Lost Girl: Redux
Chapter 2: Where there's a Will, There's a Fae
Pairing: Bo & Tamsin | Valkubus
Specs: AU, Femslash, Slightly OC Tamsin
Rating: M for Sexual Content and Language
Bo and Kenzi walked into the hardware store, looking for stuff for their place. It was a fixer-upper, but they loved it none the less. "Okay, hinges, screwdriver, plunger, duct tape.." Bo checked those items off her list.
"With a little work, our crackshack is going to be feeling downright homey." Kenzi said with a laugh; like that place could ever really feel homey.
"Yeah, well it's already the closest thing I've had since I ran away at 18."
"So where does little fae sexkiller grow up anyway?" Kenzi was genuinely curious about where her new roommate grew up.
"Small town, Midwest, all car shows and church socials."
"Ew; that would turn me homicidal." The very thought disgusted Kenzi, it sounded so boring. "You ever go back?"
"It's kind of tough, growing up thinking you might have a shot at bring prom queen, and find out that you're part of some ageless, secret race the feeds on humans."
"Hate when that happens."
Bo had stopped really paying attention to Kenzi as an attractive human male gave her the eye. She started to walk in his direction before Kenzi grabbed her around the waist.
"Woah woah woah, what are you doing?"
"I'm getting hungry." Bo hadn't really fed since that pick me up from Dyson before her test, and her energy was draining quickly.
"Okay, how about we, uhm, make a deal. We don't kill where we shop. Okay?" Kenzi didn't want any more trouble then she knew they would get in, in the future. Bo sighed and just walked past the man. Kenzi privately whispered to him, "Trust me buddy, you already got lucky."
Deep in a forest, a man was searching for something. Green flames shot out of the ground around him, but he just kept searching, trying to lure his prey out of hiding. He followed the flashes of green until he came to a very steep drop off, which he almost walked over, dropping his backpack in the process.
"Nice try." He said to no one really in particular, but he knew his prey could hear him. He ran off in the other direction, searching. When he, once again, saw the flashes of green flame, he ignored them, knowing that they were leading him off course.
Finally he found what he was looking for. A wooden door in a small hill, covered up with tree branches and foliage. He forced his way in and cautiously entered. Shinning his flashlight around, he found a small chest. When he bent down and opened it, it was filled with treasure, glimmering gold pieces and shining gems. "Gotcha."
Back at Bo and Kenzi's place, renovations were moving along.
"Hey easy! Not everyone here is a nookie powered Amazon."
"Whose idea was is to get a 200 pound side board anyway?
"Did somebody tell you we were going to live like savages? 'Cause it wasn't me."
"Just lift." Kenzi just grunted. "You know, filling this place with furniture is one thing, paying for it is another."
"No problem."
"Really? You hoping I had some kind of fae money power I wasn't aware of?"
"Didn't cost a thing. He sort of.. liberated it."
"Oh no, no no, we are not thieves."
"Thieves is a such a harsh word. Think of it more as.. redistribution."
"Okay, let's get one thing straight, we stay alive as long as we don't piss off the fae too much. We are not doing anything that draws any extra attention to ourselves. Are you good with that?"
"Define good." Suddenly a green column of fire shot up behind the pair, setting their couch on fire with it. Bo and Kenzi scrambled to put the flames out.
"Sorry about the couch." A voice said. Kenzi and Bo immediately whipped around to see an elderly man sitting in the chair behind them. Brandishing a plunger, Bo confronted him.
"Okay you have exactly two seconds to tell us who the hell you are and what you're doing in our house."
"Wow, look at you. You're everything the rumors in the Fae community said you'd be." The man was seriously impressed.
"Wrong answer." As Bo approached him, another column of green fire shot up behind her, setting their floor on fire. Bo and Kenzi ran over to put it out, complaining. After they had put it out, the turned back to see the elderly man had disappeared and had moved to another part of the room.
"Sorry about the fires. It's a reflex. Hell on the furniture, but it's kept me alive for a long time." He said apologetically.
"Yeah, well all good things come to end buddy." As Kenzi took out a set of brass knuckles.
"See, see people always to right to the violence. And they wonder why I stay elusive."
"Why don't you tell us what you want and you can elusive yourself right out of here." Bo didn't need any more trouble than she had already, so she really wanted to get rid of this guy.
"Most people call me Will. I'm a Will O' the Wisps."
"You sure that's not a Chaz of the chunky or Bob of the butterball?" Kenzi just had to take a crack at him, after all he had barged into their home and already set a couple fires.
"Hey, I wrestle with my weight, what can I say?"
"You were telling us why you're here." Bo just wanted a reason, so he could leave.
"Well here's the deal. I'm a woodland fae, Light just so you know. I live in the forest outside of town. And of course there are humans that wander into my turf. Crashing through the woods, cutting down trees, looking for my treasure." That caught Kenzi's attention.
"Woah, woah did you just say treasure?"
"Hey, get with the program, that's what this is all about. Diamonds, rubies, emeralds." Kenzi was interested now.
"Sir, sir have a seat, your smell isn't bothering me at all."
"Okay, so I spend my nights searching the woods for precious stones."
"What, they're just lying around?" Kenzi was shocked to hear that.
"If you know where to look." He said, simply. "Most of the humans that have heard about it, that are out searching, I'm able to throw them off with a few well placed fairy fires. But there's this one human, he's been hunting me down for years. A couple of nights ago, he got past the best I could throw at him, and found my stash. I got home and it was gone! All of it!" Bo had been just listening up until this point.
"And you want me to help you get it back?"
"Well why not? You're smart, you're capable and best of all, you're not part of a system."
"Okay, so why would you trust me?"
"Because I have something you want."
"I'm not a big fan of riddles."
"First of all, I have to know something. It about your feet. When I heard about the girl that didn't know where she came from, thought it might be you. But I need to know for sure. Do you have a birthmark of your left foot just above the heel?" Bo just stared blankly at him.
"How did you know that?"
"Oh, true story this. Happened 28 years ago, I was in my woods, minding my own business and all of the sudden there's this woman, crashing through the brush." Kenzi was skeptical.
"Uh, and we're supposed to care about this why?"
"Because the bundle she was carrying was a baby. A little fae girl, with a birthmark of her left foot, just above the heel. Bam, got your interest now right?" Bo approached him.
"What else do you know?"
"Uh uh, not so fast. That only happens after you help me out." Bo nodded.
"You do realize that it might be hard to find some random guy in the woods that stole your stuff." He reached behind him and pulled out a backpack.
"He dropped this, maybe there's something here that will help you track him." He pulled a gun out of the pack. Bo quickly reached for it and pulled it and the pack into her hands.
"I'll see what I can do." Kenzi quickly stepped in, patting Bo on the shoulders.
"Ah, what she means is that she'll see what she can do, for a price. We can talk flat rate or in terms of percentage," Bo pulled Kenzi's arm. "Oh, excuse us." Bo dragged Kenzi away, to the other side of the room.
"Look, this is not about money. I need to know about my parents."
"You really think this bozo can tell you anything?"
Bo sighed, "It's a chance I'm willing to take." They turned to see Will biting into an apple.
Dyson, Hale and Tamsin walked down a hall at the police station. Hale was bragging about a date he had recently, Dyson only half listening and Tamsin was internally laughing at the siren. Only Hale would brag so much about a pair on Gemini he had gotten it on with. The three of them walked around the corner, to see Bo sitting on one of the cop's desks, laughing with him. Dyson and Tamsin both noticed Bo, Hale still going on about his night.
"Hey that sounds great Hale, but me and Dyson have got some things to take care of. I'm so sorry I'll miss this little love fest of yours though." Tamsin voice, as usual, dripping with sarcasm.
Tamsin and Dyson walked over to Bo, as she was staring up at them, just smiling.
"How'd you get in here?" Tamsin rolled her eyes. She obviously had walked through the front door. Sometimes her partner was so dense.
"I.. said I was Tamsin's girlfriend. Nobody seems to have a problem with that." Tamsin nearly choked on her own spit. She looked around to see all the guys in the room looking at her and Bo, and she could see the arousal on half of them.
"I bet. Gentlemen, would you mind just giving us a moment?" To Tamsin's relief, the guys went back to their work. At least Dyson was good for something.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine. You said I could find you here if I needed help, didn't expect to see blondie here, but whatever." Tamsin gave Bo one her signature dirty looks. Bo just smirked and winked at the Valkyrie.
"I just didn't think it would be this soon."
"Are you that disappointed to see me?"
"Well that depends, what do you need? You look hungry, should I be worried?"
"You mean am I going to go on a murder spree? No, I'm okay, but I do need help tracking down who this belongs to." She handed Dyson a package. Inside was the gun she had taken from the backpack Will had given her. Dyson cautiously took the gun out.
"How the hell did you get that in here?" Tamsin was surprised. It's not every day you just waltz into a police station, carrying a gun that didn't obviously didn't belong to you.
"My client needs to find something that somebody took from him. He promised info on my real parents if I helped him out." Tamsin looked concerned. Could this client possibly know who her father was? Her job, and probably life would go to shit if he did.
"It means this client is fae."
"Well there's a reason you guys are detectives then huh?"
"Bo, this is not a good idea. You should stay out of the fae world. Just live your life."
"There's just, uh, one small problem. I wind up killing everyone that I let close me." Sounds like a succubus who has little control, Tamsin thought. "You are the only ones that I can talk to. You guys have to help me out."
"No we don't." As much as Tamsin disliked Bo so far, she gave her credit, she had some massive balls to come waltzing into the station, asking for their help.
"Fine." Bo grabbed the package containing the gun. "I'll get help elsewhere, but I have to warn you, this could get messy. I mean, I get taken in by human cops, I have no problem telling them what I am, or what any of you are."
"The Morrigan was right, you are dangerous." Tamsin laughed, Dyson was trying to man up. She grabbed the package from Bo.
"Well flattery will get you everywhere." Tamsin smirked and handed the package to Dyson.
"Dude, run the registration on this, there's something I've got to do."
"Are you sure you want to get involved Tamsin? I know how great you are with people." Dyson laughed slightly at his partner.
"I'm not sure about anything, but just do it, before I just cut the wolf junk off right now. You know I can." Dyson shuddered and nodded his head.
"And you, come with me." Tamsin picked her jacket off of her desk.
"Where are we going?"
"You want to play in this world? You've got to learn the rules."
Bo and Tamsin walked into the Dal Riata.
"If getting a fae education is all about walking into a bar, then I should have been schooled already."
"Well, this isn't quite your normal bar. These are all our people."
"Your people maybe."
"It's a place where we don't have to hide who we really are." As they pair reached the bar, Trick greeted them.
"Tamsin." Despite being Light fae, Trick was always nice to the blonde Valkyrie. Much like the woman standing next to her, she never really had a family, and Trick was the closest thing she had right now.
"Trick, I've got someone you should meet. This is Bo." Trick smiled at Bo. "Bo, this is Trick. He's one of the Light Fae elders, keeper of this waystation."
"Non locals who pass through have to declare themselves here."
"Well, you people have more rules than my old high school." Bo commented.
"The Dal is also a place where all fae can find sanctuary from persecution. It's neutral ground for Light and Dark fae."
"Hence why I can be here." Tamsin jumped in.
"Well the looks people are giving me are hardly neutral."
"The politics of remaining undeclared are complicated."
"Well I'm not very political." Tamsin had to laugh at that. Trick gave her a warning look. She quickly gained her normal, bitchy composure.
"Well that's not something you get to decide on your own."
"Okay look, I just need somebody to be straight with me. I'm like a baby here, there's enough I have to know."
" Okay, come with me."
Trick walked off, motioning for Bo to follow him. She looked back at Tamsin, who gestured that she follow him. Bo nodded and chased after Trick. Tamsin leaned up against the bar, and watched them go.
Bo and Trick settled down in one of the private rooms in the Dal. Trick locked the door and set next to Bo. "Okay, Bo." Trick picked up a rather large book that was on the trunk next to them. He picked at a pen and wrote her name in the book "Uh, mother's and father's names."
"Sam and Marry Dennis."
"Um.. I mean your real parents." Bo closed her eyes and sighed.
"You tell me."
"Well, we know they're both fae."
"How do you know?"
"Those born of only one fae, don't have any fae abilities, and you most certainly do. Guess you'll remain a mystery. Sign in then." He said, handing the pen to Bo. She grabbed it and wrote her name in the book, then handed the pen back to Trick.
"So how about you helping me out?"
"What do you know about us?" Trick inquired. He needed to know what she knew, so he could know where to begin.
"That there are two types of fae, Dark and Light; that neither likes the other very much; and um, that all of them have some sort of freaky going on." Trick shrugged.
"I suppose freaky is in the eye of the beholder. And the issue between the Light and Dark fae is a little more than just not liking each other. We've been on the edge of a war for more than a thousand years."
"That's holding a grudge."
"Ha, a war between our people would end the human race, as well as ours."
"Well, if you people are so powerful then how do you stay under the radar?"
"It's more comfortable for us to remain a myth. But it's difficult to do that especially when someone keeps asking too many questions." Trick gave Bo a knowing look. Bo just rolled her eyes.
"Meaning me. Look, for some reason my real parents dumped me, and I need to know why." Trick shook his head.
"Maybe they did it to protect you."
"Leaving your kid, to think that they're a serial killer without how or why, that's a hell of a way to protect them."
"Well have you ever thought that maybe what they were shielding you from might have been much worse?"
Bo walked back out into the main bar, walking up to Tamsin, who was still standing where she had been when Bo had left her.
"Dyson called while you were with Trick. The gun belongs to someone named Michael Connoll. He lives in the north end of the city, in a trailer park. What are you going to do?"
"Pay him a visit. Try and see if he has my client's goods."
"I hope you leave him in one piece succu-bitch." Bo rolled her eyes.
"Well if not I'll make sure he goes with a smile on his face." Tamsin half smiled at the comment, then quickly hiding it, put on a concerned, serious face. "I'm kidding."
"Just be careful who you trust. There's still a lot you have to learn, a people will take advantage of that. Don't let them."
"Thanks." Bo walked off.
Trick approached Tamsin as Bo was leaving.
"She's going to get herself killed if she keeps doing this. We've got to find a way to keep her in check."
"If she's who I think she is, managing her will be more than any of us are up to, Dark or Light." Tamsin nodded in acknowledgement.
Down at the trailer park, Bo and Kenzi drove up to Michael's place.
"Well if this guy's sitting on a fortune and jewels, I hope he's planning on upgrading his crib."
"I'm sure he'll appreciate the advice Kenz."
The girls walked up to the door of the trailer, inspecting their surroundings. Kenzi jumped in an attempt to see through the window in front of her. Knocking on the door, Bo got no reply. She tried the knob and to her surprise it was open. As the pushed the door open further, she saw a string attached to the other side and heard the gun being pulled back. "Crap." Bo said to herself, as she tackled Kenzi out of the way, just as a shotgun blew a hole through the door, showering the girls in dust and debris. As they sat up, Bo noticed her bleeding hand. "That's one hell of a doorbell."
Inspecting the hole, the pair peered through the door. "Tell me again why this case is better than stealing?" Again, they opened the door and walked inside the trailer. Going through the trailer, Bo found a whole bunch of books about fairy folk and folklore. She came to the conclusion that Michael was hunting Will for the treasure. In the phonebook, Kenzi saw that G.W. Thompson Co. Pawnbroker and Jewelers had the circled. Ripping out the pages from the book, they got up, and as they turned around, a woman with a shotgun was standing right behind them.
"Hello girls, going somewhere?"
"Actually we're kind of in a hurry."
"Oh you're kind of in a hurry." She just laughed. "Oh honey, you'd better have such a damn good excuse for what you're doing here in my neighbor's place." Bo glanced at Kenzi.
"We're friends of Connoll." The woman looked unsure.
"Friends?" This time Kenzi responded.
"Yeah we, uh, came to visit and he must of forgot." Again, the woman just laughed.
"Imagine, pretty little thing like you robbing a man's house and home." As the woman walked towards Bo and Kenzi, still pointing her shotgun at them. Bo slowly approached her.
"I'm sure we can work this out without getting the police involved." As Bo approached, the woman backed up slowly.
"Hey, hey, hey. No, no, you stay. Stay.. just.." Bo cut her off, placing a hand on her face.
"Hey, let me explain it to you, it'll all make sense" Bo used her succubus charm on the woman, bringing their lips together, drawing chi out of the women.
"Bo? Bo that's enough." Kenzi yelled at her friend, concerned for her as well as the woman she was feeding off of.
"Just a snack." Bo murmured. As the women sank to the floor, Kenzi tried to pull Bo off of her, but as she did, Bo turned on her, grabbing her by the throat. Kenzi grasped at Bo's arm, trying to loosen her grip on her neck.
"Bo stop, listen to me." Bo's electric blue eyes fades back to their normal light brown, coming to her senses. She let go of Kenzi.
"I'm sorry." Kenzi was just grasping at her neck, trying to take in air. "I'm sorry, thanks for the cockblock."
"Yeah maybe next time I'll do it from a distance." Bo checked the woman's pulse. It was faint, but it was there. The two walked out of the trailer, and Bo took the bandage off of her previously bleeding hand. The cuts were gone, thanks to her snack. The couple talked game plan, and decided that Kenzi would stay at their place with Will, while Bo went to the pawnbroker.
Bo approached the man behind the counter. "Can I help you?"
"I have an anniversary coming up and my husband said the sky is the limit. So I was thinking why not make it jewelry. And if it was going to be jewels, I was thinking of buying some raw stones and choosing the settings later. Someone told me that you have a nice selection of unset stones right now."
"I don't deal in unset stones. If you don't see it in the case, it's not available. If you'll excuse me." Bo just sighed and grabbed the man by the tie.
"Look, I don't do undercover well, so let's talk straight about this. You bought a load of uncut jewels from a guy named Michael Connoll. He took them from a guy that I know and I need to find them."
"I don't know any Connoll."
"Oh this is not going to going to go well." Bo said as she twisted the man's wrist.
"Where is he? Simple, you tell me and I'm gone."
"Lakeview motel, he met with me at the Lakeview motel. Room 205, I could only afford some of them, I said I'd be back later this week for more." Bo let the man go.
"Well, you probably won't be making that appointment. Oh by the way, that emerald pendant is to die for." Bo pointed to the pendant in the case, then she turned around and walked out the door.
Meanwhile, back at Bo and Kenzi's place, Kenzi was busy putting out green flames. "Dude , could you stop that?"
"I told you, I can't help it. Maybe you could stop watching me."
"It's kind of hard, for a sprite, you take up a lot of real estate." Will just shook his head. "I didn't mean anything by that."
"I'm large I know it. What? I get lonely, I get depressed, I binge."
"Aren't there people that could help you with that? Like some kind of Fae Fatwatchers or something?"
"I don't exactly show up for meetings." Kenzi just smirked.
"Yeah, I guess not." Kenzi's cell rang and she answered. Bo told Kenzi to meet her at the Lakeview motel so they could see if Connoll was there.
Down at the trailer park, Dyson, Hale and Tamsin had been called to pick up Bo latest feed.
"Looks like succu-bitch had herself a little snack, eh boys?"
"Anyone asking any questions?"
"I placed some.. dulcet tones down on anyone who took an interest, but how many bodies are we going to have to disappear for this chick?" Hale was getting fed up with having to clean up after Bo.
"Maybe she didn't have a choice." Dyson really wanted to believe the best in Bo.
"Or maybe she's just out of control. What the hell is she doing here, in this dump?" Tamsin couldn't help but at least be curious.
"I don't know, but what I do want to know is why someone puts a shotgun in their front door."
"Jehovah's witnesses." Both Tamsin and Dyson chuckled. "Just saying. Look, maybe we get our hands on little Miss Killer Kitty and maybe we'll get our hands on both." Tamsin had to agree with Hale.
"Alright, let's get on her."
Sitting in the parking lot of the Lakeview motel, Kenzi and Bo watched the place. "He's still there."
"Great, let's break in and get your koozoh on this guy's fae robbing ass."
"You stay here and watch the door. I'll try to do this on the QT."
"Bo you're not going to uh.." Kenzi trailed off.
"Don't worry. The woman from the trailer park will hold me over for a while." Bo sighed as she stepped out of her car. As she approached Room 205, she saw a housekeeping station in front of the door. She quickly took off her jacket and put on the maid's uniform. She grabbed the cleaning supplies and knocked on the door. She called out that she was the maid and a voice from inside told her to come in. She unlocked the door, and stepped into the room.
"I'll try and make this fast." She said to the man lying on the bed.
"I'm not going anywhere, I'm waiting for someone."
"Oh yeah? Surprised that someone is keeping such a handsome guy like you waiting."
"You know what, I think it might be you that I'm waiting for." Bo turned around to see the guy pointing a handgun at her. She slowly raised her hands, with a feather duster in the right hand.
"Oh, whatever kind of date you were expecting, you've got it all wrong." The guy stood up.
"The maid was here a half hour ago. I knew he'd send somebody for me, where is he?"
"He who?"
"The man from the woods. My father."
"Okay, this doesn't make any sense. Will can't be your father."
"Why? Because I'm not fae? Because I'm not special?"
"No, I mean, yeah. You're normal."
"But you're not. You wouldn't have trusted someone that wasn't one of them. You're fae."
"I guess so."
"Took me years to learn about all this stuff. See only my father was fae so I didn't inherit anything, never even got to know him."
"Okay hold on, you've got to back this up a few steps here. I'm missing something."
"My mom worked at a research station in those woods. One night she's looking out the window and she sees some green lights. She tries to follow them and before she knows it, she gets lost. Next thing she knows, there's some guy standing there."
"Don't tell me, sort of an old guy in need of a serious wardrobe makeover?"
"He seemed nice. He brought her food and wine. He told her he could her out of the woods. It was a romantic night, full moon and everything."
"I'm afraid I know where this is going."
"When she let the woods that night she was pregnant with me."
"Look if you have some kind of daddy issues there are other ways you can take it up with him."
"What, you think I haven't tried? My mom wasted years of her life, just trying to find him, to tell him, but all he did was distract her with those stupid fires. In the end she made herself sick, just stumbling around in the dark. She died, with everyone still thinking that she was crazy."
"And so you think you're entitled to his treasure."
"I don't care about the treasure. I just want to see him. I just want him to know me."
"Well robbing him is a hell of an introduction."
"Look, you know him, right? He hired you to get his stuff back? I have the jewels, in a locker at Fortress House Storage on 15th. You get him to meet me; he can have it all back."
Outside Kenzi was still watching the door, when a hooded man walked up to the room where Michael and Bo were talking. He removed his hood, then detached his head, setting it down on the housekeeping station. Kenzi gasped, wide mouthed as the man drew a sword from his waist and stepped inside the room. Kenzi quickly got out of the car and ran to find Bo.
"You sit tight and I'll call you when I speak to him." Suddenly the headless man burst in the room, swinging his sword. Michael immediately pointed his gun at the figure. "Friend of yours?" Bo asked.
'He followed you." The headless man swung his sword at Michael, as Michael shot at him, the bullets seemed to do nothing again him. While the figure's attention was on Michael, Bo pushed him on the bed and told Michael to run.
The figure swung his sword at Bo, and as she dodged the sword stuck the TV and broke the screen. Bo quickly lunged forward and threw him into the now broken TV. Dodging the ducking the sword Bo tried to buy herself time. Kenzi suddenly rushed into the room, throwing a mop to Bo. Bo caught it and tried to stop the man's sword, but it just cut it in half. Using the broken pieces of mop, she stabbed them upward into the figure's chest, pushing in back towards the bed.
Bo and Kenzi walked into the Dal to talk to Trick. All of the fae were eyeing Kenzi as they walked up to the war where Trick was talking with Tamsin.
"Hey." Bo tapped Tamsin on the shoulder. Tamsin turned around and her eyes immediately shifted to Kenzi.
"Bo you can't bring human's here. It's not the place for them."
"Where I go, she goes." Trick then chimed in.
"You're claiming her?"
"Yes." Bo responded.
Trick yelled out for the bar to hear. "The girl is with her." The people in the bar went back to their drinks. Trick then addressed Bo. "Understand, she's your responsibility from this point on."
Bo whispered to Kenzi, "Try not to steal anything okay?" Kenzi just smirked.
"I'm checking in, like you asked me to. We've got a small problem."
"We?" Tamsin didn't like the sound of we. Bo looked at Trick, grabbed Tamsin's arm and pulled her over to a deserted corner.
"I've got a body in the trunk of my car." Tamsin just looked confused.
"And in a bag in the backseat." Kenzi finished.
"Your little snack couldn't hold you over? Not that I'm surprised."
"Okay, you noticed.. I know I didn't call you guys about that but this is different okay? I found the guy that stole my guy's jewels." Kenzi decided it was her turn to chime in.
"And then there was another guy to wanted to take the other guy out.."
"Okay okay, you lost me at the second guy. You can't keep doing this Bo, D-man and I can't keep covering up for you."
"Okay, this is not how I planned my day Tamsin, I'd really rather not have to interact with you as much as I have today either, but here we are." Tamsin just huffed.
"Just show it to me." Bo pushed Tamsin out of the bar and over to her car. Bo opened the trunk to reveal the headless body, with the pieces of mop sticking out. Tamsin frowned, her bottom lip sticking out.
"First problem succubus, no head."
"Uh, he started that way."
"Yeah, second problem, it's a duelahan."
"Okay.. obvious question, what the hell is a duelahan?"
"Well, you could say they're the mercenaries of the fae world. Over the millennia they've evolved the ability to remove their heads."
"Like the headless horseman?"
"They use it to throw fear into their victims. Usually it's pretty effective actually."
"Yeah as a victim I can attest to that."
"Usually they're unstoppable though." Tamsin, once again, had to give the succubus credit. Defeating a duelahan was no small feat. Such a short time in their world and already she was becoming a great warrior. If she hadn't been marked, Tamsin would almost consider attempting a relationship with the succubus. Valkyries were supposed to find love among history's greatest warriors. She had been alone for so long, in all of centuries, never finding love. Of course she had never looked, until the succubus decided she wanted to waltz right into her life. Tamsin knew though that she couldn't. Not with someone that was marked.
"Well, I guess someone forgot to tell this guy."
"Or maybe he wasn't listening?" Kenzi decided to say. Bo and Tamsin just stared at her. "You get it? No head." They just shook their heads.
"I need to talk to you." Tamsin told Bo. They walked away, leaving Kenzi with the body. "Look succu-bitch, you've been extremely lucky, but I'd say that luck is probably going to run out sooner or later. You know nothing about this world."
"Well I'm learning damn fast."
"Are you okay?"
"I need to look up the Light fae's doctor, Laruen. She said that she could help me take the edge of my lethal libido."
"Look succubus, I can't help you there, I'm Dark fae, nothing I can do. There are other ways to deal with that problem you know." Bo smiled.
"No offense, but I don't want to owe your team. And I'm looking for a more long term solution, so, can you at least ask Dyson for her number?"
"Fine succubus, but you did not get this from me, or Dyson." Tamsin quickly called Dyson to get Lauren's number. He questioned why, and she made up some bullshit that she needed to ask the doctor a few questions that only she could answer. After Tamsin hung up, she wrote the number down on a sheet of paper and handed it to Bo. Tamsin then walked over to inspect the body some more. Kenzi joined Bo, and held up some jewels she had found in the duelahan's pockets.
"Looks like Will isn't the only one after jewels."
"Either that or this way payment for taking out Connoll."
"Hm, looks like Will's got some explaining to do."
"Yeah, well let's do that before more bodies start piling up."
Will was trying to put out some of his green flames when Kenzi and Bo walked into the house.
"Will."
"Huh? Oh hey, hi. I was just wondering where you guys were."
"Yeah move." Kenzi said, pointing the fire extinguisher at the flames and pulling the trigger.
"Woah, now that's handy, just pull a trigger and click, it's out. I really have to get one of those." Bo grabbed Will by the shirt and threw him onto the couch.
"No, what you really have to is start telling us the truth. You sent a headless nightmare after Connoll."
"You mean like a duelahan? Oh no way, I hate those things. They're creepy, but you got away right? I mean you're here, so what happened? You catch this Connoll?"
"I barely helped him escape in one piece."
"Um, maybe we had a miscommunication. You know, I spent a lot of time on my own, talk to myself a fair bit, maybe I didn't make myself clear. But I did say to catch him, didn't I?"
"Connoll is your son." Will looked confused.
"My what?"
"Your son." A column of green flames shot out behind Will.
"What.. what, it couldn't be, I mean me a daddy?" Will stuttered.
"About 30 years ago, there was a woman lost in the woods? You gave her food and wine?"
"And then you know; bow-chica-wow-wow." Kenzi said, complete with hand gestures.
"Oh.. uhh.. God.. Uhm.. Ella.. No, Ellie, yeah! That's right, oh, she was beautiful, even for a human. We uh.." Will cupped his face in his hand. "Oh shit." Will looked up at Bo and smiled. "I'm a daddy. What does he do? Does he look like me? Oh, he's got to be tall right? This is terrific, oh what am I talking about this is horrible. He's human, he can't know about me."
"Uh, that cat's way out of the bag." Kenzi said. "That's whole reason he took your jewels. He just wants to meet you."
"Well, I want to meet him too. I could bring him something. What do you think, teddy bear? Fire truck?" Bo just shook her head.
"Just come with us to see him. That's all he wants." Bo pulled Kenzi over to the side. "I have a stop to make, then we can go deal with Connoll, just keep him here until I get back?"
"Mhm.." Kenzi just mumbled.
At the Ash's compound, Lauren was analyzing cells under a microscope when she felt a presence behind her. She turned around to see Bo standing there.
"How long have you been standing there?"
"Not long, I like watching a professional at work." Lauren laughed.
"Ah well, it's just boring research."
"Yeah well, some of the boring research might stop me from killing someone. You, uhm.. You said you might be able to do something about my hunger. Does that offer still stand?"
"You don't understand the politics of this world, it could be dangerous for me to even talk to you."
"The last thing I want to do is get you in trouble, but I need this." Lauren nodded.
"Should I be worried right now?"
"I have desires, not enough to kill someone.." She trailed off. "God who else has to say this kind of stuff huh? If you don't do it for me, then do it for the next person I feed off of."
"There's something that I developed for an incubus I treated." She picked up some vials. "If I'm right, it should take the edge off your hunger, but it won't allow you to heal." She filled a syringe with the liquid. "See if we can ramp you back to randy, frisky even. Take your jacket off. You know, if you learn to control your abilities, you might even like being fae."
"Maybe " Lauren inserted the needle into Bo's arm and injected the liquid into her system.
" You should think about joining the Light fae. I wouldn't have to hide my helping you."
"Well, they'd have to loosen up a bit first; start playing by my rules." Lauren smiled. "Seriously, thank you."
"Mhm." Bo smiled and turned to walk out of the lab, leaving Lauren with her research.
At the storage house, Bo walked in to meet Connoll. When she called out his name and he didn't respond, she walked further into the hallway. She called his name again and stepped out from behind a corner.
"I didn't know if you'd come. You talk to my dad?"
"Yeah, he wants to see you as much as you want to see him."
"I can't believe it. After all this time I'm actually going to see him. Do it, call him." Bo reached into her pocket and grabbed her phone. She dialed Kenzi and told her to bring Will in 20 minutes. After she hung up, she asked Connoll if he still had the gems. He motioned for her to follow him down the hallway. He opened a storage unit with the chest on the middle. He gestured for her to step in, and she opened the chest. While her back was turned her pointed a handgun at the back. She turned around.
"What is this?"
"I'm sorry, I'm not going to be happy with only a reunion. The world has got to know what he did, my mother wasn't crazy."
"No you don't want to do this Connoll. The fae won't let you." He laughed.
"They won't have a choice. They kill me once I've outted them, this thing will go even bigger. This is everything I've ever wanted since I was a kid. Throw me your phone." Bo tossed Connoll her phone and he closed the door on her, locking it.
"Connoll, let me out of here."
"It's no use, you don't understand what it's like, being abandoned by your father, not knowing who he is, knowing he doesn't give a damn about you."
"I do know, my fae parents abandoned me. They dumped be with foster parents and I didn't even know that they existed. Not until the same started happening to me."
"But at least you got something out of it. You're special like them."
"Talk to him first, see what he says."
"We played it his way for the last 20 years, now we're going to play it my way." Michael left Bo, going to wait for his father.
Kenzi and Will walked into the storehouse, looking for Michael. Kenzi called out for Bo.
"Kenzi? Get out of here it's a trap." Kenzi tried to get Will to run back out the door, but Connell ran around the corner, point his gun at them.
"Hold it, I know your tricks old man, you're not going anywhere."
"I thought this was supposed to be a reunion."
"What, you think you can just walk back into my life like nothing's happened?" A column of fire sprang up in a barrel behind Connell. "The whole world is going to know you're real. They're going to know what you did to my mother."
"You can't do that."
"He's got the gun; he can pretty well do what he wants."
"Your mother didn't understand, one of us can't be with one of you forever."
"You didn't even give us a chance. All I wanted to do was see you; I just wanted to get to know you." Connell was on the verge of a breakdown.
"What I did, I did for her own good." Will started to walk towards his son. "Before you knew it, she wanted to know her own kind. She wanted to tell them who she was with. She'd tell them about me, I couldn't risk that." Will shook his head.
"Didn't you even think about her?" Connell started to lower his gun.
"I did, but time moves differently for my kind." Connell raised his gun again.
"Things are going to move pretty fast from here on." Will just laughed.
"You're stubborn. You've got a lot of your old man's traits." Suddenly a duelahan walked out from behind a corner, behind Connoll. Kenzi rushed towards Will.
"You did this."
"I didn't know you were my son."
Kenzi grabbed Will and ran behind a corner. Michael turned to see the duelahan removing his head. Kenzi and Will opened the unit that Bo was locked in. The duelahan draw and brandished his sword at Michael. He shot at it, but again the bullets did no good. He just kept coming. Just as he was about to bash Michael with his sword, Bo pushed him out of the way, and blocked the sword with a piece of metal pipe. She swung her pipe at the duelahan, and dodged left and right, avoiding his sword.
He just missed Bo, lodging his sword into the wall. Bo hit his side with the metal pipe, ducking under him and whacking where his head should have been. Kenzi got his attention by holding his head over the fire in the barrel that Will had started. While Kenzi was taunting the duelahan, he had pulled his sword out of the wall and started fighting with Bo again. He caught her by surprise, causing her to drop her pipe, and fall to her knees, holding her bleeding neck.. Just as he was about to bring his sword down on her, Kenzi threw his head in the fire and he immediately fell to the ground, dead.
Michael and Will stood over the dead duelahan's body while Bo was leaning up against the wall, Kenzi holding her up.
"So what now?"
"I owe you a story" Will replied.
"You'd better make it fast." Bo was losing a lot of blood, and Kenzi knew she didn't have a lot of time.
"That women I saw running with the baby that night, she was a fae midwife, she was scared."
"But why wasn't I with my real parents? Were they dead?" Will just shrugged.
"I don't know. This midwife wasn't exactly what you call chatty, but what she did say was she was afraid. She said someone was trying to hurt you."
"Who?"
"That's all she said. Hey, you know more now than you did before, right? I don't know what the story was with your parents Bo, but maybe they do want to see you. Find them, give them a chance." Will turned to look at Michael and they both disappeared in a puff of green smoke.
Bo started to collapse to the floor from the blood loss.
"Bo, do you need to see a doctor?"
"No, get me Tamsin."
Back at Bo's place, Tamsin had reluctantly come over when Kenzi told her the situation. She walked into Bo's bedroom to find Bo half dead, lying of the bed. "Well succu-bitch, seems like you've had quite the day."
"Cut the shit Tamsin, you're the only one I can trust with this right now. I have to heal, and you're all that I've got left."
"Ugh, fine. Are you sure about this Bo?"
"I'm not sure about anything right now, but its how I heal, I have to."
Tamsin crawled onto the bed next to Bo, facing her. "This is a onetime thing succubus, I'm only doing this because there's always that chance you'll join the Dark because of my kindness." Tamsin flipped her hair, her usual sarcasm dripping from her words.
"Fat chance blondie, but nice try, I know you just want this." Bo gestured to her body. Tamsin just rolled her eyes.
"Let's just get this over with succubus." Bo brought her lips to Tamsin's, pressing her tongue again Tamsin's lips, slipping through, massaging Tamsin's tongue with hers. Tamsin allowed Bo to be the dominate one, as she knew Bo needed it; although Tamsin wouldn't have fought anyways. The kiss was like nothing Tamsin had ever experienced, and she had experienced plenty. She could feel the fireworks going off behind her eyes. This did not bode well for Tamsin. If a kiss from Bo did this to her, how could she ever expect to bring her to him. She'd have to figure that out when Bo wasn't groping at her body. Bo started to draw chi from Tamsin, feeling the wound start to close. Tamsin's chi was healing her faster than anyone else's ever had. When Bo broke the kiss, she stared at Tamsin with wide eyes.
"Woah, I've never tasted chi like that before, what are you?"
"You wouldn't believe me if you tried. Besides, don't you have some healing to do succubus?" Bo sighed, and brought her lips to Tamsin's again; drawing more and more chi from the blonde. Bo's right hand started to wander down Tamsin's body, her other hand pulling Tamsin's face ever closer to hers.
When Bo's wound had finally closed up and Bo felt exponentially better, she stopped. "Better?" Tamsin asked. Bo just nodded. Tamsin got off the bed and fixed her jacket. "Good, I'm glad you're sufficiently juiced." Bo watched Tamsin walk out the door and heard her front door close. Bo kept going over the feelings she had experienced while she was with Tamsin in her mind. Her chi was like nothing she had ever tasted. She racked her brain for what kind of fae Tamsin had been. Finally she recalled the Morrigan calling Tamsin a Valkyrie. Bo didn't know what that was, but she was determined to find out.
A/N: Well here's chapter 2. This was a long ass chapter to write, but it was pretty fun. Now in response to a couple of reviews, I get that it's probably boring to read pretty much word for word an episode that you've watched, and I'm thinking about ways to fix that. I most likely will just upload another story that is changed scenes only if you'd prefer to read that. I will of course write the whole episode into a chapter, but if you don't want to skim/read the entire thing, there's an alternative.
This story is un-beta'd so all the mistakes are my own, so any inconstancies or confusing bits, I apologize, since it all makes sense in my mind, sometimes it's hard to go through from a reader's perspective.
A lot of this story is Tamsin placed into Dyson's places when he interacts with Bo, since their positions in the story are fairly similar. I will of course make sure she is unique with her lines and actions, but as you'll notice, Tamsin takes on a lot of Dyson's roles.
To be honest, I had the chance to write a lemon in this chapter, but I personally think I want to build up her relationship with Bo before jumping in the sack.
So anyways, I hope you guys enjoy chapter 2 and thanks for all the support for the story!
A Charmed Vampire | Valkubus-Shipper