The Rest of Your Life by fiona249

Author:fiona249
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Lauren, Bo D., Lost Girl, Angst, Completed, FanFiction
Publisher: www.fanfiction.net
Published: 2012-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

* * *

You guys are just the best readers ever. Thanks for all the really nice reviews!

12. Chapter 11

CHAPTER 11

A few people turned to stare at Lauren as she entered the internet café. She was, after all, incredibly pale, and it stood out much more in this part of the world. She was also covered in sweat, dirt and bug bites, with a trail of blood from a recent leech dried down the side of her face. This was less distinctive, though, since most of the other patrons were in a similar state. The computers themselves were even shabbier than the people in appearance – more than a decade old, from the days when computers were still heavy and bulky.

They worked quite steadily despite that, though the heavy, wet, hot air seemed to slow them down. Lauren had to wait a full minute before Hotmail loaded. She frowned on viewing the page.

Your account has been disabled. It was found to be infected by a virus. Access to it is no longer possible.

How could she have gotten a virus? In six years she hadn't sent a single email from it or received one. Of course, she'd been using some crappy computers and unsafe networks, but still. What bad luck.

But then, maybe it was a blessing in disguise. After all, she'd given up on receiving anything from Bo a long time ago. She had no idea why she even bothered to check it anyway, much less why she was willing to trek through eight miles of rainforest twice a week just to see if she'd gotten anything. At her current odds it would be significantly better to just spend the money to buy scratchies instead of internet time.

The money from Trick had run out a while back, but Lauren had spent it wisely. She had dozens of fake identities hidden around the globe, as well as emergency packages and burner phones. Money wasn't a massive issue anyway – a trained doctor was welcome anywhere. Here they thought of her as Doctor Beth Sanders. She'd bluffed her way into a volunteer group by claiming she was their medical assistance and they'd been touchingly pleased to have her. For the first ten minutes, they'd been suspicious of her lack of paperwork, until Lauren had demonstrated she knew the scientific names of all the plants and bugs and also how to cure the fever going around. Her expertise and her confidence had convinced them that the relief organisation had made a mistake yet again and they'd welcomed her with open arms, badgering the local branch of the organisation into paying her the same fees as them.

No, it wasn't hard for Lauren, surviving on the run. What was hard was missing what was left behind.

It shouldn't have been so significant really. After all, it had been barely a two-year period of her life. Since then she'd had seven years and before then she'd had more than thirty, but for some reason they hadn't had such an impact on her as the time spent with Bo.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.