A/N: As always HUGE thanks to everyone following this story, adding it to your favorites and writing reviews. You guys are a rough crowd, I gracefully tip my hat off to you guys, and you win. The endgame is Doccubus (to anyone who reads my stories or read my profile you would see that I always pair Doccubus I just never make it easy but that's what makes it fun to read) but there will be CopDoc in between. We make decisions in life and have to deal with the actions caused by those choices (much like Bo in this story). Sometimes it is for the best because we learn and grow from it. Plus the ending of this story will tie everything together and explain anything that didn't make sense or wasn't explained. Those who stick around will see, but so far in fanfic I have never seen an ending like this one. Hope everyone will be there to read it as well. Next chapter is Bo and Lauren's talk. I was going to put it in this one but a lot of other things needed to put out there first. Huge warning there is CopDoc in this chapter nothing too detailed but it is there (again it is all necessary for the story). Read on and enjoy especially since now everyone knows who the endgame is.
Lauren was staring at her hand in disbelief. She lifted it closer to her eyes to exam it up close. The skin was completely sealed not even the hint that it was once open and bleeding. Just before she started her training it was bleeding. Since she didn't know what was happening she didn't want the dark fae to see this yet. The doctor wrapped her hand back up in the new gauze that she didn't need. The blonde opened the bathroom door and almost slammed into Tamsin. The Valkyrie just grinned, "Thought maybe those injections wore off and you were keeled over on the floor." Lauren gave a small laugh. She was getting used to Tamsin's humor. "No I was just taking my time rewrapping my hand." The human felt bad lying but what answer was she supposed to give when she didn't even have one.
The blonde fae kissed the human before turning and heading towards the exit of the training room. She called back to the doctor as she kept walking, "Hitting the showers, going to make an appearance at work so it looks like I care, and I will be over same time as always." She didn't wait for an answer as she was already out the doors. The blonde human quickly unwrapped her hand and examined it again the skin was really healing. "Amazing," she quietly mumbled to herself. She needed to think and sitting in the lab would make her start working. Instead she grabbed her ipod from the locker and went towards the light fae gym.
CRACK SHACK
Kenzi was hanging up the phone with a client as Bo came down the stairs. "Look who decided to grace me with her presence, The Walking Dead." The little goth was happy she finally decided to get out of the bath and get dressed. She would appear to be the old Bo in tight black pants, low cut black tank top, her dagger strapped to her thigh, but Kenzi wasn't just anyone and the clothes weren't fooling her. She wasn't going to say anything at least she was pretending to be okay. "We just got hired for a job, you interested," the petite human was hoping the succubus would want to bury herself in work. It would give the goth some time to figure out how she could help. Bo stood on the opposite side of the counter from her best friend, "Yeah sure, what's the case," the brunette said with a lot less enthusiasm then she usually had.
"A mom of a fae that went missing the girl has been missing for over a week now. No one has seen her in that time. Fae beware the deadly duo is back," Kenzi said to Bo as she walked around the counter to her putting her arm around the fae's waist. The succubus gave a small smile. As much as Kenzi wanted to ignore all of this she knew she couldn't. Besides she had to stop by the light fae compound, "Bo you are going to talk to her tomorrow night. Be you, who wouldn't love ya," she looked up at her taller friend with a genuine smile on. "The one person I screwed over royally, that's who wouldn't love me. And why would she because I was the girlfriend of the year. No that title goes to Tamsin, it's nice I hand delivered Lauren to her," the brunette blurted out. She was trying to be accepting with it but it was not as easy as it sounded. She needed to get this out of her system now before her talk with Lauren.
The succubus spent the rest of the time in the bath and getting dressed playing this over and over in her head. She was the one who screwed up and this was the result she didn't have to like it but she did have to accept it. Or at least pretend to accept it. The brunette promised herself that she would be better than the dark fae and she would be worthy of getting the doctor's love and trust back. She knew it wouldn't be easy but the fae was used to the hard road. It was the only way she knew her life was always complicated. This was different because now she knew what she wanted and knew that she had to grow up to deserve the doctor. All she had to do was get through wanting to pound Tamsin's face in and she would be in the clear. This was definitely not going as easy as she was hoping it would.
"You know she still lurvs you," the goth broke Bo out of her thoughts as she continued, "You don't just POOF stop loving someone. If there was a way to do that sista a lot of bitches would be drinking that potion," she laughed as she grabbed her bag slinging it over her shoulder as Bo grabbed the car keys. It was off to the compound then to meet with their client.
LIGHT FAE COMPOUND
Lauren was on the elliptical the sweat was dripping down her back. Her hair was pulled back but she could feel the few pieces that escaped sticking to her skin. She didn't care after the training it was good to get in some cardio. Her ipod was blasting in her ear but she wasn't paying attention to the song. Instead she was thinking of her hand. What fae blood was in there? It's not possible. The steroid could have comprised my immune system. Depending on the fae blood that was stuck in my hand could make a difference. Certain fae types have a more potent blood then others. If my immune system was compromised it could react to certain types like how human's bodies reacted to AIDS. A small drop into the blood and you are infected. Is that what happened here?
Kenzi was so thankful that the succubus decided to stay in the car. She could see it was an inner struggle for the brunette. Like everything in her was telling her to go in there and see the doctor but she stopped herself making sure to keep everything till tomorrow night. Not allowing herself to see the blonde human until then. The goth was pretty sure she was afraid she would screw it up and she knew it was the last thing she wanted to do. The small human loved checking out the new compound and would purposely wonder around it seeing the new rooms. Right now though she was looking for the doctor, she stopped at the lab where the blonde normally was but the fae working in there told Kenzi that she was training. She was on her way to the training room that the fae gave her directions to when she saw the gym. Kenzi sped right past but backed up as the corner of her eye spotted the doctor.
There were a few fae in there working out using all different kinds of gym equipment that the goth would never bother with. She was behind the doctor watching as she looked like she was speeding up invisible steps on the elliptical. She lightly tapped the blonde's leg. Lauren felt the touch on the back of her calf and turned her head to see Bo's best friend looking up at her with those bright blue eyes. She started to slow down on the machine as she pulled out the ear plugs. "Kenzi," the shock at seeing her there was clear in Lauren's voice.
Kenzi leaned against the machine next to Lauren. "Okay so work with me on this doc because this isn't where I tend to excel." The doctor just nodded at the small human having no idea where this was going. She stepped off the machine so she could stand next to the goth. Kenzi started to pace in front of the machines, "I hate the apology thing dude but I'm sorry." Lauren's brows fused together she was completely confused, "Sorry for what?" The dark haired human stopped moving as she faced the woman she once felt like she was in competition with. "Everything, for not realizing how much you and Bo love each other, for not seeing earlier your value to all of us, and for getting Dyson his love back. Makes me the BSF, best shitty friend, I know."
If the doctor wasn't confused before she was completely puzzled now. "What, wait? My value? And you got Dyson his love back?" The blonde was trying to put this together in her head but it was spinning from before trying to figure out what the hell she might have done to herself. Kenzi rolled her eyes, "I would like to answer that last question in two parts. One, yes I did. And two it was only because I thought Bo truly loved him and he needed it back to fight the Garuda." The goth stopped speaking giving the blonde human an innocent look. When Lauren didn't respond she went on, "Hale pointed out all the things you have done for all of us. I didn't see it before. I was afraid with you. With Dyson I still had my best friend she still spent a lot of time with me. With you I fell into the background. No one even noticed when I was kidnapped like I would stop drinking I mean come on who wouldn't notice that. She didn't when she was with you Lauren. You think you didn't come first and Bo might have done a shitty job showing it but you were first." Kenzi gave a full smile showing teeth and all trying to make sure the doctor wasn't mad at her but Lauren didn't seem upset. Kenzi tapped her shoulder, "Good talk glad we got that out of the way. Bye doc," she was about to walk away but the doctor grabbed her arm. The tiny human glanced down to make sure that it was the blonde that was holding her arm because the strength in it was incredible. Maybe she should start working out herself. "Kenzi, I'm sorry you caught me off guard. I was thinking of, well a medical situation, but thank you for your apology," she let go of her arm before adding in, "Dyson had his love back since the Garuda and no one told Bo or myself?" The dark haired human crinkled her face giving that oops look. "Not my place totally his and he did a douche move by telling her at the Dawning." She thanked Kenzi again before heading over to the lab.
She felt like she was in a trance. Kenzi was the one who got Dyson his love back. Bo's best friend who she never got along with who was now there to apologize to her. The doctor was starting to feel like she was in an alternative universe. Hale freed her, the Valkyrie was starting to like her, Bo left her, Isaac was fighting to have her on his team and Kenzi apologized. Not to mention the fact that her strength was increased a ton more than she was anticipating. Oh and let's not forget the fae blood that was now clearly bonding with her blood. That was it, she needed to look at the fae who came in for physical's that day. She would get her answer there would be a record of whose blood she took. The doctor would need to contact them all again anyway because they were going to have to give blood again. Considering their specimens were destroyed before they were tested. Lauren plopped down behind the computer and started to punch away at the keyboard. Scanning over the different fae nothing caught her eye until she saw one that did. An Apollon was in there that day. Lauren kicked the chair as the wheels rolled her over to a bookcase. The blonde human pulled the book out flipping through it.
Apollons are fae with unique healing abilities, strong ability in medicine, and excel in archery. Oh shit, shit, shit and double shit. The doctor slammed the book closed and put it on the shelf. She knew there was a few ways to find this out. She went over to the medical supplies. The blonde opened up a scalpel knowing she didn't need to use much pressure she lightly dragged it across her thigh wincing as the skin cut open below the blade. Making sure that she did it lightly the cut wasn't deep at all but there was blood. Lauren wet a cloth and wiped the blood away once she did the doctor stared wide eyed at her thigh. Nothing, not even a line, no cut, and no wound. "Be back," she shouted at her temporary assistants. She headed over to the archery room no one was in it. There were the round targets on one side and the other side had the archery equipment. Knowing she never once used a bow and arrow she walked over reading over the instructions before she just walked away from them not even bothering to finish looking them over. The doctor picked up the wrist guard pulling it over to protect her. Grabbing the bow and arrows she lifted it up facing the target as she shot arrow after arrow. Once she shot off ten of them she snapped back to it. Her mouth gaped open as she was walking towards the targets. Ten arrows through each other everyone a direct bulls eye. I'm frigging Robin Hood.
The doctor was already back in the lab she took her blood and was watching it under a microscope. It was like watching a parasite attacking its host. She was watching the foreign blood in her as it was multiplying by the minutes. Attaching itself to her red and white blood cells. She took the slide from the microscope broke it and threw it out. Her heart was pounding in her chest. What the fae did I do? She still felt like herself besides the fact that she could now hit any moving target with an arrow. And her ability to just heal unlike a succubus she didn't need to feed to heal her body automatically did. Just what she needed something more on her plate. It wasn't bad enough her feelings for Bo were still strong even though she wished they weren't. She was definitely starting to have feelings for the dark fae. She was training to be on the field and needed to figure out free time to work with Isaac. And now there was this, was she becoming fae, was she some cross-breed, it was all questions with no answers. Lauren knew she would need to do further testing but not today. It was already getting later she needed to finish up the work she was supposed to be doing so she could meet Tamsin at her place.
CRACK SHACK
Bo and Kenzi threw their stuff on the counter as the goth opened up a bottle of liquor. She glanced over at her best friend and winced. "You look worse than shit," she said honestly. Bo made a face at her brutality, "Thanks." She poured them both a drink handing it to her bestie, "Should I call Dyson." The small human knew it was probably out of the question but Bo looked like hell. Trying to track down the missing fae they ran into some obstacles. One was the fae they questioned a little too accusingly which he didn't seem to like as he attacked them. Bo had cuts to her face; her eye was bruised not a black eye but damn close, a ton of other bruises on her arms, and one really nasty one on her side. The bruise made the succubus cringe and grab her side taking in a sharp inhale as she sat down, "NO, definitely no Dyson. That would be a great way to start out tomorrow. Lauren I love you even Dyson realized it and broke it off but I did use him to heal yesterday, won't you take me back and leave the Valkyrie who is doing everything for you. I see that conversation going well," the succubus answered with just a touch of sarcasm. "Fine look like Frankenstein's monster. I was trying to help," Kenzi said as she downed her drink. Actually the small human knew Dyson was the worst pick but she didn't know what else to do to help Bo. What she really wanted to do was call Lauren and ask her for the brunette to be her patient but she knew that Tamsin was probably already over there. Hale told her before he overheard them talking and then made her promise not to tell Bo based on recent events. The dark haired human was really hating her current position of useless.
LAUREN'S PLACE
Her cell was ringing as she was finishing up getting ready. She saw the Valkyrie's number displayed on her phone. "Hey you," the human was smiling into the phone as she answered it. "Ready for your first case doc," the dark fae said flatly into the phone. It wasn't the way the blonde fae was hoping to spend the night but duty calls and all that shit. "Of course, what happened," the doctor inquired. She was in jeans, boots and a tight fitted scoop neck shirt that clung to her body. "Dyson and I found some missing fae that are dead. It's like a dump site. I want you to see it untouched give your professional opinion." Tamsin told her leaving out the part that she didn't want to be working the next few hours when she could be spending them with the blonde human. This way she got to do her job while getting what she wanted which was spending more time with Lauren. The doctor had a strong desire to get a bow and arrow. She shook it out of her head laughing to herself of all the weapons it had to be a bow. A frigging bo, really! "Is Dyson with you," she really didn't want to drive in the car with Dyson. "No he is at the grave site," the blonde answered. Lauren told her she would be down in a few and hung up.
The doctor grabbed a medical bag and filled it with things to examine dead bodies. She went outside and got in Tamsin's truck. The Valkyrie explained to her how Dyson followed a tip and his nose smelt out dead bodies. Turned out to be six of them there is a ton of other missing fae but this is all they found. Now they know there is something out there killing fae they just weren't sure if it was another type of fae or humans. Tamsin teased that the only human she knew strong enough to kill a fae was the doctor. "You're not making an army doc," she joked. Lauren playfully tapped her arm as the truck came to a stop. The doctor saw the bodies before she even got out of the car. She opened the door putting her bag on the seat opening it up she grabbed out gloves. Snapping them on as she headed to the dead fae. As she was passing Dyson he grabbed her and leaned in sniffing the air around her, "Your scent changed," he gave the human a questioning look. Lauren was just staring back at him speechless. She knew he was a shifter and would smell any change. "Paws off wolf or you'll be an appendage short," the dark fae threatened knowing the shifter smelt whatever changes the injections were causing. She knew Lauren didn't want anyone to know and was respecting her wishes.
The blonde human was looking over the bodies. Careful not to move them too much from their original position even though she knew that they were already photographed it was more out of respect for the dead. After going over each one and seeing everything she could she headed back to the police partners taking her gloves off. "It was human. A human is running tests on fae." She explained to them as she approached the two. Tamsin raised her eyebrows, "A human, how is that even possible?" Dyson's faced mirrored his partner's questioning. "That I can't answer without running tests. Once I do I can see maybe something was used to paralyze them while the experimentation was going on. There is also the possibility they were tranquilized, experiments were done, and then the fae was disposed of before ever waking back up. All things I can't answer without testing. I can tell you that there was experimenting just by the places I saw needle marks and parts of the fae that were dissected."
The Valkyrie beamed with pride, "The human knows her shit wolf boy. Told you Lauren would be useful in this case," she stood in front of Lauren pulling her into a kiss not caring who saw it. She was really proud that this incredibly intelligent human was giving her the time of the day. Naturally the dark fae was still struggling with what exactly the brilliant doctor meant to her. And wrestling with her very nature to dismiss whatever she was starting to feel and run. The blonde human returned the kiss. It was still new to her to be needed. For someone to actually want her advice and opinion even to be brought onto a case was new. The doctor felt different in a good way. It was nice to be valued. This was something she would never get tired of and her mind wasn't being wasted. Here her talents shined. It was hard to try not to wish that the succubus noticed all the things that the blonde fae was. Why couldn't have the brunette seen her the way the Valkyrie did? She sighed to herself here she was again thinking of the succubus. Who she was sure was waiting for Dyson to finish this case and get home to her. Actually home to her bed was probably more the case. And here Lauren was thinking of the brunette wishing she saw her the way Tamsin did when the dark fae was here seeing her like that. The scientist wished she could feel towards the blonde fae the way she did towards the succubus. Maybe in time.
CRACK SHACK
The two finished off a bottle of booze before Kenzi got a little too tipsy. The goth passed out on the couch leaving Bo to sit there and wallow in her thoughts. Tonight was almost over soon enough it would be tomorrow night and she would be sitting with Lauren. She was secretly hoping to put on Lauren's favorite outfit on and to make herself look as good as possible. Looking down at her bruises she knew that idea went to hell. Not that she was going to seduce the doctor back to her but it didn't hurt to add it in the mix.
She knew she could have used another fae to heal but she didn't want to. The brunette wanted to feel the pain. Each movement killed her side the pain was unbearable but she needed it. Her arms ached with the bruises and scratches they had. She made her way upstairs stripping in her bathroom to clean out any open cuts. She dabbed a cotton ball in peroxide before going over the wounds on her arms. She sucked in air as it fizzled and burned. This was nothing compared to the pain she put Lauren through. She saw the bruise on her side it was almost purple that's how dark it was. Every time she moved her legs or bent her body the pain shot through her. Getting up slowly she walked over to the mirror. Kenzi was right her eye was terrible. It was black and blue underneath it and slightly swollen. There was a small cut in the bruise. Her bottom lip was cut but the blood was already dry. She dabbed at the cut on her cheek. Before cleaning everything up slipping into a silk nightgown and crawling into bed hoping the liquor would help dull the pain. It helped with the physical pain but not the mental pain. She wasn't trying to drown in her sorrows at all. No, she was trying to own up to them and face them. Face exactly what her stupidity did not only to herself but to Lauren. She smiled as a tear slid down her face hitting her pillow. And I'm the asshole mad that she is with Tamsin. I pushed her to Tamsin and I have to accept it. How do you accept the person who owns your heart and soul in the arms of someone else? When does that become okay? It was the last thing the succubus thought before she drifted off into sleep.
LAUREN'S PLACE
The two picked up food before heading back to her house. The doctor got out plates as the dark fae put food on each of them. Lauren opened up the case files she first started going over with Tamsin many nights ago. She started laughing. Tamsin glanced up at her, "The drugs made you lose it. Matter of time," the Valkyrie was smiling not knowing why the doctor was laughing but teasing her anyway. "It's so not normal. We aren't normal. After looking at a bunch of dead bodies we pick up food to discuss it," she couldn't help but to laugh about the whole situation. Not only were they eating after that but it was the human doctor and the dark fae Valkyrie. No one in the universe would have seen this coming. The doctor spent so much time resenting the fae for trapping Nadia, enslaving her, putting her in a dungeon, wasting her talent and then Bo happened. Everything changed with the succubus. Lauren fell in love again not thinking it was possible after Nadia. The brunette picked her out of everyone she wanted the human. She became friends with Hale and Trick. Hale became the Ash and freed her. Seriously the odds were better on winning the lottery.
"What can I say Lauren, opposites attract," the dark fae flashed a sexy smirk. The blonde human mentally slapped herself. She did it again to the blonde fae. Here Tamsin was doing everything she could to give the human the attention she always wanted from Bo and that's who she was thinking of. The damn brunette it always came back to Bo. That's when her thought from before echoed through her head. Least Dyson was probably back at Bo's by now. Wonder if he told her my part in helping with this case. Doubtful, even if he was starting to be nicer to me would he give me credit in front of Bo? Hell who am I kidding what are the odds the two are talking. The thought stung her heart. Thinking of the two of them together intimately, the thought of anyone touching Bo the way she did was something she didn't want to imagine at all. Actually she wanted to just stop thinking of the succubus all together. They would be talking tomorrow night and everything could be laid out then. Just like she never thought she would love again after Nadia there was Bo maybe now there will be Tamsin. Suddenly a new look over took the doctor's eyes as she walked around her counter to the dark fae. She didn't speak as she slipped her hand into the Valkyrie's and pulled her to her feet.
"Trying to let me know we should have gone with pizza," she raised an eyebrow not knowing what the human was doing. They were heading to her stairs. The blonde fae thought she was pulling her to the door but she was obviously wrong. The human didn't turn around to face her when she answered, "I'm not that kind of hungry." For once the blonde fae had nothing to say. A grin did spread across her face she definitely liked this more than going over the case. Lauren was heading to her bedroom. Bo could do it so could she and this time she would be sober. She faced the Valkyrie as she peeled her shirt off closing the space between them.
