Chapter 8

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"It's official. I either need to find a hobby or I'm a neat freak." Dani flopped down on Bo's bed. She laid her legs over Kenzi's back while Bo was picking up an outfit. "We're not going out tonight, are we?"

"Bo-Bo has a doctor appointment tonight." Kenzi replied. "With Lauren."

"Really?" Dani grinned.

"Yeah, she's taking me out on the town. She wants to see if I've learned full control in the real world yet." Bo explained.

"What's with the fashion panic?" Kenzi asked.

"I just…" She sighed. "I wanna look nice."

"For the test or for Lauren?" Kenzi questioned. "Cause I'm sensing some date jitters, and I know you like the ladies, so…"

"What if it's a date?" Dani added. "I'd say definitely go for it."

"It is definitely, definitely not a date." Kenzi moved to lie next to Dani as Bo walked up to the bed. Dani leaned on her elbow. "I just fricking hate tests. I'm better with multiple orgasm than multiple choice." Kenzi laughed mockingly. "But you're right. I just need to chill. I mean, there'll be no disaster on the menu tonight. Just drinks, maybe dinner."

"It might be good for you, actually." Dani said. "If you can feed on humans, you won't need Dyson anymore."

"Still don't like him, uh?" Bo snorted.

"That's not true." Dani pouted. "I tolerate him."

The following morning, Danielle and Kenzi went with Bo to the Lab. Lauren wanted her there for more tests. Danielle was more curious about their data base. Data base that she didn't have access to but she could talk with the scientists there and especially Lauren. However, Lauren took this opportunity to know more about Danielle. The latter was a banshee and partly a hellhound. Lauren has already been in contact with Banshees but not one like Danielle and a hybrid one was completely exceptional. Sure, she had already performed tests on Danielle, and there was so much more to know about her.

"How much longer is this gonna take?" Kenzi asked walking around with two syringes.

"Why? You got somewhere better to be?" Bo asked as she was looking at herself in the mirror.

"I'm starving. Plus, this place gives me the creeps." Kenzi said. "It's so Lauren."

"Why don't you like Lauren?" Danielle asked jumping down from the table she was sitting on.

"Why don't you like Dyson?" Kenzi fired back.

"Touché."

"Come on, give her a chance." Bo said. "She's a lot more interesting than you think."

"Yeah, only cause you wanna see her naked bits." Kenzi replied unplugging a monitor.

"Hey, you break it, you bought it." Bo said plugging back the monitor.

"I wouldn't be surprised. Doctors are bigger con artists than I am."

"Can you just dial it down, Kenzi?" Bo asked her. "She's really helping me."

"Look, I'm really happy these 'treatments' are working for you but nothing in this world is free." Kenzi retorted.

"So?"

"Ever asked yourself what she's getting out of this little arrangement?"

"Sorry, I'm late." Lauren apologized walking in.

"Busy morning?" Bo asked her.

"And it just got busier. Can we reschedule?" She asked them. "I have to get to an outside appointment."

"An emergency?" Dani asked her.

"It's just an official business." Lauren answered shortly.

"As in none of our business." Bo retorted. "And here I thought we made progress last night."

"You could tag along." Lauren yielded.

"What is it? Take a fae to work day?" Kenzi said sarcastically.

"She's hungry so she's grumpy." Danielle said apologetically to Lauren while Kenzi glared at her.

"You wanna more about my work with other fae. You'd get to meet one from one of the oldest fae orders." Lauren suggested.

"Sure, we'd love to."

"Uh, we're off to visit a sick patient at home." Lauren informed them.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Sick?" Kenzi started to protest. "Nobody mentioned sick."

"Come on, grumpy cat." Danielle pulled the human behind her. "Let's do this and after I'll get you tacos. With extra melty cheese."

A man opened the door for them. On their way there, Lauren didn't peep a word. She didn't say who they were visiting, what kind of Fae they were or even why they called her in. She kept it a secret until they arrived to the patient's place.

"Where's Halima?" Lauren showed him her pendant. "The Ash sent me." The man pointed to a door and Lauren walked in, followed by Bo, Danielle and a reluctant Kenzi.

"Are you coming?" Bo asked the latter.

"Uh, I'll take a pass." Kenzi retorted. "Fae cooties. I'm not big on sick peeps."

"Fine, just wait here. Just try not to break anything." Lauren asked her.

"Just try not to break anything." Kenzi repeated mockingly. Bo slapped her shoulder. "Ow!"

"Give her a break, will ya?" Danielle whispered to her before following the two other women in Halima's room. "Oh, and don't touch anything." She added before disappearing from Kenzi's sight.

When they entered the room, there were two women standing by the bed, tending to an older woman. Woman that Danielle assumed to be Halima.

"Oh, thank you for coming." Halima greeted them. "I so hate to cause a fuss."

"Don't be silly. You know we take care of our own." Lauren said softly. "The Ash sends his best." She put on her statoscope. "Actually, you're my first Aswang patient."

"Aswang rarely need to see doctors." Dani frowned up. "I didn't even think they ever would."

"Sorry. Aswang?" Bo asked.

"Oh, my assitants." Lauren said. "One of them is quite new to all of this. Aswang are one of the older fae orders." Lauren leaned over Halima. "They may not know it, but humans enjoy a very symbiotic relationship with them."

"How so?" Bo asked.

"Oh, we eat human corpses." Halima replied.

"Uh, say again?"

"Relax, it's not what you think." Dani told Bo.

Halima coughed. "She is new." Lauren scoffed. "Oh, we would never take a human life. We just use their dead bodies for our nourishment."

"In the Philipines folklore, Aswang are very similar to Vampires. They are known to feed on corpses, fetuses and small children." Danielle started to explain. "In reality, they only feed on corpses. They keep contagions out of the human population by eating the diseased ones."

"Nerd." Bo commented which earned her an eye roll from Danielle.

"It's bad, isn't it?" Halima asked Lauren.

And Danielle thought it was. There was dried blood on her face coming out of her eyes. Aswang are known to eat all kind of diseases, and this one, looked like a real tough one.

"I'm not liking what I'm seeing." Lauren replied. "Could it be due to someone you ate?"

"I really don't see how this could be food related." Halima shook her head. "I've eaten everything cancer, black death, ebola."

"With no past side effects?"

"Just the occasional case of heartburn." Halima sniffled. "Oh, but I know my body, and something is definitely wrong. I'm dying, aren't I?"

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves." Lauren said comfortingly.

"I'm sure that Lauren can help you." Bo tried to reassure Halima.

"Look, first, I need to isolate the cause." Lauren continued softly. "And I'll have to check your food. What have you eaten in the last 24 hours?"

"I made a soup last night." Halima answered.

"Human soup?" Halima nodded yes in response to Danielle's question.

"I'll get a sample and analyze it. Luckily, I'll find out what's making you sick."

All of three of them stepped into the kitchen, but stopped short seeing Kenzi sitting at the table with a bowl of soup in front of her.

"Kenzi." Danielle shook her head.

"What? What'd I do?" Kenzi asked looking at Danielle and Bo.

"Did you eat the soup?" Bo asked her.

"Yeah. It was delicious." Kenzi replied.

"Glad, you liked the human soup." Danielle crossed her arms over her chest.

"Human?" Kenzi got up. Lauren was now standing by Bo's side with a foot in a box. "Is that a foot?"

"What does it look like to you?" Danielle asked her.

"I ate foot soup. I ATE FOOT SOUP!" Kenzi yelled before running away to wash her mouth.

Kenzi gagged. "So, not only does this ass-wang have a very unfortunate name but it also eats dead people?" She asked after Bo and Danielle explained the situation to her. "And nobody thought to mention this to me? Like, 'hey, Kenzi, watch out for random body parts' or, you know, 'by the way, Foot Soup!'"

"I did tell you not to touch anything." Danielle reminded her. "But did you listen?"

"Please, just try to keep it down." Lauren pleaded Kenzi and Danielle.

"I'm gonna need a second opinion, because that is the worst possible advice ever!" Kenzi snapped back.

"Kenzi, would you just relax? It's gonna be fine." Bo tried to calm the petite human down. "It is, right?" Bo turned to Lauren.

"We don't even know if the soup made Halima sick." Lauren started to explain. "It could be completely unrelated. I mean, even if it was the soup, it doesn't mean Kenzi will be affected. Human physiology is completely different from fae."

"Anybody have any mints?" Kenzi asked still brushing her teeth.

"So, wat do we do?" Bo asked.

"Well, I'll go check out the soup. I should know more if a few hours." Lauren said. "Halima gets her food from Pelway Funeral Homes. Just find out what you can about the foot." She glanced at Kenzi before leaving.

Bo and Danielle looked at each other before both turning their gazes on Kenzi. "Are you okay?" Bo asked her.

"I'm fantastic, yeah." Kenzi replied spraying perfume into her mouth. "Worst-case scenario…I just ate toxic soup. Best case scenario…I am a…a toe sucking cannibal!"

"Kenz, stop spraying that in your mouth." Danielle told her. "And it's gonna be fine. We'll figure this out, right?" She looked at Bo.

"I'm always putting my foot into my mouth, but at least it's always my foot." Kenzi stormed away, leaving a worried Bo and Danielle to follow in her steps.

"Poor Halima, that's terrible." Marian, the funeral director, said as they followed her through the funeral home. "She's been a customer of ours for years."

"How exactly does that work?" Bo asked her.

"Well, on the surface, we operate as a typical funeral home and offer excellent service for our human clients." Marian explained.

"And on the side, you do hot business by feeding grandma to the fae?" Kenzi asked dryly.

"Uh, she's not feeling very well. Please continue." Bo said apologetically.

"We have very tight regulations." Marian continued as Kenzi mouthed "I'm fine," to Bo. "For our food appropriation stream. Only suitable candidates are selected."

"Suitable?" Danielle asked.

"Well, there's an extensive checklist, no immediate family and factors such as cause of death, age, ethnicity all helps to assign the bodies to the appropriate outlet."

"That's so recycle-y of you." Kenzi chimed in. "I mean, why let something go to waste if someone else needs it, right?"

"Precisely."

"We need to know about your last shipment to Halima." Bo said drawing Marian's attention back to her. As for Danielle, she was a silent argument with Kenzi. Asking her to tone down the rudeness.

"Let's see." Marian went through her files. "Yes, right here. James Sibley, 43. He was a victim of a hit and run. I didn't like the look of him. I had him marked 'aswang' only just in case."

"Why 'ass-wang' only?" Kenzi asked her.

"Well, we provide for many carrion-feeding fae. But very few have the constitution of an aswang. They can eat anything." Marian replied.

"So, you gave Halima the whole shipment." Danielle nodded. "Can we have his address?"

"Right there." Marian sowed her the address of Sibley.

Danielle walked behind Bo and Kenzi as they walked up to Sibley's house. She kept her eyes on Kenzi making sure she was alright. She was worried about Kenzi, Lauren was right humans and Fae were completely different but that doesn't mean she wouldn't be affected by what's affecting Halima. It could actually be worse for her.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Bo asked Kenzi. "Because you look a little bit flushed. Do you want me to carry that bag?"

"Relax, mom." Kenzi countered. "I'm fine. Besides, I'll need it in a second."

"What for?"

"Decent neighborhood, decent building…you do the math." Kenzi answered.

"Um, I thought we agreed…no stealing on jobs."

"Technically, you can't steal from a dead guy. Seriously, it's a real thing. Ask museums."

Sibley's place has been visited before they arrived. Turned upside down. There were chairs turned over, papers scattered on the floor, drawers emptied on the floor.

"Somebody was definitely looking for something." Kenzi commented. "What a mess."

A man suddenly sprang up to Bo and grabbed her from behind. "I take it you're not the maid." Bo said as the man pointed a gun at her head.

"Shut up, whore." He said back.

"Oh, mouth! There are ladies present."

Kenzi and Danielle both grabbed the first thing they could get their hands on and threatened the man with it. He aimed his gun at them. "What, are you kidding little girls?"

Bo elbowed his stomach, the gun went off. Danielle and Kenzi ducked down. Bo slapped him and then kicked him in the chest. He went over the small counter and ran away as fast as he could.

Danielle did not see all of that. She was holding Kenzi. The latter was suffering the same symptoms as Halima. Without waiting any longer Bo and Dani took Kenzi to Lauren.

"What happened?" Lauren asked as she saw the two fae carrying a now sick Kenzi.

"She collapsed." Bo answered.

"Over here." Lauren said moving to the nearest bed.

"Everybody just calm down." Kenzi said. "It's just a little eye blood, okay? Who hasn't had a little eye blood before, uh?"

"Can you help her?" Bo asked Lauren.

"I think I just…sneezed too hard." Kenzi continued. "I just need to go home. Can we just go? Leave?"

"No, no." Bo protested as both she and Dani pushed her back as she was trying to get up.

"I did develop a rudimentary treatment…" Lauren answered to Bo's previous question.

"See? I told you, I'd be fine. Okay?"

"Give it to her." Dani ordered Lauren.

The Doctor asked her assistants to take care of Kenzi. "Come here." She said to the fae. She walked away from Kenzi, Bo and Danielle on her heels. "A treatment isn't a cure. If she's bleeding internally, like Halima, I can give her a platelet transfusion, try to slow it down."

"But it won't last long." Bo concluded. Danielle glanced at Kenzi worringly. "What exactly are we dealing with here?"

"It's a hemorrhagic fever from some sort of thread virus I've never seen before." Lauren answered.

"Where the hell did it come from?"

"Definitely the foot." Lauren replied. "I found a chemical substance in the tissue I can't identify."

"The funeral director said that food guy died from a simple hit and run, not some damn plague." Bo told Lauren.

"She also said that she didn't like the look of him and that's why he ended up at Halima's." Danielle added.

"Well, I can tell you that he was definitely a very sick man before he died." Lauren continued. "You should know that Halima's getting worse. Her family's bringing her in."

"How do we fix this?" Bo asked as Danielle looked over at Kenzi.

"If we can find the original source of infection, theoretically, I can use a sample to create an antitoxin."

"I'll dig into Sibley's life and see what I can find out." Bo said.

"I'll stay with Kenzi." Danielle said.

Bo promised Kenzi to be back, squeezed Danielle's shoulder lightly before leaving.

Danielle cleaned Kenzi's face. She helped Kenzi out of her clothes and in the scrubs that Lauren gave her. She sat down by Kenzi's side and took her hand in hers. The little human was sleeping, resting while Danielle was praying to whoever might be listening to keep her friend alive. She was afraid for her friend, afraid to lose someone she loves. Again. She was afraid of screaming.

"Dani." Kenzi croaked when she opened her eyes.

"I'm right here." Dani said softly. She took a glass of water and brought it up to her lips. "Drink this."

"Thanks." Kenzi said lying back down. "Is Bo back yet?"

"Not yet but she'll be soon." Dani promised. "Everything is gonna be okay. Just stay with me, okay?"

"Not going anywhere."

"We got a break in the case." Bo told both of her friends when she was back.

"What I can do?" Kenzi asked Bo.

"You can rest." Bo retorted. "I can handle this one solo."

"Are you sure?" Danielle asked this time. "Just tell me what you need."

"I need you with Kenzi." Bo rested her hand on Dani's forearm. "And you." She directed her next words to Kenzi. "Just hang in there till I get back. Deal?"

"Deal." Kenzi nodded. Bo squeezed Dani's arm and walked up to Lauren. "You're staying with us?"

"You bet" Dyson replied taking Bo's place by Kenzi's bed. "I'm not going anywhere."

"Promise?" She held out her pinkie.

Dyson hooked his pinkie with hers. "Promise."

"Good." Kenzi said. "I'm not scared or anything. DeeDee might be." Dyson looked over at Danielle and for the first time, he saw that the Banshee seemed terrified. "I'm just bored, and you amuse me."

Danielle pulled the sheets over Kenzi whose eyes were starting to drop from fatigue. "He'll amuse you later, babe. You need to rest, alright?"

"Alright, mom."

"You're okay?" Dyson asked Danielle.

"Yeah." Danielle said weakly. "I'm just…worried for Kenzi."

"She'll be alright." Danielle didn't say anything, she just nodded at Dyson's comforting words.

Danielle wanted to believe him. She needed to believe him. After all, Bo has a lead on the case. Apparently, the burglar in Sibley's apartment was hired by someone from Baron Chemicals. Which proved to our friends that Baron Chemicals was trying to cover their tracks that proved their involvement in Sibley's death. Bo had a plan get in, find the source and make a cure with Lauren's help. But would they get it in time? Was it really Baron Chemicals? Danielle hoped they were right, that they would get a cure. She refused to scream for her friend.

Danielle never left Kenzi's side, Dyson left to join Lauren and Bo. But Danielle remained. Bo came and stood watch over Kenzi. None of them talked, just glanced at each other. Both worrying over their friend. None wanting to lose her.

"We're in luck." Lauren joined them. "Baron Chemical's been cited for processing errors in its labs," Danielle followed Bo and Lauren as they walked away from Kenzi's bed. "and it's struggling to calm stockholder jitters."

"Well how is that lucky?" Bo asked her.

"Because they're bringing in outside quality control inspectors." Lauren answered. "I could pose as this one." Lauren showed them the picture of a blonde inspector. "She's flying into town tonight. You think you can detain her?"

Bo passed the paper to Dyson and Danielle looked up at him. "We've got someone placed at customs. He owes me a favor. He could possibly hold her for 24 hours or so. Let me check." Dyson said. "Call me when Kenzi wakes up."

"I will." Danielle promised and he left.

"What do I do?" Bo asked Lauren.

"Well, uh, Baron's chief of operations is a legendary letch, so…" Bo gave her a knowing smile. "He's had a revolving door of assistants over the past year. I'm sure you can convince him to take you on, so to speak."

"Keep an eye on Kenzi." Bo instructed Danielle.

"Don't need to ask me that." Danielle retorted. "Just be careful out there." Danielle asked in return. "Both of you."

Kenzi woke up gasping. "Dyson?" She called out confused.

"Hey, Kenzi." Danielle brushed her hair out of her face. "It's okay. It's okay." She reassured soothingly.

But her soothing was immediately crashed by Halima being wheeled in urgently. "She's unresponsive." A medical assistant said. Danielle looked on horrified as they tried to save her. But she knew. The icy cold feeling rushing over her, the scream bubbling in her throat. She knew what was coming. It was too late. Danielle did as she always does. She dug her nails in the palm of her hands and kept the scream at bay.

"She's dead." Kenzi said. "They didn't save her. She's dead."

"You're not going to die." Danielle assured her, the best she could. "Bo will find a cure. You're going to be fine."

"You promise?" Kenzi held her hand tightly.

"I promise." Dani promised. "Get some rest, now."

Dani didn't believe her own words, though. She expected Kenzi to believe her but she didn't believe it. She hoped for the best. She knew Bo would stop at nothing to save Kenzi, she knew that Lauren and Dyson were both working to it. So, Kenzi might have a chance. However, she's seen what happened to Halima, she's felt it. So, after seeing death, knowing it's there lurking in the dark, how could she believe that Kenzi had a chance. She had to believe, she didn't have a choice but to. The last thing she wanted was to scream.

Danielle left Kenzi's side for a few minutes. She needed to breathe, to think, to pull herself back together. She needed to be strong for Kenzi, she had to be. Because Kenzi was right, she was scared. Terrified. She couldn't help. She has seen her father died and Josh. She had screamed for both of them. She had felt the scream tore through her throat, rumbling through her body, her body had felt like icicles, then. She hated this feeling.

She was wrong in leaving. A few minutes was enough for Kenzi to run away. Danielle, who didn't have much hold on herself, had a very hard time to keep that hold.

"Where is she?" She asked to Lauren's medical assistant. But none of them answered. "Tell me!" She yelled flashing her eyes at them.

"She left." A male medical assistant came in with no pants on.

"To where?" She asked turning her eyes on him.

"What's going on?" Dyson asked coming in.

"He lost Kenzi." Dani answered accusing the medical assistant.

"I didn't lose her." He said moving to get another pair of pants. "She threatened me with an infected needle."

"You let her leave? Where did she go?" Dyson asked him.

"No idea." He answered. "Can't be far, though. She's deteriorating too fast." Dani glared at him for the use of words.

"How long does she have?"

"She's human, so, it's hard to know for sure. But I'd say less than 12 hours."

"Is she contagious?"

"Not unless you plan on eating her, which would serve her right."

"We have to keep this quiet, no one can know…not Lauren, not Bo, no one."

"It's my fault." Danielle started to say. "I should have stayed here. I shouldn't have…"

"Dani, calm down. We're going to find her, alright?" Dyson told her softly. Danielle nodded. The Shapeshifter took a long breath through his nose, to catch Kenzi's scent. Then he pulled the Banshee behind him as he followed it.

Dani was silent as she followed him. Her arms were crossed tightly across her chest, she was completely closed off. Dyson, even though he was focused on Kenzi, could smell fear oozing out of her. He nearly had a hard time to locate Kenzi but he did in the end. He was as determined to find Kenzi as the fae that followed him was.

Kenzi was sitting on the bench in the middle of the cemetery. Dani and Dyson sat on each side of her.

"Big ups for finding me." Kenzi coughed.

"It's a rather morbid choice of resting place." Dyson replied.

Graveyards, morgues, funeral homes were disliked by Danielle, they reminded her too much of her powers. But she was relieved to have found Kenzi.

"I came here a lot when I was a kid." Kenzi told them. "Sometimes you just need a place to think, you know?"

"Why did you leave?" Danielle asked Kenzi.

"I couldn't stand it anymore." Kenzi told her. Her next words were addressed to Dyson. "You promised you wouldn't leave."

"I'm sorry about that." Dyson apologized. "Bo needed help. Came back as soon as I could."

"I'm not going back to that place, period." She told them both. "It's way too 'cuckoo's nest.' I'd rather die in a ditch."

"Kenzi, don't say that." Danielle said with a slight tremor in her voice.

"Kenzi, you're not gonna die." Dyson assured her. "But we'll take you somewhere else…somewhere safe."

"Okay." She cleared her throat. "But can we stay here a bit longer? It's nice. Unless, you have somewhere to be."

"No, I'm good." Dyson replied. He pulled Kenzi to him in a hug. Danielle was doing her best to hold in her tears that were about to burst out of her eyes. She suddenly felt the warm comfort of Dyson's hand on her shoulder. She gripped it in hers and glanced up at him, gratefully.

Danielle and Dyson took Kenzi to the Dal where Trick was waiting for them. "Thanks for closing early." Dyson thanked his oldest friend.

"Yeah, the fewer who know about this, the better." Trick replied. Dani was walking closely behind Dyson who was carrying Kenzi. "You know…" Trick started as Dyson put down Kenzi. Dani grabbed a blanket nearby and laid it on top of Kenzi. "…they're gonna be expecting her back at the lab. The Ash could come after you for insubordination."

"Yeah, I don't always take my orders from the Ash." Dyson retorted which caused a frown to appear on Dani's face.

"True, but he's not supposed to know that." Trick answered as Dani looked between them. She chose to ignore it, pretend she didn't hear them.

"Is there anything you can do for her?" Dani asked Trick after clearing her throat.

Trick hesitated a few seconds before answering Dani "I can buy her some time…but the rest is up to Bo and Lauren." He put a cool cloth on Kenzi's burning forehead.

"Did I just wake up in Narnia?" Kenzi croaked out. The three fae surrounding her scoffed. "Or is that the fever talking?"

"Shh. Rest." Trick said softly.

Danielle was sitting at the bar, looking at her hands. Kenzi was in good hands and everyone believed that she could make it, that Bo and Lauren will come back in time. Danielle, on the other hand, was not that confident. Death was an old friend of hers and she knew when that friend was coming. She could feel her cold fingers creeping up Kenzi's arms, slowly taking place in her best friend's body.

Dyson sat down next to her. "Hey."

"Hey." Dani replied without looking up at him.

"What are you doing here alone?" He asked her.

"I needed to get away for a second." Dani sighed.

"Bo's gonna be back any minute." Dyson told her. "Kenzi's gonna be alright. Everything's gonna be fine, Danielle."

"I hate seeing her like this. I hate all of this." Dani looked up at him and let out a deep breath. "My aunt, Gail, said that I should be a Banshee from now on. To use my powers without being afraid. She asked me to scream." Dani scoffed. "Easy for her to say. She's a Hellhound. They don't scream, they find bodies. I, on the other hand, am an Harbinger of death. I scream when people die, I can feel it coming, I know when it's there." She paused. "The worst is that there will come a day in a Banshee's life where she will scream for someone they love or they care about. And that kind of scream is painful…I've done it twice before. I don't want to do it again."

Dyson pulled her into a hug. "And you won't." He rested a small kiss on top of her head. "Kenzi's gonna be fine." Dani slid her arms around his back and took a deep breath. It was a welcomed comfort.

"Where is she?" Bo asked as she stepped in the Dal.

Dani pulled away from Dyson. "You got it?"

"Yeah, we do." Bo answered.

"We have to do it now." Lauren added.

Lauren hooked Kenzi to an IV, the antitoxin was ready and already going through her veins. Danielle and Bo were sitting on each side of the little human. Waiting.

"She's still burning up. How long is this supposed to take?" Bo asked after a few minutes.

"It should be working by now." Lauren replied.

Like she felt death coming, she could feel it leaving. She retrieved her cold fingers, her coldness was replaced by the warmth of life. "Don't worry. She's okay." Dani assured Bo. "She's alright."

They had to wait a bit longer for Kenzi to finally open her eyes. "Bo? Dani?"

"Hey, hey. We're right here. We're right here." Bo said softly. "Hey." She stood up and Lauren replaced her.

"I'm hungry." They chuckled at Kenzi's words.

"Any special requests?" Trick asked her.

"Yeah, no more feet." Kenzi replied.

"I'll see what I can do." Dani promised.

"Healing will be slow so she's gonna need to take it easy for a while." Lauren advised.

"Yeah, good luck of convincing her of that." Bo chuckled.

Trick reopened his pub, it was now busy but Kenzi was alright. The sun was already high in the sky, Kenzi was already stuffing her face with fries and a hamburger. Everything was back to normal. Dani couldn't be happier about this.

"Hey." Dani stood next to Dyson as they both looked at Kenzi eating.

"Told you she'd be fine." Dyson reminded her.

"You did." Dani nodded. She took a deep breath. "Thank you." She said. "Thank you for helping with Kenzi. Thank you for being there."

"No problem." Dyson retorted. "Are you warming up to me, yet?"

"I might." Dani answered smiling up at him. "I might."

She was.