It was an uneventful 2 hour drive and that was good. Tamsin needed a break from Bo in order to think. This past couple of days with Bo were intoxicating. What she felt for Bo she could not explain like she told her sister. But now without Bo there, it gave her time to reassess the situation she was in. She was human and was already on her way to expiring. Which meant for her that she'd better live out the rest of her very short existence with purpose or does she even need to? Will she go out with a bang or a whisper? Valkyries were creatures of duty and she only had 2 duties left and both were to Bo. Return Lauren, Bo's girlfriend or former girlfriend safely back into the fold. If not, keep her safe until then. Her final duty was to see Bo. Simple enough. Then what? Expire. On her own terms. She hoped that this human body can hold out long enough to complete her duties. She had fought plenty to humans to know how fragile they were and being a realist, she knew that the grim reaper had her near the top of his list now and was only a couple steps behind her at this moment. Funny, the Grim Reaper was a good friend. She sent so many people and Fae his way in the battle fields. She knew almost to the exact second people would expire and be in his grasp. Now, he was her friend again, but this time, he would be helping her move on.
She was faced with the fact that in order to try to prolong her life, reflexes and training, while great, were no longer good enough. She needed technology to give her that extra boost. How she hated technology. She loved the good old days of hand to hand combat. She killed her foes and enemies face to face on a battlefield. Now war was so sterile. Throw a couple cruise missiles over to take out your target in the convenience of a chair. That to her was almost the definition of cowardice. While she would never resort to that, she now needed to "degrade" herself to hi-tech assault rifles and firearms, night vision goggles, Kevlar body armor, flash grenades, and tear gas. It sucked. She knew how to use all to those, but did not rely on them when she was a Valkyrie. Hell Bo still probably had her side arm probably lying around on the bathroom floor still from the time she got it wet in her bathtub confession. Either that or she had it somewhere in a pile of lost and found in Bo's house since a lot of 'feeding traffic' went through there and they probably lost items as well.
For a brief moment she thought that all her problems would be solved if she just got her powers back and was reinstated. Sure Bo believed that Tamsin would get her powers back, but Tamsin would never beg Odin for them. She had too much pride, Arin was right. Not only that, she was now carrying so much regret from all her wrong doings in the past, that her body and soul was yearning and screaming for Omega. Bo just had no idea how evil she was. Bo just only saw the bitch do-gooder. It was refreshing to have someone like Bo trust her of all people to do the right thing. Arin only knew part of the story as Tamsin made sure to shield her from the truth. Arin followed the rules, believed in them, and would die for them. That is what Valhalla needed a righteous Valkyrie and not a fallen one who consistently bends and at times breaks rules. Tamsin did plenty of things to put herself here. What was she doing in Bo's life? She had no business there. Was she just being selfish and using Bo?
Also she thought, where would she go after the curtain falls? She would be judged as a human in which case there was only 2 choices. Heaven of Hell. With her baggage it was definitely the latter. At least she justified that she would not be the instrument of evil anymore. But as an odd thought, could she make it to Valhalla into the hall of warriors? Could she be noble, courageous, and honorable enough to make it there before the Grim Reaper took her to the netherworld? Could she? It would be an uphill battle since she had so much history to erase and reverse. Nearly impossible with the amount to time she had left. Would she take it or just let it slip away. Again, would she go out with a bang or a whisper she just did not know. Her duty to Bo prevailed in the end and that is what was keeping her breathing right now.
Before she knew it she was at the bar. It was crowded and looked rough. Just her place to feel right at home. The sun was about to set and there was already a fight in progress in the front of the building. There were 2 rival groups. One was clad in biker gear and the other looked more pedestrian but they looked oddly seasoned. She just calmly got out of her car and walked towards the bar. She loved a good fight, but for the first time she hesitated, she had more important things to do. That thought struck her as really weird. No time to get drunk and join in bar fights? That is what she lived for, it is what quickened her.
As she got closer, she noticed that all the people in the pedestrian garb had to be either ex-mill or had training as such but more than that, they each had some form of martial arts training. The most prevalent style being Krav Maga and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Tamsin's eyes locked onto one the them as they demonstrated some serious fighting skills and was taking on 3 heavy set men and she was spanking them. It was Kendra Shaw. Tamsin then recognized most of the team surrounding was hers from the profiles she skimmed earlier. Her name did not do her any justice. She seemed to be a mix of Spanish and Chinese. Her facial features were Asian mostly, but her body was a little more muscular and more defined. That combination made her beautiful, powerful and deadly with her training. From her profile, she was a perfectionist and hated to be out classed by her male counterparts. She, although never serving her country, was one of the best snipers in the nation. She could compete on the international level, but from the way Tamsin saw her record, she was more into practical application rather than getting an award for a single skill.
Tamsin just chose to just stand around with the rest of the bystanders to get a bead on their skill level. She did turn some heads in the crowd as she had her black uniform, body armor, badge and gun on her but they just turned their attention back to the bar brawl. Spike, heavy set, very strong, a little slow, but if he landed even a finger or toe on anyone in a fight, they were history. He could dish it out like he could take it. Pain did not even register for him. He just finished throwing a 325+ pound person at Tamsin, but she was quick enough to push the other bystanders out of the way and dodged the incoming person. Spike apologized to Tamsin and crowd as he started to engage others. He paused at the sight of Tamsin looking at her badge mounted in her belt, but had to get back in the game as 2 other people charged him. Carrot top, looked like thug, had several scars on his face, standard build and height for a male but he was well in tune with his martial arts abilities and limitations. He would fight fair until the scales started to tip toward the other party. Then he would fight dirty, right now he was working someone over with 2 broken pool cues. Tamsin liked that. The bikers were on the end of a losing battle when more bikers from a rival gang ran out of from the bar to help their own other fellow bikers. Biker solidarity. Kendra's team would was now outmatched almost 3 to 1. Bad odds even with the plethora of experience of the team.
Tamsin thought it best to even it out a little and join in the fun. As they came running out she tripped the first couple. Throwing 2 bikers head first into the large pillars in the front of the bar. Another tried to engage her with a knife, but she gave it back to him quickly and made it look like he just stabbed himself in his stomach several times by accident. She then kicked him into 2 others that were getting up from the ground. Finally a biker did engage her in hand to hand, but was no challenge at all, he was just throwing standard haymakers and charged her. She let him and then redirected him into and through the bar window. 'Too easy' she thought. Tamsin was holding back single handedly 6 bikers who were hell bent on killing her. They did not care that she had a gun, a baton, and full body armor on with a badge. Finally a very seasoned kick boxer engaged her, and she blocked most of his offensive attacks which consisted of kicks and punches. Even though she missed blocking or slipping very few, her body armor absorbed at least some of the impact. She was assessing and timing him and not going offensive on purpose. And as soon as she figured it out a couple seconds later, she did one harsh uppercut knocking him out cold. The crowd went wild. She then heard Spike yell "TERMINATED biach!" obviously in reference to the boxer she just took out.
Kendra and team look on and was wondering who she was. She was law enforcement of some type, but everything about her was saying something else. Marines? Special forces? Seal team? FBI? Part time runway model?
Kendra got rid of her last couple of people and lucky for them, they stayed down. Although she thought that her team could take the new entrants to the hunger games, she was glad for the surprise alliance with a contestant from apparently another district and it was definitely not Peta. The blond woman that was fighting was beautiful in all senses of the word. She had power, speed, skills, showed restraint, and was gorgeous. She was law enforcement all right, but she played things cool. She did not ID herself as a cop or draw any of her weapons as of yet but still managed hold 6 people at bay one of which had some serious Thai boxing skills. Could this be Tamsin Jennings of precinct 39? Kendra was so busy putting out fires at work she did not even read her profile, but by her moves alone, yes, this was Tamsin. She just stood there keeping other people from entering into the fight. She observed that Tamsin moves were so fluid, she made fighting look effortless. Her team all had some sort of battle damage but Tamsin had none thus far in this fight.
Tamsin did a low round house to a couple more thugs to their knees and with a loud crack, they stayed down. Out of the corner of her eye, the final of the 6 got up and pull a gun on her. Tamsin still had lightening reflexes. She grabbed the barrel of the semi auto and diverted it putting it under control. A single round fired from it hitting the ground. Since she was holding the barrel, the gun did not cycle the next round and Tamsin knew this. She was about to kill him as no one ever got a round off on her without being dead a second later, but in order to make a good impression, she head butted the guy and backed up. Kendra and team all now had their various semi autos drawn yelling at the man to drop the gun. Tamsin just calmly said "I got this. Stand down ladies and gents and enjoy the show." The man with the gun recovered and started to bring the gun to Tamsin head, and she just approached and put her head flush against it. "Well what are you waiting for you pussy? Mommy or daddy didn't tell you how to use your little BB gun? Can you even find it?" She said jeering him. That was enough to make him pull the trigger, but nothing came out. A panicked look came across his face as he backed up looking at his safety and trying to make it fire again and a again without results. Tamsin just kept walking toward him, pretending to wipe the imaginary dust off her vest shoulder and then pulled out her baton and extend it sharply with a loud click. She did some showoff martial arts moves with her baton throwing in crescent and spinning back kicks into the routine and made her baton sing the air before tapping the inside of his legs with it less than an inch away from his jewels. The man just screamed like a girl and dropped his gun and to protect his future generations. With that all done, she grabbed him and slammed him against the wall staring him down. Had she had her powers he would be scarred for life, but she could still insight fear the old fashioned way. She was still strong enough to break his neck, but that would not be fun. Riddled with fear, he screamed and was saying that she was a crazy and for someone to call the cops. "I *AM* the cops bitch!" Tamsin yelled and tightened her choke hold on him as he urinated on himself. "Who … who the fuck are you!" man croaked out having a hard time breathing. Kendra and team were still holding their distance but getting concerned from the looks on their faces. Well shit the fun must be over Tamsin thought as the craned her head over to them. She turned her attention back to the thug and with probably one of the best movie imitations ever for Tamsin said putting her face very close to his in a very deep throaty voice said in all seriousness, "I'm Batman." She then dropped him on the ground as he was holding his throat and gasping for breath in a puddle of his own excrement. 'Mission accomplished. Yet again. I *AM* more dangerous now as a human' she smiled boasting to herself as she walked away toward Kendra.
"Detective Tamsin Jennings, precinct 39." She said bringing her hand out to shake Kendra's
"Kendra Shaw, Captain for the SWAT division 69. Welcome to the team." Kendra stated as police cars and cops started to filter in and clean up the scene. "Thanks for helping out. We were on our way to get drinks and these assholes decided to fulfill their twisted full metal jacket Asian girl fantasies." She glibly stated "Well luck for me, I can hold my own but I had my team with me which now includes you." she patted Tamsin on the back. "Do you always go to happy hour in your BDUs (Battle dress uniform) full armed?" she asked.
"Nope, I did not know what type of outfit you ran and I always come fully prepared in any case and a good thing to" Tamsin justified with a wink "Also please don't tell me you guys set this up to test me because if that was the case, you need at least 6 more people with real guns and training to make it even." She smirked.
"Nice to know. Hey well this is Spike and this is Carrot Top" Kendra motioned to them and they nodded in return to Tamsin "Do you have a moniker you prefer to go by? Everyone on the team seems to have one but me. I guess I am special."
Tamsin had a lot of monikers but they were all endearing names from the Scooby gang and Bo. "No, not at this time. Tamsin will do fine." Tamsin stated thinking about it for a moment.
"Terminator! Tamsin the terminator has a nice ring to it." Spike spoke up loudly to proclaim his moniker choice.
Kendra look at Tamsin and then the team. "Terminator? Really guys, you could have at least reserved that for me." She said with faux disappointment.
"I guess that will do." Tamsin said. That name did have a nice ring to it. That meant she was indestructible and invincible. Most importantly, at least she will 'be back'.
"OK. Let go get some drinks. I got the first round" Kendra said as they walked in the bar.
"Now that gets me hot." Tamsin smirked as they walked into the bar together.
After they got a round of drinks, more team members came to join and were regaled with stories of how Tamsin took out 6 people in one setting. Tamsin just smiled and gave out her standard snarky and sarcastic come backs. She was polite however as she needed them to be her eyes and ears for this human only region. As always, she did not want them to get too attached to her as she would be out of there soon. Temporary assignment meant just that. The sooner she found Lauren the faster she could be out of there. She was never a by the books trainer as most of the moves she did were a hybrid of what worked for her over the past centuries via different forms of martial arts.
Finally as the night came to a close. Tamsin followed Kendra to her safe house or condo. It was fully furnished with the bare necessities but it was plenty. Kendra did offer to help Tamsin unload her gear, but Tamsin declined since she was had items pertaining to her mission mixed in there.
"So, I understand other than temporarily being assigned to our area, you also have another special assignment you are completing. I was told it had to do with a missing person's case?" Kendra asked as she sat in the stool at the bar.
"Um yes. One of my crime scene investigators who is also a doctor went missing. I believe she is running from one of our gang's ringleaders prevalent in our district. She's done it before, so she is good at it. The only problem is that her expertise and research is needed to help us keep criminal activity under control. Also I need to keep her protected by any means possible." Tamsin summarized.
"OK, let me know what you need from us. I'll arrange for you to have a desk in the AM. Tomorrow at 9 and just be in a standard uniform. No need for the vest. We have better ones. Ok? See ya tomorrow." Kendra got up and made her way to the door and left.
It did not take long for Tamsin to unpack. She was always an efficient packer. It not like she had Bo's or even Kenzi's wardrobe. She was very utilitarian.
It was already late at night and it was time for the hardest part of Tamsin's day. Sleep. Sure Valkyries slept alone physically but they were never alone. They always heard the voices of the other Valkyries using the link. Like a sea of whispers and a lullaby. Valkyries also felt the souls of others to some extent like Tamsin's connection to Arin. That is how Arin knew the moment Tamsin became a fallen Valkyrie. Now without Bo or anyone she was now deafened by the silence and felt very alone. She therefore feared going to sleep. As such she went out and started to canvas the neighborhood to look for Lauren. It was a large district, so she just drove around to get her bearings. It was 2AM when she got back after scouting an area and not finding anything. She kept working through her tiredness and heavy lids until she found she was face down on a map she was studying on her desk. She slept therefore out of sheer exhaustion. She ended up getting less than an hour or so of sleep. She reported into work training the team the best she could working with her sleep deprived body. Valkyries did not need much sleep, but she was human and the quality of sleep she was getting was just simply not enough. Tamsin hoped it would improve over the week, but alcohol was no longer an option since she needed to be able to perform her duties the next day. Sleep aids did work but she still woke up several times in a panic after an hour or so a sleep. It was just hard for her to adjust to her new human body. By Friday, she was just plain exhausted although she did her best to cover it up. Working with a stretched thin SWAT team was grueling. Then she had to train them on top of that AND try to find Lauren off hours. Kendra was at least flexible with her hours so she could get some shut eye whenever she needed. She finally got to the point where she needed to recharge and the only way to do what was to be with Bo. She did miss her, but if she bedded with her, those pesky emotions would come up too and she and Bo were on hold until the Lauren item was settled. This situation did leave her no choice however as she drove to Bo's place Friday evening without even calling.
She parked a block away just so that Kenzi would not suspect anything happening between her and Bo although she was pretty sure Bo told her everything already. No one was home yet and she just made a straight B-line to Bo's bedroom and fell into her bed. Since when was bed a higher priority than getting free booze? When you don't sleep for a whole week. Tamsin fully intended to just wait until Bo came back but the bed had Bo's sent and had her night wear strewed on top of it from this morning. She sniffed Bo's shirt laid on her pillow and quickly drifted off to sleep like turning off a light switch.
Bo and Kenzi got home after working all day on a case and both just were too tired to work anymore. They just reheated leftovers and went to their rooms after dinner. Bo walked into her room and start to strip when she noticed someone was in her bed. She drew her blade and approached quietly. As soon as she recognized it as Tamsin she came over worried and started to shake her calling out her name. Tamsin opened up her eyes quickly and tackled Bo with her knife out ready to go. Bo look at Tamsin and said "Really? You break into my house, you take over my bed, probably drank all our booze and now you want to kill me for waking you up?"
Tamsin did not know what to say. She was jarred awake by Bo and nobody sneaks up on a Valkyrie while they were sleeping. It was just a reflex and now she had a succubus mounted between her legs which did peak her arousal slightly. Her lack a sleep however was not helping things as she was having problems coming up with witty come backs but she finally said "You asked me to come back to you your highness. So here I am. Also had to update you on my progress." She was slurring slightly from the effect from being woken up from a deep slumber.
Bo knew something was up that Tamsin was not telling her. She looked like she had not slept for the whole week judging at the somewhat dark circles under her eyes. "So you could have come to the Dal or maybe on my couch to do that?" Bo asked pushing for more of the truth.
Tamsin expression broke into one of defeat as she could not fathom another response to deflect Bo's inquiry "Sorry, I've been having problems sleeping now that I can't hear and feel the voices and souls of the sisterhood." She confessed feeling ashamed that she needed Bo or anyone for that fact. Just a couple weeks ago she was a loaner. It was only Bo or maybe another of the sisterhood she trusted next to her during her most vulnerable times. Seeing as how the sisterhood was no longer allowed to even contact her, that left only Bo.
Bo still being straddled by Tamsin saw a slight increase in her arousal state but knew that Tamsin did not come here for that although it was nice to know she cared in a way. She really did need some rest. She also translated Tamsin's response to 'I trust no one else but you with all that I am'. She found that to be a big compliment from the person that only wanted to put her behind bars earlier. "So do you want to stay here tonight?" Bo asked to break the tension helping Tamsin to get to what she wanted in a roundabout way without making her say it. This situation was already weird enough.
"Fine." Tamsin said with her classic snarky manner looking away. She did not want to admit she was weak and it disturbed her. At least Bo was helping her out.
"Well you sure have a way of convincing your host to roll out the red carpet. I assume that straddling someone and threating them with a knife is a perfectly normal way to be invited into someone's home" Bo cooed looking at the knife Tamsin was still holding.
"Valkyrie's don't request. We demand." Tamsin murmured. Throwing her knife languidly across the room. "Like I need a knife to handle a succubus." she snorted out then huffed out a laugh.
"Well I said you can sleep here in the bed tonight. I said nothing about me being in it because I can always take the couch." Bo smirked bring forward a threat. Truth of the matter was that Bo did miss her Valkyrie, but she also wanted to know if the feeling was mutual. "A please would be nice .. as well as getting off of me." Bo stated a moment later.
"Yea, and Trick grew 2 feet while he was in Scotland." The stubborn Valkyrie let out in her normal sarcastic manner. Bo tried to nudge her off with little avail.
"OK. Well you take the bed, I'll take the couch. Now get off me" Bo stated more demanding but playing her hand for all that it was worth to see if she could crack Tasmin's walls and get to her core again. "Or Else."
Tamsin felt Bo's hand now creeping up under her tank rubbing her bare skin threatening Tamsin with Bo's succubus powers. "Oh boy, your powers are soooo over rated your highness. Do you do that to all your humans you can't get?" Tamsin calling the bluff. She was counting on Bo's ethics not to thrall her as human.
Bo then observed that Tamsin was shifting very slightly at Bo's light touch and she did not do anything yet. A revelation of sorts came to Bo. 'She was ticklish' she thought as an evil smirk drew across her face. "Your right Tamsin, I wouldn't use my powers on humans and especially helpless Valkyries but I have my ways" said purred as she immediately started to tickle Tamsin's sides to see if it was true. Tamsin looked away but held her ground spitting out something in a hitch voice "It's not going to work succubus." But as Bo continued, Tamsin refused to budge but was now shifting her position on her much more. An almost laugh came out although she was trying hardest to contain it. She was almost about to break out into hysterical laughter when she bent down and kissed Bo to stop her from the attack. The kiss was soft, warm and caring. Bo made it back to her heart.
Tamsin hated losing. But there was no way around it as Bo was just too stubborn and also managed to find another of her weaknesses that no one ever tried on her. She kissed Bo to stop her, but also tell her indirectly that she won without words. They broke the kiss and Tasmin hugged her and whispered into her ear barely audible "Stay with me tonight ….. " and even in a softer tone "please" she hissed out. After that she finally decided to dismount Bo.
Bo got up and pecked Tamsin on the cheek and said "Sure thing Tam-tam." And that was that. There was no need to prod or embarrass Tamsin further. She was still her proud and strong Valkyrie.
Bo changed into her sleep wear and Tamsin stripped into her underwear .
Bo noticed how tired Tamsin really was as she fell in deep sleep in less than 2 minutes. "Sleep tight my Valkyrie." Bo whispered into her ear. She reached over to turn off the light and spooned with her.
Tamsin did have a restful night without waking up every couple of hours in Bo's arms. She knew she had a good rest as she did not dream. There were no whispers in her head which was hard to get used to, but she had something better holding her tightly.