Chapter 4
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"Wakey, wakey, Dani." Was the first thing she heard before even opening her eyes. Danielle groaned refusing to open her eyes, she turned away from the voice. "Come on, sleepy head, get up." Kenzi repeated louder than before pulling the covers away from Danielle.
"Kenzi, no!" Danielle moaned. "Let me sleep." She jumped away from Kenzi when she felt something cold in her right ear. "Seriously!" Danielle glared at her as the girl ate her popsicle. "Isn't this too early for a popsicle?"
"It's never too early for a popsicle." Kenzi answered wearing a solemn expression. "Come on, let's wake Bo up." Kenzi pulled Danielle out of her bed.
"Why are you doing this to me? Why?" Danielle whined.
"Don't you want to know all the juicy details about Bo's night of love?"
"If Dyson is involved, no, I don't want to." Danielle replied.
"Come on, it makes up for our lack of sexual life." Kenzi deadpanned.
"You got a point." Danielle agreed. "Fine but I need a cup of coffee first."
With a fresh cup of coffee, Danielle stepped into Bo's room. Kenzi was eating her popsicle watching Bo. "Creepy." Danielle commented.
"Oh, my God, call 911, goblins have stormed our kitchen and they're eating our sugarpops." Kenzi screamed after she jumped on top of Bo.
"Tell them the milk has gone bad." Bo retorted.
"Was someone kept up late by a doggy-style celebration of love? A little 'Ow-ow-ow-ooh, all night long? I want all the hairy details." Kenzi was straddling Bo.
"Okay, no." Bo retorted. "No details, hairy or otherwise. Dani, please, do something."
"Sorry, she woke me up at an unearthly hour so we could listen to your tales of love." Danielle replied sipping from her cup of coffee. "There's nothing I can do."
"Come on, did you tell him that you wanted him to be your boyfriend?" Kenzi asked her. "Did he say that he loved you?"
"He had another woman there." Bo grumbled.
"Tits."
"I knew it. I knew that fae was a total dick." Danielle exclaimed.
"According to Dyson, we are only going to have sex when I need to heal." Bo continued.
"There was something there. I saw it, man." Kenzi tried to convince Bo.
"Lesson of the day, never date a fae or even sleep with one." Danielle said.
"He totally led you on."
"It's not a big deal, okay? Just let me go back to sleep. I have the flu." Bo said pulling the covers over her head.
"Mmmh." Danielle hummed exchanging a glance with Kenzi. "I know what this is." She rested her cup on the floor. She pulled the cover off of Bo and pulled the Succubus up.
"Dani!" Bo hissed.
"Bo, you're fae." Danielle pointed out. "You hardly gonna get the flu, unless it's fae flu and I'm not sure that there's such thing as Fae flu."
Kenzi then spoke. "And that disgusting feeling churning in your guts, that's not the flu. That's rejection, honey." Bo stared at them as if she was hearing the word for the first time. "Oh my God!" Kenzi gaped at her. "You have never been rejected before, have you?"
"That's not possible." Danielle shook her head.
"I don't know. Maybe." Bo frowned at them.
"Okay, as a human, I am familiar with you wanting a guy and him not wanting you back." Kenzi started. "And heartbreak sucks, yes, but there are ways to deal and I will show you how."
"Kenzi's right. I'm not human but I've been through a few heartbreaks." Danielle agreed. "So, what it's gonna be? Are you going to stay in bed forever, Succubus?"
"Okay. Telling Dyson how I feel, that was your idea." Bo accused them.
"If I remember correctly, it was Kenzi's actually."
"And that is why I am gonna be there for you every step of the way." Kenzi promised. "Including ice cream for breakfast."
"Oh, joy." Bo groaned.
"I know." Danielle chuckled.
"Look, dealing with rejection, it can be fun. I promise you." Kenzi told her. "Pinkie swear."
"Come on." Danielle encouraged her. "First step of the process is to get out of bed." She patted Bo on the knee and followed Kenzi out of the room.
Danielle was dressed in her usual tweed jacket, a green shirt, a simple dark skinny jeans and flat shoes. Her ponytail was high on her head and just like her two friends she wore sunglasses on her face. Bo was standing on the hood of a beat up car while Kenzi was standing on the trunk. Danielle was standing on the ground watching them both.
"Ready…and…begin!" And Bo smashed the windshield with a crowbar. "Yes! Bust it! Bust that shit up! Bust it like it's Dyson's douchey ass face!"
"That's the spirit, Bo! Just do it!" Danielle cheered the Succubus enjoying this moment with her two best friends.
"Yes! Ow, that face is never kissing again." Kenzi added.
"What else?" Bo laughed.
"We wallow." Kenzi replied.
"And we listen to Kenzi's break up mix all afternoon." Danielle said as both girls jumped down off the car.
"Wait, there's a break up mix?"
"Oh, yes, there's that U2 song, With or Without You. Probably one of my favorites." Danielle replied. "And break up mix tapes might seem like nothing but they do help."
"Then what?" Bo asked as she smashed the headlights.
"Then it's girls on the town. We're gonna burn this city to the ground, baby." Kenzi retorted excitedly.
"No, no. I don't do that. I don't do that." Bo shook her head. "I'm not much of a party queen." She continued to break the car. "Drinking equals losing control equals someone gets dead."
"But what a way to go, dude!" Bo smashed the passenger seat window. "Okay, fine. We'll…we'll cut loose somewhere safe."
"Don't say it please!" Danielle groaned knowing what Kenzi meant.
"You know this is what I don't get, okay? I did nothing wrong, okay? And I'm the one whose day has gone to shit. For Dyson, it's like 'Bo? Bo, who?' He's totally unaffected."
"Let's go. Let's go. We're gonna party. We're gonna forget about it, all right?" Kenzi pulled Bo away from the car and Danielle followed them both catching up with them.
She knew what was the safest place for Bo to get drunk and not hurt anyone in the process and not hurt anyone and that would be the Dal. A pub where all the faes, dark or light goes to have a drink but Danielle didn't like the idea of going there. She never liked the crowd when they're all humans and she sure didn't like it when they're all Faes.
"Oh, no, miss Jennings, you're not wearing that tweed jacket." Kenzi declared as soon as she saw Danielle's outfit.
"I have nothing else to wear." Danielle retorted.
"Let me be the judge of that." Kenzi said pulling her back to her bedroom.
After a few minutes of rummaging through Danielle's wardrobe, she settled on a pair of leather pants, purple laced shirt. "I didn't even know I had those clothes in my wardrobe."
"I bought them for you. For your birthday." Kenzi said dryly.
"Forgot about that." Danielle smiled awkwardly.
"Sure, you did. Now put this on and we can go." Kenzi said giving her a pair of high boots.
Danielle felt uncomfortable in this outfit, she thought she was revealing too much skin. She would have loved to wear a jacket over her shirt.
"Okay, this is me in the bar and this is me going back to bed." Bo said as soon as she entered the bar, ready to run away from the place.
Kenzi grabbed her immediately. "Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We're not wasting two hours of dress up. I don't care if I have to slather you with fairy dust."
"You know; I don't think that's an actual thing." Bo retorted.
"Look, if I have to go through this, you have to, Bo." Danielle warned Bo. "So bear with me."
"Special occasion?" Trick chuckled seeing them all dress up.
"Yeah, it's girls night out." Bo answered.
"In a pub? This pub?"
"Everyone's safer if Bo's with her own kind, so start us a tab, trickster!"
"One drink!"
"All right."
"Maybe two!"
Danielle slammed her seventh shotglass on the counter. "Didn't know that something green could taste so wonderful."
"I second that. That is good. That is good. It makes my throat tingle." Bo laughed.
"I don't think I have a throat left. That is some good shit, Mr. T." Kenzi retorted while Trick was pouring another glass for them.
"Oh, you are the Kenziest Kenzi ever." Bo side hugged Kenzi and pecked her on the cheek. "And you, my beautiful fiery redhead."
"Thank you." Danielle snorted.
"And Dyson…mm? Dyson is a scratchy faced."
"Yes." Both Kenzi and Danielle nodded.
"Grouchy."
"Yes."
"Couch-tease." The three girls bust out laughing. "And I should bit it off when I had the chance."
"Ewww!" Danielle winced.
"Oh, unneeded visual, baby." Kenzi agreed. "But yes, let it all out. Let it out. What else?"
"What else? Um…Lauren." Bo started.
"Oh, my God. Don't get me started on that girl. I mean how could you be so cold and frigid?" Kenzi continued. "She's like a freacking speculum."
"She's here." Bo told her.
Danielle turned around and sure enough Lauren was standing behind her. "Hi, Doc!"
"Hi, Danielle. Hi, Kenzi." Lauren greeted them both. "You know as your doctor, I should recommend against excessive intoxication."
"Who's drunk?" Bo countered.
"Well, we don't know the effects of cocktails on your abilities." Lauren retorted.
"Well, I'm not a guy. So, I can promise you, booze doesn't affect my ability to perform." Bo flirted.
Lauren chuckled. "Well, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of a drunken succubus booty call, so…take it easy."
"No promises." Lauren walked away and stopped shortly by Kenzi before making her way out of the Dal.
"Okay, I don't know if it's from the buckthorn hallucinations but…that was some serious sparkage." Kenzi stated. "I think she likes you."
"No, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because Lauren is human. I sleep with her and she dies."
"Unless you learn how to feed from human without killing them." Danielle informed her.
Bo suddenly laughed. "This guy…this guy, on the other hand he has sexual chi to burn." Danielle glanced behind her and saw a tall and handsome man walking towards.
"Shh, incoming, incoming." Danielle giggled turning quickly to Bo.
"A woman as lovely as you shouldn't be drinking alone." The male Fae started.
"Well, I'm not." Bo answered. "There's two of you."
"I'm Samir." He finally introduced himself.
"Bo."
"I know. Everybody knows. The Succubus and the Banshee who won't choose a side" Samir shook Bo's hand. "Neither light, nor dark. Exciting!"
"Is it now?" Danielle said dryly glancing at Bo.
"That's my wife, Olivia." He pointed behind him. Sitting in a corner was a very good looking brunette.
"Awesome…bone structure. She's lovely." Bo complimented Olivia.
"I'm glad you think so. We were hoping you'd join us for a drink back at our place." He offered.
"Oh. Oh." Bo laughed. "And your…your wife…is she okay with that?"
"My wife is an erinys…"
"A fury. Interesting." Danielle commented. "Bo is probably her choice. I mean you wouldn't be here if she hasn't given you the green light."
"You know more than I thought you would." Samir nodded.
"I do my best."
"You are right, actually and I wholeheartedly agree."
"Yeah, yeah. I don't know." Bo giggled turning away from him.
"Girl, are you a succubus or a succu-bust?" Kenzi sighed and Bo laughed. "A rebound screw is, like, the greatest way to get over a guy. Dude, it's just science. Really?"
"I told you. I never cared that much about Dyson anyway."
"Good, cause he's here." Danielle said as Dyson and Hale walked past behind them. They both sat on the other side of the bar. Bo got up from her stool. Danielle stopped her by putting her hand on Bo's arm. "Bo, I know it's tempting but please don't get involved with them. It can only end badly."
"Come on, DeeDee, don't be a buzzkill." Kenzi protested. "Come on, Bo-Bo give 'em some Succubus love."
"This is going to backfire in our faces. Mark my word, Kenz." Danielle told her.
Kenzi and Danielle remained at the Dal, a little bit longer after Bo left. The few drinks Danielle absorbed made her forget about her uneasiness around the crowd of faes. Kenzi and her was having fun, they played pools and darts, drank some more before finally going home.
"I will never drink again." Danielle groaned as she crawled more than she walked to the kitchen. "I feel like my entire body is yelling at me for drinking like an idiot last night." Kenzi pushed a jumbo cup of coffee towards Danielle. "Promise me, you won't let me drink like that again."
"I don't make promises that I can't keep."
"Gold Star for Kenzi." Bo laughed. "Rebound sex was exactly what I needed."
"Why do you look like you're not at all sharing this monster hangover?" Kenzi asked the Succubus.
"What can I say? For me, Sexual healing is a literal thing." Bo gloated.
"I hate you."
"And there's no strings attached. It was the best idea you've ever had." Bo took a bit from her apple, sitting down next to Kenzi and Danielle.
"You're very welcome."
Danielle groaned as a knock on the door could be heard. "People have no manners these days." She said rising from her chair and making her way to the door. She opened it and came face to face with Olivia, the Fury. "You came for more."
"Where's your partner?" Olivia asked right away.
"Hi, Olivia." Bo greeted the Fury behind Danielle.
"No, Good Morning. Nothing." Danielle grumbled as Olivia made her way to Bo and kissed her on the cheek.
"I, uh, I hope you're not back for an encore because last night was kind of a onetime thing."
"No, you left me quite depleted. I could barely walk to the car." Olivia smiled back at Bo.
"Oh. So what's up?"
"I have a problem." Olivia started. "I hear you have special skills that might be for hire."
"They are. Let's talk rates." Kenzi the manager intervened.
"Whatever you have to say. You can say it in front of Kenzi." Bo told to the Fury that appeared annoyed at the Human girl. "So, what's the job?"
"I want you kill someone." Olivia replied.
"And that's gonna cost extra."
"When you mate for life, and your life is measured in centuries, you figure out ways to make it work." Olivia told them as she sipped from her cup of coffee.
"So you and Samir invite other faes into your bed whenever you get bored." Bo deduced.
"It keeps things exciting. But we've always had one rule…No snacking behind each other's back."
"Naturally." Kenzi commented dryly.
"What happened?"
"Samir and I own an event planning business. The girl's a human florist we used on one occasion." Olivia replied. "Her name's Jenny."
"So, Samir was…how do you say that again?—Ah yes, shucking her." Danielle said sarcastically.
"Shucking?" Bo asked looking at the redhead.
"Sex with a human. It's beneath us." Olivia spat. "I feel dirty by association."
"No offense taken." Kenzi countered.
"You know if it had been one slip but it's turned into a full blown affair." Olivia threw a stack of letters on the small table. "He has feelings for her. Found these in his desk." Kenzi snatched them from the coffee table. "They're from her. Apparently they've been writing these mush to each other for months."
"On paper?" Kenzi said going through the letters.
"It has to stop. I'd kill the girl myself, but…we light fae really are supposed to frown on harming humans or whatever."
"Why am I not surprised?" Danielle snorted.
"How generous of you Olivia." Kenzi commented.
"But you're unaffiliated. It would be so nice and uncomplicated for you to get rid of her." Bo chuckled at Olivia's words. "What are your rates for exterminating humans?"
"It wasn't a coincidence that I ended up in bed with you, was it?" Bo stated.
"I chose you because of the job. And my little taste of you has convinced me that you're strong enough to pull it off."
"Ah, well, problem, Liv, is that we're not assassins."
"One touch and she's 6 feet under." Olivia retorted. "And you're for hire. What's the issue?"
"Oh, you know, how killing someone is wrong." Kenzi pointed out.
"We're for hire maybe but we aren't killers." Danielle added.
"We're not gonna snuff out a life just 'cause it clashes with your drapes." Bo agreed.
"Fine. Screw the complications. I will take care of this myself." Olivia said furious of Bo's and Danielle's refusal.
"Told you this was going to backfire." Danielle reminded Kenzi as Olivia slammed the door of the clubhouse behind her.
"We should probably find this Jenny." Kenzi told them.
"And save her from a jealous fury. Yeah." Bo agreed. "So where do we find her?"
"Oh, return address." Kenzi showed them the piece of paper she stole from Olivia.
"Exactly, why did you take this?" Bo chuckled.
"Habit. Just habit." Kenzi said sinking in the couch. Danielle patted her on the head.
"How do we do this?" Danielle asked Bo as they both arrived at Jenny's house.
"We sneak through the back door and hope that Olivia hasn't get to her first." Bo replied.
"That's a great plan." Danielle retorted sarcastically.
"You got a better idea."
"Yes, next time when I say 'don't do something.' Don't do it."
"Well, if I hadn't done that we wouldn't have known for Jenny. And she could already be dead by now."
"Okay, fine. Just move." Danielle grumbled while Bo chuckled softly.
"You stuck your hand in the wrong cookie jar, little girl." The two fae heard as they made their way further into the house. "The price for being with my husband will be insanity and death." Bo and Danielle arrived in the kitchen and took place on each side of the door. "I hope it was worth it."
Jenny stepped in the kitchen. "Bad Fae." Bo said as soon as Olivia appeared in the doorway. Bo punched the Fury. Olivia fell on the floor.
"Get out of here." Danielle yelled to the girl. But before Jenny stepped out of the kitchen, Olivia grabbed Jenny's ankle. The blonde human fell on the floor, breaking a stone planter on her way down.
Olivia grabbed a knife and went for Bo. She swung the knife several times at the Succubus before throwing her on the counter. Danielle kicked Olivia in the stomach. The Fury hit the wall behind her. Danielle swung her arm at Olivia as the same time Olivia swung her knife at Danielle. The blade caught her in the arm, the ginger winced staggering backwards. Olivia used this opportunity to grab Danielle's throat.
"Stupid girl. Someone should have told you to never cross a fury." Olivia said as her eyes turned red.
"Those tricks don't work on me." Danielle gritted out. "I've been hearing voices in my head since I'm a little girl."
"It doesn't matter. I'm going to sear your mind beyond repair. Let's turn up the heat." Olivia countered.
"Olivia!" Bo called out, Olivia turned to look at her. In her hands, the Succubus was holding a toaster in her hands, on which Olivia could see her own reflection. She inflicted to herself what she wanted to inflict to Danielle.
Olivia backed away yelping in pain. "You're okay?" Bo asked Danielle.
"Yeah, let's get outta here."
Bo pulled up the blonde girl. "Let's go."
"My bag." Jenny stopped before grabbing her duffel bag.
"She got you good." Kenzi commented while she bandaged Danielle's left arm.
"It's not that bad." Danielle commented. "In a day or two, it'll be completely healed. It's a chance that I wasn't wearing my tweed jacket."
"You should really give up the tweed."
"And I told you I have my reasons not to." Danielle pulled her sleeve down her arm. "Thanks."
"Anytime."
"How's the head?" Bo asked Jenny sitting down next to her. Danielle got up and went to the kitchen to retrieve a cup of hot coffee.
"Achy. I don't really remember what happened." Jenny retorted as Kenzi dropped her new found toy on the floor.
"Can you just put that down, please?" Bo asked the young woman exasperated. "And where did you get that anyway?"
"Pawn shop. And it's awesome." Kenzi beamed at Bo.
"Who are you again?" Jenny asked Bo.
"I'm Bo. I'm a…"
"Private investigator." Kenzi completed the sentence for her.
"Right. You've got mixen up with some very dangerous people." Bo told Jenny.
"Like the mob?"
"The mob would have probably been a better choice." Danielle remarked.
"Jenny, Olivia put a hit on you."
"That's why Samir's been so distant. He was protecting me." Jenny retorted quietly.
"Maybe he was leading you on. Getting a nice piece of tail on the side while mouthing empty promises about leaving his wife. Then he gets bored and just bails without even a goodbye." Kenzi swung her sword in the air spittoon out her rant. "Or whatever."
"I'm sure he cared about you, Jenny." Bo reassured Jenny giving a pointed look to Kenzi. "I can go talk to him and tell him to handle Olivia before somebody gets killed. Now get some rest, okay?" Danielle put her jacket on as Bo walked up to the door.
"Bo. Bo!" Kenzi grabbed Bo's arm to stop her. "You have to tell her what she's dealing with. It's not fair."
"No! I start talking about that stuff with a human, the fae get mad at me, and things start sucking." Bo disagreed with this suggestion. "This is our life now, Kenzi. We have to protect it."
"Don't worry. We'll be back in no time." Danielle kissed Kenzi on the temple before following Bo through the door.
"Is that Disneyland?" Danielle snorted at Bo looking at the fancy house where the Fury and her husband live.
"I guess it pays off to live for centuries." Bo retorted.
They both walked up to the front door and Bo rang the bell. "Samir is dead." Danielle declared looking at Bo. Her eyes a deep purple. And then they heard someone screamed inside and glass crashing as it hit the floor. Both Banshee and Succubus entered the house without waiting for an invitation.
They stepped into the corridor, Danielle's eyes went back to their natural dark green eyes. In front of them appeared a bloodied Olivia. "Succubus whore." The Fury yelled before running out of the house. On her way out she pushed Bo on Danielle. Danielle's arm hit the staircase next to them. The wound on her arm was still fresh, so when she hit the stairs, it reopened and blood was now running down her arm. Some of it dripping on the floor.
"Damn it." Danielle winced putting some pressure on her arm.
"You're okay?"
"Yeah, I'm good." Danielle replied. "We should probably call someone. You know anonymous tip or something."
"And what am I supposed to say?" Bo asked her as they continued to walk further into the house. "It'll only raise too much question and I don't want to get into more trouble with the Fae."
"Too late for that." Danielle grumbled. "It doesn't have to be call, just a text."
"I thought you didn't like him?" Bo questioned her.
"Still don't but he has his utility sometime."
They walked into the living room. It seemed that Samir was sitting in the armchair but Danielle knew that he was already dead. Bo and Danielle walked around the armchair and what they saw, horrified them. Samir was bloodied sitting in his chair and his head was missing.
Bo pulled out her phone. "That's pretty gruesome and messy for a Fury." Danielle commented.
"Kenzi, arm up. People are really starting to lose their heads." Bo said on the phone.
"If I may." Danielle raised her hand. "It's too soon to make a joke about a missing head."
"Ha!" Kenzi screamed jumping in front of Bo and Danielle as soon as they stepped into the clubhouse.
"Seriously!" Danielle shrieked.
"Easy, killer. It's just us." Bo patted the brunette's shoulder.
Jenny didn't seem to have leave the couch, still wrapped up in the orange blanket she rose and started to fire questions at Bo. "What happened? What's wrong? What did Samir say?"
"Not very much." Bo replied. "Uh…nothing actually. I'm sorry, Jenny. When I got there, Samir was dead." Jenny gasped upon hearing the news. "Olivia, she's kind of insane. She got there first. I—I was too late."
Jenny started to sob hysterically, repeating "No." over and over again. "I deal with only one kind of hysterical. And it's DeeDee's kind of hysterical. This kind, I don't deal well with it."
"I'm not hysterical when I cried." Danielle said offended.
"I'm sorry but you haven't seen yourself when you cried." Kenzi retorted. "Bo, what are you doing?" Kenzi asked the brunette fae looking over Danielle's shoulder.
Bo has her hand on Jenny's back, glowing of a warm light. "I'm taking the edge off, I think." She answered to her friend. "I know it hurts, Jenny. You'll get through this. Just give it time. Maybe you should go lie down for bit, okay?"
"Okay." Jenny whispered back at Bo. Bo got up from the couch with Jenny and led her to her room.
Danielle changed out of a long sleeved shirt and put on her tank top before starting to clean up her wound again and put on a fresh bandage on it. On her collarbone, there was the beginning of a scar. A scar she inherited from that night when she lost her father. It started from her collarbone and disappeared just above her right armpit. Kenzi never questioned her about this and Danielle never talked about it. She didn't like talking about that night.
"What were you and Bo doing at Olivia's house?" Dyson questioned as soon as Danielle opened the door for him. He stepped in without for Danielle to invite him in.
"Please come in." Danielle shot back sarcastically closing the door behind him. "And we were investigating, if you must know." She followed him.
Bo was now standing in front of him, so Danielle walked past them, and Dyson noticed then the bandage she had around her arm. "What happened, Bo?"
So, Bo told him everything. From the moment she brought Olivia and Samir in, how Olivia wanted to hire them to kill Jenny. To the moment where Olivia fought them both, when they brought back Jenny with them and finally to when they went to visit Samir.
"Did have Olivia have the weapon?" Dyson asked at the end of Bo's tale.
"We forgot to ask her." Danielle retorted immediately.
"Well, did she have the head?" Dyson asked this time.
"I don't know. Was it not there?" Bo replied this time.
"No."
"Well, we don't have it." Bo exhaled deeply. "Is there anything else?"
"Yeah. Why did you bring them back here in the first place?" Dyson questioned her.
"I was hungry." Bo answered. "My last meal left me just a little unsatisfied and you know what? They were yummy." Bo said looking at Kenzi and Danielle, clearly she was attacking Dyson. Trying to hurt his ego.
"You might want to think about curbing that appetite of yours." Dyson countered.
"Hey, hairy palms, what is to you? Are you jealous much?" Kenzi licked the spoon she was holding before digging it into the small cake in front of her.
"Look, if you want to find Olivia, you probably should go to her sisters." Danielle suggested.
"How do you know if she has sisters?" Bo frowned at Danielle.
"Furies always have sisters." Dyson replied for the redhead. "In the meantime, keep the door locked and your eyes open."
"They come in three and they're supposed to punish those who break the rules." Danielle said before any of them could ask her questions. "I really hope these yummy sexual meals of yours was worth the trouble, Bo. 'Cause furies are very protective of their own."
Danielle brought a cup of coffee into her bedroom, there she got her bestiary out and started to draw some pictures of Olivia under an entry she already has in her bestiary: Fury. She noted more information about their eyes and the way Fury could get furious if you crossed them.
"Thanks." Danielle thanked Bo after the Succubus poured some coffee for her.
"How's your arm?" Bo remarked looking at her arm.
"Yeah, much better. It barely looks like a scratch now." Danielle nodded.
"Where's Kenzi?"
"Sleeping in the armchair with her new weapon." Danielle snorted. "I think I saw her drool a bit."
Bo chuckled at that and left to see the sleeping human. "Someone's breaking in." Danielle heard Bo screamed and seconds later a sword clattering as it fell to the floor. Danielle giggled in her coffee, not hearing the rest of the conversation between Bo and Kenzi.
"Morning, Sweet Bug." Danielle greeted her best friend as the latter joined her in the kitchen.
"Smells good in here." Kenzi replied going directly to the stove.
"Yeah, I felt like baking." Danielle answered refining her drawings.
"Muffins!" Kenzi exclaimed excitedly.
"Just leave some for Bo and I, please." Danielle ordered Kenzi. "I'm serious." She added seeing that the girl didn't answer and just started to read her magazine.
"I heard you, okay?" Kenzi retorted.
"Just making sure."
"What's up?" Kenzi asked Bo as the Succubus joined fully dressed.
"Danielle and I've been summoned." Bo replied looking over at the Banshee.
"By who?" Danielle asked.
"The Ash wants some explanation." Bo answered.
"Just great." Danielle closed her bestiary and shoved it in her bag.
"You are not leaving me alone with Weepy McWeepster." Kenzi protested.
"Oh, yeah about that. I need you to do something for me." Bo started as Danielle threw on her tweed jacket.
"I'm not giving her a sponge bath; I swear to God." Kenzi warned Bo.
"No!" Bo laughed. "I put a little too much oomph into my zing, and she's crushing on me big time. I need for you to talk her out of it…gently. The poor girl's been through enough."
"Fantastic." Kenzi whispered dryly.
"Hey, look on the bright side. Dyson found Olivia, and everything will be just fine." Bo told her.
"You can eat her muffins, if you want to." Danielle winked at Kenzi before following Bo.
"Don't touch me!" Olivia screamed as the door slid open.
"How is she?" Bo asked as both she and Danielle steeped in the lab. Olivia was strapped to the table she was lying on.
Olivia was pale, red rings around her eyes, she seemed possessed, being incoherent. "Well, I'm easing her pain, but her brain is in a death spiral."
"Let's this be the perfect example of why you shouldn't bring strangers into your bed." Danielle said turning to Bo.
"Can't you just say 'I told you so' like any other person would do?" Bo fired back.
"Do I look like any other person to you?" Danielle countered.
"The prodigal Succubus and the College girl." The Ash greeted them as he appeared at the end of Olivia's bed. His hands were clasped behind his back. Dyson was at his side his arms crossed over his chest.
"The straight face Ash and his little obedient Lapdog." Danielle greeted back as both the Ash and Dyson glared at her for her insults.
"What's your part in this?" He decided to ignore Danielle's jab. The Ash wanted to know urgently what caused this mess.
"She asked us to kill a human and we refused." Bo answered. "We fought and her attack…kind of backfired."
"And then someone killed Samir." The Ash's tone held some accusation toward the two unaffiliated fae.
"We haven't killed him, is that what you think?" Danielle shot back. "He was already dead when we got there. Then we found Olivia, she was already like that and she ran as soon as she saw us."
"Her insanity does explain the messy kill." The Ash concluded.
"I didn't kill my husband." Olivia suddenly told them, drawing everyone's eyes on her. "I ate his brain with a tarragon sauce but he did not die. That worthless cheating sack of shit, taunts me from the other world!"
"Attacking a human out of jealousy, murdering your mate. You're supposed to punish those who break our rules. Not break them yourself." He turned to Bo and Danielle. "And you…siding with a human over a fae. You could not take a more foolish position."
"The day is still early." Bo countered.
Danielle felt a coldness go through her veins, the urge to scream overtaking her. The monitor started to beep erratically, Olivia breathed heavily. To stop herself from screaming, Danielle dug her nails in the palm of her hand, drawing blood. Olivia appeared to have a seizure, Lauren injected a serum in her veins but to no avail. Olivia drew her last breath and the urge to scream receded.
"I'll break the news to Olivia's sisters." The Ash broke the silence that has followed Olivia's death. "We'll be keeping you under close scrutiny." The Ash added for Bo and Danielle. "And you, Dyson…let's hope your performance improves." He stared at the Shapeshifter before walking away.
"Aren't you supposed to scream when someone's about to die?" Bo asked Danielle walked back to her car.
"I did." Danielle answered staring down at her bloodied hand. Bo followed her example and looked down at the blood on her hand without saying a word.
"Kenzi." Bo called out as soon as they passed the door.
"Jenny." Danielle called then. They received no answers. Bo flopped down on the couch as her phone rang. "Kenzi." Danielle called again.
She walked to the stairs and there she noticed something strange. There was flowers on the stairs that led up to their rooms. "Kenzi?" She started to feel unsettled by the fact that her best friend wasn't answering to her calls. The path led directly to Bo's room. "Kenzi?" Danielle whispered this time pushing the door open. She stepped inside and froze in her steps. There, on Bo's head, was Samir's head in a plastic bag. "BO!" Danielle called screaming.
She heard Bo rushing up the stairs as she picked up the note that was tucked under the head. "We found the head." Bo said stopping next to her, she was on the phone with Dyson.
"Read this." Danielle handed the note to Bo.
"Beloved, I've taken the steps to remove the obstacles between us. Join me at the farm. We'll start our new life together." Bo read out as Danielle was already heading out of her bedroom. Bo followed her still talking with Dyson.
Danielle felt like she couldn't think or breath. She was scared for Kenzi's life. What if something bad happened to the human girl? What if she was hurt? Or worse. Dead? She was going to make Jenny suffer if the blonde touched only one hair on Kenzi's head.
The head rolled in the room where Kenzi was being held hostage by Jenny. "I knew you'd come." Jenny said when Bo appeared in the doorway.
"How could I resist such a romantic gesture?" Bo retorted as Danielle stepped behind her.
"You're not mad?" Jenny asked Bo.
Danielle looked over at Kenzi, trying to see if the girl was hurt. It seemed that she was safe for now. "No. At you, Jenny? No. You're my destiny."
"Then why did you bring her?" Jenny pointed her gun at Danielle who was still standing behind Bo.
"I'm here for Kenzi." Danielle said. "I'm here because I love her."
"Is it true?" Jenny asked Bo.
"She's saying the truth." Bo nodded. "Jenny, I love you."
"Nobody ever loves me as much as I love them." Jenny retorted then she picked up Samir's head from the floor. Danielle stepped in the room slowly and gingerly as Jenny walked to the wooden cabinet in the room, cradling Samir's head in one arm. "Everyone who ever said they loved me…They all left." Danielle was now standing next to Kenzi. She saw that the girl was trying to cut off her bounds. "But I always keep a piece of them close." It appears that Samir wasn't her first victim; Jenny has stored in this cabinet the skull of all her victims. "Samir was no diffenrent…a coward in the end, too scared to love me back."
"You killed him?" Bo asked but the Succubus already knew the answer. Danielle was crouched down behind Kenzi's chair and had started to work on the ropes.
"I went to his home to tell him that I totally accepted that it was over. He was so relieved. Then I drugged him and cut off his head. How's that for over?" Jenny continued to tell her story.
"You let me find the body, Jenny. You pretended to be upset."
"I'm sorry I lied, Bo. But that was before I understood that thing that we had between us." Jenny apologized. "But everything's different now. Now I'll never be separated from the one I love."
"What did you do, Jenny?" Danielle was still focused on trying to get Kenzi out of her binds. At Bo's tone and question, she raised her eyes up.
"You can learn a lot from the internet, like how to turn ordinary fertilizer and paint into explosives. When I push this button, we'll be together forever."
Danielle stared at the several bags of fertilizer and bottles of paint on the corner of the room. "That just gets better."
"Okay, Okay, but if we're gonna go out with a bang, I want it to be in your arms." Bo suggested.
"Oh, I'd like that." Jenny nodded. Bo took a step forward. "Okay. Slowly." Bo did as she was told and walked slowly to Jenny when suddenly the door opened behind them.
Danielle stopped what she was doing and turned around to see the new additions to their little party. "How convenient. They're together." The woman wearing the purple blazer said. "One stop shopping."
"Liar! You're just like everyone else!" Jenny screamed at Bo.
"Okay. I didn't bring them. Just…just calm down."
"Who are you?" Jenny asked them.
"Our sister is dead because of you." The one in pink answered.
"And you took part in it. So you'll both pay." The two Furies were ready to fight but Bo stopped them immediately.
"All right. Don't! Don't! She got a bomb."
"This isn't supposed to go like this."
"Everybody just calm down." Bo tried to calm everyone. "We're gonna talk about this."
"We're beyond talking about this, Bo."
"Not helping, Dani."
"No. No more talking. No more lies. No more lies ever again."
Both Furies attacked at the same time. The one dressed in purple attacked Bo immediately. Danielle was about to leave Kenzi to help Bo. "No! Just get Kenzi out of here." So, the Banshee remained by her friend's side and was tempting to get her out of the ropes.
"Couldn't you bring a bigger knife?" Danielle groaned.
"I'll think about it next time." Kenzi shot back.
Danielle sew through the ropes as fast as she could while Bo was fighting the fury. There was shriek right at the same time Danielle was able to break Kenzi free.
"Come on." Bo grabbed Kenzi's arm as she reached her two friends.
"Detonator." Kenzi started to protest.
"No! There's no time."
The three women ran out not looking back. Bo in the lead and Danielle on the rear. A black car pulled up nearby and Dyson stepped out of it. "Stay back!" Bo yelled at him.
"What's going on?" He asked them. Behind the farm exploded. The ground shook under their feet. They duck behind Dyson's car door, Kenzi stuck between Bo and Danielle.
The debris rained down on them and once it stopped, they all got back up. "What the hell just happened?" Dyson questioned picking a charred black skull from the ground.
"I guess some people don't deal well with rejection." Bo replied.
"This was definitely a crazy day." Danielle commented pulling Kenzi to her side. "I need a drink."
"I'm not sure how to feel about all this." Danielle started after she sipped from her beer.
"What do you mean?" Bo asked her.
"I mean that since we've met you. We fought a Dullahan, we've met a Kappa and we almost got kill by a psychopath and two Furies."
"So, you liked it better when I was out of your life?" Bo questioned her.
"Truth is that it feels kind of nice to have another Fae around me. And I'm not complaining about it, I actually liked it."
"Well, I did not. I thought I'd be extra crispy for sure." Kenzi chimed in.
"As if we could get read of you that easily." Bo retorted.
"Hey! I'm not like Jenny, am I?" Kenzi questioned them suddenly.
"You make me want to be a better fae." Bo answered her sincerely.
"Okay, that was cheesy." Danielle snorted.
"Go seduce a yak." Kenzi chuckled.
"If anything you're the most obnoxious human being I know." Danielle told her. "And I love you."
"Mass destruction and two dead furies." They heard Dyson said as he approached them. "That's quite the Friday. Trick, a pint, please."
"The Ash…he's pissed, uh?" Bo asked him.
"Well, I told him you got there after I did, and we both arrived too late to do anything. So, you're both off the hook." Dyson explained looking at Bo and Danielle.
"So you're covered for us?"
"Well, this Jenny thing is a high profile serial killer case. It scores me some point in the cop world for breaking it."
"Well, glad we could help." Danielle told him taking another swing from her glass.
"Cheers." He raised his glass looking at the Banshee.
"You're welcome, Shapeshifter." Danielle replied. "I still don't like you but I have to admit that you've been helpful so far."
"Are you warming up to me, then?"
"Not enough gold in the world." Danielle shot back and Dyson snorted as he backed away from the trio.
"Yep. Still a douche." Kenzi said as Dyson left.
"Well, at least he's not a thief." Trick said. "I seem to be missing a 300-hundred-year bottle of buckthorn mead."
"Bad habits die hard, uh?" Danielle looked at Kenzi with a disapproving look.
"Ha. You Fae and your funny words. Look at the time, I should be going…" The rapidity with which Trick grabbed onto Kenzi's wrist surprised both girls.
"Why don't you stay and let me tell you the story of how that bottle came into my possession and why it meant so much to me? Hmm?
"Why don't you stay and let me tell you the story of how that bottle came into my possession and why it meant so much to me? Hmm?" Trick started and Kenzi sit back down on her stool.
Danielle's mobile phone rang in her pocket. She took it out as Trick started to talk. On the screen she saw Josh's name popped up. "I'll be back." She informed Kenzi before stepping out of the Dal. "Hey, Josh! What's up?"
"Dani, I need to talk you." Josh answered back with urgency in his tone.
"What's wrong?" Danielle asked feeling some fear creeping up in her guts.
"It's not something I can tell you on the phone, I need to see you."
"Okay, uh…where are you?" Danielle asked him sensing that something was terribly wrong.
"I'm back at the campus. Let's just meet at our usual spot." He retorted.
"Okay, I'll be…" Josh hung up before she could even finish her sentence.