A/N: Sorry for the delay with this, my head just screamed at me to take a break. But here we are, back with it. Thank you for all the reviews and everything, and to the reviewer who said they'd glady buy a book I wrote, I am actually working on it. Don't forget to drop me a review, it all helps.
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Tamsin lay there looking at the ceiling, the only thoughts running through her head were those of Bo. She knew Acacia was right, leaving was the best thing. But she couldn't, not yet. The Valkyrie had to be sure that Bo was safe, or as safe as she could be. The Succubus seemed to naturally attract trouble even when she didn't try to. Tamsin wouldn't be able to live with herself if anything happened to her, no matter how much her dismissal of Tamsin's feelings hurt her.
Dragging herself out of bed she looked at the time on her phone, it was gone noon.
"Is it socially acceptable to drink after noon...?" she asked herself, picking up the bottle from the bedside table, "who cares, I'm not social."
As she was walking down the stairs she could hear Kenzi and Bo talking, then she heard someone else.
"It's asshole time at the Clubhouse again..." she mumbled to herself as she walked into the kitchen area.
"I've just ordered lunch," Lauren said, "I hope you're hungry."
Tamsin held up her bottle in reply.
"Right..." Lauren replied with a sigh and a nod, "of course."
"A little early for that isn't it." Bo said.
"It's always 5 o'clock somewhere Succubus." Tamsin replied, grabbing a slice of cold pizza out of the fridge.
She walked over to the living room area and sighed when she saw the only space was next to Lauren. She sat down and saw the news on the TV.
"You watching that?" Tamsin asked.
"Nope." Kenzi replied.
"Not really..." Bo said.
"Yes, actually." Lauren said.
"Great..." Tamsin said, reaching for the remote, "might as well put something decent on."
She turned over the channel as Lauren sat there and sighed.
"Oh sorry," Tamsin said looking at her, "were you watching that?"
"No... It's fine." Lauren replied, "I need to get back to work anyway."
"Bye." the Valkyrie said, sitting back and watching monster trucks.
"Lauren you just ordered lunch, at least stay and eat some." Bo said, taking her hand softly.
Tamsin noticed Bo's movement and clenched her jaw and concentrated more on the TV.
"Do you want to come apartment hunting with me Kenz?" she asked, her eyes on the TV.
Bo sighed.
"Something I can help you with?" Tamsin asked, looking at the Succubus.
"You don't need to move out Tamsin, you're part of this team, this family..." Bo said, to which Tamsin laughed, "you can pretend all you want Tamsin, if you really wanted to go, you'd be gone by now."
"You're right," Tamsin replied with a nod, "sooner the better right?"
Tamsin turned the TV back onto the news channel and handed Lauren the remote, before heading towards the stairs.
"Tamsin..." Bo said, continuing when the Valkyrie didn't stop, "Tamsin I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that."
"Whatever." Tamsin replied as she headed upstairs to take a shower.
Bo let out a groan as Tamsin walked away.
"She is impossible." she said.
"You broke her heart Bo," Kenzi said with a laugh, as she stood up and walked towards the stairs, "do you really expect her to stick around watching you play the denial game with the not so good lady doctor here?"
"Kenzi." Bo said, a little shocked at her attitude towards Lauren, she was sure the two had gotten over their issues.
"No, I'm sorry but someone needs to say it," Kenzi replied turning back to face Bo and Lauren, "You're just going to fall back into the same routine of you feeling guilty for feeding and Lauren telling herself that you're not sleeping with other people? As much as you obviously want to be together, you'll destroy each other eventually."
With that Kenzi walked upstairs to wait for Tamsin.
"Wow... Ouch." Bo said with an uncomfortable laugh.
"She's just defending Tamsin, lashing out." Lauren said, "typical Kenzi..."
"And if she's right?" Bo asked, "Things need to change if this is going to work, I need to feed, and I can't feed off you. Well I can but it wouldn't even count as an appetiser let alone a snack... And I need you to be okay with that..."
Lauren opened her mouth to say something but Bo stopped her.
"You can't say it and not mean it," Bo continued, "you have to mean it."
"Is it going to bother me?" Lauren asked, "of course it is, but it has to be that way... I'll be okay with it Bo..."
Bo smiled a little.
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Kenzi was sitting on Tamsin's bed when the Valkyrie finished in the bathroom. She just sat and watched as Tamsin started throwing her things in a suitcase.
"You don't have to do that right now Tamsin," Kenzi said softly, "you don't even know where you're going to go yet."
"Anywhere that isn't here." Tamsin replied, grabbing her jackets out of the wardrobe, "anywhere that isn't here."
"She shouldn't have said what she did," Kenzi said, "but you know Bo..."
"Unfortunately." Tamsin replied shutting the suitcase with a sigh, running her hand through her hair.
"You don't mean that..." Kenzi said softly.
"Maybe I do," Tamsin replied as she sat down on the bed next to Kenzi, "my life would be a lot easier if I had never met her. Never taken Hades bounty... Settled with the 7 lives that I should've had... Accepted my condemnation to Hell..."
"You're not going to Hell, Tamsin." Kenzi couldn't said, softly putting her hand reassuringly on the Valkyrie's knee.
The Valkyrie sighed.
"Who knows..." she said, "but life would be a lot quieter without the Succubus..."
"What about her ex-pet?" Kenzi asked with a smile, "would you miss her?"
Tamsin laughed a little.
"Yeah..." she said, looking at Kenzi with a smile, "now her I would miss..."
"And Dyson..." Kenzi said.
"Nah, depends on the day." Tamsin replied arching her eyebrow slightly as she laughed.
Kenzi laughed before she stood up.
"Let's go hunt you this apartment." she said with a smile.
"Kenz... When all this is over, with Bo's dad and the ancients, if we're still standing when the dust settles... Can I... I mean would it be okay if I came back with you?" Tamsin asked.
"Of course," Kenzi replied, "you don't even have to ask, you know that. I'll need to get them to put out a psa on the mainland to make sure the bars are all stocked though."
The two girls laughed as they walked back downstairs.
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Instead of going back to the Clubhouse after an afternoon of looking at apartments, Tamsin and Kenzi headed to the Dal. The Valkyrie playing pool with Dyson while Kenzi sat talking to Mark. The young shifter seemed to be pretty taken with her. But then again, she was alive with a pulse, just Mark's type.
Bo and Lauren arrived just as one game finished and as the loser Dyson was at the bar getting the drinks in.
"How did the apartment hunting go?" Bo asked walking to the head of the pool table as Tamsin was resetting.
"Pretty well." Tamsin said, not looking up, "it's actually looking good on a couple of them already."
"Are you buying?" Bo asked.
"Renting," Tamsin replied, "monthly, I don't know how much longer I'm going to be here. Itchy feet. Too long in one place is never good for me."
"Tamsin you've been here for two years..." Bo said with a sigh.
"All the more reason to be moving on," she said, finally looking at Bo, a smile on her face, "I meant it when I said I'd stay until you defeat your father, but after that I'm gone."
"That easy?" Bo asked, forcing a small smile on her lips.
"What is there for me to stay around here for?" Tamsin asked, walking closer to Bo.
"Because these people are your family Tamsin," Bo said, "and you're ours... Family sticks together."
"I'll be with family," Tamsin replied, tilting her head to one side a little as she looked at Bo, "I'm going to Spain with Kenzi."
"Tamsin, I'm sorry that I hurt you, it was the last thing I wanted..." Bo said, resting her hand over Tamsin's, "it was never my intention..."
"It never is." Tamsin said, moving her hand from under Bo's as Dyson walked back with the drinks, "about time partner, I was dying of boredom over here."
Dyson smiled and handed Tamsin her drink.
"Hey Bo." Dyson said with a smile.
"Hey..." Bo replied with a smile, before she looked back at Tamsin, "I'm not finished."
"A woman shutting you down before you've finished," Tamsin said walking to the head of the table, "That's got to be a first."
Dyson actually winced a little at the venom in Tamsin's voice.
"Do you mind?" Tamsin asked Bo.
The Succubus sighed as she stepped away from the table.
"Hurting me isn't going to make you feel any better Tamsin." Bo replied coldly.
"Odd that, because that's exactly what it does." Tamsin replied, moving around the table to take another shot.
Dyson watched as Bo clenched her jaw and furrowed her brow slightly, as she took a deep breath and nodded a little before she walked to the bar. He watched as Tamsin dropped her head a little as Bo walked away. As she looked up again he could see the conflict in her eyes.
"Not a word fur ball..." Tamsin said as she let out a deep breath and took her shot, missing it by a mile, "we'll shit..."
"Tamsin..." Dyson said, looking at her with a knowing look on his face.
"Please don't say it..." Tamsin said, drinking her drink, "I know what you're getting at, but don't. I don't need a lesson in getting over Bo from the guy who still hasn't done it..."
"Ouch," Dyson said, gripping his heart in a joking fashion, "my pride is hurt..."
Tamsin laughed a little as he smiled at her.
"All I was going to say is hurting yourself even more isn't the answer." he said.
"Now if only I can work out the question..." Tamsin replied quietly as she looked over at Bo.