Generation Two

Generation Two: Lark Bee

Lark and Nikolas move in together soon after graduation. Lark enlists her brother for help moving. When left alone with Nikolas, Luke accuses him of being part of an organized crime network; Nikolas doesn't deny the accusation, and the two men bicker. Lark overhears the end of their argument and explodes on Luke; it is also apparent that Luna and Quentin don't approve of Nikolas. Regardless of that, Lark continues her relationship with Nikolas (2.1).

  While Nikolas obviously has a job, Lark is unemployed. Her friend Kyra suggests that she become a mixologist, which Lark reluctantly accepts. She starts working at the HORR Bar. One night after work, she overhears Nikolas talking to someone. She eavesdrops on him talking to a man via webcam; Nikolas appears to be setting up a deal to steal something for the unnamed man. After the conversation is over, Lark accuses Nikolas of being a thief, and he admits to it. Lark is surprisingly comfortable with his choice of employment--her one gripe is that he didn't tell her sooner (2.2).

Since she's so interested in his work, Lark helps Nikolas with his next heist: he has been tasked with stealing a collection of wands from a local museum, so they two "case" the museum under the guise of a date. Nikolas' partner in crime. Karl Liefson, is also at the museum during this time. To her embarrassment, Lark vomits in front of the wand exhibit, drawing unnecessary attention to herself. Once outside, Karl hypothesizes she's pregnant after smelling her (gross, right??) (2.3).

A few nights later, Nikolas and Karl go to the museum to steal the wands. Karl is in charge of disabling the cameras, which he does with preternatural ease. However, stealing the wands themselves proves difficult. Each time someone picks up a wand, it affects the area around them in an unsettling way: the first wand silences the room so Karl and Nikolas can't talk, the second causes them to float upside down, the third causes them to have to "swim" through the air, and the last one makes everything in a 15 feet radius of the wand exceptionally loud. Nikolas hypothesizes it's special technology, while Karl asserts its magic (2.3).


The day after the heist, Dominic returns to Aurora Skies--the wands belong to his family, and he's on a mission to find them (2.3).

Shortly after the heist, Lark realizes she's pregnant. She's apprehensive due to Nikolas' career in crime, but he's overjoyed.  He promises to stay safe, but is arrested soon after for an unpaid traffic citation (A/N: This is somewhat common in parts of the U.S., so I've decided it happens in Simnation as well). Karl informs Lark of Nikolas' arrest, then keeps her company until Nikolas returns home. During this time, Lark receives a text message from Dominic, asking if they could meet up (2.4). 

  Nikolas, meanwhile, is clumsily interrogated by Luke, who suspects that Nikolas is behind the museum heist. A lawyer named Bianca Esposito halts the interrogation, saying Nikolas is her client and she's cleared up his citation and warrant. Once they're alone, she informs Nikolas that Gaius Gallus had sent her; she berates him for his incompetence and vaguely threatens him, as both vampires and lawyers are wont to do (2.4).

When Nikolas returns home, he and Lark get into a fight concerning the danger of his career and the impact if could have on their child. They quickly reconcile. As Lark is falling asleep in Nikolas' arms, she suddenly recalls the text from Dominic--she then realizes that he's in town in search of the wands Nikolas stole, since they were donated on behalf of the Tremaux family (2.4).

  Lark meets up with Dominic a few nights later while she's tending bar at Bartleby's. They speak for awhile, then Dominic asks for the books he left with her when she was still a teenager. Once they get to her home, though, he realizes a scroll is missing. He says that it isn't the first item of his to go missing in AS, and she clumsily spills the beans: she knows that someone stole his family's wands, and she knows who did it. She tells him the wands were sold to a buyer, and she can find out where he is. Dominic surmises that Nikolas is the one who stole the wands, and confronts Lark about her willingness to aid (and date) a thief (2.5).

Lark discovers that the wands were sent to Gaius Gallus in Roaring Heights. Dominic thanks her for her help. Nikolas arrives home, and the two men meet. After Dominic leaves, Lark mentions that she had held on to some books for him. Nikolas doesn't react to the comment, but she suspects he was the one who stole the scroll from the book cache (A/N: this was my fault as a writer--Nikolas totally stole the scroll and sent it to Gaius with the wands, and I didn't make that clear. Sorry) (2.5).

Dominic goes to Roaring Heights and locates Gaius' house. He formulates a plan: he uses a glamour spell to make himself look like Nikolas, and then he breaks into Gaius' house at dawn on Leisure Day, the longest day of the year. He finds the wands and scroll in a basement room, but he is stopped from taking them by a witch. She knocks him out, and he wakes up hours later at dusk. He is able to render her unconscious with a sleep spell, and then he wipes her memory of his presence (2.6).

Unfortunately, Gaius catches Dominic as he's leaving. Dominic is only able to escape by taking advantage of arithmomania, which is the uncontrollable need to count. He had read about it as a vampiric weakness in a textbook. Dominic drops a pocketful of pebbles to the floor, and Gaius is forced to stop and count them. Dominic takes that as his opportunity to escape, but he notices as he leaves that Bianca--Gaius' partner, who seems to be younger--does not stop and count the pebbles (2.6).

When he gets back to his hotel room, Dominic realizes--far too late, of course--that his plan put not only Nikolas in danger, but Lark as well. This upsets him deeply (2.6).

Meanwhile in Aurora Skies, Nikolas and Lark's lives hurdle forward. On Leisure Day, Nikolas proposes to Lark on the balcony of Bjorn Cafe, where they first met. She accepts (duh). They then go to the Leisure Day Festival, where Lark visits with her siblings and Nikolas goofs around. Lark then goes into labor (2.7).

After a quick labor, Lark gives birth to a son they name Bjorn (2.7).

Their idyllic life is quickly interrupted: the two vampires, Bianca and Gaius, come to Aurora Skies.  After creepily stalking Lark, as vampires are wont to do, they visit the Bee-Oskarsson Household (2.8).

The visit quickly turns violent. Gaius bites Lark, Bianca attacks Nikolas, and Karl--who was visiting that night--transforms into a werewolf. Dominic and his father Bastian burst into the scene just in time, having come to Aurora Skies to cast a protection spell due to Dom's negligent misuse of Nikolas' identity for his own heist. Bastian and Karl are able to repel the vampires (2.8).

Dominic finds Lark presumably dead. However, Karl is able to discern she's still alive. The mages work to heal her, and are successful (2.9).

After some hesitation, Dominic comes clean as to why the vampires attacked, and how he knew to come to Aurora Skies. Karl, his anger amplified by his lycanthropy, attacks the mage. At Lark's prompting, Nikolas tries to intervene (2.9).

Nikolas is bitten by Karl in the process of pulling his friend off of Dominic. Bastian--who had been upstairs helping with Bjorn--grimly explains that Nikolas is going to change into a werewolf (2.9).

Days pass. Life becomes tense for Lark and Nikolas. When she asks him one morning when he's going to change into a werewolf, the two begin to fight. Nikolas first questions Lark about her heritage, and then about her relationship with Dom. He asks her to break off her friendship with the mage, but Lark refuses (2.10).

After their fight, Lark texts Dominic and invites him out to Bartleby's. The two meet, and Dominic is overjoyed to see her. He expresses concern about her relationship with the newly-bitten Nikolas, stating that Nikolas may be dangerous to be around. Lark admits that things are difficult between her and her partner, but maintains that their relationship is strong. The two end the night with a friendly game of horseshoes, and a platonic high five (2.10).

Alone at their house, Nikolas transforms. Lark comes home to find him scratching at their new sofa (2.10).

At first, Nikolas doesn't seem like himself. He snarls at Lark, scaring her. She retaliates by beating him over the head with a newspaper, apparently the only logical course of action. Nikolas explains that she smells like Dominic, then claims her as his (2.11).

Despite his beastly behavior, Lark finds herself adequately seduced and the two do the horizontal monster mash. Afterwards, Lark feels overwhelmed by emotion, though what emotion is left vague (2.11).

A few nights later, the Bee family goes to the Fall Festival. Lark runs into Dominic there, and the two talk. When she gives him a hug, Nikolas becomes jealous and starts a fight with the mage. Dominic loses the fight and retreats, though luckily he is not bitten or scratched. Nikolas turns into a werewolf and tries to chase him, but Lark talks him into going hunting in the woods instead. She has an epiphany that the rest of her life is going to be filled with fear and tension if she stays with Nikolas (2.11). The next day, The Aurora Skies Times reports on an anonymous festival goer dressed as a werewolf (2.11.5).

 Lark realizes she's pregnant. This spurs on her decision to break up with Nikolas. She kicks him out of the house (2.12).

Shortly after that, she comes on to Dominic. He rejects her, saying he doesn't want to be a rebound. This causes her to lash out at him, a decision she immediately regrets (2.13).

The following morning, Lark finds Bjorn missing and a fairy girl in his place (2.13). She calls Dominic, who comes to help her. He decides they have to go to Faefall, the fairy realm, to try to retrieve Bjorn (2.14). 

When they get there, they discover that Aletheia, Dominic's long lost sister, is now queen of the realm and has taken Bjorn. She left the girl as a replacement, not understanding why Lark wouldn't want to accept her. She agrees to give them Bjorn, although first they have to come up with a solution for dealing with the girl, who is unwanted by her parents (2.14).

Dominic agrees to take the girl, promising to raise her as his own. Lark and Aletheia briefly talk. Aletheia reveals she isn't interested in being queen, but has no other option. She also expresses a feeling of kinship with Lark. Finally, Lark and Dominic return to Aurora Skies. Dominic reveals he has no intention of raising the girl, who he has named Raven. Instead, he is going to try to find a foster home for her with a mage family (2.15).

Nikolas, meanwhile, is living with Karl and Karl's family. Larks asks to speak to him, and the two come to a tentative (but heated) agreement to share custody of Bjorn, with Lark holding primary custody. Dominic also soon discovers that he is unable to find a home for Raven; it seems he'll have to adopt the spare changeling (2.16).  

Lark invites Dominic and Raven to move in with her and Bjorn. Dominic takes over the garden while Lark helps teach Raven life skills. Dominic and Lark also become closer during this time, and Lark confides in Dominic that she's afraid her unborn baby is "some kind of monster." Shortly after that, she goes into labor and delivers a werewolf pup she names Fenrir (2.17).