DISCLAIMER, everything but my OC (Rayvn) and the plot are Patricia Briggs' own creativity.
Rayvn slowly pulled her car up to the garage and took a deep breath. It was just getting dark out so there shouldn't have been anybody around but the woman she wanted to talk to but as she moved closer she caught two distinctly different voices. Why would anyone be here after the place was supposed to be closing? Rayvn walked towards the door, unless it was the Alpha in there too. That thought caused her to freeze in front of the door. While she debated leaving as she had so many times before the voices inside stopped. "You can come in." A woman's voice said. Well it's too late now, Ravyn thought, they know I'm here.
Rayvn opened the door and walked in, following the voices of the restarted conversation. She knew who the mechanic was, after all, that was the whole reason to coming here in the first place. The man on the other hand, she didn't know. He couldn't be the Alpha here since he didn't smell of wolf. She took another sniff at the air. He smelled faintly like popcorn and… something else she couldn't identify. She rounded the corner and blinked in surprise at the van the pair was working on. "Scooby-Doo?" Rayvn said before she could help herself and looked away nervously.
Mercy looked up from what she was doing and grinned, "That was my first thought too." She said, studying the girl who she had known was following her around for a while now. "I was wondering when you'd show yourself." Mercy said wondering at the girl's seeming shyness, she actually smelled of fear and nerves. It might have been because of the person next to her though, after all the vampires generally seemed to hate coyotes. That was what the girl was and she briefly wondered what might happen when the seethe found out. "Well, I'm Mercy and this here is Stefan. He happens to be the one who owns the van."
Stefan tried to hide his surprise at the knowledge of another Coyote in Tri-cities. He nodded his head briefly in acknowledgment when Mercy introduced him. "So you now know our names, may we know yours as well?" He said softly, knowing better then Mercedes that the girl was close to bolting. Obviously she had used up most of her courage to approach the door and he wondered what had happened to make her so afraid. She was young too and he spared a thought to wonder where her parents might be, or if she even had any.
Rayvn couldn't meet their eyes and debated just running anyway, but… they seemed nice. She made her decision and tried to stubbornly meet their eyes. "My name is Rayvn." She said proudly and hoped that neither of them would ask for a last name.
