Reunited

Raye stepped down into the quiet jazz club. The fairy lights were off and tiny creatures with round flat noses, pointy hats were cleaning the remains of last night. Octa sat at the bar with a cocktail in their hand, kimono falling off their shoulder and long pearls circling their neck. They chatted to one of the tiny creatures who lounged on the bar. Its eyes grew wide at the appearance of Raye and his crew. 

"Octa," Raye's deep voice bounced through the empty club. 

The shapeshifter spun in the bar stool "oh" Octa sizes up the werewolf and his crew but their eyes were on Raye "Oh" Octa turned towards the bar, fixing their look in the mirror "Yes?" they purred words out, breathy "a fan?" they asked as Raye shook his head. 

"No" he moved closer "I need you to take a look at this" he pulled out the stone which Octa grabbed and stared at it. 

Their eyes moved from the stone towards Raye. "you are Lita's man" Raye cringed at Octa's words. 

"Do you know what that is?" Raye asked as Octa began to circle Raye, their slipper heels clicked against the hardwood floors. 

"you know, Felita was in here just last night" Octa purred while Raye gave them a bored expression "And she was with a witch" Raye eyes lit up then turned dark "funny, the witch was looking for the same thing" Raye grabbed Octa by the waist and push them against the wall. 

-where did they go?- Ralf growled at the shifter with a glowing blue ring around his iris. 

Octa smiled mischievously and said, "I don't know." Ralf slammed the shifter against the wall until Gordon pulled him off. The shifter said they hadn't seen the purple stuff, and they brushed off. Octa snapped her fingers, and the troll showed them out. She then took out her phone. 

Ralf stared the troll down with a flared nose and a growl growing in his chest, but Gordon grabbed his arm and pulled from the bar. Raye pushed Ralf out of his mind as the group crawl up out of the jazz club. The pavement was littered with people going about their business.

"you alright there bud?" Gordon slammed his heavy hand onto Raye's back. 

Raye shook off the anger buzzing in his mind "We need to find them, she can't take her, not my mate" a sign caught Raye's eye. Just down the road stood a familiar hotel. 

"what next? Alpha," Faye's soft voice uttered behind him. 

"There" he announced. 

… 

Rays sneaked into the windows and crept along with the mesh that hangs from the post. An arm pulled from the sheets as wishfully curved as she turned over, and a raw scent of coconut flushed Felita's nose, which made her shake her head. The witch was dreaming again. For most of the night, her arousal would spike and Recca would claw at Felita's walls. Wanting to leave this seat and crawl into bed with a little siren, but her mind would kick in with a helpful annoying notion.

Felita wanted to take it slow and not force her self onto the little witch. She recognised the pain in Rueben's eyes and walls built around her heart. The witch wasn't ready nor was Felita and with all that is going, those creatures, there more happening with Rueben than she thought. Felita shook her head before looking at the small bottle between her fingers, the clear liquid bubbles I moved as she flipped it around in her fingers. Another night without sleep, she had just gotten off the phone with Chad, arranging more time, but she felt restless leaving the pack. But her mate needed it. 

A soft whimper broke from Rueben's lips, causing Recca to twist and Felita pants tighten. Recca began to flash images of Rue's back arched, fingers lacing Felita's hair and her toes curling on the she-wolf back. Felita grabbed the arms of the chair she was sitting in, she covered her nose when Rueben's scent stirred and burned the in the air. 

Recca whispered in her ear *I just want to hold her* her husky voice lingered in Felita's mind, but she-wolf shook her head *just a touch* Recca whispered which Felita lifted from the seat and made her way to sleeping witch. When another scent came wafting through the window, "shit" Felita expressed and moved to the window but nothing "shit" the scent grew stronger.

The door slapped open, and Raye stood in the doorway with eyes filling with rage. Felita watched him glance at the woman in the bed. Rueben stared at him in fright with wide eyes and parted lips. Before anyone could react, Felita was thrown to the floor by Raye. But Felita just laid there in shock with Raye snapping at her neck, the only thing preventing him from coming any closer was Felita's hands on his chest. This moment took Felita by surprise. She had never seen him this angry. The two had our history and their fights but this was something else.

He bared his teeth, his eyes were clouded by Ralf, his skin pooled with sweat and he dug his nail deep into her skin.. He was scared and all Felita wanted was to wrap her arms around him, make him smile, just so she could relive their old days. just Felita and Raye again. But Rueben interrupted her thoughts. She grabbed his shoulder, and he instantly stopped by the witch's touch. He pushed Felita into floor before wrapping his arms around the poor woman. 

Rueben shoved Raye off. "What the actual fuck is wrong with you?" the witch express before moving to help Felita up, and she noticed tears falling from the witch's eyes.

He moved towards the woman but stopped when Rueben lifted her hand. "Excuse me," Raye uttered, but it amazed Felita how much the witch had control over him. 

Once Rueben had made sure Felita was ok, she turned to face Raye. "you can't storm into a room, breaking down the door and just attacking her" Raye swiftly turned towards Rueben kept his eyes on Felita.

"I thought you were kidnapped," he argued, but the woman let out a bitter laugh.

Rueben raised both her arms. "Read the fucking room, bitch" he grabbed the witch's waist, pulling her towards him. They were inches apart, and Recca growled in disapproval.

Raye sneered at the witch, Ralf was at his boiling point. "don't ever talk to me like that" Rueben shoved him off once more. 

"This is the reason I don't deal with werewolves" she gasped "you are impulsive, possessive and think that Stockholm syndrome is a romantic gesture" Rueben cocked her hip when Raye began to raise his voice but Felita stepped forward.

"Enough" the she-wolf walked between the two. "as much as I love seeing you take him down, I do. I have questions. Why are you here?" she turned to Raye, who was giving her a death glare.

Rueben peeked out from behind Felita. "And how did you find me?" She raised her hand before crossing them, making her bust protrude in the loose tee she wore.

He turned towards Felita with a sneer "first, I don't answer you" he moved to Rueben, holding up his phone "Octa said you were together and this is her" she pointed to Felita "favorite hotel, I just had to follow her scent" he explained "plus, your burner" he wiggled the phone between his fingers

"Shit, that bitch" Rueben became frantic, rushing towards her bag and looking through it "this is why I don't carry a burner phone" she slammed the phone onto the hardwood floors and it broke into "we need to leave" The witch grabbed Felita's hand but Raye cut them off.

He puffed his chest. "you are not going anywhere with her," he sneered at she-wolf over Rueben's shoulder.

Rueben grabbed his shirt and pulled him close "we are wasting time, if we don't leave at this moment, this place will be swarmed by creatures so scary that your mama wouldn't bare telling you stories about them" but Raye still stood like an obstacle before her "if you don't move, I swear I will kill you" he gave her a 'really' look "I don't care who you are" the words slowly fell from her lips and the shock in his face said it all, he moved out of her way. 

She grabbed her stuff and so did Felita. Once we reached the door, we opened it to the rest of Raye's crew leaning against the walls "I am coming with you" Raye stood behind us "where are you going by the way" they all stared at the little witch.

Reuben turned to the group. "there are so many of you," she whispered before heading for the stairs.