Lauren and Bo.
The long drive back to their hotel had been deathly silent. Lauren didn't want to overtalk but she didn't want to be quiet either. Bo had done nothing but nod yes or no, or squeeze Lauren's hand in acknowledgement to something the Doctor said. All of them broke Lauren's heart. Bo didn't deserve the way Mary railed at her. If anything, she deserved understanding. She wasn't the parent, Mary was. If she didn't know what Bo was, why not take her to see a Doctor or two? Step outside of the box and get the young lady some help.
Lauren had done her research. She couldn't find any medical records for Beth Dennis. There was nothing there but tampering of her school records. Now there was nothing but her and the heartbroken Succubus sitting next to her.
Bo didn't need to be blamed, she needed to be helped. To be told she would get better. Something other than making her think she was a cold, blooded murderer. How do you not kill someone when you don't know how you did it? For all of the research Lauren had done over the years, she would have loved to be around to help Bo. To teach her that being a Succubus wasn't such an awful thing. Bo never killed unless she had to, or didn't know she was doing it.
She didn't even want to kill Nadia, even though Lauren and Nadia herself had begged her to do it. Bo was broken then, like she is broken now. Nothing she ever did was good enough for anyone. No matter how hard she tried to help people, sometimes it backfired in the end.
Lauren pulled into the parking lot and parked the car. She turned to Bo and stared at her for a few minutes. She had tears streaming down her face, something Lauren hadn't noticed on the drive back. Looking around the parking lot, and not seeing anyone, Lauren snapped her fingers. The next thing Bo knew they were in their hotel room.
Lauren had thought it would be awkward for them to walk through the hotel lobby, and would draw a lot of attention. Bo didn't need that. She needed personal attention, not gawking strangers that she probably knew for years.
The Doctor pulled the Succubus to the couch and motioned for her to sit. "I'm just going to pack our bags and make sure nothing is left behind". She said softly letting go of Bo's hand.
She started with Bo's room first. It didn't take long to look through the room and gather Bo's things. She really hadn't unpacked anything. She wanted to come home with Bo before, now she couldn't wait to get them both out of there. This town didn't deserve the caring woman Bo is and could be.
She hurried back to her room, and what she saw next broke her even more. Bo had grabbed a bottle of Vodka and had already slammed half of it. She had curled up on the couch, gripping the bottle in her hand.
"Oh Bo". Lauren said softly.
"She's right Lauren. I am a freak. A monster. A killer hiding behind a pretty face". Bo said without a hint of emotion.
"This will stop right now. You will stop right now". Lauren said taking the bottle and smashed it into the fireplace.
"Thank you for getting my things, you can go home if you like. You are better off without me. I won't follow you and don't come back here if you do leave. Nothing but losers live here. Maybe I should rent a house or an apartment". Bo said flatly.
"Get up". Lauren said seriously.
"No". Bo said.
"Fine". Lauren said snapping her finger and suddenly the Succubus was sitting up.
Bo rolled her eyes and groaned. Lauren deserved better than this. Better than her. Better than anything that came out of this crummy town.
"So this is you now huh? You let a few words from a calculating, bitter old woman get you down? She didn't even know what you were, how could she possibly know who you are? Lauren said seriously.
"I didn't ask you to come here Lauren. You can leave if you like. You've said worse things to me. You don't even want to date me remember? Bo snapped.
"I never called you a monster or a freak Bo. So stop that bullshit". Lauren snapped defensively.
"You asked for a break. You might as well have called me a freak". Bo snapped again. Lauren meant well but her tough love wasn't working when she had hurt the Succubus in her own time too.
"Bo...". Lauren started gently.
"No Lauren. You wanted a break, got one and took off. Then when I saw you again, you said you loved me. Loved me". Bo said bitterly emphasizing love in the past tense.
"Not before the almighty Succubus healed with Dyson, mine and his feelings be damned. Not before I realized I would always share you with some police case. Not before I realized I would always come last in your life. Not before Tamsin told me you kissed her without feeding and that punk came to kick me in the stomach, literally. Not before you left me at Taft's like I was yesterday's garbage. So if you want to pick at my mistakes, be prepared for me to pick at yours". Lauren snapped.
"I didn't kiss Tamsin, she kissed me out of nowhere. You were never last in my life, I was out there helping people Lauren. Just like you do as a Doctor. I love you Lauren. I do. You just gave up on me. Gave up on us. I admit I wasn't very attentive back then, but I'm only a Succubus not a mind reader". Bo said standing up and directly in front of Lauren.
"You would have to have been around for me to talk to Bo". Lauren snapped angrily. This was not what she expected them to be talking about. But if this is what Bo needed to do, she would stand her ground too.
Sensing an old distance coming between them, Bo slowly stepped forward. "I'm sorry Lauren. I really am. I am just angry. She's angry. She was angry when you broke up with me too. She's angry about all of this shit. If I let her out, she will not stop at draining this town. I am sure there are a lot of innocent people living here, that have nothing to do with Mary Dennis or that bullshit school system".
"I accept your apology but you can't keep pulling the Succubus card to downplay actions that were of your own doing". Lauren said never moving into Bo's personal space or retreating from her own.
"You're right. That was all me, which is why it was me that apologized". Bo confessed.
Lauren shook her head. "We still have so far to go".
"I know. I know we do, but at least we are doing what didn't do in the past, talk". Bo said gently standing in place.
Lauren briefly looked at Bo, bit her lip and looked at the ground.
"I'm sorry. I really am". Bo whispered loud enough for the Doctor to hear her.
"Lets just get out of here. I don't want to be here another minute". Lauren said almost bitterly looking around the room.
"I know and I don't want you to be here either. If I had known about any of this shit, I never would have come back here and I certainly wouldn't have brought you here". Bo said bending down to grab her bags after Lauren had speed packed her own.
"Let me just make sure I didn't leave anything. I could burn everything and make it all disappear but I do care about my clothes". Lauren said hurrying off to the bedroom.
"Do you have everything? Bo asked when the Doctor returned.
"I think so". Lauren said looking at Bo with all of her bags and then down at her own. "Screw it". She said snapping her fingers.
The women were suddenly standing behind Lauren's car as she opened the trunk and neatly stacked her bags inside.
"I will drive and send for my car later or have Mason drive it home". Bo said taking Lauren's keys from her. Once inside sh sent Aife a text about her car.
Kenzi
"Hey! Hey dickheads can I get some help in here!? Kenzi screamed as loud as she could.
She hadn't seen anyone in hours. Somebody had shoved a tray of stale bread and mayonnaise sandwiches through a small door and never returned. She was already tired of eating that stuff. She was sure the mayonnaise was bad for her palate.
She jumped when the same small door opened and a glass was pushed inside almost falling over from the force.
"Umm hello? That's not what I needed. I think I'm sick. My stomach hurts like a mofo". Kenzi said trying to see through the small door window.
She jumped again when a small door she never noticed before opened in front of her. She saw a hand reaching through it and gasped when it touched her stomach.
"Do not lie again human. You will get less and less food if you pull that again". A raspy voice said through the opening.
"Is that you Aife? Trying to disguise your voice? If so, that is a bitch ass move". Kenzi snapped.
"The Succubus will not set foot into this filthy place. You are mistaken in your assumptions". The voice replied.
"Then where is she? Maybe we can make a deal. I have the gift of gab. She will see reason once we talk again". Kenzi responded.
"Little girl you are not even close to being in Aife's league. She was born pissed off, anything that you do or say, she will see right through it". The voice said as it trailed off.
Just like that. Kenzi was alone again. Nothing to do. Literally nothing. They left her with the clothes on her back, inside of the nastiest room, you would ever find. Not even prisons were this gross. From all the old friends she had visited, she had seen some nasty shit too.
She used to think the Fae were the shit, now they were shits. Even Bo had her moments. She had found a friend in the Succubus. She had found protection that she lacked on the streets. She stole from so many people that she didn't return to the scene of the crime or make friends, as she was constantly on the move. Then she walked into Bo's bar and bam. A new friend. Protection and a new family. Far better than her real family.
There were no lights in the room other than what the door window provided. But a light bulb went off in Kenzi's head. She remembered she had a small, emergency blade stuffed into her boot. She pulled it out and tucked it in the corner. When she was sure she was alone, she would start picking at the walls to try and dig her way out, that is if Bo didn't finally come to rescue her.
Aife and Mary
Aife smirked as she walked around the room. Mary had taken a seat, with help of course from Aife and had not moved since.
"Well I must say. This is a piss poor house, even by human standards". Aife laughed.
"Are there any other standards? Mary asked angrily.
"Don't try this snobbish shit with me. I have seen it a lot longer than you have been alive". Aife laughed again.
"Why are you here? Mary asked angrily. But she wasn't about to stand toe to toe with the woman. She looked dangerously like a vampire, she's so pale. She wondered what Beth had gotten into now.
"In layman's terms, I heard you fucked my daughter over. I am here to return the favor". Aife said seriously circling the couch.
"Are you going to kill me? Mary asked.
"Thought about it, but death would be far too generous for you. So I'm weighing my options". Aife laughed. She stopped in front of Mary, winked and started circling the couch again.
Mary didn't know what to say to that. She was literally trapped in her own house. Her own skin. She never thought Beth would come back here. After the last time she saw her, she thought she played the role of crazy well. But the woman currently circling her, upped the game on crazy.
"What do you want. Your daughter has already left and hopefully she will never return". Mary replied.
"I wanted to see what kind of a bitch has a daughter like mine given to her and then turns her back on her. I want to know what Lou Ann saw in you to make her think that you were worthy of my only child. I want to know if you are sorry about what you did at all. But most of all, I want to know what gave you the balls to think you could hurt my child? Lady you are the true freak! Aife snapped.
"To answer your question, no I am not sorry. That girl was a danger to this entire town. That boy had a rich family and Beth was his girlfriend. I could have been rich had she not killed him. She had to go! And if you are such a good mother, why did another woman have your baby to give away? Mary countered.
"It wasn't safe for my baby to live with me. It wasn't safe for her to live with you either apparently but the shit you have pulled will be corrected and your bitch ass will never have to worry about Beth again! Aife snapped as ran her fingertips across the back of Mary's neck.
The woman jumped when she felt a strange sensation and suddenly smiled in pleasure.
"Once I walk out the door, you will forget that I was ever here. You will forget about Kyle but you shall never forget Beth or the shit you put her through. Is that understood? Aife asked bitterly.
"Yes of course". Mary smiled as she stood to walk Aife out, and locked the door behind her. She didn't know why or cared to know why or what just happened. That tingling feeling she was still having in her body wasn't going anyway anytime soon.
"Before I go I want to hear you say her real name and your bitch ass better put some respect on it". Aife laughed pulsing the woman harder. "Now say Isabeau McCorrigan!
"Isbeau McCorrigan? My that's a pretty name". Mary said.
"Say it again and again and again! Aife laughed.
"Isabeau McCorrigan. Isabeau McCorrigan. Isabeau McCorrigan! Mary said.
"You better hop it's not like Beetlejuice and my mother shows up. You humans know the old dead watching over loved ones theory". Aife laughed.
Aife took some deep breaths. It took all she had outside of her pulsing Mary to not go all out Succubus on her. But the one thing stopping her was giving Bo a roof over her head for all of those years. She could have pulsed her longer to get real answers, but a con can always spot a con and she was never going to get them outside of her real powers. Truth was she probably didn't care that she did it. She just wanted Bo gone and for Bo's sake Aife truly hoped she never had to come back to this shithole town. The Succubus planned on staying in town another night. The school board, teachers and principal had better wish they are already dead. She didn't owe the roof over Bo's head to them at all. She had another idea as she walked to her car and pulled out her phone.
Bo and Lauren
Bo held on to Lauren's hand as the Doctor snuggled in her seat to sleep. She still felt like shit about the argument she started earlier. Lauren didn't have to do anything that she was doing and did. She could have sat on what she learned like so many people in Bo's life had done for years.
Apparently Mary Dennis wasn't ever going to win adoptive mother of the century, but the Succubus sure as hell felt like she won the lottery winning the woman's hand she held's heart. It wasn't an easy heart to win and even harder to keep. But she was one hundred percent up for the challenge.
She thought about every other argument and misunderstanding that they ever had. She took part of the blame for letting them escalate the way that they had. Lauren was a Doctor of Medicine, not a mind reader. Bo needed to tell her what she knew about relationships. Real ones. Not just expect the Doctor to be perfect enough to maintin and save their relationship all on her own.
The fact of the matter is Bo thought their life until the break was perfect. That she could go out and do whatever she wanted and Lauren wouldn't mind or notice her absence. That she could take whatever case Dyson asked her to take and still have the woman of her dreams waiting for her. It was like after Nadia died. Lauren had a chance to run and Bo fully expected her to. When she showed up after the Ash had been killed, it stunned the Succubus. She stayed. She stayed for her. When so many others would have left and with good reason, the Doctor stayed behind. Bo really wasn't her patient anymore as she had learned what she was and how to control her hunger and feeds.
So why couldn't Bo stay for her? Stay long enough for a date. Stay long enough for a sleepover. They had never slept in Lauren's bed before. Everything was all about Bo and Bo's needs and wants. She gritted her teeth thinking of how she kicked Lauren out of her house and her life. Was that part of her wanting revenge on Lauren for leaving her and wanting her to know what it felt like? Who would come back to somebody after all of that? Rainer probably looked like just another case that Lauren had once again taken a back seat to.
As they both sat in the front seats of Lauren's car. Bo clinched her hand a little tighter and sped up. Lauren deserved so much better and she was going to give her everything that she deserved.
The next morning.
Aife had found a better hotel than the one Bo and Lauren was staying in and was up and gone before sunrise.
She went back to the Dennis house and waited until she saw the bitter old woman leave. When she finally left the Succubus grabbed something out of her trunk and walked up to the house. Within minutes the place was on fire. Laughing, Aife climbed into her car and sped away. She pulled out her phone and called the local fire department. Mary Dennis liked kicking people out on the streets? She will experience what it was like living on them now. Bo was the only family she had left. So homeless she would be. Aife saved her the embarrassment of anyone seeing her ugly ass curtains again too. The Succubus laughed at that thought.
She smiled as she pulled into the school board parking lot.
"Are they all here? Aife asked.
"Yes ma'am. All present and accounted for". Mason said as he opened the door for her.
"So you little bitches thought it was cute to flunk my baby huh? Aife laughed.
"Lady we don't know you or who your child is". A man said from the back of the room.
"Who do I look like or shall I say who looks like me? Aife laughed.
"She does resemble that Dennis girl from years back. Hector you remember. The one and only Senior that flunked that year? Another man said stepping forward.
"Clarence you are right. She does look a lot like her. The same pale skin too". Hector replied.
"Lady what's done is done and that was years ago". Clarence said.
"And you are all done. Finished to be exact". Aife laughed pulling out a gigantic straw. "Mason are you ready? She asked.
"That's not really gonna work is it? Mason asked watching Aife insert it into her mouth.
"I don't know. I've never tried it. But it's going to be a lot of fun". Aife laughed.
"We don't have time for games woman. Get out! Clarence screamed.
"Sign a paper saying Beth Dennis is a High School graduate". Aife said pulsing Hector.
"Yes ma'am". Hector answered as he hurried to his desk and pulled out the proper paperwork. When Aife pulsed him again, he wrote like he was possessed.
Aife winked at both of them once the papers had been handed over to her, she stuffed them into her bag, and started inhaling through the straw.
After a few minutes, the school board was starting to choke. Mason was highly impressed. Not too many Succubus could do what Aife was doing. And it was working Clarence and Hector had passed out, and happily it seemed. The others soon followed.
Aife licked her lips and dropped the straw. "Take care of them. Don't leave a single bone here, you will piss me off if you do". The Succubus said seriously.
"And when I'm finished? Mason asked.
"Burn it down, I will take care of the security cameras while you eat". Aife laughed pointing up at cameras on every wall.
"Yes ma'am. How did you do that anyways? Mason asked.
"A new trick I learned and wanted to teach Lauren, but she's far more comfortable and powerful. And this way I may never have to touch anyone again". Aife laughed and shuddered. She hurried about pulling down the cameras and threw them in a bag.
"I can burn those too if you like". Mason offered.
"No. No. There may be more on here than just them. I will look through them personally. If I have to come back here, I will burn this entire town down. Oh and you will be driving Bo's car back to Toronto. Here's a spare set of keys.". Aife said as she walked out of the door throwing them to him. She smiled when she heard Mason shift and roar as he tore into his first piece of flesh.
TBC.
Lauren wakes up in a strange bed.
Bo puts off graduating to work on her relationship.
Aife goes through the security tapes.