A/N: Hey everyone…we are back. Thanks to everyone who reads, follows, add this to their favorites and for all the phenomenal reviews. They are truly amazing, and we are both glad to hear how much you are all loving this super twisted version of S4. We are having as much fun writing this collaboration as you guys are reading it.
HUGE CREDIT TO LOSTGIRLZ my crazy, dark and twisted co-writer. This chapter was mainly written by LostGirlz with only a touch added in by me. A little teaser chapter (a taste of all the twisted things to come) for you guys because we lurve our readers. Dark Bo is coming and suddenly the temperature just dropped a few degrees, bbbrrr…enjoy with a jacket, gloves and hat. You have been warned.
"I'm here Bo." Lauren's voice was soft. The Succubus attention was directed toward her mate. She narrowed dark eyes inspecting the woman before her, ignoring all others.
"Lauren?" the name was spoken with a hint of uncertainty. The brunette could see the change in her doctor's aura. It was burning brightly yet the color was topaz. "Come to me." She ordered in a low growl, her eyes pulsing with a hint of red.
Whoever stood before the group now was clearly not the Bo they all knew and loved. This person radiated power, lust and a hint of malice. "Don't." Tamsin spoke her arm reaching out to physical bar Lauren from moving.
"No Tamsin!" Lauren hissed but it was too late. Bo's eyes flashed a solid red now and the veins in her neck were throbbing and growing dark. As if some poison were making its way through her system.
"You dare to touch what is mine!?" her voice was cold and hallow.
Tamsin was not about to back down. As far as she was concerned Lauren was hers. Bo may have not had any control over that past year but that didn't change the Valkyrie's feelings. "She's not yours anymore succubitch." She growled turning her head to an odd angle, her Valkyrie now showing in a skeletal face.
Bo clapped her hands together and laughed at the display. "Oh my…Is that supposed to frighten me?" She looked around to the thunderstruck group. Dyson was now physically holding Kenzi back, his arms wrapped around her narrow waist. Trick was grief stricken and therefore immobilized.
"Who are you? You look like Lauren. You sound like her. But you.." Bo stepped forward. "Who are you!" she growled dangerously.
"Bo please. We love you. Whatever happened we can fix it." Lauren pleaded her hands held up in supplication. She met by hard inquisitive eyes. "You know me. It's still me whatever you think you're reading."
"You love me so much that you fuck this broken down bitch in my absence?" Bo said harshly her eyes still pulsing red. "You think I can't read sexual energy…I thought you were the genius of the group?" she mused tapping her finger against her chin. "You realize everything that happens now is entirely your fault?" she said casually.
"Bo." Lauren whispered fearfully.
Tamsin stupidly yet bravely placed herself between the doctor and the approaching Succubus. The Valkyrie launched herself at the brunette who merely held her hand up stopping all the blond's momentum.
"The fuck." Tamsin gasped feeling every inch of her burst into pain. "Did you steal Vex's powers bitch?" she heaved out, her veins bulging in her neck and arms.
"I don't need to be a Mesmer to control you. Your chi is always present in your body. I control the energy inside you, my father taught me that." Bo sneered. "How does it feel?"
"Fuck you!" Tamsin spat.
"Oh honey. We all know how badly you wanted to" Bo taunted her. "Did you know Lauren that Tamsin climbed into my bathtub and told me I was perfect?" Bo said maliciously. "Yes love, she kissed me when I was supposed to be with you for your award. And she proclaimed after our big show down" Bo said enthusiastically. "I never met anyone like you in my many lifetimes." Bo mocked the woman.
"You are a bitch." Tamsin gasped wishing she could see how this was affecting Lauren.
"Whoever you think you have feelings for my love, that person doesn't exist." Bo said almost kindly to Lauren.
"You've made your point! If you love Lauren you wouldn't take so much pleasure in the pain you're causing." Tamsin accused the Succubus.
"I thought Valkyries lived for the pleasure of the fight!" Bo was circling the woman. She leaned in and whispered against her ear. "The pain! The suffering!" she laughed.
"Stop Bo! Please. This isn't you." Lauren tried again. Not sure of how to reach this new version of her former lover.
"You dare accuse me? Who are you now Lauren? You're not my human lover that's for sure. Not that it matters much to me." Bo said casually.
"Because you know me and I know you." Lauren tried, her eyes expressive and wet with unshed tears.
"You don't know who I am!" The demon inside snapped. Bo made her hand into a fist causing Tamsin to fall down to her knees gasping in pain. The blood vessels in her eyes popped. The vessels in arms were throbbing on the verge of explode. She could feel the pressure in her building to unsustainable heights.
Bo approached Lauren eyeing her angrily. "You know nothing of my true nature. If you did, you would have been faithful and true." She whispered with such a coldness in her voice it made the Aceso tremble.
"I was true!" Lauren fought back, fighting everything in her to not look at her fiancé on the floor looking for all intents and purposes like she was slowly and painfully dying.
"I will teach you loyalty Lauren. I promise." Bo said her lip curling menacing. "You will learn your lessons well my love. You. Will. Learn." And with that Bo flicked her wrist causing the Valkyrie to scream in agony, her neck snapping.
Silence
Lauren's hands covered her mouth smothering a scream. Her eyes were wide and disbelieving. For once in her life Lauren didn't have the answers. She didn't know what was going on or how to stop it. As she stared into the bottomless pit of black that was Bo's eyes she knew at the moment this was definitely not her Bo.
"Now that I have your attention." Bo laughed at her own joke stepping over Tamsin's dead body. She turn and clapped her hands together. "I am here to inform you that there will be a new regime change. The Light. The Dark. There will only be me." She closed her eyes and breathed in happily.
"Bo." Kenzi gasped tears falling from her bright eyes.
The Succubus cocked her head to the side curiously. She eased her way over to the small woman. Dyson could only hold Kenzi close afraid to set the demon off. "Don't cry." She smoothed her hand down the Goth's cheek. "You were always loyal to her. A good pet. I won't forget that. I don't even care that you bedded the Wolf. Honestly. No one will hurt you Kenzi. My will is Bond." Bo smiled.
"Her" Lauren finally found her voice. Her eyes still on Tamsin's fallen body. "You said her."
"Oh… found your tongue. I would prefer you to keep it speaking that adorable Geek speak you do and pleasing me." Bo winked as she moved away from trio.
"Who is her?" Lauren said angrily.
"Your precious Bo of course." The Succubus sighed as she leaned against the bar. "Hey gramps. Why don't you pass me that bottle over there? The high end stuff if you don't mind, this is a celebration." Bo grinned completely at bliss in her display of power.
"Who are you. Are you like the Kitsune." Kenzi sniffed. "We want our Bobo back."
"Silly child." Bo reached her hand out towards Trick with hard eyes daring him not to pass her the Buckthorn. Wearily he did as he was ordered. He knew now that their Bo was as consumed with her Succubus as Aiofa was with madness.
"Thank you." Bo said uncorking it. "Shot glass." Bo said with a lifted eyebrow.
"Answer the question." Dyson said gruffly still holding Kenzi.
Bo's head snapped in his direction. "You answer me this Wolf. Would you like to keep your balls dangling between your legs?" the threat was very real.
"Please." Lauren whispered her body rigid and tense. She was barely able to keep her pulse at a normal rate and her breathing even. She knew she was on the verge of going into shock. Bo poured herself a shot and downed it quickly before looking over to the blond.
Suddenly she was here at the Dahl. But it was filled with people. And Lauren was there. Smiling shyly. They were both drinking. Lauren's aura was off the charts and she was blushing.
"I can promise you alcohol doesn't affect my ability to perform"
Bo shook her head from the memory. Her eyes fluttered a moment as she tried to recover. "For you, anything." Bo said sweetly, her eyes now pure black. It was unnerving. There was no warmth there. "We've met before Lauren, when I saved you from the Lich, when I beat the shit out of those thugs at that club. Every time you needed me I was there. But SHE never let me stay." The demon said bitterly.
Lauren's eyes were wild.
"Oh honey. Don't you realize we all have a dark side of our nature? Dyson has his Wolf. I have my …well Me. But I was too weak to take full control. But thanks to my father. I am strong. Your Bo was weak. Indecisive. Unsure. Human." The Succubus spit that last word out.
"But you're not." Lauren exhaled finally connecting the dots.
"I was there when You….all of you weren't. You were here fucking that dead bitch on the floor. While she was in torment. I saved her." The succubus proclaimed proudly.
Lauren swallowed hard. "She's still inside you. A part of you."
"Maybe but you won't see her again." Bo said leaning forward her lips just brushing the blonds. "Not until you earn it." She kissed Lauren hard stealing her chi before she released her but not before biting her bottom lip.
Lauren gasped her chest aching from the pull and the blood tingling her lip. She brought her hand to mouth as her tongue darted out tasting the metallic essence.
"So you are Fae, took one of your injections did you?" Bo said tilting her head to the side in contemplation. "You don't taste like Wolf." She smiled throwing a wink over at Dyson. "What are you?"
The Aceso quickly replenished from the hard chi pull. One way Bo would never be able to kill her was from trying to take her chi. If this new version of Bo wanted to do any harm it would have to be fast, otherwise the Aceso would recover. It was what kept her alive when Taft injected her with Fae DNA. He didn't realize the fae type he grabbed or he surely wouldn't have picked this. Like her, Taft knew all the different kinds of fae, which meant he knew what an Aceso was. Lauren had to believe it wasn't chosen on purpose.
Lauren wasn't sure how to respond to her ex-lover. How to tell her the way she became fae. There was the false memory on how it happened and now the true memory. She watched Bo, looking at her as she contemplated the way to word it. That Tamsin took a part in saving her life. Seeing how Bo was becoming impatient left her no choice, "Taft injected me with Fae DNA. He was trying to kill me Bo." Lauren watched to see if the news of the mad scientist trying to kill her would cause any reaction in the succubus.
The blond studied her ex's face. It was evident by her lack of expression that she wanted Lauren to continue the story. Only then would she respond. At least that was how Lauren was taking it. "He made me an Aceso. The Fae of healing wounds and injuries. As the DNA coursed through my body it was trying to kill me and heal me at the same time. I was barely able to walk but kept moving in fear of being caught and killed." She paused as the true memories flooded her mind. Remembering how scared and alone she felt as her body took on the hardest inner battle. The Civil War played out through her body's biology fighting every cell it encountered. Lauren closed her eyes as the memory brought back with it the pain she was forced to endure. Inhaling deeply she continued, "I kept going, the instinct to live taking over. I fell many times but always pulled myself back up. Then the fae that was building inside of me sensed injury and my feet automatically followed where my brain was pulling me. I found Dyson and Tamsin in a car accident."
The blond glanced over at Dyson as he nodded his encouragement for her to continue. Bo didn't appear to like the connection. Before she had time to react and do something like what she just did to Tamsin Lauren went on. "Dyson was the first one to come to. They were thrown from the vehicle which in their case worked in their favor, it was the only reason they lived. Tamsin woke up moments later. Her injuries where less severe. I healed them because I have the ability to, not just as a doctor, but as an Aceso." Lauren lifted her hand to her cut lip, wiping her finger past it, the tip turning a coral color as it hit the injury. When she removed her finger the wound was healed as she smiled at Bo. Her touch could heal or she could use her essence to heal. Sharing her essence wasn't something she was ready to show this new version of Bo. Lauren knew it that Bo wouldn't like that knowledge. Now she just had to hope that the succubus didn't know much of the Aceso Fae type. If she did then she would know that Lauren could do that. Like giving mouth to mouth but blowing in her essence healing the person from the inside as it worked its way through.
"After I start to die while the fae in me continued its fight. Dyson carried me back to the facility." She glanced over at the shifter at the true memories and his part in saving her. "Together with Tamsin they fixed the botched job that Isaac Taft did. I directed them and they operated. The Fae in me did the rest. Then I was unconscious for 3 days, I awoke with no memory of you Bo, and no memory of the truth of how I became fae. Everything was replaced by a lie until a few hours ago. I didn't just jump into bed with Tamsin. That was my new memory." She went to take a step towards Bo but decided against it pleading with her from a distance. Trying to reach the Bo she knew and loved. "The new memory was that I saved Tamsin 4 years ago when she was with Kenzi after fighting the Dullan. I helped them, Tamsin was dating Nickoli and started to develop feelings for me. A new triangle of sorts. She chose me and we started a relationship two years ago but at the end of the year I ended it thinking she still loved Nickoli. She let me go realizing after she lost me that it was me. We got back together and this past year has been perfect." Realizing that didn't come out how she planned she made the correction fast, "Because there was no memory of you. You didn't exist Bo. And Tamsin proposed last night. I haven't taken the ring off because everything just happened so fast." Lauren couldn't believe all that has happened in just the past few hours. She got engaged, her true memories returned, and Bo was back. But could she really say Bo was back? Sure this person in front of her looked like Bo but that was where the similarities ended. Now her fiancé was dead killed by her ex-lover. The two things keeping her from completely breaking down was knowing Tamsin would be reborn and the fear of how this Bo would react to her tears over the Valkyrie. She noticed Bo was staring at her, looking at her intently.
Trick couldn't take it anymore. He stood there while Lauren explained what happened to her in the past year while Bo seemed to be listening but not actually processing. No longer going to just stand there he faced the woman who was once his granddaughter. "What do you want?" Trick asked sadly. "You came here for a reason."
Bo stared hard at Lauren.
"She wants me." Lauren surmised.
"I will have you. " Bo offered her hand stroking Lauren's cheek.
"No." Dyson stepped forward bravely.
"How many people are going to have to die for you?" she narrowed her eyes at the Wolf.
"No..please. No more." Lauren said reaching over and pressing her hand against Bo's upper shoulder.
Bo turned suddenly. Her eyes stared blankly at the blond and suddenly warmed for a split second. Lauren was holding her back, pleading with her. Like now but it wasn't now. It was another time. Something inside the demon Succubus stirred. A memory?
"No Bo please. You'll just make things worse."
For that split second Lauren saw her Bo. "Bo?"
The Succubus brushed the doctor's hand off her quickly and blinked a few times. "Don't call me that. Bo is gone. Will you come with me?" She put it to her frankly.
Lauren bowed her head and whispered. "Yes."