[ON HOLD] BlackCat's The Wailing Moon

1) Black is the Color of Pride

Gosh! This is something I've so wanted to start for a while now but I've been too busy. But I can now and we get to meet Nichole's brothers, ('cough cough' half-brothers) as well as find out if Nichole ever gets his memories back and if he'll finally get together with Col.

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  The office was so boring, he stared at the swirling grain of his deck following the familiar lines and basically just spacing out. Rico didn’t even notice his secretary step in and start talking to him. He was too focused on the ticking of the clock hung up behind him. Tick, tock, tick, tock, BANG, Rico jumped and looked up to the mousy brunette whose eyes were hidden behind thick framed glasses. She’d just slammed down a huge binder and Rico groaned.

  “Sir, are you feeling alright? You’ve been spacing out a lot lately.” Janet pointed out as she pushed the files over to him. Rico gives a shrug and wakes up his computer to be met with an unsettling sight. The app attached to his deck top was displaying the date as well as the moon phase. Well at least he knows why he was so detracted. Rico stood up and stretched, “I’m going to take the rest of the day off can you cancel all of my appointments?”

  “All of them?” Janet asked, her mouth dropping open, “You just got here; you’ve got like seven very important people coming in to talk to you after that whole deceleration of war on mythical creatures and all.”

  “You said it yourself I’m not feeling well, wouldn’t want me saying something we’d all regret in front of those important people.” Rico shrugged only to have Janet raise a skeptical eye brow, “You yeah like what?”

  “I’m a werewolf.” He said with a smirk and Janet shut up about it and nodded, “I’ll let everyone know you had a family emergency you needed to take care of.” She said though knowing full well all of Rico’s family was far, far away. Rico grabbed his bag and slipped out of his office glancing around the cube farm and sighed. He really needed to find a more interesting job, one that didn’t involve suits.

  He walked out it his car idly tugging off his tie and pulling off his jacket. Tossing them both into the passenger seat and rolling up his sleeves then ruffled up his hair, he wondered if he could make time to head to the forest for a run before his date with his girlfriend. He doubted it, but then again he was sure she’d understand. As he hopped into his car he pulled out his phone and considered texting her. She’d be at work right now and might not get the text until much later. He could still send a text and hope she has the frame of mind when she gets off to check her phone and not leave it in her locker like she does most of the time.

  Rico rolled his eyes and sent the text any way letting her know where he’d be and when he thought he’d be home adding a quick I love you at the end. Rico drove off then with all the windows rolled down to let some air into the hot car, even with it so early in the morning it was still so humid and hot.  He didn’t mind it as much though he missed the mild summers and frigid snows back in his home town. He hadn’t thought of home in a long time, the last he saw of that was his and his brother’s graduation from high school. After that he high tailed it out of the foster homes and vanished, he knows his brother’s did the same.

  They don’t talk all that much, meeting up when they can to talk. However the last time they did that was when they herd their brother had gone missing. After that they all just sort of got really busy and they all hadn’t been free to meet up. Rico didn’t mind though he did miss them, he wondered how they were doing as well as their mother and her thinks about his pack back home and where in the hell Nichole disappeared to. He did the math Nichole vanished right around the time of his eighteenth birthday. They all did the math and even if the fear wasn’t spoken aloud they all wondered if their half breed brother had gone feral.