Law of the Jungle. chapter one
Humans are just a smart class of animals. Even a common crow can use tools to it advantage. Those that were given to shift from man to animal, those don't concern with my experiments. After all, I have already have my data on shifters and what make them tick. Now I shall do the rest of my studies on the Human mind and body. What makes them truly different then animals and shifters. Now after I have collected the subjects for the first around of experiments, a young female in its early twenties and a male entering middle-age, I shall first strip away what society deems human and program, at the least, them to become like animals. First need to gather my two test subjects....
The doors of the elevator opened with a ding, the people walked out at either a brisk walk or slow pace as it was still early in the morning and many were still trying to wake up full to take on the day's tasks. Oliver Kim was just excited to be this floor of the FBI headquarters at Quantico,Virginia. It was the floor for the one of the BAU teams. He already met with the supervisor of BAU, a large reptile shifter with a bad habit of novelty ties but not with the team leader since the team was out on a case and just came back Saturday.
It was unheard of for a lone wolf to walk onto another wolf's territory without permission. But Kim really did try to meet with SSA Harley before now but it always seemed like fate didn’t want them to meet till now. Kim can smelled the wolf pack just at the end of the hallway, along with a scatter of other types of shifters and of course the large amount of human. Hopefully the pack leader would allow him into the pack, adding one more to the small number of this particular pack. There were at least two more scattered in Virginia, the larger pack located in the mountains. He may have to move out of state if this pack won't take him in since wolf packs are a bit sketchy about a lone wolf walking around.
With fingers crossed and a deep breath, Oliver Kim walked in between the large glass doors, mindful of other people entering and leaving and took a look around. Three heads already perked up and gave the new wolf a look over, then looked at the closed door of where SSA Harley's office would be. Sure enough, the door open and a not very large but not what people would deem small either man peeked out. His sandy hair was sleeked back but his tie was already loose and collar undone this early of the work day. The hazel eyes narrowed but only in wonder at the new wolf on campus. With a head tilt, he bid the man up to his office. Kim did as told and tried to not look at the nosy wolves and one bobcat as they stare him down as he walk up to the office, door held open wide for him.
“So you're the new guy that Douglass has assigned to us.” Kim nodded and offered his hand, stating his name. He wouldn't bare his neck to the Alpha till after he been accepted into the pack but he kept his head lowered and eyes on him to show a bit of submission.
“Great another wolf, I'm telling Frankie about this.” A man, no a fox according to his scent, scoffed as he kept his eyes on the paper as he folded it and cut it with a pair of small scissors, getting pieces of green paper all over the floor of the team leader's office. Ankles crossed as the feet rested on the solid oak desk. In the place of where the leader should sit.
“Don't mind Abby. I would blame his medication but he won't take them unless I put them in his muffins.” Harley sighed and shoved the booted feet off the desk and pushed the chair around till the fox was now snipping paper at the left side of the large desk. “Please sit down, Mister Kim.” He offered the now slightly confused Asian man one of the chairs in front of the desk and waited till he sat down before taking the remaining chair to his side and sat down in his chair.
“Yes, SSA Harley I know I should have met with you and your pack earlier but time wasn't never on our side and I regret just showing up here now.”
The sandy haired shifter waved off the words and just smiled. “Douglas already sent me your file and spoke about you Wednesday on the phone but we were on a case that lasted till Friday.” the fox snorted but was ignored. “Ill set you up on probation to see how well you get along with the team and pack before making the request of offering the spot to you.”
“Thank you, sir. I hope we all get along well and you won't regret it.” Kim smiled gently and Harley returned the smile.
“This is SSA Fredrick Abberline.” He fling a hand at the fox was now cutting along folded pink paper, the first sheet now spread out in front, resembling a line of pumpkin faces. “Just excuse him, he just doing as his therapist told him to do. To channel his creative side and he refused to work at his desk.” The fox just saluted, not giving the dark haired man a glance as he kept working on his paper project. “The others have more or less gotten use to him and just report to me only..” The Alpha looked at the other wolf as he said 'to me only' stating he was to do the same. “when he is acting out or seems off even by his standards.” The man then stood up, Kim followed in action then follow again outside of the office to the Bullpen to meet with the other members of the team and pack.
The almond-shaped eyes looked up only for a second before settle down the row of pink flowers on the desk and picked up a sheet a blue paper.
The wolves and cat that were eyeing him before were gathering about a desk that belonged to one of the wolves, laughing about something in the wolf's hand. “All right, team.” Harley announced their arrival, making the three shifters stop laughing and to stand up to face their leader and new team member. “This is Oliver Kim. He's new and on probation till he either seems to fit or not. Don't scare him off or be too rude. I already have to deal with Abby's mood swings and I don't wanna play referee with you lot either.” His tone was serious while his lips were trying to not form a smile. “Make him feel welcome, as for now he is pack as well as newest team member. That's all and oh Will..” The bobcat shifter turned his dark brown eyes to the leader at the mention of his name. “you had something to show me?”
“Oh right, its back in my lair.” Will grinned and thumbed in the direction of his tech office. Harley nodded and followed the cat in that direction. Two minutes later, Oliver was cornered against a nearby desk as the two wolves surrounded him.
They sniffed at him as he sniffed back, getting close to sniff at his pulse point on his neck and he did the same to them. Then they grinned and took his hand in greeting. “I'm Erick and this is Mac” The redhead of the two spoke as the brunet said a greeting. “We are really a nice bunch around here, just wary about new wolves. The mountain pack is still kind of mad at us but the other pack, they don't care about us as long we keep Abby and Will in the car.”
The wolf named Mac shrugged and took over speaking, “Will is awesome, he's our tech wizard and knows everything sci-fi as cliché' that is but he's the man to go when you need to know self like that.” The two men sat the new member in the chair that Mac was sitting in before. “But Abby?”
“Abby suffered a mental breakdown a year or so before joining the team and only thanks to Harley, he allowed to work with us. Otherwise he be in a nuthouse somewhere.” Erick rubbed at his ear as he sat down on the edge of his pack mate's desk. Mac copied on the other side but laying his hands in between his legs, holding them together. “We think his big brother, Francis Abberline is blackmailing Harley in letting Abby on the team. He is after all the man, or fox, behind the throne for all of North America and Hawaii and bits of Europe. We keep forgetting which bits though.”
“We think he has his mind on Australia's control as well but the ones in control are making it hard for him.” So far they succeeding in making their new pack mate's head spin.
“He doesn't want that giant rock.” all three wolves turn around to see the resident fox hanging up his artwork above Harley's office door, the chair wobbling under his feet. Making Kim nervous about possible head injury. “He does want Japan though.”
“Annnyway....” Mac looked away to smile at the dark-haired wolf. “We are three wolves, one fox and one bobcat/lion mix, Will prefers the title of boblion but he's kooky like that.”
Erick jumped in. “and one human, our Media Liaison, Nicole Jones. We don't like her.” thus causing the two wolves to become high school girls in Kim's poor mind. This pack was as strange as a two legged dog. “She stuck up and treats everyone but Mac” who shivered. “like shit. She hates Abby most of all and tries to get him fired once a month. Abby may be a fox and kooky but he is a pack and we don't let people mess with pack.” Kim can understand that. Pack look out for their own. Even if one or two were not of the same species. He have met with other packs and prides that have accepted in other shifter types and treated them as if they were of the same blood, so it wasn't that abnormal.
“Jones is still pack but only cause she travels and work with us. We still holding out for her leaving but it hasn’t happen yet.” Mac took up speaking again. Kim has yet to get any real word in and starting to think this was normal among these wolves.
A new voice spoke up. “I know you don't mean that, Mac” Mac shivered again and moved to sit with his pack mate against the desk, just to put distance between him and the woman that were click-clacking her way to the three of them in high dollar heels. Her shirt was tight across her...very ample breast with three buttons undone to borderline office and skank. The skirt was high on her legs, making Kim draw his suspicions on where the human female shopped for clothes. “you love me too much for me to leave.” She smiled seductively while Erick snorted and Mac just rolled his eyes. Then her blue eyes looked down at the man sitting in Mac's assigned chair. “I'm Nicole Jones, and you must be the new.....wolf on the team.” The red-haired woman wrinkled her nose at him in clear disgust.
“Yes, hello Nicole.” He stood up just to be polite and offered his hand in greeting. “I'm Oliver Kim and I hope we.”
The human cut in rudely. “A new case, Boss-doggy wants you all and the dust bunny at the round table in ten. It's a doozy too.” She winked at Mac in parting but ignored the other two men as she walked on past them. Swaying her hips to where Kim was afraid that they might dislocate at any moment.
He took his eyes off the human when Erick stood up and smooth down his pinstripe shirt over the slim tan pants. “She read that book series about a human female finding love with a vampire but a wolf also thought she was hot and thinks Macaroni here is her Jacob.”
“Believe it or not, her skirts were a lot longer when she started here.” Mac jumped in as he grabbed a pen for the three of them out of a Pepe LePhew pen holder. “But she thinks I'm playing hard to get and I even had to flirt with Abby a few times to throw her off the scent but that made her work harder.”
“Abby, time to work!” Erick shouted, while the other two man kept walking.
“Abby was a good sport about it once I explain that I was trying to shave my skin from that woman but told me that he'll turn my tail into a pillow if I try it again.” The brunet shifter spoke as he led them to what was a conference room for the team. Will and Harley were already seated, looking through the files on the new case as Jones was setting up photos on the board located against the wall. Folders were already in place for the rest of the team to look at.
Erick sat down across from his Alpha with Mac sitting on his left. Kim chose to sit on the man's right, poking through the file to show his eagerness to work.
“I'm William Pavie. Tech wizard.” The bobcat raised his hand in greeting. “I would have said hello before but I needed to show Boss-man this program I created right away.”
“Oh, I'm Oliver Kim.” Hopefully this will be the last time he needed to introduce himself for a while. It was starting to feel like the first day of school and the teacher forgotten to write name plates on the students desk.
Abberline was the last of team and pack to walk in and chose to sit beside Harley who sighed and plucked the phone that he was typing on out of his hands. Now they can get on to business with the new case.
The case involved several killings in a uptown posh apartment building in Maryland where one needed to be as rich as Donald Trump to even get the smallest of apartments. Weeks apart, it would seem that the suspect was working his or her way through a floor going from the top to the bottom. So far, two floors were wiped out in gruesome ways with two or three apartments being spared . Looking like the suspect was just using what was in the chosen apartment of the night. Many of the residents fearing that they were next and it was cleared that they were had moved out of the building and the owner was asking for a quick end to the killings and done quietly.
The wonder twins, as Kim was starting to call them as in his mind, drove him back to his small house to help him gather what they call 'go bag' for the case, telling him to pack for a full week but expect to be there only up to three days. They filled him in how cases usually worked out. Harley as pack leader would speak first to the local pack and prides in the city they were going to then they would set up shop in the police department that were over looking the case. The bobcat was to stay behind and work from his lair so one less pack member to worry about. The only one they as a pack need to watch out for is Abby. When working on a case, he tends to have one track mind.
“He forgets to eat or drink or even sleep. Usually we just sit him down and force feed him when its been to long since he ate.” The redhead spoke as they pulled into the parking lot.
“Just try to ignore him when it feels like he's making you feel stupid. He just lacks manners. We don't mind unless he's about to get on a shifter's nerves. Then we step in.” Mac added in as the car came to a stop. “He's really all bark and the size of a dust bunny but the ego of a rottweiler.”
Kim nodded in understanding and grabbed his bag then followed the wonder twins to where Harley was standing in waiting for the three of them. Jones and Abby weren't in sight but may have been waiting inside the private jet issued to the BAU. Harley walked up to placed his hand on first, Erick's cheek and then Mac's before nodding them on board. Then he stood in front of Kim, hand pulled back for a minute before placing on his shoulder. Kim didn't moved, knowing it was the Alpha's first step in familiarizing him into pack. Then he was given the go ahead to come on bored of the jet. Harley followed behind and closed the door.
Erick and Mac already grabbed the couch on the right side, sitting down together and pulling out the new case folders to review over the facts while Jones seems to seized the only table as her work area. The fox was lying down with pillow covering his face on the only other couch in the jet.
“He doesn't like flying and refused to do anything till he's on the ground. Harley drugs him up before every flight.” Mac stated as the sandy haired Alpha stepped around him to sit down, first pulling up the fox's legs and then sit them down on his lap. A hand rubbing a jean covered knee, no doubt in comfort as he waited for the jet to start moving. Kim quickly sat down with the twins and buckled up for lift off.
He just couldn't take his eye off of the hand that kept rubbing the fox's knee. Pack and pride members don't know the concept of personal bubble among themselves. So that wasn't the strangest thing, it was mostly loud and bright lacing cord on the jean leg that was drawing his eye. It was blue and yellow with rhinestones down the legs.
“For a month, Abby was into clothing design. We still have the coats he made for us in our closets back home. We try to wear them once a while to make him feel better.” Erick whispered.
Mac added in just as the jet started to roll down the run way. “When he starts tape measuring you, try to subtle hint your favorite colors or end up like Harley and his clown coat.” The twins chuckled and Kim started as well, imagining the Alpha in clown wear.
So far so good.
Upon arrival, Harley made it a point that Kim was to stay in front of the wonder twins with Abby placed between them, Erick was holding the still drugged fox up, helping him walk as the drugs leave his system. Jones walked quickly in her high dollar heels to match pace with the Alpha, with folders pressed against her chest. In normal pack formation, Kim would have been behind the two wolves, as since he was a bit bigger and could protect from behind. But since he hasn't proven himself as pack, he was to be where he can be seen. Even Harley kept looking over his shoulder to check on the Asian man.
The city's pack was meeting them at the end of the gate with their cars. No doubt waiting to talk to Harley and then escort them to the police station as both a sign of welcome and state the visiting pack was allowed to be on pack land. Normally the local pride leader would be there as well if there was a pride, but Harley informed them that the nearest pride was too far away to be an issue. Kim can smell more shifters in the area but could be just wolf sentries in hiding.
His Alpha walked out after signaling that they stay behind. Jones rolled her eyes but stayed back. Kim stepped in front of her as the Alphas talked to each other. Mac flanked the fox's side as some of the local wolves set their eyes on the groggy fox, measuring him in size and weakness. Abby was starting to be more area of his surroundings, no doubt smelling more wolves close by and instincts were taking over. Too many big predictors for the fox's more primal mind's liking. Kim took his eye off the Alphas as he spotted Abby becoming fidgety.
“Easy, easy.” Erick whispered in the fox's ear, rubbing a comforting hand on his back to settle him. Green eyes look at Kim and nodded at him, that he can take care of the fox till the human side can tell the fox side that there is no danger. Kim nodded back, focusing back on the Alphas.
“So many damn wolves.” Abby spoke from behind and tried to stand up straight to show he wasn't afraid.
Harley shook hands with the local Alpha, a tall woman with short hair, then walked back to join his own. “We'll ride with Gregson in her car. Her boys will take our things to a B&B that one of the pack's own. We settle on room assignments when we need to but for now, we focus on the case.” Their alpha walked up to the fox who was still a bit fidgety as Mac trailed with Jones to the local Alpha's car.
He cupped the pale cheeks and stared into the dark green eyes before leaning in closer. “Abby, you are fine. I had to drug you for the plane ride but no one is out to hurt you.” The fox nodded, muttering a whatever before walking after Jones and Mac. Erick was on his heels as Kim and Harley shared a look.
“He doesn’t do change well. He won't be grounded till we be here for while and by then he be too into the case to even remember that we're not in Virginia anymore.” Harley was rubbed a hand through his hair as Kim took the information in and acknowledge what was being said between the lines. The fox was not to be alone at all, for mostly his safety. Harley or either of the wonder twins would be at his side if they had to split up for some reason. “Gregson doesn't trust Jones, they don't trust humans that much in this pack, but tolerate enough to work with them. Mac will stick with her.” So this was to be the test of him becoming pack. If he can work with Harley and Erick and help keep an eye on Abberline then he was one step closer in being pack.
Time to get to work then.
The doors of the elevator opened with a ding, the people walked out at either a brisk walk or slow pace as it was still early in the morning and many were still trying to wake up full to take on the day's tasks. Oliver Kim was just excited to be this floor of the FBI headquarters at Quantico,Virginia. It was the floor for the one of the BAU teams. He already met with the supervisor of BAU, a large reptile shifter with a bad habit of novelty ties but not with the team leader since the team was out on a case and just came back Saturday.
It was unheard of for a lone wolf to walk onto another wolf's territory without permission. But Kim really did try to meet with SSA Harley before now but it always seemed like fate didn’t want them to meet till now. Kim can smelled the wolf pack just at the end of the hallway, along with a scatter of other types of shifters and of course the large amount of human. Hopefully the pack leader would allow him into the pack, adding one more to the small number of this particular pack. There were at least two more scattered in Virginia, the larger pack located in the mountains. He may have to move out of state if this pack won't take him in since wolf packs are a bit sketchy about a lone wolf walking around.
With fingers crossed and a deep breath, Oliver Kim walked in between the large glass doors, mindful of other people entering and leaving and took a look around. Three heads already perked up and gave the new wolf a look over, then looked at the closed door of where SSA Harley's office would be. Sure enough, the door open and a not very large but not what people would deem small either man peeked out. His sandy hair was sleeked back but his tie was already loose and collar undone this early of the work day. The hazel eyes narrowed but only in wonder at the new wolf on campus. With a head tilt, he bid the man up to his office. Kim did as told and tried to not look at the nosy wolves and one bobcat as they stare him down as he walk up to the office, door held open wide for him.
“So you're the new guy that Douglass has assigned to us.” Kim nodded and offered his hand, stating his name. He wouldn't bare his neck to the Alpha till after he been accepted into the pack but he kept his head lowered and eyes on him to show a bit of submission.
“Great another wolf, I'm telling Frankie about this.” A man, no a fox according to his scent, scoffed as he kept his eyes on the paper as he folded it and cut it with a pair of small scissors, getting pieces of green paper all over the floor of the team leader's office. Ankles crossed as the feet rested on the solid oak desk. In the place of where the leader should sit.
“Don't mind Abby. I would blame his medication but he won't take them unless I put them in his muffins.” Harley sighed and shoved the booted feet off the desk and pushed the chair around till the fox was now snipping paper at the left side of the large desk. “Please sit down, Mister Kim.” He offered the now slightly confused Asian man one of the chairs in front of the desk and waited till he sat down before taking the remaining chair to his side and sat down in his chair.
“Yes, SSA Harley I know I should have met with you and your pack earlier but time wasn't never on our side and I regret just showing up here now.”
The sandy haired shifter waved off the words and just smiled. “Douglas already sent me your file and spoke about you Wednesday on the phone but we were on a case that lasted till Friday.” the fox snorted but was ignored. “Ill set you up on probation to see how well you get along with the team and pack before making the request of offering the spot to you.”
“Thank you, sir. I hope we all get along well and you won't regret it.” Kim smiled gently and Harley returned the smile.
“This is SSA Fredrick Abberline.” He fling a hand at the fox was now cutting along folded pink paper, the first sheet now spread out in front, resembling a line of pumpkin faces. “Just excuse him, he just doing as his therapist told him to do. To channel his creative side and he refused to work at his desk.” The fox just saluted, not giving the dark haired man a glance as he kept working on his paper project. “The others have more or less gotten use to him and just report to me only..” The Alpha looked at the other wolf as he said 'to me only' stating he was to do the same. “when he is acting out or seems off even by his standards.” The man then stood up, Kim followed in action then follow again outside of the office to the Bullpen to meet with the other members of the team and pack.
The almond-shaped eyes looked up only for a second before settle down the row of pink flowers on the desk and picked up a sheet a blue paper.
The wolves and cat that were eyeing him before were gathering about a desk that belonged to one of the wolves, laughing about something in the wolf's hand. “All right, team.” Harley announced their arrival, making the three shifters stop laughing and to stand up to face their leader and new team member. “This is Oliver Kim. He's new and on probation till he either seems to fit or not. Don't scare him off or be too rude. I already have to deal with Abby's mood swings and I don't wanna play referee with you lot either.” His tone was serious while his lips were trying to not form a smile. “Make him feel welcome, as for now he is pack as well as newest team member. That's all and oh Will..” The bobcat shifter turned his dark brown eyes to the leader at the mention of his name. “you had something to show me?”
“Oh right, its back in my lair.” Will grinned and thumbed in the direction of his tech office. Harley nodded and followed the cat in that direction. Two minutes later, Oliver was cornered against a nearby desk as the two wolves surrounded him.
They sniffed at him as he sniffed back, getting close to sniff at his pulse point on his neck and he did the same to them. Then they grinned and took his hand in greeting. “I'm Erick and this is Mac” The redhead of the two spoke as the brunet said a greeting. “We are really a nice bunch around here, just wary about new wolves. The mountain pack is still kind of mad at us but the other pack, they don't care about us as long we keep Abby and Will in the car.”
The wolf named Mac shrugged and took over speaking, “Will is awesome, he's our tech wizard and knows everything sci-fi as cliché' that is but he's the man to go when you need to know self like that.” The two men sat the new member in the chair that Mac was sitting in before. “But Abby?”
“Abby suffered a mental breakdown a year or so before joining the team and only thanks to Harley, he allowed to work with us. Otherwise he be in a nuthouse somewhere.” Erick rubbed at his ear as he sat down on the edge of his pack mate's desk. Mac copied on the other side but laying his hands in between his legs, holding them together. “We think his big brother, Francis Abberline is blackmailing Harley in letting Abby on the team. He is after all the man, or fox, behind the throne for all of North America and Hawaii and bits of Europe. We keep forgetting which bits though.”
“We think he has his mind on Australia's control as well but the ones in control are making it hard for him.” So far they succeeding in making their new pack mate's head spin.
“He doesn't want that giant rock.” all three wolves turn around to see the resident fox hanging up his artwork above Harley's office door, the chair wobbling under his feet. Making Kim nervous about possible head injury. “He does want Japan though.”
“Annnyway....” Mac looked away to smile at the dark-haired wolf. “We are three wolves, one fox and one bobcat/lion mix, Will prefers the title of boblion but he's kooky like that.”
Erick jumped in. “and one human, our Media Liaison, Nicole Jones. We don't like her.” thus causing the two wolves to become high school girls in Kim's poor mind. This pack was as strange as a two legged dog. “She stuck up and treats everyone but Mac” who shivered. “like shit. She hates Abby most of all and tries to get him fired once a month. Abby may be a fox and kooky but he is a pack and we don't let people mess with pack.” Kim can understand that. Pack look out for their own. Even if one or two were not of the same species. He have met with other packs and prides that have accepted in other shifter types and treated them as if they were of the same blood, so it wasn't that abnormal.
“Jones is still pack but only cause she travels and work with us. We still holding out for her leaving but it hasn’t happen yet.” Mac took up speaking again. Kim has yet to get any real word in and starting to think this was normal among these wolves.
A new voice spoke up. “I know you don't mean that, Mac” Mac shivered again and moved to sit with his pack mate against the desk, just to put distance between him and the woman that were click-clacking her way to the three of them in high dollar heels. Her shirt was tight across her...very ample breast with three buttons undone to borderline office and skank. The skirt was high on her legs, making Kim draw his suspicions on where the human female shopped for clothes. “you love me too much for me to leave.” She smiled seductively while Erick snorted and Mac just rolled his eyes. Then her blue eyes looked down at the man sitting in Mac's assigned chair. “I'm Nicole Jones, and you must be the new.....wolf on the team.” The red-haired woman wrinkled her nose at him in clear disgust.
“Yes, hello Nicole.” He stood up just to be polite and offered his hand in greeting. “I'm Oliver Kim and I hope we.”
The human cut in rudely. “A new case, Boss-doggy wants you all and the dust bunny at the round table in ten. It's a doozy too.” She winked at Mac in parting but ignored the other two men as she walked on past them. Swaying her hips to where Kim was afraid that they might dislocate at any moment.
He took his eyes off the human when Erick stood up and smooth down his pinstripe shirt over the slim tan pants. “She read that book series about a human female finding love with a vampire but a wolf also thought she was hot and thinks Macaroni here is her Jacob.”
“Believe it or not, her skirts were a lot longer when she started here.” Mac jumped in as he grabbed a pen for the three of them out of a Pepe LePhew pen holder. “But she thinks I'm playing hard to get and I even had to flirt with Abby a few times to throw her off the scent but that made her work harder.”
“Abby, time to work!” Erick shouted, while the other two man kept walking.
“Abby was a good sport about it once I explain that I was trying to shave my skin from that woman but told me that he'll turn my tail into a pillow if I try it again.” The brunet shifter spoke as he led them to what was a conference room for the team. Will and Harley were already seated, looking through the files on the new case as Jones was setting up photos on the board located against the wall. Folders were already in place for the rest of the team to look at.
Erick sat down across from his Alpha with Mac sitting on his left. Kim chose to sit on the man's right, poking through the file to show his eagerness to work.
“I'm William Pavie. Tech wizard.” The bobcat raised his hand in greeting. “I would have said hello before but I needed to show Boss-man this program I created right away.”
“Oh, I'm Oliver Kim.” Hopefully this will be the last time he needed to introduce himself for a while. It was starting to feel like the first day of school and the teacher forgotten to write name plates on the students desk.
Abberline was the last of team and pack to walk in and chose to sit beside Harley who sighed and plucked the phone that he was typing on out of his hands. Now they can get on to business with the new case.
The case involved several killings in a uptown posh apartment building in Maryland where one needed to be as rich as Donald Trump to even get the smallest of apartments. Weeks apart, it would seem that the suspect was working his or her way through a floor going from the top to the bottom. So far, two floors were wiped out in gruesome ways with two or three apartments being spared . Looking like the suspect was just using what was in the chosen apartment of the night. Many of the residents fearing that they were next and it was cleared that they were had moved out of the building and the owner was asking for a quick end to the killings and done quietly.
The wonder twins, as Kim was starting to call them as in his mind, drove him back to his small house to help him gather what they call 'go bag' for the case, telling him to pack for a full week but expect to be there only up to three days. They filled him in how cases usually worked out. Harley as pack leader would speak first to the local pack and prides in the city they were going to then they would set up shop in the police department that were over looking the case. The bobcat was to stay behind and work from his lair so one less pack member to worry about. The only one they as a pack need to watch out for is Abby. When working on a case, he tends to have one track mind.
“He forgets to eat or drink or even sleep. Usually we just sit him down and force feed him when its been to long since he ate.” The redhead spoke as they pulled into the parking lot.
“Just try to ignore him when it feels like he's making you feel stupid. He just lacks manners. We don't mind unless he's about to get on a shifter's nerves. Then we step in.” Mac added in as the car came to a stop. “He's really all bark and the size of a dust bunny but the ego of a rottweiler.”
Kim nodded in understanding and grabbed his bag then followed the wonder twins to where Harley was standing in waiting for the three of them. Jones and Abby weren't in sight but may have been waiting inside the private jet issued to the BAU. Harley walked up to placed his hand on first, Erick's cheek and then Mac's before nodding them on board. Then he stood in front of Kim, hand pulled back for a minute before placing on his shoulder. Kim didn't moved, knowing it was the Alpha's first step in familiarizing him into pack. Then he was given the go ahead to come on bored of the jet. Harley followed behind and closed the door.
Erick and Mac already grabbed the couch on the right side, sitting down together and pulling out the new case folders to review over the facts while Jones seems to seized the only table as her work area. The fox was lying down with pillow covering his face on the only other couch in the jet.
“He doesn't like flying and refused to do anything till he's on the ground. Harley drugs him up before every flight.” Mac stated as the sandy haired Alpha stepped around him to sit down, first pulling up the fox's legs and then sit them down on his lap. A hand rubbing a jean covered knee, no doubt in comfort as he waited for the jet to start moving. Kim quickly sat down with the twins and buckled up for lift off.
He just couldn't take his eye off of the hand that kept rubbing the fox's knee. Pack and pride members don't know the concept of personal bubble among themselves. So that wasn't the strangest thing, it was mostly loud and bright lacing cord on the jean leg that was drawing his eye. It was blue and yellow with rhinestones down the legs.
“For a month, Abby was into clothing design. We still have the coats he made for us in our closets back home. We try to wear them once a while to make him feel better.” Erick whispered.
Mac added in just as the jet started to roll down the run way. “When he starts tape measuring you, try to subtle hint your favorite colors or end up like Harley and his clown coat.” The twins chuckled and Kim started as well, imagining the Alpha in clown wear.
So far so good.
Upon arrival, Harley made it a point that Kim was to stay in front of the wonder twins with Abby placed between them, Erick was holding the still drugged fox up, helping him walk as the drugs leave his system. Jones walked quickly in her high dollar heels to match pace with the Alpha, with folders pressed against her chest. In normal pack formation, Kim would have been behind the two wolves, as since he was a bit bigger and could protect from behind. But since he hasn't proven himself as pack, he was to be where he can be seen. Even Harley kept looking over his shoulder to check on the Asian man.
The city's pack was meeting them at the end of the gate with their cars. No doubt waiting to talk to Harley and then escort them to the police station as both a sign of welcome and state the visiting pack was allowed to be on pack land. Normally the local pride leader would be there as well if there was a pride, but Harley informed them that the nearest pride was too far away to be an issue. Kim can smell more shifters in the area but could be just wolf sentries in hiding.
His Alpha walked out after signaling that they stay behind. Jones rolled her eyes but stayed back. Kim stepped in front of her as the Alphas talked to each other. Mac flanked the fox's side as some of the local wolves set their eyes on the groggy fox, measuring him in size and weakness. Abby was starting to be more area of his surroundings, no doubt smelling more wolves close by and instincts were taking over. Too many big predictors for the fox's more primal mind's liking. Kim took his eye off the Alphas as he spotted Abby becoming fidgety.
“Easy, easy.” Erick whispered in the fox's ear, rubbing a comforting hand on his back to settle him. Green eyes look at Kim and nodded at him, that he can take care of the fox till the human side can tell the fox side that there is no danger. Kim nodded back, focusing back on the Alphas.
“So many damn wolves.” Abby spoke from behind and tried to stand up straight to show he wasn't afraid.
Harley shook hands with the local Alpha, a tall woman with short hair, then walked back to join his own. “We'll ride with Gregson in her car. Her boys will take our things to a B&B that one of the pack's own. We settle on room assignments when we need to but for now, we focus on the case.” Their alpha walked up to the fox who was still a bit fidgety as Mac trailed with Jones to the local Alpha's car.
He cupped the pale cheeks and stared into the dark green eyes before leaning in closer. “Abby, you are fine. I had to drug you for the plane ride but no one is out to hurt you.” The fox nodded, muttering a whatever before walking after Jones and Mac. Erick was on his heels as Kim and Harley shared a look.
“He doesn’t do change well. He won't be grounded till we be here for while and by then he be too into the case to even remember that we're not in Virginia anymore.” Harley was rubbed a hand through his hair as Kim took the information in and acknowledge what was being said between the lines. The fox was not to be alone at all, for mostly his safety. Harley or either of the wonder twins would be at his side if they had to split up for some reason. “Gregson doesn't trust Jones, they don't trust humans that much in this pack, but tolerate enough to work with them. Mac will stick with her.” So this was to be the test of him becoming pack. If he can work with Harley and Erick and help keep an eye on Abberline then he was one step closer in being pack.
Time to get to work then.