The Wizard Of The Fae War (Lost Girl Fanfic)

Chapter 7

Kenzi set a brimming coupe cocktail glass in front of Lauren on the low table in front of their corner booth in Carpe Noctem.

"Here's a perfect Manhattan. You don't strike me as a cosmo kinda girl," Kenzi said dryly. She took her seat but angled her body toward Lauren. Kenzi quaffed a third of her martini glass in one swallow, and then launched into Lauren.

"Listen, sister, I feel for whatever hell you've had to endure in Trick's kennels, but if you harm a hair on Bo's pretty little head, I will slit your throat the old-fashioned way – unexpectedly, and from behind."

Lauren reached for her glass despite the threat of bodily harm and took a bracing sip of her cocktail. While she was certain Kenzi could make good on her threat, she didn't think she was going to do it right now.

It did, however, add to the surreal tint of her life these last few days.

She noted the neon blue of the club's lights washing over her hand holding the glass, and instantly, she was back in Bo's bedroom, watching Bo blink the blue from her eyes. Bo had returned tenderness in kind, and without saying a word – though her brown eyes had spoken volumes – made love to Lauren, stretched out across her bed, both of them painted in sunlight. There had been no other way to describe the way she'd been touched – slowly, deeply, and with reverence. Lauren had been loved.

After, they hadn't slept or spoken, neither seeming to want to break the spell. For what felt like forever, but had probably been less than an hour, Bo had simply stared at her, combing fingers through Lauren's hair as she held Lauren in her arms.

The world had crashed in abruptly again when Kenzi arrived, calling out from the adjoining room, once again bearing clothes for Lauren. Kenzi had seemed surprised to see Lauren, but hadn't said anything about it. When Kenzi mentioned to Bo that Vex was waiting downstairs, Lauren watched Bo change before her eyes from the woman who had made love to her to a Dark Queen at war.

Now, just a few hours later, Vex and Bo were putting some plan into motion, and Vex and Kenzi had worked hard to convince Bo to leave Lauren out of it until the endgame. Finally, Bo had agreed, but had insisted that Kenzi stay with Lauren and that they not stay in the compound. Lauren had wondered at that point if Bo had spies in her ranks. Vex had suggested they stay in the open at Carpe Noctem – it was deep in Dark Fae territory and the safest place he could think of.

So. Here they sat, having what Lauren considered to be her most odd conversation since she'd left the Light Fae compound.

"I'm not sure a slave could do anything to hurt the Dark Queen," Lauren started, but stopped when Kenzi scoffed and rolled her eyes.

"First of all, you stopped being a slave the minute you set foot in the Dark Fae compound and second, if you found a way to stop the fucking Blood King, the Dark Queen would be easy pickings."

Wait...what? What did that mean, that she had stopped being a slave?

"And that's beside the point and not at all what I meant." Kenzi locked her eyes with Lauren's. "In the five years I've known her, I have never, everseen Bo take a lover to her bed."

Lauren must have shown her confusion on her face.

"Her real bed, not that trick pad she has downstairs where she fucks them, feeds from them, and then throws them out. Never the same one twice, and she never takes them upstairs. So, whatever you two have going on means a lot to her."

Confusion gave way to shock, but it faded as one promise fell from Lauren's lips with conviction.

"I could never hurt her," Lauren said. "I won't." She looked down into her glass, as if it held answers. "Not even if my life depended on it."