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Scientific Curiosity

Setup: Season 1, Episode 6, Food for Thought. (Backstory is all canon, although theoretically it could also be a sequel to Investment. Read into it what you like.) Bo and Lauren are at the Dal and Lauren asks Bo how she reads libido. Bo says she can see energy flow, like an aura. Material from the actual TV scene is in bold italics.

Bo looked over to the end of the bar and spotted a couple chatting, each with sexual auras of different intensity. "Take them, for example. Ok. See, he is average, she is way more in to him."

Lauren was amazed. "You can tell all that?"

"Yeah."

"Ok, on a scale from one to ten."

"He's a four, she's a seven." said Bo with a smug smile.

Lauren was intrigued – and playfully curious. "Ok, what about me, right now?"

Bo turned to look at her friend directly. With a mischievous – and somewhat provocative – smirk, she stared intensely at Lauren's eyes, long enough to make the doctor self-conscious. "That's a really strange question coming from you, doctor."

From the moment they saw each other that night, Lauren's aura had been burning bright. Actually, from the moment they first met Lauren burned for Bo. Bo knew they couldn't ever pursue anything since Lauren was human, so she tried not to tease the poor woman and lead her on. But now that Lauren was openly inviting it, she couldn't resist.

"Why strange? I mean, uh, it was just um, scientific curiosity." Lauren stammered. She really hadn't thought this through very well.

"It's strange, doctor, because unlike with that couple down there…both of us already know the answer to that question."

Lauren's breath hitched and her face started to heat up as she realized how completely transparent she was to Bo. Stupid, stupid, stupid. What was I thinking, asking her that? Idiot.

Bo just kept staring at Lauren and watched her squirm. It was actually a bit cruel, but Bo couldn't help herself. It probably had something to do with the fact that her own aura was aflame as well.

"But I'll answer it anyway." Bo's smirk grew into a full-fledged grin. "When you asked the question, you were a seven and a half. Now that you're blushing, you're a nine."

Lauren looked at her feet to get away from Bo's piercing stare. She tried to hide her discomfort with a half-hearted chuckle, but she was utterly speechless. She turned back to the bar and was disappointed that her shot glass was empty.

Bo wouldn't let her get out of this that easily. Supporting herself on her elbow, she leaned sideways over the bar, so she could get in Lauren's face again. "And when I visited your lab for the first time and you 'examined' me, you were easily…" She licked her lips suggestively. "…a fourteen."

Lauren wished that the floor would just open up and swallow her whole. They had met at the Dal under the pretense that Bo would work on her 'control' under her doctor's supervision. But she hadn't behaved like a doctor at all. She felt like such a fool. Without making eye contact, Lauren spoke softly and attempted to salvage her last shred of dignity before she bolted.

"I owe you an apology Bo. I've been totally unprofessional, which is inexcusable. I-I won't bother you again. You're welcome to come by the lab for injections and if you prefer I can have a nurse administer them. Have a good night, Bo. I'm really s-sorry." She grabbed her purse and practically ran out of the Dal.

Bo was completely stunned by Lauren's frantic escape. She felt awful, she had pushed too far and instead of playfully flirting she completely humiliated her friend. "Shit!" She left a few bills on the bar for Trick, and ran after the woman she was hopelessly crushing on.

Bo found Lauren down the alley outside the Dal. She was leaning against the brick building, her eyes clamped shut while she softly banged the back of her head against the wall. Bo's stomach clenched from a pang of guilt as she watched Lauren's self-flagellation from a distance.

Bo strode toward her friend as fast as possible, trying not to make too much noise so she wouldn't spook Lauren. "Lauren, I am so sorry!"

"Please Bo, you don't need to say anything." I've had enough humiliation tonight. "I should just go home." She began to walk away but Bo gently grabbed her arm.

"Please don't go! I was a total asshole! I didn't mean to be, but I was. I never wanted to hurt you."

"Look, you and I both know that you didn't say anything that wasn't true. I made a complete fool of myself and it was all my own doing. I don't know why I asked you to read me, I was just asking for trouble."

"You asked me because you were flirting. And I flirted back. I just got carried away and crossed a line and I feel terrible that I made you feel bad. I really am sorry."

"But I shouldn't have been flirting at all, Bo. I'm your doctor and it was a serious breach of ethics."

"Ethics schmethics. There's nothing to apologize for. You're not just my doctor, you're my friend, and I don't care what the doctor rule book says, there's nothing wrong with being both. And I think of you as being my friend first."

Bo ran her hands through her hair a couple of times and sighed heavily. She was very possibly about to make things worse. "Actually that's not exactly true. The truth is that the attraction is mutual. Very mutual. But I've been trying so hard to ignore it because I refuse to let my libido endanger your life. Which makes what I did tonight even more stupid. But please don't be embarrassed and start avoiding me. I would be so crushed if I couldn't hang out with you anymore."

Lauren took a few moments to let what Bo said sink in. She just kept staring at Bo as her embarrassment gradually transformed into something more like…was it confidence?

"Please say something." Bo pleaded; Lauren's silence was unnerving.

Lauren stepped forward until she was toe-to-toe with her flustered friend. She put her hands on Bo's shoulders and then soothingly rubbed up and down her bare arms; Bo couldn't be sure if it was just a comforting gesture or something more. Bo looked questioningly at Lauren and then suddenly held her breath when Lauren leaned in closer and embraced her. Lauren just rested her chin on Bo's shoulder and rubbed lazy circles on her back. Bo relaxed slightly and finally brought her own arms around Lauren's back and held her gently.

Just as Bo was about to convince herself that this was just a comforting platonic hug, Lauren started nuzzling her neck. Bo's heartbeat sped up as she felt Lauren's hands stroke lower down her back and very close to her ass. Then she gasped sharply when she felt Lauren's lips and tongue on her sensitive neck.

"Lauren, what are you doing? We can't…"

"Shhhh. You'll be fine. And I'm not going near your mouth. Just let yourself feel. And don't forget to breathe."

"But…"

"Shhhh…"

Lauren sensually kissed and licked up and down Bo's neck and throat. Lauren lingered at Bo's pulse point, sucking gently. Bo groaned helplessly as her arousal flared and she felt her eyes shift to brilliant blue as her succubus awakened. Lauren continued to rub her hands lower until she was blatantly massaging Bo's ass. She licked all the way up Bo's neck until she reached a tender earlobe for her to nibble and suck.

"Go ahead and kiss my neck, Bo."

"I-I can't, I…Oh god…I'm too turned on! It's not safe!"

"You won't hurt me Bo, you're not a vampire. Kiss wherever you want, just don't kiss my mouth. Just feel, don't feed."

"Laur –"

"Shhh…it's ok." Lauren put her hand behind Bo's head and pulled the succubus in to the side of her neck. Bo moaned as she started to caress Lauren's neck with her lips. She was so aroused and hungry, but she wasn't rough and demanding with Lauren. She took several deep breaths as she kissed and licked Lauren's neck slowly and sensually, causing both women to moan.

"That's it, Bo. That's so good…"

Bo started growing bolder, kissing over to the other side of Lauren's neck and up her jaw. Bo's hands started rubbing lower until she reached Lauren's ass, massaging insistently as the doctor groaned louder. They continued for several minutes, devouring each other's necks and shoulders, kissing into cleavage as far as their clothing allowed. They rubbed and squeezed and stroked, as their panting became louder and faster. They were heatedly making out in every sense of the word, just without their mouths touching.

Bo had never been this aroused without kissing, or with this many clothes on. She ached for more flesh to touch, for lips to devour, she ached for Lauren, and it was making her tremble with lust.

"Lauren, please, we have to stop! You're setting me on fire! I want you so much, I'm going to lose control!" Bo cried frantically between desperate gasps.

Lauren slowly kissed her way back down Bo's neck and gave her ass a few final squeezes. She pulled back to look at Bo's glowing eyes. Lauren stroked Bo's face as she continued to pant. Lauren startled Bo when she suddenly leaned in and bravely gave her a slow but chaste kiss on the lips. With a proud but mischievous grin, Lauren released Bo from her embrace and started to back away. "But you didn't, Bo."

Bo just stared dumbly as her breathing started to slow.

"I'll see you tomorrow." With a twinkle in her eye and a spring in her step, Lauren turned to leave.

As Bo watched Lauren gracefully walk down the alley to the main street, a sly smile slowly spread across her face. Tomorrow. Definitely.

FIN