" I'm busy." " Seriously." "Come on." "We talked about this, Bo." "Last time, I promise." "Please." "Please." "Okay, Bo, that's enough!" "That's enough!" "Do I even wanna know what kind of trouble you got up to tonight?" "Nothing exciting." "I was tracking some guy for a client." "I thought he was alone." "He wasn't." "Violence ensued." "At least you're healing a lot faster." "Yeah." "Thanks." "Been working on that with Lauren." "I bet." "Jesus, Dyson." "Leave it already." "She's leading you on." "Never gonna love you." "Who said anything about love?" "And you don't know that." "Bo, I meant what I said." "This was the last time." "For your own good." "Gotta start handling your healing on your own." "He is being such a girl." "Because wolf boy's tired of you life-sucking him?" "You're right." "Asshole." "It is not like he's not getting anything out of it." "Okay, first off:" "And second, you can't have Dyson and chase Dr. Hot Pants any more." " Time to pick a team, dude." " Teams are stupid." "Are you sure this is where we're supposed to meet this guy?" "Yeah, but it'll be a short meeting." " Why?" " Because that's him." "We really need to start hanging out with a better class of people." "Life is hard when you don't know who you are." "It's harder when you don't know what you are." "My love carries a death sentence." "I was lost for years, searching while hiding only to find I belong to a world hidden from humans." "I won't hide any more." "I will live the life I choose." "What do you think?" "If it's suicide, I think he seriously should've rethought his last outfit." " Hey, hey." " Hey, hey, hey." "Relax." "I'm on your side." "Can you call off your human, please?" "Sorry." "Thought you were dead." " What's with the noose?" " Unrelated business disagreement." "Dead." "As if a little lynching could kill me." " I'm mildly insulted." " I mildly apologise." "So, what's this information I'm gonna be dying to have?" "What if I said I found your mother?" "Better not be messing with me, Siegfried." "Here." "Is this her?" "For 20 blood bags?" "You wish." "That's as far as I got." "The rest is up to you." "She's out of my reach." ""Lou Ann Heidinger"?" " Short, fat and fangy is playing us." " You know her?" " She's all over the news." "Not only is she on death row she's on the other side of the border." "Her execution is in three days." "That's convenient." "I said she had the answers." "I didn't say you had a lot of time to get them." "I like your necklace." "Thank you." "So do you ever miss working on normal people?" "No of fence to my own kind, but humans are a little pedestrian now." "Once you go Fae you never go back." "Sol hear." "Speaking of humans, have you had any success sexually yet?" "Still a little scared to try the whole meal deal." "But there's no rush, right?" "Oh, no." "No, of course." "You should take your time." "Because I was thinking that taking things slow on that front would be good." "For everyone." "If they were okay with that." "Devil's advocate." "A Succubus needs a healthy sex life in order to be stable." "And, of course, when wounded you'll still need to have sex in order to heal." "Yeah, well, I got that covered." " Or I did, anyway." " Really?" "With who?" "Dyson." "I trust him, and he's Fae so I don't worry about draining him." "Everybody wins." "Well, that's good to know." "I would be more comfortable with you choosing someone slightly less well traveled but ... it's your choice." "Now Lauren's acting jealous, I swear." "The three of you should get a room already." "Here." "I owe a million favors for the rush job on these." "Nice work." "This is crazy." "A lead is a lead." "Let's just see where it goes." "Special Agent Krazner." "We're here to conduct a profile." "No." "I don't see you on the list." "Sure, you do. it's right here." "Okay." "Head on in, agent." "And if you need anything, just call me." "I bet you've never paid for a single speeding ticket." "Bitch." "What do you want?" "Well, first off, for the record we aren't really cops." " She knows." "She's Fae." "I'm looking for my mother." "I was told that you might know who she is." "I don't know who you are." "She sent me to be raised by humans." "You're the foundling." "I've heard about you, even in here." "Just rumors, though." "Nothing that could help you." "Are you sure you don't know anything?" "Believe it or not, I am the last person that would keep a mother from her child." "Someone's wasting your time, and you're wasting mine." "Siegfried sends his best." "Never heard of him." "Well, that was rude and anticlimactic." "Something's wrong." "I just don't think Siegfried would've lied to me like that." "Did he find vampire Jesus?" "He knows I'm gonna turn around and kick his ass." "A lot." "There's easier ways for him to score blood." "There's something else going on here." "You've been sharing family business with outsiders." " Bad vampire." " No, I swear." "Maybe a teensy bit, but a fella's gotta make a living, right?" "Oh, don't hurt me." "No talking." "Oh, balls." "Am I interrupting a meal?" "Please." "Don't let me stop you." "How clumsy." "You wouldn't be a dove and pick that up for me, would you?" "No." "All right, I'm done." "Tell Forensics he's all theirs when they bless us with their presence." "Is he dead?" "What are you doing at my crime scene?" " Is Siegfried dead?" " You admit knowing him." "He was helping me." " What?" " Something personal." "Bo, please don't tell me this was another tip on your mother." "You don't get to judge me." "You did not spend the last 10 years a freak with a body count." "I'm entitled to some damn answers." "Fine." "What was this incredible tip?" "I needed to talk to Lou Ann Heidinger that woman on death row." "Did you know she's Fae?" "She's Dark Fae." "And whenever they're involved, Bo, you back off." "I hope you're dropping this now." "I would if I got closure, but somebody made that impossible." "Get me Heidinger's file." "If there's nothing in there, I will drop it." " Promise." " Ask nice." "Pretty please, with Siegfried's rushed autopsy report on top?" "You just used up your last favour, Bo." "I hope it's worth it." "Siegfried didn't go easy." "Someone made an amusement park out of his pain receptors." "There's nothing in Lou Ann's file either." "There's no connection to Siegfried or me." "Forensics proved that Lou Ann drowned her stepkids and then set the house on fire to cover it." "Siegfried wasn't drowned by any chance?" "Heart cut out while he was still alive." "What?" "Let me see that." "There's no way a human got close enough for this." "It's gotta be some type of Fae." "Why are there no defensive wounds?" "The report say anything about ligature marks, sedatives?" "Hang on." "Nope." "No restraints, no drugs." "How is that even possible?" "You didn't do it." " What are you talking about?" " You know what." "Someone was controlling you." " Someone made you kill those kids." " Lukas, Jacob and Cody." "They have names." "And why does it matter now?" "They're gonna execute you for something you didn't do." "I meant, to you?" "Because I still think that we are connected somehow." "And we just need more time to figure out how." "Maybe we can help each other." "How did things go so wrong for you?" "I fell in love with a human." "I knew the rules, and I ignored them." " It seems crazy now." "It's not that crazy." " Did he know what you really were?" " No." "God, no." "And the more I loved him and the boys the more I tried to cut myself off from my clan to protect them." "Guess I didn't do a very good job." "Are you saying the boys were killed to punish you for choosing humans?" "I'd say they did a pretty good job, wouldn't you?" "Listen, I have a friend." "She's connected with the Light Elders." "I can get an audience with The Ash." "He won't let this stand." "I'm gonna get you out of here." "Thank you for arranging this." "I know he's not a fan." "Just ..." "Just" " Just try to be respectful, and brief." "Don't mention I'm helping you with your treatments." " That's between us." " Should I also curtsy?" "Would you relax?" "You've been rethinking your allegiance, perhaps." "It has come to my attention that a Fae is about to be executed for a crime that she didn't commit." "I know of whom you speak." "It's a matter for the Dark Fae." "The ones that betrayed her." "She is not of my clan nor under my protection." "To interfere would be madness." "Lesser things have started wars." "You would let her rot in jail for something she didn't do because you're scared to start trouble?" "It would be easy to fix this." "You have power in the human" "Perhaps you should have thought of that before declining to join us." "Child, you mean well but you toy with elements you don't understand." "So do you." "Thanks for the advice." "I'll let myself out." "My, still so charming." "Go." " What were you thinking?" " What was I thinking?" "You're the human." "How can you work for that jackhole?" " He's as bad as the Dark Fae." " The fact you're saying that proves you have no idea what you're dealing with." "This is dangerous." "I have no influence with the Dark." "I can't help if you get in trouble." "I am not asking you to." "You tell your boss he's not the only connection I have." "They call this Moo Shu?" "I could make this." " You're the one that eats here every day." " Why shouldn't I?" "It took me 20 years to get this seat just the way I like it." "Eat." "I have a friend in jail." " I need some help getting her out." " So you come to me?" " I'm flattered." " Don't be." "You're the only contact in the Dark Fae and human criminal worlds." "Even I'm not so good with death row." "You know?" "Sweetheart, you're not so good with subtlety." "Some advice?" "Let this one go." "God, doesn't anyone wanna help this woman?" "Sure." "I wanna climb Everest but it may not be so good for my health." "The Fae will physically stop me?" "I'm saying that Light Fae, Dark Fae all of us must respect the one rule." "Yeah, keeping our existence secret from humans." "So?" "So, what you're attempting is too high profile." "All human eyes are on this woman, this Lou Ann." "She chose humans over her own." "My people objected." "Who wouldn't feel slighted?" "So we made an example of her." "Family business, end of story." "It's okay for you to kill one of your own?" "How is that all right?" "Because we expose nothing." "The humans have someone in jail." "The case is closed." "Leave it alone already." "That's how things work in our world." "That is exactly why I won't join your world." "Light or Dark." "Not yet." "Look, if you won't help me get her out help me find out who put her in." "Who did the real killing?" "I'll look into it for you." "You'll hear from me." "Bo?" "Be careful with this." "You've already made some enemies." "Then I'm asking the right questions." "I have had a shit day." "If anyone wants me, I'll be in the world's longest, hottest bath." "And I will be saving the world from robot hookers." "You're welcome." "Bo?" "Bo!" "Bo!" "Hey, fugly!" "Over here!" "I'm not finished yet." "Holy shit." "It smells like fried bitch." "That wasn't an assassination." "At least not one sanctioned by The Elders." "So she wasn't coming to kill me?" "She was just in my shower to what, loofah me?" "If that had been an official hit they would have sent more than just one." "Your powers are too unknown to risk anything." "Isn't there some kind of general Fae rule about I don't know, not knocking each other off?" " Keeping peace between the sides?" " But you don't have a side." "That's what we've been trying to get you to understand why we want you to choose between Light and Dark like the rest of us." "You have no protection if you have no fealty." " So I have to be owned to be free?" " No, just to stay breathing." "Well, I don't accept that." "Maybe you just never tried hard enough for something more." "I've tried." "You can stay with me tonight." "You need more healing than Lauren's needles can give you." "I needed your help tonight, not your pity." "You actually do dishes." "I guess I thought you'd sort of poof." "I have an industrial dishwasher." "That "poof" enough for you?" "You're too early for a drink." "And too late for advice, but it's what I need." "What's a Morragh?" " Why?" " Because one just tried to kill me." "Come in back." "Our little Succubus is very persistent." "I know you've been helping her without my permission." "You've been getting close to her for the good of the Light Fae, yes?" " Yes, of course I have." " Good." "And now we can use that relationship." "The man Bo seeks is called Vex." "A favourite of the Dark Fae." "If Bo kills Vex, the Dark will kill Bo." "I'm not ready for that until I know more." "Good." "How can I help?" "I'll negotiate to have Vex sent away." "You keep Bo on a leash until he's gone." "How?" "I've tried to reason with her." "She's a Succubus." "I'm sure you can think of some way to distract her." "Nice." "It's like Antiques Roadshow in here." "Hey, Lauren has one of these." "What is it?" "Some kind of amulet?" "Lauren?" "She's ward of The Ash." "She wears his mark." "Because she works for him." "Fae Elders don't employ humans." "They own them." "In return for their protection." "Cosy." "She neglected to mention." "Sorry to bug you with all these questions." "There's so many different types of Fae." "I wish there were some kind of book to keep track." "I also want a pony." ""Kelties, Sprites Djinn, Halforn." I haven't heard of these." "Wouldn't have been doing our jobs if you'd had." "There." ""The Morragh."" "So tell me something." "As a Succubus, what do you feed on?" "Nicotine and wishful thinking?" "Chi, I guess, or whatever you wanna call the human life force." "Most of us feed on the humans in some way." "Their blood, energy, emotion." "It's the nature of Fae." "The Morragh feeds on rage." "You've angered someone, and they sent one after you." "What if they send more, or worse?" "You're your own weapon." "A Succubus is not without power" "Not an option." "I don't like losing control." "It's not about losing control any more." "It's about taking it." "Until you're there ..." "The Siracon." "From the old times." "It'll hurt all Fae and it protects the bearer from corruption." "Whatever it is, it's happy to see me." " What's it made of?" " Unicorn horn." "Shit." "Really?" " I never know when to believe you." " Probably better that way." "Your friend Lou Ann dropped her appeal." "I thought you might not wanna be alone right now." "Can I ask you something?" "You barely know this woman." "Why are you taking this so personally?" "Because we both want the same things." "No matter how miserable I was before you told me that I was Fae at least I had hope that I could live a normal human life if I wanted to." "But do you want a normal life?" " The picket fence, the kids--?" " I wanna know that it's my choice to make, not theirs." "Lou made her choice, and look at what they did to her." "If I just let that go, if I let them get away with it then what chance do I have at living a life of my own?" "Who would wanna live it with me?" "Look, all I know is that whoever framed her I'm gonna find them tonight." " Wait." "What are you doing?" "I don't know yet." "Just let me." " What?" "What's wrong?" " I don't wanna hurt you." "I trust you." "And nobody owns you." "Hey." "Sorry." "Go back to sleep." "You're leaving?" "Why?" "I'll be back." "I just ..." "I can't let this Lou Ann situation go." " There's something I gotta take care of." " No, you have to stay." "I didn't figure you for clingy." " Hey." "What's going on?" " Nothing." "Lauren, what?" "Just please let this go, Bo." "For me." "Your revenge could start a damn war." "I'm doing what I can politically." "I just need a few more hours." "Is that why you're here with me?" "You're a diversion?" "Just hear me out." " We have your best interests at heart" " We?" " Who's "we"?" " Bo." " Were you sent here?" " Let me explain." " Were you sent here?" " Yeah." " Look, it's not what you think." "Just" " You have no idea what I think less about what I feel, or you could not have done this." "I'm ..." "I'm sorry." "Goddamn it, I'm trying to protect you." "I haven't done anything wrong." "You are in my bed because he told you to be." "Everything about that is wrong." "This is suicide." "Vex is too strong for you." "Oh, you know his name?" "Where is he?" " Where are you going?" " I'm going to get answers." "I am through playing nice." "Don't forget your dog collar." "This is how you say hello?" "I know his name." "Where do I find this Vex?" ".Bo.." " You owe me." "I'm calling the debt." "On your blood honor." "This is no favour that I'm doing you." "Here." "Here is where you go, if you're crazy enough." "Vex is a favourite of the Dark Elders." "You don't want that trouble." "Ladies and gentlemen!" "She's classy!" "She's sassy!" "Please welcome to the stage, Bo!" " You gonna show yourself?" " That's right." "We haven't officially met yet, have we?" "And here I feel like old friends." "I've heard a lot about you." "You're a very silly, confused girl to care so much for the humans." "It's that kind of thinking that got Lou Ann killed." "Actually, you're what got her killed, and I'm here to make that right." "I've got chills." "How do you intend to do that, pray tell?" "When you can't even control your own weapon?" "What the balls?" "Are you cheating?" " Nope, just genetically superior." " Oh, so you are cheating." "I didn't know where to go. it's Bo." " I made a huge mistake." " What?" "She knows who framed Lou Ann." "Mesmer named Vex." "He's too strong for her, Dyson." " Where?" " The strip club on Prospect Road." "Care for a drink?" "You're the first person I'm gonna enjoy killing." "Well, that's awfully judgmental." " You barely know me." " You cut out Siegfried's heart and you forced a woman to drown her own children." "Well, I never said I was perfect, did I?" "Puppet cut her strings." "Fancy." "I didn't know we were bringing toys." "And that one's cheating, by the way." " I can live with that." " Careful." "I know the things about you and about your mother." "Shut your mouth." "Why do you think I took my time with that chubby little vampire?" "He was holding out on you, but I got all the goodies now." "Then I suggest you share." " Bo." " No more games." "You tell me who I am, or I will cut it out of you." "You." "Go." "To be continued then." " I said, go!" " What are you doing?" " Saving your ass." " Let me go." "Let me go!" "You kill him, they won't stop until you're dead." "I don't care." " I do." " Bo." "He was the only lead that I had left to her." "He was lying to you, Bo." "I wish I could tell you there was some conspiracy, but there isn't." "Vex, Siegfried, Lou Ann they didn't know anything about your mother." "Nobody does." "Somebody knows." "Somebody knows!" "Let's go home." "Let's go." "We need to talk."