Magic always has a Price

Tamsin let Regina into the apartment she now shared with Kenzi. Bo's old apartment, she moved out after the wedding. Tamsin got a change of clothes for the brunette and let her change in her bedroom. 15 minutes turned into 30, Regina still had not immerged from the bedroom. Tamsin knocked on the door, with no response. Tamsin pushed the door open and peered in; Regina was half dressed and passed out in her bed. Her legs dangling over the edge, as if she had planned to sit for a second but was overcome by exhaustion. Apparently, whatever spell she cast took a lot out of her, Tamsin thought, as she walked quietly into the room. Feeling uncomfortable standing there staring at the half dressed woman Tamsin final made up her mind to help her. Shaking her head the blonde pulled the covers down on her bed. Tamsin sat the groggy brunette up, and put her shirt on her.

"Come on." Tamsin tried to get the raven-haired woman to crawl under the covers, but the woman would not budge from her spot at the foot of the bed. "Fine," Tamsin picked the smaller woman up, and put her in the center of the bed and covered her. As she pulled the cover around the woman shoulders Regina opened her eyes and smiled at the blonde. It was the first time all night. Even after the whole gang fell at her feet, Regina still had not smiled.

"Thank you." Regina grabbed Tamsin's hand and then squeezed it. Closing her brown eyes Regina was fast asleep again. Tamsin froze in place just staring down at the raven-haired beauty. Regina had the most amazing smile, and the saddest eyes. She tried so hard to hide the pain, but the woman passed out in her bed was broken. She reminded Tamsin so much of herself. Tamsin stood to leave, but before turning out the lights, Tamsin looked back at her bed and its stunning occupant. Regina needed a hero; Tamsin decided no matter how much Regina pushed her away she was going to save her. The same way Bo helped her out all those years ago. After years of running, she had finally found a home and a place in the world, and she wanted this to be Regina's home. Tamsin never understood what Bo seen in humans. She tolerated her roommate at best but Kenzi was still just a human. Regina was different, powerful, angry, damaged, and lost. She wondered if Lauren had the same effect on Bo that Regina had on her. Since the moment they meet, Tamsin felt a strange spark between them.

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Tamsin was awakened by the sunlight streaming through the window. She sat up on the sofa and stretched, her back was stiff. It had been a long time since she had to sleep in her truck and the old red sofa was not much better. She saw Kenzi in the kitchen cooking, oviously she was feeling better. Getting up she checked on her houseguest. Regina was still asleep in her bed. Tamsin stood in the doorway watching the woman sleep. Regina's brow was sweaty and the woman looked paler then the night before. Her breathing was shallow and when Tamsin checked her pulse, it had slowed to 45 beats a minute. Tamsin shook the raven-haired woman to no avail. Running to her phone, she called Lauren.

Lauren arrived shortly after the call and examined Regina. Lauren did a few tests and took some samples. "There is no reason why she has a fever. Her white count is normal, her UA is clean, her lungs are clear. I could take her to my office start her on some antibiotics or maybe a steroid. She may need an X-Ray or MRI to rule out tumors." Lauren continued to look at the lab results.

"English."

"I can't find a reason for the fever. On paper, she is healthy. I have no idea what is wrong with her. I have only seen these symptoms in someone who is dying, not a healthy woman in her prime. I have never seen anything like this before. I am an expert of fae, not magic. Her body is shutting down. I can run more tests to see if I can narrow anything down. Not even Nadia had symptoms like these."

Tamsin almost yelled at Lauren when she noticed how many vials of blood the Doctor took. The Valkyrie was irritated and worried that the good Doctor was trying to capitalize on the woman's illness to run some tests on magical creatures. Before Tamsin could say anything, Regina opened her eyes.

"There is nothing you can do, I am dying. Magic always has price. The price for the magic I did was a life for a life. "

"Why would you do that?" Tamsin said starting to pace around the room.

"It seemed like a good idea at the time." Regina whispered, "Trust me, no one will miss me when I am gone. Everyone looked so sad; I just wanted to be the hero for once." Then Regina closed her eyes. Tamsin looked to Lauren for an recurrence.

"She is just sleeping; I don't know how long she has. I have no idea how to fix this." Then Tamsin looked at the sleeping woman.

"We have to help."

"You like her."

"She saved Kenzi."

"You only tolerate Kenzi."

"Just save her."

"I will try. I will run some more tests, see if there is anything I can find out."

"She is dying; she doesn't have time for tests. You have run enough of your stupid human tests. What about Bo's chi, breath-of-life-thing, would that work?"

"I don't think so. Bo's breath of life isn't going to help. It is likely we need… "

"Need what?" Tamsin cut the other woman off.

"Magic."

"This isn't some kind of trick so you can learn to use magic?" Tamsin said with a raised eyebrow.

"Why did you even call me if you're just going to stand over there and accuse me of things? I am trying to save your girlfriends life here.

"She isn't my girlfriend." Lauren rolled her eyes and continued.

"I am basing it off a theory, since magic caused this, magic is the only way to fix it."

"What can I do?"

"Did she have anything on her?"

"No."

"A Paper or a book, something, that tells us who she is or was. In most stories, and going off legends, witches are usually members of convents. "

"I doubt that Doc, you heard her, we are all she has."

"Or books, they usually keep a book of shadows close."

"She didn't have anything on her. Her car broke down and she walked. I found her by the bridge."

"Go find her car, see if there is anything about her past or any books. I will stay here and try to keep her stable. Take Kenzi, I don't want her messing up any of my tests. I will call Bo and Trick. Maybe Trick can tell me if I am missing anything." Tamsin had never seen little Miss Science pants look so confused. \As Tamsin was walking out Regina started to thrash around the bed, Tamsin ran to her side. Regina reached out to Tamsin. Regina opened her eyes slightly.

"Emma?" A ping of jealousy hit the Valkyrie for a second, as she walked back to the bed sitting next to Regina and taking her hand. Tamsin looked at Lauren, unsure how to respond to the dying woman. Lauren just shook her head.

"She must be hallucinating. Just go with it."

Tamsin squinted her eyes and shot the sandy haired-blonde an angry glare.

"You know I really hate you Ms. Swan. You ruined my life. I had everything before you came and destroyed my happiness. Guess what; for once, I got to save someone. You should have seen them. The way they all looked at me. I have not seen anyone look at me that way since Snow. You an I both know how well that turned out. Your mother got my true love killed. I swore I would never help anyone ever again. I never learn from the past, only fitting I die this way wouldn't you say."

"I am not going to let you die, Regina."

"You can't save me this time Emma."

"I am not Emma, and I will save you."

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Hours later Tamsin and Kenzi found the broken down black Benz. Looking inside Tamsin found tons of expensive cloths in the truck. A suitcase filled with American money. Kenzi's eyes went huge, as she dug into the money.

"There has to be at least 50k in here. The witch is rich." Tamsin slapped her hands and slammed the case close.

"Don't touch anything. It does not belong to you, come on. We need to find something to help her." Tamsin continued to search the car, looking for any clue to help the dying woman. Pulling out a photo album, she flipped through it. A small boy that looked like Regina was on every page, Regina was in some of the pictures but it was mostly just the boy. He looked so happy in all the pictures. He must have had a good childhood. Tamsin favorite was one of Regina holding a small bundle wrapped in a blue blanket. She was smiling at the baby the same way she smiled at Tamsin the other night. When Kenzi's back was turned, she removed it from the album and tucked it into her back pocket.

"Look." Kenzi pulled out a book with a heart on it. She opened it up and showed Tamsin the spells. "This has to be something, maybe Lauren can use it." Tamsin placed all of Regina's belongings into her truck, and they headed back.

"True love's kiss, can break any curse." Kenzi read the passage as Tamsin drove. "Apparently true love is the most powerful magic of all." Shrugging, "make sense, if magic is an emotion, then love would be the most powerful emotion."

"There is no such thing as true love Kenzi, just attraction. You sound like Bo."

"I guess in the world she is from, true love exists."

"Great, where am going to find her true love." Regina words echoed in the back of her mind. Snow who ever that was killed Regina true love. "I don't think she even has one Kenzi."

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Tamsin was relived that Regina was still breathing when she got back. Bo arrived shortly after Tamsin and Kenzi left. Bo had been watching over the dying woman, while Lauren was busy researching and trying to come up with anything that could help the sleeping woman."

Lauren went through the book of shadows several times, never finding a cure. Even Lauren had to keep going back to the verse; true love's kiss could break any curse or spell.

"I can't cure her, but maybe I could make a 'love potion'," Lauren made air quotations with her fingers. "Without using magic, I could take Bo's sweat… "

"That's gross, how about we just do the breath-of-life-thing. Isn't that a true love's kiss?"

"Bo already tried when you and Kenzi left."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't want you to give up hope; I have never seen you so comfortable with anyone, not even Bo."

"Whatever, we just met last night, don't make it sound like I am in love with a total stranger." Tamsin growled, and Lauren ignored her.

"Now about the 'love potion', basically I am going to inject Regina with a little altered succubus DNA and then whoever is going to kiss her with the same strand of altered DNA. Which should trick both bodies long enough to wake Regina with a true love kiss. "

"Leave it to doctor hot pants to make a love spell," Kenzi interrupted.

"It's not magic, it's science," the blonde doctor scowled at the younger woman.

"You think that will work." Tamsin said ignoring her roommate.

"The other option is going on a quest to anther realm to find her true love. I don't think any of us are going to be able to do that." Kenzi added.

"Fine, I will do it hurry up and inject me." Tamsin started to roll up her sleeve.

"The formula was designed for a human. I have no idea what it will do to your DNA. It will only last for a few minutes inside a human's body but…"

"But…"

"You could suffer lasting effects."

"Like…"

"Like, you could be madly in love with her forever."

"Hello, I have a human body, human body right here," Kenzi yelled.

"I will do it." Tamsin crossed her arms over her chest defiantly. Both blondes stared each other down and disregarding Kenzi in the background.

"Hey! She saved me, I will do it." Kenzi yelled but Lauren and Tamsin didn't even notice her.

"It wouldn't be real, and she may never love you back."

"Been there done that Doc, just inject me and let's get this over with."

"You are ok, loving someone who could never love you back."

"I could do it." Kenzi yelled but the two blondes continued to ignore her. Bo shook her head at her friend and put her finger up to Kenzi lips, silently telling her to be quite.

"Yeah more than ok, at least I won't have to watch her happy perfect wife and family." Tamsin said in Lauren's face and then looked over to Bo who just stood speechless next to Kenzi.

"Point taken, but you said yourself, you just met last night. You don't know anything about her."

"Just do it, I will deal." Tamsin lifted up her bicep ready for the injcection. Lauren studied the Valkyrie.

"You are in love with her. That was fast."

"No, I just want to help." Tamsin rolled her eyes at the accusation.

"You wouldn't Neven admit it, even if it were true." Lauren smiled and shook her head, standing next to the taller blonde, "You ready." Tamsin nodded and Lauren injected her bicep. Tamsin eyes glazed over, and then she turned her head to look at Regina, then back to the Doctor.

Nodding her head to Lauren, that she was ready, Lauren injected the other vial into Regina. Tamsin paused for a moment looking around the room, Bo, Kenzi and Trick we at the foot of the bed.

"You don't have much time." Lauren warned.

"Ok I get it, kiss her, I have to hurry before your weird little hormone cocktail can where off," Tamsin leaned down and kissed the brunette. A gush of wind flew out, pushing the group back. Hazy chocolate eyes opened to see Turquoise eyes. A smile formed at Regina's lips then I quickly disappeared, replaced with horror as Regina looked around the room.

"You are not Emma."

"No, I am not." Tamsin said sadly then walked out of the room.

"They should have just let me do it." Kenzi said looking over at Bo, who just patted her shoulder.