Author's note: Thank you all for the reviews and reading my story. I hope all of you are enjoying reading it as much as I am enjoying writing it. Hope you enjoy this chapter, I was not sure I like how it came out as much as some of my others. Enjoy.
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"Bo, are you alright you have cuts all over you?" Kenzi asked the succubus seeing many small cuts on her face. "What the hell happened?"
"My mother kidnapped me, and I decided I did not want to stick around so I left through a window." The many small cuts stinging a little, but she did not have time to find someone to feed off to start the healing process.
"You want a mercy kiss?" reluctantly offering Bo. "Cuz you know I will do it, for you."
"No Kenz, but thanks anyway." Bo answered, she knew Kenzi was leery of her feeding. "I need to go see Lauren though, she was going to look into a way to fight a succubus for me. I just needed to tell Trick the situation. Aife is going to start a war between the Light and the Dark."
"Give me your hand childe," Gaia offered her hand to Bo. As Bo took the Ancient's hand in her's and felt a jolt of energy pass through her hands into the woman's hand and then a moment later that energy was flowing back into her entire body. She felt the small cuts and scrapes on her face and arms heal and close up. "That should help you I think."
"Oh wow, how did you do that?" Bo asked, a little in awe of the power this woman had. She had met very few fae that had more than one or two gifts.
"It is nothing really, I just took some of your chi and then gave it back to you. You basically did all the work yourself, I just helped it along really. You should be able to use your own chi to heal you at anytime childe. It just takes practice." Gaia stated, amazed that the succubus did not this. "I have heard of succubi that even heal others with their chi, although they need to be careful of this."
"I will have to learn to do that, that could come in handy. Although I think I need to learn more control of my abilities before I start doing that though. Something I am still working on." Bo replied really wanting to learn her abilities more, especially seeing what her mother could do. "But for now I really need to go see Lauren and see what has found out. Come on Kenzi."
"Of course, I need to talk to Trick anyway. I remembered something that might help in my search that I wish to talk to him about." Gaia answered, seeking Trick out in the bar.
As Bo and Kenzi headed out the door of the Dal getting into their car and heading for the compound. Bo filled Kenzi in on the situation with her mom, and what she had planned to do by starting a war.
"Wow, that is just messed up. So how you going to stop her?" Kenzi asked a little worried about Bo having to fight her mom when she had just found her.
"I don't know, I am hoping to talk her out of this crazy plan. I know she has to have some good in her somewhere. But I have to stop her, too many people could get hurt otherwise."
As they pulled up to the compound they could see smoke coming out of the place as if there had been a fire. Seeing Matt on guard, Bo rolled the window down. Fearing that Aife had already started what she had planned. "What the hell happened?"
"There was an attack on the Ash, not sure by who yet. But we are locking down the compound, what are you doing here?" Matt asked.
"We are here to see Doctor Lewis, I am working a case involving of an elder being killed. I was needing some information that she was looking into." Not really lying to Matt, but not saying the whole truth either.
"Oh ok, not sure where she is though. There is a lot of chaos going on up there. Try and stay out of the way if you can." Matt told Bo, not knowing that the medical labs had been destroyed or that Lauren had been injured as well.
"Thanks Matt," Bo replied as she rolled up the window and started forward. "This can not be good Kenz, look at all this damage." Seeing one side of the Ash's compound destroyed, and as she pulled up behind the compound her heart heaved in despair. The medical labs were still on fire. Bo almost did not wait until her car came to a stop before jumping out of the car. Running towards the labs, she saw Hale and Dyson talking to fae and humans workers. Bo ignored them and ran towards the medical wings and saw that there were people going in and out, so she entered the building. Kenzi followed her friend knowing that she would need the support and be there for her friend. She noticed that Hale had noticed them and was walking towards them.
As Bo ran into the labs, she saw all the destruction that had been caused. She saw one of the few people she knew that worked in the labs with Lauren and ran over to her.
"Jackie, where is Lauren at?" Bo's voice held both urgency and fear. "Is she alright?"
Jackie turned to see a very distraught succubus looking at her. "I am not sure really, she was not in the labs when the explosion happened. She had a meeting with the Ash, so she told everyone to go to lunch. Only a skeleton crew was in here when it happened." Jackie answered not knowing what happened or where the doctor was since she had not checked in yet. "She may be where the elders are being treated, her expertise there would be more needed there."
"Thanks, I will check there for her then." relief going through the succubus, knowing that Lauren was not in the labs. She saw some medical personnel carrying some bodies and placing them on stretchers.
"Hey Jackie, we found the last one. It is Doctor Lewis's patient, the one she had in the stasis pod. It looks like when the roof collapsed in the room it opened up the pod and crushed her. Looks like she died instantly though." the medic technician yelled out to Jackie, who was writing on her clipboard.
Bo's stomach lurched at the body, she had feeling she knew this was Nadia. She remembered in her vision that Lauren had said that her ex-girlfriend was in a stasis pod. "Is that Nada?" Bo asked needing to know, she knew Lauren would be devastated at the news.
"Yeah, Doctor Lewis was treating her for a virus she contracted. Had to put her in stasis about five years ago in order to give her time to find the cure for her." Jackie answered the succubus.
"Thanks, where are they treating the elders at?"
Jackie gave her directions to another building that was on the compound that was set up as the temporary medical area. It was the old medical rooms before Lauren had asked the Ash for the bigger building and area to research and train the bigger personnel for the Light Fae. Most did not know that even though she was a slave to the Ash, she was a genius of the Fae physiologys. She was highly regarded by many even though she was human, and even those on the Elder Council in the Old Country which was the ruling body of all the Fae wanted her expertise on medical matters. So the Ash seeing the wisdom in the expanding the medical resources of the human doctor he agreed. The old medical wing still stood, and it was used mainly for storage area but still had some equipment in it. Bo came up to Kenzi and Hale as she was walking out of the medical labs. "They said that Lauren is probably in the old medical lab where they are treating some of the elders."
"Bo, we are moving the remaining Elders to safe houses until we can figure out what is happening." Hale told Bo, "whoever it was they tried to kill the council and the Ash."
"Does anyone know how it happened?" Kenzi asked Hale, "this place is like Fort Knox most of the time."
"All we can seem to figure out is that somehow two individuals came into the compound. One went to the council chambers and the other to the medical labs, both individuals had themselves wired with explosives and they were suicide bombs."
"Why the medical labs though?" Bo asked, "that doesn't make since."
"We are not sure, we think the person who did that detonated too soon, they were probably suppose to do it when anyone who survived the first attack was brought into the hospital to finish up the job." Hale gave his opinion of the matter.
As they finished walking to the old medical labs they saw that security was very tight around the building. Serena, the head of security for the Light Fae was there and looked like she was a little rattled about the attack that happened on her watch. Dyson was talking to her, as they entered the building and seeing the rest of the medical staff busily taken care of the wounded elders.
"Bo, what are you doing here?" the gravely voice of the Ash got the attention of the succubus. "This is not a good time."
Bo noticed that his arm was in a cast and hung in a sling. "You alright," she nodded to his arm, she wanted to be polite to the Light Fae elder. Otherwise he might have her escorted out before she got a chance to see Lauren. "I was wanting to see if Lauren gotten anymore information from her autopsy. I am helping Dyson and Hale look into the matters, I asked around my contacts in the dark fae and found out it was not them." Deciding to give a mini status report, hoping that the Ash would see she was here for work.
"I will heal, thanks for letting me know about the dark fae though," the Ash actually thanking the unaligned succubus. "But I am afraid that you will not be able to see Doctor Lewis though."
"I just want a moment of her time, to see if she is alright I promise I won't take but five seconds." Bo replied a little pleading in her voice, but just didn't care at the moment.
"You misunderstand me, Bo. Doctor Lewis was badly injured and..." that was all he got out before Bo rushed past him into the medical lab.
Panic set into the succubus as she pulled back curtain after curtain looking for the blonde human. She had to find her, she had to be alright. As she heard both Kenzi and Hale telling her to slow down and stop, she vaguely heard Kenzi.
"Sorry about that your holiness," Kenzi addressed the Ash. "She has had a bad day and is really worried about her friend Lauren. It is nothing against you." She lied, but the Ash didn't need to know that. As the Ash started walking towards Bo who was still searching, making Kenzi follow trying not wanting to be left behind. She heard Bo gasp and knew that she had found what she was looking for. As the Ash and Kenzi both reached the curtained off area where they found Bo staring down at the doctor.
Bo stood there feeling helpless, she had barely recognized the blonde. They had to cut away the doctor's clothes due to them burned into her flesh. They had placed the doctor in what looked like a glass coffin but she could tell there was oxygen being funneled into it, she assumed it was to keep infection away from the burns. Bo saw that one of the medical staff was gently peeling the blackened dead skin away from skin. She saw that he had his hands thru handholds that were on the side of the glass box. She moved closer and kneeled down so that she could Laurens face which was sticking out through a hole in the bottom of the bed.
"Oh my god," Kenzi could not help but yelp as she saw the doctor. "What the hell happened to her." Not really expecting an answer.
"She saved my life, she threw herself in front of me and took the full brunt of the explosion. I would be dead or seriously wounded if not for her actions. How she is still alive is beyond me though." The Ash replied more to fill the silence than anything.
"Is she going to be okay?" Bo asked the medic that was working on Lauren. "Please tell me she is going to be okay."
"I don't know. She should be dead." Seeing the look on Bo, he continued. "the amount of damage she took should have killed her, but somehow her body is regenerating very slowly. And I just don't how this is possible."
Bo was shocked at to say this least. Then she remembered what Gaia had said this morning about her abilities if she worked at them. "I think I may have done that." She looked sheepishly at the medic and the Ash who was looking just as surprised.
"Explain" the Ash ordered.
"This morning, I came to see Lauren and saw that she looked ragged and very tired. I thought I would help her out a little so I gave her some of my chi. I did not think it would do this though, I just wanted to help her until she could get some sleep."
"Well I am not sure how much good it will be though," the medic continued on, "the regeneration is starting to slow already."
"What do you mean?" the Ash asked,
"The regeneration effect is slowing down, if it stops her body is still too badly damaged for her to survive. There is just too much damage."
"Oh hell no," and before anyone could stop her, Bo ducked under the table so she could see Lauren's face. Gently pressing her lips to the doctor, she gently prodded the blonde's lips open just enough and gave the doctor more of her chi.
"Amazing," the medic stated as he collected a tissue sample and looked at it quickly. "It worked the regeneration level is back to what it was, it will still take days, possibly weeks but I think it will work. If you could come by regularly and do that again?" As he looked at the Ash, knowing it was up to him.
"If it will save the doctor's life then I will allow it." As Bo got up from the floor, knowing that she would keep her lips pressed to the doctor for as long as it took if she had to. But she had to go make sure that Lauren was safe later, and to do that she had to stop Aife. She looked down at the blonde, and told her goodbye even though she could not hear her. She turned to leave when the Ash grabbed her arm.
"Bo, what do you know of a succubus named Aife?" the Ash asked the succubus.
"I know she is my mother, I think she may have done all this, she wants to bring a war between the Light and Dark, and I know I am going to stop her because she almost killed Lauren. And I don't care who she is to me, but she almost took her away from me and that I will not forgive." Bo declared, her anger at her mother for almost killing the woman she loved.
"I have something then that might help, but I want your oath that when you are finished with it you will bring it back to me." the Ash stated looking very seriously at the succubus and willing to take the risk. "And before you say it, that if you give me your oath it is not only your life you are bargaining with."
"Don't even think about harming her. I give you my oath that whatever you give me I will return to you." Bo stated not liking give an oath to the Ash, but anything to help her would be helpful. "But just so you know, if you harm her in anyway. I will bring you and the whole light fae to their knees."
"I have no wish to harm the doctor, she saved my life and for that I am indebted to her. But tell me what do you know of the Kershoung necklace?"
"That is suppose to stop a succubus from drawing chi out of a person and makes the wearer immune to the succubus' power." Bo answered remembering what Aife had told of her the necklace when she was captive.
"Good, I will loan you mine until this is finished." the Ash told Bo. "Just remember to bring it back when this is done."
"Fine" Bo turned to leave with Kenzi, taking one last look at the blonde doctor. "I will be back later to give her some more chi."
As Bo and Kenzi started back out the door, an old man walked up to them. He seemed out of it and disoriented. They could hear him mumbling under his breath but could not make out anything. Clearly he was delusional or had a head trauma, but they did not see him as a threat. As he looked at Bo and Kenzi, he walked up to Kenzi and grabbed her arms and then threw his arms around the young woman.
"Little Snowflake, I knew you would come." the old fae spoke clearly. "you changed your hair."