A sports car sped through a windy back road with its police sirens on as the engine made a high pitch whine. It then over passed several cars in the 2 lane road aggressively.
"Oh god. Oh god, not my Valkyrie…. Tamsin where are you?" Bo said in a frenzy furiously dialing her cell. After several unsuccessful attempts, she cursed again and dialed Precinct 69. "Hello? This is special agent Dennis with Precinct 39, I need to get in contact with Kendra Shaw ASAP….. NO! DON'T send me to her voicemail …. this is an emergency…. My badge number is ummmm 1235…. I know that they went on a raid earlier today, I just need to know their status…. No I will not wait… WHAT! Kendra ordered a communication blackout?!... What the heck! …. FINE!" Bo hung up aggressively hitting the hang up button. 'That bitch locked out all info about this raid and even to other law enforcement. Shit… ' She thought about why there was a need for such a blackout. 'Oh, this was a Fae matter, so of course Kendra, at the request of the Ash or Morrigan would do that. CALL DYSON!'. Just as she found her next course of action, Dyson's name came up on Bo's cell. "Hey Dyson?" Bo said as she picked up. "Yea I know, Tamsin told me about it this morning. What! ….. Oh no… We are already on our way there. OK see you there." Bo said into the phone as she sharply hung up.
"Kenzi. Hospital, off main and general! Tamsin and Kendra look like they went up against hundreds of shape shifters. Tamsin was the only one seriously injured. They don't know if she will make it." Bo spat our quickly.
"OK, Hospital it is. What? They went up against *HUNDREDS* of shape shifters during a 'routine' drug bust. Shit, that does not sound routine to me." Kenzi said scanning the road intently. She needed all her concentration as she was running at over twice the posted speed limit.
"Faster Kenz! I can't let her die like this. I made a promise to Freya to keep her safe and don't plan to break it." Bo almost yelled. She can't let her die. Not after all they have been through. Definitely not after she discovered her true feelings for the blonde.
"Ummm Bo Bo, we are going at 120 maybe 125 down a 45 mile per hour windy country road. If we go any faster we might break the sound barrier" She stated as she swerved hard to avoid a slow set of cars. "I am going as fast as Tesla will *SAFELY* take us." Kenzi's eyes never left the road. She was pushing the engine hard in its top gear even.
"Alright, let's just get there." Bo frowned for having to wait. She was deep in thought about her Valkyrie. She blinked as Kenzi swerved sharply and when she looked up, she saw multiple deer in the middle of the road blocking them which they were about to hit. She was about to scream especially after she felt the car accelerate even faster as Kenzi flashed her lights and honked. But before a scream could even leave her lips, they passed though them without a hitch. All she heard was a slight scrape. How can that be? They did not avoid them as that was impossible as they were taking up both lanes. A head on collision would destroy a car and at that speed probably kill its occupants. After a couple of seconds looking around to make sure she was still whole Bo asked cautiously "Kenz? What just happened?"
Kenzi was concentrating hard on driving as fast and as safely as possible. The car was being pushed to its limits as it fought to stay on the road. Its engine complained grudgingly as she mashed on the accelerator. She was still listening to Bo talking and responded in kind, but knew that every second counted as Bo was the only person that could save Tamsin. In the distance she saw multiple deer blocking the whole length of the road as she came out of a turn. There was not much time to do much of anything if she were just a human. For Kenzi though, time all of a sudden slowed down for her where every second in real time was now 10 seconds for her. No, Kenzi could not manipulate time, but being a Fox Fae who moved quickly in bursts, their sense of processing all their stimuli from their faculties was not only heightened but was extremely rapid as well. It made no sense for a Fox Fae to be nimble and fast if it could not process items in their environment at the same if not better pace. She honked her horn and flashed her lights at the deer as they got startled and in slow motion made movements to jump out of the way. She knew that deer make their first jump straight forward and high into the air if possible and that was the case. 2 of the deer next to each other were the first to react to the car and they jumped into the air and were about to reach their apex. The apex was just enough to allow Kenzi's car to clear, but she needed to get there first. She was barreling forward so quickly that she was already in the best gear. She made a split second decision to hit the accelerator and put it to the ground. She just kept watch at her approach as she steered the car to where it needed to be. She was a couple milliseconds past the apex of the jumping deer as they began to come back down. As such, one of the deer's hooves contacted the top of the car lightly but she managed to punch through at a whopping 135mph, which was slightly beyond the top rated speed for that car. She was quite thankful for Casey and Amanda for honing her skills.
"You forget Bo Bear, I am Fae, not human like you told our clients back there. I got mad skills you know." Kenzi said as she smiled briefly glancing at Bo.
"Oh right" Bo murmured. She at least felt better than Kenzi did hear that section of her confession in which she told Erica and Derrick how important Kenzi was to her. "I love you Kenz" Bo said in all seriousness.
"I love you too Bo Bo. Everything will be a-ok. We'll get there in no time." Kenzi smirked and said in a reassuring tone. Kenzi grabbed one of Bo's hands and squeezed it briefly before returning it to the steering wheel.
The car speed off with police sirens and lights on over the hill at break neck speeds toward the hospital.
Kendra was enroute in the ambulance with Tamsin when her cell phone rang from a number she had not seen before. "Shaw." She answered in a Spartan manner. She was in no mood to entertain anything at the moment. Whoever this caller was it had better be good.
"Kendra Shaw? This is Hale Santiago, Tamsin's and Dyson's CO." He said clearly and concisely as he continued "I understand that you have an odd and probably very bizarre situation in which you need our help."
"Yes, Tamsin Jennings requested that I call you and not my precinct on a raid which we just concluded against a drug cartel known as Los Lobos at a warehouse off canal street. To say bizarre is putting things mildly sir." Kendra said frowning not knowing how to broach the topic of being attacked by hundreds of Werewolves.
There was a silence like Hale was trying to find out what to say as well. "Your encounter with Los Lobos, I assume that your team came into stiff resistance from them. You also probably ran into some large wolves?"
"They were more like something out of a horror movie. Like The Howling but were very real. Ummmm. Ummmm" Kendra stuttered not wanting to say the word that came to mind.
"Werewolves?" Hale replied knowing that Kendra was trying to find the right word without sounding crazy.
"Yes, you can say that" Kendra said relieved that she was talking to someone that knew about the Fae.
"OK, my team can be there in a couple of hours, but in the mean time, how is the location secured?" Hales asked with concern in his voice.
"My team is the only team allowed in or out of the warehouse. I have ordered a communication blackout for everyone including other precincts and even corresponding backup units. The backup units including chopper support are limited to the surrounding warehouse area for next 2 blocks sir." Kendra reported succinctly.
"Excellent work Kendra. That will make things a lot easier to process. Are you detaining any one right now in the building?" Hale questioned again.
"Yes. Our op was to tranq and then take into custody the responsible parties. So my estimate is that we have about 50 or so things in custody at the warehouse. We have moved them to a single area under guard. The tranq darts we used were meant for elk per Tamsin's request. They should be asleep for most of the day according to Tamsin. My team did have to use lethal force on most of them however when they attacked us. I estimate that number in the hundreds" Kendra said as she held Tamsin's hand.
"HUNDREDS!?" Hale said in surprise "OK. Also let's call them shape shifters for now. I assume that since you are talking to me and not Tamsin, She was hurt. How badly?" Hale voiced with apprehension.
"She has sustained multiple and severe blunt force traumas to the torso and head. She also has several lacerations across the face. The internal bleeding looks serious and I am taking her to the hospital now on main and general. Is there anything you can do for her sir?" Tamsin asked hoping that Hale had a magic cure.
"Not right now, your central hospital right now is the best bet. I will see if we can do anything more for her later but she needs to be stabilized. Was any other members of your team hurt or seriously injured?" Hales voiced with concern.
"No, nothing major. Terminator, um Tamsin led this op and probably saved all our lives." Kendra admitted.
"Good to hear, my team is already enroute. Who is our POC for that area?" Hale asked in a formal manner.
"Mike or he goes by Hump Day." Kendra stated looking at Tamsin's unconscious and bruised face.
"OK, my team will be there in a couple of hours. I will see you then." Hale concluded.
"Excuses me sir?" Kendra piped up after looking at Tamsin's grave condition.
"Yes Kendra, and please just call me Hale." He said hurriedly.
"Does Tamsin have family like brothers and sisters we need to inform?" Kendra asked. She wanted to know since Tamsin never mentioned anything about her family. She was closed off when it came to that. The only reason why Kendra even guessed she had a family of sorts was a picture that Tamsin carried in her top drawer. It was of a beautiful brunette Caucasian woman with long hair. She observed that Tamsin would take it out and stare at it for a couple moments every day before she started work. Who was she?
"Well she has a twin sister that is out of the country. I will get a hold of her. But as for other next of kin, the closest thing she has is us." Hale concluded.
"OK thanks. See you soon." Kendra said as she hung up. "Come on Tamsin hang in there." Kendra said squeezing her hand harder. "How long to the ER!" Kendra yelled at the driver.
"Almost there, 3 or 4 minutes" the driver yelled back honking cars to get out of the way.
She thought more about that picture Tamsin seemed to gravitate to. It was not any ordinary posed picture. It was a surveillance picture of some type. It was also not the missing person Tamsin was looking for either, Lauren Lewis. Tamsin always seemed to hold it gingerly and with fondness.
An odd thought broken Kendra's train of thought as she remember how Hale was surprised her team took down hundreds of Fae. That statement coupled with what Tamsin said right before the op where things may get worse made her think strategically about repercussions.
Kendra then quickly talked into her radio. "Kendra to central," she barked.
"Central, go ahead Captain Shaw." A response came a moment later.
"I need a detachment of police with full riot and tactical gear at the general hospital to safe guard Lieutenant Tamsin Jennings. What is their ETA?" Kendra said formally.
"All units are currently engaged on operations at canal street. I can pull units from Canal, but they still need to come back to the precinct and gear up which will take more time. Do you request to pull units from the next nearest precinct, 70, which would be faster?" the answer came back.
"Do it. Have the team lead report directly to me when they get on site" Kendra ordered as the hopped out of the ambulance following beside EMT's as they wheeled Tamsin into the building. She took the AR-15 off her shoulder and took stock of what weapons she had on her. She only had a baton, a Glock with one full magazine and an AR-15 with 4 Beowulf rounds left. It was not sufficient if a zombie apocalypse ever came she deduced and after what she saw today, it could happen. Tamsin risked her life to protect all of theirs, they should do the same for her in return. The nurses now were in the process to taking off or cutting off Tamsin's gear and clothing to get her prepped for surgery. Tamsin was just barely holding on looking at the vitals the machines were pulling. Kendra was asked by a hospital tech to leave but she did not listen. She brushed pasted him and looked at Tamsin's pile of gear. She felt like she was taking items off a dead person and that made her feel worse. She grabbed 1 AR magazine and 1 more Glock Magazine. Looking at the tech she walked with him and stood outside looking through the windows at the doctors now scrambling in to save Tamsin's life. She loaded her AR with a fresh magazine and stood guard.
One of the nurses came up to her and said "You look pretty beat up yourself, can you step over here so I can take a look?"
"No. I'm fine!" Kendra spat severely annoyed at the fact that the nurse treated her like she was going to keel over than die. A split second later she said "Thanks, but I need to wait until my backup arrives first." She then corrected herself in a more acceptable tone. The nurse went away telling Kendra where she needed to go for treatment.
"Central to Kendra, units from Precinct 70 will be onsite in 35 minutes." Kendra's radio squawked.
"Have them tighten up the ETA. They have 30." Kendra ordered.
After a couple of minutes she looked back at the doctors trying to save Tamsin. They had already made several cuts in Tamsin's chest from what little she could see. They also hooked her up to an IV and were giving her a blood transfusion. She then noticed in the reflection a face she did not recognize. It was that of a battered and bloodied woman, her hair was a mess and deep cuts on her scalp caused her hair to be clumpy from all the blood. Her forehead had a huge lump on it from a concussion. Her face and neck had streaks of dried blood all over them. It was Kendra. While she was in the fire fight, not only did she fend off shape shifters in hand to hand combat but was also the medic when Tamsin made her distraction. She thought everyone else especially Chica was in worse condition over her, but right now it looked like she was a deranged ax murderer. 'Shit, I'd better clean up a little or else the onsite security or precinct 70 backup might try to arrest me' she thought.
At that moment that same nurse from earlier passed by again. "Hey, ummm Tina," Kendra said reading her ID "Sorry about earlier, but I can't leave my position right now, but can I get a basin of water and towels .. and maybe a brush quickly?"
Tina did come back a couple minutes later with necessary items and without asking, Tina helped Kendra with the cuts on her scalp which had already dried, but Kendra did need a hand to clean the surrounding area and get at least somewhat presentable. Tina informed her she needed stitches later, but otherwise Kendra was ok for now.
Kendra straightened out her gear and found that on her body armor she was wearing had 4 parallel gashes on its front from being swiped by a shape shifter. Lucky for her the metallic trauma plate prevented any major damage to her person. 'Wow that was close,' She mused but she needed to either remove it or get another to prevent from spooking the units from 70 from thinking that she was attacked by Freddy Kruger or was a walking energy drink advert. With that, an idea came to mind, she walked up to the front of the ER where the Ambulance was and the crew was cleaning it up and already had Tamsin's vest sitting on the ground. She walked over and picked it up and inspected it curiously. 'Wow Tamsin took out 50+ Fae today and this vest does not have a single scratch on it. She is amazing as they did not even get much of a chance to even touch her' Kendra thought in awe of Tamsin's skills. With that, she took offer own vest and put Tamsin's on. They were about the same size, so no problems with fit as it was adjustable to an extent. 'Ready to rock and roll' Kendra smiled as she walked away toward the operating room windows to see how things were going and hopefully there would be good news.
The sports car screeched into the ER parking lot and went into the first space they could find. Kenzi reached under her chair and put a placard reading "Police Precinct 39" on her dashboard. Bo and Kenzi walked briskly into the ER and proceeded to the nurse's station.
"Agent's Dennis and Solo with the precinct" Kenzi said pointing at both of them. Kenzi flashed her private detective badge quickly and Bo did not need to as hers was hanging off her neck.
"Hello officers, you will have to check with security for an escort" the woman said behind the desk motioning to 4 heavily armed men guarding the entrance to the ICU area.
"Thanks." Bo said as she walked slowly and seductively with a big smile toward the men rather than a hurried pace.
Kenzi looked at Bo and just walked a step or 2 behind her. She knew Bo was getting her Succubus on and honing her persuasion skills. It worked to an extent as all 4 officers gawked at her mentally undressing her as she approached. The lead man looked at Bo's badge.
"Hi guys, I need to see Tamsin Jennings? I am Bo Dennis, Precinct 39 and this is Kenzi Solo, also with my precinct." Bo said in a voice as smooth as silk. She needed to get past these very heavily arms guards. She also noticed their badges showed that they came from Precinct 70 which was odd.
"Sorry ma'am, no one comes through until the all clear." the officer stated "If you will just wait here, we are more than happy to entertain you ladies"
"Can I talk to you for a second?" Bo asked keeping her cool as she led the officer away from the other 3.
"Are you in charge here?" Bo murmured.
"Of this unit yes." He stated as a matter of fact.
Bo then put her hand up and stroked his cheek and started to use her charm "Wow, you are just so strong. Can I ask you a couple tinny questions? Is Tamsin Jennings here?"
The officer just put a big smile on his face as he stated in an slow enamored voice "I'm not sure. I know there is an officer here that was severely injured in a raid."
Bo thought for a moment. "Why is precinct 70 here and not precinct 69?" Bo followed up.
"Kendra Shaw, Captain of the SWAT division at precinct 69 requested additional support as most of the resources at her precinct were unavailable" he said with a look of satisfaction on his face.
"Will you be so kind to take us to her?" Bo asked giving the officer a little more of her powers.
"Sure" was his reply as he waved to the other 3 officers to let them pass.
They passed several corridors in the ICU and came to a final hallway with 5 more officers. 2 were standing guard at door which Bo would only assume was the entrance to Tamsin's room. And 2 were at each end of the hallway. They just passed one of them without an issue and that officer was also from Precinct 70 looking at his insignia on his collar. There was a final officer, a woman of Asian heritage sitting down across from the officers flanking the door. She had her hair back in a tight bun, and her head was leaning back up against the wall in apparent exhaustion. She had minor cuts on her face and her vest was missing equipment like magazines. Bo quickly put all this together. 'That must be Kendra' Bo thought 'She just came out of what looked like a fire fight.' Kendra tiled her head to see who was approaching without even taking it off the wall. She looked even worse now that she turned toward Bo. Bo just smiled at her. With that Kendra got up slowly and went over to the guards across from her and started to talk to them. It looked like a light conversation as all busted out into laughter as Kenzi, Bo, and their escort closed.
"That was a good one" one of the officers still chuckling near Kendra said and the two walked with Kendra who was a step behind toward them with all smiles. Bo noticed that Kendra had on Tamsin's vest as it had a label of 'Jennings' on it. All these officers had short machine guns, but Kendra had a longer rifle. They were about 10 paces from each other then Kendra said "Now!". In a practiced motion, Kendra backed up a couple of steps and brought her rifle up and pointed it directly at Bo. The 2 others pointed at Kenzi and one at the other officer escorting them.
The officers at the opposite ends of the hall a couple moments later knowing that Kendra probably needed backup started to close in on them with their rifles ready a couple seconds later.
Kendra gave very specific orders. No one in unless she was notified first. She never got that notification, so she assumed the worst. A Fae type attack to kill Tamsin and maybe her. She also knew that this would not be Hale Santiago, since he was a guy. As for Jeff, their escort, something was off, he had a big smile on his face. Other than Hale, she was expecting no one else. She got up and talked to the 2 nearest to her. She murmured in a low voice "3 possible hostile targets to my right. Something is wrong with Jeff, he is not following orders. Throw up a defensive position on our approach on my mark. Laugh on 3, 2, 1… ha ha ha ha ha." Kendra still smiled at Bo, and she knew by the fact that she was in front, she was the leader of sorts, and she was going to have to keep a close eye on her. She had a badge of some sort, but was too far to ID it and she was not going to get close enough to find out. Who knew what type of Fae she was. Kendra did have to admit that this brunette with long hair and beautiful features was quite attractive. She could not shake the idea that she had seen her somewhere before. She also looked at her shorter friend a couple steps back. She looked minorly goth-ish, but had no ID on her as she smiled a little at well. "NOW!" Kendra yelled as they were all in MP5 and AR range and close enough so that stray bullets would not hit others patients in the area but far enough to give them lead time to act if something happened. As she brought her AR up and clicked off the safety, she reminded herself that a bullet from her AR would go through at least 3 Shape Shifters if they were one behind another. She knew this because just earlier in the day, she zeroed in on 3 shaped shifters that got in range and stood up to attack her and the team. When they did, the rear shifter moved briefly behind the column of forward ones and Kendra instinctively took the shot killing the front 2 on contact. The rear one was spun around and thrown back in agony as the shot did not hit him in the heart but somewhere else on its Torso. It would have died sooner not later since it was bleeding out profusely. However Chica jumped on top of it with a machete and cut its head clean off hastening its meeting to its maker. Lesson? Don't chip Chica's nail polish or there will be hell to pay.
Kendra took 2 steps back and aimed at Bo and moved her finger to the trigger. Her officers flanking her brought up their MP5 in a crisp motion on the remaining 2 targets. Kendra was on a hair trigger and that was dangerous. She took the steps back because she did not know what type of Fae she was dealing with. If something did go down, at least those Fae had to go through those 2 officers first. Then maybe the 2 approaching backup units if she played her cards right. 'Shit Tamsin, why couldn't you be here to help me out' she cursed internally.
"Stand back! All of you!" Kendra shouted. She noticed that the lead brunette had a badge for precinct 39 and had a gun since her jacket opened up a little when she put her hands up. The gun was a compact non standard issue semiauto and was questionable as a service weapon. "Jeff! Keep your hand up! What is going on here?! I said no one back here without my go!" She yelled glancing at him with still a drunken smile across his face.
"She asked me to bring her to you. She is a Special Agent with precinct 39" Jeff let out in a long slur. "She sooooo beautiful!" Jeff followed up looking at Bo in a dreamily googly eyed fashion.
Bo was shocked by how fast Kendra and team surrounded them. She put her hands up and she saw Kendra aim the rifle directly at her. "Hey!, we are with Precinct 39 work we with Tamsin. Ok?" Bo said in a slightly nervous voice. Bo observed Kendra and she had several cuts on her face some of which were parallel. It looked like she just went up against wolverine. That would make any human on edge. She backed up slowly and said "I have my badge on me, do you want to validate my credentials?" Bo calmly followed up without reaching for it.
"Whoa lady, I know you just took a tussle with some … umm things out there. We are here to help, we are the good guys?" Kenzi said trying to convince Kendra otherwise.
"I don't care who you are, until I clear this with Hale none of you are getting within 500 meters of here got it?" Kendra said still aiming her AR-15 at the Brunette, who did look more and more familiar.
"Hale Santiago? Yea I know him, I can call him now and get this all straightened out" Kenzi interjected as she quickly reached for her phone.
Kenzi's quick motion made Kendra take her rear leg and step back and plant her knee to the ground into a semi kneeling position to not only move further back from a possible altercation, but to also get more stability for her AR. She was NOT going to miss.
"Hands up!" One officer ordered as he aggressively approached Kenzi and the other from down the hall closed in on Kenzi with his MP5 at the ready as well. The other flacking officer took one step back to cover all 3 people if need be.
"No Kenzi!" Bo shouted. She saw Kendra kneeling on the ground ready to fire. She had to admit, for being through hell hand back, she still keep things under control and cool. If positions were reversed, spent shells would be hitting the ground by now.
"OK…." Kenzi said as she brought her hands back up slowly "Um I guess we'd better go Bo and call Hale outside."
"WAIT!" Kendra said. Something clicked 'Bo' was a word Tamsin used to address Kendra in her confused state. Kendra concluded that Bo was someone that was close to her heart. And wait, that picture in Tamsin's desk that she looked at every day. THAT was her. "What is your name again" Kendra cautiously said getting up from her kneeling position still address the brunette.
"Bo Dennis, Special Agent with Precinct 39. I work with both Tamsin and Dyson. Hale is my boss." Bo stated bluntly.
"Does the word succubus mean anything to you?" Kendra asked as she needed to verify that Bo was who she was.
She was in the presence of humans and knew she needed to sugar coat it a little. "It is the affectionate term Tamsin, my girlfriend, refers to me as" Bo said amazed that Kendra new something about her already.
"Everyone, stand down. She is family and next of kin" Kendra exhaled sharply dropping her weapon and clicking on the safety. "Kenzi, don't ever do that again. You almost got everyone killed." Kendra said looking over at her. "Jeff. Can you sit down here for a sec?" Kendra asked him.
Jeff just nodded and sat down in a chair "Did you see her? She's sooo pretty."
Kendra sick of the line said "Whatever." Kendra paused for a moment as that was the signature phrase Tamsin would use and it was fitting for this occasion.
"Bo a word with you please?" Kendra asked as she motioned her over in a corner where they could not be overhead. "As you probably know, I am Kendra Shaw with the 69th and Tamsin's CO or boss of sorts. Care to tell me what shit you pulled on Jeff over there? I need him on guard just in case bad shit happens….. like … say…. Someone freaking trying to charm their way into this place….. or worse send like next army of Shape Shifters our way?" Kendra said in a low but serious voice.
"I can take care of that." Bo said as she grinned. She walked over to Jeff and stroked his face again and said seductively "Jeff, THANK YOU for escorting us. I would love for you to resume your duties to protect us all. Ok?
Jeff just grinned at Bo and got up and left for his post.
Kendra was looking at look this and was amazed. 'Bo had the ability to command people with her charm' she concluded. The word 'wow' came to mind.
Bo turned to Kendra and got right to business "So, how is Tamsin?"
"Terminator, Ummm, Tamsin was in surgery for hours with severe internal bleeding and several concussions and lacerations to the head and face. She is in critical but stable condition. We don't know if she will survive the night. The doctors say that it is even a miracle she is still with us. She was restless after surgery so the doctors sedated her." Kendra concluded as she motioned Bo and Kenzi into the sterile hospital room.
After they entered the room, Kendra felt that she could speak a little more freely. "Tamsin did wake up briefly before she was sedated and told me something about 'service to her goddess' and that she needed to.. well… must fulfill her obligations and promises. So she is in there still fighting the good fight as if hell bent on completing some sort of assignment she was given." Kendra said walking further into the room.
This was going to hurt. "Oh. OK" Bo mumbled out. 'Even in a lucid state, Tamsin now willing follows me as her leader yet I don't see one. She believes in me and will do anything for me by simply asking.' Bo quickly thought as she shifted to being prepared to see Tamsin.
"Well she's tough, fallen or not she is still a Valkyrie in spirit" Kendra said as she put her arm on Bo's shoulder then stood aside and let Bo and Kenzi enter the room the rest of the way.
Bo was stunned to see Tamsin hooked up to all those machines. Her face was heavily patched and stitched up to the point where she was barely recognizable. At that moment Bo ignored everyone else in the room and just walked to the hospital bed and stroked Tamsin's face. It hurt her inside to know that Tamsin was doing this in part because of Bo's request. She needed to do something to help but she had no idea if Tamsin would accept her Chi or not since every time she tried to transfer Chi to Tamsin, it did not work. Would her fallen status change this?
Bo leaned over and kissed her Valkyrie on her bandaged forehead and uttered in a low soft and caring tone "I'm here Tamsin. Please don't leave me. I need you….. I need you in my life. …. I need her here and I need you now." She then rested her forehead on Tamsin's then began to transfer chi to her and as expected, it diverted away from Tamsin and just whisked away into thin air. Bo was already low enough on her own chi to afford to give any away, but this was Tamsin, someone she cared deeply for, someone she loves. Bo stopped and tried to regain her composure as she was weak and took deep breaths. She gripped tightly to the edge of the bed as she tried to balance herself as well.
Kenzi came up and supported Bo on her other arm. "Bo, she can't take your Chi." Kenzi said sympathetically. She had no idea what to say next. "She's a tough cookie and she will pull through. Let's take a breather, OK?" Kenzi murmured trying to lead Bo away from the bed to a chair.
'This can't be happening. Not again. Not like this' Bo thought downtrodden in disbelieve. This was quickly eclipsed by anger at the unfairness of the situation. She shrugged off Kenzi forcefully and turned and glared at her "She is lying here hanging onto a thread because of ME! She is now holding on to dear life waiting for ME! NOW what am I suppose to do, give Tamsin her last rights or something and let her die?! I love her deeply and so help me god if I could change places with her right now, I WOULD!" Bo roared out with fierce determination a light in her eyes. Her left fist made contract with the table next to the bed with such force that everything flew off of it as it crumbled at her seer strength.
Kenzi never so Bo so enraged before. She just backed off slightly trying to figure out what to do next.
Kendra looked on at all this and was hanging back. She wished she had a tranq rifle or tazer on her right about now looking at the unstable and outraged succubus. She did find out quickly through that exchange that Bo and Tamsin were more than just family. They were a couple. Bo was probably Tamsin's goddess she surmised.
Bo then turn back to Tamsin in her weakened state. Rage filled her soul as she straightened up her posture. Nothing was going to stop her even if she had to give up her life to save her Valkyrie's. Her eyes turned bright blue and then it changed to crimson red. Her body then also started to glow red.
"Oh shit. Not good" Kenzi muttered. Kenzi backed up to Kendra and started to push her toward the door but Kendra did not move. She pulled out her baton but did not expand it just in case she needed to restrain the succubus from Tamsin.
Bo put her hand on Tamsin's shoulder and in a voice a couple octaves lower forcefully stating her edict "*ONLY I* chose who lives and who dies. *I* am and will reign supreme among all gods. No god or other being will deny me!" Bo then focused intently on Tamsin and spat out an order, "Tamsin, my Valkyrie of the 4th order, 1st division, 8th unit, you have fought valiantly and with honor in service to me. I now *COMMAND* you to rise! Rejoin my ranks. *I* will it and it shall be done!"
The red glow that emitted from around Bo grew brighter and then spread to Tamsin. Within a couple of second Tamsin started to move, the monitors hooked up to Tamsin started to beep with life. All her wounds mended within a couple of seconds. A deep inhale was heard from Tamsin as she opened her eyes sharply.
The last thing Tamsin remembered was death walking with her on the way to the next life. There was just darkness, fear and pain but she felt better that Bo was with her in the final moments. She stopped walking though and refused to budge. Even death knew why she was not proceeding. She needed Bo to release her from her obligations before she could cross with a clear conscience. Her loyalty to Bo even superceded the commandments and laws that reigned in the afterlife. She was a Valkyrie after all. Fallen of not, she was still one in her heart.
A booming voice shook the path that death and Tasmin were on. "Tamsin, my Valkyrie of the 4th order, 1st division, 8th unit, you have fought valiantly and with honor in service to me. I now *COMMAND* you to rise! Rejoin my ranks. *I* will it and it shall be done!" Tamsin heard in an almost deafening roar. It was Bo. But not the ordinary Bo, it was her alter ego.
Death turned to Tamsin in a black cloak and sickle. Death normally had no need to speak, he hissed out "Your goddess does not release you yet. We will meet again." He stepped back as he and the path they were on began to fade.
"Oh we *will* meet again, but not after I send hundreds maybe thousands more souls your way first." Tamsin looked at him with an evil grin as he totally faded away.
Tamsin's eyes shot open as she saw Bo next to her with red eyes. She knew Bo normally could not heal her but in this state apparently she could. Bo eyes quickly returned to normal brown color as her red glowed faded. It was Bo again, and that was all she needed to know. She reached out to Bo and grabbed her by the collar. Tamsin then gave her a deep and desperate kiss. "Don't you EVER leave my side again!" Tasmin commanded.
"I'm right here Tamsin and I was always here" Bo weakly stated as she pointed to Tamsin heart. She felt dizzy and knew she had only a couple more moments before she passed out.
Tamsin seeing Bo fade grabbed her and puller her onto the bed. "Shit Bo, what did you do?! When was the last time you fed?" Tamsin held her slapping her face a lightly to keep her awake.
"I don't know. I have not fed for days. I'll be fineeeeee…." Bo said fading a little more.
"FUCK! You can't give what you don't have you stupid bitch!" Tamsin said in desperation "A succubus that gives in a weakened stated will … OH SHIT!. Bo you stay with me dammit! Take my Chi NOW!" Tamsin ordered as she kissed her but Bo just looked up at her weakly.
"I traded…." Bo said closing her eyes then opening them to look at Tamsin again who now had tears in her eyes who probably could not understand why she was doing this. "I promised Freya I'd keep you safe, you're not the only one that has obligations."
"Why do you have to be so fucking impossible! I refuse to believe you were stupid enough not to feed before you juiced me!" Tamsin said shaking Bo to keep her awake as more tear drops fell on Bo. Tamsin was so focused on concentrating on Bo she did not know she was even crying.
"I…." Bo said refocusing on Tamsin "I belong here … in this bed, not you. I am so selfish to want you, Lauren, Dyson … and I just keep taking …. *everything*. I needed to give without taking for once." Bo paused as she had problems keeping her eyes open "Hey, I don't think I even know what love is to warrant my selfish desires." Bo just let go. She then closed her very heavy eye lids. She needed all this to stop. Stop the curse which followed her everywhere of constantly hurting and endangering the people she cared about. Love from a succubus was an impossibility Bo concluded a long time ago. It will stop today. It will stop now Bo told herself as she relaxed.
Kenzi was still in standing there in shock so Kendra took action. She knew Bo was about to 'code', so she walked quickly over to the panel on the wall and hit the blue button which was normally reserved for nurses and doctors to signify an emergency. She then ran out and started to yell for help down the hall.
Tamsin was hysterical as she busted out into tears and screamed through her wails at Bo and shook her vigorously in a final attempt to keep her awake, "DAMIT BO! ALL MY LIVES HAVE NO FUCKING MEANING WITHOUT *YOU* IN IT! I'm human and I KNOW what love is…. Because … YOU FUCKING TAUGHT ME! … I … I .. I LOVE YOU BO with every fiber of my being! Please don't leave me …. here alone. I'm so very afraid. I'm scared! ... PLEASE! I BEG YOU! PLEASE COME BACK TO ME!" Tamsin could do nothing else so she just kept kissing Bo on the lips hoping and praying that Bo would come around.
Bo heard all of this as she was fading into the darkness. She then stopped her descent briefly and concentrated on the meaning of everything Tamsin just yelled at her. 'Valkyries and Tamsin in particular up until a couple months ago, hated crying, never begged, was a loner, unafraid, was never polite and did not get close to anyone…. Ever' Bo thought, but those statements she just spilled out came from the core of Tamsin's soul. Those couple of statements Tamsin just uttered conflicted with everything Tamsin the Valkyrie represented a time ago. She was a totally different person now, the person Bo knew lay somewhere sleeping inside waiting to be awoken. Now she just admitted proudly that she was a human and knew what love was and that she loved Bo, unconditionally. Tamsin's salute to her held true in every respect. If unconditional love from a Valkyrie was possible, love from a succubus no longer seemed too far fetched.
Bo felt Tamsin still kissing her as tears kept falling on her face from above. In a last ditch effort, she used everything she had to pull Chi from the blonde and slowly Tamsin's chi began to flow back to her. She concentrated hard to just pull enough to get her out of death's grip and she just barely succeeded. She stopped feeding and opened her eyes slowly as Tamsin was still crying over her. "Hey … I'm ok" Bo said as she wiped Tamsin's tears away. "You are probably the bravest Valkyrie ever to proclaim what you just said to me" Bo said with a warm but weak smile.
"Well you may have misheard some things over all the commotion you know." Tamsin said with a sly grin still embarrassed at her crying and confession incident a couple moments ago.
Just then Kendra ran in the room along with 1 doctor and 2 nurses.
Kenzi who had just witnessed the apocalypse and lived through it, turned to Kendra and the hospital staff "Everything is OK here!" Kenzi waved at the staff as they just saw Bo and Tamsin talking to one another. "She just fainted but all is just fine and dandy …. A little privacy PLEASE." Kenzi requested pushing them out. Kendra and Kenzi were the last to leave the room as they shut the door behind them.
"Like all that talk about love." Bo said as she teased Tamsin while extending her arms around Tamsin's neck hugging her.
"Well ummmm just in case you did not hear it correctly, I said '*I* would *LOVE* to take *YOU* to my place to show you around *BO*'. And I also said that 'I AM SCARED and AFRAID that you may hurt yourself there with all my weapons lying around if I left you ALONE'." Tamsin stated in her classic sarcastic tone with the scrunched up face.
"Well Tamsin, I *MAY* have just told my clients earlier today that I was madly in love with you." Bo smiled in response.
"Did that Goth pet of yours need the money that badly?" Tamsin joked with a genuine smile.
Bo and Tamsin just broke down and laughed. Bo was overjoyed that at least both of them got over the 3 word hurdle in some fashion or another while still avoiding the labels associated with it.
Bo was still extremely tired and snuggled up to Tamsin "Don't worry terminator, I'll be back, I just need some rest ok? Can I just stay here with you for a bit?" Bo asked.
"Whatever Succ…. Sure thing. Take all the time you need Bo." Tamsin said wrapping her arms around Bo.
Bo fell asleep rapidly and Tamsin soon followed.