Harley sits down on his swing on his porch. He looks out onto the street watching the mid morning deliveries in the new species section of reservation. He takes a sip of soda when he hears a honk from one of the passing golf carts. He looks up and sees Obsidian driving by waving at him. He smiles and waves back. Harley has to put a front for everybody. He can't let people know what he's feeling inside. He feels something is missing inside of him. And he's been feeling like his since he learned he died. Waking up in the medic center he realized something was different. Harley didn't know what was missing in his life. No matter what he did to fill the void he felt. Not even the amount of new species females or human women he screwed helped. He needed something he just didn't know what it was.

What helped him get through it all was Brass and Moon. Now Moon has mated with Dr. Joy and he rarely saw his best friend/ brother. And that was fine. He wanted his friend to be happy but he couldn't help feeling the twinge of jealousy that hit his gut when he saw them together. Why couldn't he be happy like they were? And it wasn't about the fact that Moon was mated, it was the fact that he was once happy himself. He was happy to be freed. He was happy to be alive and he was happy that he had choices that he wasn't allowed before. Now it was gone and he didn't know the first thing to do to get it back.

The sound of his gate opening and closing broke him out of his thoughts. He watches Moon walk up the steps to his porch.

"Hey brother." Moon says while toughing his shoulder and giving it a squeeze.

Pity. That's what he sees in Moon's eyes now. He swallowed a growl and took another sip of his soda.

"What brings you over here today Moon?' Harley tries to school his face to not show his annoyance. He just wanted to be left alone today.

"Well I came to check up on you and to see if you are ok. I haven't seen you for a couple of days. So I wanted to know if you wanted to go to the cafeteria to get some food. I am meeting up with Joy and I thought maybe you wanted to tag along."

And there it was. A third wheel again.

"Joy. Of course. I don't think so."

"And why not?" Moon growls. "Is it because Joy will be there? Do you have a problem with Joy? Every time I ask you to come do something with us you always refuse."

"I don't have a problem with Joy. I just want to be left alone today."

Moon sighs.

"Brother you are always alone. You need to come and have lunch with us. Come see the new people that will be working in the medical center. Trisha will be there. And she told me that she wants to have lunch with you'

Moon knows what buttons to push to make Harley go. He would never deny Trisha anything. She brought him back from the dead.

"Fine. I will get dressed and I will meet you there."

Moon smiles and hits Harley's arm lightly making him smile. He gets up to walk into the house when Moon calls out to him making him turn around to look at him.

"I don't know what's going on my brother but you need to get a handle on it. You are starting to remind me of males who have given up and pray for death. And I don't want that for you. I will fight for you brother. I will even fight death for you. Remember that. Whatever is bothering you talk to somebody. Hell, talk to Joy. If you don't want to talk we can always have a go at the training room. I can beat it out of you."

Moon winks at him and turns to walk down the stairs and out of his gate. Harley knew he meant it too. He walks into the house to get ready not knowing that his world is about to change.

Harley pulls up at the medical center on his black harley. He loves his bike. That's the only time he feels happy. When the wind is hitting his face, whipping through his hair and the speed he pushes the machine. It didn't take him a long time for him and Moon to learn how to ride. And he doesn't ride anything but his harley. He kicks down the kick stand and gets off his bike. Even though it's warm out he doesn't take off his leather jacket. He opens the door and notices Brass and Moon talking to Justice and Jessie. As he gets closer he sees Justice check his watch and says something to Jessie. She nods her head and hugs Moon and Brass and they leave.

Brass and Moon are talking as Harley walks up to them. Brass wearing his task force uniform with his long hair braided and Moon leaning against the wall with his arms crossed against his chest. Moon's eyes flicks to Harley and he smiles.

"There he is."

Brass turns around to look at Harley.

"I didn't think you would come. This morning you were saying you were going to stay in the house."

"Well Moon convinced me to come." Harley looks around the empty hallways. "What happened to the group?'

"Justice says they are about to finish with the lecture and break for lunch. Joy was excited with the group that was picked. She says they are the best of the best in the US."

"Do you know why they are allowing more humans to come?' Harley asked concerned.

"The numbers of our people are growing very rapidly. So they are expanding the medical center here and in homeland. So they brought in doctors and nurses." Brass says.

"This is good for us. We are expanding and growing. Justice says that it is what's best for us. Even though he is in the process of buying more land in Mexico, he is also looking at land in the Caribbean."

"Hey you."

Harley looks down and sees Joy put her hand on Moon's shoulder. He turns his head to look at his mate and has a big smile on his face. He pulls Joy into his arm and growls while he kisses her.

"Do you mind taking that some place else." Harley says while shaking his head making them laugh.

Something pulls at him. A sweet sent hit him hard. He inhales and turns his head to look into the most amazing face he's ever seen. He thought how beautiful she is. Her heart shaped face, her curly hair that fell down her back. He wanted to know if it felt as soft as it looked. Her mocha skin that looked like it would smooth if he ran his finger down her cheek, a cheek that was a little pink. Was she blushing? His eyes dropped down to take a look at her full lips. How he wanted to taste those pink lips. He looked up back at her amber eyes. He tilted his head to the side and bites his bottom lip. He noticed her take a step toward him but her friend that he didn't notice before stopped her by looping their arm together. Harley growled.

"What's wrong?' Brass asked. Harley shook his head and noticed that Brass sucked in his breath. He looked at Brass and he is looking at her friend. Harley looked back at the beautiful woman and sucked in a hard breath when she smiled and dimples winked out on her cheeks. He fought everything inside him not to go to her and throw her over his shoulder and take her to his home and tie her to bed and never let her go. His pants grew tight with the vision of that in his head. His thought was interrupted when the alarms in the hallway started blaring loudly. He looked at the girl again and she goes rigid and put a hand to her throat. Her friend holds her shoulders whispering something to her but she isn't listening. Her eyes flicked to him and he was taken back by the fear in her eyes. He moved then.

"Tori. You are ok. You are here."

Her name is Tori. She looked back at her friend and a change came over her face. One moment she was deathly afraid and the next she was calm as if nothing happened.

"Is everything ok?'

Her friend with the orange red hair turned to look at him and told him everything was fine. He looked at Tori and narrowed his eyes at her.

"Are you sure? Are you ok?"

Tori cleared her throat and the sound of her voice tightened his heart.

"I'm fine. I promise. Do you know what's going on?'

Harley shook his head and turned to look at Brass who was on the phone. He was talking rapidly into it. The people around them were frantic and Trisha was trying to calm everyday down. The doors to the cafeteria swing open and Slade walks through it. Trisha runs to him and throws her arms around him. She softly asks him about Forest and Slade tells her he's fine and with Tammy and Val. She breathed out a sigh of relief and turns to Brass who got off the phone.

"Brass what's going on out there?"

"Ok everybody!" Brass yells trying to get everybody attention. "We are in lockdown right now. A hate group threw smoke bombs and rammed the gates. They didn't cause too much damage but they were able to contain the situation very quickly."

"But why are we on lockdown if they handled the situation?" A male doctor who looked like he just graduated out of medical school says.

"Two males passed through the gates while the commotion happened so we are safer here."

"Damn humas." Harley said with a growl. He looked down at Tori and winced at the look she was giving him.

"What about Justice and Jessie? Are they ok?" Trisha asked with concern in her voice.

"They are fine doc. I got word from them that they were in the air heading back to homeland when it happened.

Trisha sighed in relief for the second time. Brass's phone and he put it to his ear. He turned his back and spoke rapidly into the phone and shut off the phone.

"They caught them. They were on their way here. The five men are in custody but one of them was seriously hurt. So they are bringing him here." He said walking closer to Tori's friend and he couldn't help but notice the look they were giving each other. He could help looking at Tori and he reached over to grab her hand. She looked down at it and looked up at him. He squeezed her hand because she looked like she needed it. She could fool people that she was ok but he could look into her eyes and still see the fear in them.

"You have the most amazing eyes. They are beautiful but very sad." She said while lifting her hand to touch his cheek but stopped herself. How much he wanted to feel her small hands on his face. Harley looked at her hand and noticed a scar on the back it. He wanted to grab it to take a look at it but he didn't want to scare anymore than she was already. She looked at her hand and quickly dropped it. He didn't realize the lights and the blaring sound of the alarm had stopped.

"Ok everybody. This wasn't supposed to happen but unfortunately it did. We are going to have trauma coming in. So the following people that are suppose to be with me. Please follow me."

Tori pulled her hand out of Harley's hand and started walking toward Trisha. She fished something out of her pocket of her black pants and started putting her crazy curls in a ponytail. He didn't want her to go but he couldn't make her stay because she wasn't his. Her friend followed her and he noticed only a handful of people followed them.

"This is how it's going to be. Either you are willing to help and be a part of this group or not."

Still the group didn't move. Trisha shook her head and turned to Slade.

"Joy is going to take her group into the cafeteria so she can speak to them one on one. The people that are not in her group or have decided that this isn't for them. Please make sure they get their belongings and see them off the property."

She turned to look at the group that stood by her and said, "Alright let's get this done."

Trisha rose to her toes to give Slade a kiss and started walking the opposite way from the cafeteria to go to the medical center. Tori turned to look at Harley again and shook her head and tried to catch up to the group. Harley had to know what happened to her and what put that fear in her eyes. But watching her walk away was very hard for him to take. He balled his fist and watched the door she walked through closed.

I hope you like this chapter! Till next time. Thank you everybody who read my story and commented on it. I love getting comments.