The Clubhouse
Empty bottles littered the walkway leading up to the front door. Inside there was complete silence. Pizza boxes were stacked on the tables. Bottles were strewn about the kitchen floor leading to the couch, where Kenzi was passed out. The tv was showing a horror movie.
The loud sounds of a truck pulling up stirred her out of her sleep. She rolled over thinking it was the movie until she heard beeping sounds.
What the Fae was going on outside and this early in the morning? She pulled the covers over her head thinking they would drive away eventually and she could go back to sleep. She and Tamsin had stayed up all night drinking and eating pizza. She had no idea where Tamsin was but assumed she was upstairs in one of the bedrooms. Once she was settled she snuggled up preparing to go back to sleep. But her short reprieve didn't last as the front door opened.
Bo walked in at rapid speed. She turned to the kitchen and shook her head no. She turned to the small living area and shook her head no. She looked towards the stairs and started for them.
"Bo? What are you doing? Kenzi mumbled from the couch.
"I'm looking to see what I want to take with me". Bo said surveying the room one last time. She didn't see anything but started up the stairs.
Kenzi didn't believe what she was seeing. She jumped up and stumbled to one of the many holes in the wall. Bo had a huge rental truck just outside the door.
Bo climbed the stairs mentally running through everything that she wanted to take with her. She dressed in jeans and low heel boots because she knew she was about to get dirty and sweaty. Which is why she wore a tank top. Stopping just inside the bathroom she looked around for her favorite shampoos and body wash. Everything was down to half a bottle so she left them as they were. Making her way into the bedroom she looked at her bed first.
"Do you mind? Bo asked.
"What? Who is it? Tamsin groaned pulling her hair out of her face.
"It's me the owner of that bed". Bo said pointing to it.
"I will get up in a few hours. Now go away". Tamsin said rolling over.
Bo half laughed and walked over pulling the covers off of Tamsin. "No get up now. It's still early and I want to get out of here".
Tamsin opened her only eye. "What? Where are you going?
"I am moving out of here today. Now if you don't mind, I'd like my bed". Bo said moving towards it.
"Wait. Wait. You're moving out? Tamsin asked now fully awake.
"Yes I gave the clubhouse to Kenzi and now I am moving out". Bo said starting to disassemble the bed posts from the bed.
"You're really giving all of this to Kenzi? Tamsin asked excitedly. She might have finally found a real home that wasn't her truck.
"Yes now get up or I will move you myself". Bo said.
"Bo you can't be serious about moving! Kenzi said standing at the door. She was still trying to adjust her eyes. It wasn't even 7 yet and Bo was up and functioning.
"As serious as you were about me unclaiming you". Bo snapped over her shoulder. She loved her bed but taking it down was almost as bad as putting it up.
"What? What the hell have I been missing? Tamsin asked stumbling out of Bo's way.
"Kenzi asked me to unclaim her and I did. There is no reason for me to be here or around her anymore". Bo said as Tamsin dodged one of the bedposts.
"But I asked you to claim me again". Kenzi said stepping into the room finally.
"It's not a back and forth deal Kenzi. Asking me to unclaim you was like saying we were no longer friends. So you did and we aren't". Bo said.
"Bo...". Kenzi started.
"No I get it. You can have the clubhouse the minute I get my bed out of here". Bo said.
"Do you need some help with that? Tamsin asked.
"She has help". Bruce said walking into the room.
"Bruce...when? Kenzi started.
"How many can you carry? Bo smiled warmly.
"Two at a time". Bruce smiled. He bent down and picked up two of the bedposts.
Bo pulled the sheets off of the mattress then placed the mattress and box springs against the wall and waited for Bruce to return. Kenzi and Tamsin had no words. They just watched as Bo packed up her weapons chest and jammed her clothes into duffel bags.
Kenzi paced back and forth. She went over everything she and Bo had gone through. Been through. Every talk. Every tear. Every party. Every night they binged on liquor until Kenzi threw up. All of the pizza that spoiled because they were always ordering fresh pizza.
All of Bo's trysts. The ones Kenzi liked. The ones she didn't like. Bo nearly breaking her bed. All of the times Bo had wanted to go at it with someone on the couch and Kenzi screamed for her not to.
Bo was thinking of those moments too. But the one moment that stuck out in her mind was when Kenzi asked her to be unclaimed. That hurt more than it pissed her off. Where was Kenzi's loyalties? Bo had watched her go from one lover to the next and the Succubus stood by her through it all.
She knew Kenzi was hurting over Hale but Bo couldn't have saved him like she had Dyson. There wasn't enough chi. Plus she wasn't sure any of the gang would come after the conversation she had with Dyson. After she had seen Tamsin go into the Dal later that night. They were all mad at each other, but none of them had told Bo to kick rocks like Kenzi had.
Yes Rainer was a mistake. But since when had a man come between them? She knew Ryan pissed Kenzi off but Lauren was away and Bo needed someone to help her heal. To help take her mind off of the woman she loved being gone. Sure Lauren had her car but Bo was hopeful that Lauren would never come back. That she would take her new acquired freedom and start a new life with Nadia.
Then there was a knock at the door. When she opened it and saw the Doctor, it was like opening a window for fresh air. Albeit the clubhouse had plenty of holes in the wall, but Lauren in her arms again was the sweetest taste and feeling in the world.
Bo hadn't been meaning to shut Kenzi out, but her world had been spiraling out of control since her Dawning. When it was over she thought they were all going to celebrate. But Lauren had taken Dyson back to the compound to make sure that he was ok. Kenzi hung back at the Dal and Bo had gone for a celebratory walk.
She wanted to get some air to try and come to terms to what she had just done. Her Succubus had come out and she had put her back in. Bo did that. Bo. The same Bo that had always feared her. Always thought that she was a monster. The same monster that saved Lauren. Saved Dyson. But Bo didn't have enough Chi to save Hale.
That's where they were now. Broken. Bo wasn't sure that she was ever going to be able to gain Kenzi's trust again or Kenzi, Bo's. Bo needed to get away. To start fresh. That's what this move was about. That's why she walked downstairs and threw her sheets into the fireplace and lit it. The last person she had slept in her bed with was Rainer. That's why she wanted new sheets and blankets. The bed itself wouldn't smell like him.
The night Kenzi asked to be unclaimed Bo had come home to talk to her about Rainer. To explain how she wasn't leaving Kenzi behind. She just wanted someone to be by her side to help her when her father came. If Rainer truly had foresight, that would one hell of a weapon to have on their side. But the one thing Bo couldn't foresee was Rainer being a fake.
Then again maybe she could. Lauren had come to her with her book on him. At first Bo was listening to Lauren. Then one of her weaknesses kicked in. Lauren's scent hit her when she pulled her hair behind her ear. Lauren. Lauren was all Bo wanted. All that she needed until Lauren didn't need Bo anymore.
Bo needed Lauren after her Dawning but the Fae had Lauren in the lab at all hours of the night. She should have gone in and dragged her out, but Lauren was always a Doctor no matter in what capacity it was.
Bo needed Lauren to tell her why she was so unhappy that she broke up with her. She kicked herself in the ass when it dawned on her that she hadn't asked that.
Bo saw a chance when she found Lauren at Taft's but it was Lauren's turn to walk out the door. She should have followed her, but she needed to regroup. To plan her next move. She was alone in that compound. Dyson was about to be stripped of his life. Kenzi was hopefully safe at home, away from the hit Evony had put out on all humans. She didn't know where Lauren had gone after she had sent Dyson to kill Taft. Then she held on to Aife until Tamsin came for her. She had to leave her mother laying on the ground again. She hadn't forgotten that Tamsin was plotting something behind her back. But she wasn't going to look for Lauren with Tamsin in tow, that's why she sent her after Dyson. Bo was going to find her humans. She ran into the Dal, hoping to find Trick. Trick was the only man, only Fae that she could trust. Dyson was likely in the woods enjoying the meal Lauren had prepared for him. She wasn't sure what Lauren had done to Taft but she was still hopeful Dyson could kill him.
Bo wanted to find Lauren. But someone else found Bo. When she came back, and was able to remember Lauren, she was all she thought about. She only sent Dyson because he could track her down by her scent. When Bo saw Lauren at Evony's party, she had a different scent. A different perfume. Dyson was looking for the wrong thing but since he had kept Lauren from Bo, she thought it was pure payback not to call and tell him that she had found Lauren. She had Lauren all to herself until Evony and Pietra interrupted them.
Bo had been sent on so many wild goose chases that she never thought she would be punked into another one and it made her angry. They had taken her time with Lauren away. Then Lauren took more time away saying she was staying with the Dark.
Lauren said she wouldn't be welcome with the Light. In hindsight the Doctor was right. What would she have gone home to? More cases? A collar being placed around her neck again? A false family since the only one that truly cared for her and her well being was Bo. Evony was always a bitch but Lauren was still alive under her watch.
The Light Fae would have assuredly killed her and Trick would have done nothing to stop it. Dyson and Kenzi would likely be saddened in the amount of time that it took Trick to pour them drinks.
Lauren was right. The Light would not be welcoming her back nor was it her home anymore. Lauren was free. Free to do whatever the hell she wanted, when she wanted. The fact that she came well equipped to help clear Dyson's name was proof. Think dark to be dark.
Bo smiled at those words. Lauren was telling her what she was doing but Bo only heard what she wanted to hear. That Lauren and Evony had something going on. Lauren even dropped hints in Dyson's memories. She remembered saying "You're gone there's nothing to go back for", and Lauren saying "There's Dyson. He needs you".
Lauren shook her head. She was trying to say she wasn't dead. She hadn't left Bo, she was up to something. Like she had been up to something with Taft.
Now Bo was up to something. She was up to getting the hell out of there and finding a new home. She had two months to earn Lauren's trust to grant her a date.
Two months. Sixty days. One thousand four hundred and forty hours. She didn't have time to lose. When she had gone to pay for the bandages that she used to bandage Kenzi up, she found out Lauren's schedule. Lauren hadn't been scheduled to come in much at all but Bo knew being a Doctor didn't mean that she would always be free. But Bo needed to be free.
Free of the cases that took up the majority of her time when they were a couple. Free of spending hours and hours at the Dal when Lauren wasn't working. After Lachlan died, they didn't have an acting Ash so Lauren had been forced to work whatever hours they wanted her to. Bo should have forced them to free her again. But now they both were. There was nothing but time in Bo's way now and how she would use it.
Lauren's
After Bo had left Lauren's clinic, the Doctor worked well into the night. Once she was sure all patients had been treated and monies had been collected she shut the place down.
Sure she had money but she wasn't running a free clinic. If the Fae knew where she was, they would surely come to her thinking she owed them freebies. The truth was they owed her. Just like the millions Evony had paid her. The Morrigan wasn't hurting for money, she had it. She was just cheap. Lauren barely ate three meals a day when Evony first kidnapped her. The Doctor knew she was losing weight but managed to keep track of how much she had lost.
Once she arrived home for the night, she showered and went to bed. She had given Oscar the weekend off. She knew what it was like to be at someone's beck and call. He deserved it. He had followed all of her wishes and the house was spotless.
She wanted some time alone. To get used to being alone. To be free. To do things she hadn't had the chance to do in the last six years of her life. Six years.
She didn't know what it was like to wake up when she wanted. To not have to punch a clock. To not be woken up and dragged away to do something while she was half asleep. Well not since her days in Afghanistan. That was a piece of cake compared to the Fae. She was even a Captain, not some lowly human beneath the uppity Fae.
It was morning as she stepped into the shower and allowed the hot water to splash her in the face. She closed her eyes for a few minutes and thought of Hades. He was a bastard but he saved her. Gave her a life she hadn't known before. Gave her back a life before her body had even gone cold. She wasn't grateful to him though. How could she be grateful to such a monster?
But this wasn't a monster that she thought was hiding under her bed as a child. He was a dead monster that was never coming back. Lauren was a Doctor. She knew what to do with a body. Every angle of it. She knew what Hades was long before she ever heard him speak. She had read many books in her life time.
That's what Lauren had always taught herself to do. Be ready for anything and always be on the ready. She knew what Bo was doing. Bo was packing up a big truck filled with her things.
Sixty days does seem a bit harsh and unreasonable. But it was also a time for Lauren to see if she really wanted Bo anymore. At the moment she certainly didn't trust her. Not like she used to. This could be good for the both of them. Their lives was nothing like it had ever been.
They were both lost girls until they found each other. Bo didn't know how she was the fresh air inside the stuffy Light Fae compound. A Succubus. Something new Lauren could study and not the same old Fae she saw day in and day out. Bo was never a case study but she was never a science experiment either.
Then over time they became lost again. Bo was lost in her cases with Dyson and Kenzi. Lauren was lost in her relationship. Nadia wasn't the first woman she had dated but she was the first one Lauren had committed to. She knew what it was like to commit. Bo was so hurt by her own first love and how he died, that the Doctor wasn't sure if she knew how to commit, or if she could recognize the signs that something was wrong.
Lauren didn't want Bo to think that she needed to send her flowers or texts every day. She just needed Bo to back off a bit, so that she could get some air without having to tell her that there was no hope. There was always hope for just about everything.
Lauren was done being a trophy gf. A stay at home lover. She wanted a new life. A new start and this was a good way for the both of them to do that.
She knew she was about to get company long before her next guest rang the doorbell. She had already dressed while lost in her thoughts and was sipping on a fresh cup of coffee. Walking around her expansive mansion, she walked down the stairs. She wouldn't run. It couldn't be all that important. If someone wanted to see her, for once they could wait for her to get there.
"Hello Evony". Lauren said dryly.
"Well good morning to you too". Evony snapped.
"What do you want? Lauren asked.
"I thought we could talk. Since you are in the talking mood lately". Evony winked.
"Is this about Bo? Lauren asked.
"Not everything revolves around her. Now may I come in? Evony asked gesturing towards the door.
"Fine". Lauren said pulling back on the massive door.
Lauren closed the door as Evony waited for her. She walked inside the foyer and took a seat on one of the small benches and pointed towards the other for Evony to sit on.
"Aren't you going to give me a tour? Evony asked.
"No. Now what did you want? Lauren asked.
"Fine. Dr. Lewis we all know that you are a new Fae. I am here to offer the obligatory choice to choose between Light and Dark". Evony said softly.
Lauren laughed out loud. It was so loud it echoed around the room. She looked at Evony and laughed again.
"What's so funny? Evony asked.
"I'm not Bo. You can't pull that line on me about having to choose. You need me. I don't need you or need to be tested in some glass factory". Lauren laughed again.
"It's not as easy to just walk away from the Fae. I am quite sure that you know that". Evony said.
"I am sure you have already overstayed your welcome. I am not worried about the Fae. You are nothing but a bunch of self-serving backstabbing bastards. But know this, if you try and stab me in the back, I will see the knife long before you pick it up". Lauren said seriously.
"They will come for you Lauren. You need to choose a side. It will be your only protection". Evony warned.
"I am not worried about the Light Fae. Aife is probably going to kick all of their asses or kill them. And the Dark? Well we both know I more than earned a few favors that I could call in at any time. I never need to get my hands dirty". Lauren laughed. So many had come to her with the most embarrassing issues she had ever seen, even with human patients. They offered favors to keep her quiet.
"Can't we at least go into the living room to talk? It's a bit nippy right here". Evony said.
Lauren knew she was lying. Fae rarely got cold but she would humor her. Snapping her fingers the small fireplace started and she smiled when it shocked Evony. "Still cold?
"How did you do that? Evony asked.
"I still have Hades powers. And Bo's memories. I know how you nearly begged her to sleep with you. Hell I almost slept with you for Bo. I know how Vex made you do the running man in your bedroom. Shall I go on? Lauren laughed.
"No. No. Nobody needs to know those details". Evony said waving Lauren off.
"Then get out of my house. It's my day off". Lauren said standing up and ushered Evony towards the door.
Evony stormed down the staircase and out to her car. She didn't even have Bruce to drive her because he had vanished. She had no idea where Vex was. The last time she saw him, he was still trying to pull his hands from his ass. For once she didn't have a plan and she was going home and wait until she thought of one.
The Clubhouse
Bo and Bruce had the truck loaded. She put her keys on the kitchen counter and walked out, much to Kenzi's protests. What could she be angry about? They had free room and board. The only thing they spent money on was food.
"Tamsin can be your roommate and Tamsin can claim you". was the last thing Kenzi heard Bo say before she climbed into the passenger seat.
"What was that? I mean really? She just left? Like that? Tamsin asked.
"Lauren. This is all Lauren's fault. Bo is angry at me but she will be over by night. Just wait. She will come back". Kenzi said.
"Where do you want to go? Bruce asked.
"Mom secured a small house for me about an hour away from the Dal. It's new and clean. She sent me the address and pictures. Let's just get my bed set up and I will deal with the rest later". Bo said.
The Dal Riata
Aife had been spending quite a lot of time there. Trick really did order the best wines and liquors. She had the whole place to herself. It had been cleaned and it was quiet. She laughed thinking of how pissed off he would be knowing how much she was enjoying herself.
She had called in a few favors to get Bo her own house. She had been to the clubhouse enough to know it wasn't fit for her daughter. Bo's house was two stories high with 4 master bedrooms and a huge garage. She only got the best and would give her daughter the best.
"Ummm ma'am? We have a problem". Aife heard behind her.
"Archivist?! It has been a long time". Aife smiled. He was always sweet on her. Well all men were really.
"Yes it has but that's not why I'm here". The Archivist said.
"Then what's the problem? Aife asked walking towards him.
"Your daughter ma'am. She's still Dark Fae and Evony will never allow her out of her contract. I don't think she realizes it's still legit. The Dark Fae leader or Elders must annul it". The Archivist explained.
"I'm Dark Fae too. I will handle this". Aife laughed.
TBC.
Bo goes furniture shopping and runs into Lauren.
Aife confronts Evony.
Kenzi feels unwelcome amongst the Fae.