Title: The Human Doctor

Disclaimer : I own nothing. Lost Girl is the property of SHOWCASE. Please don't sue me.

Rating: T

Summary: Scenes in the life of our favorite Light Fae human doctor.

A/N: We already know more or less what happened to Bo before the show started, and bit of Kenzi's and Dyson's and Trick's and a little bit of Hale, but Lauren only has Nadia. And I want to know more. So I'm making one myself.

A/N2: I haven't done much research so if you find inconsistencies, please let me know so I can change it. (or learn how to do better)

A/N3: Okay, since watching the episode Masks, this has become AU now.

1

Lauren was only five when she noticed that she was slightly different from the other children in daycare. She had always been a soft spoken child, not given to crying, whining or tantrums. She sat quietly in class, or played calmly with other kids. She's intelligent and noticed the little things normal children her age missed. Lauren noticed that her lunch box was more elaborate than other children (tea sandwiches and brie on crackers, compared to the usual pbj's and chips). She noticed that other kids had no regard for their appearance and their clothing was often dirty by the end of the day. Most of all, Lauren noticed other kids had parents and nannies waiting for them eagerly after daycare. What she got was the driver, on his way to pick up her parents, to drop her home (where the housekeeper was surely waiting with an afternoon snack of cut up fruits).

She'd hear her classmate tell stories of loud and messy family dinners, watching TV or more playing. No one cared for her stories of grown up parties and get-togethers that she was allowed to attend as long as she behaved. At this age she was already reading by herself, but no one cared for her books with so few pictures (except perhaps her teacher who smiled at her a lot and told the other children to behave like her).

It wasn't like she was deprived kid (though this was a word that Lauren won't know until 2nd grade). Her parents cared for her. They praised her crafts, her good grades, her good manners. They were proud of her and often showed her off to their friends. But they were also busy with each other and with their lives that there wasn't much time to spend with her. Her mother made it a point to come home at least 3 times a week to read a bedtime story to her and sometimes her father would stay with them and chime in funny voices (which was her favorite part and most treasured childhood memory). They weren't demonstrative in their affection, so she made do with less hugs and less pats but she never felt un-loved. If her parents were proud of her, Lauren was proud of them. She told anyone who asked that her father owned a bank and her mother owned a charity (another word that she won't know the meaning of 'til later).

So Lauren was slightly different from the other children. It was something curious for her to notice, but she didn't care to change it. After all, she was perfectly okay with what she had. (She was allergic to peanut butter anyway.)

2

In high school, Lauren was still mostly the loner from her childhood. Although actually, loner was not what she would describe herself. She had acquaintances, friends. She could talk to anyone easily and most people liked her back. But she had no close friends (no one dared to call her their BFF) and she still preferred her own company from others. She could have been part of a clique if she chose. She was beautiful and striking enough that she could have been part of the popular crowd but Lauren was unashamedly a nerd who loved math and science of all her classes. On the flip side, she could've been part of the nerd crowd but the same trait that would've made her popular prevented it. She was too beautiful, too graceful and charming to be amongst the nerd crowd (a swan that was never an ugly duckling). Despite her unassuming air and welcoming smile, her natural aloofness and seeming unflappability intimidated them. (It intimidated most of the school, even the teachers. After all, it was only a public school not a refined finishing academy) So Lauren was alone but not lonely. She was beginning to discover her love for math and science (the latter in particular) and had no time for the usual silly high school drama.

3

After spending most of her life living with the nickname Ice Princess, college almost turned out to be a cliché. Away from her parents and all that she knew for the first time, Lauren became a different girl. She was like a greedy kid discovering the taste of candy for the first time and stuffing herself to sugar frenzy. The physical distance between her past and her now future served to drastically lower her inhibitions and worries. For the first time in her life, Lauren was accountable only to Lauren. There were no parents to please (at least until end of semester when the grades get out) or family friends to impress (again with the grades). No one here knew her as an ice princess and she could essentially re-create herself.

It wasn't to say that she was tired of her old self or that she didn't like what she was, and how she appeared to other people. It was mostly that she had a chance now to do something different, try something new and be someone else for a while. Even without a degree, she was already a scientist and she was more curious than most. She had stopped herself before from experimenting with her peers to respect her parents (and because she hadn't really felt the lack of it in her life). Now, they were too far away and ignorance was bliss.

Lauren started small. Parties and drinks. She'd been to countless parties before of course, held by her parents or their friends. She was familiar with formal dresses and small talk with wine and champagne. But she had never really been to a "par-tay" before, drunk cheap beer in paper cups and tossed liquor shots like they were water: all the classic "party scenes" populating the media today.

The first party was the hardest (first massive hangover, first puke stained clothing, first skipped class the next day). Gradually she began to get better. She discovered a talent for mixing cocktails (it's just basic chemistry) and a liking for tequila. She built up her alcohol tolerance and tolerance for strange people dancing near her. She acquired more "friends" she ever had in her life and went out to "hang" in various lounges/bars/clubs/dorm rooms/dirty basements. She talked more, made an effort to be "normal" and hid most of her nerdy-ness. She drank a lot but mostly that's because it always seemed a hit with all kinds of people.

Lauren also developed a brief romance with a senior student in her Chemistry class named Sean. He was different from all the boys she'd dated before (all two of them), and for the first time (another first) Lauren thought she was in love. He was a nerd too but he wasn't intimidated with her. He could talk science with her without stuttering or blushing in embarrassment, but most importantly, he looked at her eyes when they talked. It made Lauren feel important: seen and known for who she is.

He was her first boyfriend (Paul Neville may have told everyone who'd listen to him that she was his girl in junior year, it still wouldn't make it truth. She went out with him once because he told her that he was planning a study group for the French finals) and her first sexual relationship (to Matt Cohen's disappointment. Her agreement to be his date for senior prom didn't mean implicit agreement to have sex with him later that night. Perhaps he would have better chance if Lauren hadn't known that the only he asked her out was because HIS parents liked her.).

The relationship lasted a semester, after which they broke up when Lauren found Sean in bed with another girl (first heartbreak). She got over him soon enough, just in time for the end of the first semester at which point she received her less than stellar final marks. The low grades shocked Lauren out of her new behaviour. For someone who was a consistent A-student almost without trying, receiving a C+ in anything (even if it was only a Classics course she took on a whimsy) was the equivalent of a straight punch in the abdomen. College life seemed so easy going and she thought that she was handling her studies and her "extracurricular activities" well enough.

She went home for Christmas break, endured the silent, disappointed faces of her parents and went back with a new resolution. She quit the parties which effectively stopped her social drinking. She lost many friends, but she didn't miss them (she found most of them annoying and could only tolerate them with considerable alcohol in her system). Without the distractions, Lauren began to truly enjoy her college life. She reveled in her back to back science courses and relished the constant challenges to her intellect. She joined a couple of the science clubs and took up Kendo for sport (it was good for concentration and physical fitness). She met other people not unlike Sean, confident nerds that she could "talk shop" with but avoided casual relationships.

Lauren only had one other serious boyfriend in her college. Ollie was an English major, which was at odds with her double Bio and Chem, but they had fit well enough. Both gentle and quiet in nature, they liked studying more than partying and they both had cheating ex-partners. The last was a crucial point because they both agreed that they weren't looking for anything serious (that was how they met: a drunk Ollie mouthing off about his ex to a tipsy Lauren, who got caught in the ex-bashing mood). It ended when Ollie developed a crush on another girl (another English major) and Lauren developed a crush on the same girl. Ollie and her remained friends but that was the end of her heterosexuality.