The party is over and Trick with Kenzi and other workers are cleaning up. "The party turned out to be a success Kenzi, aside from the main guests leaving. Still, congrats," says Trick.
"Thank you," she says, bowing. "And I'm sure everyone was thinking the same thing about our guests of honor."
"What's that?"
"That they were somewhere knocking bits."
"That was really unnecessary Kenzi," says Trick. "Anyway, you've done enough here. You worked so hard today, I can take care of the rest."
"Are you sure Trick?"
"Yes. Now go get some rest."
"Cool. Later Tricks." Kenzi walks away.
"Hey Kenzi," says Trick. She turns around. "There may be a job for you in the future from this."
"As it should be."
Tamsin arrives at Bo's house changed back into her normal attire. She walks in, turning on the lights. "Bo," she calls, walking further inside. "Are you here?" Tamsin looks over and sees the rose petals and burned out candles. She walks over to them with hesitance, picking one up, analyzing it, putting it close to her nose to see if it has an aroma. Tamsin thinks about what she is doing and drops the petal out of her hand. She walks up the staircase slowly. The closer she gets to Bo's room the more her face begins to frown. And the sound she hears makes it turn into anger. She walks in, turning on the light and sees Bo and Lauren having sex with each other.
Meanwhile Kenzi enters the house. She gets as far as the side of the couch when commotion is heard coming from the stairs. "What the hell?" she says.
Tamsin enters first, carrying a duffle bag with her things in it and Bo is behind her wrapped in a sheet. She is trying to stop Tamsin from leaving, even grabbing the bag, making Tamsin face her. "Please don't leave Tamsin, I'm sorry," pleads Bo.
Seeing that Bo won't let go of the bag, Tamsin does. "Fine. You can have the damn bag," says Tamsin. She walks away again and Bo grabs her by the arm. "Let go of me Bo."
"No, I won't."
"I said let go of me!"
"Guys guys, what the hell is going on?" asks Kenzi.
Tamsin tries to get Bo to release her arm by yanking it, and Bo refuses to, holding it with a tight grip. "Bo, let go of my arm," she says, rather calmly.
"No, not until we can at least talk about this," says Bo.
"Really, you want to talk to me now? Did you feel like talking when you were upstairs, huh? Now get off of me before I do something to you that you will regret," says Tamsin.
"You guys, what are you doing?" asks Kenzi.
Then Lauren appears in Bo's housecoat.
"Holy shit!" exclaims Kenzi. Everyone looks over to her. "My bad," she says, with her hands up.
Tamsin snatches her arm away. She sees Lauren, everyone notices. "And you."
"Shit dude, I can't believe I just got Lauren killed," says Kenzi, to herself. She holds her hand to her chest.
"Is this your way of getting back at me? Did you have fun? Are you happy now? Are we even?" says Tamsin. Lauren doesn't respond. "Don't be rude now. You only just fucked my girlfriend."
"Tamsin, your problem is with me," says Bo.
"You know you're absolutely right, but I still don't like her," says Tamsin. She looks at Lauren. "Everyone thinks you're so innocent. But you're not. You know exactly what you're doing," says Tamsin, nodding her head. "Do you know all of the horrible things that I can do to you? That if I wanted to, I could kill you with only my will? Did you know that?"
"Can we not do any horrible things to anyone, and possibly no deaths? We have a very strict no death policy in effect here," says Kenzi.
"Tamsin, don't, I thought that she was you," says Bo.
"And that is how one singlehandedly damns us all people," says Kenzi, to herself.
Tamsin's expression has crossed the line from anger to fury. Even Lauren is looking at Bo crazy. "Were you not listening when I was just talking? And how in the fucking hell could you not make that distinction?"
"C'mon Bo, how you answer this could be critical," says Kenzi, to herself.
"I got a message from you at the Dal. It said to meet you here, so I did. Or I thought I was," explains Bo.
Lauren gives Kenzi a questioning look, and Kenzi does a subtle shrug.
"What the hell are you talking about? I never sent you a message," says Tamsin.
"The message came from your phone Tamsin," says Bo. Tamsin sighs and looks over to Kenzi, letting her know that she knows. Kenzi gulps down a mouthful of air. "So, I thought I was meeting you here. I saw the petals and I thought that maybe you got here before I did," explains Bo.
"Okay, so let me see if I got this right. You received a message from my phone telling you to meet me here, and you follow the trail and you see me, correct? So at what point did you finally realize that she wasn't me, was it before you two started fucking, somewhere in between, or after when I caught you fucking?" Bo has no answer. "And here I thought you had so much to explain."
"Tamsin, you have to know that I love you," says Bo, her face revealing the guilt in her heart.
"You're kidding right? Because if this is supposed to be how you show me then I must be out of my mind," says Tamsin.
"Tamsin, she really does love you," says Kenzi.
"And you are not allowed to talk to me," says Tamsin, looking over to Kenzi.
"Tamsin, don't be upset with everyone because of something I did alone," says Bo.
"You were hardly alone. I don't even know why I'm explaining," says Tamsin, she walks away.
"No, don't go," says Bo, moving closer.
Tamsin turns around. "Don't even think about touching me."
"I know what I did was wrong. Very wrong. Can't you just give me another chance? A way to fix this? I know that we can work this out. I do love you, very much," says Bo.
"Love love love. That's all you keep saying. Where was this love at when you came home and found that I wasn't there? Where was it when you realized that you left me? Did you still love me while you were having sex with her? You know, I never really knew what it felt like to be loved by someone but since you say that you do, I guess I know what it feels like then, it feels like pain."
"Tamsin, I," says Bo, being cut short.
"No. You know when I first saw you two in bed together, I contemplated many torturous ways of killing you," says Tamsin, looking over to Lauren. She looks at Bo. "And making you suffer without end."
"Well, I'm glad you changed your mind Tamsin," says Bo.
"I'm still contemplating," says Tamsin. She does a deep sigh, and shakes her head. "I know that you two still have feelings for each other. So."
"Tamsin don't," says Bo.
"Let me finish. So I can't be too hurt about that. And the crazy thing is that I'm not, too hurt. No what hurt me the most wasn't even this. Or that you left me at the party that you wanted me to go to for us, and I did for you. That I had to make up excuses for you, and your friends made up excuses for me, no. Not even when I stayed there for hours alone wondering where you were, if you were alright, and that it had to be important enough that you had to leave without letting me know. It's that I opened up for you Bo. I changed everything for you. Sacrificed my life for you. You showed me things about myself and made me feel things that I didn't think was possible," says Tamsin.
Bo eyes are filling with tears.
"And I fought against it hard because I didn't understand what was happening. Then when I finally stopped fighting and stopped trying to understand, that's when I was able to really know." Tamsin nods her head. "I did something for you that I've never done for anyone else…I gave you all of me. I really believed in you."
Both Lauren and Kenzi's eyes are watery.
Tears are falling down Bo's face. "I'm so sorry Tamsin, I should've gone back. And I feel so horrible that I did this to you. I never wanted to hurt you, ever. And you must think that I'm the biggest hyprocrite. But I meant everything that I've ever said to you. You mean so much to me Tamsin. I know that I messed up. And if I could take it back I would. I really would," says Bo.
Tamsin turns back around. She feels something around her neck. It's the necklace Bo gave her. She snatches it off and drops it on the floor.
"Oh Tamsin, don't do this. I'll do anything," says Bo.
"Then let me go," says Tamsin. As she walks away, Tamsin looks at Kenzi, a single tear falls from her eye. She exits the house.
"Oh fuck me," says Kenzi, to herself.
Bo breaks down crying. Lauren and Kenzi console her.
Bo shuts down completely. Kenzi checks on her often while Lauren comes over when she's free. Kenzi comes into Bo's room where she is lying on it like she's part of the bed.
"You gotta get out of bed Bo Bo," says Kenzi. She opens some envelopes. "Oh yeah by the way, the gifts from the party are downstairs, and let me just say that some of them are saweet." Kenzi opens a card and a check falls out of it. She picks it up. "Shit Bo, someone wrote a check for twenty-five hundred friggin dollars. I gotta open up the rest of the cards. We could be rich. I'm thinking our next hustle should be in the party planning promoting business." Bo is still not responding. "Damn Bo, I don't like seeing you like this. At least eat something." She shakes at Bo a bit. "C'mon Bo. Hey I got some news on Tamsin." Bo stares at her waiting. "I knew that would get you. Dyson found her truck. It was on the side of the road abandoned, and all her stuff was in there like her badge, phone, ID, everything, but not her. It's like she totally disappeared, or some wild animals got to her. I don't know. It's creepy weird." Bo turns back around, placing a pillow over her head, silently crying. "Oh Bo, I didn't mean to make you cry. It's possible that she hasn't been eaten, abducted or dead. And I'm not making this better so I'm gonna go now. I will check on you later."
A week has gone by and still no word of Tamsin. Lauren comes back down from checking on Bo. "So what's the word Doc?" asks Kenzi.
"I don't know what to do. She refuses sustenance of any kind, and I can't help but blame myself for all of this," says Lauren.
"Tell me about it," says Kenzi. "Can't you just bang her back to normal?"
"I'm afraid that's what got us into this mess in the first place."
"We have to think of something to get her out of there. I tried persuasion, liquor and ice cream, pizza. I told her stories that she hates to hear, jumped on her, nothing works. I'm thinking about throwing a monster in the room with her but she might let it kill her."
"That's it," says Lauren.
"You want her to die?" asks Kenzi.
"No. A savior complex, maybe all Bo needs is to rescue someone that she cares about," says Lauren.
"Yeah, somebody that she cares about can be captured by a real monster and she has to save them. All we gotta do is find someone to do it."
"I don't think I would volunteer for that," says Lauren.
"Yeah I've been there and it ain't pretty. But I've got something else in mind."
"Well let me know if it works. I have to go. I'll return later to check on her," says Lauren.
Kenzi enters Bo's room. She sits on the edge of the bed next to her. "Bo, I have something to tell you, but I'm afraid that after I do, we might not be cool anymore. But not telling you is making everything worse so here goes." Kenzi takes a very deep breath.
Bo looks at her with curious eyes.
"You remember that time when I made a deal with The Morrigan on account of her not talent sucking Nate to death, and I owed her a favor? Well she kind of cashed in on it and asked me to do something for her that I totally didn't want to do."
Bo sits up.
"You remember her powers right? So in the event of self preservation which was really selfish but I didn't want to die."
"What did you do?" asks Bo.
"Wow it talks. Okay I know, no time for jokes. She asked me to…break you and Tamsin up."
"What? I don't understand. We broke up because of what happened between me and Lauren," says Bo.
"Bo, just hear me out. So I went to Lauren and told her to try to win you back. And then I made a way for her to get you alone by."
"Sending a message from Tamsin's phone to mine," says Bo, finishing.
"But that's all I did. I swear."
"That's all you did?" says Bo, standing. "Kenzi you manipulated Lauren. You manipulated me by thinking I was coming home to Tamsin. And because of that I cheated on her. Not to mention all of my business was aired out. You could've gotten Lauren seriously hurt. And Tamsin is nowhere to be found. And you had me lying in bed for an entire week sulking because you were playing puppet master," says Bo.
"Now hold on Bo, I didn't tell you or Lauren to do any of that."
"You arranged for us to be together at night Kenzi. And we were alone in my bedroom, we have a history. What did you think was going to happen?"
"I don't know, talk. Don't blame me because you can't keep your fire under control," says Kenzi.
"Kenzi, you know me more than anyone. You knew exactly what I would do."
"Maybe it was in the back of my head, but I didn't think that you would actually go through with it by the way you talk about Tamsin all the time, and it was the night of your party. I was hoping for a break up because you two got back together. There's a lot of blame to go around, not just me."
"Do you know how crazy that just sounded? I never thought I would say this to you Kenzi, but you're sick if you believe that this isn't your fault. We may have all played our parts, but you created this. You hurt a lot of people because of your actions," says Bo.
"I was wrong okay. I didn't even want to do it in the first place, but what was I suppose to do? Everyone doesn't have superpowers."
"You could have told me Kenzi, and I could have found another way to handle it. When are you going to learn to stop keeping secrets from me? The Norn, the crazy ass Kitsune, Dyson with his love, haven't you noticed that it hasn't been fun when you keep secrets from people? You've had my back since the beginning, and you're the one that I depend on, that I trusted. There's a lot of hearts being broken around here, but I never thought that one would come from my best friend."
"Bo please don't hate me. I thought I didn't have any other choice. Everyone is so busy, and you were with Tamsin, I just thought I could handle it on my own. I'm sorry Bo," says Kenzi, sounding as if she's about to cry.
"I don't hate you Kenzi. I just don't particularly like you right now," says Bo.
Lauren's place. A dressed Bo walks in. "Bo, you're looking much better. How are you feeling?" asks Lauren.
"The same. Thanks for seeing me."
"Oh no problem. What can I do for you?" asks Lauren.
"I think we need to talk," says Bo.
"Oh? Well what would you like to discuss?"
"Maybe we should sit down," says Bo.
"Oh, it's one of those talks," says Lauren.
"I just thought it would be a good idea to sit since I haven't eaten or fed in a week. And I feel a little dizzy."
"Of course, please sit. Can I get you anything?"
"I'm fine Lauren." They sit down on the sofa. "I wanted to talk about what happened between us that night before everything went horribly bad."
"I think that would be an understatement."
"What happened between us…it was what I wanted for a long time. It felt incredible."
"I agree, but I feel there's a but coming on," says Lauren.
"Lauren, I do love you and it is still as strong as it was before. But I also love Tamsin. And it's not about who I love more because I love you both for different reasons. Okay I didn't realize how hard this would be because I would do anything for you Lauren. And if I had to choose, which for the record I really hate doing. But if I had to choose, who I would want to be with, right now, it would be...I'm sorry I can't do this," says Bo, she gets up.
Lauren stands up as well. "You want to be with Tamsin Bo. You can say it. I can't lie, it does hurt. It's hard to watch someone that you love be in love with someone else. I think we both know that. I waited too late."
"Lauren, please don't blame yourself for this. You needed a well deserved break. It's my fault that I didn't wait."
"No Bo, it's mine for expecting you to."
"I haven't stopped loving you Lauren."
"Nor I you. Maybe we might get another chance at it one day."
"Maybe so." Bo shakes her head. "Why does it feel so bad?"
"Because you don't want to hurt people you care about Bo," says Lauren.
Bo wipes the tears away from Lauren's eyes. "Oh Lauren, don't cry."
"No you don't," says Lauren, wiping tears from Bo's eyes.
"Okay," says Bo, with a smile. "I should probably go."
"Okay. Well, don't be a stranger. I'll be here if you need me."
"I'd like that," says Bo.
The Morrigan's office. Bo walks through the door. The Morrigan looks surprised, yet annoyed. "How did you get passed security again?"
"The same way I did the last time, and I feel fully satisfied."
"Why are you here?" asks Evony, sitting down behind her desk.
"You know why I'm here."
"Oh that. You should be grateful. I did you a favor."
"How is getting my best friend to try to ruin my life doing me a favor?"
"Come child, she's a Valkyrie, how long did you really think it would last? Ah, poor thing. You did."
"It would have lasted for as long as we wanted it to if we weren't broken up right now," says Bo.
"Not quite sweetie."
Bo gives her a what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about look.
"Oh you don't know? What do they teach you over there?" asks Evony.
"If you know something, spill it," says Bo.
"This bothers you doesn't it? In that case I'll proceed, Tamsin can never love you."
"What do you mean she can't?"
"She's a Valkyrie hun. If she does somehow succeed then let's just say the outcome won't be pretty."
"What kind of outcome?" asks Bo.
"Wow, you've been dating for how long and you don't know anything about her? Hey, I'm not judging, I prefer only physical relationships myself."
"Well, we don't talk about her past, wait why the hell am I even talking to you about this? Look Evony, I don't know what your angle is, but if this is a joke, it's not funny."
"I have no reason to lie if the truth will hurt you worse darling."
"So what happens if she loves me?" asks Bo. No answer. "What happens if she loves me Evony?"
"Ooh I love it when you get all brash. I've answered enough questions. I'd much rather watch you torture yourself. Here's some advice though. Next time, you might want to know who you're really dating before you fall in love."
"And here's some advice for you. Next time you decide to stick your nose in my personal life or come near my friends, you're gonna need more than rhinoplasty," says Bo, walking out.