"Enough to know you and I definitely need to talk."
"You like me?" Bo asked, quirking an eyebrow at the Valkyrie.
"I don't just drive my truck off a cliff for anyone," Tamsin said with a nervous laugh as she pushed herself off the stool and made her way across the Dal to the pool tables.
It was obvious to Bo that this wasn't a conversation the other woman wanted to have, but Bo couldn't just let go of what she had heard Tamsin telling Kenzi.
"Wanna play?" Tamsin asked tossing a pool cue to Bo and continuing to set up the billiard balls.
"Quid pro quo," Bo said grabbing the chalk from the ledge.
"Excuse me?" Tamsin asked, her face scrunched up in confusion.
"Every ball I sink, you have to answer a question, honestly," Bo said passing the chalk to the blonde. "And for every ball you sink, you get to ask me a question."
"How do I know you're going to be honest?"
"How do I know you're going to be honest?" Bo countered. "Quid pro quo."
"I don't even know what that means," Tamsin said looking at Bo for more information.
Bo laughed and shook her head, "It just means that we put our trust in one another to tell the truth."
"The whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God?" Tamsin said looking around. "Where's the Fae Bible, should we swear ourselves in?"
"There's a Fae Bible?" Bo asked in complete seriousness.
"Just break," Tamsin said shaking her head. Tamsin watched on bated breath, exhaling only when she knew she was safe for this round only as the pockets were still empty. "Red ball, right corner pocket," Tamsin lined up her shot and the ball went in.
"Ask away," Bo said with a wave of the hand.
"What are you scared of?" The Valkyrie asked, thinking back to the night of Yule.
Bo played with her pool cue for a moment and looked up at Tamsin, recounting the words she had said to Krampus, "I'm scared of making the wrong choice, of losing my friends and my family, I'm terrified," Bo said taking a breath. "Of what I'll become, of what I'm capable and of the Wanderer and what he'll make me. I'm scared of you."
"Why?" Tamsin asked, her head shooting up the very minute Bo said her.
"One question at a time, Valkyrie," Bo said eyeing the pool table. "Yellow stripe, side pocket," Tamsin and Bo both watch the ball roll across the table and sink into the pocket and Bo stood up with a smile on her face.
"Fine," Tamsin breathed out.
"Yule," Bo started. "You told me you were sorry and you kissed me."
"Is there a question in there somewhere Succubus?"
"Why?"
"I told you at Krampus' lair."
"I don't believe that that's why you kissed me, maybe that's what the apology was for, but not the kiss, so what was the kiss for?"
Tamsin ran a hand through her blonde hair and slumped against the wall, "It was for every time I hurt you, when I really just wanted to protect you. Every time you proved me wrong and everytime you taught me that I can be more than what I am, that I don't have to kill or fight to be happy. It was for everytime I wanted to kiss you, but didn't."
"You know th-"
"Green, side pocket," Tamsin mumbled, cutting off whatever Bo was about to say in response to her confession. "My question," she said when the ball joined the yellow one. "Why are you scared of me?" There was something about the way Tamsin asked the question that made Bo feel sorry for her, her voice was small and sad. "Wait, before you answer," she said walking back to the bar and grabbing the shot glasses and a bottle of Trick's finest.
"Shots before or after each question?" Bo asked as Tamsin set up the shots on the edge of the table.
"Whenever we want," Tamsin laughed. "Now, why are you scared of me?"
Bo watched as the woman threw back her shot and poured herself another. "You don't tiptoe around me, you make me feel things that both Dyson and Lauren have never made me feel. And ever since we met, you've been this big ol' bug up my butt, but I wouldn't change it. It's not so much that I'm scared of you, I'm scared of not having you, of you-"
"Dying?"
"Yeah, dying or disappearing, green stripe, left pocket."" Bo said pouring herself a shot and downing it. "We know you drove your truck off the cliff, but why?"
"I already told you, I thought if I died he couldn't find you anymore."
"Now the truth."
"I saw him."
Who?"
"The Wanderer," Tamsin said unable to look at Bo, "I saw him and I was trying to kill him, but he went up in smoke and my truck went over the cliff."
"So you didn't intentionally go over the cliff?"
"I knew I was going to, whether I hit him or not," Tamsin said. "I didn't save you though."
"You tried."
"I tried, but I also brought him to you. I helped that Monster-"
"I forgave you for that already?"
"Why?" Tamsin shouted throwing her hands in the air and tossing the pool cue. "How? How could you forgive me, after everything I've done?"
Bo pushed herself up onto the pool table, patting the space beside her for Tamsin to do the same. "I can't punish you for what you did in a past life," Bo answered honestly. "We've all done things we aren't proud of," she finished taking a sip straight from the bottle and handing it to Tamsin.
"You weren't supposed to be real," Tamsin whispered. "I still don't understand how you're real."
"Neither do I," Bo admitted. "I don't understand how I'm the one that everyone seems to think is the rightful hero or whatever, I didn't even know I was Fae until a few years ago, until then I just thought I was a monster."
"You're not a monster," Tamsin quickly replied. "I've met true monsters, you are not one, not by a long shot."
"You thought I was," Bo said searching Tamsin's eyes.
"When?"
"When we first met."
"I didn't, I didn't think you-" Tamsin took a breath and bit her bottom lip, deep in thought. "I didn't think you were a monster, I just needed, in a way, to prove that you weren't perfect."
"I'm not perfect," Bo said leaning closer to Tamsin.
"You are to me," Tamsin whispered placing a hand on Bo's cheek. "Eyes both brown and blue-"
"Kiss me," Bo whispered as her lips connected with Tamsin's in a sweet kiss. As Bo's lips began to melt against Tamsin's she tasted a salty wetness and pulled back to see tears streaking down the Valkyrie's face. "Tamsin," she breathed out .
"I have to go," Tamsin blurted, her words fast and laced with an emotion Bo couldn't quite place.
Before Bo could stop her, Tamsin was gone once again.
"Kenz?" Bo called out when she got home. "Kenzi?"
"Hey Bo Bo," Kenzi said rounding the corner. "What's wrong?"
"Hug, now," Bo demanded in a sad voice that was reserved only for her best friend to hear.
Kenzi walked over to Bo and wrapped her arms around the older woman. "What happened?"
"She's so difficult," Bo mumbled as she pulled back from Kenzi. "Do we have ice cream?"
Kenzi smiled and walked over to the freezer pulling out a container of ice cream, passing it to Bo with a spoon. "We talkin' bout Tam Tam or?"
"Yeah, we are."
"What happened after I left."
"We talked. We kissed. She ran."
Kenzi hummed and nodded her head, "Valkyries don't do love," she mumbled. "She's scared," Kenzi said when she noticed Bo looking at her curiously. "Give her time," she said, "I'm sure she'll come around."
"I like her Kenz," Bo admitted to the girl.
"I know," Kenzi said wrapping her arms around her best friend, "I know."