Chapter 9
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Dani was standing by the sink washing the dishes. Dishes that Kenzi had left all over the clubhouse. Bo was sitting on the couch, hungry for pizza. Kenzi opened the door and let the delivery man in.
"So, Pizza Pete, how's the day job?" Kenzi asked him as they both walked to the kitchen.
"Soul sucking. Though I do have an audition tomorrow. Power tools commercial." Pete replied.
"You will nail it." Kenzi winked at him. "Do you see what I did there?" Danielle turned off the tap and turned around, leaning on the sink.
"Hi." Pete ignored Kenzi as Bo walked up to him.
"Hey." Bo said back. "Is this guy up in your grill?"
"Oh, not yet, but the night is still very young." Kenzi said back.
Bo rolled her eyes and took the pizza box. "Less blah and more 'za." She shoved the box in Kenzi's arms. She placed her hand on his neck and used her succubus mojo on him. "And, uh, next time, think 'double cheese' Phil." She led him back to the door.
"It's Pete."
"Whatever."
"And I love you."
"Mmm, mmmh, bye." And she pushed him through the door. Dani and a pouting Kenzi had already started to eat the pizza. "What?" Bo asked Kenzi.
"I was getting my flirt on."
"With the delivery dude?"
"He is an actor." Kenzi retorted.
"Oh, great."
"I've seen some of his commercials. He's not that bad." Dani shrugged.
"True, and I'm pretty sure his crust is double stuffed, if you know what I mean." Kenzi added.
"Yeah, I wish I didn't." Bo nodded.
"It's so easy for you." Kenzi complained.
"Why?"
"I wish I had man slaves who did whatever I want."
The two brunettes were fighting but Danielle didn't pay attention to it, she just ate her pizza.
"Well, some things are easy for you, like confusing the table with the sink." Bo said. "And the laundry hamper." She threw a pair of pants at Kenzi. "Dani is always picking up after you."
"Don't drag me into this." Dani said coming back to the conversation.
"I'm not the one who leaves weapons around." Kenzi said picking up an axe from the table. "Were you planning to chop some wood?"
"That is for protection…our protection."
"Well, consider this our laundry." Kenzi countered throwing the pants down on the floor.
"Hey, don't do this." Dani exclaimed. "I'm the one who's picking up your mess. Both of yours."
"You know what?" Bo asked. "This is our first fight…our first real fight."
"Mazel tov?" Kenzi said confused.
"It's like we're real life sisters." Bo hugged Kenzi.
Kenzi smiled. "For walking Viagra, you're such a nerd." Dani chuckled.
"Well, not to belabor the point but I did find rat droppings this morning." Bo said.
"Well, we do live in a shack, so that's not hard." Dani said. "And I cleaned everything there was to clean and I placed a few traps here and there. So, that's been taken care of."
"Why are you always cleaning after us? You're our friend, not our mother?" Bo asked.
"Well, I've learned a long time ago that I waste less time cleaning after than to tell you to do it yourself." Danielle said chewing her pizza. "Also, we've established I'm a neat freak. So, this explains that."
"You're not better, you know. Scary dish Nazi." Kenzi commented.
"Hey, I'm picky, not psychotic." Bo protested.
"Family is always psychotic." Kenzi mumbled.
Danielle loved her red hair, even though she inherited it from her treacherous mother. She loved it and she rarely put it up in a ponytail. So, this day it was a surprise for Bo to see Dani wearing a dark wig.
"You're meeting Lauren for drinks later." Kenzi said to Bo as she fixed her wig.
"Right."
"So, you don't have to come with us." Kenzi continued.
"Sure." Bo said.
"It's just business, a little side venture."
"Okay." Bo nodded.
"Have you seen my dream catcher?" Kenzi asked.
"With me." Dani answered holding it up.
"I am so coming for this, whatever this is." Bo snorted.
"Just be cool." Kenzi replied. "Okay?"
"Well, one of us has to be." Bo retorted smugly.
Like, she rarely does, Danielle left her tweed jacket behind for a gray shawl around her shoulders and followed Kenzi out of clubhouse.
Kenzi and Danielle, in the five years they had known each other, had done many things together. And one of them and also, the most recent one was house cleansing. Not the usual kind but the spiritual kind. They both posed as Romanian shamans. Kenzi as the main one and Dani as the assistant. It was one of those small jobs that earned them some money.
"Namaste." Kenzi and Dani greeted the realtor as they walked up into the house.
"You must be Cheryl Fields." Kenzi continued with a Romanian accent.
"My friend Bonnie raved about the smudging that you did at that former co op." The Realtor Cheryl said. "Thank you for doing this on such short notice."
"My time is fluid." Kenzi replied. "All time is, really."
"Mm. The heirs insist on a complete cleansing before I officially put it on the market." Cheryl said.
"Well, the place sure needs it." Bo commented. "What happened here anyway?"
"A messy incident about a week ago." Cheryl answered.
"Do not mind my new assistant. She is very intuitive but have the tact of a grizzly bear." Kenzi apologized.
Danielle lit the sage stick. "Of course, Shaman…Czigany." Cheryl agreed.
"Shaman Czigany, everything is ready." Dani said with an accent as perfect as Kenzi's. "Whenever you are." She said solemnly.
"Do not worry." Kenzi promised to Cheryl. "We will cleanse this place of all residual evil force."
"God bless you." Cheryl said thankful.
"Goddess bless us all." Kenzi said before putting her hand on top of Cheryl's head.
Then Kenzi and Danielle roamed around the houses with their respective sage sticks and started chanting incantations. Kenzi in a much more dramatic way than Danielle.
"Why does she always have to exaggerate?" Dani mumbled to herself as she heard Kenzi frenetic chants. She kept on chanting before she got caught into a cobweb. She spat out and wiped the cobweb away from her face. "Bo is right, this house does need a good cleansing."
She took a deep breath, turned around and went back to her chanting. She returned to the main room where Kenzi was still, with Bo and Cheryl. It was the grand finale, Kenzi gasped and fell down on her knees.
"To the west, our best. To the east, be released. To the south, to the north. All spirits, go forth!" She gasped once again and fell on her back, as if she fainted. Bo and Dani rushed to her side.
"Shaman Czigany." Dani called as Bo asked, "Are you okay?"
"Oh, I'm sorry." Kenzi apologized as Bo and Danielle helped her up. "Oh, it just takes so much out of me. Thank you, Sequoia."
"No, no. Thank you." Cheryl replied.
"The dwelling has been cleansed." Kenzi said. "There will be no more darkness here."
"Oh, I can list it with a guilt-free conscience." Cheryl replied relieved. "Good thing. The neighborhood prices are skyrocketing."
"So are my commissions." Kenzi retorted.
"Yes, of course." Cheryl said while opening her bag. "Uh, cash?"
"Yes, please." Kenzi answered.
Cheryl paid her. "Thank you."
Kenzi took the money and walked to get her bag. And the three of them left the house. Cheryl thanked them one last time before the girls left.
"Uh, oh, don't look now." Kenzi said as she saw Dyson and Hale stood by Bo's bright yellow car. "I smell bacon."
"Don't ruin bacon for me, please." Dani told her.
"You know, you don't have to keep following me around." Bo said to Dyson as she walked up to him.
"Come on, Bo, be fair. You can't possibly ask him to fight his nature. It is what dogs do, they follow people around." Dani smirked. "They can't help themselves."
"Ouch." Dyson chuckled.
"So, what are you doing in the neighborhood?" Dani asked him.
"Well, this is my crime scene." Dyson said designating the house behind them.
"Once they go wolf…" Hale trailed off.
"Oh, please." Bo chuckled.
"Hey, Nana. Nice Babushka." Hale greeted Kenzi. "You're running a new gypsy con?"
"I'm an innocent entrepreneur…"
"Ha!"
"Who will cut you in at 5%" Kenzi finished.
"As you were."
"Yeah!" Kenzi exclaimed as they high-fived.
"What happened here?" Bo asked the detective.
"If I tell you, will you agree to help me?" Dyson retorted.
"You asking me for help?" Bo asked surprised that Dyson ever would.
"Both of yours?"
"Not promising anything." Danielle replied.
"Dark hair looks good on you." Dyson said.
"I heard you had a preference for brunettes." Dani countered opening the car door.
"Meet me at the Dal?" Dyson suggested.
"Maybe." Bo answered.
Danielle had dropped the dark wig and the shawl, sitting next to Dyson, she took a sip of her beer as they looked at the file that Dyson brought with him. "68 years old and she kills her sister?" Bo asked. "Sounds like dark fae to me."
"Yeah, maybe. Hale thinks I'm nuts." Dyson replied. "Truth is, sometimes humans just kill each other, you know? Take away their flat screens and their minivans…they're still barbarians."
"This isn't the first time it happened, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't be investigating." Dani remarked.
"Well, there's been a series of murder-suicides, all within confined households, all within this 5-miles radius." Dyson answered spreading a map on the table.
"Freaky. So, what can we do?" Bo asked him.
"Keep your ear to the ground, maybe, uh, ask some of your dark Fae contacts." Dyson suggested.
"Ah. See? Told you being unaligned would have its privileges." Bo retorted.
"Look, whatever this thing is, it's gonna be big and it's gonna be powerful." Dyson suggested.
"What if it was small and powerful?" Dani shrugged.
"Do you know something?"
"No." Dani sighed. "Sometimes the most dangerous things are the smallest one. Plus, there was nothing in that place that suggested it was a Dark Fae work. Only dust and a large number of cobwebs."
"Hey, stranger." Lauren Lewis greeted as she arrived.
"Hey." Bo greeted back.
"Am I late or early?" Lauren asked her.
"No, uh, we, um, we had plans." Bo stammered.
"Oh, yeah, doctor-patient stuff?" Dyson asked.
"Just being social." Lauren replied.
"Alright, I think that's my cue." Dani said getting up. "So, see you later Bo. Lauren. I'll make some research, see what I can find." Dani promised to Dyson and she left.
"Pip, pip, my khaki loving kids." Danielle was reading a volume on German folklore on creature that can influence the human mind. Next to her was a pad on which she was taking notes. There were plenty of them. Too many, maybe.
"Aaaah!" Kenzi screamed suddenly, flipping over the basket of clean clothes.
"What the hell, Kenzi?" Dani exclaimed getting up.
"It's my turn to fold." Kenzi spat, breathing heavily and sitting back down.
"You and I don't have the same definition of folding." Danielle said as she picked up the clothes from the floor. "And from now on, I'm doing the folding."
"Well, let me know if you do hear anything, Siegfried." Bo said finishing a call while stepping in. "Yeah, no. I know, sometimes humans just kill each other."
"What was that about?" Kenzi asked her.
"Helping Dyson with a case." Bo answered taking a beer. "More Jungle Jeeves, really?"
"It's my happy place." Kenzi retorted.
"Picking up after Kenzi again?" Bo asked Dani.
"I think she's going through a little crisis." Danielle answered.
"What crisis?"
"So, did you pick a lovah or did Dr. Freeze and canine crotch fight to death?" Kenzi asked Bo.
"You know, I don't get it." Bo replied as she helped Dani picking up the clothes. "Dyson is the one that gave me the green light to see other people, and then Lauren shows up, and he gets all testy."
"Uh, because he has testes." Kenzi said back. "Dudes tend to get irrationally territorial. It's a ball thing."
"Or he doesn't just like her?" Dani suggested.
"Oh, I knew it meant nothing." Bo and Dani started to fold the clothes together. "God, I have to stop waiting for that guy to become emotionally available."
"Don't give up yet." Kenzi told her. "His eyes say 'no' but his inner wolf says 'aaooooo, yes.'"
"What about Lauren?" Dani asked her. "You know, now, that you somehow have some control over your mojo."
"Yeah, hell of a test run with someone that I care about." Bo retorted.
"Poor Bo." Kenzi mused. "So many choices, just one vage." Dani chuckled.
"It is just good to be home." Bo said laughing lightly. "Now, fold." Bo ordered her. "Dani is not your slave."
"Don't worry, I'll do it." Dani assured Kenzi and winked at her.
Later that night, while in her bed, Danielle felt something crawling up her arms. She woke up jumping out of her bed, she switched on the lights and looked for whatever bug that just crawled on her. She pulled the covers but she saw nothing. No cockroaches, no ants, no spiders. Nothing. "What the hell?" She mused out loud. However, she was afraid, very much afraid. There were in their apartment and didn't scare her. Neither did cockroaches or spiders, and yet she did jump out of her bed. As if her life was in danger. "What's wrong with me?" She took a deep breath and was about to walk out of her bedroom to the kitchen but…there standing in her doorway was a spider, a large, hairy spider.
She froze as the spider jumped on her. Out of instinct and fear, Danielle grabbed the first thing that fell under her hand, which was a book and swung it at the spider. The large spider was hit and flew to the other side of the room, smashed against the wall. However, the spider just got back on her feet and scurried out of her room. "What the fuck was that?" Dani swore.
"Something weird happened to me last night." Dani started as she moved around the kitchen making her breakfast. "A spider as large as my fist attacked me. I mean usually those things just run away when they sense danger. This one didn't, this one literally came at me. Can you believe this?"
"Could you just shut up for one second?" Bo snapped at her.
Danielle looked at her surprised and quite hurt by the harsh tone Bo used. "Okay. I'll shut up."
"I'm sorry, Dan. It's just that my head is throbbing." Bo apologized.
"So is mine." Kenzi mumbled. "But I'm not being rude to DeeDee."
"I said I was sorry." Bo reminded her.
"Let's not start another fight, alright." Dani said standing between them near the table. "Maybe you two had a little too much to drink last night?" She suggested.
"Maybe, I just feel so ugh." Bo replied scratching herself.
"How are you feeling, Kenzi?" Dani asked the girl but Kenzi kept looking behind her. "Kenzi?"
"What?"
"How are you feeling?" Dani repeated.
"Fine." Kenzi replied shortly.
"Yeah, right." Dani retorted not believing her. "I'm taking you two to Lauren."
"Not after what happened last night." Bo protested.
"It's not up for discussion." Danielle said sternly. "You two get ready and we're going to Lauren."
"So, what's wrong with them?" Danielle asked Lauren after she finished her exam.
"Well, they are both physically fine. Now, Kenzi is human, so she might be fighting off the flu." Lauren answered.
"Med school…worth every dime." Kenzi sarcastically commented before getting up.
"I may be fine physically but emotionally I'm level ten harpy." Bo said. One of the medical assistant slammed a file on the table angrily. "Is she…"
"Of the Boston harpies." Lauren finished for Bo.
"Tips for later, be careful of what you say in a Fae lab." Dani said to Bo.
"The headaches, the tiredness, the short-temper, you can chalk that up to the injections." Lauren said to Bo.
"Did you change the formula?" Dani asked her.
"Well, I'm always tinkering with it, trying to provide the most effective treatment." Lauren explained. "It's more of an art than science, and she has a unique sets of hormones."
"Kenz!" Dani called disappearing to stop Kenzi from touching everything in the lab.
"Can't you hear it?" Kenzi asked Danielle as she stopped next to the small brunette. "Those elves, I think they followed me here."
"No and why would they?" Danielle asked her. "And stop scratching yourself so bad."
"I don't know why they would." Kenzi replied holding onto Dani's arms. "But they followed me, I still can hear them."
"Well, the only other thing I can think of is that there's something in your environment that's making both of you sick." Lauren suggested as a worried Danielle was walking Kenzi back to the examination table. "Mold? Asbestos?"
"Maybe a butt-load of food-encrusted dishes lying around the house." Bo accused Kenzi.
"You ready to rumble?" Kenzi countered.
"No. You go ahead." Bo retorted putting on her jacket. "I've gotta go help Dyson with a case." And she left.
"Okay." So, did Kenzi.
"I've seen them fight before but it never was serious." Dani said to Lauren. "You said it could be in our environment, right?" Lauren nodded. "Why am I not affected by it?"
"Well, Hellhounds are known to have a strong immune system." Lauren said as she walked to her computer while Danielle followed her. "You might be immune to whatever this is."
"Thank my father for this." Danielle sighed. "Are you sure there's nothing wrong with them?"
"Absolutely." Lauren nodded.
"Thanks, Lauren. It's always a pleasure to see you." Danielle said before leaving the lab.
The way Bo snapped at her during breakfast or the way Kenzi and Bo were fighting, as if they were really holding a grudge against each other. She didn't like this, whatever this was. She didn't go with Bo to the precinct and she didn't go with Kenzi to the clubhouse. Instead she went to College, where she had to pick her graduation gown and cap. The graduation gown of Locksley college was a dark blue, with a black hood. The trim of the hood was yellow which indicates the degree Danielle was graduating in, inside the shell it was white which represented Danielle's specialization. And a cap, which color matched the gown.
It was a bittersweet moment for Danielle. Josh was supposed to be there with her. They were supposed to graduate together. It would never happen because of this Darcy and her mother. She stopped on the spot where Josh died, students have built up a memorial there. Photos of a smiling Josh were there, flowers and words of remembrance and regrets. Danielle crouched down and touched the ground. "I wish you were there with me. You deserve that graduation as much as I do." Danielle exhaled. "No matter what you did."
When she got back at the clubhouse, she was in for a big surprise. Multiple vans were parked in front of her place, there was a plastic tent dressed at the entrance. Several tapes could be seen with Bio-Hazard written on it.
"This is a forbidden zone, ma'am." A tall guy dressed in black with a rifle said to her.
"This is my home." She shot back. "What the hell is happening here?"
"Ma'am, I won't say it twice." The guy threatened.
"I won't ask twice." Danielle said in the same tone.
"Danielle?" She heard Dyson called her.
"Dyson, do you know what's going on, here?" She asked him immediately.
"I was going to ask you the same thing." He replied as a tall dark woman walked up to them.
"Detective Dyson." She greeted him. "Is this part of your…uh, what do humans say…beat? Haven't seen you since that night in Manilla?"
"Serena." Dyson said back.
"And who's your friend?" She said looking down at me.
"The Banshee that lives here." Danielle retorted.
"What are you doing here?" Dyson asked her.
"Walk with me." Serena replied. Dyson and Danielle walked with her. "You're looking at the Ash's new head of security.
"Happy for you, Serena." Danielle retorted. "Still doesn't explain what the hell is happening here?"
"This position has its perks and its downsides." Serena continued. "Like informing people that their friends have been isolated. This is officially a lockdown." Serena informed them both.
"Quarantine? Who made that call?" Dyson asked angrily. Serena didn't reply. "Lauren."
"What? Why would Lauren call a quarantine?" Danielle asked confused.
"Try to understand." Serena chose to answer Dyson. "This Djiein feeds on human and Fae alike. It must be exterminated…along with the infected."
"You are not seriously thinking about burning the place down with my friends in it, are you?" Danielle shrieked.
"I gotta go in there." Dyson said.
"Do you really think that's the best way to help your friends, your partner?" Serena asked back.
"Serena, you gotta give me something here." Dyson asked her. "For old time's sake?"
"I can give you two hours."
"And what the hell am I supposed to do from out here?"
"Two hours." She repeated.
Dyson walked away from Serena pulling Danielle with him. "Are you going to tell me why Lauren called a quarantine? And what the hell is a Djiein?" Danielle's phone rang in her pocket, she shoved her gown in Dyson's arms before picking up her phone.
"Dan!" Bo called her name as soon as she answered the phone.
"Are you okay?" Danielle said while putting the call on speakers.
"Well, not exactly. A spider bit me and I went kinda'nam but I healed myself." Bo replied.
"Healed how? You didn't use Kenzi, did you?" Dyson asked her.
"You're with Dyson?" Bo asked.
"Yeah. Now, focus, how did you heal yourself?" Danielle asked her.
"I fed off Hale." Bo said.
"Fed how exactly from Hale?" Dyson couldn't help but ask her which earned him a slap from an annoyed Danielle, in the stomach.
"Will you just focus? I did what I had to do. Hale is absolutely fine." Bo snapped at Dyson. "What the hell is going on? They won't let us leave."
"We're outside right now. We'll figure something out." Danielle promised Bo.
"What?" Bo exclaimed. "Oh, see that is why I'm glad you're with my favorite stalker."
"Just hang on." Dyson told Bo. "Keep them safe."
"I will."
"Bo?"
"Yeah."
"You gotta kill this thing." Dyson told her.
"Oh, with pleasure." And then she hung up.
"Now, tell me, what's a Djiein?" Danielle asked him.
The Djiein was a powerful underfae, a bite from that giant and hairy spider could send its victims into a psychopathic spiral. A spiral that would push its victims into killing each other. The Djiein was feeding off of the negative energy by using a magnetic field. Danielle knew that she was lucky to have been able to dodge this bullet but now it was up to her to save her two best friends.
"Bar's closed!" Trick said loudly while Dyson and Danielle were walking into the Dal.
"What the hell are you doing calling in the Ash's hit squad?" Dyson immediately yelled at Lauren.
Lauren just pushed a book towards him. "1872…a djiein infects a mining community, leading to the mass murder of 600 souls. Another single djiein is thought to be responsible for the bulk of the Sudanese genocide."
"You didn't give Bo a chance." Dyson ignored what she just said.
"Dyson, she did the right thing." Trick tried to reasoned with him.
"Bullshit!" Dyson snapped back.
"Enough!" Danielle yelled in her turn. "It doesn't matter what she did. All that matters, is that we stop that bug before it causes anymore damage."
"I bought us two more hours until they burn the place down." Dyson said more calmly. "So you tell me, how do we beat this thing?"
"We don't know." Trick answered.
"Well, let's find out." Danielle said taking the book Lauren pushed towards them.
"More bad news." Trick said. Danielle looked up at him.
"Wonderful." Dyson commented.
"Listen to this. 'The creature is so crafty, it buries its heart.'" Trick read out for them. "Until you find the heart and destroy it…"
"The spider itself is virtually invincible." Lauren finished for it.
"Lovely." Dyson and Danielle commented at the same time. "Look, before Bo got infected, she, uh, did some digging around for me. She put a list of leads together from her dark fae contacts on my case." He opened his file and took out the list. "Peter Byrd, Gordon Hurley, Thomas Mooney…"
"Wait." Trick stopped him. "Gordon Hurley?"
"Yeah? You know him?" Dyson asked him.
"He deals with, uh, exotic animals and underfae. Imports a lot of nasty stuff from the black market, for sport, food, whatever." Trick answered. "He hasn't been in the bar for about three months."
"Well, that's about when the murder suicides started." Dyson concluded. "Is he in the book?"
"He's in my book." Trick replied. "His office." Trick handed him a piece of paper.
"I'm going with you." Lauren said to Dyson. "I can identify the heart."
"This day just gets better and better." Dyson commented as he and Lauren walked out of the Dal. "And, Trick, see what else you can find."
"She's a sweet girl, okay?" Gordon was brought back by Lauren and Dyson. "She just gets moody."
"Yeah, moody like Jeffrey Dahmer." Lauren shot back.
"I'd better get going home for when she finishes." Gordon said.
"We're not letting her finish." Dyson grunted trying to hold him still.
"Gordon." Trick greeted him. "You're looking well."
"Trick, please don't let them hurt my baby." He pleaded Trick.
"His baby?" Danielle frowned up.
"He thinks the Djiein is his pet." Lauren replied to her.
"Yeah, she always comes back to me, okay." Gordon assured to Lauren. "Just when she's got her fill of death."
"Do you have anything to shut this guy up?" Dyson asked Trick.
"Yeah, I got something."
"We…we actually need him still talking, so he can tell us where the djiein buried its heart." Lauren said.
"Actually, if he's sleeping, it's better." Danielle said, now standing behind the bar, next to Trick.
"What do you mean?" Dyson asked her. Trick blew a white powder in Gordon's face.
"I've been taking some classes of Gaelic with Gail. And I think that Trick's translation might be off, the same word can be used for buried and implanted." Danielle explained.
"Implanted? Like, in something?" Lauren asked.
"Or someone?" Trick suggested.
"Am I missing something here?" Gordon said completely clueless.
Dyson ripped his shirt open. "Let me listen." Lauren said putting her ear to his chest. "We have two heartbeats."
"He who lies in the mud rises dirty." Trick mumbled.
"Hey, less Gaelic wisdom, more looking for makeshift surgical tools." Lauren asked him.
Trick dropped draining rack full of kitchen silverware in front of Lauren. They placed Gordon on the bar, Lauren put on the yellow gloves and started to feel around his stomach in order to locate the heart. Trick and Danielle looked at her intently while Dyson stepped away briefly to answer a call.
"Serena, we just need five minutes." Dyson said immediately. "No, look, we found the source. We can kill the spider." Dyson explained on the phone. "You won't kill it. It won't work, not unless you destroy its heart." Danielle glanced up at Dyson. Apparently, Serena didn't want to be convinced. As soon as he hung up, Dyson went back at Lauren's side. "We have to get this heart out, now." Dyson told Lauren.
"There might be some alchemist's potion that can poison the heart." Trick suggested.
"It's here." Lauren said suddenly.
She put on the second glove. She took a knife and plunged it in Gordon's stomach where the heart was located.
"Or you can do it that way." Trick commented.
Lauren then put her fingers inside the cut she just made and extracted the heart. It was small but beating strongly. "What an ingenious creature." Lauren commented, fascinated by the Djiein's capacity to implant its heart into somebody else's body.
"I know it's fascinating, but now it's time to kill that hairy spider." Danielle reminded Lauren.
"Kill her, Lauren." Dyson said with urgency. "Do it."
Lauren stabbed the heart and killed the Djiein. Their friends on the other side of the city came back to their senses. But they weren't saved, yet.
"Can somebody call off the terminators, now?" Danielle asked to no one in particular.
Lauren took out her phone and immediately called the hit squad. "It's Dr. Lewis. Call off the cleansing. In the Ash's name, it's done."
The three latest victims of the Djiein were taken to the Fae Lab. Lauren ran tests on them, just to make sure that they were alright.
"We should stop making a habit of it." Danielle said to Dyson while they stood by the door watching their friends being examined by the doctors and nurses.
"Habit of what?" Dyson asked her.
"You and I spending time together." Danielle answered. "I mean I'm warming up to you, but I still need small doses."
"I don't do small." Dyson retorted.
Danielle couldn't help but made an unladylike snort. "Ewww! That was unnecessary."
Dyson chuckled. "So, you're graduating?"
"Yeah, in three days." Danielle informed. "College is finally over. You're not invited to the ceremony." She held up her index in his face. "But you can come at the little celebration at the Dal after. Hale is invited too."
"Are you gonna be a brunette for the ceremony?" Dyson asked.
"No. The wig was only for the con." Danielle answered. "Why? Do I look better as a brunette?"
"No. You look better with your natural hair."
Danielle just looked up at him and was stunned in silent at the compliment. "Thanks."
They stared at each other for a few seconds before Dyson walked away from her. "Banshee."
"Shapeshifter." She said back.
She followed him with her eyes as he walked to talk with Lauren. When she finally took her eyes away from him, they fell on Bo who was smiling at Kenzi. And for a reason that she ignored, she felt greatly guilty and conflicted. As if she was betraying her friend. She would never betray Bo, she knew it. So, why was she feeling that way?