Chapter 4

It was almost 8:30 am and thirty minutes later Bo could finally see Lauren in her room without having to use her power. She'd left the room two hours ago so that she didn't get caught—the less she used Fae power around here the better. She had gone downstairs and taken a black cup of coffee to try to stay awake since she hadn't got much sleep last night. Bo had called Trick again once in the lobby.

"Bo, I know you're worried, but you have nothing to go on. For all we know, it could be an human infection." The blood king told her over the phone. "You just have to wait and see."

"Trick, we don't have time to wait." Bo said and made her way out of earshot. "I know it's Fae. Look I know this is weird but since the dawning I have those sort of feelings… about thing," she explained.

"Feelings?" Trick asked.

"Like I can sense when something smells Fae and danger." Bo sighed. She just didn't know how to explain this without sounding crazy. "This started after the Dawning. I'm not really sure how or why but I can't ignore it and I certainly can't wait and see. Not with Lauren's life in danger."

"Faes' instinct are usually stronger after 200 years of life, but I'm assuming since you had your dawning so early that this doesn't really apply." He told her. "Look I'm gonna see what I can do, but with so little information this is hard."

"Wait something weird happened at the house a few days ago," Bo remembered. "There was this old lady, the maid, she kinda got angry at Lauren saying that she was sleeping with the devil, but we were sure if she was talking about me or something else." Bo said, not really wanting to get in details with the something else with her grandfather.

"Their culture is very different from ours Bo. A lot of the Egyptian beliefs come from real Faes mythology and it's not just something they invented. You have to be careful."

"I will, thank you." She hung up the phone, threw away the rest of her cold in the nearest trash and took the elevator to Lauren's room.

The elevator's door opened and as Bo stepped out she was bumped into by a bunch of doctors and nurses who dashed through the hallway with machines. She walked further, gazing at the group of doctors. Then what she feared happen happened. If she had been connected to a monitor like the patients in those rooms it would have showed her own heart rate going down dramatically. The men and women entered Lauren's room. She felt her legs go numb but that didn't stop her from running toward them.

"What happened?" Bo yelled when she got to the room. She tried to enter but a nurse held her outside. "Let me see her."

"I'm sorry ma'am, you can't. Stay outside please," the nurse said and closed the door.

She stepped in front of the room's window and watched a doctor pull Lauren's gown then another put patches on her chest. The monitor showed her heart rate going down. They shocked her once. Nothing. Twice. Nothing. Third…

Still nothing. They put down the defibrillators back on the machine, called time of death and one of the nurse covered her body with a blanket and mouthed a prayer.

The pain from the sadness Bo felt at this moment was unbearable, and above that the anger was only fuel to fire that burned deep inside her body. Tears were streaming down her face and soaked her shirt. She wasn't strong enough for this- she needed something to hold on to, but the only person she could ever depend on had just died. The love her life had just died, inexplicably and unfairly. It all hit her at once; the time with Lauren she lost because she couldn't make her mind, all the times she was too busy dealing with Fae things instead of spending time with her and all the future memories that would never happen. Her laugh. The way she fit perfectly in her arms. Her love. Everything. It was gone.

Anger took over Bo's saddness. She stormed into the room and if she hadn't been so focused on her pain she would have noticed that she banged the door on one of the doctor.

"Get out!" she ordered. They didn't move. " I said get out!" she yelled even louder.

They got out and Bo threw the blanket away from Lauren Body. She crawled in the bed and put forehead against Lauren's. "Baby come back," she said she said as she tried to suck in chi in her mouth, but it was stubborn and kept vanishing in the room. "Come back please. We're supposed to spend our life together. And get married and have a little Ethan and Charlotte running around the house. Don't leave me please." She kept pushing chi without success until she stopped and let herself sob violently against Lauren's body.

After a few minutes, the succubus started feeling herself get weaker and weaker. She opened her eyes to see the chi flowing out of her mouth and in the air… right into the blood bag that was attached to Lauren.

Her lids opened slowly. Bo looked at her. "Lauren?" she marveled quickly. "Oh my god Lauren." She framed her face with her hands and touched her to see if she was real.

"Bo..?" Lauren breathed and searched for her lover's face. Happy, very red and swollen eyes welcomed her. With every little bit of strength she had she reached Bo's face so that she could dry the tear that spilled on her face. "What happened baby?"

"You.. You died and you came back and I don't, oh my god. Lauren." Bo was so astonished she could barely form words.

"I don't understand honey…" Lauren said calmly. She could see that Bo was very worried.

"Your heart stopped because of the virus or the thing you have." Bo explained. "They couldn't bring you back and I tried to give you chi but it wasn't working until suddenly the chi came out of my mouth into the blood bag. Jesus Lauren you scared me how are you feeling." The brunette put a hand on her forehead to test her temperature.

"Not well…" The blonde started to cough again.

"Lauren I think what you have is Fae-related. I have to get you out of here they think you are dead." Bo said as she stood up quickly. She took the blood bag and gave it to Lauren. "Here hold this, I'll carry you out of here."

Bo held Lauren in her arms, thankful for her supernatural strength and exited the building by taking the emergency stairs without anyone looking. Once outside Lauren walked by herself, bracing herself on Bo's arm. They were given strange looks because Lauren was still wearing her gown and ignored it. They stopped the first cab they saw and Bo paid the driver a hundred bucks to drive straight to their condo and stay quiet. In the ride Lauren had fallen asleep on her shoulder. Dying and coming back really must have been exhausting Bo thought. She was pretty exhausted herself too not having slept the night before. She wanted to sleep right there on the head that was on her shoulder but she stayed awake, checking every once in a while if Lauren was still breathing.

The cab pulled in front of the house and the driver asked if Bo needed some help carrying Lauren inside. She politely declined and grabbed her in her arms again to the house.

"C'mon baby lie down," Bo said as she put her fiancée on the bed. She hung the blood bag on the bedpost. "How are you feeling Lo?" She asked but was interrupted by the ringing of her phone. "Hold on sweetie," she told Lauren and answered her phone," hello? Trick hi do you have any news?"

Trick had done some research and found that an ancient king named Altakhsas would use his blood to curse his conquest's lover. At this time he had no lead on how to find him or on how to stop the sickness. Bo told him to hurry and he responded by saying he was doing what he could, but for Bo it wasn't enough. She knew Lauren didn't have much time left.

She heard Lauren cough again and she rushed to the bedroom. When she got there it looked worse than an horror movie; the blood bag had exploded and splattered all over the room, Lauren was lying there in a pool of her own blood. Bo panicked and dashed to Lauren and she moved her on the arm chair next to the large window. "Lauren! What happened oh my god,"

"I don't know I felt a strong heart ache and I felt my blood pulse out into the blood bag and it exploded." Lauren explained out of breath. "Bo I lost way too much blood… I need a transfusion. Get my wallet... take a syringe and withdraw some of your blood we're compatible."

"But Lauren I'm Fae and and I don't know how to do that, I don't" Bo stuttered completely freaked out. Lauren face was whiter than snow and she had to act fact.

"I'll work you through it just go get it," the blonde said.

Bo rushed downstairs to get the wallet. When she came back, Lauren had passed out on the chair.

"No Lauren… no" Bo shook her to try to awake her but without success. She was still breathing, Bo quickly open the wallet and shoved a syringe in her vein so hard that if she hadn't been too on adrenaline to notice the pain she would have passed out herself. She withdrew three syringe of her blood and created a new bag with a Ziploc bag and the old tube and installed it back on Lauren.

Bo quickly changed all the sheets and cleaned as much blood as she could then put Lauren back in bed. She stayed with her an hour until she awoke and gained more colors on her face. She was determined to get some answers fast. She was on her way downstairs to get more info on the maid from Lauren's friend that owned the condo, when she saw the old lady walk in the door with her cleaning supplies, casually as if nothing happened. Bo's senses flared and her eyes flashed blue—she was gonna get her answers.

A/N: I'm really sorry I took so much time to update. Did I scare ya back there huh? Don't worry Lauren won't die, Bo would never let this happen! Please review! –Shirley