A/N: HOPE YOU GUYS ARE DOING GOOD! I FIGURED SOME OF YOU GUYS SUSPECTED THAT LAUREN KNEW SINCE SHE'S A GENIUS & A DETECTIVE BUT NOT HOW OR WHY WELL GUESS WHAT, I'M NOT TELLING YOU, JUST KIDDING! YA CAN'T KILL ME OR YOU'LL NEVER KNOW! MUHAHA! OK I'M DONE…
GUEST- YOU'RE WELCOME
KOGADUCK – LET'S FIND OUT
D – WELL YOU CAN ALWAYS EXPECT AN ANSWER FROM ME UNLESS I FORGET TO ADD IT, NO NEED FOR THANKS I LOVE INTERACTING WITH YOU GUYS. LOL PAINTING THAT PICTURE IN MY HEAD OF YOU DOING THOSE THINGS MADE ME LAUGH. I AGREE, IF I DON'T LIKE A STORY I DON'T COMMENT BUT I STILL APPRECIATE THE EFFORT BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE ANY OF US IS BEING PAID TO WRITE OR FOR OUR TIME, I DON'T THINK I'LL EVER PUBLISH A STORY SINCE I'M GOING BACK TO SCHOOL TO BECOME A DIETITIAN BUT YA NEVER KNOW, THANKS! YOU ROCK!
GUEST – A DREAM? MAYBE…
L LEWIS447 – LOL GLAD I WAS ABLE TO SURPRISE YA & CRACK YA UP MULTIPLE TIMES, NO TEARS PLEASE I'LL CRY TOO! BUT I'M GLAD YOU BUCKLED UP BECAUSE WE STILL GOT A BIT TO GO! GLAD YA LIKED BOTH CHAPTERS EVEN THE LAST ONE, IT WAS HARD TO WRITE TRUST ME. MY CREATIVE HEAD ALWAYS THINKS OF THE CRAZIEST THINGS HUH LOL
COLDPLAY REVIEWER – GLAD TO HEAR YOU'RE OK & I KNEW YA CAUGHT THE EASTER EGG SO MANY QUESTIONS & I WANT THEM TOGETHER TOO, JUMP IN THE STORY & MAKE IT HAPPEN LOL
MINMINIEUFRATMAIZ – LOL I LOVE GETTING YA GUYS & THANKS!
JOANNRBB – HANG IN THERE BUDDY! GOOD QUESTION ASK LAUREN LOL WE'LL FIND OUT
KK- YEAH BUT LET'S GIVE LAUREN THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. IT WAS AN EASTER EGG! LOL I THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE TO BINGE WATCH LOL
R/R & ENJOY!
Bo's POV – 2 Weeks Later – Bo's Apartment
"GO AWAY!" The stupid obsessive knocking has been going on for like ten minutes. Why won't people leave me to my misery in peace? All I want is to be left alone, is that too much to ask?
Ever since Lauren told me to leave that day, I've tried calling, texting, going to her home, and even visiting both her jobs multiple times with no success at all. My messages went unanswered, my calls went to voice mail, she never answered her door and both places of employment just always tell me I "just missed her" and asked me if I would like to leave a message. Yeah right, like my message would actually get to her. The closest it would probably get to her is her trashcan.
I haven't answered any personal calls or been to my office in two weeks. I just want Lauren; I just want the pain to stop. Why isn't the alcohol doing its damn job!
How did she find out? I know it wasn't Kenzi or Vex. So how did she find out?
I hear someone entering my apartment, besides myself there's only three people with a key…well, two now since Lauren gave me her key back even though I didn't want it back. So that just leaves Vex and Tamsin…
"Good god; McCorrigan, pick yourself up! It's not even noon and you're drinking yourself away! Do you think Lauren would want to see you this way? What would she think of you killing yourself like this over her? You barely keep up with your cases and no one has really seen or heard from you since the breakup. I gave you time to grieve, well time's up so get up and get your ass together!"
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE!" I charged at Tamsin and pinned her against the wall like last time. "Don't you talk about Lauren, I'll kill you, you understand!"
"No you won't, I don't meet your requirements, Assassin…" My eyes widened in shock as anger built within me even more, making me put more pressure on her throat. "YOU TOLD HER! HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW!?"
"Easy Succubus, it wasn't me. If I had to guess, it was all Lauren. She is a detective and a doctor with an IQ somewhere around two hundred and as for how I know, it's time we to go see my girl. It's time you know the truth." She barely choked out thanks to me.
I'm confused as I slowly let her go. "What are you talking about? Who's your girl and why would I need to see her?"
"Evony Fleurette Marquise is my girlfriend. She can explain better than I can so come on, let's go." She makes her way to the door without even looking back to see if I'm following.
Evony's Mansion – 30 Minutes later
"Tell her Evony, it's time she knows the truth." Evony sighs before she looks my way. "Alright Bo, please sit down. I'm asking you as a friend to please don't protest and just sit down."
Evony has never spoken to me this way. Her eyes and body language look exhausted and sincere at the same time. So I did as she requested and sat down on her leather sofa.
"I've known you since before Ryan died. I've watched you become the Shadow Assassin and most importantly, I've watched you pretend to be like you were before he died. I started dating Tamsin a few months ago and one drunken night I accidentally told her your big secret when she mentioned she was up against you in court. I told her I was afraid you'd eventually lose yourself completely to the Shadow Assassin. She told me she knew of someone that could save you because the person saved her from a life of crime. Well, needless to say that person was Lauren, only she didn't know where she was, so it took me weeks to find her for you. Once I did, I just knew she was who you needed. I made a false hit that I knew you would find suspicious and I knew once you saw her, you wouldn't even dig into my Massimo murder story to verify it (which was false by the way, he really did die in an accident. I just needed to think of an answer when you asked me why I wanted her dead) because all you'd want and care about is to get to know Lauren better. Bo believe it or not, I know you better than you think and I just proved that with Lauren. You forgot somewhere down the line that we use to be best friends."
Evony stopped her explanation to take a sip of water. So, Tamsin decided to chime in, in the meantime. "I really did poach you from the state for my firm in case we ever got into any trouble, I mean who better than a prosecutor to find the loopholes regular lawyers might miss to get out of trouble? Anyway, the lucrative deal was to make sure you had plenty of free time to get to know Lauren once Evony found her." Tamsin nodded towards Evony to resume her explanation.
"The fact that Lauren was a doctor and a detective was a complete surprise to me. but I saw it as a gift. I thought, 'A doctor and a detective; there's no one more perfect to get her to quit her after hours extracurricular activities.' Bo please don't be mad at Tamsin, she helped me because she saw how concerned I was for you. I was even the one that helped her firm become unique with my government connections to get you away from criminal cases...and before you even think to ask; you know if I just tried to set you up with her, you'd say no without even seeing her picture, since Ryan died you wouldn't even consider anything more than sex so don't think we did all this just for dramatic effect because it was exhausting to put this plan into action flawlessly."
I honestly don't know how to react or feel. So I just nodded as I wiped my tears. "Thank you, both of you…really but, I'm afraid all your work was for nothing because I lost her, she won't answer me in any form. She believes I was never going to tell her which isn't true, I was just trying to find the right way and moment."
"Bo, do you love her?" I don't even think about my answer before I answered Evony. "More than anything and you're right, I would have quit for her. But now it's too late…"
"Bo; I may be a judge but you and Tamsin are lawyers. Lawyers are fighters and you're an assassin. So you're twice the fighter either one of us are. Go fight for your girl, harder, make an appeal don't accept defeat, you never have before. Find a way to overturn the verdict like you always do. Remember, she's a fighter too since she's a detective but she's also a healer, healers tend to be more compassionate and forgiving. Find a way to bypass the fighter and protector to get to the compassionate healer. You can do it Bo, not many get a second chance at love, don't let her go without giving it everything you got. The Bo I know would never give up on the one they love. Don't start now; it's not a good look on you."
I chuckled at Evony's final words. She made me realize that she's right, I can't give up and I won't. I love Lauren more than I ever loved anyone in my life. I'm not going to just let her push me away. I'm a lawyer and an assassin; everything about me screams; fighter. What was I thinking, trying to drown myself in booze and misery? I need to be at my best to get my girl back and I will get her back.
I gave the two a grateful nod as I made my way out the mansion. "Bo…" I turned to look at Tamsin to hear what she had to say before I left. "Lauren loves you too, I know it. Just as Evony said, she has her detective side on the front lines because she's hurting. Get to the doctor Bo. Just as you're the real you and the assassin is your alter-ego; the detective is her alter-ago and the doctor is her true self, remember that okay?"
"I will, thanks you two." I gave them one more final nod before I walked out the door. It's time to get my girl back. The detective wants a fight? Then so be it, she'll get the fight of her life. I'm getting my doctor back, one way or another…