A/N: So here we go with part two of this little adventure. I sometimes have absolutely no idea where my brain gets this stuff or how it makes sense, like I've said many times, I only write it. Anyway, less babbling. If you have a couple of seconds drop me a review, feed the muse. Enjoy!

Chapter Two.

Bo slammed the door of the Clubhouse closed behind her as she followed her father. She had got as far as the road across from the building that the Ancients had chosen to use as a base, when her father turned up to stop her.

"You could have just let me go up there," Bo said, grabbing a glass and getting a drink of water, "it would have saved a lot of time in the long run, and something tells me it would be less trouble."

"Ysabeau," Hades said, turning to face his daughter, "if you had gone to fight them now, you would die, and all would be lost. You are no match for them alone. I fail to understand what has got you so upset."

"My friend's son, who until recently he didn't know he had, was stabbed," Bo said, a blue tinge appearing in her eyes as she talked to her father about the events of earlier that day, "he was taken to a house by Iris, a house they spent the night in. This morning he was stabbed by the mother of the girl Iris has taken the body of, after Iris killed her husband."

"That's… unfortunate," Hades said, furrowing his brow a little, "Iris shouldn't be interacting with anyone that closely, she certainly wouldn't return to her host's home, not unless she hasn't killed the girl she took…"

"What?" Bo asked, looking at her father.

"I am assuming you had three deaths," Hades said, "before they arrived. They take the bodies, killing the person. The only way Iris would return to her host's house, is if her host is still alive. We may be able to use that, as it is more the human who is attached to the boy. If that is all it took for you to become upset then we may have to work on your emotions a little more."

"It isn't only that," Bo said, looking down at her hands, "when Lauren, Dyson and I went looking for Mark and Iris we left Tamsin at the penthouse…"

"Tamsin…" Hades said with an odd sort of smile, "So she is still here…"

"Yes," Bo said, looking up at him, "she is, and right now she is lying in a bed in Lauren's clinic because that crazy asshole you call a sister, or brother or whatever, struck her with a lightning bolt… she was only there because I asked her to stay and make sure they didn't try anything while we were looking for the kids…"

Bo's eyes were burning a bright blue as she looked at her father, Hades had an unsettling smile on his features yet again.

"That passion," he said, walking closer to Bo, "that burning passion, we can use that. That is what you need to tap into, Ysabeau that is where your strength lies. Use it. Become what you were born to be…"

Bo swallowed hard as she closed her eyes, backing away from her father.

"I need to go to the clinic," she said, walking towards the door, "part of me hopes you won't be here when I get back…"

Bo left the Clubhouse and got into her car. Her hands were shaking as she tried to put the keys in the ignition.

"Come on Bo," she said to herself, taking a deep breath, "get it together…"

Steadying her hand she tried once again to put the keys in the ignition of the car. Once the keys were in their rightful place, Bo turned them to start the car. Looking back towards the house she saw her father standing in the doorway watching her. Bo couldn't be sure, but she thought she could see a smile on his face. There was something oddly unsettling about a guy, who literally lives in hell, smiling.

"Come on baby," Bo said to the car, turning the keys once again, "please do not pick today to be a total pain in the ass…"

As she said that last word the car spluttered to life and Bo reversed down the drive and out onto the road, she got a very uncomfortable feeling in her stomach as she looked back towards the house in her rear-view mirror. The Succubus didn't know what scared her more, the nightmare-ish places her head took her to when she thought about what her father was capable of, or the fact that for that split second when her inner Succubus surfaced she felt an undeniable pull towards her father and that power. Part of her was craving it.

She had felt that power twice before. Once when Lauren's life was at risk and she sucked the chi from everyone in the room, the other time was after her Dawning, she saved his life by taking chi from the others in the Dal. Both times had one thing in common, someone Bo cared about was in serious danger, and she held the power of life and death in her hands. She got to decide who lived and died. There was something very seductive about that feeling of power. Bo knew that she had that power within her, in a way that terrified her because she didn't know what she could be capable of. She had spent the last five years trying to prove that she wasn't like her father. Trying to prove that she was her own person, living her life in her own way. Bo didn't follow rules, she followed her instincts, sure that got her in trouble sometimes but it worked for her.

All that hard work could be for nothing if she couldn't resist the pull of the power that her father was offering her. Thankfully as she drove towards the clinic, the part that wanted to prove she wasn't like her father was stronger than the one who wanted to roll over and play daddy's games. She knew that her father's plans for her spanned years, possibly even before she was born, but she knew that she had one thing that Hades didn't plan for. She had a family. Her mother's actions 30 years previously had given Bo her best chance of defeating her father. They were her heart, her anchor, they were that last final push of strength when Bo thought she couldn't take anymore. They had all been through so much together, loss, love. Bo took a deep breath as she prayed to whoever was listening that they could all help each other through this as well.

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Tamsin was struggling to put her t-shirt on when she heard talking outside the room, from the sounds of the voices Bo had arrived. She grimaced in pain as she got her arm through the hole before putting the shirt over her head. Sitting there, she rested her hands on the edge of the bed and tried concentrating her mind on blocking the pain. Tamsin knew that the only way she was going to get through this was to block out both the mental and physical pain that she was feeling. Her body just wanted to give up, her mind wasn't in much better shape. The Valkyrie had that constant feeling that something was missing, which, of course, it was. She had to figure out how to undo what had been done to her. If there was no other way, she knew, as a last resort, that she could go to the Norn. But Tamsin knew that there were more important things to think about at that moment.

The door to the room creaked as it opened, she didn't look up to see who it was; she didn't have to. She could smell the Succubus, she would know that smell anywhere. But she wasn't alone, which didn't surprise Tamsin at all. She guessed whatever Bo had to say would be important. After all she and Mark had been in the hospital for around 8 hours and this was the first time that Bo had graced them with her presence.

"Hey…" Bo said quietly as she walked into the room, followed by Dyson and Lauren.

"Hey…" Tamsin replied.

"How you doing?" Bo asked, trying to keep it as light as she possibly could.

"Oh, I'm great," Tamsin said with a nod, "yeah, never better."

"Tamsin, I'm serious." Bo replied, she had been expecting some hostility from Tamsin, but not like this.

"I'm fine." The Valkyrie said, finally looking at Bo, "Did you find what you were looking for?"

"You could say that…" Bo said with a little nod.

"What have you done Bo?" Dyson asked.

"The only way to stop the Ancients," Bo replied, "I… er…"

"You opened the box." Tamsin said, interrupting her.

"I had no choice," the Succubus said, "you didn't see what Iris was capable of, it was like all the feeling had been sucked from the world… all the colours, the sounds…"

"So you decided that the best thing to do was open a music box and release Hades?" Tamsin asked, "I've heard about the lesser of two evils but in this case I think you picked the wrong side."

"Are you saying that you would have teamed up with the woman who struck you with a lightning bolt and did who knows what to you…?" Bo said.

"She took my wings…" Tamsin said quietly, looking back down at the floor in front of her, "That's what she did to me…"

"Tamsin…" Bo said, walking over to her and resting her hand on Tamsin's shoulder softly, not knowing if she would hurt the Valkyrie.

"In a battle my wings are literally impenetrable," Tamsin continued quietly, "nothing would be able to get through them… It's not a very well-known fact, but for a god who has obviously seen Valkyrie's on the battlefield before it was an obvious thing to do… take out the one thing that would be able to protect your target against everything…"

"Their target?" Bo asked.

"You, Bo…" Lauren said, "Are you sure you should be sitting up Tamsin?"

"I have to get out of here, I'm going crazy," Tamsin said, standing up, doing her best to mask her discomfort, "the pain killers are only dulling it, they can't stop it completely. It'll fade eventually. Until then I'll just have to be careful. Plus, we have to figure out how we're going to deal with Hades…"

"Where is he?" Dyson asked.

"I left him at the Clubhouse after he stopped me attacking the Ancients earlier…" Bo said.

"You left him there alone?" the wolf asked.

"Well I don't exactly have anyone to keep watch over him do I Dyson," Bo said, "It's not really a job I want to advertise for either. Watcher needed for the guardian of hell? Don't see that being too popular…"

Tamsin furrowed her brow as she looked at Bo. Something was different, and not different good.

"I don't think the Ancients are going to attack him there," The Succubus continued, "you didn't see Zeus, Dyson, she was terrified at the very thought of me opening the box. They fear my father."

"Everyone fears your father, Bo." Tamsin said, tilting her head slightly as she looked over at her, "it's kind of his… thing."

"He seemed particularly happy to hear that you're still here." Bo said, looking at the blonde.

"I bet…" Tamsin replied, trying her best to hide that fear that had suddenly flared up inside her.

"What will he do to you?" Lauren asked, knowing that everyone else was probably thinking it.

"I don't know," Tamsin replied honestly, "it wasn't like it was a small job for a small client… it was a massive job, with…big risks. A job that I originally thought would be impossible to finish."

"Why?" Dyson asked, sitting down in the chair as Lauren sat in the other one, Bo staying standing near where Tamsin was.

They hadn't heard the Valkyrie open up completely about her involvement in the bounty on Bo's head. Dyson wasn't even sure if Bo knew the whole story yet, though he knew that when the Valkyrie and the Succubus had been living together, they had talked a lot. Tamsin had been the first person that Bo had told about Hades being her father, to Dyson that was a huge clue as to where Bo's trust lay, and it wasn't with him. So even if Bo didn't know the whole story, he didn't see it changing things too much. Bo would still trust Tamsin with her life, and Tamsin would protect her life with her own, even though her heart breaks every time she's in the same room as the Succubus.

"The description I had…" Tamsin said, continuing the story, figuring she had nothing else to lose, "the woman I was searching for couldn't exist… eyes both brown and blue, heart both strong and gentle…virtuous, yet a Succubus…I figured if someone was that stupid, to offer all that money, to find someone who couldn't possibly exist. So yeah, I took the job thinking it wouldn't matter in the end anyway…"

"Then you came here…" Bo said, sitting on the bed near where Tamsin was sitting.

"A lot of time passed between me taking the bounty, and our paths crossing…" Tamsin said with a little laugh, "your father was looking for you long before you were born, Bo… But yeah, I came here. It was handy really, the detective position becoming available, I needed something that would give me links so I could really search the city for… you, Bo. Though at the time I… I wasn't sure it was you."

"Is that why you were such a bitch to me?" Bo asked with a laugh.

"No," Tamsin replied with a laugh of her own, "I was such a bitch because at first I genuinely disliked you…"

The Valkyrie turned and looked at the warm chocolate brown eyes looking back at her, smiling at little she shook her head.

"You confused the hell out of me," she continued, "I mean, here you were, this unaligned baby-Fae. The first person in living memory who didn't choose a side, and it's this… naive kid who had no idea what the Fae were until she came across wolf-junk over there and the good lady doctor here… I envied you, I think…"

"Why would you envy me?" the Succubus asked.

"All my life, every life, I've followed rules," Tamsin replied, sitting down next to Bo, "do this, do that…take that soul, kill this person… every life, always some set of rules to follow, from the moment I was born. You went everything I thought that I knew, you challenged laws that have stood for over a thousand years… people were trying to kill you every day and it didn't stop you… it put the people you care about in danger every day, the kitsune incident for example, yet you still pushed on. The unaligned Succubus, the girl who changed all the rules… before you everything was so simple, there was Light, there was Dark, and that was it. There was no in-between. The Light did their thing, and the Dark did theirs Paths rarely crossed and when they did it wasn't exactly friendly. Then you come along, everything gets thrown in the air…"

"I don't think I quite realised just how dangerous it was going to be, when I made that choice," Bo said with a little laugh, looking down at her legs, "I just figured… who were these people trying to tell me how to live my life… they didn't know me, they knew nothing about me. It's my life and I have had enough of people trying to tell me what I should do, the choices I should make… but looking back…"

"A side would've been easier." Lauren said with a laugh.

"It would have been safer," Bo replied, "for everyone…"

"But, the big question then becomes, which side would you have chosen if you could go back?" Lauren asked, a slight twinkle in her eye.

"Honestly…" Bo said with a sigh, "Dark…"

Everyone looked at Bo, shocked with her reply. They had all expected her to say Light. Tamsin knew Dark Fae, she knew what they were capable of and she knew that Bo just wasn't like that. The Valkyrie knew, if she was being totally honest, the Succubus was a perfect mix of both sides. Tamsin knew, one way or another, Bo would unite the Fae. The choices that they made now would have a massive effect on the coming days.

"You're a little light to be Dark, Succubus," Tamsin said, nudging her slightly, "sorry to burst your bubble there."

"Am I?" Bo asked seriously, "can you really say that? You of all people know what I'm capable of Tamsin…"

"I also know all the good that you can do," Tamsin replied, "sure you've made some bad decisions, you've made some mistakes… the important thing is whether you've learned from those mistakes, and as far as I can see you have."

"The Dark Fae guy outside the Dal…" Dyson said, everything clicking into place, "you…"

"Yes." Bo said honestly.

"No," Tamsin interrupted, "yes you fed from him, yes you put him into a coma but you didn't kill him…"

Bo slowly lifted her head and looked at Tamsin.

"I did…" The Valkyrie continued, "the Morrigan wanted to know who attacked him…I had already figured out that it was you… but something told me it wasn't as simple as that. I didn't see how someone with the group of people you had around you would do that, randomly start draining people in the street. I mean, you had no history of it, there was no reason that you would just do it…"

"Tamsin…" Lauren said, "You're… babbling."

"Right…" Tamsin replied with a nod, "so, the Morrigan wanted to find out who attacked him… one of my…gifts is to be able to wake people who are in coma's, talk to those who are close to death…even sometimes reanimate the dead for a short time to talk to them… so, I used that on him. Got him to talk. He confirmed that it had been you… then the pain started. The downside is that it pretty much melts the brain, so even if he was going to survive the coma he'd never open his eyes again."

None of them had heard the door open, nor had they heard anyone come in.

"So she killed him," Hades said from where he was standing against the wall near the door, "one thing that Tamsin was notorious for… slow and very painful deaths."

Tamsin clenched her jaw as she gripped down on the edge of the bed.

"She carried her 'no emotions on the battlefield' motto over from her Valkyrie work," Hades continued as he walked closer to where Tamsin and Bo were sitting, "it came in handy in her other line of work… a kill was a kill, it wasn't important why. A job was a job. Get it done, get paid, get out. Then we hit a bit of a stumbling block."

Tamsin lowered her eyes to the floor as she felt Hades coming closer. She concentrated on steading her breathing.

"She gets hired for a job that should have been pretty simple," Hades said, feeling the fear that was pouring from the Valkyrie, "finally she does the right thing, but it's a little late, even after the reminder I sent, she still delayed. My extremely well laid plan had to change, instead of meeting my daughter before she freed Rainer, I had to wait… so I waited."

"How did you get in here?" Lauren asked, "This is a secure building."

"Are the doctor of this fine facility?" Hades asked, a charming tone in his voice which made Lauren feel safe.

"I am…" She replied, "well one of the… I mean, there are other… yes."

"And this is on Dark land, yes?" he asked.

"No…" Tamsin said quietly, breaking Hades' concentration on Lauren, "it's technically neutral, serves both Light and Dark communities. It's a clinic for the Fae, not for specific Fae. Everyone should have equal access to the best medical facilities."

"I assumed with the name…" Hades said, slightly shocked that Tamsin had talked, "as you know Tamsin that name has a long history in Dark circles."

"Evony paid for it," Tamsin replied, "obviously to make herself seem like this big revolutionary, she got Lauren to name the clinic after her."

"And we still have a problem with authority figures do we Valkyrie?" Hades asked.

"No…" Tamsin said, standing up and grabbing her jacket, forcing all signs of pain from her features as she put it on, "I've just had enough of rules. Lifetimes of doing what other people told me to do, living my life to serve other people, whether that was as a Valkyrie or as a bounty hunter… it was basically the same thing. I'm done with it…"

"You're done with it when I tell you that you're done with it." Hades said, his voice taking on another tone completely.

Tamsin twitched her head, her hand coming up to rub her right temple.

"Now why don't you sit back down." He said, "There's obviously some damage in there that the doctor missed."

"There isn't," Lauren said, "I ran every scan and test known to man and Fae, other than the big obvious thing missing, there is…"

"Lauren…" Bo said, interrupting, "now you're babbling."

"There isn't any damage." Lauren said quietly to herself.

Lauren's babbling had given Tamsin the few seconds that she needed to clear her mind.

"Bo, can I take your car?" Tamsin asked, a pleading look in her eyes, hoping that she could appeal to Bo's sensible nature.

"Yeah, sure," The Succubus replied, getting her keys out of her pocket and handing them to Tamsin, "I'll meet you at…"

"Yeah," Tamsin said, as she took the keys she turned to face Hades, "stay out of my head."

Tamsin slowly walked to the door, she could hear Hades laughing behind her.

"Oh Tamsin," he said, a chuckle in his speech, "why so serious, we're on the same side now after all."

Tamsin stopped outside the room and leant up against the wall as she tried to catch her breath. She had no idea what she was going to do, but she knew she had to do something. She could not let Hades get his claws into Bo. Tamsin didn't know what would happen if he planted the seeds to control the Succubus's mind, she knew Bo was powerful, but she didn't know how powerful. No one did. That was a terrifying prospect. An uncontrollable Succubus on the loose, with an unknown amount of power. Tamsin knew that part of the plan was to use Bo to help attract an army, some wouldn't need to be attracted, once word got around who was in town it wouldn't take long for an army to start forming. Bo could be used to control them.

Walking out of the clinic Tamsin got into Bo's car, starting it up first time she drove in the general direction of the Dal. As she was driving down a side street she caught a glimpse of something that looked like a big black dog. Cutting down the next side street she saw the same thing, only this time it looked at her. Her mind clouded over as she realised it was a huge black wolf. As her mind cleared she slammed on the breaks before the car smashed into the garbage truck that was currently driving down the main street. Missing a very nasty accident by inches Tamsin closed her eyes and gripped the steering wheel.

"Get out of my head…" she said.

She was sure she could hear Hades laugh as she drove down the street towards the Dal.

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Well that was a lot longer than I thought it would be, sorry folks.