A/N: Just when you thought things couldn't get better!

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After the fight at the motel, Bo and Seth took a side trip to the Dal to get answers about just who or what attacked them. The two supernatural beings entered he fae bar and garnered a lot of attention from the other patrons as they approached the front where Trick was talking with Dyson.

"I'm checking in, like you asked." the Succubus told the shifter. "We got a small problem."

The detective gave her a look, "We?"

Seth grabbed Dyson by the arm and dragged him off to the side so the three of them could talk in private. "Whatever your issue is, Fido, it can wait. We got a severed head in the trunk of Bo's car. You wanna explain that down at the precinct?"

The shifter turned his attention to Bo, "The girl at the trailer park wasn't enough for you for one day?"

"I know I should have called you about that, but this is something else. Okay." stated the Succubus.

Dyson sighed tiredly, "Just show me." The duo brought him outside where the car was parked and opened the trunk to show the head of the guy that attacked them.

"Where's the rest of him?" asked the detective.

"Blew it up." said Seth. "Bastard pulled his head off then tried to chop us."

The shifter sighed, "It's a Dullahan. They're what you might call the mercenaries of the fae world, over the millennia they evolved the ability to remove their heads to throw fear into their victims."

"Like the Headless Horseman." said Bo

"They're usually unstoppable." added Dyson.

"Not to hellfire. He went up like kindling." Seth threw in, "Question is why this guy was after the one we were looking for.

The detective pulled Bo off to the side to talk about something while the rider looked at the other items they picked up from the headless merc. The man's sword which had a few singe marks from the hellfire blast he fired at it, a couple of throwing daggers, and a small leather bag that fell out of his pocket during the fight.

Picking up the pouch, Seth opened it up and looked at the contents; his eyes widening when he found a dozen or so gems. Diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, all of them uncut and very valuable.

"Find something?" Bo asked, coming back over as Dyson went back into the Dal.

Seth held the pouch out to her, "How many people do you know that can pay a fae hitman in uncut jewels?" he asked rhetorically.

"Probably the same one who lost his entire stash to one man and had to hire someone to take them out." replied the Succubus, knowing where he was going with this. "Will's got some explaining to do."

The rider called ahead to Kenzi and gave her a rundown of what he and Bo had learned about Connell. The thief was naturally flipping out when she was told about the headless mercenary that went after them and wanted all the details when they got back to the clubhouse.

When they arrived, the saw Kenzi putting out a couple of green fires with an extinguisher.

"Oh, now that's handy." said Will, impressed with the Human device, "You just, like, pull a trigger and pfft, it's out? I really have to get one of those."

"No." Bo said, grabbing the wisp by his coat and tossing him onto the couch, "What you really have to start doing is telling us the truth. You sent a headless nightmare after Connell."

"What, you mean like a Dullahan?" asked Will.

"Not like a Dullahan. A Dullahan." said Seth. "We got the severed head and a pile of cooled ashes to prove it, along with this." he held up the pouch of jewels. "Would have helped if you told us you hired mercs before they tried to off us too."

"But you got away right? I mean you're here." said the woodland-fae. "Did you catch who took my stash?"

"We barely helped him get away alive!" the Succubus exclaimed.

Will looked confused, "Um, maybe we had a miscommunication. You know, I spend a lot of time on my own, talk to myself a fair bit. Maybe I didn't make myself clear, but I did say to catch him, didn't I?"

"He's your son." stated Bo, causing the older fae to pause.

"...my what?" he whispered in shock, a burst of fairy fire exploding behind him as he started muttering to himself. "H-How? I...I mean me? A daddy?"

"About 30 years ago, there was a woman lost in the woods. You gave her food, and wine..." started Bo.

"And then, you know..." Kenzi picked up from there, making a couple motions with her hands, "Bow Chicka Bow-Wow."

Will rubbed his eyes, "A woman? Oh. Um...Ella. No! Ellie! Oh, she was beautiful, even for a Human. We...oh shit." he looked up at the trio, "What does he do? Does he look like me? Oh, he's gotta be tall. This is terrific!" his excitement died as quickly as it came, "Oh what am I saying? This is terrible. He's Human! He can't know about me."

"Yeah, that cat's way out of the bag on this one buddy." said Kenzi.

"It's the whole reason he took your treasure ." said Seth, "He's been looking for you for years, researching old legends and folklore. He wants to meet his father, the one he's never known."

Will smiled, "I wanna meet him too. I could bring him somethin'. What do you think? Teddy bear? Fire truck?"

"Just come with us to see him, that's all he wants." said Bo while Kenzi snickered beside her. The trio stepping away so they could speak alone, "I have a stop to make, and then I'll work it out with Connell. Can you two sit tight and wait for my call?"

"You got it." said Seth as the Succubus took her leave. Avoiding another burst of green fire from the wisp on the couch.

"It's not every day you become a father, right?" said Will.

Kenzi rolled her eyes and brought the extinguisher to put out the blaze. Seth went over to the duffel-bag that had some of this things in it, placing his newly acquired double-barrel inside. Considering on buying ammo for it later.

Pulling off his jacket, he felt a hand on his shoulder and looked down at Kenzi'a blue-grey gaze.

"You okay?" she asked.

The rider nodded, "Yeah. Just another day in the life, right?" he went to turn but was stopped when his lover wrapped her arms around his middle and held him.

"Don't do that." the thief said, still looking up at him. "The minute you told me it was about a son looking for his father...I knew it was probably on your mind."

"Difference being I never bothered to look for mine." said Seth with an uncaring tone.

"Did you have issues with your dad?" asked Will, overhearing the couple's conversation.

"Bastard ran out on me and my mom not long after my sister was born. Far as I'm concerned, he may as well be dead." the rider stated. The wisp leaned back, surprised by the answer and looking more than a little troubled.

Seeing the much older man's state, Seth walked over and sat next to him on the couch. "My situation and your son's are completely different. You didn't know you had a child, and given your nature it's not surprising that Connell's mother couldn't find you to tell you. My father...he didn't know how to be a parent. The moment things got tough, he bailed. Leaving my mom to raise two kids alone."

"Do you think he hates me?" Will asked quietly, "I wouldn't blame him...I missed 30 years of his life."

"Give him a chance." said Kenzi, coming over to stand beside Seth, "You both probably need this. And it's more valuable than any jewels."

"First we need to get you guys in the same room, let the rest work itself out." said the rider as they all got comfortable and waited for Bo to get ahold of them.

X

Two hours passed before Kenzi's phone rang. "You got the Kenz." she answered, knowing it was Bo. Listening for a bit she looked at Will and Seth with a smile, "He's there waiting." she said to the newly discovered father who beamed happily. "Tell us where, BoBo."

The Succubus told them to meet her and Connell at Fortress Self Storage. Grabbing a cab, they rode out to the remote storage facility.

"This is it." Will said, taking a couple deep breaths to calm himself.

"Relax, everything will be okay." said Kenzi while patting the man's shoulder. Seth opened the door to the building and led them inside. The long concrete corridors with small garage-like doors lining the walls were silent save for the hum of the lights that were on.

"Bo?" Kenzi called out, not seeing her or anyone else around.

"Kenzi! Get out of here it's a trap!" they heard her shout out from somewhere ahead just as Connell came out of another corridor with gun in hand.

Will quickly threw up a fairy fire that ignited a nearby trash can, but his Human son wasn't easily fooled and kept his weapon trained on them. "I know all of your tricks, old man. You're not going anywhere."

"I thought this was supposed to be a reunion." said Will, knowing there was no way out this time.

"What, you think you can just walk back into my life like nothing's happened?" said Connell as another fire erupted behind him, he didn't even flinch. "The whole world's gonna know you're real. They're gonna know what you did to my mother."

"You can't do that." said the woodland-fae. "You mother didn't understand, one of us can't be with one of you forever.

"You didn't even give us a chance!" the younger man bellowed, his voice cracking.

Seth held up his hands and stood infront of Will, "Michael, I know your hurting, and angry. You have every right to feel this way. But you don't want to do this."

"Yeah? What makes you say that?" Connell shot back.

"The fae world needs to be kept secret. Humanity will want to kill them out of fear, and the fae will fight back for survival. It would be like the Salem Witch Trials and the Holocaust all rolled into one. Can you honestly tell me that you're prepared to be the catalyst that ends countless lives? Is this what your mother would have wanted?" the rider pressed earnestly.

Connell shifted, eyes glazed over and weapon shaking in his hand. "I...I just wanted to meet my father, to get to know him...to prove that my mother wasn't crazy."

"And you did." Seth motioned to Will, "He's here. Wanting to see you. To try and make up for all the time lost. He told me himself how much he cared about your mother, that it hurt him to have to leave her. Don't let your anger destroy a chance to get to know the one parent you have left."

Several tense moments passed, no one willing to move an inch as the stand-off dragged on.

Then slowly, Connell lowered his gun. The sound of it clattering to the floor ringing through the hallway.

Will stepped out from behind Seth as his son took a couple steps forward and was enveloped in the wisp's arms. "I'm sorry...I'm so sorry." the fae muttered again and again as Connell shook in his embrace.

Kenzi and Seth smiled at the moment...but it didn't last when they saw a dark form skulking toward them from the other end of the hall.

"Uhh, hate to break this up. But we got company!" the thief called out as the Dullahan that approached them was quickly joined by another. The two supernatural mercenaries stopping long enough to removed their heads and draw their swords.

Seth brought up his fists as the others ran for cover, "Kenzi! Get Bo!" he called out before he started avoiding the sharpened blades of the headless hitmen.

Grabbing the arm of one that thrust its sword at him, the rider twisted the limb to the side and drove his knee into their stomach and tossed them aside.

The second attacker swung in a series of wide arcs Seth was able to dodge around. One strike getting too close as the tip of the blade put a cut on the arm of his jacket. Seth backed up, ignoring the sting on his arm as he jumped up and double-kicked the Dullahan in the chest and sent it crashing through the door of a storage unit.

Rolling back to his feet, the rider found himself airborne as the other merc delivered a kick of its own to his chest and landed hard on his back. The first Dullahan baring down on him with his weapon just before a certain brunette Succubus came out of nowhere and smashed a pipe against its back.

Attention drawn to Bo now, Seth quickly got to his feet just as the other merc was getting up as well. A familiar burning feeling began to spread through his veins, a grin appearing on his face knowing what was coming next.

"Oh boys!" he called out, getting the attention of both Dullahans. "Playtime's over." With that said his flesh caught on fire, burning away to reveal the charred skeleton beneath. A demonic howl piercing the air as the Ghost Rider took its full form.

The two fae hitmen paused, as if weighing their options before both of them went on the attack. The rider's lip-less grin seemed to stretch as he backhanded one of the headless beings and sent them into a metal wall that warped inward on impact.

The second merc thrust forward with its sword, the blade being caught between boney fingers, the hellfire that covered the rider's form turning the metal into melted slag that dripped onto the floor.

Before the Dullahan could react, the fallen angel grabbed its shoulders an brought it closer. Opening his mouth, the rider let loose a stream of hellfire directly down into the opening where the merc's head would have gone. The headless fae couldn't make a single sound as it was burned alive from the inside out, its body coming apart in a burst of heat and burned flesh.

With the first dealt with, the rider looked toward the other Dullahan who was struggling to get back up. Turning his dark gaze to the severed head that belonged to it, said head's eyes widening with terror when the spirit of vengeance locked gazes with it, he approached and picked it up by its hair.

The skin of the head turned pale just before their gazes locked again, this time the merc was caught in the rider's stare. He saw what the creature had done, the lives it had ended both innocent and non, and with it, he burned away its soul.

The body of the Dullahan collapsed to its knees, clutching desperately at its neck hole as if to get a hold of the head that wasn't there. But the Penance Stare couldn't be stopped. When it was done, both the head and the body vanished in a flash of hellfire.

Satisfaction filled the rider as he stood over the piles of ashes. He turned his eyes to the others who bore witness to his actions.

Kenzi was kneeling beside Bo who was nursing a cut to her neck she had gotten from one of the mercs while Will and his son stood off to the side looking at the rider in awe and fear.

Raising a single finger, the spirit of vengeance pointed at Connell who paled;

"Innocent." he rasped before his head snapped in another direction. He could sense it, more evil, more sin, it was close.

"Go." said Kenzi, getting the rider's attention as she helped Bo stand up. "I got this from here. Go do your thing."

The rider stepped closer to her, reaching a flaming hand out and cupping her cheek. The blaze doing nothing to her alabaster skin as she leaned into the intimate gesture a moment before the entity made his way to the exit. Stepping out into the cool night air before whistling with his two fingers.

Within moments, his bike drove itself to him. When he straddled the seat the machine lit up as well and became his hellcycle before he shot off into the dark. The burning of many horrid souls on his mind.

"...What the hell was that...?" Connell said, swallowing thickly when he watched the spirit of vengeance disappear into the night.

"Something you never want to be on the wrong side of, ever." replied Will before he turned his attention to Bo. "As for you, I have a story to tell..."

X

It was after four in the morning when Seth came through the front door of the clubhouse. His form still steaming from his change back to his Human form as the sun had just started peeking over the horizon outside.

Gently closing the door behind him, he removed his jacket and hung it up on a peg on the wall before making his way over to the large couch where Kenzi was curled up beneath several blankets asleep.

They had already picked out a room upstairs that would become theirs, but they still needed a bed and other pieces of furniture to bring it all together for them.

Kicking off his boots, Seth picked up the blankets and settled into the couch behind his girlfriend. His arms wrapping around her petite frame and pulling her into his.

"Long night?" she asked in a low, tired whisper.

"You don't have to wait up for me, you know." the rider said back, kissing the top of her head. "And no, nothing too bad. A bunch of drug dealers won't be pushing their product around here anymore though."

The thief hummed before she removed herself from Seth's arms enough to roll over and curl into him better. She could still smell the hint of brimstone from his transformations, but he was also very warm. Like her own personal heater.

"BoBo brought wolf boy around. The two of them are doing the beast with two backs so she can heal. I was starting to drift off when you came in." she said, nuzzling her cheek into his chest.

"I take it they were loud?" Seth asked, wondering if he needed to invest in some earplugs or headphones for them in the near future.

Kenzi snorted, "A Disturbed concert is loud, those two were part of a six hour fuck-a-thon that would make Ron Jeremy envious."

The rider whistled, "Damn. I know she's a Succubus, but shit. I'm almost afraid for Dyson."

They both settled into the old, surprisingly comfortable couch, Kenzi had already started nodding off again now that she was comfortable. "Love you." Seth heard her mumble before her breathing evened out.

"Love you too." he whispered back, letting the hands of sleep reach up to take him as well.

The couple was out for a couple hours before loud banging and moaning could be heard from upstairs, occasional clouds of dust floating down with each impact from the bed on the floor above.

"That's it...I'm buying earplugs if this is going to be a regular thing." Seth groaned, holding a pillow over his face while Kenzi burrowed her own into his neck.

"If she has to do this just to heal, she's going to be the healthiest woman on the planet." the thief muttered, both of them quickly realizing that anymore sleep was off the table and decided to get up for the day

Since they still didn't have much in the clubhouse, breakfest was limited to toast, cereal and coffee. The couple settled in and talked about the happenings from the night before from both their perspectives.

"So, Bo was taken by a fae mid-wife who was afraid of something." said Seth before finishing off his first cup of coffee. "Makes me wonder if her parents were into something not so noble."

"Either way, at least she knows more than what she did before." replied Kenzi over a mouthful of corn pops. "Though now she wants to know even more. Too bad that hobo-wood fairy didn't give us anymore for services rendered. After dealing with those headless freaks, we deserve a bonus at least."

The rider stood up from the table and headed over to his jacket and came back with the same small leather pouch he had gotten off the first Dullahan that he had taken out. "You mean, like this?" he asked, dumping the contents on the table between them.

Kenzi's eyes almost popped out of her head, her spoon landing in her cereal bowl with a loud clang as she started going though each gem. "Holy shit-balls!" she looked up at Seth who was grinning.

She quickly rounded the table, tackling her lover to the floor where she straddled his waist and stuck her tongue as far as she could down his throat.

"If this is how you're gonna act every time I bring uncut jewels around, I need to start doing it more often." Seth said with a much wider grin when Kenzi finally withdrew her tongue and lips.

The thief grinned back at him, "Believe me, if we had the time I'd be doing some riding of my own." she said seductively while shaking her hips and pressing down on Seth's, the rider groaning when she rubbed against a part of him that was very happy about their position.

Not wanting to be outdone, Seth flipped them so that he was on top now. "Oh, I get it baby." he rumbled huskily, rolling his hips into Kenzi's center and making her gasp. "It's also been too long for us. First chance we get...", another soft thrust had the thief gripping his arms, a frustrated sigh leaving her when her lover stood up and offered her a hand.

"Not fair." she pouted as she was helped up.

"Don't hate the player, hate game." Seth replied with one of her usual remakes, "One that you're more than willing to start half the time." They managed to get settled again just as Bo came down stairs wearing a white kimono-like robe with a slight glow around her.

Kenzi snickered while Seth started whistling 'Sexual Healing'. The Succubus rolled her eyes, "Grow up you two." she said while pouring herself some coffee. "Dyson was just here to heal me."

"Yeah. He healed you all. Night. Long." Kenzi accentuated while wiggling her eyebrows. "Trust me, Bobolicious, you guys weren't exactly quiet." Seth turned to the side and fought not to laugh.

Bo shook her head, "It's nothing, so please don't make such a big deal out of this."

"Okay, I get it." said the goth before grinning, "But, if I was to make a deal out of this, how big are we talking?" she asked, holding her hands up.

"And that's my que to bail!" Seth exclaimed, finishing his coffee in two big gulps and retreating to the other side of the clubhouse, going past the stairs where Dyson was on his way down. "Don't go in there, man. Girl talk cranked to the max." he warned the shifter who blinked and cast a glance into the kitchen where Bo and Kenzi were talking among themselves.

"Heard about you taking down two more Dullahans, then going off into the night. Anything we fae should be concerned about?" asked the detective.

"You worry too much." replied the rider, "Relax, we covered our tracks. As far as anyone is aware the people we took out will be labeled as missing. Though, considering the circumstance they probably won't be missed my many."

Dyson nodded, trusting the younger man for the time being before heading into the kitchen and saying his goodbyes. "Later D!" Kenzi called after him as he left the clubhouse.

Bo smiled at the detective's departure before turning her attention to the thief, "Now that he's gone, I got a question for you."

The Succubus held up a pamphlet that was titled 'Bo's Private Investigation Services', "Mind explaining this?" she asked Kenzi pointedly. Seth looked to his lover, wanting to know himself while she chuckled nervously.

"Oh...about that..."

A/N: And the canon series has officially taken off. Though many challenges await everyone not just from Bo's side, but from Seth's as well.

Reviews always welcome, and update coming soon.