Chapter 18

„She is still not talking to me..." Trick looked sad when he came back from his study.

„Maybe because you knocked her girl out?" Kenzi stated.

„I didn't knock her out. I just used something to calm her down Kenzi."

„Knocked out, drugged, whatever. Why the hell did you even do that?"

„He was afraid, weren't you Tricky boy?" Anna came through the entrance of the Dal. She was looking much fresher and was wearing different clothes. Tight black jeans clung to her to long legs. The plain white shirt showed of her toned body and the tiny black vest managed to make the boring outfit looking sexy. Yes she looked sexy. Her fiery red hair was flowing around her still so young looking face. Kenzi still thought it to be amazing for Fae to live centuries and still looking like 30.

„Afraid? Afraid of what?" The brunette was curious.

„Anna? What are you doing here? I thought you were home with your husband and child." Trick wondered.

„I was at home. Fed, put on some new clothes, checked if they were fine, but I can't stay there playing happy family while those... those abominations are still out there experimenting, playing gods. I want to help and I know that I could be useful. We have to stop them and soon but first we need to take care of Lauren..."

„You know what she is?"

„I'm pretty certain and I guess you too or you wouldn't have done what you did..."

„Heeeeelloooo somebody here who want's to explain? Just for once? Without the doc thinking and translating I feel fucking lost. So, what do you mean by afraid and why don't you know WHAT she is? She's a friggin' human like me if you have forgotten." Kenzi was standing, looking at the two with stern eyes demanding answers for once.

„We are not sure ourselves Kenzi. Something has changed. Didn't you see her eyes turning? The ground shaking? Her features about to change?"

„Erm... No? She went through a lot. Don't you think it was just... the expected reaction?"

„I've felt it... She was about to transform... She is starved... I've never... never..." Anna sighed deeply.

„Transform? Starved? Duuuudes, come on... What are you telling me? That she rubbed a shiny lamp and she turned Fae?"

„Not exactly... I rather suspect those humans. We should talk to this Miranda woman when she wakes up. I have the feeling they turned her into one of us. Bastards... I can't imagine what she must going through... Horrible..."

„So you think..." Trick started.

„That she is an Akhileus? Yes... Her... Aura, smell, her hunger... Everything fits."

„She...Lauren.. The doc... Fae? Holy shit... but how?" She wasn't sure she heard right. She hadn't had any good nights sleep for quite some time. She was awake now for how many hours? And she was slightly drunk from the buckthorn. A part of her mind was telling her that she was just imagining things. She wondered if Bo knew. She hadn't seen her best friend for a few hours now. The succubus was still with the poor blonde, not leaving her side for a minute.

She didn't need to be a mindreader to know that Bo was giving herself the fault. Maybe her approach wasn't the right one after what had happened to Lauren, but she couldn't know. Her emotions had driven her, like they did the most time. Seeing her mate so broken and hurt just after kissing her, feeling rejected by the one she loved the most had stung.

Ivy was keeping Bo company watching over her bigger sister. In all the chaos that was going around they seemed to have forgot that the young brunette was a stranger to this world. She may knew about the Far, but seeing them for the first time herself, seeing her bigger sister like that... Kenzi knew to well how it felt like to be suddenly part of world you didn't know existed before or you only heard small things about. She was amazed how well the younger Beattie seemed manage all this. She was way stronger then she looked like at least mentally.

Kenzi had taken the time to take a nap on the old sofa in the lounge. She only woke up shortly before Trick came back from looking after his granddaughter. And now they were here, discussing Laurens „Nature" yay...

„We don't know Kenzi. We can only guess that it must have been something Taft did." Trick explained.

„I guess I need to give that Miranda bitch a proper talking to..." Anna cracked her knuckles, her eyes gleaming dangerously.

„She is still unconscious and her jaw still healing..." Trick calmed the angry Akhileus down.

„Too bad..." Anna mumbled a little disappointed the glow in her eyes fading. „Maybe we should start feeding Lauren or things could get pretty ugly soon. That girl is starved... Guess we can't do it the traditional way... So... you still got some Ambrosia Tricky?"

„A little bit. You are the only Akhileus in the area so I'm not as good stocked, but I should still have some... Of course... I hope it helps..." Trick murmured and left looking for said thing.

Kenzi turned to Anna a big questioning look on her face. Anna grinned walking up to the stunned woman flicking her fingers at her forehead making the gorh girl flinch and curse.

„What the hell was that for?" She hissed.

„Just wanted to flick the question mark off of your forehead" the redhead smirked.

„Oh, you are the funny one now? Well.. start spilling your guts girl I won't stop until I know what the fuck you are talking about now"

„Short or long version?"

„Short one please. I don't feel like to hear some bigass Fae history lesson or about some biological imperatives.." Kenzi airquoted „in detail."

„Oh I think I will like you short one" Anna grinned.

„Off course you will. I'm Kenzi. Everybody lurves them some Kenzi and I ignore the short comment for now missy..."

Anna now openly laughed for a short time. „Allright, allright. I tell you what I believe is the case here. So... there is this fucker Taft and his team experimenting on Fae and shit. Maybe Dyson had hurt her too much so they had to save her or they made her do it or she even did it voluntarily what I doubt. When I was in captivity I snapped up some conversation about creating a new race... Using Fae... Sick bastard..." Annas eyes were starting to glow again in the same venom green. Taking a deep breath her anger went down.

„Well... I told you I'm an Akhileus"

„Yeah decendent of Achill, yadda yadda"

„I guess she used... my... my genes to turn her into one. How I have no fuckin' idea. You have to know we are born warriors. No killers, we just love to fight. Usually we are feeding of the fear of our enemies on the battlefield. We got some neat tricks to stimulate those fears..."

„The transformation?"

„That's a part of our.. powers. Something we only use in... emergencies. Well let me start first. Living in the world of humans with our powers made them believe we were half gods, at least that worked until the middle ages... I fought in several mostly human armys. Was a good life actually until then. We were feared on the battlefield. Our glowing eyes alone made most of our enemies piss their pants, hehe. So delicous..." Anna moaned slightly. „But when one of us is really and I mean REALLY starved they can turn into their... form. I tell you it looks ugly and hurts like hell, especially when those horns start growing out of your skull... We look terrifying like this and get a loooooooooot to feed, but usually we don't let it come as far. Loosing control and the pain... naaaah not my cup of tea."

„So you... feed on fear? Actual fear? But what do you do when there is no war raging or... I dunno... Your work as a lab guard don't seem so fulfilling..."

„Ha... yeah doesn't sound like a job full of fear, doesn't it? Well it's not like the fear on a battlefield, but there is always some. Relatives worrying, patients fearing operations and death? Not delicious but enough and there is always Ambrosia..."

„Yeah Ambrosia... what is that all about?"

„You never heard of it? Your mythology describes it as a meal making people immortal. A meal from the gods so you say. In reality it's just a meal or rather a paste made out of different plants and underfae... It works as a substitute to our natural feeding. Whenever there was peace we needed something to... eat... It's not like the real thing but close enough..."

„I've found it..." Trick came back from his study and coughed. „Dusty corner..." he admitted holding up a glass filled with something green and muddy.

„Is that...? Eeew. That looks worse than the last gas station sushi last tuesday and I tell you that looked like it partly living..." Kenzi made some gagging noises.

„It doesn't taste as bad as it looks little one... Come on Tricky, show her we need a portion ready for blondy either way. She's been asleep long enough. Let's prepare her meal and then we try to talk to her... her and that bitch when she's finally awake..."

Trick picked up a dish, from a place Kenzi never knew there were dishes, and put some from the glass on the porcelain. It still looked like goo a tiny pile of goo, but Trick pulled out a tiny flask of clear liquid out from his cabinett and dripped only a few drops on top of it. It took only second to change into a mouthwatering meal glowing faintly gold.

„Wooooooow"

Anna just smirked. „Let's wake up the doc. She needs her medicine"

A/N: Another short one. Sorry for that and that this chapter is more of an information dump, but I want to change the point of view and it's better for me to make a clear cut here instead in the middle... I'm still really happy about those who still read this piece of crap ( who said that?) I don't take responsibility for any deaths because of this story by the way ;) I'm off tomorrow to make a bike tour with some of my girls and get wasted, so don't expect any update tomorrow or the day after *lol