”I had to make you believe it is I was going to make the Morrigan believe it.” Lauren’s voice wobbled slightly.

”I can’t even hear this right now.” Bo closed the space between them, standing only inches from the doctor. ”There’s too much going on. Kenzi is hurting so badly and where were you?” Bo demanded. Lauren bowed her head before meeting Bo’s stare once more. ”Playing around in the Dark archives.” Bo answered the question for her, the anger gone from her voice and leaving in it’s wake a hint of sadness. ”Digging up shit on the man somehow intertwined with my destiny.”

”So that’s it?” Lauren nodded, not in agreement but the knowledge that Bo had made up her mind already. She shrugged, ”You choose him?”

Bo stepped closer, her breath tickling the doctors cheek. How could Lauren think that? She just didn’t know. ”It’s not like that.” The silence threatened to consume them. ”I chose you. And you broke my heart.”

The tension bubbled as Lauren took a shuddering breath, her arms aching to reach for her lover and kiss away that horrible truth but she hesitated. The look in Bo’s eyes scared her. Her heart beat pounded in her ears.

“Bo….” she reached out as a single tear fell down Bo’s cheek and wiped it away. “I never meant to…”

“But you did and you can’t just come in here with your fancy book and tell me that Rainer is this…” her arms flailed as she paced the room, tears flowing freely down her face, unchecked. “This Wanderer creature.” Bo stomped loudly across the floor and retrieved the book, thrusting it towards Lauren. “Look.” She jabbed viciously at the page, “Does this look like the man downstairs?”

Lauren stepped back involuntarily, her own tears rolling down her face. “This isn’t about Rainer, is it?” she sat down heavily on the floor but refused to meet Bo’s penetrating stare, instead, she pulled at a thread on her boot.

“Dammit Lauren!” Bo sat in front of her and took her hands gently. “I never wanted this, any of this.” Lauren pulled her hands back and slowly looked up. Bo’s mascara streaked her cheeks and Lauren instinctively wiped it away, drawing a small smile from the succubus. “I wanted you.” Bo admitted. She hated to show any weakness, even in front of Lauren but the doctor always managed to find that part of her, with a look or a smile, Bo was helpless in her presence.