Sidenote: to the reviewer who picked up on the Ayn Rand quote and the honoring the youngest bolo with her name, kudos to you on picking it up! one of my greatest inspirations of totured love stories...also thanks again to you all for the reviews and reading this all!

Tamsin stared at me for a moment, taking a breath, she looked at her wrinkled dress, "can I at least borrow some clothes, I don't want to reaffirm the typical morning after image when Bo lays into me." I smiled as I ran to the closet pulling out old scrub pants and two t-shirts. I held the shirts up, "Pick one, either zombie doctors from space or Radiohead."

Tamsin smiled, "Radiohead. Not that I don't love zombies and doctors." I tossed the shirt at her and kissed her softly on the cheek. I watched her eyes drift to the wings, "How long have they been glowing."

"Since you stopped me from throwing them away, why?" Tamsin smiled and grabbed my hand, "I've just never seen anything like that." Her smile faded as she closed her eyes suddenly, wobbling in her stance a bit. I had to hold her steady, "You ok? Tamsin?" I placed a hand against her forehead as she smiled a little, "I feel a little light headed, I never ate last night and, um, there was a lot of activity last night."

I blushed as I kissed her softly, "We better get you something to eat then." I pushed her playfully, "Get dressed, I will be waiting downstairs." I left her with a smile on my face. When I reached the bottom of the stairs I did not see Tamsin stumble and grab onto the bed frame, gasping for air, trying to steady herself.

"Lauren, you could have told me last night." I was getting deep stares from Bo, and had been since Kenzi blurted out what she had come across in the guest house. Bo had literally frozen in mid bit and Kenzi had to slap her on the back to get her to say anything. I let out a sigh, "It wasn't my place to tell you. When I left them Tamsin was intending to leave." I pushed at the eggs on my plate as Ayn stole a pancake from my plate, giggling as she quickly moved to steal one from Kenzi's plate. "It's not like I would have started a brawl, Lauren. I want to talk to her, that's all."

Kenzi and I both raised our eyebrows, "You talking to Blondie always leads to face punches, especially when the conversation topic is your beloved doctor's." Kenzi winked as she pointed at Bo with her fork, "Dishes are done, Bo Bo. Not much you can do about it, the kiddo is bigger than you."

Bo shook her head, "I swear I break a few bones a few times and no one gives me a chance." Ayn suddenly burst out into giggles, "The Valkyrie wont come inside, she is nervous, and Fi cant make her move." Ayn hopped off her seat and pulled at Bo, "Come mommy."

Bo was pulled outside where Sera and Tamsin were talking in harsh, hushed voices. Sera had her hands on her hips, "Tamsin, she is not going to be mad." Tamsin looked up and met my eyes, she looked very pale and worried, "Captain." Her eyes drifted to Bo, "Hi Bo."

Bo smiled tightly, "Tamsin." Sera started talking, "Mom, tell her what you want to, before she passes out from stressing out." Bo took a breath, "Noodle, you always cheat."

Bo walked to Tamsin, "Tamsin, I do want to talk to you, just talk, no fighting or yelling." She stood a bit away from Tamsin as she folded her arms, "I forgive you, for everything. The day you killed Arden, I wanted to say it then, but couldn't. I was embarrassed at myself for being ignorant and stubborn." Bo looked at Sera, "I wanted my little girl to be happy, and I didn't want to see that it was you she was happy with. I know you have a day or a few hours left here, Please spend it with her, with us before you go." Bo reached out and put a hand on Tamsin elbow, "All of it, I forgive you for." I could see in her eyes she was forgiving Tamsin for everything, including the business with the Norn. Tamsin cringed as she stared at Bo, trying not to cry. "I want to thank you for everything you have given this family and my daughter, and say that I wont stand in the way of you two anymore."

Tamsin swallowed hard, "I...Bo. Um." She didn't finish, she stumbled back and fell quickly to her knees, breathing heavy. Sera and I reacted fast, rushing to her side. Sera looked at me, "She has not eaten since yesterday." I yelled over my shoulder at Kenzi, "Go get the bagels and juice, bring them out here." I looked up at Bo, "Grab that chair." I glanced back and saw Ayn standing peaceful as Kenzi and Bo ran about, she was staring at Tamsin, the two making eye contact. She cocked her head and looked at me, "He's giving her what she wants."

Sera was trying to stay calm as Tamsin grew paler, her eyes never leaving Ayn's. I stood up and picked up Ayn, whispering, "What do you see."

Sera smiled, "A big old man with a giant beard like Uncle Dyson, but not as pretty." She booped my nose, "He is giving the Valkyrie what she wants. Peace." She bent close to whisper in my ear as I handed her to Kenzi, "She is leaving Fi." I grabbed the food as Ayn was handed off, her words unnerving me as well as her complete utter calm.

I ran back to Tamsin, "Sera, in my bag I have injection pens. Grab the bag and bring it out to me." Sera hesitated until Tamsin nodded at her to go. As soon as Sera ran to the house, I bent down and took Tamsin's pulse, my own heart racing as I began to realize what was happening. "You are dying, aren't you, Commander."

She clenched her jaw as she nodded, "I wanted to leave as soon as I felt it coming, but she was stuck on me talking to Bo." Tamsin swallowed hard. I held her up and tried to give her some juice. She coughed lightly, "This is coming fast, I haven't felt like this since the first time." I could see the fear in her eyes, I looked down, "It's okay, right? I mean it's is the end of this cycle, you will be back."

Tamsin smiled and shook her head, "I missed my pickup to stay with Sera. I got the call in the middle of the night, I let it pass. Disobeying a direct order from Odin. I have never disobeyed him, even when I was a shit." She looked up as Sera ran back out to us, "Those who fail him sacrifice a life cycle so we remember why. This is my last one." Tamsin smiled tightly as she stopped talking when Sera dropped down, digging in my bag.

She paused her movements, turning to look at me, "Mum...no." I knew when she looked in my eyes, I had told her everything.

X

My mind was racing, I didn't pick up on mum's thoughts right away, until I bent down with the medical bag. I turned quickly as she held Tamsin up, "Mum...no."

Tamsin spoke, "yes, Sera." she was pale, I grabbed her hand. I flinched as I could feel her heart beat fading fast. I felt my entire body begin to shake, tremble so hard I knew my heart was shaking with me. Pounding harder with every second that passed as I began to realize she was dying in front of me. "Don't you dare do this, old woman. You are immortal, you will live."

Tasmin pulled my hand, bringing me closer, "I am only immortal by the whim of his orders and if I follow them. My life has never been mine, until now." She reached up and held a shaky hand against my cheek, I pressed it against me. "I finally took what I wanted, did what I wanted and I found the forgiveness of your mother." She smiled, "Ayn was right, he is giving me what I wanted. Peace."

I felt my eyes glowing purple, "You will come back."

Tamsin kept her smile as I felt my mom come up behind us, Tamsin's voice was growing softer, "You promised to move on..." she drifted off, gently reminding me of the conversation from the other night. She dropped her hand from my face, "I love you Sera." it came out as a whisper as her heart slowed to a stop. I grabbed her, holding her up, shaking her, "No, no, you old woman. You cannot do this, we found peace together." I was on the verge of yelling as I grabbed her face, kissing her as I tried pushing chi in her. I screamed as the chi bypassed her mouth and evaporated into the air around us. I looked up at my parents, my mom was crying and my mum was trying not too. I screamed at them, "Help me! Both of you! Do something!"

mum reached for my arm, "This is beyond us, and all of our powers."

I snapped, pulling my arm away from her, "The fuck it is." I bent and tried to push the chi again, mumbling, "You cannot leave me again, dying like a coward when I finally have you and you have me." I shut my eyes tightly as I could feel my anger and my powers grow as I was desperate to bring Tamsin back.

There was a bright flash as a white glow surrounded us, the sky opened up and two gleaming armored Valkyries descended into the middle of the backyard. They landed softly and stood, looking at me. The one spoke gently, "She is to come with us."

I screamed louder than I ever had before, louder than I ever imagined I could, "Bring him down here!" I was trembling, a purple haze covering me as my hands and eyes were bright with my anger. I picked Tamsin up, holding her still warm body close to mine. The Valkyries said nothing and starting walking towards Tamsin and I.

I screamed again, "Bring him to me, Now! Or I will rip your wings off and go up there myself."

The Valkyries paused as the ground began to tremble, there was another large flash of light and the Valkyries looked behind me, bowing their heads.

"The future Ash has quite a temper." A rich, thick voice echoed from behind me. My parents and I turned to see a large, white haired man covered in intricate armor sitting in one of the patio chairs. He looked at me with glowing blue eyes. He took a slight breath as he looked around, "So the fabled fae family is upset with me."

I held Tamsin tighter against me, "Bring her back now."

Odin chuckled, "You do know I am a god right? I could squish you like a ant." he paused, "but I won't." he stood up, his height increasing tenfold. "Tamsin has always been a pain. But she always did what I asked of her, that is what has kept her around." he looked in my eyes after looking at the lifeless woman in my arms, "she did disobey my order, the only reason she was let out of her self imposed prison sentence. I do not let these things go very easily." he took a few steps as he stroked his beard, "when I sent her down here to pick up a great, honored warrior, something unique happened." Odin walked closer to me, reaching out and picking Tamsin up and out of my arms like nothing, even as I fought to keep her. He set her gently down on the small couch I had on the edge of the patio. Odin waved his two Valkyries over to stand with Tamsin as he looked back at me, "This one found her freedom and the strength to allow herself choice." he pointed at my wings that were glowing brightly. "She gave you her heart a long time ago. I allow all of my girls once chance at finding their warrior heart companion. Many of them never find it because they are so driven to obey me, please me and continue on with the job at hand."

I was getting irritated by his drawn out nonsense, "Old man, I will destroy the halls if you do not bring her back, and bring her back now."

He smiled at me, stepping so close I had to crane my neck up to see his face, "You threaten a god?" laughing he reached out a large hand, grabbing the wings. "Stupid young one, you can't see past your own emotions. You are the one that holds the key to her resurrection. You two are soul mates that have missed each other for thousands of years until now, when Tamsin sacrificed her own wants and desires for you, she invoked the power of the wings. She gave her heart to you completely, it is yours to control, to love or destroy." he dropped the necklace, looking at me with a sudden gentleness, "Call her. That is all you have to do." Odin held up a finger as he saw me reach for the necklace, "Know when you do, she will only live for you until you cease to exist."

I swallowed hard, "Will it set her free from you?"

"she will still have to answer the calls, it is her birthright. She was born and bred as Valkyrie, there is no freedom from that, for it is our part in the cycle of life." Odin ran a hand over his beard, "Her immortality will rely on the love you two share. When you die she dies, if the love between you two die, she will die." he smiled, "I maybe be a powerful god and live off the death of the mighty, but love will always be the strongest gift and power of any living creature." He motioned to my parents, "Yhey are proof of it."

Odin then looked over at Tamsin, "She has found the same in you, her death had to come so she could be set free by her one true love." He drew his gaze back to my parents and AK, "I do now understand why Tamsin continued to meddle in your lives." He turned back to me, "One day we all will bow at your feet, you hold all the power in the world and all the power you will ever need to change the world and the fate of us all." He motioned to the two Valkyrie's, who immediately moved to pick Tamsin up, her lifeless body growing paler and paler by the moment. His glowing blue eyes met mine, "Make your decision, Seraphina."

I stared at him, his cryptic words in my mind as my hand went to the wings. I held them as I silently called for Tamsin. The wings grew warm against my palm as I turned to look at her. Tamsin did not move, I walked to her, bending down in front of her as I called for her again. I grabbed her cold hand in mine, whispering, "Please, this is what you want, this is what I want. I need you."

Still nothing.

I glared hard at Odin, my eyes afire in purple, "If this is a trick, I will unleash all of my powers upon you."

Odin glared back, "This one has been reborn many times, her body is tired. I do not control how many lives my girls live, they do. Each death is harder and harder for them to find rebirth." He looked at Tamsin, "her last two deaths came by unusual circumstances." He looked past me, "Those deaths came by her choice, the decisions she made." he looked at the wings, "They will only work if she has a lifecycle left in her to live. I am sorry, Seraphina, I was not aware of this."

I felt my anger surge as I stood up and held out my hands, pushing an immense amount of energy and force at Odin. Making him take a step back, "You lie. What games are you trying to play, what do you hope to achieve in angering me."

Odin straightened up, angry, "What do you hope to achieve in angering me, little one." he waved to the Valkyries who quickly scooped Tamsin up and began to lift up into the air. "Your mother and you share tempers and ignorance of your place at times."

I waved my hands to pull the Valkyries back down but was stopped as Odin held out his hand at me, pushing me back with an incredible force, disrupting my focus. "Not everything can be fairytale perfect, even for fae." Odin walked to his escorts as they continued to life up with Tamsin.

I screamed and tried to stand up, but couldn't, some force was holding me down. I screamed at him until my voice gave out. My parents ran to my side, they had been frozen in their places by Odin as soon as he had landed. I pushed at my parents, to get them away from me, I was beyond angry and rageful, I knew I would hurt them as my energy was reaching a nuclear level. I could only watch as the god and his two escorts began to leave.

I turned when I heard AK shouting, "Oh shit, don't go out there Ayn."

My mom ran to catch Ayn, but she turned and twisted at the right moment and ran past her, opening her mouth as she saw me, yelling in her little voice, "Fi! It's okay!" she stopped close to me and looked at Odin who had paused his departure to see what the commotion was. Ayn smiled at the large god, "You look like Santa."

He frowned at her as she walked the few steps to me, smiling, "I know what to do, Fi." Ayn was fast with her small hands as she pulled out one of mom's smaller knives. Drawing a thin and precise gash across her palm, I heard mom shout and try to grab her. Ayn wiggled away as she snatched my hand, quickly writing in the palm of my hand with her blood. I felt tears roll down my face as I read what she had written before closing my fingers over her words. She held my hand closed in her small hands, giggling, "AK always says hands make the best notepads."

My little sister was picked up quickly by my parents as mum tried wrapping up her bleeding hand. She pointed at Odin and the Valkyries, I followed her hand and heard Tamsin begin to cough hard as air began to fill her lungs, startling the Valkyrie that held her. Even Odin paused. He took a minute, watching as Tamsin body began to accept air fully, he the waved for his escorts to set her back down. She was alive as they set her back down on the couch, alive but unconscious. Odin looked at my little sister and back at me, flicking his hand to release me from the energy field that held me in my place.

I ran to Tamsin, she was very much alive, her skin pinking up as blood began to flow and mix with the oxygen she was breathing in. I ran my hands over her face as I felt the god move to stand behind me, "I was wrong, one day we all will bow at both of your feet. Your sister and you." he looked at Tamsin, "the wings have done as they were intended to do, with a gentle push from the little blood sage." he turned and walked away, a bright flash and rumble following him as he took his exit.

I knew I was sobbing as mum came to the couch, gently lifting Tamsin up, she looked at me, "Sera, we should take her to the fae hospital until she wakes up." I nodded slowly and caught my little sister smiled as AK and mom finished wrapping her palm up. Ayn waved at me as AK picked her up and carried her back into the house. I went to stand up when I felt something warm on my chest. I glanced down and saw the wings glowing brightly. They slowly separated themselves from the chain and began to slowly sink into my chest, painlessly and without any injury to the skin they permeated, The became a part of me, over my heart, only leaving a gentle imprint, barely visible to the casual observer. I ran my fingers over the soft ridges, letting out a choked sob. Odin's words sitting heavy in my body.

I walked back into the house after Kenzi and Sera left with Tamsin and the light fae team that had been called to take her to the hospital I had once stayed at. Bo was sitting on the couch with Ayn passed out in her arms. Bo tried to smile at me when I closed the door behind me. "I can take her if you are tired."

Bo shook her head, "I want to hold her a little longer, she fell asleep as soon as I sat down." I sat next to Bo, running my hand over Ayn's back, feeling just how hard the little girl as sleeping. "She is going to be tired for a little while, Using her blood like that, it's something Ayn is still to young to use without resting afterwards." I looked up into my wife's brown eyes, I could see she was struggling with her thoughts and emotions of what just happened, "Do you want to talk?"

Bo smiled, "What is there to talk about? The woman my daughter is completely in love with dies in front of her seconds after I try and forgive her, then my oldest daughter spars with a god, and my baby girl just defied death and...well everything and reversed fate." she looked at me, "I think I just want to sit here, with you and Ayn and be quiet, before we start talking about things and what Santa said about our daughters, and bowing to them." she ran a gentle hand down Ayn's shiny brown hair, reaching for me with her free hand, lacing her fingers in mine, she held onto me tightly. I smiled as I pulled Bo closer as Ayn stretched her legs out across my legs, sighing contently as she snuggled harder into her moms chest.

More to come! soon!