Three Jaguars and a Little Lady

Two plus two equals four

Hurt courses through me at the anger in his voice, I have to stop myself from answering back in kind. I look at Star to ask her to start. She sees my pain and recognizes that I need a moment and so she starts telling them her side. "Do you want to know the name I was born with or the name that I had when I met Arianna? Screw it why not both. I was born Alejandra Zapata in a small town outside of Columbia, South America, to a small pack of wolves. My mother was a witch. My father was the alpha. They were not true mates. As it turned out my father WAS actually obsessed with the Witch/wolf hybrid even though we know now that was impossible. He started on his children almost as soon as they were born. At best if they had any gifts from the Gods it was a single gift. And then I was born on the night of the blood moon, so he assumed the Gods had granted him his wish. Imagine his surprise and disgust when he realized that I was just a witch. He had no use for me then. At 14 he cast me out of the pack, but I gave my cousins a phone number that I could be reached at if they ever needed me. Four years later the call came, but it wasn't my cousins who called but my mother. She said I had to return home immediately and help save what was left of the children. I caught the first boat out. When I got there though, what I saw made me both want to vomit and kill my father for what he did to my family. Any female witch who was born became a brood mare for my father at the age of puberty, any males would be slaughtered. The only ones who were even remotely safe were the ones who were wolves because they could heal their injuries. But if they were born without a gift from the gods, they would be slaughtered as well. I had read and reread every spell I had that would help me, but knew my best bet were my twin 9mm revolvers. They were extremely hard to find and that made them expensive, but they served me perfectly. There was no telling if anyone had any true loyalty to my father anymore, so I knew I had to be careful. But I held my head up high and acted as if I had every right to be here. The few who bothered to look up, looked surprised but no one said anything. Still I knew I had to be careful, hell he could have a loyal witch in his little brood mare camp. I walked by the barn and heard screams, knowing I was there to free my pack from my father's influence I knew I had to do something. My father might as well have gone rogue for what his actions were. And that's what I did in the four years since I was cast out. I hunted rogues and turned in their pelts to the town packs around South America and they paid me rather handsomely to do so. I stormed into the barn just in time to see my father lash my older brother Andres. Andres was always cruel to us younger siblings but still I couldn't let my father kill him. It wasn't until I looked past my brother to the body of my mother hanging from the barn ceiling her back torn open. But all the blood was dry now. She died because of you Alejandra, for daring to go behind my back and to bring you here, my father said. Not even bothering to turn around, he lashed Andres again. Rage filled me as put my guns away. Remembering the spell that would be perfect for this, I call up the winds and air. And slowly but surely cut off his air supply, just like he did my mother.Tears fill my eyes as at first he claws at his throat as he drops to his knees. Finally turning he sees me, and as quick as I ever see him shift he starts barreling towards me but I know he will be dead before he reaches me. As he gets closer though I hesitate, I had never used these spells when I was in so much pain. Will the spell work or did I just get myself killed as I see that blood thirsty look in my father's eyes at the thought that someone managed to hurt him. I should of had faith in my ability to cast spells though, as he dropped dead less than a foot away from me. But damn that was a close one. As the Victor that made me the new Alpha even though it wasn't a true victory in my eyes. I looked amongst my pack, they all bowed but there were a few that held my gaze for a little to long or had an almost maniacal look on their face as I dragged out their former Alpha. I didn't even have time to mourn for my mother, but I still made time to bury her like she deserved. There was to much work to do but I put it off for a little longer. I go to what used to be my mothers study, and look around. Most of her precious books were destroyed but I managed to find a couple that I put aside to take with me. Finally I get down to business. I start calling nearby packs, and as the newest Alpha got passed right up to the Alphas of their packs. Well, that's convenient...I remember thinking. I discuss what had happened and explain, I am in no position or nor did I have the experience to be an Alpha. Could they please take in some of the members of the pack? Believe it or not some of the pack wanted to stay with me. But I forced them to go to their new homes. I left my father to rot in the sun hoping that some predator would come by and eat him. In life he was a s**t and in death he could continue to be s**t. I left that town knowing I would never return, with a few books tucked away in my bags. I buy a boat and sale across the Gulf to come to America. Pulling out one of my alias id's I study the name on it. Meghan Cantu. Okay that should be easy enough to remember. The one thing I loved about being a witch was the ability to hide in plain sight thanks to my magic. The Coast Guard stopped many boats as they tried to bring illegals into the US. But even if they were right next to me they couldn't see me or even hear my engine. Mother was from America and told me once that one day she would take me there. I never did understand how Mother and Father met and how they were able to stay together throughout all the years even knowing that she was not his mate. Mother would tell me stories about true mates and how they would sooner cut off their own arm then hurt their mates. But father wasn't like that, it seemed at times that he enjoyed hurting her. Well, he is in Hell and she in heaven. She is finally free of him. In the distance a dog barks, damn I am nearly to the shore and a dog is barking behind me. Leave it to the Coast Guard to have a K9 aboard. A dog isn't bound by the same laws as humans which meant the dig could see me just fine which had to confuse their handler but as I turned around to see how close they were, I see a surf board coming straight at me surprisingly with a dog aboard. I speed up the engine, and hurry up to the shore. It wouldn't due to go flipping boards so near to the beach where someone might start asking questions. From there, I went to a city named Galveston. Then I went to wherever the Gods sent me, before finally stopping in Seattle, Washington where I met my lovely little sister. I glanced at the faces of the males expecting to see looks of pity but instead finding admiration, acceptance, and a look of pride on the face that the Gods have chosen for me. His jaguar was still watching me and I could feel the waves of anger rolling off of him. Suddenly, Damians voice pops into my head "Don't mind him, he is very proud of you and all you have managed to do, including keeping this female and her young safe. Just give him time to cool down, then he will be capable of telling you himself how proud he is." I give a minute nod. As I look over at Arianna, she looks so small and full of sorrow but knowing the sooner we get her talking the sooner I can put her in a hot bath to soak the days stress away. It's not every day that a girl finds out she is destined to be mated to not one but two male jaguars after being attacked and r***d by a lion. I follow Damian back into his mind through the link that he established. I give him a word of advice, "If you truly want your mate to accept you as you truly are, then you need to accept her for who she truly is. It IS only fair. She has been living in this world for years before you came into her life, give her a reason to smile not a reason to be for her tears. Look at her, she has been through enough, doncha think?" Besides.... if you hurt her, I will kill you. I end with that as I close the link. I watch him as he takes one look at her and his cat suddenly emerges. He crawls on his belly to her as Rocky holds her hand. I know Rocky was waiting for him to calm down before saying anything but damnit, she really has been through enough. But maybe a bit of groveling will be good for him as maybe he will watch his temper from now on with her.

A flash of movement catches my eye as Rockys thumb gently brushes the back of my hand. In front of me I see who can only be Damian in his cat form crawling to me on his belly. That could neither be comfortable nor a very happy place for his jaguar to be. I look up at Rocky and he is beyond furious at Damian for what I dont know but I can see Rockys cat peeking and occasionally moving under the skin. I link with Rocky, "does it hurt?" instantly his attention is focused solely on me. "Does what hurt, My Queen?" "The moving under the skin, and the shift?" He thinks for a moment before answering me, "the moving under the skin used to itch like crazy but eventually a shifter would get use to it. As for the actual shifting, not anymore. The first three are the most painful, as before them technically you are still human and your body isn't used to changing forms. The second is less painful but almost bearable, and the third barely hurts at all. As you grow accustomed to whatever beast you have within, you start sharing more things with them. As you both get use to the new accommodations, the animal can actually become a friend to you if you allow it. The closer you are, the less you fight. The less you fight, the less painful it is. That's why the first three are still painful, because you are still subconsciously fighting each other. Once you stop, the pain stops. I hear a rustle and I turn before a light touch brushes my mind. "It kind of helps the person who is trying to grovel, if the person he is doing it for is paying attention." He tells me, I have to force the giggle away. "Oh then by all means, continue." I say in response. Who the hell giggles anymore, certainly not me! I say to myself. I miss the glance that Damian's cat and Rocky share, but before I know it Damian is back in human form and both he and Rocky pounce on me tickling me. I cry uncle, Aunt, anything to make them stop but to no avail. They continue their onslaught then as they quickly as they started they stop. "No, we are in agreement, you have a very cute giggle." I turn beet red as I realize they had heard that thought. Wondering what else they may have heard, I internally grin as I start thinking about Rockys butt and Damians arms. Damian grunts at me, "I happen to think my butt is nicer than Rockys." he tells me. Rocky laughs at that, "no way dude my butt is way nicer. What did they call it?.....oh yeah a bubble butt, yeah I have a bubble butt." I can't help but laugh as they mock argue about who has the nicer butt, sadness all but forgotten.

We parted at the back door as the guys didn't want me outside without them if I'm not wearing my perfume. I gave them both tight hugs which is against my nature since that night. But I couldn't resist as they stood there with their arms open. They didn't pressure me for more, which was nice so I gave in. I think X and Star are going for a walk to discuss the mating thing. I still have doubts myself as well as questions but I was scared to ask and even more worried to think about because I never know when Damian is in my mind. Sneaky little bugger! I think and suddenly a male chuckle happens in my head. "I just wanted to say good night again" I giggle as I remind him we just said goodnight less than 5 minutes ago. I had just laid my head head down when suddenly a scream comes from Lilys room. I quickly get up and run to her room as I see her crying out in her sleep. I quickly go to her and rub her back gently whispering soothingly to her when the guys both slam into her room. Both of them wearing nothing but boxers. I link to them, "she had a nightmare, she gets them sometimes." When she first started getting them I was so afraid for her, but the doctor said it is normal for a child to get nightmares sometimes as long as it is not affecting her during the day. Lily opens her eyes, "Mama?" I quickly tell her that yes I am here. The guys also tell her they are there. That she has nothing to be afraid of that as long as they are around, your family is safe and that they planned on being around for a long long time. She lowers her head and as her eye lids follow suit a faint smile plays on her lips. She sleeps calmly the rest of the night.

The following morning, I get up remembering what the guys looked like with just their boxers on. I lay there wondering how did this happen. They could make any super model jealous of their looks and yet I am their mate? That doesn't seem fair. A growl rips through the air as Damian calls through the house "You are perfect the way you are Little Bit. Now get a move on, we got things to do and every little time to do it." This time we leave the house and us females are wearing the perfume as the guys walk in front of, behind, and with us once we are in town. "We have our own little security force, I giggle as I tell Star. The only downside is it's making people stare. Won't that draw attention?" "Yes but we want everyone to see that you three are not to be messed with. And to the couple strays it makes sure to show you are guarded by not one but three Jaguars and there are very few shifters capable of taking on one of us let alone all three of us. As it is Saturday we decide to take in an early movie but due to Lily, our options were limited to Disney films. "I'm sorry guys, I know it might not be as good as one of those action ones." "What are you ladies and gents talking about?" Damian suddenly appearing from behind me says. "That our only options for a movies are Disney movies." "What's wrong with that?"Damian asks. "Well it's not an action movie or something like that"...He crouches down and asks Lily if she would like to see a magic trick. She quickly nods. He reaches behind her head and suddenly pulls his hand away with a tiara. She laughs and oohs and ahhs and "again again" as she jumps up and down clapping. What she didn't see however was that I saw Damian hand Rocky a bag and when Damian reached back, Rocky passed him the tiara. My affection for these guys is growing a mile a minute. After the magic trick, the latest princess movie was unanimously voted for. After the movie, it is decided to have a game night at home the first game chosen is of course "Sorry" I shake my head laughing, the guys look up from seeing up the game. "What's up?" "You will see, but this child has the best luck with this game." In two years no one has been able to be beat her. Five games later, "that's it, I figured it out... she cheats" Rocky says. I shake my head laughing. "Can't say I didn't warn you guys."

Days turn into weeks, and weeks to months on the days we are off from work we are just one big happy family, and on the days Star and I work, we come home to a hot fresh meal. I stop to think, I could almost forget that Star and I are on the run if it weren't for the daily spray downs of the perfume to mask our scents. Every now and then doubt creeps into my mind about the mating situation, but the guys are either always in my mind or they can just read me that well and they do something to get me out of the funk, be it silly or sweet. "I think it's time." The guys look up from the puzzle they are working on with Lily. "Lily, it's bedtime. You have school in the morning." Okay Mama. She leans over to give Damian and Rocky both a kiss on the cheek and then goes and high fives X. The guys pass a look between the three of them. But Star stops me just as I'm about to start. "sis, are you sure?" Yes, this talk should have happened months ago, and you guys have been so patient with me. Without a word Rocky and Damian come and sit in their places on the couch on either side of me and gently take my hands. I take a deep breath and begin, "My given name is Jessica O'Mallory. My father was a man if you could call him that without insulting all the true men in the world, was a drunk and did drugs but hid all that from the outside world, hell us kids didn't even know for years. At first he was a decent man, but when my mother died something in him snapped. He ranted, raved, and beat on anything that reminded him of her, and as her exact mini clone, I was always the target." Knowing I will never finish this if I look any of them in the eyes I quickly continue. "That was just the beginning though, soon he had my older brother beating on me as well. Sometimes they took turns, others they would do it at the same time. But one night everything changed. I had just had my sixth birthday" I shudder in disgust as I continue. "That night he slammed open my door and muttered "yeah you'll do", and climbed into my bed." I hear a low growl but I refuse to look up. After....afterwards he stumbled away from my bed and went to his own and passed out. Each night afterwards he would repeat it. I feel my stomach roll in protest as I think about his sweaty hands on me. I quickly stand up couldn't bear to have the guys touch me now that they knew I was so...so....dirty, I ran away from home at the age of twelve and changed my name. And have been in hiding ever since.Then the attack....Don't you guys understand? I'm broken! I can't do this I'm so sorry I thought I could but I cant...I quickly run from the house I know Star will take care of Lily but I had to run from the ugliness but I never could because it was from within. I don't even feel the rain as it starts drizzling, and then starts pouring. But I do notice what looks like a deer laying on it's side in front of me, Instantly, the rogues head pops up from the deer and our eyes lock onto each other. But before I can scream or even run the guys are there right before the rogue pounced.. Damian grabbed him as Rocky hit the rogue over and over again and then they switched sides and Damian took his turn except he wasn't punching, his hands had shifted into paws and he was slashing at the rogue. The rogue though was beyond feeling any pain as the blood lost drove it to try to lunge at Damian. Howling out in rage as Rocky kept the rogue from going anywhere, the Rogue finally stopped struggling to get at Damian, and just laid there hanging from his arms. Suddenly I was filled with dread "No" I scream as the Rogue pops up slaming into Rockys face, Rockys hands slip off of the rogue just as Damians paw buried itself in the chest of the rogue. "I'm suppose to be the calm one, the one who doesn't have a care in the world" Damian screams as he rips the rogues heart out of his chest and throws it to the ground. "Yet how am I suppose to feel when my own mate confesses that she was broken because of what happened to her as a child. That she is willing to reject me AND my brother because of a bastard who should have protected her instead he beat her down yes fractured her maybe but Damnit Woman your not broken! You're the sweetest, kindest, most beautiful woman I ever met and after years of living in the darkness only able to give you words from a distance to moving into the light with you and our daughter being able to truly see how life is suppose to be, you want to cast us back into the darkness because your scared?!?!? That's bullshit and you know it!! Suddenly, Rocky is there between us. Almost a whisper I can barely feel it through the link "Don't....yell....at.....her." If anyone else heard that they would think the words were said calmly, but no, there was pure rage buried in them. "Don't you see guys, I'm even tearing you two apart. Making you nearly fight. Please just let me go..." The truth tumbles out of my mouth before I could stop it, I knew it was Stars doing, I knew it was one of her spells. "Just let me go before I fall any deeper in love with you two and you leave me." I close my eyes and drop to my knees after saying my confession, the storm raging in my heart and in the sky. Within seconds I begin feeling lips at my neck and to my own lips. "Oh f**k, how could I not love you Little Bit?" and "Damnit my Queen your breaking my heart" and similar statements were said through our link.

On one hand, I wanted to take her inside where it was nice and dry and show her how a male truly makes love to a female, and on the other I still want to rip Damians head off for yelling at her. A deep chuckle forms in my mind, as he replies "and I would deserve it and more." I suckle on the back of her neck as I show her that yes I do find her physically attractive as I grind myself into her gorgeously round ass. She gasps as Damian takes her n****e into his mouth through her shirt. His paws back to his hands, knowing it didn't matter how angry he got, he could never strike out at our Beauty. Our Beauty, and we her beasts. "Really?" she asks "you don't think Belle's a bit nerdy?" she manages to get through our bond with a slight giggle. Suddenly she sees me lock eyes with Damian. "uh oh, this doesn't bode well for me." She tries to crab walk away but we each grab a leg and pull her back to us. Baby, let us show you how it could truly be between a male and a female. We don't have to create the bond tonight, but let us show you true love." "If you accept me as fragile as I am at times, then let me accept you both." She replies. My eyes widen at that, shock bridges the gap between Damian and I. "Wait, My Queen....are you saying what I think you're saying? Are you saying you want to bond with us?" She quickly but confidently sits up and pulls her tank top over her head, but the shyness returns as she says as she reaches a hand towards us "show me how to love you too?" We both go to her and quickly finishing stripping her down before stripping ourselves down.

The sun shine peeks through the clouds as it rises slowly waking me up. But that's not what wakes me, I notice Rocky is awake at the same time. We look down at the small but obviously shivering body of our mate. Quickly but gently I pick her up into my arms as I stand, Damian grabs our clothes. Looking around I notice the body of the rogue is gone. I nod at the male who became my brother and give him a small smile. Quickly we run back to the house knowing that it will be warmer once we get in it. Knowing the floor plan by heart, I lead the way then Damian quickly pulls back the sheet and blanket and I lie her in the middle of the bed. She curls up on her side, while her hands reach around quickly we lay down in front of and behind her and I pull the sheet and blanket up to our shoulders. Suddenly the bed starts trembling, I jump up and notice the cause of the trembling is about three feet under the edge of the blanket. Flipping the covers back I see her giggling. My heart melts right then and there. "See" I say as I boop her nose "your giggles are absolutely adorable." She giggles again before saying, "Lily will be up soon, she usually is on a week day. Star and I usually have to work but today is our day off, we try to work the same shift but we don't always get the same day off like today." "Okay, so what do we need to do? Rocky asks. Well unfortunately, that means we can't stay in bed all day repeating last night." She says with a pout. "It means we have to get up and dressed. And while I love the scent of you two on my body, I need a shower." She says as she laughs. Both Rocky and I groan at the thought of not repeating last night again, which makes her laugh harder as she gets up to start her day. "But you know guys, two plus two equals four." She says as she gets back from her shower. We automatically know what she means and we wouldn't have it any other way.

I look over to my brother and punch his arm fairly hard. "You really need to watch your temper when it comes to her. While you were right last not about her not being broken, she is fragile at times and one of us yelling at her is not going to help with that." He sighs and nods "you're right, you usually are. It's just the thought of her rejecting us when she needs us the most terrifies me in a way, I don't remember the last time I felt this way. She needs us right now, I don't know why but I feel like something is going to happen. Something big and the rogue last night wasn't it." It was my turn to nod now, "I know what you mean, I feel it too. I don't know what to do about it either. But I do know that we all are better and stronger together than we ever have been. We need her just as much if not more than Ari and the Princess need us." Damian nods in agreement. " I can't go back to the darkness, brothermine. I can't." "You won't have to ever again brothermine. She is ours."