"Dude, seriously, you gotta see this. No girls allowed!" Mikey yelled, shooing the girls off as he led Raph to the stairs to the basement. The brothers were jostling excitedly.
"It's our man cave." Donnie grinned at his brother. "You're going to love it. We wanted to wait for you to come back before we finished decorating it."
Leo opened the door and the first thing he saw was a metal stair case with a railing. As he descended, the stair case opened up on the right to a room that made his jaw drop. It was very similar to the lair back in New York. Mikey showed him the awesome entertainment center in the middle of the room, the weapons room where they could spar, and the bar off in the corner, complete with a pizza oven. Leo showed him the meditation room, similar to the one up in the Alpha quarters but bigger. Donnie then dragged him off to the lab, showing him all of his new equipment and technology.
"This is amazing guys. Really. I dunno how it could be any better." Raph said. He heard a familiar sound and looked over. Donnie had a thing of purple and white spray paint. Mikey thrust a can of red and a can of black into his hands.
"This is how." Leo answered his statement with a grin. Raph returned his brothers grin and they went to town making graffiti over every inch of the walls. They left a few spaces blank for when they put up posters that would eventually end up there. As hey worked, Leo kept up a running commentary about how they had come up with everything. Donnie cut in when they got to the lab.
"Wayne and Riley came and helped me get everything updated and modified." He said. "We even customized some of the equipment and a lot of the computer programs."
"The Triplets are back here?" Raph asked. When they had left, the Triplets were still out east, helping clean up after the mess.
"Yeah. They came back with us." Mikey said. "They're pack now, kinda. They like to stick with us."
"Well, they've been staying at their mansion." Donnie corrected. "It's a three hour drive there when Ronnie's driving so it's not exactly close but we've been heading down there to party a couple nights a week. Riley's been around a lot more than her brothers."
"Why." Raph asked.
"She's trying to bring my dragon out. Or at least she was." Leo said.
"Still haven't shifted?" Raph asked.
"I did once in my sleep." Leo admitted.
"It's a start, bruh." Mikey said, elbowing him.
"Margie thinks I'm scared of it." Leo said, scowling.
"Margie?" Raph asked.
"She's kinda like their mom." Donnie explained. "She's the witch who made these amulets." He pointed to the one hanging from his neck. "You should probably go down there and get yours."
Raph felt Gabby's bond brush against his. "What are you boys doing down there?" She asked in his mind.
"You two go on, we're decorating." Raph replied.
"You might want to tell Mikey he has a visitor." She informed him.
"Gabby says someone's here for ya Mikey." Raph said, not taking his eyes off of his art.
"Really? Who?" He asked. Raph just shrugged and because he was always so inquisitive, he couldn't wait to finish the piece he was working on. He set the cans down and took the stairs two at a time. He opened the door and froze when he saw Melody in the entry, eyes wide in amazement. She must have caught Mikey out of the corner of the eye cuz she spoke.
"It feels like home." She said. "These main beams are as big as trees. It makes me want to climb them."
"What happened to you?" Mikey asked, a little sharply.
"There was stuff going on in my territory. I was really busy." She replied, her uncanny green eyes settling on him.
"What kind of stuff?" He asked, suspicious.
"It's a long story, Mikey." She sighed.
"I got all day." Mikey said, putting his hands on his hips.
"I was arranging things with my pack so I could stay here til next summer." She said.
"Really?" Mikey asked. "Why?"
Melody's eyes roamed over the interior of the house again. "It feels like home here." She replied.
"You wanna go get some coffee sometime?" Mikey blurted. Oh god. Where had that even come from? He couldn't go out to a coffee place. He didn't even like coffee. What the hell was he doing? This wasn't some romantic comedy movie. He was a turtle!
"Like a date?" She asked. He just nodded, embarrassed. "I don't really like coffee." She replied. His heart fell. "But I could go pick us up some special ice cream and you could pick a special place and we could still have a special date." She smiled.
Mikey had to physically stop himself from crushing her in an ecstatic hug. "So, like, maybe tomorrow around noon if you're gonna be around?" He asked, playing it cool.
"Great. I'll bring the ice cream, you pick the place. Until then, did you want to show me around the new house? It looks awesome."
"Sure." Mikey said, casually wrapping an arm around her shoulders, steering her toward the kitchen. "No girls in the cave though."
Her tinkling laughter was music to his ears. "As if I'd want to go into your smelly man cave."
Mikey showed her around the house and after, he took her over to the rec center and showed her how things were progressing. When they were walking out, they saw the big Dodge Ram that belonged to Frankie pulling in. Mikey alerted Raph and Gabby through their bonds and soon everyone was pouring out to meet their honorary pack members. Leo's stomach seemed to be doing backflips at the thought of seeing Riley for the first time since they kissed.
The Triplets slid out of the truck. They were all just so big! All of them over six feet with Frankie hitting seven. Their size had never intimidated the turtles the way it did other Weres though. The Storm pack swarmed around them, greeting them. Silver eyes flashed to blue as Leo connected gazes with Riley. He felt warmth spread through his body at the happy, peaceful smile she sent him. He knew then that she wouldn't pester him anymore, and that she didn't feel weird about what had happened between them. He wondered if it was a normal occurrence to her. The thought didn't sit well with him.
Gabby, the hospitable She-Alpha that she was, ushered them in out of the heat and settled them in at the table for some refreshments before they toured the house. Leo listened intently to the conversation between Gabby, Saffron, Melody, and Riley.
"How's the pride?" Saffron was asking Melody.
"They agreed to let me stay for the rest of the year. I'll head back home around June next year." She said.
"Not that we aren't thrilled to have you, but why stay so long?" Gabby asked. "Won't you miss your family?"
"You know, we're really not that close." She replied. "This place feels more like home to me than my own territory."
"I know what you mean." Riley said. "I'm not trying to be high and mighty here but the boys and I could live anywhere we wanted, no problem. We like it here though. When the cabins are being put up you have to build one for us okay?"
"You can each have your own, if you want." Chuckled Gabby. "We're even wealthier than the Thompson Pack now so I could build endlessly. If you don't want to wait, you guys are more than welcome to come live at the house. Plenty of room."
"That's nice of you but we can wait until a cabin is up. We like to stick together so either a three bedroom, two bathroom cabin or three smaller cabins close by each other." They all stared at her for a minute and she blushed, realizing she had just put an order in for a living space like it was fast food or something. "I'm sorry." She said. "I'm so used to giving orders it just pops out of me sometimes." The girls just laughed.
Leo chuckled with them. That girl was a queen alright. Not afraid to ask for what she wanted but humble enough to admit when she was wrong. She was a refreshing surprise for someone considered royalty. There was none of the snobby or bratty attitude he had expected when he heard they were royalty in Were society. There wasn't even the slightest hint that she felt she was better than anyone. She was confident without being flaunting, commanded respect without being harsh or cruel, and was regal without being overbearing. Just by listening to the conversation between the girls, he learned more about her than he had in the last few weeks. She was surprising him in a good way. Again, he chuckled to himself.
"What's funny?" Raph asked his second.
Leo looked around at his brothers and Riley's brothers. This was really not the time. "Nothing." He said and thankfully they dropped it.
That night, rather than drive back to the Triplets' house, they all stayed at the compound to party. All of the turtles, all of the triplets, Gabby, Saffron, Jayden, Melody and a few other members of the storm pack gathered in the spacious dining room and proceeded to play tippy cup. It was the girls against the turtles for the first round. Gabby squared off against Raph, Donnie against Saffron, Mikey against Melody, and Leo against Riley. Being in good spirits, Leo mouthed "you're going down" to the wolf across from him.
She smiled and shook her head. "Not a chance." She mouthed back. The other turtles were hassling the girls across from them too.
"Hope you're ready to get your asses kicked." Raph grinned cockily.
"Oh please." Gabby replied. "We all know I'm the champion swallower here." All the girls oooooh-ed. Dirty jokes were always appreciated.
"Maybe, but I got all the stamina." Raph came back. "I could go all night." Since Aiden had died, their relationship had evolved a lot. She was a lot more peaceful. She led a little more fearlessly and was a lot more sure of herself. All of her rough edges seemed to have been smoothed and with less stress on both of them, more romance had come into the relationship. Her fear was gone and she was happy, except for the occasional night he would wake up to her crying or the rare occasion he would walk into a room and she would be standing alone with tears silently coursing down her face. When that happened, he would just wrap her up in his arms and let her cry. A couple of times, he had cried with her. Gracie's absence was still sharply felt. Still, his Gabby never let anything get her down for long. Not any more.
Gabby lifted an eyebrow. "Promises, promises." She replied. "Time to put your money where your mouth is." They both took their drink in their hand.
"Three, two, one, go!" Wayne counted them down, and they were off. Gabby finished drinking first, but they both got their cups flipped over at about the same time. Saffron beat Donnie's flip, giving Melody the advantage. She missed her first flip and her second and by the time she made it on the third try, Mikey had already landed his cup and Leo was downing his drink. Riley hurried to catch up, downing her drink and flipping the cup which landed just as Leo's did.
"Rematch!" Mikey crowed. The boys won the next match.
"You just can't beat ninjas." Mikey said.
"We'll see, Mikey." Melody grinned mischievously.
The turtles played against Frankie, Wayne, and two other Storm Pack girls. It was a close game, but the turtles won again. That started a very long and heated competition, one that the turtles won over and over again until they started losing their fine motor skills. Finally, the girls beat them.
"Wooooo! In your face!" Melody yelled, doing a little victory dance.
"What are you, twelve?" Raph asked as he passed by to head to the bathroom.
"Yeah." Melody shot back. "They hired me to be your baby sitter." Raph gave her a dirty look before disappearing down the hallway.
"Took ya long enough." Leo took a jab at Riley.
"Well I'm better than you at everything else so I guess I can give you this one." She teased.
"Oh yeah? What are you so much better at?" Leo asked, arms crossed.
"I can see the future and enter the spirit dimension." She said. Well, she had him there.
"Uh uh, powers don't count. I bet you aren't better at sword fighting." He said.
"Okay, but I know I could take you in hand to hand combat." She challenged.
"Ha!" Leo laughed. "Not likely."
She cocked her head. "Let's make this interesting. We spar. I win, you take me on a date."
Leo's eyes narrowed. She wanted a date from him? Interesting. "And what if I win?" He asked.
"What do you want?" She asked.
Leo grinned, the alcohol making him brave. "Strip tease."
"You're on." She said. "Let's go."
The entire party made their way out to the front yard, seeing as the girls were not allowed in the man cave which was the only place in the Alpha house to have a training room. They gathered on the front lawn, forming a loose circle around the two contestants. Leo shrugged out of the harness that held his katana and handed it off to Raph. Leo and Riley squared off and he couldn't help but feel a thrill go through him. He could feel the animal in him but he stilled it, focusing. She stood still, waiting. Most wolves would've charged in. They weren't fond of waiting to strike, but she held her ground, her silver eyes tracking his every tiny movement. He took a step and she sidestepped, coming over a bit. He was testing her reaction, trying to find a weakness before the fight even started. She shifted again, leaving her side open and he struck. She countered flawlessly, telling him he had been sucked into the trap she had set.
It was obvious their fighting styles were different. They traded blows and had to watch each other carefully. Some of her moves were obviously modified, and some were not MMA at all, as though her teacher had known following the sports rules weren't practical for real life. Whatever it was, it was effective. The fight was over rather quickly after Riley managed to take Leo to the ground and put his arm in a hold that was making his elbow and shoulder joints scream. He tried flexing his arm, though he wasn't in a good position to be able to do so. She growled as she exerted all of her strength to keep him from regaining control of his arm. She tugged harder, and with a grunt, he tapped out.
Riley released him and jumped into the air, fists pumping. The girls swarmed around her, hugging and high fiving. Leo picked himself up and rolled his sore shoulder.
"You've got a week to plan our date." Riley said, her eyes sparkling. "You better make it good."
The girls all walked back to the house in a group, giggling and whispering as they went.
"You just got yer ass kicked by a girl." Raph said, a gleeful look on his face.
"Be careful, Raph." Frankie cautioned. "You don't want her fighting you next."
"I could take her." Raph said.
"The only people in this world who could beat Riley short of killing her are spirit blooded." Wayne informed them. "Even among them, she has an advantage with her unique training."
"The spirit blood in us makes it so we don't need hierarchy." Frankie said. "We are as dominant as it gets. Riley is her own She-Alpha and Wayne and I are our own Alphas. We could never feel compelled by another Were to follow a command. Only our father has that power over us."
"So Riley could beat Raph?" Mikey asked, in awe.
"The fight might last longer than it did with Leo, but the end result would be the same." Wayne replied.
"Damn. So what's stopping all three of you from taking packs of your own?" Donnie asked curiously.
"We like to go where we're needed the most. There's a reason we're considered royalty. Just like our father, we can command any werewolf. If I needed to, I could command Raph and he would have to do what I said." Frankie said. "We don't especially feel like we need our own pack because the entire Were nation is our pack. Besides, we like it here with you guys. You're the only people who treat us normal."
"Well we know what it's like when people are weird about stuff." Mikey said. "We get treated weird all the time."
Wayne chuckled. "I imagine you do." The rest of the group turned and wandered back into the house after the girls.
Later that night, Mikey pulled Gabby aside. "You gotta help me, Gabby." His blue eyes pleaded. "I'm supposta bring Melody on a date tomorrow and I want it to be super awesome but I don't know where to take her that we can chill without having to hide me. We're supposta go at noon."
"Awwww, Mikey, that's so sweet. I know the perfect place. Meet me out back in ten minutes. You're gonna need four legs to get where I'm thinking of going." Gabby said.
When Mikey finally managed to slip away, the chocolate wolf that was Gabby stood waiting. He trotted after her as she turned and headed into the forest. Being so close to the north shore, the terrain was often times steep and rocky and Mikey soon realized they were following one of the rivers that fed their lake. They climbed and climbed until they came up onto a ledge. Mikey looked down and if he could have, he would've grinned. There was a beautiful waterfall that was dropping into a secluded pool with a beach of smooth rocks. It was beautiful and they could even do some climbing which he knew the cat in Melody loved. He didn't mind it himself. He was a little more flexible in his front legs than a real wolf. He had a better range of motion and sharper claws, though the webbed toes could sometimes be a hassle. Still, he could probably keep up with the cat if he tried.
"Dang, Gabby. It's perfect. I owe you one." Mikey said through their bond.
Gabby brushed her body along his. "You're my pack, Mikey. I want to see you happy. Besides, after being such a good friend to Gracie when she was here, you could never owe me anything."
Mikey turned to face Gabby. Together they shared the twinge of sadness that accompanied thoughts of Gracie. He pressed the top of his head into the base of her neck, cuddling her. She arched her neck so her long tongue could lick at the side of his head. They allowed themselves a moment of comfort before Gabby pulled away.
"Best get back before someone misses us." She said, and they ran home.
The party went on until the early hours of the morning. Everyone was drunk. One by one they went down. Mikey was first and surprisingly the least drunk of all of them. He snuck off to the second floor well before sunrise, wanting some rest before his big day. Melody went not long after, climbing up to take one of the rooms in the Alpha quarters. She liked to be high up. It made her cat happy. Jayden passed out next, though it was hours after Mikey and Melody had gone off. He passed out face down on the long leather sectional in the den. The Storm Pack members who weren't staying in the house took off after that. Then Donnie and Saffron called it quits. Followed by Riley, then Wayne, then Leo. Then Frankie, Gabby, and Raph all cleaned up just a little and headed off to bed.
Raph and Gabby had unpacked most of their stuff in their room before their company had showed up, so they brushed their teeth and Gabby brushed her hair without having to rummage around to find their stuff. When she was halfway through brushing her tangled curls, Raph took the brush from her and stood behind her, gently stroking the brush through her hair. She sighed in contentment as he very carefully worked through any tangles he encountered. Even after her hair was untangled, he kept running the brush through it, helping her relax even more than the booze had.
"You have pretty hair." He said, bending so he could run his check over it. She loved drunk Raph. He was so funny. She turned to face him, her nails found the edges of the plates of his plastron. She tugged at one of the tails of his bandana playfully.
"So do you." She teased. "I love the color."
Chuckling, Raph bent down and lifted her onto the counter so he could kiss her. His lips brushed almost reverently over hers.
"As soon as this place is finished, yer mine." He said, his voice low and full of promise.
Gabby shivered. She was more than ready to mate the turtle before her. "Let's hope I don't go into heat before then." She said. "That would really throw a wrench into any planning we would be doing." He drew back and looked at her in a way that made him seem worried.
"What?" She asked.
"Your heat shoulda started months ago." He said. "Is it normal for it to be this late?"
She smiled up at him. Sweet Raph. He was always so worried about her. It was cute that he'd been keeping track of her cycle too. She never knew he was so observant. "It was the stress." She replied. "With everything that happened this summer, my system was all out of whack. It happens with some human females too. I'm not sure when mine will come again. It could be tomorrow or it could wait til the new year."
She could physically see Raph relax. He stepped closer, those cool, muscly arms wrapping around her. His face came to hers again. He kissed her then ran his nose along her jaw, enjoying her scent. Light and sweet, like lilacs.
"Ya know, we gotta nice new hot tub just waitin' down the hallway." He said into her ear as he pulled her hips closer, pressing her hot center to his hard cock. With Raph, there was no such thing as whiskey dick.
Gabby giggled. "I'm not sure where I put my swimsuit."
"Baby, you ain't gonna need no suit." He growled and he swung her up into her arms. He carried her down the hall, lips only leaving hers to nibble at any skin he could reach. He set her on the raised platform and immediately removed her shirt and bra, letting out a deep churr when her tight nipples were exposed to his gaze. It had taken them a while to figure out his churr. He had never made that noise before he was a shifter and they knew it wasn't a growl. Gabby had ended up asking Saffron if Donnie did it and she explained that it was a turtle thing that happened when they were turned on. Ever since then, Gabby was always trying to get him to churr and she usually succeeded like she was doing now, arching her back and thrusting her full breasts forward. She felt the vibration of his churr roll through her nipple as his lips closed around it making her gasp. She didn't really have sensitive nipples but the vibrations of the churr sent goosebumps rippling across her skin, which was a favorite reaction of Raph's.
Raph was quick to lift her and strip off her yoga pants and lacy panties in a well practiced move. He set his teeth to her shoulder, just hard enough to make her squirm a little as she worked at his belt. He caught it as it came loose, setting it off to the side so his Sai wouldn't get wet. She pushed his boxers down over his hips and he let them fall, kicking them out of the way as his lips devoured hers. He lifted her again, letting his hard, thick length slide against her soft ass. He got into the water with her, gritting his teeth at the heat as his body struggled to adjust. He didn't let it deter him though. He knew the discomfort would go away soon enough.
Gabby sighed as Raph sat on the bench in the hot tub. The water came up to just barely cover the pectoral plates of his plastron. He grunted as Gabby adjusted herself, her thigh pressing tight to his arousal, but she was surprised when he didn't pounce on her. He was usually pretty to the point when it came to pleasuring her, not that she minded. Instead, his strong, thick fingers began digging into the fleshy globes of her ass, working the muscles there until he was satisfied and then moving up to her back. She melted into his chest, her euphoric moans making his cock jump and drawing a couple of churrs from his chest. She was almost falling asleep when he stood, lifting her and turning her so her back faced him. He lowered her onto his shaft, grunting when he bottomed out. Again, he surprised her by moving slowly, bending her over the higher edge of the hot tub and running his hand over the muscles along her spine and showering the back of her neck in shoulders with kisses and love bites. As he bent forward a little, his large hand snaked around her hip and down to her slit where he stroked with a gentle touch that made her pussy clench. That made him give a little bit of a harder thrust. Still, he continued to move at a gentle pace, making her feel every inch of him until she was growling in frustration. She needed more, harder. Hearing the need in her low growl, he sped up, and his light, loving kisses became harder and more demanding. The hand stroking between her legs became more firm and with a cry, her hips jerked.
"Fuck, Gabby." He groaned as he felt her walls begin to twitch around him. The feeling made his knot begin to swell and suddenly he was desperate to tie her.
"Shit, baby. Please." He pleaded, his pleasure clouded mind not able to ask what he wanted. Gabby knew though and he churred as he felt her body changing around him. In an instant, she was in her hybrid form, her wolf pussy wrapped snuggly around his swelling cock. His knot was already getting big and he knew it probably wouldn't be comfortable to shove it into her but he needed to. The beast in him was demanding it so he thrust hard, pulling back on her hips as he pressed his to her. He felt her pussy resist and then slowly open for him. He gave a hard grunt as her body finally gave, swallowing his knot. His thrusts came short and hard after that, his knot allowing for no more than a couple inches of movement as it swelled almost to the size of one of his fists. Gabby could only brace against the platform, giving Raph a solid base to plough into. Her tail started to twitch as Raph built her to breaking point. Raph's hand tangled into the fur at the base of her neck as he hammered into her hard.
"Oh fuck." His jaw clenched as his cock jumped inside of her, jetting ropes of hot seed deep into her sex. She pressed back into him, howling her climax as his cock pulsed inside of her. Instinctively, he pulled back a little so his knot lodged at her opening, creating a tight seal that kept his seed from leaking out and caused sharp, aching pleasure to shoot right into his stomach, especially when her body would contract around him.
"You're amazing." Raph said after a few moments, leaning forward to nuzzle into her fur. He turned with her and sunk back into the hot water with her sitting on his lap, back to his chest, still impaled on his still twitching cock. Still tied, Raph resumed his massage, focusing first on her legs, then on her arms. When his knot finally deflated enough to pull out, she shifted back to human and he immediately sank his finger into her, driving her to a quick and violent orgasm which left her drained. Raph had always been like that. He didn't consider a coupling a success until she'd had at least two orgasms. She smiled dreamily as she remembered the time he had driven her over the edge so many times that she had begged for him to stop. She had still been tender the next day.
"What are you thinking?" He asked, his low voice soothing.
"Mmmmmm. Just how lucky I am that you're so good in bed." She said, her eyes fluttering shut as he stroked feather light up and down her arms.
"Keep talkin' like that and you'll get another round." He teased.
"Promises, promises." She giggled and he stood quickly, carrying her back down to their room and depositing her back onto the bed where he devoured her aching slit until she came on his tongue. While she lay panting, he eased himself into her again.
"I love you Gabby." He said as he moved slow and gentle inside of her. "You brought me home."
Gabby clung to Raph, his words and his gentle movements making her heart swell and flow over with her love for him. "It wouldn't be home without you." She whispered, rolling her body against his. He kept it slow, building her higher and higher until she was pleading sweetly for him to give her what only he could. They came together, Raph's teeth clenched around the joint of her shoulder and neck, the place that he would soon mark for the world to see that she was his and would be until the day he died.