Chapter Twenty –Two – Forever and Eternity
"I've never fed like that before, what the hell was that?" Bo asked, they had finally cooled down and she was resting her head on Lauren's chest, the blondes arms were wrapped firmly around her, their legs tangled together.
Lauren shrugged, "Well, when I use my ability, like to heal, I basically can feel everything in the other person's body as if it's my own, so I think that when you feed from me, our abilities our amalgamating and it's basically opening a two way connection where you can feel everything I'm feeling and I can feel everything you're feeling – it was incredible, when you came it felt like I was having an orgasm… well, I did." Lauren bit her lip, the smile on her lips threatening to split her face in half. She remembered the sensation vividly and her eyes shut with pleasure, living in the moment again.
Bo lifted her head, resting her hand on Lauren's chest and her chin on her hand. "You know we're soulmates right?"
Lauren was a little shocked. "Of course I know that, but honestly I didn't think you believed in stuff like that."
"I didn't – not until I met you. Then it all made sense, why people say that. And after everything we've been through together and the obstacles we've overcome and the place that we're in now – I've never been more certain of anything else in my life. You're the only thing I never need to question."
Lauren got choked up again and she grazed her fingers over Bo's face, her thumb pressing gently into one of her dimples. Bo smiled and leaned up and kissed Lauren's chin dimple playfully. She chuckled and when Bo pulled back she ran her thumb over Bo's lower lip, a shiver of pleasure ran through both of them at the contact.
"I've never felt so excited for the future before. I can't wait to spend a thousand years with you in my arms."
"Oh, now it's a thousand huh? I thought it was only a couple hundred," Bo smirked at her, that same smile that Lauren would do anything to see and couldn't wait to see every day for the rest of her life. The twinkle in Bo's eye was back and she knew as long as she was by Bo's side, it would never leave again.
"We'll see, as long as you're good," Lauren told her somberly. Bo chuckled.
"Nobody can make me smile like you can – not even Kenzi and that's really saying something."
"Wow, I'm honored. If I can make you smile more than that goofball I must be pretty special to you," Lauren smiled, her nose twitching with laughter.
"Yeah, you're all right, we'll see, as long as you're good."
Lauren threw her head back and laughed, flipping them over she pinned Bo to the bed, holding her hands behind her head on the bed. "Wow, Doctor Lewis, ready for round two already? I'm amazed."
"Well what can I say, not being human has really improved my stamina."
The gazed adoringly into each other's eyes for countless moments that seemed like eternities.
Bo's voice broke the enchanted quiet between them, "Tell me the story of how this happened," Bo's voice was raspy and almost made Lauren's toes curl, as much as she wanted to jump her bones again, she knew they still had much to discuss.
Lauren knew exactly what she meant by 'this' but she knew she wouldn't be able to focus without a kiss at the very least, she pressed their lips together in a feather soft kiss, Bo opened her mouth greedily. She loved the feeling of Lauren ravaging her lips but she equally loved these adoringly soft kisses, she could feel the energy passing between their touching skin, the love between them flowing effortlessly into each other's bones. Lauren broke the kiss and planted another feather soft kiss to the tip of Bo's nose before she curled up beside her, resting her head in the crook of Bo's neck while she draped her leg over Bo's thighs.
"Well, it all started with a little man in a tree in the forest."
Bo giggled and swatted her arm, "I didn't say make up a story, I said tell me the story."
Lauren giggled as well, tracing patterns on Bo's bare stomach with her finger. "I am! Now are you going to listen or are you going to argue?" Lauren asked, looking up at her and pretending to be frustrated. Bo mimed locking her lips and throwing away the key, "Don't lock those lips sweetie, I need them, now back to the story. Okay so there were dragons everywhere-" Bo swatted her again and she giggled ever louder, snuggling into her lovers side.
"You're such a dork."
"I know but you love it."
"I really do."
"Okay, now seriously, here goes. Trick asked me to go to one of his oldest friends, a Woodland Elf who had been cursed by a Korrigan – see Korrigan's originated in Breton and they curse men who deny their advances which is always fat-"
"Baby."
"Yeah?"
"Babbling."
"Oh right sorry, you know what a Korrigan is, okay so Trick asked me to do my best to cure him since he couldn't imagine losing such an old friend that he'd been through so much with, he even had blood samples all ready to go."
"That's why you guys have been so close and cuddly lately."
"Well I wouldn't say we've been 'cuddly' but yes, we've definitely become very close since this happened."
"I thought it was adorable for the record, I've never seen him look at someone the way I noticed him looking at you lately."
"I have."
"When?"
"When he looks at you of course."
Bo smiled and pulled Lauren tighter to her side. "Okay, go on, so you made your miracle cure."
"I wouldn't call it that, I tried my best and I wasn't even sure if it would work, I was really nervous actually. So I went to his hollow and he looked like he was already dead when I first walked in. He's absolutely adorable Bo, you'd love him. He has jet black curly hair and these stunning emerald eyes and his face is so youthful, he only looks to be in his twenties, but when he talks – he reminds me exactly of Trick. He's warm and wise and even a little mischievous. He was so trusting with me, even when I told him I wasn't sure it would work, he said he trusted Trick and therefore trusted me. So I injected him and he started seizing-" Lauren broke off, trying not to get wrapped up in the bad memories. Bo squeezed her tightly, rubbing her back comfortingly, reassuring her she was there with her.
"I – I was really scared actually, I stayed there for days – but I learned later that it was only twenty-four hours, it just felt like days because Tue was affecting me with his ability to warp time in his unconscious state. He never moved for days, all I knew was that he was still alive, I didn't know if he was in a coma or had brain damage or anything – I couldn't leave the hollow because I couldn't carry him out of the forest and I didn't want to leave him there in case anything happened to him while I was gone and his condition worsened. I tried calling for help but I had no reception in the forest and my phone died before the first day was over. I stayed and gave him IV bags, thinking someone would come looking for us soon. He had a well-stocked kitchen but I tried to ration food, I was use to that kind of thing from living in the Congo, sometimes the food drops would be weeks late so we had to conserve our resources. Anyway, I slept on the table one night and in a chair the rest of the nights – I applied fresh cold compresses to him every hour. It was hard to count time in the hollow because the forest was so dense we only got sun for a few hours a day. On the third day, I was baking bread and taking a nap and he woke me up, I was so thrilled to see him with his eyes open Bo I can't even tell you how happy I felt. Even though he'd been unconscious for ninety percent of the time that I'd known him, somehow I'd grown to love him in that time. I know it sounds ludicrous, it even sounds that way to me but I felt a bond with him that I just can't explain."
Bo laced her fingers with the hand that Lauren had on her stomach, squeezing gently, "It's like the bond that we have, that we had when we first met when we'd only been in a room together for 5 minutes."
"Exactly – except in a strictly plutonic sense of course," Lauren laughed and Bo smiled.
"He woke up and he was so grateful that he said he had to gift me with my deepest desire, I refused at first saying I hadn't done it expecting anything and then it started to get weird. He told me these things that he knew about me that he couldn't have known, I suddenly got a little uneasy and suspicious but he said that a mystic named Hella had come to visit him as soon as he got sick and she told him that I would save his life and she told him what my deepest desire was, knowing that he would be bound by Elvish tradition to grant my deepest wish."
Bo was stunned, "I know her."
"He mentioned that actually, he said that she was very grateful to you for keeping it a secret that she was unaligned."
"Wow, you're blowing my mind a bit here I'm not going to lie."
Lauren laughed. "Anyway, you know me, I hummed and hawed for a bit before finally agreeing and – the rest is history really. But when I left that hollow, I knew I'd made not only a friend but a new member of my weird little family. Bo – I felt so different instantly, yet still the same. I felt so strong, so calm, so at peace – just the way I feel when I'm with you." Bo tightened her grip on Lauren's hand, her eyes welling with happy tears, she sucked her lower lip into her mouth and bit it gently.
"Tue said my abilities would come intuitively but I only had time to practice slowing time down when Kenzi hurt herself, she was my first Guinee pig, I thought I would pass out from nerves. And I still hadn't had any training time with Tue when my Test happened, I was sick beforehand with worry – all I wanted was to see you."
"I tried to get to you babe I swear, I came to your house looking for you in the morning but you were already gone, that's why I was late."
"You did?"
"Yeah."
Lauren smiled, rubbing her thumb on the inside of Bo's palm, their fingers still laced together. "I love you."
"I love you too."
"I'll never get sick of hearing that."
"Good cause I'll never get sick of saying it and I know I haven't given you a real thank you for saving Kenzi's life, I know without you she'd be dead right now."
"Don't thank me for that, I love Kenzi more than anyone – except you of course. Life wouldn't be the same without her, I'd do anything for her. Anyways, when I left Tue's, I felt this powerful connection with the forest, it was utterly magical, everything sounded different, felt different. Except for you, I'd never felt that at peace in my entire life. I felt like it was exactly where I belonged. I've noticed since then that a couple times a month – once a week is better – I have to return to the forest, I don't even plan it or know why, it just overtakes my body, it's like stress builds up inside me and the only way to relieve it is to go there, when I leave I feel renewed, reborn… anyway, that's when I ran into Dyson an-"
"Wait, you ran into Dyson?" Bo asked, her muscles tensing involuntarily.
"Yeah, when I left Tue's place and I was hiking back through the forest."
"So that's when he found out," Bo clenched her jaw and tried not to let the anger cloud her mind.
"He knew?"
"Yeah."
"I thought so… Bo, I don't want anyone to know about Tue because I don't know what the rules are about turning a human Fae but I'm sure they're not good and I don't want him to get in trouble because I really love him-"
"Baby it's okay, you don't have to worry I won't tell anyone, not even Kenzi. You have my word – under one condition."
"Yeah?"
"I want to meet him."
Lauren lifted her head and stared into Bo's eyes, beaming. "I want you to meet him too and I'm sure he'd like that very much."
Bo stroked Lauren's face, "You're the most incredible creature I've ever known."
Lauren blushed, reveling under her touch. "You're the most incredible creature I've ever known, you're the one who made my freedom a possibility in my mind, when I was human and as Fae." She gazed into Bo's beautiful chocolate eyes and her fingers ghosted over the skin of her arm, Bo shuddered under her touch.
Lauren bit back a smile and asked, "You know I'm yours right?" Bo pressed their lips together in a soft and gentle kiss, just loving the feeling of her lips against Lauren's.
"And you know I'm yours too, right? I always have been, I need you to know that I want to be with you and only you forever, no person could ever hold a candle to the goddess in my arms right now," Bo pressed Lauren's palm to her heart, wanting her love to feel just how strongly she meant those words, she needed her to feel it, she needed her to know it in her bones. Bo sent a pulse of energy through Lauren's hand and she felt the blonde shudder in her arms.
Lauren nuzzled their noses together and kissed Bo softly, pulling back to rest their foreheads together, "Forever and eternity," She said, holding out her pinky. Bo smiled at her adorable dorkiness and wrapped her own pinky around the digit.
"Forever and eternity my love… You know I'd move heaven and Earth just to be with you right?"
Lauren blinked back the tears at the love she could feel between them. "Well you don't have to," She stroked Bo's face adoringly, "Cause I'm right here and I always will be, right by your side."
"The one with eyes both brown and blue, a healer always by her side."
Lauren scrunched her face up adorably, the crinkle in her nose making Bo smile. "What's that?" Lauren asked, curiously, smiling.
"It's something the mystic told me when I met her."
Lauren grinned, "Sounds like I better meet this mystic."
Bo wiggled her eyebrows and smirked, "It sounds like you think you're ever leaving this bed, cause you're not," She gripped Lauren hard and the blonde let her body sink into her lovers, shivering at the feeling of their skin pressing together.
"I love you Ysabeau Dennis."
"I love you Lauren Lewis, forever and eternity."
"Forever and eternity."