Chapter 2
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"What's wrong with my place?" Danielle pouted while they walked through the aisle of the hardware store. "It's pretty. In good shape, all three of us can fit in there."
"Told you already. We're gonna need headquarters." Kenzi retorted. "Your place is not big enough."
"And you agreed to it." Bo added.
"Don't remind me." Danielle grumbled. "So, hinges."
"Screwdriver." Bo grabbed the item and dropped it in their basket.
"Plunger."
"Duct tape."
"Oh, sweet. Tiki lights." Kenzi gushed taking a very ugly set of colorful, stringed plastic tikis.
"No." Danielle deadpanned at the girl. "We're not having tiki lights."
"I thought we were just gonna concentrate on the essentials." Bo reminded the girl.
"Hello? Essential." Kenzi countered.
"Hello? We're not having them." Danielle grabbed the lights and put them back on the shelves.
"With a little work our crack shack is going to start feeling downright homey." Kenzi continued down the aisle defeated a bit.
"Yeah, well it's already the closest thing I've had since I ran away at eighteen." Bo said as Danielle came up behind her and looked at the sample of colors that was on the shelves.
"So, where does a Fae sex killer grow up anyway?" Kenzi asked her.
"Small town mid-west. All car shows and church socials." Bo answered.
"That would turn me homicidal. Do you ever go back?" Kenzi continued her questioning, Danielle moved to the side looking for more items they might need for their new home.
"It's kind of tough, growing up thinking you might have a shot at being prom queen, and then to find out that you're part of some ageless secret race that feeds on humans."
"I hate when that happens."
"Tell me about it." Danielle said. "And being prom queen is for suckers. We, girls, are too cool for that." Bo bumped in Danielle's back as she walked to the man that was standing a few feet away from them. They were staring at each other with this lust in their eyes.
"Whoa, whoa, what are you doing?" Kenzi asked stopping her.
"I'm getting hungry." Bo replied.
"Okay." Danielle stepped in front of Bo blocking her view. "How about we make a deal, we don't kill where we shop, okay?"
Danielle threw her arm over Bo's shoulders and they both walked past the man. Bo was a bit disappointed. "Don't worry, bud. Once, you learned how to control your hunger, you'll be able to feed whenever you want, wherever you want without killing anyone."
Danielle stepped in the clubhouse with a box full of her ancient books. "Easy! Not everyone here is a nookie-powered amazon." Kenzi complained behind her.
"Who's idea was it to get a two-hundred-pound sideboard, anyways?" Bo questioned her.
"Did somebody tell you we're going to live like savages?" Kenzi countered. "Cause it wasn't me." Danielle put her box of books on the floor in the future kitchen.
"Just lift. You know filling this place with furniture is one thing, paying for it, is another."
"No problem." Kenzi heaved out.
"Really? You hoping I have some kind of Fae money power I wasn't aware of?" Bo asked.
"Didn't cost thing." Kenzi answered. "We sort of liberated it."
"Oh, no! No, no, no, we're not thieves." Bo shook her head. Danielle grabbed a few books and moved to the mantle of the fireplace.
"Thieves is such a harsh word. Think of it more as…redistribution."
"Okay, let's get one thing straight." Bo started. "We stay alive as long as we don't piss off the Fae too much. We are not doing anything that draws any extra attention to ourselves. Are you good with that?"
"I have no intention to get involved with Faes. Except for you, of course." Danielle finished looking at Bo.
"Your worn out books are not staying there." Kenzi said to Danielle.
"If it's going to be my place, I want it to look a bit like me." Danielle said classifying her books on the mantle. "Plus, there's a lot of information about Faes in there. So, there's staying."
A green fire just flashed behind Kenzi. Bo and the girl cursed as they turned around. Danielle rushed to the couch to help her two friends smother the fire.
"Sorry about the couch." Kenzi and Danielle shrieked as they turned around. A man was sitting in the armchair, covered in dirt.
"Okay." Bo said brandishing the plunger. Danielle stood behind her. "You have exactly two seconds to tell us who the hell you are and what you're doing in our house."
"Well, look at you. You're everything the rumors in the Fae community said you'd be." The man said.
"Wrong answer." Bo said stepping towards him.
Another flash of green fire appeared behind them. Danielle shrieked again as she immediately run to stomp on it. Kenzi and Bo went to her rescue.
"Sorry about the fires. It's a reflex. Hell on the furniture, but it's kept me alive for a long time." He said now standing near the kitchen.
"Yeah, well, all good things come to an end buddy." Kenzi said slipping her brass knuckles on.
"I'm about to scream. Guess who's dying?" Danielle said threateningly to him.
"See, people go right to the violence." The man complained. "And they wonder why I stay elusive."
"Why don't you tell us what you want and you can elusive yourself out of here." Bo told him.
"Most people call me Will. I'm a Will of Wisp." Will retorted.
"You're sure that's not a Chase of the Chunky or Bob of the Butterball." Kenzi joked.
Danielle smirked at Kenzi's words. "Hey, I wrestle with my weight. What can I say?" Will said dryly to Kenzi.
"Tell us why you're here."
"Here's the deal; I'm a wood land Fae…light just so you know. I live in the forest outside of town."
"What? Skipping and a-jumping all the day?" Kenzi mocked.
"Hey, there's no shame in that." The guy retorted to her. "And of course, there are humans who wander into my turf, crashing through the woods, cutting down trees, looking for my treasure."
"Whoa! Did you just say treasure?" Kenzi asked suddenly interested in his story.
"Hey, get with the program. That's what this is all about. Diamond, rubies, emeralds." He said to Kenzi.
"Sir! Have a seat. Have a seat." Kenzi steered him to the armchair. "That smell isn't bothering me at all."
"Okay. So, I spend my nights searching the woods for precious stones." He continued his story.
"What, like they're just laying around?" Kenzi asked.
"If you know where to look. Most of the humans that have heard about it, that are out searching; I'm able to throw them off with a few well-placed fairy fires." Will continued.
"But?"
"There is one human, he's been hunting me down for years. A couple of nights ago, he got past the best I could throw at him and found my stash. I got home and it was gone, all of it."
"And you want me to help you get it back?" Bo concluded.
"Why not?" He shrugged. "You're smart, you're capable and best of all, you're not part of the system."
"Okay." Bo said glancing at Kenzi and Danielle. "Why would you trust me?"
"Because…" He crossed his arms with a smirk on his face. "I have something you want."
"I'm not a big fan of riddles." Bo glared at him.
"First of all, I have to know something. It's about your feet."
"Kinky." Kenzi commented.
"Oh, please. Grow up, will you?" Kenzi pouted as the man scolded her. "When I heard about the girl, didn't know where she came from. I thought it might be you. But I need to know for sure. Do you have a birthmark on your left foot just above the heel?"
Bo remained quiet for a few seconds. "How did you know that?"
Will clapped his hands. "Oh, true story. This happened twenty-eight years ago. I was minding my own business and all of the sudden there's this woman crashing through the brush."
"And we're supposed to care about this, why?" Kenzi asked dryly.
"Because the bundle she was carrying was a baby." Will replied. "A little Fae girl with a birthmark on her left foot just above the heel. BAM! Got your interest now, right?"
"What else do you know?" Bo questioned him.
"Uh, uh." Will shook his head. "Not so fast. That only happens after you help me out."
"You do realize that it might be hard to find some random guy in the woods that stole your stuff."
Will grabbed a backpack and opened it in front of the three girls. "He dropped this. Maybe there's something in here that'll help you track him. Oh!" He exclaimed as he pulled out a gun.
Bo sprang forward and grabbed the bag and the gun from him. "I see what I can do."
"Ah-ha!" Kenzi intervened. "What she means by that is she'll see what she can do for a price. You know we can talk flat rate or a return of the percentage or…"
"Excuse us." Bo interrupted them and pulled Kenzi away from Will.
Danielle remained behind with Will. "Listen, you better have that information. Or I swear to God, I won't hesitate to kill you if you broke her heart." She threatened. "I don't take it lightly when Fae use other's weaknesses to obtain some favor, especially if they are my friends."
Danielle stepped out of the car, with the same attire as she wore usually. Her tweed jacket was over a light green buttoned shirt. Her jeans were dark and fit her voluptuous hips. On her feet, she wore simple sneakers. Her red hair was tied up in a ponytail. Her bag across her shoulders she followed her two friends to the white trailer with the light baby blue trim. There was a mini white fence around the trailer.
"Nobody's home." Danielle said after she looked through the window.
Bo knocked on the door but there was no answer. She then tried the door, she turned the doorknob and realized that the door was open. "Crap!" Danielle heard Bo swore before she was pushed off the deck and landed hard on her butt. A gun shot blasted through the door. Debris of woods rained on them. Danielle sat up and looked at the big hole in the door before looking at her friends. Bo's hand was injured; blood was trickling down her palm. "One hell of a door bell."
Danielle got up brushing away all the pieces of wood that has fallen on her. Her heart was pounding in her chest. If it wasn't for Bo, she could have died. She joined her two friends in front of the door. The three of them took a look through the big hole.
"Tell me again why taking this case is better than stealing?" Kenzi asked as they were staring at the shotgun that was aimed at the door. Bo glanced around quickly and when she was sure that no more shotguns were aimed at them, she opened the door.
Danielle immediately started to look around the small trailer. She went through the drawers, Kenzi doing the same as Bo was patching up her hand. Danielle stopped her digging when she found files resting on the bedside table. She took them and flipped through them quickly. Most of them were full of different articles. They didn't say much but they were all about sighting of fairies fires in the forest outside of town. She dropped the folders on the bed and she saw the worn out books that was laying there.
"Guys, we got lucky." Danielle said pushing the books over to Bo when she knelt down next to the bed.
"Fairy Folk and You, Mysterious Folklore Creatures, Encyclopedia of Legends…" Bo read out the titles of the book that was on the bed. "This is not light reading. This is research." Bo said.
"And he got the best books on the subject." Danielle commented for having read those books herself.
"Will was right. Connell was hunting him."
"Hmm." Kenzi let out. "G.W. Thompson Co. Ltd. We buy and sell jewels whole sale and retail." Kenzi read out. "If I came into possession of a pant load of Gems, this is the guy I'd wanna visit."
"Yeah, a guy we want to visit too." Bo said ripping the page from the phone book and getting up.
"Hello, girls!" The three women stopped dead in their tracks as a blond woman were aiming them with another shotgun. "Going somewhere?"
"Actually, we're kind of in a hurry." Bo replied.
"Oh, you're kind of in a hurry." The woman mocked before chuckling. "Oh, honey, you better have a damn good excuse for why the hell you're in my neighbor's place."
"We're friends of Connell's."
"Friends?"
"Yeah, we came to visit and he must have forgot." Kenzi put in, chuckling nervously.
"Imagine, a pretty thing like you robbing a man's house and home." The blonde stepped towards them and instinctively Danielle took a step back.
"I'm sure we can work this out without getting the police involved." Bo said cautiously stepping towards her.
"Hey, hey, hey, no. You stay, you stay…" Bo touched her face and gold light passed from her hand to the woman's face.
"I just want to explain it to you. It all make sense." Bo said. The woman let out a moan. "I promise." The shotgun slipped out of the woman's hand. Bo grabbed a hold of her face and leaned in.
"Bo?" Danielle called. Bo ignored her as she kissed the woman.
"Bo, that's enough!" Kenzi said worried about the woman's fate.
"Bo, stop!" Danielle screamed this time as the woman passed out.
"Bo, stop, you're killing her." Kenzi snapped grabbing Bo's arm. Danielle rushed to the woman and caught her before she hit the ground. With her eyes still glowing blue, Bo turned around and grabbed Kenzi's throat tightly. "Bo, stop it, it's me."
"Bo!" Danielle snapped grabbing her arm and pulled her away from Kenzi. Bo looked at her angrily but she flashed her own eyes to the Succubus, blue staring into purple.
Bo seemed to come back to her senses as she released Kenzi. "I'm sorry." She then turned to Danielle. "I'm sorry." She apologized again. "Thanks for the cock block."
"Yeah, well maybe next time I'll do it from a distance." Kenzi wheezed out as Danielle pressed two fingers to the woman's neck. "Is she okay?"
"Yeah, she's fine. She's still breathing." Danielle said with relief. "Thanks to you."
"Your hand is completely healed." Kenzi remarked as Danielle walked up behind Bo and her.
"The side benefit of feed." Bo said as she kept walking.
"That's the hell of health plan."
"Yeah, trust me, you couldn't afford the premiums."
"Hey! What are we doing?" Kenzi said grabbing her arm. "Are you going to tell Will his guy's on the run?"
"You tell him. I'm going to drop you off at home. Keep him there. Make sure he doesn't burn the place down."
"What are you gonna do?" Danielle asked her.
"I'm going jewelry shopping."
"Damn it!" Danielle cursed as she smothered the fire that was starting to burn her books. "These aren't even mine."
"I told you, I can't help it." Will said taking a chocolate bar from the vending machine that was in their living room. "Maybe if you'd stop watching me."
"It's kind of hard." Kenzi replied. "You take up a lot of real estate."
"I'm large. I know it." Will said grumpily. "What? I get lonely. I get depressed. I binge."
"Aren't there people that can help you with that? Like some kind of Fae Fat Watchers or something?" Kenzi questioned him.
Danielle snorted. "Fae only help themselves." She muttered but Will didn't hear her as he continued.
"I don't exactly show up for meetings."
"Yeah, I guess not." Kenzi's phone rang up, the girl glanced at the red head before turning around and answering her phone. There was a beat before Kenzi asked. "Should I bring our party little friend?" Another moment of silence from Kenzi. "Okay, good. I didn't really wanna singe the car upholstery anyway." Kenzi faced Danielle. "It was Bo. She got an address."
"Where?"
"Lakeview Motel. She wants us to meet her there." Kenzi waved her finger at Will. "You, you stay here, buddy."
"And please try not to burn anything." Danielle said as an afterthought following Kenzi outside of their clubhouse.
"He's still there." Bo told them as they both climbed in the car.
"Sweet. Let's break in and get Yakuza on this guy's Fae robbing ass." Kenzi suggested excitedly.
"You stay here and watch the door. I'll try to do this on the QT." Bo replied.
"Well, you're not gonna…" Kenzi trailed off not knowing how to finish her sentence.
"Don't worry. The woman from the trailer park will hold me over for a while." Bo got out of the car and Danielle slid in the front seat.
They both observed her as she climbed the stairs. Bo then traded her jacket for a maid's one. Danielle saw Kenzi smiled softly from the corner of her eye.
"She's taking some tips from you." Danielle commented.
"You should too." Kenzi retorted. "Dani-girl, that tweed jacket is so old age."
"Don't diss the tweed jacket." Danielle retorted. "It makes me look cool."
"Not." Kenzi said dryly. "Why do you keep it anyway? That thing is so old."
"I have my reasons." Danielle answered her eyes fixed on the man that was just walking up to their guy's room. "Kenzi!" Danielle slapped Kenzi's arm drawing the girl's attention to the man dressed in black.
The man took off his hood and he did something that the girl didn't expect him to do. He lifted his head up, off of his shoulders and put it on the maid's cart. Danielle gasped just like Kenzi, their mouth opened wide.
Danielle has only heard of them before, never actually met one. But she was definitely sure that it was Dullahan.
"Oh, crap balls." Kenzi swore as the two girls jumped out of the car and dashed to the room.
Danielle was barely able to step aside as Connell rushed out of the room. She stopped next to Kenzi who grabbed a broomstick. They both looked at the head briefly before the head stared back at them.
"Holy shit!" Danielle exclaimed.
"Bo, cleaning product ten o'clock." Kenzi yelled throwing the mop at the Succubus. Bo caught it in the air and was able to block the creature's swing at her. The thing swung out, Danielle and Kenzi were both thrown into the wall, hitting Kenzi. "Oh it's like he's got eyes in the back of his head."
Bo ducked as the creature took a swing at her head. She used the broken mop to stab the creature in the chest. "Minus the head." Bo fell on the bed with the creature.
Danielle helped Bo up as Kenzi came to stand next to them. The three of them stared the headless man. "This is a whole new level of freaky."
"I know that it's important for you but…" Danielle breathed out. "Is it really worth it?"
"I'm starting to wonder."
As soon as they stepped in the Dal Riata, a Fae pub, they were greeted with stares and angry whispers. Danielle subconsciously put herself in a defensive manner, she crossed her arms over her chest still following Kenzi and Bo and avoided the looks and stares she was receiving. Her father has brought her to this pub once. But it was a long time ago and she hasn't come here ever since.
She only came in because she didn't have a choice but she hated being here. Too many faes to her taste. It's weird, you might think, that a Fae hates her own kind but as I said before the Fae has abandoned her to her own fate. They did it when she needed help the most. She thought, and her father assured her, that Fae take care of their own but that's not what happened thirteen years ago.
"Hey!" Bo greeted Dyson. Dyson's eyes flicker between Kenzi and Danielle before his eyes settled back on Bo.
"This isn't a place to bring human." Dyson told her.
"Where I go, she goes." Bo replied to him.
"You're claiming her." Trick asked her.
Bo looked at Danielle. "We both are." Danielle said looking at Trick in the eye.
"The girl is with them." Trick said loudly addressing the room. "Understand, she's your responsibilities from this point on."
Bo turned to Kenzi. "Try not to steal anything, okay? I'm checking in, like you asked." Bo said to Dyson. "We've got a small problem."
"We?" Dyson repeated.
Bo sighed before pulling him away from the crowd. Dyson noticed Danielle's uneasiness as she followed them. He wondered why she felt so uncomfortable around Fae. "I've got a body in the trunk of my car." Bo said sheepishly.
"And in a bag in the back seat." Kenzi added.
"The girl from the trailer park wasn't enough for you for one day?" Dyson asked in bewilderment.
"Okay, you noticed, uh?"
"Yeah."
"I know I didn't call you about that, but this is different, okay? I—I found the guy that stole my guy's jewels." Bo started to tell him the whole story. Dyson, on the other hand, was starting to look confused.
"And then there was another guy that was trying to take the other guy out and…" Dyson held up his hand cutting off Kenzi.
"Okay, okay, you lost me at the second guy. Bo, you can't keep doing this okay?"
"I promise you this is not how I planned my day."
"Maybe, you should see it for yourself." Danielle suggested; It was a way for her to get out of this pub as quickly as possible.
Dyson was standing between Bo and Danielle as she popped the trunk open. Kenzi was standing on the other side of Bo.
"First problem: no head." Dyson snapped.
"He started that way." Bo told him.
"Yeah, second problem: it's Dullahan." Dyson said resting his hands on the trunk.
"We already knew that." Danielle told him. "What we want to know is who are they exactly."
"I thought you didn't need my help." Dyson replied looking up at her.
"Turns out that I don't know everything about the Fae World." Danielle bite back. "So, Dullahan?"
"Dullahan are the mercenaries of the Fae world. Over the millennia, they evolved this ability to remove their heads. They use it to throw fear into their victims."
"As a victim, I can vouch it works." Bo told him.
"They're usually unstoppable." Dyson told them.
"Well, I guess he didn't get the memo." Danielle said.
"Well, maybe he didn't read it." Kenzi joked. "You get it? No head." She said when she received blank stares.
"That was bad!"
Dyson straightened his back taking a deep breath. Doing so he caught a whiff of a strong scent. He frowned slightly, never having smelled it before. Or rather realizing that he was too focused on Bo's scent that he didn't smell Danielle's. It was strong, spicy and earthly at the same time.
"Bo, I need to talk to you." He said turning to Bo, ignoring Danielle's scent for the moment.
Dyson and Bo stopped a bit further away from the two girls. Danielle looked briefly at the couple before diving her hands in the headless man's pockets, searching them.
"What the hell are you doing?" Kenzi hissed at her.
"If he's a mercenary like Dyson just said, then someone must have hired him." She said still searching. "Bingo!" She exclaimed victoriously pulling her hands out of his pockets. "And he was paid for it with some pretty beautiful gems."
"Sweet."
Kenzi took it from her hands and shoved it in her bra. They both moved away from the car when they saw Dyson coming to the car. As they both walked past him, Dyson caught again the strong scent of Danielle.
"Look, what we found in Mr. No Head's pockets." Kenzi showed to Bo the gems in her hands.
"First of all, I found this." Danielle rectified pointing a finger at her chest as Bo was looking at the diamonds. "And I think that our guy Will must have hired Sleepy Hollow."
"Looks like our friend Will got some 'splaining to do." Kenzi continued.
"Yeah, well, let's make sure he does that before more bodies start pillin' up." Bo said.
Kenzi was holding the extinguisher following Bo into their clubhouse with Danielle on their heels. "Will." Kenzi hollered.
"Oh, hey, hi. I was just wondering where you guys were." He turned towards them as he stopped stomping his fairy fires.
"Yeah, move." Kenzi said not caring about what Will has to say. She sprayed the fire extinguisher.
"Ah, now that's handy. You just, like, pull the trigger and, 'Pphhtt!' it's out." Will said while admiring the red item in Kenzi's hands. "I really have to get one of those."
"No!" Bo snapped grabbing the lapel of his worn out jacket and threw him on the couch. "What you really have to start doing is telling us the truth. You sent a headless nightmare after Connell."
"What? You mean like a Dullahan?" Will frowned up.
"No, like the headless knight in Sleepy Hollow." Danielle snarked at him. "What do you think?"
"oh, no way. I hate those things. They're creepy." Will retorted.
"Beautiful! Now we have the pot calling the kettle creepy." Kenzi exclaimed sarcastically.
"Yeah, but you got away, right? I mean, you're here. So what happened? You catch this Connell?" Will asked sitting up.
"I barely helped him escaped in one piece." Bo replied to him.
"Uhm? Maybe we had a miscommunication." Will squinted his eyes at the trio. "You know, I spend a lot of time on my own, talk to myself a fair bit. Maybe I didn't make myself clear but I did say to catch him, didn't I?"
"Connell is your son." Bo told him.
"My what?"
"Your son."
Green fire flashed behind the couch Will was sitting on. "That's enough. I me, a, I couldn't be. Me—me—me a daddy?" He stammered covering his eyes.
"About thirty years ago, there was a woman lost in the woods. You gave her food and wine…" Bo started to tell.
"And then you know, Bow Chicka Wow Wow." Kenzi finished making a crude gesture with her hands.
"A woman…ah, um, Ella? No. Ellie! Yeah." Will seemed to remember. "That's right. She was beautiful even for a human. We, uh…" He said again remembering something he seemed to have forgotten about this woman. "Oh, shit!" He said covering his eyes. He then looked up smiling broadly. "I'm a daddy! What does he do? Does he look like me? Oh, he's gotta be tall, right? This is terrific." He said chuckling. But then his face turned sour. "What am I talking about? This is horrible. He's human! He can't know about me."
"Uh…that cat's way out of the bag." Kenzi told him. "That's the whole reason he took your jewels. He just wanted to meet you."
"Ah, I—I want to meet him too." Will said. "I could bring him something. What do you think? Teddy bear? Fire truck?"
"I think he might be a little too old for this." Danielle commented.
"Just come with us to see him. That's all he wants." Bo pulled the two girls to the side. "I have a stop to make and then I'll work it out with Connell. Just wait here till I call you."
"No problem." Danielle hummed as Bo turned around to leave the apartment.
Kenzi glowered at the Fae as he started up another fire. "Hey, it's not everyday you became a father, right?"
"I guess not." Danielle replied walking away from the fireplace. "Okay, Kenz, you keep an eye on him. I got some reading to do."
"Seriously, we got a Fae problem and you're gonna do some reading?" Kenzi asked dryly.
"Well, our friend, Bo is a Succubus who happens to have a sexual appetite that kills people." Danielle explained patiently. "So, I'm trying to see if I can find anything that can help her to learn how to feed without killing people."
"Right."
Danielle spent the next thirty minutes or so flipping through her books. She only read the book that mentioned the Succubus and Incubus legends. She thought that maybe one of them books might tell her how the creatures did to control their hunger. And if it wasn't clearly said, it might have some hints dropped here and there but nothing.
"Found anything?" Kenzi asked mouth full with cheerios.
"Nope." Danielle exhaled deeply.
"You'll find something." Kenzi patted her hand gently. Her phone rang up. She jumped slightly and took it from her pocket. She glanced at Will all the while she was talking with Bo on the other side of the line. "Got it. Twenty minutes."
The two girls and the Fae stepped into the storage room. "Bo?" Kenzi called out.
"Kenzi! Dani! Get out of here! It's a trap!" They heard Bo yelled from somewhere in the storage room.
"Come on!" Danielle grabbed Will's arm about to lead him out of the place.
"Hold it! Hold it!" They heard Connell said from behind them. They stopped, a fire suddenly appeared in the barrel behind him. Kenzi, Danielle and Will turned around slowly and saw Connell aiming a gun at them. "I know your tricks old man. You're not going anywhere."
"I thought this was supposed to be reunion." Will said to the young man.
"What? You think you can just walk back into my life like nothing's happened." He retorted. "The whole world's going to know you're real. They're gonna know what you did to my mother."
"You can't do that."
"He's got the gun. He can pretty well do what he wants." Kenzi hissed at Will.
"Your mother didn't understand. One of us can't be with one of you forever."
"You didn't even give us a chance." Connell snapped at him. "All I wanted to do was see you. I just wanted to get to know you."
"What I did. I did it for her own good." Will said stepping towards his son. "Before you know it. She wanna know her own kind. And she'd want to tell them who she was with." Kenzi and Danielle slowly moved to the side. "She'd tell them about me. I couldn't risk that."
Connell seemed to have relaxed a bit as he lowered his gun slightly. "Didn't you even think about her?"
"I did. But times moves differently for my kind."
"Things are going to move pretty fast from here on." Connell said rising his gun again.
"You're stubborn." Will snorted. "You got a lot of your old man's traits."
"You have got to be joking." Danielle exclaimed as she saw another Dullahan marched onto them.
"You did this!" Kenzi accused Will.
"I didn't know you were my son." Will said for his defense.
Kenzi pulled him off to the side. "Kenzi!" Bo banged on the door. "In here!"
"Call it off!" Kenzi ordered him.
"Connell, don't stay here." Danielle ordered the young man pulling him away as the Dullahan took off his head.
"I can't. Once they take a job, they always follow through." Will retorted.
The Dullahan swung his sword around, headless, he advanced on Connell and Danielle. Connell raised his gun and shoot. "It's not gonna do much." Danielle grumbled. Her foot hit something on the ground. It was a simple bagpipe. She bent down quickly and grabbed it.
She blocked the first hit. The Dullahan swung again and she blocked it once more rather surprised that a simple human being like her could keep up or even resist to a Fae. But then something happened that she didn't expect. The Dullahan stopped attacking her, his sword hung in the air, like he was hesitating before striking her again. And for one second she let her guard down, confused as to why a Dullahan will stop his attack. Nevertheless, the headless mercenary seemed to have recovered as he raised his sword again and was about to strike her again. Bo arrived just in time and pushed her out of the way and took over.
Bo landed a few good hits but the Dullahan seemed to be tireless. "Hey, Flattop!" Kenzi called out holding the Fae's head in over the fire. "We can both keep a calm head on our shoulders here, okay?" The Dullahan didn't stop his attack on Bo. "Bad analogy. I mean, nobody has to lose a head, okay?" The Dullahan struck Bo again, cutting her neck.
"Kenzi!" Danielle called out. She didn't need to say it. Kenzi understood what she has to do. She dropped the head in the fire and the Dullahan dropped on the ground as if he had never existed.
Danielle rushed to Bo's side just like Kenzi. She took a cloth from her bag and pressed it against Bo's neck. Kenzi passed one of Bo's arms over her shoulders while Danielle was holding the cloth to her neck.
"So what now?" Bo asked Will.
"I owe you a story." Will said stepping over the Dullahan's body.
"Better make it fast, Willy." Kenzi told him.
"The woman I saw running with the baby that night. She was a Fae midwife. She was scared."
"But why wasn't I with my real parents?" Bo questioned. "Were they dead?"
"I don't know." Will shrugged. "This midwife wasn't exactly what you called chatty. But what she did say was she was afraid. She said someone was trying to hurt you."
"Who?"
"That's all she said." Will ended. "Hey, you know more now than you did before, right? I don't know what the story was with your parents, Bo. But maybe they do wanna see you. Find them. Give 'em a chance." And with that Will disappeared in a flash of green fires.
"Good riddance." Danielle grumbled. "You need to feed if you want to heal." She told to Bo.
"I need Dyson." Bo replied breathlessly.
"I saw what happened." Kenzi started as Danielle sipped from her beer sitting at the counter. "That Headless guy stopped attacking you. Why?"
"You know what Banshee and Dullahan have in common?" Danielle asked and without waiting for a response she continued. She has finally figured out why teh Dullahan has stopped attacking her back there. "Death. In legends, they say that Dullahan and Banshee often ride together. Dullahan marking the ones that were about to die and Banshee announcing their death with a shriek."
"You really don't like them. Do you?"
"Who?"
"The Faes." Kenzi said. "I don't get it. You're one yourself. Why do you hate them so much?"
"I told you I have my reasons. And when I'm ready, you'll be the first to know them." Danielle promised. "Okay! I'm gonna call it a night." She leaned towards Kenzi, grabbed the back of her head and pulled the girl to her. "Good night, Kenz." She said resting a kiss on the girl's forehead.
"'Night D.D." Kenzi answered with a smile.
Let me know what you think about this new chapter.