A/N: I know I should continue healing touch (and I will), but after the last episodes WTF I couldn't get rid of this plot bunny. It's just so hard to believe what happened for me that I had to make my own story around it. The title is still experimental (I suck at choosing the right one) so I hope you can bear with me. Leave a comment if I should continue this or better bury it in my pile of unfinished stories that's flying around my desk.
Chapter 1
"I still don't think this is a good idea Bobo" exclaimed a Kenzi desperately trying to keep up with her best friend.
"You said yourself that i should seek closure"
"Well, yeah, but i didn't mean to storm the doc's apartment like an obsessed ex right now and especially not with me tagging along. I REALLY don't want to be in the middle of a desperate succubus booty call."
"I am not desperate!" Bo hissed
"Helloooo? You're oozing out your sex pheromones all over the place, almost making ME having a lady boner. And you know that I'm probably the last person on the whole god damn world, who'd start munching the carpet if you know what I mean.
And even when you're not starting to bump your lady bits in the crotch fight of the century, don't you think it would be... Awkward for me being there? I don't want to witness the emotional meltdown that is definitely going to happen."
Bo sighed. She knew she probably overexagerated, but her gut told her that something big was going on, something dangerous.
"She didn't answer her phone..."
"So? Maybe she was in the shower or occupied with her petri dishes and microscope. Ooor, big surprise: she doesn't want to talk to you. You know...her needing space and all that. Just an idea."
"Something is wrong Kenzi. I know, I can feel it. Call me crazy, but there is something big going on."
"Yep. You are totally nuts. You know the overly attached girlfriend meme on the internet? I'm starting to believe that she is based on you."
"I have no idea what you are talking about, but this is serious Kenzi."
"I get it. You're upset. Your girl broke up with you.."
"She didn't break up with me, we're just on a break."
"Yah... See how well that worked out for Ross and Rachel..." The goth girl muttered.
"Pardon...?"
"Are you ever watching tv? Ross and Rachel, from Friends, duh"
That earned her the stern look of Bo.
"Get it, not the point... But Bo... Even though it's a fae fae world, there is not always something supernatural behind everything. And not everybody is in great peril when they don't pick up their phone."
They stopped in front of Lauren's door.
"closed? Must have learned something from the incident with Nelson."
Lauren looked so broken then. Like something in her had cracked, fallen apart. Bo had never seen her girlfriend so lost. She wished she hadn't been so self absorbed the whole time, wished she had seen how Lauren really felt. The blond was a professional to hide her real emotions, always seemed so controlled and stoic. Bo wondered how much anger, disappointment, sadness and loneliness was pent up inside of the doctor. She could catch a blink when they sat on the couch, when Lauren was asking for a break. The brunette saw vulnerability in the blond doctor which shocked her. The hard shell seemed to crack, but unfortunately not in the favor of sexy after hours Lauren, but lost girl Lauren.
All Bo wanted to do at that moment was to hold the woman who owned her heart close. Telling her that everything was going to be ok. But a look in the hurt brown eyes told her that it wasn't that easy. They couldn't keep going like they were before. A few comforting words weren't enough to build a bridge over the cliff that had formed over the last weeks, making them drift further and further apart.
Laurens words of reason were tinted with pain. She was heavily struggling with her feelings, the walls she had build around herself the last years had threatened to break down any moment, letting the stream of pure emotion trickle through the tiny crack.
"Are you trying to melt the door with your eyes?"
"What?"
"Dude you spaced out for a pretty long time. Are you going to knock or do you want to set up a camp in the hall, stalking that door?"
Bo took another deep breath, shaking her head. She knocked, but there was no answer.
"Lauren?" she knocked again a little louder. Nothing.
"She's probably in the bath Bo bo. Come on let's head home, get wasted and come back another time."
The brunette ignored the younger woman and knocked again.
"LAUREN!" She tried to enter but was surprised by a locked door.
"hmm, that's new" Bo muttered.
"I'm going to call her..." She stated and fumbled for her phone.
"Bo..." Kenzi whined.
"This is ridiculous. You are ridiculous..."
There was a ringing heard behind the door. There weren't footsteps or other noises at all.
"She is probably under the shower, like I said before. Come on let's go to the Dal or home. Just.. Let her. please."
"It's not her usual shower time..." Bo murmured.
"Ok, that's CREEPY. You became some sort of stalker and honorable member of the dr. Hotpants fanclub?"
Bo just ignored her best friend and started tinkering with the lock.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?"
"I'm getting in there" The brunette said determinedly.
"Oh no! You are totally not. Are planning on walking in there just like that? Don't you think she'd be a little pissed at you for breaking in to her condo? What if she is dancing around naked or something."
"I can live with that and besides I'd have no problem with the naked thing..." The succubus' eyes started to glow, a predatory grin forming on her lips.
I shouldn't have mentioned naked. Damn wrong move...
"Bo..." Kenzi's voice was calm. She gently tried to pull her best friend from the door, but only earned an almost feral growl from Bo.
Somebody drank their milk. She doesn't budge, not even a millimeter
"Bo bo. Please. You are scaring me." Was that fear in her voice? The glow in the succubus eyes faded when she took a long deep breath. She slowly loosened her grip on the door only to slump down on the floor.
"I don't know what's wrong with me Kenzi. Yah.. this seems crazy and clingy and..and desperate, but I'm worried. I can't really describe it... It's a feeling deep inside me telling me something ist wrong. My instincts are usually right although I hope they are not..." The strong woman Kenzi knew was now looking like a picture of misery.
She knew that Bo was very affectionate and emotional, acting not asking but this was even for the brunette over the top.
"I can't believe I'm saying this... Ok.. I'll help you to get in, but if hotpants get into terminator doctor mode because of this stunt I'm outa here."
"Thanks Kenz. What would I do without you..."
"Yeah.. sometimes I'm wondering myself..." Kenzi grumbled. She couldn't believe what she was about to do. Breaking in the doctors apartment wasn't really on her to do list. She still felt to be right that the blond doctor was probably just in the bath or in the lab or even taking a stroll outside and that Bo was exhilarating, but she never saw her best friend so freaked about something so minor.
Shaking her head one last time she started picking the lock. It didn't take long for the experienced thief to open the door.
"Done... Are you really sure about this?" Kenzi's voice was dead serious this time.
Bo just nodded and entered the apartment without saying another word to Kenzi.
"Lauren? Are you there?" Bo shouted.
Nobody was there, so they (ok BO) decided to get upstairs, Kenzi stayed downstairs, taking a curious look.
Even for miss OCD everything is to clean, to tidy except for the phone on her desk...Bo is right, something feels off I just can't pinpoint it.
"Bo?" Kenzi called upstairs.
No answer. Is there a vortex or the fucking twilight zone up there? You hear them giggling and moaning while they bang the fucking shit out of their brains, but you can't hear anyone screaming upstairs? Yeah figures..
Hoping not to see a very naked doctor, Kenzi slowly walked upstairs. "Bo, please don't be naked I'm coming in"
The brunette didn't seem to notice her at first, her eyes fixed on the open drawer.
"No..." Bo whispered tears forming in her eyes.
"Bo, talk to me" Kenzi now stood in front of her best friend trying to get her attention.
"Her... Her favorite clothes... The photographs... Mr. Cuddles... gone..." her voice on the brink of breaking.
"Maybe she is just making a short trip to figure things out."
"But her phone..."
"Like I said, time for herself, she probably doesn't want to get disturbed..."
"But... Hale..."
Kenzi flinched at his name.
"Let's get down... I want to see her phone"
"Bo stop it. That's privat. What would Lauren think if she finds out?"
"She won't. It's probably some sort of clue she left... I still think she's in trouble. She wouldn't go without telling me... She... She just wouldn't go just like that without clearing things up."
Before Kenzi could reply something Bo was already downstairs.
"Here goes nothing" Kenzi grumbled following the succubus.
"Kenzi!" Bo yelled.
"God dammit Bo I'm not deaf, well not yet, but keep on going and we can start learning some badass sign language, that would be kinda awe..." The goth girl stopped mid sentence when she saw what Bo was holding up in her shaking hands.
"Is that... thats..."
"Her necklace, the necklace claiming her as property of the light...the necklace she never took of since she recommitted to Lachlan..." Bo gulped. She felt like the world was opening up under her feet. She felt numb and sick. Her brain tried to grasp for something to understand what this meant. Was this Lauren's way to say they were over? To tell the fae world fuck you after always being treated like chattel and not an equal? Did she finally had enough to be used, to be demanded and summoned all the time instead of being respected and asked? Or was Bo's first impression right and the blond was in Danger? Her heart didn't want to believe that Lauren would just go like this.
While Bo stood petrified next to the desk, letting the cold metal of the necklace glide through her fingers, Kenzi (out of habit) rummaged through the drawer, looking for something quite revealing.
Under some manila folders she found a folder a little different from the medical ones Lauren usually used.
Interpol? Why does Hotpants have some interpol poster in her desk?
"That's what I call an ugly ass hair style and the name Karen Beattie? Poor girl...wait..." she took a closer look at the picture.
"Oh god... that... that's not... no... can't be..."
A loud cling echoed through the apartment, when the neclace fell from Bo's hand.
"No...Lauren..." The brunette gasped.