Seeing Triple
Disclamer: Sadly the boys (Jim and Blair) doesn't belong to me and neather do the other char. from The Sentinel. Though all the other Char. are my babies.
Chapter 1
"Are you sure that they didn't follow us?" asked a 24-year-old womanwith mid-back length jet black hair and cat-like green eyes to her two identical doubles as she looked behind them nurvously.
"I'm sure, Raina," the older of the three that; of course, looks exactly like Raina, "Don't worry about it."
The third of the triplets and also the middle child of their little family, sat quietly in her seat looking out the window of the bus. They were on their way to Cascade, Washington. Each woman hoped that they did not find them. They also hoped that they will be able to stay in the state longer than usual.
Blair and Jim took their seats next to Simon and Rafe at the bar. They were there to celebrate the end of a five months case. They were all planning on getting drunk to forget everything. What they were not planning on was meeting the triplets...
The three sisters were walking down the sidewalk; when they were coming up to a bar four drunken men stumbled out the door. They raised their glassy eyes at the women and smiled.
"Whoa, guys, I'm seeing triple!" Blair commented with a chuckle.
"You too huh?" Jim chuckled as well. Rafe and Simon laughed as they leaned against each other.
"We're identical triplets," Raina rolled her eyes.
"Really?" Rafe asked through fits of giggles.
The middle sister looked to the oldest of the triplets and stated, "Maybe we should take them with us to the hotel to keep an eye on them. What do you think Rhea?"
Rhea was about to say no when she saw the look of concern in her sisters eyes, "Fine, but you're in charge of them. Got that Ryley?"
Ryley nodded her head in agreement. She walked up to the men and introduced herself, "I'm Dr. Ryley Ocean, and you 4 are coming with us."
"Oh, really?" Blair flirted.
Ryley grabbed onto Blair's arm and softly tugged and with her other hand she grabbed Simon's arm as well. She turned to the sisters, "A little help, please?"
"Oh, alright," Rhea motioned for Raina to help as well.
Rhea took Rafe's arm and Raina took Jim's arm. The guys struggled at first, but then their drunken minds thought asked them why are they fighting beautiful girls, so they stopped. They led them down the street toward the hotel. At the hotel Rhea went in while the others waited outside for her.
"We have reservations under the name Roo," Rhea said.
The man behind the desk tapped on the keyboard for a minuet and smiled, "Ah, here you are Miss Roo."
He turned around to the peg board behind him and picked one of the keys. He turned around and handed her the key, "Room 232."
Rhea grabbed the key and left. Outside the nameless men were sitting on the edge of the sidewalk singing off key Hound Dog by Elvis Presley. Rhea could not help, but to laugh at the sight before her. Ryley and Raina looked toward her with their ears covered. They strolled over to her side.
"They started singing once you left," Raina explained, "They've been torturing us ever since."
"Please tell me you have the key to our room," Ryley practically begged.
In reply Rhea pulled the key out of her pocket and dangled it right in front of Ryley's face, "Room 232."
With a smile Ryley grabbed Blair's and Simon's arms once again and pulled them to their feet, "Come on big guys lets put you to bed."
It took them an hour to get the men into the hotel room and to bed, but they did it. They watched the 4 men as they slept the alcohol off. Soon after that they fell asleep on the floor beside the beds. Cuddled together like puppies.
Jim, Blair, Rafe, and Simon woke up with a start. They looked around and found 3 women sleeping on the ground. Without thinking Jim let out a low growl. Hearing the growl Blair placed a hand on Jim's shoulder since they were on the same bed.
"What's wrong?" Blair asked sentinel soft.
"You remember the feeling I've got when I was around Alix?" Jim whispered back loud enough so just that Blair could hear; not noticing Rafe was there and awake as well. Blair nodded and Jim continued, "I feel the same thing except it tripled it's intensity."
"Are you trying to tell me..." Blair did not have to finish his sentence for Jim to know what he was asking.
Jim nodded and whispered through clenched teeth, "They're sentinels."
"What are you two talking about?" Rafe paused for a moment, "Tell me later." Then he rushed into the bathroom slamming the door behind him. The sound of wrenching could be heard which started the sleeping girls awake. All 3 of them jumped to their feet. That's when they felt the threat of another sentinel. They looked over the 3 men until their eyes met Jim's.
All 4 of the sentinels growled in unison and it sounded very in tune together. They stopped growling in wonder. Blair looked at the sentinels with interest.
"Whoa," Blair exclaimed excitedly practically bouncing up and down, "do that again!"
All 4 sentinels looked at him as if he were crazy; forgetting for the moment about the threat. The 3 women felt strange; for, they felt protective of the man. They never had a guide before all they had was each other to stay grounded. Curious of the shaman before them they hesitantly walked up to him using all their senses beside taste and touch. Before they could get any closer to the young guide, Jim jumped in front of them with another growl. Knowing the threat Rhea and Ryley took a few steps back with a snarl etched on their faces. Raina not sensing the threat, but the deep sense to protect the guide. With this understanding Raina sat down on her knees and looked up curiously at the older sentinel with a look of innocence on her face.
'Raina, get over here!' Rhea sent through their bond that they had ever since they were born.
Raina turned to her sister and sent back, 'But Rhea, all he wants to do is protect his guide.'
'Raina Lisette Ocean! Get over' she was stopped mid-sentence with a hand on her shoulder.
'Rhea, she's right you know' Ryley sent then knelt down next to Raina face the men. With a groan she followed suit and knelt beside Ryley. Confused on what was happening and turned to Blair to see if he could explain to him what was going on. Just then Rafe stumbled out of the bathroom whipping his mouth on his sleeve. Simon, who was sitting on the second bed, turned to Rafe with a hint of a smile on his face, "So you see you can't hold your licker."
Rafe just glared at him and lied down on the pull away bed. He placed his arms over his eyes to keep the sun rays out of his eyes. Meanwhile Blair was explaining to Jim why the 3 female Sentinels were kneeling before him.
"So you're saying that they recognize that all I'm trying to do is protect you?" Jim asked his best friend.
"Yup, and they also recognize you as the alpha male," Blair smiled, "and they also want to make peace."
In response to that Raina stood up and sat down next to Jim with ease, "We don't want to take or hurt your guide. Its just we do have one of our own, so we never saw one before."
Rhae stood up and looked out the window. Ryley kept staring at Blair with interest.
"What are you guys talking about?" Rafe asked in a weak voice, "talking about guides and sentinels? What are those?"
Jim and Blair looked at each other.
'Great! What are we going to tell him?' Jim sent to Blair through their sentinel/guide bond.
'It's up to you, man,' Blair sent back, 'it's your life. Whatever happens effects you and only you.'
'No, it also affects the girls.'
'You have a point.'
Jim sat on the bed for awhile longer before standing up, "Ladies may I speak to you alone?"
Thinking that they were finally going to duke it out, Rhae cracked her knuckles, "Yeah, we're coming."
Jim lead the women out of the small room. Raina looked longingly at Jim as he turned around to face them. Once he turned Rhae struck him in the jaw knocking him down to the ground. Raina slapped her in the arm, "Why did you do that for?"
"What I do?" Rhae asked.
"You punched him!" Raina stated.
While her two sisters were bickering Ryley stooped down next to the fallen man to see what damage was done and how much.
"I'm so sorry about that," Ryley apologized for her sister, "You must excuse my sister, she is very protective of us. You wanted to ask us something?"
"Yeah," Jim winced from the pain that shot through his jaw with the movement.
"Hold that thought for a minuet," Ryley looked around and thought, Rhae is so going to kill me for doing this. Oh, well.
She placed the palm of her hand on the bruise that was forming on Jim's jaw and closed her eyes. She felt the tingling start at her nose and end at her toes. She watched as a faint sky blue light flowed out of her hand and into his jaw in healing waves. Once the healing was done Ryley removed her hand and collapsed into blackness on the ground. They rushed over to their sister's side. Rhae glared over her sister's form, "What did you do to her?"
"The question should be; what did she do to me?" Jim stated rubbing his jaw.
"What do you mean?" Raina asked looking up at Jim.
"Well, doll-face," Jim stated in a warm voice, "my jaw hurt where your sister punched me." He turned to Rhae, "By the way you have a great right hook."
"Thanks," Rhae said, "I use to box."
Jim turned back to the beautiful woman before him, "Raina, right?" Raina nodded her head and Jim continued, "As I was saying...it hurt where your sister hit me and Ryley came up and placed her hand over my jaw and the pain went away."
"Did you see a glowing sky blue light coming from her hands?" Raina asked.
"Come to think about it...yes," Jim answered.
Raina looked at Rhae and found that she was glaring at Ryley. Raina put a calming hand on her angry sister's shoulder and turned back to Jim knowing that Ryley would wake up in a bit she asked, "What did you want to ask us?"
"I was wondering if you want to tell Rafe about us?" Jim asked, "I figured we should tell him since he heard too much anyway."
"Can't we just kill him?" Rhae asked.
"No," Jim stated.
"Fine, I'll tell him and you two stay here with Ryley."
Rhae walked inside leaving her two companions with a man she barely knew. Once she left Jim turned to Raina, "So this is where you're going to stay?"
Raina looked around the run-down hotel and making a decision he stated, "You ladies are not going to stay in this...dump."
"If we aren't going to stay here then where?" Raina asked.
"Blair and I have an extra bedroom," Jim explained, "and if you three don't mind sharing a room with each other you can stay their."
"Why?" Raina asked.
"Why what?"
"Why are you doing this for us? You don't even know us."
"Call it a cop's intuition."
"Well, okay. Thank you, I'll talk to Rhae about it."
Just then they heard a scream of, "No way!" and laughing. Rhae walked out with a smile plastered on her face. Raina thanked the heavens that Rhae was in a good mood, "Rhae, Jim made an interesting offer."
"We are not staying with another sentinel," Rhae interrupted as she knelt down by Ryley's head.
Rhae placed her pointer and middle fingers on each of Ryley's temples and through their bond sent, 'Time to wake up, sweety.'
'No,' Ryley sent back stubbornly, 'Don't want to.'
'Ryley Eve Ocean, I'm not going to say it; again get up!'
'No! I'm too tired.'
'Ryley, if you stay this way you'll end up slipping into a coma like last time.'
'Fine, I'll wake up, but I wont be happy.'
With a smile Rhae released her hold on her sister. Once Ryley was released her eyes fluttered open. She looked around, "Don't you guys have anything better to do than watch me sleep?"
"Nope," Raina smiled, "Ry, help me convince Rhae to take him up on his offer."
"Who is he?" Ryley asked.
"Truthfully, I don't know."
"I'm sorry I'm Detective Jim Ellison, the guy with the long curly auburn hair is Blair Sandburg, the tall colored man is my captain...Simon Banks, and the guy that rushed in the bathroom was Rafe."
"Nice to meet you," Ryley sat up and turned to Rhae, "Rhae, we can either stay here with spiders this big," she motioned with her hand, "or we can take this nice man up on his offer."
"Fine! We'll take the offer," Rhae stated.
With a sigh Rhae turned to Jim, "Thank you so much for your kind offer."
Blair walked out of the room followed by Rafe and Simon.
"Jim, lets go home," Blair said.
"We're going right now, Chief," Jim smiled, "and we have company."
Blair looked at the 3 girls and smiled, "Really? This is so awesome!"
