Mates

Summary: Alec meets his mate, and they spend a few incredible days together before she vanishes from his life. He tries to move on but one day their lives collide again. Set in Season 2. Alec/OC

Warnings: Rated M for sexual content, domination, language, violence, and subject matters.

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Chapter 4

The next morning, Alec walked into Jam Pony pulling Autumn behind him. "Hey Normal, I need a favor."

"Anything for my golden boy," Normal looked up and noticed the gorgeous woman beside Alec.

"She needs a job."

"Sure, here, take her with you and show her the ropes," Normal said handing Alec a package.

"Um, she can't ride a bike all over town right at the moment. I was hoping you had something here that she could do."

"Why?"

Walking back a few steps, he pulled Autumn with him so Normal could see her baby bump. "Oh, a, yeah well I guess she can work back here with me. And only for you would I do this."

"Thanks Normal," Alec said as Sketchy and OC walked in.

"You two are late again," Normal yelled at them before turning back to the young woman. "So what's your name miss?"

"Autumn."

"Just Autumn, no last name?"

"McDowell," Alec added, giving her a look to just accept it.

This caused not only Normal to look at him, but his friends stopped and gave him a funny look.

"Alec I didn't know you had a sister," Sketchy said walking over and slinging an arm around Alec's shoulder, "Especially one so pretty."

"Sister," Normal said, looking from Autumn to Alec and back, "Well any family of Alec's is welcome here at Jam Pony."

Smiling, Autumn noticed that Alec was trying to not growl at his friend; the Alpha male in him wanting to stake his claim, "She's not my sister she's my wife and I'd appreciate it if you didn't check her out."

Stepping away from Sketchy, he walked over to Autumn and pulled her to him. "Stay here and be safe, both of you," he said glancing down at her belly before giving her a passionate kiss.

Walking over to his locker, he noticed Biggs was giving him weird looks. "What the hell is up with that?"

"That is Autumn, my mate who is pregnant with my child. And since I can't explain to Normal what a mate is the closest term he'd understand and all the other ordinaries would understand that stakes my claim on her is wife. Finally, since I need to get her papers anyway, she might as well start using my last right now because no one, including her, is taking my child from me."

"What the hell do you think White is going to do when he finds out about her? Leave her alone because she's pregnant, no, he's going to do everything in his power to hurt her to get to you."

"Biggs, she was supposed to take your place as my SIC at Manticore. She's an X5, which puts her on White's hit list anyway which is why she's going to stay here with Normal while I work. Here, with everybody is the safest place for her during the day."

"I guess," Biggs said, as Alec walked away.

Autumn spent the day learning the completely unorganized system that Normal had in place at the bike messenger service. Being an X5 it had taken her exactly 5 minutes to figure it out and another 10 to decipher how to speed it up.

Alec walked in later that afternoon to Autumn and Normal leaning over the desk looking at a map of the city. "What's up?" he asked.

"Well, Alec she's a keeper," Normal said, smiling at his new assistant.

"This I know," Alec said amused, "But that didn't answer my question."

"Autumn here figured out how to maximize everyone's deliveries and efficiency."

"Yeah," Autumn said, leaving to cage and walking over to Alec. She wrapped her arms around his waist and leaned in to smell his scent. It was things like this that she'd craved the last 7 months. Pulling back, she looked up at him and said, "We should be able to do twice the deliveries with half the work."

"I think I can live with that," he whispered before lowering his mouth to her and kissing her. "Missed you today," he mumbled against her lips, before he felt the smack to the back of his head.

"Dammit Max, what the hell was that for?" he yelled over Autumn's head to the retreating transgenic.

"Get a room," Max yelled back and heard the low growl that vibrated at the base of her skull and it was growing in intensity. Whipping around, she saw Alec pulling the female back into his embrace to stop her from attacking.

Alec felt the growl coming from Autumn and before he could stop her she pulled away from him and spun around. He quickly grabbed her again and pulled her back against his chest, whispering, "Don't, not here. Please don't risk the baby." Locking eyes with Biggs, Alec silently indicated for him to get Max away from them for a few minutes.

"Come on Max, let's get you out of here," Biggs said grabbing Max and pulling her to the back of the locker area out of Autumn's line of sight.

"Yeah, she's one of us," Alec continued to whisper in a tone that only Autumn could hear while slowly walking backwards away from Normal's desk to a dark corner. "She's an 09er, she wasn't raised like we were. She thinks like an ordinary, using her eyes more than her other senses. It never would have occurred to her to smell us before hitting me. Plus I don't think she knows anything about mating, she left long before that became an issue." Sensing the his words were not getting through her rage and not knowing any other way of calming Autumn down, he slowly nuzzled her hair away from the back of her neck and bit down over her barcode sinking teeth into her flesh and growled. Alec immediately felt Autumn become pliant and submissive in his arms. Chuckling he kept his hold on the back of her neck for a moment longer to guarantee the fight was out of her before removing his teeth and licking the mark he'd made. "Better?" he asked.

"You know, I truly never realized that having a male go Alpha on me would be a turn on," she whispered, arching into him.

"That's because you're an Alpha female and I'm the only male capable of doing it, but I figured out you liked me dominating you 7 months ago when I bent you over my kitchen table."

"Yeah, that was quite enjoyable too," she smirked, tilting her head to look up at her mate. "So you gonna explain who that was and why she felt the right to hit you."

"That's Max. She was one of the 12 who escaped back in '09. She's the one who caused Renfro to try to crispy fry us a few months ago."

"That explains the who but not the why," Autumn said, relaxing against Alec's chest.

"Max doesn't recognize dominance. She thinks she can kick everyone's ass, and so she does what she wants. She thinks I'm a screw up and hence beneath her. I've never felt the need to kick the ever loving shit out of her so I've let it go."

"She has no idea who you were back at Manticore?"

"That I was the highest ranking X-series officer and if I really wanted to hurt her I could, no. Like I said, she doesn't think like we do. She's spent so much time hiding what she is, she's forgotten how to act around other's like herself. Plus, she probably thought you were an ordinary."

"Why?"

"I told you, I tried a lot to fill the emptiness I felt after you left me. I wasn't what you'd call discrete when it came to my extra-curricular activities."

"That's a sore subject with me Alec," she said, trying to pull away from him.

"Hey," he said, calmly pulling her back against him, "I never would've touched another woman, ever, if you'd been with me. I didn't think you were coming back, and I was willing to try anything to feel whole again. I was trying to move on."

"I know but I still don't like to hear about it. How would you feel if I'd taken other lovers and talked about them?"

"Fair enough," Alec said, letting her go so he could collect his stuff from his locker.