Lost Girl: Redux | Altered Scenes

Chapter 4: Faetal Attraction

Pairing: Bo & Tamsin | Valkubus

Specs: AU, Femslash, Slightly OC Tamsin

Rating: M for Sexual Content and Language

Skulls flying towards them, Bo, Tamsin, Dyson and Kenzi ducked behind the car as the building exploded. Picking up one of the skulls, Tamsin examined it. "What the hell did you do succulette?"

"I guess some people just don't deal well with rejection." The words stung Tamsin's heart. She knew that those words, on some level were directed at her. Her facial expression reflected it, but Bo and Kezni didn't notice, however Dyson did. He could see the pain and hurt in his partner's eyes. She was a master of hiding her emotions, but not from him. They had been through a lot together, despite being on opposite sides of the field, so to speak.

She had told him what Trick had said to her, that she was supposed to stay away from Bo, and had been caught making out with that barista from the Dal by said succubus. He tried to make her feel better by taking her out to a human bar and getting her drunk as shit, but it didn't help. He could see that she was still miserable. He didn't know what else to do.

"Did you see Dyson at the Dal last night?"

"No, worse, Tamsin." Kenzi cuddled up to her best friend.

"Okay, well did you tell her that you've got these succubus feelings for her or what?"

"Or what. She had another woman there."

"Oh tits."

"According to Tamsin, she's only going to help me heal, that's it."

"But there was something there! I can see it, Tamsin doesn't seem like the kind of person that helps people out of the goodness of her heart."

"It's not a big deal, she was probably just trying to load up on favors I owe her so she can sway me to the Dark or something. Now just let me go back to sleep, I have the flu."

Another kid sitting at the police office, just pissing off Tamsin and Dyson, giving them nothing to go on really. Tamsin was starting to get really frustrated with the boy. "Today is really not the day to piss me off." She hissed at him. Dyson could see where this was about to go, so he took matters into his own hands, better him take the fall than her. She had enough under her plate without going all Valkyrie on him. He grabbed the kid's hand and twisted it, and everyone in the station could hear a creaking sound. Hale rushed over. "Cool it D-man." Dyson gave Hale a look, and glanced over at Tamsin, who Hale could see was calming down, but still had the fire in her eyes. Hale nodded.

"He broke my arm!" The kid was babying his arm, Tamsin rolled her eyes. She got up and walked over to him, "It's not broken." She had enough experience with broken bones to know it was just popped out of the socket. She pulled his arm and the same sound echoed throughout the station, signaling it was back in place. As she walked out of the room she yell. "See all better now!" Dyson and Hale exchanged a look, and tried to comfort the kid.

Out in the hallway Tamsin leaned up against a wall, sighing. She couldn't get over her feelings for Bo, and it was getting out of hand. She had almost gone Valkyrie on the kid's ass, and she didn't need her life cycle to be shortened any more than it already was. Dyson had taken the hit for her, but she knew he couldn't do it forever, she needed to figure out what she was going to do about Bo, and fast.

Down in an old, abandoned field, Bo and Kenzi stood over a beat up car, Bo with a crowbar in her hand. "Okay, ready, begin!" Kenzi encouraged Bo. She swung the crowbar into the windshield of the car, venting all her anger at Tamsin into it. When the windshield, the headlights, and the entire car really was all destroyed Bo asked, "What next?" Kenzi explained that they were going to go party it up, to help Bo get over Tamsin. Bo explained that she wasn't really a drinker because it caused her to lose control, killing people. Kenzi told her they would go somewhere safe.

"You know what the worst thing is? That Tamsin isn't affected by this shit at all, she acts like I don't exist and my day is just being shit." Little did Bo know that it was affecting Tamsin, just as much as it was affecting her.

At the station, Dyson was being grilled by his boss. The kid whose arm he nearly detached was going to dodge the arrest charges and sue the station because of him. Tamsin sat across from her partner, feeling guilty because she knew that Dyson was taking the fall for her.

"It's never happen, it's just talk," Tamsin was trying to reassure her. She didn't want Dyson to get in trouble. She really did care for her partner, despite her cold exterior.

"You can deduce that huh Tamsin? Because you haven't been deducing shit lately, don't think I haven't heard the complaints against you. This is the third one about you two this week." Tamsin was starting to lose her temper again.

"It's not legit, it's just random shit people stirring up trouble."

"No, you two are losing control, and it's getting the way."

"Look, we'll try harder okay?"

"Oh you two will do better than that, tomorrow you'll be seeing the shrink and getting this shit dealt with." Tamsin glanced at Dyson.

"Wait, it me, not him, he's just protecting me, don't make him do this." Tamsin almost couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth, but she had to help her partner out, he didn't need to go to the shrink, she did. If she could spare him that, she would, he had done enough for her.

"Fine Tamsin, just you then, but Dyson let your partner succeed or fail on her own."

"Yes ma'am." She walked out, leaving Tamsin and Dyson to the discussion they both knew had to happen.

"You didn't need to do that Tamsin."

"Yeah, I did. I can't let you take the heat for me anymore, I'm not worth it." Dyson shook his head, the pair had had this conversation before, Tamsin had a lot of self-misery to deal with, Dyson didn't know exactly why, but he knew it had to do with her past, which Tamsin never really talked about. She thought that everyone, Trick, Dyson, even Hale, cared too much about her, and she knew she would never be able to pay them back.

"Tamsin, I'm not going to have this argument with you again, but I hate that you're shutting me out. We've been friends for a while, partners even longer, I want to help you, wither you believe you deserve it or not." Tamsin stood up and walked around the room.

"The cops and the fae, I know you are in the same position, but you understand, we have two different full time jobs. That stress alone is enough to make me go insane, and now there's Bo." Dyson nodded, their friendship was close, close enough that they both admitted to each other what they had done with the succubus. Tamsin was a little jealous of Dyson, but she understood. Bo needed to feed, and since Tamsin wasn't willing at the time, and now she couldn't, the succubus had to go elsewhere, and it just happened to be her partner.

"You love her don't you?" Tamsin whipped her head around, seeing the knowing look on Dyson face. She was about to deny it, when Dyson raised an eyebrow. She just sighed and nodded. "I need a drink." Dyson smiled, grabbed his coat and followed Tamsin towards the Dal.

"C'mon are you a succubus of a succubust? Rebound sex is the easiest way to get over someone."

"I told you, I didn't care for Tamsin was much anyways." Although Bo knew she was just denying it. As the words left her mouth, she looked over and saw Dyson and Tamsin walk into the bar and past the girls, to sit at the end of the bar. Tamsin signaled for Trick to get them a couple of beers. Bo couldn't looking at the blonde, so she got up and walked over to Samir and Olivia, beckoning to both of them, inviting them to her place, right in front of Tamsin.

Tamsin felt like she had been punched in the heart, which Bo's actions had meant to do to her. She didn't know how much longer she could hold herself back from the succubus. She was beginning to accept that the succubus meant a lot to her.

Dyson walked into the station, seeing Tamsin sitting at her desk, massaging her temples. Dyson went over and sat across from her.

"You know how to convince a therapist you need help? Be late to your first appointment." Tamsin looked up at him

"I don't know if I can do this Dyson. I just don't know."

"Listen, you didn't want me taking the fall for you anymore, you have to go through with this, play politics. Suck it up Valkyrie, you can do it."

At her session Tamsin wasn't really willing to open up. The therapist was trying to get her to open up, but Tamsin just laughed and described the therapist's life in full, back to her face. Standing up to fill her coffee mug she just said, "You've always been strong, but now you feel like your world is spinning out beyond your control, and instead of deal with suddenly feeling vulnerable, you're compensating, by lashing out at anyone who happens to get in your way." She left, leaving Tamsin to her thoughts.

She knew deep down that the doctor was right. As a Valkyrie she wasn't used to feeling vulnerable, but that's how Bo made her feel. Bo made her feel both strong and weak, both invincible and vulnerable. In the short time she had known the succubus, and with the minimal time she had spent around her, she knew that she was in deep with Bo. The succubus was getting inside her mind and smashing down her walls, and that was what truly scared Tamsin.

Tamsin and Dyson walked into the living room where Samir's body sat. "So how did it go?" Tamsin gave her partner a dirty look.

"We're not talking about this right now." She looked at the body. "Jesus, what are we thinking here exactly?"

"Not sure yet, I kept it out of the human system to be safe, the wife is missing." Tamsin bend down to examine the body.

"D-Man, where exactly is this dude's head?" Dyson almost laughed.

"Not here."

"Any theories?"

"Well the head came off pretty easily, but bar that, nothing." Tamsin and Dyson walked out of the room, down the hall together. "Any witnesses?"

"Nothing but the text you got." Dyson noticed a bit of blood near the staircase. He dipped his finger in it and took a whiff. He smelt Bo's scent. "Of course, looks like you're going to have to face your fears sooner rather than later partner." Tamsin looked confused for a second, then it dawned on her.

"Shit."

When Dyson and Tamsin arrived at Bo's place, Bo let them in, decidedly ignoring Tamsin, which hurt the blonde Valkyrie, but she couldn't say she didn't deserve it. Dyson questioned the succubus, while Tamsin just stood a few feet away from the succubus, trying not to look at her. Bo walked over to a stood to sit down.

"Did Olivia have the weapon?"

"I don't know."

"Did she have the head?"

"I didn't see it, was it not there?"

"No."

"Well I don't have it, there anything else?" Tamsin decided to ask the question she had been dying to ask the succubus, and screw the consequences.

"I have one." Tamsin walked towards her. "Why did you bring them back here in the first place?" Bo did make eye contact with Tamsin.

"I was hungry, my last healing session just left me a little unsatisfied. I didn't want to call you again Dyson, no offense. They were there and you know what, they were yummy." Tamsin didn't reply, how could she reply to something like that. She knew Dyson had fed Bo after she healed the succubus, but Tamsin thought that if he had maybe the succubus had developed feelings for the wolf. Obviously she was wrong to hope. Dyson stepped in to save his partner from further embarrassment.

"You should try to curb that appetite of yours." Dyson then warned Bo to keep her eyes open and door locked and that he and Tamsin were going to go look for Olivia. Bo questioned them where they were going to look. Tamsin replied.

"Furies always have sisters."

Standing at the door of the fury sisters, Tamsin and Dyson were trying to find out where Olivia was.

"Mm, Tamsin, haven't seen you in a few centuries, not since warrior training. How's being a Valkyrie treating you?" Tamsin gave her a dirty look.

"You know full well how it's "treating" me. Now let's just cut to the chase. I know Olivia is sick, tell us where she is so we can help her."

"Someone tried to kill our sister, no one we don't trust gets near her." The fury sisters were about ready to use her powers on the pair, but Tamsin was ready to respond in kind. Dyson grabbed her shoulder, to calm the Valkyrie down. Nothing could be more lethal than a Valkyrie and a Fury facing off. After all they were both servants of one god of the dead or another. "Ladies, we're here under the authority of the Ash." The sisters sighed.

"We can't get her out."

"That's why you bring a Valkyrie."

Tamsin went to Olivia and looked into her eyes. Using her powers of doubt and persuasion, she was able to get Olivia into the car with her and Dyson.

"She asked me to execute a human, and I refused." Tamsin who was standing the corner away from all the Light fae rolled her eyes, of course the succubus would refuse. Tamsin could see so many traces of Light in her, but at the same time she could see the Dark. She supposed that was why Bo refused to choose a side, there was too much of both side in her. "We fought, and her attack, I guess it backfired."

"I'll break the news of Olivia's sisters." The Ash was not pleased. "We'll be keeping you under close scrutiny." Tamsin's ears perked up at that, if the Ash was going to watching her closely, she needed to tell the Morrigan to do the same. "And you Dyson, let's hope your performance improves." He looked over at Tamsin. "You are lucky I don't end this little exchange program right now because of this mess." Tamsin glared back at him, she wasn't going to let the Ash push her around. Then Ash then walked out of the room, leaving the gang to deal with the mess.

She sighed and picked up the phone, Tamsin was on the other end.

"Hey succubus, you probably want to hear this. We were checking out Samir in the system."

"What he has a record?"

"No but Jenny does. Apparently she was picked up a few weeks ago in a parking garage near Samir's office."

"No kidding."

"I checked it out with the arresting officers. Samir told them that Jenny had become obsessed. He had slept with her once, but she became delusional. Thought that they were having some sort of passionate love affair."

"What so the entire relationship was in her head?" Bo was skeptical. "That's nuts."

"He claimed she had been stalking him for months. But he begged us to keep quiet so his wife wouldn't find out. "

"Which means what?" Bo noticed a trail on the floor, leading up stairs. She got up and followed it.

"Look, the tox-screen shows that the wine Samir was drinking was laced with tranquilizers. Olivia didn't have the presence of mind to drug him. She's not our killer, as much as I would love to pin this one on a Light fae."

"I think we have bigger problems."

"Yeah?" No reply. "Bo?" Bo ran up to her bedroom, Samir's head sitting on her bed in the bag.

"I found the head. There's a note." She picked it up. "Beloved, I've taken steps to remove the obstacle between us. Join me at the farm, we'll start our new life together."

"Did you sleep with her too?" Tamsin was almost furious, although rationally she knew she had to reason to be.

"I touched her, that's all."

"Bo you can't use you powers.." Bo cut her off

"Just save the lecture okay? She's taken Kenzi."

"God damnit." Tamsin said to herself.

"You make me want to be a better fae." Kenzi smiled. Tamsin managed to sneak up on the girls.

"Mass destruction and two dead Furies, that's quite the Friday you've got going on there succubus. Trick, shot of the usually, please."

"The Ash, he's pissed huh?"

"I wouldn't know, you know that, the Morrigan is impressed though. You certainly made a problem for the light. Dyson probably was able to get you off the hook with the Ash though, next time you see him, you can ask him yourself. Although I guess I should thank you, since this was a high profile serial killer case, gave me and D-Man some big points." Trick handed Tamsin her drink. "Guess you don't owe me anymore." Tamsin went to go sit on one of the sofas they had in the Dal, Bo followed her, leaving Kenzi at the bar to talk to Trick about a bottle of 300 year old wine she had jacked from him.

"So, I was thinking." Tamsin waved Bo off.

"I'm going to stop you right there."

'No it's good. Listen, as recent events have suggested mixing emotions and sex can get kind of messy. " Tamsin nodded, although they hadn't had sex yet, Tamsin knew it was only a matter of time. There was only so much self control she had.

"That is what I was trying to avoid with us." The lie slipped out easily.

"Yeah, well I get that now."

"My offer does still stand though, I'll be there when you need me." Tamsin wanted it to be so much more, but she knew that it would make things more difficult for everyone, so she would try. Not that she would succeed however.

"How about for more than just healing? How about for fun?" Tamsin smirked.

"For fun."

"Yeah, there's this whole friends with benefits thing that I have heard so much about." Tamsin laughed.

"You don't say, yeah, and you're actually kind of perfect. You don't care, you don't die and I trust you." That hit a string on Tamsin's heart, both good and bad. On one hand the succubus thought she didn't care, not that Tamsin could blame her, that's how she was trying to act, although internally she knew better. On the other hand, Bo trusted her, that was more than anyone had ever done for her, for knowing her such a short time. No one ever trusted the Valkyrie so fast, Dyson and Trick were really the only ones who really trusted her now even. "Friend with benefits."

"But definitely just friends." Did she want to take this? Her heart would give out sooner or later and she would have to admit her feelings for Bo, despite Trick telling her not to. But how could she refuse?

"Deal." Bo leaned in towards Tamsin, bringing their lips together. As they collided, Tamsin could feel those same sparks go off as the last time she kissed Bo, but this time, Bo wasn't feeding from her. She reveled in the feeling. Her hand stroked the succubus' arm as she pulled Bo closer to her, needing to feel the contact between them. Bo pulled back, smiling at Tamsin. "So, do you want to get friendly at your place or mine?"

A/N: Okay, so testing is now over, so to celebrate, I wrote a new chapter! I'm in the process of trying to pull away from the mirroring I've been doing, so I'm slowly pulling Tamsin into her own character. I wrote a lot about the inner workings of her mind and feelings, and hopefully nothing was all weird, and I apologize if it was.

Dyson and Tamsin's relationship is super bromance. They've been partners for a long while now, and I imagine the two of them would get along extremely well without Bo in the mix. So Dyson really does care for Tamsin and vice versa.

I kind of took a few liberties with Furies and Valkyries, since they were both servants of the dead in their respective mythologies, Greek and Norse. So yes, Tamsin did know the Furies personally; my ideas were that they trained together before Tamsin became a Valkyrie. I've done a lot of research on Valkyries, and I want to sort of keep the mythology true in this story since we don't really know a lot about them from the show, and in mythology Valkyries weren't born, they were chosen.

But anyways, I really like this chapter, because it was fun to write Tamsin's thought processes. From here on out, there should be lemons in the chapters, since Bo and Tamsin have entered into a friends with benefits relationship, so I think that will start next chapter.

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter!

A Charmed Vampire