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Pairings: Bo/Lauren Set directly after our story "Faery Tale", the fourth story in an AU plot line.
Rating: M (Contains scenes of violence, sexuality and nudity)
No Faete But What We Make: Chapter Five
By: The Rainbowwriters
Bo laid on her back staring up at the twinkling lights that were strung up in the cask room with a soft sigh and then flipped over on her side. She'd already tried every body position she knew of to see if she could sleep, but rest was elusive. Finally reminding herself there was no one there to judge her, she reached for the blonde's pillow that lay untouched beside her and pulled it to her, tucking it under her head before nuzzling her nose into it momentarily and breathing in.
The soft smell of Lauren's natural scent, shampoo mixed with perfume and hormones, filled her senses but made the ache she felt inside her even worse. Pushing the pillow away the succubus rolled back onto her back and breathed out a harder sigh. She just knew that she wasn't going to sleep, no matter how hard she tried to will herself into unconscious slumber.
Defeated, she picked up her phone and slid off the screen lock to check the time. It was only just after two in the morning, meaning this was going to be the longest night on record for her. Her main problem being the distinct lack of Lauren.
Skipping down to her message app, Bo sent a quick note off to her lover just to test if the doctor was also awake. She had received a text at just after ten from the blonde saying that something had 'cropped up' in the lab and that she was probably compound bound for the night. That simple message had capped off what had been a very low key evening for the succubus.
Kenzi hadn't really come around after their long hard chat, the weight of the 'what if's' and omitted facts seeming to weigh on her. To Bo's happiness she'd at least continued to nibble some snacks and they managed to loose themselves in a few hours of TV critique.
As the evening began to turn to night, Trick had offered to make Bo something to eat but she was still feeling over full from her day at the Hilton. Instead on Kenzi's prompting, she'd gone for a run and brought back the younger woman the elusive slushie that had led to so much being revealed. The two of them returning to watching TV, until Kenzi's light snoring told Bo her that the other brunette was fast asleep. She'd quietly turned off the set, her grandfather already having retired to his lower rooms, and moved through to 'sleep' alone on the air mattress.
Holding the phone in her hand for a long moment, waiting to see if Lauren would message her right back, Bo considered calling Dyson. After all she had expected to have heard from the wolf about how his first day back had gone, but then again he was probably trying to play nicely with the new and exciting Detective Nelson. Though if she was honest with herself, she was curious to know how it was going for him given his own hard ass reputation. But she also knew right now that the wolf probably needed space from her as much as she needed it from him as he tried to re-integrate into his mangled career.
Another moment passed before Bo's cellphone sounded and a return message appeared from the doctor. It questioned why Bo wasn't asleep yet and mentioned that she was waiting for one more test result before she went to bed herself.
Bo read the text with a smile shifting to lay on her stomach as instead of texting a reply she called the blonde's number.
"You should be asleep." The response came almost immediately after the first ring, Lauren's voice soft and playfully admonishing.
"I'm in bed." Bo replied deliberately making her voice sound as pouty as just sound would allow.
"That's a start, I wish I was there with you." Lauren made the admission easily, as it was true. While it did feel good to be back working at her lab without an apocalypse type event baring down on them, the first place she wanted to be was of course with Bo. "Is Kenzi alright?" She checked, knowing it was another reason why she wished she was there with her lover.
"She was tired today, she did a lot yesterday." Bo decided against tell Lauren the revelations of the day on the phone. "Out like a light before the Late Show." The succubus revealed the facts. "I miss you." She made the admission just as easily as the blonde had made hers. "I could come and pick you up if you're too tired to drive back to the Dal?"
"Normally I would say yes, but I have to be back in here first thing again." Lauren tried to explain the dilemma she was in. "It's just for tonight." She tried to soothe the issue softly.
"But it's the night after last night, and last night was..." Bo literally purred into the phone. "After that I'm not sure I can be on my own."
"You are insatiable." Lauren actually gave a giggle, as in her lab she leaned more onto her workbench, memories of the night before very vivid in her mind.
"I'm a succubus, isn't that a good thing? A sign that I'm working perfectly, that all systems are A-okay?" Bo's grin could clearly be heard in her tone. "Really Lauren I'm lying here in the sparkly sex shack and I'm alone." She stressed the word. "What are you wearing?"
"Come pick me up." Lauren didn't answer the question, giving another giggle. "My test should be finished by the time you get here."
"Really?" Bo rolled onto her back and pushed to sit up in one easy move, "Or you know if it's easier I could stay there, we found out today that Thistle left her barghest here at the Dal as backup so for a night maybe I could play hookie." The succubus was already off the bed and wiggling into a pair of tight pants.
"I'll leave that decision up to you." Lauren didn't want to tear Bo away from Kenzi, she could never be that selfish so the choice had to be the brunette's alone. But, she did reason to herself, a barghest left by Thistle would nearly guarantee Kenzi's safety from most things Fae she could even think of, and she could think of a lot.
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It wasn't that Hale had cut down on security in and around the lab, he had just improved on it dramatically. He had introduced the use of new technology which had initially proved frustrating to Bo. The usual door that she used to gain entrance to the lab now changed out for an electronically locked double reinforced security door, with a large card reading unit poised to the side and instructions that if you did not possess a pass card you must report to the main reception. The whole point underlined by the red lettering on the door that read simply 'Restricted Zone'.
Her attempt to get to Lauren without causing major hassle for the Doctor or the Ash was almost stumped until the restricted door opened and a Fae that she recognized emerged almost bumping into her.
Their exchange had been cordial and friendly, Bo pointing out that she was just about to phone Lauren who she was supposed to be meeting with to get some case information in the hopes that Darla, a name that had taken her some time to remember, would turn and unlock the door for her. The technician did one better, producing a yellow colour coded visitors' pass card from her pocket, and explained to Bo that there was a series of such doors she would now have to go through in order to get anywhere near the inner areas of the lab. The ineffective manned stations that had so often held up laboratory business, had all been replaced with security doors that would allow the lab to be sectioned off in various configurations in the case of an emergency or at worse a breech of the compound.
With her shiny new pass card Bo made it through the interior security quicker than normal and seeing as Darla had also told her where to find Lauren, she was soon able to watch the blonde through a large observation window that looked into the room she was working in. Bo stood there for a few long minutes watching the blonde work before even thinking of interrupting her. The guilty pleasure of getting to watch the Doctor in her element adding to the ache she'd been keep awake by earlier.
The brunette watched as Lauren tidied away a few things into the various cabinets in the room, putting away slides and samples that she had on the desk with the over sized microscope she had obviously recently been using. Every so often she would pause to tuck her hair behind her ear or check the slim phone in her lab coat pocket.
'Probably wondering where I am.' Bo thought with a smile as she continued to watch as the blonde would then move back to her task of tidying, even going so far as to straightening the light blue sheet that covered the bottom half of the full sized examination table. The last action being Bo's cue that it was a good time to interrupt the Doctor.
Finally having had enough of watching her lover at work, being so fastidious and efficient Bo raised her hand and knocked loudly on the door, a beaming smile on her face as she waited in the corridor outside for permission to enter the strictly private room. She doubted her visitor pass would even open it if she had tried.
The door was pulled open seconds later by the blonde, who was wearing a bright smile despite the late hour.
"How did you get in here? I was expecting a text when you got to the new security entrance." Lauren smirked at her, as always impressed by Bo's ability to make things happen that quite frankly shouldn't.
"I have my ways, not to mention my shiny pass card." Bo held up the slim card with a grin. "Hmm God you look gorgeous." She added stepping into the room with Lauren and wrapping her arm around the slender blonde, pulling her closer. "Who would have thought the way to a succubus' heart was a lab coat?"
"Not something I've found in a book, but in real life it seems to apply." Lauren let her body be pulled close to the brunette, looping her arms loosely around Bo's shoulders. "We should keep it a secret though."
"Well I won't tell anyone if you don't." Bo made the offer leaning to press her lips to Lauren's neck briefly. "Did you get the results you needed?" The succubus leaned back a little but kept her arm at Lauren's waist purposely not repeating the kiss yet.
"Yes, I've caught up on everything the Ash desperately needs for tomorrow." Lauren smiled showing her pleasure with her own work, though she was concentrating more and more on Bo's very arousing flirty touches and kisses.
"So you're more focused now on my desperate needs?" Bo smirked as she brought her other hand to play with the open material at Lauren's collar.
"Tell me about your desperate needs?" Lauren purposely purred the question, feeling as always like nothing in the world could hurt her in Bo's arms.
Bo ran her tongue over her lips and then flicked her dark eyes at the large observation windows and the door that Lauren had let slip closed behind them.
"I'll get the blinds, you lock the door and then I'll tell you all about them." She made Lauren the offer.
"Bo! This is my lab." Lauren made the vague objection.
"Anything toxic? Noxious or dangerous? Does the Ash have live feed because I am not ready for Hale to see that." Bo teased.
"No, he does not, that I know of." Lauren looked to the ceiling momentarily and then shook her head. "And anything dangerous is put away, I know you." She teased a little herself.
"So..." Bo moved back to the window and deliberately let the horizontal blinds on the first section drop with a loud noise, her smirk more wide and seductive. "Lock the door Doctor." She purred, twisting the small stick that shifted the small strips of white plastic flat, obscuring anyone outside from seeing in.
Lauren knew that the Succubus would have easily seen the hard shiver of pleasure that went through her body before she turned and slid the manual bolt lock on the door closed. Then walking with a slight swagger, Bo moved to lower and close the blind on the last window so they had complete privacy before she turned and moved back to within arms reach of her lover.
"You know I've always wanted to see you in just your lab coat." Bo reached out and drew her finger down over the folded down collar of the white overcoat. "No shirt, no oh so smart pants, no desperately sexy underwear, just skin and lab coat." She purred bringing her other hand up to run over the collar at the other side of Lauren's throat, her eyes dancing as she looked between the blonde's eyes and all over her body. Unconsciously she licked her lips between phrases as the idea and thought turned her on even more.
"Then as this is my lab..." Lauren smiled as a sudden idea cleared in her mind, her long day suddenly far behind her when presented by her super charged lover. "I need you to turn around, put your hands on the table, close your eyes and don't turn around." She gave the simple instruction in her doctor's voice without even realizing it.
"Yes Doctor." Bo literally shivered as she slid her hands down Lauren's collar deliberately letting them trail down over the slight curve of Lauren's breasts before she stepped back, turned and put her hands flat on the table behind her. Her long eyelashes drawing slowly down as her eyes closed, fluttering slightly as she totally closed her eyes and followed her lover's instruction.
Lauren purposely didn't speak again, as she first peeled off her lab coat and then began to take her clothes off. She made sure she did so making some subtle noises to indicate what article of clothing she was on and by the time she peeled off her underwear and bra, she could tell that her lover's acute sexual senses were on overload without any visual stimulation.
"Now, why on earth do you think just a lab coat would be sexy?" Lauren questioned as she finally slid the coat back on and did up the three poppers which did little to close it over her body.
"Why? Because it's so you." Bo had a hard time not lifting her hands off the table or opening her eyes when she answered as it was obvious in her minds eye the succubus was picturing her lover in just her lab coat.
"I noticed the first time I examined you that you were good at following my directions... I guess I can attribute that to the lab coat." Lauren teased her voice deep as she moved closer up behind the brunette and reached to run both of her hands down from the brunette's shoulders over her arms. The move made Bo give out a low moan as she shivered hard.
"It is a uniform, I'm not usually good with uniforms but with you everything is different." She made the admission, letting her breath come quickly through her open mouth.
"It's the same for me... turn around." Lauren timed her words so that she had pulled back her body, making it so that when the succubus did so she would get to see exactly what she had wanted to see. Just the blonde, in the lab coat, nothing extra. She just hoped that the reality would live up to the fantasy.
The fact that Lauren probably didn't feel anything solid again until her back landed with a jolt on the thick mattress of the examination table, that had itself been pushed hard against the far wall of the room from the force of their landing, probably answered any doubt she had in her mind as to whether or not the 'reveal' had had the desired effect.
Bo had literally picked the blonde up, carrying her over to and dropping her on the bed, straddling her instantly. The momentum of their bodies sent the wheeled bed hard sideways so that slid forwards until it hit the wall.
The succubus' hands ripped open the three poppers of the lab coat the same second, which allowed her access to press her mouth onto whatever skin was closest as her legs struggled slightly to pin the blonde exactly how she wanted her on the slim surface. Their hot, excited bodies instantly flaring against one another as Bo began to prove just how much she liked Lauren in just a lab coat.
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"Good morning."
Kenzi rolled onto her side with a groan at the sound of the words. She had a slight headache but one that would felt like it would probably go away if she just bit the bullet and got up rather than laid in bed and ignored it. She was about to return the greeting to Bo when her sleepy brain filled in the fact that it wasn't the succubus who had spoken to her. Blinking open still blurry eyes Kenzi looked at and immediately recognized the red head that was sat beside the medical bed smiling at her.
"Hi." Kenzi said the small word, her mind filtering through all the disjointed images it had of this woman. "I hope I wasn't drooling." She gave a soft smile.
"You weren't." Thistle gave a soft shake of her head and returned the gentle smile, though unlike Kenzi's the Harvester's wasn't unsure, it was just soft. "You need some vitamin C, it will help your head." She pushed up from the small stool she was sat on and crossed to the bar, taking long confident strides as if she knew exactly where to look for what she wanted. She opened up one of the bar fridges and took out a bottle of orange juice and brought it back over, twisting it open as she sat down. "Here." She offered it to Kenzi immediately.
"Thank you." Kenzi took it, a part of her more than surprised to realize that Thistle was such a caring and involved with humans type of Fae. "Um..." She took a long sip hoping it would indeed help her head. "I'm sorry about yesterday, I'm guessing your demon dog narced on me."
"Barghest." Thistle corrected softly. "Would it help if I told you his name?" Her smile quirked a little brighter.
"Totally." Kenzi made the easy admission drinking more juice.
"I think that's sarcasm, not many people warm to them even if I were to tell you his name was Nibbles or something else equally benign." The Harvester looked down as she chuckled slightly. "It's not by the way."
"Actually one thing I've learned about being a human trying to deal with the weirdness of Fae is information." Kenzi was honest. "And if his name was Nibbles, it would say more about you then him." She did take a playful jab at the supernatural redhead.
"Unfortunately I wasn't born in a time that saw Nibbles utilized as it is today, it would have swayed my choice for sure." Thistle laughed softly. "It is good to see you more bright and alive Kenzi." She added to her sentence with a softer nod. "You were very sick when I saw you last."
"Bo explained everything to me a little, I understand that I have you to thank for getting that thing out of me." Kenzi looked at her more seriously as well. "Thank you, for everything. She hinted at how dangerous it is for you."
"Did she also tell you that this is what I do, what I live for?" Thistle shook her head slightly. "Your thanks mean a great deal to me because they come from your living lips Kenzi, they mean I succeeded." Without foreshadowing or warning Thistle reached out and cupped Kenzi's cheek with her hand. "I need no more reward than that, no matter what the danger to myself."
Kenzi was stalled for a moment as she tried to consolidate her thoughts and her intrinsic feelings about the Fae in front of her.
"You're not like other Fae." She whispered reaching up to put her bandaged hand over Thistle's. "You're like Bo, that's awesome."
Thistle openly laughed, the noise bright and surprisingly uplifting in the quiet bar.
"Well thank you, I think." Thistle carefully extracted her hand and brought it back to her lap. "And you are not your average human either, you are incredibly strong and brave."
"Now who's being sarcastic. I took on the Norn and got possessed by a Ghoul, which I still don't fully understand but from the look on Bo's face I don't know if I ever want too." Kenzi made the honest appraisal.
"There is time to understand if you want too, there are those around you that have all the answers." Thistle shrugged her strong shoulders and then breathed out. "But knowledge is not always a gift." She pointed out softly. "I have no doubt your good friend Bo told you all that she thought you needed to know and for now I would trust her judgement." The redhead paused for a moment and then frowned ever so slightly. "Did she explain to you that this is not all finished? That there is more I need to do?"
"Yes." Kenzi gave a serious nod. "She told me you still have to seal the wound in my hand, that it's the reason I can't leave the protection of the Dal." She moved her other hand to rub over the bandage. "Will it hurt?" She asked the slightly wussy question.
"Unfortunately the answer to that question is yes." Thistle frowned more. "I need to forge a seal that will close your entire being, uniting it to itself again, rather like reforging a chain that has been broken, I have to make you one again." She looked at Kenzi to see if she was in any way understanding. "Like with my chain analogy, the process is more like a weld than a traditional healing."
"I was afraid that was going to be your answer." Kenzi gave her a lopsided frown. "But it's okay, Bo told me you're the one to do this, so if that's how it has to be done so I can never go through this again, I'll deal."
"Did she tell you how she came by the metal from which I will make the seal?" The hint of a smile graced Thistle's lips.
"No, I didn't know you needed metal to do it." Kenzi was honest, intrigued by the specific question. "Where did she get it?"
"Your friend Lauren, it used to be her slave pendant." Thistle hoped this brought the young woman the pleasure she suspected it would.
"I love it." Kenzi couldn't contain her grin. "The slave pendant I'm going to make redundant when I finish my investigation to get her her freedom. It's so Lion King."
"I wanted to ask you something, about the seal." Thistle was more than happy when indeed Kenzi did seem happy with the idea.
"Shoot, this is your show." Kenzi sat up a little more, the orange juice actually having helped or maybe it was just knowing that the person who could end this nightmare was back.
"The mark it leaves will of course be permanent, like a tattoo only..." Thistle paused for a moment as if searching for what might be the right word. "Sparkly?" She offered looking at Kenzi to see if this was a suitable choice.
"A sparkly tattoo? Again I say awesome." The young woman was indeed intrigued and pleased by the idea.
"Do you have a preference in design?" Thistle asked the question she had been wanting too. "I have already created the seal itself, in that there can be no choice, but the design in its entirety must cover the area effected by the initial contact."
"I'm guessing you can see that with your super vision?" Kenzi checked.
"Yes." Thistle again actually chuckled under her breath and reached into the poncho like top she was wearing and pulled out a roll of parchment. On it, sketched out in charcoal, was Kenzi's hand and lower arm, both the back and then the front in turn. A small dime sized 'design' was drawn in to correspond to the what Kenzi figured was the wound in her hand but the rest of her skin was blank. Minus a very faint series of dotted lines drawn up across both arms about five inches up from the wrist, clearly signifying that the taint hadn't gone any higher than this. "This is your template." She smiled as she handed Kenzi the parchment. "I have others." She added. "So be creative."
"Well I have a sorta Gothic industrial vibe going on most of the time." Kenzi stared at the page and then smiled at Thistle. "You're going to help me right?" She questioned not about to let the woman slink back off to wherever she went when she disappeared.
"If you'd like me too, I would have thought the internet would be more use to you than a nine hundred year old Harvester but..." The redhead gave a bright smile, clearly touched by the request.
"The internet vs. a 900 year old harvester with a barghest named Nibbles? No contest." Kenzi gave a hearty laugh. "Now what do you think to making it look like I have sparkly brass knuckles on all the time?"
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"Bo... Bo you have to get up." Lauren blinked open her eyes and though her left leg was numb and her shoulder felt a little 'sparkly' neither of those things were what were alarming her the most. What was, were the distinct sounds of 'activity' in the lab beyond the locked door of the observation room that she had just seconds before woken up in. "BO!" She hissed the succubus' name as loudly as she dared and tried to pry her lover's hand off her breast.
"But I'm tired..." Bo grumbled starting to come awake and it was only as she realized that she was lying on cold linoleum tiling that her eyes snapped open. "We're still in your lab." The realization hit her. "I'm sorry..." She started to extract herself from the blonde and tried to orient her still sluggish body and sleep shrouded mind.
"You're tired and I can't feel my leg." Lauren slid across the cold floor trying hard not to 'squeak' as her warm skin wanted to stick in places on the chilly tile.
"Floor is cold." Bo warned her a moment too late as she tried to find articles of their clothing, bringing the first few pieces over to Lauren. "Clothes, I found your clothes." She had a certain amount of pride in her accomplishment. "They can find me naked... we can... we can say you were giving me a check up." Her brain tried to think. Of course it didn't dawn on her that a 6am check up appointment wasn't usual for the doctor, especially an unscheduled one.
"I can't wear those." Lauren shook her head. "Not only because everyone saw me in them less than eight hours ago, most Fae have advanced senses of smell." She blinked at Bo and pulled open a low cupboard. "And really a 6 am body check? With you carrying a pass that probably ran out at 5." The blonde pulled out a pair of scrubs, quickly assessing whether they would be suitable. "Oh God I can't believe I have to wear scrubs without underwear all day, if I have to be in any long meetings with any Fae with highly effecting olfactory organs, I will hate you this evening."
"I'll bring you clothes back asap." Bo vowed as she struggled into her bunched up leather pants that she found stuck under the wheel of the examination table somehow, probably when they'd moved their 'examination' to the floor.
"You ripped my lab coat!" Lauren suddenly exclaimed as she held up her lab coat and revealed that indeed it looked as 'ravaged' as Lauren currently did. "Bo!" She blinked as she draped it on the examination table and pulled on the scrub bottoms still staring at the ruined coat.
"I'm sorry, grab another one from the drawer." Bo urged her stuffing Lauren's underwear into her jacket pocket with her own having decided there was no point struggling them on. "I will fix it myself, I got an A in my freshman home economics class in high school."
"Bo these are Dr. Lewis specific lab coats." Lauren slid the closures down on the scrubs and looked at her lover, but couldn't actually look mad. She suddenly stopped all action and just leaned against the table. "And you dented the wall." She put her head down a little as she chuckled, catching sight of the dent in the dry wall where the main rail of the exam bed had been driven into it.
"I think this also might have gotten broke?" Bo looked sheepishly guilty as she held up a metal handle that clearly belonged on something somewhere but she had found it nest to one of her discarded boots.
"That's..." Lauren crossed quickly to Bo but stopped and reached out as if to pluck the small handle out of Bo's hand, but instead she traced her finger tip down Bo's cheek. "Thank you." She gave a typical eye roll. "For my pick me up." She gazed into her lover's eyes.
"Thank you for loving me." Bo said softly and then leaned in to kiss her, suddenly realizing she didn't care who was outside. All she cared about was Lauren.
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