Bo
Bo was planted against the wall. She felt like she could move but stayed where she was. She looked at Lauren. There was justifiably anger about her family there, but there was also anger at Bo.
She thought when Lauren had said she would give her two months to prove that she wanted to date her again, it was an opening. But there were some gates still closed, keeping Bo out. Apparently they were locked up tight, even before Lauren found out about her family.
She was trying to help Lauren. To really help her. But this Lauren didn't need any help. Want any help. The way she looked at Bo before she turned away from her, was the most intense look, the Succubus had ever seen in the Doctor's eyes. Emptiness. Betrayal. Resentment. And the worst of them all, annoyance.
Lauren didn't want Bo to touch her. She gave the impression that she didn't want Bo, or have anything to do with her at all. Bo gently moved her arms. She was pinned but she wasn't stuck. But they were.
Stuck in the never-ending loop of uncertainty. There was little, or no trust there. There was barely a hint of tolerance. She thought about the dinner, Lauren served her like she was a customer in a restaurant, and wasn't expecting a tip. She spent most of the time staring, or looking in Aife's direction. Like she was at a company meeting, and was paying attention to the speaker.
Releasing a soft breath, Bo thought back. Back to the day Lauren asked for a break. Lauren said she was tired, and Bo thought she meant she needed a good night's sleep. But thinking is not the same as asking. Not the same as getting clarification.
Was she saying she was tired of Bo then, and only put up with her because she was still a servant of the Light Fae, and didn't have a say if Bo wanted to stop by while working on a case? The Succubus was unaligned, and related to Trick. Puppet master of the Ash. Bo opened her mouth as if they were still sitting on Lauren's couch to ask, but closed her lips.
The next time she saw the Doctor, she had just walked into Taft's office after hearing Bo say that she was there to get Dyson. Lauren shrugged it off, like of course you are. Nevermind that I am here too. Aife was there too, but hey why tell Bo that when she was only concerned about Dyson? Not about her human gf. Not about her mother. Lauren was hurt. It showed in every word that she said, and didn't say.
Just like you couldn't love us both. That felt like a steel plated knife in Bo's heart. That wasn't a jab. Shots weren't fired. The truth hung in the air. Bo's verbal, not taking no as an answer, search for Dyson, spoke to Lauren that she was no longer important enough to the Succubus. She wasn't loved on the same level.
Bo took another breath, as she tuned out Evony's screams. Her mind was now at Evony's party. Evony had turned her around, and the next sight took her breath away. Lauren was walking across the grass in a black dress, but still looked like an angel. She wasn't smiling, even though she tried. There was a sadness in her walk. In her eyes. Lauren had been hidden in plain sight, even to a Dark Fae Succubus. A Succubus that hadn't gone looking for her. Didn't storm Evony's office like she had Taft's looking for Dyson. Lauren was barefoot. Like Bo had been when she jumped off the train. But Bo had been found.
"The Light never bothered to come looking for me". Lauren said.
"I would've come but...". Bo started.
"But you couldn't, I know". Lauren said.
Lauren had changed. Lauren had grown. Why wasn't it evident how she went from hot for Bo, to cool for Bo in a matter of hours?
"Don't worry Bo. Now that you're Dark. I'll see you around".
Bo bit the inside of her mouth. She could have gone looking for Lauren, but Lauren knew that she couldn't. It wasn't on her to do list to look for Lauren, only Dyson. That's what stuck to the Doctor's mind all of the weeks, and days she had been under Evony's protection. That Bo couldn't do what seemed so simple, and loving. To look for her, like she was so bent on getting Dyson back. Lauren had saved him and, sent him back to Bo, knowing Bo wanted him and not her. Whoever you are, I know you and I love you. Lauren didn't believe her. Didn't trust her. Didn't have a reason to. Bo dropped a tear and, closed her eyes even tighter.
That was it. Lauren hadn't chosen Evony over Bo, she chose the safest place for her to be. And that wasn't with Bo, or the frauds that she thought was Lauren's family. None of them liked Lauren but Bo. She felt like she should have kicked Dyson's ass, when he came to Bo saying he lost Lauren. To lose something means you had to have known where it was in the first place. Did he make a backroom deal with Evony to take the Doctor so that Bo would be all his? Bo's only concern since the man she actually went looking for was safe in her arms. Her bed. His boxing gym. His bed. While Lauren was likely being tied down to Evony's bed, or walls.
Licking her lips, she took another breath. A chill ran up, and down her spine. Evony had them. She had them all, at the same time. That wasn't a memory of Bo's that Lauren held, it was now her own. Her family. Behind the dungeon that she was being held in. The family name that Bo had read about on Lauren's police file. The family she disappeared with but didn't come back with. She didn't trust Bo to help her. How could she when Bo wouldn't help Lauren escape from whatever Evony had on her?
Everything that I do, is for you. Bo shuddered again. Would this Lauren have done it all for Bo had she known that her family was a wall behind her? Would she have fled, and never be seen again? She was so close to turning Evony human for Bo. But this Lauren didn't trust her human family with Bo. Not even for a second. They were introduced to her. They weren't helped up by her. They were just taken care of by the one person that they could trust, Lauren.
When they were trying to free Nadia, Lauren accepted Bo's help. Considering how Nadia died, the Doctor didn't seem to want her help at the moment.
Bo bowed her head. For the first time since she had known her, she didn't think she was ever going to win Lauren back, and why would Lauren want her? When she needed her most, Dyson, his cases were more important or any Fae was more important. That was true with Nelson, Taft and the Dark Fae.
Kenzi and Tamsin
"Shit. Shit, and triple shit! Kenzi groaned.
"What's the matter? Tamsin asked.
"I have applied with every bar in the area, all of them have turned me down. They even gave me the "we'll keep your application on file", line. What the shit man? I know how to mix all kinds of drinks. My personality rocks! Kenzi groaned again, as she paced the floor.
"Have you tried the human bars too? Tamsin asked.
"A few of them. All the same thing. Don't call us, we'll call you". Kenzi sighed as she flopped down on to the couch.
"So try again tomorrow. Different bars that is". Tamsin suggested as she kicked her shoes off. She had only worked half a day, and was ready to be at home. Or anywhere but the precinct.
"I'll pour". Kenzi said grabbing a few shot glasses from the coffee table, and poured two shots of Whiskey.
Tamsin looked at the bottle and cringed. She had seen the brand before, but wasn't about to ask where Kenzi got it from.
The Dal Riata earlier
"How many bottles did you say? Aife asked.
"Six". Mason said.
"And you sure it was her? Aife asked.
"Yes ma'am. We have her on video". Mason said playing it for the Succubus.
"Nobody steals from me. That little bitch better be glad that Isabeau cares about her, or she would be dead". Aife snapped.
"She's apparently applied at a few bars in the area. She even gave us as a reference". Mason said.
Aife perked up and smiled. "Do you a list of the bars that called about her?
"Yes ma'am". Mason said turning around, and grabbing the list off of the counter.
"Excellent". Aife laughed pulling her phone out and sitting on the nearest bar stool.
Present time
"That is the last one". Aife said hanging up her phone.
"How many did you find? Mason asked.
"Besides the six you gave me? About ten more. She has been walking the pavement all day". Aife laughed.
"What do you want me to do? Mason asked.
"Keep faxing her picture around to every bar, hell everywhere you can think of. She will not find a job in this town, or anywhere else". Aife laughed.
"Yes ma'am". Mason bowed.
"Now pour me a beer". Aife said looking over the papers in front of her.
"Yes ma'am". Mason said hurrying.
Aife smiled. Kenzi had crossed many lines as Bo's human, but now that she wasn't, there wasn't a line that Aife wouldn't cross to piss her off. To make her feel as low as she tried to make Lauren, and Aife feel when it came to Bo. Like they were outcasts. Aife was her blood, and Kenzi despised her for it. Lauren was a human, and Kenzi looked down on her. If Aife had her way, the only job Kenzi would ever get was as a toliet cleaner. It made sense for someone that talked a lot of shit in the Fae world.
Bo, Lauren and Evony.
Bo had removed herself from the wall. It was a struggle, and she didn't want to leave Lauren. But she felt that she had to. That it was what Lauren wanted. She walked out of the room, and went outside to sit in her car. She probably needed the air too. To think.
"Lauren. Lauren listen to me. I saved your life". Evony groaned from the ground.
"Cut the shit. We both know why you wanted me there". Lauren laughed. Evony must have thought Lauren's mind was gone.
"If it wasn't for me, the Una Mens would have killed you! Evony snapped.
"And if it wasn't for Vex and Crystal, you wouldn't have known where I was in the first place. You couldn't get to Bo, so you came for me. Kenzi wasn't an option for you to abuse because the Twig of Zamora was protecting her". Lauren said walking back and forth. She was exploring her body to choose which one of her powers she was going to use next.
Hades was a bastard but his powers weren't for the faint of heart. Lauren felt everything. Where everyone was. Especially Bo resting in her car outside. What she was thinking, what she was feeling. Shaking it off, the Doctor returned her attention to the Morrigan.
"I don't know why you targeted my family, but you will never get to them again. Touch them again. Touch me again. You are lucky I am allowing you to breathe right now". Lauren seethed.
"I needed a back up plan in case you were really over Bo. I needed something to keep you with us. Especially when she dumped all of your asses for Rainer". Evony explained. She needed to think. To find a way out of this. Maybe giving Lauren her motives would help a bit.
"Bo was the reason that you wanted me, and to stick it to the Light Fae. You are no different than they are, except just a bigger ass". Lauren snapped.
Evony knew she was screwed. If she tried to run, Lauren would have her in her grasp before she ever broke the threshold of the exit. There was nothing else coming to mind that would help her. Nothing that was going to save her. Lauren hadn't taken her powers yet, but that didn't mean that she wouldn't. Looking at her now, she barely recognized the Doctor. Lauren looked dirty. She looked angry. She looked as if she wasn't there at all anymore. Evony could only melt people, or have them killed, she wasn't a psychic.
"Get up! Lauren snapped.
Evony jumped. For the first time in her life, she was scared. She had no idea if Lauren was even talking to her. But soon found out that she was. Within seconds, she was on her feet, and not by her own doing.
"I could throw you against the wall. Slam your head into the mirror. But you don't deserve such things. You deserve everything that you did to them! Lauren sceamed lifting her hands. She almost smiled when Evony started screaming.
Blood was pouring out of every one of the Morrigan's limbs, and her head. Lauren stood on a chair so that the blood wouldn't infiltrate her shoes. She watched as Evony collapsed to the floor.
"I told you to get up! Lauren laughed lifting the woman up again.
"What do you want now? Evony groaned as blood poured from her mouth.
"I was thinking of making you beg. But that would be boring. I was thinking of making you melt yourself. That one sounds just as boring, but you and I are going on a little trip". Lauren replied.
Bo
Bo had fallen asleep, and felt a shift inside of her. Opening her eyes, she looked at the broken down building, and didn't sense Lauren anymore.
She looked around. Didn't see a car but remembered that's not how Lauren got there. Shaking her head, she started her own car. Backing up she turned around, and drove down the short driveway. "Focus on Lauren, Isabeau. If she has his powers, so you do. Now focus, and you will find her".
Bo closed her eyes. Focus on Lauren? That's all that her mind did since the day she met the Doctor. Her mind may have been spacey at times, but she always thought of her. "Think dark to be Dark".
Gritting her teeth, Bo focused like Aife had advised her. She needed to put everything out of her mind. To listen to her nature. Her Succubus. She had to ignore the surrounding sounds of mother nature.
Lauren and Evony
"You know where we are right? Lauren laughed as Evony squinted her eyes looking around.
Evony shook her head no, but that that it was a lie.
Lauren laughed again. "This is the dungeon nobody but you knows about. At least that is what you told me when I first arrived on the scene. Before I was allowed to see Nadia, you ripped me from the Light Fae guards, and stashed me here for days. You wanted me to be a servant of the Dark, but lost out when the Elders voted against it. No phones. No lights. Just drab. Well that and the creatures within these walls".
Evony shook her head again. Lauren was right. Nobody knew of that place but Evony. Those that did back then, she melted. She had honestly forgotten about it, the more time went on. The more she rose up in the ranks with her own powers, and influence.
"Nothing to say? Lauren laughed again.
"Why are we here? Evony asked. There was nowhere to sit other than the piss sticky floors. She had always been the one that brought people there, not vice versa.
"Don't you like it? There is a lot of room to walk around. To sleep. To eat year old bread. To drink piss for water. To beg the people on the other side of the door to let you go. To sit with your back against the wall, as blood poured from your face. For cockroaches to crawl all over you. Then there are the other creatures". Lauren snapped.
"What? I never did any of that to you! Evony snapped.
"No. You didn't. But you left me here until my iron levels were so low that I nearly died. Those things will be done to you! Lauren snapped.
Evony walked to the far wall. It was apparent that Lauren was never going to let her out of there. She had nowhere to run, that the Doctor couldn't or wouldn't find her. She placed her hand on the wall, and it didn't work. Her powers didn't work.
"Nice try Evony. This room has been warded. Your powers can't melt the walls. Did you honestly think I would come here unprepared? Think dark to be Dark right? Isn't that the first, and last thing you said to me before you left me here? I was just a human back then right? Nobody would ever believe that the Morrigan had a secret hideout unknown to the Fae. How she tortured the Light Fae's would be servant. I imagine you would have brought Bo here, but she was far more powerful than the Doctor". Lauren countered. Evony knew she was doomed. It took everything in Lauren not to strip the Morrigan of her powers, but she internally enjoyed knowing she would try over, and over again to use them, and fail.
"So that's it. I'm home then". Evony said trying with all of her might to use her powers.
Lauren snapped and walked up to the Morrigan. Slapping her in the mouth. "Now you are. With the roaches, and mice as your servants and meals. Nobody will ever find you, so there is no need to scream. I will leave you with your powers, it's probably the only way you will eat your servants warm" Lauren laughed.
This was far better than what she had originally planned to do her. That is, if her family were dead. This way Evony would live alone. Feeding off of mice, ants, and roaches. Whatever died inside of that room. Lauren had brought in year old bread. She had to look in some lowly places, but anything that disgusting, was readily available to Fae. Knowing Lauren was a Scientist, nobody would ever question why she needed it.
"Lauren". Evony pleaded one last time.
"If you get thirsty, the toliet still looks like it has piss in it". Lauren laughed. The thing was rusty, and reeked of feces.
"Lauren...". Evony said again.
"Gotta go. Bo's getting close". Lauren said vanishing into thin air.
Evony groaned, and walked around the room again. This was her home. The last four walls that she would ever see. Lauren didn't lie. Nobody but she, and Lauren were the only ones alive that knew about it. Nobody would ever come for her. Not that anyone had reason to. She had more enemies than Trick ever had. What she thought she knew of Lauren was gone. Everything but the Doctor. The Doctor in her saved her life, for the few remaining days she had left. She wasn't a Succubus. She needed to feed frequently, and it was the middle of the day. There was nothing she was going to see when it got dark. But if Lauren was right the creatures would find her.
Lauren
Lauren was still invisible. She wasn't ready to talk to Bo yet. To deal with her. In fact she wasn't ready to talk to anyone. Her family was safe, and she left her mother a million dollars to do with as she saw fit to. Her mother was great with money. She left a simple note that read from Karen with it. She couldn't go see them. Nobody would hurt them again. Not over Karen or Lauren. Karen Beattie died the minute she left their house. It was for the best.
It sounds easier than it was. She left a tear on every forehead. Every door handle. They would all wake up healthy, in their warm beds. Hades was legendary for taking lives, but this time she used his powers to save some.
"Lauren please come out, and talk to me". The Succubus said softly. She shook the Doctor out of her thoughts.
She hadn't exactly talked to Bo's Succubus in a long time. This was not the same voice. It shook something inside of Lauren. But she wasn't afraid. Closing her eyes, and opening them again, she stood looking at nothing. The next moment, the Succubus was kissing her. But she wasn't using her tongue.
"I am so sorry Lauren. It was the only way". Bo returned standing the Doctor upright.
"What? What did you to me? Lauren asked angrily pushing Bo far away from her.
"I took my memories back. So you wouldn't hate me anymore". Bo sobbed slowly stepping towards the retreating Dr.
"There's only one problem with that Bo". Lauren snapped.
"What's that? Bo asked stopping in her tracks.
"I still remember everything". Lauren said disappearing again.
"Damn it". Bo sighed as she slumped to the floor. Hades was right. Lauren was a match for her Succubus, and Bo didn't know how to make them, them again.
TBC
Kenzi reaches out to Bo when the Fae shun her.
Bo searches for Lauren.