A/N: Moderately short, sorry. Get over it, you'll live
Disclaimer: Not mine. The end.
"You know who my daddy is?" Lorelei's little voice rose shyly beside Tamsin. Her big golden eyes gazed up at the blonde in anticipation.
"Ehh, no. Sorry Rune, I don't know who he is, exactly." Tamsin smiled sadly, sorry that she couldn't give the little fae the answer she'd hoped for.
"But you do know what he is, yes?" Trick raised his brow at the Valkyrie on the couch. Everyone seemed to be horrifyingly silent, waiting for Tamsin's response.
The blonde took a deep breath before speaking. "Yeah. He's a Cambion." Her words were simple, short, to the point. The rest of the group, Blood King aside, acted as though she had just spoke an alien language.
"Camba what now?" Kenzi was completely lost in all the fae mythology, as per usual.
"A Cambion." Trick said flatly, his expression unreadable. Lauren shifted nervously in her chair. Bo began to get nervous at the reaction of her grandfather. It was never a good sign when the old man was concerned.
"Trick, what the hell is a Cambion?" Bo's anxiety continued to rise when he didn't respond.
Lauren stared blankly ahead, lost in thought. "I feel like I've heard that before. I'm just not sure where..."
"I wouldn't be surprised if you'd come across them when you first started working on the injections to curb Bo's hunger. Though, they're rather rare." Trick's eyebrows knitted together as he rose from his desk and moved to one of his bookshelves. He began pulling multitudes of ancient, dusty books into his arms.
"Dammit, someone just tell me what the hell it is!" The brunette could feel her breathing speeding up slightly as her nerves grew.
"Relax, Bo. Getting worked up isn't going to solve anything." The Valkyrie's voice was uncharacteristically soft and gentle. Tamsin reached her hand down and intertwined her fingers with Bo's, giving them a squeeze. The succubus' eyes met the blonde's and she immediately felt a wave of calm wash over her. "A Cambion is the offspring of two demons. Often a very dangerous and very powerful offspring..."
"Great! We're fae-sitting the granddaughter of demons! Of course we are!" Kenzi's voice was shrill and slightly panicked.
Dyson's interest was peaked. Ignoring Kenzi, he moved to where Trick stood pouring over his books. "Exactly what kind of demons are we talking here?"
"Sex demons." The human doctor's voice cracked on the last word. "A Cambion is the offspring of an Incubus...and a Succubus. Tricks right, I read about them in my research for Bo's injections." The room fell silent again, all eyes turning to Bo.
"But...wouldn't that just make another Succubus or Incubus? I mean, that's how fae biology works, right?" The brunette's head was swimming as she attempted to digest this new information.
"Demons are different. A demon and another fae gives a fifty fifty chance of the baby being like the mother or the father. But when both parents are demons, specifically the same kind of demon, the baby is a completely different species of fae." Tamsin did her best to explain as simply as possible.
Lauren stood and extended her hand to Rune. "Hey, Lorelei. What do you say you and I go upstairs to look for a snack, okay?" The little fae nodded and the two headed up the stairs to the bar.
"How are these Cambananas so rare if their parents are sex demons? Shouldn't they be poppin' up all over the place?" Kenzi questioned once the pair was out of sight.
"Succubi and Incubi very rarely mate with or even feed off of their own kind. The reasoning was never really explained but they avoid such interaction with each other if at all possible." Trick's muffled voice sounded over the top of a gigantic book held in front of his face.
"Like the old man said, these guys are usually very powerful and very dangerous. Not only do they inherit Succubus powers but they get all sorts of other scary shit as well. What's worse is that none of them get the same combination of power so you never know what to expect." The Valkyrie explained.
"Actually, they don't just inherit the Succubus power. They enhance it as well. Chi transfer and aura recognition become chi and aura manipulation. Healing through chi becomes healing through touch. Powers of persuasion are no longer limited to physical contact or even verbal communication, but are enabled through thought." Trick approached the couch again, book in hand.
"Does that thing say everything that they could do?" Bo asked her grandfather.
"It has all of the known abilities recorded in Cambions, yes. But we don't know the extent of their inheritance, they could gain more power with every new birth, we just can't be sure."
"Can I see it?" Trick handed the old book to Bo who then began reading the terrifyingly long list, "Soul absorption, meteor summoning, extrasensory perception, empathic creation, memory manipulation, dimensional travel and manipulation, teleportation, molecular manipulation, weather manipulation, limitless shapeshifting, energy cloning, resurrection, are you shitting me with this stuff!? These things may as well be gods!" The brunette was no longer focusing on her volume control as she read the pages of Trick's book.
"Sheez, talk about super-fae..." Kenzi mumbled.
"Does this mean Lorelei could have any of those abilities?" Dyson's brow furrowed in concern as he looked expectantly at Trick.
"It means she's not going to be a Nixie but she'll have the Nixie powers. On top of those, she'll inherit three to six more abilities from that list. As if that isn't enough, all of that power is going to start rearing its ugly head within the next year because Cambions mature faster than every other fae out there." Anxiety and frustration dripped from every word Tamsin spoke.
"Tamsin's right. I wouldn't be surprised if Lorelei's fae abilities were completely matured by the time she turned eleven, if that." Trick explained as he began to put his books away. Everyone was silent for a while as they processed the new information.
Dyson sighed and looked to Bo. "Alright. For now, I think you should take Lorelei home with you. I'll call Hale tomorrow and ask him about getting a place for Tamsin." He turned to his partner. "In the meantime, she seems to have grown pretty attached to you, Valkyrie. I think it'd be easier on her if you were near by..." The wolf trailed off and glanced at Bo.
The succubus blushed at the thought of having the blonde with her another night. "She's welcome with us, we've got plenty of room." Her voice came out a bit too eager for her liking. The Valkyrie picked up on this and felt her neck get hot, realizing that Bo had technically just asked her to spend the night. Sure, they'd slept together at the cabin. But this was different. Dammit, get your shit together Tamsin. She wants you there for Rune, not for sex.
By the time everyone went their separate ways, the sun had set and the stars had emerged. Kenzi ran ahead of the others, Lorelei hot on her heels, when Tamsin's truck pulled up in front of the crack shack. The sound of squeals and a slamming door indicated that the two had made it safely inside.
Bo laughed and began to walk towards the building but paused when she noticed that the Valkyrie was not beside her. Instead, the blonde had turned back and was currently climbing up the back of her truck.
"Erm...Tamsin?" Bo watched the detective as she laid down in the truck bed, arms behind her head. "What are you doing?" The succubus chuckled.
"Don't tell me you've never done this, succulet. Come here," Tamsin sat up and motioned for Bo to join her. The brunette grinned and made her way to the back of the truck.
She stopped when she reached Tamsin, whose long legs were swung off the back of the bed. She stood a few feet away from the half-smiling blonde. Tamsin extended her hand and pulled Bo's body to stand between her knees, arms wrapped around the succubus' waist. The brunette was about to say something but her breath was caught in her throat when the Valkyrie suddenly yanked her body into the truck's bed atop her own.
She let Bo linger there above herself for a moment. Just as the succubus went to connect their lips, Tamsin rolled so that Bo was cradled in her left arm at her side. The Valkyrie reached her right hand across to brush back a stray hair from the brunette's face. Bo smiled, gazing up at Tamsin's green eyes and swore she met yet another new side to the blonde that she was miraculously falling for.
"See those three stars in a line," Tamsin pointed at the sparkling sky above their heads. "That's Orion's Belt...but where I'm from we call it Frigg's Distaff."
"Who's what-now?" Bo looked up at the blonde, confusion etching her face for the umpteenth time today. Tamsin chuckled lightly and looked back at the stars.
"Frigg's Distaff. Frigg is the goddess of fertility, the embodiment of the earth, the sky, and the clouds. She lived in the sky with Odin but spent most of her time in her palace of mists, Fensalir. She was known for being an unmatchable weaver. Her spinning wheel was immortalized in the heavens. A distaff is the piece of a spinning wheel that holds the material to draw the thread from, so we know that constellation as Frigg's Distaff. Those stars are a part of her immortalized spinning wheel." Tamsin sighed, smiling. Thinking of legends and tales from home brought her unexpected comfort. Though, the comfort could have come from the succubus huddled against her side.
"I don't get you, Tamsin." Bo stared up into the Valkyrie's eyes, searching for answers. "How can you go from being dead set on locking me away...to this?" She reached a hand up, gently stroking along Tamsin's jawbone.
The blonde's brow furrowed as she studied Bo's appearance beside her. "I'm not really something you're supposed to get, Bo. Can't you just take things as they are and quit trying to analyze everything?" Tamsin's voice came out harsher than she intended and Bo retracted her hand slowly.
The Valkyrie caught the younger fae's hand and held it in her own. "Sorry. Just...don't try to dissect everything that I do. Things change, succubus..."
At this point, the two were close enough to breathe each other's air. Without a second thought, Bo eagerly closed the distance between them, moaning into the kiss, relieved to taste the Valkyrie's sweetness again.
Tamsin immediately reciprocated, shifting herself for better access to the sensational succubus. The brunette's hands found their way to the hem of the detective's shirt and began tracing along the perimeter of her lower abdomen. The two deepened the kiss, moving in perfect unison.
The blonde bit down suddenly on Bo's bottom lip causing the succubus to rake her nails up Tamsin's bare sides, earning a low moan from the Valkyrie. Tamsin rolled on top of Bo and wrapped her entire body around the brunette's form. She allowed her hands to wander the other woman's body of their own free will. Her fingers danced across Bo's smooth skin, bringing goosebumps to the surface.
Things continued to heat up between the two. Fingers grazed, moans slipped, tongues dueled, and chests heaved. Tamsin began to move her kisses down Bo's jaw and across her exposed neck. When she reached a soft spot, she suckled and nibbled and licked until the brunette was whimpering.
"We should take this inside..." Tamsin hovered over the succubus' ear, hot breath tickling her skin and sending shivers down her spine.
A/N: Andddd END SCENE :D
Don't eat me okay. I promise I'll reward your patience in the next chapter, guys!
I had oodles upon oodles of fun researching Cambions and the Norse version of Orion's belt (that was actually a last minute decision. I love stars and felt like throwing something in there). I played around so much with the mythology of the Cambions, I'm not even going to attempt to tell you what was my brain child and what was research. Anyhow, I hope you liked this chapter and I will do my best to update before too long!
PS- I appreciate the person who said I should start signing my chapters with 'xCliffhanger' rather than River. You made me smile and you're quite accurate, if I may say so :)
xRiver