A/N: This story is now set as a Valkubus end game.
Arin was awoken in the early AM by the sound of someone sharpening a blade manually with a stone. She peered over to the sound and it was Tamsin. She was working on her sword.
Arin observed that Tamsin's face was devoid of any emotions but she was determined. That was good. She no longer was suffering from shock and inaction. Arin wanted Bo to PAY for hurting her sister like this.
She got up too and didn't even bother to say a word as she pulled out her weapons as well and got them ready.
The Valkyrie Twins Sisters of Light and Dark were back and now more dangerous than ever as they prepared for the battle that lay ahead for them.
Bo woke up to someone holding her with their head resting her chest under the crook of her chin. She was embracing them as well. She just reflexively brought them in tightly to her.
The fog was still clearing from her head as she lay there nude under the sheets but the process was helped along as the woman in her arms grunted and slowly propped her head up to look to Bo.
LAUREN.
"Hey babe." Lauren murmured all sleepy eyed with a smirk of satisfaction. She just loved Bo's look and smell in the AM. It was at this time she looked most at peace and her smell wasn't diluted with perfume, but it was just Bo through and through. She was a little concerned that Bo's face was scrawled with hints of regret.
"Hey," Bo smiled broadly. She wanted to say more but nothing came out.
Lauren knew at this point she was competing with Tamsin. Tamsin was the one, up until yesterday Bo woke up with. She wanted to address the issue head on but it wasn't wise to do so with the hurt so fresh. She also might end up on the losing end she deduced.
What if, Lauren mused, she was just Bo's friend and empathized with her? It would be a dangerous cat and mouse game. If she played it too well, Bo would just wind up with Tamsin again but if she empathized just enough, Bo would be able to work Tamsin out and let her go.
The one question Lauren had to ask herself was how Tamsin made such quick inroads into Bo's heart? Bo was not only worried about her like she should, but Bo's eyes were slightly bloodshot which meant that she was crying for Tamsin early this morning.
As for Tamsin falling for Bo? That too was an odd turn of events. Tamsin hated Bo, but they grew to respect one another as time went on, but for the ice queen to fall in love with Bo? Impossible. Being reborn and raised by Kenzi did change her quite a bit though.
Lauren locked onto Bo's deep expressive eyes and just smirked, "Hey Bo, why don't you call Dyson to see if he has any updates?"
Bo just nodded and appreciated Lauren's patience and understanding. She reached over to her bed side table and picked up her call phone and dialed Dyson.
While trying to connect, Bo sat up and covered herself with the thin sheet. Lauren knelt behind her keeping a section of the sheets for herself and started to give Bo a shoulder rub.
"Hey Dyson, Yea it's me….. Uh huh. Yea… OK, Thanks. Let me know… yea… OK Bye," Bo hung up on a sad note. Dyson didn't turn up anything except of the fact that it looked like Tamsin 4 killed humans in in what looked like self-defense. Dyson also let her know that the incident occurred near a Valkyrie gate at the time.
Bo let the phone drop from her ear as she thought, 'Could Tamsin have gone home? The place where she was no longer welcomed? Why would she go back to Valhalla UNLESS she had nowhere else to go? Tamsin told Bo that for the first time in all her life times, she now had a family but what did Bo just do?'
A pang of guilt hit her in the gut.
Lauren knew by the look on her face that this wasn't good and just gently asked, "Anything?"
Bo took a moment and finally shook her head to clear her thoughts staring ahead at the wall, "Dyson didn't find her but he found clues that she may have gone back to Valhalla."
Lauren tried to reassure Bo, "Then she's probably ok. At least she's not at some bar or on some rampage. Give her some time, she'll be back before you know it."
Bo looked down to the ground, "Lauren… I was kind of harsh with her when we talked last."
Lauren just kneaded Bo's shoulders a little more firmly and then stated, "I am sure you told her the truth, right?" She stopped herself from adding, 'That you and I were always a couple.'
Bo just threw her hands in the air briefly, and got to the point, "I didn't see it coming Lauren. She told me that she had feelings for me…. And … and …. I just was … well… shocked I guess."
Lauren huffed out a small laugh to discount Tamsin's feelings, but knew that Bo would shut down so she responded analytically a heartbeat later, "Sometimes people misconstrue your actions and see things that just aren't there."
That was the problem, Bo mused, there was. She told Tamsin that she did care for her, more than she knew, but where did that put Tamsin in her life?
More than a friend, but less than a girlfriend. So where did that leave Tamsin? That left her in a sort of limbo.
Was she just family like Kenzi? If that were true, then why did she bed with her?
All these thoughts brought out confusion, but knew Lauren was just patiently giving her space and Bo responded carefully, "I can't leave her in a lurch like this. I…. I…."
Bo then became acutely aware that Lauren was kissing her behind her ear and it was distracting and erotically euphoric at the same time.
Lauren was moving down her neck, planting soft kissed when she murmured in between, "Then find her Bo ….. (kiss)…. in Valhalla …(kiss)…. or wherever she may be…. (kiss kiss). She's family and ….. (kiss kiss kiss)."
Bo arched her back and tilted her head to give Lauren better access to her neck and shoulders. Before she knew it, Lauren was working down her exposed back since the sheets only covered her front.
"Listen to her…. (kiss) Let her know …. (kiss)… She always has a place with us (kiss kiss kiss)," Lauren purred.
"Goooooood," Bo grunted out in pleasure, "Doctor, I love your bed side manners."
Lauren snaked her head around Bo's to kiss her on the lips as Bo turned her head to see the blonde eye to eye.
Their passionate kisses lasted for several minutes.
Lauren knew very well what she was doing. All is fair in LOVE and WAR, and right now, she was creating the fog of war. Confusing Bo by telling her the advice a good friend would give but at the same time, her actions were telling Bo something else.
Bo was lost in ecstasy as she let go of her sheet and rolled on top of the doctor with a giggle.
Those were the last words either spoke with the sounds of lust filling the air afterwards.
Bo needed to feed and drown out her confusion over her complex emotions about Tamsin. She needed Lauren now.
Lauren needed Bo to commit and she needed it solidified before Bo went off on her mission to find Tamsin.
Dyson was a threat to Lauren. At least with Dyson, he was giving Bo an outlet to heal with no strings attached and therefore was out of the picture.
Tamsin however, was a bigger threat to Lauren. Lauren brooded that Tamsin was a loose cannon and therefore a hazard which she needed a leg up on the competition.
Tamsin and Arin emerged from an open portal in the wilderness atop of white horses. They galloped quickly through the wood, across lakes and streams to get to a large cozy cottage in the middle of nowhere nestled in the country side of Spain.
Tamsin and Arin were wearing regular clothing but had a bow and quiver on their backs. A sword and dagger on their belts and a shield ready to go on the side of their respective horses.
Tamsin slowed her horse down and Arin rode up beside her.
"So," Arin said, "Care to fill me in on how we are going to take down this Kenzi? Sneak attack? Charge? Multi prong attack?"
Tamsin just smirked menacingly, "We ride up and KNOCK."
"Huh?" Arin scrunched her face confused.
"Kenzi would be more than happy to see me and will just invite us in. THEN we strike. OK?" Tamsin stated with a click.
"Okkkk," Arin smirked back.
The approached the large cottage and Tamsin just smiled and knocked hard on the door.
They waited but no answer, but Tamsin heard heavy metal music playing loudly, she drew her dagger and used the butt of it to rap on the door harder.
It was then the music just abruptly stopped and a meek voice could be heard in hackneyed Spanish, "Ummmm … Quién es? (Who is it?)."
"It's your FAVORITE Valkyrie. Tammers," Tamsin sang out but did a puke face towards the end facing Arin .
"Emmmmmm, cuál …. es el password … I mean… la contraseña? (What is the password?)" the door emitted like someone was reading from a book.
Tamsin just huffed out in impatiently and yelled smacking the door one more time with the butt of her dagger, "The password is…. FRACKING open the god damn DOOR or I'll break it down! You open it now and I won't torture you… AS MUCH!"
Kenzi the stammered out as the sound of furniture was being moved in front of the door, "Sorry, Kenzi no in casa. No speak English. Hablo only es-pan-yol!"
Tamsin just rolled her eyes and then murmured to Arin, "This cottage is made of wood and… wood BURNS right?"
Arin smirked manically and responded, "YES, it does sister. I need to get some wood. You got her?"
Tamsin just nodded and then kicked the door with the sound of Arin riding off on her horse, "You open the door NOW and I'll let you have a minute to say WHATEVER your heart desire, a WHOLE minute. OK. I'm feeling gracious. Make it 2. AND if you ACT NOW, I'll kill you, quick….. er."
Tamsin backed up far enough so she could see the rear of the cottage too in case Kenzi made a break for it out the back door, but the way it sounded, Kenzi was barricading all the windows and doors.
"Missy! You wait til Bo Bear hears about this. She will kick your ass to high heavens for this. She'll bitch slap you so hard your ANCESTORS will feel it," Kenzi yelled from inside the cottage moving more furniture in front of the windows and doors.
Tamsin just yelled back, "You tell her then! Like I care about that SLUT! Get your final words in before I slit your throat!"
Kenzi was inside now stocking up on weapons like a baseball bat and of course her samurai sword Grenadine but paused and yelled back, "Bo IS your family remember?! Did you go to Valhalla again, bumped your head, went to bed, and went homicidal in the morning?!"
"No darnit!" Tamsin proclaimed but then corrected herself, "I mean YES I was in Valhalla, but I am ME… Tamsin Tamsin, and I am here to hurt Bo like she hurt me!"
Kenzi knew there was something wrong and just asked warily, "Bo would NEVER hurt you. You're her roomie!"
"WAS!" Tamsin shrieked at the house. "Until she went off and CHEATED on me with Lauren! And now, she's gonna PAY! Now come on out so we can get on with it!"
Kenzi stumbled back a couple of steps and leaned against an interior wall at this revelation. This was impossible. Tamsin was hurting because Bo cheated on her, but in order to be cheated ON, you had to be in a RELATIONSHIP first. Bo made no mention of Tamsin and her being an item via text and email, but she did know that Bo talked about her fondly.
Kenzi then cautiously looked out her almost fully barricaded window at a seething Valkyrie at a distance and asked, "So you mean you 2 were going out on the same level as Dyson…. Emmmm… WAS." Kenzi knew that comparing it to Lauren would only exacerbate the issue.
Tamsin just slammed her sword tip into the ground so it was free standing furious that ANYONE would question her and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Ever since you left, we took cases together! We partied together! We slept together! We freaking made love TOGETHER and it wasn't for a STUPID feed alright!"
Kenzi looked on at the exasperated Valkyrie and although she was streaming mad, it looked like she was telling the truth so she pressed a little more, "OK. So when the Doctor thing happened, then what went down between you and Bo?"
Tamsin threw her dagger at the window from where she knew Kenzi was talking from and it shattered the glass and wedged into a table top she had put against it.
"Bo said she NEVER loved meeeeee! That is was all a figment of my imagination." Tamsin gurgled out in pain. "She was always fawning over the FUCKING halfwit human doctor!"
Kenzi ducked behind the table as the glass shattered but heard Tamsin loud and clear but she yelled back, "My Bestie NEVER said that Tamtam!"
Tamsin briskly strode to the broken window and punched that table as hard as she could and the wood cracked and Kenzi was almost bucked off of the other side since she had her back against it.
"You weren't there you human Goth piece of trash! I was, you ass!" Tamsin challenged.
"But I know Bo! YOU know Bo. Now WHAT did she really say dammit!" Kenzi announced holding the bat close to her.
Tamsin hesitated. She didn't want to relive it AGAIN.
Kenzi then hollered over the table grasping for straws, "Dammit Tammers. I am YOUR mother! I RAISED you remember? Since WHEN do you hold out on me?"
"You're Bo's heart! You are loyal to Bo and Bo only. You would betray me in at a moment's notice useless human," Tamsin snipped shoving the table with strength.
Kenzi caught herself from falling forward and pushed her back against the table once more.
Kenzi took a deep breath and in a normal tone solemnly told Tamsin over the barrier, "I am Bo's sister. One she never had. Does she mess up? Yes. Do I love her? Yea. But Tamsin, not only are we best buds, but YOU are my daughter."
Kenzi paused. She never used the word daughter before and then continued, "Do I have your back even after trying to kill me every time you show up unannounced?"
Kenzi knew it was a bad choice of words but it was too late. She realized that Tamsin was still listening so she kept going, "YES. Because the daughter I raised was honest, good, and pure of heart even after all the crap you did in your past lives. I believe you Tamsin. Now tell me WHAT Bo really said. ….. PLEASE."
Tamsin sputtered back, "N… no.. NO!" Tamsin balled up her fist again and then retorted, "But YOU have her freaking side if it came to a choice between me and her. DON'T PLAY ME human pet!"
Kenzi as calmly as she could just replied speaking over the table, "I can't HAVE a side if you don't give me a straight answer T-sam. Come on, what will it hurt? You can always kill me later."
Tamsin backed up a couple steps and it was true, she could always kill the fragile human later, but Kenzi was her mom, and deserved something. She took a couple deep breaths and tried to relay it without going ballistic.
"After I saw Bo and Lauren together. I… I…. left to clear my head and when I came back to the crack shack, I told her that I was OK with her sleeping with other people since she is a succubus, so long as her heart belonged to me," Tamsin looked away.
"Annnnnnd," Kenzi prodded.
"She… she," Tamsin shook her head to try to shake the thought off, "She told me cared for me and that because we room together and take cases together does not mean we were a couple, but that slut…. But I made sure Bo knew that we slept together and made love too. She… SHE…"
Tamsin turned around and walked a couple paces away, she knew she was close to her breaking point but forged ahead, "Bo told me that I was confused and that it was apparently all part of my imagination."
Tamsin felt her eyes well up again and needed to bring her walls back up but it was too late when she heard herself utter, "I told Bo I was I love with her and that I was wise beyond all my lifetimes."
Her emotions slammed into her as Tamsin limped away a couple more steps with her breathing becoming erratic.
Kenzi peered over the table and saw Tamsin's emotional distress, but didn't know if it was a sham for now, but just observed closely.
"I'm one of the most p…powerful warriors there is out there," Tamsin stammered wiping away a couple escaped tears, "I…. … I… "
Kenzi saw Tamsin tremble but knew Tamsin was not acting a part as soon as Tamsin collapsed to her knees in the field ahead of her and began to sob uncontrollably and even through her ragged and hitched breathing admitted in apparent suffering.
"M… M… mom. I BEGGED and … and… groveled for Bo's … affection in the end….. I… I yield to NO ONE. Reiner, Dyson,… L.. Lauren were good enough… Bo… she MADE me doubt myself … She…. She… maimed my heart ….." Tamsin barely got out.
Arin had just dismounted her horse 10 yards away and had been there for the last couple of shouting exchanges. She had no idea what to do. Tamsin's soul was bleeding and no doctor could fix that.
Kenzi could tell Tamsin was in bad shape and this time, she believed that Tamsin wasn't lying to her pulling the table away and jumping through the window.
Tamsin just wretched in agony to the world doubling over, "W… Why does love hurt so bad!"
Kenzi sprinted to Tamsin immediately lifting her up into a hug.
Tamsin could no longer speak. A flood of complex emotions were tearing through her with the strength of a wood chipper.
Kenzi just murmured into her ear glancing at another Valkyrie that looked just like Tamsin off in the distance, "I'm so freaking sorry Tamsin. We'll get through this together OK?"
Tamsin just nodded and hesitantly hugged Kenzi back.
Tamsin didn't lose her entire family after all. She still had her mom.
Arin finally had the missing pieces and found that what Bo did to her sister was absolutely inexcusable. Tamsin's distressed state and the way she described it made her feel too. It made her empathize which was something warriors don't do.
A single tear escaped one on Arin's eyes and plummeted to the ground. She had never cried in any of her lifetimes, but her sister was beyond broken. Her soul was shattered into thousands of pieces. She felt her pain.
Arin knew that Tamsin could survive an attack from several, even hundreds of Ogres, Witches, Shifters, even other succubi and incubi. Whatever came Tamsin's way, she killed. This was different.
Tamsin was taken down by ONE succubus. ONE freaking low life, whore of a succubus. UNBELIEVABLE.
'I got the wood Tamsin. Burn the place down or kill the human? BOTH?' Arin though over the link to Tamsin somewhat sarcastically.
'J… J… just stand down OK? Kenzi is my mom,' Tamsin thought back barely holding it together.
Arin just stood there as Tamsin grieved. Kenzi was helping her move forward.
Arin could not help herself as she said to aloud to herself but everyone could hear her as she scrunched her face.
"So Tamsin wants to kill Kenzi. I backup Tamsin who WANTS to kill Kenzi. Kenzi is your mom and part of Tamsin's extended family and wants bonding time…. Annnnnnnnd… everyone is ok with this?"
"Shut up!" Both Tamsin and Kenzi barked in unison.
They were all frozen in time for most of the hour until both Arin and Tamsin immediately looked up to one point in the sky.
"SHIZZLE!" Arin said aloud, "How the freak does Bo Dennis get into Valhalla without an invitation?"
Tamsin wiped away her tears from her blood shot eyes and just said, "Frack me. Those stupid slippers."
Stacey's voice popped into Tamsin head, 'Oh Tammers! Bo Dennis is looking for you and is demanding to see you now. Shall I let Freya and the sisterhood know so we can kick her out?'
'I'll deal with her, OK?' Tamsin replied with as little emotions as she could back to Stacey.
'Your track record is spotty Tamsin. Don't screw up,' Stacey nipped back over the link.
Tamsin thought tactically briefly and got up ignoring Kenzi.
"Arin, I need you to convince Bo to just leave me alone," Tamsin mentioned motioning to the horses to mount up.
"No problem sister," Arin clicked with a smirk.
"As… as ME. You have to pretend you are me. Got it?" Tamsin added.
"Ummmm why?" Arin asked confused.
"Because," Tamsin said mounting her horse, "Bo won't leave until she talks to me or thinks she did ok? Just do it!"
Kenzi walked up to Tamsin's horse and made a motion to help her up.
"Kenzi," Tamsin warned, "This may not turn out well. It's best you stay here."
"No way Hose!" Kenzi pulled herself up onto the horse even with no help from Tamsin, "I want to get her out of there too. ALIVE."
Tamsin warned again turning the horse around with Arin coming up on her side, "I can't protect you Kenzi if bad crap happens."
"I know, but with the Kenzi-nator, one thing is for sure" Kenzi then transitioned to an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent, "I'll be back!"
Tamsin, Arin and Kenzi galloped to the nearest portal and went through.