Chapter 26 – I Love You: Part I

10:00pm – Tamsin's Apartment

"I thought you said you never beg, detective." Bo whispered to the blonde as she held her tight in her arms, "But I swear I heard you begging like five minutes ago..."

"Yeah, I'll let you have your little fun right now, succulette." Tamsin said gasping, trying to recover from the intense orgasm she just had.

Bo chuckled, kissing the Valkyrie's fingers. They just laid quietly on Tamsin's bed for a while, and caressed each other's face.

"Have you told Kenzi yet?" It just came to Tamsin's mind.

"No. She won't be home until late tonight or tomorrow morning. She's taking care of something for one of her friends or something." Bo said.

"Why?"

"Well..." Tamsin pulled her closer, " I thought you wanted to tell her about you banging a detective, so the detective can come over to your place at night, and ..." She whispered the last few words into Bo's ear, and the succubus just flashed her eyes blue with a smile on her face.

6:00am – Tamsin's Apartment

"You're leaving so early?" Bo asked Tamsin. She was still sleepy, but she could see that the blonde had already gotten dressed.

"Yeah… got to interview some researcher at a biochem tech lab. It's on the other side of town and I need to be there before working hours start." Tamsin said.

" Dyson going with you?" Bo asked.

" No...he's gonna go chase a different lead, but who knows, he may join me later..." Tamsin replied, " Hey, did you see my-"

"Looking for this?" Bo said, her finger pulling out a pair of handcuffs from under the blanket.

Tamsin laughed, grabbing them to put it in her pocket.

"So...call me when you're done?" Bo said, lying on her stomach, watching the blonde combing her hair. The bed lamp light gave the blonde a warm glow. Suddenly Bo felt like they had been together forever, and she still couldn't get enough of her.

"Can't live one night without me, huh?" Tamsin smiled, putting down the comb. She lowered her head to give Bo a kiss and continued, "We'll have dinner at my place tonight, Ok? You can go back to sleep, and remember to lock the door when you leave."

"Yeah, when you are gone, I'm gonna go through your drawers for your panties and lingerie." Bo chuckled.

"You haven't done that already?" Tamsin teased her. She lowered her head again, and this time, her soft lips fell on Bo's forehead.

5:40pm – Bo's Place

Bo had a busy day taking care of some cases. When she got home, it was already way past Tamsin's off duty time, but she had not heard from the Valkyrie the entire day. She tried to call the blonde, but it just went straight to her voicemail. She texted her, but had not gotten any replies yet. She called Dyson, and it went straight to his voicemail too.

What's going on? Bo asked herself. The last thing she tried was the precinct. The lady who answered the phone told her that both detectives were out on a case, and they had not yet reported back since early this morning.

6:20pm – Tamsin's Apartment

Bo knocked on Tamsin's door, and waited. Of course no one answered. She hesitated for a while, before she picked the lock and went in.

The place was the same as she had left it this morning. There were no dirty glasses in the sink, so Bo knew Tamsin had not come home today. If she had, she would definitely have had a drink or two, and Bo knew the blonde would have just thrown the dirty glasses in the sink until later, after dinner, when they would do dishes together.

Bo searched for Tamsin's case files. She knew the blonde always kept a copy of her current cases in her apartment so she could read them whenever she had time. She found a pile next to the bed, but they were not what she was looking for. Then she found a file folder beside the couch.

It was a case that concerned a biochem lab facility located on the other side of the town, which was exactly what Tamsin had told her this morning before she left.

Bo decided to go the lab facility to figure out where Tamsin went after she left there. She copied the address and took a glance at the case. Multiple deaths were reported. Cause of death: Unknown. From the photos Bo could see trails of blood coming from the victims' eyes and noses. She shook her head, trying hard not to be overwhelmed by the awful deaths. Right now she just wanted to know if the Valkyrie was Ok.

7:00 pm – On the Way

Bo started to see cops directing the traffic almost twenty blocks away from her destination. She wasn't sure what was going on, but she knew she needed to go in, instead of turning around. She turned into an alley and parked her car there. Walking on foot, she stayed out of sight of the police and passed them without getting caught.

After a few blocks, she saw groups of people in black suits questioning the passers-by, stopping everyone from going further in the direction of the lab. They looked like some sort of government agents.

When she was within a ten block radius or the lab, she was surprised to find people in biohazard protection suits. The HAZMAT crews, looked like astronauts walking in the streets as they were setting up a safe perimeter. It seemed that they were testing the air as well as other surfaces with their equipment. Vehicles with biohazard signs were parked everywhere along the streets.

What the hell is going on here?! Bo asked herself. She wanted to grab a random person and ask some questions, but was afraid that she might draw too much attention before she could actually get something useful.

Bo stood near the corner of the street, hiding behind a menu board of a coffee shop, and watched them. She felt scared thinking about the possible link between what was happening now and the case file photos she had seen earlier. She knew something big must have happened, but she was not sure why Tamsin had not told her about. It was likely that the Valkyrie didn't know herself when she was heading here this morning, and Bo couldn't bring herself to think that something might have happened to the blonde. She was also a little worried about Dyson, because she couldn't reach him either, although Tamsin had told her that they were on different leads. She hoped that both of them were Ok, but everything she saw right now just gave her a bad feeling.

7:30 pm – Biochem Lab Facility

With a few detours and the use of some of her charm, Bo finally made it to the facility successfully. The whole place was locked down. Biohazard warnings were everywhere outside along with quarantine signs. There were temporary tents, and minivans parked outside the buildings. People in protection suits were patrolling the whole area.

Bo tried to get inside the building. Before she could, a patrol caught her. She tried to get away but she couldn't, because two other patrols surrounded her. They grabbed her. One of them talked to someone on the walkie-talkie, and nodded to the other two. They took her to a tent, and cuffed her to the table, then left.

Bo felt Tamsin's lessons on how to escape handcuffs had finally become useful. She opened the handcuffs and started to run out. But someone appeared at the entrance and she almost ran right into her.

"When I heard someone had broken into the biohazard zone, somehow I knew it was you."

"Lauren!" Bo exclaimed when she saw the person walking in.

"Hello, Bo." Lauren said with a smile on her face, "Haven't seen you in what... two years? And, you are still showing up in the most dangerous zones."

"Yeah, well I'm looking for someone..." Bo said, "Can you let me in? I promise I won't mess with anything!"

"I'm afraid I can't, Bo." Lauren said, "In case you haven't noticed. The whole place is in quarantine."

"Exactly, I need to get in so I know she's Ok." Bo said.

Lauren sighed. "I am afraid I have some bad news, Bo." She said in a low voice, "The droids we sent in reported no living persons."

"What?" Bo said. Something heavy just dropped on her heart. "What do you mean by no living persons?"

"Exactly what it means. Everyone that was found in there is dead." Lauren said.

Bo forced herself to breathe. " Where...where are the bodies then?" She asked.

"Inside." Lauren said, "Until we figure out what happened in there, we can't risk everyone else's life out here."

"Then I'm definitely going in!" Bo said, "Lauren, please. I just want to...I just want to find her."

Lauren sighed. "You haven't changed a bit, Bo." She said, shaking her head.

"Please, Lauren." Bo said, "I just need to find her."

Lauren bit her lip. She knew she shouldn't let Bo go in, but having known Bo for so long, she also knew there was nothing she could do to stop the brunette.

"Alright." She said, handing Bo a walkie-talkie, "There is no signal here, so keep it on you at all times. You'll need a shot before you go in."

"Yeah, was gonna ask about protection..." Bo said, " But a shot? Are there giant flu germs inside or something?"

"Actually, not too far away from that." Lauren said, injecting the shot into Bo, "This is really just between you and me. The situation inside… is probably an outbreak of a highly pathogenic virus or bacteria. And this shot will boost your immune system for two hours so you will be immune to all viruses, bacteria, or fungus."

"Wow, if you have this, why haven't you made an army to raid the place already?"

"Because..." Lauren said as she pressed a cotton swab on the shot spot, "This only works on Fae, and this is the one shot I have."

"Oh..." Bo said, "At least tell me that you are developing the cure."

"I am trying." Lauren said, "But I need time. Bo..." She paused, before she continued, "You do know that even if you find her, she will have to stay in full quarantine until everything can be fixed, right? And it's possible that she-"

"I'll find her." Bo said, "Then I'll stay with her in one of those plastic tents or whatever quarantine area you guys build."

8:30pm – Inside the Building

Bo walked into the building. Two guards were dead behind the counter of the front desk, with a receptionist. Blackened blood leaked out from their noses and eyes, just like she saw in Tamsin's case files.

The elevator down the hallway was making a dinging noise because the door could not close because of the dead body stuck between them, and four more inside. One of them had a cell phone in his hand, and it was still searching for a signal. Bo checked her own, and saw no reception either. She knew it must be some signal jamming technique they were using to prevent anyone from leaking the information.

Bo took the stairs, simply because she didn't want to ride with dead bodies in the elevator.

8:40pm – Inside the Building

She found more dead bodies on the second and the third floors. Lab technicians died right beside the area where they kept the test animals. Guinea pigs were running in the cages crazy, as if they sensed the danger and the horror, and were panicking.

In the conference room, there were about ten dead bodies. It looked like they were having some sort of business meeting. Men and women in suits with their faces down on the table. Dark blood was all over the printouts in front of them. The PowerPoint slide show was still on. It looked like some sort of charts about the marketing future of some kind of chemical, or drug, or something similar, they were designing, or testing. She told Lauren about it, but the doctor decided that it was irrelevant after hearing a few slides from Bo.

8:50pm – In the Building

"Other than the bodies, do you see anything usual?" Lauren asked her on the other end of the walkie-talkie.

"No." Bo said, "Well, I guess I wouldn't know even if there was. Just more dead bodies. What is this virus anyway?"

"I don't know yet..." Lauren sounded like she was hesitating.

"By that you mean you actually know what it is, but you can't believe it." Bo said. She heard a sigh from the other side, and then Lauren said to her, "It appears to be something that supposedly vanished from this world hundreds of years ago."

"Hmmm... maybe this lab recreated some old virus?" Bo said, "I wouldn't be surprised if they did."

" It is possible...but...I'm afraid I'll need to run more tests to be absolutely sure." Lauren said, "I-"

"Shhhh!" Bo interrupted her, because she heard a noise coming from one of the other rooms. She turned off the walkie-talkie and slipped it inside her bra, tiptoed to the door, and pushed it open slowly with one hand, holding her dagger in the other.

It was a copy room. A young man was inside, dead on the copy machine. Bo wasn't sure if his body had some key pressed down, or the machine was stuck. It kept sending out copies of that man's face on the paper.

As Bo was checking the man, the machine suddenly stopped because it was out of paper. The beeping noise of the out-of-paper alarm startled Bo. She was about to let out her breath, when she heard another noise coming from the vent.

"Oh, what now!" Bo said to herself, approaching the vent. It was just a rat. He stared at Bo for a while, and then he ran away.

Bo sighed with a relief, and sheathed her dagger. Just when she was totally off guard, some loud noise came from the hallway.

Bo went out to check, and she saw two brunettes coming out from the elevator shaft. One of them was holding the other in her right arm, and had a rope-hook device in her left hand, which was hooked to somewhere on top of the shaft. They were equally as surprised as she was. For a short moment they just stared at each other. Bo was too surprised to even draw her dagger out.

"Oh my God, she's still alive!" One of the brunettes said, with her eyes wide open, as if it was just unbelievable that she could see Bo standing there breathing.

The other brunette didn't say anything. She retrieved her rope hook and took a glance at Bo. Then she whispered to the other. Bo couldn't really hear her, but she did pick up a few words, like artifact, or further investigation. Then the woman turned around to Bo. "Sorry, we didn't mean to startle you." She said in a British accent.

"Who are you people?" Bo frowned, "I thought this was a restricted area."

"We're government agents." The other woman said.

"Government agents? I thought you guys were directing traffic ten blocks away." Bo said, raising her eyebrows and crossing her arms in front her chest, "Or you two are not that kind of agents? May I see your badges?"

Before either of the brunettes could respond, they all heard someone coming up in the stairwell, and a voice said, " What the fuck..." The taller brunette immediately pulled her gun out and spun around.

Bo felt her heart skip a beat when she saw the person that appeared at the entrance of the stairwell.

"Tamsin!" Bo exclaimed, running towards the blonde. She didn't even realize that she was running between two loaded guns. The Valkyrie was apparently surprised to see her there. She grabbed Bo with her empty hand and stood in front of her.

"Local PD, investigating a case here." Tamsin said, "Who are you guys?"

"Secret Service." The taller brunette said.

"Secret service?" Tamsin frowned, "Funny. I don't remember seeing the President anywhere around here."

"Different division. And, isn't this situation a bit beyond a cop's pay grade." The woman said, "Lower your weapon, and show me your badge."

"You first, honey." Tamsin smirked at her.

Neither of them lowered their weapons. Bo stared at them for a second or two, before she took a glance at the other brunette who didn't have a weapon in her hand. She only had a slight smile on her face, as if she found the current situation very interesting.

"I would really appreciate your help in solving this stalemate." She said to Bo, when she realized that Bo was staring at her.

Bo nodded. She showed her hands to the other two people, as the brunette showed hers to them. Then they each reached their hand into their partner's jacket pocket and took out the badge. After they showed them to each other's side, both guns were lowered, and all of them were relieved.

9:10pm – Inside the Building

"Why the hell did you come here?!" Tamsin asked Bo in a strained whisper. She didn't really want the other two to hear their conversation, because even though she had seen their badges, she still found them suspicious. The one who had pulled the gun on her, whose name was Myka, introduced herself as the other one's superior, but apparently she was getting suggestions from the other woman, whose name was Helena. She could swear that they were holding something back about their identities, and their motives for being there.

"Because I didn't hear from you all day, and I thought maybe I could find you here, or where you might have gone if you weren't here." Bo said, "How the hell was I supposed to know that this place would be shut down and placed in quarantine because of an epidemic situation."

"Epidemic?" Tamsin frowned, "Who told you that?"

"Lauren is in charge of the whole situation..." Bo said, "You know, my...emmm..."

"I know she's your ex." Tamsin smirked at her, "So, what did she say?"

"She said it's an epidemic outbreak of a highly pathogenic virus or bacteria. Something that was suppose to be extinct hundreds of years ago."

"Is she sure?" Tamsin frowned, as if something had just occurred to her.

"She wouldn't have told me if she wasn't, I guess." Bo said, "Well, I guess it makes sense. I mean, look at these people." She paused for a while, and then added, "Why didn't you just leave when you saw these dead bodies?"

"They were not dead when I got here. I finished my last interview, and went to the restroom. When I was finished I decided to call the wolf to see if he had made any progress, but I wasn't able to get a signal. So I went to the offices to use their landlines. That's when I realized everyone was fucking dead, and the landlines were out too. I went to the roof, thinking maybe I could get some cell phone reception there, but no. That's when I saw the biohazard cars arriving..."

"And you didn't think about leaving?"

"I went back down, thinking I'd find someone inside to help or something, but everyone was fucking dead." Tamsin said, "I thought I should just stay and try to figure out what was happening. Besides, if I had walked out here, they would have put me into quarantine for sure, and then where would my investigation be?"

"These many dead bodies and you wanted to figure out what was happening by investigating alone?"

"Sweetheart, in case you hadn't noticed, I am a cop." Tamsin said, "And this is my case. If whatever caused this gets loose, there's no telling how many more people would die."

"I didn't picture you as the caring type, Detective." Bo said.

Tamsin rolled her eyes. "Let's just figure this shit out and get outta here, shall we?"

"So, what do you think this is?"

"Epidemic outbreak, a few deaths in the first few days, and then suddenly this many people dropping dead? I think I may know just the name of the source. A Nachzehrer."

"Nach...what?" Bo frowned, "Sounds German."

"Well, you got that part right. A Nachzehrer is a type of German Fae. The first person that dies in an epidemic is turned into one." Tamsin said, "They ride on the disease, pain and death, and gain more power from it. That's why the epidemic always starts with a few deaths, and then the number just rallies. "

"Ok, great." Bo said, "Then how do we kill this damn thing? Spray Lysol on it?"

"It's an undead, not your kitchen counter." Tamsin said,"We need to find the first body that died from this disease, put a coin on his mouth, and chop his head off."

"That stops the disease, right?"

"Yes, but it won't bring the dead back."

Bo sighed, nodding. "Ok, let's do this." She turned to look at the other two brunettes, and added, "Do we need to tell them this?"

"Well, I don't know." Tamsin said, "Their helps would come in handy, 'cause I can tell both of them got a lot of field experience, but hey, they'll probably think that we're crazy, if we tell them this was caused by a Fae."

"I'm not so sure about that." Bo said, her eyes staring at Myka and Helena, "Those two are pretty weird already. I heard them whispering to each other about some artifacts and shit every now and then. And did you see that device they have?"

"You mean their communication device, which looks like five hundred years old, but with better screen resolutions than our smart phones?" Tamsin said.

"Yeah, how can those things even work when our cell phones are fucking dead?" Bo said, "Maybe we need to figure out what they know, 'cause I bet my ass they know something that we don't."

"This cute little ass?" Tamsin whispered to her, grabbing her ass.

9:25pm – Inside the Building

"Could we have a word a please?" Both Bo and Helena said at the same time. They looked at each other, and then they turned around to look at their respective partners waiting for the information exchange.

Helena, turned back around and smiled at Bo,"You first."

"So..." Bo said, "Can we...talk about the current situation?"

"Absolutely." Helena nodded, still smiling, "I think we should all talk about it."

"Oh for the love of... Can we just quit all this politeness bullshit and get to it?!" Tamsin said, "Yes, we all have secrets, but we are also surrounded by like six hundred dead bodies here. Either we figure the shit out now, or we spend more time staring at each other. What do you say?"

"Fine. Let's share the information we have, and work together." Myka said, "But, anything we tell you guys stays here. You never hear it from us, and we never told you anything."

"Yeah, yeah, same deal here." Tamsin rolled her eyes.

"You go first." Myka said.

"Oh, honey, when it comes to telling secrets, I never go first." Tamsin scrunched her nose at the brunette.

"The walls may have ears, one never knows." Helena said secretively, "Why don't we write down what we know on a piece of paper, and exchange."

"God..." Tamsin shook her head. She wrote the name of the Fae down on a piece of paper, folded it, and handed to Helena, while Bo took the other piece from Myka.

"A medical related artifact?" Tamsin exclaimed as she read, "I'm sorry. I thought you guys were from Secret Service, not the Smithsonian."

"Did you say you were a cop, or a dark teen fic writer?" Myka said, "Nachzehrer? You think a fictional undead German vampiric creature caused this?

"So, much for secrecy.." Helena sighed, shaking her head lightly.

"And you think some old piece of crap dug from someone's grave caused this?"

"We have proof." Helena said, "The warehouse system alerted us about the situation, and we are sure it's an artifact."

"And I've walked among death like this before." Tamsin smirked at her, "In Europe, when Nachzehrer was also known as the Black Death."

Both Myka and Helena frowned. "That's impossible." Helena said, "The last reported Plague was in the 18th century. You're not...you can't be...or unless...you are just like me..."

"Just like you?" Bo said, "You are a Fae too?"

"A what?" Helena said, confused.

"Fae...you know..." Bo murmured, "Or you don't..."

"Everyone please! Explain!" Myka exclaimed.

9:40pm – In the Building

"So let me get this straight." Bo said, staring at Helena, "You are a time traveler, from the 19th century..." Then she turned to Myka, "... And you two work for this warehouse, which secretly belongs to the government, to hunt for some belongings of some dead, famous people, which can do weird things?"

"That's us, Wells and Bering, solving puzzles, saving the day." Helena said, her eyes gazing into Myka's.

"Bering and Wells." Myka corrected. They smiled at each other.

"Sounds like some sci-fi shit to me..." Bo said.

"And from what I've just heard..." Myka said, "Neither of you two is human. Apparently, there are many more persons like yourselves out there that have superpowers. Something I would have only written about in fiction or had dreams about."

"That's us. She can charm someone's pants off, and I can stare them down and make them shit in them." Tamsin said, putting her arm around Bo's shoulder.

"Ok...that's a lot of information to process..." Myka said, her eyes opening wide. She felt like the past ten minutes were like a roller coaster ride for her, when she thought she couldn't process all the information she heard. But she believed them, not just because no lucid people would make such lies, but also, she had already seen some pretty weird stuff on a daily basis, and when she really thought about it, it might not be the weirdest thing she had ever heard about. " So you can charm people...like sexually?" Myka asked

" Yes." Bo said.

" Like how does that exactly work? Is it a hypnotic power?" Myka said, " Could you show me, if you don't mind?"

" Sure, let me show you." Bo said. She laid a hand on Myka's arm and gently sent out some of her charm, enough to arouse her, but not too much to wipe her mind out. Myka took a deep breath, and a smile of ecstasy appeared on Myka's face. She gazed into Bo's eyes under the influence of the charm, as if she suddenly had a huge crush on Bo. Seeing that look, Helena coughed, putting one of her hand on Myka's shoulder, slightly pulling her away from Bo's hand.

" Alright, sweetheart." Tamsin whispered to Bo as she grabbed Bo's hand and pulled it back, " She asked for an example, not a one night stand."

" Wow. That was...intense." Myka said after Bo's charm was gone from her body. She blinked a few times so she could focus on their conversation.

"So what do we do now?" Bo said.

"We need to kill the damn Nachzehrer for sure." Tamsin said.

"No, we need to find the artifact." Myka said, "This is definitely an artifact. We've got the alert, and it has never been wrong before."

"Well, maybe it is this time." Tamsin smirked at her, "This is definitely a Nachzehrer."

"Emmm...by any chance, could this Nachzehrer also be the artifact?" Bo asked.

"No." Helena shook her head, "Artifacts are man made objects."

"Ok, let's say, hypothetically, this is caused by an artifact, what might it be?"

"Something belonged to someone, who was closely related to disease, medicine, or anything related to it. Possibly someone evil, someone who had caused a lot of death."

"It just doesn't make much sense to me..." Tamsin said, " I've seen things like this before. It's definitely a Nachzehrer."

" I still think it's an artifact." Myka said, not willing to back off.

" How about we split up, and look for whatever it is we think to be the cause. Then-" Helena said, " - we deal with it."

" Works for me. We go take care of the damn Nachzehrer-" Tamsin said, smirking.

"And we are going to find the artifact." Myka said.


A/N: Brought Myka and H.G. in, thought it might be fun for them to work on a case together. I am not a huge fan of Warehouse 13, so Myka and H.G. might be a little OOC.

Also, Lauren showed up for the first time in Trivial Days. In this story Lauren and Bo broke up long before Bo started with Tamsin.

Then something about Nachzehrer. I treated it as the cause of an epidemic, but the original legend of Nachzehrer was a vampiric creature. It has some other powers (which would not be exploited in this story) besides bringing plague.