Chapter 12 - This Isn't Fair
8:30 pm - Police Station Parking
" So you want to go grab a drink together, or just go home?" Dyson asked Tamsin when they both walked out the building into the parking lot.
" Drink sound fine. A fun place this time. My choice."
" Wherever you pick." Dyson shrugged.
Dyson heard something on the radio when he started the car. He frowned when he listened. " A power plant is having some serious malfunctioning problem right now, causing large area of power outages. And it's...very close to Bo and Kenzi's place. Let me swing by and check on them first, then we can go for the drinks."
" You're the driver." Tamsin titled her head and said.
9:15 pm - Bo's Place
The whole area was blacked out. The only lights Tamsin and Dyson saw were the head lights of their car.
They heard a sudden scream from inside when they got out of the car. They both dashed in with their guns drawn in hand. They rushed to the bedrooms on the second floor.
" Freeze-... Kenzi?" Dyson was about to fire a shot, but he saw Kenzi jump up from the bed with a flashlight in her hand. Then he saw Bo and Vex were sitting next to her.
" Yo, D-man, chill. I promise I'm the real Kenzi."
" We heard screams." Dyson said.
" Yeah, we're fine. We are just telling ghost stories, since there's nothing else to do." Bo said.
" And my life experience in the Himalayas." Vex said.
" I thought you fled from the rage of the Morrigan." Tamsin smirked.
" Hey! I didn't flee! I was on a journey, to find my true self!" Vex complained.
" Alright. I see nothing wrong here. Can we go get our drinks now?" Tamsin turned to Dyson and asked.
" Hey, we have booze. Join us." Bo said, " It' more fun to have more people telling the stories."
Dyson looked at Tamsin with a smiled on his face.
" Fine. Whatever." Tamsin rolled her eyes in the darkness. She walked to them and sat down beside Bo. Dyson sat down beside her.
" Ok. Ok. My turn." Kenzi said. She held the flashlight so the light would shed on her face from her chin, making her looking like a phantom with a ghost face. Then she started to tell her story.
" A college student moved into an apartment not far from the campus. There was no furniture there, but there was a poster on the wall. He felt strange, so he tore it off. Then he saw a hole on the wall. Ahhh, a peak hole. He thought. He then peaked through out of pure curiosity. He saw nothing, but a blurry, deep red. He thought it was weird, but he didn't do anything about. Later, he peaked through the hole a few times every day randomly, but he saw nothing other than the deep red. One day, he asked the maintenance guy who was living next door. The maintenance guy said, not sure, but it was someone with an incurable pinkeye problem." Kenzi inhaled deep and said, " The end."
" Wait a minute. So when this guy was peaking at his neighbor, his neighbor was peaking at him too?" Vex said, " Oh that's just creepy."
Bo could feel Tamsin rolling her eyes right now. She moved towards the blonde a little bit, partly because she wanted to get closer, partly because she felt a little bit cold.
" Alright, my turn." Vex said, " I'm gonna tell a true story about the real Yeti I saw when I was in the Himalayas..."
" Oh God, I think I'm gonna need the drink right now." Tamsin stood up and walked downstairs.
" Right behind ya." Bo followed her.
9:40 pm - The Kitchen
" Why do you have to follow me around?" Tamsin asked Bo in a low voice when she was pouring herself a drink.
" Because I want to?" Bo said. She hugged the Valkyrie from behind, burying her face into the blonde's hair and inhaled.
Tamsin stiffened. She almost dropped the bottle in her hand. " What do you want?" She asked, trying to sound normal.
" Late night snack?" Bo turned her around and whispered. Before the Valkyrie answered, she had already pressed her lips on hers. She drew out some Chi from Tamsin, to convinced her it was a late night snack, but she knew that it was the lips not the Chi she was after for.
Tamsin knew that too. A few seconds later she pushed Bo back and said, " Ok, you've had your snack. Now can we go back to the tedious story telling?"
Bo sighed. " Ok." She said.
10:00 pm - Bo's Bedroom
Vex was finishing up his Yeti story when Tamsin and Bo came back. It was Dyson's turn.
" Ok, I have a real case story." Dyson said. He held the flashlight just as Kenzi did. " A young couple went for a date night, so they hired a babysitter to look after their kids. They had a great time, but on the way back home, their car broke down and there was a storm coming. The husband called the babysitter, asking if she could stay longer. The babysitter agreed. The husband asked if everything was fine. The babysitter said, everything was fine and she had already put the kids in bed. Then she paused for a while, and said, except that both kids complained about the scary shadow of the statue outside the window. The husband was startled, then he told the babysitter to take the kids out and call the police, because they didn't have any statue outside the kids room's window. But the phone was cut off, and when they got home, they found three bodies..."
" So it's the killer who was standing outside the window when they were on the phone?" Bo asked.
" We believe so. Sadly, never caught the killer." Dyson replied.
" Ok. It's your turn." Bo handed the flashlight to Tamsin and said.
" Fine." Tamsin rolled her eyes, but she didn't take the flashlight. " Well, I guess I'll tell a real case I heard about before too. A man went shopping with his wife in some big mall. She went into the changing room to try on clothes, and he was sitting in the store playing with his cell phone while waiting. Then he realized it was an awfully long wait. He asked the assistant to check on her, but they told him no one was in the changing room right now. He went to the changing room, but didn't see his wife. There was a cleaning lady mopping floor, but no one else. He asked the lady if she had seen his wife, but she told him she didn't see anyone coming in or going out. The man panicked, called the police and they swept the place, but his wife was nowhere to be found."
" So where did she go?" Kenzi asked," She shapeshifted to the cleaning lady?"
" No." Tamsin shook her head, " What do you usually see with cleaning ladies?"
" Mops, cleaning supplies, a cart with big trash bags...?"
" Exactly. She was in the trash bag on the cart, chopped up." Tamsin said.
" Wow, that's really creepy..." Kenzi said, " Come to think of it, I always try on clothes by myself in the mall..."
Tamsin wanted to say something, but she was interrupted by Vex's sudden loud scream. He was pointing at the window with his eyes wide open.
" Don't you think it's a little bit too late to scream for my story?" Tamsin asked.
" No! Shadow! I just saw a human shaped shadow outside the window!" Vex said.
Everyone else looked outside the window, but saw nothing.
" You hit your head recently or something?" Tamsin frowned, " Or you just had too much Ecstasy?"
" I swear! I saw a huge human shaped shadow on the window!" Vex said.
" Probably just a random shadow or something." Dyson said, " I'll go check to make sure."
Minutes later, Dyson came back and said he didn't see anything unusual around the house.
11:00 pm - Bo's Bedroom
" Alright, let's call it a night, shall we?" Tamsin stood up after she had finished half a bottle of vodka while listening to the stories and rolling her eyes.
" Yeah, we should go." Dyson said. He nodded to Bo and Kenzi, ignoring Vex.
" Emm... I think you better stay here, Detectives..." Kenzi said slowly, in a weird voice.
" What?" Dyson asked, confused.
" Look what's outside the window." Kenzi almost whispered.
Dyson and Vex gasped hard, but Bo and Tamsin were just looking at all the other people confused.
" What's outside the window?" Bo asked, " I don't see anything."
" Me neither. Please, don't be the stupid shadow again." Tamsin said.
" Dude, how can you not see it! It's a Yeti!" Kenzi tried not to move.
" What? That's ridiculous! We don't have Yetis here! And I don't see shit!" Tamsin frowned.
" Raise your hand if you see the Yeti outside. If it's just me, I probably have had too much drink." Kenzi said. She raised her own hand and closed her eyes. Then she opened her eyes and saw Dyson and Vex raise their hands.
Bo and Tamsin stared at them with their eyes wide open. They couldn't tell whether it's weirder that they couldn't see it, or that the other three could.
" Ok. Officially the weirdest night of my life." Bo said.
11:50 pm - Bo's Bedroom
Tamsin and Dyson decided to stay, just in case anything went wrong. Dyson and Vex stayed downstairs. Kenzi went to her own bedroom.
Bo and Tamsin slept on Bo's bed, but instead of sleeping they were fully awake, with their eyes staring at the ceiling.
" Ok. I guess I'm gonna talk first." Bo moved closer to Tamsin and whispered, trying not to wake up the others.
Tamsin turned around to face Bo, with her eyebrows raised. " What do you want?" She asked.
" If I say another late night snack, do I get it?" Bo leaned close to the blonde, only inches away from her.
Tamsin looked at Bo. The succubus had a begging face on her right now, with a hint of sadness in her eyes. Tamsin sighed. She leaned over and laid a very light kiss on Bo's lips. " There, your late night snack. Can we go to sleep now?"
" What if I say I want something more?" Bo whispered.
" Then I'm afraid I will say no." Tamsin smirked.
Bo let out a deep breath. " This isn't fair." She said as she closed her eyes, " You can do whatever you want, but I can't. This isn't fair..." She buried herself closer to the Valkyrie and murmured. She heard the Valkyrie sigh, and laid a hand on her waist, reluctantly starting to cuddle.
Bo wanted to say something, but before she could, both of them heard a loud scream coming from Kenzi's room.
" Shit!" They both got off the bed with weapons in hand and rushed to Kenzi's room.
12:15 am - Kenzi's Room
" I'm sorry. You saw an old cleaning lady in your room? Where is she?" Tamsin asked Kenzi.
" Yes! I saw her right at the corner of my room! Now she's gone!"
" Kenzi. I think you are just dwelling in the stories we talked about too much. Maybe you are dreaming." Bo said.
" No! I'm awake, dude! And, how do you explain the Yeti we all saw?!"
" Emm... we didn't all see it." Tamsin said as she pointing at Bo and herself.
" Ok, guys. I think there's something going on." Dyson said, " Maybe it has something to do with the power outage. I'll call the precinct to see if anything pops up."
" I'll call Trick." Bo said.
Later both came back with no useful information.
" Bo-Bo, can I stay with you for the rest of the night?" Kenzi asked Bo.
" Yeah, sure." Bo smiled at her.
12:25 am - Bo's Room
Bo thought it was already enough awkward to stay with Tamsin alone, but apparently it was more awkward with Kenzi in between them. Kenzi insisted on sleeping in the middle because she was so scared.
Kenzi fell asleep fast, but Bo and Tamsin were still awake. Bo was facing Tamsin's side, with Kenzi in her arms because the Russian girl demanded it so. Tamsin tried hard not to make any comments.
Bo sighed. She wanted to say something, but then she saw Tamsin's eyes suddenly go wide open. She knew the blonde was staring at the window, so she turned around.
To her surprise, she saw a human shape shadow on the window. And from the look on Tamsin's face, she knew the Valkyrie saw it too. Tamsin rolled off the bed quietly with a sword drawn from Bo's weapon collection box.
" I think there's someone outside." Tamsin frowned and she whispered.
" What?" Bo slowly let Kenzi go from her arms. She stood up and grabbed her dagger. She walked to the window to take a look. She saw a man standing outside the window. She couldn't tell what he looked like because she couldn't see his face, but it was a man for sure.
Bo and Tamsin looked at each other, confused. " This is the fucking second floor! How could he be standing right outside the window?" Tamsin whispered.
" No idea! What -" Bo was interrupted by the noise from the window breaking. She grabbed Tamsin and shielded her from the window. They both fell on the floor.
The man was in the room now, facing them. They couldn't see his face, nor anything else. He looked more like a shadow than a person.
Kenzi started to scream again. Vex and Dyson rushed upstairs. They all saw the shadow, shocked. Tamsin swung her sword to him, and the man just vanished as if she just waved her sword in the thin air.
" What the hell was that?" Bo said.
" No fucking idea!" Tamsin said, " What the fuck is going on here?"
12:40 am - Bo's Bedroom
" Someone's messing with us!" Vex said, " We talked about a shadow killer, a cleaning lady killer and Yeti, and they all just happen to appeare?"
" Well, Tamsin and I didn't see the Yeti." Bo said, " But we definitely saw the shadow."
" I didn't see the cleaning lady either." Tamsin said.
" Can you see her now?" Dyson suddenly asked as he pointed at the corner of the room.
Everyone else turned their heads to look at the spot. All of them saw an old cleaning lady stand there, with her face facing the floor, her mops and her cart.
Bo threw her dagger to the lady. The lady vanished, and the dagger hit the wall and fell on the floor.
" Ok. Now I've seen the cleaning lady. Where is the Yeti then?" Tamsin smirked.
" Outside the window right now?" Vex said.
" What?" Tamsin turned around, but she saw nothing. According to the looks on Bo's face, she knew Bo didn't see anything either, but the other three obviously saw the Yeti.
" How come you and me can't see the Yeti?" Tamsin asked Bo.
" I don't know. I didn't hear the Yeti story though. I was downstairs with you." Bo whispered to her.
" Yeah. Wait, maybe that's why you and me can't see it! Maybe that's why we can't see the Yeti but they can, because we didn't listen to the story!"
" I'm gonna call Trick."
12:55 am - Bo's Bedroom
Bo was on the phone while the other four people in her room were running around, dodging the shadow killer, Yeti and the cleaning lady. Bo noticed a peak hole appeared on her bedroom wall. She tried hard not to peak through it.
" Trick, we really need to figure out what is going on right now! It's going crazy! The stuff we talked about in the stories were coming like real." Bo yelled when Tamsin grabbed her to pull her away from the shadow.
" What do you mean real? Can you kill them?"
" No. They vanish if you touch them with anything, but they keep coming back. And each time they get closer to us. It's just annoying!"
" I'm afraid soon it's going to be upgraded to scary, because they are going to evolve."
" What do you mean? And why can't I see the Yeti?"
" That's because you didn't hear the story. You don't have the thought of the Yeti in your mind, but if you hear them talk about it long enough, eventually you are going to see it."
" Are you saying our minds are making these things up?"
" Yes and no. Those things are in your mind, yes, but they didn't come to real just because you think about it."
" Then what are we dealing here exactly?" Bo threw something she grabbed from the table to the cleaning lady in the air, and she vanished.
" Have you brought any amplifier home lately?"
" What is an amplifier?"
" Normally a charm, or an amulet, or a pendent. You must have brought one home recently. That's why you all are seeing things, because it amplifies your thoughts and is making them real!"
" Anyone bring any kind of fucking amulet, charm or pendent to my place recently?"
" Not me." Tamsin threw the chair at the shadow killer, but it disappeared then reappeared at the other side of the room again.
" Me neither." Dyson said.
" Vex! Did you bring anything here with you today?" Bo asked.
" Just some gifts from my trips for Kenzi! It's not me!"
" The gifts! Where are they?"
" In my room!" Kenzi yelled.
Bo rushed to Kenzi's room and found the bag of stuff Vex gave Kenzi.
" Ok, Trick, I got some books in here, postcards, make up supplies, a bracelet, and a round box like a powder compact."
" The box, what does it look like? Where did Vex get it?"
" He got it from the Himalayas I guess. It looks like silver, with some weird characters carved on it, and some coral and turquoise stones on it. The characters, I think I saw them somewhere at your place before... what are they called... San...something started with an S."
" Sanskrit?"
" Yes! That! I have completely no idea how to read them though..."
" You don't need to. Open it and burn the things inside it. It's not a powder compact. It's an amulet box. It was meant to protect the wearer from the evil or to grant the wearer some sort of luck, but sometimes the things inside can be so powerful that cause the things you see right now. People consider them cursed or haunted, really it's just the box amplifying whatever the wearer is thinking about in the darkness."
" Ok. Ok. There's a tooth, like a wolf fang, and some sort of hair or fur, some really tiny pebble."
" Burn them all."
Bo looked everywhere. She finally found a lighter and lit the things inside the box. A flame of green and purple rose from the box. Then the noises Bo had been hearing coming from her room stopped.
1:20 am - Bo's Bedroom
After cleaning up the mess in the room, Bo and Kenzi wacked Vex with the pillows for at least ten minutes. Then Dyson and Vex went downstairs. Kenzi went back to her own room.
Tamsin stayed with Bo. They were both exhausted and tired.
Bo moaned when her back hit the bed. She had gotten a few scratches from the broken window. She rolled over and lied on her stomach.
Tamsin raised herself up from the bed and checked Bo's back. Bo could feel her finger tips slowly running down on her back. She almost moaned out loud just because of the tense sensation.
" You need to heal." The Valkyrie whispered to her. Bo rolled to face the blonde, who was only inches away from her. Then she saw the blonde lower her head and close her eyes. The next thing she knew was the warm, soft lips of the Valkyrie on hers.
It was the sweetest and softest kiss they had ever had. For a moment, Bo thought it was just a dream. She closed her eyes too, with both hands on the blonde's face slowly caressing her jaw line.
Eventually their lips parted. Bo rolled on top, with her forehead resting on Tamsin's and her eyes closed. She wanted to continue, but she knew she shouldn't, not just because of the others in the house, but also because of the hesitation on Tamsin's face. Bo gave her a light kiss on her lips. Then she rolled down, lying beside the Valkyrie. She put her arms around the blonde's waist. " If you sneak out, I will know." She said.
The Valkyrie didn't say anything. She rested her head against Bo's shoulder.
Bo stayed awake for a long time. She heard the blonde breathing peacefully, and she thought the blonde had fallen asleep already." I wish I had the courage to ask you this when you were awake..." She whispered to the blonde, " ... do you have feelings for me, or not..."
But Tamsin had not fallen asleep yet. She heard Bo's whisper, and a dull pain occupied her chest after the first few seconds of being startled.
Yes, Bo. I do. I do have feelings for you. Just like the succubus, she hoped that she had the courage to tell her the answer right here right now, but she couldn't, because she knew once she did, there was no turning back.
