A/N~ To my lovely readers, no I have not lost interest in this story, or in any of my writings. However, if you hadn't heard of Matthew, I'm totally blaming the storm for the delay and the debris that is my life right now. No power, three trees down, and that's just the beginning. Not to mention a mild concussion and a sore bottom we won't even talk about. So it occurred to me we haven't really heard from these two as a couple so far in the story and I thought it was about time that we did. ~A
A/N/N~ If you have heard of the storm. I hope you survived it relatively unscathed and my prayers are with you. Cause I know for me it could have been ever so much worse. I only have to look out my front door to see that. Bless you all. ~A
Chapter 5
Lauren is very excited and is packing when Bo comes home after a very short day of investigating. Her target an Ocutia fae, who is supposedly cheating on her mate, spat ink on the unaligned fae. Don't ask.
When Bo saw Lauren packing she was confused. "Are we going somewhere?"
Lauren tried hard not to roll her eyes, she really did. "I am. I told you two weeks ago that I was scheduled to be one of the keynote speakers at the Medical Innovations Convention in New York."
"Oh yeah, that's right," Bo said not really remembering, but figuring telling her boo that might not go over so well. "So what should I pack?" She asked, and knew she had messed up as soon as Lauren turned to face her.
"You don't remember do you?" when Bo refused to answer Lauren said, "I told you the convention would be packed and you agreed that might be too much potential chi on the hoof. So you were going to stay here."
Bo actually didn't remember the conversation but she was already in deep so she figured she might as well go for broke. "Oh yeah I have a feeling me outing the fae to the world would be epically bad." She nodded her head, then threw in as a good girlfriend move, "Do you think they'll record the sessions?"
"Probably why?" Lauren asked thoughtlessly as she continued to pack her clothes carefully.
Bo said, "I'd kind of like to see my honey giving her speech to all the much too boring for words doctors who will then fall down worshipping the ground she walks upon as the unworthy masses that they are."
"Fine, I'll bring home a copy just so you can have something to fall asleep too." Lauren said recognizing a suck-up when she heard it.
The succubus drove the lady doc to the airport and drew one last chi laden kiss before Lauren boarded the plane. As soon as the plane took off, Bo turned the rented car tin the direction of Dyson's place. She was looking forward to being filled with her go to guy.
She pounds on Dyson's door unceremoniously. When Dyson opens the door a frown on his face, she leaps into the werewolves arms and proceeds to remove his tonsils with her tongue. The succubus is rather shocked when the bare- chested detective pushes her legs down and away from his waist before pushing her back against the wall.
Thinking he is playing hard to get or trying to get into the rough stuff, he occasionally seems to prefer, Bo starts stripping off her clothes. The wolf stares at her in irritation as he says, "Sorry Bo, not interested."
The brunette stares at him for a minute and then smiles as she says, "You really had me going there for a minute. I could have sworn you said, no."
"I did," Dyson said as he turned away from the succubus, to go back to take a swig from the beer he had been enjoying before being so rudely interrupted. He checked the time before he let the bottle touch his lips, he still had time before he had to stop consuming food or beverage.
He could still have had sex if he so desired, the problem was he didn't desire it. Not from the succubus anyway. Bo moves further into the apartment looking longingly at the nearby bed before following the werewolf into his tiny kitchen/dining area.
She looks a little disdainfully at the baked fish and greens that the wolf had been eating before she came in, then asked, "So who's the new girl?"
The wolf looked at the not so subtle succubus as he replied laconically, "Girl?"
"Or guy," she says with a toothy grin, "Far be it for me to judge."
"If I chose another 'woman' or man, why would it be any of your business?" the werewolf asked with only the barest rasp of warning to his voice as he spoke. A warning the succubus chose to ignore.
"Oh, you know, I thought we might compare notes or something," Bo says too casually.
"There is no one new, just not in the mood to sex you up succubus." Dyson replies and this time there is no way to ignore the harshness in his tone.
"Come on, honey you've never had a problem helping a sister out. Why wouldn't you want to help me now?"
"Where's Lauren?" the werewolf asks sharply.
Bo's face resolves into a pout as she moved closer and trailed her fingers over his fur covered chest. "She had to go out of town for a few days, leaving me all at loose ends."
"So much for monogamy, fidelity, and love, where you're concerned." he said as he grabbed both of her hands and forcing them away from his torso. He turned her to face his door and proceeded to shove her across the floor to said doorway and then on out, back into the hall.
"Don't bother coming back," he says as he shoves her out the door.
~O~
Bo stands in the middle of the hall for a minute in shock before going back to the door and banging on it. It's not until a few minutes later that she sees two teen-aged boys staring at her and giggling that she realizes she has been observed by several of the fae detectives neighbors pounding on the door and screaming at him to, "Let me in." and, "Sex me up right now."
Being the spoiled brat she is, Bo stomps off to the open mouthed staring and teenaged giggles of several of the detectives younger neighbors and the disapproving stares of some of the older ones. Instead of going home to get over her embarrassment the succubus heads to the Dahl. Her grandfather would fix things for her, she was certain. The gist of that conversation was Bo whining about, "Why her living breathing sex doll isn't servicing her." While Trick looked decidedly uncomfortable.
Trick gets a strange look on his face that looks surprisingly like he has a migraine something he supposedly can't do. As she continues to complain that the werewolf even admitted that he hadn't found another lover, so why wouldn't he help her get some chi. Another strange expression crossed the older fae's face, followed by the Blood King also chasing his granddaughter out of his apartment before going on a manic search through his many trunks and bookshelves for a particular book.
Apparently whatever he finds disturbs him so greatly that he actually calls Sturgis Santiago to set a meeting of the council members. Not just the light fae but both the light and the dark. Something the Blood King has never done before. A meeting of the two full councils is something that hasn't happened in over a century. Not even when Bo was discovered had the full council been called.
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Lauren avoids a small group of costume clad children running and squealing down the street as she heads to her apartment. It is Halloween and Lauren has returned smiling and invigorated by the positive feedback from the other scientists and physicians she had met with at the conference. Many of them were positively fascinated by the dual research she was doing with plant based therapies and stem cell research.
Several of the older researchers were fascinated that someone so young could do such groundbreaking research in such disparate fields. Psyched by the accolades of her peers the light fae physician stepped into her humble abode to find her honey sitting in a pool of liquor bottles looking cranky.
Concerned Lauren dropped her bags near the door and kicked it closed behind her as she rushed over to Bo and kneeling asked, "What's happened?" Thinking someone had been hurt or worse yet killed, hadn't she left contact numbers on the fridge.
"Dyson wouldn't sex me up." Bo said in a petulant voice. Followed quickly by, "Am I loosing my mojo?"
Lauren felt a rock settle into her heart at the statement. Ever since Kenzi had sacrificed by walking through the portal into the afterlife, her girlfriend had been more cold and callous, and yes on occasion calculating in getting what she wanted.
"Ok I don't know why Dyson turned you down, but that is his right Bo." The doctor had been doing her best to be patient but, "I mean it's only been three days, it's not like you would have been starving. How long did you wait after I left to go to Dyson?"
The succubus turned away from Lauren so the doctor couldn't see the look of guilt in her eyes. The movement itself though was telling. Instead of backing down though the doctor said, in a too cool way, "And the reason you couldn't have used someone anonymous, someone meaningless while I was gone?"
The succubus proving that her brain is either on sexual overload or starved for oxygen says, "But I wanted Dyson."
Needless to say that excuse doesn't exactly go over well with Dr. Hotty. The blond doctor has realized something that for some reason the succubus has completely missed. Dyson is still mourning Kenzi. While Bo has already moved on.
When the pair go to the Dahl, where Trick is conspicuously absent. Bo is still whining about not getting any from the D-man. Lauren tries to explain that "Bo don't you get it. Dyson is still in mourning,"
Bo says almost deliberately obtuse. "But he and Hale were fighting."
Lauren reminds her lover, "Kenzi and he weren't." Then Lauren says, "I had wondered whether or not the sacrifice had really worked, now I know it did. You really are heartless aren't you?"
Bo is incensed and leaves the pub, only to have Lauren lock her out of the apartment. She goes to her old clunker only to find a packed bag of her belongings and a note. Advising her to find somewhere else to sleep in the foreseeable future. That hasn't happened before and although Bo is concerned she doesn't believe her behavior had anything to do with it.
As the succubus is heading to the Crack Shack it occurs to her that perhaps something happened while Lauren was at the conference. Then she realizes that she hadn't even asked her girlfriend how the conference had gone. Ok maybe she wasn't such a great girlfriend but still…did she really deserve this behavior from Lauren.