Chapter Three – The Trio
Bo came across a case regarding a telepathic Under Fae that had been conning people out of their money but had gotten caught and killed a human. Something about cases that involved humans getting murdered touched Bo more deeply than the rest. She knew why, it was because of her relationships with Kenzi and Lauren.
She put the case at the top of her list and contacted Kenzi and Lauren to help her. Lauren had come up with a serum to help block a Telepaths powers, making them easier to take down, but the serum had to be mixed right before injection so Lauren had to come with. She phoned Dyson afterwards with the con's phone number to track down his whereabouts with a GPS ping. She got the address and texted it to the girls, they met her at a warehouse near the river. Bo was there first and waited in her car 'til the girls arrived.
Lauren got there next and Bo got out to greet her. The blonde sauntered up to her classic car and Bo leaned back against the vehicle to watch her walk over. She bit her lip and she saw Lauren smile bashfully and duck her head at her girlfriend's actions.
"Hey Baby," Lauren purred and slipped her arms around Bo's waist.
Bo pressed her lips to Lauren's ear, "Hey Sexy." She felt Lauren shudder in her arms. The blonde swatted her arm and bit her lip.
"Don't do that!"
"Why?"
Lauren's eyes hit the ground and a blush tinted her cheeks. "Because I didn't bring a change of underwear." Lauren whispered embarrassedly.
Bo chuckled, her voice gravely and thick with arousal at her lover's admission. Her lips went to Lauren's neck and her tongue darted out devilishly to lick a hot trail, Lauren groaned as they heard the rumble of tires. Bo reluctantly lifted her head to see Hale's car pull up. Kenzi got out of the passenger's seat and mimed that she was going to gag.
Bo rolled her eyes at her best friend and her and Lauren extracted themselves from each other. Bo ducked down to look through the car, "Hey Hale! Thanks for bringing her."
"No problem guys. You sure you don't need any help from a talented siren?"
"If see one I'll ask him," Kenzi joked.
"That hurts Kenz!"
"We should be okay Hale, but thanks. It's just a Telepath. We got this," Bo told her friend.
Hale waved and Kenzi shut the door, he drove off in his Porsche and the girls got a game plan together. "Me and Lauren go in first and you stay behind Kenz, I'll try and distract him and draw his powers and Lauren you dose him. If he's too strong just mix the serum and toss it to me."
"Yes Mother," Kenzi teased.
"Come on guys, let's go." Bo grabbed Lauren's hand and they all headed towards the warehouse. As soon as they entered, something felt off immediately. They heard cackling, like an evil, morbid laugh that echoed through the cold dark warehouse. They heard voices, more than one voice.
"I've been expecting you girlies," The voice boomed, it was a man. His voice dripped with maniacal insanity.
"Of course you were, isn't that kind of your thing?" Kenzi's brand of monotone sarcasm could normally ease the tension of most situations but to Bo, nothing could make her feel right about things right now. She had the feeling that something bad was about to happen.
"Maybe you guys should go," Bo told Kenzi and Lauren.
"No way babe, we've got your back." Kenzi pulled out her switchblade and baton anyway just to be safe. Not that it would do much good, some Telepaths could manipulate brainwaves in both directions, much like a Mesmer, making their victims do their will. They still didn't have enough info on this particular Telepath to know the full range of his abilities, but he had gotten his hands dirty with his human kill, it was ruled as a homicide not a suicide, so that was a good sign.
"Oh yes, do stay won't you? It's so rare that I get guests." The Telepath spoke musically as the girls walked slowly further into the warehouse, each of them in tight circle with their backs to one another, keeping their eyes peeled for movement or signs of attack.
"Well I don't know man, did you ever think it was the décor? Maybe spruce it up a bit in here and make it a little less 'a scene from every horror movie ever' and you might entice people to come hang. Seriously a few couches, some throw pillows, a nice flat screen, you've got yourself a nice living room… actually you've got yourself our living room.." Kenzi mused, a little shocked.
Bo couldn't help it, despite her unease she let a soft snort of laughter out.
"Ah, the sidekick, the one who hides behind her jokes to mask how inadequate she feels at being human."
"Well you must feel a little inadequate yourself, since you're hiding from us physically. Why don't you come out and show yourself?" Bo asked.
"Yeah Oz, step out from behind the curtain." Bo could hear the sound of Kenzi's eye roll in her words.
"I'll come out when you are honest about what's been eating you Succubus.. When you admit the real reason you're here." The Telepath was taunting Bo but she refused to bite.
"The real reason I'm here is that you've started killing humans and now you've gone from being an annoyance to being my problem and something you never want to be pal, is my problem."
"Oh come on Succubus, you can do better than that. Tell your lover why you took this case."
Bo's heart sank and her head swam a bit. The girls had stopped walking and were now standing back to back in the middle of the large warehouse. She was truly grateful that Lauren couldn't see her face in that moment because she knew if she could, there would've been no hiding that she knew exactly what the Telepath was getting at at this point.
Bo couldn't even manage to find the words to come up with an excuse.
"If you don't tell her, I won't come out and play… I'll have my little friends here keep you busy 'til I can escape." The Telepath sang his words as if he was filled with joy. From the shadows of the dimly lit warehouse two Fae men emerged. One's fingernails grew into vines that were dark like leather whips, the other had sparks flying between his fingers.
Bo shook her head, trying to find the words to dance around the issue, "I took this case because I needed a distraction."
"Oh you're no fun Succubus. You needed a distraction from the fact that you will have to watch your human lover wither and die before your very eyes. She is weak, merely human, frail and fleeting and her life will be over in what is a mere instant in your life." He giggled at the end of his words that cut like knives. Bo's fingers gripped the heel of her blade until her knuckles turned white. Screw bringing this Telepath in, she was going to gut him like a fucking fish.
"She is not weak, both of these humans are the strongest people I know, Fae or otherwise." Bo defended herself but even she couldn't bring herself to deny the rest of it. Lying to Lauren like that would make the words feel like acid in her mouth and she couldn't bring herself to even try.
"And you Doctor Lewis, how coincidental that you both have the same thoughts swimming in your heads. Yes, you love your Succubus, but are you enough for her? These thoughts torment you. You know in your scientific mind that you can't be enough for her to feed off of forever, she is Succubus after all." The Telepath stopped to chuckle, "I mean, a monogamous Succubus? There is NO SUCH THING! That's like, dry water or hot ice, it simply cannot be! And after you grow old and die before her eyes, she will move on, she will find someone new, probably someone Fae, someone immortal and powerful like her not-"
"ENOUGH!" Bo's voice was unrecognizable to both Kenzi and Lauren, she sounded like an animal, more like Dyson mid-wolf change, not like Bo at all. "Show yourself, we've played your game, you've had your fun, now are you Fae enough to face me or are you a coward who only has the balls to kill 'frail humans' as you put it? Come and face me!" She must've said the magic words because it provoked him enough that suddenly he appeared from the back of one of the shelves. He was about six feet up, standing on an empty shelf. He jumped down, landing in front of Bo nimbly.
"She's right, I've had my fun. Kill them all boys."
The men made moves towards the trio. The one with the creepy vine nails shot them outwards and wrapped Kenzi up, the vines wrapping around her in an instant. Her chest was squeezed so tight she could barely cry out. She mouthed the words, "Bo!" but Bo was already on it.
She used her trusty blade to slice through the vines. The vine Fae screamed in agony and dropped to his knees as black blood poured from his fingertips.
Kenzi sucked in a deep breath and motioned to Bo that she was okay. Bo circled the Telepath, never taking her eyes off of him, she was trying to draw him away from the girls so Lauren would have a better angle to inject him.
When Kenzi finally filled her lungs with air again, she took her baton and knife and charged the Fae she decided she was going to name 'Sparky'.
"Now normally, I like to feed from an enemy until they're too weak to fight back or lull them into a false sense of security first, but for you, I'm just going to kill you the hard way. You should be honored, it's really not my style to do things the brutal way but what can I say, you fuck with my girls, you fuck with me – and nobody fucks with me or my girls and gets to live."
"Oh Succubus, you can't defeat me, I know everything you're thinking, everything you're planning. You're not as strong as you think you are and one day soon you'll get yours. You know what, I think that day is today actually." The Telepath had a sinister smile on his face that Bo was dying to wipe right off with her blade. Her eyes flashed blue.
Kenzi hit Sparky in the side of the head with her club and he tried to shoot his sparks at her but she dropped to the ground, using her leg to swipe his feet out from under him. They continued to struggle but Bo knew she had a handle on it.
She saw Lauren behind the Telepath and knew she'd just finished mixing the last of the serum up. She crept up behind him slowly, needle in hand. Right when she was within range to deliver the serum, the Telepath turned around and wrapped his fingers around her throat, lifting her off the ground. Her eyes went wide and Bo dove on him, wrapping her arms around his neck in a choke hold.
He tossed Lauren halfway across the warehouse like it was nothing, she landed a good six feet from them with a thud, but Bo could tell she was all right.
"Kill the Doctor!" The Telepath spat the words, realizing Lauren had a concoction to block his powers and essentially turn him human for a short time.
Sparky clapped his hands together and his spark leapt from where he was, fighting Kenzi ten feet away, to where Lauren lay on the ground, still conscious. Her body suddenly turned taut as his spark hit her, like she was being tasered. She levitated off the ground a few feet, rising as she continued to twitch and seize like a fish out of water. Kenzi walloped Sparky in the head again, making him drop to his knees, clutching the side of his head. Lauren dropped to the ground with a sickening thud, her head hitting the concrete hard. She didn't move. Bo couldn't even tell if she was breathing. Then everything went black.