Lauren pulled back and Bo didn't like it. "Why did you sleep with me?." The succubus asked.
"What?." Lauren asked.
"The night in your lab, why did you sleep with me?." Bo moved closer to the doctor.
"I wanted you." Lauren shrugged.
"Other than that?." Bo asked.
"Bo." Lauren sighed. "This is getting repetitive."
"It is because I won't stop until every box has been checked and we are a couple again." Bo folded her arms and closed her mouth.
Lauren shook her head for another time she hadn't counted since this conversation started. "You are ready for bed." Bo turned around and pulled the woman towards one of the bedrooms. "You can sleep in this room." Lauren pointed with her free hand. "Got it." Bo walked forward and never looked back. If she looks back, more questions will come. If she looks back, she will kiss the woman. If she looks back, she will cry because they are not where she wants them to be. Lauren yawned and went to shower. Bo's room has its own private shower. So, there was no need for them to take turns.
Bo dropped her bag and took a seat at the foot of the bed. She stared at the door. She is far from sleepy. She bit her lip and gritted her teeth. The Lich almost had her. Those sex club freaks almost had her. Taft almost had her. Evony, she growled at the thought and stood. She opened the window and climbed down the building with her bare hands.
The old Morrigan was tired. Her human body just didn't have the stamina that her Fae nature afforded her. She yawned as she entered her bedroom. She rolled her eyes when the doorbell rang. "Unless that is the devil reincarnated, send them away!." She screamed over her shoulder. She closed her eyes when she heard glass shattering. She turned and froze. "What do you want?."
"You took Lauren. You should have brought her to me. You know where I lived. You should have told me before I attended your stupid party that the doctor was in that gatehouse." Blue eyes met the woman's shocked ones.
"And tell me, Dark Succubus, what would you have done differently? Fuck her and the wolf at the same time? Gotten your boobs slashed by the Una Mens who you couldn't defeat all by yourself? Tell me, how would you have kept Lauren alive?." Evony literally spat in the woman's face. The succubus dropped her to the ground.
"Bo couldn't beat them but I could. They hadn't touched Lauren yet. You remember the Lich and the sex club idiots right? They touched the wrong woman. But since you are slow, I will bottom line everything for you. Had you told me where Lauren was, I would have freed her with the Siren's assistance then there wouldn't have been any need for her to turn your sorry ass human. To free herself. You wouldn't be mooching off that old, nasty fuck for money and all would be well. I could and should kick your ass right now but it wouldn't be a fair fight. My soft spot for humans extends to the doctor because she cares about people's right to breathe. I don't believe in that shit. Stay the hell away from her. Don't come to her looking to be Fae again, you caused your own misery. Not the doctor. Not me." The succubus turned and walked out. The Morrigan's screams didn't stop one step she took. She only stopped when she was back on the street. She took a hard breath and thought. She thought of who else was out there that screwed Lauren over. She rolled her eyes when she spotted her reflection in one of the Marquis' windows. Bo. Bo has screwed Lauren over. She asked for a relationship and bailed on it. Half an hour later, back she went. Up the wall and into the window. "The alarms sounded." Lauren sat drinking a glass of what Bo assumed was water.
"I didn't want to wake you. I had somewhere to go that couldn't wait." Bo bowed her head and walked forward.
"Dyson? Tamsin? Who was it this time? Because if you are going to be a guest in my loft, I'd like to know how long you will be off fucking someone." Lauren turned her eyes on Bo.
"It wasn't Bo, it was me. I went to talk to Marquis. I had to let her know that her current nature is her own fault for kidnapping you in the first place when she simply could have brought you to me. I also warned her to never fuck with you again. It's that simple, doctor. No sex was required." Blue eyes stared into Lauren's and turned brown and she stood back to return the woman's personal space.
"Good night, again". Lauren stood and left the room. Bo watched her go. "Good night, Lauren." Her childlike voice followed the doctor. "Dumb, dumb, Bo." She popped herself in the head. She didn't think of Lauren having alarms. But she couldn't wait to make her presence felt and known. Make their presence known and felt by Evony. Everyone knows Lauren is Bo's except Lauren herself. She yanked at her hair and pulled hard. She knew her blue eyes were back and she didn't care. She should have let that part of her loose more often. The Fae had overstepped their boundaries when it came to Lauren. Even before she met the woman. "No more." Bo ranted.
The Dal
"See, what did I tell you? Aife needs to be dealt with before she burns down the whole colony!." Dyson snapped as he dropped a police report in front of the Blood King.
"You don't have proof that Aife did this and if she did, so what, that's not our property. It's Dark Fae territory." Trick pushed the report back to the wolf.
"She's dangerous, Trick. Don't you care?." Dyson asked.
"She burned it down because that's a bad place. It is bad for Lauren. Bad for Bo knowing Lauren almost died there. Bo almost died there too, in case you have forgotten, Detective." Trick shook his head.
"This is why you had to hand her over to the Dark. Aife is out there burning things down. What if a Fae had been in there. A Dark Fae? She's not exactly Dark anymore. Her shit always comes back to us. Back to you." Dyson ranted and stopped when he heard slow steps. He knows those steps.
"Keep my name out of your fucking mouth!." The succubus raged. Trick's eyes went wide as he literally ran to get into between them. "Don't."
The succubus looked down at him and for the first time in a long time, Trick feared the woman. This is her succubus. A totally different creature than Aife with control. "The wolf or me. Let's see if you have the nuts to choose family this time."
"Dyson, go to work, please." Trick looked over his shoulder.
"I'm an officer. This is my job." Dyson countered.
"Go! Now!." Trick screamed.
"I'll be back, Trick." Dyson eyed the succubus. She doesn't deserve Trick's help. She barely deserves to be his daughter after landing a shit pile of trouble at his door after the Queen died.
"What have you done?." Trick asked as he backed away from the woman.
"Rest your little brain. I have done nothing to the other Fae, yet. I simply burned down the building my daughter almost died in. Just like I burned down the one mother died in." Aife had control again as she walked over to the bar and banged her hand on the counter for a drink.
"Are you telling me the truth, Aife, I need to know." Trick walked to stand in front of her.
"If I wasn't, I wouldn't tell you." Aife laughed as she took her drink. The Blood King watched her until they heard footsteps again.
"Oh shit." Tamsin rolled her eyes and turned to leave. If there is a succubus she doesn't want to see, it's that one.
"Aife do you have to be here, your presence is going to run a lot of customers off." Trick turned to the woman.
"No. I don't have to be here. But like a bitch with a bone, I will know if my name is spoken again." Aife gestured over her shoulders. There was a small group spread out around the bar. He wasn't sure who she meant but knew she must have spies among them. "Don't think of putting me in another sanitarium, I will put you in a tomb, if you do. If you think about or speak on doing so." The old succubus walked out of the bar and laughed. "Crushing on a succubus are we?." She walked past Tamsin and the Valkyrie didn't say a word. One wrong word, one right word and that succubus could and would snap over the tiniest shit. She hasn't forgotten the gore of Aife's kills after the Queen's death. She has to remember she is on her last life. There's no coming back once she dies. Once the succubus was gone, she took a deep breath and entered the bar again. "I thought she would never leave."
"You didn't see Dyson outside did you?." Trick asked.
"No his nose is probably chasing another succubus' ass." Tamsin laughed and sat in front of Trick.
"You two really need to grow up and in a hurry. After what we all witnessed, neither of you will be Bo's anytime soon." Trick grabbed a glass to polish.
"It is easier for me to get over her, I'm not mated to her. Besides, I can find better." Tamsin looked around the bar. She didn't think Trick would ever host so many magic mikes. Trick cringed and walked away.
Dyson sat in an unmarked car on the street. Trick might not want to keep tabs on Aife's comings and goings but he will. She's dangerous. Dangerous to every living thing on the planet. He raised his head when the succubus turned around and flipped him off. She saw him. He sniffed the air and realized he hadn't showered recently. She probably smelled him since his windows were down. Shit, he thought and pulled off.
Bo and Lauren.
Bo had showered and walked out to the living room. The only sound she made was when she took a seat on the leather couch. She slowly turned her head left to right looking at everything in Lauren's loft. Everything that could shine did and everything else that didn't was spotless. She moved her tongue in her mouth to keep it moist. She hadn't even poured a drink of water. She is a guest. Lauren hadn't told her to make herself at home, so, her routine is limited. She sat stiff when she heard a door opening. "Good morning." Lauren spoke softly as her scent met Bo before her eyes did.
"Good morning." Bo smiled and ran her hand over her chin.
"How long have you been up?." Lauren asked.
"Not long. I was waiting for you to come out before I poured a drink of anything." Bo replied honestly.
"Well, I have juice, milk and beer. If any of those will quench your thirst." Lauren spoke from the kitchen. Bo could tell she was already starting breakfast.
Bo stood and walked halfway across the room. "Lauren I'm sorry for sneaking out and in last night. I just wanted her to know not to come for you again. But I didn't want to wake you and tell you that I was leaving. I'm a guest here."
"That's right you are a guest here and while I appreciate your apology, you can rent the loft across from here if you need to go elsewhere for as long as you are in this building." Lauren dug into the cupboards.
"Why can't we do it? Why can't we start over? Why can't we be a couple again?." Bo asked.
"Going right for the throat this early?." Lauren asked
"It is not funny, Lauren. I am serious. I have been serious since that night in your lab. This isn't a game that I want to play forever." Bo looked to the ground and back up again.
"Why do we need to be a couple? That wasn't the case with Tamsin and the others." Lauren replied over her shoulder. She needed to reach a pan that she had pushed further and further away.
Bo shook her head and grabbed a chair. She climbed up on it and grabbed the pan and literally fell into Lauren's arms. The blonde pushed her away and took the pan.
"Because I want the world to know that you are officially mine and that I am officially yours. Besides, being in a relationship is the closest we will probably ever get to being married." Bo explained as she backed up. This is Lauren's territory. If a scientist can't cook, who can?
"I see. For society's sake." Lauren turned to turn the burner on.
"I don't care what they think, Lauren. I just want you!." Bo turned and wanted to grab something since she can't grab the woman in front of her. A taste on her tongue. A scent in her nostrils.
"Until your next problem comes and I have to put my own wants and needs aside to help. Until Dyson needs you to solve a kiddie case. Until the Valkyrie wants to take you to some hick town. Until a boy on a train needs you. Until you need to sleep with Dyson's son. They are all out there. Your ghosts. Not mine." Lauren turned to Bo. She watched the woman's face swim in a mountain of emotions. "I have nothing on my plate. Nothing. No girlfriend in a pod. No necklace around my neck. I'm free, here. I'm free in my labs. You will never be free of them because you keep them chained like prisoners of love. You were so convincing to Dyson about your lack of feelings for me that he mated with you. He will never get over that. He will use your nature to sleep with you every time he gets a hint of you needing to feed. That also happened in my lab. Tamsin? I don't know where you slept with her. Rainer is probably watching from yet another realm hoping you will hop on his caboose again. Me? I'm just a human doctor with my own weakness for you. It's probably my lack of acknowledging that weakness that is keeping you here. Until I give in and fall into my own beds in your arms. I won't sleep with you, Bo. I have my self respect back after years of it being stripped away by the Fae"
"Wow!." Bo stood shocked.
"It's the truth. My truth. I could have left after Nadia died but the Ash text let me know that I couldn't yet. We didn't know where the Garuda was. I didn't even know about the Garuda until Lachlan explained how he infiltrated Nadia's body. I don't need the Fae, the Fae needs me. Needs me for everything that I know and they don't. That was my whole life for years. I can't spend the rest of it following behind another Fae that doesn't see the evils nipping at my feet. After I touched Iris and Dyson found me, I knew I didn't mean shit to anyone. He didn't try to save me. The same way he watched Kenzi enter that portal. He had his succubus in his arms, like he always planned. All he needed was for that portal to close. The little humans be damned. I'm not the same Lauren any of you can walk over or flirt with and seduce." Lauren viciously scrambled the eggs.
"I won't let them do that. I won't do that. Not this time. You think I don't know how valuable life is? You saw me after Kenzi died. It killed me. I will never let that happen to you. The Lich dared me to watch your death, I won't do that, ever." Bo walked closer to Lauren. "Just give me one chance. One more. That's all I will need. All that you will need to know that you are loved and protected against any and everything that dares to think they can harm you. Even protected against me and my pettiness to make you feel jealous over them. Iris was almost your silent killer. I came for you when Dyson called. I climbed into your bed ready to die with you. If I would do that, I would do anything for you. Anything." She whispered as she got within an inch of intruding on the doctor's personal space.
Lauren finished cooking and Bo followed her with everything she asked of her. The women sat eating their breakfast in silence. Lauren could hear the faint sounds of Bo tapping her foot. Her impatient nature was on the rise. "I'm sorry." Bo spoke and stopped it.
"Finish your food and go, Bo." Lauren drank some juice and set the glass down again.
Bo couldn't take another bite. Lauren kicking her out instantly spoiled her appetite. It was a pity too since Lauren's cooking was better than it had ever been. "I'll go."
"You should." Lauren nodded as she took another bite of her own food and finished the plate.
"When? When can I come back?." Bo panted. The air was suddenly too thin to breathe.
"Don't." Lauren replied.
"Don't?." Bo asked tearfully.
"I will come to you. When you've found a warmer place to live. We'll start from there." Lauren replied.
Bo quickly finished her food, jumped up and was out of Lauren's loft. She dashed to her car and jumped in. A home. Find a home, Dennis.
Lauren watched the seat across from her. Bo had just been there. While she didn't make any promises that things will be perfect like Bo expects or she herself expects, they have a long way back. But this will be a start like she said. She will have to tell the Succubus that she won't be moving in anytime soon. Just starting with here again.
TBC.