Kenzi
"I am sorry Tamsin, I love Lauren."
Tamsin dropped to her knees, grabbed Bo's hand, and kissed it. "Bo, I have never loved anyone the way I love you. I love everything about you. I love that you are imperfectly perfect. That you have faith in people even when you shouldn't. That you forgave me for being my stupid jerk self, when no one ever does. I have done terrible things I cannot forgive myself for, yet you always let me in. Always gave me the benefit of the doubt. Look at me Bo, I don't grovel. Here I am on my knees because I love you and you are worth it."
"Tamsin," Bo pulled the Valkyrie to her feet and shook her head. "Let me finish, I can give you things she can't. You can't feed on her forever, you could feed on me. We could have so much more and it would be easier with me."
"It's not about the safe option or that on paper you are better for me. It's about love and being each other's soulmates. Lauren is my soulmate. She may be human, she might not be able to sustain me the way you can. Lauren and I have something more than that. Our relationship has been tested repeatedly; we have had our problems. Done terrible things to each other and come out better for it. You may not believe me now, but your soulmate is out there somewhere waiting for you."
"Bo, you can have more than one mate. You're not Dyson, you don't mate for life."
"Oh Tamsin honey, you will find her someday, but it isn't me."
"I will wait for you Bo, I promise you. You are worth waiting for. If I have to wait 100 years then I will because you're worth it." Tamsin stormed out of Bo and Lauren's apartment. Lauren had seen everything from the top of the stairs. She descended them as Bo collapsed on the sofa. Bo ran her hands through her hair and shook her head, tears forming at her eyes.
"You didn't tell her about the complication from the pregnancy."
"No she isn't ready yet."
"Who could blame her, she is a Valkyrie after all. You are a hero and leader, on a basic biological level, Valkyries are drawn to the strongest leaders and heroes. Tamsin is right, I don't know if she will ever be able to get over you. I couldn't everyday we were apart broke my heart. No one compares to you Bo." Lauren grabbed the brunette's hand and kissed it.
"Doing some research babe?" Bo smiled up at Lauren. Who surged her shoulders and nodded her head.
"I was merely keeping an eye on the competition, and why she was so strongly drawn to you. Then I realized it was pointless because who wouldn't be." A shy smile spread across Lauren's lips.
Bo lean over and kiss her wife, "No one compares to you." Looking into Lauren's eyes, "no one, because I didn't pick you, me being with you isn't choice, it's fate."
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Dyson rushed into the Dal carrying the lifeless body of kenzi. Yelling for help his eyes were glowing gold. "We were attacked, I stopped them but they got Kenzi." Blood dripped all over his arms from the small woman he carried and from his own wounds that were across his chest. The girl dangling, unresponsive in his strong arms.
"No, no, no, this can't be happening I promised to protect her." Bo ran over to Dyson and helped set the girl on a pool table. Bo looked over her friend. "Please wake up; you have to stay with us, until we can get you to the hospital."
"This is all my fault she counted on me, and I couldn't stop them. There was too many." Dyson looked down at his lifeless friend. Trick rushed over from behind the bar. Tears streamed down Bo face. Dyson paced back and forth like a wild animal, his eyes still glowing gold and a dangerous growling from his lips. Tamsin rushed to Bo's side putting a hand on the crying woman's shoulder.
"Trick I feel a pulse." Bo yelled looking up at the tiny man. "We can save her."
"I think it's too late, she has lost too much blood."
"You're the blood king, you can save her."
"Bo, you know I can't."
"Someone has to be able to save her, I can't lose her. Trick she is my heart, the thing that makes me human. I can't lose her." Bo kept repeating the words over and over. The woman Tamsin saved walked over to the group's fallen friend. The raven-haired woman crouched to the floor. Her hands and eyes started to glow a stunning luminescent purple. Tamsin could not take her eyes off the exotic beauty who was defiantly extraordinary. Tamsin had loved a long and never seen any fae with purple eyes or the power raven-haired woman had.
Kenzi started to float into the air and a golden light illuminated the room blinding all of the bars occupants. When the light faded, Kenzi was back on the ground her head resting in Bo's lap. kenzi opened her eyes, and smiled up at the group. Her wounds were nothing but a dark memory.
The Raven-haired woman stood up and started to leave when Bo followed her. Bo Caught her, and she hugged her from behind, and whispering her thanks into the woman's ear. Dyson was next and wrapping his arms around her front and picking her and Bo up. Tamsin stood back smiling as the group embraced the strange new woman who just saved everyone's heart, not just Bo's. Kenzi had proven herself repeatedly over the years. She was the thing that keep all of them together. When everything was falling, apart, kenzi was the one who kept them all sane. A little humanity in an inhumane world.
Tamsin realized the raven-haired woman had a great power and yet she could not even save her own son. No wonder she was so lost. Tamsin made a quite promise to herself to pick up the pieces of the woman's broken heart and help her put it back together. Just like how the sunshine gang saved her. Looking over at Bo and Dyson and then down to kenzi she knew she would have plenty of help.
"I have never seen any fae, do something like that." Trick said shaking his head.
"Fae," the raven-haired woman looked around the group confused, all of the groups eyes locked on her."
It almost as if…" Trick paused deep in thought then smiled as if something finally dawned on him. Then he leaned down to help kenzi to her feet, and into a chair, checking her body over. He smiled from ear to ear at seeing that the tiny woman was ok.
"You're amazing." Bo yelled. "Thank you so much, I don't know what you did but thank you."
"It was nothing." The woman became stiff in Bo's arms, and tried to pull away.
"Nothing you're incredible." Bo just hugged her tighter.
"Free rounds for everyone." Trick yelled and walked back to his spot behind the bar, and started to poor the beer.
"What's your name?"
"I rather not say."
"Please, I have to know who the amazing woman is who saved my best friend." Bo tried to use her power on the other woman to no avail. The women seemed to be immune to it. "Wow, you are something special." Finally, the woman smiled and leaded into the hug she needed so desperately.
"Regina." It came out in barley a whisper but everyone heard it.
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Lauren walked into the Dal seeing the commotion and her wife and Dyson hugging the newcomer. Tamsin was standing by a dazed Kenzi. Bo backed away from the hug and ran to her wife, and pulled her over to examine kenzi. After a quick examination of kenzi's healed wounds, Lauren stood speechless. Shaking her, the Doctor had been all over the world and seen many things, but never a healing like this. Fae usually could not heal humans, feed yes, kill defiantly but this was new to the Doctor.
"I have never seen anything like this." Lauren said rubbing her hand over fresh pink skin.
"That's because she isn't fae, she is a human." Trick yelled from behind the bar, filling up more pints for the pub's patrons. "It was very powerful magic; the kind of witch hasn't been seen for centuries. That kind of magic shouldn't exist in this world."
"This world?" Bo asked confused.
"There was a war between ancient fae…" he paused looking at the Raven-haired woman, "and humans who could use emotional magic, they nearly destroyed the world. As legend has it, the Light One attempted to create a separate world for all the magic users and any other human who didn't want to be under fae control. She tried to split this world in two but failed. The world shattered into several worlds. The splintering came at a price."
"Magic always does," Regina declared."
"It hasn't always; when all the worlds were whole there was never a price because magic used to be pure good. In creating multiple worlds, she used her own light and the purity from her heart. Her heart blackened and she became the Dark One. That's why in the world you came from magic always comes with a price, because in that world a Dark One exists."
"You know about the Dark One." Regina questioned.
"I know legends of her, yes."
"What do your legends say about the Dark One?"
"Many things, all conflicting of course since no one really knows the answers since all emotional magic users went to anther land."
"Please what do you know?"
"One story says if you destroy the Dark One all the worlds will merge at once causing the end of times. Another story says if you can make the Dark One's heart pure again, magic will no longer have a price. Even more that say the Light One never lived and that this is the only world, but clearly that is false since you are standing here. I can't remember them all, honestly they were stories my mother would tell me as a child."
"Like a Fairy Tale," Regina questioned.
"I never thought of it that way yes like a Fairy Tale."
"Fascinating." Lauren said walking over and started examining Regina. "Can I take a blood sample, or hair?" Lauren lifted her hand up and attempted to lightly touching Regina who pulled away and took a step back.
"No get away, and don't touch me."
"I am sorry that was rude, you see I am a doctor and I have never met a human who could use emotional magic. You are unique and intriguing. Do you have any tribal markings? Or do u come from a convent or something like that?"
"No I have no idea what you are talking about." Tamsin rushed over and stood in-between the doctor and Regina.
"Back off Doc, she isn't in the mood to play science experiment."
"I am sorry," Lauren took a step back.
"Come on Babe, let's leave these two alone." Bo said, then giggle and whispered something into Lauren's ear. Lauren nodded her head at Bo and smiled. Bo took Lauren's hand and pulled her to the bar and helped her wife tend to the wolf man's wounds.
"I don't like her very much." Regina whispered never taking her eyes of Lauren.
"Something we can both agree on. So you weren't kidding when you said you were a long way from home."
"No, no I wasn't." Regina said looking down at her clothes, now stained in blood, a look a pure disgust spread over her face. Tamsin smiled as Regina looked around uncomfortably.
"I can get you a change of clothes at my place, it won't be as fancy as your outfit, but it's not dripping blood." Regina merely nodded and followed Tamsin out the door.
"So how did you get here? To this world I mean."
"Magic," Regina gave Tamsin an Evil Grin.
"Thanks for saving my roommate, even though she is a total pain it would have sucked if she died. She is still pretty out of it, I can tell because she would be in your face like everyone else telling you how amazing she thinks you are. Do not worry if you are still at our place when Bo brings her home, she will be falling all over herself telling you how great you are. I am sure she will be as amazed by you as everyone else was."
"Well glad to see you're not like the other minions, fawning over me."
"Actually I think you enjoyed the fawning, you regal types always do."
"Hardly dear, and what kind of roommate leaves their injured friend."
Tamsin rolled her eyes. "The way those idiots carry on you would think this is something new. They are all acting like this does not happen a least once a week. Someone is almost always dying, this was nothing new." Tamsin was not about to admit to a stranger she was worried about her friend. "Kenzi will be fine; Bo and Lauren will bring her home in a few hours. If your still there she will be all over you, if not Bo and Lauren will put her to bed, as if she was their kid. kenzi will sleep, and be back to her annoying, making my life hell self. It's the same routine every single time."