"Morrigan. Ash. We weren't expecting you." Megan backed up after answering the door.

"Of course not. We haven't seen much of you lately. I told Hale we should come and check in. Now, where are Bo and Lauren?." The Morrigan asked.

"Lauren's sleeping. I don't know where Bo is." Megan swallowed hard.

"No, Lauren is not sleeping." Lauren smiled as she stood at the top of the stairs. "Evony. Hale." She nodded.

"Lauren, sweetie. Come down. We need to talk. Privately." The Morrigan gestured.

"Shouldn't I be in on this meeting?." Hale stepped forward.

"A siren is not really needed but if you must be, come and quickly." The Morrigan gestured towards the small hallway to her right.

"I can come too." Bo appeared out of nowhere.

"No, you can't. We are in charge of her protection and where she's living. We can't stop her from having you live here too. But we can pull back our resources. Do you want us to do that, to Lauren?." The Morrigan looked over her shoulder. When the succubus stopped walking, she had her answer.

"It's ok, Bo." Lauren gently held her hand up and followed Hale who was following Evony. The three left the other three standing in shock. "What did you do, Bo?." Vivian seethed.

"I didn't do anything. I can't say the same for you." Bo spun around and Megan was in between the two of them in a matter of seconds. "We didn't do this, Bo. It is probably like the Morrigan said, they came on their own."

"Fine. It better be the truth. Lauren doesn't like people going behind her back." Bo folded her arms.

"Like you prefer the wolf behind yours?." Vivian taunted her.

"Say that again and only Megan will be the other succubus." Bo pushed forward but Megan planted her feet harder to keep her back.

"Your body. Your tongue. Nothing is exclusive to Lauren, is it?." Vivian asked.

"I only slept with Dyson to feed. The kiss with Tamsin happened but it wasn't my doing. You know what. I don't have to explain any of this to you. You can release me, Megan. She isn't worth my time." Bo pulled back and took a seat on a lounge chair.

"Lauren wants us here. You want whomever will sleep with you when she won't. She trusts us. Can't say the same for you. Why are you even here, Bo? To sleep with her and then break a nail and sleep with Dyson?." Vivian asked. "Lauren deserves someone she can trust. Someone good. Someone that will put her first. Put her career first. Not someone who uses her for her career when you can't heal yourself."

Megan sighed. "Vivian. Please. This isn't helping Lauren."

"Yes it is, Megan. It's pointing out Bo's hypocritical bullshit. Lauren can't have friends. She couldn't even have Nadia before Bo killed her. Bo wants her to be best pals with her goth friend and Dyson. The two people that wouldn't spit on her if she was on fire." Vivian kept her distance but her words hit Bo in the middle of her head.

The succubus looked away and tapped her foot on the floor. Lauren would never mock her for being a succubus. But these succubus will. They will point out her faults and she has plenty of them. She didn't stop to think. She only wanted to heal and find a way to be friends with Lauren. Then she fell for her. She knows it was dumb to heal with Dyson. Someone Lauren was bound to see. Someone she was bound to smell Bo's scent on. Someone she was bound to feel lower than because the Fae had her thinking she wasn't shit because she was a human. A human bound to them for as long as Nadia lived in that pod. For as long as Lauren kept her commitment. She had been a rookie in the fae world. For as powerful as she felt, she let them play on her innocence. Aife pointed out that she was weak. That she should be living better above her means. That she shouldn't put up with shit from anyone and she did. That same shit touched her girlfriend. It touched her relationship. She sighed and adjusted in her seat.

Evony, Hale and Lauren.

"Close the door." The Morrigan spoke softly.

"I got it, Lauren." Hale nodded.

"What is this about? Did someone call you?." Lauren asked.

"No. I thought it would be a good idea for us to see you for ourselves. I won't puss around the bush, Lauren. Your hands look familiar." The Morrigan raised her own hand, looked at it and at Lauren.

"Ok, Lauren. What's going on?." Hale asked.

"It's nothing." Lauren shook her head. "Nothing I can't figure out."

"Nice try. Ladies talk now, Hale." The Morrigan nodded towards the Siren.

"Gotcha. I'll be right outside." Hale backed up and closed the door behind him.

"Evony." Lauren shook her head again.

"Cut the bullshit. It's just us now. You may have been a Light Fae ward but you are a woman first. Woman to woman, you look like shit. You're a doctor. Not a know-it-all. But since I can tell what's going on, I am here to help. Now, first. You must learn what triggers your anger. That's how I melt shits so easily. I don't like people much. Nothing holds me back. I just melt them and move on. Now, you can control yours. Just focus on being happy. Being positive. Let that succubus go if that helps you. Keep her if it doesn't. The other two will remain around until we reassign them elsewhere." The Morrigan walked circles around Lauren. Noting her hands. They weren't glowing so she didn't need to fear an attack.

"I'm just tired of not knowing." Lauren shrugged.

"I can get the Ash to pull the girls. That will leave you with time to work on it and it will also leave you with Bo. I don't like her and she knows it. I can have her removed. Just say the word and she's gone too." The Morrigan stopped in front of Lauren. "She stays, I see."

"No. I don't want them gone. It's a nice break from things. We can go out to eat, dance and whatever else comes to mind." Lauren walked for a bit and stopped.

"Fine. Let's work on your approach. Allow me to demonstrate." The Morrigan picked up a vase and within seconds it melted. "See. I don't give a fuck. That's how it works for me." But I will replace it since it's here. We can get your reinforcements. I can bring mama succubus here too. You know she really doesn't give a fuck about anything but her daughter. She'd be a good test dummy, shall we say."

"Aife?." Lauren laughed.

"Oh come on. She wouldn't hurt you. Not with Bo's succubus here too. It's fucked really. The most powerful among us and she only stops for you." The Morrigan laughed. "Girl, that's a damn good weapon to have literally at your hands."

"She comes with Bo." Lauren looked up at the ceiling.

"Look, Tamsin is a cold bitch. I'd kick her ass if the succubus hadn't gotten to her first. She won't be able to do what she did to you again. The wolf? His balls will always itch. I am not saying she didn't fuck up because she did. She's been fucking up all over the place. I am actually glad she's with you and out of my hair. But out of respect for you, I tolerate her being here. When Hale and I arranged for you to get away, she wasn't part of the deal but she won't stop coming, Lauren. Like the wolf, she can't help herself. I have never seen a succubus mated to anyone but you are very close to having one mated with you. If Megan and Vivian can't bring her out, she won't come out and all of that falls back on you. Shit, I've been angling to control a succubus for years. You have a power that I don't. I don't want Aife because that bitch is crazy." The Morrigan laughed and Lauren noticed it. The Dark Fae leader is trying to help her. No other Fae besides Bo would speak to her for this long unless it was something in it for them.

"Just get better, Lauren. Do what's best for you. Hale and I will handle the rest of the bullshit. Rumblings have been going around that Dyson is angling to make a move. I would love to go hunting, but he's Hale's boy. But I will have my people keeping an eye on him too." The Morrigan turned and walked out. Hale stood when she opened the door. "Let's go." She said and he followed. They walked towards the three succubus, and made eye contact. "Stay on your job but don't push Lauren into doing anything that she doesn't want or request to do." Hale said as he passed them.

"That goes for me too." The Morrigan stood and waited for Hale to open the doors for her.

"We didn't call them, Lauren." Megan spoke softly.

"I know. Let's have breakfast." Lauren walked past them but didn't say anything else.

The Dal

"Nothing. Nothing yet!." Kenzi screamed and slammed her phone on a table.

"They are safe, Kenzi. She hasn't called you. It doesn't mean that she won't. Right now she has no reason to call. I'm her grandfather and she hasn't called me either." Trick sighed. He looked at the calendar hanging on the wall. It had been days since he last spoke with Bo. But he's not dumb. If she wanted to be there, she would be.

"Dyson?." Kenzi cringed.

"I have people keeping an eye on him. It's bad Kenzi. He's been in his wolf form for days. It's probably best. At least he won't come in here like that." Trick raised an eyebrow and dropped it.

"You know I sat in this very spot when Bo said she couldn't have Lauren because she would kill her. Now it seems not having Lauren is killing Bo." Kenzi tapped the counter.

Dyson.

The Blood King was wrong. Dyson wasn't in his wolf form. He was in his human form. He hadn't shaved or showered in days. He thought about animals being in cages. That's what he felt like. He was mated to Bo but she's not mated to him, so he's caged in that forever.

He scratched his beard and growled. He wasted his chance on someone that was always a tease and he liked it at first. He would sleep with her and then she got the itch for Lauren. She came to him to heal but went to Lauren to make love. He knew it. But he allowed it. That human wouldn't and couldn't possibly satisfy a fae. Especially a succubus. But she does Bo and her succubus. Now the Fae world knows about him. They point fingers and laugh or whisper when he's around. He thought of something, showered and dressed.

Hale and the Morrigan.

"So, what do you really think, Evony?." Hale asked.

"My Dark Belch needs work, that's what I think." The Morrigan rolled her eyes and threw the bottle to a guard.

"I meant about Lauren? About Bo? We're still cleaning up dead bodies and Lauren has her own problems." Hale declined another beer.

"No body that anybody would miss. We're almost done. Her succubus seems to be in control. But the minute she's not won't be pretty. Keep that koushang on you at all times just in case. As for Lauren, I think she listened to me. It's fun melting stuff but she's a scientist. She needs to make sense of it all. She will do the work. The research. She will find a way." The Morrigan took a glass of wine and drank it straight.

"Man, Lauren has been kicked in the balls by the Fae. The fact that she's allowing three to hang around her after all she has been through shows her true stones." Hale shook his head in awe.

"Send more money to her account. She needs to have every resource that we can spare." The Morrigan shook her glass and watched the wine move.

"Why does she matter so much to you? Why are you helping? I mean really? You couldn't be bothered with the help, as you called Dyson." Hale handed a guard a note. "Asap."

"Because it busts Dyson's balls. But seriously. Half of this is my fault. I put that damn Valkyrie in their circle to begin with. Lauren is really crushed. Bo has a long way to win her back. If she can." The Morrigan stood and walked to her desk.

Hale watched her. She's right. Tamsin started all of this shit. But she didn't do it alone. Bo and Dyson were never done because she kept him too close and he didn't understand what he really was to her.

The women.

"Ladies, I'm sorry but I want to talk to Bo, alone." Lauren set her napkin down after wiping her mouth.

"Are you sure, Lauren?." Megan asked.

Lauren nodded. "I'm sure."

"We won't be far, Lauren." Vivian nodded at Megan and the women stood and left them.

"What's this about, Lauren?." Bo's palms were sweaty.

"The Morrigan and Ash only came here to help me. They promised to continue to do so. I don't think I'll ever need for anything with them around for as long as I live." Lauren replied.

"I'm all you need, Lauren!." Bo snapped.

"Bo. Do that again and this is over before I ever get to why I asked to be alone with you." Lauren stood.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Lauren." Bo took a deep breath and followed it with another.

Lauren looked at her hands. Evony was right. It happens when she's angry. She hasn't been all that angry but the woman just behind her has been around, too. "You're it, Bo. You make me angry and it happens."

Bo closed her eyes. She could cry at those words but tears won't help right now. "One fucking kiss. This all started because of one fucking kiss." She put her head in her hands.

"Don't flatter yourself that much, Bo. It wasn't just your kiss. It was everything else. When Trick spoke about that Dawning. It's all you knew. Your tests that you spoke of didn't exactly sound like they helped you live Dyson's fantasy in there." Lauren hugged herself.

"I love you, Lauren. I do. I'm sorry I didn't tell you that sooner. Or that I didn't tell you enough. I can't change what happened then. If I could erase it, I would. Honestly, you must think a lot of yourself too if you think I can't go out and find someone else. I can but I don't want anyone else. I want you. That's it." Bo stood and stared at the doctor. Her hands looked like they were massaging her back. "You want to physically fight me, don't you. Is that why you wanted to be alone with me?."

"Maybe we need to. You're my anger and you keep piling it on." Lauren bowed her head.

"I'm not going to fight you, Lauren. That would live with the both of us for the rest of our lives. Good intentions or not." Bo shook her head.

"Well, it's either fight me or you leave." Lauren replied as she turned around.

"What the fuck, Lauren? You can't be serious." Bo stood stone faced.

"What else can I do?!." Lauren screamed. Bo noticed her arms were both nearly bright orange.

"Lauren. I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." Bo was crying now. She went to touch the woman but Lauren nodded no.

"This isn't just about you. It's about my stupidity. I fell in love with you knowing who was in the background. They were never gone to leave us alone and when I was at my weakest in our relationship, they attacked. I was stupid for trusting you to tell me the truth and you didn't. I was stupid for using your blood to try and heal myself. I have treated and known many patients that are or were paralyzed. They lived happier lives than I have. I panicked and screwed up. I didn't want to be dependent on anyone. I wanted to get as far away from you as I could, physically." Lauren bowed her head and took a breath.

"Lauren, the only way we can fix ourselves is letting it all go. Let those two go. Let Hale and Evony go. We have to find something that is ours. Love is ours, it's just not the both of ours at the moment." Bo stretched her neck.

The women jumped when they heard voices. "What the hell!?." Bo screamed as she opened the door and Lauren ran out first. "What are you doing here, Dyson?."

"If you are going to leave me, make your succubus tell you that." Dyson's eyes were flashing. He swung his arms and cut Megan and Vivian deeply.

"Are you kidding me?!." Bo screamed.

Lauren touched Megan and Vivians wounds and they healed. "Stay where you are." She whispered and stood. "Get out of my house!." She growled and had the wolf in her hand before he could advance on Bo.

"Lauren...let him go!." Bo moved closer.

"Then you take him and you both can get out!." Lauren threw Dyson at Bo and they both fell to the floor. Bo looked up and her mouth dropped. Lauren's eyes were as orange as her arms and hands.

TBC

Bo's succubus loses her patience.