Characters aren't mine. I've taken the liberties I wanted for the storyline, but the characters belong to Showcase and Lost Girl.

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Chapter 4

"Dr. Lewis, thank you for coming by on such short notice."

Lauren looked at Emily with an even stare. She still wasn't sure why the Light Fae Doctor had asked her to come by the lab, but she figured maybe she could do some recon while she was there. Lauren nodded.

"Not a problem. What can I help you with?"

'Always the professional' thought Emily as she pulled up some files on the computer. She flipped the access so Lauren could see them on the large screen in the lab.

"Does this look familiar?"

Lauren peered at the screen and nodded after a few moments. "These are samples I took while I was in the Congo to when I was researching the blood disease that was killing off the Fae in the area."

Emily nodded. "Right. I was looking at your research and I think you may have overlooked something Doctor."

Lauren raised an eyebrow. No one dared challenge her methodology, well except for Trick but she didn't give his questioning her too much thought since he didn't know science from sociology. Lauren stood a bit straighter and squared her shoulders.

"Come again?"

Emily hit a few buttons and the screen zoomed in to the molecules enlarging them on the monitor. She gave Lauren an arrogant smile. "I was cataloging some of the technique you used when I came across this here…" Emily pointed to a tiny marker that was apparent on some of the cells.

Lauren raised her eyebrows in surprise. "I can assure you those were not there six years ago when I first did the research."

Emily smirked. "Come now Doctor, I'm not saying your research wasn't thorough or correct. I'm just sharing a discovery with you from one scientist to another…are all you Yale yuppies so uptight?"

Emily laughed and turned back to the computer as Lauren opened her mouth to respond but was cut off by her phone ringing. She fished it out of her bag with a glare in her eye as she stared at the back of Emily's head.

"Yes?"

"Lauren?"

Lauren turned her back to Emily to give herself a bit of privacy. "Bo, hi. Sorry. How's Katya?"

"She's fine. Listen, I need you to come back…she's awake now."

"Oh? Okay I'm on my way."

Lauren hung up the phone and turned back to Dr. Blacker with an even smile. "As much as I would like to hear more about your discovery I need to get going."

Emily nodded. "Okay, another time then."

Lauren gave her a tight smile. "Sure. Okay. Bye."

Lauren turned and headed out of the lab as fast as she could. Something about that woman gave her the willies and she didn't like the condescending way Emily spoke to her. Especially when it came to her research. About twenty minutes later Lauren was walking back into her loft to find Katya and Bo sitting on her couch. She set her things down and went to sit on the table in front of Katya and looked her over for any signs of residual damage.

When the visitor had shown up last night she barely got a few words out before she passed out mid-sentence. Lauren noticed immediately that she was burning up so she and Bo had spent the majority of the night trying to bring her core body temperature down. Nothing was working until Lauren tried some of the serum's she'd developed to help fight various Fae plagues. Still nothing seemed to be working so Bo had stayed with her in case anything changed while Lauren went out to meet Dr. Blacker at her request. Lauren was amazed to see Katya sitting up and drinking water as if nothing had happened.

"Are you sure you are feeling alright Katya?"

The fiery hared woman nodded slightly embarrassed. "Yes, everything is fine. Thank you, and I apologize for scaring you last night."

Bo smiled. "As long as you're okay that's good. So you didn't get to tell us too much last night. I mean not that we're not glad to see you, but what are you doing here?"

Katya smiled and set the glass of water down on the table next to where Lauren was sitting. "I came to see if you had gotten wind of any strange activity lately? It appears when you lifted the curse something happened and, well, for lack of a better term the natives are getting restless."

Bo's eyebrows scrunched together. "Nothing more than usual. Lauren?"

Lauren shrugged. "There has been an abundance of Fae coming into the med lab for treatment but I attributed that to normal spikes in activity. Although…I'm seeing more variation in the types of Fae that are coming in so maybe it's related to what you're noticing?"

Katya nodded. "Something is happening but we don't know what it is. Perhaps because the curse is lifted the peace between the sides has been compromised somehow?"

Bo shook her head. "No, that would only happen if the Light and Dark allowed it to. Crazy as they are, I don't think the Ash and the Morrigan would intentionally start a war."

Lauren raised an eyebrow. "What if it wasn't the Ash or the Morrigan?"

Bo gave her a challenging look. "Meaning?"

Lauren sighed. "Meaning we still don't know what role Trick is playing in all of this."

Bo stood up angrily. "He doesn't have anything to do with this."

Lauren looked up at her sadly. "Are you certain about that Bo? Right now we aren't certain of much so I would want to get confirmation before I made any assumptions."

Bo crossed her arms as she glared at her. "Made any assumptions? Get confirmation? What are you talking about Lauren? Tell science Lauren to go away and let me talk to the real Lauren."

Lauren gave Bo another sad look as Katya spoke up. "I'm sorry but who is Trick?"

Lauren glanced over at her and back at Bo. She knew Trick was still cautious about who knew of his status within the Fae world. Bo huffed as she looked over at Katya. "He's the Blood King."

Katya nodded. She knew Bo was genetically related to the Blood King so she wasn't surprised. Katya looked at her curiously. "Not to interfere, but Dr. Lewis may have a point. Like I'd told you before, you are in for the fight of your life so at this point we can't be too certain of anything."

Bo looked at her incredulously. "Okay enough. I know Trick and he wouldn't have anything to do with this. Why would he start a war with the Dark?"

"Maybe to force the one who cursed him to return his ability to write the blood laws."

The three women turned to the doorway to find Tamsin standing there with her arms crossed over her chest and a smirk on her face. She took a few steps into the room and smiled at the group. "Wow, it's a regular party up in here."

Bo gave her a look but didn't say anthing as Lauren gave her a small smile. Katya gave her a warm smile and stood up to greet her. "Nice to see you again Tamsin."

Tamsin rolled her eyes a bit at her old friend turned adversary turned friend again. She gave her a lopsided smile. "Wish I could say the same. What are you doin here Katya?"

Katya smirked at the Valkyrie's tone of voice and watched with amusement as she walked over to the fridge to grab a beer and popped it open before sitting on one of the barstools in the kitchen. It was apparent she was comfortable in the loft and it made Katya slightly curious to know how often she frequented the good Doctor's home. Bo was also watching Tamsin's actions with slight curiosity as well and she huffed a bit as she replied for the group.

"She's here asking about any strange Fae activity. You and Dyson come across anything interesting?"

Tamsin raised an eyebrow. She found it slightly humorous that Bo was so uncomfortable with her and if she were a truly evil person she would go out of her way to remind the Succubus just why she was so uncomfortable but for now she did her best to keep some resemblance of peace. Tamsin nodded her head.

"Seen a spike in activity but it isn't Fae related."

Lauren frowned. "Humans?"

Tamsin nodded. "Yup. Dyson and I just got back from the morgue where he was checking out a corpse for any traces of Fae. Negative on that but we did find something interesting though."

Bo raised an eyebrow. "And that was?"

Tamsin rolled her eyes as she nodded at Katya with her beer bottle. "Seems like the humans find the mark on your back quite interesting. Two victims, both female, both have the same mark but theirs is a tattoo."

Katya raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Interesting. Anything more you can tell us about these women?"

Tamsin shook her head. "Nope except they were both young and blonde. Seems like our killer has a thing for the King of Pop and ink."

Katya looked confused. "Sorry?"

Tamsin rolled her eyes and smirked. "Michael Jackson…the singer? PYT? No? Not ringing any bells?"

All three gave her a confused look. Tamsin groaned. "You guys really need to brush up on your pop culture. did a song called Pretty Young Thing…jeez. Never mind my humor is apparently lost on this group."

Bo rolled her eyes. "We'll be sure to bring Kenzi next time to decode whatever the hell it is you're saying."

Lauren sighed as she looked at Bo and Tamsin alike. "Okay can we get back to the subject here? So Tamsin, these victims all have the same mark as Katya? Are you certain?"

Tamsin pulled out her phone and flipped to the picture she took at the morgue earlier that night. She passed her phone over to Lauren who looked at it and nodded her head. "Hmmm…interesting. I wonder what it means?"

Katya reached for the phone and Lauren showed her the picture. She looked up in surprise. "The detail in this tattoo is remarkable. Makes me think that someone was almost copying one of us on purpose."

Bo looked skeptical. "And why would they do that?"

Katya shrugged. "Not sure. The mark doesn't bear any meaning to humans. I'll see if I can find anything out when I return home."

Lauren looked over at her. "How long are you staying here?"

Katya smiled. "Actually I leave tonight. Ryan did me a favor by flying me in to come meet with Bo, but he has another engagement he needs to tend to so I told him we could leave at once."

Lauren nodded. "You will let us know if you find anything out?"

Katya nodded affirmatively. "Of course. Well I must be going. And thank you both again for taking care of me last night. I don't know what happened but I assure you I'm fine."

Katya got up and left leaving Bo, Lauren and Tamsin sitting in the living room of Lauren's loft. About three seconds passed before Tamsin opened her mouth. "So you guys have like a slumber party or something?"

Lauren rolled her eyes as Bo gave Tamsin a bored look. "Yes, that's exactly what we did. Sorry you didn't get invited but I know how much you like the dead. Is that like a trophy room for you or something?"

Tamsin stood up and gave Bo a death stare. "Excuse me?"

Bo returned the glare. "You heard me. Or are you losing your hearing in your old age?"

Tamsin took a step forward. "I'm going to pretend you didn't say that and be the grown-up here."

Bo scoffed as Lauren finally stood up as well and gave them both a hard stare. "Enough. What is wrong with you two?"

Bo and Tamsin glared at each other but didn't say anything. Lauren rubbed her forehead with one hand as she sighed. "Whatever Katya was talking about with the spike in Fae activity must be affecting you both as well. Have either of you come into contact with anything strange lately?"

Both women shook their heads no but didn't say anything. Just then Bo's phone beeped indicating she had a text message. She looked at it then looked back at the two blondes. "I need to go. Kenzi needs help with something back at the clubhouse."

She gave Lauren a smile and Tamsin a curt nod as she turned to walk out. Tamsin rolled her eyes and called out to Bo, "Run along now, mommy dearest is calling."

Bo turned back and glared at Tamsin but didn't say anything to the tall and now smirking Valkyrie. Lauren watched Bo leave before she shut the door behind her and turned back to Tamsin who had returned to the fridge for another beer. Lauren gave her an annoyed look.

"Now was that really necessary?"

Tamsin shrugged. "She started it."

Lauren laughed. "It doesn't matter who started it, why must you always aggravate her?"

Tamsin smirked as she took a long pull from the bottle. "Because I can."

Lauren rolled her eyes. "Well just because you can doesn't mean you should. Please Tamsin I would appreciate it if you eased up on Bo."

Tamsin sighed and finished off her beer in two more gulps. "Fine. Whatever. Baby Fae's too sensitive anyway."

Lauren hummed but didn't say anything as she walked over to where Tamsin was seated on the barstool and wrapped her arms around Tamsin's neck. "Thank you."

She leaned in for a kiss and pulled back slightly as she made a face at the taste of beer on Tamsin's lips. Even though she drank it herself, Lauren never got used to the taste of it on someone else's mouth, unless she was drinking too of course. Tamsin chuckled as she reached across the counter for the soda Lauren had opened earlier and took a sip letting the liquid swirl around her mouth before swallowing. She leaned back in for a kiss and smiled when Lauren didn't pull away immediately.

"Better?"

"Much."

Lauren laughed as Tamsin smirked and leaned up to nip at Lauren's neck before she picked her up and carried her towards the stairs leading to Lauren's bed. She had been interrupted earlier and she never left any job incomplete.

So much to do so little time LoL. Hope you all enjoyed this one as it opens the story up for so many possibilities hahaha. Let me know what you thought and thanks for reading!