Chapter Four – Aftermath
Her eyes blazed blue, her arms went back, her chest floated upwards and her head lolled backwards, she hovered off the ground a few inches, and her body radiated a yellow glow, wind suddenly whipped through the warehouse inexplicably. Without a moment's hesitation she sucked the chi from all three men simultaneously. Sparky and Vine Fingers dropped to the ground with a thud. The Telepath tried to gasp for his last breaths, his face twisted in shock. Right before he was about to die with a smile on his face, Bo came back to her senses. She dropped lightly to her feet, body still glowing, hair flying wildly around as wind whipped around her. She looked him square in the eyes with her electric blue orbs while she drove her dagger straight through his heart. He tried to scream out but he was already dead. His body fell to the ground with a wet smack and Bo's eyes return to normal, the wind stopped instantly.
She raced across the warehouse to where the love of her life was laying. There was a small pool of blood around her head and Bo's hand instinctively went to her mouth to silence her own sob. She gently rolled Lauren onto her back, careful not to move her too much in case she had any broken bones. "Baby?" Bo's voice came out as a shaky cry, sounding more like a tiny girl than the Succubus badass she was.
Lauren's eyes didn't flutter, her fingers didn't twitch, and her chest wasn't noticeably rising or falling. Bo felt for a pulse but she was too worked up and her hands too shaky to be of much use. Her entire body was trembling like a leaf on a tree. "Lauren!" She shouted more desperately, her eyes welling with tears so much that she could barely make out the beautiful blondes form. All she could think about in that moment was that being a Doctor, Lauren would be so much better at trying to find a pulse than she was right now.
"Here," Kenzi whispered softly, gently pushing Bo's hand away to check for a pulse herself. Bo's hands came up to cover her mouth again as she was instantly taken over by a wave of nausea. She wasn't sure if she was going to pass out or throw up but she knew it was going to be one of the two. She figured seeing your girlfriend's blood all over the ground would do that to a person.
"She has a pulse, it's faint but it's there. I'll call 911 and the boys, you stay here with her," Kenzi's voice had never been so soft and gentle before. It was as if she were afraid that her words might break her best friend.
'I should have trusted my gut. I should have made them leave. I know better than to ignore my instincts. Why did I take them here? Why do I endanger them like this? They're only human-' Bo's hand clamped over her mouth again in shock, even though she'd only thought the words… she'd never thought anything like that before. It was as if the Telepaths own words were mocking her now. She shook her head trying to clear her thoughts, she had to keep it together.
"Baby, we're going to get an ambulance and everything is going to be just fine, I promise you. Lauren, I love you so much, you can't leave me," her voice faltered at the end. She felt for a pulse again, Kenzi was right, it was dangerously weak. Suddenly her head cleared enough for her to think properly. She had just fed, meaning she could give some of that chi back to Lauren.
She put her mouth instinctively around her girlfriends perfect lips and prayed to any and all deities that this would work. She blew the chi into her girlfriend's nearly lifeless body and waited a few beats. "Come on baby, you can do it, open those beautiful eyes, come on!" Bo pleaded, her heart was racing so fast she thought it might never slow down again.
Lauren sucked in a breath like she had been deep sea diving without an oxygen tank. Her eyes shot open, Bo let the tears of joy fall down her face and allowed herself a tiny choked sigh of relief. "Don't move baby. An ambulance is coming. Don't you fucking do that to me again okay?" Her voice was still shaky, childlike.
Lauren tried to nod almost imperceptivity, trying not to move her head. She shut her eyes when a flash of white hot pain overloaded her senses, trying not to let the agony show on her face and worry Bo. "You know, I probably should've thought of the impracticalities of sneaking up on a Telepath to inject a serum… I definitely need to come up with a different delivery method." Lauren croaked, her voice barely her own.
Bo let out a surprised laugh through her tears. "Well at least you're still the geek I fell in love with, we don't have to be worried about brain damage."
Lauren let out a soft silent laugh and smiled, shutting her eyes she squeezed Bo's hand. She opened her eyes halfway and weakly scanned the room without moving her head. She noticed all three Fae laying fallen around the warehouse, clearly dead. "Did you simultaneously feed again?" Lauren asked in shock, knowing there couldn't be many other options considering the serum was still in her hand.
Bo almost blushed, barely remembering that part of things. "Yeah."
"Did you ever notice that you only seem to be able to do that when my life is in danger?" Lauren shut her eyes again and smiled to herself.
Bo's eyes welled with tears again and her emotions crept up and got stuck in her throat. She was grateful her girlfriend wasn't looking at her in this moment. She was trying so desperately not to crumble right now. She forced a laugh, thick with emotion out of her throat. "That is very true. That's because I'd do absolutely anything to keep you safe, I love you so deeply, to my core, that's why when you're in danger, something inside me seems to take over. I honestly don't even know how I do it."
Lauren squeezed her hand harder. She knew both of them would have a lot to talk about when she was healed, but for now, she was content to feel the burn of their love in her chest. It burned so hot she thought it might eat her alive, but she knew without it, life wouldn't be worth living.
Kenzi walked slowly back towards them. "Thank god, you're awake. The ambulance will be here soon. Thankfully these mooks aren't too big, I think I can drag them out of view myself. The ambulance should be here really soon Lauren just hang on sweetie. I'll ditch these guys at the back of the warehouse until Dyson can come get rid of the bodies – oh and later Bo Bo, we have to talk about how flipping awesome that was when you went atomic Succubus on their asses."
The three of them chuckled softly, trying to dispel the somber energy of the room somewhat. Leave it to Kenzi to make somebody laugh when they were just about dead sixty seconds ago. In the matter of a minute, Kenzi had dragged two of the thugs to the back of warehouse and was just finishing up on the last one when they heard the sirens a few blocks away.
Bo rubbed her thumbs over Lauren's hand that was cupped lovingly in her own. Lauren smiled at her without opening her eyes. Bo nodded to herself and bit back her tears, knowing she had a lot of thinking to do and a lot of decisions to make. Today had been so totally and completely overwhelming, but before she fell apart, which she knew she would, she had to make sure the love of her life was okay.