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Chapter Five

I had fallen asleep on the sofa at the Dal, it had been a mad day. While I was asleep someone came to see Tamsin, it was Joey Franklin, my half-brother.

"What's so important that I had to meet you here?" Joey asked Tamsin.

"There's something you need to see." Tamsin replied.

"Tamsin, what are you doing?" Trick asked.

"They need to know Trick," Tamsin replied, "You know that."

"Know what?" Joey asked, looking between Tamsin and Trick.

"You remember 29 years ago, your father had a relationship with a British woman…" Tamsin said.

"Yeah, she took the baby and took off," Joey said, "figured it was too dangerous to raise the baby around the Fae."

"Well all things considered, it would have been safer…" Tamsin said.

"She's only part Fae Tamsin," he argued, "It wouldn't have been safe."

"Her mother wasn't completely human Joey…" Tamsin said.

"What blondie here is trying to say is your sister is a Valkyrie," Kenzi said, "and she's asleep on the sofa."

He walked over to the sofa and stood by the fire, Tamsin followed him and sat on the chair.

"She looks just like her mother," Joey said, "same dark hair, perfect noise…"

"She has her father's eyes." Tamsin replied.

"Why didn't you call my father first?" Joey asked, not taking his eyes off my sleeping form.

"Because I had no idea how he was going to react," Tamsin answered honestly, "I figured calling you was the next best thing."

"Does she know about us?" he asked.

"Yeah," Tamsin replied, she does."

"It was her car outside the house earlier…" he said.

Tamsin nodded in reply.

"Are you going to be training her?" he asked, looking at Tamsin, who was looking at me.

"Not if I can help it," she replied honestly, "but I will keep an eye on her…"

"Thank you," Joey said, "I'll let my father know, it's his decision where we go next."

"Okay…" Tamsin said with a little smile.

"How did she end up a Valkyrie?" he asked.

"The Valkyrie side can lay dormant in some people, leading them to live a very normal human life," Tamsin explained, "which is what must have happened with her mother…"

"Did her mother know?" he asked, obviously full of questions.

"Probably." Tamsin replied.

"So what happens next?" he asked.

"I have no idea…" Tamsin said, looking at him before looking back at me.

x-x

When I woke up Tamsin was nowhere to be seen. I walked over to the bar, Trick didn't even ask me if I wanted a drink, he just put one down in front of me.

"How long was I asleep?" I asked.

"Couple of hours," Dyson replied, "you feeling any better?"

"Yeah…" I said, "It's been a really strange day…"

"I bet," he said with a smile, "it's not every day you find out you're Fae."

"A Fae who needs to choose a side." Tamsin said walking back into the Dal.

"Light or Dark?" I asked.

She nodded, her face devoid of all emotion.

"How am I supposed to know?" I asked.

"You just know…" Dyson replied, "Deep down, you'll know."

I looked at Tamsin, in the instant that our eyes met I knew what I was.

"Dark…" I said.

A small smile formed on her lips.

"All the best bitches are Dark." Kenzi said with a laugh.

"And that makes me officially your doctor." Lauren said with a smile.

"We're going to need to let Evony know," Tamsin said, "you're going to have to go and pledge allegiance, but she can wait…"

"That God for that…" I said.

Trick laughed.

"Sorry Trick, I know you're the acting Ash and all…" I said.

"I actually expected it," he said with a smile, "your father's family are all Dark, it only stands to reason that you'd be Dark as well."

I excused myself and went to the bathroom, when I had finished Tamsin was waiting by the sink.

"Good choice by the way." She said with a smile.

"So what's going to happen now?" I asked as I washed my hands.

"In the next couple of days you're going to feel a massive increase in power, and you're not going to be able to control it," she said, "all the work you've done so you can be selective about which thoughts you hear will be undone… You'll hear everything people around you think, and it's going to push you to your limits. That usually lasts a couple of days."

"Brilliant…" I replied with a sigh.

"I'll be right there with you Aeryn," she said, "if you want me to be."

"Thanks…" I said with a little nod.

"After the mental side, the physical side kicks in," she continued, "I'm guessing you can fight?"

I nodded.

"You'll get faster and stronger," she said, "you'll have energy to burn, I suggest you use the gym at the station."

"Okay…" I said.

"You're going to be okay Aeryn." She said with a soft smile.

As we left the bathroom a bright light filled the Dal.

"Oh crap…" Tamsin said.

"What?" I asked.

"Get ready to meet Freya," she said, "the Queen of the Valkyries."

"Do I have to bow or something?" I asked.

I heard someone laughing. I looked around and saw a woman sitting at one of the tables, she had two other women standing just behind her, I assumed that was Freya.

"No child, you don't have bow or anything." She said.

"Aeryn this Freya." Tamsin said.

"Nice to meet you." I said, not sure what was appropriate to say and what wasn't.

"Hold out your hand child." She said.

"Why?" I asked.

Tamsin laughed a little.

"Every Valkyrie has a symbol, it's unique to them," Tamsin said, "it allows Freya to contact them and vice versa."

"Tamsin's symbol is a bolt of lightning," Freya said, looking at Tamsin with a smile on her face, "pretty fitting for when she loses it completely, but she chooses to no longer wear it."

Tamsin took her necklace out of her jeans pocket and held it up a little.

"I have it." She said.

I held my hand out, Freya put her hand over mine. Seconds later I felt something in my hand. Freya moved her hand to reveal a set of wings on a silver chain.

"Wings…" I said.

"Wings symbolise a free spirit," Freya said, "someone who can't be tied down or contained… Tamsin can I have a word?"

I walked away, leaving them talking.

"Please don't ask me what I think you're going to ask me." Tamsin said.

"I'm not going to ask you to train her, don't worry," Freya said, "What I do ask is that you try to guide her down the right path. Something tells me Aeryn is going to be like another Valkyrie I know. Strong spirited, free willed…"

Tamsin smiled a little.

"Just be there if and when she needs help." Freya continued.

"Okay…" Tamsin replied with a nod.

"And another thing," Freya said, standing up, "if it's going to happen, let it happen. Stop fighting it, you deserve to be happy as much as anyone else does Tamsin."

With that Freya left the same way she arrived. Above everything else in the Dal, all the talking and noise, I heard Tamsin's voice. Well I heard her thought in my head.

"What if I mess it up, what if I let her down?"

I looked over at her, slightly confused that I could hear her thoughts above everything else. I smiled a little, she returned the smile before sitting down further down the bar. My head was now swimming with thoughts, it was like hearing Tamsin's thought opened the flood gate in my mind. I closed my eyes, trying to block it all out.

"Are you okay?" Dyson asked.

"Yeah… I just need a minute…" I replied.

Gradually the thoughts in my head started to fade.

"Guy in the corner is going to kill his wife," I said, looking at Dyson, "he thinks she's cheating on him…"

"How do you…" he started, I just gave him a 'really?' look, "never mind."

He stood up and walked over to the guy who thought his wife was cheating on him. Tamsin walked over to me.

"It's started?" she asked.

I nodded in reply.

"Kenzi is thinking about yet another new pair of shoes she wants to get when they're on sale," I said, "Bo is thinking about what she's going to do to Lauren later, which I really didn't need to know…"

"Sorry…" Bo said, laughing.

"Lauren is thinking about the results of some test she ran earlier," I continued, "Dyson is thinking about the case, some girl called Cleo and how he needs to go running in the woods… Trick is thinking about whether he should call Stella or not…"

"And me?" Tamsin asked.

"You're worried you're going to mess up…" I replied.

She nodded a little.

"I can control it for now," I said, "but I don't know how long for."

"It'll be worse when you're asleep," Tamsin said, "stay at ours tonight, my room is pretty much thought resistant because when I'm healing I don't have the energy to shield my mind."

"I need to know one thing first." I said.

"And what's that?" Tamsin asked.

"Do you snore?" I asked in reply.

"No," she said laughing, "I don't snore."

x-x

Tamsin, Bo, Kenzi, Lauren and I had gone back to Bo's house. I was sitting on one of the chairs, Kenzi was in the other, Bo and Lauren were on the sofa, and Tamsin was sorting out drinks.

"Bet your head is all kinds of messed up right now." Kenzi said.

"It's certainly getting there…" I replied with a laugh, "In 3 days I've gone from thinking I'm a normal human with a weird father, to finding out about the Fae, to being told I'm part Fae, only to find out that I'm not, I'm a Valkyrie… if the hidden camera guys want to jump out right now that'd be great…And no Lauren, I will not agree to being your test subject."

Tamsin laughed as she brought the drinks over.

"The good lady doctor is fascinated by Valkyries," Tamsin said, putting the drinks on the table before handing me a bottle of water, "we're the only kind of Fae she knows next to nothing about."

Instead of sitting on the sofa where there was space, Tamsin sat on the arm of the chair I was sitting in, for some reason having her close was keeping me calm.

"Stupid question asking which Fae she knows the most about right?" I asked, with a laugh, causing everyone else to laugh, "One thing I am curious about, how does a human doctor end up working for the Fae?"

"About 8 years ago I was out in Africa with my girlfriend at the time, Nadia," Lauren said, "people in the villages were getting sick, it was only certain people, not everybody. The local witchdoctors couldn't figure it out, I came up with a cure and that's how I found out about the Fae. Then Nadia got sick, or that's what I thought. The cure didn't work her, I assumed it was because she was human."

"But it wasn't…" I said, shielding my mind so Lauren could tell me the story without me knowing it already.

"No, it wasn't," she continued, "The Ash at the time was originally from on the villages, he put a curse on Nadia. He offered me access to every resource you can think of here in the Light Compound so I could find a cure for Nadia… But while I was doing that I had to work for him too… Basically I was owned by the Ash…"

"So what happened?" I asked.

"Bo's mom, Aife, happened." Lauren said with a laugh.

"My mom is a Succubus," Bo said, taking over the story, "I was raised in this little town in the mid-West by human parents. Like you I had no idea I was Fae until I came here… Then one night I met Aife. She was the only other Succubus I had ever met, I had no idea she was my mother, she told me she was Dark Fae and her name was Saskia. We became pretty close until one night she pretty much killed a guy saving my life. I kinda freaked out, then she disappeared. Then she used her Succubus charms to attack Dyson… kidnapped me… then sent a guy who she had enthralled, with a bomb strapped to his chest, to the Light Compound killing 6 Elders and leaving the Ash in a coma."

"Then we got a new Ash, Lachlan, he was an asshole," Lauren said, "he's the one who really made me feel like I was owned. As payment for a job, Evony gave Bo a rusty old nail and told her it was the key to freeing me by saving Nadia. The new Ash told Bo that it was a cursed nail and she had to travel to Africa to find the other one of the pair. When she pulled it from a wooden post, Nadia woke up."

I heard Bo's thoughts in my head, she had basically had to kill Nadia before Nadia killed Lauren.

"I'm pretty sure she doesn't blame you for that Bo." I said.

"I know," Bo replied, "doesn't stop me blaming myself though."

"So," I said, changing the subject a little, "how did you end up in the world of the Fae Kenzi?"

"Some asshole spiked my drink one night in a hotel bar, where I was completely minding my own business." Kenzi said.

"You were stealing wallets." Bo said with a laugh.

"And minding my own business," Kenzi replied, "so anyway, crazy guy spiked my drink and followed me to the elevator. Bo saved my ass, she Chi sucked him. She had no idea she was Fae. The next day Dyson and Hale found the guys body, tracked Bo down and took her to the Ash. The Ash and the Morrigan decided she had to undergo this test thingy, then choose Light or Dark. She chose humans, then she claimed me."

"So she basically owns you?" I asked.

"No," Kenzi said, "well technically yes, but no."

"It keeps her safe," Tamsin explained, "An attack on Kenzi is seen as an attack on Bo."

"So Dyson's a wolf, Bo's a Succubus," I said, I looked at Tamsin, "you're a Valkyrie, what's Trick?"

"Trick is…" Bo started to say.

"It's complicated," Tamsin said, "he's a Blood Sage…"

"Which is what?" I asked.

"He can change events by writing about them in his blood," Bo said, "He's also my grandfather."

"So your mum is Dark Fae," I said, "and your grandfather is the acting Ash… how does that work?"

"Aife was originally Light," Bo said, "she was locked up by the Dark for killing a Dark Elder… she then ended up being held prisoner by my father… he drove her pretty much insane. Then to get back at Trick for not saving her, she went Dark."

"It's…" Tamsin started to say.

"Complicated?" I asked, "Yeah, I'm getting that."

Tamsin laughed.

"And my head is really starting to hurt…" I said.

"Then I guess it's bedtime for you." Tamsin replied, "I'll show you to my room…"

We both stood up, I said my goodnights and Tamsin showed me to her room.

"If you need anything, I'll be asleep on the sofa," she said, "all you have to do it shout."

"That sofa doesn't look very comfortable to sleep on." I said as she handed me a t-shirt and some sweatpants to sleep in.

"It isn't." she replied with a smile, "I've slept on worse."

"The bed is more than big enough for both of us," I said, "I already know you don't snore…"