Kiko stood leaning against the cold cellar wall in a dark basement. It was clear this place was an abandoned some time ago since dust, dirt and grime covered everything. Trash, broken glass, and unknown remnants of what was once home furnishings were nearly unidentifiable at first glance. The only thing lighting the room was a new spotless red camping lantern.

The blood and sweat covered Orc gurgled in pain when his pinky finger was cracked and crushed by pliers.

"This will all stop and all you have to do is give us names of WHO sent you!" Eric commanded applying more pressure.

The Orc yelled and squirmed to escape the pain but was restrained fully via duct tape to a large, heavy wood chair. "DYSON! You come back here! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"HE CAN'T HEAR YOU ASSHOLE. Now before I move onto your teeth, WHO called the hit on Kendra!" Eric demanded slamming his pliers into the freshly crushed finger. This Orc was tough since he was already on the second hand, but he'd beak him sooner or later.

"Ahhhhhh! I'm FAE… I have rights! DYS… uggg" The Orc slumped over after a hard right cross.

The Orc spat on the floor and then jeered locking seriously at Eric dead on, "YOU'RE DEAD. The only right you have in my world is to become my PET. I'd be more than happy to …"

The Orc, Derrik, didn't stop screaming as the cold ex-mil marine extracted and removed a section of his ring finger slowly inflicting as much pain as possible.

Kiko was impressed; Eric knew enhanced techniques for information extraction. She knew deep down he might have already known, but he was pretty refined, which meant he did it several times before. That and he was pissed that his wife was just ripped away from him or at the very least soon to be. What would someone do for the love of their life?

Anything.

Everything.

Right now she just remained quiet. Dyson purposefully stepped out since he was SWORN to protect Fae kind.

Everyone of them.

Light, dark, unaligned, big, small, bright or stupid. It was his job to keep balance and enforce Fae law, but strangely enough this time Dyson was turning a blind eye even to his own kind. She could tell he didn't give up his values easily. It was all in his expression after he left the room when he told her to keep an eye on things. Dyson was principled but it looked like Dyson could accept street justice.

What would Dyson do for love? Same thing as Eric.

Anything.

Everything.

But he just lost Kendra and didn't even know it, Kiko pondered. She had yet to tell him. The only reason why Kennie had asked to stay with her was BECAUSE deep down, Kennie knew that she lost Eric because of her intrusion into the Fae world when ironically enough; she was trying to keep them together. She also cheated on her husband and Kendra was extremely loyal and faithful to her husband. How could she them, even fathom to hook up with Dyson? WHY did she even hook up with him in the first place?

GUILT

MOURNING

FAILURE

Sure, Kennie was all hers now if she succeeded in feeding at Lauren's clinic. But was she REALLY? Kennie saw her as a good friend and if that was the case, she was sooo screwed. The thought of being THAT close to someone you wanted a romantic relationship with but at the same time you didn't?

She wanted Kendra because Kendra managed to see right through her and knew her within just one dance but more importantly accepted her for who she was.

Not in assassin.

Not a murder.

Not a killer

A PERSON with feelings and needs just like everyone else.

By the same token, Kiko couldn't afford a relationship. She was an assassin and while having a relationship wasn't forbidden but, having one locked you down. They became your Achilles heel.

You couldn't move freely at the drop of a hat, the one you cared for was also a liability since you'd be accountable not just to yourself, but to them too in one way or another. Finally, if an assassin had a close relationship, one can control them to an extent by holding the one they love hostage.

Again so screwed.

It was then she got a text message blasted to Dyson and her from Lauren, 'Kendra refuses to feed but wants to question and maybe feed on that Orc you are holding. She needs to feed within 15 minutes of getting there or she will revert back to her human state.'

CRAP. Leave it to Kennie to have a conscience now. She also probably may have changed her mind. Maybe she wanted to die as Eric's wife. What would she do for her friend to talk her off this ledge?

Anything and everything, EVEN as a friend, Kennie was really cool to hang out with after all.

Kiko just stayed there stone faced at the Orc who squealed like a pig spitting out blood and a couple of his teeth. Frack. Eric was STRONG for a human and this Orc might be dead by the time Kendra got to him.

Kiko spoke over the Orc howling in pain. He wasn't giving up anything, but MAYBE, just maybe he'd give it up to Kendra, the person he killed who was now back from the dead.

"HEY! Kendra will be here in 10. She has questions for your soon to be dead sorry excuse for an Orc!"

The Orc didn't know if she was joking and Eric finally backed off from doing more 'dental work'.

The Orc just slurred since he lost several teeth already, "HAR HAR, Mother frackers, good one, cus I made sure to put her the eff down like the dog in heat she was! I painted the stone outside her house with her fucking blood. Ha ha ha."

Eric just smirked like he was holding all the cards then left.

Kiko just stayed back as Derrick laughed away jeering at the door Eric went through, "Yea, run you pesky human, I'll kill you too just like I killed your slut. And you, traitor! I'll see to it that you get public executed Kiko."

Kiko just let him talk it up. It wouldn't be long now.

Bo got out of the car with Kendra who quickly strode into Eric's arms. Dyson walked up to Bo and nodded as his way to say hi. Bo could tell Dyson was kind of a little jealous at Kendra's relationship with Eric, but held his demeanor since he really didn't have the right to be.

Lauren pulled Bo aside and asked, "Hey babe, can you help Kendra make the right choice?"

"Which is?" Bo asked a little unsure.

Lauren just explained, "I want to respect Kendra's wishes either way, but she needs to also see what's at stake. Can you help her see the bigger picture so she can make an informed decision?"

"Sure," Bo readily agreed. There again was a glimmer of the Lauren she once knew.

Bo then quickly explained the situation to Eric and Dyson. Kendra held onto Eric like her life depended on it. At the end Kendra tacked on asking everyone, "Can I get a moment please?"

Dyson moved off to be alone. He just hoped Kendra fed soon so that she can be his. But this course of action also felt wrong. How DARE he steal Kendra like that from Eric? He just needed more time to work this out.

Bo and Lauren had some time alone sitting together on the tall unkempt grass just observing Kendra and Eric from a far.

After a minute Lauren reached out to hold Bo's hand since she observed that Bo seemed a little disconnected lately.

Bo just let Lauren hold her hand but had nothing to say to her for once. Gone was the care free woman and it was replaced by one of purpose.

"Are you ok Bo?" Lauren asked with genuine concern.

Bo just replied with Lauren side hugging her and Bo weakly returned it, "I'm fine. I just hope everything works out. I'm… just worried for them."

Lauren pecked Bo on the cheek and reassured, "Everything will be just fine, you'll see." Lauren then changed tact perking up, "why don't you talk to the couple now? I'm sure they won't mind."

Bo began to approach and observed Kendra look for her. Lauren was right.

Kendra just spoke to Bo, "We've decided, that I won't go through with being a ghoul, but I want time to question our prisoner."

"What of Dyson and Kiko?" Bo might as well spill in front of Eric who probably already knew.

Kendra smiled for once and clarified, "My place is with Eric and the human world. I'm just happy I get time to be… well forgiven for one, get still get justice which is a plus, and finally, leave with closure for all parties."

"And Dyson and Kiko?" Bo pushed.

"I'll talk to them but really. Thank you."

Eric was having ambivalent and conflicted feelings about this. Sure he'd remember Kendra dying in a home invasion, he'd also probably remember that he got justice, maybe even remember talking to her at the house before she passed in the fire fight, BUT she would still end up dying in any case for him. He respected that his wife came clean and was his after all but what was the price? Was it too high? Would he allow her to be with Dyson, maybe even Kiko if it meant that in reality she lived on unbeknownst to him? Could he even stand to picture Dyson with his wife?

Kiko?

This was even more messed up, if Kendra went with Kiko, would she become an assassin like her? He hated assassins since they were just hired guns and cowards but this was his WIFE. Kendra had it in her to be one somewhere it just never really reared its face. He just didn't know why he felt that way but it was still there. He could sense her dark assassin side even stronger after someone murdered her friend Julia before Kendra could get her into Witness Protection.

Bo just nodded. Kendra did know the big picture, and advised, "We are all here for you should you change your mind. Be good to Dyson please? I've hurt him once and… well … you understand."

Kendra just turned to Eric, kissed him and said, "Work Derrick up for my surprise entrance?"

Eric smirked and left.

Kendra just nodded to Bo and left for an open field.

Lauren slid up then embraced Bo from behind. She took in her scent and just said, "Thank you Babe. What did she decide?"

Bo just let Lauren hug her still captured in the moment. This scene was both tragic and romantic. "Kendra decided not to go through with being a ghoul. She just wants time with Eric."

Lauren kissed the nape of her neck and nodded. "Come on Bo, I think we've done everything we can do here. Back to my place?"

Bo still wanted to be there to comfort Dyson and just said, "Can we just stick around a little longer?"

This was odd, Bo was resisting her suggestions. Maybe she need more pheromone attractant to move her, but tried to see if being more direct would work. "Let's go Bo," Lauren walked around to see her face to face taking her by the hand ready to lead her away.

It looked like Bo seemed a little annoyed at her by the sheer fact that she would not follow. It couldn't be, not with her attractant dose and strength. Maybe she needed to make the concentration higher or could it be Bo was immure or getting immune to it?

Lauren's mind quickly went into doctor mode to diagnose this. She just did it automatically but also she wanted to prevent Bo from falling for Tamsin especially with Blaze out of the picture.

Bo was so preoccupied she forgot that she was supposed to be Lauren's thrall and only remembered when Lauren was pulling here away. 'OH SHIT, she's gonna go full nerdy doctor on me.' Bo quickly smiled let Lauren lead her away like a mindless zombie. She needed to do something about this soon before her cover was blown.

Lauren sat Bo down in the back of her truck letting her legs dangle off the edge. She just stood in front of Bo and was about to ask her a barrage of question when her love just giggled and said, "It's a little cold doc, join me inside?"

"Ohhhh, … yes of .. of course," Lauren stammered getting in the back of the truck with Bo closing the back hatch.

Bo knew she could thrall Lauren, but that used more of her energy. BUT what if she used HER pheromones on Lauren? MAYBE a little of both. Tamsin did tell Bo about Lauren also jumping her Valkyrie's bones, or tried to in the 'smurf' incident; however, Bo didn't intentionally mean to release her pheromones on Tamsin, but Tamsin let her know briefly how. Bo had to want to feed from the person or persons even if that they didn't care of her. That attack made for easy feeds according to Tamsin when succubi were 'in the wild'. Only problem was that her pheromone release had only happened one time and that was while she was rolling in the hay with Tamsin. Tamsin explained that Valkyries were immune to it to a large extent but humans were extremely vulnerable to that attack. Also for the attack to be most effective, it had to be in a closed space.

There Bo was faced with 2 issues while she seductively stripped off her shirt. The first, she didn't want Lauren to touch her. Therefore her pheromones wouldn't release most likely. With Tamsin, she played hard to get, and Bo wanted her, so that was easy. The second was there her thralling lasted a short period of time. Even if Bo used her full thrall strength, the thrallee might remember down the line and Lauren knew what to look for just like the first time they met.

Lauren out of curiosity asked, "How have you been feeling in the last couple in the last 48 hours?"

Bo just smirked like she loved it when she nerded out on her but had to fake it, "I've been fine Babe." Bo stoked the doctor and concentrated hard on releasing her pheromones. 'Come on. I did it to Tamsin, I can do it to this back stabber,' she tought.

"Headaches, nausea," Lauren palpated her neck. She loved Bo in her bra, but kept on going about her checkup. Something was wrong but she just could not help steal glance at Bo's chest.

"Nope," Bo tersely replied. She knew it was working a little since Lauren kept glancing at her chest. But she needed it to work FASTER. So according to Tamsin, more skin meant more pheromone release.

Lauren lost concentration when Bo began to shimmy out of her tight leather pants. Odd she was wearing underwear, when normally she didn't. GOD she was hot. She stayed on target and analyzing the succubus only in her underwear when she noted that after Bo pulled her boot and pants off, she saw the anklet. Lauren resisted with all her might to not sack Bo but oddly Bo was holding her at a distance to prevent her from coming too close. WHY.

Lauren shook her head and finally blurted out, "Your anklet … who gave…. Bo TAKE it off please." That anklet COULD very well be the reason why Bo was able to resist her. That effing Valkyrie had something to do with this. Better head this off now before Bo is able to resist the attractant 100 percent.

Bo kept a poker face but need to stall a little longer. She just hoped that the potion Freya had her take worked. She unlatched her anklet and stated with a purr, "Of course."

Lauren smirked and asked taking in Bo's scent inches from her neck. Bo was preventing her from kissing her, but asked almost losing her mind, "Bo? Who do you truly love and want to be with."

Bo REALLY wanted to say, 'Not you' or even 'Tamsin' but thank GOD the potion worked and just hugged Lauren and Lauren just melted into her kissing her on her cheek. Bo HATED being touched and was about to lie but she LOVED Tamsin and no other and THIS had gone far enough.

The succubus stroked Lauren's back in the hug and thralled her slowly so she wouldn't notice and it worked. Lauren was now temporarily hers and had no idea how bad of a situation this was.

Bo just purred, "Your really tired Lauren." So leaned back and brought her down with her. "Sleep until I wake you."

Lauren was OUT like a light and Bo just shoved her off. NOW time for business.

She quickly speed dialed Suzie on speaker setting her phone down to get dressed. Thank god she didn't have to tell Lauren that she loved her and it was great that Freya's potion worked.

After a couple rings, Suzie answered, "Hello?"

Bo just finished buttoning her pants and putting he anklet back on and replied," Hey, it's Bo. Anything on Evony?"

"Ummmm about that. I've got bad news."

"Why?"

"Lauren keeps the file on Evony under lock and key and I was able to break in, but from what I am reading, there is NO formula to reverse the effects that injection which gave her her powers back."

"WHAT?" Bo sneered.

"Sorry, I guess the reason why Lauren didn't give Evony the shot before was because she had no way to reverse it. In her current state, most medical and maybe even magical means are ineffective."

"Shit, So is there any good news here?" Bo quipped really pissed.

"I have more bad news."

"WHAT is it?" Bo crossed her arms pissed. Lauren sold her soul to the devil and didn't even bat an eye.

"Evony can become more powerful if she takes that same initial injection she got in small doses. Don't know if Lauren told her that."

"I wouldn't put it past her, but LET'S ask shall we?" Bo nudged Lauren.

"Huh? She's WITH you?"

"She's my thrall. I didn't need her to get touchy feelly with me."

Lauren woke up with a satisfied smirk plastered on her face but Bo got to the point.

Bo asked her directly, "Lauren, is there a way to reverse Evony's current state?"

"Nooooo," Lauren mentioned dreamily locking loved eyes on Bo. "You're so beaut…"

Bo just cut her off and ask, "Can there be an antidote made to make her human again?"

"Nearly impossible. You need at least… oh wow. Why did you get dressed. Your soooo pretty," She wanted to touch her face but was hurt when Bo slapped her hand away.

Bo was REALLY REALLY pissed, "At least WHAT."

Lauren was hurt and said, "I love you."

Bo knew she needed to thrall her more since she hurt her but Bo ended up pecking Lauren on the cheek and repeated, "As you were saying?"

Lauren just replied mesmerized, "I need a several fast super computers and a 2 full teams of the world's best minds to solve it within 10 years."

"Shit. This is bad," the phone blared.

Bo saw no reason to keep up the charades any longer and just spat out to Lauren, "You're fucking idiot Lauren!"

Lauren was shocked. What had she done to displease this pretty succubus?

"You fucking have ethics UNTIL you it comes to losing me to someone else. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!" Bo beat the ground hard. She was so riled up and kept going knowing full well this would hurt Lauren a lot more since she was in a vulnerable thrall state.

"Please…. I love you…." Lauren begged grabbing Bo's leg to be accepted.

"And I HATE you Lauren," Bo shoved her off hanging up her phone, pocketing it about to open the door to leave. "By the way I only LOVE Tamsin, so GO AWAY. I never want to see you again."

Bo knew in her thralled state she would do it, at least until it wore off.

Lauren begged pulling out a scalpel from her kit ready to go positioned above her left wrist.

"Bo! Don't leave me! PLEASE!" Lauren yelped in tears shaking all over.

Bo opened the door and turned back to Lauren. The doctor looked like she was ready to kill herself and Bo really didn't care. She didn't feel anything for Lauren, NOT anymore.

Bo just shook her head, and just walked away with her head high since she had to move on. At least with way, Lauren will kill herself and the blood wasn't on her hands. She had made no such suggestion. Besides, Lauren got the easy way out. It was Bo what had to live on with the fact that Lauren raped her.

For Bo justice wasn't quite served, but any measure of justice at this point was welcomed.

"Good bye Lauren," Bo grunted loudly not even looking back. For the first time, Bo ran out of love.

Kendra looked for Dyson in the field but found some of his clothes folded in a neat pile. He must have shifted to his Dire Wolf form. She had never seen him shifted before.

Kendra called out for him and within a minute a hesitant wolf appeared over the ridge and paused to assess. His was a tall handsome and muscular dark grey Dire wolf.

Dyson took her in and it is what he suspected, he was going to get a Dear John farewell.

SHIT. Then again, WHO was he to dictate how she lived her life and in this case, she chose how to go.

NOT AGAIN.

He wanted to run away just like he did when he lost Bo.

Kendra sat down and patted the ground next to her and pleaded, "Please Dyson, we need to talk."

He didn't move.

Kendra knew the hesitancy was stemming from her decision which she had yet to share, but Dyson seemed to be able to read her as well.

"Come on Dyson … just… just can we talk?"

Dyson turned to leave.

"Look D-man, PLEASE don't make this harder for me. …. I … I… love you."

Dyson felt a tug to his heart and finally pranced over to Kendra. He didn't bother shifting back since he knew she probably wouldn't touch him in human form so he just curled up next to Kendra who was sitting with her legs crossed under her on a clear patch of tall prairie grass.

Kendra pet him his full body length, her hands glided smoothly over his fluffy soft coat. "Not gonna shift back for me?"

Dyson just rest his head on her lap and took her scent in. She smelled like Kendra still but her scent also smelled distinctly ghoul. He also noted that it was fading. It only further confirmed that Kendra, wasn't going to go through with it.

Kendra had a dog when she was younger so she scratched his neck just in the right place and Dyson must have loved it since his rear leg kicked reflexively. "Come on Dyson, we've been through a lot together. Shift back for me?"

Dyson just shook his head.

No.

Kendra just frowned slightly, but stayed on course, "I'm … I'm…" She stuttered not knowing how to deliver this message. "Thank you Dyson. You've always been there for me even now. I know how much you've given up for me through the years and I am greatly indebted to you."

Dyson just nuzzled into her more and whined softly. He was going to lose her.

Kendra felt weaker by the minute and knew she just had to say it or else she wouldn't have time to question the Orc and maybe say her peace to her best friend Kiko.

"Eric and I have decided…." Kendra found that Dyson winced. "OK Dyson, I can't go through with this. Thank you, but I am Eric's and I want to be Eric's until my final breath."

It was time for Dyson to man up and finally he nodded sitting up proudly and making a tiny soft bark.

Kendra began to well up, she knew deep down she just hurt him, but he refused to admit it. But life had to go forward with or without her and before she got up lunged forward to hug Dyson with the best smile she could muster and finally confessed in a faint whisper, holding her face tight against his, "In another time, and another place. YES, you are mine and I am yours." She then quickly pecked him on his cheek got up and briskly walked away as fast as she could. She could not bear to hurt him anymore but she was the one in quiet tears.