The Valkyrie's eyes slowly opened, trying to adjust to the bright lights. Her face squinted as she touched her hand to her head. She sat there for a moment trying to slow the dizziness in her head. The Succubus sat in front of her, watching her.
"Bo?" Tamsin squeaked out. She slowly dropped her hand from her own face and looked forward into the set of brown eyes looking back at her. "Bo, what happened? Where am I?" Her voice was weak. Tamsin felt vulnerable and unsure of her surroundings.
"You were in a car accident, Tamsin. You were hurt pretty badly. You're in the hospital." Bo replied softly. She reached forward to touch the side of the blonde's face to comfort her. Tamsin closed her eyes for a moment, feeling Bo's hand against her cheek. She had no energy to fight or even be scared, so she relaxed.
"How long have I been in here?" She wondered. Her eyes looked over her arms to see IVs and bruises.
"Not long. Only two days. You did slip into a coma though." Bo's voice became quiet.
"If I slipped into a coma, how am I awake now?" She tried sitting up. "Ouch."
"Don't strain yourself. You took a pretty hefty beating." Her voice sounded concerned.
"You didn't answer my question. How am I awake if I was in a coma?" Tamsin gazed at her. "What did you do?"
"Remember that one time in the woods when I almost collapsed from not feeding?"
"Yeah. What about it?"
"I was returning the favor. That's why you're awake." Bo looked down at the floor. "I was scared you wouldn't wake up if I didn't."
Bo couldn't meet Tamsin's gaze for some reason. The blonde's eyes stayed pinned on her. Bo could feel it. Tamsin reached forward and placed her hand on Bo's arm.
"Bo," she started. For once she didn't feel defensive or like she needed to reestablish her ability to take care of herself. Instead she felt thankful. Bo raised her eyes from the floor to look at her. "I tried to kill you. I betrayed you. Yet… you were afraid I wouldn't wake up? You still wanted to save me?" Bo nodded her head.
"I need to know some things from you. Can you do that?" Bo tried to shrug off the softness for a moment. Tamsin shook her head. The overhead lights began to buzz.
"Can you turn off the light first? That noise…" She covered her ears. Bo stood up and switched the overhead light off, living only the light from the partially open-curtained window. "Thanks." Bo sat back down.
"Why did you drive off a cliff?" Bo began. "You could have killed both you and Dyson." Tamsin looked down at her hands, took a deep breath, and looked back up at Bo.
"Well." She tried to think of a way to put it. "Do you remember that bad man I got involved with?"
"Yes. What about him?" Bo raised an eyebrow.
"He's your father, Bo." Tamsin held up her hand to keep Bo from interrupting. "Before you interrupt me and get angry hear me out for a second." Bo calmed herself down and waited for an explanation. "I didn't know he was your father. At least not at first. He contracted me to bring you in. Long story short, I couldn't."
"What does this have to do with you driving a truck over a cliff?" Her voice was irritated.
"He was standing in the road." Tamsin looked out the window and mumbled under her breath, "I didn't want him to find you. So I tried to hit him with my truck. He disappeared. Then my truck went over a cliff." Bo sat there for a moment unsure of what to say. "Bo, I'm sorry."
"So…" Bo tried to arrange her thoughts. "So, you know my father? And you tried to kill him to protect me?" Her expression grew confused.
"Yes." Tamsin reached out for Bo's hand, but Bo pulled away and stood up. She started to walk to the door. "Bo, please don't go." Tamsin pleaded. "I was going to tell you when I saw you again."
"How do I even know you're telling the truth? I mean, I don't even know what to make of you, Tamsin. You are the most 'hot and cold' sort of person I've ever met." Bo began to yell while throwing her hands up and pacing around the front of Tamsin's bed. "First you try to throw me in jail, then you help me with Kenzi. I just don't understand. The bathtub, the druid, taking a bullet for me, then a blade to my throat. Tamsin, I just don't fucking get you!"
"Bo, I'm sorry, okay?" Her voice was loud and shaken. Bo hadn't even looked at her while she had been yelling. She stopped pacing and put her hands on the end of the bed, looking up to see a pair of teary eyes looking back at her.
"Are you…" Bo was baffled. "Are you crying? You cry? What happened to being a snarky badass?" Bo softened realizing how cruel her statement had been. "I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it." She replied with a hurt and distant tone. "You're right. I mean, how should you take me anyway? You should have never saved me. You should have just let me die." Bo suddenly felt extremely guilty for her accusations, remembering their last encounter where Tamsin had literally cracked. This time was no different.
"I'm glad I saved you. I don't want you to die. I'm sorry I sound so angry, I'm just confused. I don't understand why all of this has happened. Lauren is missing, you and Dyson were hurt. My father. I don't mean to take out my frustrations on you… even if you kind of caused a good deal of them." Bo shook her head. "No, that's not what I mean to say. Tamsin-"
"Stop, Bo. I get it." She toughened back up. "You don't need to explain." They sat in silence for nearly fifteen minutes. The room filled with tension. Finally, Bo spoke up.
"Tamsin, why couldn't you kill me?" She whispered. The blonde looked at her. For a moment they just stared into each other's eyes.
"I don't know. I just couldn't." Tamsin shrugged it off.
"Oh, don't give me that crap." Bo was getting frustrated.
"Why couldn't you kill me then?" Tamsin snapped back.
"Because that isn't who I am." She replied firmly. Tamsin's harsh look toned down. Another few minutes of silence passed. "Why did you climb into my bathtub?"
"Why didn't you kick me out?" She immediately responded. Bo didn't know how to respond. "See, neither of us know the answers it. It just happened." Bo squinted her eyes, not satisfied with that answer.
"You are really frustrating, you know that?"
"Not the first time I've heard that." Tamsin's attitude was slowly coming back to her.
"I really want to know why you climbed in my bathtub." Bo was persistent on learning the reason behind it. "Why did you say those things to me?" Tamsin shrugged her shoulders.
"I was drunk." Bo rolled her eyes. Tamsin noticed. "Why do you care anyway? Don't you have a doctor to chase after?"
'Whoa. Wait.' Bo's brain registered that comment. 'Why would she care about me chasing Lauren…' Bo looked Tamsin straight in the eyes.
"Tamsin… is there something you want to tell me?"
"What? No." She clammed up, crossing her arms across her chest. She broke Bo's gaze and looked out the window. "I feel like I've already said too much."
"I don't think you've said enough." She whispered. She moved closed to Tamsin, sitting almost on top of her.
"Bo… what are you doing?" Tamsin immediately tensed up from the closeness of Bo.
"Invading your space." Her succubus tone lightly coming out. "You know. Like you did to me."
"Bitch, we are not in a bathtub."
"We don't need to be." Bo put her hand on Tamsin's arm and sent a little charm through her. "Why couldn't you kill me? I want to know."
"I was supposed to hate you. Supposed to bring you in. I couldn't. I…" Tamsin tried to resist.
"You what? What stopped you?" More charm ran through Tamsin.
"That's not fair, Bo." Tamsin's heart began racing. She felt so weak and used all of her strength trying to resist.
"Just tell me the truth and I'll stop." Her eyes glowed blue for a moment before changing back to brown. Tamsin swallowed hard. Her face was full of frustration.
"Ask me why." Tamsin tried to work up the nerve. "Ask me again."
"Why couldn't you kill me?" Bo started to let up on her charm. Tamsin abruptly leaned forward slamming her lips against Bo's. They were frozen for a few seconds because Tamsin pulled away. The strong Valkyrie's eyes were full of tears.
"Because I fell in love with you and would rather die than kill the only person I've ever loved in any of my lifetimes." She whispered, voice trembling.
Bo leaned back for a moment trying to take in what had just happened. She looked at Tamsin who was looking back at her. 'Over a thousand years old… and I'm the only person she's ever loved?' Bo felt her heart break. 'And I thought ten years was hard for me… all of my dead lovers. She's never even had a lover.' A rush of emotions went through Bo as she sat there staring at Tamsin, not able to speak.
"Tamsin-" Bo started, unsure what to even say.
"I'm sorry." Tamsin immediately started clamming up again.
"What? No. Don't be sorry." Bo touched the blonde's hand. "You've been around for over a thousand years and you've never… loved anyone but me?" Bo's eyes were filled so full of sympathy. Tamsin nodded, wiping a few tears from her eyes.
"It doesn't matter anyway. You could never love someone like me. No one could. I'm nothing. I'm no one." She was so harsh on herself. Bo's heart felt so crushed by how hurtful Tamsin was to herself. Tamsin tried to cover her sadness with self-hatred and anger, her defense mechanism.
"You're the most incredible person I've ever met." Bo's voice was so soft. Tamsin could hear how hurt she felt through the sound of her voice.
"You don't know anything about me." Tamsin tried to remain distant.
"Don't I though?" Bo started. "You said my eyes are both blue and brown… well, yours are both blue and black." Tamsin gave Bo a funny look.
"For a succubus, you absolutely do not have a way with words." Tamsin sighed.
"Yeah, okay. Normally I rely on my charm to make things sound better." Bo admitted.
"I can tell." The silence that proceeded was very awkward for the two. Neither of them could speak. They exchanged several glances, but neither of them could bring any words off their tongues.
After at least an hour of not speaking a nurse finally came in.
"Ms. Tamsin, it's time to take your shot, doll." The nurse walked over to her bedside and looked down at Bo who was sitting on the bed with her.
'Shit. It's that nurse I kissed in the closet.' Bo thought, immediately recognizing the woman. The nurse immediately became awkward.
"Uh. This might make you a little sleepy." Bleu said to Tamsin as she prepared her needle. Tamsin immediately picked up on the awkwardness between Bo and the nurse. She raised an eyebrow at Bo. Bleu injected Tamsin with her medicine and wrapped the spot on her arm. "All done." She disposed of the needle. "Um, I'm sorry, but visiting hours are almost over. You're going to have to leave soon."
Tamsin looked at Bo with a saddened look. Bo reached for Bleu's arm.
"Actually," Bo began sending charm through Bleu, "I hoping I could stay a little longer. Is there any way we can work that out?" Bleu squeaked.
"Uh huh, yeah. That's fine. Stay as long as you… want." Bo walked Bleu to the door and gently 'escorted' her out. The medicine almost immediately began to kick in on Tamsin.
"Wow, that stuff is fast." Tamsin said.
"Well, I should probably go then. So you can rest." She started to turn to leave.
"Wait, Bo." Tamsin's vulnerability began to come back. "Can you… stay with me?"
"Why?" Bo looked confused.
"Because for the first time in over a thousand years… I really don't want to be alone." Her voice sounded very emotional. Bo nodded. The blonde scooted over to make room for her. Bo scooted under the covers and Tamsin laid her head on Bo's chest. Bo was surprised at how close Tamsin had gotten to her.
"Get some rest. I'll be here when you wake up." Bo put her arm around Tamsin and they both quickly fell asleep.