By the time Bo and Lauren walked into the Dahl it was already one o'clock. And Lauren was less than happy about being late. She tried everything to get Bo to move, dress, and eat faster but Bo wanted to take her time. The Succubus was already stubborn enough but add on top of it that she was really nervous about this meeting – it wasn't a good combo. She wanted, needed to know, but at the same time she'd rather stay in her world of obliviousness.
They found Trick at the bar, drying liquor glasses. Without looking up, he said, "Oh good, I didn't think you two were going to show up."
Before, Bo could say anything Lauren back handed her across the arm, hard, "See!" she said, while pointing a finger at Trick.
"Owwww!" Bo whined, rubbing her arm, while giving the blonde an incredulous look. "What was that for?!"
"Oh please," Lauren gave her a disbelievingly gasp, raising her voice an octave, "'He's my grandfather Lauren, he won't care if were late!"
"Hey! My voice does not sound like that!" Bo screamed, raising her voice to the same octave Lauren just mocked her in. Lauren smiled victoriously but before she could reply…
"Ladies!" Trick said, trying to wipe an amused smile off his face, "Can I please see Bo's file?"
"Oh! Of course!" Lauren said, pulling the file out of her satchel, "That's all her blood results, tests, and the research I've done." And just like that she was back to the professional Lauren Lewis.
As Trick scanned over each paper in file, both Bo and Lauren anxiously waited. His face stayed passive, not giving anything away. By the time he was finished reading all of it, Lauren was pacing nervously in front of the bar and Bo had her head resting on her folded arms.
"Lauren," Trick said hesitantly looking up from the test results, Lauren grabbed Bo's hand and waited for him to continue, "did you run a pregnancy test?"
He saw three stages flash across Lauren's face: disbelief, understanding, and finally betrayal. Lauren quickly pulled her hand out of Bo's and took a step away from the bar. She stood there with her mouth slightly open. After a moment, she cleared her throat.
"Uh-uh, no, no." Lauren choked out, shaking her head slightly, while clearing her throat again, "I'll go run that now."
She quickly opened her bag, sticking Bo's file in it as she made her way to the door. Going through the results she had memorized, she had to admit that it's a high possibility.
Bo stood in place, she was shocked, no more than shocked; terrified. How could she possibly be pregnant if she's only been with Lauren. Lauren. Just like that everything clicked into place.
"Shit."
She had to stop her. She couldn't let her walk out of the Dahl thinking that she cheated on her.
As Lauren reached for the handle of the door a voice stopped her. She didn't turn around, she just waited for the excuse she knew was going to come.
"Lauren! Lauren, I-I didn't sleep with – I've only been with you." Bo got out, tears evident in her voice.
Lauren slowly turned around while trying to compose herself. Knowing Bo had more to say she waited.
"I would never – Gods, Lauren, I wouldn't do that to you! You are the love of my life! Please, you have to know I would never do that to you."
Lauren didn't have anything to say. She had to process this, think, and she couldn't do that rationally this close to Bo. She gently grabbed Bo by the base of her neck, while placing a light kiss on Bo's forehead. Stepping back, she was met with pleading brown eyes.
"I'll see you at home." Lauren said it as more of a question than a statement. As she pulled the door open, the last thing she saw as it closed was Bo's tears streaming down her face.
As Trick finished cleaning his last glass of the night he looked over worriedly at his granddaughter. She had been sitting at a table in the corner of the Dahl all night. A full glass of scotch in front of her. Trick had not seen her take a single sip.
Bo kept turning the glass with the tip of her fingers, watching as the liquid sloshed slightly against the sides of the glass. All she wanted to do was drown it, drink away her confusion and pain, but she didn't. Not until she knew for if she was pregnant or not.
Trick tried to talk to her right after Lauren had left, but she brushed him off. She didn't want to talk to anyone any more than Lauren wanted to talk to her. Bo couldn't get the image of Lauren's sad face out of her mind. Or the simple kiss she gave her right before walking out the door. The succubus was only slightly reassured that Lauren believed when she said that they would meet at home. Bo wanted to go home, but she was terrified she would walk through that door and realize that Lauren had lied. That she had packed all her stuff and left without a word. So she sat in the corner of an empty bar with a full glass of scotch in front her. It was almost comical.
Bo never thought she would want kids. Before Lauren and the fae, she thought she would be alone for the rest of her life, jumping from town to town, worrying about no one but herself and her kills. But then she found her family, here. And she found Lauren. The memory of them in Hecuba prison kept pressing for her attention. Bo holding the baby, Lauren standing slightly behind her saying that she liked the names Ethan for a boy and Charlotte for a girl. It unnerved her then, but that was close to 5 years ago. And she has changed, a lot. She could see Lauren as a mother, hell, she'd be a great mother. She just wasn't so sure about herself.
Her reverie shattered as Trick placed a glass of water in front of her. He looked down at her with sad, wise eyes. Bo waited for him to say something, anything, but instead he just took a seat in front of her. He seemed to be waiting for something, but Bo didn't know what.
"I'm not really in the mood to talk," Bo said quietly, not looking up from her glass.
"Good," Trick replied, when Bo didn't look up he sighed, "because you need to listen to what I'm about to say. It affects both you and Lauren. I think she might…"
Bo looked up sharply at the mention of Lauren's name; fire in her eyes. She didn't know where this sudden anger was coming from but all she knew was that she didn't want Trick talking about her girlfriend.
"Don't. Talk. About. Her."
Trick didn't flinch. He was expecting her to react this way, it only confirmed his hypothesis, now he just had to find a way to explain it to his granddaughter. Bo took a sip of her water, trying to calm her raging emotions. Trick tried again.
"Your Succubus is trying to mate with Lauren."
Bo choked on her water, she looked up at Trick like he was insane. She thought only shape shifters did the mating thing. She's only ever heard of it in context of their famous Wolf.
"I'm sorry, say that again."
"You, Bo Dennis, unaligned Succubus, wants to mate with Lauren. Your protective instincts have already kicked in. I won't be surprised if it doesn't happen in the next month."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Bo was beyond confused, "Just back up. Succubi mate?"
Trick let out an aspirated sigh, "All fae mate Bo, but every species does it differently. Your grandmother, Isabeau, was - is my mate. I'll never find anyone else like her, never be able to love anyone like I did her. It's the same for you and Lauren."
"Are you saying that since Lauren is my potential mate, that she could have gotten me pregnant." She was almost pleading Trick to say she was right because, "I haven't slept with anyone else but her in years. I didn't cheat on her, Trick."
"It's a possibility. You are a Succubus, Bo. You feed off of sexual energy, the Gods made us: fae and humans to reproduce. It would make sense that you would have that power."
"So the baby is Lauren's." Bo stood up, and made her way to the doors of the Dahl, "Right?"
"All I'm going to say is that it's highly possible especially if you haven't slept with anyone else. Go talk to her, Bo."
Not having to be told twice, Bo walked out of the door, with a huge smile on her face, she was pregnant, with Lauren's kid. She couldn't think of anything else as she started walking home. They were going to be parents, and Bo was absolutely thrilled.
For the second time that day, Lauren paced anxiously in the living room of their apartment. She wanted to get in her car and drive to the Dahl. But she knew Bo had to come to her. The lab came back with the results on Bo's pregnancy test over an hour ago. And honestly Lauren didn't know what to think about the results. She just needs to talk to Bo.
A second later, she heard a key turn in the lock, and saw Bo walk in. They quickly closed the space, between them meeting half way. Bo pulled Lauren in close to her, grazing her lips of the blondes. Lauren couldn't stop herself from responding to the kiss it was captivating. Bo depended the kiss. She tried to put every emotion, every feeling into this one kiss. She wanted Lauren to feel her love. When they broke, they were both content, arms wrapped around one another.
"It's yours Lauren," Bo whispered, "The baby, it's yours. We're going to be parents."
Just like that Lauren's smile faded, and she knew exactly how she felt about the results.
"Oh no, Bo," Lauren took a deep breath about to continue when Bo cut her off.
"I know, it's crazy, but I haven't been with anyone else, and I'm a Succubus with the sexual aspect to it and Trick said it's possible." Bo was rambling, she knew that, but she felt like she had to tell Lauren everything and her mind was going a mile a minute.
"Bo…"
"You're going to be a great mother Lauren. I don't know about me, but I'm willing to figure it out. Just think in a few months we'll have a little Charlotte or Ethan –"
"Stop." Lauren said forcefully, tears streaming down her face, "Bo, you're not pregnant."
With those four words, their world went silent, it froze, and neither knew how to get it spinning again. They didn't speak, didn't touch, just stood there staring into each other eyes. And then Bo took a step back, and another, until she finally turned around walking out the door she had come through just minutes ago. The last thing she heard as the door slammed shut behind her was Lauren's gut wrenching sob.
A/N: First, I want to thank you all again for the reviews, follows, and favorites. I always get so excited when I open my email see all of them. So this chapter, haha I have to say it was both easy and hard to write. I didn't really want to do this to them, but I feel like I have to break them down to build them back up. Next chapter, I plan for it to be a lot of healing, I'll also probably introduce Kenzi and Dyson. Please let me know what you thought of this chapter! And if anything confused you please just let me know in a review and I'll try to clear it up in the next one!
