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Pairings: Bo/Lauren

Rating: T

Summary: Distinctly Bo/Lauren centric... a short one shot written for SoliderGirl94 per her request as she is sick and bored.

Surprise

By: The RainbowWriters

"Bo, hey Bo-Bo, you are needed upstairs." Kenzi stood on the top step of the very fragile looking stairs in the club house looking down to the main floor, using her loudest most piercing yell to try and locate her best friend. "Bo-ooo." She slightly sing-songed her best friend's name when her initial call didn't get any response. "Really your girl is hurling in the toilet and I need to pee."

Bo appeared from the lower floor at the bottom of the stairs with a frown on her face.

"Lauren's throwing up?" She began to go up the stairs asking the confirmation question of her best friend.

"Major hurl fest." Kenzi nodded. "Whatever you two ate last night, it's not agreeing with your lady love. Can you just move her to the bed and maybe a bucket? This bestie has to pee." She underlined the problem.

"Pretend you're in line at a club for the washroom, cross your legs." Bo pushed past her and moved into the bathroom. "Lauren... sweetie..." She had to grimace as the doctor was buckled over by another cramp of vomit. "Whoa okay, what can I do?" She leaned down and began to rub Lauren's back.

"Water?" The pale, clammy blonde managed to groan as she leaned her elbow on the toilet bowl rim and rested her head on her hand.

"Water." Bo moved over shuffling around in the bathroom truck before she came up with a plastic beer cup, having to check it didn't have the dried remains of a drink in it before she ran the water for a moment then filled the cup and moved back to give it to the blonde. "Any idea what is going on?" She asked the question racking her brain, after all they'd eaten at the Dal the night before and her grandfather's lasagna had never bothered Lauren before. It was one of her favourites in fact.

"Dehydration maybe." Lauren took a sip. "Stomach flu." She pressed the plastic cup against her forehead, though she wasn't feeling feverish. "Wet cloth please." She added before clutching at her stomach and dropping back to retch over the toilet bowl.

"Wet cloth." Bo acknowledged and went back to her rummaging in the case realizing that there wasn't any clean face cloths in there, she took a small towel and wet it in the sink. Instead of just giving it to the blonde she folded it into a thin rectangle and stood behind the blonde holding it onto her lover's forehead. "Do you have a doctor you go see when you're sick?"

"I don't really get sick, on occasion I just ask a colleague at the lab." Weaker now Lauren leaned her head back up on her hand, her face a sickly waxy pallor. "I'll be fine." She added. "How late is it?" She added, closing her eyes to fight off what was obviously another roll of nausea.

"Not late but I'll call Hale, let him know to let whoever know you're sick and in bed for the day." Bo advised her. "When you're ready we'll move you to the bedroom, we have a bucket for just such occasions." She tried to soothe the blonde. "I know Kenzi has nausea meds, I think you gave them too her for one of her super hangovers."

"Probably." Lauren moved to put both hands on the edges of the toilet to help push herself up onto her feet, pausing when even just the slight shift to a more upright position made the world swim slightly.

"I've got you." Bo moved immediately to hold her and offer her a better sense of balance. With a little effort they managed to make it past Kenzi, who immediately rushed in to go to the bathroom, and Bo settled the blonde into bed. "You many not get sick often but I think you're sick now." She tried to make sense of the blankets and tuck them around the blonde.

"I'm fine, I'll just rest for a while, sleep it off." Lauren leaned back against the pillow and closed her eyes. "Some more water would be good."

"Hang tight." Bo leaned to kiss her on the forehead before first rushing to come back with the 'party bucket' and then after a longer delay returned with more water and pills.

-x-

Three days later Kenzi was standing in the hallway waiting for Bo when she came out of the bedroom for her now common round up of the things Lauren would need for her latest bout of the 'stomach flu'.

"Bo-Bo, can we talk for a minute?" Kenzi gave her a wide smile.

"Can it wait?" The succubus gave her best friend a frown. There was no way to put it other than to say the succubus was stressed, just when it seemed her lover was coming around and getting a little better, the blonde would wind up back at square one, just as stomach sick as ever, not managing to keep any solid food down.

"Walk and talk?" Kenzi followed her down the stairs to the kitchen. "I mean... I don't want to alarm anyone but isn't this whole puke-fest looking a little suspect?"

"You think?" Bo paused as she took a bottle of Pedilite out of the fridge and cracked the seal on it. "But she won't go and see any one." She glanced at the stairs shaking her head. "You weren't joking when you said she was stubborn." The brunette reached up and got a mug out of the cupboard and then grabbed a packet of cup-a-soup and ripped off the top, cursing as she spilled a lot of the contents over the work top. "What if she's really sick Kenz?" Panicked brown eyes looked into blue.

"Well it depends, do you consider pregnant being sick?" Kenzi looked at her with a serious expression.

"Why do you have to take every opportunity you can to take a jab at Lauren?" Bo snapped at Kenzi, her frown extreme. "Pregnant, really? Kenzi the one thing even you have to give her is that Lauren is a lesbian, even if she was going to cheat on me..."

"Bo, hold on!" Kenzi put up her hands. "I'm not suggesting she went looking for wang suddenly." She took a step back. "I just... well the whole flow of her being sick just in the mornings? Ring a bell dearie?" She widened her eyes. "And I mean... you never read that book Trick gave you did you?" She snapped her fingers and moved off towards the living room in search of it.

"It's not just the mornings." Bo countered Kenzi's first point. "Trust me on that." She rolled her eyes for a moment. "And what book?" She shook her head not quite recalling what her best friend was even talking about.

Kenzi continued to rummage for a moment, then with a exclamation of victory pulled it out from under the short leg on one of the end tables.

"This book... on Succubi." She pulled up onto a stool and began to flip through it. "You my dear..." She found a page and pushed it at the other brunette. "Can make babies." She gave a shrug. "You did wrap it up with the doc right?"

"I can what?" Bo looked for a minute like she was the one who was going to be sick as she grabbed the book and stared at the section that was entitled 'Succubi surrogate insemination and gestation'. Her eyes didn't blink for the few minutes it took her to flash read the first few paragraphs. "Oh god I'm like some weird alien mother ship, I can put a baby anywhere!" Bo squeaked pushing the book back at Kenzi a look of mortification in her eyes.

"Not like anywhere babe, you can't get a toaster oven pregnant or anything." Kenzi shook her head. "Just... well the book makes it sound harder then just doing the deed but we both know how 'mystically' meant to be you and Lauren are." She pushed up to stand. "It only came to mind because of the fact she started dipping her pizza in BBQ sauce last night, my cousin did something similar when she was knocked up." She gave a soft shrug. "Look, you go tend to your girl and I'll go to the pharmacy. A little pee on a stick can clear up the worry... big Daddy." She couldn't help herself.

For a minute Bo looked between Kenzi and the stairs and then back at her best friend.

"Okay." She agreed with a nod, a part of her going a long with Kenzi's idea that to test the theory quickly would rule the fact in or out simple and easily. "Should I take the book?" She looked at her younger friend honestly asking for any advice she might have.

"Well I think she might be curious why we're asking her to pee on a pregnancy test?" Kenzi pointed out. "You prep her, hey maybe I'm just reading into this insemination ability you have all wrong. She'll probably tell you it involves rare objects and smelly fae parts strewn on the bed to make it happen."

Bo seemed to calm down more as Kenzi expounded on the theory more.

"You're right." She said with a nod. "Do you need cash, for the test?"

"I got it." Kenzi waved her hand picking up her jacket and heading out the door.

Instead of continuing to prep the soup and collect the other things Bo had been going to bring Lauren from downstairs, she just grabbed the bottle of fluid replacement and the book from Trick and hurried back up the stairs, getting to the bedroom almost at the same time as the front door closed behind Kenzi.

"Hey." The Succubus smiled pausing at the doorway to look at Lauren, trying to read anything she could off her lover.

The blonde looked pretty terrible, Bo had tied her hair up in a pony tail for her before leaving, but that meant that she looked more gaunt than ever without her hair to break up the sides of her face or her cheekbones. Her skin was still slightly waxy and pale from the strain of being sick for the extended length of time.

"Hi." Lauren managed the weak reply. "I am so sorry about this... I don't understand why I just can't seem to shake this..." She gave an even weaker smile. "You can just drive me to my place and I'll tough it out there."

"No." Bo shook her head moving to sit on the edge of the bed close to Lauren's side. She reached and took hold of the blonde's hand. "No toughing it out alone, no girlfriend of mine faces being sick alone." She underlined, bring Lauren's hand up to her lips to kiss it softly.

"You've been great." The blonde admitted honestly and took a laboured breath. "Really... best girlfriend." She underlined.

Bo smiled tightly for a moment and then rubbed her thumb over the blonde's knuckles.

"Lauren, I..." She frowned for a second before looking up at her lover. "Would you think I was crazy if I asked you to think about something for me. Something Fae. And I ask because you know I know next to nothing about the Fae and so me suggesting to you that I know something Fae that you don't just sounds crazy but..." She stopped herself as she realized that just in the lead up to all of this she was already sounding more than a little insane.

"Bo... honey... I don't mean to be short but... what are you trying to ask me about?" Lauren pushed her softly.

"Could I have gotten you pregnant?" Bo asked her brow quirked in a worried frown.

At first Lauren's reaction was one of slight confusion, causing her to close her eyes as her doctor brain while slow kicked into gear. Secondly, she opened them again and put her hand over her stomach almost as if discussing the issue with herself. Then thirdly, she clumsily moved to the side to pick up her phone and poked at it for a moment before a frown came onto her face.

"There is..." She continued to stare at the phone. "I haven't had my menses in two months." She made the sudden revelation realizing the careful notes she always made in her calender to note the fact were missing. "I mean..." She put it down on the bed to look at Bo finally. "There have been reported cases, all of them ancient, mostly unexplained and badly documented, many decided to probably just have been inference of a Succubus being involved more than..." She finally took a slow breath. "It's possible." She managed to finally sum up meekly.

"What do you mean possible? How possible?" Bo blinked at her lover feeling an odd heat grow over her skin. "I mean, my grandfather gave me this book." She reached with her other hand, at no time breaking the contact between them, to pick up the book she had brought with her. "And I just read a little bit, like just read as in downstairs right now." She pointed out just how 'fresh' her research was. "And really, it basically made it sound like if I made love to someone, like really really wanted them, and they wanted me, then I could just I don't know like spawn or something." She tried to suppress a shiver.

"The process is not exactly comparable to that of a frog Bo." Lauren gave a soft amused shake of her head. "It is more about life energy, and how you focus it."

"But essentially I could have merged my life energy with yours and we could have..." Bo's eyes traced slowly down and came to rest on the sheet covering Lauren's body. "Made a life?" She breathed the words reverently, bringing her eyes up slowly a moment later.

"It is one of the more rare Succubus powers." Lauren made the soft admission bringing Bo's hand up to her mouth to kiss it lightly. "But I should have realized... if anyone could, it would be you." She admitted. "I need to go to the lab... run some tests..." She began to make a plan to confirm this outside possible reason for her malady.

"You're not well enough to go anywhere." Bo shook her head, moving her free hand to stroke over Lauren's hair. "Kenzi's gone to the pharmacy to pick up a test." She added the detail. "I know you'll say it's not nearly adequate for what you want to know, but it'll give us a yes or no won't it?"

"It will." Lauren gave a soft nod and squeezed Bo's hand tighter.

-x-

"You need the bucket?" Kenzi asked her best friend who was pacing around the bedroom waiting for Lauren to emerge from the bathroom.

"Maybe." Bo was honest as she looked at Kenzi trying hard to counter the tremor that was running through her body. "Lauren might be pregnant, I might have made Lauren pregnant." She said, her dark eye wide as she looked at her.

"Take a breath Papa Bo." Kenzi moved over to her and rubbed her hands up and down the outside of Bo's arms. "You can do this, you beat the Garuda, you can do a baby. You love her right?"

"Lauren? Yes, I love her." Bo nodded. "Of course I love her, Kenzi I managed to be monogamous with her for nearly three months!"

"I know, which is why I know if that little thing has two blue lines on it, you can do this." Kenzi gave her a firm nod. "And Auntie Kenzi will be right here to do anything other than change diapers, I don't change diapers." She grinned. "Relax, I'm sure it's not it, the more I think about it... come on Bo... you didn't even know you could do this, how could you have done it by accident?"

"Yeah." Bo nodded taking deeper, slower breaths. "Lauren even said it was like super rare." She rolled her shoulders back and shook out her arms relaxing the muscles.

Both of their continued worry was stunted as Lauren appeared in the doorway, holding the small white plastic stick in her hand, her eyes went to Bo.

"I'm pregnant." She spoke the words softly, waving the stick at them slightly.

Kenzi hopped back a step as the floor at her feet was filled by an unconscious succubus.

The end...

(Hope you enjoyed Pam... get well soon... love the RW)