempting." Tamsin said, " Did you break any laws?"
Bo rolled her eyes at her. Somewhere inside her heart, she knew Tamsin would come looking for her, because they had been dancing around like this for months already. Every time they got too close, the blonde got scared away, but later she would approach close again.
" So, what are you doing here?" Bo put the box in her hand on the floor, and started to look through the case files.
" Well, just to keep an eye on you, in case you do something you shouldn't." Tamsin sat beside her. She took out a folder and started to read too. " Find anything?" She asked.
" No, but I haven't gone through these files yet." Bo said.
" Why are you looking at files in the 1980s?" Tamsin leaned over and looked at the files in Bo's hand.
" Well, maybe because I don't know when she actually died?"
" Her hair style, her dress style, it shouldn't be that old." Tamsin said.
" But I've already gone through the files after 80s, and Dyson said there was no match in the system."
" Then there's something wrong..."
10:00 pm - The Dal
Since nothing popped out, Bo had finally decided to call it a day. She drove to the Dal. She knew Tamsin was behind her, but they didn't ride in the same car, nor did they speak after they went in.
The Valkyrie went straight to the pool table. Bo just went to the bar.
" Something's wrong?" Trick asked when he was making a drink for Bo.
" No, everything is fine. Just a case." Bo smiled to him.
She heard a low laugh from her right hand side. She turned her head around, frowning. Then she realized that Shingo was sitting right beside her. Apparently he knew what she was really thinking about and was laughing at it.
" Oh, please, now it's not the time." Bo rolled her eyes at him, " I'm gonna go have my drink elsewhere..."
The Satori smiled and raised his glass. " You certainly are." He said.
" You nesting here or something?" Bo asked him.
" No, just got something to talk about with Trick." Shingo took a sip from his glass. " How's it going finding Alice's killer?"
" It is...going nowhere... Since you brought that up, you think maybe you can summon her again, so I can ask her some questions?"
" I can, yes, but she won't know anything more than she already told you. Most ghosts lose all their memories when they die. A ghost like Alice, who had a strong unresolved wish, will remember something, but not much. She's already told you everything she knew."
" Oh great!" Bo banged her forehead on the counter, " What if I can't find her killer? Is she really going to haunt my dreams every night?"
" Yes, she will. Not that there is nothing we can do about it, but it would be better if you find her killer."
" I don't have any leads..."
" Well, Alice is an earth bound ghost. She couldn't go very far from where she died. You think that can be a clue?" Shingo said.
" Not really. If we have a pool of possibilities, we can use that to narrow it down. But right now, we have none."
Shingo was about to say something, but he raised his head a little and took a glance at the Valkyrie who just came by the counter to grab some beer.
" Enjoying your mind reading session?" Tamsin leaned over to Bo's ears and whispered to her, while she was waiting on Trick to give her the beer.
" Just discussing the drowning kid with him."
" Have fun." Tamsin scrunched her nose before she left with her beer.
Shingo raised his eyebrows. He raised his glass, and said to Bo, " You know, all you have to do is to ask her."
Bo almost choked by her drink. She coughed and said, "What?"
" Just a yes or no question. Do you have feelings for me." Shingo said.
" What if she doesn't?"
" Then at least you'll know for sure."
" Wait, I thought we were discussing Alice!" Bo rolled her eyes and downed her drink.
" That is not the major issue on your mind right now."
" Anyone ever told you that you are really annoying?"
" Yeah, in fact everyone I've ever met has told me that at least once."
" Oh. That sucks..." Bo said," Not the time to discuss about your problem either. I got to figure out the killer fast."
" I'm sorry I can't be more helpful. Since you can't find it in the case files, maybe no one reported to the police."
" But why would anyone keep it from the police? At least her parents would definitely want to know the truth about her death right?"
" I would definitely want to know, but I can't speak for the others."
" I couldn't think of a reason why her family wouldn't report to the police when they found her body..." Bo said. She poured herself another drink.
" Why are you keeping thinking about the word body?" Shingo asked her.
" What? I am not..."
" Yes, you are, it's in your sub consciousness."
" I am?" Bo frowned. Something suddenly occurred to her. " Body! That's right! What if her body was never found? What if she was just reported missing?"
" There you go. You were thinking about that for a reason."
" I've got to go." Bo stood up after she finished her drink.
" I can read her mind for you, if you want." Shingo smiled to her.
" Tempting, but that is cheating."
Shingo was surprised by her answer. He didn't say anything, but raised his glass to her.
Bo walked to the pool table. Seeing her coming, Tamsin smirked to her, " Dr. Mindreader got tired of your secrets already?"
" I just thought of something. Maybe the girl was reported missing instead of dead. We haven't checked for any of the missing person's cases, have we?"
" No, we haven't." Tamsin nodded. She put down the cue in her hand and said, " Come on, succulet. Let's go check the missing person's cases."
11:00 pm - Police Station
" Ok, I just put the computer on search. Now we can wait." Tamsin sat on her chair, with her feet on the desk.
" How long is it gonna take?" Bo asked. She pulled a chair from one of the other desks and sat down.
" Could be minutes, could be hours. It may or may not give us a result we want."
" I guess we'll wait then."
They stayed quiet for a while. The only sound in the air was the buzzing noise from the lights.
Bo took a glance at the blonde, who was not looking at her at this moment, but she wasn't looking at the computer screen either. Bo inched forwards, putting the Valkyrie's legs down from the desk.
Tamsin raised her eyebrows, staring at Bo. Bo didn't say anything. She lowered her head and kissed the blonde.
Both were little startle by the kiss, but after a few seconds they just decided to go with it.
Later Tamsin pulled back for some air. Bo wanted to continue, but the beeping noise from the computer startled them both.
Suddenly they realized what they were doing, and it became a little bit awkward. Tamsin cleared her throat, pulling herself back to look at the computer.
" We got a match. Alice Whitefield, reported missing three years ago. She was never found. Last known location, a camping site, which is really close to that mental hospital. Wait a minute..."
" What's wrong?" Bo asked.
" I think I've read a missing person's report recently, which happened to be at the same location. The camping site over there..." Tamsin searched through the pile of case files on her desk. She pulled one out and opened the folder. " Look." She pointed to Bo, " A ten-year-old boy named Dylan was reported missing about ten days ago. He went camping with his uncle, aunt and his cousins. His uncles said here that Dylan and Mike, one of his sons, went away from them for a while, but later they only found Mike by himself not far from the campsite."
" Did this Mike kid say anything?"
" No. He was traumatized. He couldn't remember anything happening to Dylan. The local police and volunteers searched the area, but they didn't find him... nor his body..." Tamsin stared at the case file in her hand, frowning.
" You think what happened to Alice, maybe happened to him too?"
" It is entirely possible... I mean, how often do you see two kids missing at the same location but was never found again..." Tamsin said. She moved close to the computer, as if suddenly something had occurred to her. She typed something, then the searching screen appeared.
" What are you searching for?"
" See if there are more missing cases related to that area..."
" Ok, I guess we'll wait then." Bo said. She wanted to continue the kiss, but she was afraid that the awkwardness would come to them again, so instead she just took Tamsin's hand in hers and caressed it lightly. She didn't even know why she was doing this, but she just wanted to be closer to the Valkyrie. The warmth on the Valkyrie's hand reminded her the day she was fed by a Soucouyant. Tamsin was holding her hand the entire time during her black out.
" I...emmm... I haven't really thanked you for saving my life... from the Soucouyant."
" What can I say? You just can't help yourself getting ass kicked by the monsters." Tamsin tilted her head and smirked. She tried to act like her normal self, but with the soft, gentle touch of Bo's hands she felt something inside her was melting down. In order not to dwell in it, she straightened herself up and checked the searching results.
To her surprise, there were already a handful of matching results showing on the screen, and the number just kept increasing.
" Shit! This is not good... Looks like there's a missing person's case like every few months over that area." Tamsin looked through the cases popping on her computer screen, " None of them were found. The earliest case was like five years ago..."
" You think they all died, just like Alice?"
" It's possible, but we'll need to go check the scene. Looks like the police didn't find anything weird over there. They thought the kid was abducted, but they found no trace of a third person..."
" Well, I guess we'll go there tomorrow then." Bo smiled and said.
10:20 am - Campsite
" Looks normal to me." Bo said as she was looking around in the area. It was just a normal looking campsite, with fire pits scattered around in the woods, and few other facilities. It was not even in the deep wood area. She could see a few tents and RVs parking around. People were talking and laughing.
" How did those people get lost here? It's not the middle of nowhere by any means." Tamsin frowned, then something occurred to her. " According to Alice's dying scene memory, she was drowned, then where is the body of water?"
" She could have been abducted by someone and drowned in the tub or something..."
" No, the water I saw the other day was greenish, definitely not running water from a household..."
" She could also have been drowned somewhere else...oh no, wait... she couldn't because she is bound to this area... So she had to have been killed somewhere near here."
Tamsin took out the map and checked. She frowned and said, " The closest body of water is a lake, but it's about a 30 minutes walk from here. If she was drowned there, how did she get there in the first place?"
10:50 am - Lake near the Campsite
" Oh I seriously don't think a kid can walk this far..." Bo stopped to pant. After the 30 minutes of hiking with Tamsin, she could barely catch her breath. " Why is it every time we are on some case, I have to hike like this." She added.
" You need to work out. You are too weak, succulet." Tamsin gave her a stare.
" If Alice was drowned here, someone must have taken her here or something..."
" I've read the report, they found nothing. No tire tracks, no trails, nothing."
" What about the other missing case files?"
" You think I can read all of those in like 15 minutes?" Tamsin raised her eyebrows, looking at Bo.
" Well, I guess now we have two choices, read the files thoroughly, see if we can find anything, or go visit that Mike kid who was with his missing cousin."
" Let's visit the kid then."
" Why? Don't want to spend time with me reading through the case files?"
" I figure you'll come over tonight anyway. So why waste time now?" Tamsin leaned close and smirked.
2:00 pm - Hospital
Tamsin and Bo went to the hospital where the kid was at right now. According to his parents, he had finally calmed down, after days of high fever and unconsciousness. Bo tried to ask him some questions, but the child couldn't remember anything useful.
" I'm sorry. He doesn't remember anything." The mother said to Bo.
" It's ok. Maybe it's better this way." Bo smiled to her.
" Did he say anything? After Dylan went missing?"
" He was having high fever when we found him unconscious a mile away from our tent. He was like that for days. I think the only things he ever said during that time were some meaningless words, like mom, dad, daisy, well, daisy is his dog's name, and horse. Nothing that I could make any sense of, I'm so sorry."
" Hey, it's ok." Bo touched her arm, sending some charms to calm her down.
2:15 pm - Hospital Parking Lot
" Well, I guess we are going to read the case files after all." Bo said as she got in Tamsin's truck.
" You really can't keep away from my apartment, can you?" Tamsin started the truck.
3:20 pm - Tamsin's Apartment
" There are over 20 missing person cases linked to that campsite during the past five years, yet no one ever considered them connected?" Bo looked at the pile of files on Tamsin's dinner table.
" Well, what can I say?" Tamsin said when she sat down beside Bo, " Missing persons, not exactly the first priority really. After a while, trails went cold."
" Hmmm... Some of them are actually adults. That is just weird." Bo briefly went through all the photos and the names of the victims and said.
" Weird how?"
" I can understand how a kid could be easily lured away, but adults...?"
" Not so hard as you thought it would be, sweetheart." Tamsin smiled, " It could just be something like a hot brunette saying hey, can you help me, or a handsome half naked dude telling you we got booze in our camp."
" Interesting..." Bo said, " Look at this file. It was case like four years ago, with a missing adult. The eye witness said, a very gorgeous lady took his friend away. The police didn't take it seriously, because the witness himself was wasted back then."
" Well, let's say the lady lured him to the lake and killed him. How come there was no trail of any kind? Even if the killer carried the victim on her, or him, at least there should be trails of the killer."
" Maybe the killer can fly?"
" Then people would have seen a flying...something...carrying the victim."
" Then I don't know..." Bo felt frustrated. She rested her chin on the table.
" Keep reading. Either that or the little girl ghost is coming to haunt you."
" If she comes, can I stay with you at night so you can protect me?" Bo asked, looking at the Valkyrie.
" See, if I were you, I'd put more time on solving the case than day dreaming."
8:00 pm - Tamsin's Apartment
Tamsin's dining room was a real mess now. Case files were scattered around the floor and the table, along with takeout delivery boxes and shot glasses.
" I can't believe almost all cases had eyewitness, but there are still no clues!" Bo exclaimed.
" The sketch artist drew every possible suspect, and sometimes it's men, sometimes it's women, with different faces."
" Rakshasa maybe?"
" Oh fuck me! Another Rakshasa and I'm done with this shit forever!" Tamsin said. After pausing, she added, " I don't think it's a Rakshasa. They never drown their victims."
" Wait! Horse!" Bo suddenly found something on one of the files she was reading. " Remember in the hospital, the mother said Mike mumbling about horse. And this file says, the eye witness saw a horse."
" So?"
" Maybe the killer carried them on the horse to the lake?"
" But none of the cases had any trails left by a horse." Tamsin frowned, " Which is very weird, because if they actually saw a horse, how could there not be any trails of it?"
" I guess I'll call Trick, since we are stuck here."
6:00 am - Tamsin's Apartment
Bo woke up when she heard her cell phone ringing. She moaned with her eyes closed and reached her hand out. When she had her phone in her hand, she opened her eyes.
She saw Tamsin lying on top of her, and they were both on Tamsin's couch. The Valkyrie was still asleep, with her head rested on Bo's chest. Bo still had her right arm around the blonde's back. There was also a case file folder on Bo's chest, under Tamsin's face.
Did we fall asleep like this last night? Bo thought. She knew it was not the time to think about this, because according to the caller id it was Trick who was calling.
" Hey, gramps, morning to you too." Bo said, " Any findings?"
" I think it's a Kelpie, a.k.a the water horse. It lures its victim to a lake, or a river and drags them down into the water to drown them. It lures children in its horse form, encouraging them to have a ride, but when it comes to adults, it can also change its form to an attractive man or woman. Kelpies don't leave trails behind, except dripping water, but when it vaporized, nothing's left."
" Well, sounds like our guy. How can we find him?"
" Their lairs are normally far below the water surface and hidden deep. See if you can find some waterweeds on the shore. That would normally be the entrance to Kelpie's lair, but don't do anything else. I'll send someone to deal with the Kelpie."
" Ok, identify the entrance, and stay away from it, got it!"
" Be careful, Bo, do not get into the water. Once you are in water with a Kelpie, it's almost impossible to escape. "
" I know. I'm not diving in. Thanks." Bo hung up the phone. Tamsin raised her head a little and opened her eyes. She looked at Bo, confused. Then she realized that she was on top of Bo.
" Shit! What happened last night?" Tamsin got off the couch and said.
" Well, you tell me. You are the one who is on top." Bo said.
Tamsin sat on the floor, moaning. " I have a headache."
" How much did you drink?"
" Apparently not enough to forget about this shit." Tamsin said, " Were you on the phone five minutes ago or something?"
" Yeah, it was Trick. Got a lead on our killer. Trick says it's a Kelpie. He says he'll send someone to deal with it, and all we need to do is to find the entrance to his lair by looking for some waterweeds on the shore."
" Great."
7:55 am - Lake Near the Campsite
" How about I walk clockwise, and you walk counter-clockwise, and we meet on the other side of the lake?" Bo asked.
" Fine by me." Tamsin replied.
8:20 am - - Lake Near the Campsite
Bo was looking for the waterweeds Trick talked about on the shore, when she heard something coming from the woods.
A black horse dashed out from the woods. It was running right towards the lake, with a child on its back. It was a horse larger and stronger than normal horses, with very smooth skin. Water dripped off from its mane as it was running.
" Shit!" Bo opened her eyes wide, and saw the horse went into the water. The child on its back was crying and struggling, but it seemed that he was stuck on the back of the horse and he couldn't move.
" No!" Bo ran to the horse without even thinking what she was doing. She grabbed the kid and pulled him down right before he could be submerged in the water, but she lost her balance and fell into the lake.
Oh no! Bo thought, but it was too late. She felt a strong power, pulling her down to the bottom of the lake. She tried to swim up, but she couldn't. She saw a hand on her ankle and another on her wrist, dragging her.
Bo started to choke in the water. The image of Alice's last memory flashed through her head like a movie. Alice was choking in water, and so was she right now.
Bo blacked out.
10:30 am - - Lake Near the Campsite
Bo regained conscious and realizing she was coughing water out from her lungs. She saw Tamsin's face only few inches away from her own when she finally opened her eyes. The blonde's hair was all wet and stuck to her face, her clothes too.
Then Bo realized that Tamsin was straddling her, with both of her hands on her chest.
" Wow, am I really that irresistible?" Bo said. She thought the blonde would retort, but she didn't. She just stared at Bo.
" What happened?" Bo asked.
" You fell in the water and I pulled you up." Tamsin straightened herself, and moved down from Bo.
Bo noticed the blood all over her white shirt, her hands and her face. She sat up and reached her hands out, trying to lift the blonde's shirt up. " Are you hurt? Are you bleeding?" Bo asked her.
" It's not my blood. It's the Kelpie's."
" Right, the Kelpie! Where did the Kelpie go?"
" Emmm...hell?"
" What?"
" I killed it." Tamsin said. Then Bo noticed Tamsin's bloody dagger on the ground, right beside her.
" Oh..." Bo suddenly didn't know what to say, " I thought Kelpie was very strong under water."
" It was, until I ripped its heart out." Tamsin smirked.
" Well, remind me never to piss you off... " Bo licked her own lips. She paused for a while, then she said, " Did you give me a healing kiss?"
" No, I gave you CPR. Your heart had stopped when I pulled you out, and you were not breathing either." Tamsin said, as if she was not talking about a life and death situation but the weather.
" Oh... then I guess I need to thank you again for saving my life..."
" Seriously, Bo, how many times do you have to throw yourself to the death?"
" What else can I do? The Kelpie had a kid on his back! The kid could have died. Right, where is the kid?"
" His parents came and took him away. He's safe. I called the precinct and they are going to sent someone here to take care of this mess." Tamsin said. She turned her head away and looked at the sun, with her eyes narrowed. " Let's go home." She said.
11:50 am - Tamsin's Apartment
" Emm... I thought you were going to send me home first?" Bo asked when they were standing outside Tamsin's apartment.
" It's closer." Tamsin said as she opened the door.
Bo frowned. She felt something was not right the moment she woke up on the lake shore. Tamsin was unusually cold and distant. She didn't say anything on the way back.
" You sure you didn't get hurt?" Bo asked the blonde.
" I'm fine." Tamsin said. She closed the door and went to sit beside the couch on the floor, completely ignoring her wet clothes and her dripping hair.
" Hey!" Bo kneeled beside her on the floor. She looked into Tamsin's eyes and asked, " What's wrong?"
Tamsin stared her back. She laid her hands on Bo's face. She kissed Bo, before Bo could react.
Tamsin pulled away from Bo after a few seconds, but with her hands still on Bo's face. She lowered her head to rest on Bo's chest with her eyes closed.
It was then Bo felt the blonde was trembling. Bo pulled her closer and hugged her.
" Can we at least go get a hot shower? I mean, separately of course." Bo asked to the Valkyrie. She was a little worried, because Tamsin had never been like this before.
" No..."
" No?"
" There's enough room for two in my shower."
12: 15 pm - Hot Shower
Bo was still shocked, after being in the hot shower with Tamsin for ten minutes. She couldn't believe that the blonde just asked her to take a shower together, especially since not long ago she just told her not to push her luck on this.
Bo didn't know what to do. She just stood in the hot water and watched the blonde washing the blood off her body. The blood was diluted and washed off by the water, and eventually her fair skin was revealed. Tamsin combed her hair back with her fingers. Then she opened her eyes and laid them on Bo.
Bo raised her eyebrows and stared back. Tamsin approached her and kissed her.
" Ok. Who are you and what did you do to the Tamsin I know?" Bo asked when their lips parted. She stared at the blonde confused. " Are you ok? Is there something I should know about?" Bo cupped her face and asked.
Tamsin shook her head. She pulled Bo close and held her tight to her chest. She didn't want to tell the succubus how fierce the fight was between her and the Kelpie, how she lost control and deranged by anger, slaughtered the monster just to save Bo, or how terrified she was when she pulled Bo out from the lake and found out she was not breathing. For a moment she thought she was the one whose heart had just stopped. She was so afraid, afraid of losing Bo, afraid of the strong feelings she had towards Bo, which she had not realized until right now. She just wanted to hold her tight, to make sure she was still alive and well.
" I thought I lost you...I thought I lost you..." Tamsin murmured, with a voice so low that she herself couldn't even hear it in the running water.
" Hey, relax... It's ok, I'm fine, alive and breathing." Bo had finally figured out what this was all about. As much as she worried about the Valkyrie, knowing that the Valkyrie was worrying about her too, she felt something melting inside her heart. The feeling was so warm that it almost made her heart ache. She hugged the blonde, gentling caressing her back, trying to stop her from shaking.
3:00 pm - Tamsin's Apartment
" The precinct just called. They've searched the lair of the Kelpie. They found over 20 dead bodies. They've already identified Alice among them." Tamsin hung up her phone and said.
" Ok. Then I guess I don't have to worry about some little girl haunting me at night anymore." Bo said, " Well, I guess it's time for me to go home. We both need some rest."
Tamsin looked at Bo, biting her lips. Finally she said, " You can stay, if you want to."
Bo opened her eyes wide and looked into Tamsin's eyes. She couldn't believe what she just had heard, but she nodded before the blonde changed her mind.
" Ok. I'll stay." Bo said.
The Valkyrie let out a deep breath.
