Chapter 15 - I Don't Have to Pretend

9:20 pm - Tamsin's Apartment

" Ok. We've been through this twice." Tamsin said. She was looking at the succubus who was underneath her, fully naked and turned on, " I even let you use the key, and you still can't do it?"

" Well, I can open a handcuff, while I am not naked." Bo said, frowning. Her left hand was cuffed to the bed pole. She tried to open it with the key, but she just couldn't. It was already too hard for her to reach to the handcuff with the blonde on top of her, not to mention sticking the key into the keyhole while the blonde was kissing her.

" You don't need clothes to open a handcuff. You just need to focus." Tamsin smirked. She lowered her head and laid a kiss on Bo's belly. Then she moved down.

Bo knew once Tamsin reached her core, there was no way she was going to open the handcuff by herself ever again. She rolled on her side as hard as she could and reached for the handcuff with the key. But just as she was trying to put the key in, she felt a wide lick from the blonde. She shivered, and dropped the key. " Shit!" She cursed, with her head thrown back to the head board. Soon the only things coming out of her throat were moans.

10:00 pm - Tamsin's Apartment

" How about you show me how to do it?" Bo asked Tamsin. She topped her and cuffed her to the bed pole.

Tamsin raised her eyebrows, looking at Bo. A hint of a sly smile appeared on the Valkyrie's face, as if Bo had just made a stupid proposal. Tamsin grabbed the key and wrapped her legs around Bo's waist. Before Bo could react, she shifted their weight and topped Bo again. With a single move she opened the handcuff.

Bo was shocked. Before she could do anything, she found herself in the handcuff again.

" See, you just need more exercise." Tamsin winked at her, lowering her head to kiss her breasts.

Bo closed her eyes and gave up.

2:00 am - Tamsin's Apartment

Bo woke up when she heard cell phone ringing. She turned around with her eyes narrowed, watching the blonde taking a call from the precinct.

" Shit, I gotta go." Tamsin said after she hung up.

" Want me to go with you?" Bo started to get dressed.

Tamsin thought about it for a while. She didn't really want Dyson to find out about them, but she wanted to be with Bo. She finally nodded, and said, " Don't do your succubus-following-me-around shit in front of Dyson, unless you want your goth friend to realize it wasn't a nightmare she had about us."

" Well, that's easy. We'll just behave like what we used to." Bo stood up from the bed, grabbing Tamsin by her waist. " We pretend we hate each other..." She added, after she laid a kiss on the blonde's lips.

" Oh, I don't have to pretend. Since when do I not hate you?" The Valkyrie smirked. She buttoned her shirt and put on her gun holster and her badge.

Bo smiled. She didn't say anything, but follow the blonde.

2:40 am - Crime Scene: Apartment outside a College Campus

" Bo?" Dyson raised his eyebrows when he saw Bo walk in the crime scene with Tamsin, " Did I call you? I don't remember."

" I called." Tamsin said, " College kids, dumbasses filled with hormones, kinda her territory, don't you think?"

" Ok..." Dyson said, " Actually, I was going to call her. This is kind of a weird case."

" So what do we have here?" Bo asked, trying to direct the conversation away from why she was here.

" A college student who lives...lived here strangled herself to death in her own bedroom."

" I thought that was impossible. Did she tie the rope or whatever she used on the door knob or something?"

" No. She literally strangled herself to death." Dyson lead them into the bedroom. The CSU people were sweeping the scene, taking photos and bagging evidence. Bo saw a girl lying on the floor, with a toppled chair beside her. She had a USB wire around her neck. Her hands were still holding both ends of the wire. Bo couldn't look at her face, because it was the most horrified face she had ever seen. If it were not for the wire on her neck, Bo would have thought that she was scared to death by something.

" How can that be possible?" Bo asked, " To strangle herself to death without attaching the wire to something else? She would have blacked out before she could actually die from lack of oxygen."

" I don't know, and it gets better. Her door was locked from the inside, and there's no evidence pointing to another person's presence here so far."

" Who called the police?"

" Her roommate, the girl over there." Dyson pointed at the girl sitting on the couch in the living room, sobbing. " That's why I was gonna call you. She said she heard a struggle and screams in the victim's room. She knocked on the door, but no one answered, so she opened the door with the back up key, and she saw her roommate dead on the floor. I need you to find out if she was telling the truth, because if she wasn't, she'd be our number one suspect."

" I'll take care of it."

3:00 am - Crime Scene: Apartment outside a College Campus

After ten minutes of charming, comforting and questioning, Bo realized that the roommate was telling the truth. The poor girl couldn't accept the fact that her roommate was really dead. Even Bo's charms couldn't stop her from crying.

" Well, I hate that I have to tell you this, but, I think she's telling the truth. You're gonna have to find another suspect." Bo said.

" Ok, although we still can't officially rule her out, it's good to know that we shouldn't waste too much time on her." Dyson said.

" So, what else?" Bo asked.

" You can go home if you want. I'll keep you posted." Dyson said.

" Yeah. It's time for people with the badges to do their thing." Tamsin smirked at Bo.

" Ok, I guess I could use some sleep." Bo said. She said goodbye to Dyson and left.

9:20 am - Tamsin's Apartment

" Did Dyson get suspicious?" Bo asked Tamsin when the blonde opened the door for her.

" I don't think so." Tamsin said, " Are you going to come in or not?"

" When do I not want to come in?" Bo said as she walked in. " So anything new on the case?"

" Not much. Still can't figure out how Hannah, the victim, did it." Tamsin said. She turned on her laptop to show Bo all the files they had on the case so far. " You can take a look at all the files. I'm going to get some sleep." The Valkyrie walked into the bedroom and lied down on her bed.

" Ok. Mind if I sit right beside you?" Bo sat down on the other side of the bed, with the laptop in her hands.

" Whatever." The blonde rolled her eyes at Bo. She yawned and closed her eyes, tucking herself closer to the brunette.

Bo smiled. She looked at the Valkyrie in sleep. The dim light from the lamp cast shades on her face, as if she was a painting. Bo reached her hand out to hold the blonde's hand in hers. The blonde let out a vague moan and held her hand tighter.

3:00 pm - Tamsin's Apartment

Tamsin woke up. She saw Bo still sitting beside her, reading on her laptop.

" You still reading?" Tamsin frowned.

" Yeah I asked Dyson to send me the new results and stuff they have. So far, no lead." Bo said, " Although, there is something that is weird."

" What is it?" Tamsin was still lying on the bed. She didn't really want to get up. With the succubus' hand in hers, she felt warm and relaxed.

" Apparently Hannah signed a one year lease on a four bedroom apartment two months ago. She broke the lease last month and moved to the apartment we went to today."

" Well, it's kinda weird that she broke the lease only a month after she signed it, but people move all the time. Maybe her previous roommate just didn't get along with her or something."

" That's what I thought. We probably need to go interview her former roommates. Maybe one of them held a grudge against her and somehow staged the killing."

" Ok. I'll call Dyson." Tamsin grabbed her phone.

5:00 pm - Police Station

" I checked. Hannah had three roommates in her previous apartment. One of them got hit by a drunk driver and passed away last month. Another committed suicide by jumping off a building a week after that." Dyson said as he was checking his files.

Bo whistled. " I take it that I'm not the only one here thinking there is a connection between the deaths?"

" Definitely too much for an coincidence." Dyson said.

" There's nothing as coincidence." Both Bo and Tamsin said the same thing simultaneously.

Dyson raised his head, with his eyes narrowed. He felt something was off, but he didn't know what it was.

" Wow, can't believe we agreed with each other for once." Tamsin smirked at Bo.

" Well, three deaths in three weeks are a bit too much, don't you think?" Bo said. She tried to pull the topic back to the case.

" Anyway." Dyson turned his head back to the computer, with his eyes on Bo, " The last roommate, Riley, should still be alive, since I found no death record for her. After moving out from the apartment, she moved to her parents' place. I guess we should pay her a visit."

6:50 pm - Riley's Parents' House

The house of Riley's Parents was located in the suburbs. It looked nice, and quiet.

Dyson knocked on the door. Minutes later, a man came over and opened the door.

" Is Riley here?" Dyson asked.

The man didn't answer. He frowned, with a hint of pain on his face. " Who are you people? And why are you looking for my daughter?"

" We are with the police, Sir. We need to ask Riley a few questions." Dyson said.

" She's not here."

" But this is her last known address."

" She's not here." The man said, and then he closed the door.

Dyson shrugged. Tamsin shook her head. " We have no warrant. That's about as far as we can get, if they don't want to talk to us."

They were about to leave, when the door opened again. This time, it was a woman who was standing behind the door.

" Excuse me." She said to Dyson, " I overheard your conversation with my husband. Riley doesn't live here anymore."

" Could you give us her new address?" Bo asked her.

The woman hesitated. For a moment, Bo thought she was about to cry, but eventually she opened her mouth again. " She's...emmm...she's in the city mental hospital now."

" What happened?" Bo asked. She could tell that the mother was very upset, so she reached for her arm and sent out some of her charms.

" I don't know... one day she was totally fine, the next day she just snapped. She said she was seeing someone in her room, hearing things. She said someone was coming for them. We had to get some help for her."

" When did this happen?"

" About a month ago. She moved out from her old apartment and moved back to our place."

Bo nodded to Dyson and Tamsin. They thanked the woman and left.

7:20 pm - Outside the House

" So, I guess we go pay Riley a visit?" Bo asked.

" What about their old apartment?" Tamsin said, " Maybe it's related to the apartment where they all lived."

" Good point." Dyson said, " I say we split up."

" I'll go visit the loony bin." Tamsin said.

" Then I'll go check out the apartment." Dyson said.

" What about me?" Bo asked.

" As much as I hate it, you are coming with me." Tamsin tilted her head and said, " Maybe you can communicate with the crazy chick."

" Yeah, I think so too." Dyson said, " Ok, then let's go."

8:30 pm - Mental Hospital

Although it was already after visiting hours, with some charms from Bo's, they got to see Riley in her room.

The girl was sitting on her bed, staring at the wall. She looked like she was getting way too little sleep, and was under great pressure.

" I guess I'll talk to her." Bo said to Tamsin. She let the nurse open the door for them.

Riley didn't react to their presence, as if she was not aware of it. Bo sat down beside her, with her hand on her arm, she sent out her charms. She was not sure how much charm she should use to persuade an insane person, but she decided that she was going to try anyway.

To her surprise, Riley immediately reacted to her charms. She started to sob, as if someone had cut the string inside her brain and she could function normally again.

" Who are you?" Riley asked them. She looked at Tamsin, and then she moved her eyes to Bo, as if she couldn't decide who she should look at.

" We are with the police." Bo gazed into her eyes, " We just want to ask you a few questions about Hannah."

Hearing that name, Riley shivered. She stared at the wall for a while, then she asked, " Hannah is dead, isn't she?" Her voice was so peaceful, as if she knew it would happen.

" How do you know?" Tamsin frowned. She studied the look on Riley's face. She was scared, but not surprised. Tamsin didn't see insanity on her, instead, she saw acceptance, as if the girl was ready for anything.

" Because she was the third one, and I'm the fourth..." Riley smiled bitterly. Tears welled up in her eyes. " I'm next." She said.

" If you know something, now it is a very good time to tell us." Bo said, " We can help you."

" Don't make empty promises." Tamsin whispered to Bo.

" Well...we'll try everything we can to help." Bo said, " How do you know Hannah was going to die?"

" Because we were all gonna die. Me, Hannah, Amy and Lisa. Lisa was the first, then Amy, then Hannah, then me..."

" Lisa and Amy, they were your former roommates right? When you lived in that apartment?"

Riley nodded. She looked scared when Bo mentioned the apartment.

" Is there something in that apartment that is doing all this?"

Riley shook her head. " No, it's us. We did something we shouldn't do, that Friday night..."

" What did you do, Riley?"

" We played a game." Riley closed her eyes. For a while, she cried so hard that she couldn't speak. Bo had to calm her down before she could continue.

" What game?"

Riley shook her head, as if she was too afraid to speak out, but eventually she said, " It was a little more than a month ago. We were supposed to go to a party, but we had this tornado warning, so we had to stay home. We were so bored. There was this storage room in the apartment which we were not supposed to open, but we did that night. We found a Ouija board in there..."

" And you played the Ouija board?" Bo asked.

Riley nodded. Her tears were dropping on her knees non-stop. Bo heard Tamsin cursing.

" What happened?"

" I don't know... At first it was just for fun. We asked a few silly questions, like if the guy in the football team likes Hannah or something." Riley said, " But after a few questions, we found out that the answers were awfully correct. So we kept asking questions, and the planchette just moved faster and faster."

" Then what happened?"

" At first I thought one of us was pushing the planchette on purpose, you know." Riley said, " Then the answer formed by the planchette asked for a cigarette. We lit one for it, and watched the cigarette burn like someone was smoking it. It was then I realized that we probably summoned something, something real. I begged them to stop, but they wouldn't listen to me. Lisa insisted on continuing. They thought it was cool..." Riley took a deep breath, and continued, " Lisa asked the thing, how she was going to die. The planchette spelled alcohol, and they just laughed, because Lisa didn't even drink. Then it spelled height for Amy, air for Hannah..."

" Then Lisa got hit by a drunk driver."

Riley nodded, and said, " After Lisa died, we were so scared. We decided to move out and leave that place for good. But a few days later, Amy jumped off a building and died..." She started to sob again, and couldn't continue anymore.

" This Ouija board, do you still have it?" Tamsin asked.

Riley shook her head. " No, eventually they got bored and stopped playing. We put it back in the storage room that night and all went to bed."

" We need to go, right now." Tamsin said as she took out her phone to call Dyson.

10:40 pm - Riley's Previous Apartment

" So what is it with the Ouija board. You seem concerned." Bo asked Tamsin when they walked upstairs to Riley's previous apartment.

" Sometimes it can be possessed by vengeful spirits, and whoever plays it gets possessed too. Normally if anyone get possessed by it, the only way out is tragic death. Think about how Hannah strangled herself to death. The spirit was doing it." Tamsin said, " There's only one way to stop it. We need to burn the board."

" Ok, that sounds easy." Bo said. They walked into the apartment. Dyson was already there, waiting for them.

" I came back as soon as I could." Dyson said, " I checked the place and found nothing, so I left."

" Where is the board?"

" Here." Dyson raised the board in his hand. " Now it's time to burn it." He started a fire in the fireplace and threw the board in. Minutes later, the board started to burn.

" Ok, I think we are all set." Dyson said, " Another case closed. I think I'm gonna go grab a drink, anyone?"

" Maybe next time." Tamsin said, " I really need some sleep."

" Yeah, me too." Bo said.

12:20 am - Tamsin's Apartment

" I thought you said you need some sleep." The Valkyrie frowned at the succubus who was on top of her.

" Maybe I want a late night snack...?" Bo laid a light kiss on the blonde's lips.

" Ok, just snack then." The blonde kissed her back gently. She knew it was never just snack, but she didn't stop Bo.

Just when they were about to move further, Tamsin's phone rang. " Fuck, it's Dyson." Tamsin sat up and said, " Better not be bar fight recruiting call."

But when she took the call, her face went serious. All she said was, " I'm on my way."

" Don't tell me he was beaten up."

" No." Tamsin pulled up her pants, " Riley just killed herself by smashing her head into a wall."

" What?!" Bo exclaimed, " I thought you said once we burnt the board, the spirit would be gone and no one would die anymore."

" Something is not right." Tamsin said as she put on a tank top.

1:00 am - Police Station

" We've already burnt the board." Dyson said, " I don't know how this happened."

" Maybe there is more than one board in the storage room? Have you checked?" Bo asked.

" Yes, I have. I swept the place when I was there. There was only one Ouija board in the storage room, and that apartment has not been rented out since Riley and her roommates left. That should be it."

" Wait, did you burn the planchette too? I don't remember seeing you holding the planchette in your hand when we were there."

" There was no planchette. Maybe this type of Ouija board doesn't need a planchette." Dyson said.

" No, there was definitely one, because Riley mentioned it." Tamsin said, " We need to find it."

" Well, at least it won't be able to kill anyone else now, right? It only targets the ones who can play the board game, right?"

" In theory, yes, but most spirits bound to the Ouija board are very vengeful ones. It's hard to say what they would, or could, do. We need to find the planchette as soon as possible, before anything changes."

" If it was not in the apartment, where would it be?" Dyson said, frowning.

" My guess? One of the chicks took it."

"Then I guess we'll split up to search for it in whatever those girls left behind."

" We each take one, and I'll call Kenzi to take care of the other one." Bo said.

8:00 am - Police Station

After a night long search with nothing, Bo went back to the police station to meet the others. From the looks on their faces, she knew that they hadn't find anything either.

" So what now?" Bo asked.

" No idea. Maybe the one who took it hid it somewhere. Fuck!" Tamsin cursed.

" Let's look through their files again, see if we can find anything. Maybe one of them has a secret hide out or something." Dyson threw the case files to each of them.

10:00 am - Police Station

" I think I'm gonna give up." Kenzi said.

" I'm about ready to give up too." Bo murmured. She looked at Dyson, who shook his head at her. Then she turned to the blonde, who was still reading the files with her eyebrows furrowed.

" Still not giving up?" Bo asked her.

" I'm not like you, sweetheart." Tamsin smirked. Then she frowned at the files again, as if she found something.

" You find something?" Dyson asked.

Tamsin didn't answer him. She turned to Bo and asked, " Remember what Riley told us yesterday? She said they gave the spirit a cigarette?"

" Yeah, she said the ghost smoked it."

" Well, according to the files, none of them smoked. If they didn't smoke, where did they get that cigarette? You can't just go out and buy a pack in the middle of Ouija board game."

" Unless...there was someone else with them that night!" Bo said, " Maybe this person took the planchette."

" Then who is it..."

" Emm... maybe it's this creepy dude?" Kenzi held up a page of the files in her hand, and pointed at a photo of Lisa and a guy. In the photo, he had his right hand on Lisa's shoulder and his left hand with a cigarette.

" I think that's Lisa's boyfriend." Dyson looked at the files and said, " And his address...found it! Let's go."

10:55 am - Lisa's Boyfriend's Place

When they arrived at Lisa's boyfriend's place, the guy was drowning in the bathroom sink. He was struggling hard, but he had his hands behind his back, as if he was tied up. It looked like he couldn't move any part of his body.

" Fuck!" Tamsin cursed. She and Dyson ran to him, pulling him away from the sink. They felt that something was pulling the man away from them and towards the sink.

" Go find the damn planchette!" Dyson yelled to Bo and Kenzi.

" Oh where is the damn thing!" Kenzi said as she started to flip everything over in the living room. Bo rushed to the bedroom to look for it.

The guy had finally struggled himself free. He dropped his head straight back to the sink. " Shit! Get the stopper!" Tamsin said as she grabbed the guy by his collar again. Dyson reached his hand into the sink and took out the stopper, but the water didn't drain. Instead, water suddenly flew out the faucets, as if an invisible hand had just turned them on. The water flew out from the sink and to the floor.

" You really need to find the planchette now!" Dyson yelled as he helped Tamsin to drag the guy back from the sink again.

" Found it!" Bo grabbed the planchette from the nightstand beside the man's bed.

" Burn the fucking thing! Now!"

Bo held the planchette in her hand. She found a lighter on the nightstand too. She tried a few times to light the planchette, but it wouldn't burn. " Shit! This thing won't burn!"

" You have to figure something out! We can't pull him like this forever!"

" Give it to me." Kenzi grabbed it from Bo's hand and rushed to the kitchen. She turned on the gas stove and threw the planchette onto the range. Eventually it caught fire and burnt.

The struggle in the bathroom stopped. Bo ran into the bathroom to check on Tamsin and Dyson. They were both sitting on the floor, half wet and exhausted. The guy was lying on the floor. Bo checked his pulse. He was unconscious, but he was still breathing.

" And that, boys and girls, is why you don't play with some Ouija board you don't know anything about." Tamsin said after she caught her breath.

12:10 pm - Tamsin's Apartment

" Ok, when I said that I needed some sleep, I meant it." Tamsin told Bo as the succubus lied down beside her.

" I know, detective." Bo smiled. She tucked herself under the blanket and laid her arms around Tamsin's waist. She kissed the blonde on her cheek, and said, " Let's get some sleep."

Tamsin let out a light sigh. She turned around to face the brunette. She caressed her face slowly with her fingers and then she hugged her tight. Before she fell asleep, she felt the succubus bury herself in her embrace.


A/N: To whoever suggested to me that I should do a spirit possession chapter, thanks for the idea!

I've heard about a lot of stories of possessed by ghost/spirit after playing some sort of summoning/seance. I guess it's a popular topic all over the world. The spirit-smoking-cigarette thing was something I heard when I was in high school. One friend of mine told me that her brother played a game very similar to Ouija board (similar board, but instead of a planchette it used an old saucer-like disk with an arrow drawn on it). And during the game, the spirit asked for a cigarette. They lit one, and the cigarette just burnt like someone was smoking it. I thought it was pretty cool to put it in the story :)

Thanks for the all the reviews! I appreciate them a lot!